“A-Lan” might be a fool, but she held grudges.
“Maybe she has something to do today too.” Fu Hui raised an eyebrow.
The bodyguard smiled. “That could be it.”
But by afternoon, she still hadn’t appeared.
The bodyguard hesitated. “I’m just worried something might have happened to her on the way.”
“Mm.” Fu Hui’s expression didn’t noticeably change. After a brief pause, he instructed him, “Follow the road down and take a look.”
Since they let the “girl” through the gate every day, the bodyguard naturally hadn’t been completely unprepared. He knew Xiao Dong’s full name, Dong Yingcai, and knew where he worked.
He followed the main road all the way downhill until he reached the hotel entrance.
“Hello, Sir. Do you have a reservation?” the receptionist asked, looking up.
“I’m looking for one of your employees, Dong Yingcai.”
The receptionist visibly froze. “Did he do something wrong?”
“No. I’m his friend. I need to speak with him.”
But the receptionist said, “He took the day off.”
Unable to see Xiao Dong, the bodyguard could only return and repeat the conversation to Fu Hui. “I asked why he took leave, but the receptionist couldn’t explain clearly either. She said something seems to have happened in Xiao Dong’s family.”
Fu Hui listened without expression and calmly said, “Two possibilities. First, something really did happen in his family. If there’s a family problem, naturally A-Lan wouldn’t be able to go out either.”
“Second, the receptionist was afraid you might have a conflict with Xiao Dong, which is why she repeatedly asked what he’d done wrong and why you wanted him. More likely, Xiao Dong made some kind of mistake not long ago, which is why she became so wary the moment you asked for him.”
“I’ll go again. This time I’m sure I can get a definite answer.” The bodyguard sounded confident.
Clearly, he had other methods.
Fu Hui stopped him. “Perhaps we simply weren’t meant to meet again. There’s no need to make a big production of it.”
The bodyguard was startled, then suddenly remembered that Sir didn’t want anyone noticing he was staying here.
Having contact with one little mute girl and one local hotel worker didn’t matter. But too much contact was another story. Social media was everywhere now; all it took was one person filming a video and uploading it to create trouble.
Sir had only picked someone up that day on a whim anyway. It was probably no different from the time he had gone on vacation abroad and brought back an alligator to keep.
Still, it was a little regrettable.
The little mute was quite cute.
Cuter than an alligator, surely.
Lan Xi, who was apparently cuter than an alligator, was very busy at the moment.
Before Wen Ming beside him could react, Lan Xi went over and landed two solid bam-bam punches on him as well. Since Wen Ming had been the one who tied him up and brought him back, he deserved an extra punch.
Lan Xi was very fair.
The Wen brothers were both somewhat stunned from being hit.
Ignoring the sharp pain radiating from their thighs, their first thought was the same: today, no matter what, they had to subdue Wen Lan.
“You’ve really gone too far!”
“Are you trying to get yourself killed?”
Lan Xi said nothing and rolled his eyes at them.
That only drove the Wen brothers even crazier.
They had assumed subduing Wen Lan would be easy—one person grab his arms, the other grab his ankles… and then all three of them ended up brawling in a heap.
One moment Lan Xi was straddling Wen Ming; the next, he was stepping on Wen Yue. He bit, punched, grabbed throats, and slipped out of their hands like a cat, with absolutely no sense of how much force he was using.
All three of them became furious.
The resentment and anger that had accumulated over the years would only have bred more bitterness if they continued forcing it down. Today, at last, all of it came pouring out.
Wen Ming’s eyes reddened as he cursed, “Fuck it, I might as well beat you to death today!”
The bodyguards standing outside heard that something was wrong and hurriedly charged inside to break up the fight. “Second Young Master, calm down!”
“Eldest Young Master, stop them!”
“He’s already gone stupid! Why are you getting angry with him?”
It took more than ten bodyguards, who even managed to shove the bed crooked in the process, to finally separate the three of them and send everyone to the hospital.
Following his mild muscle tears and slight fracture in his arm, Lan Xi now acquired several large patches of bruising as well as a ligament strain high on his thigh.
Oh.
During the fight, he had hooked one leg over Wen Ming’s neck. He used too much force and accidentally dropped into the splits.
Wen Yue and Wen Ming weren’t much better off.
If Lan Xi’s injuries could at least be called presentable, the injuries on the brothers were an absolute mess.
The bodyguard looked at the strangulation marks around Wen Ming’s neck and found them genuinely alarming.
Pulling his collar aside revealed two vivid bite marks on his shoulder as well.
Besides several bruises on his thighs, Wen Yue had three scratches raked across his face and a bruised chin.
Neither young master had ever looked this disheveled before.
This time, they really might send Young Master to a psychiatric hospital… the bodyguard couldn’t help muttering to himself.
Just as he was thinking that—
Creak.
The hospital-room door was pushed open from outside.
The bodyguard turned and saw Young Master walking in.
His right eyelid immediately began twitching.
Bad omen.
“Young Master, I think you’d be better off not coming in here.” The bodyguard stepped forward, his tone carrying an implicit warning.
Lan Xi did not understand implications.
He walked around the bodyguard and went straight to Wen Yue.
Wen Yue stared at him coldly. “What do you want to say? Finally remembered to beg for mercy?”
Lan Xi shook his head and pointed at Wen Ming. “He… tied… me… first.”
Wen Ming: “…”
“So it’s still my fault?”
Lan Xi scrunched up his face. “Hurt.”
Wen Yue looked at him mockingly. With a face like that, anyone who didn’t know the truth would probably think he looked pitiful enough to make your heart ache.
Wen Ming couldn’t understand how Wen Lan still had the nerve to turn around and blame them first.
He pulled his collar open and pointed at the marks for Lan Xi to see. “Were you trying to strangle me to death just now?”
Lan Xi was puzzled.
So what? Isn’t it perfectly normal for a demon from Hell to want to strangle an angel? Besides, I didn’t even manage to kill him.
Wen Ming was so infuriated by his innocent expression that he nearly jumped out of bed to start fighting again.
Watching him rage, Lan Xi thought for a moment.
Oh. Are we comparing injuries?
Lan Xi unbuttoned his shirt and generously showed them his own.
It’s not like I’m the only one who got hurt.
But Lan Xi was far too pale. The moment he pulled his clothes open, everyone in the room instinctively felt that they shouldn’t keep looking and immediately shifted their gazes away.
Lan Xi: ?
Wen Ming steadied himself. “Fine, fine. You got hurt too. You want to call it even?”
Lan Xi: “Mm.”
Wen Ming’s anger slowly died down, like a handful of ashes after a fire had burned itself out. Dejected, he said, “We won’t send you to a psychiatric hospital. Leave the Wen family instead. From now on, don’t tell anyone you’re part of this family. You never liked school anyway, so you won’t have to go anymore—”
Lan Xi hurriedly squeezed out a word. “Like.”
He still had twenty books to learn before he could properly fit into Heaven.
The interruption made the corner of Wen Ming’s mouth twitch, instantly scattering every bit of his dejection. He looked sarcastically at Lan Xi. “Talking nonsense again?”
Lan Xi rolled his eyes. “You… crazy.”
Wen Ming: “…”
Seeing his younger brother getting completely sidetracked by Lan Xi, Wen Yue took over. “The Wen family will cut off your cards. You love using the family’s money to fight people over women…” Wen Yue paused before adding, “And men.”
“…You go around making enemies everywhere. So let’s see how you live the life you want once you leave the Wen family and have to rely on yourself.”
Lan Xi thought about it.
The life I like? That’s easy.
He said, “Go… back… mountain.”
Then every day he could eat and drink to his heart’s content and finally sleep with the seraph.
Wen Yue gave him a strange look. “Then go by yourself.”
“Oh.”
“You can leave now.” Wen Yue urged him away in a cold voice.
“Mm.” Lan Xi thought for a moment, then turned back and said, “I… not… Wen… Lan.”
Wen Ming laughed from sheer anger. “Oh? Then who are you?”
Lan Xi first gave his name in demon language. “#%#￥.”
Then he said, “Lan… Xi.”
Wen Ming: “…” With a wooden expression, he said, “Right. Your English name is Nancy. What’s the problem?”
Lan Xi: ???
Elio’s Notes: “Nancy” is commonly transliterated into Chinese as 南希 (Nánxī), which sounds very close to 兰希 (Lán Xī). Wen Ming therefore interprets Lan Xi’s attempt to give his real name as an English name rather than evidence that he is someone else.
Lan Xi touched his hair, trying to prove that it was different from the angels’ hair.
But the last time Wen Ming sent him into the mountains, he had the bodyguards hold Lan Xi down while he personally watched them dye it black before leaving.
Lan Xi touched his eyes next.
But by now, he knew that hotel guests could have red or green eyes too. They wore something called colored contact lenses.
He tried forcing his goat horns out.
But after straining for a while, he still couldn’t get even the slightest tip to emerge. His horns reacted much more easily when he was aroused.
Wen Ming said impatiently, “Are you constipated? Are you leaving or not?”
Lan Xi glared at them.
Fine. Don’t believe me.
There are plenty of angels! I’ll sleep with the one surnamed Fu first, then sleep with the others!
What a shame he had still held back during the fight earlier.
He hadn’t even landed a proper kidney shot on either of them!
Lan Xi turned and left, slamming the hospital-room door behind him with a loud bang.
Wen Ming collapsed backward onto the hospital bed and told his elder brother, “This time I really don’t care anymore. He can go die however he wants.”
Whenever Lan Xi rode in a plane or car, he had one particular habit.
He loved staring at the scenery outside and could watch it without blinking.
He didn’t know how to get from the hospital to the airport, but he remembered the route from the Wen residence to the hospital.
So after leaving the hospital, he followed his memory and first walked step by step back to the Wen residence. Then, starting from there, he followed his memory toward the airport.
He walked and walked and walked.
And got caught by the traffic police on the expressway.
At six thirty that evening, Wen Yue received a call from the traffic police at his office. “Hello, is this Mr. Wen Yue? Your younger brother has been found stranded on the expressway. Please come and pick him up.”
Wen Yue: ?
Seeing Lan Xi again only eight hours later gave Wen Yue the powerful sensation that he had somehow become trapped in a bizarre loop.
Lan Xi sat inside the police car, holding bread that passing motorists had given him and chomping away at it.
He didn’t even bother wiping the crumbs off his face.
One of the officers glanced at him. “Poor thing. He walked along the road for hours. No phone, nothing to eat or drink. Even the drivers passing by couldn’t stand watching him…”
Wen Yue desperately wanted to say, Then whoever can’t stand it can take him home.
“Take him back. You can’t let him wander around outside like this anymore. It’s too dangerous.”
Even one of the bystanders couldn’t resist chiming in. “Exactly. He’s so good-looking. If someone abducted him, your whole family would regret it for the rest of your lives.”
Wen Yue: “…”
“Thank you. Sorry for all the trouble.” Wen Yue politely thanked the officers, then took Lan Xi away.
“Where were you planning to go? Are you doing this deliberately?” Wen Yue asked coldly.
Lan Xi hadn’t exactly wanted to see him again either.
How was he supposed to know there would be so many obstacles on the way to the airport?
Heaven has too many rules!
Lan Xi pouted. “Plane.”
“You wanted to take a plane?” Wen Yue finally understood. He really did want to go back to the mountains.
“You actually thought of walking from the city to the airport on your own two legs.” Wen Yue raised his eyelids coldly. “Fine. I’ll send you back to the mountains. This time, no hotel, no caretaker, no doctor.”
Why would Lan Xi care about any of that?
Going back to the mountains was wonderful!
His eyes lit up so brightly that, for one instant, Wen Yue inexplicably felt his heart soften.
Wen Yue decided that perhaps spending too much time around him was making him a little insane too.
…
Once he decided, he acted immediately. Wen Yue changed the rest of his schedule and personally escorted Lan Xi back to the Wuyi Mountains to make sure nothing else went wrong halfway.
“Go.”
“Mm!”
Lan Xi followed the mountain road upward beneath the cover of night.
After hesitating for a moment, Wen Yue didn’t immediately return to Jing City. Instead, he had the driver discreetly follow Lan Xi in the car.
They followed him all the way to the villa.
Lan Xi knew exactly where he was going and walked until his entire body was covered in sweat.
He lowered his head and sniffed himself.
Mm. It’s fine. Even a succubus’s sweat smells nice, with a faint fragrance.
This time, no one would be able to stop him from finally sleeping with the seraph!
Delighted, Lan Xi raised a hand and knocked.
Knock, knock.
Knock, knock.
“So he really did meet someone here…” Wen Yue lowered the car window. Now he wanted to see exactly who Wen Lan had met that made him so determined to come back.
But beneath the night sky, the villa ahead resembled a terrifying beast crouched silently in the darkness.
No lights ever came on.
And no one opened the door for Lan Xi.
Lan Xi froze.
Lan Xi’s heart shattered.
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