Chapter 2
This was a look that contained a bit of scrutiny.
The man holding the suit in his right hand was only wearing a white shirt. He had an upright posture and was gentle and handsome.
But his temperament is exceptionally cold, and he exudes an aura that says "keep away from strangers".
Especially those narrow and deep eyes, which looked cold and noble when looking at people, as if they were born superior to others.
Su Xingyao didn't know this handsome man.
He had never seen the other person before.
But when he saw her for the first time, a name popped up in his mind automatically——
Lu Jiuxu.
A crazy and cruel boss who is described as crazy and cruel.
The only villain boss in the novel, and one of the few men who doesn't spoil Shen Huaixi.
Later, after his death, he suddenly launched an indiscriminate attack on the protagonist group centered on Shen Huaixi, and almost wiped out the protagonist group. He was a big boss in the business circle.
Su Xingyao remembered the description in the book: the words people used most often when talking about Lu Jiuxu were cold, violent, vicious, and cruel.
Therefore, he had a preconceived notion that the other party would be the kind of person who looked very difficult to deal with and who could give people a sense of oppression with just one look.
But now the other person was standing not far from him. When his eyes met his in the air, the first feeling that arose in his heart was one of familiarity and intimacy.
It was as if they had known each other before, and they automatically had a good impression of each other.
Su Xingyao felt a little puzzled.
But on second thought, this is probably because they both share the same suffering, and under the influence of the plot, they are set up for no reason as stepping stones and cannon fodder on the protagonist's road to success.
Besides, Lu Jiuxu had saved him before, so he was his well-deserved savior.
Thinking of this, Su Xingyao met the man's gaze and gave a faint smile.
When Lu Jiuxu saw this smile, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
But there was no obvious change on his face. He nodded to Su Xingyao and said in a neutral tone, "Awake."
"Yeah, I just woke up a while ago."
Su Xingyao answered the call very naturally, without any awkwardness or alienation as if seeing a stranger.
Seeing Lu Jiuxu suddenly come back, Aunt Zhang called out "Mr. Lu" and quickly got up to pour him a glass of water.
"Xiaoyao has been awake for about half an hour, and Dr. Lin will be here soon."
Lu Jiuxu hummed in response, handed his suit to Aunt Zhang, and sat down on the chair opposite Su Xingyao.
"Does the wound still hurt?" he asked Su Xingyao.
Su Xingyao shook her head gently, "It doesn't hurt anymore."
"you……"
“Woof woof woof, woof woof woof!!”
What Lu Jiuxu was about to say was interrupted by a few excited dog barks.
Seeing that Su Xingyao had been ignoring him, the puppy who had broken the door open earlier came out from under the bed, put his little paws on the edge of the bed and scratched it, then ran under the bed, whimpering and making all kinds of noises, trying to attract Su Xingyao's attention.
Lu Jiuxu was not angry because the puppy interrupted the conversation. Instead, he took the initiative to introduce himself to Su Xingyao.
“It’s called Sunset.”
Aunt Zhang at the side also saw Luo Ri's dark puppy eyes staring at Su Xingyao, so she started a conversation and explained to him, "Luo Ri has been watching over you every day for the past month. He must be a little excited to see you wake up today."
Aunt Zhang’s description completely aroused Su Xingyao’s curiosity.
The little dog actually comes to guard me every day?
What kind of angel puppy with human nature is this?
So he tilted his head and leaned out slightly, then looked down with a smile at the puppy scratching the floor under the bed.
Luo Ri seemed to feel Su Xingyao's gaze, stopped moving his claws, and looked up at him.
The puppy jumped so fast just now that Su Xingyao didn't see it clearly. She only vaguely remembered that it was a yellow-haired puppy.
This time, the other party looked at him quietly, and he finally saw the setting sun clearly.
Then his smile immediately disappeared.
Bright black eyes, short orange-yellow fur, a short round tail, and a small defect on the right ear...
For a moment, Su Xingyao thought she was dazzled.
Did the yolk come back to life and come back to see me?
Seeing that Su Xingyao was staring at him without blinking, Luo Ri obediently stood up his short legs, lay down on the edge of his bed again, squinted his eyes and made a gesture as if to say, "You can rub me as you like."
Su Xingyao understood its invitation and moved her fingers subconsciously.
His instinctive love for small animals made him want to reach out and touch Sunset's head.
However, the horrible memories of the past cast too deep a shadow on his mind.
After hesitating for a long time, he still didn't dare to extend his hand.
This subtle change was noticed by Lu Jiuxu.
His gaze dropped down to the other person's hands that were clutching the sheets.
"Not feeling well?"
Su Xingyao quickly shook her head, "No."
He reluctantly turned his gaze away from Luo Ri, and tried to look into Lu Jiuxu's eyes before speaking again, "Luo Ri reminds me of a puppy I had before. They really look alike."
It really is similar.
Except for the fact that Sunset's hind legs were not disabled, even the small notch on its right ear was almost exactly the same as an egg yolk.
He had never seen two puppies that looked so alike.
After Su Xingyao finished explaining, she still couldn't calm down, so she didn't say anything else.
There was actually nothing to talk about this topic, so he didn't expect Lu Jiuxu to respond to him.
But the next second, he heard the other party patiently explain to him, "I picked it up last year."
Su Xingyao instantly understood what Lu Jiuxu meant.
He was asking himself subtly if it was possible that Sunset was the puppy he once raised.
And depending on his attitude and intention, if it is his puppy, he will return it to you.
Su Xingyao looked at Lu Jiuxu with gratitude for his thoughtfulness.
But he did not accept his kindness.
“It’s probably not the same one.”
His eyes darkened as he spoke.
"Because the yolk...it was gone six years ago."
Su Xingyao moved her long eyelashes, hiding the sadness in her eyes.
"Because of an accident... on a rainy day... I was hit by a car."
After explaining the reason with difficulty, Su Xingyao couldn't help but recall the original scene in her mind again.
The dead body of the egg yolk in the heavy rain, Shen Huaixi's hypocritical apology...
as well as……
Everyone in the family blames him.
——"It's just a disabled dog. If it dies, it dies. Huaixi didn't do it on purpose. Who are you showing this to?"
——"I told you a long time ago that Xiaoxi is allergic to dog hair. I told you not to bring this dog back, but you insisted on keeping it."
——"Don't look at Xiaoxi like that. You scared him so badly, and I haven't even said anything to you yet..."
His dog died because of Shen Huaixi, and in the end he was still the one who got scolded.
…
"Feel sorry."
A deep voice pulled Su Xingyao back from the noisy accusations in her memories.
He looked at the person in front of him and found that it was Lu Jiuxu apologizing to him again.
Realizing her own gaffe, Su Xingyao quickly smiled and said, "It's okay. This matter was originally my fault for being careless."
He shouldn't have trusted his family so wholeheartedly and left Egg Yolk, who depended on him for everything, alone at home.
Lu Jiuxu did not respond, but just stared at Su Xingyao.
He could clearly feel the other person's low mood just now.
But for some reason, he, who was always cold-hearted and cold-faced, felt a little bit of pity towards this stranger.
In just a few seconds, Su Xingyao sorted out her emotions.
He smiled again and waved towards the setting sun.
"Hello, Sunset."
Seeing that Su Xingyao was finally willing to get close to her, Luo Ri sobbed softly a few times and accused him of ignoring her just now.
However, Su Xingyao's smile was so beautiful that Luo Ri couldn't be arrogant for just a few seconds. He immediately struck while the iron was hot and laid his head on the back of Su Xingyao's hand, rubbing his chin gently against his skin and began to act coquettishly.
No one can resist Xiu Gou's cuteness, and Su Xingyao is no exception.
Finally, he couldn't help but move his fingers slightly, gently responding to Luo Ri's kindness to him.
I closed my eyes to enjoy the sunset, but before I could stay there for a few seconds, I was disturbed by someone.
"Sleeping Beauty, you finally woke up."
The laughing voice is very penetrating.
Several medical staff in white coats followed a doctor who walked briskly into the room.
The person who spoke was the doctor standing in the front. He had a pair of peach blossom eyes, which were slightly raised, revealing his willfulness and romanticism.
"Oh, our boss Lu is here today~" He turned his head and asked the nurse beside him, "Check if today is an auspicious day."
The nurses burst into laughter at his teasing of Lu Jiuxu.
Lu Jiuxu's cold face rarely became lively in the laughter, and he replied to the other party lightly, "Get lost."
Lin Chengyi didn't care about being scolded, and continued to joke lawlessly, "I came back specially to wake up Sleeping Beauty."
It was the second time that Su Xingyao heard the name Sleeping Beauty and she realized that the other person was talking about her.
The words of rebuttal were suppressed in his throat, and before he opened his mouth, he found that the other party seemed to be right in one point.
I have indeed been unconscious for too long.
But after a few seconds, he still seriously corrected the other party's address, "Doctor Lin, my name is Su Xingyao."
He smiled faintly, his eyebrows curved, "Not called Sleeping Beauty."
Lin Chengyi was stunned for a moment.
The nurses around were also stunned by Su Xingyao's beautiful smile.
After listening to Su Xingyao's words, Lu Jiuxu gave Lin Chengyi a look and warned him, "Don't talk nonsense."
Lin Chengyi smiled awkwardly, then he understood, "I see, Su Xingyao, right?"
Before Su Xingyao could answer, Lu Jiuxu spoke for him, "Yes."
Lu Jiuxu left after leaving this word.
Lin Chengyi also put on gloves and began to examine Su Xingyao.
He may be joking, but he is very clear about his profession.
Although he talked a lot of nonsense when communicating with Su Xingyao, he actually spent more than an hour on this inspection.
*
I don’t know if it’s because of rebirth, but Su Xingyao’s body recovered very quickly.
According to Lin Chengyi's doctor's advice, he went downstairs for a walk during this period.
So while taking a walk, he discovered that Lu Jiuxu's villa was really big.
Not only is the area large, but the greening is also very good.
The villa is full of various flowers, plants and trees.
Especially multi-headed roses and peonies, the gardener planted a lot of them in the yard, and took good care of each one.
Su Xingyao found it magical.
Judging from Lu Jiuxu's cold personality, he should not be interested in flowers and plants.
But he spent a lot of effort to hire someone to plant a lot of roses and peonies in the villa.
Su Xingyao found it very novel that he could do such peacekeeping work with his aloof personality.
Of course, this was not the only thing that made him feel uncomfortable.
For example, Lu Jiuxu likes these flowers so much, but he basically doesn't come here to live.
For example, he never mentioned saving himself, nor did he ask him to leave after he woke up, but instead agreed that he could stay here and recuperate.
The villain boss Lu Jiuxu is really interesting.
Su Xingyao was taking a walk when her eyes were suddenly attracted by a patch of watermelon red peonies.
A few days ago when he walked here, the peony was still in bud, but he didn't expect it to bloom so soon.
He walked to the peony, stopped, and asked the gardener next to him.
"Master, what is the name of this flower?"
The gardener told him, "This is sunset coral, a Dutch variety."
Su Xingyao nodded, squatted down and looked carefully at the flowers in front of her.
After he was lost as a child, he was actually adopted by a family. Although he didn't want to recall the painful experience of being adopted, the peonies planted in that place were deeply engraved in his memory.
At that time, there was a very wealthy family living next to the school.
When he was a child, every time he passed by that house on his way to and from school, his eyes would always be attracted by the peonies in the yard that changed colors.
Because the color of this peony is so magical, the color of the petals will gradually change from watermelon red to salmon.
Each peony is like a frozen sunset, blooming its life poetically and romantically.
When he was young, he didn't know what kind of species it was. He only knew that he would go to the door of that house to take a look every April and May.
It was not until his adoptive mother passed away and the hard life in which his adoptive father beat and scolded him and his sister became suffocating that he gradually forgot the watermelon red that brightened his childhood.
But he didn't expect that a few years later, he would see this kind of peony again in Lu Jiuxu's villa because of an accident.
And he finally knew its name.
Sunset coral.
A name as beautiful as the color of the flower.
Su Xingyao was just about to quietly appreciate the peonies when Aunt Zhang took something and stuffed it into his hand.
"I kept it for you and forgot to give it back to you."
What she handed to her was the cell phone that had rolled down the cliff with him.
Aunt Zhang saw Su Xingyao staring at her phone and explained apologetically, "My memory is bad at my age. I didn't see you playing with your phone, so I forgot about it."
"fine."
Su Xingyao smiled.
In fact, Aunt Zhang doesn't need to apologize to him.
He really doesn't need this phone.
During the few days of recuperation here, he felt more comfortable away from his mobile phone.
In my spare time, I take a walk, read a book, bask in the sun, play with the sunset, and learn how to grow flowers from the gardener.
This was the only rare leisurely time he had in all these years.
Su Xingyao didn't want to look at her phone for the time being, so she casually threw it on the table to charge.
He turned on his phone only after he had discussed with the gardener about the planting and maintenance of sunset corals.
As expected.
The phone received very few messages.
Even though he had been missing for more than a month, no one cared about what happened to him.
Su Xingyao looked at the messages on his phone. Apart from various advertisements and spam messages, most of them were sent to him by his agent on the afternoon when he fell off the cliff.
The content was almost all insulting him.
However, the other party stopped sending messages after a certain time that evening.
It seemed as if someone had greeted him and just let him disappear.
Su Xingyao was clearing the contents of her phone and was too lazy to read carefully what her agent had scolded her for.
He may not play with his mobile phone, but it is impossible for him to never touch it for his whole life.
So he lowered his head to look at the screen, and searched carefully in the communications, blocking all the phone numbers and WeChat accounts of those unimportant people in the past, one by one.
But the phone seemed to be deliberately going against me.
Su Xingyao had just blocked Wen Ningshu, who had not received any news on WeChat for over a month, when suddenly a message popped up.
Qin Mingchuan: Have you had enough of the trouble?
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