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When it got dark, we returned to my home in Jiangcheng.
As soon as we opened the door, the little black cat that Nalin and I had taken in before ran out impatiently to greet us. It meowed and tugged at our trouser legs. I guess it was very hungry. When we went in, we found that the cat food in the automatic feeder was empty.
I tossed the litter box, full of cat poop, to Nalin for him to clean, while I took care of refilling the cat’s food.
After cleaning the cat litter box, Nalin went straight into the kitchen: “I’ll make you something to eat. You go take a shower.”
“Oh, alright.” I stared at his back, biting my lip and smiling.
I ran to the bedroom and was taking clothes when a small black shadow suddenly came between my feet and rubbed against me.
I looked down and found that it had left some dirty footprints. It was obvious that it had stepped on poop in the litter box. I sighed and turned on the robot vacuum cleaner.
After I let the cat out, I came back and saw the robot vacuum cleaner coming out from under the bed, with a layer of dirt on its body.
It was obvious that the gift that Nalin had given me was ruined.
I bent down and took a look. As expected, the jar had turned over and the soil was scattered all over the ground, but the vine doll that was originally buried in the soil was gone. I looked around but couldn’t find it, so I had to give up.
After taking a shower, I went into the kitchen and saw Nalin still busy at the stove.
Looking at his figure in the mist, I felt a little uneasy, afraid that he would disappear in the blink of an eye. I couldn’t help but move behind him and hug his waist. When I hugged his cold and hard body and smelled the familiar sandalwood scent, my heart suddenly felt at ease.
“Laogong…”
“Alright.” He turned around suddenly, grabbed my hips, swept everything on the table behind me, and pressed me down on the table. “I can’t wait for dinner, I’ll eat you first.”
I shivered sensitively, and he grabbed my ankle.
Compared to his previous life, the current Nalin is much stronger.
But it doesn’t matter, I like them all.
There was a loud bang outside, thunder and heavy rain.
“Hmm!” He covered my lips heavily.
Perhaps because he had been in front of the stove for a long time, his lips were also stained with the heat of the fire, and my heart was instantly ignited. I couldn’t help but respond to him with awkward and passionate feelings.
…
We fought with each other all night long and only stopped fighting in the early morning.
I felt like my whole body was falling apart, my back and waist were sore, and I had no strength left. But he was still full of energy. He held me in his arms, stepped over the condoms scattered on the floor, and went into the bathroom.
He held me in his arms and soaked me in hot water, taking a bath together. We accidentally did it again.
This time, we didn’t use a condom.
When he finally carried me out of the bathroom, I felt like a frostbitten eggplant. I was drowsy and only fell asleep after he fed me breakfast by hand.
I don’t know how long I slept. When I woke up again, it was already dusk.
I didn’t see Nalin sleeping beside me, and I felt nervous.
“Nalin!”
I got out of bed and found the floor was clean. I rushed to the living room and saw him sitting quietly on the sofa, holding a thick book of art history in his hand. When he saw me coming out, he looked up at me with a smile on his lips. I breathed a sigh of relief, and then I realized that I was sweating.
Was he also so nervous about me before, afraid that I would disappear in the blink of an eye?
“I was so scared, I even thought…”
He reached out and pulled me, making me sit on his lap.
“Thought what?” He tilted his head and kissed my lips. “You don’t even have clothes on, and you come to seduce me as soon as you wake up?” I realized that I was naked and quickly pulled the blanket on the sofa to cover my body.
He reached out and lifted the blanket again, pressing me under him. I then noticed that the bandage on his hand was gone, and his hand was intact. I quickly grabbed his hand and checked it: “Hey, is your injury healed?”
“En.” He retracted his hand, as if he didn’t want me to look at it any longer.
I thought of that female demon, and my heart sank: “Will she… come to find us again?”
“You don’t have to worry or be afraid. I will handle her problem myself.” His expression became gloomy.
That female demon had to be eliminated. I held his hand and said, “Nalin, are you sure you can deal with her now? She has Ming Luo and those wizards by her side. You are alone, and you have to protect me as well… Otherwise, you can teach me to practice magic so that I can also protect myself. Maybe… I can deal with her together with you? In the previous life, after we were dual-cultivated together, didn’t I have a spiritual vein?”
“I have become a demon now. No matter how many times you dual cultivation with me, you will not be able to generate spiritual veins. From now on, you must stay with me all the time and don’t let me be too busy. This will count as protecting yourself.”
“Can you even understand this? It’s all in English.”
After a deep kiss with him, I pointed to the book he put aside.
“Aren’t there pictures? Even if I can’t understand the words, I’d better take a look at it so that I can understand your current world.”
My heart suddenly felt like a marshmallow that had melted, soft and sweet. How could he be so good at coaxing people… Why didn’t I notice it before? If I was really raised by him, I should be very happy…
“How considerate! Then I’ll tell you something?” I slid down and lay on his chest, flipping through the pages of the book, talking about Greece and Rome, the Renaissance, and modern art. He listened attentively, asking questions from time to time, looking quite interested. When I was hungry again, he carried me to the dining room and into the kitchen to cook. I held my chin and watched him busy in the kitchen, feeling so happy that I couldn’t believe this was real.
After the meal, I couldn’t wait to pull him into the studio and paint for him.
The previous paintings were more or less forced upon me by him, but my mood at this moment was quite different, with unprecedented passion. I asked him to lean against the French window, and with the city lights as the background, I painted him blending into the world.
When I was halfway through the painting, I suddenly heard the sound of bird wings flapping outside the window. Bai Ha’er flew in from somewhere and landed on his shoulder. The little black cat also jumped to his feet and pulled at his trouser legs. The cat and the bird surrounded him and competed for his favor, which reminded me of the scene when I was a teenager when the small animals surrounded him.
I picked up the brush and captured this infinitely beautiful moment.
When we were tired of painting, we went back to the bedroom hand in hand to sleep. Before going to bed, I looked up how to register an illegal resident, and I had an idea in mind. I thought of an old classmate who might be able to help. Halfway through typing, he held my hand and the phone and whispered, “Who are you sending messages to?”
“For your sake. Didn’t you want to get married? How can you get married when you don’t even have a household registration?” I kissed his chin. “It’s a modern society, so we have to abide by the rules of modern society. Don’t use… corpse slaves anymore.”
“En.”
“Umm!”
It’s another night of torrents of love.
When I woke up again, it was noon. Nalin was not beside me again, but I was not as panicked as I was the day before. I went to the living room, but he was not there. I pushed open the door of the studio, and he was standing in front of the painting, looking at it.
I smiled, walked quietly behind him, and put my arms around his waist.
“My Muse, can you help me finish this painting today?”
He didn’t move or make any sound.
I thought he was teasing me again, so I leaned close to his ear and whispered, “Laogong?”
He still didn’t move.
I suddenly felt a little uneasy and turned to him. I found that his red pupils were dim and his eyes were lifeless. It seemed that he could not see me, nor could he hear my voice at all.
“Nalin?!”
I patted his cheek, and he seemed to come back to his senses. His neck clicked and tilted, his eyes slowly focused, and he looked at me: “Ran, Ran.”
“What’s wrong with you?” I held his face and couldn’t help but think of when he was first born as a demon, he was as dull and sluggish as he is now, like a jiangshi that just sat up from the ground.
“Soil.”
“What soil?” My heart tightened, and I thought of the jar under the bed. “Is it the jar under the bed?”
He nodded, and his neck cracked again, as if his head would fall off at any second.
I rushed to the bedroom, took out the jar of soil, then rushed to the studio, where I saw him lying face down on the ground with a loud muffled sound.
“Nalin!” I put down the soil and helped him up.
He tilted his neck and hung his head on my shoulder: “Bury me.”
Bury him? Where?
I looked at the basin-sized soil and came up with an idea. Although this request was very strange, I had experienced all kinds of strange things with him, so this one wouldn’t be a big deal either. I just had to do it. I gritted my teeth, lifted his arms, and dragged him into the bathroom.
