MTMIO Chapter 111
by VolareChapter 111: You’re Hiding Something From Me
On the stone mantel of the fireplace, the Long Island Iced Tea in the glass only had stains clinging to the sides. Lu You had mixed it before her bath.
Vodka, rum, gin, tequila, orange liqueur… She downed it all in one gulp to enter a slightly tipsy state, shedding her shyness and restraint, and put on that outfit that made her blush from head to toe.
Everything, without exception.
If someone hadn’t been relying on the alcohol to act shamelessly, acting spoiled and coaxing her with gentle words, leading her on with promises…
–“Good deer, wear it for me, okay? Please? I want to see it, just this once. Next time, it’s my turn, okay?”
–“How can a deer not have a tail? A deer without a tail is so pitiful.”
–“Just try it on, next time I’ll wear it for you, okay?”
–“If you don’t, I won’t next time either.”
She didn’t even know when “next time” would be.
But she knew that one day, if they switched roles, Yue Yunxi would definitely indulge her without reservation, cooperate with her, generously showing off every beautiful line of her body, allowing her to admire and touch.
She would surely be like a natural succubus, actively teasing, enticing exploration, captivating.
Indulging in the wondrous experience of delving deep into the Peach Blossom Spring.
In things that could please both of them, her sister’s maturity and composure were truly expressed—thoroughly.
And she had no resistance to such a Yue Yunxi, she even anticipated it.
Thus, three “next times” had coaxed her into wearing nothing at all.
“Mmm…”
Lu You frowned, her thoughts pushed to an unwelcome place by the turning of the silicone tail.
In an instant, it was pulled away.
“Wrong place.”
Then, accompanied by cool oil, it was coldly pushed back.
Her thoughts almost scattered, Lu You felt that little deer tail like the positioning line hanging in the middle of a rope during a tug-of-war, being pulled back and forth, swaying uncertainly.
A rich sandalwood scent permeated the sound patterns of the bell.
“Yue Yunxi…” Her voice trembled, her molars about to be crushed, “Try playing like that again, and see what happens?”
The instigator chuckled softly, slowly pouring from the small bottle in her hand.
So cold…
Lu You couldn’t help but shiver, instinctively wanting to crawl away a step.
Her ankle was immediately encircled.
“Running where?”
The person behind her placed a hand on her hip, pulling her up slightly.
Her chest collapsed, sinking towards the ground.
A familiar yoga pose, the cat-cow stretch, made her look like a stretching elk.
Yue Yunxi’s voice was steeped in the rich sandalwood scent, gentle to an unbelievable degree: “Okay, okay, be good, don’t move.”
Just like the nurse giving her a shot in the bottom when she was little.
Softly coaxing, ruthlessly pushing in the needle.
Lu You gasped, the ears on her headband twitched, and her hand placed on the carpet unconsciously curled up, leaving several finger marks.
“So cute…” Yue Yunxi touched the swaying little deer tail.
Lu You couldn’t help but moan softly: “…Don’t touch it.”
“Oh.” Yue Yunxi really didn’t move.
Lu You was about to cry, “…Turn it off.”
“No.” This person was rarely unwilling to accommodate her, stubbornly using a child’s tone, “The little deer wags its tail, it’s very cute.”
Uncomfortable.
Lu You bent her arm, turned her head, and buried her face in the crook of her arm, her rapid breathing contained in suppressed sobs.
She felt a smooth, cool palm along her back, carrying a comforting meaning.
But it aroused a tremor in her skin.
The wood in the fireplace crackled, the tiny bell jingling faintly on her slender white neck, as if only the trembling caused by the large fluctuations in her breathing.
Her cheeks were very hot.
For a moment, she couldn’t tell if it was the firelight or the alcohol from the Long Island Iced Tea.
Or because of the feeling of too many mixed ingredients—too much shyness, a sense of domination like her soul was being scorched, and a subtle sense of anticipation.
Mixed together, like a blackout cocktail, acrid and heady.
A semi-conscious, semi-crazed excitement derived from the tipsiness.
Like a cello lying quietly in the firelight.
She longed for the skilled hands of the cellist, playing the strings to her heart’s content, using all the skill, strength, and speed she had learned in her life.
Playing the cadenza in her body.
She wanted complete madness.
There was also a pianist waiting for her turn to play.
Anticipating tuning the elegant and relaxed piano she had chosen, she would meticulously tune it from the bass to the treble.
Watching the beautiful piano clearly, being played and ruined again and again under her hands.
She wanted to see her look maddened by herself.
And at this moment, Lu You was experiencing the former.
Her cellist was a drunk, naughty child, casually controlling her on the verge of collapse.
In her blurred vision, a water wave chain extended from her neck choker, the end wrapped around a plain white hand, a hand that had been soaked in essential oil, like jade that had been played with until it was smooth and shiny.
The slender tail chain rested on her wrist bone, and with a light turn of the wrist, it slid down, dangling in the air.
The water ripples rippled, and the bell at the end landed with a clear sound.
Circle by circle, loosening circle by circle, enjoying it.
After a long while, that hand finally stopped playing with the chain, casually wrapped it around twice, and took out a box of matches from the shelf under the coffee table, striking a small flame, kissing the wick of the scented candle.
Black cherry scented candle.
The bottle was engraved with Neruda’s love poem—I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
After that, Yue Yunxi got up with the candle and walked to the fireplace mantel.
Lu You passively followed her, crawling closer to the fireplace.
It was getting hotter.
A thin layer of sweat on her body was dried by the fire in the fireplace, and then another layer came out.
The scented candle was placed next to her empty wine glass.
On the other side, two rose hips were inserted in a white ceramic vase, the berries on the branches illuminated by the candlelight, full and red.
Yue Yunxi fiddled with the reddest one.
Not on the branch.
Lu You winced and glared at her.
“You’re hiding something from me,” Yue Yunxi said.
Lu You’s eyebrows twitched slightly, but she didn’t speak.
“Actually, that day, seeing you guys were always in the bathroom, I was worried your stomach hurt, so I went in again,” Yue Yunxi squatted in front of her, her silver-chained hand holding her face, the other hand resting naturally on her knee.
Her fingertips pinched a black remote control the size of a bottle cap.
“Don’t be nervous, I just heard you guys cackling evilly.”
Yue Yunxi’s description was amusing, but Lu You couldn’t laugh, her teeth crushed the sound of a national essence, her wet eyes fell on the hand resting on her knee.
Through her fingers, she could vaguely see a little scarlet light, flickering rapidly.
The deer ears would swing twice at the fastest frequency range.
Her cellist was finally done playing around, starting to get serious, embracing her to her front to play a prelude to a song of praise.
Her back rested in the other’s arms, and when she looked up, she could see the scented candle on the fireplace mantel.
The sandalwood scent in the air was almost imperceptible, covered by the rich incense.
The bergamot in the top note stirred up the maraschino cherry juice, exuding a citrus flavor that awakened the taste buds, and was burned by the flame that fiddled with the wick into a small pool of sparkling liquid.
“Let me guess what it is, is it about me?”
“Mmm…”
“Is it to give me a surprise?”
“Mmm…”
“So you asked Elena for help, it’s for me.” Unlike the previous two sentences, this one seemed to be coaxing herself.
Lu You had no time to think, her voice broken: “Mmm, mmm…”
“Can you tell me now?”
“…Mmm…” Lu You opened her eyes wide, wanting to shake her head, but she could only raise her head, wanting to say no, but not a single sound was complete, wanting to grab her hand, she grabbed it, but had no strength to pull it away.
Fortunately, she understood what she meant.
“Oh, you can’t tell me now.”
“…Mmm.”
“Then when you can, you will naturally tell me.”
“Mmm…”
“Or I will naturally know, right?”
“Mmm…”
She was clearly doing it on purpose, breaking a sentence into two.
“Can you give me some keywords?”
“Mmm… mmm… ah…”
“Mmm… mmm… ah…” She leaned close to her ear, imitating her pronunciation, making her auditory nerves abnormally sensitive, and asked with a smile, “What does that mean?”
Lu You was furious, wishing she could slam her legs together and break her hand, but she was afraid of really hurting her precious hand, delaying the subsequent performance.
She could only keep accounts in her heart while pretending to kiss her, biting her hard in a moment when the other party was overwhelmed with emotions.
The fishy sweetness permeated her mouth.
“…”
There was silence for a long time, no more questions, only fragmented syllables overflowing uncontrollably from her throat, leaping into the crackling sound, adding fuel to the hearth and warming the room.
The firelight flowed on the carpet, and the shadows of the deer ears and tail moved happily.
Seemingly vaguely feeling suffocated, the cherry fragrance seemed even richer and stickier.
The wind pouring in through the window seams stirred the gauze curtains, occasionally raising them high, a glass window separated two worlds, the night snow blurred in the vision like a out-of-focus black and white old movie.
The snow outside was extremely heavy, accumulating a thick layer on the pine branches.
The Christmas tree in the room was pressed to the light switch, and the lights of the small bulbs circled around and up, one circle at a time.
Finally, reaching the top, the hooked moon flickered twice, and with a “pop”, the entire Christmas tree was lit up.
At the same time, the pine branches outside reached their limit, shaking involuntarily, and a large piece of wet snow fell.
Under the tree, was a deer tail like it had been fished out of the water.
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Lu You was exhausted, curled up on the carpet, gasping for breath.
In the silence, she heard Yue Yunxi softly ask: “Will I have to wait long?”
Obviously, unlike the previous questions that were purely teasing her, Yue Yunxi wanted to know the specific answer to this question, so she waited until the end to ask.
After a long while, Lu You calmed her breathing before answering in a hoarse voice: “…About a month.”
Yue Yunxi got up, walked barefoot on the carpet, paused, looked down at the sparkling on the carpet pile, and chuckled softly.
Her steps were light, sunken in the pile, Lu You could hardly catch them, and hearing her chuckle, she realized that she had left the fireplace area.
“I want to drink water,” Lu You said.
“Getting it.”
Her mouth was dry and her throat was parched, and her eyes fell on the empty glass on the fireplace, making her even thirstier.
She swallowed and added: “During this month, you’re not allowed to test me, you’re not allowed to trick me, and you’re not allowed to ask Elena, anyway, you’re not allowed to ask anyone, you’re not allowed to trick anyone.”
A laugh was wrapped in her breathy voice: “Yes, ma’am.”
The voice was very close now.
Almost as soon as the words fell, a slender figure enveloped the firelight in front of her.
Yue Yunxi helped her sit up, kissed her slightly open red lips, passed her a mouthful of water, using her tongue to dip in the moisture, and promised with her lips rubbing against each other:
“I will restrain my curiosity and wait for that day to come.”
The kiss grew fiercer, the restless air ignited at a touch, like pouring two drops of oil on dying embers, and the fire burned up again.
Lu You wrapped her arms around Yue Yunxi’s neck, from responding to taking the initiative.
Until she caught Yue Yunxi’s heavy breathing, her name squeezed out of her unbearable voice: “Lu You…”
Lu You raised her eyes and looked into a pair of overly heavy eyes.
“Want it?” she asked.
Yue Yunxi’s alcohol was probably wearing off a little, and some of her thoughtfulness and consideration returned. She lowered her head and said, “You’re very tired.”
Lu You leaned close to her ear, her moist lips opening and closing.
“…Do it for me.”
Yue Yunxi was stunned, then suddenly laughed and said, “Okay, but there’s one condition.”
“What?”
Yue Yunxi had a circle of silver chain wrapped around her hand, got up, raised her hand, and moved with the silver chain.
“…”
Lu You was led, staggering, to the front of the sofa, tripped, and the step after that could be considered crawling over.
At the other end of the chain, Yue Yunxi took off her long dress and threw it casually on the sofa, sitting on it like a queen, while pulling her in front of her, her hand lifting her chin, her eyes drooping, her eyes falling on her fingertips.
Her gaze moved with her fingertips, caressing her cheeks, moving away, her index finger pointing at her eyes, stopping.
Yue Yunxi looked into her eyes, watching her gaze fall on the fingertips of that hand, satisfied with the hook of her lips, leaning her head back, her back resting against the backrest, her arm wrapped in a silver chain propped on the armrest, against her lips, her legs separated and raised, her feet on the edge of the sofa.
The hand pointing at Lu You’s eyes, with the adjustment of the sitting posture, opened a little distance.
And Lu You’s gaze was still fixed on it.
Only then did Yue Yunxi open her mouth.
One word at a time, like the singing of a Siren: “Your eyes, can’t leave me… here for even a moment.”
Lu You’s gaze fell with her hand, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she subconsciously turned her face away.
In the fireplace, the firelight swayed gently, like a shy and lustful gaze.
The bell was pulled and jingled.
Lu You could only turn her face back along the other party’s strength, and wrap her gaze around the slender white knuckles, watching it serve a flower bloom.
And that wildfire burned directly to her body.
From Christmas Eve to Christmas Day.
The clock hands walked in Yue Yunxi’s muffled moans.
The water wave chain circled around in her palm, and the distance shortened between the light and shadow.
She didn’t know when the heavy snow had stopped.
The little deer in Vienna Woods Park was drinking in the creek.
The ripples blown open by the wind rippled from the stream to the green forest, and finally squeezed in through the cracks and brushed on the moon of the Christmas tree.
The soft yellow light and the firelight blended together, and in the warm tone, Yue Yunxi was grabbing her wrist, putting pink little clothes with a numb touch on her beautiful slender two knuckles, and leading them to the place they should go.
The moonlight poured out from her fingertips, wet and hot.
And she was a crescent moon that would only be wet for her, boiling and overflowing with love.
Melting into the night, melting between her fingers.
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It was three in the morning when it ended.
After washing her hair and taking a shower, and soaking in the bathtub for a while, her body was tired, but her mind was getting clearer and clearer.
The two changed into normal comfortable home clothes and decided to go back to the living room to warm up by the fire.
Yue Yunxi filled the bathtub with water.
Lu You went out first and took the Christmas present she had prepared for Yue Yunxi.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t find a chance to put the gift in the Christmas stocking.
New firewood had been added to the fireplace, and the fire was burning brightly, making people feel warm.
Lu You curled up in the single sofa on the right, staring at the Christmas stocking in a daze, thinking, should she just give it to Yue Yunxi.
“What are you thinking about?”
“I was thinking, if we don’t sleep, Santa Claus won’t come to give presents,” Lu You asked deliberately, “Are you disappointed?”
Yue Yunxi smiled and looked at her, “I already have everything I want.”
Lu You clicked her tongue.
“Even a pleasant and crazy night.”
“…” Lu You mumbled, “When will I be as thick-skinned as you?”
“Do it a few more times.”
Lu You crumpled a piece of paper and threw it at her, “Do your sister.”
“Okay.”
“Ah!” She crumpled another one and threw it, “Are you still drunk?”
“No.”
She didn’t know if she was saying she wasn’t awake, or denying it.
Lu You concluded that she was drunk but not clear, slightly awake.
Her lowered gaze fell on the carpet.
One place on the carpet was a mess.
Lu You glanced at it and took back her gaze, “…What are you going to do to clean that carpet?”
Yue Yunxi glanced over at her gaze and couldn’t help but smirk, “I might have to ask a professional to clean it.”
“!” Lu You crumpled another piece of paper and threw it at her, “That’s going to be so embarrassing!”
Yue Yunxi laughed and leaned on the sofa, “I’ll check the guides during the day and do it at home.”
Lu You was still not relieved: “You knew to put clothes on the sofa, but you didn’t know to put clothes on me.” She threw another one.
“And what’s with that dog tail, I…”
Thinking of her appearance of collapsing to the point of being completely uncontrollable at the end, Lu You was angry, and crumpled two pieces and threw them over.
“It’s a deer tail,” Yue Yunxi corrected.
There was no more paper, only a light plastic wrapper left. She threw it out hard, but it landed in front of her, shaking.
“The little deer tail is very cute,” Yue Yunxi said, “You clearly liked it too.”
“Try saying you don’t like it, you’ll definitely touch your nose.”
“The body won’t speak.”
“Yue Yunxi!” There was nothing left on the coffee table to throw, Lu You reached her hand into her pocket, took out the things inside, and threw them all over.
“Shut up…”
That pile of things fell into Yue Yunxi’s arms.
Yue Yunxi was slightly stunned.
It was a violin-style doll, fluffy, with embroidered eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a pair of glasses frames, and two legs swinging under the body of the violin. It could sit or stand leaning on something.
“Is this…did you make this?”
“…” Lu You coughed lightly, “Well, that thing is your practice partner when I’m not around.”
“When is ‘when you’re not around’?”
“For example, when you’re competing, or when you’re going to other countries to compete, and I’m busy with my own things and can’t accompany you.” Lu You paused, “Also, when you and Elena practice the piano alone.”
“Are you jealous?”
“No.” Her hand touching her nose paused, and she lowered her hand and explained, “Yes, but not much. Only when I think of Elena liking you, there’s just a little bit.”
“I like you when you’re jealous.”
Lu You shook her head, thinking of a certain moment not long ago, when this person was close to her ear.
Saying, “I like you possessing me.”
Yue Yunxi hugged the doll and asked casually, “Can’t the little deer doll also accompany you?”
“That one’s too big. It takes up a lot of space in the suitcase. Some space is left for more important things. And… when you’re not at home, it has to stay at home to accompany me. One little deer isn’t enough.” Lu You glared at her, “Do you want it or not? Why are you asking so many questions? If you don’t like it, give it to me.”
Lu You pretended to take it back, “I worked very hard to make it.”
Her hands were only suitable for playing the piano, and handmade work was simply putting her patience on the rough ground and rubbing it.
But she did it again and again for this person.
“Who said I don’t like it.” Yue Yunxi hurriedly protected the violin doll in her arms and avoided it, “This is a Christmas present from my girlfriend.”
Seeing that she really liked it, Lu You finally happily stretched her eyebrows and snorted, “Wow, I’m so envious of you.”
“Oh, you don’t have a gift from your girlfriend,” Yue Yunxi asked deliberately.
“Yeah.” She lowered her head, her ears turning red, “My girlfriend was just focused on being happy.”
Yue Yunxi chuckled: “The gift I prepared for you is an unfinished product.”
“Huh?” Lu You looked up at her, “What do you mean?”
“You’ll know when you see it.” Yue Yunxi told her to take it from the Christmas stocking.
“When did you put it in?” Lu You got up and went over.
“In the middle of the night on the day I set up the Christmas tree.”
So early?
Seeing the surprise in her expression, Yue Yunxi explained: “Because it’s an unfinished product.”
Lu You took out the gift from the Christmas stocking with suspicion.
It was a storage album for Polaroid photos, with a mushroom buckle acrylic panel for the bottom, a stand, and it could also be used as a display stand. The inside was an inner page that could be added and removed at any time.
She opened the cover.
The first page was a photo that Yue Yunxi took of her in front of the glass window of the Nanquan Conservatory of Music.
“Hi, my girlfriend, you’re really beautiful.”
The second page was in a bar in Shencheng, where she was seriously playing the piano.
“Go to a bigger stage. You should be the moon surrounded by stars.”
The third page was at Yue Yunxi’s house, on the platform in front of the study, where she was sitting on the futon, staring blankly at the pond.
“I wonder if there’s any trace of me in your mind at this moment.”
The fourth page was at Tuoba’s birthday party, where fireworks bloomed in the sky, and the two of them took a photo in front of the car.
“Tonight, I have a clear carnival.”
The fifth page was a photo of a puzzle—the moon drawn by fingertips on a hazy fog glass was clearly visible; two movie tickets pasted together; silhouettes leaning very close together between bookshelves, as if embracing each other.
“I haven’t liked you for a long time, but, but…”
Lu You’s eyes fell on the “but” through her feverish eye sockets, and without thinking, she thought of it—However, every moment of liking added up doesn’t count as a short time.
The sixth page was a photo of them lying on the sofa bed in the study before the event, with roses scattered everywhere, and a sheet of music spread out between them.
She still remembered that day.
After taking a group photo, Yue Yunxi said to her, “There’s another sheet of music, do you want to read it?”
She took it seriously and asked, “Where is it?”
Yue Yunxi came over, grabbed her hand and pressed it on her chest, kissed her lips and said, “Here, come and read me.”
Under the photo, she wrote: “I love you, with love, with gentleness, with desire.”
The seventh page was a shadow photo taken when they were walking.
“Look, there are two shadows under the moonlight, one is yours, and the other is also yours.”
The eighth page was a lonely little deer sitting on the bed, holding a piece of paper with a row of little ducks drawn on it, the team was crooked, and a bubble was drawn on top of each little duck’s head, writing: “Can’t align duck.”
And on the inner page under the photo, it wrote: “Sorry, ah.”
The ninth to nineteenth pages were photos taken when they were in Florence.
Countless moments that were secretly recorded.
The twentieth page.
In the faint morning light, Yue Yunxi’s hand wrapped around the necklace with her pinky ring, holding her hand.
She used the photo to fix an eternity.
The reflection point of the pinky ring burned her eye sockets with that little light.
In her blurred vision, she saw the words written under the photo, and tears fell instantly.
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On the ninth day in Vienna, the snow that had been falling for two days finally stopped, and Yue Yunxi began to take her practice partner to practice the piano, and directly rejected Elena’s request to make one for her too on Lu You’s behalf.
Elena was so angry that she pulled her to practice for another two hours.
Lu You stayed by her side for those two hours. It was too cold, and she was too lazy to go out. She took a cell phone and swiped her WeChat Moments boredly.
A group message notification popped up on the screen.
Lu You clicked on it casually.
Li Can forwarded a short video.
In the video, marketing accounts were summarizing the business wars in reality, poisoning koi, watering money trees to death, changing the dishes at the opponent’s dinner party to ten dishes of smashed cucumbers…
Li Can: [Hahahaha, I’m dying of laughter at the business wars in the novels. They’re high-end, atmospheric, and classy. The business wars in reality are immoral but legal~]
Jian Yanzhi: [The day before yesterday, I saw someone share an illegal example that was especially explosive!]
Li Can: [What?]
Chen Feifei: [Putting my ear up.]
Jian Yanzhi continued: [Boss A and Boss B of another company are good brothers. The two companies actually have a bit of a competitive relationship, but because their relationship is good, and men value loyalty the most (emphasis), they sacrificed big profits and reached a small profit cooperation. The relationship between the two is even better, so good that they can wear the same pair of pants and play with the same woman.]
Chen Feifei: [Ew, disgusting.]
Yun Zhu: [Wait, let me kick Zhong Mi out, and then pull her back in later.]
The system prompted that Zhong Mi had been kicked out of the group chat.
Jian Yanzhi continued: [Although it looks like this on the surface, B got A’s girlfriend pregnant, and A was still unhappy (it is said that A is infertile). They began to have disagreements, and then, because the environment was not good, the efficiency of the two companies was not good, and a little bit of this and that happened, and the good brothers who valued loyalty turned against each other.]
Li Can: [Valuing loyalty~ laughable!]
Chen Feifei: [And then?]
Jian Yanzhi: [Then, B forcibly canceled the cooperation between the two companies, and also snatched the partner from A. A’s company was not as good as B’s, and lost a lot of projects, and announced bankruptcy.
A, the new girlfriend he was talking to, took his finger and pressed his fingerprint to unlock his phone while he was sleeping, and transferred all the money in his personal account to herself, and then ran away.
A was so angry that he couldn’t find this little girlfriend. He was furious and thought of the girlfriend who was made pregnant by B before, saying that that girlfriend was the most sensible and simple, and didn’t ask him for anything after breaking up (reasonably suspecting that she was on B’s list, so she didn’t want his money). The more A thought about it, the angrier he got, so he went to B’s company, took a brick, and smashed B’s head. It is said that B hasn’t woken up until now.]
Chen Feifei: [Holy shit, will this get you in jail?]
Jian Yanzhi: [I don’t know, A seems to have a mental illness certificate or something.]
Li Can: […Classic, too classic.]
Chen Feifei: [These days, even the mentally ill are company bosses, and I’m still working like a horse. Little me is sitting on a high lemon mountain.]
Yun Zhu: [Be careful Lu You sees it and condemns you.]
Chen Feifei: [Hmph, Youyou won’t condemn me. She’ll know I’m making a joke when she sees it.]
Li Can quoted what she said above that even the mentally ill can be company bosses and replied: [Who knows if it’s a real illness or a fake illness. At least you’re safe and won’t get hit in the head with a brick hahahaha.]
Lu You forgot about it after reading it and didn’t pay much attention to it.
No one in the group talked about this topic again, just like a little gossip after dinner, shared to hear something new, with no value to be discussed and remembered in depth.
Until the time to brush her teeth at night, Chen Feifei exploded with a message.
Chen Feifei: [Holy shit!!! It was revealed that the one who got hit in the head is Tao Xin’s father!]
Jian Yanzhi: [I also saw the news that Tao Xin went to the hospital to visit her injured father, but there seems to be no direct evidence that the two people are the same person. I don’t know if it’s true or false.]
Li Can: [Does Youyou know Tao Xin? It would be great if she could go find out…]
Chen Feifei: [No, no, our Youyou doesn’t associate with her anymore. If you let Youyou go find out, my goddess will be jealous to death!]
Li Can: [Oh my god, Teacher Yue is so scheming. No, I’m going to withdraw my words.]
Li Can withdrew her words.
Lu You searched the Internet and found that, as Jian Yanzhi said, the reporter only photographed Tao Xin going to the hospital to visit Tao Mingyuan, but there was no information on Tao Mingyuan’s current situation.
Or maybe they did, but Tao Xin bought out the photos.
Lu You scrolled up through the group chat history.
If Tao Mingyuan was really hit in the head.
The person who hit him in the head with a brick wouldn’t be Lu Huai’an, would it?
Just as Lu You was hesitating whether to ask Tao Xin, Zhang Wenyin made a video call.
Lu You rinsed her mouth before answering the call.
Like the past few days, Yue Yunxi went to take a shower first.
Lu You thought about it, took her phone to the living room, turned on the heat, poured a glass of hot water, and went to the sofa near the Christmas tree.
During this time, Zhang Wenyin chatted with her about some family matters.
Until she curled up on the sofa, wanting to hold her hot teacup to warm herself, and discussed with Zhang Wenyin whether she could switch to a voice call.
Zhang Wenyin had no objections.
After switching, Zhang Wenyin suddenly said, “By the way, Youyou, if you come back to China during this time, you must tell Mom. Mom will pick you up and you can stay with me. Don’t go to the little Western-style house, and especially can’t go to Lanwan.”
Lu You’s right eyelid twitched: “Why?”
“A few days ago, when I was going to get your single certificate and unmarried certificate for you, I ran into Lu Huai’an when I went to get your household register. He was just wandering around at the door.”
Lu You sat up straight: “He didn’t do anything to you, did he?”
“No, no. A Yun and I went together. The assistant, the agent, and the tuner arranged by the event were all there. He saw us and left, like he was just passing by. But the more I think about it these days, the more wrong it feels. I feel like he’s staking you out… Anyway, listen to Mom. Come to Mom’s place when you come back to China.”
Lu You thought for a moment, touched her nose, and responded, “Okay.”
After ending the call, Lu You stroked the cup that was already warm, took out a phone number from the blacklist in her address book, and dialed it.
On the other end, a delicate female voice said sleepily, “Hello?”
She didn’t change her phone number. Lu You put down the cup in her hand and said with a smile, “Hello, I’m Lu You.”
The other party was obviously stunned and didn’t hang up the phone directly.
She took advantage of the other party’s reaction before she said, “I want to make a deal with you. The stake is an apartment. Are you interested?”
“Lu, You, Lu Huai’an’s daughter, right? I remember you.” The girl paused, and smiled, “I have to thank you.”
“Thank me for what?”
“When Old Lu was injured and hospitalized, I called you to ask you for medical expenses. You asked me how I used his phone to call you. That reminded me that I could directly take his hand to press his fingerprint and ask him to transfer the medical expenses to me himself. I have to thank you for your kind reminder. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be living such a comfortable life now.”
Maybe she remembered her indifferent attitude towards Lu Huai’an at the funeral, or maybe she felt that she was a friend, not an enemy, and sincerely thanked her unintentional or intentional “advice.”
Or perhaps she was using these words to drag her into her camp – what I did has something to do with you.
Lu You couldn’t figure out the other party’s attitude, so she didn’t say anything and waited for her to continue.
“I didn’t take much, just more than 800,000. He promised to give it to me himself. He forgets things easily, but I haven’t forgotten. The rest of his property is still inherited by you, his daughter. I didn’t touch your piece of the pie. And you just said the stake is an apartment. An apartment is worth more than 800,000, right?”
“I’m not here to ask you to return that money. His money has nothing to do with me. I don’t care how much you took.” Lu You interrupted the other party, casually pressing the light switch on the Christmas tree, and the small light bulbs lit up from the largest circle at the bottom.
“I said, I’m here to make a deal with you.”
On the other end of the phone, the woman finally stopped talking nonsense and got straight to the point, “What deal?”