Huo Jin Ge watched Jiang Luxi the entire time until she picked up the medical kit and headed toward the bathroom.
His voice was lazy yet tinged with dissatisfaction: “Where are you going?”
Jiang Luxi stood still holding the kit, raising her hand to point at the nearby bathroom.
Mumbling softly: “I’ll handle it myself.”
Huo Jin Ge’s gaze gradually shifted from her face downward, finally landing on her bare feet.
His tone was no longer as distant as before, even carrying an indistinguishable emotion: “Come here, I’ll help you.”
Jiang Luxi shook her head: “I… I can do it…”
Before she could finish speaking, Huo Jin Ge made the same gesture as in her dream, extending his arm toward her with palm facing upward.
Even his voice carried a hint of gentleness: “Come here, come to me.”
The jade thumb ring on Huo Jin Ge’s thumb was crystal clear, refracting a faint light under the sunlight.
Seeing her frozen in place again, he sighed with some helplessness and walked over to her.
Bending down, he took the heavy medical kit from her hands.
How strange—she had never paid attention to Huo Jin Ge’s thumb ring before, so why did she remember it so clearly in her dream?
Even the patterns on it?
Huo Jin Ge had already grown accustomed to her habit of spacing out anytime, anywhere. He took a cotton swab, dipped it in the elixir, and applied it to her lips.
His movements couldn’t be called rough, but they weren’t particularly gentle either.
The moment the medicine touched her wound, Jiang Luxi winced and shrank back.
“It hurts… Could you…” Jiang Luxi cut herself off mid-sentence upon seeing Huo Jin Ge’s face, swallowing the last two words.
Immediately, she hung her head like a quail, not making a sound.
Huo Jin Ge found this immensely irritating.
Was she really that afraid of him?
“Don’t hide, look up.”
Jiang Luxi slowly raised her head, her glistening eyes appearing pitiful: “Can I apply it myself?”
Huo Jin Ge didn’t respond, simply taking a new cotton swab, dipping it in the elixir, and applying it to her lips.
Whether Huo Jin Ge was doing it on purpose or not, the cotton swab seemed to deliberately rub against her wound. The pain made her clench her clothes tightly, but she didn’t dare make a sound.
Huo Jin Ge found it amusing inwardly.
She really could endure.
Jiang Luxi watched as his hand moved away from her lips and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Even now, she didn’t understand what had come over Huo Jin Ge yesterday. The book clearly described him as having no interest in women.
It seemed like he’d done too many bad things and had run into a ghost.
Huo Jin Ge packed the medical kit and returned it to its place. He walked to the nearby half-open walk-in closet and unbuttoned his burgundy shirt.
“Go back and change your clothes, then come downstairs to eat.”
Jiang Luxi mumbled an acknowledgment, not daring to stay a moment longer as she hurriedly escaped the room.
She ran right into the housekeeper who was coming upstairs to call her for dinner.
The housekeeper stood stunned at the staircase.
Jiang Luxi acted calm: “I’ll go back to clean up and change clothes before coming down.”
The housekeeper snapped out of her shock, stiffly forcing a smile and nodding.
Seeing the housekeeper turn and go downstairs, Jiang Luxi dashed back to her room.
The door that had been kicked down yesterday still hadn’t been repaired. She grabbed her phone and ran into the bathroom.
Without delay, she opened a shopping app and selected several amulets for warding off evil and protecting the house.Since the estate had seen quite a few deaths recently and they couldn’t leave for a while, she felt genuinely uneasy without buying some things.
After placing her order, she pressed her phone to her chest and finally let out a relieved sigh.
First-floor dining room.
Huo Jin Ge was wearing a casual shirt. Jiang Luxi stared at his slightly open collar, revealing a patch of cool, pale chest, feeling her face burn fiercely.
Why did the villain have to be written so handsome for no reason?
Jiang Luxi bit angrily into a soup dumpling, then gasped sharply the next second.
Was Huo Jin Ge part dog? Did he have a habit of biting people for no reason?
Huo Jin Ge glanced at Jiang Feng, who immediately understood and brought a glass of milk from the kitchen, placing it before Jiang Luxi.
“Miss Jiang, your milk.”
Seeing the smile on Jiang Feng’s face, Jiang Luxi thanked him and abandoned the dumpling to pick up the milk instead.
Huo Jin Ge took a sip of coffee. “When you’re finished, come with me.”
“Where to?” Jiang Luxi set down the empty milk glass.
“The laboratory.”
“???”
Huo Jin Ge pulled a tissue from the box, reached his arm toward Jiang Luxi, and wiped the milk stain from her mouth.
He’d been thinking it over all night—if he could reproduce the unique fragrance from Jiang Luxi’s body, he wouldn’t need to force her to stay by his side.
Everyone would be happy.
After the meal.
Huo Jin Ge grabbed Jiang Luxi by the wrist and took her to the laboratory on the third basement level.
Releasing her hand, Huo Jin Ge took a white lab coat from a nearby cabinet and put it on himself.
As he buttoned it up, he warned her, “Once inside, don’t touch anything. Behave yourself.”
“Okay.”
Only after she agreed did Huo Jin Ge place his hand on the password panel. A green light scanned over it, and the heavy door slid open from one side.
The temperature inside the lab was noticeably colder than outside.
As the door opened, Jiang Luxi shivered from the blast of cold air.
She glanced back at Jiang Feng standing stiffly beside her, hesitated for a moment, then grinned and asked, “Um… would it be possible to borrow your jacket?”
Jiang Feng: “???”
The laboratory was spacious, with tables full of various glassware.
Jiang Luxi was so astonished her mouth hung open.
Huo Jin Ge stood at the lab bench, watching Jiang Luxi not far away, swimming in an oversized suit jacket and looking around curiously, his expression instantly darkening.
He asked coldly, “Whose clothes are you wearing?”
Jiang Luxi was curiously examining the petri dishes inside a glass cabinet.
She turned, her black hair swaying gently, her voice soft as a cat’s: “Jiang Feng’s. It’s too cold in here.”
Huo Jin Ge stared at the clothes on her for two seconds before looking away.
“Come over here.”
Huo Jin Ge pointed to a sofa not far away, indicating she should sit there.
Jiang Luxi withdrew her curious gaze and obediently sat on the sofa.
Resting her chin in her hand, she watched Huo Jin Ge, his expression stern as he held a test tube and noted something in a notebook.
Soon after, he added a few drops of reagent to the test tube.
After watching for a while, she couldn’t help yawning; it was really quite boring.
Seeing that Huo Jin Ge was fully focused on his experiment and not paying much attention to her, she simply took out her phone to play.
With earphones in, she scrolled through short videos. For some reason, the app kept recommending handsome guys to her.
Jiang Luxi watched with a mysterious smile, thoroughly engrossed.
Before she knew it, she had watched herself to sleep, dreaming of being surrounded by handsome men.Huo Jin Ge placed the test tube back onto the lab bench. The data on the report sheet showed nothing but failure.
It seemed recreating the same fragrance she carried wasn’t going to be simple.
Until then, Jiang Luxi remained irreplaceable to him.
Setting down his pen, he crossed his arms and swiveled his chair, his gaze instinctively seeking out Jiang Luxi.