MTMIO Chapter 70

Chapter 70: Clues

A passionate kiss in the cold autumn wind and rain came at the price of a cold.

Yue Yunxi’s symptoms were relatively mild. Grandma arranged for her to take some cold medicine granules, and she recovered in a couple of days.

Lu You, on the other hand, had a stuffy nose for several days, almost missing the opportunity to tune a piano for a top pianist and learn some playing techniques in the process.

Fortunately, her cold cleared up the day before the tuning.

It was also from that day on that, after finishing her lessons at Teacher Zhong’s villa, Yue Yunxi would take her directly to the gym for training, rain or shine, and set training goals.

—”[Full Moon/] is even more responsible than the personal trainer I used to pay a lot of money for!”

Lu You posted the edited content to her Moments, switched back to the chat interface, and discussed with Zhong Shuyun: 【Can I bring Grandma with me to class tomorrow? To let her see the house.】

Because of her cold, she had postponed the matter.

Before long, Zhong Shuyun sent a voice message: “Yes, you can come to class with me then, and I’ll have someone take Grandma to see the house.”

Lu You pressed the send button and said, “Okay, thank you, Teacher Zhong.”

Zhong Shuyun: “You people are really—polite.”

Why did her tone sound so strange, with a smile, but not a happy one? Lu You was a little confused.

Isn’t it right to be polite?

You people? Who is she grouping her with?

The sound of water faintly echoed from the direction of the shower room. Yue Yunxi was taking a shower inside, and Lu You gradually became distracted by the noise. By the time she came back to her senses, that strange sigh had already been retracted by Zhong Shuyun.

Lu You guessed that someone polite must have offended Teacher Zhong, and she, an innocent person, was being implicated, so she didn’t think too much about it.

She clicked into Moments, boredly swiping the screen, killing time drawn out by the sound of water.

Feifei posted a photo with Chen’s mother, saying that they could go home to live in two days.

Lu You went to ask her the specific time, planning to help out then.

Chen Feifei replied: 【I was just about to tell you, it’s the day of your competition. I originally wanted to watch your competition, but I probably won’t be able to go.】

Lu You: 【It’s okay, I’m more worried about you. Can you manage alone?】

Chen Feifei: 【Don’t worry, I’m not alone. My aunt knows about this, and she’s asked my cousin to send her to Nanquan to take care of my mom with me. When they pass by the hospital, they’ll pick us up from the hospital.】

Lu You finally felt relieved and sent a head-patting emoji.

Li Can posted a bouquet of sheet music sent by Jian Yanzhi, saying that it was pretty good for students to draw lots for exam pieces.

Jian Yanzhi replied in the comments: What a boomerang, so our teacher is imitating you [Goodbye]

Lu You tapped on Jian Yanzhi’s ID and asked her: 【Do you have a tutorial for paper folded flowers?】

Jian Yanzhi sent a sorted link: 【Take it, you Chinese woman who needs links all your life.】

Lu You couldn’t help but smile.

The sound of water in the shower room stopped, and after a while, the buzzing of an electric toothbrush sounded, followed by the sound of a hair dryer.

She was actually going to blow-dry her hair.

Lu You squirmed twice on the bed, lying on her back with her head towards the foot of the bed, raised her legs and propped them against the wall at the head of the bed, and continued to wander around in Moments with her phone.

Inadvertently, she clicked back to the top and brushed out a new post.

Chu Xiao: 【Who is talking about French romance anyway, calling it the city of love! More like the city of thieves [Smile][Smile], luckily I have a benefactor to help me, sob sob sob. Wallet full, good mood, here to share some juicy gossip——】

Gossip is human nature.

Lu You was successfully hooked and clicked “Expand” to continue reading.

Chu Xiao: 【I was lucky enough to have an ambiguous relationship with a certain singer for a while. One time when she was drunk, she sang her most famous song to me over the phone. I said I really liked the climax of this song. She said that’s called the chorus, it’s the most important part of a song, and then she told me that the core part, from the melody to the lyrics, was stolen from someone else.

So, she stole someone else’s feelings, expanded on them a bit, and passed them off as her own. And she captivated a bunch of brain-dead fans.

You forced me to go abroad and made me lose money, but if you piss me off, I’ll get your sister trending.

PS: I equally despise every thief!】

Like a thunderclap, Lu You felt an indescribable shock.

She recognized every word, but when they were combined, they made her dizzy and unsure. So she read it again, word by word.

Concentrating, she didn’t even notice that the sound of the hair dryer in the shower room had stopped.

The phone on the sink vibrated twice. Yue Yunxi put down the hair dryer and glanced at the screen.

The system showed that the transfer had been received.

On the left was a newly arrived message, a screenshot of a Moments post.

A paragraph of text: 【Thank you for your help, the content has been sent to Moments, as you requested, only visible to that person.

PS: I really like the chorus of that song, you wrote it so well [Heart]】

Yue Yunxi picked up her phone expressionlessly, her long eyelashes drooping, casting a small gray shadow.

Her fingertip swiped across the screen, deleting the minimized chat box from the message list, clicked into Moments, swiped twice, saw the post that Lu You had posted earlier, and couldn’t help but curl her lips.

After giving it a like, Yue Yunxi went out of the bathroom.

Lu You had just finished reading for the second time, exhausted, and threw her sore arms into the soft bedding.

Her phone slipped from her palm and fell beside her thigh.

Lu You casually reached out to grab it, but the feeling on her fingertips was not a cold, hard phone, but a fluffy mass.

It was the tail of the little deer doll, round and plump.

She held it in her hand, lost in thought.

She felt that Chu Xiao was talking about Tao Xin. But she wasn’t sure. Besides Tao Xin, did Chu Xiao have other ambiguous partners who were singers?

If it was Tao Xin, Tao Xin’s most famous song was “Edible Wilds.” The chorus was stolen. Stolen from whom?

Yue Yunxi?

A shadow fell on her face from above, followed by strands of hair with a citrus scent, curling down and resting on her shoulders.

Lu You came back to her senses and lifted her eyelids. What she saw was the soft curve of a camisole, steamed by hot water, revealing a faint pink hue under the white, and her pinky ring, shimmering between the curves.

“What are you thinking about?” Yue Yunxi knelt on the sheet in front of her head, her eyes falling on the phone screen that was still lit.

She could vaguely see a dense paragraph of text.

She wasn’t even sure if the person was Tao Xin, let alone whether it was about the song “Edible Wilds,” or whether it was related to Yue Yunxi.

“I was thinking about how long you were in the shower.” Lu You raised her hand and adjusted the bathrobe that Yue Yunxi was wearing on the outside. “Now I’m thinking, aren’t you cold?”

She had indeed thought about it. She didn’t touch her nose.

“I’m not cold, I’m still a little hot.” Yue Yunxi moved her eyes away from her phone, picked up a strand of hair, and gently swept it across her neck with the slightly damp ends, asking softly, “Do you want to do something with me? Why are you waiting so impatiently?”

Her tone was calm and unruffled, as if she was really asking something serious, but her gestures and behavior were provocative.

“…No.” Lu You felt itchy and instinctively turned her head. “Why didn’t you dry your hair?”

“Just a little bit, wet when I washed my face, I saw your Moments.” Yue Yunxi scratched the other side again. “I’m more responsible than the personal trainer you paid for before?”

Her tone sounded ambiguous, making it difficult to tell the purpose of asking this question.

It was like she was here to interrogate her.

Her hair brushed against her sensitive ear, and Lu You’s breathing deepened. She quickly begged for mercy, “I was wrong, I was wrong.”

As she spoke, she put down her legs propped against the wall, turned over, and sat up.

“Don’t apologize.” The curly hair, like seaweed, slipped through Yue Yunxi’s fingers. She supported herself on the sheet, like a cat, leaning forward and crawling to Lu You’s front. “Give me a reward.”

Not questioning, but asking for a reward.

Not long ago, in the same place, Lu You had told Yue Yunxi that she wanted to give her the reward of a good child.

That afternoon, her piano-tuning hands had been sweating profusely over a single key.

Now, mentioning “reward” again made it hard not to think that way.

Especially Yue Yunxi’s eyes, dark and deep, reflecting a little light, were neither very cold nor very hot.

And when dyed with desire, they were like a hazy moonlit night, emptiness engulfing the heart and making it unbearable.

Lu You suddenly felt as if those long-gone cold symptoms had made a comeback, her throat dry and itchy.

She remembered when she first learned to smoke, Chen Feifei told her that occasionally one cigarette was to release pressure and relieve emotions. But not too much, it would be addictive.

At that time, she looked at the red tip of the cigarette and gave a light “hmm,” not paying much attention.

Because since she couldn’t play the piano after her finger was broken, she hadn’t had any strong interest in anything.

She never knew that she could be addicted to a person. The other person could bewitch her with a single word, and she would be hooked with craving.

The moonlight was too tempting; one couldn’t be blamed for wanting to grasp at the moon in the water.

Restraint led to a bit of depravity. Lu You pretended to be ignorant, deliberately teasing back, “Good sister, what reward do you want?”

Yue Yunxi’s eyebrows rose slightly, as if she had raised an eyebrow, or as if the corner of her eye had twitched.

Yue Yunxi didn’t answer her, but just leaned closer, her breath falling on the glass bead she wore around her neck, from that bead to the small mole on her jaw.

She was really like a cat, sniffing lightly, and suddenly sticking out her tongue to lick.

Lu You was moved by the electric-like sensation, leaning back and tilting her head, her hand propping down on her waist, but pressing on the antlers of the little deer doll.

Yue Yunxi’s previously recorded sentence, “I am sexually attracted to you,” rang in her ears at this opportune moment.

Interrupting Yue Yunxi at this moment.

Lu You was also stunned for a moment, then said, “I’m going to wash my hands.”

Just as she was about to get up, Yue Yunxi grabbed her, stroking her knuckles, gently and considerately saying, “I’m just teasing you, you have class tomorrow, and you have a competition in a couple of days, save some energy.”

Lu You blinked slowly.

Could you even tease about this kind of thing?

Yue Yunxi released her and pressed the light switch on the wall.

With a “click,” the room was immediately plunged into darkness.

Lu You’s eyelashes trembled again.

Was she only interested in the kill, not the cleanup?

In the blink of an eye, her eyes adjusted to the dim environment, and she could vaguely see the gauze curtains reflecting the ground lights in the yard.

A thin, pale yellow, had the texture of moonlight, and was also like the embers that had not been extinguished after the fire went out.

She also noticed that Yue Yunxi was still sitting opposite her.

Lu You used this bit of light, reached out, and suddenly pushed Yue Yunxi’s shoulder.

Yue Yunxi fell back, slightly curling her lips. If the light were brighter, Lu You would probably notice that her actions had always been within the other party’s expectations.

Unfortunately, the environment was dim, and she could not see this subtle detail clearly.

Yue Yunxi raised her chin, accepting the kiss that Lu You was about to give.

These days, to get more sun, the curtains had not been drawn at night. Outside the glass, she could vaguely see the shadows of the trees swaying in the wind, and the detached leaves falling slowly.

The sensation was also in the same direction, only the electric-like sensation was the opposite, shooting straight into the cerebral cortex.

Lu You was slow and gentle.

This analogy was not appropriate, but for a moment, she thought of the yo-yo at home.

When the little Bichon Frise was first brought home, because it had been hungry for many years, every time Lu You fed it dog food, it would eat very quickly. So Lu You bought a trick bowl.

The bowl was high and low, winding and narrow, so the Bichon could only be patient and lick the bowl little by little with its tongue.

…

Yue Yunxi still didn’t say a word, only her deep breathing and constantly gripping her hair gave her the feeling that she was approaching collapse.

The force that tightened her scalp suddenly relaxed, Lu You swallowed, and in the slight movement of her back collapsing, she heard Yue Yunxi call her nickname.

“Youyou…” A trembling, damp sound.

Lu You leaned towards Yue Yunxi, in the dimness, she could only see the outline of her features, not the specific appearance clearly, let alone the emotions between her eyebrows.

Almost instinctively, Lu You hugged Yue Yunxi and kissed her eyes. Yue Yunxi closed her eyes reflexively, and Lu You’s lips touched her thin eyelids.

Downwards, they were wet eyelashes.

Lu You didn’t know where she got the courage from, probably provoked by Yue Yunxi’s “I’m just teasing you.” She tilted her head and whispered in Yue Yunxi’s ear, “…Did I make you cry from pleasure?”

“Yes.” Yue Yunxi admitted it unusually readily, and then touched her ear with her lips, giving her a compliment in a breathy voice, “You’re improving quickly.”

Lu You’s ears instantly turned hot. She was so embarrassed that she reached out and covered Yue Yunxi’s mouth.

Yue Yunxi’s laughter was sprayed on her palm.

Even her heart was warmed.

Before going to bed, Lu You pressed on the little deer doll again, and that sentence ringing in the sleepless night was simply deadly.

She yawned in the middle of the night to change the sheets, throwing the little deer doll to Yue Yunxi, who was nestled in the sofa.

“Record a new one!”

Yue Yunxi pinched the doll’s cheeks and responded with a spoiled voice, “Okay~,” cleared her throat, and said softly, “Youyou, you’re really great, you’re improving so fast, I really like it.”

“…Ah! Yue Yunxi!!” Lu You rushed over and sat on her lap, covering her mouth, glaring at her angrily, “No… change it.”

Her lips moved against her palm, a moist and soft touch.

Lu You let go.

“What do you want me to record?” Yue Yunxi’s eyes moved very lightly, “Love song lyrics? Sweet words? Or good morning, good afternoon, good night?”

These were all things that couples often said.

Because of the movie she had watched not long ago, Lu You originally wanted to choose the last option, but as the words came to her lips, she suddenly remembered the words that Chu Xiao had posted.

“If it’s lyrics… will you be jealous?” She asked tentatively.

Yue Yunxi curled the corners of her mouth: “No.”

“Really?” Lu You was a little suspicious, not only suspecting the authenticity of this “no,” but also suspecting another possibility.

“Do you want the lyrics of ‘Edible Wilds’?” Yue Yunxi lowered her eyes, looking at the little doll sandwiched between them, lifted it to the armrest of the sofa, and hugged her waist, saying, “Leaving aside some things, I quite like some of the lyrics in it.”

Lu You’s heart beat like a drum: “Then record your favorite line.”

Yue Yunxi smiled and said yes, and as she pressed the deer horn, she raised her eyes to look at her, saying word by word:

“You are the inescapable palpitation, the fantasy I cannot suppress.”