Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1164 Dinner Game
Just as Xia Shou was wondering how to react, the door to the bathroom in the private room opened, and Alice walked out.

"Lord Summer Guardian, it's getting chilly, here's a scarf." Alice placed a brown checkered scarf on the back of the sofa. "Will you be alright by yourself while I'm gone?"

"No problem! I'm a normal adult, I can take care of myself." Xia Shou joked, quickly changing the subject from the serious topic.

Alice nodded slightly: "I'll be able to get back to my old routine soon. If all goes well, it should be all set up in about two weeks."

Elegant, truly elegant, more like a butler than a maid.

In some ways, Alice, as the housekeeper, is indeed more like a housekeeper.

"Oh, that's good, that's good." Xia Shou nodded nervously, then picked up the cola and took a few big gulps, trying to appear calm.

Lately, he has found it increasingly difficult to bear Alice's round-the-clock service.

Previously, because Alice was in a dormant state, he could subconsciously still maintain his own privacy.

But now Alice has become no different from an ordinary person, yet she still takes care of him meticulously in the same way she always did.

This put considerable pressure on Xia Shou.

Actually, Xia Shou thinks Alice is doing quite well now. If Alice could stay in Merlin's House, they could each have some private space.

No, to be precise, he has some private space.

But this is obviously unlikely. He had previously discussed Alice with Dead Notes, and Dead Notes said that refusing Alice's service was equivalent to not feeding or watering her.

For Alice, the duties of a maid were like the daily meals of a normal person—a calling born of desire. This is the fundamental reason why, in his absence, Alice served the British royal family and acted as the acting head of Merlin's House for generations.

Not letting Alice fulfill her duties as a maid is tantamount to starving her. Her emotions, physical condition, and mobility will all decline significantly as her self-worth is reduced.

In the words of the Death Notes, it is like this: "Alice's previous service to the royal family was just a matter of giving her a little bit of service, much like a normal person who is malnourished from a long-term vegetarian diet and is just maintaining vital signs."

Now that she has finally returned to her normal life, you want her to go on a diet.

Don't judge Alice with worldly common sense and think it's wrong to order her around or make her do things. Just like appetite is a normal need that doesn't need to be emphasized for ordinary people like us.

Alice would never say such things to you, because a maid is subordinate to her master and must obey her wishes. If she were to emphasize these things to you, it would be tantamount to making demands on you, which would violate the principles of a maid.

Therefore, it is not possible to refuse Alice's daily care, but being taken care of so meticulously is really uncomfortable. Perhaps Alice should be assigned some high-value tasks that she cannot spare the time for.

"Lord Xia Shou?"

"Oh, thank you for your hard work." Xia Shou snapped out of his reverie and nodded.

"Then I'll head back now." Alice gave a slight bow and walked back towards the bathroom.

Shangguan Yan's gaze followed Alice's figure, her expression subtly different from usual, as if she were deep in thought. Only after Alice left the bathroom did her attention return to the present moment.

If she could put on a witch's airs with other people, she simply couldn't put on that enigmatic face with Alice, even though Alice remembered nothing.

Alice, who was previously possessed, didn't evoke many emotions in Shangguan Yan. But now that she's awakened and can move freely, every move Alice makes stirs up Shangguan Yan's past memories.

Back when she lived with Xia Shou, Zheng and the others often stayed at the villa. Alice took care of all the clothes, sheets, bedding, food, and so on for everyone, including picking them up and dropping them off at school.

In Shangguan Yan's eyes during her teenage years, Alice was like Xia Shou's shadow, and also like the shadow of the mansion itself, able to appear anytime, anywhere to help solve any trouble.

Of course, she was wary of everything at the time, including this shadowy maid, but her feelings for Alice were somewhat different from those for the other members of the Jade Division.

How to describe it... even Shangguan Yan himself couldn't explain it.

Shangguan Yan didn't care about Lao Ji, nor about Dong Ya and the others.

Because those people never really cared about her; their extra concern was only because she was Xia Shou's adopted child.

But Alice is different. Shangguan Yan could sense that Alice was different, but she had only suspected it before, and now she didn't even have the chance to confirm it.

It's truly heartbreaking. Would a witch like myself ever have such feelings?
Thinking about it carefully, this idea is really contradictory. Alice and Xia Shou are the same, but she wants Alice to remember her, but she doesn't want Xia Shou to remember his past self.

To be precise, she doesn't want Xia Shou to think about the past for the time being.

"Let's play a role-playing game," Shangguan Yan suddenly suggested.

"Is it some new party game? I've never heard of it, Minister," Mo Ying replied.

"What are the rules of the game? Is it similar to Truth or Dare?" Kehen asked.

Shangguan Yan smiled slightly: "It's somewhat similar. Generally, it involves assuming a scenario, and the designer wants to make that scenario as complex as possible, not in terms of logical thinking, but in terms of the complexity of individual choices."

To give a simple example, the simplest qualified scenario is the trolley problem. Everyone states their choice and then gives their reasons. Although there are few choices, the reasons can reveal an individual's personality bias.

Of course, we can't use a famous scenario like the trolley problem today. Everyone has to come up with an original one, and then everyone writes down their choices, and finally the results are tallied.

The side with fewer votes has to drink. Is anyone here unable to drink? Can Xiaoyue drink?

"Beer is fine," Su Yue said, "but it's easy to get drunk."

"That's perfect, because people are more likely to reveal their true nature when they're drunk. Anyway, everyone should set a scenario, write it down, and then randomly draw one. That way, no one will know who designed the current scenario, which will make it more interesting," Shangguan Yan said. "Apparently, this game is quite popular at department gatherings now."

"why is that?"

(End of this chapter)