Wen Bai stood next door, head bowed, watching the man walk to the foot of the stairs and directly up to the second floor.
Wen Bai looked straight ahead, watching the man open a door, which was the master bedroom.
Wen Bai watched the man open a drawer in the bedside cabinet, take out a delicate box, and retrieve something from it. It was a necklace.
The man looked down for a while, then took out another exquisite box from his own embrace. He took out the item inside the box and threaded it onto the necklace.
It was a pendant.
After a moment's observation, the young man, holding the necklace with the pendant, returned to the first floor.
Wen Bai's gaze followed the man, shifting from a bird's-eye view to eye-level, and then back to a bird's-eye view.
At this moment, Wen Bai didn't notice that the tall robot behind him, its sapphire-blue eyes slightly moved.
Seeing his master's focused expression, the tall robot also followed Wen Bai's gaze, but only saw a very solid wall.
A trace of human-like confusion appeared in the sapphire-blue eyes, but soon, its gaze returned to its master's face.
The villa next door.
The seductive female robot, which had become an uncontrollable machine, did not make Wen Bai wait long for its arrival.
Wen Bai, as if feeling the angle was wrong, walked to the edge of the stone railing on the second floor and looked down.
The man was looking down at the necklace and pendant in his hand. He glanced again at the photo of him and his wife hanging in the living room.
He acted as if nothing was wrong in front of others, but when he received the call that day, only he knew that his whole body was trembling.
At that moment, he felt a tightness in his chest and his vision went black.
She was fine when he left. How could she be gone when he returned…
He felt as though immense grief was about to engulf and swallow him.
This necklace pendant was his wife's cherished possession, a token of their love.
It had been lost by his wife before. This time, on his business trip, he had specially ordered an identical one. He had intended to give it to his wife personally when he returned.
To mend their relationship.
Ever since his wife had witnessed that incident, they had grown distant.
He didn't understand.
His wife often went on business trips for ten days to half a month, and he also had to travel frequently. With so little time together, wasn't it normal for him to have needs?
It wasn't with other women, just a female household robot, not even a person, and that was not acceptable?
The man's thoughts were chaotic, his mind a tangled mess.
He stood up and took a bottle of white wine from the refrigerator. It was wine his wife had bought.
He didn't like to drink, but today he wanted to.
He opened the cap and took a large gulp directly.
The man coughed, choked by the wine, and tears welled up.
On the second floor of the villa next door, Wen Bai saw this and concluded, "He can't drink."
System 001 responded, "I can see that too."
"And he doesn't like drinking."
System 001 replied, "Yes."
The tall robot merely cast its gaze back towards the wall of the neighboring villa.
The first floor of the neighboring villa.
After being choked by the spiciness of the white wine, the man calmed down for a few minutes, then took another gulp…
Before long, a third of the bottle of white wine had been consumed.
As he struggled to suppress his grief and paced the room,
A figure had already quietly approached him.
A pair of seemingly boneless hands reached through his waist from behind and gently rested on it.
Then, they tightly embraced him.
A warm body pressed against the man from behind, and he felt hot breath by his ear.
The man froze and stopped walking.
He turned his head sluggishly.
When he clearly saw who was embracing him from behind, he thought he was hallucinating.
However, the hands gave him no room for hesitation. As he turned his head, they gently cupped his head and pulled him closer, closing the already minimal distance.
Then came a soft, warm touch…
The man instinctively responded.
After exchanging a deep kiss, the stunned man was released by the other party.
The household robot in front of him gently cradled his face, its sapphire-blue pupils, at such close proximity, gazing intently at him.
In those sapphire-blue pupils, there was an emotion that did not belong to a household robot, a look of deep affection.
"Xiao Li…" the man murmured.
As he spoke the name, the man heard the household robot in front of him brush its hair.
Then, it let out a long, satisfied sigh, "I'm back, we can finally be together."
No one could stop it from being with him anymore.
The man stared dazedly at the impossibly beautiful female household robot before him, struck by its beauty as he had been when they first met.
The alcohol had dulled his senses. When the household robot leaned in to kiss him again,
The man suddenly reacted, frantically reaching out and pushing the seductive household robot away, "No, this isn't right, it was all a mistake, wrong from the very beginning!"
The seductive household robot, pushed away, looked at its familiar, beloved master with a bewildered expression, as if unable to understand why it had gone through so many obstacles to return, only to be treated this way.
It voiced its confusion, "How could it be a mistake? Didn't you like me? Isn't it good for us to be together?"
The man repeated to himself, as if unable to find anyone to blame, even growing to resent the seductive household robot before him, "Why did you come back… how could you come back…"
The seductive household robot, its long, wavy curls falling by its face, tidied itself and retorted naturally, "Can't I come back? But why?"
Wasn't this its home? Why couldn't it come back?
The man looked at the flawless face of the seductive household robot before him, a face he had once been captivated by, with pain.
Now, he felt disgust.
His disgust for her was like his disgust for his past self. The words he spoke now were a solemn reminder to himself: "I love her, I have always loved her, and only her."
"And then?" the seductive female household robot seemed unable to comprehend. "You can continue to love her, and be with me. I won't stop you from loving her."
As it spoke, it took two steps forward.
Just a dead person.
But what did that have to do with them being together?
The seductive household robot moved closer to the man again, reaching out to embrace him, only to be swatted away by the man.