Who says those who retire at the speed of light are not heroes?

"Don't talk nonsense, it's okay."

"I'm talking about the stomach." Lu Xiaoxiao stared at him, "Pull it out mercilessly."

"But I really want to be alone for a while." Lin Cheng could only sigh helplessly. Lu Xiaoxiao slowly stood up from the bed, bit the lollipop in her mouth, went to get her clothes, steamed them all dry with her power, sat cross-legged on the bed, and put on her clothes one by one, staring straight at Lin Cheng's profile, trying to catch a trace of shame in his eyes.

But unfortunately, Lin Cheng really didn't have any of that.

Lu Xiaoxiao lifted her legs, and her panties were lifted up to her knees. She stood up, put them on, and then put on her skirt. Finally, she was dressed neatly. She turned around and said, "I'm leaving."

"Ah."

"I'm leaving."

"OK, all right."

Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes suddenly turned red.

She turned around, quickened her pace, and almost ran out of Lin Cheng's room. Only then did Lin Cheng finally turn his chair around to take a look, and he sighed helplessly.

So I told you not to like me.

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Lu Xiaoxiao sat in the car and fastened her seat belt, but tears quickly blurred her vision.

She couldn't explain why she wanted to cry, she just suddenly felt so wronged. She obviously liked him so much, but he was still so cold.

But in this world, if you like someone, you won't necessarily get a response.

Tears gradually accumulated in her eyes, and finally she could no longer bear it and fell from the corners of her eyes. She leaned on the steering wheel and burst into tears, her shoulders shaking constantly. Why? Why did he like Xu Wanyue so much? Even if Xu Wanyue didn't come to him, he would take the initiative to want to see Xu Wanyue, and take the initiative to chat with Xu Wanyue every day... She knew that nothing had happened between Lin Cheng and Xu Wanyue, but she had given him everything she had, but she was still dispensable in his heart.

Where exactly did we lose?

Lu Xiaoxiao couldn't guess the answer. She just felt wronged. She didn't want to cry, but she couldn't stop her tears. The light outside the car window was gradually dimming, and she cried for a long time.

Why does liking someone become a sad thing?

After her silent tears dried up, she slowly raised her head. She didn't know when it started raining outside the car window. Summer rainstorms are always so capricious. She took a tissue to wipe the tears from her cheeks. She turned her head inadvertently, but found that the man outside the car window was holding an umbrella and standing under the umbrella, with a look of wanting to say something but stopping himself.

She rolled down the car window and asked, "When did you come?"

"I saw your car downstairs didn't leave for three minutes, so I came down to check. Then I saw you crying for half an hour... and you didn't even notice me." Lin Cheng answered innocently.

"you go."

“…” Lin Cheng was speechless.

He really didn't know what to say. Sending Lu Xiaoxiao away had absolutely nothing to do with Xu Wanyue. He just felt that if he kept Lu Xiaoxiao here, he really didn't know what to say or do. Compared to being together, he might be more accustomed to being alone.

At the beginning of the year when he lived with Jiang Lingxue, he was completely uncomfortable at first. After he finally got used to it, Jiang Lingxue had already left.

The two looked at each other in the rain. Lu Xiaoxiao's tears, which had just stopped, quietly flowed out again. Lin Cheng looked at her tear-stained eyelashes, and after hesitating for a moment, he came to the passenger door, opened it and got in.

Sometimes when a girl asks you to go away, she wants you to get out of her sight right now, and sometimes she wants you to kiss her lips. Men and women are actually like this, and there are times when they say one thing and mean another.

Lin Cheng didn't ask Lu Xiaoxiao why she was crying. After getting in the car, he put away the umbrella and took out a tissue to wipe Lu Xiaoxiao's tears. Lu Xiaoxiao didn't move, her voice choked with sobs, "Did you come here to laugh at me?"

"Why do you think I'm here to laugh at you?" Lin Cheng asked back in confusion.

"Then what are you doing here?" Lu Xiaoxiao's chest rose and fell violently with her breathing.

"I'm worried about you."

"I don't want you to worry..."

"That's what I said, but worrying about you is my business, just like saying you love me is your business. I don't want you to care about it."

Lin Cheng opened the car window a little, and the rain outside fell in. He said, "It's raining. I like rainy days. Let's go have a drink, shall we?"

"You just... drove me away..."

"Because I want to be alone."

Lin Cheng gently grasped Lu Xiaoxiao's face, turned her cheek a little, carefully wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said softly, "Everyone has times when they want to be alone for a while."

"If it was Xu Wanyue...you definitely wouldn't chase her away."

"You are not me, so why can you represent me? The difference between Xu Wanyue and you is that if I tell her that I want to be alone for a while, she will leave obediently and won't feel wronged. I don't have to worry about having a quarrel with her next time we meet because of this."

"I'm just not as good as her! Then why do you still come to laugh at me?"

"You still don't understand the core logic here." Lin Cheng looked into her eyes. "What's important is that I want to be alone for a while, not that the person who is with me is you or Xu Wanyue. Everyone has their own things to do. For example, that day you chose to fight Wu Zun to delay time. If I was powerless at that time, but wanted to stop you and hoped that you would not go to die, you would still go because that is what you wanted to do."

"So when I want to be alone for a while, it's what I want to do, it has nothing to do with people, so my subjective intention is that I want to be alone for a while, not purely to drive you away."

"Let me make another argument. If I wanted to chase you away, I wouldn't have come down to see you. Wouldn't it be easier to get you to give up if I just chased you away? Why would I come up to you and explain? Isn't that cheap?"

Lin Cheng said a lot, and Lu Xiaoxiao listened carefully. Her mind was in a mess, and she finally said, "Let me sort it out."

...So from a certain perspective, Lu Xiaoxiao’s “reasoning” is indeed a very interesting thing.

...What’s important is not that the truth is absolutely correct, but that she believes it is correct.

Lin Cheng nodded gently and waited for three or four minutes. Lu Xiaoxiao looked at him timidly, "So you like me a little bit?"

Lin Cheng shook his head, nodded, and shook his head again.

"Then do you like Xu Wanyue?"

Lin Cheng nodded, shook his head, nodded again, shook his head again, and nodded again.

"Why don't you just die?" Lu Xiaoxiao came up and grabbed his neck again, but she didn't use any force at all. Lin Cheng smiled helplessly. After a while, Lu Xiaoxiao finally let go. Lin Cheng said innocently, "Like and love are very illusory things. Whether these things exist or are eternal is never important. What matters is whether you can get the emotions you want from likes and love. When you want it, it exists. When you don't want it, it's just a Ponzi scheme of passing the parcel."

Lin Cheng's eyes were so sincere that there was a hint of melancholy in their sincerity.

"Have you always thought so?" Lu Xiaoxiao stared at his eyes blankly.

"It just happened to be raining. On rainy days my persona is a melancholy poet."

"..."

Lu Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at him.

She put away her touch, started the car's engine, and Lu Xiaoxiao asked calmly, "Where are we going?"

"The fruit shop has opened a new bar. It has been under renovation for a month and officially opened the day before yesterday. Miss Lu, are you going to support us?"

"Oh, the address."

"Very close."

Lin Cheng told Lu Xiaoxiao the address. On the way, he took out his phone and looked at it. Lizhi also took a photo of Grape standing at the bar and mixing drinks. Huh? Why is she wearing a maid skirt?

Quite cute.

151 Did you hear that?

Lu Xiaoxiao originally thought that the bar that Lin Cheng was talking about was another big store that he had bought for the purpose of profit, but when he arrived at the destination, Lu Xiaoxiao found that she seemed to be wrong.

Because this bar is located in a remote alley, with an old sycamore tree planted at the door and almost no shops around. When she pushed open the door, the interior decoration was classical and elegant, the blues in her ears were soothing and light, and the lights were slightly dim. Just the words "Welcome home, host" when she entered the door made Lu Xiaoxiao wonder if she had come to the wrong place?

She turned her head and saw Litchi and Grape standing at the door, wearing maid skirts.

She had seen Litchi and Grape before, but this was the first time she had seen them wearing maid skirts. Litchi was wearing a long maid skirt, with her short hair draped over her shoulders, black thick-soled shoes under her ankles, and her slender ankles covered with white socks. She looked pure and elegant, and the gold-rimmed glasses revealed a bit of intellectuality.

Grape was wearing a knee-length maid skirt, revealing her collarbone. Her silver hair was tied into a ponytail, and she wore white lace gloves on her hands. She lifted the hem of her skirt when she bent down slightly. This was not the etiquette of an old-time maid at all, but the sexy action that otakus fantasized about. The way she bent down slightly exposed some of her chest, and the hem of her skirt was lifted up too much, so that one could even see the strings of her white silk stockings at her thighs.

Not only Lu Xiaoxiao was shocked, but also Lin Cheng.

The corner of Lin Cheng's mouth twitched slightly, and he looked at Lizhi, "Why are you wearing one too?"

"Of course it's to welcome the master." Lizhi's lips curled up slightly, looking gentle and well-behaved, but there was a hint of disdainful coldness in her eyes. That coldness was of course directed at Lu Xiaoxiao who was beside Lin Cheng, but because it was fleeting, Lu Xiaoxiao did not notice it.

"speak English."

"I'm here to hang out with Sister Grape during the opening ceremony. I haven't worn it yet." Lizhi snorted, turned around and walked to the bar and sat down, where her wine was placed.

Grape walked up to Lin Cheng and put down the hem of her skirt. "Shall I take you for a walk?"

"Okay, but the name..."

"I'm a maid today, so a maid can call you master." Grape raised her head slightly and answered confidently, but Lin Cheng always felt that she was still looking at Lu Xiaoxiao from the corner of her eyes, quietly murderous.

"Fine."

"Xiaoxiao, sit down for a while. I'll go look around with her."

The space of this bar is actually not very big. There are cat litter, cat food and water bowls under the tree at the door for the stray cats nearby. There is a fish tank in the bar with a group of blue jellyfish swimming in it. The lighting is a little dim. There are no more than ten seats below, four seats at the bar, and there is only one bartender, Grape.

This shop was taken over by Litchi from Grape.

Lizhi felt that Grape was no longer the same Grape as before, and she could now perfectly integrate into the current world, so she found a job for Grape that she could do. The store was not far from Lin Cheng's home, and it would only take him twenty minutes to walk over.

As the mother-in-law of the family, Lizhi cares a lot about the family.

Lin Cheng thought this was great. After all, a job was the basis for survival. Even just killing time was a great thing. The purpose of this store was not to make money, but to find something simple and interesting for Grape to do.

Come to think of it, Lin Cheng has never tasted the cocktail she mixed.

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"After they finish shopping, I recommend the Red Poison on the wine list. Sister Grape's cocktails are delicious." Lizhi bit the straw gently and whispered softly to Lu Xiaoxiao, who was sitting one seat away from her.

“This store…”

"Find something for Sister Grape to do. After all, no one would mess with our fruit shop now. Sister Grape has nothing to do, so she opened this shop."

"So that's how it is." Lu Xiaoxiao nodded slightly, and suddenly noticed that there was another person at the bar, but she was too short. At this moment, she was sitting on a chair, typing something on a notebook. Lu Xiaoxiao lowered her head curiously and looked at her, "Who is she?"

"She is Lemon. She is eighteen years old and is the alchemist of our fruit shop. The batch of alchemical contact lenses you ordered from us were made by her."

Lu Xiaoxiao had come into contact with Lizhi before. In order to order that batch of alchemical contact lenses, she had always had Lizhi's contact information. The impression Lizhi gave her was... She looked like a cute high school girl, but she was too smart. She seemed to be able to handle everything with ease. She was not afraid even when facing the top leaders of the alliance. There was always a hint of contempt in her eyes.

She is the truly proud girl.

Lu Xiaoxiao chatted briefly with Lizhi for a while. Grape came back after taking Lin Cheng for a walk. Lin Cheng sat between her and Lizhi, and Grape went back to the bar. Lu Xiaoxiao ordered some drinks, and Lin Cheng ordered the same as her. Grape was very skilled at mixing the cocktail and brought it to her quickly. She took a sip and it was delicious.

"Hmm? How long has Grape been learning this?" Lin Cheng asked curiously.

"Three days."

"Amazing."

"It's easier than mixing poison." Grape replied softly.

"..." Lin Cheng shut up silently and looked at Lemon, "What are you doing?"

"Calculating my plasma annihilation cannon." Lemon answered without even looking up.

Lu Xiaoxiao's eyebrows twitched.

Lin Cheng scratched his head. "Is there no need to study this kind of thing?"

"Two months later, a small abyss rift will open in the South China Sea. If we throw one into the South China Sea, won't we have countless abyss crystal cores?"

Lemon's fingertips tapped so quickly that Lin Cheng could only see a bunch of afterimages. He had no choice but to stop saying anything. Lemon was not one of those people who could sit still. She had always had anxiety disorders and would become a little manic once she was idle. She has been much better recently, and Lizhi had been really worried about her before.

After a while, Lemon closed the computer and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Done?"

"Failed again." Lemon sighed, waved her hand like a magician, and threw three pink test tubes to Lin Cheng. "I have prepared what Jiang Lingxue wanted. Bring it to her next time you meet. I will be in seclusion starting tomorrow."

"what is this?"

"The fox one grows a fox tail, and the cat one grows a cat tail."

"What about this one?" Lin Cheng looked at the only test tube without a label.

"After drinking it, it will secrete ()." Lemon said lightly, not even bothering to lift his eyelids.

Lu Xiaoxiao's eyebrows twitched again.

Lin Cheng's mouth couldn't stop twitching, "I really don't know about this."

"How long will the effect last?" Lin Cheng couldn't help but ask curiously.

"The first two are for eight hours, and the third one will secrete about 80cc. Remember to drink it in three times. The effect is the same. Don't drink it all at once."

Lin Cheng quietly put away the three potions. Lu Xiaoxiao turned around and looked at him with complicated eyes, "You are really... perverted."

"Do you believe me when I say I didn't ask her to do it? I confiscated the third one. I'm really not a pervert!!"

Lu Xiaoxiao gave him a meaningful look.