Chapter 121
Chapter 121
Wang Yuanyou had already stormed a hundred meters ahead in a rage.
This was no little angel. This was a genuine little devil!
Even Yun Youyou stared with her mouth hanging open in shock. “Oh my god, are you really only three or four years old? Let me interview you. May I ask how you manage to shoot every single sentence straight into someone else’s heart?”
Lu Keke cooperatively leaned toward the “microphone” Yun Youyou had made with her hand and said with a perfectly serious face, “It’s simple. Because I’m a heart-stealing marksman! Pew~ pew~”
Yun Youyou played along by clutching her chest and collapsing to the ground.
Ji Lin stood beside them, supporting Yun Youyou with his left hand and Lu Keke with his right, a trace of amusement in his deep eyes.
When Wang Yuanyou happened to look back, he suffered an even greater blow.
Fine. You three are one big happy family. Turns out I was just the homewrecker wedged between you all along.
Wang Yuanyou ran off in grief and indignation.
Not a single person tried to stop him.
Oh! Actually, someone did.
“Wait! Don’t go yet!”
Wang Yuanyou turned back in delight, wanting to see who was asking him to stay.
“You haven’t paid for that wooden plane just now.”
Wang Yuanyou said dryly, “Oh. I’ll pay now.”
After he finished paying, he looked toward the courtyard.
Ji Lin and Yun Youyou were playing with the plane together with Lu Keke.
A family of three, only missing a dog.
Wang Yuanyou did not consider himself that dog, so he left in a fury.
At night, the sea breeze gently brushed against the window.
Yun Youyou opened the window a crack.
The cool sea breeze felt refreshing against the skin, and that icy, comfortable touch made the two ghosts, one big and one small, burrow into their blankets and nuzzle in contentment.
One hour passed.
Two hours passed.
By the third hour, Lu Keke rolled over, blinked, and looked at Yun Youyou lying on the big bed.
“Are you asleep?”
“No.”
Yun Youyou also rolled over to look at Lu Keke lying on the little bed.
Lu Keke said, “I think I’m having a little trouble sleeping in a strange bed. I don’t really want to sleep.”
Yun Youyou said, “No. Children have to sleep properly at night, or they won’t grow taller.”
Lu Keke said, “But I’m already dead. No matter how much I sleep, I won’t grow taller.”
Yun Youyou said, “…Fair point.”
Their bright eyes met in the darkness for a long time.
Both of them were waiting for the other to speak first.
After quite a while, Lu Keke finally couldn’t hold it in anymore and took the lead. “How about we go out and find something interesting to do?”
Yun Youyou agreed readily. “Sure!”
The two hit it off at once and crept outside with their backs bent.
In the dark, Yun Youyou held Lu Keke’s hand.
Lu Keke felt his hand grow warm, and it was very comfortable.
He couldn’t help lifting his head and staring at Yun Youyou.
So warm…
Yun Youyou called Lu Keke several times, but he still didn’t come back to his senses.
It wasn’t until Yun Youyou waved her hand in front of Lu Keke that Lu Keke lowered his head to cover himself, pretending he had just been spacing out.
“What were you thinking about? You were so absorbed. I called you several times, and you didn’t react at all.”
Lu Keke clenched his little fist and held it to his lips, coughing once.
“Nothing much. I was just pondering matters of national importance.”
Yun Youyou laughed.
“Is our President Keke concerned about the rising price of milk powder in the Ghost Realm, or is he considering the issue of unified license plates for kiddie rides?”
Lu Keke had no answer.
The two wandered around outside for a while, but both found it boring.
The sea really was beautiful.
Under the moonlight, the waves glittered with dazzling silver.
The black, murky surf looked as if it wanted to swallow everything whole.
Yun Youyou sat on the beach, drawing turtles in the sand as she asked, “How did you used to play in an Instance? Did you just sit around bored like me?”
Lu Keke crouched beside her, watching her draw turtles.
“Of course not! Those ghost brothers and ghost sisters were amazing at having fun. Every time, they’d take me to play a different Game. It was super exciting and super fun!”
Yun Youyou excitedly dropped the twig in her hand.
“It was really that fun?”
Lu Keke said, “If I’m lying, I’m a puppy!”
Yun Youyou made a snap decision. “We’re going!”
The two of them marched aggressively toward the seaside villa.
Inside the villa.
“What are we doing here?”
Curious, Yun Youyou followed Lu Keke up to the second floor where the travelers were staying.
“Shh!”
Lu Keke tiptoed across the floor like a cat sneaking fish.
Yun Youyou had no idea what he was up to, so she could only follow behind him and wait to see this so-called super fun, super exciting Game of his.
Lu Keke stopped in front of a door.
He suddenly turned around and made an OK sign at Yun Youyou, then flashed a peace sign.
Only when he folded his middle finger down too did Yun Youyou realize he was counting down.
The moment Lu Keke tucked away his index finger as well, he suddenly yelled at the top of his lungs, “Limited-time morgue sale! Not 998! Not 888! Only 9,998!”
“Hurry up and come grab yours! First come, first served!”
Yun Youyou was so startled she nearly jumped off the floor.
“What nonsense are you shouting? Where would we even get a morgue from?”
Like a tiny adult, Lu Keke patted Yun Youyou on the shoulder.
“Woman, isn’t this the excitement you wanted?”
Yun Youyou: “…You’re too young to be acting like an overbearing CEO.”
Just then, heavy footsteps thudded from inside the room.
Seeing the situation turn bad, Lu Keke immediately bolted.
Yun Youyou saw the danger too and hurriedly chased after him.
The two had barely run around the corner when they heard the person in the room start cursing.
“Which dumb fuck was yelling in the hallway just now? I only just fell asleep, and you woke me up again. You’d better never sleep for the rest of your life, or if I catch you, I’ll make sure you spend the rest of it sleeping in a morgue.”
Yun Youyou hid behind a money tree around the corner, with one squirming Lu Keke tucked under her arm.
To stop him from ruining things, Yun Youyou had even clamped a hand over his mouth.
After the person in the hallway cursed for a while, he stormed back into his room in a rage.
Only then did Yun Youyou let out a sigh of relief and set down the little kid she’d been holding under her arm.
She solemnly took Lu Keke by the hand and made him look her in the eye.
“This is the really exciting, really nerve-racking Game you were talking about?”
Lu Keke said, “Just tell me, was it exciting or not? Was it nerve-racking or not?”
Yun Youyou: “…”
It really was exciting. And it really was nerve-racking.
That feeling of skirting the edge of absolute shamelessness, hovering right on the surface of getting beaten up, really did send a person’s adrenaline soaring.
Yun Youyou quickly dragged the topic back on track.
“How could you disturb someone else’s sleep? It probably took them so much effort to fall asleep. How awful would it feel to get woken up? What if someone does that to you while you’re sleeping someday?”
Lu Keke analyzed it briefly with his little head.
Three seconds later, he looked up and said, “I’d reward them by having them wake me up next time.”
“…”