Chapter Fifteen Come with Us

  I couldn't believe my ears! This...this puppet actually wants me to kiss him and tell him I love him! And what's more, when was this supposed to happen?!

  It's been just over twenty days since I first met him, and every time I see him, I'm scared to death. How could I be so stupid as to tell him that I love him?!

  But in my heart, I was thinking that way, however, when the puppet said those words, it inexplicably touched the weakest spot in my heart. My mind suddenly went blank and I almost couldn't control my hands as they slowly stroked the puppet's pale cheeks, my mouth numbly yet intoxicatingly repeating what the puppet had previously said to me:

  "True beauty, true beauty..."

  。”

  I stared blankly as my hand kept touching the puppet's face, always with a familiar illusion, as if it was also so gentle to caress his face at some point, familiar with every corner of his body, just like before my fingers even touched the puppet's neck, I already knew what kind of tactile sensation it would be to touch its neck.

  The wooden puppet's eyes stared straight at me, his face expressionless, but I could sense the serenity in his heart. My eyes were fixed on him, and the more I looked, the more I felt that his beauty was beyond words. Especially his pale pink lips, which were even more delicate against the white of his chin, soft, smooth, and luscious. It made me involuntarily recall the feeling of my tongue slipping into the gap between his lips that night, a slippery sensation that left me suddenly nostalgic, really wanting to lean in and experience the taste of the wooden puppet's lips.

  Indeed, I did the same, under the prompting of my inner longing, I tiptoed quietly and slowly approached the wooden puppet. The puppet didn't move at all, it just stared at me silently with a gaze as calm as water, allowing me to do whatever I wanted to it.

  As I drew closer to the wooden puppet, the faint woody scent on him wafted up to my face. I gazed into his eyes, without blushing or skipping a beat, and bit down gently on his slightly dry red lips before pressing mine against those two petals that I yearned to touch...

  "Xiao Yue! What are you doing? Stop it at once!"

  A shrill cry came from the alley next door, and this sharp cry was like a sharp needle that pierced the balloon of desire that was swelling in my mind. I was like a person who was dreaming, and immediately woke up, looking at my face less than five centimeters away from the wooden doll, suddenly feeling a little frightened, quickly popped open, and hastily turned to look at the source of the sound - only to see it was Auntie Jing.

  "Xianai, what are you doing here?" I covered my chest which was rising and falling continuously as I looked at Xianai walking over.

  "What am I here for? If it wasn't for me coming, you would have eloped with Su Huaifeng just now!"

  Grandma Wang always spoke directly, usually it was fine, but now she said I was doing something shady with Su Huaifeng behind her back, for a moment I got a bit angry and said no!

  "Not yet, if I hadn't come, you would have kissed"

  ！”

  Grandma's reminder made me realize that I really wanted to go and kiss the wooden puppet, but earlier my brain was filled with countless cotton balls, blocking all my thoughts. It was as if something guided me to do so, yet it seemed like my own intention. This is too unbelievable, it's hard to imagine a normal person would be perverted enough to kiss a piece of wood. Grandma's conservative nature should not be underestimated, in order to clear the puppet and I from blame, I continued to pretend ignorance:

  "Xī nǎi nai, do you know or not, he's not a human, he's that wooden puppet who carried me back just now, and now he's after me again. I really don't know what happened earlier, how could I have kissed a wooden puppet? He must have controlled me, that's why I did it. Earlier, Su Huifeng's mom pushed me off the rooftop, if not for the puppet saving me, I'd be a pile of mush by now."

  By saying this, I am exonerating myself and increasing Grandma's good impression of the wooden puppet. If my thinking is correct, then Grandma will definitely focus on the fact that Su Huaifeng's mother pushed me down from upstairs.

  "What did you say? That Su Huai Feng's mother pushed you down from the rooftop, this is a crime of murder, how could she not know?"

  "How am I supposed to know what this crazy woman is thinking? If you don't believe me, I'll go stand in front of her right now and she'll definitely be scared out of her wits!" As I said that, I pulled Xian Gu along, wanting to leave.

  "Wait, you ungrateful thing!" Xi Nainai grabbed me with one hand, and since she was shorter, she looked up at Mu Ou:

  "Xiao Yue, he saved you and you just left him in this alley? Although it's a wooden one, it also saved your life."

  I originally thought that Mu Ou had his own abilities and didn't need me to interfere, he could do whatever he wanted, but now after being spoken to by Xi Nai Nai, my face suddenly felt hot, I lowered my head and didn't make a sound.

  The old lady stretched out her hand and pinched the puppet's body twice, then looked it up and down before saying to me:

  "Let him be with us, you kid. When you came back from resigning outside, I helped you check your luck. Your luck has been pretty bad lately, and it's easy to attract things that shouldn't be attracted. Nothing will go well. This wooden puppet is a spiritual object, but it's full of auspicious energy, which can help you change your luck."

  The old lady said, without asking for my consent, turned to ask Mu Ou, if he was willing to live with us? She can guarantee that the incense will never stop every day.