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

"I don't..."

"The concept of lack of love should be understood more concretely as, because other people have it and you don't, you will subconsciously feel the lack and desire, but in fact, people themselves do not need love, it is only this feeling of lack that makes you feel confused and lost. Your relationship with your mother seems a little strange, not like a normal mother and daughter, so you don't feel much connection with the world?"

Lu Xiaoxiao was silent for a long time. She suddenly asked Lin Cheng in a low voice, "Do you know why I admire Siming so much?"

"why?"

"Because he was the one who ended this natural disaster. After the disaster, the original meaning of my existence also disappeared. Only then can I truly live as Lu Xiaoxiao."

"Then what are you still confused about?" Lin Cheng blinked at her, tacitly not asking her the reason.

"I'm not used to it, I don't understand ...."

"Because you haven't found the right place for you in this world." Lin Cheng sat up. "But you can only rely on yourself to find a place. If you need help, you can come to me."

He stood up and went to the grill to get the barbecue. Lu Xiaoxiao also sat up and asked in a low voice towards his back, "Why?"

"Because you are cute too." Lin Cheng answered softly without turning back.

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Xu Wanyue’s barbecue is also quite good.

The three of them sat on the lawn and ate barbecue. Lin Cheng also took out beer from the refrigerator. Everyone drank one or two bottles. After cleaning up the mess, Lin Cheng took them to the theater room in the villa, which had a soft big bed and a sofa. The three of them watched a horror movie.

Lu Xiaoxiao had a very poor alcohol tolerance and her head was a little dizzy. Xu Wanyue gently hugged her. She leaned in Xu Wanyue's arms and lay on the bed with Lu Xiaoxiao to watch a movie, while Lin Cheng sat on the sofa on the side. After a while, he went out to make a phone call.

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"Hey."

A cold woman's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hey." Lin Cheng sat by the swimming pool and said calmly, "Lu Xiaoxiao was born because of the plan 20 years ago, right?"

"Yes, she was the only successful experimental subject in that plan. She used the power of the crystal core of the Abyss Delusion Monster, as well as my genes and part of my energy source. But she was very unstable when she was young. It was not until she was six years old that she became stable and walked out of the laboratory and came to my side. That plan was actually a failure because a lot of resources were spent, and she was the only successful experimental subject, and she only inherited some of my abilities."

"You raised her as a tool since she was a child?" Lin Cheng's voice gradually became colder.

"Why do you think so?"

"Her behavior is actually very obvious. She can't feel your love for her."

"Then what does it mean to be loved?" Lu Lingling asked Lin Cheng softly, "I guided her to become the judge of the alliance because the natural disaster has not ended yet. So many resources were spent at the beginning, and she should have become a member of the fight against the natural disaster. But the natural disaster has been ended by you, and I have truly begun to face her existence. Her value as a tool has disappeared, but I am not good at being a mother. I know she is confused, but I can't do anything. I am indeed not a competent mother."

Lin Cheng had a lot of things on his mind, but in the end he didn't know how to say them.

"You've been with her for so many years, don't you really...love her a little bit?"

"What do you think love is like, my dear Lord Sima Ming?"

But Lin Cheng couldn't answer. Sima Ming was not an omniscient and omnipotent god. He was just one of the countless living beings who were lucky enough to awaken their destiny.

"After the natural disaster, I talked to her seriously about her past, and told her seriously that from now on she can freely choose her own life, but she still chose to become a judge. I suspended her from her post some time ago, not because I don't love her, but because I hope to use this as an opportunity to let her find her own answer to justice. This is how I educate my children, but I can't do anything about her confusion. She can only find it all by herself. After all... in this world, who can live absolutely correctly?"

"Yeah." Lin Cheng responded softly.

"It is normal for children to be confused. It is precisely because of confusion that they want to find a place for themselves in this world. This is not a bad thing." Lu Lingling's voice became very gentle.

Lin Cheng suddenly thought of something very interesting.

"So am I also a child in your eyes?"

"No, you are dear Lord Siming."

"So disgusting, so disgusting, so disgusting." Lin Cheng hung up her phone rudely.

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When I returned to the room, Lu Xiaoxiao had already fallen asleep in Xu Wanyue's arms.

They all changed back into the clothes they wore when they came. Lu Xiaoxiao's light green hip skirt was tightly attached to her body. Because she was lying sideways in Xu Wanyue's arms, her snow-white buttocks under the skirt looked like a full moon in Lin Cheng's sight.

Xu Wanyue was watching a horror movie timidly, gently stroking Lu Xiaoxiao's back. It was strange, she always felt that there was an inexplicable maternal aura around her.

"Let's carry her to bed?" Lin Cheng suggested softly. To avoid being woken up by the sound effects of the horror movie, Xu Wanyue gently picked up Lu Xiaoxiao and followed Lin Cheng into the guest room, where she put her on the soft big bed. Xu Wanyue was no longer wearing a swimsuit, but the same short T-shirt and hot pants she wore when she came. The T-shirt tightly wrapped her soft chest, with the hem tied in a knot. Lin Cheng and she returned to the cinema room, and this time it was Lin Cheng who lay in her arms.

"So you carried her back just because you wanted to lie down too, right?" Xu Wanyue's hand poked his collarbone softly.

"Yes, yes, mother's arms are the warmest."

"You want to die!" Xu Wanyue's cheeks flushed red, and her hand reached into his T-shirt again. Lin Cheng said with a bitter face, "No, no, no."

"Don't shout next time." Xu Wanyue muttered softly.

"Good good."

Xu Wanyue then loosened her fingers, and Lin Cheng looked into her eyes tenderly, "I'll help you fix the photo of that day in a few days."

"Yeah." Xu Wanyue nodded obediently.

Lin Cheng tried to read some other emotion in Xu Wanyue's eyes, but Xu Wanyue just nodded obediently.

He originally thought that he could completely not care whether Xu Wanyue knew about what happened that day, but now he felt a little awkward for some reason. Lin Cheng reached out and pinched his face, using a little more force.

"What's the matter?" Xu Wanyue lowered her head, bent down, and leaned close to his cheek.

"It's okay, I want to kiss."

"But you said the contract will not take effect until tomorrow?"

"But... didn't they kiss before the contract came into effect?"

"Well, okay then." Xu Wanyue lowered her head and pecked him lightly on the forehead.

"So perfunctory."

"You are too greedy." Xu Wanyue's breath fell on his cheek. At this moment, the distance between their cheeks was so close. Lin Cheng looked into her eyes seriously, but her pupils really only showed pure tenderness.

It's really strange, a girl whose life in the past eighteen years has been filled with misfortune, yet her eyes can be so gentle.

Is it because you love this world or are you disappointed with it?

Lin Cheng's mind began to think in a mess, but Xu Wanyue suddenly interrupted his thoughts, "Your eyes look so complicated, what are you thinking about?"

"Wondering why you like to laugh so much."

"If you don't laugh, are you going to cry?" Xu Wanyue said softly. Lin Cheng hesitated and said, "I just don't understand. You said you were unlucky for many years, so why do you look so happy every day..."

"Because I still have a younger sister." When Xu Wanyue mentioned her younger sister, her eyes seemed to become brighter. "Because if I am sad, my younger sister will also notice my sadness, and she will also be unhappy, so I must be happy."

"Are you really happy, then?"

"Anyway, people like you who think about the meaning of happiness, the meaning of life, and the meaning of justice every day are definitely not happy. You don't need to think about things like happiness. Thinking about them will make you unhappy."

"But I'm very unhappy now, can you comfort me?"

"Why are you suddenly unhappy again?"

"Because you just kissed my forehead."

"You are being shameless. You don't like me, but you want me to kiss you... Isn't that weird?"

"I don't care. I'm just a scoundrel."

"Okay, okay." Xu Wanyue leaned her cheek closer again, and her pink and tender lips lightly touched the corner of his lips. This time, she even quietly touched his lips lightly with the tip of her soft tongue, although it was just a quick touch and then retreated.

"Why did you agree to kiss me if you don't like me?" Lin Cheng stared at her, but the next second his cheeks were pinched by Xu Wanyue. She stretched out her hands and pinched Lin Cheng's face into various shapes.

"You can't kiss me or not kiss me. If you continue like this, I won't serve you anymore."

Xu Wanyue's cheeks were slightly puffed up, like a cute little hamster.

71 It won't rain tomorrow

When Lu Xiaoxiao woke up in a daze, the sunset outside the window was colorful and gorgeous.

She sat up from the bed, stepped on her slippers, and walked to the theater room next door. The light in the room was dim. Xu Wanyue was holding a bag of potato chips in her hand, and she was stuffing a piece of potato chips into her mouth. When she saw Lu Xiaoxiao, her eyes lit up, "Are you awake?"

Xu Wanyue reached out and handed the potato chips to her. Lu Xiaoxiao walked closer, but her eyes did not linger there. She lowered her head and looked at Lin Cheng, who was resting his head on Xu Wanyue's thighs.

Lin Cheng fell asleep with his face buried in Xu Wanyue's flat white thighs. His breathing was steady and he slept quite well. Xu Wanyue was wearing shorts today, and her white and tender thighs were soft and elastic at the moment, which really made a good pillow.

Lu Xiaoxiao subconsciously looked up at Xu Wanyue's eyes, but Xu Wanyue's eyes were so pure that there was no trace of strangeness or shame. She leaned in and bit off the potato chips she handed over, then looked down at Lin Cheng and asked vaguely, "Why is he sleeping on your lap?"

"He thinks the pillow is too hard." Xu Wanyue answered bluntly, as if this was a matter of course and nothing happened, but Lu Xiaoxiao always felt an inexplicable discomfort in her heart.

"Are you and him really... just good friends?" Lu Xiaoxiao couldn't help but ask after all.

"Yeah." Xu Wanyue even reached out and tidied Lin Cheng's messy hair. "This guy is like a child. He's not my type."

"child?"

Lu Xiaoxiao admitted that she sometimes felt that Lin Cheng was childish, but compared to his childishness, most of the time he was more mysterious and had all kinds of strange but convincing fallacies.

"Yeah, don't you think he looks like a child?"

Xu Wanyue's eyes were innocent, and her tone was so gentle when she said this that her words were inexplicably convincing. Lu Xiaoxiao sat on the edge of the bed and quickly changed the subject, "So what kind do you like?"

Xu Wanyue thought about it carefully and said, "I like gentle people who are kind to me and rich."

This criterion for choosing a partner also applies to Lu Xiaoxiao, except for the last one. However, Xu Wanyue is really too frank. Most people prefer to conceal their desire for money because they will have an inexplicable sense of shame.

As for liking gentle people? Who doesn't like gentle people? Gentleness in most cases means asking for whatever you want. Once you become a gentle person, it means you have to tolerate the other person's bad temper and accept her unreasonable behavior.

But Lu Xiaoxiao thought again, "Doesn't he fit the bill?"

"It's different. He's not loyal at all. You can see he's entangled with many girls." Xu Wanyue muttered softly. Lu Xiaoxiao thought that was the truth. She was about to say something when Lin Cheng suddenly opened his eyes and sat up from Xu Wanyue's legs.

"As soon as I woke up, I heard you saying bad things about me." He looked directly into Xu Wanyue's eyes.

"Isn't it true?" Xu Wanyue looked at him innocently.

Lin Cheng lowered his voice, leaned close to her ear and whispered, "I'll deal with you tomorrow."

Xu Wanyue's eyes suddenly became timid again.

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There was frozen steak in the villa's refrigerator, and Lin Cheng took it out to cook dinner for them. Since he had to drive home, he didn't drink. His steak was fried quite well. Most Western food is cooked in a very simple way.

After dinner it was time to go home. Lu Xiaoxiao's home was not on the way to Lin Cheng, but Xu Wanyue was there, so Lin Cheng was able to leave with Xu Wanyue. Before leaving, he told Lu Xiaoxiao that she could contact him when she was free in a few days, and he could continue to teach Lu Xiaoxiao how to control energy.

"Why a few days later?" Lu Xiaoxiao was puzzled.

"Because I will be very busy these days." Lin Cheng answered seriously.

Then he got into Xu Wanyue's passenger seat. Xu Wanyue drove seriously and slowly. She looked straight ahead and asked softly, "Shall I take you home?"

"Will you take me in?"

"Well, if the contract starts now, then yes."

"If you don't start, you won't be able to take me in?"

"Yes." Xu Wanyue nodded slightly.

"Then let's start from tonight. Today will also count as one day." Lin Cheng's answer was not hesitant. Instead, it seemed that he didn't really care whether there were three or four days left. Xu Wanyue hummed softly and continued, "So... why did you suddenly think of the contract?"

"Because I like you."

"You don't like me." Xu Wanyue muttered softly. At this moment, her voice surprisingly did not sound stupid, but instead revealed a slight coldness. As for whether there was any other emotion hidden in the coldness, Lin Cheng had no idea.

Lin Cheng, who was exposed, did not feel embarrassed. He leaned on the passenger seat and adjusted the chair back a little. "Because there will be a team building at the fruit store in three days, I need to rent a girlfriend to deal with some possible emergencies."

"Is it for the lady of the house?"

"...So be it."

"It's like a child getting angry."

"Just think of it as a child sulking." Lin Cheng sighed helplessly and closed his eyes.

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Half an hour later, he returned to the single apartment that Xu Wanyue rented.

Xu Wanyue was a girl who particularly loved cleanliness. The living room was clean and tidy. She bought exquisite transparent shoe boxes and carefully packed the pairs of shoes that Lin Cheng had given her before. She soon went back to her room and took a shower in her nightgown. Lin Cheng sat on the sofa and waited quietly.

Half an hour later, Xu Wanyue walked out of the bathroom. She was wearing a plain white nightgown. Today's nightgown was a little thicker and no longer as thin and transparent as before, so she was not wearing any underwear. The hem of her skirt fell on her thighs, and her slightly pink legs were stained with water droplets. Lin Cheng also got up and went to the bathroom with his pajamas. He came out in ten minutes. When he came out, Xu Wanyue was sitting on the sofa, applying something on her white and tender thighs, which was not sure whether it was body lotion or moisturizing lotion.

"Do you need help?" Lin Cheng came to her side.

Xu Wanyue hesitated for a moment, then handed him the small bottle and naturally placed her calf on his leg. She reached out and gently lifted the hem of her skirt a little, exposing half of her thigh.