Chapter 55
Zhong Mengyuan took a deep breath and looked directly into Yin Mu's blank eyes: "Didn't you ask me why you can't communicate with the system?"
"Um……"
"That's because the system originally wanted to bind me. Binding you was just a mistake." Zhong Mengyuan said slowly, "The system quickly realized this after the error and gave me two options. One is to change the binding object to you, so that I can stay out of it. The other is to keep me bound. Although you can't leave, I can assist you, on the condition that we must advance and retreat together."
Yin Mu said, "You chose two."
"Well." Zhong Mengyuan whispered, "This has nothing to do with you. How can I feel comfortable exonerating myself?"
Yin Mu took some time to digest this fact. She thought about when Zhong Mengyuan first came and she asked her some detailed questions, but she seemed to be deliberately avoiding them and was always vague.
Now that I think about it, everything makes sense.
So that’s it. So that’s it.
Yin Mu was in a complicated mood: "Why didn't you tell me?"
Zhong Mengyuan lowered her head, looking guilty and ashamed: "I'm afraid you'll be angry with me."
Yin Mu shook his head helplessly and pinched her face: "Why should I be angry with you? This is not your fault. Besides, you didn't abandon me cruelly and came to accompany me. I can't thank you enough."
Zhong Mengyuan looked up at her, a rare pitiful expression on his face. "Really? I've been struggling with whether or not to tell you several times, but after thinking it over, I still didn't dare to say it."
"Ha, you actually get scared sometimes." Seeing Zhong Mengyuan like this, Yin Mu wanted to lighten the atmosphere and teased her deliberately, "Then why are you telling me now? What if I'm really angry?"
"Because keeping secrets is really stressful, and the system not responding makes me panic." Zhong Mengyuan pursed her lips, stretched out a hand, and said, "If you are really angry, I have nothing to say. I will let you hit me."
After hearing this, Yin Mu showed no mercy and raised his hand to slap her hard on the back of her hand.
"Hiss..." Zhong Mengyuan felt pain and retracted his hand reflexively, but he didn't dare to complain. He rubbed the back of his hand with a bitter face.
Yin Mu sighed, took her hand, and rubbed it perfunctorily for her. He asked, "So why did you look so grim after communicating with the system? What went wrong?"
It would have been fine if she hadn't asked. As soon as she did, Zhong Mengyuan became furious and gnashed her teeth, saying, "This makeshift team broke the system. To hell with it."
Yin Mu patted her back to help her calm down: "Okay, okay, don't be angry first, talk slowly if you have something to say."
Zhong Mengyuan took a deep breath and asked, "Do you know why Zhou Jingyu is not right?"
"Why?"
Zhong Mengyuan curled his lips: "The old one hasn't gone yet, and the new one is coming."
"Ah?" Yin Mu asked blankly, "What do you mean?"
She seemed to understand, yet also seemed to understand nothing.
"This damn system is wrong again." Zhong Mengyuan laughed in anger, "The protagonist of the new round of missions has appeared early."
"How could this happen?" Yin Mu was stunned, then suddenly realized, "Ah, no wonder Zhou Jingyu's behavior and logic suddenly changed drastically, so this is what happened. But, what is her mission?"
Zhong Mengyuan closed her eyes, not wanting to say more: "What do you think?"
In fact, when Yin Mu asked this question, he already had the answer in his mind, but he just didn't want to believe it. But now seeing Zhong Mengyuan's reaction, he had to believe it even if he didn't want to.
"It can't be... Chen Qinglin."
"You guessed right." Zhong Mengyuan said angrily, "Her mission is to capture Chen Qinglin."
Yin Mu felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this, but he managed to suppress the awkwardness in his heart, comforting both Zhong Mengyuan and himself, saying, "It's okay, we're all leaving. Who she wants to capture is none of our business."
"The problem is that this time it really concerns us." Zhong Mengyuan frowned, "Because of this broken system, we can only wait until Zhou Jingyu completes her mission and the passage is opened again before we can go back."
"How is that possible?" Yin Mu was stunned for a few seconds, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.
Before they left, Zhou Jingyu's mission began. This had nothing to do with her, but the edited version of "Summer Sonata" was about to be broadcast, and the audience would inevitably dig up information about the guests while watching. As a result, they found out that Chen Qinglin was not with her, but with Zhou Jingyu instead...
Yin Mu didn't want to think about it anymore and asked Zhong Mengyuan: "What should we do then?"
"I don't know either," Zhong Mengyuan said listlessly. "Based on what I've learned about Chen Qinglin these past few days, he's probably a very stubborn person. What if he's still thinking about you and can't be won over by Zhou Jingyu? Who knows when we can go back."
Yin Mu didn't know what Chen Qinglin was thinking at this moment. His emotions were infected by Zhong Mengyuan, and he also lowered his head. After a while, he said, "What do you think, if we help Zhou Jingyu complete the task?"
"Don't be silly." Zhong Mengyuan said, "Let's not talk about whether it's against your conscience for now. The most important thing is that we can't interfere in other people's affairs."
"That's too much," Yin Mu said angrily. "So what should we do? Just wait?"
Zhong Mengyuan sighed: "This is the only way for now. You can stay with me for the next few days. This way I can feel more at ease."
"Okay." Yin Mu nodded, and said with a bit of relief, "Fortunately, both of us are not short of money now, so we won't starve to death lying at home."
Zhong Mengyuan said gloomily, "You seem quite open-minded."
"Now that things have come to this, there's nothing we can do about it." Yin Mu smiled, "Okay, don't be so sad. Think about it optimistically. Maybe one day the situation will change unexpectedly."
"I hope so." Although Yin Mu didn't mean to blame herself at all, Zhong Mengyuan still couldn't relax and apologized to her again, "I'm sorry, Rabbit, it's all my fault that I got you into trouble."
"What are you talking about?" Yin Mu patted her lightly. "It's clearly the fault of this unprofessional system. Don't take all the blame on yourself."
"……Um."
"Okay." Yin Mu stood up. "I haven't had lunch yet. I'm starving. Let's pack up and go out to eat."
"……Um."
Yin Mu patted Zhong Mengyuan's head soothingly: "Don't have such a stern face. Smile. It's not like you anymore."
Zhong Mengyuan raised his face and curled the corners of his lips perfunctorily: "Yes, yes, let it be."
She simply tidied up her second bedroom and let Yin Mu settle down temporarily. Then she took her out for a meal, and when they came back, they lay down together in the living room.
Yin Mu was lying on the sofa with her feet on the armrest, holding her phone and watching videos boredly. Zhong Mengyuan, who was lying head to head with her, was in the same state. The two of them were quiet and no one spoke for a while.
Suddenly, their phones vibrated at the same time.
Yin Mu exited the video and checked the message. Seeing that it was Zheng Wei inviting her to join the WeChat group chat, she clicked on it. The next second, she saw Zhong Mengyuan also joined the group chat.
"Huh? You added it too?" Yin Mu turned his head away, "I thought you definitely wouldn't add it."
Zhong Mengyuan casually sent a greeting emoji in the group and said, "Add her, why not? This is a good opportunity to observe Zhou Jingyu."
Yin Mu was stunned: "Oh, why didn't I think of it."
"Um... because you're stupid?"
"Dream come true!" Yin Mu pretended to be angry and raised his hand to hit her.
"Okay, okay, I admit my mistake." Zhong Mengyuan immediately raised his hands in surrender, glanced at his phone screen, and said, "Chen Qinglin has also joined the group."
"Oh." Yin Mu pretended to be calm and asked, "What did he say?"
"He didn't say anything, which is his style." Zhong Mengyuan threw his phone aside and closed his eyes. "I'm sleepy. I'm going to take a nap first. If I'm not awake in an hour, wake me up."
"Yes, I can, but I can't guarantee that I'll still be awake in an hour."
Zhong Mengyuan waved her hand: "If you fall asleep too, then just let me sleep."
"good--"
Zhong Mengyuan fell asleep as steadily as ever. Within five minutes, her breathing became steady and long. Yin Mu carefully propped up his upper body and looked at her. Seeing that she was indeed asleep, he lay back down in disappointment.
The room was very quiet. Yin Mu was afraid of waking up Zhong Mengyuan, but was too lazy to get up and look for headphones. Seeing that there were already dozens of messages in the WeChat group, he clicked in and scrolled up. It was just a few random chats, with no useful information. Chen Qinglin didn't say a word.
Yin Mu hesitated for a long time before finding Chen Qinglin's profile picture among the group members and clicking on it like a thief. Chen Qinglin's profile picture was a gray tree growing in the water, looking cold and indifferent, which made people have little desire to communicate. When he clicked on the Moments, as expected, it was also blank.
"Oh." Yin Mu sighed silently and was about to exit WeChat when her phone vibrated and a friend request popped up. She was startled and quickly turned off the vibration.
The friend request was sent by Chen Qinglin, and only a name was written in the verification message.
Yin Mu hesitated about the friend request, not sure whether he should accept it or not.
Just as Zhong Mengyuan said, their interactions ended here and there was no need to continue to entangle them, but from the bottom of her heart, she had to admit that she couldn't bear to cruelly abandon Chen Qinglin like this.
No matter what, she should also bear a certain degree of responsibility for the relationship between the two people developing to that point. It would be too cruel and ruthless to just throw it away after using it.
Various thoughts flashed through his mind, Yin Mu gritted his teeth and accepted Chen Qinglin's friend request.
"After all, we work together, so adding WeChat shouldn't be too much." Yin Mu muttered softly, but after adding WeChat, he immediately locked the screen to deceive himself, then threw the phone aside, closed his eyes and prepared to take a nap.
The current situation is already bad enough, I can't let Chen Qinglin control my mood anymore!
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