Chapter 47: Even More Alluring Than Usual

After that day, Yue Yunxi received her advancement notice and flew to Munich to participate in an international music competition. Lu You didn’t see her again, but correspondingly, their chats on WeChat became more frequent.

Most of the content was like reporting on daily life.

Actually, in the beginning, their chat records were only updated with a few messages a day.

Until one night, Lu You was browsing Moments before going to bed and surprisingly saw a photo posted by Yue Yunxi—

A large, round moon seemed to hang on the treetops, its faint silver light outlining the edges of the leaves, hazy like a dream captured by the lens.

It was so rare to see Yue Yunxi post updates that Lu You didn’t even notice the message below, written by Chu Xiao: “If I’d known fans were this crazy, I wouldn’t have taken that gig with the little singer in the first place. What a jinx.”

Lu You saved Yue Yunxi’s photo to her phone album and directly clicked into her profile.

She was surprised to find that, since arriving in Munich, Yue Yunxi had been posting at least three updates a day. Small things like a drop of rain sliding off a leaf tip, or large things like a clear blue sky, were all captured in photos and shared on Moments.

Lu You liked each of her recent updates from bottom to top.

Before she could finish, a private message popped up. Lu You waited until she was done liking before switching to the chat window to read it.

Yue Yunxi: [Not asleep yet, little like assistant?]

Lu You was amused by her nickname and replied with a smile as she typed: [Not sleepy yet, even more energized from liking your posts now.]

Yue Yunxi always replied quickly: [Then, can I call you?]

Although the sentence didn’t include any emojis and the tone couldn’t be felt through the cold screen, Lu You still detected a hint of tentative probing in the words, so careful and cautious that it was hard to refuse.

After hesitating for a moment, she changed from a side-lying position to sitting up against the headboard and directly made a voice call.

The ringtone barely sounded twice before it was answered. Yue Yunxi’s very soft breath reached her ears, wrapped in the faint sound of the wind, blowing through the airwaves and making it hard to distinguish whether it was a laugh or slightly heavy breathing.

The quiet atmosphere flowed slowly in these subtle movements.

Lu You cleared her throat and spoke first to break the silence: “You wanted to call… why aren’t you saying anything?”

The other end was silent for several more seconds, then murmured a drawn-out “Mm,” as if sighing, and said, “I didn’t expect you to call first. I’m flattered and, for a moment, forgot what I wanted to say.”

Lu You realized belatedly that she had moved from a passive to an active position. This kind of behavior was as if she also really wanted to call Yue Yunxi.

Maybe it hadn’t reached the point of really wanting to, but she didn’t not want to, either.

So, not dwelling on the matter, Lu You cleared her throat and casually asked, “What time is it there now?”

“A little after five in the afternoon.”

“Have you eaten?”

“No.” Yue Yunxi paused, adding, “Not hungry yet, I bought some bread to bring back.”

Lu You raised her eyebrows: “Just eating bread? You don’t go out and eat something good?”

Yue Yunxi laughed and said, “Bread is enough. This place is a leader in the German culinary desert, everything is hard to eat.”

Lu You couldn’t help but curl her lips: “It feels like you really dislike Munich.”

“Your feeling is accurate.”

“Ah… I saw your updates, and I thought you really liked Munich.”

It wasn’t without reason that Lu You would think this. After all, before going to Munich, Yue Yunxi’s image on Moments was just a machine for forwarding concert promotion links.

“I don’t like it.” Yue Yunxi quickly denied, “I can’t eat well every day, and I haven’t adjusted to the time difference. I’m so tired, YoYo.”

Her beautiful voice, as smooth as jade flowing in a stream, now carried obvious weariness, like a layer of winter snow melting, making it seem even clearer and more subdued.

Calling her by her nickname was also more alluring than usual.

Caught off guard by her showing her vulnerable side, Lu You felt for a moment as if she had been struck by a mild electric current, with her cerebral cortex and even her heart tingling faintly.

She had never seen Yue Yunxi like this.

Lu You uncontrollably imagined what kind of fragile state Yue Yunxi was in at this moment, telling her about her fatigue.

In Munich at this time, looking out from the hotel’s floor-to-ceiling windows, was the entire city plunged into the blue tones after sunset?

Was that lonely sky color cast on the person holding the phone and talking to her?

“I don’t like it here at all,” Yue Yunxi sighed, “But after coming here, I have a very strong desire to share things with you, but I’m worried that those things are boring, and constantly sending them to you would bother you, so… I can only post them on Moments.”

Lu You got out of bed and walked from the bedroom to the balcony, letting the cool autumn breeze calm her restless heart.

“I… I won’t think it’s boring. You can send everything to me,” she replied nervously without thinking, “If you’re too tired, you can find me anytime, treat me like a trash can.”

“I don’t want to treat you like a trash can,” Yue Yunxi said seriously, pausing for several seconds before saying softly, “You are… W AllIsland.”

She deliberately muted the two middle words, afraid Lu You couldn’t handle it.

But she had heard this phrase before, and knew that in the two seconds of pause was—

Mine.

This night, Lu You remembered vividly for a long, long time afterward.

The night breeze was cool. She had come out in a hurry, wearing only a loose, long dress, and it was short-sleeved, her arms exposed, but she didn’t feel cold at all.

There was a heat deep within her body, rising like a fire.

Lu You sat on the swing on the balcony, covering her hot cheeks: “You are the moon, I’m not.”

The other end seemed stunned for a moment, then spoke, “The moon doesn’t know it’s the moon.”

Lu You felt like she had drunk a big bottle of iced beer, these two sentences making her feel slightly tipsy.

After a brief silence, she was led by her heart and changed the topic: “…When are you coming back?”

“The twenty-seventh,” Yue Yunxi asked with a smile, “Want to pick me up at the airport?”

She had been teased all evening. Lu You propped up her legs, swinging the swing back and forth, neither agreeing nor refusing: “Depends on my mood.”

“Then starting today, I’ll wish that Lu You You’s mood gets better every day.”

Lu You chuckled, “What Lu You You…”

“It’s easier to say.”

“Then I’ll think of something easy to say for you too.”

“Okay,” Yue Yunxi replied lightly.

That cheerful tone made Lu You feel instinctively that she was about to be hooked into a trap again, so she said slyly, “Oh, then, Yunxi-jie jie.”

“…”

Hearing the sigh on the other end, Lu You covered her mouth to stop herself from laughing.

The phone call lasted a full two hours. They didn’t know what to talk about at the beginning, but they talked more and more, ending with Lu You replying “Good night” to Yue Yunxi.

It was from that day on that the content in their chat records began to increase.

For example, Lu You went to that women’s gym for a day, signed up for a card, and found that there was a diving hall called solo next door. She went in for a stroll and unexpectedly met a little girl holding a familiar Enmity Doll.

She snapped a photo and sent it to Yue Yunxi: [Look, your same style]

Yue Yunxi: [It’s the same one.]

YoYo: [Hmm? Is the doll yours?]

Yue Yunxi: [I met this child before and gave her the doll. She’s a little special, a child from the stars.]

As she looked at this message, the little girl happened to walk up to Lu You, her grape-like eyes staring straight at the giraffe pendant on her bag.

It was the pendant Yue Yunxi had given her, which she had taken off the closet doorknob and clipped onto the bag her grandma had crocheted for her.

Lu You also looked at the little girl, finding it hard to imagine that she was an autistic child.

She squatted down and held up the pendant, asking, “Do you want this?”

The girl didn’t react or speak, her gaze still fixed on the pendant.

“I can’t give you this,” Lu You took out the car keys from her bag, removed the fur ball pendant and handed it over, “How about I give you this fur ball?”

The girl, like a rusty machine, paused for a long time before taking the fur ball and looping the cord onto the doll’s hand, then took something out of her overall pocket and stuffed it into Lu You’s hand before running away.

Standing up and watching the girl run to the front desk, sticking to a woman with a stylish perm, Lu You retracted her gaze and opened her hand to look at the thing digging into her palm.

It was a silver disc, made of clay, with an uneven surface.

She picked it up with her fingers and looked at it from a distance, suddenly realizing that this round silver clay was a moon.

She took a photo of the silver moon and was about to send it to Yue Yunxi when she saw a message in the chat box.

Yue Yunxi: [Unhappy?]

Lu You reacted for a while, understanding that Yue Yunxi had misunderstood that she was unhappy that the doll had been given away.

YoYo: [Not unhappy, it’s very suitable to give the doll to a child]

Yue Yunxi: [More suitable to give to you.]

Yue Yunxi: [But I was in a very low mood that day, I had no ability to think. She used a firefly in a bottle to exchange, so I exchanged it.]

YoYo: [And then? You let the firefly go]

Yue Yunxi: [? How are you giving away the plot?]

Lu You curved her lips and smiled, moving at a snail’s pace towards the door while continuing to chat with Yue Yunxi: [That little girl just wanted the giraffe pendant you gave me]

After a minute or two, Yue Yunxi sent a reply: [Did you put the giraffe on the bag?]

Lu You clenched her phone, feeling a subtle shyness, and after a long time, replied: [Mm]

Yue Yunxi: [Then did you give it to the little girl?]

YoYo: [If I said I gave it, would you be unhappy]

Yue Yunxi: [I would be a little lost, but I won’t let you know.]

Not unhappy, but lost, and not a lot, only a little, because she cared, there was this little bit of loss.

Lu You’s heartbeat also quickened a little.

She stopped and stood in place, replying: [But haven’t you let me know now?]

Yue Yunxi: [Betting that if you ask, you probably didn’t give it away.]

YoYo: [What if you bet wrong?]

Yue Yunxi: [If I bet wrong, I’ll treat you to dinner]

YoYo: [Then congratulations, you bet right, I gave her the little fur ball from the car key]

Yue Yunxi: [That’s a pity.]

She said that was a pity.

Pity she didn’t have a chance to treat her to dinner.

A person walking towards her was also playing with their phone, not paying attention, and lightly bumped into her shoulder as they passed.

Lu You was distracted for a moment, realizing that she had been standing here for a while, just to chat with Yue Yunxi.

Taking a step, she sent Yue Yunxi the photo she had just taken, saying: [She gave me this in return]

Yue Yunxi also sent her a photo, a crescent moon made of gold clay.

YoYo: [Did the little girl give it too?]

Yue Yunxi: [Yes, last time’s return gift, the little artist is improving quickly.]

Lu You wondered if this little friend was wholesale selling clay moons and happened to pass by the front desk, glancing at it.

She saw the little friend taking out all the clay pieces from her pocket, arranging them in a row, with stars, shrimp, crabs, and hamburgers…

There was no moon.

YoYo: [How coincidental, we both got moons]

Yue Yunxi: [Looking at it this way, the Enmity Doll is indeed suitable for her]

Arriving at the parking lot, Lu You unlocked the Vespa and sat on the seat, holding her phone in the stand and lighting up the screen, which had gone dark.

The screen was still on the chat window with Yue Yunxi.

She stared at the few lines of text above, involuntarily returning to the state she was in when chatting about them, and inadvertently glanced at the rearview mirror next to her.

Her face was reflected in the mirror, and the smile on her lips was even brighter than the afternoon sun in autumn.

She pursed her lips, restrained her expression, and sent a voice message: “I’m getting ready to ride home.”

Yue Yunxi replied in seconds: [Okay, be safe.]

…

Another example was finding a profile picture for Yue Yunxi.

On the first day of finding a profile picture, she sent Yue Yunxi the photo of the moon she had taken, casually saying: [I feel like the photos you take yourself are very suitable for profile pictures]

Yue Yunxi really didn’t pick at the profile picture she found, and immediately changed it.

Looking at the small picture, it lost its artistic conception.

Yun Zhu even asked in the group: [Is your profile picture a coin on a black velvet cloth?]

After realizing it was the moon, Yun Zhu felt like she had slapped herself in the face and immediately withdrew the message, but coincidentally, Yue Yunxi saw it and conveniently took a screenshot and sent it to Lu You.

So the next day.

When Yue Yunxi posted a photo of herself wearing the earrings Lu You gave her with a formal dress, Lu You circled the close-up photo of the moon earrings on her earlobe and suggested that Yue Yunxi set this photo as her profile picture.

As a result, Yue Yunxi received several harassment messages from “confident” and “mentally ill” men in one day.

On the third day, Lu You began to find various online pictures to send to Yue Yunxi to try.

Sand sculpture pictures, she felt, didn’t match Yue Yunxi’s personality.

Internet celebrity pictures, she felt, were not as good-looking as Yue Yunxi herself.

Cartoon pictures, she felt, were not suitable for Yue Yunxi’s temperament.

By the end, the profile picture had not been decided, and Li Can sent a screenshot in the group, which was a student from the Nanquan University School of Music privately messaging her, asking: [Has Teacher Yue’s account been hacked? She’s changed her profile picture eight hundred times in one day!]

Lu You: “…”

There weren’t eight hundred!

On the day she decided to give up finding a profile picture for Yue Yunxi, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Lu Huai’an came back for a meal, and before leaving, he urged Lu You and the old lady to go to the Jin Duan Fang cheongsam shop to see if there were suitable finished products to buy, and if not, to hurry up and choose a material and measure the size.

Jin Duan Fang was in another district of Nanquan City, more than an hour’s drive away.

On the way, Lu You’s phone rang twice, both calls from out of town. The first time, she subconsciously pressed to reject the call.

The second time, it was at a red light. She pressed to answer, turned on the speakerphone, and a voice that had been processed with a voice changer came from the other end, spewing out a string of swear words.

Hearing this, Lu You immediately hung up the phone.

The grandmother, sitting in the passenger seat, heard everything clearly and frowned, asking, “Who is this?”

“I don’t know, wrong number, maybe.”

Lu You didn’t take it to heart. After arriving at the shop, she put the number on the blacklist.

The shop owner, wearing a long-sleeved cheongsam with large sleeves, greeted them with a smile and led them into the shop.

While the grandmother was trying on clothes, Lu You sat on a chair on the side, waiting.

The wall next to her had a wooden carved flower window inlaid in it, with half of it open. Outside, there was an osmanthus tree planted, with branches of yellow flowers surrounded by green leaves stretching horizontally to the window.

She took out her phone and pointed it at the osmanthus flowers at the window, preparing to take a photo, when the phone suddenly vibrated.

A text message popped up: What kind of thing are you, you stinky bitch, you should die soon!

Her hand shook, and the photo was blurred.

Lu You frowned and checked the phone number that sent the text message. It was the same origin as the number she had blacklisted before. Other than that, there was no other information.

It was like the same person had changed numbers and gone crazy.

She put this number on the blacklist too, and didn’t care too much about it, re-taking a photo of the osmanthus branches.

When deleting the blurred photo, she scanned the online pictures she had saved before, and Lu You’s eyes went dark.

She announced that finding a suitable profile picture for Yue Yunxi was even harder than playing with a new fingering!

After deleting the online pictures, the end of the album became the photo she took of the ceramic fawn.

Lu You shared it with Yue Yunxi and then typed in the input box: Your profile picture is too hard to pick, or, you still…

Halfway through the word.

Yue Yunxi sent a message first: [Changed.]

“?”

Lu You was stunned, then noticed that the profile picture in the small box on the left had changed –

It became the ceramic fawn.

When she took the photo, the light on her dressing table was on, and under the fair light, the glaze of the ceramic was particularly soft, making the deer look very immortal.

The apprentice in the shop brought a cup of hot water at this time.

Lu You came back to her senses, thanked her, and freed her left hand to pick up the cup.

In the lowered line of sight, was the ceramic deer photo shrunk in the profile picture frame.

It’s quite suitable for a profile picture…

Her fingertips pressed back into the input box, and she silently cleared all the words she had typed, and took a sip of the hot water.

In the evening wind, stirring up ripples in the cup, there was a strong aroma of osmanthus.

—

Ten days later, the boss of Jin Duan Fang called to say that she could pick up the cheongsam.

After finishing her piano lesson with Zhong Shuyun, Lu You took her grandmother to the store to try on clothes to see if there were any places that needed to be changed.

When contacting Lu Huai’an to transfer the money, the boss asked Lu You to send a message to Moments to help promote it, and she could give a discount.

Lu You didn’t want to save Lu Huai’an money at all, but she couldn’t bear to refuse the boss, so she said, “Give me a discount next time I come.”

The boss smiled and agreed readily, “Okay!”

Lu You recorded a short video of the fabric and finished cheongsam and sent it to Moments. There were many tuning and Lost Deer bar customers lying in her list, and she received dozens of likes and comments in a short time.

There were also private messages asking for the store address, tailor’s skills, and prices. Lu You patiently replied to each one, asked the boss for contact information, and posted it in Moments.

She thought she could stop, but the prompt messages kept popping up.

Lu You clicked to take a look and found that the Big Dipper Seven Star group, which had been silent for some time because everyone was busy, had exploded.

It originated from Zhong Mi forwarding her video to the group.

Li Can: [Damn! These materials look so good! I’m going to order two sets, one for Grandma and one for me~ @Jian Yanzhi, Zhi Zhi, do you want to go together?]

Jian Yanzhi: [Wait for me to lose weight]

Chen Feifei: [It’s not Zhi Zhi, you’re not fat, what weight are you losing, and cheongsam needs to be worn with a fleshy body to have charm.]

Yun Zhu: [Like you?]

Chen Feifei: [Are you insulting me or praising me?]

Yun Zhu: [Obviously praising, or, should we order one set each and wear it as a group uniform?]

Zhong Mi: [Okay! I want to wear the same as my sister!]

Zhong Mi: [@YoYo, sister, look at the cheongsam you customized this time!]

Li Can: [@YoYo, sister, look at the cheongsam you customized this time!]

Chen Feifei: [@YoYo, sister, look at the cheongsam you customized this time!]

Yun Zhu: [@YoYo, sister, look at the cheongsam you customized this time!]

Lu You, who inexplicably had a few more sisters: “…”

At the same time, Yue Yunxi’s private message also came: [What kind of material did you order?]

The material alone is not as good as when it’s worn, but Lu You didn’t take a photo of it worn, and the cheongsam was already folded up.

So she replied to Yue Yunxi first: [You’ll know on Grandma’s birthday, I’m getting ready to go home, talk later]

Then, she switched to the group chat and replied to the others: [Come to Grandma’s birthday to see]

After replying to the message, the cheongsam was also packaged and handed over. Lu You put away her phone, took the bag, and took her grandmother home.

When they got home, Auntie Liu was wearing a mask and standing in front of the mailbox at the gate of the yard, taking off the plastic gloves on her hands, with garbage bags and buckets at her feet.

“What are you doing?” Grandmother asked curiously.

“I used to smell a bad smell when I passed by here, so I checked it out. I don’t know which brat stuffed dog poop in it. Today, there’s another smell. I just opened it and saw that it was stuffed with a bunch of disgusting things, so I quickly cleaned it up.”

Auntie Liu threw the plastic gloves into the black garbage bag at her feet unhappily, and bent over to tie the bag.

Lu You asked, “What things?”

Auntie Liu lifted the garbage bag to the side and said, “Dog poop and dead mice, don’t look at it, it’s scary.”

Lu You took half a step back in disgust, swallowed to suppress the urge to vomit, and looked at Auntie Liu, only to feel that the slightly plump and honest aunt in front of her was like a hero, “Auntie Liu, thank goodness for you.”

Auntie Liu smiled and said, “I’ve even caught snakes in the countryside before, it’s nothing.”

Auntie Liu took a new disposable glove from her apron, and then took out a small spray bottle, accidentally bringing out a newly bought lock, and remembered to say, “Speaking of which, it’s so strange. I cleaned it before and installed a small lock for this mailbox. Now I don’t know where the lock went.”

It was very strange.

Lu You said in a deep voice, “I’ll go to the property management tomorrow.”

“I looked for it before, and I called to ask again just now if there was a solution. They said they would send someone to install a monitor on the opposite side in two days.” Auntie Liu pointed to the lamppost opposite.

Lu You looked over, turned her head to look at the gate of the yard again, pondered for a moment, took out her phone, noticed that there were unread WeChat messages, temporarily left them alone, and first called to make an appointment for someone to come tomorrow to install a monitor on the gate of the yard.

After ending the call, she opened WeChat, watching and following her grandmother back to the house.

The bottom of the chat box showed: “Yue Yunxi withdrew a message.”

YoYo: [?]

YoYo: [What did you withdraw?]

Yue Yunxi: [Dress photo.]

Lu You pressed a “!” and put down the bag with the cheongsam, and while changing her slippers, typed: [Is it the dress you’re going to wear on the day of the competition?]

Yue Yunxi: [Mm, just sent over.]

YoYo: [I didn’t see it]

Yue Yunxi: [Can I use it to exchange for your cheongsam photo?]

Scanning upwards, she could still see that she had said goodbye to Yue Yunxi when she left the cheongsam shop, saying that she was going home.

Yue Yunxi was such a smart person, how could she not know that she couldn’t look at her phone while driving?

Sending a photo and withdrawing it on her way back, it was clearly deliberately teasing her!

Lu You found a photo of the cheongsam hanging on a hanger from the album and sent it over.

She thought, anyway, it didn’t ask her to wear it for the photo.

As a result, Yue Yunxi sent her a photo of the dress laid flat on the bed.

Lu You chuckled, as if she was amused, but she clearly perceived that she was not angry at all.

Instead, she seemed to be amused by the mood.

“By the way, YoYo…” Grandmother turned her head, her eyes swept across her smiling face, and her voice paused, “Who are you chatting with, so happy?”

Almost subconsciously, Lu You locked her phone with extreme speed, pursed her lips and restrained the smile on her face, pretending to be calm, stuffed her right hand holding the phone into her pocket, straightened the broken hair behind her ear, and said vaguely, “No one, what were you going to say?”

“Oh.” Grandmother thought for a while, gesticulating with her hands, “You remember to have them install the kind of monitor that can turn up, down, left, right, front, and back, and when you catch that person, call the police and give their parents a good lesson!”

“Okay, I remember.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the door was opened, and Auntie Liu came back to the house after dealing with the mailbox.

“Come, Xiao Liu, let me show you my cheongsam.” Grandmother turned and went to Auntie Liu.

After confirming that Grandmother’s attention was not on her, Lu You took out her phone from her pocket and unlocked it.

Yue Yunxi: [Come back and wear it for me to see.]

YoYo: [Oh]

Yue Yunxi: [Are you busy?]

YoYo: [Grandma just talked to me]

Returning to the room, Lu You closed the door and leaned against it, recalling the moment when Grandmother asked her, and still faintly feeling the irregular heartbeat.

Chatting with Yunxi-jie jie, how ordinary, she could clearly explain it openly.

But at that moment, she almost instinctively wanted to hide it.

It seemed that she couldn’t calmly treat Yue Yunxi as an ordinary friend and say that chatting with her was a very normal thing.

Afterwards, the two chatted idly, and Lu You casually mentioned the monitor being installed tomorrow, which led to the matter of the mailbox.

As they were chatting, another harassing text message popped up, the same as that day, a string of swear words.

These two seemingly unrelated things, when put together and confided, had some kind of bad connection.

Yue Yunxi: [It may not be a neighborhood kid’s prank, you should pay attention when going out these days.]

YoYo: [I’m not going out, Teacher Zhong is on tour in Yun City, I don’t have to go to class these days]

Yue Yunxi was still not very relieved and called Yun Zhu to mention this matter, asking her to help hire two bodyguards to go over.

Yun Zhu happened to be at Lost Deer, finding Chen Feifei to play, and the two were sitting outside as a signboard. Yun Zhu turned on the speakerphone, and Chen Feifei listened clearly.

Recently, Chen Feifei had watched a lot of murder mystery thriller movies. Hearing Yue Yunxi talk about Lu You’s matter, she pushed Yun Zhu uneasily and said, “This is too scary, it’s definitely not a kid’s prank, I’ll pay too, can you hire four bodyguards for our family’s YoYo? Two during the day and two at night, do a shift system!”

Chen Feifei’s voice was loud, and what she said was transmitted to the phone.

So, Yun Zhu heard Yue Yunxi say on the other end of the phone: “How about six, and arrange another one later.”

Then Chen Feifei: “One may not be enough, what if the other party is more than one person, I think we should arrange eight. Two in the front, two in the back, and then a shift system, four during the day, four at night.”

Yun Zhu, caught in the middle: “…I see ten, put two more in the house, so the gangster doesn’t get into the house.”

Chen Feifei: “I think it’s okay.”

Yue Yunxi: “It’s not impossible, hire female bodyguards in the house.”

Yun Zhu: “…I’m not kidding, why are you two taking it seriously! Do you want to be so exaggerated!”

In the end, with Lu You’s own consent, only two bodyguards were hired.

But from that day on, she didn’t receive any more swear messages, and the mailbox was no longer stuffed with disgusting things, and the monitor was like a decoration, not filming anything strange.

Lu You felt again that maybe they were overthinking, and it was probably a kid’s prank.

Until the day Yue Yunxi returned to China, she went out to pick her up at the airport. When she left the yard, she received a private message from a mutual friend of hers and Tao Xin.

It was Tao Xin’s former band’s drummer, who used to have a mop of curly hair, nicknamed Mop.

In the beginning, Tao Xin stuffed tickets in the mailbox, which was let Mop send message to notify her.

Mop sent message to ask about customized cheongsam, Lu You stopped behind the bodyguard to reply her message.

It was this two or three minutes of gap, rustling sound came from the garage, the sound of footsteps running closer.

Lu You looked up.

Only to see a fat man wearing a black hoodie, a baseball cap, and a mask, rushing towards her with his hands raised.

Before he got close, he was restrained by the bodyguard standing in front of Lu You and pressed to the ground.

First, the knife in his right hand fell to the ground with a snap, and then the thermos in his left hand fell to the ground with a clang, and some of the hot water in the bottle splashed on Lu You’s exposed ankle.

A burning pain sprang from the bottom up, Lu You took a cold breath and took a step back. Looking down, her ankle was red.

The man pressed to the ground had his face deformed, and he was still mumbling.

He had a very strong accent, making it difficult to identify what he said.

The bodyguard had traveled north and south for many years and could understand the general idea. He turned his head and said to Lu You, “That’s boiling water, it’s good that it’s not some chemical. Go back and deal with it, I’ll call the police.”

Lu You nodded: “Thank you.”

She turned around on one foot, hearing the bodyguard angrily retort to the fat man: “You still wanted to use concentrated sulfuric acid! What did the little girl do to make you hate her so much?”

The fat man mumbled a lot, Lu You only heard the last two words clearly –

Tao Tao.