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    Chapter 110 Golden Hour

    On the third day in Vienna, most of the snow from the previous days had melted. The weather was cloudy with wind outdoors, and the forecast showed temperatures in the teens above zero.

    The previous night, Yue Yunxi had placed a set of clothes for her on the chair beside the bed, one piece after another, each thicker than the last.

    “Don’t I need to wear so much?”

    “Want to feel it on the balcony?”

    Lu You lifted the quilt, her legs just touching the ground, but immediately retracted them, instantly caving: “Okay, I’ll wear this much.”

    Yue Yunxi smiled and stretched out her arms.

    Lu You consciously rested her head on her, snuggling into her embrace, waiting for her body to warm up in the hug.

    Today they were going out again, to the building materials market to buy firewood for the fireplace.

    On the way, they stopped by the mall, bought discounted down jackets, and ordered a Christmas tree, along with a bunch of extra decorations.

    Near dusk, the Christmas tree was delivered to their home.

    The snow-covered Christmas tree, except for the fact that it dropped foam on the floor, was perfect. The branches were dense, and when unfolded and secured, it looked like a real tree with snow weighing down its branches.

    The two decorated the tree together – tying on colorful balls, hanging snowflakes, deer, candy, and other ornaments, tying ribbons into bows on the branches, climbing the ladder to place the crescent moon at the top, and wrapping strings of lights around it in circles.

    Finally, they hung the Christmas stockings on the side wall of the fireplace.

    “Look, it’s bigger than my face.” Lu You held up a Christmas stocking and waved it in front of her face.

    It could cover not only her face but even her whole head.

    Yue Yunxi laughed.

    Lu You only removed the Christmas stocking when she heard her laugh, and began to fill it with acorns, lost in thought about her childhood.

    From the time she knew about the holiday, after hanging a Christmas stocking at the head of her bed, every Christmas morning, she would find what she had been longing for inside the stocking.

    No matter how outrageous the gift she wanted was, even if she wanted a star in the sky, “Santa Claus” would send her a certificate for the naming rights of an asteroid.

    For a child, that was just too magical and amazing.

    So much so that she thought “Santa Claus” was omnipotent.

    Therefore, the year Zhang Wenyin and her husband divorced, the wish she wrote on the slip of paper she put in the Christmas stocking was: I want my mother.

    She curled up in the quilt and cried secretly, nervously waiting for Santa Claus to appear, waiting for Zhang Wenyin to appear with Santa Claus.

    Hearing the sound of the door opening and the dragging of slippers, she couldn’t help but pull down the quilt and peeked with her eyes narrowed.

    But she saw her grandmother.

    The little old lady murmured, “Where did Ah Yin put it? It should… be here.”

    She placed a sweater she had been knitting for a long time on her bedside table.

    She suddenly understood that there was no Santa Claus in the world.

    In the past, Zhang Wenyin had prepared the gifts for her.

    Later, probably at Zhang Wenyin’s request, her grandmother, who didn’t understand the holiday at all, started the relay of love.

    She snapped back to reality and casually asked Yue Yunxi, “When did you stop believing in Santa Claus?”

    “Doesn’t Santa Claus always exist?”

    Lu You’s hand paused as she was stuffing acorns, and she looked up at her.

    There was not a trace of joking in Yue Yunxi’s expression. She really believed that Santa Claus had always existed in this world.

    “But he only comes to give gifts before the age of six, and from six to twelve, he entrusts the child’s parents to send them. After that, it’s random.”

    Lu You blinked very lightly.

    The feeling was very peculiar. A stable and mature adult, still maintained a piece of childlike innocence in her heart.

    A soft contrast.

    “Actually, I didn’t believe it at first, but everyone said he existed.”

    “And then you believed it?” Lu You said firmly, “That doesn’t sound like you.”

    “I didn’t believe it, but I just happened to have a wish that needed to be fulfilled.”

    “What wish?”

    “I needed a new rosin. Because the rosin my mother bought me two days ago was broken by a classmate. So, I took a chance, tore open a new sock, hung it at the head of my bed, and wrote this wish inside.”

    “And then… Santa Claus gave you a new one.”

    “Yeah.” Yue Yunxi said, “I wrote the wish right before going to bed. I remember I went to bed very late that day, and got up very early, going to bed at one or two o’clock, and getting up at four or five. Then, in that paper Christmas stocking, I found a rosin.”

    Lu You widened her eyes in surprise, almost unable to resist taking out her phone to ask Yue Shao how she had done it.

    “Some kids also said there was no Santa Claus, that the gifts were prepared by their parents, but I hadn’t told my mother about the rosin, and even if she had seen my wish paper and knew about it, she wouldn’t have had a place to buy me another one in the middle of the night.”

    Lu You nodded repeatedly.

    “But…” Yue Yunxi’s expression became a little indescribable as she recalled, “Later, I stopped writing wishes, and the things sent were all very… unique.”

    “How so?”

    “A pink backpack, pink gloves, a pink scarf, a pink thermos…” Yue Yunxi sighed and smiled at the thought of those things, “It must be that the Santa Claus who gave me gifts really liked pink… It was better when my mother sent them later, at least they weren’t pink.”

    Lu You fluttered her eyelashes twice, pursing her lips tightly, and muttered in her heart: It’s probably that Auntie Yue finally realized that not all little girls like pink.

    “What about you when you were little, did you ever receive a gift from Santa Claus?” Yue Yunxi asked.

    Lu You didn’t plan to break the bit of childlike innocence that Yue Shao had painstakingly preserved for Yue Yunxi, and didn’t explicitly answer “yes” or “no,” but only said, “I received dismantling tools haha.”

    Yue Yunxi laughed and said, “So naughty.”

    “Yeah, I still remember, when Christmas was approaching, just like Mi Mi nagging about repairing a hamburger, I nagged every day, pliers pliers pliers, my mother looked at me so helplessly at the time.” Lu You slapped her thigh, “Oh! No wonder those stinky boys always say I’m a tigress.”

    Yue Yunxi chuckled softly, her shoulders trembling with laughter. After a while, she murmured, “What a pity…”

    It was so low that it was almost silent, just these two words, and no more.

    “What?” Lu You seemed not to have heard.

    “I said, it’s finally done.” Yue Yunxi stood up from the carpet.

    Lu You stared at her, watching her hang the stocking stuffed with acorns on the rope on the side of the fireplace.

    What a pity?

    What a pity… that there would be no more fairy tales after growing up, right? She thought, Yue Yunxi probably wanted to say that.

    “Is yours ready?”

    Lu You handed over the Christmas stocking in her hand, stood up, stretched and said, “I’m going to get the little deer babies over here, take a picture~ and then go to sleep~”

    Two little deer dolls sat side by side against the stump of the Christmas tree.

    Lu You found a good angle, framed the little deer dolls, the Christmas tree, and the fireplace into the lens to take a picture, and sent it to Zhang Wenyin while walking upstairs.

    The lights in the living room were turned off. Under the Christmas tree, the slightly older little deer doll leaned against the newer one.

    It seemed to be tilting its head, looking eagerly at its owner getting higher and higher, farther and farther away from it.

    It also seemed to be acting spoiled, snuggling up to its lover.

    After finishing her chat with Zhang Wenyin, Lu You plugged in her phone to charge it, lay flat on the bed, and prepared to brew sleepiness.

    Subconsciously, she reached out to grab her doll, and suddenly sat up from the bed: “Where’s my little deer baby!”

    “Did you put it there to take pictures by the Christmas tree, and then forget to take it?” Yue Yunxi asked.

    “…Yes.” Lu You lifted the quilt, sat up, stuck a leg out, shivered, and immediately retracted it, “It’s so cold, never mind, never mind.”

    “Shall I get it for you?” Yue Yunxi said, and was about to get up.

    “No, it’s too cold.” Lu You reached out and wrapped her arms around her waist, “I’ve decided, from today on, I’ll change to a different A Bei Bei.”

    Yue Yunxi chuckled, “Are you sure you can?”

    “I don’t know.” Lu You murmured, “I’ll try.”

    The fact proved that she liked the unique scent on Yue Yunxi’s body more than her A Bei Bei.

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    On the fourth day in Vienna, the sun came out, and there was not much wind. The season seemed to have retreated back to autumn.

    Yue Yunxi went to the Karlskirche as agreed to meet Elena, and Lu You also went with her, carrying Yue Yunxi’s cello all the way, fully indulging in the “musician” label.

    Near the church, there was a black grand piano. They listened to two passersby play two pieces each, but Elena didn’t show up.

    Yue Yunxi dialed a number, holding the phone to her ear, listening to more than a minute of symphony.

    Not hearing her say anything, Lu You tilted her head and asked, “No one’s answering?”

    “Yeah.”

    When the third passerby sat on the piano bench, Elena called.

    Lu You glanced over from time to time, and at one point, met Yue Yunxi’s eyes, her eyelashes fluttering slightly.

    As soon as the phone was moved away from Yue Yunxi’s ear, Lu You opened her mouth and asked, “What did she say?”

    “She’s having a bit of a problem on her end, she’ll be late.”

    “What problem?”

    “She didn’t say.”

    “Oh, oh.” Lu You asked again, “Why did you look at me just now?”

    Yue Yunxi stared at her meaningfully, causing Lu You to slow her breathing involuntarily.

    After looking for more than ten seconds, just when Lu You was about to break, Yue Yunxi said, “She asked if you had come along.”

    “And then?”

    “I said yes, and then there was nothing.” Yue Yunxi smiled, as if she didn’t care too much, “Maybe she was just asking casually.”

    Lu You nodded: “Yeah!”

    It didn’t sound like agreement, but more like brainwashing.

    Yue Yunxi raised her eyebrows almost imperceptibly, and looked down at her watch: “She won’t be here for at least an hour, shall we go for a stroll first?”

    “Okay.”

    After discussing, Lu You and Yue Yunxi decided to go for a stroll first. The Karlskirche was free after six o’clock in the evening, so they went to the Belvedere Palace, which was relatively close.

    They were visually shocked by the magnificent Baroque buildings, admired famous paintings, checked in at Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece “The Kiss,” and bought a bunch of souvenirs.

    As they were preparing to return to the Karlskirche, Yue Yunxi reached out and hooked the cello strap, “I’ll carry it, I’ll switch with you when I get tired.”

    Lu You took the cello off her shoulder.

    The grand piano in the square had been replaced by another player, an Asian-looking woman.

    Lu You’s ears twitched, and she excitedly pulled Yue Yunxi over: “She must be Chinese, she’s playing Little Bamboo Raft.”

    “Little Bamboo Raft.” Yue Yunxi and she said in unison, smiled at each other and said, “After she finishes playing, you should play a piece too.”

    “Also play this one?”

    “Play whatever you want, as long as it’s what you like.”

    Gentle words, like encouragement and temptation.

    Lu You hesitated for a moment, and her gaze fell from the corner of her eyes to the cello on her shoulder, “It seems like we haven’t officially played together once.”

    Yue Yunxi smiled, “Then today is a good opportunity.”

    Lu You arched her eyebrows: “Let me think, what piece should we play together.”

    A score that both of them knew well, Lu You fell into thought.

    After a while, her thoughts returned, and the passerby played the last note.

    Lu You picked out her favorite Adele fabric bag from the Schönbrunn Palace souvenirs she had just bought and gave it to the pianist, praising her playing in Chinese.

    The other party covered her mouth in surprise and excitement, and then lowered her voice and said, “I originally wanted to play My Motherland, but I felt it was too high-profile~ Are you also going to play, are you going to play together? Cello and piano duet? Oh my god, I want to listen to your performance before I leave.”

    As she said that, she gave up her seat, made a gesture of encouragement to them, and trotted to her companion to say something. Both girls took out their phones and started filming.

    In the lens, Lu You placed the piano bench vertically and adjusted the distance.

    It was more than enough for two people to sit back to back.

    Yue Yunxi finished setting up the cello and asked her, “Have you decided what to play?”

    In Vienna at 2:30 p.m. during winter time, it was already sunset. The setting sun was like a cross-section of half a grapefruit, and the sunlight was the juice flowing out of it, skimming over the dome of the church and falling diagonally on the piano.

    Splashing on her fingertips, she curled them gently, and her fingertips touched the keys.

    It was very cold, and her back was very warm, as if the beam of sunlight sandwiched between their backs had a temperature that did not belong to a harsh winter.

    “How about this?” She played the prelude to Golden Hour.

    During the time she was preparing for the competition, Yue Yunxi had accompanied her to memorize the score over and over again.

    That was the best time in their relationship, and it was the same now.

    The notes jumped lightly on the black and white keys, filling the air with romance, like the low murmurings of a secret admirer. The surging thoughts and restrained emotions were intricately intertwined on the bow, rubbing against the strings.

    At the moment when the string sound rang and blended in,

    A sense of destiny was suddenly pulled to the max.

    –“This new intern teacher, don’t you know there’s such a thing as naturally curly hair!”

    –“Sister Yunxi, hello, your name is so nice, my name is not bad either, my name is Lu You, the Lu You of ‘yo yo lu ming’.”

    “Got it, Lu You.”

    –“Sister Yunxi, this is for you, a peace charm I asked for yesterday. A little deer sends peace, I wish you a safe journey.”

    “Thank you… next time… can you come to see me off again?”

    –“It’s all a ‘deer’ thing.”

    “Following a deer’s thing?”

    “Your understanding is really…”

    “…Really what?”

    “Perfect score!”

    –“Eat some sweets when you’re feeling down, it can make you feel a little sweeter inside.”

    “I’m feeling pretty… how did you see that?”

    “With my eyes.”

    –“Sister Yunxi, what’s your nickname?”

    “Jiaojiao.”

    –“Sister Yunxi, how did you know the origin of Huang Zhixu’s name?”

    “I saw it online… Jiaojiao Zhixu Huang, Yoyo Shi Ping Lu… I’ve searched it many times.”

    –“Do you… like me?”

    “Yes, I like you.”

    –“But Yoyo, you can’t be friends with someone you have a crush on.”

    –“Twenty-four years old, my twenty-fourth year.”

    –“I haven’t liked you for a long time, I just always have a crush on you again and again at different times.”

    –“When… did you start to like me?”

    At the end of the piano music, the memory stopped flowing, and in the fixed frame, at the golden hour of sunset, beside the blue stone road was a charred shop, with collapsed rafters and tiles.

    The charcoal black road under her feet stretched out a few steps away, overlapping with the shadow of the ruins.

    The person standing at the end, tall and graceful, came out of the rich shadows.

    Step by step.

    Walking into the light of the setting sun, walking in front of her.

    It was an embrace with the smell of char and heat.

    Wrapped in Yue Yunxi’s dusty breath.

    Disheveling her hair, and also dishevelling her heartbeat.

    As the last note fell, Lu You’s fingertips rested on the piano keys, involuntarily trembling slightly, for the throbbing surging deep in her chest.

    “Happy collaboration, girlfriend.”

    Yue Yunxi’s light, laughing breath slipped into her ear from behind, “Happy collaboration… girlfriend.”

    An unwilling “girlfriend”.

    The afterglow of the setting sun retreated on the slightly raised brow, and Lu You pursed her lips to suppress an upward curve.

    The girl who played “Little Bamboo Raft” recorded a video for them. Lu You added the other girl as a friend, and after getting the video, she forwarded it directly to Yue Yunxi.

    “Want to post it on WeChat Moments?” Yue Yunxi asked with a smile.

    “No, no, no.” Lu You forwarded the video to Zhang Wenyin again, defending herself for being stupid that day, “Originally, I wanted to record the spinning video to send to you and Mom, but I was sleepy.”

    There was also the reason that she hadn’t gotten used to the sudden improvement in her relationship with Zhang Wenyin, and she had inexplicably posted it on WeChat Moments.

    Lu You paused, thought of something, raised her head, squinted at Yue Yunxi, and said with a dragged-out tone: “Why was I so sleepy, so sleepy?”

    “Yeah, why is that?”

    “Why is that?” Lu You gritted her teeth.

    While they were saying “why” this way and “why” that way, Elena arrived. Before she could say a word, she called them to the Vienna University of Technology, where there was a free toilet.

    Coming out of the stall, Elena walked to the sink and said, “I’ll touch up my makeup.”

    Lu You rolled her eyes, turned around and bent over, covering her stomach, touched her nose while facing away from Yue Yunxi, and said, “Oh, my stomach hurts.”

    Yue Yunxi didn’t doubt her: “I’ll wait for you outside.”

    After people went out, Lu You immediately straightened up and walked to Elena’s side, winking at Elena through the mirror, and asked, “Has the express arrived?”

    Elena took out a file bag from her bag and handed it to her.

    Lu You took it and said, “Thank you! Thanks to you for your help this time, otherwise there would definitely be no chance to hold it so early. I looked online, and you have to apply half a year in advance.”

    “That’s right, don’t look at who I am~” Elena shook her golden hair, smug and proud.

    “I’ll treat you to dinner later.”

    “You’re welcome~ Just listen to a few more of my concerts.”

    “Definitely!”

    Seeing that Lu You had finished looking at the documents and carefully put them away in her bag, Elena remembered to ask: “Is there no way to receive express deliveries at the place you’re living in now?”

    “No.” Lu You took out the papers in the file bag and looked at them, “Because she’ll help me take the express deliveries, and she’ll also help me unpack them. There’s no chance to create a surprise at all.”

    “Oh~” Elena suddenly realized, “So she still doesn’t know!”

    “Uh-huh.” Lu You put away the file bag, covered her mouth with her hand, and said quietly, “Keep it a secret, okay.”

    “OK.” Elena let out a villainous chuckle, “I’m a little looking forward to her expression when that day comes. If you need any help, feel free to find me.”

    “OK.” Lu You imitated her tone.

    The two laughed evilly together like villains, as if they were discussing how to sell Yue Yunxi.

    “Okay, stop!” Lu You patted her face to adjust her expression, “If we don’t go out, we’ll be exposed.”

    Coming out of the bathroom, Yue Yunxi had two more cups of coffee in her hand, a latte. She handed the latte to Lu You: “Is your stomach feeling better?”

    “…Yeah.” Lu You touched her nose, holding the warm paper cup and took a sip of warm milk.

    Yue Yunxi saw her little movements and said nothing.

    After that, the three went to the fourth district, where Elena had booked a piano room for rehearsals.

    Her performance this time was held in Salzburg, and she only managed to book two days of piano room usage time with the Mozarteum University.

    So she decided to rehearse in the Vienna piano room first, check into the Salzburg hotel three days in advance, and rehearse for two days.

    After finishing the rehearsal and separating from Elena, on the way home, Lu You suggested: “Can we stay in Salzburg for a while when the time comes? I saw online that the scenery there is very good. The last time I came to Austria, my schedule was too tight and I didn’t have time to go there.”

    Yue Yunxi readily agreed.

    The car was driving on a dimly lit path, and Lu You tilted her head to hide her face in the darkness, and breathed a sigh of relief almost imperceptibly.

    In the following two days, Lu You booked a piano room for herself alone.

    On the first day, she practiced piano for an hour and quietly slipped out to buy some small items and flowers, waiting for Yue Yunxi to “get out of class”, and then went together to find antique sheet music in old shops hidden in the back alleys.

    On the second day, she tinkered in the piano room for more than three hours preparing a Christmas present for Yue Yunxi, and took Yue Yunxi to a handicraft shop to make a leather cello pendant.

    On the seventh day in Vienna, Christmas Eve, the piano room was not open in the afternoon. After finishing the rehearsal in the morning, Elena followed Lu You and Yue Yunxi home to continue practicing.

    The two discussed, tried, and practiced over and over again, and Lu You stayed by their side, brewing tea, preparing snacks, cutting fruit, and giving some reasonable suggestions from the perspective of the audience, depending on the situation.

    Every time Elena turned her head to look at her, there was more appreciation in her eyes, “I don’t think we even need a piano room anymore, it’s fine to just practice here.”

    “Let’s still go to the piano room.”

    “Let’s still go to the piano room.”

    Two voices.

    One hiding something, hesitant and careful.

    One unwilling, decisive and refusing.

    “Let’s go to the piano room, it’s close to the city, and she can wander around if she’s bored.” Yue Yunxi added calmly.

    Lu You nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

    Both of them refused, so Elena had to shrug and say, “Okay.”

    Many restaurants were closed on Christmas Eve, so Elena relied on staying here to have dinner, complaining to Yue Yunxi about her unreliable mother, and was only picked up by an assistant after Yue Yunxi got her drunk by putting herself in the situation.

    Lu You gave her hot pot seasoning as a Christmas present.

    “I almost forgot, I also have gifts for you, I wish you a happy Christmas Eve and Christmas, hic.” Elena hiccuped, took out a gift box tied with a bow from her bag, placed it in the middle of the little deer dolls under the Christmas tree, and pointed to Yue Yunxi and said, “Tomorrow, I’ll allow you to have a day off.”

    Yue Yunxi slapped her hand away, frowning: “Need you to allow it.”

    Waving her hand was a gesture of sending guests away: “Walk slowly, I won’t see you off.”

    Lu You suspected that she was drunk, patted her shoulder, coaxed her to sit in front of the fireplace to warm herself, and went to send Elena to the door.

    She only discovered that it was snowing outside when she opened the door, light and fluffy. When she reached out to dip it, her fingertips seemed to be dyed with wet cotton wool.

    The weather in Vienna was really good at catering to the atmosphere of the holiday.

    “Oh yo yo, can’t bear to see people leave? And you don’t think it’s cold.” Yue Yunxi’s voice, filled with resentment, sounded behind her.

    Lu You shivered.

    Before she had time to turn around, her waist tightened, and Yue Yunxi hooked her waist and pulled her back into the house.

    Her back pressed against the door panel, and the door made a “click” sound as it locked.

    Between the rubbing of their lips, there was a strong smell of alcohol.

    “Don’t look at her, look at me.” Yue Yunxi’s warm fingertips slid from her soft, cool cheeks to her chin, pinching it in her palm.

    Lu You’s heart skipped a beat, as if she had returned to the night in Shencheng.

    It seemed that Yue Yunxi, who was drunk, had also said these words. That video was still in her album.

    “How much alcohol did you drink…” Lu You murmured.

    “Good deer, kiss me, and I’ll tell you.”

    Lu You smiled and kissed her, a light kiss.

    Yue Yunxi lowered her eyes, her gaze fixed on her lips, and laughed softly, as if she was amused by her dissatisfaction.

    “The wine bottle is over there, go count it yourself.”

    The wickedness in her bones was stimulated by the alcohol.

    Lu You: “…”

    “You haven’t answered me yet.”

    “Answer what?”

    Yue Yunxi raised her eyes and gave her a deep look, then lowered her eyes again, released her, and walked towards the fireplace.

    Lu You felt that this person was throwing a tantrum, and followed behind, thought about it, and finally understood what she wanted, and explained, “I was looking at the snow, not at Elena.”

    Yue Yunxi sat down in front of the fireplace, leaning against the retro sofa, still not speaking.

    “Hey.” Lu You leaned over and pinched her cheek with a hand dipped in snow.

    Yue Yunxi felt cold, frowned slightly, and quickly let go, “Who are you calling hey?”

    “Girlfriend.” Lu You called ingratiatingly.

    Yue Yunxi raised her eyebrows, not speaking.

    “Drunken vinegar jar.”

    “Wind-blown popsicle.”

    The fruit wood logs in the hearth were burning, crackling.

    Sitting down, she could see the outside of the floor-to-ceiling window on the right, like a TV screen with a bad signal. Fine, broken snowflakes filled the night, making it impossible to distinguish where the lawn was and where the sky was.

    Yue Yunxi was playing with the tongs, fiddling with the firewood in the fireplace.

    In an instant, the suppressed fire twisted its waist and jumped out, becoming brighter.

    Lu You curled her fingers, on which there was still faintly remaining the temperature of Yue Yunxi’s cheeks, warm.

    She thought of the last time Yue Yunxi was drunk.

    Speaking of which, she still hasn’t figured out whether Yue Yunxi was really drunk at that time.

    Lu You came back to her senses, recalling that she had just said this person was drunk and hadn’t been refuted, “Yue Yunxi.”

    “Yeah.”

    “Really drunk?”

    “No.”

    After a moment, Lu You called again, “Jiaojiao?”

    After two seconds, Yue Yunxi replied with a “Yeah.”

    “Really not drunk?”

    Yue Yunxi lifted her eyelids and glanced at her, then fiddled with the firewood in the fireplace again, “Do you want me to be drunk?”

    Lu You smiled and said, “I’m just a little curious, what are you like when you’re drunk.”

    “…Haven’t you… seen it before.”

    “That time, were you really drunk? I thought…”

    “Tipsy, maybe.”

    “What about now?”

    “A little more.”

    “A little more, how much is that?”

    “More to the point of approaching a critical point.”

    Lu You moved her butt, moved to the opposite side of her, hugged her knees, tilted her head and looked at her carefully. The fire shone on her face like a layer of bright and charming makeup, and the gaze she cast over was a little cold, flowing with a bit of confusion.

    Between sober and not sober.

    Lu You curved her lips and smiled, “My girlfriend looks so good when she’s drunk.”

    Yue Yunxi stared at her fixedly.

    “I don’t think you’re interested in the title ‘girlfriend’ anymore.”

    “Maybe…” Yue Yunxi curved her lips, cunning and bewitching, “There’s no freshness anymore.”

    Lu You clicked her tongue, accusing, “You’re really not a good person when you’re drunk, you could poison yourself just by licking your lips.”

    As soon as she finished speaking, Yue Yunxi, who was opposite her, stretched out her watery pink tongue and licked her lips.

    Lu You’s eyelashes trembled, as if she had received a butterfly effect.

    Almost involuntarily, she knelt on the carpet, leaned forward, and kissed Yue Yunxi’s tongue, wet and soft.

    As cute as her drunk master.

    She pulled back as soon as they touched.

    “Then what should I call you to have freshness?” Lu You asked with a smile.

    Yue Yunxi’s eyes flickered slightly, her red lips moved, but she didn’t say a word, and shifted her gaze to the corner of her eyes.

    Her gaze fell on the gift box that Elena had given, and she reached out to grab it in front of her.

    Rarely clumsy, she tied the ribbon on the outside into a dead knot, and her eyebrows were almost twisted into a dead knot.

    Lu You moved the gift box in front of her and carefully opened the dead knot little by little.

    Yue Yunxi knelt and sat opposite her, her eyes staring unblinkingly at her agile hands. At a certain moment that Lu You didn’t notice, she stretched out her tongue again and licked her lips.

    Opening the box, Lu You was stunned: “I…”

    She urgently took back a national essence.

    Seeing those hands hanging stiffly on both sides of the box, as if the pause button had been pressed, Yue Yunxi’s gaze finally shifted from her knuckles to the box, and she raised her delicate eyebrows, “Wow~”

    Lu You: “…”

    Wow your ass.

    A flocked simulation deer headband, with ears, antlers, electric, with a remote control, will move; a collar with a chain, with a small bell that will ring; a silicone tail, a mysterious design, looks indecent at first glance, and shares a remote control with the headband; the corners are also stuffed with brown small bottles, she twirled a bit at the bottleneck with her fingertip, a layer of oil, the smell of sandalwood diffused in the air.

    A pink small box, the promotional picture is slippery like a pink cucumber, with uneven bumps on it.

    Underneath these things, there was a brown suspender skirt, trimmed with fur, deep V, very short.

    So short that it might not cover the buttocks at all.

    Foreigners are open, and the scale of sending a set of fun products can be so large that there is no lower limit – why is it a deer suit!

    Is it that hard to design the moon so erotically?

    Lu You covered the gift box with a blank expression. When she raised her head, she met a pair of eyes like the moon floating on the deep sea, and the moonlight in those eyes was extremely bright.

    “Wear it.” For a moment, she couldn’t tell whether she was acting spoiled or coaxing.

    “Who wears it?”

    The other party looked at her, her long eyelashes moving lightly and slowly, “You wear it.”

    “…Why not you wear it.”

    Lu You thought she would say, because your surname is “Lu,” and she was already prepared to reply: From today on, my surname will be Zhang.

    As a result, Yue Yunxi pushed the gift box in front of her, raised a face that was illuminated by the firelight, and smiled gently and inclusively.

    It was as if she shouldn’t have asked such a question, and she didn’t care.

    “Because I’m drunk, it’s immoral to let a drunk person wear this kind of clothes.”

    Lu You: “…”

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