Ninja
The wind whistled, and Gu Nan squinted, waiting for the wind to stop. The call ended before the wind died down. Strands of hair brushed against her chin, and she pursed her lips in thought. After half a second, she gave up on dialing again.
What if Lu Yushi is having an intimate conversation with his second brother?
She's not that immature.
The location was remote, and it took quite a while to hail a taxi. Since she was on her way out of town, Gu Nan generously didn't hold it against Lu Yushi.
After hesitating for a moment, I gave the driver Ye Xu's home address.
Half an hour later, the car stopped in front of the community gate. The streetlights pierced through the night, their dim yellow halos forming lines. Cosmos flowers were bathed in the sea of lights and moonlight. Beside the flower stand, a woman fiddled with her phone, occasionally looking up.
His youthful profile was filled with barely suppressed excitement.
Gu Nan withdrew her gaze, her eyes falling into the night, where there was less light.
She knew the reason.
Five minutes ago, Su Wanting sent her a message telling her the whole process of how she met Ye Xu, and repeatedly emphasized that she only had one master in her heart. If she did not agree, Su Wanting was willing to give up the opportunity to join the first team.
She certainly agreed.
In the darkness of the night, a faint smile played on her lips, a smile that seemed both mocking and cold-bloodedly indifferent.
Su Wanting's encounter with Ye Xu was part of her other plan. One cherished talent, and the other was eager to learn. A talented horse and a discerning eye would naturally hit it off at first sight.
The two met by chance before she took action.
The result was the same; she didn't care about the process.
[At the end of the month, Lin Jianye will take Lin Haoyu back to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors. You can use his identity as Yan Yi's apprentice.]
"bite."
The elevator has arrived.
Gu Nan tidied her hair in front of the reflector before entering the room, her expression also neatly arranged.
The living room was a mess.
The used tea set was left untied on the table, and a few snack wrappers were scattered on the carpet.
In the pitch-black living room, only a small lamp was turned on, its blue light from the LCD screen providing just enough illumination.
Under the light source, paper and pens are stacked haphazardly.
"Hi."
Ye Xu suddenly appeared from some corner, slapped her on the lower back, and grinned from ear to ear, his gums mostly exposed: "I've got Yan Yi's apprentice!"
Gu Nan: "..."
"Let's go have a drink."
Gu Nan slowly turned her head: "I'm sleepy."
"Seriously? So stingy?" Having been a talent scout and having a promising individual find a partner, Ye Xu felt incredibly satisfied and in a great mood. He didn't seem annoyed at all when talking about the embarrassing thing. "I was showing the little guy a chess game on my phone, and you said those kinds of things. Don't I have any dignity? Besides, what if you corrupt the child?"
Gu Nan pursed her lips. "The kid has more experience than you, the kid knows more than you, and in that area, the kid can be our teacher."
Of course, Ye Xu is better than her; at least he's good at theoretical discussions, while she...
I'll go buy some study materials later.
"oh."
"What's going on with you?" Ye Xu walked up behind her, closed the door, propped himself up on one leg against the wall, crossed his arms and rubbed his chin, his gaze sweeping over her meaningfully. "Whose second brother did you meet?"
In the dimly lit and claustrophobic room, Gu Nan couldn't bring herself to discuss such topics.
"Smack."
He turned on the living room light with a blank expression.
The room suddenly became brightly lit, with light shining straight down.
Both of them simultaneously raised their arms to block their eyes.
Slowly adjusting to the light, Ye Xu chuckled speechlessly: "It's harmful to others without benefiting oneself."
Gu Nan coldly lifted her leg and sat arrogantly on the sofa, her back straight, like a police chief on a mission.
Ye Xu sensed the juicy gossip, his brow furrowing slightly. He quickly moved to Gu Nan's side, raising a mischievous eyebrow: "Tell me about it?"
Gu Nan sighed, looked up, and saw Ye Xu holding melon seeds in one hand and a small stool in the other, in the standard melon-eating posture.
I don't want to talk about it anymore.
“Since we’re already here… spit it out… spit it out,” Ye Xu spat out a mouthful of sunflower seed shells.
The sound of people cracking sunflower seeds assaulted her eardrums from all directions. Holding her head, she questioned herself: why couldn't she say it on her phone instead of coming here to experience a double attack of physical and magical force?
"Listen to me, size is important, but you can't just look at size. Endurance is also an important factor to consider."
Ye Xu tossed aside the sunflower seeds, his palm still covered in crumbs, and touched his phone. Pointing to the time display in the center of the chat box, he said regretfully, "Not even an hour has passed. The time is seriously unacceptable."
"Go to hell!" Gu Nan blurted out.
"Tsk tsk." Ye Xu, acting like a caring older sister, dipped her teacup in water and pressed it to the corner of her eye, then sighed dramatically, "Not eating enough makes you irritable. I'm just worried about your happiness."
Gu Nan had a "get lost" stuck in her throat.
Ye Xu gave up his nonsense, but couldn't help being curious: "What must this person look like to have stirred your heart?"
The two have known each other for years. Gu Nan has had many men around her. Not to mention those from far away, Ji Yuanyu and Wan Yi are both incredibly handsome. Gu Nan has been with both of them for many years, but she has never developed even the slightest romantic spark with them.
Looking back on her life, she realized that there were very few men more handsome than these two.
"Lu Yushi".
A thought flashed through his mind, and the next second he heard it through his ears. Ye Xu tapped his ear, cautiously confirming, "Who?"
Gu Nan gave her a disdainful look and reluctantly repeated, "Lu Yushi."
The room fell silent. Ye Xu obediently sat back on the sofa and said resentfully, "If you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to."
Gu Nan leaned back, her gaze level with hers. Though she didn't speak, her eyes silently conveyed, "Do I look like I'm talking nonsense?"
A second later, Ye Xu's expression turned to disgust.
Two seconds later, Ye Xu froze.
Three seconds later, Ye Xu exclaimed, "Holy crap!"
A look of utter shock seemed to be welded to her face as she stood up with a thud.
"Bang!"
He kicked over the stool.
"Clatter, clatter." The sunflower seed shells scattered like flowers from a fairy's shower.
Swallowing seemed unusually difficult, as he stubbornly confirmed, "Lu Yushi?"
Gu Nan ignored him and hung her head, silently regretting her actions.
She could have avoided this psychological bullying.
I cheered myself up and clenched my fist, all for the future.
As the captain of the chess team, Ye Xu has a lot of activities. When high-ranking figures in Beicheng organize gatherings, many people will send Ye Xu an invitation.
With Lu Yushi by her side, there's no guarantee he won't ask her to attend the next party. She can let bygones be bygones with the people she lied to before, since she's officially his girlfriend now. If they recognize her, she can just threaten them behind Lu Yushi's back.
Being his girlfriend shouldn't be something that can't be solved.
But Ye Xu was different. When they met unexpectedly at the meeting, Ye Xu blurted out things he should and shouldn't have said in his excitement. Lu Yushi overheard this and followed the clues to find something, which only caused more trouble.
I might as well give Ye Xu a full dose of preventative measures today.
Judging from the leaf cluster's reaction, the dosage was too high.
Ye Xu stole a sliver of reason from his shock, grabbed Gu Nan's sleeve, and added fuel to his already limited imagination: "So you mean, you seduced a man, and then ran away while he was taking a shower," Ye Xu's voice trembled, "and that man was Lu Yushi."
"Uh..." Gu Nan tugged at his sleeve, but couldn't budge it.
She smacked her lips, feeling the need to defend herself, saying she hadn't done anything malicious: "He seduced me first."
Turning his head, Ye Xu clearly didn't believe it.
She pondered that Lu Yushi must have been too good at pretending, his abstinent image was so deeply ingrained in people's minds, and now that he had been with her for a while, it was as if she was so thirsty.
She refused to take the blame for others, and angrily finished recounting the seduction from downstairs to upstairs.
Ye Xu's reaction was two decibels louder than her voice.
With a "thump," he squatted down on the carpet, wrapped his arms around his knees, and stared longingly into the distance with a ferocious expression: "He was fully clothed, but he loosened the buttons at the collar to seduce you, huh?"
Gu Nan reflected on the incident; the scene she witnessed was definitely not as mundane as Ye Xu had described.
"Seduction is about feeling, the veiled mystery, the half-hidden veil, the indistinct glimpse. If you're completely naked, where's the desire for deeper connection?"
"...So, you were watching someone change clothes from behind to avoid getting involved?"
Gu Nan: "..."
"Good question."
Ye Xu's expression was solemn: "Let's break off our friendship for a few days."
Gu Nan: ?
“I can understand you getting a man aroused, and then running away, and I can even support you against my conscience. But this man is Lu Yushi,” Ye Xu said without looking at the table, picked up the teacup on the corner of the table, tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp, “Then I can only respect you as a true man.”
Gu Nan: "...You just dipped your finger in the water inside."
Ye Xu held up his teacup, looked back at the table, then at the cup, and solemnly put it down: "It's not important anymore. You should run away. If you don't run away tonight, you might disappear tomorrow."
Gu Nan got up expressionlessly and went straight to the second bedroom.
Given Ye Xu's mental state, he probably wouldn't listen to what she was saying.
Ye Xu hurriedly got up and took a few quick steps to catch up with her: "Really, I can't stand it either. If only Lu Yushi could..."
"how."
"...Then he really is a ninja." Seeing that Gu Nan was about to turn hostile, Ye Xu wisely shut up and ended the topic, "You should rest."
Gu Nan leaned against the door frame, her long eyelashes obscuring her eyes as she glanced at the time and asked casually, "I'll celebrate with you later. What does your little one look like?"
When the topic of children came up, Ye Xu immediately forgot about the "ninja" and couldn't stop praising him. He took out his phone and showed a photo of the two of them together.
Gu Nan leaned against the wall and turned around, giving a fake glance: "Isn't this Lin Haoyu's ex-girlfriend?"
Ye Xu was startled: "What is that?"
Then it dawned on her: "I knew it! At the party today, we had just come out of the restroom and saw the Lin family father and son in the distance. She suddenly turned back because she saw her ex-boyfriend."
Gu Nan crossed her arms and remained silent.
Let Ye Xu unleash his imagination.
"Is Lin Haoyu even a human being? How old is she? She's just turned 18!"
Gu Nan chuckled softly, but the laughter didn't reach her eyes, and her voice lacked any joy as she calmly stated, "The two were together for three years before breaking up."
Ye Xu counted on his fingers, dumbfounded: "Three years, that's fifteen or sixteen years old. Lin Haoyu really went for it, what a beast... Wait, no," Ye Xu belatedly waved his hand, "No, no, wasn't Lin Haoyu with Shen Manman for five years? How could he have been with Wan Ting for three years?"
Gu Nan smiled brightly but did not answer.
close the door.
Give Ye Xu plenty of personal space and let her use her imagination.
At the end of the month, the Lin family will hold an ancestral worship ceremony, which will likely be quite lively.
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