After all of them are reborn, who would still want to marry 2.5 Jo Satoru?

The lighting in the bathroom was dim, with only two chandelier night lights in the corners cutting out small triangular light sources.

But the interior decoration is very warm, with European-style round triangular walls, gold-rimmed portraits of maids, and a row of various vases on the edge of the floor-to-ceiling windows.

A white porcelain vase is filled with red roses of varying heights, and a yellow clay vase is filled with tiny cherries...

The bathtub was filled with hot water, and Genji curled up in a corner, hugging her legs with her hands.

The boy, who was probably only seventeen or eighteen years old, curled up into a very small ball.

The hot water covered his neck, the ends of his hair floated on the water, and a few strands of hair on his temples stuck to his cheeks, making him look even more pitiful.

The gorgeous costume he was wearing was casually stripped off by Liuli and thrown on the bathroom floor. After being wet by the water, it looked twisted, ugly and hideous.

The young girl in the bathtub was only wearing a thin white undershirt, with her arms and legs exposed, and she looked like she had little fat.

The pale flesh clung tightly to the bones, barely gaining some warmth from the warm water.

Liuli sat on the stool next to the bathtub and lit a mint-flavored Virginia.

Long ago, she had a bad habit of smoking a cigarette after sex.

Even in the previous world, she would occasionally light a cigarette quietly and watch it burn out when she was alone.

After Lan Tang left, she immediately picked up this bad habit again.

Through the milky white shadow filled with smoke, Yuan Zhinu slowly looked up. The girl's fingers were like blooming orchids, and the fingertips painted with cherry-colored nail polish were as thick as blood under the dim light.

"Do you want me to give you a cigarette?"

Liuli noticed that his condition had improved slightly and turned to look at him.

Yuan Zhinu's eyes were hazy, as if she had not yet woken up from a nightmare. After a long while, he moved his lips.

"Can you hold me for a moment?"

Liuli looked down at his face in surprise. After coming to her senses, he buried himself deeper in the water, along with his pointed chin and pale lips.

At this moment, Genji was also looking at her. He raised his head slightly, and his eyebrows and features revealed an almost ordinary tone.

It is far from the so-called emperor and the so-called dragon king.

There was a hint of tiredness in Liuli's tone. It was already past midnight, and rather than watching people soaking in the bathtub, she would rather crawl into the warm bed and have another sleep.

"If you don't want a cigarette, there's some liquor next to you, Lagrima sweet white port. I just had one tonight."

Genji didn't move or say anything, just stared at her quietly.

The frail boy immersed himself deeper into the water, leaving only his empty eyes exposed.

The hot water in the bathtub overflowed and wet Liuli's bare feet.

She heard Minamoto Chitose's voice coming from the water, accompanied by the bursting of bubbles.

"Can you hold me for a moment?"

he asked.

Liuli was almost impatient. She wanted to ask directly, "Have we met before? Do we know each other?"

Why would two strangers who just met for the first time yesterday and today hug each other?

You are so mature, are you lacking love?

But Genji was still huddled there, her eyes red, looking so lost and pitiful, even her voice was weak when she spoke, as if she was about to die.

Liuli put out the half-burned cigarette, walked to the bathtub, and looked down at him.

After looking at him for a while, she condescended to squat down, sat on the edge of the bathtub, and stared at Yuan Zhinu.

"I don't want to hug others actively, you can hug me."

Genji blinked and reacted very slowly. He stretched out his arms from the water and put them around Liuli's neck.

To their surprise, his body temperature was slightly higher than Liuli's.

Liuli didn't move at all. She felt Yuan Zhinu hugging her tightly. He put his hands around her neck and his legs around her waist.

Like twins who have just left their mother's womb, one is entangled with the other tightly, wishing they could merge into the same piece of flesh and blood and become the same individual.

Liuli still didn't move. She let the boy press his cheek tightly against hers.

The world was so silent, with only the sound of dripping water and the heartbeats of the two people.

Genji didn't move either.

He maintained this posture, nestled in the arms of a strange girl, drawing non-existent courage and warmth from this one-way hug.

"The world is a well."

Genji put her ear close to Liuli's earlobe and spoke softly in a vague voice.

"A very deep well."

"I was dying inside, repeatedly."

Liuli still didn't react. She sat on the edge of the bathtub, with no ripples in her pupils, just staring at the Lagrima sweet white port wine placed not far away.

The golden brown liquid is bottled in a slender bottle. Lagrima means tears, but interestingly, it is a sweet wine named after bitter tears.

Its full name is "Tears of Christ".

Even Christ died, let alone humans?

The bell of the small church not far away rang again, and when the sound came, Yuan Zhinu also trembled slightly.

It's one o'clock in the morning.

"If the world is a well." Liuli held Yuan Zhinu's chin with her cold and wet fingers and pushed him a little further away.

"Then everyone will die in there, it's just a matter of time."

"The only difference is that some people die and come back to life, while others are born and die again."

Genji was no longer trembling, but was still looking at her with blank eyes.

Liuli simply stood up, held Genji's waist with one hand, and picked him up in this position.

With her other hand, she picked up the white bath towel draped next to her and covered him with it.

She carried Yuan Zhinu out of the bathroom and did not forget to take the bottle of white port wine.

Liuli pushed open the door of the guest room, walked in and stood beside the gorgeous big bed.

Some of the water stains on Genjiro's body were absorbed by the bath towel, but he was still wearing the wet underwear, and the water dripped down and wet the carpet.

"Get off me, have a drink, and go to sleep."

Liuli said calmly.

Unexpectedly, Genji cooperated by loosening her hands and legs. He wrapped himself in a bath towel, stood on the carpet, and nodded almost obediently.

Liuli was too lazy to deal with him anymore and turned to leave the room.

Until her back completely disappeared in the darkness, Gen Chijo remained in this posture, motionless.

……

The rain left with the night.

The next morning, the sun shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting a light golden glow on the entire room. Liuli wore a black lace embroidered dress and walked out of the bedroom.

The whole villa looks brand new.

This statement is actually a bit exaggerated, but the water stains on the carpet were indeed cleaned up very cleanly, and the withered blue lotus in the spherical glass tank in the corridor was replaced with two.

The new lotus flowers were in full bloom, revealing their blue petals and pale yellow stamens in the sunlight streaming through the glass windows.

All the flowers in the corridor have been replaced. Various vases contain large clusters of dew-covered white roses and violets, and in the center of the dining table is a cluster of beautiful hydrangeas.

The types of flowers are exactly the same as before, except that they have changed from dead branches and leaves to bright and juicy ones.

Genji was wearing a white shirt and black pants, holding a bouquet of white camellias in her arms. When Liuli walked down the stairs, he seemed to be looking for an empty vase to put the bouquet of flowers in.

When he saw Liuli coming down, he showed an expression of surprise and a little embarrassment.

This made him look more like a gentle boy next door, but much more lively than last night.

"Teacher Liuli, thank you for taking me in last night. I made breakfast. Would you like to try it?"

There were noodles with matsutake fried eggs and warm cocoa milk on the table. Liuli took a look, sat down, picked up the chopsticks and started eating the noodles.

She didn't speak a word from beginning to end.

Yuan Zhinu didn't say anything. He couldn't find an empty vase, so he simply placed the white camellia next to the lush green plants by the window. The two colors blended together, looking quite harmonious.

Liuli didn't have much of an appetite. She ate the fried egg and a few mouthfuls of noodles and then put down her chopsticks.

Gen Chijou, who was sitting opposite her, had a look of uneasiness on her face, but he didn't ask anything. He just took the dishes away quietly and took them to the kitchen to wash them.

Like a good wife.

Liuli held the cocoa milk in her hand, looked at his back, and suddenly asked, "General Wang is not dead, right?"

Gen Chinu's back trembled, but he didn't turn around and nodded slowly.