The young miss waved at a bodyguard nearby and said: “Bring the thing over.”

Du Lai turned to look.

He saw a bodyguard coming over carrying a black gift box — square and rectangular, with no telling what was inside.

The young miss happily took the gift box from the bodyguard’s hands and snapped it open——

Without exaggeration, Du Lai was nearly blinded by the golden gleam inside.

Inside the gift box was a golden collar, fitted with a coded lock clasp — extremely intricate and magnificent!

He just wasn’t sure whether it was gold-plated, or…

“This is solid gold.”

The young miss answered the question in his heart. She picked up the gleaming golden collar and walked over to him, and with a click fastened it around his neck.

“How beautiful~” The young miss was thoroughly satisfied.

Du Lai: “……”

The thing was certainly beautiful, like a piece of art — but just putting it on him like that, wasn’t that a bit…

No matter how much he flattered and fawned, it was impossible for him to be completely indifferent to the dignity a person ought to have.

Wearing something like this was just too degrading.

At this moment, the young miss said happily: “From now on, you belong to me! Wear this, and when you’re at my home, no one will dare to bully you~”

Du Lai: “……”

He had absolutely no interest in becoming a rich person’s pet.

It seemed this young miss was not only willful — she was also a bit unhinged.

Du Lai reached up and felt the golden collar. This type of lock was no challenge for him, it would just take a little time. The greater difficulty was figuring out how to shake off her thirty to forty bodyguards.

If possible, it would be best to coax her into taking the thing off herself.

“Being able to accompany the young miss is a tremendous honor for me,” Du Lai maintained his smile, speaking slowly. “However, the magic tricks I know, the young miss has already seen most of them. In the future, without new tricks to perform, I’ll have no way to continue pleasing you. Why not let me stay on the ship, and every so often I’ll learn a new magic trick for the young miss — that way, you’ll always have new magic to watch…”

“No need to go to all that trouble,” the young miss shrugged and said nonchalantly. “Whenever I get bored of you, I’ll just throw you into the sea to feed the fish.”

Du Lai: “……”

This was so unhinged — quite unlike other girls he’d coaxed before.

“But that should be a very long time from now!” The young miss smiled sweetly and pinched Du Lai’s cheek. “After all, you’re so entertaining~”

Du Lai… managed a fake smile.

“Come, sit down and eat.” The young miss picked up her knife and fork eagerly. “I’ll feed you — open wide, ahh~~~”

Du Lai: “……”

He was now suspecting this woman was not only unhinged, but also had something wrong with her head.

She blinked her large dark eyes and looked at Du Lai in puzzlement. “Why won’t you open your mouth? Open up — how else am I supposed to feed you?”

The monkey in the cage let out a screech.

“Alice, stop making noise!” She glanced at the monkey impatiently.

The monkey, rather than quieting down, grew even more frantic! Its two little paws reached out through the gaps in the cage, clawing and grabbing wildly, and seized hold of the tablecloth!

Then with a tug and a yank, all the breakfast on the table clattered crashing to the floor!

“Aaaahhh!!——”

The noble and proud young miss let out a shriek!

“My dress!!! It’s all filthy, aaaahhh!!!”

Her screaming reverberated throughout the entire room — Du Lai nearly went deaf. Before he could say a word to soothe her, he heard her shriek hysterically:

“Throw it out! That wretched stinking monkey! It can’t dance, can’t do arithmetic — nothing like what it was on stage! Throw it into the sea to feed the fish! Feed the fish!!!”