The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 110 - 111 Sister Ruo is Awesome!
Chapter 110: Chapter 111 Sister Ruo is Awesome!Having finished his late-night snack with meticulous care, Jiang Shu tidied up the bowls and chopsticks, and took the opportunity to straighten up the living room and the bedroom.

”Give me a reason.” He looked at Liu Tingruo but didn’t specify what the reason was needed for.

”Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?” Liu Tingruo stared at him with intense eyes, her red lips parting slightly as she asked slowly.

”The truth.”

”Then there’s nothing to say.” Liu Tingruo’s response was brutally frank, still with that ’I’m so brazen, if you don’t like it, fight me’ attitude.

”...” Jiang Shu was momentarily at a loss for words.

Damn it, at least make up a reason to lie to me.

”So do you know a person named Clo? That is... Ya.” Jiang Shu asked directly again.

Tingruo wouldn’t lie to him, at most she’d just have that calm demeanor of ’I know, but I won’t tell you.’

”I don’t know him.” Liu Tingruo yawned, walked into the bedroom, feeling sleepy now that she was full. She coldly said, ”Come in.”

”Huh?” Jiang Shu hesitated but didn’t refuse and followed her into the bedroom.

Now it looked like Tingruo had her secrets, Clo had his secrets, the Special Prison had its secrets, and the secrets of the three parties didn’t seem to be related.

What a mess.

But he had to figure out each one of them.

Liu Tingruo lay on the bed, her white legs flailing. She patted the empty space beside her, ”Sit here.”

Jiang Shu did as he was told, sitting at the edge of the bed, leaning against the headboard. He looked at Tingruo lying down, with her long hair scattered across the bed like a flower.

”How did you get in here?” Liu Tingruo lay there, looking at the ceiling. Her eyes were misty, unfocused, as if she was deep in thought.

”Murder.” Jiang Shu replied succinctly.

”Did you really kill someone?” Liu Tingruo continued to ask.

”No.” Jiang Shu said.

Liu Tingruo’s gaze dimmed for a moment.

Is this... did he deliberately come in for me?

”Tomorrow morning, I’ll arrange for you to get out of here,” she sighed, ”I know the warden here. If it’s just for murder, there should be no problem.”

”No need, I can get out myself, probably... within a week.” Jiang Shu shook his head, turning her down.

”Okay.” Liu Tingruo didn’t insist. She knew Jiang Shu well, he wouldn’t show off without good reason in such matters.

He really loved to freeload off her.

”Here.” Liu Tingruo reached under the mattress and pulled out a card, ”My card, you can come and go as you please with it.”

”Hmm?” Jiang Shu took the card, not understanding her intention.

”Come again tomorrow, and make me a late-night snack.” Liu Tingruo playfully hit the blankets on either side of her, looking like a little girl.

”... Okay.” Jiang Shu agreed, he never managed to learn how to say no to Tingruo.

”Oh, and don’t go to the biochemical area... that’s on the other side of that fork in the road.” Liu Tingruo warned seriously, ”When you come, make sure no one sees you, just like tonight, can you do it? I’ll take care of the surveillance here for you.”

”Got it.” Jiang Shu nodded.

”Good, now let’s turn off the lights and go to sleep,” Liu Tingruo closed her eyes, commanding, ”At six-thirty in the morning, it’s wake-up call time in prison, so you need to leave before six.”

”Mhm.” Jiang Shu nodded but didn’t go to switch off the light. Instead, he asked again, ”Those people... the test subjects, do they have anything to do with you?”

”No, I’m not here for that.” Tingruo turned her back to him, ”And don’t come looking for me later; I’ll be leaving here soon. Where I’ll go next... I don’t know either. Anyway, I’ll come back once this task is done.”

”Don’t jinx it,” Jiang Shu frowned, but felt somewhat relieved inside. Tingruo wouldn’t lie to him; if she said she hadn’t done those bad things, then she hadn’t.

”Mhm.” Liu Tingruo covered herself with a blanket, then casually threw the same cover over Jiang Shu.

”You...” Jiang Shu hesitated for a moment.

”Sleep here.” Liu Tingruo’s voice was undeniable, still cold but without the slightest sense of distance.

”No, I mean, you haven’t brushed your teeth.” Jiang Shu blurted out the sentence in its entirety.

”...” For a long time, Liu Tingruo didn’t speak, until finally, she angrily retorted, ”Go brush them yourself, nobody’s going to kiss you, what’s there to brush!”

”Oh.” Jiang Shu then climbed out of bed to brush his teeth, quickly finished, took off his prison uniform, turned off the lights, got into bed, and snuggled into Sister Ruo’s blanket.

There was a wall of air between them.

Jiang Shu’s thoughts were somewhat complicated; Sister Ruo’s body was only thirty centimeters away from his hand, a cunning distance. From this position, he could just feel the warmth emanating from her body.

But he made no surplus movements, just placed his hand there.

”I knew it,” we have a sadly thick wall between us.

That’s how Ya would mock if it were here, right?

Jiang Shu whimsically thought as he listened to Sister Ruo’s steady breathing, suspecting she had fallen asleep.

But suddenly, Liu Tingruo got out of bed again, shouting unusually loudly, ”So annoying, after you mentioned it, my mouth feels uncomfortable, I can’t stand not brushing my teeth! Just a nanny! I clearly brushed them in the evening.”

”Didn’t you eat something again though?” Jiang Shu gently said, then listened to Sister Ruo run to the bathroom outside, footsteps heavy and banging.

Soon, Liu Tingruo returned with a bang, climbed back onto the bed, still turned away from Jiang Shu, but didn’t close her eyes. Her bright, large eyes seemed to emit light in the darkness,

Jiang Shu also turned his back.

After waiting a while with no further sound, assuming she had fallen asleep on the other side, Liu Tingruo hummed softly, burying her head in the blanket like an ostrich.

Whereas Jiang Shu stared blankly into the darkness.

—

In front of the elevator on the second subfloor.

Clo was sitting on the sleeping prison guard, elbows propped on his knees, hands holding his head up like petal leaves.

He looked at the continuously closed elevator doors, eyes filled with puzzlement.

What the hell is this guy doing?

Caught by a gorilla for breeding in the middle of the night?

—

The orange sunlight streaming through the curtains piled up in the room, like water gradually rising in a reservoir, until it reached the tipping point of Jiang Shu’s biological clock.

He opened his eyes, dazzled by the white ceiling.

Jiang Shu had returned at five in the morning; he didn’t dare stay at Sister Ruo’s until six.

Wait a minute, isn’t this the second subfloor? Why is there sunlight?

He fully awoke and looked toward the source of the orange sunlight.

Clo was standing by the small window in the iron door, holding an orange, semi-transparent paper in his hand. As he covered the small window with the paper, the hallway light shone through it, turning into orange sunlight.

And he was very dedicated, slowly moving the paper down every little while to create the atmosphere of sunlight gradually coming in.

”What are you doing?” Jiang Shu sat up, looking at Clo somewhat helplessly, not knowing what weirdness he was up to this time.

”I’m simulating sunlight,” Clo answered, dead serious, ”Even though you wake up in a place like this, you still have the right to enjoy the sunlight on your butt. Kids as pampered as you get easily tormented into madness here, I know.”

”Well, thanks for that,” said Jiang Shu, even more helplessly.

”Don’t mention it, we’re roommates after all.” Clo remained dead-serious, tossed the orange semi-transparent paper casually onto his bed, then bowed to Jiang Shu with the utmost grace, ”Good morning, Mr. Jiang.”

”Good morning, Mr. Clo.”

”My surname is Ashbourne.”

”Alright, Mr. Clo.”