Chapter 63 Chapter 63 "Calculate for yourself, how long has it been since you let me kiss you...
Finally free, Lin Mo felt a temporary sense of liberation, both physically and mentally. She walked out into the lobby and headed straight for the dining area against the wall. She grabbed a few items and sat on a high stool in front of the bar.
At this time, intermittent chatting sounds came from nearby. Lin Mo had no intention of eavesdropping, but the content of the chat seemed to be related to her.
"Have you seen President Xiao's wife? She's so beautiful! This is the first time I've seen her today, and I'm blown away."
"She's beautiful, but unfortunately, she's just a victim of a wealthy marriage."
"How do you say that?"
"Do you know why President Xiao didn't get married until he was almost 30? Also, although there were rumors that he frequently changed his female companions, if you think about it carefully, you've never seen any of these so-called female companions actually speak out, and it seems they've never been in a relationship. There's something fishy going on here."
"Why? What's the problem? Tell me quickly."
Lin Mo glanced to the side quietly. The one who was telling the "inside story" mysteriously was a charming boy, and the one who was asking questions was another boy and a girl. Because there were people sitting between them, none of the three noticed her.
To be honest, when Lu Yanxiao first proposed to her to get married, she was also curious, so she asked him face to face in the room of Changli VIP Hotel, "Is there someone you like but can't be with?" But later, when she got along with Lu Yanxiao, she didn't notice any signs of this, so she forgot about it.
Now that she heard someone reveal the news, Lin Mo's curiosity was aroused again. She leaned her elbows on the bar, covered her face with her left hand, and pricked up her ears to eavesdrop while eating.
The boy took a sip of his cocktail and chatted, "Because Mr. Xiao has a sweetheart whom he has loved for more than ten years."
"Really? Who is it?"
The boy shrugged. "Many of Mr. Xiao's friends know about this person, but only his closest friends know who it is. How could I know? However, from what I heard, the girl should have been in Beijing North before. Maybe she was a college classmate?"
"Why didn't the two of them succeed?"
"Mr. Xiao seems to be in unrequited love."
"That's impossible, Lu Yanxiao, unrequited love?"
The boy swore, "What's so surprising about this? No matter how outstanding he is, others must like him? What I know is that in order to have an excuse to go to Jingbei to find girls, he has to cooperate with Jingbei on any project, even if it doesn't make much money."
The girl nodded: "This is indeed true. I heard my father say that it was a good thing I was born into the Lu family, otherwise he would have squandered all our wealth. So that's what happened."
"Ah, when you think about it this way, Lin Mo is quite pitiful, marrying someone who doesn't like her."
"Not necessarily." The girl said indifferently, "If it were me, I would seal my heart to my love. After all, sleeping with such a handsome guy is not a loss..."
The more they talked, the more they got into something interesting. Lin Mo felt embarrassed and ashamed. She quickly finished the last few bites and was about to leave when she turned around and ran into an acquaintance - Lin Peng's idol, the basketball player Li Zhenhao.
"Lin Mo." Li Zhenhao shouted in a foolish voice.
The next second, Lin Mo heard a terrified cry of "Oh my God" behind her, followed by the chaotic noise of high stools moving. The three people who were gossiping just now were talking to themselves in a panic to make amends.
"Oh, I was just kidding."
"Yeah, yeah, I was just kidding. It's nothing."
How afraid are these three people of Lu Yanxiao?
Lin Mo turned around and smiled faintly at them: "It's okay, I didn't hear anything."
The three of them smiled gratefully, stepped back and quickly slipped away.
Li Zhenhao looked puzzled: "What happened?"
"It's okay." Lin Moyun said calmly, "They said Lu Yanxiao has a girl he's been in love with for more than ten years. They might be afraid that it would affect my mood if I heard it. Actually, I don't care at all."
It would be a lie to say that she didn't care at all. After all, she finally found the crux of the matter.
However, for now she had to pretend that she didn't care, because she wanted to trick Li Zhenhao into thinking something.
Those three people could at most be considered acquaintances of Lu Yanxiao, and the "inside information" they mentioned might be just hearsay. Li Zhenhao was a player of Lu Yanxiao's club. Although he was not as close to him as Yu Kesu Luoang, maybe he knew something?
Li Zhenhao is big, has a straightforward mind, and is a bit simple-minded, so it's easiest to get people to talk to him.
Lin Mo continued: "It's all in the past. The future is more important."
"You're right to think so." As expected, Li Zhenhao easily fell into the trap. "Who hasn't had a flashback to the past, right?"
Lin Mo smiled bitterly: "Well, you are right."
It seems that it is true that Lu Yanxiao has a girl he has liked for more than ten years.
Lin Mo snorted in self-mockery. No wonder he rejected the blind date arranged by Grandpa Lu, no wonder he agreed to marry her, no wonder he didn't like her. The root of it all was that there was someone in his heart that he could never forget.
"Have you seen that girl?" Lin Mo asked.
Li Zhenhao shook his head: "He seems to be in Beijing North. We haven't seen him yet."
"What's your name?"
Li Zhenhao shook his head again and said regretfully, "I almost knew it. The girl seemed to have given President Xiao something with her name on it. Two or three years ago, President Xiao accidentally brought it to the club. We wanted to grab it and take a look, but we failed. We haven't seen that thing since then. It must have been thrown away."
"What?"
Li Zhenhao made a small circle with his hand: "It's a small one, like a backpack pendant, I couldn't see it clearly."
"Oh." Lin Mo pretended to understand something and said calmly, "Then he must have thrown it away. I haven't even seen it at home."
"So, it's all in the past, you don't have to take it to heart."
Lin Mo forced a smile and nodded.
"Then I'll go over there." Li Zhenhao pointed in the direction of the pool table and ran over.
Lin Mo nodded at the air, her mind wandering as she walked forward. She had to return the cutlery. As she walked, her hands suddenly felt empty. She thought it was the waiter, so she said "thank you," but when she looked up, it was Lu Yanxiao.
"Why don't you play anymore?" Lin Mo smiled faintly.
"It's boring." Lu Yanxiao handed the tableware to the waiter and asked her gently, "Are you done eating?"
"Um."
Lu Yanxiao stretched out his hand towards her: "Go home."
Lin Mo hesitated and glanced towards the private room: "Aren't we going to sing Yu Ke's birthday song until midnight?"
"I just sang it to him in advance."
"You?" Lin Mo couldn't believe it.
Lu Yanxiao raised his eyebrows: "How could this be fake?"
"If we leave now, will Yu Ke be unhappy?" She always felt that it was inappropriate. Didn't birthdays usually require staying with the birthday person until midnight, singing birthday songs, blowing out candles, and eating cake together? It was only ten o'clock.
Lu Yanxiao took her hand directly and said, "He is so happy that he can't wait."
Lin Mo didn't understand, but she had to get up early for work the next day, so she was willing to go back, so she didn't say anything else.
Shaofeng City is still bustling at ten o'clock in the evening, and the roads near tourist attractions are congested and glaring.
The car slowly creeps closer, and Lin Mo stares out the window, bored and restless. She picks up her phone and casually scrolls through her social media feed. After just a few, she sees Yu Ke's update. It's a video with the caption: "Young Master Lu is paying for everything tonight! Happy birthday to me!"
The static image showed that the content of the video seemed to be related to Lu Yanxiao, so she clicked on it.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
Lin Mo was shocked. It was Lu Yanxiao who was singing Happy Birthday to Yu Ke alone!
At the end of the video, the sound was noisy and the camera was shaking and out of focus. Lin Mo moved the phone to her ear and heard in the messy background sound that it was the conversation between Yu Ke and Lu Yanxiao in a different place, which seemed to be at the door of the private room.
Yu Ke: "Are you really leaving?"
Lu Yanxiao: "I have to go to work tomorrow morning. Who told you to have your birthday on a weekday?"
Yu Ke was speechless. "What do you mean? Your wife, right? You're a wife slave. You forget your friends when you have a wife."
"Okay, shut up." Lu Yanxiao, "You guys can have fun tonight, I'll pay."
Yu Ke's expression changed immediately, and he cheered, "Alright, Master Lu, have a safe trip! Come often!"
Lin Mo chuckled and subconsciously turned to look at Lu Yanxiao, who glanced at her questioningly. She showed him her phone and said, "I heard you singing Happy Birthday to Yu Ke."
Lu Yanxiao shrugged without responding.
"Thank you."
"Thank you for what?"
"Because of your voice, I can go home early."
Lu Yanxiao: "Then, shouldn't you express your opinion?"
"What does it mean?"
The car stopped again. Lu Yanxiao tilted his head towards her and tapped his right cheek with his fingertips, just like he did in the private room.
Lin Mo pretended not to understand, quickly sat up straight, and looked ahead: "Why is it so congested?"
The car fell silent. After about half a minute, Lu Yanxiao said solemnly, "It will be better if we turn around the intersection ahead."
Lin Mo said "oh" and looked out the window sideways. She inadvertently saw the silhouette of the man reflected in the window. He had a high nose bridge, deep eyebrows, a smooth and tight jawline, and a cold and stern look.
She subconsciously touched the man's reflection in the glass with her fingertips, and inexplicably thought of the girl he had been obsessed with for over ten years. What did she look like? What was her personality like? What did she do? Was she in Beijing now?
Someone like Lu Yanxiao couldn't get the love he wanted. That girl must be very charming and outstanding. A sense of sadness welled up in Lin Mo's heart, and she sighed secretly.
She had not yet come out of this emotion until the car stopped in the underground garage of Fenglin Garden. She got out of the car absent-mindedly, got on the elevator, exited the elevator, entered the house, changed into slippers... For a moment, she seemed to ignore Lu Yanxiao beside her.
However, when she put her shoes into the cabinet, a pair of arms reached out from behind and wrapped around her waist.
She stiffened: "What are you doing?"
Lu Yanxiao didn't say anything, but held her silently. After she stood up completely, he rested his chin on her right shoulder.
"It's hot." Lin Mo tried to untie his hands.
Lu Yanxiao hugged her tighter and nuzzled her neck with his chin: "Let me hug you."
His voice was low and hoarse, and his tone was dejected and had a faint pleading tone.
For a moment, Lin Mo's heart softened. She lowered her arms and let him hold her, but the man became more and more aggressive, and his hands slid down restlessly. She suddenly came to her senses and pushed him down hard.
"Let go..."
She wanted to stop him sternly, but the moment she turned to look at the man, she froze in place, the words she hadn't finished were suddenly stuck in her throat, she was so shocked that she couldn't say a word, "You——"
Lu Yanxiao's eyes were red and crystal liquid was rolling. He was crying.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Lin Mo was panic-stricken. She was fine before entering the room, how could she suddenly become like this? She had never been good at comforting others. When others cried, she didn't know what to do. She was also very easily infected and would cry along with them.
"What happened?" She raised her hand and gently wiped him with her fingertips. "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Lu Yanxiao didn't answer. He looked at her with tearful eyes and hugged her in his arms again.
Is it because she didn't let him hug her just now?
this.
Lin Mo found it hard to understand, but she didn't dare to refuse for the time being and let him hold her.
The chandelier above the entranceway emitted a warm yellow light. The space in front of the shoe cabinet was not large, and there was a sense of isolation and quietness. Lin Mo leaned against his chest and could clearly feel his heartbeat, which seemed to be beating faster than normal. The thump, thump, thump sound also hit her heart again and again.
After a long moment, a man's voice rang out from above. He said, "Who's so angry that it lasts a month? How about I apologize to your friend? Besides Wei Wei, there's also that guy named Chen, Teacher Chen Qi."
Lin Mo was stunned in surprise.
It turned out that he had indeed noticed her changes over the past month.
He thought she was angry because of his attitude towards Wei Wei and Chen Qi that day, so he wanted to make amends, to redeem the relationship, to apologize to them, and was even willing to call Chen Qi, whom he hated, "Teacher Chen Qi".
Lin Mo was in a complicated mood. The misunderstanding could actually be easily explained, but the result was unsolvable. He didn't like her. The clearer the explanation, the more of a joke it became to her.
"I'm not angry anymore." She forced a smile.
"Then kiss me." As he spoke, the man leaned over and wanted to kiss her.
Lin Mo turned her head away and dodged.
Lu Yanxiao's expression froze, and tears as big as beans rolled down his cheeks, landing on the back of her hand. "Didn't you say you liked my body? Now you don't like it anymore?"
Lin Mo was speechless and lowered her eyes, not daring to look at him.
Lu Yanxiao kissed her shoulder lightly, then slowly moved his big hand that was covering her waist down.
The hem of her skirt was lifted up, and Lin Mo realized something was wrong. She wanted to push it away, but the man held her with his other hand and continued to explore inside.
"Count it yourself, how long has it been since you let me kiss you?" His voice was filled with grievance and accusation.
The moment she was touched, Lin Mo couldn't help but tremble: "You..."
"If you don't even let me kiss you, how can you say you like me?"
The man's voice was low, and he kept accusing.
The long-lost closeness made her body extremely sensitive. Lin Mo gritted her teeth and persisted, but the man seemed to have improved his skills. Before long, she lost control of herself and her body became limp.
"Lu Yanxiao——"
She hooked her arms around his neck and murmured with the last bit of her sanity, "Go to the room."
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