MLROCSHR Chapter 35

Chapter 35: Running Away From Home

“That’s right, someone as outstanding as Qi Luzhi-gege should definitely have a marriage alliance with an equally outstanding family like ours, and then have children to continue the family’s glory.”

Seeing Lian Xun blankly stunned in place, Li Yu’s momentum weakened, “Forget it, forget it, I can’t be bothered to argue with you.”

She raised her hand and pushed Lian Xun aside, “In any case, you have no right to interfere with what I do at Luzhi-gege’s house, move aside, I want to go in, I’m freezing!”

Lian Xun, like a puppet with broken strings, allowed Li Yu to push him aside. The bouquet of flowers scattered at his feet, the soil from the roots leaving a trace of dirt on the clean white floor tiles.

“Yes, I have no right.”

“I’m not worthy!”

Lian Xun smiled bitterly.

How could he forget that Qi Luzhi was an orphan since childhood, and a particularly eager orphan for a family.

And he, could never give Qi Luzhi the family he wanted.

All the self-deception and feigned strength disappeared at this moment, and Lian Xun suddenly felt that his persistence all along seemed to be just a joke.

Qi Luzhi’s attitude towards him has always been clear, hasn’t it?

He hated his betrayal back then, loathed his hypocrisy, and treated him as a bed partner that could be discarded at will…

Living together for a long time, Lian Xun almost forgot about these things.

Li Yu’s appearance dragged these almost forgotten memories out of the depths of Lian Xun’s mind again, cruelly and nakedly placing them before him.

Lian Xun slightly raised his head, the light from the ceiling hitting his reddened eyes, reflecting a trace of crystal.

Qi Luzhi cooked a few dishes and came out to call Lian Xun and Li Yu to eat. The living room was unusually quiet, with not a single person in sight.

“Lian Xun, dinner’s ready.”

Qi Luzhi called out, but no one answered.

Instead, Li Yu ran out of a guestroom on the first floor, familiarly going to the dining table to sit down.

She smelled the dishes on the table, seemingly very satisfied.

“Where’s Lian Xun?” Qi Luzhi felt a sense of unease for no reason.

“Are you talking about that impolite friend of yours? How would I know?” Li Yu had already picked up her chopsticks and started eating ravenously, her mouth stuffed full.

Qi Luzhi frowned slightly, took off his apron and threw it casually on the sofa, and walked towards the second floor.

“Lian Xun…”

He pushed open the door of the guestroom, but Lian Xun was not there. The room was abnormally empty. Lian Xun’s clothes and suitcases, which he usually threw around, were all gone, and even the messy quilt was neatly spread out.

Qi Luzhi’s heart sank suddenly, and a hint of panic flashed in his eyes.

He went to other rooms to look one by one, including his own master bedroom.

Each time he opened a door, his expectation diminished by one point. Until he searched every corner of the villa, Qi Luzhi was completely panicked.

His brain was in a state of crash, not knowing how to react at all. Various emotions violently collided in his chest, and only that last bit of reason, the size of a fingernail, kept him from going crazy on the spot.

The last time he had this feeling was seven years ago.

Lian Xun left him silently, leaving only those few extremely contemptuous humiliations on the phone, crushing a young man’s fiery love into the dirt.

Lian Xun, by what right do you disappear without a word like this every time?

The panic, unwillingness, resentment, and pain in Qi Luzhi’s heart intertwined, and he forgot to call Lian Xun for a moment.

Li Yu saw Qi Luzhi looking like he was about to eat someone in the next second, and felt a little scared. She couldn’t eat her meal in peace.

She reluctantly came to the coffee table, leaned over and rummaged through the lower layer, and after a while, took out a wrinkled piece of paper, straightened it, and handed it to Qi Luzhi.

“Luzhi-gege, this is the note he left for you.”

Qi Luzhi, as if grasping a life-saving straw, quickly took the note.

[Thank you for your hospitality during these days. I am grateful for Qi’s care. I’m going back now, Qi.]

He called him Qi.

The words revealed alienation.

His heart ached fiercely.

Qi Luzhi turned to Li Yu with a questioning look on his face.

Lian Xun couldn’t have run away from home for no reason, this matter must be inseparable from Li Yu.

Li Yu was stared at until her back felt prickly, and she weakly opened her mouth and said, “It has nothing to do with me, I just… I’m just very unhappy with his attitude towards me, so I hid the note.”

“I was playing in the guestroom all the time, and he was already gone when I came out, it really has nothing to do with me.” Li Yu hurriedly added.

“Stay here honestly, wait for your brother to pick you up, I’m going out for a while.”

After Qi Luzhi finished explaining, he quickly went to the cloakroom to get a windbreaker, grabbed the car keys on the hanger, and hurried out the door.

“Hey, Luzhi-gege, aren’t you going to eat?”

“I’m not eating.”

Qi Luzhi’s mind was now full of finding Lian Xun as soon as possible, how could he be in the mood to eat, afraid that if he went late, Lian Xun would disappear without a trace like before.

He didn’t know if he was making a fuss, but he didn’t dare to gamble.

At this moment, he regretted it immensely, why he had been holding on to pointless self-esteem and arguing with Lian Xun.

In fact, the moment Lian Xun came back, he knew that he never hated Lian Xun.

He just had a grudge in his heart.

He was angry that Lian Xun had left him for so long, and angry at himself for being so useless, that even after being discarded like trash, he couldn’t let go of his love for him.

During this period of time, maybe it was because Lian Xun would stick to him shamelessly no matter what, that made him careless.

He never thought that Lian Xun would leave again.

In the foggy night, the black Bentley sped through the traffic, the driver’s heart was in a mess, and he couldn’t stop thinking wildly.

The small apartment, which had not been inhabited for a long time, exuded a faint musty smell, and the inside was colder than the outside.

Lian Xun sneezed while nestled on the sofa, wrapping himself tightly in a blanket.

He was now just full of regret, very regretful!

Why did he run back in a moment of impulse, leaving the comfortable villa, now it was good, he was really freezing like a dog.

He was too impulsive, and Li Yu’s few words made him jealous like crazy. When he came back to his senses, he really wanted to slap himself.

Hadn’t Qi Luzhi already said that she was just his sister?

Maybe that Li Yu was just talking nonsense, deliberately trying to anger him.

Such a simple thing, he could find out the truth by asking Qi Luzhi, but he was like a coward, sneaking back to the apartment.

Okay, he admitted, he was a little bit afraid to ask.

Even if there was only a one in ten thousand chance, he didn’t want to hear that answer.

Now that things had come to this, he had no face to go back.

Moreover, most importantly…

He also wanted to know if Qi Luzhi would come to find him. He just left like this, would Qi Luzhi really worry? Or would he be indifferent and continue to enjoy dinner with Li Yu, and even be glad to finally get rid of him as a nuisance.

Lian Xun stared fixedly at the direction of the door, as if he wanted to see through the door panel.

In his dark eyes, there was both anticipation and uneasiness…