"Hmm?" Xia Yu looked at Zhu Mei with confusion.
Zhu Mei didn't care about Xia Yu's puzzled gaze. She grabbed Xia Yu's hand and placed it back on her own head.
Then, she raised her head and looked at Xia Yu with hopeful eyes.
Xia Yu calmly thought for two seconds, wondering what Zhu Mei wanted to do.
Was she trying to be cute?
He slid his hand to Zhu Mei's face and touched her cheek.
That was not what Zhu Mei wanted. She grabbed Xia Yu's hand again, put it back on her head, and raised his hand to pat her head twice.
Xia Yu understood her intention. He continued to pat Zhu Mei's head, wondering in his heart what kind of strange habit this was.
Squinting her eyes, Zhu Mei enjoyed the familiar feeling, while peeking into the room through the door opened by Xia Yu.
On the bed, Liu Manman was wrapped in a blanket like a caterpillar, with only her head exposed.
How terrifying.
It was amazing how something that looked as adorable as a bear could be so scary.
After patting her head for a while, Xia Yu started to worry about Zhu Mei's head and stopped his movements.
Zhu Mei felt satisfied and continued to walk downstairs.
Xia Yu glanced at the pretending-to-be-dead Liu Manman and returned to his room to shower and change clothes.
Ten minutes later, Kong Hanyue and three others also returned to the villa, and they all went to their rooms.
Yuxue and Liu Manman lived together. When Yuxue opened the door and saw Liu Manman's head on the bed, she was startled.
Upon close inspection, she found that Liu Manman was not just a head, but her body was wrapped in the blanket, and Yuxue felt relieved.
She thought she had just seen a murder scene.
"Yuxue, quickly untie me!" Liu Manman excitedly said when she finally saw her savior.
Yuxue approached the bed and carefully observed Liu Manman. The blanket was tied in the middle with a jacket, ensuring it would not come apart, and the neck was tied with a T-shirt, ensuring Liu Manman couldn't crawl out.
It was a rare piece of art.
"Yuxue?" Liu Manman asked doubtfully.
Yuxue chuckled and took a bag of potato chips from the cupboard. She opened it, took out a piece, and held it in front of Liu Manman's mouth.
"Have some food first!" Yuxue said with a smile.
Liu Manman, without any suspicion, tried to bite the potato chip in Yuxue's hand. But Yuxue slightly pulled back her hand, creating some distance between the chip and Liu Manman.
Liu Manman looked at Yuxue. She already knew what Yuxue wanted to do.
After thinking for two seconds and realizing she could only obey Yuxue, Liu Manman asked in a low voice, "As long as I eat this, you'll untie me, right?"
Yuxue nodded.
So Liu Manman bent her body, moved forward like a caterpillar, and bit the potato chip.
Yuxue untied the T-shirt around Liu Manman's neck first, and then took a firm stance, quickly loosening the jacket and running out of the door.
The freed Liu Manman chased her closely.
When Xia Yu went to the dining room, Liu Manman had already pinned Yuxue to the sofa. Zhu Mei, who was also on the first floor, sat on the side, drinking a coke.
Sitting opposite Zhu Mei, Xia Yu watched Yuxue and Liu Manman's playfighting and waited for the meal to begin.
The first one to come to his side was not lunch, but Zhu Mei.
The girl sat next to him and placed his hand on her head.
Pattings her head twice, Xia Yu yawned.
Although it was a bit strange that Zhu Mei, who had been hiding from him, suddenly became so proactive, Xia Yu didn't think much of it.
In two days, it would be time to set off to return, and if he could leave Zhu Mei behind in Ziling or Yaoguang, he wouldn't have to see her again.
After ten minutes, Kong Hanyue and the others came down together and began to eat.
After lunch, the six girls, including Zhu Mei, each holding a parasol, went out to pick shells, while Xia Yu yawned and went back to his room to take a nap.
Xia Yu's body wasn't tired, but mentally he had been up for twenty-four hours, and he was a little sleepy.
He soon fell into a deep sleep.
In his dream, he became a stone monkey born of heaven and earth, and after causing havoc in the heavenly realm, he was suppressed by the Buddha's Five Finger Mountain.
This feeling of being suppressed was somewhat real, and Xia Yu couldn't help but open his eyes.
What he saw was long hair.
A young girl was lying on top of him.
Relying on his senses, Xia Yu confirmed that it was Zhu Mei.
So, what was going on?
Xia Yu was a little panicked. Although Zhu Mei had no parents, and she didn't need to undergo the tests of her parents like An Siyao and Xu Youxiang, Xia Yu was an upright person.
Just as he was about to push Zhu Mei away, she climbed up on her own.
Zhu Mei hadn't noticed that Xia Yu was awake, so he quickly closed his eyes and left only a small slit open to observe her.
The girl looked at Xia Yu's body, shook her head, and left the room with disappointment.
So, did you come over just to press on me? Xia Yu couldn't understand.
Zhu Mei's movements just now reminded him of the body of the brown bear. When he was in the brown bear's body, he liked to place the girls on his belly.
While recalling the past, Xia Yu drifted back to sleep.
When he woke up, it was already 1 PM.
As he walked out of his room, Xia Yu saw the waiting housekeeper.
"Sir, Miss Li Hua would like to enter the villa." The housekeeper said to Xia Yu.
"Is she alone?" Xia Yu asked.
"She is alone." The housekeeper answered.
"Let her in."
The housekeeper left the living room to make a phone call to convey Xia Yu's intentions.
In addition to the large living room on the first floor, there was also a small living room where the servants gathered when they had nothing to do.
After asking a maid for a bottle of cola, Xia Yu sat on the sofa and drank it.
Ten minutes later, he saw a car stopped at the villa's entrance.
The person who got off the car was Li Hua.
"Mei Mei is on the beach." Xia Yu answered before she could ask.
Xia Yu thought that after getting the answer, Li Hua would leave immediately, but she walked into the house and sat down in front of him.
"What's the matter?" Xia Yu asked.
"It seems that the Grey Reef Company has discovered us." Zhu Mei replied.
"...You are a heavily trained bodyguard of the royal family, can you be more discreet?" Xia Yu couldn't understand how Zhu Mei and the others could have once again exposed their whereabouts.
"I'm a soldier, not a bodyguard." Li Hua looked at Xia Yu, hoping that he could come up with a solution.
After thinking for a moment, Xia Yu called Yu Ningmeng and asked her to handle it.
Unlike their previous encounters with the Grey Reef Company, now that the person was in his hands, he could simply use his influence to suppress them.
"It's done." Xia Yu said to Li Hua after hanging up the phone.
That sentence was both an answer and a signal to leave.
Li Hua understood the second layer of meaning and swallowed her request to be with Zhu Mei. She left the villa and headed for the beach.
She walked very slowly, as she would have to ask Zhu Mei about her recent situation when she saw her. She was afraid of hearing something unbearable.
They had no way of fighting back against that pervert, after all, the Grey Reef Company, which had almost wiped them out, could be suppressed with just one phone call from him.
The beach was not far from the villa, and soon enough, she arrived at the place.
Seeing her, Zhu Mei walked over happily.
Grabbing Zhu Mei's hand, Li Hua's voice was hoarse: "Mei Mei, how have you been recently?"