Chapter 22: Big Liar, find someone else to chase, I've already got this one...
The clamor behind her gradually faded away, and the wall of her heart that Luo Shu had built up collapsed little by little as she walked towards Fang Qingzhuo.
Two steps away, I hesitated under his death gaze. I didn't know when I came? How long I had been watching? Was I just passing by?
"What a coincidence, why are you here too?" Luo Shu greeted him reluctantly.
Fang Qingzhuo still seemed unmoved and got angry.
The two of them stared at each other in a stalemate. He said nothing, and she didn't dare to say anything else.
To be fair, Luo Shu was a little scared of Fang Qingzhuo like this, but besides being scared, she felt soft-hearted. Maybe it was because he looked a little lonely now, with slightly messy hair shaking in the wind like a leafless branch. Compared with the hustle and bustle on the other side of the door, he seemed to be all alone and abandoned by the whole world.
There is really no logic at all.
If you think about it carefully, she and Fang Qingzhuo are just like one thing conquering another. They don't need to do anything, just standing there is already winning, even though they are the ones who are wronged every time.
Seeing her dazed for a long time, Fang Qingzhuo's expression became more serious: "Why can't I be here? I can find you no matter where you are."
Luo Shu opened her mouth to explain, but he took a big step toward her, the wicked one complaining first, "Luo Shu, you lied to me again."
"Who was it that vowed not to attend the social gathering? It turns out you're just pretending to obey, but you're actually disobeying it. Don't you have anything to explain to me?"
"..." Luo Shu glanced at Fang Qingzhuo, whose face was so gloomy that she almost shone a light on her. He was saying that during interrogation, those who confessed would be given leniency, while those who resisted would be given strict punishment. Apparently, she didn't hear the hidden meaning behind the word "again." She lowered her head and slowly defended herself, "I just went out with a friend to celebrate the holidays."
"Celebrate the holidays?" Fang Qingzhuo narrowed his eyes, anger rising with every word he uttered. "Are you celebrating the holidays with your friends, or are you planning to let me celebrate the holidays?"
Thinking of the unsent breakup text message, Luo Shu blurted out: "Have you thought about it?"
"nonsense."
If he had thought about it, he wouldn't have come here so late at night.
The heavy stone weighing on her heart dropped, and Luo Shu mustered up the courage: "When you agreed to be with me that night, was it... a spur of the moment decision? In other words, do you regret it?"
Otherwise how to explain the disconnection for the past half month.
Hearing her ask this, the nameless anger that had been rising in his head suddenly subsided. Fang Qingzhuo calmed down and reflected. The last time Duan Ran was there, he could be considered impulsive, but what about this time? As soon as he saw the photo of her attending the social, he ran over like a demon.
He suddenly realized something very serious. His special feelings for Luo Shu were more about concern than aversion.
He didn't rush to answer, but stared at her with a deep sense of confusion. When he got closer, he found something on the corner of her mouth. The thought that came to his mind was only a momentary thought before he dismissed it. He raised his finger and gently wiped away the crumbs on the corner of her mouth. His throat moved: "Which is better, the snail tonight or the soda yesterday?"
The sudden intimate action made Luo Shu's brain freeze and she dared not move: "What?"
"Snail." Fang Qingzhuo withdrew his hand and repeated.
The topic suddenly changed, and Luo Shu almost lost track of the channel. She swallowed her saliva and said, "I didn't answer that snail."
The warmth on her lips disappeared, and she subconsciously touched the place where the man had touched her. As for the bottle of soda, it was not until after Fang Qingzhuo left and she saw the two bottles of Fanta left on the dining table that she realized that she had drunk his bottle.
It turns out he knew it all along.
Fang Qingzhuo clenched his fist and put it back in his pocket, staring at her intently. "I don't like wasting time, so do you understand?"
Luo Shu pondered for a long time, seeming to understand but not understanding: "But why can't it be made public? Am I really embarrassed? Or do you have a girlfriend outside of school..."
"Because I don't like being discussed."
In fact, Fang Qingzhuo's real thought was: Don't you like to have underground love affairs?
Gu Yang is a living example.
"Who would be so secretive when in love?" Luo Shu complained in a low voice.
Fang Qingzhuo grasped the key point: "You want to talk to me, are you willing to open up?"
"Of course, if we don't make it public, how can we have dinner together, go on a date and watch a movie together..."
"Who said we can't date? If you want me, you can come to me." Fang Qingzhuo regretted the moment the words came out of her mouth. What on earth was this stubborn person saying? She inexplicably felt like she was being led by the nose by her.
The caution in Luo Shu's eyes was completely replaced by joy at this moment: "If I send you too many messages, will it bother you?"
Fang Qingzhuo said without hesitation: "No."
Just as Luo Shu was secretly pleased with these two decisive words and was slightly controlling the upward arc of her lips, he said lightly, "I turned on the do not disturb mode."
Someone instantly lost all expression and broke silently.
After witnessing the sudden transformation of a towering building into the ground, Fang Qingzhuo suppressed his laughter and pulled out his phone, turning off the Do Not Disturb function right in front of her. "Are you satisfied?"
"That's more like it..." Before she finished speaking, Luo Shu glanced at Fang Qingzhuo and noticed that the note he gave her was "big talker"!
No, what boyfriend would describe his girlfriend as a big talker?
He raised his hands on his hips, looking like he was about to accuse someone, but his tone was so disproportionate, so soft that it sounded like he was just being coquettish. "Why did you give me that note?"
"When other people are in love, they use names like 'baby' or 'little cutie'. I can accept even the original name, but you..."
Fang Qingzhuo immediately responded with an innocent look: "Aren't you?"
"Besides, I've never been in a relationship."
The words he said imply that he had lost out. Luo Shu pouted and said, "I don't have any either."
Fang Qingzhuo really felt that she was hopeless from the bottom of his heart, but he didn't mind it and was still pretending. Never mind, they were the same anyway, the elder brother didn't say anything about the younger brother.
He clicked into the remarks column, and under close scrutiny that could not be ignored, he typed her name on the keyboard, then pressed a few more times, as if afraid someone would see it, and then put it in his pocket to cover it up.
"It's fixed." He asked, "What are your notes for me?"
Sooner or later, you will have to pay for what you have done. Luo Shu was procrastinating, just like a poor student who was called on by the teacher to answer a question in class. In a fit of anger, she changed the note she gave to Fang Qingzhuo from boyfriend to stingy person.
Perhaps after waiting for so long and getting no further results, Fang Qingzhuo made another request, just like Party A: "I'm telling you, I don't want those disgusting nicknames."
"For example?" Luo Shu wondered.
"husband."
Those two simple words were so shocking that Luo Shu's ears suddenly felt hot. She didn't even dare to listen to what he said.
But Fang Qingzhuo’s focus was different. He was determined not to accept anything that others had called out to him.
"Then how should I call you so that it's not disgusting?" Luo Shu asked humbly.
"Just shout it the same way you did before."
Luo Shu nodded thoughtfully: "I understand, Fang Qingzhuo."
"..." Fang Qingzhuo felt a sudden sense of powerlessness all over his body and sighed secretly, "I have one more request."
"What do you want?"
"Drink less in the future, little bastard." As he said this, his consciousness was no longer controlled by his brain, and he raised his arm and was about to send it over her head.
As luck would have it, there was a noise in the restaurant. A large group of men and women were rushing out, and the party was over.
This unexpected action stopped him in mid-air.
At the same time, Luo Shu also noticed the commotion and curiously followed the source of the sound.
Before she could turn around completely, her wrist was suddenly firmly grasped by someone.
Luo Shu's eyes moved, and she turned around very slowly, almost second by second. She was caught off guard by a pair of familiar yet unfamiliar eyes.
The noise not far away automatically died away, and the world seemed to stop all of a sudden.
Completely different from before, there was clearly an intense and unbreakable dominance in these beautiful eyes, as if they were looking at something marked as their own private property.
Is he afraid that she will leave?
"I'm hungry, do you want to have a midnight snack with me?"
Fang Qingzhuo finally spoke, but Luo Shu couldn't guess what he meant. She stared at him blankly, unable to utter a word.
There was something different about him tonight.
"Do you want to eat with me?" He repeated stubbornly.
Her wrist suddenly tightened and she felt pain. Only then did Luo Shu react and nodded twice.
Fang Qingzhuo finally relaxed his restraints with satisfaction. Finally, his eyes switched to one of sincerity and emphasis, "No hot pot this time."
After finishing her midnight snack, Luo Shu was still confused. She couldn't tell whether Fang Qingzhuo in front of her was a dream or reality. She barely touched the bowl of seafood noodles. However, Fang Qingzhuo had a good appetite and practiced the "Clean Plate" campaign.
After getting in the car, Luo Shu sat in the passenger seat, replying to Gu Jiaqian's interrogation messages one by one, while Fang Qingzhuo leaned against the car door and smoked a cigarette. After a cigarette, he slid into the driver's seat and said straight to the point, "Luo Shu, swear an oath and promise not to lie to me again."
Luo Shu: “…”
This was an exaggeration. She admitted that she had just lied to him, but it was just a spur of the moment action and she had no ill intentions.
"Fang Qingzhuo, I didn't mean it..."
"I want you to swear."
Seeing that he was not willing to give up, Luo Shu raised her right hand helplessly: "I, Luo Shu, swear that from now on, no, I will never tell a lie to Qingzhu again in this life."
Fang Qingzhuo stared at her for a long time, until the last syllable fell, and the taut string that had troubled him for a long time relaxed intactly.
That's right. If you have cheated others, you can't cheat him again.
"Send you back to school first."
Luo Shu hurriedly fastened her seatbelt and suddenly remembered something strange: "By the way, what did you say to that person on the phone? Why did you leave without saying a word after throwing the phone to me?"
Fang Qingzhuo, who was fiddling with the navigation system while connecting to CarPlay, raised his eyes and raised one corner of his mouth. "What can I say? I didn't threaten you or use any swear words. I just told you the truth."
At 11 o'clock in the evening, the main road near the university town was deserted, and a black car was freely moving through the lonely night sky like a winner.
At the 90-second red light, the owner of the coupe lowered the window, lazily rested one arm on the window sill, and flicked the ash from his cigarette.
There were ten seconds left. Fang Qingzhuo looked at the jumping numbers in front of him and recalled the content of the call, which was actually just one sentence.
"Go after someone else, I've already got this one."
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