Chapter 124 Power Outage

Shen Changyuan was drunk, and Shuang Xu accompanied Fu Yun to send him back to his room to rest.

After helping him onto the sofa, Fu Yun washed a hot towel and wiped Shen Changyuan's face, scolding him: "You have high blood pressure and you drink so much. Do you think you are still like those young people?"

Shen Changyuan obediently let her wipe his face and hands, smiling, "I'm happy today."

Fu Yun: "Of course you're happy to drink so much, but don't tell me if you have a stomachache tomorrow."

Shen Changyuan said: "The child is still here, give me some face."

Shuang Xu brought the prepared honey water over and saw him trying to hold Fu Yun's hand in a flattering manner, but Fu Yun pushed him away.

She couldn't help but laugh, put down the honey water and quickly left: "I'm going to go down first, you guys have a good rest, call me if you have anything."

When she went downstairs, people had moved from the restaurant to the living room, chatting and laughing while playing poker.

He Tingzhou is missing.

Looking around, I couldn't see He Tingzhou anywhere.

Are you leaving?

"Where is my cousin?" asked Lu Manman, who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa playing a game with others.

"Go smoke now." Zuo Zhong said, "He just asked me for cigarettes and a lighter."

"Sister, come here!" Yue Zifeng called Shuang Xu, "Give me some buffs, my luck is so bad today!"

Shen Yu threw out two cards: "Your luck is always bad."

Zuo Zhong said disdainfully: "You speak as if you can win if you are lucky. Even if you have the best cards, you will play them badly."

"I have to prove myself today." Yue Zifeng stuffed his cards into Shuang Xu's hand, "Sister, you play, let them see if it's my fault."

Shuang Xu didn't let him go either: "I thought you were losing on purpose to make everyone happy. There are very few people who can lose everything in a game."

Yue Zifeng got off the donkey at Shunpo and said, "Yes, yes, yes, this is my good intention."

After playing three games, Shuang Xu looked up and saw that He Tingzhou still hadn't returned.

Does it take so long to smoke a cigarette?

"He has a pair of 3, hurry up and play a pair of 4!" Yue Zifeng shouted from behind her, "Sister, what are you thinking about? Why are you still distracted?"

"...Oh." Shuang Xu quickly played out the pair of 4.

At this moment, everything in front of me suddenly went dark, and the brightly lit villa was plunged into darkness in an instant.

Everyone at the table started shouting one after another.

“Oh~”

"Fuck!"

“Ah~~~!!”

In the darkness, I could only hear someone comforting me: "Don't be afraid, sister. There are so many of us here."

"It wasn't me who called him." Shuang Xu was helpless, "It was Brother Zifeng."

The other party's attitude changed 180 degrees, and he spat at Yue Zifeng: "Are you a man? You are already 30 years old and still afraid of the dark?"

Yue Zifeng was not honest but still angry: "It's human nature to be afraid of the dark, okay?"

Zuo Zhong gritted his teeth and said, "Get off your legs first and then I'll show you my affection."

The sudden darkness brought chaos. The suburbs were not as brightly lit as the city. This holiday villa was located on the shore of Yanwei Lake. The nearest building was several hundred meters away. When the lights in the house went out, it was so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of you.

Someone turned on a cell phone flashlight, but the scattered beams of light had a very limited range.

Shuang Xu couldn't even see the people around him completely, let alone tell whether He Tingzhou had returned or not.

The 28-year-old prince was also afraid of the dark, and he didn't know where to stay when he was alone.

"Is the power out? What's going on?"

Shen Yu stood up and said, "I'll go take a look."

"Wait for me, I'm going too!"

Yue Zifeng and a few others went with him to check the distribution box.

The remaining people in the living room were chattering away. In the dark environment, no one noticed when Shuang Xu left.

She didn't know where He Tingzhou went to smoke. She opened the door leading to the garden. It was quiet all around. The moonlight was dim, and she could vaguely see the lush shadows of the trees.

It was too dark. To be honest, even Frost Xu felt a little scared.

The voices were all in the house behind her. She mustered up her courage and stepped into the garden, which seemed particularly quiet and mysterious in the dead of night.

"Brother Tingzhou?" she called softly.

She was answered by the sound of the breeze through the treetops and the chirping of unknown insects in the summer night.

"He Tingzhou?"

She kept calling and searching, but found nothing in the garden. She called He Tingzhou, but the call was delayed, but she could faintly hear a ringtone, which seemed to be coming from the direction of the second floor.

She walked up the stairs to the terrace. The ringing became clearer and clearer, but she didn't see anyone and there was no response when she called his name.

All kinds of horror and suspense film plots come to life in my mind: a deserted suburban villa, people having fun late at night, a sudden power outage, one of my companions disappearing...

Shuang Xu felt a coolness rising on his back.

But He Tingzhou seems to have a tough life.

She listened to the sound and looked around with a flashlight, when suddenly a hand grabbed her wrist.

She let out a low cry of fear, and at the same time, she smelled the familiar cool scent of pine.

My heart, which had jumped up into my throat, felt like I was on a floor diving platform, and then it plummeted to the bottom with a thud.

"You're crazy!" Shuang Xu said unhappily, "You know this is scary?"

He Tingzhou's cold and gloomy voice fell from above her head: "Why are you so scared to come out?"

"I was worried that you would be scared being alone. Aren't you afraid of the dark?" But she got scared by him instead.

He Tingzhou's eyebrows slightly raised in the darkness.

He is not actually afraid of the dark, he just doesn't like it.

He couldn't control his nerves and would tense up at night, maintaining the highest level of alert, as if once he relaxed his consciousness, there would be armed mercenaries rushing in, with the black muzzle of the gun pointed at his head.

He didn't reply to WeChat messages, didn't answer the phone, and didn't even respond when I called him. Shuang Xu was very annoyed: "You're here, why didn't you say anything when I called you?"

The coldness in He Tingzhou's voice was blown away by the wind, and he answered confidently, "I'm scared. Who knows if you are a female ghost in disguise?"

“…”

Shuang Xu pushed him away, and the rough action was somewhat meant to vent his anger.

She opened the door to the terrace and walked in, but the people behind her did not follow.

He Tingzhou stood still, and only spoke when she turned around: "It's too dark in here, hold me back."

Shuang Xu had no choice but to turn back and pull up her wrist. He Tingzhou put her hand in his palm, and his bony fingers passed through her fingers and clasped them.

Shuang Xu led him through the corridor and prepared to return to the living room on the first floor.

Halfway through the walk, the lights came on.

Before she could react, He Tingzhou pulled her over violently and she bumped into his hard chest.

He casually opened a door, turned her around and brought her in.