I am aging gracefully in the world of famous books

The golden morning light falls on the wooden window sills, illuminating a spacious and comfortable bedroom.The owner of the bedroom was falling asleep at this moment, but he didn't seem to be sleeping peacefully. Judging from his slightly rapid breathing and subconsciously frowning, the man might wake up at any time.

Pei Xiang gently opened the window and landed silently. She first looked at the layout and environment of the room, and then looked in the direction of the big bed.

Inside the half-covered and half-hanging curtain, Rexxar, with slightly messy hair, lay flat in a sleeping position, the quilt was tightly covered, only the neck and head were exposed.

Those deep dark gray eyes were tightly closed at this moment, covering all the energy and spirit in the daytime.The man's eyelashes were long and thick, casting dark shadows on the slightly pale face, coupled with light lip color, made this man who had always been as steady as a mountain a little more fragile.

Pei Xiang sighed silently, she quickly approached the bed, and lightly brushed Rexxar's acupoints with her fingers, causing the restless man to fall into a deeper dreamland.

"Sleep a little longer, you're safe. Don't worry, I'm here." Pei Xiang murmured softly.

Rexxar seemed to sense the existence that reassured him, the brows that had been furrowed all the time finally flattened, the creases between the brows were gone, and his breathing gradually became longer and more relaxed.

Pei Xiang didn't touch Rexxar, so as not to wake up this man who had been tense again.Standing not far away, she quietly admired her boyfriend's sleeping face for a while, then returned to the area by the window, and started her daily practice while bathing in the morning light.

An hour and a half later, Pei Xiang opened his eyes from deep meditation, turned his head, and met Lexushang's slightly confused eyes.

"Good morning, George." Pei Xiang said good morning, breaking the silence of the room.

The confusion in Rexxar's eyes dissipated quickly, and his rationality returned to his brain immediately. Immediately, he let go of his instinctive guard and showed a gentle smile towards Pei Xiang.

"Good morning, Lucy," the man's voice was still a little hoarse, "It's great to see you standing in the sun when I open my eyes."

Pei Xiang frowned, walked to Rexxar's side, touched his forehead, and helped him sit up again.

"How did you sleep last night?"

"It's not bad. When I was injured before, I have never slept through the night like this. Lucy, I know it must be your credit."

"Of course," Pei Xiang nodded proudly, "I said that my medical skills are quite good, and my ability to prepare medicines is also very good. Do you still remember the candies and health care products with different functions in the 'House of Thorns'? Is it a product? In fact, they are all formulas I figured out."

Rexxar raised his eyebrows in surprise:

"To be honest, Lucy, I always thought it was the recipe provided by your teacher."

Pei Xiang half-truthfully explained:

"There is a contribution from the instructor, and I also have the contribution. Besides, I have outstanding talent, and I can always draw inferences from one instance. Naturally, there will be some small innovations."

Rexxar reached out and touched Pei Xiang's cheek, he especially liked the sparkle in the girl's eyes.

"Actually, sometimes I wish you hadn't learned those things. In that case, I would have more reasons to occupy your time. I will teach you all the knowledge and experience I have, and work with you Let’s discuss progress together. In that case, the bond between us will definitely be deeper.”

These words aroused Pei Xiang's curiosity, she motioned for Rexxar to get off the bed, and asked:

"If I hadn't learned so much, would you still be attracted to me after we met? George, you have to admit that if you didn't have the suspicion and temptation at the beginning, you wouldn't have paid so much attention to it. With the body of an ordinary female shopkeeper, we will have no future intersection."

Rexxar raised his eyebrows noncommittally, and after confirming that he was dressed tightly under the quilt, he slowly moved out of the bed under Pei Xiang's signal, and stood on the thick carpet.

"Yes, that's the paradox of the matter. It was your special abilities that first caught my attention."

Rexxar said slowly:

"But Lucy, you can't ignore the fact that in my line of work, I will inevitably tempt and suspect many people. Among them are many smart and beautiful women. Take those people to heart, don't you?"

Pei Xiang squinted at the eloquent man, and deliberately softened his voice: "My honor?"

Rexxar smiled and replied, "It's my honor."

"Really? It's a pity that I don't belong to that particularly gentle, kind and virtuous group." Pei Xiang pulled the tone.

Rexxar smiled helplessly, he pretended not to hear his girlfriend's ridicule, and continued the previous explanation:

"After we have met, I have a better impression of your own personality and temper. Everything about you is just right for me, and it has nothing to do with any other external things. Even those skills that made you and me acquainted , On the contrary, it has become an obstacle for me to approach you.

"To be honest, I sometimes want to put you under my wings, to treasure and protect you—the airtight kind. But no, I know very well that you also have the ability to soar into the sky , and my desire to control will only make you fly higher and farther away from me completely."

Pei Xiang raised his eyebrows, and looked seriously at Rexxar in the morning light again.

"George, you dissect this passage in such a gentle and gentle way, it feels a bit like a gentle scum. Can't you be a gentle gentleman who looks the same?"

"I was not a very nice person."

Rexxar frowned and smiled lightly:

"However, the reason why I said this is that I hope you can feel more at ease with me. Lucy, I have realized some invisible boundaries you have drawn, and I have tried my best not to stretch my hands out of them or interfere with your freedom." Choice and freedom.

"Whether it is now or in the future, I will try my best to avoid restraining you under the banner of 'for your own good' or 'for our own good', and I will not use the name of love to treat you as my personal property.

"Lucy, now, at this moment, is the first morning of our relationship. I hope my words can dispel the potential shadows in our relationship like the morning sun."

"I hope you will do what you say, George."

Pei Xiang's eyes fluttered, and he weighed Rexxar's words in his heart.At the same time, her fingers pressed lightly on Rexxar's neckline, and with a flick of her fingertips, she deftly undid a button.

Rexxar took a breath, and immediately held his girlfriend's not-so-honest finger:

"Lucy?"

"Undress."

"... change the medicine?"

"Otherwise?" Pei Xiang raised an eyebrow and asked back.

Rexxar cleared his throat, lowered his head and unbuttoned himself.

"Well, Lucy, what did you find out last night?"

"I went to the library on the third floor..." Pei Xiang briefly told Rexxar about all the discoveries made last night, and then said, "In the morning, I will go to the meeting building and ask the guard Jim, why did he suddenly put someone else on the job?"

After Rexxar heard that the door lock of the library was broken, a cold light flashed in his eyes, he pursed his lips, and secretly wrote down the account.

"I'm also going to the meeting building this morning, and I'll work with you to figure out the trick of Haydn and Garfield."

"That's not necessary. Although this incident is really bad when you think about it, it is not very threatening here. Even if I am really trapped in the library, I can use some extraordinary means to get out of there. Or just throw Haydn out the window."

"You want to let it go lightly?" Rexxar didn't believe it at all.

Sure enough, he got a supercilious look from his girlfriend:

"How is it possible? It's just that this matter is not in a hurry. No matter whether they stop fighting or continue to attack, I can calmly face it. Then, I will avenge myself without disrupting my normal life rhythm."

Rexxar smiled and rubbed Pei Xiang's hair.

Afterwards, the two repeated the process of applying the medicine and bandaging last night, and after Rexxar put on his morning clothes meticulously again, it was time for him to get up every day.

Pei Xiang gave a few more precautions for recovering from injuries, and prepared to leave the room quickly.

But before leaving, Rexxar, who had always been reserved and restrained, called Pei Xiang. The man temporarily forgot the resolution of last night, and finally let himself follow the most honest thoughts in his heart, embraced the beautiful woman he missed in his arms and kissed him again. relative.

At the end of the kiss, he got an impatient farewell from his impatient girlfriend, and then he could only watch Pei Xiang leave his room helplessly until he could no longer see that nimble and relentless figure.

——Sure enough, she can't be allowed to kiss and touch casually, look, this is a lesson!

Pei Xiang avoided others and returned to her residence safely. After she changed into a suitable skirt and dressed up, she went downstairs to have breakfast leisurely.

At the breakfast table, only Edward was drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.When he saw Pei Xiang appear, he immediately asked about his doubts from last night.

"Lucy, that Miss Garfield..."

"Hey, did you see that?"

"Of course, I'm your brother. How can I not see that you don't like each other? But the strange thing is that you clearly only regarded Miss Garfield as an ordinary friend before, and you didn't have any ill feelings. Could it be that because she fell, you would Is it getting annoying?"

Pei Xiang showed a sincere smile towards Edward.

She talked about last night's ups and downs in a few words, and said that she could handle the rest of the matter without Edward needing to worry.

"Brother, in fact, I didn't want to tell you this before I fully investigated it. However, we live close to each other and have frequent daily contacts, especially Melanie. It will be deceived and used by Garfield and Haydn. So, let me tell you my guess first, you should pay attention, don't let people bully Melanie."

Edward immediately put on a serious expression, and nodded solemnly.

"Don't worry, Miss Melanie is our good friend, I will take good care of her. And you, the investigation is the investigation, don't be too impulsive, I won't stop you, but you have to let me rest assured."

Pei Xiang gave a perfunctory "Yes".

She felt that her elder brother probably hadn't clearly realized the feelings in his heart at this time, and he just acted on the instinct of liking, which was quite interesting.

She glanced at the new clothes on Edward's body, held back the obvious smile on her lips, and decided to pretend she didn't notice anything.

After breakfast, Pei Xiang went to the small conference building not far away, and she planned to chat with the guard Jim.

Never thought, before Pei Xiang beat around the bush, the reason why Jim was not on duty last night was known to everyone.

"God, poor Jim! Last evening he was so happy, he kept shouting that he was going to take the whole family to the theater to enjoy the performance. He kept thanking Miss Garfield for her generosity, and kept saying How his wife and daughter love going to the theatre, oh!"

"Yeah, it's hard to book tickets for the theater recently, and the price has doubled. It's rare that Miss Garfield is so kind. Before dinner yesterday, she suddenly said that she would reward Jim and invite their family to the theater to watch the performance. She also arranged for Doug Steban. It's bad luck not to expect good things to turn bad."

"What happened?" Pei Xiang stopped and asked the two sighing maids in the corner.

"Oh, Miss Hoffman, you're here," the red-eyed maid said cautiously, "Sorry, we shouldn't chat while we're working."

"It's nothing, I can hear that both of you are a little sad, are you in any trouble?"

"Thank you for your understanding, Miss Hoffman, I am indeed a little sad. Jim is too poor, and his daughter Annie. The child is cute and cute. Every time he sees me, he will do something for me. Will send me little wildflowers... We all love Jim's daughter, didn't expect, didn't expect..."

"What happened to little Annie?"

Pei Xiang frowned. She had also seen that well-behaved child with a sweet smile, shared sweets and pastries with her, and helped her correct the spelling of several long words.

Another maid choked out:

"Anne, Anne followed Jim to the theater yesterday. The tickets were given by Miss Garfield. After that...there were too many people, and everyone was very excited and crowded. After Jim and his wife walked out of the theater, they found that the little Annie is gone. Well, they've been looking for a long time, and we all have been looking for him for a long time, but, but the child has never been found."

Pei Xiang's face became a little ugly: "Are you kidnapped?"

The maid nodded, her eyes full of worry:

"It must be those damned demons! Little Annie is so good, she will definitely not sneak somewhere to hide, unless she is taken away by someone. Miss Hoffman, after this happened, Jim was going crazy, He's just little Annie."

"Did you call the police? No clue?"

"It's useless to call the police. The rats in the gutters may be hiding. Besides, the sheriffs don't care about the lives of poor people like us. There have been tragic incidents of losing children over the years, but the last one has not been found. "

The two maids had no hope of finding Annie. This is a tourist town with people coming and going. After a whole night, the child might not be here long ago.