Chapter 25 A Friend

System: “No, why are you here?”

Li Hsin-chu: "Why are you here too?"

The two questions were asked almost at the same time, one was shocked and the other was suspicious.

This question is quite interesting.

Yin Jiu asked back with a double meaning: "I can't be here?"

He was sitting there lazily, half lying down, with his sleeves rolled up to his elbows and two buttons on his collar undone, revealing a small patch of healthy, pale skin. A peace locket strung with a black rope lay between his collarbones. The contrast between black, white and green was extremely shocking. At this moment, he tilted his head and looked up at me, his face slightly tipsy, his lips even more rosy, and his expression half-smiled.

Li Hsin-chu stared at him and forgot to react for a moment.

Without caring about Li Xinzhu's reaction, Yin Jiu just said that. The person who came to pick you up had arrived, and he didn't want to stay any longer. He kicked Hu Zheng's shoes and said, "Wake up, your person is here."

The man who was drooling all over his face from sleep opened his sleepy eyes when he heard the words. When he saw Li Xinzhu, his half-closed eyes suddenly widened, and he was half sobered up by the fright.

He sat up suddenly, half shocked and half panicked: "Why are you here to pick me up?"

After calming down, Li Xinzhu shifted his gaze from Yin Jiu to Hu Zheng and said with a smile, "Didn't you call me and ask me to pick you up?"

"Really? I didn't pay much attention." Hu Zheng really didn't notice. The beer went up quickly and he sobered up quickly. He felt that he was sober now. He tried to stand up by holding the table and said apologetically, "I'm sorry to bother you to come so late."

However, he obviously overestimated himself. He put his hands on the glass table, and he thought he was using enough strength, but in fact his hands had no strength at all. As soon as he stood up, he fell forward, using his head as a bowling ball, and knocked the empty bottles and cups on the table far away.

Li Xinzhu rushed over to help him, but he slapped her away. He raised his head, his face flushed with embarrassment, and tried to say, "I'm fine, no need for help."

He stood up again and staggered out. Halfway through his walk, he paused as he remembered something. He also remembered turning back to greet Yin Jiu: "Brother, that's all for today. Let's meet again tomorrow."

His eyes were still swollen, but he was trying to save face by pretending to be calm and unrestrained.

Seeing this shy girl, Yin Jiu shook his head in his heart, but he cooperated well and said, "Okay, let's make an appointment tomorrow."

Hu Zheng waved his hands nonchalantly and walked out holding the wall. Li Xinzhu supported him weakly and looked back again with a slightly gloomy expression.

Outside, Hu Zheng's voice could still be heard, asking about my well-being: "It's so late, I'll take you home first. Next time you get a call like this in the middle of the night, don't come. It's not safe to come here alone."

Judging from his tone, he doesn't sound like a drunk person at all.

It was completely different from the way she cried in front of Yin Jiu before, as if they were two completely different people.

What can I say?

All I can say is that love changes a person beyond all recognition.

After the two of them walked away, Yin Jiu stood up and walked out, speaking to the system in his mind: "Why didn't you follow?"

The system said: "I feel a little tired."

Yin Jiu guessed: "The mission was not going well?"

It's not just unsuccessful! It's like the sky is falling apart!

The system didn't expect that Hu Zheng's call could reach Li Xinzhu. What was outrageous was that Li Xinzhu had come to pick him up, but he actually lied to his boyfriend and said he was going home.

However, my boyfriend followed me and is probably sitting in the car watching me coldly.

However, it is not difficult to understand that as the protagonist of the world, Li Hsin-chu's love life is definitely not going to be harmonious and happy from the beginning. There will definitely be some bloody things in the middle, and it is normal to have misunderstandings. So no matter who Hu Zheng calls, the plot may be "accidentally" twisted to Li Hsin-chu.

The system watched as the love value of Li Hsin-chu's boyfriend dropped every day, and realized that this relationship, which had only started three days ago, was already in danger.

However, the system didn't want to tell Yin Jiu more about whether the plot was going well or not, fearing that he wouldn't be able to say anything good. It looked at Yin Jiu and couldn't bear it, so it gently reminded him, "Don't be so busy with work and study recently. Take more rest and eat more good food."

Yin Jiu understood the meaning immediately, "Why do you feel a bit like a dying care?"

"Everyone has to pay for their choices. Anyway, if there's anything you want to eat, places you want to go, or things you want to do, just arrange them as soon as possible." The system's tone sounded a bit hopeless.

Yin Jiu was surprised: "Is it so serious?"

The system didn't want to stay any longer, so it said perfunctorily: "It's OK, I'm leaving now, bye."

"goodbye."

After saying goodbye, Yin Jiu waited for it to disappear, but the system that said "goodbye" did not really leave immediately.

They walked together in silence for a while, until Yin Jiu got on the online ride-hailing car, and then the system said with emotion: "Human hearts are really complicated."

It probably just needed a listener, so it didn't wait for Yin Jiu to express his opinion, and said to itself: "I don't quite understand. In the original plot of the novel, although Li Xinzhu never agreed to his roommate's courtship, the two of them have always been good friends. But now that they are in love, his roommate doesn't like Li Xinzhu that much anymore. Why is that?"

Yin Jiu couldn't answer. He didn't know the inside story and couldn't comment on it, so he just gave a more likely guess: "Maybe they found out they were not compatible after they fell in love. Isn't there a saying that some people are only suitable for secret love, not for love?"

"Maybe." The system perked up and said, "Anyway, you should eat something good."

It sounded like a joke, but Yin Jiu could tell that the system was sincere.

System: “Really gone.”

Yin Jiu: "Let's go."

The light beside me dimmed. This time, the system really left.

Yin Jiu closed his eyes and thought deeply.

It seems that the situation is indeed very serious. The system has even issued a death notice in a tactful way.

…

Yin Jiu's luggage was still in the community security room. This time he did not let the driver Lao Li take it back home, so Yin Jiu had to go and get it.

Not in the mood to argue with the online car-hailing driver, Yin Jiu simply did not let the driver drive into the community and got off the car directly at the gate. It was not far anyway, so he could just walk.

Security in the community is strict, and you have to fill out a form to pick up items.

Yin Jiu signed on it. The security guard picked it up, took a look, and said, "Building 9, 17th floor? The one for Unit A?"

Yin Jiu asked: "Yes, what's wrong?"

The security guard said politely, "I wanted to tell you this before, but the call didn't go through. We checked the surveillance these past two days and saw someone coming to your house looking for you. Go home and check the surveillance. If you know the person, contact him. If you don't know him, or it's inconvenient for him to come forward, notify us and put him on the blacklist. He will be banned from entering the community in the future to avoid harassing the residents."

Yin Jiu said, "Okay, I'll go back and take a look."

When he got home, Yin Jiu followed his habit and called up the operation interface to change his password.

Usually before going on a long trip or after returning from a trip, Yin Jiu would change his password. There was no pattern to the password, it might just be a set of data he saw that day.

The finger has already landed on the reset interface, but it paused, and finally returned to the interface and canceled the reset.

After taking a shower, Yin Jiu dried his hair and turned on the computer to find the surveillance records of the past few days.

As he watched, he stopped drying his hair.

Without turning on the main lights, the light cast by the computer screen made his expression change.

After an unknown amount of time, the screen went into standby mode because no one had used it for a long time.

Yin Jiu's face also disappeared into the darkness and became gloomy.

The next day, when he passed by the security room, Yin Jiu talked about the person who appeared in the surveillance every day and said, "It's a friend."

The security guard asked, "Don't worry about it, right?"

"Yes, never mind."

There isn't much time left, so just let him be.