Chapter 52 The intimate actions made Lin…

"Children shouldn't be curious about everything; you've misremembered."

Song Shiguang pulled the little girl to his side: "Let's go back quickly after we get the medicine. Xiaomei is still waiting for you."

Thinking of Xiaomei, the little girl clearly left in a hurry.

But as I walked over, I was still a little confused: "I'm not mistaken, it was Grandma Tian who said it, or was it me who helped Grandma Tian assemble the bed? I'll ask Grandma Tian tomorrow."

Upon hearing this...

The little girl, who had already taken a step forward, was pulled back by Lin Chaoyue, who guiltily grabbed her around the waist.

The other three people in the room were all looking at her.

Lin Chaoyue coughed lightly. Although it was wrong to lie to children, it seemed there was no other way now.

Lin Chaoyue: "If you remember correctly, Sister Lin and... and your Brother Pei accidentally separated the bed and don't know how to put it back together. Don't tell Grandma Tian tomorrow. Grandma Tian is very busy and doesn't need to know about these little things."

The little girl had an "no wonder" expression on her face.

She was usually a model student in the class for helping others. Although she was in a hurry to deliver medicine to Xiaomei, she saw that Sister Lin looked troubled.

He put the medicine in his shirt pocket, walked a few steps to the bedside, and with a bit of force, pushed the two beds together.

"Sister Lin, isn't this much better?"

Lin Chaoyue wasn't sleepy to begin with, and this little incident made it even harder for her to fall asleep.

The two beds were put back together and fit together perfectly, without even the slightest gap.

She was even too afraid to turn over or move around.

I'm afraid I might accidentally bump into Pei Shuwen.

Although it wasn't the first time they'd been intimate, she still felt somewhat uncomfortable with the two of them sleeping so openly in the same bed.

"Aren't you going to sleep yet?"

This time she didn't move, knowing that even if Pei Shuwen was awake, it wasn't because she woke him up.

Lin Chaoyue figured she couldn't sleep anyway, so she said softly, "I'm not sleepy. Are you not sleepy either? Let's chat?"

It's kind of awkward to lie here like this.

Pei Shuwen asked, "What are you talking about?"

Lin Chaoyue didn't know what to talk about, but she finally managed to move around a bit while they were talking.

"The girls here are all quite clever."

“Mm,” Pei Shuwen replied.

"Should we go down the mountain first thing tomorrow morning?"

"We'll head back to the city after breakfast."

Lin Chaoyue said "Oh": "Are we flying to Nancheng the day after tomorrow? Are we really going on a business trip? Will we still be able to make it to the team building event at the end of the month?"

"You don't like your job, you don't like your colleagues, but you enjoy law firm team building activities?"

"Who says I don't like my colleagues? I get along very well with everyone."

Lin Chaoyue felt that Pei Shuwen's words were too biased, so she quickly turned to the side and sat up halfway, describing in detail that she had a good relationship with everyone in private, and gave a few convincing examples.

Even if I'm annoyed by work, I'm not annoyed by my colleagues, except for those few who are too sarcastic and sarcastic.

Pei Shuwen interrupted her: "I know."

Lin Chaoyue was speaking enthusiastically when she was interrupted, and she was a little dissatisfied, but she wanted to continue.

But Pei Shuwen continued, "Take your leg down first."

Lin Chaoyue was stunned for three seconds.

She belatedly realized she wasn't home, and what was under her wasn't her own plush pillow at all, but Pei Shuwen's leg. When she adjusted her position, she had unfortunately rubbed against it twice.

Something exploded in my mind in an instant.

She moved mechanically, swallowing all the words she hadn't finished saying. After lying back down, she simply pulled the blanket over her head.

Lin Chaoyue's toes were already silently scratching the bed.

Looking at the raised blanket, Pei Shuwen chuckled softly. Her nerves, which had been working at a high intensity, finally relaxed, and once the fatigue was relieved, she felt sleepy.

He slept very well that night.

Lin Chaoyue found it rather ordinary. At first, she felt awkward, then it got hot, with a stuffy, sweaty feeling all over her body under the covers. Her mind was racing, and she finally tossed and turned until almost dawn before falling asleep.

It gets light early in the mountains, so everyone gets up early too. When she was woken up, her eyes were still too sleepy to open. She was lying across the bed, and half of the blanket on her wasn't even from her own bed.

"Sister Lin, get up! The sun's already high in the sky!" The little girl trotted into the house.

What time is it?

She forced herself to sit up, still not fully conscious.

The little girl glanced at her children's watch: "It's almost eight o'clock."

It's only eight o'clock.

Upon hearing the time, Lin Chaoyue lay back down on her pillow.

The little girl had clearly received instructions to wake Lin Chaoyue up, and she pulled the blanket away from her face.

"Sister Lin, wake up! Brother Pei is waiting for you to have breakfast. There are delicious three-ingredient dumplings in the cafeteria this morning. Get up quickly!"

Has Pei Shuwen gotten up yet?

If this young girl hadn't mentioned it, Lin Chaoyue would have almost forgotten that there was another person lying in her bed last night.

She finally seemed a bit more lucid this time.

I sat up and rubbed my eyes hard, only to find that it was the same little girl from yesterday standing by my bed.

Lin Chaoyue asked, "Did your brother Pei send you to call me?"

The little girl nodded vigorously: "Yes, Brother Pei said we'd be going down the mountain soon and it would be too late if we didn't get up. But when I tried to wake you this morning, Brother Pei clearly said there was still time and to let you sleep a little longer. Grandma Tian said the same thing."

Children obviously cannot fully understand the unpredictability of adults.

But Lin Chaoyue sensed something amiss: "How early in the morning?"

The little girl said matter-of-factly, "Five o'clock? We can have breakfast at the cafeteria at six. Brother Pei got up a long time ago, and Grandma Tian has already gone to the garden to pick vegetables."

"Look, Grandma Tian gave me a carrot, it's very sweet," the little girl said, chewing the carrot in her mouth a couple of times.

Thinking back to last night, Lin Chaoyue pursed her lips and tentatively asked, "You didn't say anything to Grandma Tian this morning, did you?"

"I already told you. It's just that Brother Pei also went to the garden to pick vegetables, so I didn't mention it."

With Pei Shuwen around, last night's events shouldn't be exposed.

When Lin Chaoyue got up, folded her blankets, and went to the cafeteria, there were hardly any people left.

Pei Shuwen sat at the corner dining table. Grandma Tian came out of the kitchen with a porcelain bowl in her hand. When she saw Lin Chaoyue through the curtain, she was obviously very happy and waved to her.

"Lin girl, come over here. Xiao Pei left you breakfast. Since the weather is nice, eat and then come down the mountain with Xiao Song. Xiao Song will take you back to the city."

Grandma Tian said kindly, "It was windy last night. I heard from Xiao Song that she went to bother you. You and Xiao Pei didn't sleep well, did you?"

"I slept okay."

Lin Chaoyue glanced guiltily at Pei Shuwen; she really didn't want to recall how she had stayed up all night.

He simply gave a vague reply.

Pei Shuwen didn't expose her.

But Grandma Tian's expression was somewhat meaningful: "Xiao Pei has grown up. He's not like he was when he was little anymore. He knows how to care for his girlfriend now. You and Xiao Pei should have a good talk. You can come over to play anytime you have time. I'll always keep that room for you."

After the old man finished speaking, he was still somewhat emotional when he left.

Lin Chaoyue still had some awareness of being a 'fake girlfriend'. She waited until she and Pei Shuwen were the only two left in the cafeteria before finally sitting down. Her hands were a little weak, so she put her arms on the table and propped her head up.

"When did you get up? I have no recollection of it. Grandma Tian didn't ask you anything else, just about last night."

"I didn't ask. I saw it all this morning, so there's nothing to ask."

Thinking of the eye-catching bright red bedding in the room, Lin Chaoyue couldn't help but nod in agreement. When she was folding the quilt, she realized that she had been sleeping sideways, and her quilt and Pei Shuwen's quilt had long been mixed up. It was impossible to tell whose quilt was whose without careful observation.

He was resting his head on Pei Shuwen's pillow.

No one would believe they weren't a couple.

This way, she and Pei Shuwen should be even. She acted drunk and bit him, and she'll atone for her sins by playing the role of his girlfriend.

Lin Chaoyue yawned and stretched, looking around to see where to get food.

"Why don't I see any of the cafeteria chefs?"

"Uncle Song has gone down the mountain."

"What about breakfast? That girl just said you saved breakfast for me."

"It's in the kitchen. Go eat, and then we'll meet at the place down the mountain." Pei Shuwen glanced at the time: "You have half an hour."

The meal wouldn't take more than half an hour, and Lin Chaoyue readily agreed.

But when Lin Chaoyue saw the whole box of dumplings left in the kitchen that hadn't been cooked yet, a pot bigger than a washbasin, and a very primitive wood-fired stove, she fell silent.

Raw?

Lin Chaoyue was highly skeptical. "Let alone a good meal, could she even boil water in half an hour?"

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Lin Chaoyue hurried along and finished breakfast in half an hour.

As she descended the mountain, she felt increasingly that Pei Shuwen was utterly inhuman, so she deliberately lagged behind and walked with the people from the television station.

The girls at the TV station are all quite young.

They started chatting in just a few words.

"Miss, I heard you and your boyfriend are both lawyers. You two look so well-matched."

Lin Chaoyue gave a forced smile: "Is that so?"

"Really, really, we all think so, and it seems like your boyfriend really likes you."

They were completely wrong. Their relationship was purely platonic, a one-night stand, and it was all an act.

Lin Chaoyue gave a fake smile.

But the others didn't seem to notice that Lin Chaoyue's expression was off.

After whispering a few words behind her, a girl with a camera in her hand pulled two photos out of the side of her backpack and mysteriously stuffed them into Lin Chaoyue's hand.

The girl sounded a little embarrassed as she spoke: "I stayed up too late editing videos last night. I took this picture when I went out for some fresh air in the yard. I wanted to give it to you this morning after I washed it, but I didn't see you when I was eating breakfast."

Lin Chaoyue thought the girl was taking a picture of herself.

Without thinking much, I just took it.

When I received it, I realized that the photo included not only myself, but also Pei Shuwen.

In the dark, rainy night, Pei Shuwen walked forward with an umbrella, and she pulled him to hide under his umbrella. The photo captured the moment when she looked up at him and spoke.

The intimate gesture made Lin Chaoyue's face flush red.

"Ah, it was last night." Lin Chaoyue rubbed her face with the back of her hand: "We got up to use the public restroom last night."

"I know, your boyfriend is with you." Seeing that the girl in the 'secretly taken' photo wasn't angry, the girl felt relieved and, at the same time, said a few more words of envy.

"Your boyfriend is so good to you, he still comes out with you so late. Last time we went out to record a show, we met a jerk. He would stand outside waiting for his girlfriend in the middle of the night, and he would even curse at her if she didn't arrive early for a date. He has no manners at all."

The two people next to him echoed his sentiment.

Lin Chaoyue frowned upon hearing this: "Last night? He was waiting for me outside the whole time."

"Yes, the other photo was taken around that time. I took several in a row, and they were all good, but this one had the best angle, so I just printed it out..."

The girl behind her even said she wanted to help her and Pei Shuwen take a photo of their faces together.

Lin Chaoyue didn't listen to the details, but nodded in agreement. Still not convinced, she asked again, "Are you sure? You didn't see wrong last night? He was just waiting for me outside the whole time last night?"