Vol 1 Chapter 5.3 (1/2)

Illusions, Lies, Truth Volume 1: Human Doll Contract Part One

Original novel in Chinese by: 御 我 (Yu Wo)

Chapter 5: House Keeper Part 3—The True and False World—translated by raylight (proofread by Trespa.s.serby; C/E edited by Amgine & lucathia)

It was rare for Yu Shu to step out of her own apartment. This time, she had a reason, though it wasn’t a very good one. Her neighbor was in the hospital, so she was going to pay him a visit—conveniently bringing along a packet of salt to sprinkle on his wounds.

House Keeper had followed her. In the journey between her apartment and the hospital, he had attracted the gaze of females from eight to eighty years old. All of them stared intently at him. There were also a few that had directly rushed over to give him their contact number, completely ignoring that he had a female by his side.

Even before reaching Jiang Ziya’s hospital room, Yu Shu decided that she would come over again. Next time, she would bring chili powder.

When she walked into the room, only Jiang Ziya was in. He was flipping through an original novel with much difficulty. His entire left arm was in a cast and bandaged, and he wasn’t able to move it a single inch. Even his right hand was wrapped firmly in bandages, and several gauzes were pasted on his face—which had been injured when he had fallen down.

The moment he saw Yu Shu, his expression immediately turned into one of alarm.

Yu Shu looked about the room and seemed puzzled as she asked, “Jiang Yu isn’t around?” It seemed like she could really sprinkle salt on his wounds then.

“My sister went shopping.” Jiang Ziya cowered as he said, “Ah… That… matter regarding House Keeper, I really didn’t do it on purpose…”

“I know. You did it deliberately,” Yu Shu sat at the side of the bed and coldly replied.

Jiang Ziya had no way of explaining himself.

House Keeper walked to the side of the table. A fruit basket meant for sick visits was placed there, so he picked up an apple and started peeling it. The peel was so thin that it was even transparent.

Yu Shu’s face was icy and promised a horrible death for Jiang Ziya with her sharp, piercing gaze. It didn’t take too long before she couldn’t hold in her curses.

“Your Xiao Xue is a little girl, and my House Keeper is a vampire. If you were to pick one of the two, you should let Xiao Xue become a lie and not my House Keeper! Do you want to add a vampire race to the world? Do you know that vampires are above humans in the food chain? If you want to be food, go ahead, but I don’t want to be sucked dry!”

Jiang Ziya felt wronged as he said, “The only thing I did was call his name. I didn’t know that he would level up just from that! I shouted Xiao Xue’s name numerous times already, but she didn’t level up. Who knew that House Keeper would level up from only being called once?!”

Yu Shu roared in a frenzy, “The way of calling is different!”

In what way was it different? Jiang Ziya felt that he really was wronged to no end. He didn’t know how this call had differed from the others.Can it be that shouting as you jumped off a building is more effective?

However, even if he had known that calling House Keeper would turn him into a lie, Jiang Ziya would probably still have done it. If he hadn’t, two lives would have been lost, and one of them was even his own. As the saying goes, better a live coward than a dead hero! Moreover, if anything were to happen to him, his sister would…

“You super-duper trouble magnet! Even disregarding the fact that you have the truth-seeing eye, you even have the calling ability as well… No wonder your family even has a ‘truth’ already. You’re 200% part of the reason!”

Jiang Ziya froze. So besides my eye, even my mouth is a problem?

“Hold on, the ‘truth’ in your family is…?” Yu Shu paused, and then shook her head. She continued to roar in rage, “Anyway, I’m warning you, don’t ever come to my place again. Moreover, don’t look at House Keeper with that eye of yours. And most importantly, absolutely never call his name! Even if you’re about to die from a thousand cuts, you’re absolutely forbidden from calling his name. You hear that!”

Can’t go over to Yu Shu’s place? Jiang Ziya opened his mouth wide at that. He was originally thinking of clinging onto Yu Shu’s thighs and begging her to teach him.

“I got it.” Since she had already said so much, Jiang Ziya could only agree to it.

Yu Shu s.n.a.t.c.hed the apple that House Keeper had peeled, with absolutely no intentions of giving it to the patient. Under Jiang Ziya’s aggrieved gaze, she finished the whole apple before she then said with irritation, “You’re responsible for taking out the trash, got it?”

“Huh?”Jiang Ziya froze, and asked in confusion, “What trash?”

Yu Shu emphasized, “After you get out of the hospital, you’re responsible for taking out the trash and waiting for the garbage truck. You hear me?”

The time waiting for the garbage truck… Jiang Ziya nodded his head vigorously.