Why…
Gaia seemed to notice her gaze.
He turned around, his unfocused gaze zeroing in on “her”, dim and lifeless, but with a gentle tenderness like water:
“Bella? It’s time to go.”
“Ah? Oh, okay.”
Liuyu snapped back to reality and followed him out of the gatehouse.
After a while, she jokingly said:
“I thought you rejected Prince Carlo earlier because you wanted to give me the blanket and then cover Prince Carlo with it.”
“Why?”
“…I thought it was because you didn’t want me to use someone else’s blanket, someone else.”
Gaia fell silent and said:
“Bella, a man’s blanket for a lady, it’s not very gentlemanly.”
“Is that the only reason? So, is that why you asked the dorm supervisor to allow you to clean my room, for this reason?”
Liuyu stopped in her tracks.
She observed him seriously, the sunlight shining through the sparse greenery, falling on the quiet side of the boy’s face, He suddenly turned his head:
“Bella, what do you want to prove?”
“I…”
She opened her mouth, but didn’t say anything.
“The doctor said you should rest more, Bella, I hurt you…”
The sunlight left a beautiful silhouette on his eyelids, the boy looked into the distance where her original mushroom house was, “Someone has to take responsibility.”
“Responsibility…”
That made sense.
The girl nodded, lifted her skirt, and playfully greeted him:
“Then I’ll leave it to you, dearest Mr. Leslie.”
With mutual help, there can be further possibilities.
Just like borrowing a book, it’s not difficult to borrow it again as long as there’s borrowing and returning.
“My pleasure.”
Gaia bowed, also giving her an extremely elegant gentleman’s salute.
The two of them smiled at each other, and the awkwardness of the morning seemed to have dissipated.
Liuyu naturally placed her hand in his outstretched palm:
“Now, the esteemed Miss Fergus will show you the way.”
Princess Mary was not yet back in the room, and things were scattered all over the floor. Liuyu was about to enter when she was suddenly picked up.
She looked back at the serious-looking boy and laughed.
“Gaia, there’s no need to do this, I can walk.”
The boy carefully placed her on the only chair that hadn’t been broken.
“What do you want?”
“The wicker boxes, three of them.”
Liuyu still stood up and directed Gaia to take away the three empty wicker boxes in the corner, the silk clothes, the jewels…
“They’re expensive.”
She sighed with regret.
“There will be more.”
“You don’t understand.”
Liuyu looked sadly at the broken rubies and fragrant balls on the ground, the torn silk dresses, “….I really liked them.”
The orphanage director mom said that every person who grew up in an orphanage would be missing something in their heart.
Liuyu didn’t know what she was missing, but if she wasn’t happy, she would buy a bunch of beautiful clothes and fill her entire wardrobe with them–
Her shopping addiction sometimes even scared herself.
When she looked at the full wardrobe, her empty heart would feel full.
So, she actually liked Bella’s wardrobe at first sight, she brought them from Fergus, but didn’t expect them to end up in tatters.
Just then, her head was gently pressed.
Gaia didn’t know when he had walked in front of her: “If you like them….”
“So, are you going to give them to me?”
The girl’s eyes sparkled.
“It’s not impossible.”
“Yes, we agreed.”
Liuyu reached out her hand, forcibly grabbed Gaia’s hand, and pressed it, “When you earn your first lusso, you have to give me a gift.”
“Of course, my dearest Mr. Leslie, when I earn my first lusso, I will also use it to give you a gift.”
“…Oh, thank you.”
The boy smiled reluctantly.
Liuyu also smiled sweetly at him:
Which would have a better effect, strong intervention or boiling a frog in warm water?
She didn’t know–
But maybe a combination of the two would work well.
Gaia went back and forth twice, moving all the wicker boxes to the grape trellis.
Then he picked up Liuyu and she exclaimed, quietly clenching the hand holding the birdcage.
There lay a canine tooth there.
“Let’s go.”
The slender, tall boy, holding the golden-haired girl, walked through the grassy women’s dorm like a beautiful scene.
The girls who passed by occasionally looked at the two with ambiguous eyes, but when they saw Gaia’s face, they blushed.
They greeted him:
“Mr. Leslie!”
“Mr. Leslie!”
“Mr. Leslie!”
Liuyu stared back at each one of them.
Gaia seemed used to it, and only put her down when they arrived at their destination.
The dormitory supervisor was waiting at the door with keys, brooms, and a box of blankets:
“Miss Fergus, I have registered you. But today you and Mr. Leslie may have to work a little harder. The house hasn’t been inhabited for a long time.”
“It’s okay.” Liuyu smiled happily, “I’ll stay in this one.”
“Fine then.”
The dorm supervisor put down the things and left.
When the door opened, dust with a damp and stuffy smell rushed out, making Liuyu cough. She was brought to the grapevine trellis by Gaia.
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