You're in Trouble!

"What are you eating instant noodles for? I'll cook you some noodles," Lu Shu grumbled. It was so cold outside, and he had to go buy instant noodles. On a big holiday like this, he'd have to trek two streets over to Zhang Donglai's 24-hour convenience store.

"I don't want the noodles you cook, they taste bland. I want instant noodles! Go buy them for me!" Lu Xiaoyu protested.

"I'm not going." Lu Shu began to change his shoes.

"Then give me the little walnut hanging around your neck," Lu Xiaoyu's eyes sparkled.

"Forget about it! Can't you think about something else?" Lu Shu was getting annoyed. The thing hanging around his neck wasn't a walnut at all, just something that looked like one because of the patterns on it. It was a bit blackened and not perfectly round.

It was something he had with him since he was abandoned at the orphanage. It looked ordinary, but Lu Shu often complained about how irresponsible the staff at the orphanage were. Still, he had to admit their character was pretty decent; otherwise, he wouldn't still have this thing with him.

It wasn't useful to anyone else, but to Lu Shu, it was a small memento.

What if... and he said "what if" his parents wanted to find him through this? Wouldn't it be evidence?

Although he didn't have much concept of the word "parents," he had been living fine on his own for so many years.

When parents came to the orphanage to adopt children, and the director led him to that strange couple, he still had a glimmer of hope for parents. But when they rejected him for being sickly, that glimmer vanished.

Maybe he really didn't need parents after all. Lu Shu sometimes thought like that.

But when it really came time to throw it away... he was still reluctant.

"I'm telling you again, this thing definitely can't be eaten," Lu Shu said impatiently.

"I dare to drink other people's herbal medicine, why wouldn't I dare to eat this?" Lu Xiaoyu retorted.

Lu Shu was speechless. She had a point!

"Lu Shu, you've changed. You weren't like this before!" Lu Xiaoyu said calmly. "Last year, you even helped me..."

Lu Shu's face darkened. "Enough, Lu Xiaoyu... Let me tell you, if you watch another soap opera, I'll smash the TV!"

"Then you owe the landlord 800 yuan," Lu Xiaoyu analyzed calmly.

"Fine, fine, I'll go buy instant noodles for you!" Lu Shu turned and left.

Standing at the door, Lu Shu tightened his collar. It was indeed quite cold in Luocheng's winter.

Suddenly, he felt something wet on his eyelids. He looked up and saw that snowflakes were falling from the sky.

The fine snowflakes drifted slowly from the sky to the ground, fluttering on the ground, on the eaves, and on Lu Shu's body.

Why was his relationship with Lu Xiaoyu so good? Lu Shu stood at the door, looking at the white snowflakes falling from the sky, pondering. Actually, he wasn't quite sure himself.

Maybe it was when he was 14 years old and had a fever at the orphanage during the New Year's; Lu Xiaoyu brought him a cup of hot water? Or when he was bullied by others in the orphanage, Lu Xiaoyu always went to the director for him?

Perhaps it was because everyone was alone and relied on each other for warmth?

Or maybe it was Lu Xiaoyu's unreasonable trust and reliance on him, which gave him a strange sense of responsibility.

"Whatever," Lu Shu smiled. Since there were no parents or relatives in this world, what's wrong with having one more sister? Even if this sister annoyed him all day long.

The winter sky darkened a bit earlier because it was the third day of the Lunar New Year. There were hardly any pedestrians on the street, only occasional trucks passing by. Even during the New Year, people still had to work hard to make a living.

Somehow, Lu Shu suddenly remembered the acrobat who was taken away during the day. Was that acrobat the rumored superpowered individual that people were speculating about online? Did cultivators really exist?

Why were all these things just fantasies in the past, but now seemed to be entering people's lives like they were about to happen?

Another person who left a deep impression on Lu Shu today was the young man he met backstage named Zhi Wei.

Thinking about the possible existence of a brighter and more brilliant world, Lu Shu became a bit distracted.

At that moment, the wind swept in like it had shattered something, enveloping Lu Shu. The snowflakes seemed even more dazzling under the two huge headlights.

The headlights were coming from behind him. When Lu Shu turned around to look, the dazzling car lights made him a little dizzy.

But even so, he could still recognize that it was a huge truck roaring towards him like a beast.

The sharp sound of brakes and tires rubbing against the road echoed in the air. But the beast had lost control.

In the fleeting moment, the air seemed to distort from the pressure. In the darkness of the night, Lu Shu was struck by the huge beast and sent flying.

His body broke through the curtain of snow behind him, and Lu Shu's world seemed to slow down. He remembered someone saying that people recall their lives in an instant before death.

Lu Shu closed his eyes, trying to seize that moment to see what his parents, who sent him to the orphanage, looked like. But he saw nothing.

Lu Shu felt his life slipping away, as if all the beautiful things in the world were destined to vanish.

At that moment, the pendant on his chest turned into dust. No, it was just the hard shell that Lu Xiaoyu couldn't break even with a hammer. It turned into powder.

Finally, something inside was revealed. It looked a bit like an almond, yet also resembled a star.

That star merged into his body, drifting along with the bloodstream, and eventually settled in Lu Shu's palm. After emitting a warm stream, it completely disappeared from Lu Shu's perception.

That warm stream was like the current flowing from south to north in the Pacific Ocean, merging into Lu Shu's heart.

Thump!

Thump!

Thump!

The strong heartbeat caused a white flame to reignite within Lu Shu's heart.

Yes, the fervent flame that had once extinguished within him but now reignited with joyous reunion. It seemed that this fervent flame rightfully belonged to him, as if it had existed since the beginning of time.

With a soft sound, Lu Shu fell to the ground, silent.

The truck driver jumped out of the car, hesitating as he looked at Lu Shu lying on the ground. He regretted that if he hadn't been driving while fatigued, this wouldn't have happened.

The driver slowly approached the boy on the ground. He had full insurance for the car, and he could afford to pay millions, so he wouldn't just stand by and watch someone die. Suddenly, the boy moved a little. The driver, surprised, approached cautiously.

Before he could reach him, Lu Shu slowly propped himself up, his face covered in blood. "You're in trouble!" he exclaimed.