Go back? There's no going back.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Su Wei sitting on the blanket in a daze.

At this moment, under Elsie's gaze, the latter was looking up at the ceiling motionlessly, with a dazed expression on his face. He looked inexplicably similar to the distraught look he had in the hospital.

Seeing this scene, Elsie's heart tightened slightly.

She walked quickly to the bed, reached out her hand without hesitation, pinched Su Wei's face in front of her, and then... twisted it.

"pain??"

The next second, accompanied by a cry of pain that was more spirited than Elsie had imagined, Su Wei in front of her suddenly came back to his senses.

"Ah, Master Elsie... No, Miss Elsie, you are back."

Looking at the maid who had come to him without him noticing, and the bunch of bedding in her arms, Su Wei immediately stood up and took it: "Thank you for making an extra trip so late at night."

However, even though Su Wei stretched out his hand, for some reason, the maid in front of him did not react at all. Instead, she looked at his face carefully.

"...It's okay."

A moment later, under Su Wei's increasingly puzzled gaze, Elsie realized that Su Wei was just in a daze. She let out a small breath and glanced at him speechlessly: "I thought you and the princess had a quarrel while I was away."

"No... quarrel with the princess? I wouldn't dare to do that even if I had ten times the courage."

Hearing this, Su Wei scratched his head in confusion.

Although just now, after he had the courage to express his gratitude and respect to the princess in person, the princess's attitude did subtly become colder and harder, but... that should be far from being called a quarrel.

"Stand up first, we need to make the bed."

At this time, Su Wei heard the maid's reminder again.

"Then I'll do it myself..."

Su Wei wanted to refuse, but after meeting the gentle gaze of the maid, he inexplicably closed his mouth, stood up and stepped aside.

"This is the most suitable bed sheet that you can buy in this area in a short time."

The maid said this while moving the blanket and old sheets on the bed aside, passing Su Wei.

"Really? Thank you..."

Hearing this, Su Wei nodded in a daze.

Then, at this moment, he remembered something important again.

Just now, he had confirmed that the source of the princess's favorability was not the dimmest star.

At least it was one of the other two stars that had once brought him warmth.

In other words, the remaining possibility of the dark star is either from the witch or from the maid in front of him...

Thinking of this, Su Wei blinked and subconsciously looked at the maid who was bending over to make the bed in front of him.

When he took a look, he suddenly felt that the scenery before him was a little hazy.

He remembered very clearly that eight years ago, when he was taken in by the gentle and kind princess, moved into the palace for the first time, and was assigned his own room... this was how the maid made the bed for him.

Although he did not sleep on the newly made bed that night, he ended up sleeping on the maid's bed instead.

In fact, speaking of this...Su Wei was confused about his own reactions at that time.

Although he was only eight years old at that time.

But, taking into account the age at which he died in his previous life, he has lived for more than 20 years.

Even if there were some psychological traumas in the previous life, such as being locked in a classroom cupboard by a school bully for a whole night...it would not be so serious that one would run to someone else's maid and knock on the door tremblingly and make a strange request like sleeping on the floor in the other person's room because of the fear of being alone in a closed and dark environment.

Su Wei still remembers vividly the troubled and slightly worried look in the maid's eyes.

It's understandable that he has psychological trauma, but...PTSD has reached this level, even Su Wei himself finds it strange.

And... the most important thing is that since coming to this world, Su Wei has completely lost track of what he looked like in his previous life.

The few things I remember in my mind are probably the memories of being bullied, and the scenes of standing alone on the street when all the lights were on, looking at the smiling faces of children of the same age accompanied by their parents with envy...

He originally thought that this was a side effect of time travel and reincarnation, and maybe he would remember other things after a while.

But until now, apart from some miscellaneous common sense from his previous life, he still couldn't remember anything specific.

Everything I experienced in my previous life seemed like an empty shell with only a superficial appearance. There was even a strange sense of disconnection between each memory.

So far, the only impact it has brought to Su Wei, uh... probably just giving him more negative emotions? It also made him more timid and more eager for something.

This... is very strange when I think about it.

…The more I think about it, the weirder it gets.

Just when Su Wei's eyebrows were about to twist into a knot, the maid beside him had already made the bed.

"Come, sleep on it and see if the degree of hardness and softness is appropriate."

The maid stood up and said this while turning to look at Su Wei.

"……OK."

Su Wei suddenly came to his senses, blinked, and went back to the window.

Under the gaze of the maid, he opened his arms, leaned forward with his upper body straight, and finally lay on the bed, rolling back and forth.

In an instant, the extremely soft, warm embrace that seemed to wrap him up completely was reflected back from the surface of his skin, and Su Wei's eyes suddenly lit up.

...As expected of a maid.

Whether it's the way he does housework like making the bed or his eye for selecting goods, it's always as perfect as ever.

Thinking of this, Su Wei sat up again and looked at the other party: "Thank you, it's perfect."

"Well, that's fine."

Hearing this, the maid also nodded slightly.

Then she tilted her head and began to look around the room.

At this moment, both the living room that she had been responsible for cleaning before, and the bedroom that was jointly managed by her master and Su Wei, had become much cleaner.

At least for her, the place is habitable.

After a moment of silence, Elsie withdrew her gaze and focused on Su Wei's face in front of her. She opened her mouth and said, "You must go to bed on time in the future, okay? Look at your eyes."

As she said this, she stretched out her hand, and with her slender, cold fingertips she pressed Su Wei's lower eyelid and gently pulled it.

The next moment, the faint dark circles under the eyes were instantly exposed.

"...Okay, I will."

Looking at the maid in front of him who suddenly became a little depressed, Su Wei swallowed silently and nodded vigorously.

Although he was a little confused at first about where the dark circles came from, he soon realized that it was indeed his own problem.

After all, after the previous twenty hours of practice, his recent schedule had become a mess, just like that of some failed poets and authors wandering outside the royal city.

However, it was at this moment that Su Wei's thoughts returned to the right track, and he once again remembered what he had wanted to ask the maid in front of him since just now.

"Well, I want to ask you something."

After a moment of silence, Su Wei no longer hesitated when he thought about how he had already courageously asked Lady Princess. He asked directly, "Do you... like me?"

As soon as the words were spoken, the whole room fell silent in an instant, just like when the princess was questioned earlier.

Staring at the maid who was suddenly stunned in front of him, Su Wei felt something was wrong in his heart. Was he... asking too directly?

Because he had remembered that before he asked the princess, he had held her hand for at least half an hour, but this time it was completely different, there was no foreshadowing at all -

"I like it."

However, just as Su Wei lowered his head slightly and stopped looking at the maid, feeling sweaty, such a gentle voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

"……Eh?"

The whole person was stunned for a moment. Su Wei, who was sitting on the bed, raised his head in confusion and looked at her in front of him.

Looking at Su Wei who suddenly fell into a daze, the maid was silent for a moment, and did not say anything more. She just leaned over slightly, hugged his head, buried it in her arms little by little, and whispered: "So, take good care of yourself, understand?"

"……understood."

He sniffed a long-lost fragrance, and his eyes fell into darkness and warmth. Su Wei's heartbeat began to speed up little by little.

"Then, today is your first day living here. Do you really not want to sleep with you?"

But at this moment, Su Wei suddenly heard the maid's questioning voice.

Although he did sleep with the maid every day during the month after he moved into the First Palace and before the maid was hired by the princess, but... things are different now.

He has officially become an adult and grown up.

Of course, I can't always be defeated by the strange ptsd from my previous life.

"..."

He thought so, but at this moment, Su Wei found himself hesitating.

But in the end, he shook his head and said firmly: "I... am currently in a period of rapid growth. Please don't do this, otherwise I will return to my original form."

“It doesn’t matter what it becomes.”

Hearing this, the maid was quiet for a moment, slowly loosened her arms around Su Wei, and touched his head instead, with a gentle smile on her face: "You don't have to force yourself to change like that. Just take a rest when you're tired, okay?"

"……OK."

Under that gentle gaze, Su Wei was silent for a long time and then nodded.

"'OK'."

However, at this moment, the warm atmosphere was suddenly broken. The maid in front of Su Wei tilted her head, and even her tone of voice suddenly became a little confused: "Come to think of it, some people have been out for a few days, but they haven't contacted me once."

"That, that is..."

Hearing this, Su Wei was embarrassed for a moment.

"Could it be that you even forgot my contact information?"

However, this did not leave Su Wei any time to breathe. The maid in front of him seemed to suddenly think of something and stared at Su Wei with an increasingly puzzled look.

At this moment, although she still had a gentle and intoxicating smile on her face, for some reason, Su Wei's back began to feel cold and goose bumps appeared.

"Oh, you really forgot?"

Seeing that Su Wei had no reaction, the smile on the maid's face inadvertently became more refreshing.

"aex18154*****1416!"

The next second, Su Wei, who suddenly came to his senses, choked up and blurted out a series of numbers: "I haven't forgotten, I remember it very clearly."

"..."

After those words were spoken, the whole room fell silent again.

Even the smile on the maid's face gradually faded.

The moment he noticed this, Su Wei's forehead was slightly sweaty.

Could it be that... I remembered it wrong?

“…Yeah, just remember it.”

However, the next second, as if deliberately making it strange, a small smile appeared on the maid's lips again.

"...Please don't do that. It will scare people and cause them problems."

Seeing this, Su Wei immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

But the next second, with the words coming to his ears, the breath he had just relaxed was suddenly lifted up again.

"I remembered it so clearly, but I didn't receive any contact from you."

"..."

At this point, Su Wei's eyelids started twitching and he felt a little overwhelmed.

Why did he feel that the maids before were not like this, uh... would play tricks on people?

"Then it's time for me to go back."

After a moment, as if she was satisfied, Elsie lowered her head and tidied up her messy clothes, then reminded Su Wei again: "Eat on time and maintain a healthy lifestyle—"

"Okay, okay."

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