Chapter 124 Currently Single
Once the important figure had completely entered the hotel and the security at the entrance had been removed, Lu Zhenyu and her group were able to check in.
So you're really not coming with us tomorrow?
"No, I've already bought the tickets for the TV tower. I'll go rope walking instead."
Shaking their heads helplessly, the girls dispersed after their pre-bedtime meeting.
After lounging on the sofa for a while, Lu Zhenyu stretched and went into the bathroom.
Accompanied by the rushing water in the bathroom, scattered footsteps echoed down the corridor.
"Captain Wang, we just spotted a few people lurking suspiciously outside Shen Hui's room."
"Did they catch them?"
"They ran away."
"Send someone to check the surveillance footage. We have to find it, even if we don't sleep tonight."
After the man left, Wang Lin looked at his subordinates behind him and said, "The entire building must be patrolled at all times, and any suspicious persons must be screened."
"The area around the hotel also needs to be monitored. During our stay abroad, the safety of the event must be the top priority."
"yes!"
After his subordinates left, Wang Lin glanced around, sighed, and returned to his suite.
In the steamy bathroom, accompanied by automatically playing music, the girl hummed a little tune and scratched her hair.
Just as I was about to tilt my head back to rinse off the foam, everything suddenly went black and the water flow abruptly stopped.
Lu Zhenyu stood there, her eyes closed in the darkness, blinking several times, but she couldn't see anything in the pitch black.
She reached out and grabbed the bathrobe hanging on the door, wrapped it around herself, and slowly made her way to the outside of the room in the dark.
"Is there a waiter/waitress?"
"Hello?"
After calling out several times without receiving a response, Lu Zhenyu, with a bath towel wrapped around her head, walked forward while supporting herself against the wall.
As I walked, I bumped into a wall of people.
"Oh dear." She quickly backed away.
"careful."
A large hand appeared around her waist, fastening the graceful curves of her waist beneath her bathrobe and keeping Lu Zhenyu firmly in control.
His deep, slightly hoarse voice carried a faint scent of nicotine mixed with chocolate as he spoke.
Lu Zhenyu has tried Cabernet Sauvignon.
Once she had regained her balance, she took a step back, creating some distance between them.
"Sorry, the power is out in my room. I wanted to come out and ask what happened."
Just then, several people came running up from behind, carrying searchlights. As soon as the lights shone on her, the bright light made Lu Zhenyu immediately turn her head away.
At the same time, a large hand covered my eyes.
His palms were icy cold as he gently brushed against the girl's warm, soft skin, his fingertips trembling slightly.
The man said in a deep voice, "Turn it off."
The subordinate immediately turned off the lights, and the dim darkness once again enveloped Lu Zhenyu.
"When I returned to Shenyang, I asked the hotel and they said that the power outage was for maintenance and that the power would be restored around 5 a.m. tomorrow."
"What?"
Two warm little hands pulled down the large hand in front of her. Although she couldn't see it, Lu Zhenyu still subconsciously peeked in the direction of the sound.
"The call won't come back until tomorrow morning?"
The man in front of her asked, "What's wrong?"
“I…I have night blindness,” Lu Zhenyu said, her head aching. “The problem is, I haven’t even finished washing my hair yet.”
The man in front of me was silent for two seconds, then said, "Go ask the hotel for a few cases of water."
"Yes, I'll go right away."
Sensing that the main group had left, Lu Zhenyu nodded to the man, feeling her way, and said, "Thank you."
The man asked, "Can you get back by yourself?"
"..." Lu Zhenyu was about to say that it should be possible when her hand, which was resting against the wall, was pinched by a cold, strong wrist through her bathrobe.
"I'll take you back."
Everyone was speaking Chinese, and Lu Zhenyu guessed that this was like meeting fellow countrymen in a foreign land, and she wanted to help them if she could.
She mainly felt that the other party should be quite gentlemanly, letting her hold his wrist as they walked, while also keeping a safe distance from him.
After walking a few meters, Lu Zhenyu reached the wide-open doorway and turned to "look" at the man.
"Thank you so much for your help."
"It's just a quick thing. They've gone to get water. It'll take them a while to climb the stairs, so please be patient."
"Okay, my eyesight isn't very good, so I won't see you off. Please be careful on your way back."
The other person didn't say anything more, so Lu Zhenyi assumed they had left and sat cross-legged at the door, waiting for someone to bring her water.
As the sound of footsteps grew closer, she stood up, leaning against the door, and went to greet them.
Bang!
His forehead slammed into his hard back.
With a cry of pain, Lu Zhenyu clutched her head and took two steps back, only to be pulled into an embrace around the waist.
Once again enveloped in the familiar nicotine, she instinctively placed her hand on the other person's chest.
My heart is beating a little fast under my palm.
Immediately afterward, the large hand released its grip and then seized her wrist.
Lu Zhenyu was detained without a word, and stood there obediently.
Cases of bottled water were placed by subordinates along the wall inside the door.
After everyone had left, the man above spoke, "Do you mind if I hug you?"
"Hmm?" She turned around, and although she couldn't see anything, her eyes were wide open in the dim light.
The man explained, “To save time, the door is open, and they're guarding the door. I'll help you wash your hair, so you can go to sleep earlier and I can go to sleep earlier too.”
"Why?" Lu Zhenyu asked subconsciously.
The man said, "Because I live next door to you."
"..."
Thinking about the clanging and banging she made when she came out, she gave an awkward smile. "Sorry, the soundproofing in this hotel is really not very good."
Perhaps thinking her hesitation meant she didn't want physical intimacy, the man added, "I can carry you on my back too."
Lu Zhenyu immediately became serious, "Let's carry each other, I don't like being carried."
As soon as he finished speaking, he sensed that the person in front of him paused in their breathing.
The man said, "Shall I hug you?"
They were quite polite.
Lu Zhenyu pursed her lips and nodded.
She felt the tall figure shrink down in front of her, and her waist and legs were lifted by an arm. Losing control of her body, she subconsciously wrapped her arms around the neck in front of her.
The distance was too close, and although she couldn't see the other person clearly at all, she still turned her face away.
To be honest, ever since she could remember, apart from the two times Feng Jinzhou hugged her like this when she twisted her ankle during training, Lu Zhenyu had never been so intimate with a man.
It was a complete stranger whom I didn't know beforehand.
But for some reason, Lu Zhenyu's sixth sense told her that the other person couldn't be a bad person.
He also brought so many subordinates with him. She thought of the mysterious big shot downstairs in the hotel whom Yaya had called incredibly handsome.
The hotel suites on this floor all had the same layout. The man carried her and easily made his way to the bathroom.
The man moved swiftly, and with a slurping sound of a chair dragging on the floor, she was lifted up by one hand and laid back on the chair.
"Hold on."
"good."
She sat there obediently, and after the sound of water being carried back and forth behind her a few times, the man returned.
He was probably taking off his suit jacket, unbuttoning his shirt cuffs and rolling them up twice, his slightly calloused fingers gently touching her head.
"Close your eyes, relax, I'm going to pour some water."
"Um."
Lu Zhenyu closed her eyes. The mineral water wasn't cold in the depths of summer, but the man didn't touch her hair.
Feel him insert his five fingers into her hair and gently comb it down with the flow of water.
Her technique was quite skillful. Suddenly, Lu Zhenyu thought of something and asked, "May I ask you a question?"
"Ask away."
"Are you... single or married?"
Feeling the hand pause for a moment in her hair, Lu Zhenyu immediately opened her eyes, "It can't really be..."
My wife has passed away.
He paused, then added, "I'm single now."
Lu Zhenyu's fluctuating emotions subsided slightly. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to reopen your wounds."
The man's voice was similar to Feng Jinzhou's, yet different.
Feng Jinzhou's voice was magnetic and resonant, brimming with righteousness. The man above him, on the other hand, possessed a magnetic quality tinged with a hint of melancholy, as if worn down by time, weary yet defiant, and exceptionally tender.
The man said calmly, "It's nothing."
Having roamed the literary world for so many years and heard countless love stories from countless people, Lu Zhenyu could sense the story in this man's attitude.
"Are you and your wife very much in love?"
The man said, "She loves me very much."
"These words are..." she hesitated, unable to finish her sentence.
The other person's reply surprised her: "I owe her too much, I don't deserve to say I love her."
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