God's Gift

"Your mother told me." Yu Youyou looked at Xiaoou's soft face and stretched out her hand, wanting to pinch her face, but Xiaoou dodged her hand.

Yu Youyou withdrew her hand with some regret and pursed her lips:

"She asked us to come and take you home."

The air fell silent for a moment.

Normally, after a child has lived alone in a strange city full of weird creatures for half a year, his first reaction upon hearing his mother's name should be joy.

But Yu Youyou was silent for a long time, so long that when Lu Keming thought she didn't hear him and was about to repeat Yu Youyou's question, Xiaoou finally spoke:

"I won't go back."

"You're not going back?" Yu Youyou's voice was full of surprise when she heard Xiaoou's answer. "Why don't you go back?"

Xiaoou did not answer. She lowered her head and continued to count the stones, stepping between the cracks in the stones and walking into the house.

"Ke Ming, did you just hear her say she didn't want to go back?" Looking at Xiaoou who walked into the house, Yu Youyou turned her head and confirmed with Lu Keming behind her.

Before Lu Keming could answer, Jianyue, who had been silent in Yu Youyou's sleeve for a long time, spoke first.

"I heard it!" Jianyue's flower bud poked out from Yu Youyou's sleeve, staring at Xiaoou's back, and said with ill intentions:

"What's so good about the human world? She must prefer the City of Despair. It would be great if she could stay here."

“Really?” Yu Youyou looked around doubtfully. The villa where Xiaoou lived was indeed very beautiful, but was it so good that she didn’t want to go home?

"There must be other reasons." Lu Keming listened to Jianyue's nonsense and glanced at it coldly.

Jianyue immediately shut his mouth and silently shrank back into Yu Youyou's sleeve.

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou's ankle. He didn't care whether Xiaoou was willing to go home or not. He only cared about Yu Youyou.

But seeing Yu Youyou's indifferent look, Lu Keming got even more headache. He raised his hand and pressed his eyebrows, then sighed helplessly and walked to Yu Youyou in submission.

He lifted up his shirt, bent his knees and squatted down, exposing his back to Yu Youyou.

"Is there any other reason?" Yu Youyou's face was full of confusion. Her brain was still thinking, but her body skillfully lay on Lu Keming's back, scratching her head in confusion.

Lu Keming carefully avoided her injured ankle, pulled her up, and slowly walked into the villa.

"Maybe she doesn't want to see her mother."

"How could that be?" Yu Youyou frowned and subconsciously retorted: "Who doesn't want to see their mother?"

Hearing this, Lu Keming paused.

He lowered his eyes and his gaze fell on the rose in front of him. He didn't know what he was thinking of, and his eyes seemed a little empty.

"Ke Ming?" Noticing that Lu Ke Ming stopped, Yu Youyou immediately realized that she seemed to have said something wrong, making Lu Ke Ming think of his long-deceased mother.

Yu Youyou covered her mouth in regret, wishing she could slap herself in the face. She carefully stretched her neck and looked at Lu Keming's expression.

"Don't get me wrong, I didn't say you..."

Yu Youyou's voice came into his ears, bringing Lu Keming back to his senses.

He turned his head and looked at Yu Youyou who rested her chin on his shoulder. He listened to her concerned and annoyed voice and suddenly laughed.

A circle of ripples spread out in those clear eyes, like the surface of a lake full of stars, with gentle ripples raised by a breeze, shattering the pool of starlight.

He is no longer the orphan abandoned in Area E. He is carrying the whole world on his back.

Lu Keming curled his eyes, loosened his knuckles that had been clenched unconsciously, and answered Yu Youyou nonchalantly:

"I know."

He stepped into the villa, looked at Xiao Ou sitting on the blanket, and guessed: "Maybe she and Su Yun are not close."

"Ah..." Yu Youyou muttered, unable to figure out the crux of the matter. She raised her eyes to look at Xiaoou, but her eyes were attracted by the scene inside the house.

The interior of the villa surrounded by red roses is spotlessly white, and all the furniture inside is white. It can be seen that the original owner of the villa should be a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The new owner who lives here now seems to have obsessive-compulsive disorder. She carefully maintains the original layout of the villa, with all kinds of furniture neatly arranged.

The only thing that is out of place is that there are seagull ornaments everywhere in the house, including origami and ceramic crafts, and there are photos of various seagulls on the walls.

All these show that Xiaoou is as his name suggests, an absolute fanatical fan of gulls.

Yu Youyou looked at the seagulls all around the room and said in a surprised voice:

“So many seabirds!”

Lu Keming just glanced at her casually, then quickly carried Yu Youyou to the sofa, put her on the sofa, and half-knelt down to check the condition of her ankle.

The two men had no sense of being outsiders at all, and entered the villa as if they were entering their own home, without any courtesy.

Fortunately, Xiaoou didn't care. She just looked up at the two people who followed her into the room, and then lowered her head to work on the seagull puzzle in front of her.

Yu Youyou withdrew her gaze from Xiaoou and fell on Lu Keming who was half-squatting in front of her. This angle was just enough for Yu Youyou to see the top of Lu Keming's head.

The hair on top of his head was soft and thick, looking like lush seaweed on the seabed.

The seaweed tastes crunchy.

Yu Youyou narrowed her eyes and shook her feet unconsciously.

But her action was quickly stopped by Lu Keming, who looked up at Yu Youyou.

"do not move."

Yu Youyou's ankle had just started to swell, but when Lu Keming looked at it again, the swollen area had returned to normal and there was nothing abnormal.

Lu Keming knew that with the blessing, Yu Youyou's injuries would be healed quickly. But he was still a little worried, so he held Yu Youyou's feet with both hands and examined them carefully.

"Does it still hurt?"

Yu Youyou shook her head indifferently and said proudly: "It doesn't hurt at all."

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou's proud expression, twitched the corners of his mouth, sighed, raised his hand and knocked on the leader, took the initiative to contact Su Yun and Weixi, and began to deal with Xiaoou's affairs.

"We found the little gull."