By Friday, Luo Beishi felt he had completely gotten used to waking up early. And he did it quite willingly, sometimes even happily humming a little tune.
Huo Cixiao was questioning his life. A college student in the prime of his youth neither slept in nor stayed up late, all so he could take care of him... His feelings were indescribably complicated, that warmth in his heart, that feeling of being treasured.
Did he really, truly not mind at all that he was in a vegetative state?
He had seen absolutely everything... Even his urination and bowel movements were things Luo Beishi handled personally...
Not only did he not mind, he was actually happy about it...
Besides, it wasn't as though the Huo Family couldn't afford a caregiver, but according to Grandpa, Luo Beishi had begged to take care of him on the very first day. If they wouldn't let him do it himself, he wouldn't even go to school.
He had heard that even the bodyguards wore gloves when turning him over. That possessiveness... was really intense.
All Huo Cixiao wanted now was to crouch in a corner and shyly face the wall in reflection. Just where was he exuding so much charm that Luo Beishi felt he had to have him and no one else?
"Hubby? Are you hot? I only gently wiped your face with a warm towel, and your ears turned red." Luo Beishi noticed that Huo Cixiao's ears had suddenly reddened. Although his expression was sour, he made up for it by being extremely cute.
He reached out and gently touched Huo Cixiao's earlobe. It was quite fleshy, a sign of good fortune.
Huo Cixiao: "..." What was going on?
Luo Beishi said only that one thing before falling silent, then finished Huo Cixiao's morning care routine and went downstairs for breakfast.
"Tongtong, is there something wrong with this bowl of congee?" He hadn't expected his nose to become so sensitive.
"Yes, host!"
"Then why didn't you tell me sooner!"
"Even if you ate it, you'd be fine. You're the system's quest taker. To prevent any unexpected mishaps, I transformed you from the inside out early on and gave you an indestructible body!"
"Then why didn't you say so when I twisted my neck..."
"I forgot at the time, host."
"..."
Luo Beishi had just set down the bowl, which hadn't touched his lips.
An unfamiliar, guilty gaze quickly withdrew.
"Uncle Chen, bring the detector. Also, have the bodyguards initiate the villa lockdown." Luo Beishi's icy presence spread throughout the dining room.
There were also two bodyguards nearby, and the suspect was soon caught.
She was a recently hired maid who looked very honest, around her forties, and was responsible for cleaning the kitchen.
Luo Beishi's sudden loud command had frightened her so badly her legs went weak. She had never seen anything like this. Her employer had said that as long as she drugged Luo Beishi and Huo Cixiao, she would receive a very generous payment afterward in addition to the hundred-thousand deposit.
She figured that if they could pay a hundred thousand just for the deposit... the final payment would surely be even greater, so she took the risk.
Seeing the kitchen chef leave, she had frantically poured the drug into the congee Luo Beishi had recently liked drinking.
"Talk. Who told you to do this?" Luo Beishi had no classes that morning and had plenty of time to play with them.
"Young Madam! It wasn't me! Please investigate carefully! Someone must be framing me!" The suspected maid dropped to her knees with a thud, her knees striking the floor loudly. She gritted her teeth, her expression looking utterly resolute, as though she had been wronged even more than Dou E.
"Words alone prove nothing. A Hu, have someone pull up the surveillance footage, and call the police while you're at it. Let's see what the sentence is for murder." Luo Beishi's voice was exceptionally cold and cutting, striking fear into the hearts of the maids who had already lined up nearby.
They finally believed that the young madam was not the brainless young madam of the rumors.
Hearing this, the suspected maid immediately panicked. She lowered her head without a word, thinking she was done for. She should never have gotten greedy for the money. To pay off her son's gambling debts sooner, she had gone this far. What a sin...
"How about this? If you want to live, give up your employer. If you don't, then what happens to your family in the future... I couldn't say. After all, I'm not exactly a good person either..." The corners of Luo Beishi's lips lifted. The smile on his face looked so sinister and brutal that it sent a chill down one's spine.
Even the bodyguards began to wonder whether their young madam's hidden trait was being a lunatic.
But a madam like this was seriously thrilling. As expected of the boss's wife, even his way of speaking was so similar!
The fanboy bodyguards' admiration for Luo Beishi rose another level at that moment.
The suspected maid's jaw trembled nonstop, her teeth chattering as she said, "I don't know... I really don't know. That mysterious person only sent me a text and transferred the deposit, then disappeared. He said he'd send me the money if I drugged you both to death..."
Luo Beishi thought the maid was rather stupid. He had barely said a couple of things, and she was already this frightened. But since she had said that... it really would be a shame not to call the police.
"Tongtong, can you find the person behind this?"
"Host, I can, but there's no evidence that he directly hired someone to commit the crime."
"All right, that's fine. As long as I have a target for revenge, that's enough."
"Yes, host. It's the madam of the Huo Family's second branch, Mo Baili."
Luo Beishi ended his conversation with the system and turned to instruct the bodyguards. "Hand all the evidence of her crimes over to the police, including what she just said."
The suspected maid fainted outright upon hearing this. She hadn't expected cameras to be installed everywhere in the villa...
After the bodyguards took the suspected maid away, Luo Beishi continued eating like an emperor. There were plenty of things he liked for breakfast. Only one bowl of congee had been taken away for testing, which hardly mattered.
He had merely drunk a little more congee lately, and someone had drugged it. These people really were watching closely.
In fact, he knew that the Huo Family's second branch wasn't the only one that had sent people.
All ten maids before him had something wrong with them; they simply hadn't exposed themselves yet. If he fired them, the next batch he hired would probably still be a bunch of assassin maids.
It was rather amusing to think about.
"The weather's nice today. Uncle Chen, I'd like to grow some vegetables on the unused land in the estate. What do you think?"
Luo Beishi's methods had now raised him several notches in Uncle Chen's estimation, and deep down, he admired him immensely.
So he, Uncle Chen, would support every decision the madam made with both hands and feet!
Uncle Chen said, "That's a fine idea. Madam, how would you like to arrange it?"
Luo Beishi pursed his lips, then finally curved them upward and said with a brilliant smile, "Have the ten of them help me farm those twenty mu for now. Buy a few more hoes so they can clear the land.
"And don't have them stay in the villa anymore. Put up a shed for them to live in. It'll be more convenient.
"I remember the contract says that if you voluntarily quit before the employment term ends, the penalty is one million. If any of you don't want to do it, leave a million and go. I won't force you."
The maids: "!!!"
Even the longest-serving among them had only been here for two months. The pay was high, a hundred thousand a month. Although they had to be on call twenty-four hours a day, they had figured that with so much money, being on call around the clock was no big deal.
They hadn't even received their second month's wages yet. Where were they supposed to get a million!
But they had signed six-month contracts! They didn't want to farm at all! They would get tanned!