Chapter 42
Yin Mu didn't sleep well the whole night, and he felt tired when he went downstairs to have breakfast the next morning.
Zhang Yang, Jiang Nanyu and Zhou Jingyu were also in the restaurant. They were obviously chatting, but when they saw Yin Mu come in, they tacitly fell silent and looked at her meaningfully.
Yin Mu felt uncomfortable being stared at, and since he hadn't slept well, his mood was already a little bad. He frowned and asked, "Why are you all looking at me?"
Zhou Jingyu smiled and said good morning to her, and asked, "Did you sleep well last night?"
"I'm fine. Thank you for your concern." Yin Mu replied, and then turned back to the previous question, "Why are you all looking at me with such strange eyes?"
"No, you're just being overly suspicious."
Yin Mu ignored her and stared at Jiang Nanyu, who was the easiest to ask questions: "What's going on?"
Jiang Nanyu scratched his head and confessed honestly, "It's nothing, actually. It's just that when Zhang Yang came downstairs last night, he accidentally discovered that you went to the garden to look for Chen Qinglin."
"So what?"
Jiang Nanyu was stunned: "Huh?"
"I say, what's wrong with chatting? Do you have to be so sensitive?"
【Yin Mu is so tough! 】
[Is this true?! I thought Zhang Yang was just talking nonsense.]
[We're just chatting, why are you all so excited...]
【But we chatted for a long time! 】
[Okay, okay, you're not sleeping late at night to chat, right? Pool chat 2.0. ]
…
Jiang Nanyu looked at Zhou Jingyu awkwardly, asking for help with his eyes.
Zhou Jingyu took over the conversation and said calmly, "We don't mean anything else. We just think you two have a good relationship, so we're just chatting casually."
Yin Mu was about to say something else when Zhong Mengyuan yawned and walked into the restaurant. Without even noticing who was there, he mumbled, "Good morning."
"morning."
"Oh, Rabbit." Zhong Mengyuan rubbed his eyes. "Huh? What's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad?"
Yin Mu suppressed his irritation and said, "It's okay." Then he went into the kitchen.
Zhong Mengyuan looked at Zhou Jingyu and the other three in confusion, and followed them into the kitchen.
"What's wrong? Did you have a fight with someone so early in the morning?"
"No, why would I quarrel with others?" Yin Mu denied it flatly. He took eggs from the refrigerator and casually asked Zhong Mengyuan, "Do you want some?"
"Come on." Zhong Mengyuan leaned against the wall, observing Yin Mu calmly, "Tell me if you have anything to say, don't keep it in your heart."
"I know." Yin Mu responded without turning her head. She really wanted to talk to Zhong Mengyuan, but not at this place and at this time. She could only say sullenly, "Let's talk about it another day."
Zhong Mengyuan also knew that the kitchen was not a suitable place for conversation, so she nodded and said, "Well, we'll talk later."
Today, Meng Meng announced the results of the previous day's voting in public as usual, resulting in two people with absolute dating rights, namely Lu Zilin and Zhong Mengyuan. Others can still freely issue date invitations.
Seeing that no one would pay attention to them for a while, Zhong Mengyuan quietly pulled Yin Mu up to the third floor.
Yin Mu didn't wait for her to speak, and said first: "I voted for you this time, so you can be more free."
"Who asked you that? I don't care." Zhong Mengyuan pushed her down to sit on the sofa and said, "Are you still unhappy? It's not because of Chen Qinglin, is it?"
Yin Mu muttered: "What does it have to do with him?"
"Don't pretend to be calm. Don't I know you?" Zhong Mengyuan rolled his eyes. "Besides, he was looking at you the whole time when the votes were being counted. I'm not blind."
“…”
"Just tell me, is there something wrong?"
Yin Mu hesitated for a long time and asked, "Will we leave after the romance show ends?"
"I think so. What's wrong?"
Yin Mu bit his lip and whispered, "What if I don't want to leave?"
Zhong Mengyuan didn't react to what she meant for a moment and blinked: "Huh?"
Yin Mu quickly added: "It's not that I don't want to leave, I just want to stay a little longer."
Zhong Mengyuan frowned: "What can you do by staying here? Don't you want to go home?" She looked doubtful and said, "Don't tell me it's for Chen Qinglin, are you crazy?"
"No." Yin Mu denied hastily, "I'm not that confused, I just can't let it go. I don't know what will happen next."
"What happens to him is none of your business." Zhong Mengyuan didn't care. "He was fine for the past twenty years. It's the same with or without you. Don't think too much."
"That's what I said, but——"
"Okay, you're just too sensitive and think too much." Zhong Mengyuan interrupted her, "Think about it, your uncle and aunt are waiting for you to come back. You're unconscious, how sad and anxious they must be, you know that."
Yin Mu's heart sank when he heard her mention her parents: "I know, I also want to go back quickly so that my parents can rest assured."
"So," Zhong Mengyuan patted her leg soothingly, "just treat it as a chance encounter. What's over is over. Don't dwell on it too much."
"……Um."
Zhong Mengyuan was still puzzled: "But why did you suddenly have such an idea?"
Since Zhou Jingyu and the others already knew about it, there was no need for him to hide it from Zhong Mengyuan. Yin Mu simply told her the truth and told her about what happened last night. He started by overhearing the conversation between Chen Qinglin and Lin Fan in the bar, and said that when he saw Chen Qinglin by the swimming pool, he went down to find him, and the two of them chatted about his family matters.
Yin Mu sighed: "I really felt sorry for him, so I chatted with him for a while."
Zhong Mengyuan suddenly realized: "Oh, no wonder Chen Qinglin looked at you with such pitiful eyes." Then he asked, "What about you? You don't really like him, do you?"
Yin Mu turned his head away: "That's not true, don't talk nonsense."
"How can you say that?" Zhong Mengyuan said confidently, "Don't you know? Feeling distressed is also a sign of love."
"Where did you hear this nonsense? It's not good."
Zhong Mengyuan shrugged: "That's the fact. If you don't want to admit it, forget it."
Yin Mu lowered his eyelids and remained silent.
She had always been focused on her studies, usually interacting only with girls, so she was slow to develop a romantic connection. In high school, a boy occasionally approached her, but she didn't realize it at the time. It wasn't until the farewell dinner after graduation, when the boy, under the influence of alcohol, confessed his love for her, that she realized what those advances meant. However, she didn't have any special feelings for him, so the relationship ended.
After entering university, apart from attending classes, she spent almost all her spare time in the library, reading and writing. She had no interest in various campus activities and no chance to interact with the opposite sex. As a result, she is still single now.
It seems that Chen Qinglin is indeed the first person of the opposite sex who actively contacts others on his own initiative.
But, can this really be considered love? It's too frivolous.
She was just thinking when Zheng Wei came running up the stairs, interrupting her thoughts: "You two really were hiding here whispering. I had to look for you for ages."
Yin Mu came back to his senses and smiled at her: "What's wrong? Why are you looking for us?"
"Nothing much. They're all writing date invitations. Don't you want to go take a look?"
Yin Mu and Zhong Mengyuan looked at each other, and Zhong Mengyuan asked with interest: "Oh? Who is writing?"
"Zhang Yang was writing when I came up," Zheng Wei said mysteriously. "Guess who Zhang Yang invited?"
Yin Mu said without hesitation: "Do I need to guess? It must be Zhou Jingyu."
"No, no, no." Zheng Wei stretched out her index finger and shook it, pretending to be mysterious. "Guess again."
Yin Mu tilted his head in confusion: "Who else could it be?"
Zheng Wei smiled: "It's a dream come true."
When these words were spoken, Yin Mu and Zhong Mengyuan were both shocked.
Zhong Mengyuan pointed at his nose: "Me? How is that possible? Why did he invite me?"
"I don't know about that. Anyway, Lu Zilin and Zhang Yang invited you, and they're waiting for you to come downstairs and choose."
Zhong Mengyuan's mouth twitched. "Lu Zilin? Why is he joining in the fun again? Do they think this is funny or something?"
Zheng Wei rested her finger on her chin. "Well, at first, Lu Zilin relied on his priority to write it. Zhang Yang said Meng Yuan wouldn't accept it, and then the two of them started arguing. Zhang Yang wasn't convinced and wanted to follow suit, so he did."
Zhong Mengyuan sneered: "Oh, they haven't forgotten that they lost to me in the card game yesterday, and they are using me as a bet for fun."
"Lu Zilin seems quite serious."
"Who cares about them?" Zhong Mengyuan said flatly, "I rejected both of them anyway."
"Ah, are you rejecting them all?"
"Why should I sacrifice my wishes to make them happy? I won't."
Yin Mu smiled and asked Zheng Wei, "What about Jiang Nanyu?"
Zheng Wei curled her lips: "He is almost deeply bound to Zhou Jingyu, what else is there to say."
Zhong Mengyuan stood up and said, "Okay, let's go down and take a look."
The three of them went downstairs together and saw that the whiteboard, which was originally blank, was now filled with writing, with no space left.
Yin Mu quickly scanned through all the date invitations. At the top was one from Jiang Nanyu, with Zhou Jingyu's reply already in the back. Below that were invitations from Lu Zilin and Zhang Yang to Zhong Mengyuan: one to bowling, the other to singing.
And at the very bottom, there was another line of small words: "Yin Mu, does the appointment at the teahouse still count?" The signature was clearly Chen Qinglin.
The teahouse was mentioned when they went to the amusement park last time, and Chen Qinglin actually still remembered it.
Yin Mu looked at the line of elegant words with mixed feelings.
Zheng Wei also saw it and was stunned: "Huh? Chen Qinglin also wrote it. He hadn't written it when I went upstairs to find you guys?"
Zhong Mengyuan couldn't take care of herself anymore and asked Yin Mu, "How about it? Do you want to go?"
Yin Mu hesitated: "I don't know."
Zheng Wei encouraged her: "Go ahead, go ahead. Why not go out if you can? If someone invites me, I'll agree without even thinking."
Yin Mu looked at Zhong Mengyuan, trying to get some effective advice from her: "Mengyuan..."
Zhong Mengyuan spread his hands: "Don't ask me, ask yourself, do you want to go?"
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