Lu Chuqing knew that her second brother was actually very sensitive, and he was afraid that she would disturb their newly formed family.
Looking at the boy's back as he ate instant noodles in the empty villa, Lu Chuqing felt a pang of sadness.
During this period, she seemed to be truly immersed in her own social circle, forgetting her second brother who used to play with her every day when she was little.
Her second brother doesn't get along well with others, but that doesn't mean he can't make friends.
He could turn down his friends' invitations just to spend time with her, so she should at least spend more time with her lonely second brother.
So she said, "If you don't want to cook, or if you don't feel comfortable at my place, just text me and we'll go out to eat."
Lu Linqi paused in his noodle-picking motion, then turned around upon hearing this, "Fine, I thought you'd forgotten about your own cousin after getting a new brother. I can't even get you to have a meal!"
"How could that be?" Lu Chuqing said in surprise, "You're my cousin, I could forget anyone but you!"
Hearing her deliberately exaggerated tone, Lu Linqi chuckled in exasperation, "It's enough that you remember you have me as your second brother, I wouldn't dare ask for anything more."
Lu Linqi still has a lot of homework to do, including the assignments from the school and the competition questions from the special talent class.
He put a movie on Lu Chuqing's TV and sat next to her with his homework.
They were showing a foreign sci-fi movie, which looked quite interesting. Lu Chuqing ate the snacks Lu Linqi had given her, and seeing the boy next to her focused and serious, she picked up the remote and turned the volume down a bit.
"It doesn't matter whether you adjust it or not. I've seen all three parts of this movie." Lu Linqi said, noticing her movement.
Lu Chuqing pouted, "I was just afraid of bothering you."
Upon hearing this, Lu Linqi's lips curved slightly. He said nothing more and focused on writing the competition questions.
The movie plot was so engaging that Lu Chuqing watched two parts in a row. It was already dark when Lu Ying called her on her phone.
"Hello, Mom."
"Qingqing, are you still playing with your classmates right now?" Lu Chuqing had already told her that she hadn't gone home for lunch.
She thought the girl should be back by the afternoon, but when it got dark outside the window, she still hadn't seen her return. Xi Jun had wanted to call and ask, but she was afraid of disturbing the girl's fun with her classmates. Seeing that the day had changed and she still hadn't seen her, she couldn't help but ask Lu Ying to make a call.
Lu Chuqing was so engrossed in the movie that she forgot the time. When she received a call from her mother, she remembered that she had been out too late and hurriedly explained, "No, I'm at my second uncle's house."
"After having lunch with my classmates, I went to my second uncle's house. My second brother was home alone, so I came to keep him company while he did his homework."
Upon hearing that they were at Lu Linqi's house, the two adults breathed a sigh of relief. Xi Jun then said, "It's getting late. Why don't you and Linqi come back for dinner? Uncle will cook a few more dishes."
After receiving the call from Lu Ying, Lu Chuqing put it on speakerphone. The boy doing his homework next to her naturally heard the whole conversation. When she looked at him with a questioning gaze, Lu Linqi shook his head.
"Uncle Xi, we won't go back for dinner. My brother and I want to go eat duck blood vermicelli soup," Lu Chuqing said to the person on the other end of the phone.
Hearing this, Xi Jun didn't press the matter further. "Alright, then you and Lin Qi should be careful when you go out."
Okay, we know.
The man added one last thing: "Remember to come back soon."
Lu Chuqing agreed and then hung up the phone.
Lu Linqi had just finished one subject's homework, so he got up and quickly packed his things. "Let's go, I'll take you to eat duck blood vermicelli soup."
Lu Chuqing had eaten a lot of snacks while watching the movie, so she wasn't actually very hungry. But when she thought about how her second brother had eaten instant noodles for lunch, she quickly got up and said, "Let's go, I'm starving."
Lu Linqi glanced at the several snack wrappers in the trash can and his lips twitched.
Not far from the villa area, there is a pedestrian street where Lu Chuqing's duck blood vermicelli soup is very much to her liking. Whenever she goes to Lu Lilinqi's house, she often goes there to eat.
Because it's next to a villa area, the pedestrian street wasn't very lively, and there weren't many people in the duck blood vermicelli soup shop either.
Having chosen a window seat, Lu Linqi ordered two bowls of vermicelli soup and one pan-fried shrimp bun.
While waiting for her food, Lu Chuqing scrolled through short videos and accidentally came across a clip from a TV series starring Lu Linze. The caption read: "What an incredibly cute crybaby! His half-crying look is so heartbreaking!"
Lu Chuqing clicked to watch and saw a clip of Lu Linze playing the yandere male lead being abused as a child. In the video, the little boy's face was swollen and his mouth was bleeding, but he stubbornly stared with a pair of watery peach blossom eyes, refusing to let the tears fall. His eyes were red all around, and the beauty mark he inherited from Zhang Qiaoyu was also rendered somewhat red.
It has to be said, the genes are really good; both brothers are incredibly good-looking.
She showed her phone to her second brother across the table, saying, "Look, this is your brother."
After watching the video silently, Lu Linqi said expressionlessly, "You might not believe it, but my parents have sent me this clip many times, as if they're afraid I won't see their youngest son's performance."
"He's been a minor celebrity for so long, and he still keeps playing these kinds of crying roles. Over time, the audience gets a fixed impression of him and thinks that he can't act well in anything else."
Lu Chuqing didn't expect him to think so much, so she said, "That's because Xiaoze is still young. He's just a kid, so his range of roles isn't that wide. He can try other types of roles when he's a few years older."
"You seem to know a lot."
Just then, the food arrived, and the two of them stopped talking and focused on eating.
Remembering the phone the girl had just used, Lu Linqi asked, "Is the phone I bought you broken?"
Lu Chuqing was biting into a pan-fried bun when some soup splashed onto her. She quickly grabbed two tissues to wipe it off. "No. We students should be low-key. There's no need to carry such an expensive phone."
The one that Lu Linqi bought for her before was still in use when Fruit Brand released a new model. Her second brother immediately arranged a "trade-in" with her, taking her old one back to give to her aunt Chai Shuhua.
She had something tied to that phone so she could only use it at home. Now she uses this one in front of her classmates so it won't be too conspicuous.
Although there are plenty of students in the school who use Apple mobile phones.
After finding out that her phone wasn't broken, Lu Linqi didn't say anything more. If it really was broken, he would just buy her another one.
It's just a cell phone anyway.
Lu Chuqing was focused on eating at the moment. If she knew what Lu Linqi was thinking, she would shout "Young Master!" at him again.
Xiao Wan just saw a cell phone, and this person thought it was just a cell phone?!
That's almost two months' salary for an average person!
Although Lu Chuqing has no worries about food and clothing in this life, and her mother has a lot of wealth, she still can't really adapt to this social class.
Some things are ingrained in your bones.
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