great-warnovel Chapter 168 Goodness
Chapter 168 Goodness
Arthur's expression froze instantly.
Immediately afterwards, as if he had been burned by some kind of scorching hot iron, he abruptly pulled his hand back from Lily's chest.
His tall frame even took an unnatural half-step back.
Memories are just memories, and reality is reality.
Although in that terrifyingly real memory, he once held the person in front of him in his arms without any hesitation, that memory only existed in his mind.
Facing the seemingly delicate and harmless girl with a flushed face.
At this moment, even if Arthur had the thickest skin, he absolutely could not put his hand on someone's heart without changing his expression.
Seeing Arthur's awkward and unsure of what to do with his hands and feet, Lily felt an overwhelming sense of disappointment.
She looked at Arthur's hand, which was suspended in mid-air, and a hint of regret flashed in her purple eyes.
Why did it shrink back so quickly?
She clearly doesn't mind at all; she wouldn't mind being touched a little longer...
A brief silence fell over the hall.
"cough……"
To hide his embarrassment and helplessness, Arthur cleared his throat and broke the silence: "Lily, do you remember what just happened?"
Lily looked up, a hint of confusion in her eyes: "Mr. Arthur, are you referring to what happened after you touched my heartbeat, or what happened before?"
"Is there any difference?"
"If it happened after you put your hand on me, then I remember," Lily answered truthfully.
"But if it's about things that happened before... I have absolutely no recollection of it, it's like a piece of my memory was suddenly cut out."
Upon hearing this answer, Arthur nodded silently in his heart.
Sure enough.
He could now be fairly certain that there was a very high probability that two consciousnesses coexisted within Lily's petite body.
One of them is "Lily," who knew about his past and had memories of their love.
The other one is the real person who fell in love with him at first sight and has a somewhat naive personality.
"Lily," Arthur carefully chose his words and asked cautiously.
"There might be another consciousness existing within your body... Are you aware of this?"
"Hmm, I can vaguely sense a little bit."
Lily didn't show much surprise; instead, she nodded calmly.
"Sometimes I feel like my body doesn't obey me, or I have emotions that don't belong to me out of nowhere."
"Aren't you worried?" Arthur asked, somewhat surprised. "Another consciousness might use your body to do things you don't know about, which is dangerous."
"But wasn't what she did about Mr. Arthur?"
Lily looked into Arthur's eyes, her tone so frank that it surprised him:
"If she's using my body to get closer to Mr. Arthur, to get involved with him, then whatever decision my other self makes, I'll wholeheartedly support it!"
Arthur was so shocked by this extremely blunt declaration that he couldn't say a word.
Are girls these days so bold in expressing their feelings?
"Well then, Mr. Arthur!"
Seeing that Arthur remained silent, Lily's eyes suddenly lit up.
She took a small step forward, closing the already short distance even further, her tone filled with undisguised coquetry and curiosity:
"What did my other self do just now to make you hold my heart like that? If she can do it, then I can too!"
The confident "I want it too" startled Arthur so much that he gasped.
He had originally intended to explain the situation to Lily, but upon hearing this, he immediately swallowed back all the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
He subtly stepped back while averting his gaze:
"No, it's nothing. She just wanted to convince me that what she said wasn't a lie. She didn't mean anything else."
Arthur decided to end this dangerous topic immediately.
"By the way, Lily," Arthur abruptly changed the subject, his tone becoming serious.
"Didn't you say you had some personal business to attend to in the city this morning and wouldn't be back until tonight when you left home?"
Now this other version of you is telling you to turn back directly, ignoring your original issues? Is that alright?
"It's okay!" Lily answered without hesitation, even flashing a bright smile.
Actually, there was nothing important for her to do in the city.
For Lily right now, the only important thing in the world is Mr. Arthur in front of her.
In the morning, she keenly sensed the subtle hostility emanating from Miss Yuzhu, the mistress of the mansion.
Her woman's intuition told her that if she hadn't found an excuse to slip out, Yu-chu would have done everything in her power to keep a close watch on her.
She wouldn't even be given a chance to speak to Arthur alone.
That's why she told a little lie.
This is called a strategic retreat, followed by a surprise counterattack!
Yes, it's a white lie!
A lie that won't make kind-hearted Miss Yuzhu feel bad!
Lily silently gave herself a thumbs up for her clever move.
Now that she had finally created an opportunity to be alone with Arthur, Lily clearly wasn't going to let him off the hook so easily.
She hadn't given up on her earlier idea and kept closing in on Arthur.
The girl's faint fragrance kept wafting into Arthur's nose.
"Mr. Arthur, shall we continue our previous topic..."
too close.
Arthur was forced to retreat repeatedly, his back almost touching the wall of the hall.
This feeling of unease—completely unsure how to handle a girl's advances—made him feel incredibly awkward.
Just as Arthur had nowhere to retreat and Lily's hands were about to grab the hem of his clothes.
"Chirp."
A short, crisp bird call, yet tinged with a chilling aura, suddenly rang out from above the hall.
Arthur and Lily stopped what they were doing and looked up in the direction from which the sound came.
On the wooden railing outside the second-floor living room, a plump robin with dark blue feathers perched quietly.
It looked down at the two people in the hall, its lifeless eyes, like glass beads, reflecting their figures that were standing very close together.
That is the familiar with the pearl.
Even when she wasn't in the mansion, the witch's eyes never truly left this territory.