Neverland

Xu Muzhou felt that getting used to it was really a terrible thing.

He had just fought to the death with Catherine in the first half of the night, and in the second half of the night, he was actually able to fall asleep on this bed without any grievances in his heart.

Even without dreams all night, I still slept soundly, and the quality of sleep was better than that of the first 20 years of my life.

It's just that Xu Muzhou's cruel words before going to bed were forgotten by him in his dreams - he was a little too confident in his sleeping appearance.

This time Xu Muzhou slept well past breakfast time, until the sun was so high that even the curtains of the window could not cover the sunlight, he was reluctantly woken up by the sunlight.

The quilt on his body became docile and warm after a night's sleep, and Xu Muzhou instinctively wanted to sleep on it for a while longer.He frowned, turned over in a daze, and his arm was caught on something.

While half asleep and half awake, he subconsciously rubbed two hands, only to feel that the touch under his hands was rough and hard, and a little cold.

This feeling is completely opposite to the bed, Xu Muzhou opened his eyes in a daze, only to see that Yan Cen was fully dressed at some point, sitting on the bed and reading a book.There was a thick pillow on his back, and his legs were tightly covered by the quilt.

Xu Muzhou's mind seemed to be muddled, he couldn't react for a while, and even touched it again to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

Robert's big bed was half empty, and now he was leaning against Yan Cen, resting on the corner of his pillow. What he touched just now was Yan Cen's new dress, and the other's chest and waist were covered with gold The chain connects two buckles, both made of metal.And Xu Muzhou's arms were still very invisible on Yan Cen's waist, using his hands and feet together to treat Yan Cen as a large hypnotic pillow, hugging him very smoothly.

Yan Cen didn't seem to notice that Xu Muzhou was awake, he turned a page of the book calmly, this pillow should be at ease.

Xu Muzhou suddenly woke up from his sleep, he sat up on the bed with a bang, the iron bed made a creaking sound, which actually startled Yan Cen.

"What's wrong?" Yan Cen closed the book and asked puzzledly, "Did you have a nightmare?"

His attitude was so taken for granted that Xu Muzhou, who had just woken up from his sleep, hadn't turned around for a while, so he could only reply dumbly: "I didn't do it."

"That's why you were scared last night?" Yan Cen looked at him amusedly: "They told you to stay away, but you didn't listen."

"Yeah, no." Seeing Yan Cen's expression, Xu Muzhou didn't think there was anything wrong, and felt that he had overreacted just now, so he coughed dryly and said casually, "It's just a dream that I was late for work. gone."

"You can sleep a little longer." Yan Cen said: "Never Township does not clock in at work."

"...don't sleep anymore." Xu Muzhou sat on the bed to wake up, and wiped his face casually: "If you sleep again, you don't do anything today, and it will be night again."

"Then rest for a while and get up." Yan Cen didn't persuade much, and said: "Now it's past breakfast time, it should be around 10:30, you get up and have a bite, just in time we can go to the back to see those nobles. Equestrian competition."

Yan Cen didn't mention it, Xu Muzhou almost forgot that there were still a bunch of nobles waiting to attend Robert's wedding anniversary in this manor.

"Speaking of which." Xu Muzhou frowned and said, "When I came to this task timeline before, I wrote on the letterhead in my hand that I invited these people to a seven-day banquet. Kouzi’s wedding anniversary, but the question is why this banquet is held after Catherine is dead.”

"I'm thinking about this too." Yan Cen put the book in his hand on the bedside table before saying, "Actually, Catherine didn't want to kill me last night."

Xu Muzhou subconsciously looked at Yan Cen's neck. He was wearing a dark dress today, and the top button of the coat was buttoned up meticulously, completely covering the fingerprints left by Catherine.

"...She is about to strangle you, and she doesn't want to kill you yet?" Xu Muzhou looked away and said, "Then this lady has no common sense about life."

"Although she almost acted, I still feel that her obsession is not to kill Count Robert." Yan Cen said: "She kept asking me a question last night."

"Did you remember that sentence?" Xu Muzhou continued, "I heard it, but I didn't understand what she meant... What exactly was it?"

"I think it's something." Yan Cen said: "Earl Robert wrote Catherine's wish in his diary, and he felt that he had fulfilled Catherine's wish... But Catherine obviously didn't think so, her wish was another thing."

"That is to say, Catherine didn't want to die, but was mistaken by Robert and insisted on killing her?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"No." Yan Cen said: "You are afraid of ghosts, so you didn't look carefully... Catherine's body is very clean, there is no blood, and she is not ferocious. From the outside, it is even impossible to see the cause of her death."

"Does this mean anything?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"This means that she has no resentment for her death." Yan Cen reminded: "Remember, the same is true for memorials."

When Yan Cen said this, Xu Muzhou understood.It seems to be true. The reason why Sun Qian described the horror was not only because she died very tragically, but also because she died with strong unwillingness and resentment.

"Then maybe her wish has something to do with this banquet." Xu Muzhou's memory is very good, he paused, and then said: "Robert mentioned the word 'wish' for the first time in his diary. Roses adorn the manor."

"It's also possible." Yan Cen said.

"However, I still feel that Catherine can't let go of Robert, and the possibility of spending the last anniversary with him is very slim." Xu Muzhou sighed, and said, "I think Catherine insists on holding this banquet, and there are other things. The idea is that even the "[-]th anniversary celebration" is just a pretext, even if there is no [-]th anniversary, there will be New Year's Day, Christmas, etc... I always feel that this is a metaphor, at best it is an auxiliary condition, and the main line is still buried in the more under."

"Hmm." Yan Cen said, "What proof do you have?"

"Not this time." Xu Muzhou shook his head: "It's all intuition."

"You rarely assert anything based on intuition alone." Yan Cen said matter-of-factly.

"If you have done too many tasks, you should develop some dangerous instincts." Xu Muzhou said, "And I think finding Catherine's living area and finding out the cause of her death may become the most important part of this task."

"Then look for it." Yan Cen has always had a high degree of trust in Xu Muzhou's judgment, and said: "After breakfast, go to Catherine's piano room."

"The piano room?" Xu Muzhou was taken aback.

"That's Catherine's own place." Yan Cen said, "Robert doesn't know anything about the piano, and there's a high probability that he wouldn't go there usually."

With the staged mission goals in place, Xu Muzhou didn't want to stay in bed anymore, so he lifted the quilt and prepared to get up.

"The clothes to be changed are at the foot of the bed." Yan Cen motioned to him, "Take it and wear it yourself."

Xu Muzhou followed his instructions and looked over, only to find that a whole set of clothes was neatly folded on the pedals at the foot of the bed. There was also a small pocket watch.

"Where did this come from?" Xu Muzhou took out his shirt from the pile of clothes and asked casually.

"The housekeeper sent it." Yan Cen saw that he was about to change clothes, so he turned around in a very gentlemanly manner, and turned his back by pulling the wheelchair.

Xu Muzhou sighed, thinking that he really slept soundly, and he didn't even know that there was an outsider in this room.Sure enough, no matter what Yan Cen said, he gave people a very reliable sense of security.

It was a bit difficult to put on the dress, Xu Muzhou turned his back to Yan Cen, buttoned up the buttons, and asked unrequited love: "So, your housekeeper knows that I stayed at your place last night?"

"Yes." There was a clear smile in Yan Cen's voice: "And when he came in, you thought the sun was shining outside, so you were hugging me and not letting go."

"..." Xu Muzhou paused, feeling that he was just a step away from being shameless.

It's okay, he convinced himself with difficulty in his heart, anyway, it's just a mission world, so it's over if you have a thicker skin.

Yan Cen moved himself from the bed to the wheelchair on his own, and then shook off the blanket to cover his legs, so that he could sit on the spot and watch Xu Muzhou toss his coat.

Against this European background, Neverland will also make some minor adjustments to Xu Muzhou's appearance.The young master of the Russell family is pampered and fair-skinned.Perhaps even Xu Muzhou himself didn't realize that the hair at the back of his head was slightly curly, and the dark chestnut hair was slightly golden in the sun.

The young master's wrists were slender, and he didn't look rude when he tossed the buttons, but instead he felt a sense of being in a hurry.

The Earl leaned his elbows on the armrest of the wheelchair and watched it with great interest for a long time before Xu Muzhou finally stuffed all the gemstone buttons the size of half a fingernail into the buttonholes obediently.

"Are you finished?" Yan Cen asked in a timely manner.

"Yeah." Xu Muzhou stretched the hem of his clothes and said, "It's just this coat that makes it difficult to wear."

As he spoke, he turned sideways and was about to get off the other side of the bed.

"Wait a minute." Yan Cen stopped him: "Come here, this way."

Xu Muzhou was puzzled, and explained: "My shoes are here."

"Come here." Yan Cen waved his hand at him and said it again.

Although Xu Muzhou didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd, he moved towards him as he said.

Yan Cen stepped aside slightly, then bent down, and took out a tray covered with red flannel from the bottom layer of his bedside table.

On the tray was a pair of fine moccasin boots.

Yan Cen took out the pair of boots, but did not pass them to Xu Muzhou, but picked up Xu Muzhou's calves that were hanging on the edge of the bed, and put them on his feet.

Xu Muzhou shrank back subconsciously, wanting to say that he came by himself, but before he could shrink back, Yan Cen grabbed his calf again.

Yan Cen tucked the hems of his trousers into the boots for him without refusal, smoothed them carefully, and then changed to put on the other one for him.

"It was delivered together in the morning." Yan Cen said, "Didn't your pair of shoes fit yesterday?"

These moccasin boots have very soft leather and are just the right size.Xu Muzhou moved his calf uncomfortably, and found that he could hardly feel it when he moved.The sole of the boot has only a narrow thickness, and the height is very even, and it will not cause any discomfort to those who are not used to wearing it.

Xu Muzhou picked the quilt with his fingers and loosened it, and he couldn't tell what he was feeling right now.

His heart was beating fast, and he felt a little flustered, which was so inexplicable that he subconsciously didn't dare to look at Yan Cen's face.

So Xu Muzhou's eyes could only be forced to fall on Yan Cen's hands, those hands were well-articulated, and they were carefully smoothing out the creases on his trouser legs bit by bit.

——At this moment, Xu Muzhou suddenly felt that Yan Cen's care for him seemed to have exceeded the normal limit.