Siyu flipped through the whole menu and felt that the menu in this human world might not match Fifth Master Lu’s peculiar taste. Therefore, she slammed shut the menu and spoke to the owner who was looking very cautious at the side, “Please cook a pot of porridge, just add a bit of minced pork and it will do.”

The owner waited for a long time but he didn’t receive any follows up. Heastonishedly asked, “just…..just this?”

Siyu nodded, “yes, this is enough.”

It seemed that the owner had never seen a guest who booked the whole restaurant only to order a pot of porridge. He stealthily sneaked a glance from the corner of his eyes towards Fifth Master Lu who was sitting at the head of the table. This person’s presence was extraordinary. The owner naturally knew at a glance that this person was the one who truly had the power to decide. However, after waiting for a while with expectation, Fifth Master Lu kept turning his beads unperturbed as if he didn’t find anything wrong with Siyu behavior.

The one who had the final say had tacitly approved. Hence, the owner didn’t dare to say anything else and immediately withdrew from the scene to prepare the food. Not long after, a pot of steaming plain porridge was presented.

Siyu asked the owner for two bowls. She ladled out a bowl of porridge and put it in front of Fifth Master Lu while saying, “Your [formal] taste is too peculiar. I’m afraid that you won’t like any of the food that I choose, so I might as well do as I wish.  Occasionally drinking plain porridge is also not bad.”

Fifth Master Lu gazed at the bowl of porridge that looked very bland in front of him. His eyebrow unnoticeably wrinkled, he glanced at Siyu, and said, “ Next time, if you want to drink porridge, you don’t need to go outside to eat. I’ll have someone cook and deliver it to you.”

Once Siyu heard it, she immediately knew what he was thinking about. In this period of time, the men that Fifth Master Lu left for her had sent various kinds of rare medicinal herbs. Furthermore, they’d attentively watched her until she finished eating it. She didn’t want to eat those so directly. These people would just grind the medicine and add them to the meal. Siyu felt that the bitterness of the medicine was in her mouth every single day. Although the effect of the medicine wasn’t bad, she couldn’t stand the way the dish was prepared.

“No need, No need, It’s really not troublesome [to go out to eat porridge].” Siyu was afraid that Fifth Master Lu might be prompted by sudden impulse and made her drink medicinal porridge every day for the next whole month from that day onwards. She hastily blinked her eyes and used her acting skills that had been tempered these days to squeeze out a bit of tear. With eyes brimming with tears, she lifted her small face to look at him, trying hard to express her firm refusal of drinking the traditional Chinese medicine again, “Please just spare me, okay? I’ll pour tea for you [formal] !”

Siyu bustled around to look for a bag of tea. After running around, she poured a cup of tea for Fifth Master Lu and carefully brought it to him. After that, she looked at him expectantly. She wanted to hear that sentence from Fifth Master Lu’s mouth that she’d be freed from that point onwards. 

In order not to eat those terrible things every day, Siyu went all out. She gave her life for righteousness and crossed the safe distance for her to reach Fifth Master Lu’s side. Fifth Master looked at her pair of almond-shaped eyes with sharply contrasting colors [black and white]. That pair of eyes filled with tears looked charming and delicate. She inherently looked delicate, but with glistening tears it really made people feel that she might break into pieces with a touch. Fifth Master raised his hand and gently held her chin. After pondering for a while, he indifferently said: 

“Glib-tongued”.

Siyu tried hard to swallow back a mouthful of old blood and pretended that it was a word of compliment. After that, she put her small hand on Fifth Master Lu’s palm. According to her observation, Fifth Master Lu seemed to particularly like such physical touch.  Wherever he brought her, he’d habitually held her hand. Although she didn’t understand the principle behind it, she still did it.

Sure enough, Fifth Master Lu delightedly raised his eyebrows and his whole aura softened down. He turned his hand over and pulled Siyu to sit beside him. His palm wrapped around her small hand and didn’t let go of it, “You can decide it yourself.”

This was approval that she won’t be forced to drink medicinal porridge. Siyu immediately felt relieved. She indistinctly felt that she seemed to find out a bit of this psycho’s standard of likes.

“Besides that, this tea——”  Fifth Master Lu looked at the cup of tea that the little girl made herself and reluctantly sipped it. He immediately frowned, put the cup aside, and said with a tone filled with honesty, “this kind of poor quality tea leaves shouldn’t be drunk in the future.” 

“……”Siyu quietly pushed the bowl of porridge that she had poured before.

Fifth Master Lu merely glanced at it before moving his gaze away. Although it was only for a short moment, Siyu swore that she clearly saw a fleeting dislike on his face, “semiliquid food is not in the range of my consideration.”

Siyu: “……” Then in the end, what did you usually eat? Air?

Siyu had never seen a person as picky as Fifth Master Lu. She was so tired that she didn’t want to talk. She simply held her bowl and ate slowly. However, her stomach had never been good and she’d often want to vomit blood whenever she’s beside Fifth Master Lu. She strenuously ate half of the bowl before she couldn’t swallow anymore. Hence, she put down the bowl and said that she was already full.

Fifth Master Lu looked at the remaining half of the bowl of porridge and didn’t say anything. He pulled Siyu and left. However, this time he didn’t send Siyu back to the hotel. The car continued to go in the opposite direction for more than ten minutes before stopping in a manor.

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This manor was obviously another property of the Lu family, It covered a vast area. Siyu didn’t know what Fifth Master Lu was planning to do. She let him take her in, seeing that he instructed his subordinate to fetch a paper and pen, she became totally at a loss, “What’s this for?” 

“The rules are the same, stay for half an hour.” Fifth Master Lu said with droopy eyes. After that, Siyu helplessly watched as he took a piece of paper from who-knew-where and unfolded it in front of her. The drawing on that paper looked very familiar——

Isn’t this great devil chibi drawing that she drew last time to vent her anger? ! ! She couldn’t find this drawing after she went back last time, turns out it was left behind at Fifth Master Lu’s hand!

This psycho actually still carried it with him!

Siyu hastily rushed to snatch that drawing back and laughed insincerely, “This is a picture that I randomly drew. It’s not good, so Fifth Master, please don’t look at it…..”

Fifth Master Lu interrupted her effort of covering it and looked at her with eyes like ancient wells, “I think it’s not bad. Who’s the person in the drawing? Is it me?”

“How could it be!”  Siyu abruptly raised her voice. This kind of sensation felt like a villain who stealthily cheated others but was caught in the act. Siyu’s eyes drifted around for a moment and vaguely spoke, “This was actually a character in my new comic. I just drew it casually, you don’t need to take it to heart….” 

Seeing that the little girl wanted to hide this piece of drawing and destroy the evidence, Fifth Master Lu immediately raised his eyebrow. He mercilessly pulled this rabbit’s tail, “I like it very much much, so leave this drawing for me here.”

Seeing that the little girl wanted to hide this piece of drawing and destroy the evidence, Fifth Master Lu immediately raised his eyebrow. He mercilessly pulled this rabbit’s tail, “I like it very much much, so leave this drawing for me here.”

What Fifth Master Lu said wasn’t a question but a statement. From the start, he didn’t have the intention to ask for the little girl’s consent. Siyu tried every possible means to dissuade him from getting that thing that could be used against her. However, Fifth Master Lu remained unmoved. Finally, she began coughing up blood again and had no better choice but to angrily toss the drawing to him.

Fine, take it then, I don’t care anymore!

“Come here.” Fifth Master Lu didn’t continue teasing her. He stretched out his hand to pull Siyu to his side, opened a blank sheet of paper, and put a pencil onto her palm, “ Draw something for me. If your drawing is good, you can go back earlier.”

Fifth Master Lu could see that this little girl was afraid of him, so much so that every time she sat beside him, her body was stretched taut as if she would immediately jump out with the slightest poke. However, the more Siyu acted like this, the more he didn’t want to act according to her wish.

“What should I draw?” Siyu rarely heard Fifth Master Lu made such an ordinary demand, and she felt a bit curious.

“Draw…. a rabbit.” Fifth Master Lu seemed to have thought of something and the corner of his lips raised with a faint smile. He was truly too good looking. At such close proximity, Siyu was almost blinded by the smile. He said in a leisurely way while reaching out to caress Siyu’s long hair, “the kind that’s good to be bullied.”

“?” What kind of strange demand is this? Siyu asked, “do you like raising rabbits?”

Fifth Master Lu looked at her with a smile in the depth of his eyes, “I like it very much, raising them is so much fun.”

Siyu muttered to herself, She thought that a psycho like Fifth Master Lu wouldn’t go along the usual path, who expected that his hobby would be so ordinary. However, since Fifth Master said that he’d let her go ahead of time after she finished drawing, Siyu gladly welcomed it. She quickly took the pencil and drew on the paper.

Siyu had a solid foundation, with a few strokes she had drawn the outline of a little rabbit. Fifth Master Lu was leaning on the sofa while looking down at her serious face. With light like the twinkling star, the chandelier on the ceiling shone on the few strands of hair on the side of her temples. Fifth Master Lu unconsciously gazed in a trance.  When he got over it, his hand had already stretched out and touched Siyu’s cold temples.

“It’s done. You take a look at it….” Siyu didn’t notice Fifth Master Lu’s action. After she finished drawing, she excitedly held the drawing and turned around. She coincidentally met his pair of eyes that were as deep as the sea. Those eyes were filled with her reflection and Siyu couldn’t help being stunned.

Fifth Master Lu’s self-control was extremely good. Almost instantly, he put all of his emotions away and took the drawing from the stupefied Siyu’s hand and opened it. The little rabbit on the drawing held a bundle of green grass on its left and a dozen carrots on its right. It looked silly yet very adorable.

——just like the little rabbit in front of him who was eagerly looking at him, ardently hoping for him to say the words ‘you may go’.

Hence, he raised his lips and said, “it looks very alike.”

Siyu: look like what? Look like who?

However, Fifth Master Lu didn’t give her any explanation. He put the drawing away and closed his eyes, “go back.”

In an instant, Siyu didn’t continue to mull over this question, and joyfully left the place. There had been a car waiting for her outside beforehand so she got into the car very quickly. After Siyu left, Fifth Master Lu opened his eyes and felt the air slowly turn hot and dry. The beads in his hand turned faster and faster as if making clear to all that he was not calm at all.

……

After that night, Siyu waited for a few days in terror, but Fifth Master Lu didn’t look for her again. She called Lu Xingzhou and asked in a roundabout way. Lu Zingzhou replied that Fifth Master had gone back to his hometown to deal with some matters, so he might not be free in this period of time.

Siyu immediately burst into tears in her heart. Very good, this psycho is busy, he won’t have time to look for her. She could peacefully live for a period of time!

When she heard this piece of good news, Siyu suddenly felt her sickly body become better for a bit. When she was shooting, she even outperformed herself and made Director Liang somewhat surprised. He jokingly said, “I say Siyu, is it so fun acting together with Xiao Ji? You two are pretty good, It all passed in one go today!”

All of Siyu’s scenes were taken in the dark underground palace. It was moist, gloomy, and cold. The director called for a stop, Ji Lin instantly put away that aloft monarch look and eagerly snatched the overcoat from Chen Yue’s hand and personally draped it over her shoulder. He served the tea and poured the water in fear that Siyu was feeling cold.

Director Liang smilingly watched from the side as Siyu drank the medicine with a bitter face under Ji Lin’s supervision. In this crew, Director Liang liked these two people the most. They were obedient and hardworking, especially Siyu. Although her health wasn’t good, she worked harder than anyone else. In the beginning, there were still some gossips about her, but in the end, they all shut their mouths. Some of the seniors were even filled with tender affection for Siyu and always tried every possible means to bring some candies, cakes, and so on to give to Siyu so that she wouldn’t be so unhappy after eating the medicine.

Originally, the setting of Yun He in the script was that of a white moonlight in the new emperor’s heart. But somehow, after acting, their performance instead emitted the feeling of a brother and sister. At first, Director Liang wanted to revise it, but after thinking over it he felt that white moonlight was not limited to love. This time, if he did not go with the norm, maybe the result would be better. Hence, he let the two of them have their way. 

When Siyu finished taking the medicine, Chen Yue came over and whispered, “Siyu-jie, 《Unfathomable Challenge》crew program looked for you. They say they want to invite you [formal] to the program as a special guest and ask whether you have the intent to go or not.”

Siyu was a bit surprised, “Isn’t it nowadays’ most popular variety show? How can they think of inviting me? “ With her fame, she shouldn’t be in the range that the crew program took into consideration, right?

Chen Yue was afraid that she wouldn’t believe her and hastily said, “It’s real. I had told Director Liang and he said that you don’t have any scenes to shoot for these few days, so if you want to go, you can take two days off.”

At this time, Ji Lin who was listening attentively at the side pretended to carelessly turn around and said, “Jie, this program’s rating is very high. As long as you join, it will be very helpful for the accumulation of your popularity. Moreover, it’s a program that leans on the battle of wits category, which is rather suitable for you.”

Siyu hesitated a bit, “But I….”

Seeing that his older sister seemed to waver, Ji Lin leaked the truth in a hurry, “Jie, it’s okay, we’ll go together!”

Siyu: “…..” Say, isn’t this planned by you in advance? !

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