Chapter 70 You should be a little interested in me

The next day, Shuang Xu handled the discharge procedures for Fu Yun. When they returned to Shen's house, Fu Yun needed to take a nap after taking the medicine. Shuang Xu rarely acted coquettishly: "Mom, can I sleep with you?"

Fu Yun's face flashed with surprise: "Why not?" She smiled and patted the bed, "Come on."

Shuang Xu took off her shoes and climbed up, leaning her head on Fu Yun's shoulder, and Fu Yun held her hand.

Although she was well-pampered and her hands were as delicate and tender as those of a young person, Shuang Xu always felt that her hands felt different when he held them.

To her, Fu Yun is like a mother.

Fu Yun hugged her and said, "It's better to have a concubine."

At this moment, the two of them snuggled together. There were no temptations, no precautions. All the anxiety and worry of the past few days were temporarily put aside, and they felt a rare quiet and peace of mind.

"Thank you for your hard work these days." She stayed by the bedside and took care of him personally, and Fu Yun saw it all. Thinking back to what she had done since she returned to China, Fu Yun felt full of guilt.

She couldn't explain it, but this scene reminded her of some old memories: "When you first came home, you were timid and didn't dare to sleep alone at night. I was the one who coaxed you to sleep."

When Shuang Xu first arrived at the Shen family, he felt like a little animal that had just arrived at a strange place. He felt very insecure, and he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he knocked on Shen Yu's door.

Shen Yu sent her back to the room, but she tried to stop him again after a while. Finally, he compromised and let her in.

So in the first few days, she slept secretly in Shen Yu's room.

Afterwards, when Fu Yun heard that she was afraid to sleep alone, she happily came to her room every day to coax her to sleep in order to express her maternal love, until she adapted to the new environment and no longer woke up inexplicably in the middle of the night.

Shuang Xu smiled and said softly, "I really hope that when I wake up, time will go back to that time."

Fu Yun was also quite moved and patted her on the back as if she was coaxing a child.

After Fu Yun fell asleep, Shuang Xu carefully got up and left the bedroom.

She called Shen Yu to discuss something with him. The phone rang for a long time before it was connected. It was Lu Manman's voice that came through: "Xiaojiu, your brother has already fallen asleep. Do you have anything to talk to him about?"

Shuang Xu was stunned for a moment: "There is something I want to discuss with him."

"He's been very tired these days and just fell asleep. I didn't have the heart to wake him up." Lu Manman said in a low voice, "I'll tell him when he wakes up."

Shuang Xu said, "I'll wait for him at home."

"Okay." Lu Manman agreed.

Shuang Xu was sitting in the living room waiting. Mrs. Wang asked if she wanted a blanket for her to sleep on, and she shook her head.

She leaned back on the sofa, replaying the past frame by frame in her mind.

Fifteen years ago on the street, a pair of white sneakers stopped for her. Shen Yu took her hand and led her into this house. In the following ten years, this house became her home.

Shuang Xu didn't know how long he had been waiting. When he raised his head, the night had already quietly spread.

Time passed quickly, and it seemed as if she had gone through another ten years in these few hours.

Shen Yu did not come back, nor did he call her back.

Shuang Xu made his own decision.

When she left home, she did not disturb anyone. She stood in the night breeze and dialed He Tingzhou's number.

The phone was picked up quickly, but no sound came out. There was silence on the other end, waiting for her to speak first.

"Brother Tingzhou."

He Tingzhou said in a flat voice: "Why?"

"Can I see you? I need you for something."

After a few seconds of silence, He Tingzhou said, "Come here."

It takes half an hour to drive from Shen's house to Yanxi. He Tingzhou's villa is in Taiheyuan, located in the most scarce aristocratic land in the western suburbs of Yancheng. Driving along the wide and flat driveway, the gate of the villa has already been opened and waiting.

He likes the hypnotic environment of bustling, but this villa is unusually quiet.

Shuang Xu parked the car in the yard. The door was not locked. She pushed it open and walked in. He Tingzhou was already waiting for her in the living room.

He was wearing a shirt and trousers, and looked like he had just come back from outside. He was leaning on the sofa with his fingers resting on his temples, looking lazy, and absentmindedly turning his cell phone around.

Hearing the footsteps, his eyelids slightly lifted, without much reaction, except that the phone in his hand stopped spinning.

He watched Shuang Xu walk over motionlessly, and waited until she sat on the sofa next to him before he spoke: "Are you here for the Shen family?"

It turns out he knows everything.

Shuang Xu nodded: "Yes."

"Who else did you look for before you came to me?" He Tingzhou asked.

"My dad."

"Didn't your dad tell you how difficult this is?"

Shuang Xu said: "That's why I came to see you."

"How can you be sure that I will help you?"

This question hit the nail on the head. Shuang Xu looked at him, his almond-shaped eyes clear without a trace of impurities, pure as water, full of hope: "I'm not sure, Brother Tingzhou, can you help me?"

He Tingzhou held his head and looked at her for a moment before he slowly said, "Yes."

He changed the subject: "What bargaining chips do you have for me?"

This made Shuang Xu stunned for a moment, and he answered honestly: "I don't have any chips."

She had nothing except herself. She was not as rich as him, nor as powerful as him. She didn't even have any backup to rely on.

"Then how can I help you?" He Tingzhou said.

The hope that had not yet ignited in his heart was frozen by the cold water that poured down on his head, and Shuang Xu's bright eyes slowly dimmed.

It's understandable that everyone is trying to avoid it for fear of getting into trouble, so it's the wisest choice for him not to intervene.

He Tingzhou had helped her so many times that she easily had the illusion that they had become friends.

Of course, every time such a misunderstanding occurred, he would promptly remind her not to be so self-indulgent.

"No reason." She always forgot that she didn't have that much face. "Sorry for disturbing you."

After she finished speaking, she stood up, walked to the door, and held the door handle, but did not open it.

Now she had no better way to help the Shen family out of their worries. The Shen family had protected her from the wind and rain, but now that Shen Changyuan was in trouble, she couldn't even do anything.

He Tingzhou is her only hope.

He Tingzhou stood up and walked to the bar, poured himself a glass of water without even looking at her.

Shuang Xu stood silent for a moment at the door, then turned back and walked up to him.

"I don't have any chips, I only have myself." She clenched her fingertips to prevent her voice from sounding timid, "But you should be... a little interested in me."

In fact, she didn't have much confidence. This was tantamount to handing He Tingzhou a handle to insult and tease her at will. The desire in his eyes on the blue night when they went to gamble was not a signal that she had misunderstood.

If she made a wrong bet, he would surely laugh at her and ridicule her wantonly, and then she would really have no face at all.