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Lu Yushi's gaze lingered on her neck, his thumb hooking around the fishbone chain, the touch on her skin almost imperceptible.
Gu Nan, feeling itchy, grabbed his hand and pressed him back down. She used her waist and abdomen to support herself on the backrest with one hand and pressed down on Lu Yushi with the other to prevent him from moving. She then raised her chin.
The necklace peeked out from her collar, dangling lightly in front of Lu Yushi's eyes, drawing his attention frequently.
Gu Nan muttered, "You seem to like it even more than I do."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yushi looked away, it was unclear whether he couldn't accept that he liked the necklace, or something else.
"What are you talking about?" He pretended not to know, staring at Gu Nan with a sly glint in his eyes.
They are alluring without realizing it, yet they clumsily try to imitate others' seduction techniques.
Even when she lay on the bed, deliberately lowering her neckline to strike the perfect pose, Lu Yushi couldn't detect any lust in her; all he saw was her reckless and heroic spirit.
A person with a brilliant mind wearing a silly smile is incongruous, yet within this incongruity, another adjective can be found.
--cute.
"I want to know more about you, such as your family, your hobbies, and your friends," Gu Nan said with a firm look in her eyes, emphasizing the word "friends." "It seems like you already know all my friends."
He deliberately left a way for Lu Yushi to respond.
Lu Yushi: "Hmm."
Um?
Gu Nan hesitated for half a second before repeating, "You know all my friends."
And then I got another flat "Mmm".
Gu Nan was furious, cursing the man from head to toe in her mind: "Do you even know your grandpa? When did you meet him? Just say you don't want to talk."
After venting her anger, she calmed herself down and continued to try: "I feel it's unfair. You know my friends, but I don't know yours."
When she stared intently at Lu Yu, every cell in her body was cheering him on.
—Tell me quickly, you don't know all my friends.
That way, she could legitimately bring up Ji Yuanyu.
Seeing her eager eyes, Lu Yushi twitched his lips, a playful glint in his eyes, and deliberately said, "I'll introduce you to them another day. You met one before, Mr. Kang from Far East Capital, and Mr. Meng from Ling'an International. I hope..."
"That's enough." The light in Gu Nan's eyes disappeared; Lu Yushi wasn't introducing her to a friend.
It's like the King of Hell is checking in here.
Five years ago, she deceived quite a few of these people and even introduced them to each other. If she had really been discovered, each of them would have been enough to crush her to death.
"The exchange meeting next month..."
"That's enough," Gu Nan almost growled, growing angrier with each passing thought, and stopped beating around the bush: "You know all my friends?"
Lu Yushi suppressed a laugh: "Ye Xu, Wan Yi, Su Di." He paused deliberately, watching Gu Nan's eyes grow brighter and brighter, waiting for him to say a certain name.
As the silence deepened, the expectation in those eyes slowly faded.
“There’s one more,” Lu Yushi suddenly said, as if he had just thought of something, his face showing sudden realization.
Gu Nan immediately rushed over, her anticipation reaching its peak, her eyes glued to the ground.
"Ji Yuanyu?"
Before Gu Nan's triumphant smile could grow wider, Lu Yushi continued slowly, "Although it wasn't him who hired someone to impersonate my fiancée back then, it seems the New Times received quite a bit of benefit. You've reminded me that this debt hasn't been settled yet."
...
"You." Gu Nan took a deep breath, feeling as if she were about to smash a rock into her own foot.
"What's wrong?" Lu Yushi asked knowingly.
“I just told you to be broad-minded. Why are you having insomnia? It’s because you’re too narrow-minded.” Gu Nan said eloquently, “Have you ever heard of repaying evil with kindness? Do you know Lian Po and Lin Xiangru? Why did they turn hostility into friendship? Wasn’t it because Lin Xiangru repaid evil with kindness? Don’t be so narrow-minded.”
Lu Yushi: "How come I remember there was a second half to the sentence?"
Gu Nan lied through her teeth: "There's no second half to that statement. You just don't want to admit you're not a good person."
Lu Yushi played with her hair, saying meaningfully, "I'm not a good person anymore."
"When have you ever been a good person?" Gu Nan didn't miss the slightest opportunity. "But a person who repays evil with kindness is definitely a good person."
“Good person…” Lu Yushi chewed on the two words, met Gu Nan’s expectant gaze, and suddenly lowered his head and smiled, “Being a bad person is quite good.”
Gu Nan: It seems that he has lost all his strength and means.
She pushed him away, turned her head in the opposite direction, and buried herself under the covers, sulking: "Get lost, I only sleep with good people."
She silently counted in her mind, one second, two seconds, three seconds. The bed next to her seemed to sink a little. She rolled her eyes, got into position, and suddenly heard footsteps. Before she could react, the footsteps got farther and farther away.
Gu Nan was stunned for a moment, then lifted the blanket with a question mark on her face. As she looked out, the door to the room was casually closed, a very light "thud" that exploded in her heart.
She jumped out of bed, countless curses flashing through her mind, and finally gritted her teeth, uttering each word slowly and deliberately: "Lu Yushi!"
He slumped back onto the bed, smashing it in a fit of impotent rage.
There's one last chance: I'll visit the grave tomorrow.
I'll glare at the doorway and make you question your existence tomorrow.
He gave me the middle finger, rolled around in bed a few times, and then fell into a deep sleep.
Aside from a slight discomfort in my neck, I slept quite well last night.
The dish on the corner of the table was covered with sandalwood ash, probably because she had occupied the room last night and the housekeeper hadn't come in to clean it.
The room, filled with the scent of sandalwood, unexpectedly helped her sleep well.
She yawned, slowly got up, and dressed herself up in front of the mirror to look like a young widow. As if that wasn't enough, she picked two small white flowers from the vase and put them in her bun. She looked at herself from side to side in the mirror, frowned and shook her head, muttering to herself, "No, my complexion is too good."
She had stayed at Chenyue last night on short notice and hadn't brought any makeup. Lu Yushi's room was so clean that there was nothing to replace it. She looked around and her gaze fell on the plate of cooled incense ash.
He grinned, grabbed the smear and smeared it on his face until it was completely covered in color. He then stared at himself in the mirror for a while before quickly walking over when he heard a knock on the door.
Lu Yushi stood in front of the door, his expression as indifferent as ever.
But beneath that indifferent expression, she still caught a glimpse of a few seconds of twitching at the corner of his mouth.
"Ahem, I'm sorry, I couldn't sleep most of the night because I was thinking about seeing him today."
Lu Yushi was very accommodating and waited quietly for her to continue.
"It's a good thing you don't have any cosmetics here, otherwise I could have covered it up." As she spoke, she looked up, her eyes glistening with moisture as she stared at Lu Yushi.
She watched helplessly as Lu Yu calmly raised his hand, wiped her cheek, and stirred up the ash that hadn't been properly mixed.
He then turned around briskly, still nonchalant: "Let's go downstairs for dinner."
...
She couldn't help but suspect that Lu Yushi had ulterior motives for dating her.
The breakfast on the table was quite substantial, but Lu Yushi's plate only had a piece of fried egg.
Gu Nan stared at the half-eaten fried egg in disbelief. Lu Yushi had rushed downstairs just to eat this one bite of egg.
Whose girlfriend isn't worth half an egg?
"Lu Yushi".
Lu Yushi held the tablet and stared at it intently.
Gu Nan's fingertips traced over the two of them: "Don't you feel that the atmosphere between us isn't quite harmonious?"
"What do you mean?" The tablet was placed on the table, and Lu Yushi leaned forward, seemingly very interested in what she had to say.
Gu Nan got excited: "Let me think, you should be jealous when I'm having trouble sleeping at night because of my ex-boyfriend."
Lu Yushi nodded as if he had been instructed, then turned to Sun Qian and said, "Cancel the 9 a.m. schedule today." He then turned his gaze to Gu Nan, his expression intriguing, as if asking if this was enough to make her jealous.
At 9 a.m., it was time for the two to visit her "ex-boyfriend's" grave.
Gu Nan: ...
"Breaking a promise at the last minute will make the ghosts hold a grudge."
Sun Qian: ...
Gu Nan said seriously, "It's true. I said I would visit him during the Qingming Festival, but something came up and I couldn't go. I had a whole month of bad luck afterwards, it was terrible."
Lu Yushi opened his mouth, but Gu Nan immediately stuffed half a fried egg into it. She slammed her hand on the table, stood up, and said seriously, "You may not care, but I love you too much. I can't accept you being bullied by a ghost."
His words were assertive and resounding!
Sun Qian didn't see love on Gu Nan's face; her eyes were as firm as a 1953 five-yuan banknote.
Lu Yushi subtly gave Sun Qian a look, and Sun Qian understood. He put the car keys on the table and quickly went out.
Gu Nan heard footsteps, tilted her head to look, and nodded approvingly. Sun Qian was getting better and better at it.
With the only audience member gone, Gu Nan's performance became even more oblivious to the world, almost to the point of bursting into tears over her tragic life while hugging Lu Yu.
Lu Yushi stood there like a wooden statue, letting her hang there without offering any comfort or response, nor did he make any sarcastic remarks.
Gu Nan rubbed her face and finally uttered a few words: "Are you giving me the silent treatment?"
Lu Yushi glanced at the clean and tidy grave mound, and a word suddenly popped into his mind.
— Thermal violence.
"Didn't your ex-boyfriend fall to his death from the mountain?"
Gu Nan sniffed: "Not anymore."
It's not her fault; she never expected that Ji Yuanyu would actually believe her nonsense about visiting graves in the wild and doing good deeds. He even kindly erected a monument on the grave and wrote down his life story.
Unable to make amends, Gu Nan clung to the tombstone, tears streaming down her face, saying, "Why did you leave like that? Leaving me all alone, being bullied, and having to watch helplessly as my friends are bullied."
She wailed so loudly that her "heart was breaking," while Lu Yushi felt "drowsy" listening to her.
As expected, Lu Yushi should at least ask how she was bullied and by whom.
But the person in front of me stood there like a pillar.
For a moment, she really felt like she was holding back tears. What was wrong with her brain? She actually thought of acting in front of Lu Yushi, who had no emotions at all.
All that hard work she put into practicing her crying scene in front of the mirror early in the morning, even calculating how to move her facial muscles to make it look more convincing, was for nothing.
Lu Yushi was blind.
The 65-degree angled profile she deliberately struck looked like a joke at that moment.
She muttered a curse under her breath, her tears flowing freely; she was done acting.
A bottle of mineral water was lying across my face.
Gu Nan's eyes were filled with tears as she looked up in confusion, wondering if it was just her imagination, but Lu Yushi seemed to be smiling.
He grabbed the water bottle tightly, sullenly gulped down a huge mouthful, and while his girlfriend was practically crying her eyes out, he was laughing!
He completely lost interest in acting.
She had already given up, but Lu Yushi wouldn't let her go. He read the inscription on the monument in a clear voice, word by word, "Later, he settled in Beicheng with his girlfriend for three years." He paused for a moment and asked, "How come I remember you saying you had never been to Beicheng?"
Gu Nan: "...Lu Yushi, I'm a little tired."
She suddenly felt that it was better to let the New Times fend for itself.
If she continues to stay in the same space as Lu Yushi, she will be left to fend for herself.
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