Lu Mingfei: What? They're all real!

She turned her head blankly to look at the girls gathered in a circle, not knowing what had happened. However, the boy next to her was still sitting there peacefully, so she wasn't scared.

The maids sang "Happy Birthday to You" in unison, their voices cheerful and joyful. They were all young girls working part-time, their voices clear and melodious, like a flock of birds. Some clapped their hands gently, some lit candles on the cake, some waved balloons, and some tied ribbons around the necks of the girls and boys.

Erii felt a little happy. She tugged at the ribbon around her neck and then touched the ribbon around Lu Mingfei's neck. Her mind was filled with countless strange thoughts. She suddenly remembered that their names had been linked together before, and the corners of her mouth lifted slightly.

The girls were singing "Happy Birthday to You," and Erii understood the meaning of the song, even though it was sung in English. She was already very happy; she had never been this happy before.

Suddenly, the boy showed her scenery she had never seen before and answered many of her questions. She sincerely felt that the boy holding her hand was incredibly amazing, knowing everything, unlike her brother who always answered with "I don't know either." She also realized that the world was so big that she had never even seen a fraction of it.

She felt a surge of joy within her, yet also a strange itch.

Then, Lu Mingfei started singing too. The third line of the birthday song is to say the birthday person's name, and he had to take on this part.

He wasn't a very good singer, so he sang softly, just in the girl's ear. The girl looked at him quietly, serene yet joyful. Without being taught, she started clapping, just like an ordinary girl sitting at her own birthday party, waiting to blow out the candles. She blinked and clapped along, becoming more and more expectant as Lu Mingfei sang.

She was such a one-dimensional girl that she could only focus on what was in front of her.

Lu Mingfei encouraged himself to keep singing. He actually felt a little embarrassed, especially under so many eyes watching him... He was not the type to like being in the spotlight, but the girl's expectant gaze inspired him. He finally sang the girl's name and told her that this was a blessing for her.

The girl was even happier, and she finally showed a smile, no longer that quiet, faint smile.

The maids also sang their hearts out, and to do justice to the 13,000 US dollars the guest had generously given them, they specially continued with a second verse, singing in a rare Japanese version:

"I'm so happy today."

I'm so happy today.

Happy birthday to you.

Let's sing together!

But suddenly, the girl who had been smiling became sad because of the lyrics.

Chapter 147 Let's Sing Bad Songs Together

Erii Uesugi desperately wanted to sing; she had never wanted to make a sound more than she did now.

The maids invited her to sing, and the boy in front of her was singing as well. She should have joined in, but she couldn't open her mouth; she shouldn't have.

The girl's hearing was far beyond that of ordinary people; she could hear the whispers of medical staff dozens of meters away... Her brother had told her that this was a gift from her bloodline, but all she heard were words like "curse" and "monster".

She has never understood the word "monster" more than she does now.

She couldn't control what she was saying; it might turn these singing and dancing maids and the boy beside her into blood and gore, so she shouldn't have spoken.

But she really wanted to sing along; the boy who stirred her heart was inviting her. She should open her throat and let her voice flow, whether it sounded good or bad didn't matter, she just needed to sing it now, and it had to be sung with her mouth open—

Even she knew that no one in the world would sing while holding up a notebook and writing.

But she couldn't speak.

So she felt sad.

"Okay, okay, thank you everyone~"

Lu Mingfei suddenly stood up, took out a dozen or so hundred-dollar bills from his pocket, and handed them to each of the maids one by one, saying that the next thing he would have was some time alone with the two of them.

The maids scattered, and the place suddenly became quiet again.

The girl became even more heartbroken, feeling that she had probably missed this opportunity, and that it was her own flaws that had caused it to disappear.

Fortunately, the boy sat back down next to her.

"Want to sing together?" Lu Mingfei asked quietly.

He truly understood her gaze, not based on any other factors, but simply because he saw his own reflection in her. This girl was so much like him, wanting to integrate into the community but unable to. Lu Mingfei himself chose to be a clown, while Erii, standing before him, chose to be a lonely person.

The girl shook her head, then, perhaps realizing that lying was wrong, nodded.

"You can't talk, or something bad will happen." The girl held up the notebook in her hand.

Lu Mingfei lowered his head and stopped talking, taking turns writing with the girl and communicating in silence.

"What's the bad thing?" he asked.

"Someone will die." The girl's handwriting revealed her sadness.

As she spoke, she suddenly raised her hand and pulled down the wide sleeves of her coat and inner shrine maiden outfit. Her arms were slender and fair, but covered with dense black lines, like a black net.

"I'm a monster," she wrote down her self-definition casually, "so there are some things I can't do—"

She couldn't finish writing the last word because Lu Mingfei grabbed her hand. He ungentlemanly held the girl's arm and examined it closely.

Suddenly, a strange question arose in his mind—

"What's the name of the brother you just mentioned?" Lu Mingfei suddenly became very concerned about this question.

The girl turned her head in a daze, but then obediently gave the answer—she wrote down a few neat Chinese characters, “源稚生”.

Lu Mingfei suddenly burst into laughter, as if deflated.

Life is unpredictable; that's the only way he could describe it.

However, given this, he finally learned about the problem the girl beside him was facing—although he already knew roughly what it was, this girl's fate was almost identical to that of the girl in his memory.

"Actually, I know a little bit of magic," he suddenly wrote.

The girl's attention was drawn to this, and she blinked curiously, wanting to see what "minor magic" was.

Lu Mingfei secretly mocked himself, remembering how he had used the same tone and style when he deceived Renata. He never expected that he would use the same tricks to deceive another girl so long later. However, he wasn't exaggerating; he really did have some magic.

He pulled the girl's arm close to her skin, and softly uttered a string of ancient and strange characters. Then, something incredible happened. The black lines that were wrapped around and covered the girl's body seemed to have received a command and began to flow. But they didn't flow on the girl's arm; they quietly flowed onto another person and faded from the girl's body.

Lu Mingfei felt uncomfortable, but it wasn't just physical discomfort.

The blood of the dragons contains something different. Back then, only a tiny bit was drawn from Genji, but now Erii is "transfusing" him in large quantities. He accepts the blood, and in doing so, he experiences countless strange visions: a white dragon roars towards the sky, causing the heavens and earth to tremble; she appears to be bound to a cold bronze pillar—

Lu Mingfei coughed violently. He forced a smile and then released the girl's arm. Now her arm was as flawless as mutton fat jade, without a trace of blackness.

The girl stood frozen in place, her lips trembling. She clearly felt something had changed; the restlessness surging in her veins had lessened. Although it hadn't completely disappeared, she now felt extremely peaceful, as if she had entered a room isolated from all sound, where only the boy in front of her was with her in this world.

The noise outside grew louder, as if hundreds of people were crowding the doorway, trying to rush in.

"Try it now, but keep your voice down," Lu Mingfei encouraged softly.

The girl shook her head blankly, retaining a habit she had since birth.

Lu Mingfei nodded vigorously, "Give it a try, trust me."

So the girl completely trusted him. She cautiously and furtively shrank her head, as if she were about to do something bad. Her lips trembled slightly as she tentatively opened her mouth.

Then a hoarse, mocking sound finally came from the girl's mouth. It was not pleasant to hear, and no one could understand it, but it did not cause any damage. It was just a string of characters that almost no one could understand.

She spoke in the Dragon Script; it was her nature.

Although Lu Mingfei lowered her bloodline, this truly "deep-rooted" influence could not be easily changed.

The girl was overjoyed, and then she couldn't wait to whisper what she was going to say next. She took the magical boy's hand and repeated the songs she had just heard to him. She started singing Happy Birthday, but in a dragon language version. There are probably no dragons in this world, and no one has ever heard such a blessing before.

However, there was no dragon language in this world that Lu Mingfei couldn't understand, so he also began to respond in dragon language.

Both of them sang terribly.

After nineteen years, the girl finally gave herself a belated blessing. She pulled the person next to her close, pressed her face against his, and carefully sang a terrible song, but she felt happy.

Her words seemed meaningless to onlookers, and her volume was so low that they were barely audible, sounding like only groans and whimpers.

The maids, peeking out from afar, hugged each other sadly, crying out, "Oh my god, this young lady is actually a little mute!"

Before Erii spoke, she was just like an introverted beauty, but after she spoke, she was like someone who had lost her voice. But she didn't care about anything else. She only cared about completing the ritual by pressing her face against the boy who could understand what she was saying.

Suddenly, the glass door was pushed open rudely, shattering on the table and scattering on the floor. A group of guys with trilled tongues rushed in—a typical yakuza gang—and instantly took over the entire maid café. Genji, who had just regrouped, stepped out from the crowd. He had just received intelligence that Erii had been spotted here, and that she was supposedly accompanied by a daring man.

He wanted to see who it was—

Genji saw that the guy he had chatted with so happily yesterday, almost to the point of wanting to become sworn brothers, was now cheek to cheek with Erii, swaying and singing. He also saw that his sister, who was never supposed to speak, was now happily uttering syllables, as if she were singing.

Chapter 148 Girls in Their Rebellious Phase

Happy birthday, Mr. Yuan.

Lu Mingfei maintained the same posture, waving to Yuan Zhisheng, who emerged from the crowd looking travel-worn, as if he were saying "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence."

The man surrounded by the crowd was still reeling from the surreal reality. It took him a great deal of effort to accept everything before him, including the fact that Lu Jun was probably celebrating Erii's birthday right now, and that he also knew it was the birthday of a man named Genjiro...

Genji couldn't help but wonder, how does this guy know so much? It's as if he knows everything!

Did he hollow out Erii's heart?

"Happy birthday!" Erii also held up her notebook, but she was silent now.

Genjiro was stunned. When he came in, he did see Erii open her mouth to speak. Although her voice was very soft and she couldn't understand what she was saying, she was definitely making a sound. In the past, this would have been a disaster, but now everyone present was standing with their hands and feet intact, and no one had lost their life because of it.

It's simply a blessing from the gods.

But now she's not saying anything.

It felt like he was being treated specially, and Genji gradually felt a little anxious.

He first turned around and told his henchmen to leave the shop, then those who were closer to him stayed behind, standing at attention to form a human wall around them.

Within the human wall, Lu Mingfei recognized a man with a bruised and swollen face; he looked just like the guy who had been following them for so long, always secretly glancing their way with a hint of resentment...

"Did this guy get beaten up by Xia Mi or Ling?" Lu Mingfei couldn't help but think to himself...

Genjiro made a sound, attracting Lu Mingfei's attention. He saw that the man wanted to squeeze onto the sofa where the two of them were sitting, but Erii was unwilling to squeeze into that spot. After a stalemate with Genjiro, she pushed the man to the other side.

In an instant, Lu Mingfei saw a look of disbelief on Yuan Zhisheng's face, as if he had aged ten years out of thin air.

"So, Mr. Lu, is that the reason you left in such a hurry?" Genji asked, bewildered.

"No, actually, I was originally going to visit a friend." Lu Mingfei smiled sheepishly. "Something unexpected happened, it was just too much of a coincidence..."

"Okay, I believe Lu Jun."

That was all Genji could say. He had nothing else to say. He couldn't very well lash out now, turn hostile, and fight Lu Xun again; he might not even be able to win then...

Moreover... he turned to look at the girl who was happily battling with the cake, having just picked up a knife and fork, and lowered his gaze.

This was the second time in Genji's life that he had experienced such "humiliation".

"I also want to thank you, Lu-kun, for not letting Erii run around." Genji composed himself and raised his head again. "Just like I told you, Lu-kun, it could have had very bad consequences, so thank you, Lu-kun."

"Thank you." Erii followed suit, earnestly raising her notebook to thank Lu Mingfei. She was much more lively now.

"There's nothing to thank me for. Didn't I tell you about my situation before?" Lu Mingfei smiled quietly. "I was looking for someone anyway."

Yuan Zhisheng felt a tightness in his heart. He used to scoff at those old men who would say things like, "Kid, you're dreaming if you want to marry my daughter." He always believed that everyone should control their own destiny, and even one's own parents shouldn't be criticized. But now, he suddenly understood those old men a little better...

This guy clearly came with an ulterior motive! His intentions are impure!

From last night until an hour ago, he and his men had been hunting down anyone who dared to start a fight near his home. Crow even had two teeth knocked out; it was practically a declaration of war…

He then heard from the crow that all of this was because "a man and two women were conducting a thorough search with a photo of the head of the Uesugi family." In fact, he had already thought of the name Lu Mingfei at that moment, but only now did he truly confirm it.

"Who are you looking for?" Erii was very interested in this question. She tugged at Lu Mingfei's clothes and held up her notebook, which was already almost half full.

“I need to find a girl with red hair who doesn’t talk much,” Lu Mingfei said.

Erii lowered her head in thought, feeling as if she hadn't seen anyone like this along the way...

"Did you find it?" she asked again.

"I don't know." Lu Mingfei shook his head.

He truly didn't know.

"Go for it!" the girl encouraged him with great enthusiasm.

Lu Mingfei just smiled.

The girl looked at him and smiled softly.

The man on the other side couldn't bear to watch this scene any longer. Yuan Zhisheng had never seen a girl smile like that before, not even once. He now realized that some boys really could snatch away a girl in just one day!

"Hurry up and eat your cake, we should go back after you finish." Yuan Zhisheng could only urge them on like this.

But then something he never expected happened. Erii showed a rare look of stunned surprise, then lowered her head and wrote furiously, penning out several large characters that seemed to penetrate the paper: "No!"

Even tone of voice?!

Genji felt he was about to break down. Erii used to always agree with him unconditionally, but now she was using such a large font and an exclamation mark, like a rebellious child.

His first regret was that he shouldn't have let those two mysterious people distract him last night, running around Tokyo like a hunting dog, which didn't shorten the time it would take to find Erii; his second regret was that he shouldn't have gone to kill demons alone yesterday, which led him to meet a good boy like Riku-kun, and now it's hard to even turn against him...