Chapter 2

Due to the constant alertness to survive as well as biting cold around the young Wei Wuxian's body,he was too tired; therefore, Liu Shi ended up drifting in sleep. His last thoughts were,'Feels, good....sleepy...but Fengmian...zzz~'

The next time he opened his eyes, he was already in Lotus Pier, with a pair of siblings curiously staring at him, still being held up in Jiang Fengmian's arms and Madam Yu simply sipping her tea, indifferently. It took a few seconds for Liu Shi to register what was happening, but his inner monologue had already started, 'Jhrafjkjjhffhwjyamifacetofavetowithdisdarnfamilyjuststayawayyoudarnbitchesafgjhthhkkij.....' Of course still going on.

He patted his chest to stop the ongoing out of control monologue, but it indeed was difficult. He tapped Fengmian's arms to catch his attention, because of his ongoing attempts to make sure his friend's son was accepted into the household. But Liu Shi had a completely different perspective on this, as soon as he was let down; Fengmian started to explain the situation to him, because he still seemed sleepy while rubbing his eyes.

Liu Shi indicated him to stop with a simple hand gesture, which kind of surprised Jiang Fengmian. The young Wei Wuxian aka adult Liu Shi bowed to greet the people in the hall,"Greetings, elders. Before anything else, I would like to know what's your relationship with my family?"

He had to because he was still going through his inner monologue the entire time he met these guys or spent the time sleeping. There's no way, that he would remember every dialogue of book he read just to tease his cousin and knew at last that it had all possible R-rated sex scenes between guys and flirty interactions between them. He wasn't against anyone choosing any sort of partner, there's no way he could possibly control anyone's sexual interest, but he was never interested in anyone so far either. You could say it was the first time in his entire life that at the age of 26 he read porn scenes in a novel of his 19 Year-old little cousin sister. He felt stupefied when he realized what he completed on the final day of completing the novel. He just concluded,'I read a weird ass book with no logic, multiple interrelated characters with strange sense of existence, having multiple characters with weak willed heart who had no sense of being without their close ones...and finally a self-sacrificing, principled main character who was despised by almost everyone in his life, who immediately accepted a guy without testing their personality compatibility at all...of course the other party did a lot...but a little more time to understand each other could have been appreciated...why just jump at each other and avoid each other idiotically later... whatever none of my business. I'm not touching this book ever again in my whole entire life.'

Simply put, Liu Shi's parents had passed away when he was 6, in an accident due to the carelessness of the company on safety instructions on working conditions of their employees. Before he could understand that he had parents to love him, they were gone. He got used to being alone, not talking to anyone, just reading books or documents he came across of any sort. Fortunately, his uncle and aunt weren't bad people, they invested the entire compensation for his education, and his livelihood only. They were grateful that they had chance to come from their hometown to the city, because of his parents' death. Although it might seem selfish, everyone has their own needs and desires ,at least they never tried to overstep their boundaries nor he ever gave them a chance.

Therefore, naturally he had no as such 'attachment' with others which might create a void in him upon their absence.

Now back to the current scenario, since Liu Shi asked, Fengmian slowly explained to him,"I'm your father, Wei Changze's old friend, Jiang Fengmian and the current head of the order of Yunmeng Jiang. This is Lotus Pier and everyone here is my family member, The little girl here, is my daughter, Jiang Yanli and the boy is my son, Jiang Wanyin. The lady sitting on the seat is my wife, Yu Ziyuan. I'm planning to make you a disciple here at Yunmeng Jiang and adopt you."

Liu Shi took a deep breath, while constantly feeling Yu Ziyuan's throwing daggers at him. He said," Uncle, being a disciple and providing me with essentials is already enough after you saved my life in the alleyway. There's no need to adopt me." Liu Shi knew he was being blunt, maybe too blunt, but he had to keep a clean sheet with these guys as much as possible.

Jiang Fengmian,could read his resolve in his voice despite being silky, he stated everything calmly. But, Fengmian still wanted to continue, but Yu Ziyuan's words cut him off altogether,"Are you sure, Little kid ? You won't get another chance like this in your entire lifetime."

Liu Shi nodded his head and spoke resolutely,"I don't need anything else. It's sufficient." Yu Ziyuan asked her maids, to give him a residence despite his unwillingness saying that it's bare minimum given what his father had done all over his life for the order.

Ah~, how disheartened Fengmian felt at last was only known to himself, when he watched little Wuxian walking away from the hall. He wondered, if he should continue to pester the little kid about this topic despite his reluctance. But then again, since it's his choice the kid should stick to it after all this would be shaping his character in the future. Therefore, he gave up for now.

As to why Liu Shi, choose to stay despite his instincts telling him to stay away from this family, was because he didn't had any base to support himself in this world for the time being and it was unlikely that they would let him go either that's why he accepted everything given to him for now and choose to walk away in the future, of course when the times get rough he would make sure to do as much as he would be able to at that point of time. He's not omnipotent, therefore he won't promise to definitely do everything similar to the story, just do what's possible at most, nothing much and nothing more. He's no Saint to sacrifice himself for others.

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