☆, Chapter 101: Keep Calm
The next day while filming, Wen Mianyu found that she seemed to be protected.
While waiting, Lu Congxu always sat next to her, but unlike usual, he did not close his eyes and rest. Instead, he was always alert and observing his surroundings.
When Wen Mianyu was filming alone, Lu Congxu did not return to the car, but sat next to Director Lin to watch her perform.
After finishing a shot, Zhang Ye came forward to hand her water and a towel, and Lu Congxu also came over to talk to her until he left when filming started again.
Not to mention lunch, the two of them were in the same nanny car, and Lu Congxu asked his assistant to make lunch for them personally. They didn't eat the crew's boxed lunches as usual, and they didn't even order takeout.
Both of them are in the same circle, so Wen Mianyu naturally understood why Lu Congxu did this.
"Are you worried that someone might poison you?" Wen Mianyu asked.
"Not everyone might be that bold, but it's always better to be cautious," Lu Congxu said. "I'll have Zhang Ye stay with you as much as possible for the next two days. Don't go out alone."
"Okay." Wen Mianyu also knew that safety came first, so he agreed obediently.
…
We filmed another night scene in the evening, and it was already one o'clock in the middle of the night when we finished.
After returning to his residence, Lu Congxu took a shower. Before going to bed, he was worried, so he went to Wen Mianyu's room again. When he opened the door, he found that there was no one inside.
"Mianmian..." Lu Congxu looked around and finally pushed open the bathroom door, only to find that no one was inside.
He turned around and hurried out the door. He wanted to go downstairs directly, but he stopped in front of Lu Yuxuan's room door and knocked on it.
"Brother Congxu!" Lu Yuxuan, who came to open the door, was very surprised to see him, but a little shy. "It's so late, do you want to talk to me?"
"Mian... Is Su Moli here with you?" Lu Congxu looked unhappy.
"Sister Jasmine? No, why would she come to my room so late?" Lu Yuxuan realized something, "Isn't she in the room?"
"Yeah." Lu Congxu responded, took a step forward, and strode towards the stairs.
Lu Yuxuan was stunned for a moment, then quickly caught up, jogging behind him. "Is Sister Jasmine missing? Brother Congxu, don't worry. Maybe Sister Jasmine just went downstairs."
Lu Congxu pursed his lips tightly and said nothing. After going downstairs, he knocked on Chenzui's door.
The one who opened the door was Luo Zhifan. He had obviously just finished a shower, his hair was still wet and hadn't been blow-dried yet, water dripping down. "Mr. Lu."
"Is Su Moli here with you?" Lu Congxu asked.
"No." Luo Zhifan scratched his head, "Isn't Sister Jasmine in the room?"
"No." Lu Congxu answered, turned around and walked towards the door.
Luo Zhifan pressed the towel around his neck to his head, wiped it roughly, and followed. "Sister Jasmine is missing? Mr. Lu, don't worry. Sister Jasmine came back with us. She shouldn't go anywhere so late. Maybe she's in the yard."
"Yes, Brother Congxu," Lu Yuxuan also said, "Sister Jasmine might have just gone out for something. The front and back yards of this house are so big, she might just want to go out and get some fresh air. Even if she goes out on the street this late, no one would be there."
Of course Lu Congxu understood all of this.
The security on the island has always been good, and Wen Mianyu is not a reckless person, so there is no reason for him to go out on the street in the middle of the night.
But concern makes him confused, and he can't calm down even if there is a slight possibility.
The fan circle is too chaotic now. There have been incidents of sasaeng fans hurting people before, breaking into people's accommodations at night, following people and threatening them. Radical fans can do anything.
Lu Congxu was worried about Wen Mianyu's safety, so he protected her very well the whole day. However, he didn't expect that he would lose her during the short time he relaxed after returning to the house.
"Mr. Lu, I think we should split up and look for her. It'll be quicker that way." Luo Zhifan suggested after they left the house. "Let's search the courtyard first. The chances of Jasmine leaving the house aren't very high."
Lu Congxu nodded and said, "You and Yuxuan look in the front yard, and I'll look in the backyard."
"No!" Lu Yuxuan objected as soon as she heard it, "Brother Congxu, I'll go with you..."
"No need." Lu Congxu refused flatly, turned around and ran into the backyard without looking back.
It is a cloudy night with dark clouds covering the sky. There are almost no stars in the sky and the moon is just a thin crescent.
The yard lights had not been maintained for years and had long been broken. The surrounding light was very dim and one could only see things by the thin moonlight.
The backyard was full of trees, and Lu Congxu disappeared as soon as he ran in.
Lu Yuxuan wanted to chase him but couldn't, and stomped her feet in anger.
"Yuxuan." Luo Zhifan sensed her displeasure and advised, "Mr. Lu probably didn't let you follow him because the backyard was dangerous. He definitely didn't mean to get rid of you. Just follow me. It's safer for us to find the front yard."
"Yeah." Lu Yuxuan responded weakly.
She had no intention of looking for Su Moli at all, and she wished that she was really lost.
"Hold on to my arm. It's very dangerous at night. Let's not get separated." Luo Zhifan reminded.
Lu Yuxuan reluctantly reached out and grabbed his sleeve.
"What are you doing there?" Chen Zui pushed the door open and looked at the two of them with a bad look.
When Luo Zhifan saw him, he felt like he saw his savior.
Perhaps because they had been together day and night these days and Chenzui had helped them a lot, Luo Zhifan habitually sought his help when he encountered problems. "Brother Chen, Sister Jasmine is missing. Yuxuan and I came out to help look for her. Actor Lu just went to the backyard."
"Why is that crazy girl gone?" Chen Zui walked down the stairs, his already bad face even more sour. "Where could she go so late? The street lights outside are all off."
"I don't know. It happened suddenly and I didn't ask clearly." Luo Zhifan held him back, "Let's look for it together, Brother Chen."
Chen Zui said nothing, his eyes looking down at his sleeves.
Lu Yuxuan was still holding Luo Zhifan's sleeve.
Chen Zui frowned and looked at Lu Yuxuan, "Why are you grabbing his sleeve?"
"..." Lu Yuxuan. It was Luo Zhifan who clearly asked her to hold him.
"It's just the two of us looking for her. I was afraid Yuxuan would get lost, so I asked her to hold me." Luo Zhifan explained, "But there's nothing to be afraid of with Brother Chen here. Yuxuan, please walk between us."
Lu Yuxuan curled the corners of her lips in disdain and let go of her hand.
No one noticed her expression in the darkness.
Chen Zui grabbed Luo Zhifan and said, "Let's go."
"Brother Chen!" Luo Zhifan called out, "We agreed to let Yuxuan walk in the middle..."
"How could she get lost with such a big person following her? Wouldn't you have noticed if she got lost? You're not dead!" Chen Zui said angrily, "Don't waste time, find someone quickly."
…
The backyard of the old house is very large and there is a peach orchard.
The peach blossoms had just fallen, and the branches and leaves of the peach trees were lush and connected together, blocking the light of the stars and the moon in the sky. The forest was pitch black and it was impossible to tell the direction.
Not long after Lu Congxu ran into the woods, he heard a cat's meow not far away.
"Meow……"
It didn't sound like a cat, it sounded more like someone imitating a cat's meow.
"Meow?"
There were two more sounds.
"Little Flower Meow? Honey, you're here..."
A familiar voice was heard from a distance, and a flashlight beam lit up, illuminating the surroundings.
Lu Congxu saw a figure standing in the grass.
It was Wen Mianyu wearing home clothes.
She was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, half bent over under a tree, walking forward quietly.
"Mianmian." Lu Congxu called out, and as he spoke, his feet walked over spontaneously.
With a rustle, a fluffy shadow rushed out in the light and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Oh, he ran away!" Wen Mianyu said with some regret, turned around and said to Lu Congxu, "Why are you here?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the man rushed over and hugged her.
"Mianmian." Lu Congxu hugged her tightly with his arms.
It was an intimate hug, so intimate that Wen Mianyu felt a little embarrassed.
Lu Congxu is tall, and Su Moli is even shorter than Wen Mianyu before. In contrast, she looks very small, and her whole body is held in Lu Congxu's arms.
Wen Mianyu was a little afraid to move. Lu Congxu's face was very close to her. When he spoke, his breath sprinkled on her neck, and his low voice penetrated her ears and heart.
“Mianmian…”
Wen Mianyu's ears twitched, and she gradually felt that Lu Congxu was losing control of his emotions. She tentatively raised her hand and placed it on the man's shoulder.
"I'm here." She said soothingly, her voice unusually gentle.
Lu Congxu stopped talking and just hugged her tightly.
After a long while, Lu Congxu slowly loosened his arms, but one hand still reached down and grabbed Wen Mianyu's hand.
As if afraid that she would run away.
Wen Mianyu found it a little funny and moved her phone upwards. The flashlight illuminated the faces of the two people.
Lu Congxu's expression was no longer abnormal, and his tone was as cold as usual, "Why did you run out without saying hello?"
There was a hint of questioning in the words.
Wen Mianyu finally understood why he was acting so strangely and shook his hand. "Are you worried? Are you worried that I'll be captured by Yao Xin's fans?"
"Don't be nervous, I'm not stupid. How can I go out alone at night? They don't have the ability to break into the house and catch me." Wen Mianyu comforted.
"Yeah." Lu Congxu certainly knew.
He is not stupid, he is just too concerned.
"Don't worry, I know my limits and will protect myself." Wen Mianyu said with a smile.
Lu Congxu lowered his eyes, "I know."
"I wasn't running around so late at night. I just saw Huahua. Huahua, do you still remember me?" Wen Mianyu asked.
"Remember." Lu Congxu nodded.
He remembered everything related to Wen Mianyu.
Huahua is a stray cat on the island. It has milky patterns, is white and fat, and often comes to the peach forest to play.
One time, Wen Mianyu discovered a cat while picking fruit and told Lu Congxu. After that, the two of them fed the cat with food whenever they had time and named the cat Huahua.
Huahua loves freedom and doesn't like being restrained, so the two of them didn't keep her in a cage and fed her whenever they had time.
After feeding it for three years, suddenly one day, Huahua didn't show up, and she didn't come to the peach forest for a long time after that.
The two also searched the island, but found no trace of Huahua. Wen Mianyu thought Huahua was dead and was sad for a long time.
I didn't expect that we would meet again.
"After so many years, it has become an old cat, but it is still as fat." Wen Mianyu was very excited when talking about Huahua. "When I saw it, it was licking its fur on the windowsill. As a result, when I opened the window, it ran away, so I chased it to see."
Thinking of Lu Congxu's hurried look, Wen Mianyu was no longer so excited. "I'm sorry to have made you worried."
"No, I'm just too nervous." Lu Congxu pinched her fingertips and smiled.
"I won't do that again. I'll tell you before I go out next time." Wen Mianyu also laughed.
"Yeah." Lu Congxu responded.
The two walked back hand in hand. Lu Congxu took the phone and used it to light the way for them.
Wen Mianyu was in a good mood. She hummed a few lines of a song and said, "I think Huahua didn't come to be fed at that time. I guess she was adopted."
There are some tourists on the bird's nest, and a kind-hearted girl will adopt stray cats, and of course they will take them away.
No wonder the two of them couldn’t be found on the island at that time.
"It's back now, maybe its owner has settled on the island." Lu Congxu guessed.
There is no industry on Qingzhu Island, but it is very livable, suitable for retirement, and also suitable for some unambitious young people to live a slow life.
There is an internet celebrity on the island who quit her job and went home to work as a pastoral anchor. She prepares some delicious food and does some handicrafts every day and lives a leisurely life.
"When I don't want to act anymore, I will go back to live on the island." Wen Mianyu said longingly.
"I'll accompany you." Lu Congxu said.
The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
"It's a deal." Wen Mianyu hooked her little finger around Lu Congxu's fingertips and shook it gently.
Lu Congxu hooked her fingertips and pulled them back, saying, "It's a deal."
…
It was a false alarm. Wen Mianyu apologized to everyone one by one after returning home. He felt that what he did tonight was inconsiderate.
Even though he knew it was an emergency, he still ran to chase the cat in the middle of the night, causing trouble for everyone.
Out of guilt, when Wen Mianyu was immersed in complaining, she didn't say anything for the first time, and even endured the words "idiot, nymphomaniac".
After returning to the room, Wen Mianyu was still worried, so she went to Lu Congxu's room again before going to bed.
Pushing the door open, she saw Lu Congxu standing by the window, talking on the phone. The dim light from the balcony made his shadow look very long.
Seeing her, Lu Congxu showed a little surprise and said to the other end of the phone, "Let's not talk about it for now."
"If you can't win the argument, then don't say it. Lu Congxu, did you take my words to heart?" the person on the phone said loudly.
Wen Mianyu walked forward and heard the last syllable of the sentence from a close distance.
She recognized that it seemed to be Xu Hong's voice.
"Sister Hong?" Wen Mianyu asked with her mouth.
Lu Congxu frowned and was about to answer when someone on the other end of the line yelled, "Lu Congxu, give me some more time. You promised not to be impulsive!"
"Let's talk later, I'm busy now." Lu Congxu said into the phone and hung up.
Wen Mianyu asked with amusement, "Is it Sister Hong? No one else has such a voice except her. How did you make her angry?"
Lu Congxu pursed her lips and said, "It's just a small matter."
"That may seem like a small matter to you, but it's a big deal to her, otherwise she wouldn't be so angry." Wen Mianyu went over and sat down on the sofa. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "You're not going to cause trouble for Chen Yaoqing, are you?"
All means and intentions are invisible to smart people.
Lu Congxu sat down across from her, placed his phone on the tea table, and said, "I just want to expose some of Yao Xin's affairs. It will involve Chen Yaoqing, and Sister Hong doesn't want to."
"She clearly doesn't agree, doesn't she?" Wen Mianyu said. "We agreed to calm down and wait. I wasn't anxious. When did you become so impatient?"
Lu Congxu moved his lips but didn't say anything.
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