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

"So what do you want me to do in exchange for your forgiveness?" His voice was gentle, but Lu Xiaoxiao just cried and had no intention of answering him.

"If you do something wrong, you will either never be forgiven, or you will have to find a way to make amends. So you only have two choices. One is to never forgive me, and the other is to ask for reasonable compensation. When you've cried enough, tell me the answer."

Lin Cheng no longer tried to wipe her tears, but sat opposite her, looking around and at the bamboo forest that had been clean cut down by Lu Xiaoxiao. After a while, he sighed softly.

He suddenly realized that what he was doing was indeed not a good idea.

In fact, he was not an absolute genius in swordsmanship. He fully comprehended the Fen Yang Swordsmanship because he locked himself up here for a whole day, practicing swordsmanship day and night for about twenty days. Here he would not feel tired or hungry, and there was nothing to distract him, so his swordsmanship improved particularly fast. But obviously this method did not seem to be very suitable for Lu Xiaoxiao.

He had just said something mean to disgust Lu Xiaoxiao, and said that he had forgotten the time while watching a Japanese drama. He hoped that he could let the angry Lu Xiaoxiao experience the "intention" hidden in the tenth level of the Fen Yang Sword Technique, but unfortunately he only felt Lu Xiaoxiao's pure anger... So he simply threw away the sword and let Lu Xiaoxiao chop him again and again to vent his anger.

I've let out enough anger and cried enough tears.

Lin Cheng snapped his fingers and returned to reality with Lu Xiaoxiao. He looked at Lu Xiaoxiao, who was hugging her knees and didn't want to move. He hesitated for a moment and said, "It's time to eat."

Lu Xiaoxiao looked up at him, then quickly lowered her head and said nothing.

Lin Cheng sat beside her helplessly, waiting quietly.

An hour, maybe two.

The dishes he had prepared earlier had already gone cold. He didn't say anything unless Lu Xiaoxiao spoke. He just sat there quietly until the light outside the window gradually dimmed, as if it was about to rain heavily. Neither of them said a word.

There are always sudden rainstorms in summer, and soon the sound of rain covers everything in the room, breaking the silence that should have existed.

Lin Cheng glanced at the clock on the wall. It turned out that five hours had passed. He had been sitting here with Lu Xiaoxiao for five hours. Loneliness was like pieces of snow on the top of a mountain. After accumulating for a long time, it only took one opportunity for an avalanche to occur.

After hesitating for a while, Lin Cheng asked, "If you're hungry, I'll go heat up the food. If you don't want to eat it, just let me know and I'll put it in the refrigerator. In the summer, the food will go bad if left for too long."

Lu Xiaoxiao said nothing.

Lin Cheng was a little at a loss.

It was Lu Xiaoxiao who said she wanted to become stronger and no longer be powerless in the face of difficulties. She had indeed endured repeated deaths before, so Lin Cheng subconsciously thought that she could endure loneliness. However, it seemed that the long sentence of three or four days had made her a little dazed. But in the final analysis, it seemed that it was indeed his fault.

Although I admitted that I was wrong, an inexplicable feeling of fatigue came over me at this moment.

Compared to coaxing children, perhaps Lin Cheng would rather be the one being coaxed, but no one could coax him in the past, so he could only complain to himself and life had to go on.

There was another sound of rain in the room. Lu Xiaoxiao raised her head and asked, "How long did it take you to learn swordsmanship?"

"About twenty days." Hearing her words, Lin Cheng's voice also became a little happier.

Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes fell on his face and she looked at him seriously for several seconds. She suddenly whispered, "I'm sorry."

...Lin Cheng scratched his head.

129 I'm in love with you

"Why are you apologizing suddenly?" Lin Cheng looked at her puzzled.

"I wanted to learn swordsmanship on my own... I... was very willful... I shouldn't have slashed at you so many times just now... I shouldn't have lost my temper... I shouldn't have kept silent..."

Lu Xiaoxiao gradually came back to her senses.

After her anger gradually subsided, she suddenly understood what Lin Cheng meant. It was she who said she felt deeply powerless in the past, but she was also the one who was angry because she was left alone to practice swordplay just now, like a willful and spoiled little girl. Lu Xiaoxiao didn't want to become such a childish little girl...but the long period of loneliness made her almost crazy. She could only wave the sword over and over again to keep herself awake, but she couldn't help but cry.

She was afraid of being alone, but she had always been alone for so many years.

During those days in the bamboo forest, she always felt like a forgotten puppy. She wondered again and again whether Lin Cheng had forgotten her. So the moment she saw her, anger filled her mind, especially after he deliberately said that he accidentally forgot the time. She just wanted to chop and chop into pieces the man with the smirk in front of her.

"Why aren't you angry?" Lu Xiaoxiao asked him blankly.

"Why should I be angry? Wasn't it me who left you here? I should be the one to apologize. I shouldn't have taught you this way." Lin Cheng looked at her with a helpless look.

Lu Xiaoxiao seemed to hear the sound of something breaking.

She couldn't tell what was broken, but she suddenly felt her heartbeat become very fast. The room was so dark, but everything seemed to become bright suddenly. Countless images flashed back in her mind, the cold machinery in the laboratory before she was six years old, Lu Lingling's always cold eyes when she was a child, the deep sense of powerlessness when facing choices, the expectations that Lu Lingling had imposed on her for countless years made her almost breathless, she doubted countless times whether becoming a judge was her ideal? But those things seemed to be quietly broken at this moment.

Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly pounced on Lin Cheng, and Lin Cheng fell on the bed because he didn't react. In an instant, Lu Xiaoxiao was on top of him, her soft and full breasts pressed against his chest, her hands tightly around Lin Cheng's neck, and at this moment she leaned over to kiss his lips. At this moment, Lu Xiaoxiao was like a poor creature who had been lost in the desert for a long time, with dry lips, seeking the nourishment of water, or like a hungry female leopard for a long time, and she couldn't tell whether it was a kiss or a bite. The tip of her pink tongue was like a swaying snake's tail, as if she wanted to blend him into her body.

“Hey, hey, hey, what’s going on?” Lin Cheng could only use a moment to ask Lu Xiaoxiao, but Lu Xiaoxiao just kissed her like crazy. Lin Cheng grabbed her shoulders uneasily, pushed her away a little, and put the back of his hand on her forehead, “Are you crazy?”

"No." Lu Xiaoxiao stared at him intently.

"Then why did you suddenly come up to me and kiss me?"

"I'm in love with you."

Lin Cheng's eyes widened. He was stunned for three or four seconds, and sighed helplessly, "I'm more inclined to believe that you're crazy."

....................................

Lin Cheng was heating up the food in the kitchen. Lu Xiaoxiao was right behind him. She reached out and hugged Lin Cheng's waist. Lin Cheng was flipping the food in the pot helplessly. "Why don't you find a thermometer to measure your temperature? Or I can take you to a psychologist later to help you with your problem?"

"I do not."

"Then what do you want to do?"

"I'm in love with you."

"No, why?"

"I don't know." Lu Xiaoxiao shook her head.

"What is your love then?"

"do not know."

"Then why did you fall in love with me?"

"I don't care. I love you."

"You're crazy!" Lin Cheng turned around and was about to say something, but Lu Xiaoxiao hugged him, her eyes were stubborn and scary. Lin Cheng scratched his head. He wondered if he was crazy. After all, he often had hallucinations in the first two years after he retired. He stretched out his hand and pinched his face. It hurt enough, so it seemed that he was not crazy yet.

"You scolded me." Lu Xiaoxiao bit her lip lightly. Seeing that the big tears were about to fall, Lin Cheng hurriedly reached out and wiped the corners of her eyes. "No, no, no, I just think you are a little abnormal."

"What's wrong with me?"

"Don't you think you're abnormal?"

How could the Lu Xiaoxiao in front of him, who looked aggrieved and overly stubborn, look like the proud little queen from before?

"Forget it, let's eat first."

Lin Cheng sighed helplessly and came to the living room with the food in the pot. Lu Xiaoxiao held the bowl and occasionally picked up some food with chopsticks, but her eyes were always staring at him. Lin Cheng felt uncomfortable being stared at.

“You cook delicious food.”

"Thank you for the compliment." The corners of Lin Cheng's mouth twitched slightly. After dinner, Lu Xiaoxiao took the initiative to clean up the dishes and went to the kitchen. When she came back from the kitchen, Lin Cheng was sitting on the sofa and continuing to watch the Japanese drama. Lu Xiaoxiao came and sat down beside him, quickly hugged his arm, and almost leaned her body in his arms, pressing his elbow with her soft chest.

Lin Cheng turned his head to look at her, seeing the cautiousness and inexplicable sweetness hidden in her eyes, which made it hard for Lin Cheng not to wonder if Lu Xiaoxiao had gone crazy? After all, she had called him a bastard! A beast! A pervert! Shameless! Disgusting! A bitch!

"Why don't you take a shower and calm down?"

"Do you want to do it?"

"Are we talking about the same thing?"

"Do you want to see black stockings or white stockings... I also have a set of Rei Ayanami's C costume that I bought when I went to a comic convention to COS."

"..." Lin Cheng reached out and touched her forehead, "No, I really have to take you to see a psychiatrist."

"I'm not crazy." Lu Xiaoxiao hugged his arm tightly, "Really not."

"Then why do you suddenly say you love me or not?"

"Because I'm in love with you."

"No, why?"

"Do you need a reason to love someone?"

"Don't you need it?"

"No need." Lu Xiaoxiao nodded seriously. Lin Cheng felt a headache. He tried to put himself in Lu Xiaoxiao's perspective and analyze her thought process. After hesitating for about fifteen seconds, he gave this reasonable explanation.

"First, let's take a deep breath and calm down."

Lu Xiaoxiao was very obedient. She took a deep breath and looked at him without blinking.

"I did a brief analysis. It should be like this. You stayed in the bamboo forest for four days, so you were a little dazed. The extreme loneliness made you feel boundless fear. Then I brought you out. You were angry at first because you felt that I abandoned you. This is an emotional emotion, but you wanted to be more rational. You felt that this was originally what you wanted to do to improve your strength. It was a promise you made, so your anger towards me was unreasonable. After you calmed down, you felt ashamed of your anger, but I was not angry about it. Maybe it was at this moment that you felt... that you were favored? Children who lack love tend to regard a little light as everything."

Lu Xiaoxiao was listening to Lin Cheng's words very seriously. She was stunned for several seconds, first nodded, then shook her head, with a hint of confusion in her eyes.

"But actually, it's nothing to me. I'm not angry with you because I feel guilty. I think it was my misjudgment. Maybe the training method that suits me is not suitable for you, which makes you angry and cry... So your love is just an illusion."

"But it doesn't matter. The illusion of love will gradually disappear in a few days." Lin Cheng quietly took his elbow out of Lu Xiaoxiao's arms while Lu Xiaoxiao was confused. "So you will calm down after we are apart for a few days and become the calm Lu Xiaoxiao you used to be. See you in a few days. I will develop a different training method for you next time."

Seeing her eyes becoming more and more confused, Lin Cheng was about to run away, but the next second Lu Xiaoxiao grabbed his arm. Lin Cheng turned around, and Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes were clear. She looked at him gloomily, "Are you going to abandon me again?"

"No, no." Lin Cheng answered stutteringly, "I just think it's good for everyone to calm down..."

"I don't want it." Lu Xiaoxiao said word by word, "Are you going to look for Xu Wanyue?"

"No, really not. I just plan to go home and play some games..."

"Your game is better than mine, right?"

"No, that's not it...I can't explain it to you clearly."

Lu Xiaoxiao pulled Lin Cheng back to the sofa, and before Lin Cheng could react, Lu Xiaoxiao sat astride him the next second, with her legs spread apart and her inner thighs tightly wrapped around his waist. She lowered her head, put her white and tender palms to his collarbone, and unbuttoned his shirt one by one with her slender fingers.

"Love is something that doesn't need to be explained."

"Don't say something like that from a cheesy romance novel."

Even though Lin Cheng was so thick-skinned, he still felt an inexplicable shame at this moment, but Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes were too stubborn. He had already unbuttoned all the buttons of Lin Cheng's shirt. She lowered her head slightly, leaned close to Lin Cheng's lips, and said word by word, "You are not allowed to go find Xu Wanyue."

"I really don't plan to go find her, okay?"

"You are not allowed to go home and play games."

"Can I go home and sleep?"

"No."

"Then what do you want to do?"

"want to."

"I reject."

"But you said yes." Lu Xiaoxiao pointed out the obvious fact, and the hot air from her pink lips fell on Lin Cheng's face.

Lin Cheng looked at Lu Xiaoxiao's gloomy and inexplicably aggrieved eyes at the moment, and hesitated for several seconds, "Forget it, forget it, you will wake up in two days."

Lu Xiaoxiao snorted softly, but did not lift her skirt immediately. Instead, she kissed him from his chin to his neck and collarbone. Lin Cheng felt a headache, but he could not find a better solution at the moment, so he just let her be.

Hey, this time Lu Xiaoxiao was still working hard for five minutes. Although her hands were on his shoulders, crystal clear water droplets were slowly dripping from his porcelain white collarbone.

Suddenly, a cell phone rang next to Lin Cheng's ears. It was Lu Xiaoxiao. Lu Xiaoxiao had just found an excuse to take a break. She lay on Lin Cheng's body, breathing heavily for a long time. Her eyes showed a soft charm. She picked up the phone and took a look.

"Hey."

"I'm busy now. I'm doing it with Lin Cheng." Lu Xiaoxiao's voice was soft and lazy. Lin Cheng's eyes suddenly became alert. "Who's calling?!"

"Xu Wanyue, do you want to chat with her?" Lu Xiaoxiao put the phone close to Lin Cheng's mouth.

"Lu Xiaoxiao and I are making...a cream cake. Do you want to eat it?"

Lin Cheng swore that this was the smartest thing he had done in his twenty-one years of life.

But Lu Xiaoxiao refused to give in. She lay on top of him, her chin resting on his shoulder, her voice full of resentment, "Are you going to turn me into a cream cake again today?"

"Haha Xiaoxiao you really know how to joke, hahahaha."

Lin Cheng turned his head and glanced at his phone. Xu Wanyue's gentle voice came from the other end of the phone, "Then you guys continue making cream cakes. I... won't disturb you anymore."

The phone hangs up.

Lin Cheng threw his phone aside and didn't come back to his senses for three or four seconds. At this moment, Lu Xiaoxiao reached out to pinch his face, and even moved close to him with the corners of her lips raised.

"Are you angry?"

130 Weird

　Lin Cheng felt that he had always been a person with a good temper.

Anger is just a way to achieve a goal. Most of the time, anger is meaningless. His good temper can be specifically reflected in his ability to coax Jiang Lingxue unconditionally in the past. Perhaps it is also related to the subtle idea that... since he has slept with Jiang Lingxue, he must be better to her.