Chapter 304 – Married Life (1/2)
Although there were still more stuff that needed to be investigated, like Hebrew’s crimes, it had nothing to do with Lin Xiao, so he could just leave that to Caesar. Lin Xiao quickly finished what he came to do and picked up his wages and then happily went with Elena to eat.
Even though it ended, when he thought about what Caesar had said, Lin Xiao was still at a loss.
Has he really changed?
If he thought about it, then he did indeed change quite a bit.
When he thought about what had happened recently, it felt like a lifetime ago to Lin Xiao.
He only wanted to use Caesar as his shield and live a decadent lifestyle under someone else’s glory, a comfortable life like cattle. Even if he saw any injustice, he would never care about it. He fully intended on being a selfish good-for-nothing that minded his own business.
But what about now?
In order to help Elena, he came to get certified. Because Hebrew was making things difficult for the siblings, he helped them and even made friends with Yao Zi and made a secret agreement with her to investigate the wizard’s bloodline…
Wasn’t that strange? What does someone else’s bloodline have to do with him? He hated doing troublesome things before, yet now he did them out of his own initiative and even enjoyed it, that was something he wouldn’t even be able to imagine before.
Just like Caesar said, he did change a lot, but when did he begin changing?
Some people think that changes are something that happens in an instant.
In order to turn a good-for-nothing into a brave hero, all he needs to do is go to sleep, then he’ll have an epiphany after he wakes up and change.
But was that true?
No, change was never instantaneous, but a slow and subtle process that made corrections between every breath,
Did Lin Xiao start to change after the banquet?
Perhaps…
He didn’t want Elena to always be angry at him and wanted her to obediently be his maid. He also wanted to use Elena’s strength one day, as the last trump card to save ShenDai Ying. So he could only endure the annoying things, get certified, take missions, and help Elena with the matters regarding the demons.
If he thought about it carefully, he already change a lot before that…
From when Elena personally made scrambled eggs for him.
When ShenDai Ying walked together with him.
When Elena bit her tongue, cut her wrist and cried for him.
If he had to trace it back, then he would probably have to go to when everything started.
When he first confessed to ShenDai Ying.
When he opened the parcel and saw Elena lying in the box.
Perhaps when the story began, he already walked onto a completely different path than before.
An unambitious youth was forced to grow because of his greed.
But his long road has just begun, he was still much too far from his happy end, and with his personality, it was possible he would give up halfway.
Take right now for example…
Although he got certified, got paid, officially became an investigator and took the S rank mission, but Lin Xiao wasn’t in a rush to leave. He kept giving excuses to Elena and used delicious food to numb her to achieve his goal of going back home to sleep.
“Elena, what are you so rushed for? Caesar said that they need some time to investigate and rectify everything, so there’s nothing wrong with waiting a couple of days… hey, why are you looking at me like that? Since I said I’ll help you, I’ll definitely help you, I’m not slacking off, we just need to wait right now!”
Elena couldn’t retort to Lin Xiao’s excuse, so she could only drop the subject and just go along with him and eat her fill of delicious food!
And the result was…
In just the span of lunch, she already ate Lin Xiao’s one month of living expenses worth of food! She only picked the best and most expensive food and almost made him go bankrupt!
“I want to eat this!”
“That doesn’t look too bad either!”
“Lin Xiao, buy me that!”
“Okay, okay, I’ll let you eat all of it… until you eat yourself to death!”
Lin Xiao could only go along with her. Although it hurt him to spend money and he was a pretty stingy person, but the strange thing was, when he watched Elena eat that delicious and expensive food, he enjoyed it. He clearly wasn’t even willing to spend money for himself to buy clothes, yet he was quite generous when buying food for Elena, like spending money on Elena was something happy.
Damn, how did it become like this? Did she cast some witchcraft on me?
He felt like he spoiled Elena too much, if it continued on like this, then their relationship would be flipped!
Think about it, what master is dragged along by their maid to go shopping? He had to follow Elena all over the place, carrying and paying for her stuff, what kind of master was that? In the end, Elena was the master, and he was the lowly manservant!
“Lin Xiao! Look at that store! Five colored Time… what a strange name, it looks like a sundae store… hm, what’s a sundae?” Elena walked ahead and pointed to a strange picture on the sign.