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“Brother~” Someone was calling my name in my dream… “Brother~” There were only two people in this world who would call me that.

“Brother, if you still don’t get up, I will have to kiss you right now.” At the moment, I covered my mouth instinctively. Then the next second, I fell something soft applying on the back of my hand.

I opened my eyes and saw my own face in Ke Ling’s black pupils.

After failing to kill me on the lips, Ke Ling raised her head slightly while looking right into my eyes very closely. She said discontentedly with her cheeks bulged,

“Awe, how are you still able to refuse my kiss when you are asleep…” If it were the ordinary times, I would definitely tease her and push her away at once. However, today… I was super muddleheaded and didn’t even know where I was.

Was I at home now?

Why would I be at home… I remembered that I had been in… “This is not the manor…” I spit it out naturally.

“What manor? Are you dazed with sleep?”

That was not right, I remembered that I should be on the way to work… There was a weird feeling welling up in my mind. Having reached out my hands to find my phone, I checked today’s date.

It was May 7th, six thirty-six in the morning.

Ahhh, so today was Sunday? Well, I had planned to have a job interview today.

Maybe I had dreamed of working… She was right, I was dazed with sleep indeed.

“Get up, Ke Ling, I still have something to do. I should go out this morning.” Now I was already totally awake. So I patted Ke Ling’s little head and asked her to move away from my body.

“Aye~~~ You are going out? But I want to play games with you…”

“Why don’t you go out with your friends like yesterday…”

“But!”

Ke Ling pouted and buried her head in my chest while saying that with her body swaying from side to side.

“But I want to stay with my brother the most!” She started to act cute again.

“All right, all right… I’m not going out to have fun. I am actually going to have a job interview.” I touched her head again and kissed on her cheek as I tried my best to comfort her with a gentle tone,

“Come on, I know you are a good girl and you won’t stand in my way, right?”

“Hmm… Ho ho~” As long as I said something like that, Ke Ling would listen to me right away even if she was not willing to. Plus, I had just kissed on her cheek, that was my final hit.

Before I would agree with everything Ke Ling had said as far as she had acted adorably. However, lately I had already got hang of it a little bit and gradually learned how to coax her.

As long as I gave her a little of ‘something she wants”, she would behave as tamely as a cat.

“Brother, you just kissed me, I must kiss you back~muo~”

Before I had time to react, Ke Ling already applied her cherry-like lips on my face. She even sucked my face fiercely, leaving her saliva and a hickey on me.

Just like that, this little cat would always go too far when I wasn’t noticing… Then I pulled Ke Ling away from me and said,

“Stop it, Ke Ling! I’m getting angry now!” Of course I only pretended that I was angry. Losing my temper to Ke Ling… maybe that was something I would never do in my entire life.

Ke Ling also knew that I had only faked my anger. So she still held my neck grinningly while straddling on my legs.

Being totally helpless, I held her up and left the bed, saying,

“Hey, don’t be so sticky…”

“Because I can only hug you for three times every day. So I have to make the best of it to replenish the energy from you!”

That was the rule between us which had been made by me after the sofa accident. I told my sisters that I could only hug them three times a day in order to avoid too many body contacts with them.

But if the hugging time lasted that long, my restriction would have no meanings… Alas…

Ke Ling still refused to get off me with her feet winding on my waist and her body attaching me more closely. Feeling that she might feel tired by hanging on my body like a bradypod, I supported her bottom with my hand.

“Hmm~” Ke Ling cried winningly while blowing off hot breaths behind my ear. Now she hugged me even more tightly… However, I didn’t know why I had no evil thoughts at all even if I had such intimate contacts with Ke Ling… I felt nothing special.

It felt like a pet was sticking to me… I only had a strange sense of security instead of any other bad thoughts. Thus I didn’t even need to count numbers in my mind.

That was surely a good thing. But I just felt weird.

Was it possible that I had never seen Ke Ling as a woman?

Because she was my sister…?

But yesterday I had been clearly obsessed with Xin Ran’s feet… Then Ke Ling’s voice interrupted my thinking,

“Brother, have you drunk the liquid medicine I gave to you yesterday?”

“What? Ah, that medicine, I haven’t…” Ke Ling had been astonished when I had come home yesterday. After that, she had transformed into a human bomb and struck my belly violently.

It seemed that my mom and Xin Ran had deliberately told Xin Ran nothing about me getting out of the hospital. That was why she had jumped out of her skin seeing me coming home. After that, she had been clinging to me and given me a bottle of green medicine. She had told me that the medicine which she had asked from a friend had been able to cure the wounds quickly… However, that green liquid medicine looked more like a bottle of poison… I knew that Ke Ling would never hurt me. But I still hadn’t drunk it because my wound had already been healed. With the unguent Yu Hui had applied on me, I had even got my scars eliminated. So there was no need to drink another bottle of medicine.

“Don’t forget to drink that if you get injured again… Bah, what am I talking about? My brother will never get injured again!”

“Ah ah, I know, thanks for your kindness.”

It seemed that it was some kind of specific medicine. Then I would just take it with me. After all, Ke Ling had put lots of effort in getting it for me. I had breakfast with my family, which hadn’t happened in our house for a long time. After that, I put on my shoes and planned to go to my workplace.

Ke Ling and Xin Ran wanted to follow me there. So I had to try every possible way to explain to them that I was going to apply for a job instead of having fun. Also, I didn’t even know whether the employer would accept me. Only after I told my sisters that I would go back home immediately if I was turned down did they agree to stay at home. Even so, I still paid a huge price by making a promise to them that I would pick a day to play with them and sleep with them at night. Also, my hugging rule was no longer valid. Well, I had to agree with all those things to get out.

My two sisters were getting more and more clingy… “Master Jun Cheng, do you still insist on trying that job?”

“Eh, yeah. I want to have a look.” After all, the job was introduced by Xiang Yuexun. I would waste the kindness from her if I didn’t go.

“But…”

“How about this, you can be the judge by then. If you think there is no problem with this job, I’ll accept the offer. If you find anything wrong, I would walk away at once. Is that alright with you?”

“Fine. I’ll make decisions for you then.”

“Hmm. I trust you the most.” I always had confidence in Yu Hui.

As a result, Yu Hui stopped being invisible and followed me to the place on the flyer.

“There are surely lots of people here…” Although I had already assumed that I wouldn’t be the only one who came here to apply for the job when I saw this manor from the distance, I still found the number of the candidates being more than I thought.

Including me, there were fourteen people of different ages, of which half were men and half were women. They also had all kinds of titles, but I didn’t see any weird ones.

I didn’t know how many people the employer was going to keep… A huge manor like that would need at least more than then people to make a thorough cleaning.

If the yard also needed cleaning, then all of us might still not be enough… No wonder why the salary would be so high. It turned out that this was actually a hard job.

“Do you see it? Yu Hui, there are so many people applying for this job, you can stop being suspicious.”

“I still cannot be sure. Please let me make further investigation. I’ll stay by your side.”

“Thanks for that.” On these words, I walked toward those candidates.

Then I saw that familiar title… [Innocent Enchanting Demon] “What? Miss Yang?”

“Hah!” Hearing me calling her, she uttered a cute voice as if she was getting an electric shock.

“Eh…” I had been a long time I hadn’t seen Li Li, so I called her Miss Yang automatically. I guessed she would be angry again.

As expected, after Li Li had turned around silently, she walked toward me with a scary imposing manner, shouting, “Cheng! Jun! Haven’t I told you that…!”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry, those words just slipped out of my mouth…” Hearing my explanation, Li Li sighed helplessly and started to preach at me as an elder.

“Come on… can’t you be more carefully, Cheng Jun?… You know that sloppy boys are never favored by girls. And look at your collar, why couldn’t you dress yourself better? Do you know how important the first impression is? And also…” As she straightened my collar, she was still repeatedly advising me.

Wow… she was even more nagging than my mother.

Since we hadn’t seen each other for too long, the awkward relationship between us was also erased by time. We became like a student and a teacher again… Eh, that was not exactly right. Although she was my teacher indeed, she seemed to have given me too much care. She was more like a family to me instead of my teacher… “Miss Yang, are you here to apply for the job too?”

“Hmm~ I told you not to call me that!”

“As long as I keep calling you that, you will gradually build up resistance, right?”

“Whatever…” Oh? She compromised?

Li Li seemed a bit weaker than usual today. Why was that? Had she done something wrong to me? Otherwise why would she look at me with guilty expression in her eyes… “By the way, this is… Student Yu Hui, right? Is she a friend of yours?” Because Yu Hui was also a frequent visitor to the library, so she and Li Li knew each other. What’s more, I had already told Yu Hui that I had signed the contract with Miss Yang. Therefore, Yu Hui also nodded and gave her obeisance to Miss Yang politely.

I didn’t know if Yu Hui could see the true face of Li Li… Since she could employ the strange sorcery, she might also be able to see that?

Then I pictured Yu Hui pointing Li Li with her wooden sword while saying, ‘Show yourself, you demon girl!’… Haha, that was kind of funny.

“Yes, that’s right. We are here to apply for the job together. And you too, Miss Yang?”

“No, I am…” As she was about to answer my question, I saw a white hair old man who was in a steward’s clothes opening the gate.

[Ageless Gentleman] [Steve·Nash] Oh oh, he was dashing… So was his title. Was he a professional steward?

“So you must be the candidates for today. Please follow me. And we will talk about the details about the cleaning job.”

Others all looked at each other and followed the steward into the door.

“So let’s go.” I also followed them.

“Cheng Jun, wait for me!” When I was going to walk across the gate, I heard Li Li calling my name from behind.

She pressed her right hand on my left shoulder, then I turned my head… At that moment, I felt that everything went black like I was suffering from the anemia or sunstroke. All the muscles of my hands and my feet couldn’t support my body anymore. So I couldn’t help going dizzy while seeing the ground getting closer and closer to my face with my residual sight… What, what the hell… How could I pass out like that?

……

When I woke up, I found myself lying on a dining table.

It was a western style long dining table with no food on it. Right now, I was lying in the inner place and could only see the empty table and the dim light from the lighted candle.

With nobody around me, I was caught in a deadly silence.

“What the hell is this…” I reached into my pocket and found that my phone was also gone.

Then I rubbed my head which still felt heavy while asking loudly,

“Yu Hui, are you there?” I tried to call Yu Hui’s name but didn’t get any response.

If she was stay with me right now, she would certainly show up in front of my face if I called her like that.

However, that didn’t happen, so it meant… I had a bad feeling about it. After that, I stood up from the seat abruptly all of a sudden, which shook the chair fiercely.

I ran to the window instantly to look to the outside. Theoretically, I should see the yard of this manor. However, it was too dark to see anything now… But it was not because it was getting late. I felt that someone had painted black oil paint on the surface of the building. I meant, pure black color paint.

Then I tried to open the window but only found that the window had been locked.

After that, I grabbed the chair decidedly and smashed it to the window. What happened next was like the scene in the horror fiction. The legs of the chair had already broken, but the windows still remained the same.

It seemed that the windows had been fixed together with this space and were absolutely still.

“Damn it… I really hate those supernatural things…” It had already annoyed me a lot when I had been stuck in the Black Street last time. And now I ran into something so weird again… I should have listened to Yu Hui and refused to apply for this job… Now look what had happened!

I was fucking haunted again!