Neverland

Until Xu Muzhou tidied up and lay on the velvet bed in Earl Robert's master bedroom staring blankly at the ceiling, he still didn't understand why he agreed in a daze.

"I think my logic is very strict." Song Yan crossed her arms, with an expression of "what's the big deal" on her face, and said naturally: "The Earl likes the young master of the Russell family very much, so we chatted a little late, so why don't we talk about it later?" There is nothing wrong with sleeping in the master bedroom for one night, anyway, Robert has always acted arbitrarily, and the servants in the castle will not have any objections."

Yan Cen nodded silently, not knowing whether he was agreeing with Song Yan's proposal or the phrase "I like it".

"Maybe you two will fight here until dawn." Song Yan yawned: "But I advise the two of you not to, according to the butler, Earl Robert's arrangements are quite full tomorrow, not only organizing a horse race, but also arranging small prom."

"Count Robert seems to be in poor health." Yan Cen said.

"So the doctor's advice to him has always been to pay attention to rest and not to get angry." Song Yanmiao continued.

Yan Cen sighed pretentiously: "Then there is no other way, and this is the only way to do it."

Xu Muzhou: "...?"

So the two sang together, and decided on the matter without asking Xu Muzhou's opinion.

In the master bedroom, in order to facilitate the mobility of Robert's wheelchair, there is no blanket on the floor, but only a floor.The master bedroom has a large area and is close to the inside of the manor, with two tall wooden framed glass windows.

This kind of glass window is very different from the modern single glass. Although the window area is not small, it is blocked by wooden frames several times and divided into different small pieces.Only the innermost window frame had wooden bolts for opening the window. Xu Muzhou stared at that piece of glass, always feeling that the size of the glass was a bit awkward.

——In comparison, the window doesn't seem too big, but if you want to force a slender woman, it's probably not difficult.

Earl Robert's bed was two meters wide, and it was placed not far from the window, leaving only about 1.5 meters wide, which was probably an aisle reserved for Robert's wheelchair.

Xu Muzhou inspected it visually, and felt that this was really a dangerous distance. If the piece of fabric fluttering outside was really left by Catherine crawling into the house, then as long as the other party exerted a little more force, it could almost hit Yan Cen's bed directly.

Xu Muzhou was lying on his side by the window. He turned over and heard the sound of water rushing from the bathroom.

The bathroom system in this kind of antique castle is very embarrassing, and it takes a long time to wash up.Xu Muzhou's eyes were looking at the window, but he couldn't help but listen to Yan Cen's voice all the time. He leaned upright by the bed, and unconsciously stiffened into a bamboo pole under the soft quilt.

Probably because his legs were really inconvenient, Yan Cen stayed in the bathroom for a long time, during which Xu Muzhou was worried and called him twice, Yan Cen responded well.

It took half an hour before the creaking sound of the wheelchair rolling over the wooden floor could be heard again.

Count Robert's master bedroom is of course not as intimate as the two beds, Xu Muzhou's back was slightly stiff, and he heard the sound of the wheelchair getting closer behind him.

The distance from the bathroom to the bed was not far, before Xu Muzhou was mentally prepared, he heard the wheelchair stop by the bed, and then the mattress behind him slightly tilted down.

Yan Cen picked up the iron chain on the wall at the head of the bed familiarly, fastened it to the wheels, fixed the wheelchair in place, then stretched out his hands to support the bed, and moved himself to the bed.

Xu Muzhou waited for a long time but still didn't see him coming up. He wanted to turn his head and take a sneak peek, but when he saw the scene of this disabled man, he forgot about the awkwardness for a while, and got up from the bed to help him.

"It's really possible." Xu Muzhou sighed: "Is it true that you old man can't move at all?"

In fact, for Yan Cen, although Robert is completely disabled, if he insists on standing up and going to bed for a short time, the pain will not be so unbearable, but since Xu Muzhou is here, he doesn't need it for nothing.

Xu Muzhou fucked her, half hugging and half supporting Yan Cen, who had just washed up and changed into soft pajamas, and there was still a slight cool vapor from his body.

Count Robert probably didn't smoke, so the vapor looked very clean.

"...Your servant in the castle seems to be very clever. Why do you mess up when it's time to get down to business?" Xu Muzhou settled Yan Cen, and couldn't help but said: "There is no one to take care of you, if I'm not here Well, you don't have to toss around here for half an hour."

"It's Earl Robert's castle." Yan Cen corrected: "But Earl Robert does not allow servants to serve him except when necessary."

"Self-esteem is quite strong." Xu Muzhou frowned slightly: "Speaking of this, I always feel that he is a little too extreme about this matter... You see, he built a passage for himself to stay away from others. No one is allowed to serve, almost all the places in this castle can be done by himself."

When he said this, Yan Cen also thought about it along with the words, and found that it was true.From the moment he arrived in this mission timeline, few maids or servants took the initiative to serve him, and even when he took the initiative to go out, some maids would avoid him.

"But it's understandable." Yan Cen said: "After all, he was originally a powerful general, but now he's a half-handed man. It's normal to have resentment in his heart."

"I think he's just a step away from mental problems." Xu Muzhou sighed: "Have you found a problem...Robert kept saying in his diary that he loved Catherine more than life, but his master bedroom didn't seem to have one at all." Traces of Catherine's life."

Xu Muzhou was sitting on the edge of the bed on the other side. He didn't wear the silk pajamas favored by nobles, but wore a slightly loose white shirt. Cut white collarbone.

"Huh?" Yan Cen glanced at his neckline, then dismissed it as if nothing had happened, and then continued to ask: "What did you find?"

"Catherine likes novels and music, but I didn't find these factors in the bedroom." Xu Muzhou said: "If the study room is Count Robert's personal domain, it's reasonable to not have these things of affection. But The connection between the owner's private master bedroom and Catherine is so weak, so there is a problem."

"You suspect that Robert's love for Catherine is watery?" Yan Cen said.

"Not exactly." Xu Muzhou shook his head: "Based on Robert's uncompromising character, there should be no need for him to cover up his thoughts, so I tend to think that the contents of the diary are real emotional reactions."

"But?" Yan Cen asked.

"But——" Xu Muzhou nodded, and continued: "People's emotions are biased, so we can't believe it. Maybe he really loves Catherine, but is this kind of love a conventionally recognized love? I have reservations."

Xu Muzhou grew up very fast, Yan Cen thought.Every time he fell, he remembered well, and he would never make a second mistake.

Yan Cen suddenly felt that liking is a very miraculous thing, it seems to coat the other party with a layer of light, so that even ordinary things that seem ordinary on weekdays become dazzling after having this layer of light stand up.

In the usual way, this kind of progress should be taken for granted in Yan Cen's eyes, and it is not worth noting.But if the object is replaced by Xu Muzhou, Yan Cen seems to feel that there are some more things worth thinking about.

—He began to notice the value of change and growth.

This is a very novel experience, just like starting from the calendar full of circles, his life has a reality, no longer need to go back and forth between various timelines in a hurry, but can start Feel your surroundings through a connection.

For Yan Cen, from Xu Muzhou, he can see the traces of the passage of time and space.

When he looked back now, the first two missions were not as hasty as other worldlines in his impression.Yan Cen can even remember most of the nodes - most of these nodes are directly related to Xu Muzhou, Yan Cen can describe the whole picture of this mission line by recalling Xu Muzhou.

Perhaps even Xu Muzhou himself didn't know that he had unknowingly become the "bridge" for Yan Cen to communicate with the world.

Perhaps Xu Muzhou was right at the beginning, Yan Cen thought, he had indeed been observing Xu Muzhou - at first he observed his personality, then observed his behavior and preferences, and then began to pay attention to his growth.

Yan Cen didn't know whether it was this extraordinary focus that led to his liking, or because he had discovered the difference in Xu Muzhou from the very beginning, so that he was willing to observe him.

But Yan Cen is not a person who would get too entangled in such things. He is in Neverland, and he deals with the life context constructed by fate every day.

The choice of fate always seems to come very suddenly, and you have to be caught off guard to show the drama of "impermanence in the world".

But it doesn't matter, Yan Cen thought.Perhaps Xu Muzhou, to him, is the hub in the vein of fate that can influence future development.

This unreasonable conjecture made Yan Cen alive, and he even began to think about Xu Muzhou's appearance after a long time.

Yan Cen's eyes stayed on Xu Muzhou for too long, Xu Muzhou looked at him with some doubts, moved his body uncomfortably, and smoothed the quilt covering his body.

"If you go any further, you will fall." Yan Cen said suddenly.

Xu Muzhou glanced outside, only to find that he was already firmly attached to the edge of the bed, reckoning that as long as he moved a bit more and turned over, he would be able to make intimate contact with the floor.

"It's okay." Xu Muzhou said firmly, "I sleep well...but you, what are you doing staring at me?"

Yan Cen probably didn't expect that he would suddenly ask this question, his train of thought stopped for a moment, and he babbled nonsense faster than his brain.

"Look at your good looks." Yan Cen said.