Mu Rulan walked over to her display and admired her cute puppets . After a while of that, she took out her phone to charge it – it had been off the entire night, so she had several missed calls and unread texts, most of them from Mu Rulin and Mu Rusen . But there was also one from Tiashi Niangzi .
She responded to Taishi Niangzi’s text and invited her to lunch at Loulan Court .
She put her phone aside and took out a draft of a puppet from her stack of test papers and pulled out a clean sheet of paper, taking a pencil and eraser from her case to start to draw .
Mm, she needed to remember this time that the angle of the left and right legs should be offset by 6 degrees . And the puppet this time around was a little too gorgeous . Using only seven needles wouldn’t be enough, since the arm had already used five . It looked like she would need to prepare other tools as well .
It was quite challenging to ensure the bones would break nicely into sections . She couldn’t use a hammer or the bone would be crushed to pieces . If she were to grab the two joints and break the middle first, that didn’t seem very likely to end well either .
It looked like she would need to recalculate . She would feel sad if these were damaged .
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The two young boys slept comfortably until noon, waking up to the sound of water coming from the bathroom .
Mu Rulan blearily scratched his head as he kicked Mu Rusen . “You didn’t turn off the water again…”
Mu Rusen regularly forgot to turn off the water when he went to the restroom in the middle of the night . He really thought he had forgotten once again to turn it off so he got off the bed to pull at the handle of the bathroom –
He couldn’t turn the handle . Translated by The Novelst
The bathroom was locked .
Mu Rusen was shocked .
Mu Rulin had also frozen on the bed .
They both finally recovered .
This was not their room but Mu Rulan’s!
Mu Rusen’s hand was still on the handle, his eyes widening .
Through the frosted glass door, he couldn’t see clearly inside, but he could see a figure moving faintly around . The lithe figure of a girl’s body was shrouded in the vapor…
Mu Rusen’s entire body stiffened up . He was unable to keep his eyes from following that shadow as two lines of blood dripped slowly from his nose .
“Ah Sen…” Mu Rulin noticed something was off . Just as he wanted to call Mu Rusen back to bed, the sound of the water came to an abrupt stop . The door opened very suddenly .
Mu Rulan was using a towel to wrap her wet hair up . She was surprised to see Mu Rusen in front of the door before being distracted by the blood making its way down Mu Rusen’s face . “Rusen, you have a nosebleed!”
Mu Rusen suddenly recovered his senses . He quickly covered his nose and hurried back a few steps . His eyes darted everywhere except for Mu Rulan as his face turned red .
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, he’s probably overheated . I’ll ask the kitchen to make something to help him cool down later,” Mu Rulin said, grabbing his glasses on the bedside .
“Is that so?” Mu Rulan was still worried .
Mu Rulin noticed that and quickly changed the subject . “Sister, when did you get back?”
“I returned in the morning,” she said, taking a handkerchief out for Mu Rusen .
Mu Rulin nudged his brother . “You’re still bleeding . You’re not gonna go clean that off?”
Mu Rusen finally reacted, realizing how silly he probably looked . He ran out quickly, planning on returning later .
Mu Rulin was relieved, turning around to see his sister walking to her bed for the hair dryer .
“I thought you didn’t like to blow dry your hair?” He walked closer to her, his gaze greedily taking in Mu Rulan’s figure as his lungs filled with her scent . His heart thumped quickly in his chest .
The little devil and little angel on his shoulders were always fighting, but it seemed like the little devil would always come out slightly ahead .
“You’re right . I don’t usually, but I’m going out for lunch with Niangzi at Loulan Court . ” Just as she finished speaking, a pair of white hands reached for the dyer .
“I’ll help you,” said Mu Rulin calmly, patting the bed . “Sit down . ”
Mu Rulan looked at her empty hands, blinking and sitting down . “Aren’t you hungry?”
“No . ” Mu Rulin turned on the hair dryer and caressed her black hair . The warm air of the hair dryer and the coldness of his fingers greated a kind of hot ice: exactly what he was feeling now .
His sister was kind and angelic . No man could ever deserve her . He wanted her to stay like this: that she would never get married, and he himself would also not look for a woman . Just living together like this, forever . It wasn’t totally impossible for siblings to live together like that…
Mu Rulin shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts of evil . What was he thinking? What would others say if they were found out? Though he didn’t care about himself, he couldn’t just ignore Mu Rulan and be so selfish .
After getting rid of those unnatural thoughts, Mu Rulin continued to focus on drying her hair . On the other hand, Mu Rusen had cleaned his face and come back to the room with wet hair, bringing along another hair dryer .
“Sister, can you dry my hair for me?” Mu Rusen plugged it in and was quick to kneel in front of her, staring cutely up at her .
She took the hair dryer helplessly and Mu Rusen very happily squeezed himself before Mu Rulan . Mu Rulin had no choice but to move aside .
Mu Rulin looked at Mu Rusen from above, his gaze under his glasses ice cold…
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Loulan Court . Translated by The Novelst
Mu Rulan walked in from the parking lot . From a distance she could see a group of people gathered in one area . Someone was definitely causing trouble .
“…Really, that’s too much . Don’t you think it’s natural to apologize after making a mistake? I don’t want anything from you except an apology…” Sang Han’er was biting her lips, her eyes red to show how wronged she was .
Taishi Niangzi felt like she was going crazy . She grit her teeth and shouted, “Didn’t I already apologize?!”
Sang Han’er felt even more wronged . “You call that an apology? Who apologizes with that kind of attitude? You’re not being sincere!”
“The hell!” Taishi Niangzi wished for there to be a brick on the ground so she could pick it up to smack this woman with it .
“And you’re even scolding me! That’s so mean, how can you be like this? If you do wrong, you should just apologize . Why scold the other person?” Sang Han’er was goggling in disbelief .
Taishi Niangzi almost wanted to spit out blood, her fingers twitching and her teeth grinding .
Proofread by: Hannah