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    Chapter 91: Love is a Kind of Pain

    Indeed, it proves that when a person is speechless to the extreme, they will laugh.

    Lu You snorted with laughter, and seeing a hint of anger between her brows and eyes, Chen Feifei asked with concern, “What’s wrong?”

    Lu You took a deep breath and handed over her phone.

    Chen Feifei made an expression like an old man on the subway looking at a phone: “What the heck? It’s clearly that person being unfaithful, how dare they slander you for cheating? And slander my goddess for stabbing someone in the back, backstabbing what! What are they thinking, spouting nonsense here, turning right and wrong upside down!”

    Lu You frowned, took back her phone, and opened the comments section: “Who knows what they’re thinking, those donkeys do nothing all day but kick people’s brains.”

    “Pfft, the donkeys are going to feel wronged to death, what a huge blame.” Chen Feifei watched her type the words “brain kicked by a donkey” into the input box, “Your power isn’t enough, add another sentence, add another sentence—have more sympathy for yourself, stanning a cook who only knows how to throw the blame, being used as a wok all day long, going crazy everywhere, their IQ has dropped to 250.”

    “How are you so good at roasting people?” Lu You grabbed her phone and typed seriously.

    “My mom trained me.” Chen Feifei hooked her arm around her and led her forward, “But, to be fair, what the goddess is doing is no different from poaching, I didn’t expect the goddess to be a bad woman, tsk.”

    “How is it similar? It’s very different, okay?” Lu You’s reaction was almost immediate.

    Chen Feifei raised her eyebrows: “Oh??? That’s not what you said to me before!”

    Lu You pursed her lips.

    She didn’t like what Yue Yunxi did, especially when she first found out the truth.

    Looking back at the day she broke up with Tao Xin, the instigator was right by her side, watching her be sad, watching her be in pain… Did she have a shred of guilt, regret that she had gone too far?

    Or was she feeling a little happy that her plan had succeeded while also feeling sorry?

    She didn’t dare to think too much, extremely dissatisfied that Yue Yunxi didn’t respect her feelings.

    When she was extremely angry, she also felt that it was no different from poaching.

    But only she could say that, only she had the right to evaluate Yue Yunxi.

    If other people said it, it wouldn’t work, she would feel uncomfortable.

    “If Tao Xin didn’t have those thoughts, Yue Yunxi wouldn’t have done this. If Tao Xin was upright, putting a hundred Chu Xiaos by her side wouldn’t have worked. It’s just detonating a bomb in advance, it’s better to detonate it sooner.”

    Chen Feifei shook her head and swayed, her movements and eyebrows full of teasing.

    “And Yue Yunxi and I only became close after I broke up, it can’t be considered poaching, right?

    And she confessed to me for the first time, but I rejected her. Later, the Xicheng big bowl noodle incident exploded…”

    Lu You was still feeling lingering fear, paused for a moment before continuing, “She suddenly appeared in front of me, I was so touched that I almost died, but I didn’t immediately agree. If someone else encountered someone like me, they probably would have given up long ago.

    And she liked me earlier than that person.

    And—”

    “Stop! Cut it out! No more ands!” Chen Feifei walked into the shed, glanced at the dishes already on the table, “If you keep saying ‘and,’ I’ll be full before I even eat.”

    Lu You curled her lips, completed the comment she had typed halfway, and sent it out.

    Sitting down on the blue plastic stool, Chen Feifei said, “I saw a sentence online before, it’s especially suitable for you now!”

    “What?”

    Chen Feifei opened her mouth, paused for two or three seconds, and said, “I forgot how it went, I’ll search for it.”

    Without a topic to interrupt, Lu You’s attention focused on the photos.

    The security at the semi-mountain villa where Tuoba held his birthday party was very strict. The guards would first verify the identity information and then call the person in charge of renting the villa to confirm before allowing them to pass.

    First of all, paparazzi were ruled out.

    And when they were stuck in the elevator, they didn’t see any strangers passing by.

    So it could only be the masterpiece of a certain acquaintance.

    The four sides of the elevator were floor-to-ceiling glass. If they were lucky, they might be able to capture the figure of the photographer from above.

    Lu You pressed her finger on the screen, zoomed in on the photo to examine it carefully, and slowly frowned.

    There really was.

    But there were two.

    One was behind a pillar in the parking lot, only half of his body was exposed. Lu You recognized him as Chen Xiguan by his hairstyle and clothing style.

    There was also a figure diagonally behind Chen Xiguan, too blurry to identify.

    She didn’t know if this photo came from the former or the latter.

    Chen Xiguan gave her that kind of obscure love note, he shouldn’t… do this, right?

    Lu You saved the photo to her phone album, hesitating whether to directly ask Chen Xiguan.

    “Yoyo…” Chen Feifei suddenly opened her mouth, as if startled by something, almost losing her voice.

    Lu You turned her head to look over.

    Immediately after, Chen Feifei’s gaze with complex emotions met hers.

    Lu You’s heart skipped a beat.

    “The sky is falling outside.”

    In the few days that they were disconnected from the outside world and didn’t surf the internet, one hidden bomb after another was detonated.

    Just as she memorized the score and skillfully played Collapsing World completely, the world was really collapsing.

    Collapsing in the retreating time, in every note played by her fingertips.

    On November 10th, the internet celebrity who frequently yawned at Tuoba’s birthday party let slip during a live broadcast: “I also saw Tao Tao’s girlfriend that day.”

    After speaking, she quickly covered her mouth and added, “That’s what they said, I’m not sure, what I can confirm is that it was her childhood sweetheart, haha.”

    Then, watching the fans chat enthusiastically in the barrage, she trembled more and more like a sieve.

    “Her childhood sweetheart is quite pretty, she’s kind of living up to her name, she looks like a little deer~ Later, we played truth or dare, and it turned to that little deer. It seems that Tao and Lu had a conflict, and Lemon wanted to bring them together, so she asked Little Deer to kiss the person she liked on the spot, but Little Deer kissed Tao Tao’s older sister, and said that the younger sister was not as good as the older sister, and then the two disappeared. Tao Tao searched for a long time in the villa but couldn’t find them… When the fireworks were set off, I saw them holding hands and leaving early.”

    On November 11th, the video was reposted by multiple marketing accounts. It was the final period of “Sing to You,” and it involved Tao Xin, so it immediately became a trending topic that day.

    Some netizens obtained Lu You’s personal information through keywords, and determined that the third place in the October International Amateur Piano Competition was Lu You, and dug up the competition video from that day.

    Because of the comment “the younger sister is not as good as the older sister,” Tao Xin’s fans were especially dissatisfied with her and left mocking comments.

    [Fun fact, she studied piano since she was a child, a professional player went to participate in an amateur competition, wanting to show off how great she is, but only got third place, haha]

    [Professional? Seriously? A piano student passing by, her fingering is all wrong.]

    [Which school is she from? Dares to say this is professional.]

    [She’s my roommate, we’re majoring in piano tuning, she’s a very nice person actually, she knows everything, and she can even fix air conditioners, her family is super rich, her dad is the chairman of a certain brand, oh, but she’s very low-key and never shows off]

    [Turns out she’s a piano tuning senior, I often saw her picking up our teacher before, to be fair, I secretly shipped them, haha]

    [Fixing air conditioners is very simple, okay, she knows everything, and she can also cheat [Grinning face] And the person upstairs, you ship everything, you’ll only harm yourself!]

    [Then what can you do? She opened a Lost Deer Qing Bar, specializing in providing part-time jobs for impoverished university students, with high wages and good benefits, and providing accommodation during the summer vacation. Every month, she donates sanitary napkins and clothes to girls in impoverished mountain areas! The money the Lost Deer earns every year, half of it is taken out to build schools in mountain areas! These are all recorded and proven! May I ask, what do you do?]

    [Tao Tao has also done a lot of good deeds, donating money and donations, it’s not a small amount! No matter how many good deeds she does, she can’t wash away the fact that she cheated!]

    [She tuned my piano last month, a very skilled and gentle older sister, I don’t believe she cheated.]

    [Wow, I see the goddess again. The only person in our school who has been at the top of the school’s secret crush list for four consecutive years, the key point is that there are a lot of girls who secretly crush on her]

    [She’s my university classmate, her left little finger was broken and reattached, but the nerves weren’t reconnected. This fingering should be specially modified for her left hand, she couldn’t play the piano with her left hand before.]

    [I have a video of her playing the piano with one hand and another girl, and playing Kiss the Rain together on the deck of a yacht, it’s super, super good!]

    [I’m back after watching the video, it’s an all-female amateur symphony orchestra! My god, every older sister in there is so good-looking! Blowing, plucking, and playing is so cool, no wonder the person above said that there are a lot of girls who secretly crush on her, women are so charming when they’re doing their career!]

    The more they dug up, the more Lu You’s reputation was reversed.

    Netizens hot comments: [The number of passers-by who turned into fans, this sister should debut today, she has more prospects than [Tao].]

    Tao Xin’s fans were broken, and they compiled a timeline with pure text, insisting that Lu You cheated.

    That night, Chen Xiguan’s personal account posted a video.

    It was a scene of Lu You and Yue Yunxi whispering to each other during the gift-giving session at Tuoba’s birthday. At the end of the video, it swept across Tao Xin, who looked lonely and broken.

    One stone stirred up a thousand waves.

    #WhoisSupportingCheatingPeople#, #ChenXiguanIsStandingUpForTaoXin#, #TaoXinChenXiguanCP#, #GuanXinCPSoSweet# and other related topics topped the trending searches.

    However, in less than half an hour, things took a turn.

    Chen Xiguan deleted the video and posted: [To a certain “Dialogue,” please don’t take advantage of my already limited team friendship. I trusted you when I lent you my phone, not for you to use my account behind my back to post videos I saved. To CP fans, please don’t bind me and someone who has made a principled mistake into a CP.]

    The person involved personally dismantled the CP, and Tao Xin’s fans immediately turned their spearhead towards Chen Xiguan: [If it weren’t for our Tao Tao, you would still be singing in a small broken internet cafe. You don’t know how to repay kindness, and you’re ungrateful!]

    This caused dissatisfaction among Chen Xiguan’s fans, who fought back: [If it weren’t for our Xigua’s songwriting, you Tao wouldn’t be popular! If it wasn’t for Sister Lu constantly reminding Tao not to forget Xigua, if it wasn’t for the program lacking a guest, Tao wouldn’t have thought of our Xigua at all. Our Xigua knows how to repay kindness, and knows who she should repay!]

    The eating-melon netizens jumped up and down in the melon field, grabbing the “principled mistake” mentioned by Chen Xiguan, speculating that Tao Xin cheated first.

    Immediately afterwards, a suspected former member of the band who had turned against Tao Xin posted a very long essay, and netizens summarized the key points:

    1. Lu You accompanied Tao through the most difficult times. Many of Tao’s hardcore old fans were attracted by Lu handing out flyers. In the past, when Tao held concerts, the fan support sticks and souvenirs were all made by Lu herself.

    2. After Tao became famous, Lu told Tao many times to help Xigua, but Tao was afraid that Xigua would be more popular than her, more famous than her, and receive more attention than her, so she was always unwilling to bring her along. This time, it was because she broke up with Lu that Tao asked Xigua to take sides and recommended Xigua to be on the show.

    3. It was Tao who had no sense of boundaries and was ambiguous with a certain fan that Lu broke up with her.

    Subsequently, Chu Xiao’s existence was exposed, and the chat records between her and Tao Xin were all leaked.

    The 30-second literature of the library happened to their own idol, and the idol was the scumbag, so the fans expressed that the sky had collapsed.

    Tao Xin lost more than 400,000 fans overnight, and the top comments in the comments section of her social account were almost all—

    [She’s just my fan, are fans a little cuter than girlfriends? [Dog head]]

    [That sister still gave you face, this isn’t called having no sense of boundaries, this is called mental cheating!]

    [I really liked you at first, but you really let down Little Deer]

    On November 12th, the matter took another turn.

    In the early hours of the morning, Tao Xin’s fans found out that Chu Xiao was a member of a team that specializes in breaking up couples.

    [This Chu Xiao was hired by Tao Tao’s half-sister at a high price, specially to break up Tao Tao and Lu, so that it would be easier for her to poach, as everyone knows, chat records can all be forged [Smile]]

    [My god, how can people be so bad? It’s too disgusting?! Does Lu know about this? If Lu is good, quickly cut off contact with this kind of person, using any means to achieve their goals, this kind of person is too scary.]

    [Good fellow, the people in front were hiding, right? Shouldn’t this kind of person be exposed to avoid the thunder?]

    [Clicked, at least let Lu know her true face!]

    [Half-sister? What does that mean?]

    [Like a blended family or something.]

    All of Yue Yunxi’s related information was dug up. As her photos and personal information were exposed, things began to develop in an outrageous direction.

    [Putting things aside, the older sisters in this melon are a bit good-looking. Piano tuner, professor, star, it’s like a novel coming to life [Crying with laughter]]

    [What kind of eyesight is the person upstairs, it’s obvious that they’re all photos that have been edited and high-p’d, and a professor, a role model, but they’re doing such dirty things. Let me just say, @NanquanConservatoryofMusic, is it necessary to hire this kind of professor with bad character?]

    [What the heck? Isn’t this Yue Yunxi? Her dad used to partner with a swindler to swindle a lot of money from our neighbors, and then he died. After her mom paid back the money, she took her away. Back then, the elders in the neighborhood didn’t let us play with her, saying that her mom and her weren’t good people.]

    [The person upstairs is from the same hometown, no need to say “allegedly,” it’s true! This woman has been lying since she was a child. She pushed me down the stairs when she was in elementary school! After transferring schools, she also stole the class fees.]

    [Pushed someone down the stairs when she was in elementary school?!! How old was she, and she was already this bad?]

    [Born bad seed. Bad from childhood to adulthood, it’s hard to imagine how much Tao Tao was bullied when she lived with her [Shrugging].]

    [Looks like the kind of white lotus.]

    [Yes, she’s a born bad seed! Her dad died in the snow, buried by the snow for two days. Someone discovered the body when they were walking their dog after the snow melted. At that time, I heard the elders say that her dad went home after socializing at night and knocked on the door many times. The neighbors heard it, how could she and her mom not hear it, they just didn’t want to open the door, they just wanted to freeze her dad to death outside!]

    [Didn’t her dad have a key?]

    [My mom said that her dad used to always carry a key, but he didn’t have it that day, how coincidental. Actually, it was her mom or maybe her who deliberately put away the key.]

    [It’s highly likely that it was her, they weren’t arrested, probably because they saw that she was a minor.]

    Conspiracy theories emerged one after another, and even the reconstruction of Yue Yunxi’s hometown house gave rise to the saying that it was to suppress ghosts. Netizens were shocked and strongly demanded that the case be reinvestigated.

    The comments section of Nanquan Conservatory of Music’s official account was occupied by radical netizens, coercing and luring the school to deal with Yue Yunxi.

    On November 13th, Nanquan Conservatory of Music posted photos and an announcement.

    In the photos, the entrance of the cello classroom was filled with wreaths and Yue Yunxi’s portraits.

    Announcement: The police have been called, we reject cyberbullying, we will never condone those who spread rumors, and we will never dismiss Yue Yunxi because of fabricated things. In addition, Ms. Yue has been given a vacation, and school security has been strengthened, and outsiders are not allowed to enter. If students in the school participate in cyberbullying, they will be publicly punished.

    After posting the announcement, they conveniently closed the comments section, focusing on “pure notification.”

    Passerby netizens joked that the person behind the official account must be a 00s generation.

    Nanquan Conservatory of Music’s domineering protection of their own people calmed down some netizens, who said that it was better not to follow the trend with the true and false information on the internet.

    But one wave was not settled, and another wave rose. That afternoon, Tao Xin’s stalker fan posted a video—

    A group of people surrounded Yue Shao in front of her house, scolding her for being a mistress, seducing someone else’s husband. Just as they were about to hit her, they were stopped by bodyguards.

    Netizens couldn’t understand the melon: [Isn’t it a blended family? How did it become a mistress again?]

    Before long, the video was sent to the top of the search list.

    The people who were causing trouble were quickly identified as an internet celebrity named Wanwan.

    Wanwan, with a big belly, filmed a video, tearfully apologizing and explaining that she had obtained a marriage certificate with Tao’s father and was a legal couple. She discovered that Tao’s father was acting strangely and hired a private investigator to investigate, only to find out that a woman was Tao’s father’s mistress for money, which made her very angry. She wanted to teach that woman a lesson because she was emotionally unstable during pregnancy.

    The rival of Wanwan followed up with a live broadcast to expose her past: “The elk head emoji that she always posted on Weibo before actually referred to the boss she hooked up with at that time. The elk head liked her very much and even wanted to settle down with her, and even took her to see his daughter, but the elk head’s daughter didn’t care to see her. So she was angry, and told the elk head that she was pregnant, and that this daughter was dispensable. As a result, the elk head was infertile.”

    “The child is the elk head’s good brother, Mao Tao’s. Mao Tao is also a rich man. She went to Hong Kong for a non-invasive DNA test and found out that she was pregnant with a boy. Mao Tao was crazy about wanting a son, so he gave her a house and a car, and also obtained a marriage certificate with her, saying that the family’s industry would belong to his precious son in the future.”

    “She is the one who became the mistress, actually, she had already found out in the neighborhood that Mao Tao had been living with the other woman for more than ten years without a marriage certificate. Mao Tao didn’t mean to leave the other woman, it is said that she was Mao Tao’s first love, and it was not easy to reunite after breaking up. She couldn’t afford to offend Mao Tao, so she could only pick on the soft persimmon.”

    Before the live broadcast ended, the topic #PityTaoXin# had already squeezed into the hot search list.

    Clicking into the topic, the class representative summarized it even faster than the live broadcast speed.

    [A father who favors sons over daughters and two-times, a stepmother who became a mistress and is pregnant with a younger brother to fight for the family property, an aunt who eats her family’s food and uses her family’s things and is not even considered a stepmother, and a sister who hired someone to break up her and her girlfriend and snatch her girlfriend. Tao is too miserable, I feel a little pity for her.]

    Netizens hot comments: [I can only say that Yue’s mother is not a mistress but a parasite, eating other people’s food, living in other people’s houses, and using other people’s things, how can Yue still have the face to snatch Tao’s girlfriend?]

    With just one sentence, the public opinion was led back to Yue Yunxi again.

    The comments section of Yue Yunxi’s social account was completely lost.

    Many comments escalated to personal attacks, which could be described as unbearable to look at.

    It was impossible to report them all.

    And Yue Yunxi herself seemed to have evaporated from the world. While the other gossip protagonists logged into Weibo dozens of times a day, she didn’t log in once, showing no signs of going online.

    When Yun Zhu appeared at Chen Feifei’s door, Lu You was like an ant on a hot pot, biting her fingers, staring at her phone, and pacing back and forth in the room.

    After reading the gossip blogger’s timeline summary, her head was like a layer of paste, and everything was sticky and blurred.

    Her first reaction was to call Yue Yunxi, even though she felt awkward about the current state of their relationship.

    However, the phone delivered a cold female voice reporting that the other party’s phone was turned off.

    She was so anxious that she spun around, and then she thought that if she really wasn’t online, that would be good.

    Hesitating for a few seconds, Lu You called Yue Shao again.

    No one answered either.

    On the third call, she called the bodyguard, and this time it was finally answered.

    The bodyguard told her: “Yesterday we took notes and mediated, and it took a long time. After returning in the evening, the female homeowner next door moved out. Ms. Yue asked us to follow her there, and told us to notify you later, saying that you wake up late in the morning and need to take a nap at noon. I thought I would notify you in the afternoon.”

    Lu You asked, “Where did she move to?”

    The bodyguard reported the name of a residential complex. Lu You’s mind was a mess, afraid that she would forget it later, so before hanging up the phone, she said, “Send it to me.”

    Less than two minutes after ending the call, the bodyguard sent the specific address.

    Lu You put the suitcase down, squatted in front of the suitcase, estimated the time, and booked a ticket back to Nanquan. Then she got up, and while packing, she called Yun Zhu.

    Yun Zhu hung up on her directly.

    Lu You was stunned for a moment.

    Hanging up was better than no one answering. She dialed another one, and was hung up again.

    When she dialed again, this time she wasn’t hung up, but it wasn’t answered either.

    Lu You stared at the phone for a moment, and decided to go to Chen Feifei first to tell her.

    She remembered that after returning from the wedding banquet, Chen Feifei said she was going to boil water, but now the person who boiled the water had disappeared.

    Lu You left the room, and was about to walk to the small kitchen when she suddenly heard Chen Feifei’s voice coming from the backyard.

    “…Then what do you take me for? A business that can be successfully negotiated? Or a gamble that you can’t afford to lose?”

    Lu You turned her footsteps and walked over.

    The moment she pushed open the door, she saw Chen Feifei pressing Yun Zhu against the wall, and it looked like a forced kiss was about to be staged.

    Lu You quickly retreated, and as a result, the door slammed loudly.

    Hearing the noise, Chen Feifei immediately let go of Yun Zhu. She glanced at Lu You out of the corner of her eye, felt embarrassed, and turned her back to the wall to reflect.

    Yun Zhu, who was almost forcibly kissed, seemed much calmer. She looked down at the three missed calls displayed on her phone, and then raised her eyes back to her face, sighing helplessly.

    It was as if she was sighing that she couldn’t escape from her being a nuisance of a third wheel.

    Lu You didn’t care what was going on with the two of them. She went straight to the point and said to Yun Zhu, “I can’t contact Yue Yunxi, can you contact her?”

    Yun Zhu shrugged, noncommittal.

    This attitude was very subtle.

    She didn’t know if she was annoyed that she had repeatedly ruined the atmosphere, or if she was dissatisfied with her because of Yue Yunxi’s matter.

    Lu You pursed her lips and turned to Chen Feifei and said, “Feifei, I’m going back to Nanquan today.”

    “Ah?” Chen Feifei knew that she was worried about Yue Yunxi, so she didn’t ask much. She turned around and said, “What time is your ticket? I’ll send you off later.”

    As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Feifei glanced at Yun Zhu next to her and took the opportunity to drive her away: “Let her send you, her car is comfortable to ride in.”

    Yun Zhu stared at Chen Feifei for a while, and then asked Lu You, “Are you going back to Nanquan because you purely want to go back, or are you worried about Lao Yue and want to find her?”

    Lu You didn’t answer, but asked in return, “What do you think?”

    Yun Zhu’s attitude softened a lot: “If you’re looking for Lao Yue, Lao Yue isn’t in Nanquan.”

    “Where is she?” Lu You asked.

    “Let’s chat, I’ll tell you after we chat.” Yun Zhu arranged, “After we chat, pack your luggage, and I’ll take you to the airport.”

    Airport?

    Lu You frowned.

    The world map was too big, she could only know Yue Yunxi’s address if she followed Yun Zhu’s instructions.

    “Let’s go to the small kitchen to chat, don’t just stand here.” Chen Feifei stepped forward, hooked Lu You’s arm, and led them to the small kitchen.

    “Feifei, can we go to your room to chat?” Lu You said, “I want to save some time and pack my luggage.”

    Yun Zhu responded extremely quickly: “I have no problem.”

    “…No one asked you.” Chen Feifei muttered and reluctantly agreed, “For your sake.”

    Returning to the room, Chen Feifei quickly rolled up her ugly pajamas that she had casually taken off and stuffed them into the bedding, took a chair for Yun Zhu to sit on, and emphasized: “You’re not allowed to sit on my bed, you’re not allowed to touch my things!”

    Yun Zhu curled her lips.

    Chen Feifei turned to Lu You and said, “If she bullies you, just call me, I’ll be outside.”

    Then she thoughtfully closed the door and went out.

    The sound of the door closing “clicked,” Yun Zhu didn’t procrastinate at all and immediately opened her mouth: “Your grandmother was hospitalized before, the private senior ward was arranged by me, and the attending doctor was also a specialist I hired.”

    “…Thank you.”

    “I’m not saying this for you to thank me, but because I helped, I was with Lao Yue before you arrived that day, and witnessed some things.”

    Lu You stopped folding her clothes.

    “Your grandmother was very uncomfortable at that time. The old lady might have felt that her condition wasn’t very good, so she held Yue Yunxi’s hand tightly, crying and begging her to find Aunt Yue to help, to contact your mother.

    She said that if anything happened to her, she couldn’t rely on your dad at all, so she hoped that you and your mother could be with you, take care of you, and care about you.

    In fact, there was no need to find Aunt Yue to help, because we are very familiar with Teacher Zhong, and Teacher Zhong and your mother…” Yun Zhu paused delicately, and directly skipped the description, “So we also have contact with your mother.”

    Lu You absentmindedly put her clothes into the suitcase: “Then everyone gathered together and made a plan, creating a Truman World for me, letting Yue Yunxi test my attitude, so that I could recognize her at the best time, right?”

    “The way you describe it, I don’t even know if I should say ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

    Are you still blaming Lao Yue for deceiving you? For not telling you the truth?

    She had countless opportunities to confess to you, but to be honest, she couldn’t tell you.”

    Lu You was tidying up the data cable and tablet on the bedside table. Hearing this, she looked up at Yun Zhu opposite her.

    “She had mentioned to the elders long ago that it would be better to tell you directly.

    But your grandmother, at her age, knelt down and begged her to delay it a little longer. Your mother also said with tears in her eyes that you wouldn’t be able to accept it.

    How could she tell you? If she told you, she would become an evil person to your grandmother and mother. If she didn’t tell you, you would resent her for not standing on your side.”

    Lu You lowered her head and was silent for a long time.

    The first half surprised her, images she couldn’t imagine, but she knew that Yun Zhu wasn’t exaggerating.

    The second half made her uncomfortable. She wasn’t stupid, and she could tell that Yun Zhu was here to speak for her. When two people had emotional conflicts, a third person would interject, even if it was to resolve misunderstandings, it would make her feel a little uncomfortable.

    Lu You spoke unconsciously with thorns: “If she told me, would Grandma and them necessarily know? Couldn’t she have made it clear to me and discussed a foolproof method with me?”

    “How would she tell you?” Yun Zhu analyzed to her, “Saying that your family, your closest grandmother, your mother who you will be close to in the future, sandwiched her, an outsider, in the middle. A group of elders wanted her, a junior, to mediate, putting her on the fire to bake, making her feel embarrassed on both sides.

    After telling you these things, what would you think? Wouldn’t you think that your relatives were going over you, arranging everything in a self-righteous way, asking your lover to test you, and not listening to her opinions at all.

    Because they are your elders, because they want you to have the motherly love that you have always longed for for the rest of your life.

    So your lover had no choice but to do things according to their wishes. The most appropriate way she could think of at the time was to cushion your emotions as much as possible so that you would suffer less harm.

    And what did your relatives take your lover for?

    Thinking about these things, how would you handle yourself?”

    Lu You threw the things in her hand into the suitcase, sat down on the bed, and slowly tightened the hand supporting the bed, grabbing the quilt and wrinkling out twisted folds, “So what? She doesn’t feel any pressure when she tells you these things, but she’s full of concerns when she tells me. Now that you’re here to tell me, how am I supposed to handle myself?”

    “You’re being a little unreasonable by saying that!” Yun Zhu stood up in a hurry, and suddenly reacted, “Are you jealous?”

    Lu You didn’t speak.

    “Don’t be jealous of me and her, there’s no pressure in telling me because we’re just friends. She’s full of concerns for you because she cares about you.

    Now that I’m here to tell you, she doesn’t know what I’m going to say, how much I’m going to say. She can’t control my mouth, and she can’t consider how you’re going to handle yourself.”

    Yun Zhu sat back in her chair, “I’m not here to embarrass you, I just want to, because she’s a silent gourd and doesn’t speak well, I, as her friend, will help her make it clear, and as your friend, I’ll let you know it clearly, so that you don’t have a too narrow perspective and really think she’s hopelessly bad.”

    Lu You pursed her lips and didn’t speak.

    “She could have been doing well with you if it wasn’t for these family matters. You two could have had a happy world. Knowing that you would be angry, she still did it, what do you think it was for?” Yun Zhu said in a low and helpless voice, “Because the people who asked her were your grandmother and your mother, because it concerned you.”

    Lu You’s hand holding the quilt loosened a little bit, and her shoulder line sank heavily, “What else do you know?”

    “I also know that you have a terrible memory.”

    Lu You’s eyelashes trembled, and she lifted them slightly, her cold gaze mixed with two points of dissatisfaction.

    Yun Zhu laughed: “Do you remember? Someone used to send you anonymous messages, saying that Tao Xin didn’t really like you.”

    Lu You frowned slightly, she had an impression.

    “Do you remember how you replied?” Without waiting for her to recall and answer, Yun Zhu said directly, “You replied, ‘I know in my heart whether my girlfriend likes me or not.'”

    “Then she went to find Chu Xiao?” Lu You asked.

    “She didn’t originally plan to find her. She heard that you were in a cold war and wanted to break up, so she waited eagerly, but waited for the news that you two had reconciled. On the day you two reconciled, Tao Xin called her, I was next to her, listening to her like she was drunk, saying everything.”

    Yun Zhu looked at Lu You hesitantly, as if the contents were too embarrassing to say.

    “I probably know Tao Xin’s thoughts,” Lu You said, “There’s no need to tell me in detail.”

    Yun Zhu breathed a sigh of relief: “Chu Xiao was recommended to Lao Yue by me. My circle is very complicated. When couples can’t get along, it’s a time to fight wits and courage, and they all want to grab each other’s handle to get more property. There are also rich young masters and princesses who pursue pure love and test their partners in every way.”

    “Have you tested Feifei?” Lu You interjected and asked.

    “There is no such test.” Yun Zhu shook her head, “There are many ambiguous tests.”

    Lu You stared at her face for a moment, and confirmed that she wasn’t lying before she felt relieved.

    “Blame me for this, I gave the bad idea. Later, after you broke up, she felt bad seeing you sad. During that time, the most she said to me was—I regret it, there should have been other ways, I shouldn’t have done this.

    But to be honest, I don’t think there were any other ways. Ask yourself, at that time, if she stood in front of you and

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