Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 261 Sweet mouth

"Yes and no."

Yu Shijiu yawned lazily: "To be precise, I woke up once, then fell asleep again and woke up again."

He Lingling: "..."

She took a deep breath, nudged Xu Han beside her, and said with a headache, "What are you looking at? Hurry up and tell Shi Jiu what happened last night."

Xu Han immediately responded with an "oh," then leaned closer to Yu Shijiu and whispered, "Let me tell you, last night He Lingling saw her stepmother's baby in her dream—"

The next second, his voice was abruptly interrupted by Yu Shijiu, "Sister?"

Yu Shijiu seemed to have seen the most "important" person in her life, and immediately poked her head out from behind Xu Han and waved to the side: "I'm here, sister!"

Xu Han's hand, which was hanging by his side, was also pulled forcefully by He Lingling.

Xu Han: "..."

No, what's going on? What's with all this "sister" stuff? Why does Yu Shijiu call everyone he sees "sister"?

Xu Han's inner complaints vanished instantly when he saw the young lady walking towards him from a distance.

Hmm... If she's a young lady, then it's not that you can't call her "sister"...

The young lady was clearly still a little embarrassed. Her face was pale as she met Yu Shijiu's smiling gaze, and her face flushed red again.

"Would you like to come down for dinner together?"

"That's what the young lady said."

Yu Shijiu glanced at her from head to toe, clearly disappointed not to see the large pair of scissors she was carrying, but still smiled and said:

"Of course! Come on, sister, let's go downstairs and see what delicious food Grandma has made..."

After saying his parting words, he casually bid farewell to Xu Han and the other woman, "I'm going to have dinner with my sister now, you guys," Yu Shijiu paused for a second, "would you like to come and eat with me?"

The young lady next to her clearly turned her gaze towards them because of those words.

Xu Han was about to nod subconsciously when He Lingling, who had been silent all along, interrupted him: "Let's wait a little longer."

He Lingling smiled and said, "Xu Han and I still need to tidy up the things in the room before we go downstairs."

"Okay, then. My sister and I will wait for you downstairs."

The young lady nodded in agreement and said gently, "If you need anything, you can tell the housekeeper, or you can tell me."

Whether it was her imagination or not, He Lingling always felt that the young lady's gaze was somewhat cold when it fell on her, as if the temperature had suddenly dropped.

He Lingling wasn't stupid; she keenly sensed that the young lady didn't seem to want to interact with too many guests.

Yu Shijiu, however, seemed oblivious to anything, and simply nodded upon hearing this:

"Look how good my sister is to us. She only needs to say a word to make things right."

Xu Han and He Lingling: "..."

The young lady was a little embarrassed by his praise. "No, it's just that you are all guests, and as the host here, I naturally have to help out more."

"Then my sister is very good too."

Yu Shijiu delivered a solid performance, saying, "My sister is so rich and kind; she's a role model we should all learn from."

These simple words of praise from a primary school student made the young lady even happier. "It's not as good as you say..."

As Yu Shijiu walked down the stairs, he glanced up at the room his mistress had just left, seemingly unintentionally.

—The young lady's room was right next to her stepmother's.

That means there's only one wall separating them... So, did you really not hear your stepmother being tortured to death last night?

Yu Shijiu didn't think the rooms in the villa were soundproofed at all.

"What's your name?"

The lady next to me suddenly spoke up.

Upon hearing this, Yu Shijiu smiled and said, "Shijiu."

"nineteen?"

The young lady smiled curiously, "Is it nineteen, one, two, three, four?"

As always, Yu Shijiu didn't correct him this time, but nodded and said:

"Hmm, isn't it a pretty casual name?"

“That’s not…”

"..."

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After Yu Shijiu and Miss disappeared down the stairs, He Lingling turned her head to look at Xu Han.

"Didn't you notice the young lady's gaze just now?"

Xu Han: "..."

He visibly hesitated for a second, his gaze drifting elsewhere. "Actually, it's not that I didn't notice, it's just that I was replying to Shi Jiu just now—"

"Still making excuses!"

Enraged, He Lingling slapped Xu Han's arm and angrily rebuked him:

"Miss is clearly about to smash your head to pieces!"

Xu Han: "...Really? I feel like I'm actually fine..."

He Lingling snorted coldly: "Of course you think it's fine, you can't see anything at all."

Xu Han: "..."

He licked his dry lips, no longer daring to make excuses that he actually could tell...

In fact, he genuinely didn't notice it.

"okay."

He Lingling sighed wearily, turned her head to look at the bedroom where the young lady had just left, and suddenly said after a moment's thought:

"Come on, let's go over and take a look."

Xu Han looked somewhat bewildered: "Where should we go?"

"...the room where my stepmother died."

He Lingling felt exhausted, but she also understood that Xu Han's personality was actually that of a rather "smart" player.

What's more terrifying than being "stupid" when teaming up with other players is being blindly arrogant and ignoring instructions.

In some respects, Xu Han's personality can be considered quite "excellent".

After brainwashing herself with so many words, He Lingling's irritable and depressed mood finally improved a lot.

"Didn't we already go into our stepmother's room early this morning? What else do we need to go in to see?"

Xu Han followed behind He Lingling, looking completely bewildered, and couldn't help but ask:

"Could there be some clues we've overlooked?"

He Lingling: "..." She pointed to her stepmother's room and then to the room the young lady had just come out of, stating expressionlessly:

"Now, go to your stepmother's room and call her name once or twice."

Xu Han: "???"

He scratched his head in surprise: "Call out twice? Why would you call out twice?"

"Don't worry about it," He Lingling said with a consistently indifferent expression, "Just call me that."

Xu Han shut up instantly when scolded, and, thinking about what he should call her later, walked into his stepmother's room: "..."

Seeing Xu Han's figure disappear into her stepmother's room, He Lingling didn't linger any longer and quickly opened the door to her young mistress's room and went inside.

Fortunately, the young lady's bedroom door was not closed.

He Lingling breathed a sigh of relief after entering, quickly locked the door, and turned around—

The glaring red made her catch her breath for a moment.

The young lady's room was filled with countless vibrant roses that she kept in vases. Each rose was extremely beautiful, and the water droplets on the fully bloomed petals glistened in the sunlight streaming in from the window.

The roses scattered throughout the room reminded He Lingling of the rosebuds outside the window.

In front of each player's window, there grows an extremely bizarre, physiologically unbelievable, towering rose.