Monster Escape Room Re-Employment Chapter 30
byI am who I am (3)
“Jiang Lingyi, calm down.”
Lou Xian’s timely intervention made Jiang Lingyi stop approaching Jiang Xinyue.
“Hmm… Although it is a bit provocative, it is not malicious. What is it?” Lou Xian read Jiang Xinyue’s emotions through the magic circle on the roof. He tried hard to find the right words to describe, “Jealous? No, not to that extent… happy? A little bit, it is the excitement accompanying the provocation.”
Finally, he concluded: “She…seems to be a little reluctant to leave you.”
“She? Reluctant? Who? Me?” Jiang Lingyi thought for a moment that there was something wrong with her ears.
However, if this is really the case, it may explain Jiang Xinyue’s sudden behavior.
——She wanted to keep him in the Jiang family.
However, the bargaining chip she used to retain him was far less than the price he paid to leave.
Jiang Lingyi walked to Lu Bing, leaned down beside her and said, “Is it convenient to talk alone?”
Lu Bing stared at him suspiciously and nodded for a while.
They walked out of the drawing room and onto the landing, which had unobstructed views in all directions and ensured that no one was around.
Jiang Lingyi got straight to the point: “I don’t know why Jiang Xinyue wants to keep me. Anyway, you should know that I want to get out of the house more than anyone else.”
Lu Bing didn’t doubt this, after all, not everyone could go seven years without a word of contact.
She knew that Jiang Xinyue occasionally interacted with Jiang Lingyi in private, and it would be suspicious to completely cut off contact. It was a wise move to maintain this frequency of status confirmation, so she never interfered.
“Personally, I want to let you go,” she said, “but as the Jiang family’s current agent, I can’t let an uncertain factor like you roam around.”
Thanks to the information he had just obtained on the roof of the building, Jiang Lingyi gradually had an idea in his mind.
“Then let’s make a deal.”
Lu Bing motioned him to continue talking with her eyes.
“I – I actually wanted to give Jiang Jiujie his last breath.” Jiang Lingyi said lightly, “Especially when he saw me a few minutes after I entered the ward and passed away contentedly, that would be great.”
Lu Bing’s eyes widened in surprise. Before she could answer, Jiang Lingyi continued.
“Of course, it’s not up to you to decide when I can be allowed to visit.”
In order to completely escape from the Jiang family, Jiang Lingyi didn’t mind letting her hands be stained with that man’s blood…
This is also to comfort Jiang Xin’s spirit in heaven.
“I understand.” Lu Bing quickly returned to his usual aloof posture.
“Happy transaction.”
They didn’t shake hands.
Lu Bing and Jiang Lingyi returned to the reception room one after another, and people cast curious glances. It could be seen from the expressions on their faces that the matter had a conclusive result.
Lu Bing announced: “Mr. Jiang will give up all his dues. If you have any objections, come to me directly after the meeting.”
At the moment of saying this, Jiang Lingyi had already signed the document and immediately opened the door, unwilling to stay here for a second longer.
Jiang Xinyue said quickly: “I’ll see him off!” Regardless of everyone’s expressions, she followed Jiang Lingyi and walked out quickly.
The two figures walked quickly along the avenue, one behind the other, as if they were racing each other.
“Huh… Hey, hey! Why are you walking so fast? Can I still eat you?”
“…Hmph.”
“When I exposed you in the reception room just now, you kept covering your right arm unconsciously. What’s wrong? Is there something there?”
Jiang Lingyi stopped suddenly, and Jiang Xinyue’s nose almost hit his back.
You can’t get angry, you can’t get angry…otherwise you will lose to her.
He took a few deep breaths and looked directly into her eyes: “How about you take up some hobbies in your free time? Or find some men and women to play with you!”
“Okay, okay, don’t be angry.”
Jiang Xinyue took the opportunity to close the distance and walked side by side with him.
“Originally, I didn’t think that I could keep you here, I just gave it a try~”
“So why? You own the entire group and you come here to make me happy?”
“Because I am a greedy and willful young lady~ You have to thank me for not becoming a woman with deep obsessions like my mother. If I had tried my best, do you think you could have escaped unscathed today?”
Putting aside her clear understanding of herself, Jiang Lingyi really couldn’t see where Lu Bing was so obsessed with her, saying that she was more cold-blooded than Lou Xian.
“Hey, let me recommend you a person for entertainment. You should know Lian Moqin, right?”
“Lian Mo Qin? Who?” Jiang Xinyue showed a confused look.
She wasn’t pretending, she really didn’t know, or in other words, didn’t remember it at all.
Even Jiang Lingyi couldn’t help but mourn for Lian Mo Qin for three seconds in her heart…
“Forget it, just pretend I didn’t say it.”
“What did you say to your mother, right? I can probably guess that she didn’t turn towards me this time, hum!” Jiang Xinyue was pretending to be angry, “So I have to betray her a little as revenge!”
Jiang Lingyi covered her ears: “I don’t want to hear it.”
“It’s something related to Jiang Xin.”
Jiang Lingyi gritted his teeth and put down his hand.
“Actually, mom has been hiding something from you.”
He was alert, and she wanted to sow discord at this juncture?
Jiang Xinyue said quietly: “You go to visit Jiang Xin’s grave very early every Qingming Festival, so I don’t know if someone else will come after you to lay flowers for her. Unfortunately, you are never late every year, so you have never met this person.”
“You mean…”
“Oh, it’s not convenient for me to reveal more. Would you like to try to arrive a little later this year?”
She stopped and stepped on a fallen leaf, making a crisp sound.
“I’ll send it here. You can walk out the rest of the way by yourself.”
He heard no footsteps behind him, so she must still be where she was.
He quickened his pace, and just when he was about to walk out of the maximum distance that sound could travel, he heard her call——
“Jiang Lingyi, I will never allow you to get happiness before me… Never allow it!!”
At this moment, he almost turned around.
“——Can’t look back!!”
Lou Xian’s voice once again pulled Jiang Lingyi on the edge of the cliff.
“As long as you walk out of this door, you will be happy, and she will lose.”
Jiang Lingyi squeezed the gold coin chocolate in her pocket and walked far away until the white mansion was far behind her, until the hustle and bustle of the road outside broke through the stagnant air of the courtyard again.
He leaned against a telephone pole and let out a long, shaky breath.His heart was beating like a drum in his chest, and the calm he had just maintained collapsed instantly, revealing a trace of exhaustion.
The cuffs moved slightly, and the small silver-green snake poked its head out and gently rubbed his wrist.
“You and her are really alike.”
“… Now that things have come to a point, don’t you fall in love with her?”
I still have the energy to joke, and it seems that I have almost recovered.
Jiang Lingyi lowered his head, stretched out his fingers, and carefully touched Lou Xian’s cold head.
“I’m free…” he whispered, a belated smile finally filling his eyes, “I really did it!”
He is no longer Jiang Jiujie’s illegitimate son. From now on, he is just Jiang Lingyi.
The tip of Lou Xian’s tail wrapped around his finger and patted it gently, bringing strange comfort and seeming to be sincerely happy for him.
“As expected of the store manager I like.”
Jiang Lingyi was stunned, and then a warm, sour current suddenly overcame his guard.He raised his head, blinked, and forced back the moisture in his eyes, but the corners of his mouth raised uncontrollably.
“Yes.” He responded softly and carefully put Lou Xian back into his sleeves, pressing it against his warm skin, “Let’s go home.”
The sun shines through the branches and leaves, casting a long and firm shadow on his body as he steps forward.
The haze of the past does not seem to have completely dissipated, but the road ahead has been illuminated.
…
Jiang Lingyi rarely chose a more expensive restaurant to have lunch as a celebration of victory in this battle.
Lou Xian watched silently, not wanting to disturb his interest, so he only occasionally commented on the taste of some dishes and did not mention the Jiang family again, but he was also thinking about something.
…There are too many guys who covet Jiang Lingyi.
Before he knew it, Lou Xian didn’t care about these things. He even thought that whoever Jiang Lingyi wanted to associate with was his freedom and he had no right to interfere.
Now, he has understood that this is a feeling that cannot be tolerated by others.
He was confused and afraid of himself who kept having extreme and heavy thoughts.
He didn’t doubt Jiang Lingyi’s love for him…but he doubted his own self-control.
Jiang Lingyi didn’t notice the waves in Lou Xian’s heart. She finished her meal happily and walked around the park happily. In the evening, she opened the door of the apartment with cheerful steps. When the door was opened, the little snake slipped in along the gap.
The common entrance hall and living room now give people a completely new feeling.
The door closed behind him, completely cutting off the outside world.There was silence in the apartment.
“Lou Xian, how are you recovering?” Jiang Lingyi asked casually as he took off his suit jacket and hung it on the hanger, loosened his tie, and slumped down on the sofa.
“Well, I gained a lot.” The young man walked out of the room inside.
Jiang Lingyi sat upright and widened his eyes: “You, you… are you okay with doing this?”
“…It’s more than enough to splurge for one night.”
For some reason, he stood shyly in the middle of the living room, holding the corners of his clothes.
“Some things…can only be done like this, right.”
Jiang Lingyi’s brain slowly stopped functioning.
The sounds of each other’s increasingly rapid breathing echoed gently in the empty living room.
He came over, squatted down in front of him, and put his hand on his.
Compared with his usual body temperature which is slightly cooler, the temperature in his palm is already very close to human body temperature – Jiang Lingyi’s body temperature.
It seems that snakes from other worlds also have the characteristics of cold-blooded animals.
He raised his eyes as if he had made a lot of determination: “Tonight, please let me feel your warmth.”