Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 252 Memories of the Snowfield

"The descendants of the Romanov family who are living abroad?" Lu Mingfei asked. Then he realized that this sentence seemed to be a grammatical error. After all, the Romanov family name still exists today.

Putting aside the rumors that the Romanov princess, Anastasia Romanova, survived and got married and had children, the relative of the Romanov family who participated in the assassination of Rasputin and thus escaped October, Grand Duke Dmitry, survived and has descendants.

However, most of the time, the Romanov family name refers to the last tsar and his family. After all, this is probably the only royal family that has been sentenced to death in modern times.

"I don't know." Renata's answer was quite concise. She turned around and glanced at the white facility behind her. "After I left here, someone came to me and said that I was a direct descendant of the Tsar. I believed it, and then my last name became Romanova."

"...very good." Lu Mingfei suddenly didn't know what to say.

"Let's go, walk around and find other ways to get rid of the dream." Renata stretched out her hand to Lu Mingfei, "Hold my hand, you can feel the changes in the dream better."

Lu Mingfei looked down and saw that Renata's hands were extremely slender, much smaller than those of an average girl. Her hands were also very white, as white as the snowy field, like snowflakes that seemed to break at the slightest touch.

They had danced together before, it was just holding hands. Both of them were past the age where they believed holding hands would lead to pregnancy, so Lu Mingfei naturally wouldn't be shy.

He reached out and held Renata's hand. To his surprise, Renata's hand was warm and soft, not as cold as it looked. And it was small, just right for playing with in his palm.

Renata glanced at Lu Mingfei inexplicably, the clear blue in her eyes reflecting the lake. In this world with nothing but white, this touch of blue was so rare.

Renata still looked at Lu Mingfei and said softly: "Let's go when you've had enough fun."

Lu Mingfei then realized that he had already put his thoughts into action without knowing when.

The interior of the institute was not much different from what Lu Mingfei had imagined. The mottled walls had a slight musty smell and the builders didn't seem to care much about hygiene.

After passing a rusty iron door, Lu Mingfei looked inside curiously. This was a dormitory, a dormitory locked with an iron door like a prison.

Lu Mingfei looked up and saw a sign on the iron door, number 38. There were similar rooms in this corridor, numbered from 38 to 1.

...There are not only 38 rooms. The 39th room is well hidden. The sign on it is blurred and one can barely make out the word starting with Z. The facilities in this room are more outdated than those in other rooms, and there is a smell of medicine that makes Lu Mingfei feel quite uncomfortable.

"This is Room Zero." Renata said softly. She looked at Room Zero quietly, and a ripple appeared in her eyes which were as calm as a lake.

"Zero... zero?" Lu Mingfei noticed the ripples in her eyes, and her expression was a little strange. Putting aside the inexplicable sense of déjà vu of the word zero, the presence of an English word in an obviously Soviet-style building was quite worthy of study.

Renata had introduced this facility to him before, saying that it was located in the north of Siberia, near Verkhoyansk. As for where exactly it was, he didn't know, but it was said to have existed since the Soviet era.

Lu Mingfei looked at the doors one by one. There were scattered toys and story books with cartoons inside. It was not difficult to tell from the layout of the rooms that the original owners of these rooms were children.

He turned his head to look at Renata, who had withdrawn her gaze from Room 38. She was now standing in front of Room , looking inside silently.

"This... used to be my room." She said softly.

Lu Mingfei held her hand and stood with her, silently looking at the structure of the room. It was very ordinary, so ordinary that it didn't look like a room for a girl in her prime.

Lu Mingfei didn't walk into the room, but he could feel the coldness inside. There were naturally no windows in this room. Once the door was closed, the only connection to the outside was the small ventilation window.

He thought about what it would be like if he had lived in such a room as a child, staring blankly at the white ceiling and the small ventilation window on the door every night.

Then Lu Mingfei found that he couldn’t imagine, let alone how Renata grew up in such a room.

Renata raised her head slightly and glanced at Lu Mingfei. She found that her hand was held tightly.

She probably knew what Lu Mingfei was thinking, and said softly: "Actually, my life here is not that bad. I am the youngest child here, and because..."

Renata inexplicably turned her head away so that Lu Mingfei could not see her gaze: "Due to some personal reasons, the nurses did not lock my door at night. At night, I still have a lot of freedom."

Lu Mingfei looked at her silently. He didn’t know how great this freedom was, but in such a closed institution, how far could one go no matter how free he was?
Renata didn't seem to have the slightest attachment to this place. She didn't stay for long and continued forward with Lu Mingfei.

The corridor was very long, and at the end were several larger rooms. Lu Mingfei took a look inside and saw women's cosmetics and clothes scattered everywhere, with the white nurse uniform being the most obvious.

This is probably the nurses' room that Renata just mentioned.

Renata also did not stay. It was obvious that she might not have gotten along very well with the nurses when she was here.

She led Lu Mingfei forward and passed a dog kennel. For some reason, Renata's dream did not include the people she had lived with. In this dream, there were no other "living things" except them.

So there was no one in the room, and naturally there was no dog in the kennel.

But Renata stayed here for a long time. She gently stroked the collar beside the kennel and whispered to Lu Mingfei that Ataga and its children...that is, the sled dogs here, were her friends.

Renata finally brought Lu Mingfei to a hall. In the middle of the hall was a Christmas tree full of decorations. Under the tree were piled with gift boxes, but they had already been opened.

"It was my last night here, and they were holding a Christmas party." Renata let go of Lu Mingfei's hand and walked silently to the bottom of the Christmas tree.

She raised her head, her blue eyes quietly staring at the star pattern on the treetops. Her gaze, which seemed to have returned to calm, was once again rippled, and this time, it was not as simple as a flash.

A Christmas tree that can be placed indoors is naturally not too big, but even so, compared to the extremely petite Renata standing next to it, it still looks so huge. The girl's figure became extremely small at this moment, as if to her, it was not only the Christmas tree in front of her that was huge, but also this mysterious facility that was full of weirdness and like a maze.

Lu Mingfei didn’t know what this facility looked like in reality, but in Renata’s impression, it was so cold and damp, and as huge as an insurmountable maze.

He had been curious about Renata's past. After all, it was completely opposite to her body shape. Her aura was like that of an ice queen, which made many people speechless when facing her. And such a girl came from such a place.

Lu Mingfei was surprised, but also felt it was reasonable. He did not ask how Renata left here, but from the dilapidated institution in his dream, it was not difficult to conclude that this must not have been a pleasant experience.

Renata suddenly turned around, her gaze became calm again, and as noble as the Ice Queen.

"Once there was a boy who danced with me here, but he disappeared before the dance was over." She invited Lu Mingfei, "It's rare that you took the initiative to enter this dream. Dance with me."

Lu Mingfei looked at her sideways and suddenly found that her image had changed. She was still the same height, but the white cotton dress that looked like a nightgown had become a white shirt with lace and a tweed skirt.

She also wore a small fur hat and camel-colored fur boots, giving her a beauty that only belongs to a girl from the snowfield.

“This is…” Lu Mingfei was a little surprised.

Renata looked down and saw that the dress was beautiful, but also a bit ordinary, the kind that a girl of twelve or thirteen would definitely have. And this dress was the first beautiful dress in her life.

She turned around in place, using a very standard ballet posture, her slender figure like a swan ready to take off: "This is my dream, it's not a problem to make some modifications."

Lu Mingfei nodded. Compared to turning the roller coaster tracks into eight-headed monsters, this was child's play.

However, he glanced at Renata. Her cold expression, standard ballet posture, and young girl's outfit were incongruous but harmonious. Inexplicably, he felt a little sad.

“…Okay.” Lu Mingfei himself couldn’t find a reason to refuse. It’s not like they had never danced before in real life.

Renata's expression did not change at all because of his agreement. She looked at Lu Mingfei silently and suddenly tilted her head: "Your outfit is too inappropriate for the ball."

Lu Mingfei looked down. Unlike Renata, whose appearance changed twice after entering the dream, his clothes remained the same as before entering the dream.

Although Shilan's school uniform was outshined by the slim and exquisite school uniform of Kassel College, it was still envied by students from other friendly schools in Southern Jiangsu. It would be too arbitrary to say that it was not suitable for the dance.

Lu Mingfei was suddenly stunned, because he was not wearing the familiar Shilan school uniform, but a navy blue windbreaker. He seemed to be wearing something on his head, and when he reached out to touch it, it was furry.

Lu Ming found a small hand mirror in the messy gift pile. In the mirror, he was wearing a bear-skin hat that looked very old-fashioned, like something that would only appear in period dramas. Paired with a navy blue woolen coat, he looked like a young aristocrat from the north.

Yes, it really is a boy, an extremely young boy!
Lu Mingfei looked at his obviously younger face in the mirror, and then at his slender and petite hands, which were not much wider than Renata's. Putting aside the question of whether this rather old-fashioned outfit would match the ball, there were so many things to complain about just this look that it was hard to say where to start.

Lu Mingfei, who was much shorter and only slightly better than Renata, threw away the mirror in his hand and looked at Renata who was looking at him silently: "What are you doing?"

Renata said softly, "It's just an outfit suitable for the ball."

"How is this suitable? And... did you smile just now?" Lu Mingfei looked at her silently, and the slightly raised corners of her mouth seemed to still be in his sight.

"No, we started dancing." Renata denied it. She walked forward and ended the topic with her action.

The dance began. Lu Mingfei had never thought that Renata was good at so many dances besides tango and ballet. From the sailor dance to the waltz and then to the tango, she danced each one smoothly.

Lu Mingfei did not use Por Una Cabeza before the dance began, and he did not know if this word spirit would still work in this dream. This inexplicable special word spirit would instantly turn him into a peerless dance stick, and he could perform tango, waltz, ballet, etc.

However, Lu Mingfei, who did not use Por Una Cabeza, only needed to look into Renata's eyes and follow the guidance of her arms to keep the beat. Renata was like a swan, and Lu Mingfei was the migratory bird that took off with the swan.

This was not the first time he had this feeling. This feeling had been lingering around Lu Mingfei since he first met Renata and danced with her.

"Alas..." Lu Mingfei sighed softly.

Because he was several years younger, Lu Mingfei's height was now indescribably matched with Renata's. His dance partner was very capable and very beautiful... But as expected, he still didn't like this feeling.

The boy and the girl were dancing in the deserted hall. It was a beautiful scene that no one wanted to disturb. However, Lu Mingfei felt that it was like the last embrace of the two before the end of the world.

Why did the dance not end, how did Renata leave here, why did this place become deserted... There are still many secrets hidden in Renata. As a friend and companion, Lu Mingfei is curious, but he has no intention of asking further questions.

But as expected, he still didn't like this feeling.

Lu Mingfei pushed Renata out, and the latter turned around like a swan breaking through the ice. Then he suddenly snapped his fingers, and the dilapidated Christmas hall suddenly disappeared, replaced by a magnificent ballroom.

Renata slowly stopped and looked at the silver dress in surprise. Her platinum hair was tied up and decorated gorgeously, and her high heels made her look as gorgeous as a queen.

Opposite her, Lu Mingfei still looked like a teenager, except that his navy blue woolen coat and beautiful bear fur hat were gone, replaced by a delicate suit.

"Okay, Your Highness, the annoying memories end here." Lu Mingfei slowly opened his golden eyes, "Next, it's my home court."

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(End of this chapter)