Chapter 123 Late-night Comfort
Xu Nuo went up to the second floor, opened the door, and saw Lu Chen standing in front of the window.
"Lu Chen, Mom said you were in a bad mood because of a phone call." Xu Nuo came behind him, put her arms around his waist and hugged him gently, resting her head on his broad back, and said softly, "I don't know how I can help you, but now I can listen to you."
"Nono, it's Ling Sheng who called. She said she was in a bad mood and hadn't eaten for a day." Lu Chen looked at the dark night, his voice full of complicated emotions.
Depressed, entangled, and a little confused.
"Ling Sheng wants you to go see her," Xu Nuo asked.
"Yeah." Lu Chen nodded.
"So are you going or not?"
"I don't know." Lu Chen replied subconsciously.
He was also struggling in his heart, not knowing whether this was the right thing to do.
Ling Sheng said on the phone that Qin Huayun said that if he didn't come to see her, she would continue her hunger strike.
Lu Chen knew that she could do it, just like she had said she would leave him behind.
Xu Nuo knew what Lu Chen was struggling with.
After all, he was her biological son, and she had abandoned him in the past. Now she wanted to restore her relationship with Lu Chen, and he was hesitating whether to give her this opportunity.
Xu Nuo was not conflicted at all.
She is a person from the 21st life, and her greatest characteristic is that she does not waste time on internal issues. She has always had her own opinions and ideas on this matter.
If before today, her attitude had always been that if Lu Chen accepted Qin Huayun, then she would accept Qin Huayun.
But now her mind has changed.
Even if Lu Chen was willing to accept Qin Huayun, she was unwilling to accept it.
Especially now, I am even more unwilling.
"Actually, you don't have to worry about it." Xu Nuo told Lu Chen his thoughts very seriously. "At the beginning, she left you in pursuit of love, and she didn't consider whether you could accept this fact at that time. All these years have passed, and he didn't write you a letter or say hello, but he raised Ling Sheng very well.
Everything could have gone on like this until she saw you and your relationship with Mother Cheng, and she became jealous.
She has a bad heart and refuses to eat, and she uses this as a threat to get you to go see him.
Lu Chen, even though I don't dare to believe it, there really are mothers in this world who love themselves more than their children."
Every word Xu Nuo said hit Lu Chen's heart.
What she said was exactly what he had been thinking about.
He has been thinking about one thing now: As a son, is it really right for him not to visit his mother when she is sick and on a hunger strike?
Xu Nuo seemed to see through his thoughts: "Lu Chen, there is something called moral kidnapping in this world."
"Moral kidnapping?"
"Yes, moral kidnapping. Lu Chen, you are a smart person, it should not be difficult for you to understand what I mean. I can tell you very confidently that since this is your first time as a human being, you should love yourself more.
Even if you don't go to see her today, she won't starve herself to death. She won't give up the love and life she has worked so hard to achieve just because of you."
Lu Chen was slow to speak.
Xu Nuo didn't say anything else. Her thinking and Lu Chen's thinking transcended time.
What was easy for her to figure out and do might not be possible for Lu Chen.
The education he received, the environment around him, and the generation gap in thinking all required him to take some time to digest what she said.
Xu Nuo was not in a hurry. She gently let go of Lu Chen and said, "Calm down a bit. It's getting late. I'll go take a shower first."
Lu Chen stood by the window for a long time. When he was upset, he lit a cigarette.
The stern face was looming in the flickering fireworks.
After finishing a cigarette, he heard the sound of the shower in the bathroom stopped.
He put out the cigarette and opened the window wide, letting the cold wind flow in and taking away the smell of smoke in the house.
He closed the window again after the smell had almost dissipated.
Xu Nuo walked out of the bathroom, wiping his wet hair, and immediately smelled the lingering smell of cigarettes in the room.
She knew Lu Chen was smoking.
She doesn't like the smell of cigarettes and even hates it.
But he just frowned slightly and said nothing.
Lu Chen took in her fleeting expression, walked forward, and whispered, "This is the last time I smoke."
Xu Nuo's lips curved slightly: "I believe in you, Captain Lu."
Lu Chen went to the bathroom to wash up, and cleaned his teeth and mouth carefully. He didn't come out of the bathroom until the fresh smell of toothpaste covered the faint smell of nicotine.
Xu Nuo was leaning against the head of the bed with the English dictionary on his knees. He held the book in one hand and a pen in the other, reading and making notes on the book.
When Lu Chen approached, he found that she was helping him translate the book on war strategy.
"It's getting late, it's time to rest." Lu Chen took the book from her hand, closed it and placed it next to his pillow.
"Okay." Xu Nuo put away the paper and pen, and put them aside between the dictionary.
As soon as she lay down, the wall lamp above her head went out.
She closed her eyes, still pondering the contents of the book, and felt the man sleeping beside her tossing and turning.
"Lu Chen, can't you sleep?" Xu Nuo came over.
"Yeah." Lu Chen responded softly.
Xu Nuo turned on the light and glanced at the time on his watch.
"It's eleven o'clock, and there's only one hour left until twelve o'clock. Lu Chen, since you can't sleep, I have another birthday present for you. Do you want it?"
"What gift?"
Lu Chen turned around and saw Xu Nuo lying behind him and looking at him.
"Me." Xu Nuo pointed at himself, "Do you want it?"
Lu Chen didn't say anything. He reached out and lifted her chin, then lowered his head and kissed her deeply, answering his wish with action.
The guest room was not far from the bedroom where Lu Chen and his wife lived. Even though both doors were tightly closed, Cheng Wanying could still hear intermittent sounds coming from the crack of the door.
She was originally worried that Lu Chen, a slow-warm person, would take Xu Nuo several years to warm up to him, but she didn't expect that this didn't happen.
It seems that the two of them are quite compatible.
Some of the words were not pleasant to hear, but Cheng Wanying had to admit that sometimes the relationship between a couple really came from sleeping together.
Very good, really very good.
This time, Xu Nuo felt that Lu Chen was very different from before.
He spoke very little tonight and had almost no conversation with her.
He was dull like a ferocious beast, indulging in the ecstasy feeling, plundering again and again.
Even when Xu Nuo begged for mercy with tears in her eyes, he did not forgive her.
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