When he went home, Leo kept staring at Lydia’s pretty face, with that look in his eyes, as if he was seeing Lydia for the first time.
“What are you looking at?”
Lydia was finally impatient with the sight, and on her frosty face, a hint of red surfaced.
It was a red light and she hastily slammed on the brakes to stop.
“Do I have pimples on my face?”
She asked nonchalantly.
“No!”
Leo waved his hand hastily, thought of the wording in his head, smiled sarcastically and said, “Just feel surprised that you can actually solve the case.”
At these words, Lydia’s face changed slightly as she explained, “I didn’t want to, after all, I almost lost you forever, maybe you don’t care, but I can’t. I was very angry and extremely uncomfortable in my heart, so I thought, I must want to find out the truth of the matter and clear your name.”
After hearing Lydia’s words, Leo’s face eased slightly.
It was the look of worry for her.
If Lydia was no longer there, Leo thought to himself, he would have slaughtered the whole world.
After saying this, Lydia’s face blushed and her eyes fluttered.
They had been together for a long time, but Lydia was still uncomfortable saying these words and had to blush when she did.
It was only when the car behind her honked that Lydia realised the traffic lights had turned green in front of her and she restarted the car.
After thinking about it, Leo smiled and complimented, “No, what I didn’t expect was that you actually have such a meticulous mind, a case that even the police inspector’s office couldn’t solve was actually solved by you.”
“…”
Lydia’s hand on the steering wheel shook and she almost drove the car into the green belt.
She thought Leo was talking about her solving the case for him, but she didn’t expect to just marvel at her ability to solve the case.
With a slightly cold face, Lydia reverted to her original high-spirited appearance and explained indifferently, “At Cambridge, apart from studying economics, I chose to take psychology as my elective.”
“Why did you choose psychology?”
Leo asked, in his opinion, studying psychology are all gloomy people who are psychologically dark and like to guess what is in people’s mind.
“Because psychology can guess the heart.”
Lydia said softly, “People’s hearts are separated from their bellies, based on the other party’s demeanor, to determine whether he has any hostility towards me, so that I can feel safe.”
“…”
Hearing Lydia’s words, Leo was also stumped for a moment.
A silence followed as well.
Security, something that had always been a luxury for Lydia, had been given to her by herself until he returned.
Not anymore.
“Honey.”
Leo shouted.
“What?”
Lydia gave him a blank look.
“Since you’ve studied psychology, guess what I’m thinking right now.”
Lydia gave him a look, and strangely enough, she actually saw what was going through Leo’s mind.
“I don’t know.”
She drove intently, keeping her eyes forward.
Leo’s eyes moved downwards and landed on Lydia’s stomach.
At once, Lydia’s face changed, “What are you looking at my stomach for?”
When she said this, Lydia herself saw her slightly bulging stomach and instantly her face blushed.
The words came to a screeching halt as she gave Leo a fierce glare, stopped talking and concentrated on driving.
On the following day, after sending Emilia to her interest class, Leo did not go home, nor did he go to L Group’s head office.
The L Group is now well established and has moved its headquarters to the foot of S City, contracting out many projects.
The Lawson family, the Simpson family and the Steward family, Leo had taken in very early on, also officially entered S City.
Although it is not as good as the nine royal families, it is still possible to become a first-tier family.
These matters are no longer the concern of Leo.
He needs to get busy with his own business.
The phone rang and Leo picked it up.
Immediately a woman’s clear, childish voice came from inside, “Master, I’m waiting, how long before you arrive?”
To be precise, she doesn’t count as a woman.
It can only be considered a girl.
Although she is actually about the same age as Lydia.
“You are at cafe, right?”
“No, no, the sweet shop next to the cafe.”
Leo frowned slightly, “Why did you suddenly change places?”
“Because I saw a sweet shop next door and suddenly I had a craving for it, so I went to the sweet shop instead.” Luna said.
Leo only had to walk towards the sweet shop.
It wasn’t long before a cute little munchkin in a fancy dress was soon seen standing playfully by the side of the road.
On her hands and feet were silver brass rings of various sizes that clanged and clattered with a crisp sound as they walked, and the clothes they wore were long red dresses embroidered with snakes, centipedes, scorpions and other intimidating and poisonous species, and long life locks with peculiar patterns around her necks. These things, unheard of and unseen by people in the metropolis, were surprisingly appropriate on this little girl who was only 11 or 12 years old, it was unbelievably appropriate.
Innocent, mysterious, cute, but dignified.
She was still clutching a large carton of yoghurt in her hand, sucking on it, so that the sides of her little mouth were covered with clean white yoghurt stains.
Leo was just about to call out her name, but suddenly there were some obscene laughter from not far away.
“Alone, girl? Where are your parents?”
Four straggly men were seen walking unsuspectingly towards the little girl, one of them carrying a patched snakeskin bag.
Luna looked up at the four traffickers with childish eyes, “I don’t have parents, my parents are dead.”
As she said this, she stuck out her tongue and licked the yoghurt stain from her lips, looking extremely tempting.
When the four traffickers heard that she had no parents, their eyes lit up as if they had found a treasure.
“Brother, she said she didn’t have parents. Such a good looking little girl is bound to fetch a good price.”
A skinny, tall man was so excited he was incoherent.
“Shut up!”
The head trafficker cursed, then smilingly pulled out a lollipop and handed it to Luna, “Girl, your parents are really dead?”
“Yeah, bitten to death.”
Luna said that her parents were both grass companions in Miaojiang, but their practice was not refined and they died from the backlash of the companions.
The traffickers, however, nodded, “Oh, bitten to death by wolves, how sad.”
They say these words with a smile, just short of joy.
The head trafficker wiped his saliva and pointed aside to a deep, dark alley and said, “Girl, let’s go there then, and we will give you something delicious to eat.”
“Delicious?”
Luna was instantly excited and asked with eyes full of anticipation, “Is it better than yoghurt?”
“…”
The traffickers were at a bit of a loss to answer the question.
“It’s definitely better than yoghurt!”
“Then why are we still standing around? Let’s go!”
The traffickers looked at her, stunned. The girl was pretty, but her brain was not so good.
They can’t believe she allowed them to kidnap her.
As they were about to lead Luna to the alleyway, a figure blocked their way and sighed softly, “There’s a police station not far ahead, turn yourselves in, for your own good.”
“…”
The four traffickers stared blankly at Leo who appeared in front of them for a few seconds, and then suddenly their faces were full of annoyance.
“Fuck, who the hell are you? How dare you tell us to turn ourselves in? Are you tired of living?”
“Damn, big brother, he sure doesn’t look like a good guy!”
With a helpless look on his face, Leo said, “I’m sort of her parent, so for the sake of your lives, stay away from her.”
“Parent?”
The four traffickers, full of surprise, looked at each other for a few seconds and then, suddenly, their faces became even more irritated.
“Who the hell are you lying to? This little girl doesn’t even have parents, her parents are dead, how dare you lie to us!”
Saying that, the boss of the traffickers understood and pointed at Leo angrily, “Oh, I see, so I’ve come across a peer. You have not inquired about anything and dare to come and steal business, ask around who is the boss in this area?”
“…”
Leo was surprised, he was kind enough to save them, but he was actually taken as a human trafficker.
Since they didn’t believe it, Leo gave Luna a glance and told her not to get anyone killed, and went to wait in front of the sweet shop.
“Let’s go, what’s delicious food for me?”
With a happy face, Luna can’t wait.
The four traffickers hemmed and hawed, “When you get inside, you’ll know.”
Luna followed the four traffickers to the alleyway, then reached out to them for food.
The head trafficker’s expression changed from his earlier lewd smile to a grim one.
“Want food? We’ll eat you!”
“Put her in a sack and take her away!”
“Okay, big brother!”
The man lifted the dirty sack with the intention of putting Luna inside.
Luna was so frightened that she backed up and covered her eyes with her hands, shouting, “Don’t come over, don’t come over.”
“Haha, girl, even if you scream your throat out, no one will come to your rescue.”
“Who says I want rescue?”
Luna still covered her eyes, but her voice still became eerie and frightening.
Her fingers slowly moved away and what is revealed through the gap is actually a giggling, creepy smile.
“It’s you who wants rescue.”
In Luna’s smile, there were excitement, like a female vampire who hadn’t had blood for days suddenly seeing a fresh, fatty blood meal.
Luna snapped her fingers, “Good babies, here’s the food, four bodies, it is enough!”
As soon as the words left her mouth, a turquoise ghostly light suddenly shot out from the depths of the dimly lit alleyway, like an owl.
The dark turquoise light gradually approached, and worms of various shapes and sizes crawled out in a dense mass towards the four human traffickers.