MTMIO Chapter 102
by VolareChapter 102: Low Tear Threshold During the Day, Low Stimulation Threshold at Night
Chapter 102 Low Tear Threshold During the Day, Low Stimulation Threshold at Night
The old-fashioned gas lamp propped against the side wall cast a warm and faint light, turning the Florence night into an orange-toned cocktail, with a tipsy haze.
At the end of the sound of horse hooves, a bass saxophone and guitar played in unison.
Round and smooth notes slipped away, playing parkour with their trails, and finally hid in the colorful feathers swaying on the carousel helmet.
The carousel flickered and swam, passing over the conical canopy, with the elegant and charming Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral.
Frozen in the camera, a postcard belonging to Florence.
The moon in the dome is its postmark.
“I’m done, I don’t want to leave,” Lu You covered her empty heart, “I’m starting to have withdrawal symptoms before I even leave.”
“Play for two more days? You can also see the Christmas tree lighting ceremony.”
“Forget it, let’s come again next time. I haven’t seen Grandma for a long time, the old lady must miss me very much.” Lu You changed the subject, “Let’s go to Vienna for Christmas after my competition.”
That’s where Yue Yunxi wanted to go.
Yue Yunxi agreed with a smile.
“But I have to come back early, otherwise the old lady will miss me again.”
“Okay~” The smile in Yue Yunxi’s response was even more obvious.
“This year for the New Year…” Lu You was thinking about how to ask Yue Shao about her attitude towards them.
Yue Yunxi suddenly stopped, leaned close to her side, and avoided the passers-by coming towards them.
Lu You subconsciously lowered her eyes and saw a hand reaching into Yue Yunxi’s pocket.
A hand that didn’t belong to Yue Yunxi, like plaster.
Almost without hesitation, Lu You reached out and tightly covered Yue Yunxi’s pocket, grabbing the suddenly vibrating phone inside through a layer of fabric.
The ringtone sounded low and faint amidst the music played by the street performers.
Raising her eyes, she met the other person’s light brown eyes, numb, like stagnant water.
Lu You’s heart thumped, and she felt inexplicably uncomfortable.
The woman walked away as if nothing had happened.
But the unknown emotional fog in Lu You’s heart didn’t dissipate because of this.
Yue Yunxi rubbed the back of her hand, which was still tightly gripping, “Yoyo.”
“Hmm…” Lu You lowered her hand pressing on her pocket, exhaled, and complained, “There are too many Italian thieves.”
Yue Yunxi chuckled, “It’s also a specialty.”
Lu You felt the feeling of lingering fear dissipate a little at this moment, and said as she walked, “By the way, your phone rang just now.”
Yue Yunxi took out her phone.
There were two missed calls on the screen, and the note showed “Mom”.
Yue Yunxi called back.
The prompt tone that the called user was on the phone came from inside.
“Is Auntie also calling you?”
After hanging up, Yue Yunxi didn’t call back.
After waiting for two or three seconds, Yue Shao’s phone call came, and as soon as she answered, Yue Shao’s anxious voice came from inside: “Oh dear, why didn’t you answer the phone?”
Yue Yunxi didn’t explain, “What’s wrong?”
“Yes, something happened to Tao Xin!”
Yue Shao’s volume was not low, and Lu You’s hearing was also sharp, so she could hear clearly.
She hadn’t been online these past two days, but she could probably guess that after the reversal of the matter, the spearhead of public opinion would point to Tao Xin.
Even if she had bravely stood up and admitted her mistakes.
Even if the lyrics of the love triangle had already stated that it was due to complicated emotions.
And in the Internet age, most people are gradually losing the emotional system they possess as human beings.
They cannot understand the complex emotions of others, nor can they understand the situation of others.
They will only use more ruthless accusations to obtain their own moral balance.
What Tao Xin had to face and endure was nothing more than what they had all experienced.
And having the courage to stand up and admit it, and having seen the scenes they encountered, she should have been prepared to be attacked.
She thought that’s what Yue Shao was talking about.
But the next second, she heard Yue Shao say incoherently: “Her assistant contacted me and said, said she…”
The ending was very small, and after Yue Yunxi heard it clearly, she frowned tightly, grabbed Lu You and stopped.
Lu You couldn’t hear, turned to look at Yue Yunxi, and silently asked: What’s wrong?
Yue Yunxi looked into her eyes, and after being silent for two or three seconds, asked on the phone, “Did you save her?”
“Saved her, saved her, said the wound was deep and long, but fortunately it didn’t cut the artery, the assistant found it early, otherwise it would have…”
Lu You’s brain went blank, and she even forgot to breathe.
Belatedly, she realized that the inexplicable discomfort in her heart was derived from the sudden jump of her sixth sense, rather than the thief’s lifeless eyes.
“When are you coming back?” Yue Shao’s voice was choked and helpless, “The assistant called… Tao Mingyuan, Tao, Tao Mingyuan completely ignored her, so she contacted me, I’m alone, I, I’m afraid I can’t stabilize her…”
“The original plan was to leave tomorrow, let me check the plane tickets.” Yue Yunxi turned on the speakerphone, glanced at Lu You, “If possible, let’s leave tonight, is she in a hospital in Nanquan now?”
Lu You hurriedly took out her phone to check the plane tickets, her hands were trembling, whether it was from cold or from being frightened, she typed a word twice and it was wrong.
“Yes, in Nanquan, I’m on my way to the hospital.” Yue Shao also recovered a bit, sniffed, “If not, you can come back tomorrow, don’t be too anxious, safety first, I’m going over now, I’ll watch her with her assistant.”
“Okay, don’t be too nervous either.” Yue Yunxi raised her hand and stroked Lu You’s head, speaking to Yue Shao, but also to her, “In any case, she’s already been saved.”
Lu You slowly exhaled, finally typing the word correctly.
The closest flight was at six o’clock in the morning.
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The next morning at nine o’clock, they arrived at Nanquan City Airport, and Yue Yunxi’s car was parked in the airport parking lot.
As soon as the two put down their suitcases, Yue Shao sent a text message saying that Tao Xin had been discharged from the hospital, and they were going back to Lanwan to pack some things, so the two of them didn’t need to go.
Yue Yunxi held her phone and showed it to her.
Lu You couldn’t tell whether the last sentence meant that Yue Shao felt that Tao Xin was fine, or that Tao Xin didn’t want to see them.
“…Are we still going?” She uncertainly asked for Yue Yunxi’s opinion.
Yue Yunxi lowered the trunk and stuffed the car keys into her hand, “Listen to you, if you’re worried, go and see. If you don’t want to go, we’ll go home, let’s get in the car first.”
Lu You rubbed the car keys in her hand, slowly got into the car, fastened her seat belt, and started the car.
She didn’t say a word along the way.
At the fork in the road leading to the small western-style building and Lanwan, in the last section where she could change lanes, she flicked her finger to turn on the turn signal, turned the steering wheel, and entered the left turn lane.
“…We rushed back anyway, let’s go and see.” Lu You glanced at Yue Yunxi, “You… won’t be jealous, will you?”
Yue Yunxi rested her elbow on the car window, propping up her head, and sighed, “I’m used to it. I mean, cleaning up after her and comforting her.”
One sentence brought Lu You back to her childhood.
Tao Mingyuan’s favorite crystal ashtray was accidentally broken, and Tao Xin was afraid of being beaten, so she cried her heart out to them.
In the end, she stole Lu Huai’an’s same ashtray, and Yue Yunxi found someone online to make a fake one before Tao Mingyuan came back from his business trip.
Incidents like this were countless.
“We’ve simply broken our hearts for that peach that never grows up.”
As a result, it still grew crooked and became rotten.
Lu You grinded her back molars, “Last time.”
Outside Tao’s house, there were two cars parked, one was Tao Xin’s, and the other was Tao Mingyuan’s.
Lu You parked the car outside her own yard.
She hadn’t been back for a while, the house where she had lived with her grandma for more than ten years was now empty and lifeless, and a pile of gray and yellow weeds grew in the yard.
Like a twilight old woman dragging her long hair and hunching her back, sitting in the yard basking in the sun.
For some reason, she thought of her grandma, Lu You didn’t look much, thinking about going back early to have lunch with her grandma.
Tao’s yard door wasn’t closed tightly, she pushed it open and went in, only to see ten or so cardboard boxes occupying half of the yard. The housekeeper heard footsteps and poked her head out from behind the boxes, greeting the two.
“What are these?” Lu You saw a very familiar box.
She personally packed the box, filled with things sent back to Tao Xin.
“Mr. Tao said to pack up Tao Xin’s things and throw them away. I saw that they were all very good things, it’s a pity to throw them away, so I packed them up and put them here temporarily.” The housekeeper said.
Lu You and Yue Yunxi looked at each other and walked together towards the gate.
“Yue Shao is inside with Mr. Tao…” The housekeeper hesitated to speak.
The gate also left a crack, and faint voices could be heard from inside, deliberately suppressing the volume.
As the door was pushed open, the sounds in the living room became clear.
“Yue Shao, don’t forget, when you and your mother owed a lot of debt and couldn’t even afford to eat, I was the one who paid it back for you! It was me! I gave you food and gave you a place to live! Now I’m just asking you to persuade Yunxi to come out and prove that that dead girl didn’t plagiarize her writing, to minimize the impact, just this one small thing! Such a simple little thing!”
Yue Yunxi paused and stopped at the corner. Lu You followed her and stopped, holding her hand, pinching her knuckles with a comforting meaning.
From here, tilting her head a little could see the scene in the living room.
Yue Shao stood in front of the table, her slender body swayed, and she smiled, full of self-deprecation and disappointment, “Are you settling accounts? Did I give you a card, telling you that I would keep depositing money into it to pay you back.”
“So what? Have you paid it off yet?”
It was a question, but the tone was sure that she hadn’t paid it off yet.
Yue Shao was stunned in place.
Tao Mingyuan was like a rat stealing lamp oil, revealing his most primitive ugly face under the bright light. He didn’t say anything, but that expression said everything.
He was saying: Look, you really haven’t paid it off yet.
Damn it! So what if you have some money.
Lu You rolled up her sleeves and was about to go over, but she was pulled back by Yue Yunxi after only taking one step.
She turned her head, looking puzzled, and said silently: “He’s bullying Aunt Yue!”
Followed by poking her phone, “I have money!”
“It’s already paid off.”
Yue Yunxi’s angry voice overlapped with Yue Shao’s sonorous response.
“Even the interest is in there.” Yue Shao took a deep breath, “You don’t use that money, I can’t control it, but if you forget about it, I’m telling you, that’s not possible!”
It was the first time Lu You had seen Yue Shao like this, completely different from the gentle orchid she usually saw.
“Okay, let’s not talk about money, then what about our feelings for so many years?”
“Don’t mention feelings to me!”
Yue Shao suddenly raised her voice and smashed the ashtray on the table to the ground.
The ashtray, which had already changed its material, shattered all over the floor.
Tao Mingyuan had never seen Yue Shao like this before, and was startled. He rubbed his face, not because he felt ashamed, but because he was annoyed that he had lost the upper hand.
“I’m telling you Tao Mingyuan, I won’t wrong my daughter for someone like you again, we have no relationship anymore.” Yue Shao pointed her hand towards the door, “I ask you, now, immediately, get out of my house.”
“Your house? What your house, this house, was bought by me!”
“It’s under my name, if you want to treat the promises you gave me as farts, then…” Yue Shao paused and said, “I’ll call the police and say you’re trespassing! Get out!”
For a moment, Yue Shao’s very sassy aura reminded Lu You of Zhong Shuyun playing the piano on stage.
It was as if there was a Zhong Shuyun behind Yue Shao, acting as a military advisor.
Tao Mingyuan’s phone vibrated at this time. He answered the phone and heard the woman on the other side questioning him in a loud voice whether he had gone out to fool around again, and only felt even more annoyed.
He tugged at his tie, hung up the phone without saying a word, and walked towards the entrance with a gloomy face.
Before taking two steps, he turned his head and pointed at Yue Shao in exasperation and said, “You’re so old! Do you think anyone will want you besides me? You just wait to grow old alone!”
“She still has me.” Yue Yunxi went straight out.
The tears that Yue Shao had been holding back in her eyes instantly welled up.
Lu You followed behind Yue Yunxi, and when she passed Tao Mingyuan, she muttered: “Only people who can’t sleep independently will think that loneliness is a very big deal, right.”
Tao Mingyuan’s old face flushed red with anger: “Uneducated thing.”
Lu You smiled sweetly: “You’re right, I’ll pass it on to Lu Huai’an.”
Tao Mingyuan glared at them fiercely and walked out, slamming the door shut.
Walking to the living room, Lu You inadvertently glanced at Yue Shao’s phone on the table, and the screen just lit up, showing that the call with “Zhang Wenyin” had ended.
Turning her head to look at Yue Shao again.
Probably not wanting to be too embarrassed in front of the younger generation, Yue Shao was facing away from them, but she could still see that she was lifting her hair and taking off her white earphones.
There really was someone acting as a military advisor behind her.
Yue Shao held the earphones in her hand and pointed upstairs, “Tao Tao is upstairs, her assistant is watching her…”
Lu You patted Yue Yunxi’s shoulder, pointed at herself, and gestured a “go” with two fingers, indicating that Yue Yunxi should stay downstairs with Yue Shao, and she would go upstairs to see how Tao Xin was.
Yue Yunxi nodded.
Lu You went upstairs, looking back every step of the way. In the last visible range, she saw Yue Shao sitting on the sofa, and Yue Yunxi sat next to her, handing over a tissue.
And in her impression, the previous Yue Yunxi would always sit on the side sofa, always keeping a distance from Yue Shao that was neither too far nor too close.
Tao Xin was in her room.
Lu You knocked on the door.
The person who opened the door was Tao Xin’s assistant, who was assigned to her by the company after she gained popularity on the show.
Lu You met this assistant for the first time, but she felt extraordinarily familiar.
The assistant had thick bangs like a pot lid, and seemed to be wearing no makeup, or deliberately wearing such makeup – very light, almost invisible, with freckles from her cheeks to her nose, but her skin was good, and she wore tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses on her nose, with half-drooping eyelids showing a bit of depression.
“Is Tao Xin there?” Lu You asked.
The assistant raised her eyebrows lightly, lazily leaned against the side wall, pointed her mouth towards the bed inside, and reported the situation: “Doesn’t speak, doesn’t eat, doesn’t drink water, lying there like a living dead…”
Lu You looked into the room, the curtains were tightly drawn, and dimness shrouded the entire room, with a side-lying figure bulging on the dark bed.
“Are you okay?” She walked over and asked a rhetorical question.
As the assistant said, like a living dead, Tao Xin didn’t say a word, and curled up motionless on the bed.
Lu You walked around to the bed and saw the stitches on her wrist, hideous, like a centipede crushed to death on her wrist bone.
The blood clots condensed on it pierced her eyes.
Tao Xin didn’t speak, and she didn’t speak either. In the huge room, there was only the sound of the assistant walking back and forth, washing peaches, and gnawing on peaches.
Lu You glanced over and finally remembered where she had seen this assistant.
In her WeChat moments, in the plum rain season of June, this person put on delicate makeup and took photos from a good angle that looked three-point similar to Yue Yunxi.
“…Chu Xiao.” Lu You tentatively called her name.
“Hey.” Chu Xiao responded, “You recognized me, you’re the third person to recognize me.”
As if knowing what Lu You was wondering, Chu Xiao followed up and explained, “I took a job, and by coincidence, I was assigned to be her assistant.”
She gnawed on the crisp peach with a crunch, “Do you want to eat it? There’s one more.”
Lu You shook her head.
“Okay, actually the taste is just average.” Chu Xiao said, “You have to make some noise, this person will come alive for a few seconds when they’re annoyed.
Tao Xin’s eyes moved.
Indeed, she only came alive for a few seconds.
The silent atmosphere continued until Chu Xiao ate rotten peach flesh, threw the half-eaten rotten peach into the trash can, took a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed it and drank it, covering her mouth: “Oops, you can’t drink cold water after eating peaches.”
The light tone in her small murmur made the atmosphere near the bed even more lifeless.
Lu You couldn’t bear this heavy atmosphere that was so depressing that she couldn’t breathe, so she went straight to the window and pulled open the heavy curtains.
Sunlight poured into the room, climbing onto the bed.
Tao Xin frowned, and covered her head with the quilt, suffocating herself inside.
Before she could suffocate for a minute, Lu You pulled it off.
Cover it up, pull it off, cover it up again, pull it off again.
Xin sat up with a whoosh, tears surging, overflowing like a dyke, almost collapsing: “What do you want to do?”
Lu You’s hands hanging by her side were clenched tightly, pinching out finger marks in her palms, staring at the stitches on her wrist bones, “It’s me who should be asking what you want to do, right?”
“What do I want to do…” Tao Xin chuckled, “What can I do? Why is it that when others make mistakes, they can be forgiven if they admit it and apologize, but only I am sentenced to death? It was like this when I was a child, and it’s still like this now!”
She sobbed, covering her face: “Why is it that no matter how hard I try, no matter how hard I try, I can’t get recognition?
Why is it that when I do well, it’s what I should do, and when I don’t do well or make mistakes, it’s unforgivable?
Or is it that in your eyes, I’ve never been good, and I’m rotten from beginning to end, inside and out!
Someone like me deserves to die!
Why do you still care whether I live or die!”
She almost screamed the last few sentences.
Lu You closed her eyes deeply, turned around and left.
Passing by Chu Xiao, she was grabbed by the sleeve, Lu You paused, and her eyes coldly swept over.
Chu Xiao immediately let go of her hand, glanced at Tao Xin, who was sitting on the bed crying and covering her face, and a bit of sympathy appeared on her face, and asked in a low voice: “Are you leaving her alone?”
“Whoever wants to care can care.”
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Yue Yunxi and Yue Shao walked to the door and happened to run into Lu You coming out of the room with a cold face.
Seeing that her face was extremely ugly, and she kept taking deep breaths, Yue Shao was stunned for a moment, just about to ask what was going on?
She saw Lu You slamming on the brakes, turning around and returning, grabbing the mineral water in Chu Xiao’s hand, unscrewing the cap, and splashing it directly on Tao Xin’s face.
Yue Shao was so surprised that she widened her eyes and covered her mouth.
Yue Yunxi raised her eyebrows slightly.
Looking at it this way, Lu You, who “returned” her in that way, was really very restrained, very polite, and had a very good temper.
The water was so cold that it pierced her heart, splashing straight over like one slap after another, covering her face, not only painful, but also feeling like she was drowning.
Tao Xin gasped for breath in a mess.
“Is one bottle enough to calm you down?” Lu You crushed the empty plastic bottle and threw it in front of her, “If you go crazy again, I’ll come back with another bottle, we’ll talk when we can calm down.”
Tao Xin shivered.
Whether it was because of the cold, or because she had just come to her senses.
Chu Xiao, who didn’t think the excitement was too big, moved over like a crab and offered another bottle with both hands.
Lu You took it.
Tao Xin subconsciously blocked her face with her right hand.
Lu You couldn’t bear to splash her again, and lowered her hand, “You can calm down, right.”
She paused, and opened her mouth and said: “I don’t understand you either. I used to think you were pitiful, so I always wanted to be nice to you.
But Tao Xin, who isn’t pitiful?
Who hasn’t experienced everything you’re experiencing now, everyone here?
You’re not the only one who didn’t have parents to love you since you were a child?
Am I any happier than you?
At least you still have a stepmother who treats you better than her own daughter, and a sister who always lets you have your way! You’re much luckier than many unfortunate people in the world.
Why do you always imprison yourself in the pain of the past, ignoring the happiness you have now?
Do you know that what you once had and didn’t cherish is what many people envy and can’t get?”
Tao Xin’s eyelashes trembled, and the water droplets hanging on them fell down, making it hard to tell whether it was water or tears.
“You stood up and admitted your mistake on the show, which is very brave. But do you really think that a simple apology can make everything go away? Did you think that you just stole a song?”
Lu You paused, giving her time to think for herself, the love song belonging to Yue Yunxi in the chorus, and the other parts should have also given Chen Xiguan the opportunity to realize her dreams.
Seeing Tao Xin lower her head even more in shame, she continued, slightly softening her tone: “What qualifications do you have to ask them to forgive you?
If you sincerely repent, you should live well, learn to be the sincere person you used to be, and make up for your mistakes.
Also, life is your own, it doesn’t really matter whether others recognize you or not.
You can give yourself what others can’t give you.
If you always live in the past, grabbing onto what you’ve lost and can’t have, you’ll never be happy.”
Tao Xin was stunned.
“Whether you want to die or live, it’s up to you, I won’t care about you anymore. But I want to tell you,” Lu You grabbed the quilt piled at the end of the bed, covered Tao Xin, and even covered her head, her wet fingers wiped across her nose, “If you die, I won’t feel sad for you, and I won’t feel any guilt towards you. I’ll only remember that you emphasized not to care about you, and I’ll only sigh at your cowardice and selfishness, and then I’ll completely forget you!”
She let go of her hand, and the weight of the quilt fell heavily.
The world shrouded in bedding was small, narrow, dark, and suffocating.
Tao Xin blinked lightly, and the cold water droplets hanging on her eyelashes slid down her cheeks mixed with her hot tears.
She pulled the quilt down.
The softest sunlight in winter shone on her cold and wet face. Through her blurry tear-filled eyes, Tao Xin saw Lu You’s back, walking out of her room in the hazy light.
It made her feel as if Lu You was completely leaving a world that had her in it.
And another person also took a step.
Yue Yunxi stopped, turned around, looked at Tao Xin and said softly, “Everyone has their own life, so do you. Even if Yoyo and I are not together, we won’t always revolve around you, or rather, no one will always revolve around anyone.
And even if we are together, it doesn’t mean that you are not a very important person in our lives.
You should have had two sisters who loved you very much.”
Should have.
Tao Xin lowered her eyelids, raised her hand to cover her heart, and the lower half of her face trembled as if she had these two words in her mouth, unable to spit them out, and unable to swallow them, being painfully scraped by the pen.
In her ears was the sound of footsteps fading away, hurrying, impatiently chasing the former’s steps.
Yue Shao hadn’t left yet, took a towel, sat on the edge of the bed and wiped her face and hair, called Chu Xiao to help get a new set of pajamas for Tao Xin, turned her eyes and saw that the bed sheet was also wet, “This bed can’t be slept on, go sleep in Auntie’s room.”
Tao Xin’s tears rolled down in big drops, she shook her head, her throat seemed to be blocked by something, unable to say a word.
After all, she was a child who had been raised for more than ten years. Seeing her like this, Yue Shao couldn’t bear it and opened her mouth again: “Don’t listen to your dad, this house isn’t his, you can live here for as long as you want.”
Tao Xin trembled all over, hugged her knees, and buried her face in her arms.
She suddenly realized that the emotion blocking her throat was shame.
It was guilt for her previous attitude towards Yue Shao.
“I’m sorry…” Her heavy nasal voice was muffled in her arms.
Yue Shao sighed, thinking she was better, called her to change clothes and change rooms. But Tao Xin had no reaction again.
Chu Xiao said softly to Yue Shao: “I think, she may need some peace and quiet.”
Yue Shao hesitated again and again, said “Then the door isn’t locked, you can go over at any time”, and left the room.
The sound of closing the door, the “click” sound fell, Tao Xin moved the finger covering her chest, under her palm, in her body, something heavy fell to the bottom.
So, a large area of coldness was left empty.
She didn’t know how long it had passed, she slowly raised her eyelids, and was stunned for a moment towards the direction of the door, “Why didn’t you leave?”
“I’m afraid you’ll die again.” Chu Xiao had her hands behind her back, her eyes swept over her left wrist, over her pale face, and looked at the whiter ceiling, “I’m not worried about you. It’s because my biological mother left in this way.”
Tao Xin was slightly startled, and the pain in her left hand sluggishly invaded her nerves.
“The scene of the blood flowing from her wrist and dyeing my white gauze skirt red has haunted me for twelve years, waking me up from my dreams every night, until last year, I got rid of it.” Chu Xiao’s eyes sank, meeting her almond eyes, “And you, remind me of it again.”
“…I’m sorry.” Tao Xin said in a hoarse voice.
Chu Xiao smiled warmly, “Do you know that ‘I’m sorry’ is on the same level as ‘I love you’.”
Perhaps it was an occupational disease, her low and magnetic voice bit the words on the tip of her tongue, wrapping them ambiguously.
But Tao Xin knew that she was testing love, having seen too much pretense, she didn’t believe in love, and she didn’t believe that there was a bit of sincerity in the feather-light “I’m sorry”.
“Who do you want to get close to?”
“What, are you going to help me?”
“As compensation, and thanks, thank you for saving me.”
“Let’s owe it first, I’ll look for you when I need it.” Chu Xiao paused, “Will you come again?”
“What?” Tao Xin looked at her in confusion.
Chu Xiao gestured on her wrist.
“No.” Tao Xin said lightly, “You can leave with peace of mind.”
Chu Xiao lifted her foot and turned half a circle, as if she was about to leave, but slowly retracted her foot, turned her head and glanced at Tao Xin.
A scrawny body, sitting in a posture of a decadent soul.
After stagnating in place for a moment, Chu Xiao moved to the bedside, put down the things in her hand on the bedside table, and slowly left.
Before closing the door, she said softly, “I hope I won’t meet you again next time I do business, Disaster Core.”
The door was gently closed, Tao Xin turned her eyes to the bedside, her eyes swept over the ugly rotten peach that had been eaten in the trash can, her eyes rose, and she saw the soft sunlight gently stroking the small fluff.
It was lying there quietly, a crisp and new peach.
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Going downstairs, entering the bathroom familiarly, Lu You was about to close the door when Yue Yunxi reached into the door seam and stopped her. After following in, she closed the door with her backhand and hugged her into her arms.
Lu You’s stiff back gradually softened, and she breathed long and slowly, and the uncontrollable trembling intermittently pushed her emotions to the brink of collapse.
She took advantage of the situation to grab Yue Yunxi’s clothes on her waist, and buried her head in Yue Yunxi’s shoulder, “…I feel so bad, I know she’s also helping you and talking to me, not deliberately dragging us in, I know how excessive cyberbullying is, how many people have been forced to death, I still want to punish her in this way.
If she hadn’t stood up herself, if I had exposed everything, if her wound had been a little deeper, if Chu Xiao had found out a little later…”
Lu You sobbed lowly and couldn’t continue.
She lied, if Tao Xin really died, she would die of guilt.
“Don’t imagine those things that didn’t happen, let yourself get caught up in internal friction, you didn’t do anything wrong, you’ve already done very well.”
Yue Yunxi gently patted her back, one stroke after another, smoothing out her fluctuating emotions like smoothing fur, and comforted her softly: “Those who are not affected by emotions, who have no selfishness at all, are not human.”
She said it in a serious manner, so serious that the last sentence sounded a bit like cursing.
It made Lu You’s mood slowly calm down.
“If you want to say you’re bad, then I’m also bad. It’s very good, very suitable.”
“You’re really… a love brain.”
“Correction, I’m a Lu You brain, that’s right.”
Lu You broke into a smile: “What the hell.”
Hearing the smile in her voice, Yue Yunxi raised her face, her fingertips caressed the tear marks on her cheeks, “Are you better?”
“Much better.” Lu You hugged her tightly and muttered, “But you can’t coax me anymore, my tear threshold is low, I can’t stand your coaxing.”
Yue Yunxi leaned to her ear, with a confused tone: “The tear threshold is low during the day, can’t stand coaxing, the stimulation threshold is low at night, can’t stand coaxing either, should I say you’re easy to coax, or hard to coax?”
“Ah!” Lu You screamed softly, as if bitten on the ear, stepped back half a step, twisted the doorknob and pushed her out, “I need to use the bathroom, go out!”
She slammed the door shut, and Yue Yunxi’s laughter could still be caught through the door panel.
It was low and light, but it didn’t restrain the teasing meaning in it at all.
Lu You only felt that her boiling point was also very low, and she was about to burn up again.
After washing her face and waiting for the blush on her cheeks to fade, Lu You pushed open the door and went out.
She happened to meet Chu Xiao carrying her backpack and coming down from upstairs.
“Hi, she shouldn’t do anything stupid.” The other party pushed her glasses, “I’m leaving first.”
Lu You “hmm”ed, and after taking a few steps, she stopped Chu Xiao again, “Excuse me, are you doing… helping people test jobs for the sake of earning money, or because of… hobbies?”
“Of course it’s – a hobby.” Chu Xiao smiled meaningfully, “I have a drama addiction, I can’t quit it.”
Lu You nodded and swallowed the words to recommend her to work at Lost Deer.
She wanted to ask her why she didn’t try to get into a film academy or run a dragon suit.
If not, she could also work as a drama actor in the theater.
But Chu Xiao didn’t give her a chance to ask these private questions, only leaving her with a clear back, and left straight away.
There was a sound from the direction of the backyard, and Lu You followed the sound.
The sliding door was open, and the cold wind that had sawed through the dead branches was blowing straight into the room.
Yue Yunxi was wearing a chestnut-colored cashmere coat, holding her arms, leaning against one side of the door and standing there in the wind, her hair like seaweed, tall and jade-like.
With just a back view, she could write about the amorous feelings.
Getting closer, Lu You noticed that Yue Yunxi had a cup in her right hand on the outside arm.
A Swiss snow mountain cup, she also had one, given by Yue Yunxi.
She actually left one for herself.
The cup was filled with more than half a cup of bitter buckwheat tea. The light tea color was plated with a layer of gold by the sun, rippling at the bottom of the cup on the three-dimensional mountain peaks, and hot air was like light mist, rising slowly at the mouth of the cup.
It was like the golden mountain under the sun, with misty clouds.
Hearing her footsteps, Yue Yunxi turned her head to look at her, turned around, closed the door with her backhand, blocking the freezing wind, and handed the cup to her with one hand.
“The water that was just boiled, I blew on it for a while, it should be able to drink.”
She stood under the porch in the wind, just to let the boiling water cool down a little.
Lu You held the cup with both hands, lowered her head, and the aroma of oatmeal rice brushed against the tip of her nose, and she felt warm all over after