Chapter 82: Going Crazy on the 82nd Day: It turns out you like me too...
Chapter 82
In Sang Biao's room, Nangong Lie screamed continuously.
Xu Xiaonian slapped Nangong Lie on the arm. "Why are you shouting so loudly? If someone didn't know, they'd think I did something to you. Isn't it just applying iodine?"
Nangong Lie curled his lips: "If I don't shout louder, how will others know that I blocked the knife for my wife?"
"Qin Xiao is really crazy. He smashed over a dozen flower pots. The fragments flew all over me and I'm bleeding. Ooooooooo, it hurts, honey."
Lu Xingjian, who was standing by, suddenly said, "If I had known you could make such a fuss, I should have let Qin Xiao smash you to death."
"You're just jealous because I have a wife who can give me medicine."
Just as he finished speaking, he was punched by Xu Xiaonian again. "What wife? Stop talking nonsense. You've spilled the medicine."
Xu Xiaonian blushed and asked Lu Xingjian, who was squatting with Sang Biao, "Assistant Lu, do you want me to help you apply the medicine? The iodine hasn't run out yet."
"You are my woman, you can't apply medicine to other men. Let me do it." Nangong Lie snatched the medicine bottle.
Lu Xingjian stroked the hair on Sang Biao's back. When he heard the words behind him, he felt like he had swallowed a piece of lard raw and almost fainted.
Xu Xiaonian had dirt on her hands, so she went to the bathroom to wash her hands.
There were only two men and a dog left in the house.
In order to let Xu Xiaonian hear, Nangong Lie said from a distance: "Besides, he's an unmarried man, why would he need to apply any medicine? He can just bear it. Just now I..."
At this moment, the door of the room was opened, and Nangong Lie was still halfway through his words.
Tan Mo came in with a frown on her face, "Is this how you bullied Lu Xingjian when I was away?"
"I, don't... don't have..."
"He is just like that." Lu Xingjian raised his head and looked at Tan Mo. The blood on his face had dried. Although the wound was not deep, it was like a flawless jade with a scratch for no reason. Tan Mo felt heartbroken every time she looked at it.
Thinking back to the time when she had allowed Nangong Lie to exclude Lu Xingjian, Nangong Lie had become a criminal in her mind and had no credibility at all.
She turned her gaze towards Nangong Lie and said angrily, "I never thought you were such a despicable, selfish villain. It's just a little iodine, and you're not willing to give it to him. How stingy!"
"No, I used to..."
"Alright! Stop quibbling. Besides, I heard it all when I was at the door just now. Could I have heard it wrong?"
Lu Xingjian supported himself against the wall and stood up with difficulty. "Okay, stop blaming Nangong Lie. He was just joking with me."
Lu Xingjian limped over, and Tan Mo felt extremely guilty, after all, he was injured because of her.
She took Nangong Lie's arm, helped him over, and said, "You are already like this, why are you still explaining for him? He has been a bad person for a long time."
A huge sense of grievance and shock was stuck in his chest, making him feel suffocated and uncomfortable. Nangong Lie couldn't believe that Lu Xingjian was such a green tea!
They had just returned from the corridor, and he brought new slippers for Lu Xingjian to change his shoes. Seeing that his feet were bleeding, he asked if he could apply medicine on him, but Lu Xingjian flatly refused.
How did it become that he is not a good person?
Even Dou E was not wronged by him!
Thinking about it more carefully, Lu Xingjian didn't let him apply the medicine. Could it be that he was waiting for him here?
The moment Xu Xiaonian came out of the bathroom, Nangong Lie rushed up to hug her and cried in grievance.
Xu Xiaonian was knocked back two steps by the huge momentum and hugged him back, "What's wrong?"
"Snow in June! Green tea man! Retribution! I'm so miserable!"
"Okay, okay, the green tea man will get his comeuppance." Xu Xiaonian patted his back to comfort him.
The green tea man Lu Xingjian sniffed, turned around and looked at Tan Mo, feeling uneasy.
Tan Mo whispered, "I believe you. How could you be a green tea man? I'll help you apply the medicine."
Lu Xingjian felt more relieved, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "You are so nice."
Nangong Lie: ...
While comforting Nangong Lie, Xu Xiaonian asked Tan Mo, "What did Old Lady Qin say?"
The reason why Tan Mo didn't come back with them was because she went to discuss something with Old Lady Qin.
Seeing that Tan Mo was able to see through Xiang Nuan's tricks with just a little trick, Old Lady Qin seriously considered discussing cooperation with Tan Mo.
"It's done. This is the price..." Tan Mo kept it a secret, then suddenly said excitedly, "Ten million."
"Ah!" Xu Xiaonian was so excited that she pushed Nangong Lie away from her arms.
Nangong Lie was pushed to the wall while spinning, and his head made a dull "bang" sound when it hit the white wall.
His head ached, but before his brain could process the pain, he heard Xu Xiaonian jump over and ask, "Is it true? So many?"
Tan Mo said rather arrogantly, "Isn't that impressive? I just raised the price and paid the money."
"That's what it means to be yesterday's me, you ignored me. Today's me, you can't reach me."
"I love you so much." Xu Xiaonian hugged Tan Mo and rocked her, "You're amazing."
This was their company's first order, and a big one at that, which was encouraging in every way.
After all, when Tan Mo first established the gossip company, Xu Xiaonian was under pressure because he suspected that the business was not legitimate.
Tan Mo held a cotton swab in one hand and a bottle of iodine in the other. She wanted to hug her back, but she had no hands free.
Nangong Lie rubbed his forehead, counting ten million in his mind, and gradually felt relieved.
He glared at Lu Xingjian and decided not to bother with his green tea behavior.
Who made Brother Lie so open-minded? He doesn't bear grudges against villains.
Xu Xiaonian sat back on the stool and asked Tan Mo, "Where are Qin Xiao and the others?"
Tan Mo helped Lu Xingjian treat the wound on his ankle. "Xiang Nuan is very busy. I don't know what Qin Xiao is doing."
Nangong Lie interrupted, "How could she not be busy? Qin Xiao spit all over her face. Her mouth was still open..."
"Eh~" Xu Xiaonian smoothed the raised hairs on her arms, "Stop talking about it, it's so disgusting. I can't even think about it."
"How bad does she stink? Qin Xiao can still spit it out."
Nangong Lie thought for a moment and said, "Didn't you say before that you hated the rainy season? Washed clothes won't dry, and even if they do, they still have a disgusting musty smell."
"Miss Xiang's body should be similar to this."
Nangong Lie had just finished speaking when Xu Xiaonian came out the next second.
Xu Xiaonian dry-heaved for a while and said uncomfortably, "Then our task of breaking up Xiang Nuan and Qin Xiao this time is truly arduous."
Nangong Lie poured her some water. After drinking it, the nausea was suppressed. Xu Xiaonian said, "Thanks for your hard work, Assistant Lu. You started contacting them yesterday."
"Don't worry, Lie and I will help you."
Xu Xiaonian was already planning the four of them's food, clothing, housing, and transportation at the Qin family's house. She was also thinking about how to allocate the rooms. She asked, "By the way, Mo, how did you and Assistant Lu sleep last night? How many rooms did the Qin family give us?"
After Tan Mo finished treating the wound on Lu Xingjian's ankle, she took a clean cotton swab and was about to wipe the wound on his face with saline solution when she heard Lu Xingjian say, "Sleep on the bed."
Xu Xiaonian smiled and said, "Of course I know you sleep on the bed. If not on the bed, can you sleep on the floor?"
"On a bed."
Tan Mo's hand trembled slightly as she drew a line of saline solution on Lu Xingjian's face.
Lu Xingjian raised his clear eyes and met Tan Mo's panicked eyes.
I could hear Xu Xiaonian and Nangong Lie gasping for breath.
The two men seemed to have heard some terrible secret, and were at a loss and in a panic.
Finally, the two of them picked up Sang Biao, who was busy eating, and walked out. "Well, I suddenly remembered that I haven't walked the dog yet. You guys go ahead and do it. We'll go walk the dog first."
Sang Biao, who is still eating canned food after taking a walk:???
The door was hurriedly closed, the footsteps gradually faded away, and the room became extremely quiet.
They were very close and their eyes met.
A sentence suddenly appeared in Tan Mo's eyes: When a couple in love looks at each other, it's like a passionate kiss.
Lu Xingjian had confessed his love to her before, so he definitely loved her.
What about her?
Don’t you love me?
But Tan Mo's heart, beating like a rainstorm, told her loudly: "No, you like him too."
Tan Mo turned away and scolded, "Why did you say something like sleeping in the same bed?"
"Did I say something wrong?" Lu Xingjian was no longer as pitiful and obedient as before. He began to become aggressive. "But we did sleep together last night, didn't we?"
"We sleep together, but not that kind of sleep."
No matter how she said it, it didn't seem right. The more she talked, the more confusing it became. The more she explained, the worse it got. Tan Mo withdrew her hand, "You'll make others misunderstand you."
Lu Xingjian grabbed her hand as she was trying to escape. The heat from his palm made Tan Mo shrink back and move back a few steps, but Lu Xingjian held her hand tightly all the time.
"Aren't you going to give me medicine?"
"You apply it yourself." Tan Mo was a little annoyed.
Lu Xingjian froze for a moment, and when he saw that Tan Mo really stopped moving, he sighed softly and nodded.
He picked up the cotton swab that Tan Mo had used to apply the medicine for him and did it himself.
Without a mirror, Lu Xingjian was completely blind as he applied the medicine on his face.
Tan Mo glanced at him a few times, and saw only a fair face with brown potions all over it, but it was not getting to the point.
"How can you be so stupid?" Tan Mo said unhappily.
Lu Xingjian was not annoyed, but said seriously: "You care about me a lot."
Tan Mo's heart seemed to be stabbed, and she quickly denied it, "I didn't."
"The way you deny it now is just like the way you denied liking me before." Lu Xingjian pressed on, "You obviously like me too, why are you rejecting me?"
"Where do I have..."
Before Tan Mo could finish, she was interrupted by Lu Xingjian, "You do. You clearly do. You get nervous when you see me injured; you subconsciously avoid me when you get too close to me; you ask me to leave, but your eyes are filled with reluctance."
"These are all proofs that you like me, Tan Mo. You used to say that I was a ball that ran with the ball, a little genius. Do you think I could be wrong about this?"
"Nonsense, it's unreasonable." Tan Mo didn't want to argue anymore, she stood up and was about to walk out.
Lu Xingjian stubbornly held her hand and asked, "Are you afraid of something?"
"I seem to have overlooked a problem."
For some reason, Tan Mo was very panicked because Lu Xingjian was about to know her secret of being different from others.
It was a secret she had kept for a long time.
Lu Xingjian suddenly said with a flash of inspiration, "You're not Tan Mo, are you?"
"Who are you?"
When this question was raised again for the second time, Tan Mo knew that she could no longer avoid it.
When Nangong Xiong asked her, Tan Mo didn't want to cause trouble and directly denied the answer.
But now, Lu Xingjian also saw it.
Tan Mo remained silent.
Perhaps because he had always been Tan Mo's assistant, in a subordinate position, Lu Xingjian explained naturally, "Bo Yanli has investigated your information before. Although I am not interested in his plan, I have read the information about you."
"The Tan Mo in the profile is a quiet, hardworking person who won't take the initiative to fight. But you are not like that. You are the opposite of Tan Mo."
The opposite?
Tan Mo really wanted to curl up the corners of her mouth and sneer at herself, but she didn't want to be so harsh to her past self.
When she graduated from college and looked for a job, she was actually no different from the original owner.
With both his parents dead and no support from his family, how could he have the confidence to fight his boss like he was doing now?
At first, her mind was full of thoughts of beating up the stupid boss, which made her upset just by looking at him. But in fact, she had to endure all the grievances.
She can now fight back and do all the things that Lu Xingjian hopes she can do but has never dared to do. Ultimately, it is because the system is there to cover Tan Mo.
Lu Xingjian continued, "Adding to the matter of the Nangong family's real and fake daughter, there is a big loophole, that is, you should be the only one who knows Nangong Xiong's plan."
"But judging by the logic of your behavior, you have no idea of the inside story."
That's true. You can figure out the problem if you look at it carefully.
Tan Mo was surprised that Lu Xingjian hadn't thought of this.
Lu Xingjian concluded: "So who are you?"
Tan Mo asked him back: "Who do you think I am?"
"I think you..." Lu Xingjian racked his brains for a while, then gave up. "I really don't know. Maybe you are a fairy from outer space. Just like in novels, when things are done, you will fly away."
Tan Mo smiled and said, "You are really smart. You guessed it all right. In fact, I am really an alien. I came to Earth specifically to find young boys and girls, and then bring them back to our planet to present to our king."
Lu Xingjian: ...How outrageous
"Lu Xingjian, you should still be a virgin."
Lu Xingjian: ...outrageous yet a bit embarrassing
Tan Mo laughed out loud, but when she saw Lu Xingjian's expression that said "Are you trying to rub my IQ?", she stopped laughing.
"Okay, just kidding. I'm not an alien, but I am a fairy. Thousands of years ago, I became an immortal, but life in heaven was too boring, so I came down to earth to have some fun."
"I actually think what you said makes a lot of sense," Lu Xingjian said. "You have a carefree and easygoing personality, you're quirky and spontaneous, and you act on your whims. You really are like a deity."
Tan Mo was pleased: "Of course, apart from life and death and money, everything else is trivial."
"But you said before that your parents died..."
"Of course I came to the mortal world through a pierced womb. You can think of them as my parents in this life."
Lu Xingjian thought for a moment, "So you'll leave us, right?"
"Uh..." Tan Mo was stunned, the smile on her face froze.
"Whether you call yourself an alien or a deity, you don't belong in this world. Which means you'll be gone sooner or later."
It's hard to say whether Lu Xingjian is thoughtful or attentive. He easily grasps the key points in such a casual, relaxed conversation.
This was originally a lie made up by Tan Mo to fool him, and Tan Mo had to admire him.
Tan Mo remained silent, and Lu Xingjian became more certain of his inference.
For some reason, Tan Mo didn't want to refute.
"So you do like me, but because you are leaving us, you rejected my confession." Lu Xingjian's eyes were bright, as if something was burning.
But he suddenly realized that he and Tan Mo were destined to be separated.
Lu Xingjian suddenly grabbed Tan Mo's hand and said with a smile: "But it doesn't matter, I can leave with you, as long as you like me."
Tan Mo: ...
Why do things feel weird?
For a moment she didn't know what to refute.
"Hey, let go...let go." Tan Mo tried to break free from his hand, her face flushed. "Who said I like you?"
"Lu Xingjian, you are so shameless."
"It doesn't matter, as long as I like you." Lu Xingjian said happily, sweeping away the gloom of the past few days.
Tan Mo rejected his confession, and although Lu Xingjian didn't show much sadness, only he knew what it felt like to be unable to sleep all night. He was actually not having a good time.
Being pushed away by his beloved again and again, Lu Xingjian really felt that he was terrible, which was why Tan Mo didn't like him.
All the talents that he used to be proud of paled in comparison to Tan Mo.
It turns out that this is not the case, she also likes herself.
There was another reason why she pushed me away.
"Can I hug you?" Lu Xingjian looked at Tan Mo cautiously.
His scorching gaze left Tan Mo with no way to avoid it, forcing her to examine her own heart.
Tan Mo felt like an ant on a hot pan, she knew that she liked Lu Xingjian.
Originally, she rejected him righteously and didn't want to give him any chance, but this also made her uncomfortable.
I had to force myself to be busy so that I could forget about it.
Want to hug him?
She neither wants to nor does she want to.
"I'll count to five. If you don't say anything, I'll assume you agree."
"one."
Tan Mo's lips seemed to be stuck together with glue, but a force rushed out from her body, making her speak.
"two."
"Three." "I..."
"five."
Tan Mo's lips opened and closed, and just as she started to utter a syllable, she was pulled into another body by a huge force.
It was a young body, strong, fresh, warm, and slightly thin.
Tan Mo's chin hit the junction of Lu Xingjian's neck and shoulder.
The words "skin to skin" suddenly popped up in her mind, making her feel completely at a loss, and her face felt as hot as a stove.
Lu Xingjian was like a happy puppy who had received a reward.
When a happy puppy gets a reward, it will just jump around, hold the treat in its mouth, and then jump into its owner's arms.
So Lu Xingjian, the happy little dog, just hugged Tan Mo tightly and said, "That's great."
Tan Mo snorted, "Didn't you say to count to five? Why not four?"
"Because I want to hold you sooner."
Tan Mo smiled unconsciously, a sweet smile.
But then he felt that the question he had just asked was really shooting himself in the foot.
Tan Mo let him hold her without moving.
After waiting for a while, I saw that Lu Xingjian really didn't do anything other than hugging her.
Tan Mo was somewhat disappointed.
Shouldn't there be kisses?
When she read novels before, although she was a middle school student, she was also a shy girl...
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