The harmonious sounds of the zither and lute linger in the air, resonating with the melodies of "Fisherman's Evening Song," "Moon Reflected in the Second Spring," "White Snow in Spring," "Three Variations on Plum Blossom," "Evening Bell at Nanping," and "High Mountains and Flowing Water."
Chanel exudes charm and beauty, her figure blooming like a lotus, her fingers intertwined as she gently plucks the strings of the violin.
Hou Wenjie was also completely focused, accompanying the music with the zither, playing "Plum Blossom in the Garden" twice and "The Melody of the Se in the Hall" anew.
After the music ended, Xiang Nai wiped the glistening beads of sweat from her neck and tidied up the guqin and zither.
Then, she got up and hugged the man she loved, whispering in his ear:
"Wenjie, I have to go back tonight, otherwise my friend will worry about me."
"Okay, I'll take you home later," Hou Wenjie said.
The two took a shower together and got dressed.
Hou Wenjie watched Xiang Nai combing her hair in front of the mirror and thought to himself, "Time is truly a wondrous thing. It can make two complete strangers go from being strangers to becoming familiar with each other quickly, and then fall in love."
He tasted the flavor of love in the girl before him.
The frosted glass of memory remains so blurry, no matter how much it's wiped clean, it's hard to make it clear; the transmission of deep emotions is still so slow, but he can now feel it clearly.
He is no longer alone; a warm heart is with him.
Hou Wenjie drove Xiang Nai home.
When she reached her floor, Chanel took out her key from her bag, gently turned it, and then she realized that the door was unlocked again.
Turning the doorknob, the living room light was on. Kanae found Shank sitting on the sofa, staring straight at her with a strange expression.
"You're acting strange," Chanel said, walking up to the sofa and looking at her friend.
He looked at her elegantly from under his shirt and said, "It's not that I'm surprised, it's that you're surprised. You never stay out all night! Do you have some other man outside?"
"No, I didn't," Chanel quickly denied.
The elegant gaze beneath the shirt turned serious. "So, you do have someone? Who is it? How do you know them?"
Q: What's it like to have an investigator as a friend?
Chanel would answer, "It's very difficult for you to keep a big secret from her."
Chanel decided to be honest. After all, it would be difficult for her to lie to this friend, and even the most perfect lie would eventually be exposed.
So she said, "It's Hou Wenjie!"
"Who?" The elegant woman in the shirt felt a chill run down her spine upon hearing the name.
"You heard me right, it's the person you're thinking of!" Xiang Nai was going all out. When she said "this person," the man's handsome face involuntarily appeared in her mind's eye. She could no longer suppress the joy and sweetness in her heart, and the corners of her mouth quietly curved upwards.
"It's over!"
The first feeling that Shan Xia Yaya had was that the sky had fallen. Her good friend Xiang Nai was probably already caught in the love trap set by Hou Wenjie. Then came a wave of self-blame, and she suddenly slapped herself twice.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have let you use your honey trap. In the end... in the end, you lost both your wife and your army, and you fell into his clutches. It's all my fault."
He murmured elegantly to himself under his shirt, immersing himself in a state of self-reproach and regret.
"Okay!"
Xiangnai quickly sat down, put her arm around her best friend, and said, "Actually, Wenjie is a very gentle person. It's just that you had a lot of misunderstandings and prejudices about him before."
"I have a prejudice against him? Then how do you explain his writing of fantasy novels and selling books with youth themes?" Shan Xia Youya didn't want her good friend to be deceived by Hou Wenjie's sweet talk.
Chanel knew her friend was also concerned about her, and couldn't bear to criticize her for her prejudice against her boyfriend, so she explained:
"Wenjie opened the bookstore simply as a means of making a living."
Moreover, he is different from us. We are native islanders, while he is a true mainland Chinese. It is not easy for him to open such a large bookstore and gain a foothold in a foreign country entirely on his own.
As for writing novels, who hasn't dreamed of writing a novel?
Moreover, what you're struggling with is simply that he wrote you into his novel!
But you also know that your photos and mine were provided by Tang Ren, and Wenjie is also a victim in this matter.
In fact, the real culprit has always been Tang Ren!
Later, when we joined the book club, you saw it yourself—it was Tang Ren who kept coming up with terrible ideas!
Tang Ren? He murmured the name elegantly beneath his robe, a sudden realization dawning on him.
Yes! The real culprit should have been Tang Ren all along, so why did she so easily overlook him? Is it because Tang Ren is shameless enough that she subconsciously ignored him?
Underneath the shirt, elegance was lost in analysis…
The photos were provided by Tang Ren!
Tang Ren provided the plot suggestions!
Tang Ren told himself that Hou Wenjie had opened a Magic Bean Bookstore!
It was Tang Ren who told him Hou Wenjie's address!
Could it be that I've been misled by Tang Ren's so-called nickname, "Kyoto's Timely Rain, Chinatown Detective," believing that although he's shameless and lecherous, he's essentially a public-spirited and righteous person?
So, where is Tang Ren now?
He's already back in China, and he's even been promoted!
Tang Ren! Tang Ren! Tang Ren!
It was only then that the elegant man in the shirt realized that whether it was his appearance with gold teeth, gold chains, curly hair, or a face that looked like a joke, or his indistinct Mandarin, his "brothers from all corners of the world" rhetoric, or his nickname that resounded throughout the capital, all of these ultimately painted Tang Ren with the underlying image of "I am actually an honest man!"
It was only then that Shan Xiayou realized that Tang Ren's record of killing nine bosses during his three years of undercover work was not only due to his rich spy skills, but perhaps more importantly, his natural and captivating acting skills!
This acting skill, which made people think he was "shameless and vulgar on the surface, but actually an honest person on the inside," was something that even he, as an investigator, hadn't noticed for years. However, Kana noticed it, which made Sugishita Yuu somewhat frustrated.
"Okay, okay, I'm perfectly fine, aren't I?" Chanel comforted her pregnant friend.
“But that doesn’t prove Hou Wenjie isn’t a playboy!” The elegant woman under the shirt still felt some resistance towards Hou Wenjie.
Chanel laughed and said, "Under the shirt, you haven't really spent time with him, so you don't know how gentle he is. You're influenced by your initial prejudice. Besides, I'm very sure that Wenjie is not a playboy."
At this point, Chanel blushed slightly.
"Are you sure? How can you be sure?" Seeing Kana's face suddenly turn red, Elegant Shirt had a bad feeling and asked directly, "How far have you two gotten?"
Chanel lowered her head, her face flushed, and said, "We did everything lovers should do!"
"You...it's only been a few days!" The elegant woman under the shirt was on the verge of tears. "You should have at least held back for a few days! He got his way so quickly!"
Chanel shook her head and said, "Wenjie said that love is about meeting the right person at the right time. Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day!"
"This..." The elegant woman under the shirt was stunned, feeling that her friend had been completely brainwashed by Hou Wenjie!
She suddenly felt a sense of helplessness, as if her son was a disappointment to her, so, in a fit of despair, she asked again:
"You just said you were sure he wasn't a playboy. How can you be so sure?"
Chanel said somewhat shyly, "Because he's clumsy, it's hard for him to fake it."
"Ah..." Yamashita Yuuya finally understood, and gave up. She lay down on the sofa like a deflated balloon, and asked, "So what are your plans now?"
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