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    Chapter 79: What is the consequence of lying?

    Chapter 79 What is the Consequence of Lying?

    Even on a sunny, late autumn morning, the air still carried a chill.

    Lu You retracted her legs, which had been exposed to the air, turned sideways, and habitually leaned towards the other half of the bed.

    Then, she ended up falling into empty space.

    Huh? Where’s the person?

    Lu You drowsily opened her eyes and looked at the empty space beside her. She reached out and picked up a piece of evidence of the other person’s existence from the pillow—

    A long, curly strand of hair, dyed brown by the sunlight filtering through the Garnish curtain.

    Curled so considerately, so rare, that she didn’t even recognize it.

    No wonder when she heard Tao Xin’s concert, she said that her memory was still good. That was the expression Yue Yunxi would have.

    Lu You smiled, sat up, her pajamas hanging loosely on her body. Hearing the faint sound of water in the shower, she ran a hand through her messy hair, lifted the quilt, and was about to move her legs to put on her shoes when the shower door was pulled open from the inside.

    Eyeing each other, Yue Yunxi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and asked, “Awake?”

    Her hair at her temples was slightly damp, and her face, without makeup, had clear features, like an elegant and beautiful peony in a white porcelain vase.

    As she approached, the refreshing citrus scent wafted over, obviously from just having washed.

    Lu You was still a little sleepy, and mumbled an “mm,” with the nasal tone of someone just waking up and the slight hoarseness from crying too much the previous day, like the pleasant hum of an animal being petted.

    “Are you going to sleep in or get up and have breakfast with me downstairs?” Yue Yunxi stood in front of her, scratching her chin.

    “Together.” Lu You wrapped her arms around Yue Yunxi’s waist, liking this close and warm contact. “So warm.”

    “It’s cold today, the temperature has dropped,” Yue Yunxi said.

    The closer it got to winter, the colder it became.

    “Sure enough, being close makes a difference. Like Nanquan, autumn is almost over before it’s really begun.”

    Yue Yunxi smoothed out her shapeless pajamas and gently reminded her, “Be careful not to catch a cold. Go change, okay?”

    The second half of the sentence was practically in a tone for Coax the kids.

    She’s back to being a gentle older sister.

    Lu You raised her face to look at her: “You’re sober, huh?”

    Yue Yunxi’s eyes swept over Lu You’s swollen eyes from crying too much and lowered. Long, dense eyelashes covered the surface of her vision with a layer of dimness, making the light and dark red marks below Lu You’s collarbone blurry and indistinguishable.

    Those remaining marks were quickly gathered into the collar by Yue Yunxi. She gave a faint smile and said calmly, “Have I ever been drunk?”

    The tone was light, but a certain almost arrogant confidence, and suspicion of the truth of her words, floated within.

    In fact, usually these words would have more of a flirting meaning, and with a few teasing words to warm up the ambiguous, the topic would quickly end in a kiss.

    But perhaps because her swollen eyes were heavy and tired, and her overused forearms were sore and dry, nothing felt comfortable.

    And the culprit who had made her like this wouldn’t even admit it.

    Lu You was instantly provoked, “But I have evidence!”

    “What evidence?” Yue Yunxi asked with a smile, running her fingers through her hair, as if trying to smooth it. “Show me.”

    Lu You let go of her waist, twisted around to the bedside, unplugged the charging cable, and picked up her phone to send the video she had recorded yesterday to Yue Yunxi’s WeChat. Then, she made a gesture to Yue Yunxi, saying, “Sent it to you.”

    “Oh, I won’t watch.” Yue Yunxi took her clothes from the hanger and deliberately piled them on her hands, covering her phone. “Go change, wash up, and let’s go eat.”

    She’s the one who wanted to see it, and she’s the one who doesn’t want to see it.

    Blatantly playing with her.

    Lu You shook out the clothes. “Fine, don’t watch, if you don’t watch, I’ll play it for you.”

    She saw the video cover on the screen, Yue Yunxi’s slender figure under the inky night, and her hand suddenly froze.

    At the same time, Yue Yunxi softly asked her, “Are you sure you want to play it for me?”

    That tone was so calm and gentle, it seemed a bit ambiguous.

    Was it a threat hidden behind a smile? Or was it a Talk that she had already figured out her character and was sure she wouldn’t do it?

    It was more like the latter, as if she hadn’t forgotten anything and even remembered clearly what she had said in the video.

    To the point where Lu You felt like the implied meaning was: Are you willing to trample on this heart that was cut open and beats for you?

    Lu You was momentarily dejected, drooping her eyelids and staring at the paused video on her phone, not saying anything and not pressing the play button.

    She had a sense of self-loathing.

    She could play this video for herself, to listen to the heartfelt voice of a night wanderer moved by a ray of moonlight in the darkness.

    She could also send it to Yue Yunxi and let her see how frank and lovely she was when drunk.

    Not everyone has the courage to Dissection themselves and show it to the person they love.

    But she absolutely could not, in this situation, play it in front of Yue Yunxi as proof of her drunkenness.

    It wasn’t just about Yue Yunxi being embarrassed to death.

    How could such sincere feelings, carefully hidden and needing alcohol to be told to her, be so ruined.

    The silence lasted for a long time, and Lu You’s bare legs were soaked in the cold air.

    Until Yue Yunxi covered her with the quilt.

    Lu You’s body warmed up, and she came back to her senses, only to realize that her fingertips had been pressing on the screen for too long, and an operation prompt had popped up.

    And Yue Yunxi thought she was going to delete it, and said to her in a low voice:

    “Keep it, save it, maybe… it will be useful later.”

    Lu You moved her fingers away, turned off the video, and said amused, “What use could it have, when we quarrel, as a weapon to hurt each other?”

    Tuo Ba sent the address of the villa and the dress code, and she replied casually, so she didn’t notice that Yue Yunxi’s expression was blank for a few seconds because of her words.

    ˉ

    After breakfast, they checked out of the hotel, and before lunch, they returned to Nanquan. Not long after lunch, Yue Yunxi received a call from Yun Zhu.

    The voice on the phone was very low, and Lu You couldn’t catch much of the content.

    From the fragments, she could only piece together one piece of information—Yun Zhu had broken up with the Yun family and was now in the hospital.

    As for why they broke up, how she got into the hospital, and what the consequences of the breakup were, maybe the voice was too low for her to hear, or maybe Yun Zhu didn’t say it at all.

    Yue Yunxi was going to see Yun Zhu, and considering Lu You’s relationship with Chen Feifei, she didn’t take Lu You with her.

    Watching Yue Yunxi’s car drive away, Lu You drove her own car to the mall first to prepare two birthday gifts for Tuo Ba. One for herself, one for Yue Yunxi.

    She picked out matching ones with a little slyness.

    Then she went to Mi Lu.

    She asked the bartenders, and they all said they hadn’t seen that customer named “Eleven” again.

    The WeChat message she sent was never replied to.

    Of course, the file in the barrel didn’t “explode” either.

    Lu You took it out of the barrel and was wondering how to deal with it when the little girl who had originally received the file walked over, greeted her, and looked constrained, as if she had something more to say.

    “What’s wrong?” Lu You asked.

    The little girl was probably the type who didn’t dare to communicate directly with the boss. She spoke nervously, a little incoherently: “I forgot to say last time, I told the store manager later, and she thought it was necessary to tell you.”

    Lu You listened patiently without interrupting her.

    “It’s just that the customer who gave this file, her voice sounds a lot like Tao Xin,” the little girl asked. “You know, the singer who sang on that show for you, the one who sang ‘Shi Ye’.”

    “…”

    She hadn’t expected that the file in her hand would “explode” in this form, like a hot potato. Lu You almost threw it back into the barrel. After a while, she calmed down and said okay.

    The little girl said before leaving, “It just sounds a little like her.”

    As if she wasn’t too sure.

    Lu You stood there, staring at the file in her hand, deep in thought.

    In her memory, they had never exchanged paper items.

    Maybe it was a group photo they took together?

    Or maybe it was a confession?

    The thought came out of nowhere, inexplicably, but it made her hesitate for a moment, wondering whether to open it and take a look.

    Her phone vibrated in her pocket.

    She took it out and saw that it was a message from Tuo Ba, and she could tell the other person’s hesitation through the screen: [That, Yoyo, I just heard that you and Tao Tao broke up… You know, after the band disbanded, I started doing self-media, and the fans are really looking forward to our reunion, so I also invited Tao Tao… And because I rented this villa, I have to count the number of people, the money has already been paid… emmm, on your side, it shouldn’t affect things with Tao Tao, right? If it really doesn’t work, you can avoid her and have fun, the villa is very big!]

    Lu You looked at the phone in her right hand and then glanced at the file in her left hand.

    After a moment, she replied to the other party: [It doesn’t affect things.]

    Great, she didn’t have to rack her brains to figure out how to deal with it, she could just return the thing directly to the other party.

    ˉ

    After leaving Mi Lu, Lu You found a moving company to pack up the clothes and other living supplies from Lan Wan and move them to Zhong Shuyun’s small Foreign buildings.

    The bodyguard had been keeping watch at the door during this time and reported to her that the car that was suspected of carrying paparazzi next to the Luanshu had disappeared for a while, but had parked there again a few days ago.

    But what’s so strange is, Tao Xin hasn’t come back. What are they filming?

    The bodyguard scratched his head and said, “I feel like… they’re filming the lady next door.”

    Auntie Yue?

    What are they filming Auntie Yue for?

    Lu You was a little confused. After thinking about it, she went next door and rang the doorbell, wanting to remind Yue Shao.

    The Tao family’s Aunt opened the door and said that Yue Shao had gone out for a beauty treatment.

    Lu You walked back thoughtfully, hearing the sound of large car wheels rolling on the road, and glanced over.

    It was the moving company’s van.

    The car stopped at the door, and the bodyguard helped direct them to park.

    Once the move was complete, there would be no need for anyone to watch the house anymore.

    Thinking of this, Lu You arranged the work of the packers, gave the bodyguard and the night shift worker a raise, and asked them to keep an eye on the car and protect Yue Shao.

    Still worried, she sent a message to Yue Yunxi about this.

    The things that needed to be moved from Lan Wan were all wrapped in film, and Yue Yunxi’s reply came.

    [Full Moon]: [Just called and told her.]

    [Full Moon]: [Yun Zhu’s situation here isn’t very good, I’ll go back later.]

    Lu You stepped back and gave way to the people from the moving company, leaning against the wall and replying to Yue Yunxi: [I found someone to pack things at Lan Wan and move, and I asked the bodyguard to stand guard for Auntie Yue]

    [Full Moon]: [She may ask the bodyguard to go back, thinking it’s not necessary.]

    [Lu]: [It’s okay, I’ll let the bodyguard continue to stand at my door]

    [Full Moon]: [So smart Wow]

    Lu You smiled, feeling that she replied quickly, probably because she was relatively free at the moment, and told her about Yun Zhu and Chen Feifei.

    [Full Moon]: [No wonder she wanted to break up.]

    Oh, for Feifei.

    [Lu]: [Should I tell Feifei?]

    [Full Moon]: [[Shh]]

    Oh,Quiet.

    Lu You turned around and contacted Chen Feifei to tell her about Yun Zhu’s situation. She talked to both sides, asking Yue Yunxi for the hospital and room number where Yun Zhu was located, while ignoring Chen Feifei’s insincere replies, and directly threw the effective information into the chat box.

    In the end, Chen Feifei couldn’t help but ask: [How is she?]

    Lu You replied: [I dont know ah]

    Chen Feifei didn’t send any more messages.

    Lu You returned to Yue Yunxi’s chat window: [Given Yun Zhu’s situation, are you still going to Tuo Ba’s birthday tomorrow?]

    Yue Yunxi sent her a screenshot of a chat record.

    In the screenshot, Tuo Ba patted Yue Yunxi, whether by accident or on purpose.

    The system displayed: [“Tuo Ba” patted my wooden fish, merit -1]

    Lu You almost burst out laughing.

    Looking further down, Tuo Ba explained that it was an accidental touch, and maybe because she was too embarrassed, she mentioned that Tao Xin would also be at the villa party tomorrow.

    Okay, okay, this time the merit will really be -1 for Yue Yunxi.

    Lu You pursed her lips and smiled, typing: [Are you worried about me? Are you afraid that if you don’t go, I’ll rekindle my old love and get back together with her?]

    [Full Moon]: [The former is incompetent, the latter surpasses.]

    The smile on Lu You’s lips couldn’t help but deepen, and she could feel the proud tone even through the screen.

    That’s the truth.

    But…

    [Lu]: [That’s not right, the person in her heart is you, not me, I should be the one who’s worried ah.]

    Lu You’s hand stopped typing.

    She really was confused yesterday after drinking and being tossed around by her ancestor.

    It wasn’t that Tao Xin was afraid to get close to her, but that she had Yue Yunxi in her heart and didn’t want to get close to her.

    But why was Tao Xin’s expression in her memory one of fear and panic?

    Her phone vibrated.

    [Full Moon]: [What are you worried about, I’m yours.]

    Lu You’s attention was instantly drawn back, and she replied with a smile: [Then what are you worried about~]

    It wasn’t a question, it was teasing.

    Yue Yunxi didn’t reply.

    Lu You waited for a while, guessing that Yue Yunxi was probably busy, watching the people from the moving company carrying full cardboard boxes into the car one after another, boredly learning from Tuo Ba to Pat Yue Yunxi.

    [I Pat “[Full Moon]”‘s wooden fish, merit -1]

    Combining it with her owed ridicule from before, this Pat prompt was becoming more and more interesting.

    Lu You didn’t know what she was thinking, it was just a sudden thought that drove her to click on Yue Yunxi’s profile picture, temporarily change the note back to Yue Yunxi, and switch back to Pat to see the effect.

    [I Pat “Yue Yunxi”‘s wooden fish, merit -1]

    When she couldn’t help but Pat again, the autumn wind messed up her hair, and a prompt popped up on the screen—

    [I Pat “Yue Yunxi” said: “I love you.”]

    The next afternoon, Lu You followed Tuo Ba’s repeated requests to “Presented at the event” and picked out clothes in Yue Yunxi’s cloakroom.

    Because she forgot about it, the clothes for important occasions were all hung in the small Foreign buildings’s cloakroom, and the ones she left here at Yue Yunxi’s were all regular clothes.

    “I didn’t even wear a Dress for the competition, but for my 30th birthday, I have to make it grand.” Lu You wandered slowly, feeling like she was Visit the mall.

    Yue Yunxi, who often competed, had countless grand Dress, which dazzled her.

    “Do you want to do this for your birthday too?” Most of them were black and white, and they all looked good on their own, but when hung together, they became complete color blocks, and Lu You could only take them out to look at.

    “No, it’s troublesome.” Yue Yunxi leaned against the wall and watched her take them off the rack one by one. “Maybe… I won’t celebrate it.”

    “Is there a competition?”

    “Not sure.”

    Lu You twisted her arms, which were tired from lifting, and noticed a unique suit. “If there’s no competition and you don’t want to do anything so complicated, then how about just the two of us?”

    Yue Yunxi smiled lightly, “Okay, is that a deal?”

    “You’re really childish,” Lu You said indulgently. “It’s a deal.”

    She absentmindedly took down the suit, her brain working happily, thinking about how to spend time with Yue Yunxi when the time came.

    “Are you going to wear that one?” Yue Yunxi asked.

    Lu You came back to her senses and looked at the clothes in front of her, as if they had been pulled out of a wine barrel.

    An almost harsh color that was picky about people.

    “How did you think of leaving this dress?” Lu You held the clothes in front of Yue Yunxi.

    It is said that people rely on clothing, but obviously this sentence has to be used in reverse on Yue Yunxi.

    She is the one who clothing rely on.

    “Would you believe me if I said that when the orchestra gave it to me, I thought of you?” Yue Yunxi said.

    Such a picky color, it had to be someone with cold white skin, calm temperament, tall stature, and good figure to control the chic but Sexy, pure but lustful style created by the clothes.

    “I don’t want to believe it.” Lu You retracted her outstretched arm, looked at the mirror, held the clothes in front of her, and added in her heart, but had to believe it.

    It’s pretty good-looking.

    The point is, it’s warm.

    Grandma would praise it, and wouldn’t nag her.

    Lu You took the clothes and prepared to close the door to change.

    Yue Yunxi’s toes pressed against the door and wouldn’t let her close it, and there was a subtle desire in her eyes looking at her.

    Lu You’s face flushed red: “Her place is far away, time is tight.”

    “Then can we hurry up?”

    “…”

    Yue Yunxi poked her bulging cheek with her finger: “Just teasing you, I just want to see you change clothes.”

    Then she rubbed her head: “What’s in your head?”

    Was there too much in her head?

    It was obvious that someone’s want.see was too strong!

    Yue Yunxi looked tired and weary when she came back from Yun Zhu’s place so late last night, and she still wanted to pester her.

    Even more crazy than the night she was drunk.

    From the sofa to the window to the bathroom to the carpet, it seemed that every place in this room, except the cloakroom, had been punched in with that atmosphere.

    Lu You unbuttoned her pajamas: “What are you wearing? Do you have to pick out a battle robe to meet your love rival?”

    Her movements paused.

    Speaking of which, who is seeing their love rival?

    Yue Yunxi’s eyes slid over her body: “I have to pick carefully.”

    Lu You turned her head to look at her, and for some reason, she had a feeling that she was the deer that was being stripped clean by Yue Yunxi’s eyes.

    It was all red everywhere.

    In return, Yue Yunxi generously changed her clothes in front of her, a backless, form-fitting fishtail dress, and even her underwear had to be changed into a seamless style.

    Before putting on those clothes, Yue Yunxi sat on the cold island platform, shivering from the cold, like a vine, wrapped around her waist, slowly pulling her closer, and said, “Hug me, I’m a little cold.”

    The contrast between being fully dressed and not being.Silk.No.hang was too strong, Lu You completely forgot what she had said, that time was tight.

    She also forgot what she was going to say to her—if you’re cold, why don’t you put on your clothes.

    She only remembered to bite Yue Yunxi’s lips, and scold her in the gaps, “You liar.”

    Not pure at all.

    Yue Yunxi laughed softly, mixed with a suppressed and restrained voice.

    That tone was so Sexy and subtle, too catchy, especially stimulating the sensitive ears of the piano tuner.

    Lu You couldn’t help but pinch her jaw, making her lower her head a little, seeing the expression on her face that was so happy that it showed some pain and madness.

    Feeling her hand touch her cheek, a little bit cool.

    Hearing her ask in an breathy voice, “What’s the consequence of lying? Is it to be eaten by a little wolf?”

    Lu You found it difficult to describe the feeling Yue Yunxi had given her during this time. Her desire seemed to be built on some kind of emotion.

    Similar to the mood of a desperate person standing in the dark, not knowing whether the road ahead is a cliff or a road.

    This emotion made the whole thing seem particularly exaggerated, like a end.

    Lu You never knew that she could accept so much.

    Not just acceptable.

    It can be said that she was driven, and was very immersed in it.

    In the end, Yue Yunxi’s siren-like voice seemed to be instilling a spell in her: You are not a little wolf.

    You are a little deer.

    A herbivore.

    When they came out of the room and went downstairs, Grandma was sitting on the sofa in the living room watching TV, glanced at the hanging clock and said, “Are you going to be late?”

    Fully half an hour late.

    Lu You put her sore hands behind her and said vaguely that it didn’t matter, looking awkwardly elsewhere, and swept the scene on the TV.

    A war drama, not a family Ethicsdrama.

    “Are you two arguing?” Grandma asked, looking at them.

    “Huh? No,” Lu You said a little strangely.

    “Oh, I thought you were arguing.” Grandma pointed to the Bichon, who was restless, pacing and circling, “Little Yoohoo has been sitting at your door, and occasionally barking twice, I thought it was trying to mediate, so I didn’t remind you that it was time to go out.”

    “…”

    Lu You took a deep breath and said it was getting late, lifting her feet to leave.

    Yue Yunxi’s low, light laughter faintly lingered in her ears.

    “You really didn’t quarrel?” Grandma wanted to see them off, walking next to Yue Yunxi and asked.

    “No,” Yue Yunxi comforted Grandma in a gentle voice, “Don’t worry, we really didn’t.”

    Going out the door, Lu You pressed the key to unlock the car, reaching out to pull the car door open, and could clearly feel her right hand trembling when she used force.

    It had been Clipped too hard.

    She threw the key to Yue Yunxi and said unhappily, “You drive.”

    Grandma grabbed Yue Yunxi: “You really didn’t quarrel?”

    Yue Yunxi couldn’t help but laugh softly, “At most, it’s a… small fight to promote feelings.”

    Lu You sat in the passenger seat and covered her face.

    It was warm, and she couldn’t tell whether it was the temperature of her palm or the heat of her cheeks.

    Grandma looked left and right, always feeling that something was wrong, but couldn’t say what was wrong.

    She thought of something else and quickly became too lazy to care about this subtle feeling, walked to Lu You’s window, and said, “Yo Yo, there’s something.”

    “Mm.” Lu You turned around, leaning on the windowsill, “What?”

    “In a few days.” Grandma paused, “The end of the month, it looks like.”

    Lu You listened carefully, nodded, and motioned for Grandma to continue.

    “You… you book a restaurant, book any one, I, I that what.” Grandma said hesitantly.

    Lu You asked: “Are you going to hold a housewarming banquet?”

    “Eh.” Grandma responded, and immediately shook her head, “No, no, just that what.”

    She raised her eyes, her gaze passing over Lu You, falling on Yue Yunxi, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, vaguely with a meaning of asking for help.

    But Yue Yunxi seemed not to be listening to her and Lu You, lowered her head and bent over to focus on adjusting the seat.

    “What is it?” Lu You smiled, “Do you want to go out to eat?”

    “Yeah.” Grandma breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at her smiling face, and said in one breath, “Eat out, meet someone, book a private room, a place with a good environment, and a bit discreet.”

    “A place with good privacy?”

    “Yes, yes!”

    Lu You asked curiously, “Who are you meeting?”

    Grandma opened her mouth, but said after a moment, “You’ll know when the time comes.”

    Lu You “Tsk” and suddenly thought, “Don’t tell me you’re setting me up for a blind date.”

    “No way,” Grandma waved her hand to drive people away, “You’ll know when you meet them, why are you so curious.”

    “Then can I bring…” Lu You glanced at Yue Yunxi and asked softly, “can I?”

    “Bring, bring, bring.” Grandma began to Instructions be careful on the road and other things.

    Lu You fastened her seat belt and said goodbye to her. After Yue Yunxi drove the car out, she sighed, “Who are you meeting, so mysterious?”

    She turned her head to look at Yue Yunxi: “Do you know?”

    After asking, she leaned her head against the back of the chair, turned her head and couldn’t help but laugh: “I’m really stupid, how would you know.”

    Yue Yunxi pursed her lips, for the first time, she didn’t respond to her in the topic.

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