Chapter 20: Sharing Bed (Part 2)

On the fourth day of living in the Huo family, Lan Su was asked to share a room.

　　It is not the sharing of a bed as stipulated in feudal society, but simply sleeping in the same room.

　　In fact, Lan Su had never entered Huo Yan's bedroom.

　　"today?"

　　Lan Su did not argue that she did not want to go. Although she thought about it in her mind, she did not say it out loud in the end.

　　No one in this house has the power to say no to anything Huo Yan decides. Therefore, she just asked about the time, trying to delay it as much as possible, so that she could prepare herself mentally.

　　"Um."

　　Huo Yan knew that she was not very willing to do so, so he considerately gave her a reason.

　　"Jiang Dan thinks we have a good relationship, so it's best not to reveal any flaws."

　　The words have been spoken – for today only.

　　Just as Huo Yan herself said, she doesn't like being with others.

　　Lan Su nodded, indicating that she understood. She put on her soft nightgown and went straight to Huo Yan's bedroom to wait for her.

The nightgown is one size fits all, a long silk suspender skirt with an outer cape. The soft material outlines the shape of the high and raised butterfly bones, and the concave back can still be seen through two layers of fabric.

　　Huo Yan's eyes twitched as he noticed that the man's footsteps were extremely light, with small strides and almost silent footsteps. He was afraid that he would cause trouble to others by crossing the distance. He was a bit like the tragic protagonist in the novel who had to live under someone else's roof as a child and was struggling to survive.

　　The slender fingers moved, and the light wandered on the plump nail bed, like the moonlight shining through the gaps in the shadows of the trees in the middle of the night, sweeping a ray of light in the dark world.

　　[Hire a nutritionist]

　　Housekeeper Ai Li received such a message.

　　11pm, master bedroom.

　　The ceiling was covered with a layer of cloth, so no lights were visible, and the light was evenly cast from the top. The dark blue curtains covered the glass windows tightly, so that no trace of human figures would be left. This was something Huo Yan had specifically instructed - after his previous wife was attacked by an unknown object.

The space is large, and there are barrier-free handrails on both sides of the wide bed to help Huo Yan get up and down. In addition to the common bedroom configurations such as ordinary sofas, desks and counters, there is also a small wild ecological garden near the window in the northwest corner.

　　It's not big, about 5 or 6 square meters.

　　The ecological garden is a complete space separated by a glass cover. Thirty-centimeter-high grass is densely planted all over the land. There is an unnamed blue Su tree that imitates a tropical rain forest. The vines are hanging in all directions. A temperature and humidity adjustment device and a detector are installed on the top.

　　This is the nest of our pet snake Bella.

　　Hiss...hiss...

　　A thin black and gold snake crawled out of the ecological cabinet, drew a few strokes on the ground, and swam to the floor 3 meters in front of Lan Su. Its soft body coiled up, its head raised high, its spine straight, and it spit out red tongue alertly.

　　Lan Su is afraid of snakes.

It was scarier than Huo Yan thought.

　　He curled up in the quilt with cold hands and feet, and the sweat on his palms left hideous stains on the silk quilt, like the wet mucus left by a crawling poisonous snake.

　　He took two deep breaths, glanced at Huo Yan who was reading a book by the eco-cabinet not far away, and said:

　　"Will it sleep with us?"

Huo Yan looked up from the book, and his gold-rimmed glasses reflected a flash of light for a moment, and then he realized that the "it" Lan Su was talking about was Bella.

　　"Um."

　　"Does it bite?"

　　"Won't."

　　"Does it have teeth?"

　　"certainly."

　　"I felt like it was hostile to me."

　　"Because you are a stranger."

　　"I felt like she was going to bite me."

　　"If you bully it, indeed."

　　Both of them are very frugal with words, and the conversation was so brief that it could only be presented for 10 seconds in the TV series. However, the second hand, which was moving forward at a steady speed, stopped at the last word "indeed" and got stuck in Lan Su's throat.

　　The fist hidden in the quilt loosened and clenched again. Lan Su bit his back teeth, thinking of his own greenhouse delicate flower personality, and forced a weak expression, frowned, and pursed his lips slightly:

　　"But I'm afraid of snakes."

Huo Yan looked at her, and a hint of amusement appeared on his plain and indifferent face, as if he had found a brightly colored and exquisite Barbie from a pile of faded old dolls.

　　She liked watching Lan Su acting. His acting was terrible but he tried very hard, and he exuded an innocence of being both naive and playful.

　　"It doesn't bite unless it's someone with bad intentions."

　　She challenged him to see what Lan Su would do next. She probably wouldn't cry, but she would probably make a more delicate and soft expression.

　　Three seconds passed, but the grievance on Lan Su's face did not increase. Instead, it turned colder, and he smiled a smile that seemed kind but actually contained a knife:

　　"It's always on the ground. If I accidentally step on it or hit it out of reflex, you won't be angry, right?"

　　Huo Yan's eyelids half-closed, and the corners of his lips curled up in satisfaction. Lan Su was not an ordinary rich girl. That seemingly fragile body must have hidden secrets.

A cold, cruel, foul secret.

　　He raised his hand and snapped his fingers, then hooked his finger at the black snake on the ground:

　　"Bella."

　　Bella only recognized her voice. When she heard her call, she immediately crawled over obediently and climbed up the trunk of the eco-cabinet along Huo Yan's smooth arms.

　　The glass door closed with a click, and Lan Su's body relaxed visibly. But Bella in the ecological cabinet was not very satisfied, and kept spitting at the woman who occupied the owner's bed.

　　Clouds piled up as the night deepened, covering the half-moon, and the sky and earth were shrouded in deep darkness.

　　In the second half of the night, the rain gradually began to fall. The raindrops were dense, hitting the banana tree in the backyard with a clattering sound, beating out the drumbeat of percussion music.

Huo Yan was a light sleeper and opened his eyes to the sound of rain.

　　She actually liked the rain very much, always thinking that the horrible memories deep in her heart could be washed away. But the last time she opened the curtains to watch the rain, a bullet grazed her neck. After that, the windows were replaced with bulletproof glass, and she never opened the curtains at night.

　　When her feet stepped on the floor, the cool touch awakened her inner tranquility. Under the dim wall lamp, she walked back and forth on the floor, passing the barrier-free handrail, around the wheelchair, feeling the solidity coming from the soles of her feet with every step.

　　His gaze shifted to the figure on the bed.

　　If it weren't for this glance, she would have almost forgotten that there was a woman sleeping in the same bed with her tonight.

　　Lan Su's breathing was so light that it was almost inaudible.

The sleeping position was also very strange, lying on his side facing outwards, with his whole body curled up with his hands on his knees, his cervical vertebrae contracted, and his chin resting on his knees - this was the position of a baby in the womb.

　　Similarly, when a person does not feel safe, he or she will subconsciously return to the position in the mother's womb, which is the safest position in the body's memory.

　　She curled up into a ball, with her thin back covering her body. One could clearly see the outline of her body, even her raised and curved spine like a cat.

　　Huo Yan just stood in front of her. In the dim light, his figure seemed blurry, just like the door in her heart that had never been opened, looming over Lan Su.

　　After a while, Lan Su seemed to see a precious person in her dream. Her beautiful lips slightly raised, and her thin eyelids opened a crack. In the dim light, she saw a figure in blue pajamas. She didn't see clearly, and was defeated by the overwhelming sleepiness and fell into a deep sleep. Before she fell asleep completely, she uttered a dream:

　　"elder sister..."

　　despair!

A drop of dew passed through the lotus leaf and fell into the calm lake in the early morning. With a crisp sound, ripples spread out.

　　When the noble god looked at the world, she was destined to fall into the mortal world and no longer be a god.

　　For example, this lake was once a frozen snowy river.