Chapter 25.1

Cherry Red and Lychee Fragrance (1)

“You’re afraid of me too.”

The tone of his voice was cold and his expression was frigid.

Lu Zhi Yao knelt down on one knee. He no longer had a smile on his gentle face and even showed a hint of annoyance for the first time.

However, Li Ruo Shui didn’t reply for a long time. He didn’t know what she was doing, and he couldn’t see her expression at all.

With a long sigh, Lu Zhi Yao took off his soaked robe and tossed it aside.

Beneath the soft, draping outer robe was a white suit with red stripes, a black waistband framed his waist, and the arrow sleeves were sharp, just like the man he was.

“You’re always like this.”

Always so unpredictable that it made him unable to control himself. Even though he had just killed a lot of people, he was no longer happy at the moment.

Lu Zhi Yao spoke, lowered his head, and wiped the blood from his hands. His face was hidden in the shadows, and his smile completely gone.

So annoying, kill her.

Kill her and these strange feelings will be gone.

Kill her and be free.

Be sure to kill her before she gets tired of being afraid.

Lu Zhi Yao wiped his right hand clean. His white fingertips touched her neck, rubbing the vein there with a slight sense of attachment, and then he slowly tightened his grip without giving her a chance to argue.

“I don’t want to hear it from you. You’re only lying to me.”

His fingertips were cold, as they always were. Even after being stained with so much warm blood, it did not warm him up.

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This system usually doesn’t make a sound, but now it’s ringing so loudly, making her head hurt. Perhaps this little lunatic really wanted to kill her.

Lu Zhi Yao’s mood changed abruptly. The two of them went from working together to catch a ghost to this current situation of her being strangled. It was a little unexpected, yet it was also unsurprising to her.

If it was Lu Zhi Yao, it was no surprise that he would do anything, including killing her.

The hand on her neck slowly tightened. Li Ruo Shui tilted her head and felt a pressure she had never felt before. The pain in her throat was unbearable. The vein in her neck was gradually squeezed, and the blood flowed a little slower.

She choked and grabbed his wrist, struggling to squeeze out a question.

“You, why, like……killing……”

Her words were mostly gasps, and it was hard to discern what they meant, but Lu Zhi Yao understood.

He had made up his mind to not hear another word from her, but he still subconsciously loosened his grip at this point, giving her a chance to catch her breath.

Lu Zhi Yao rubbed his fingertips against the soft side of her neck, suppressing his irritability and evoked a smile.

“What else do you want to say? Do you still want to bet? I’m getting a little annoyed with this now.”

Given a chance to catch her breath, Li Ruo Shui gasped, ignoring the vague pain in her neck, and repeated in a hoarse voice.

“I didn’t want to bet. I just wanted to know why you like to kill people.”

Lu Zhi Yao smiled, his thumb holding up her chin, forcing her to look up at him.

“Because it’s fun. You’re happy when you tease the cats, and I’m happy when I kill people.”

As if something occurred to him, Lu Zhi Yao tilted his head and raised a light smile on his lips, looking clean and quiet, just like the moonlight behind him.

“You also want to say, put down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha?”

The shallow smile suddenly widened and became slightly distorted, like the sunlight being split by the dark shadow.

As if his own thoughts were too absurdly amusing, Lu Zhi Yao could not help laughing in a low voice.

“No.”

Li Ruo Shui’s voice was hoarse, and she coughed a few times every now and then. Looking at his laughing appearance, she was not afraid and her moist eyes looked at him quietly.

“The more you give, the more you will reap. Killing is just a matter of the moment you use your sword, and the pleasure you get is nothing more than that.”

“To have joy in this world is not as simple as killing people. Don’t you want to know what others are happy about?”

Lu Zhi Yao stopped smiling, withdrew his hand, and said nothing.

The words were all too familiar to him.

He was imprisoned in the courtyard since he was a child. He had wanted to go out, but only after he went out did he realize that the world was just as filthy and meaningless as that courtyard.

He had heard a lot of laughter but could not relate to it.

But then he plunged his sword into someone else’s body for the first time. The warmth, the excitement, and the peace of mind — all of it shocked him.

But now, this pleasure didn’t seem to be enough to fill the void in his heart.

“……I want to know what makes you happy.”

The others were none of his business, and he never cared, but he wanted to know what Li Ruo Shui was thinking.

It was funny. He had clearly wanted to kill her just a moment ago, but right now, he was still distracted by her words.

Li Ruo Shui squeezed the corner of her clothes and swallowed her saliva, her voice fluttering a little.

“Do you really want to know?”

Before Lu Zhi Yao could nod, he felt Li Ruo Shui move closer. He thought she was going to resist, but instead she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and her breath approached gradually.

She had a lot of almond pastry today, so there was a faint scent of milk in her breath. But she was a little nervous and trembled as she came closer to him.

Lu Zhi Yao stiffened his body and did not move. His heart was beating wildly as if he knew what was going to happen, but he really couldn’t tell.

It was only when a breeze blew through his palms did he realize that he was already sweating.

Nervousness, curiosity, heart palpitations, pleasure, and so many other unspoken emotions emerged, and even his breathing was subconsciously curtailed.

The sweet scent came closer and closer, almost mingling with his breath. He had never been this close to anyone before, and he seemed to be able to feel the warmth coming from her body.

Lu Zhi Yao subconsciously leaned back a little. His slightly red lips lay bare to the moonlight and glistened with a subtle sheen, and his eyelashes trembling slightly as if he was awaiting punishment or guidance.