Mrs. Lu, do you want me to give you my life?

"I'll take you out." Ling Sheng stood up.

Liu Rui also quickly put down her things, "I'll give you a gift too."

Ling Sheng glanced at Liu Rui, his expression couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry, Liu Rui didn't dare to look back at him, and followed him to the door to change his shoes and get the keys.

Ying Xia didn't refuse either, and Ren Liurui walked into the elevator with her arms hooked.

"Is your stepmother still looking for you?"

Liu Rui said: "Not yet, I promised her to pay her living expenses and brother's treatment expenses to her account in advance every month, mainly because I was afraid that she would run out of money at once."

"Yeah," Ying Xia nodded slightly, "That's pretty good."

The elevator went to the first floor, and the two walked out. Ling Sheng followed a few meters away, his eyes fell on the back of the front, listening to them chatting with each other, but couldn't get in.

Soon he reached the parking spot, Ying Xia got in the car, lowered the window, and waved to Liu Rui, "Go back to eat."

The sports car drove out slowly, and when it turned to the main road, there was a "hum" roar of the engine.

Liu Rui walked back for a while, and heard footsteps behind her. Turning her head, her voice was a little timid, "I also performed with you, and I didn't expose you on the spot. Why are you still following me?"

Ling Sheng took out a cigarette and bit it in his mouth, tilted his head to light the cigarette with the lighter, even after pressing it a few times, there were only a few sparks, and he threw the lighter on the curb with a "snap", feeling very irritable.

"Here." Liu Rui stretched out her hand towards him.

Ling Sheng glanced at the lighter in her hand, "You smoke too?"

Liu Rui whispered: "I used to smoke occasionally, but I quit later. The stove at home doesn't burn, so I have to use a lighter to light it every time. I just put it in my pocket when I was cooking."

Ling Sheng lit a cigarette, returned the lighter to her, and said directly, "You left your phone at home."

"You deliberately..."

"On purpose? For what? You?" Ling Sheng chuckled, with a hint of disdain in his playful expression.

Liu Rui's face immediately burned, since he hooked her shoulders to let her cooperate, she automatically assumed that he was a scheming person, so she asked those words, definitely not because of narcissism.

"Don't talk about what happened today," Ling Sheng exhaled, "Let's go."

After entering the house, Ling Sheng went straight to the sofa, picked up the phone and said nothing, but stopped when he reached the door, and turned to go to the kitchen two seconds later.

"What are you doing?" Liu Rui asked.

Ling Sheng ignored him, bit the cigarette in his mouth, squatted down and opened the door of the cupboard under the gas stove, reached in and poked somewhere.

"Fuck!" Ling Sheng cursed while biting his cigarette.

Withdraw the hand, there is orange liquid and rust on it, and there are two corroded batteries in the hand.

He took down the cigarette and put it on the stove, turned his head, "Take the paper, why are you standing there?"

Only then did Liu Rui realize that she wanted to help her repair the gas stove, so she quickly took a tissue and handed it over.

After finishing the place where the battery was installed, Ling Sheng got up and washed his hands in the sink and said, "You can use the No. [-] battery after you buy it."

Liu Rui nodded again and again, seeing Ling Sheng walking to the door, she said mysteriously: "Do you want to stay for dinner? I made it for two people."

Ling Sheng really didn't eat, the atmosphere at the dining table in the old house was too depressing, he was not happy to suffer there, so he went out with Ying Xia again, and now his stomach was singing empty city tricks.

Ling Sheng thought for a moment, then nodded slightly, and Liu Rui quickly passed the dish in the microwave and brought it up.

Seeing that Ling Sheng was still wandering around in the palm-sized room, he hurried over and closed the bedroom door to block his sight, "It's time to eat."

"You live in Ying Xia's house?" Ling Sheng asked.

Liu Rui said, "I rented it from Sister Xia Xia."

Ling Sheng didn't ask any more questions. He walked back to the dining table and sat down. There were two bowls of white rice, three dishes and one soup. He hadn't eaten such a bland meal for many years.

"It tastes good." Ling Sheng said after taking a sip.

"Thank you."

Liu Rui lowered her eyes and ate the rice in her mouth, the fingertips holding the chopsticks turned white, showing nervousness.

The only sound left in the living room was the sound of chopsticks hitting tableware.

Liu Rui held back for a long while, and mustered up her courage, "Sister Xia Xia is a good person."

Ling Sheng heard the endless words, and paused with his chopsticks, "What do you mean? I'm a bad guy?"

"That's not what I meant." But that's what her expression meant.

Ling Sheng pulled the corners of his lips and smiled, "I'm really not a good person, you kept me for dinner just to say that?"

"No, no," Liu Rui quickly denied, "The main thing is to thank you for helping me fix the gas stove."

"Then what do you mean?" Ling Sheng asked.

Liu Rui didn't dare to look at him, and stammered, "You are... a family."

We are a family, so we shouldn't have other ideas.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment, and for a few seconds, there was no sound in the room.

"Crack", Ling Sheng slapped the chopsticks on the table, Liu Rui trembled, Ling Sheng stared at her with half-raised eyes, the eyes were cold.

"Just say what you have to say, what do you do when you beat around the bush?"

Liu Rui was startled, "No, nothing."

Ling Sheng didn't speak, and after a while, he smiled suddenly, "Leave the things you shouldn't care about."

Liu Rui didn't know where the courage came from, and called Ling Sheng to stop before he went out, "Sister Xia Xia is good to me, so I can't let you hurt her."

Ling Sheng stopped his hand on the doorknob, pushed the door behind him, put his hand back in his pocket, and walked towards Liu Rui.

"As you said, we are a family, why should I hurt her?"

Seeing Ling Sheng getting closer, Liu Rui backed away again and again, "What do you want to do?"

Ling Sheng had an unruly smile on his face, "Besides, if I really want to hurt her, it's up to you, can you stop me?"

While talking, there was only fifty centimeters between the two of them. Liu Rui looked around and saw a fruit knife on the stove, picked it up and pressed it against his chest.

"You, don't come here."

Ling Sheng lowered his eyes and glanced lightly, shook his head, clamped the tip of the knife with two fingers, and moved it to the position of the heart.

"I have to poke here, have you learned?"

When he moved forward a little, Liu Rui withdrew her hand. Seeing him getting closer, she quickly dropped the knife.

Ling Sheng let out a "heh", left a sentence of "that's all I can do", and left.

After waiting for a while, she realized that she rushed to the balcony, just in time to see Ling Sheng walking out of the community.

The street lamp stretched his shadow long, and he seemed to look up at the sky, the sky was as thick as ink, without a single star.

Suddenly, she actually saw loneliness from his back.

The original sentence of "psychopathy" got stuck in his throat, and he seemed to be unable to utter it.