Chapter 266
Vehicles sped along the road.
The boy wore a black brocade shirt with Chinese knot buttons, and a string of cinnabar bracelets around his wrists, which made his slender wrists look very white.
If it weren't for his not-so-thin shoulders, he would have looked somewhat like a frail scholar.
But in Lanjiang City, almost everyone knows that he is someone no one can mess with.
However, on a rainy day, he sat on the stone steps of the roadside green belt, and although it was drizzling, his cheeks were still wet.
Bodyguards were watching him from inside a luxury car parked in the distance.
"Why does Mr. Du always sit by the roadside when it rains or snows? Does anyone know?" a bodyguard asked, looking puzzled.
No one paid him any attention. After a few seconds of confusion, he finally understood and looked on with fear.
"How could President Du know what they were saying in the car?"
He didn't finish his sentence because the other bodyguards were already looking at him with indifferent expressions.
But a figure appeared in front of the boy sitting by the roadside.
"Didn't you bring an umbrella?" The girl was wearing a white dress, her pink lips slightly upturned.
The white skirt looked very pure and clean in the wind and rain.
The boy, looking up with anticipation, trembled when his eyelashes touched the white dress. He stared at her nervously for a moment before slowly raising his eyes.
Could it be her?
But when he finally saw the girl's face, he coldly withdrew his gaze.
It wasn't her.
The girl wasn't upset at all, after all, she was used to his indifference. She even gathered her skirts, squatted down, and chattered on and on to him.
The boy in black remained silent.
Before he could hear her say more than a few words, the boy's brows furrowed with impatience.
"Stay away from me," he said sparingly.
Xiao Wu doesn't like him saying rude things, so he can't say them.
The girl's face turned pale, and she wanted to say something.
But the boy in black had already stood up, and even took a few steps to the side after standing up, widening the distance between them.
He doesn't like Xiao Wu having anyone else around him, so he also can't have anyone else around him.
Seeing this, the girl also stood up, but her bright smile had turned into tears under his indifference.
She placed herself in the lowest position, mustered her courage, and prayed to him with hopeful longing:
"Du Yue, I can be her stand-in."
Once the words were out, she continued without hesitation: "And I saw that you hesitated when you looked up just now, which means that I do resemble her in some way, right? I can be her stand-in..."
She choked back tears: "I can be her substitute. When she comes back, I'll leave and go far away."
Du Yue, however, seemed to have heard a huge joke, and a bright smile appeared on his pale face.
His appearance was so striking that even his smile seemed particularly alluring.
Just as the girl in the white dress was filled with anticipation, Du Yue lazily raised his eyelids, his gaze towards her full of mockery.
"I don't know how your Ye family found out the appearance of the person I'm waiting for, but..." He chuckled as he spoke, but even the mocking smile didn't reach his eyes.
"But you guys really think way too highly of yourselves."
When Xiao Wu left, she was indeed wearing a white jacket, but she dared to claim she could be Xiao Wu's stand-in just by wearing a white dress.
Seriously, that's hilarious.
If the other villagers in Wanyue Village heard this, they'd probably laugh their heads off.
And white clothes?
Even if Xiao Wu were just standing there in his floral cotton-padded jacket without moving, he would still rush towards her!
A body double? That's ridiculous.
There are many ways to get close to him, but what he despises most is that they always think he will be addicted to women.
Do you really think everyone is a stand-in heroine in the recent online novel craze?
He slowly adjusted the vermilion bracelet on his wrist, and just as he turned to leave, he suddenly remembered something and turned back to look at the girl clutching the white dress.
"I don't care whether you're here on behalf of your family or backed by other family companies with even deeper foundations, please convey a message to them." As he said this, his eyes were filled with coldness.
“I have noted down this matter of inquiring about her. I, Du Yue, will definitely pay her a visit in person in the future.”
He meant his literal meaning when he said "visit in person".
The only difference is that "登" should be replaced with "蹬".
No one doubted the meaning behind his words.
Ever since he first appeared in Lujiang City two years ago, countless people have looked down on him, a poor boy from a remote and impoverished area.
However, in the end, he always managed to climb to the top of the mountain by stepping over those who mocked him.
Du Yue spent three years with Ling Wu, and what he learned broadened his horizons and taught him the most perfect way to handle things.
Not only was he always the first to seize business opportunities on the surface, but he also didn't let go of those places where filth and corruption were hidden in the shadows.
But if anyone offends Ling Wu, he will show his claws without hesitation, and his murderous aura will no longer be able to be hidden.
Six years ago, he said he wanted to become very powerful, and that was never childish talk.
However, he is still not powerful enough. After all, nowadays, any random thing can claim to be Xiao Wu's stand-in.
As Du Yue strode along, he felt inexplicably aggrieved when he thought of Ling Wu, and his nose started to sting.
He misses Xiao Wu.
If it were Xiao Wu, he would definitely have done better.
He's really useless.
Du Yue's eyes were a little red, and in order not to let others see, he could only lower his head and fiddle with the cinnabar bracelet on his wrist.
"You're so old, why do you still cry so easily?" A girl's voice came from behind, her voice clear and gentle, like a breeze or a bright moon, very pleasant to hear.
But Du Yue couldn't care less about any of that; his mind was completely filled with the name "Xiao Wu".
However, he did not turn around to look immediately.
Instead, she stood still, continuing to fiddle with the cinnabar bracelet on her wrist.
A moment later, a crystal-clear drop of water splashed onto the bracelet, and as it fell, it collided with the bracelet to create a dazzling water splash.
He couldn't tell for a moment whether it was rain or tears.
All he knew was that the grievances he had accumulated over the past six years finally had an outlet.
"Did I mistake you for someone else? If so, then I'll be going?" the girl asked with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Du Yue suddenly raised his head, his eyes already red-rimmed.
He immediately turned to look at the person who spoke, and tears streamed down his face as he looked at her.
Ling Wu watched as large tears rolled down his face, disregarding his image, and then recalled the cold and taciturn appearance she had seen through the Jinghong Pen over the past six years. She was slightly taken aback.
However, he still cries as much as he did when he was a child.
When they were little, Dayue would always hide where she couldn't see him and secretly wipe away his tears, but now he was crying uncontrollably in front of her.
Seeing that Ling Wu remained unmoved, Du Yue felt even more aggrieved.
"You, you..." he began, his eyes red.
Lingwu waited for his next words.
Du Yue felt wronged again, and finally comforted himself by saying that Xiao Wu was too excited to speak because he hadn't seen him for so many years.
He calmed himself down before speaking, his voice still nasal: "Xiao Wu, you used to hug me and comfort me whenever you saw me cry."
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