Kiss
Lin Luo's heart rate soared instantly, fearing that Fu Xingchuan would expose her. Fortunately, a "beep-beep" sound covered up his words.
It was Du Yunyan who arrived in a taxi. Lin Luo, as if she had grabbed a lifeline, immediately opened the door and got in, saying to them, "I have something to do, so I'll be leaving first. Bye!"
She felt the feeling of fleeing again after a long time.
At night, Lin Xiao lay in bed, occasionally checking his phone. Several days had passed, and Fu Xingchuan hadn't mentioned any compensation. Could it be that he didn't care at all? After all, he was drunk, so it was understandable. Besides, he didn't remember anything.
"What was I expecting?" She tapped her head.
"Knock, knock, knock." Du Yunyan knocked on her door. "Lin Luo."
"The door is not locked." The door opened, and Du Yunyan cautiously poked her head in. Lin Luo sat up and asked her, "What's wrong?"
"You don't have anything to do tonight, why don't you go out for dinner?"
"I already said I don't want blind dates anymore."
"I know." Du Yunyan said as she opened the wardrobe, "But this was an appointment we made a long time ago. I said I wanted to cancel it, but they said they wanted to see you. Just think of it as going to have a meal with an old classmate."
"Want to see me? What's his name, old classmate?"
"It seems to be Xu...Xu Fanqing! Were you two close before?"
"Oh, it's okay." The phone vibrated and she immediately picked it up to see that it was a spam ad.
Lin Luo blinked and took the clothes from Du Yunyan's hand to change.
These past few days, she found out that Xu Fanqing and Xu Yangyang were distant relatives. Xu Yangyang said that he had not been in a relationship for so many years because he was thinking about someone in his heart.
Lin Luo presumptuously thought that this person was her, so she also wanted to find an opportunity to have a good chat with him.
They chose the same high-end restaurant as last time, with different people sitting at the same seat. Xu Fanqing was wearing a white sweatshirt, looking very youthful.
He handed over the menu and said with a smile, "Lin Qiao, take a look at what you want to eat. Don't be polite with me."
"Then I'm really welcome." She took the menu.
"Um."
After ordering the dishes, Xu Fanqing still looked at her with bright eyes. Lin Luo felt embarrassed by his gaze, "Is there something on my face?"
"There is... beauty."
"Thank you." Lin Luo bit her lip. Maybe they were not familiar with each other and had not seen each other for a long time, or maybe his gaze was too passionate, but Lin Luo always felt awkward.
"Lin Xiao."
"Um."
"I'm not the type to beat around the bush. I'm very straightforward. But there's something I've been wanting to tell you for a long time."
"Go ahead."
He cleared his throat, sat up straight, and began, "When I was seventeen, I met a girl who taught me a lot of math problems. Every time she solved a problem and taught me something, she would smile even happier than I did. Her smile was the most beautiful I've ever seen in the world, and I fell in love with her."
Lin Luo met his sincere gaze.
"She politely rejected me that year. At first, I thought it was just a momentary impulse, and I might forget it after a while. But this throbbing sensation has never stopped. Every time I see you, my heart is out of control."
He paused, "Ten years later, I still only like you."
"If there is no one else around you now, can you give me a chance?" After Xu Fanqing said this, he reached out to take the wine glass. Lin Luo noticed that his hands were shaking.
Is there really someone who likes her for ten years?
It started when she was not beautiful or outstanding, instead of appearing when she was glamorous.
The phone vibrated, but Lin Luo didn't look at it. She asked herself, what was she waiting for? Why was she waiting?
"Lin Luo?" Xu Fanqing stuttered nervously, "You... don't have to rush... answer me. I'll wait for you."
Lin Luo pursed her lips and was about to agree.
Fu Xingchuan suddenly appeared at the table, his hands in his pockets, looking down at Xu Fanqing. "Excuse me, can you cut in line? I need to talk to her."
Xu Fanqing looked him over, feeling an indescribable hostility. "Sorry, first come first served. My business is also very important."
Lin Luo didn't say anything. She had already made up her mind to accept Xu Fanqing. Why was Fu Xingchuan coming here at this time?
She looked up at him.
No one knew what kind of perfume Fu Xingchuan was wearing. It smelled nice but very strange. It seemed that in Lin Luo's eyes, the only scent he had was osmanthus, that clean and refreshing scent.
The old villa is gone, the osmanthus tree is gone, and Fu Xingchuan is no longer the young man he used to be. He has changed.
Lin Luo lowered her eyes in thought when Fu Xingchuan's voice came over, "How important is it that she likes me and kisses me randomly after drinking?"
Lin Luo looked up suddenly and saw Fu Xingchuan's face was stern, but he unbuttoned his shirt to show Xu Fanqing the kiss mark that had not yet disappeared. "You should have the answer! First come, first served, I was first."
Xu Fanqing's face turned pale, and his hand accidentally touched the red wine glass, which was pushed over. The wine inside flowed out and stained the white tablecloth red.
He looked at the pool of bright red liquid, which looked like the blood of a broken heart, and said to himself, "It seems that I am still a step too late."
"Lin Luo, I know the answer. We can still be friends... I suddenly remembered that I have something else to do, so I'll leave first." Xu Fanqing said to Lin Luo with a wry smile, and left.
Lin Luo looked at his back as he walked away with his back hunched and his head lowered. Fu Xingchuan sat down opposite her and waited for the waiter to clear the red wine on the table.
"Why do you look like you're going to agree to him?" he asked.
Lin Luo suddenly became angry, "You heard that he has liked me for ten years!"
Just then, the waiter came to serve dessert. It was the strawberry cake that Xu Fan had ordered. He glanced at it and said, "I've liked you for ten years, and I didn't even know you were allergic to strawberries."
"That's because I didn't give him the chance to get close to me. What else do you know besides this?" Lin Luo became angrier and angrier as she thought about it, and questioned him.
Fu Xingchuan was silent.
"I apologize again for what happened that night. I'm sorry. I told you you could ask for any compensation you wanted, as long as it wasn't excessive, and I'd do my best to get it. But you didn't contact me right away, and you ruined my blind date." Lin Xiao glared at him, "So, it's your turn to apologize."
"I'm sorry." Fu Xingchuan said seriously, and Lin Luo was deflated.
"That's it." They were completely clear.
Lin Luo wanted to stand up, but Fu Xingchuan handed her a document first, "Compensation method."
He even printed it out specifically. How much was he planning to cheat her out of? Lin Xi opened it and glanced at the title: [Marriage Contract]. Her heart immediately turned sour.
"What's the meaning"
"Like you, I'm often urged to get married by my elders, so I need a wife. We're just husband and wife in name only, and all we have to do is cooperate with each other in dealing with family and the outside world. I'm usually very busy and often travel on business. I may go back to Nan'an once a month, so it won't be too much trouble."
Lin Xiao clutched the pages tightly in her hands, her voice trembling, "Why choose me?"
"We've known each other for a long time, so we know each other pretty well. You've been very popular online lately, and your reputation in the industry is also good. My family will be happy with you. And my company is going to enter the biopharmaceutical field..."
He said a lot, but they were all good for him. Lin Qi asked: "Is it just because of this?"
He responded calmly.
Lin Luo smiled wryly. "They say businessmen value profit, and you're no exception... But what can I do? I'm also a businessman's daughter, and this rule clearly puts me at a disadvantage. I have so many options now, why should I choose you just because you have that little leverage over me?"
Fu Xingchuan must have been very satisfied with this contract. He immediately said, "You can add any conditions you want. I won't let you suffer any loss."
Lin Luo was really angry now. She hadn't dared to confess her feelings to Fu Xingchuan before because she didn't want to hurt their friendship. Even if they couldn't be lovers, she hoped they could be lifelong friends.
But what about him? He completely disregarded their friendship and proposed this kind of contract to her. Wasn't he afraid that she would be angry and break up with him?
Lin Luo originally wanted to reject his proposal immediately, but suddenly music sounded in the restaurant, a familiar melody.
I'm only afraid that I'll fall in love with you, and maybe one day I won't be able to help myself. Missing you will only make me suffer, and falling in love with you is something I have no choice but to do.
"Okay! I happen to have one." Lin Luo forced a smile.
He spoke hoarsely, "You say."
"...I tasted you that day, but it wasn't satisfying. Didn't you say that you might come back to Nan'an once a month? The condition is that you do it with me every time you come back, and you serve me. How about it?" Lin Luo finished speaking in one breath, because she was sure that Fu Xingchuan would not agree to this condition. Few people could accept Feng Zhengyan's obscene idea, and she wanted him to back off.
Fu Xingchuan withdrew his hand from the table. After a few minutes, he realized that he had heard correctly, "Lin Qiao, you are quite fierce now."
"That's because you have some misunderstanding about me. I've always been like this." Lin Luo deliberately raised her eyebrows like him, but the tip of her thumb left several nail marks under the table.
"Do you take me for a duck?" Fu Xingchuan stared at her with a dark look in his eyes, thinking that she was hit by Ruan Ye and was looking for comfort from him.
"Didn't you say that? Any conditions are fine." Lin Luo said calmly: "Don't worry, I have a good figure, and you won't suffer any loss."
Fu Xingchuan really didn't agree, "Think about it again..."
"There's nothing to think about. This is the only condition. If you don't agree, there's no talk." She said firmly.
The phone vibrated continuously. Lin Luo took a look at the message. It was from Wu Yun, saying that she noticed that all her experimental rabbits suddenly died while working overtime.
"I have something urgent to do, so I'm leaving now. Think about it carefully." Thinking about how things would go between them, how awkward it might become, how they might avoid each other, or even become strangers, Lin Luo suddenly felt breathless. She quickly picked up her bag and left without even looking at him.
As soon as she walked out of the restaurant and breathed in the fresh air, she breathed a sigh of relief, patted her chest, and called herself a lunatic.
The car was parked at the door. Lin Luo got in immediately and wanted to leave quickly, but found that the car would not start. Was it broken?
This Volkswagen was given to Lin Luo by Tang Heng when she got her driver's license during the summer vacation of her junior year. She didn't know what was wrong with it, so she had no choice but to get out of the car and call the repair shop.
Before the call was connected, a Cullinan drove up beside them. Lin Luo's phone screen went dark. She looked up and saw Fu Xingchuan lowering the window and looking over at her. "Get in, I'll take you."
Lin Luo was so focused on her lab rabbit that she couldn't think of anything else. She sat in the passenger seat and fastened her seatbelt. "Thank you."
The journey felt like a century, and the two of them sat in silence. Before getting off the car, Fu Xingchuan said to her, "Lin Qiao, think about it again."
Lin Luo didn't answer him, closed the car door and ran quickly into the research institute.
Lin Luo's brow furrowed as she entered the lab. Every time she saw a lab animal die, she felt incredibly down. She worked overtime, sorting the data, until after ten o'clock in the evening before she turned off the lights.
There is a monument to experimental animals at the entrance of the institute. Lin Luo stopped there and looked up at the cute rabbit at the top.
The wind was so strong that she couldn't help sneezing, and a fragment of memory emerged in her mind.
She was lying on top of Fu Xingchuan, who was still naked. She could clearly see a rabbit-shaped tattoo on his hip, just below his right abdominal muscle. If she guessed correctly, it should be the rabbit that Fu Xingchuan named Tiger in the Chinese Medicine Clinic.
I heard that Tiger died of illness a year after they graduated. Was he sad at the time? When did he get the tattoo? Did it hurt? Lin Luo didn't know. But having it in that spot was somehow sexy. Lin Luo's face flushed, and she clapped her hands.
Fragments of memory emerged in her mind. She saw herself pressing her lips against his, and after the kiss she caressed him with her fingertips, murmuring, "So cute!"
As for Fu Xingchuan, he closed his eyes. It was a close call, luckily he was drunk.
The wind was blowing extremely hard at night. Lin Luo walked out of the laboratory and opened the mobile phone app to hail a taxi.
The strong wind blew her hair apart. The scattered hair blocked her vision, so she used her hands to push it away, and Fu Xingchuan appeared before her.
He leaned against the car with his hands in his pockets, his suit jacket off, the thin shirt underneath outlining his muscles, and paired with a dark vest he looked very sexy, but he was biting a lollipop in his mouth.
It would be a shame not to light a cigarette at this moment. Thinking this, Lin Luo walked closer and glimpsed a bag from the convenience store next door in the car, filled with unopened cigarettes and a lighter.
"Why don't you leave and still want to negotiate with me?" Lin Luo asked lightly.
Fu Xingchuan said nothing, crushing the lollipop and throwing it into the trash can. Seeing that she was still staring at him, her clothes fluttering in the wind and her hair messy, he finally spoke: "I had your car towed away for repairs, it's not a big deal. I heard that this place is remote and taxis are hard to get at night, so I'll be nice to you, so get in!"
"Oh." Lin Luo walked to the back seat and opened the car door, but Fu Xingchuan locked it.
She knocked on the car window and said, "Open the door for me."
"I'm your driver," Fu Xingchuan said in a bad tone, "Sit in the front, or you can take a taxi."
Lin Luo looked around. It was late at night and no cars were passing by, so she had no choice but to sit in the passenger seat.
Fu Xingchuan started the car. It was obvious that he was very annoyed, otherwise he would not have bought cigarettes.
Lin Qi asked knowingly, "Do you still smoke?"
Fu Xingchuan ignored her. She picked up the cigarette and looked at it, then answered herself: "I shouldn't smoke it. This cigarette is a cheap brand and the lighter is also of poor quality."
"How do you know? You smoke," he asked suddenly.
Lin Qi answered honestly, "I was under a lot of pressure when I was preparing for the postgraduate entrance exams, so I smoked for a while, but I quit later."
The pressure of preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination was even greater than that of the college entrance examination, and she had a mental breakdown at one point. Later, Xu Yangyang often took her to the bar to relax, Zhu Changyu sent her local specialties, and Ruan Ye taught her to smoke to relieve stress, so that she could get through those difficult days.
"We've all been through a lot, and we've changed a lot." Lin Qiao put the cigarette back where it belonged and looked ahead. "Don't force yourself."
The car slowed down, and Lin Luo looked out the window. When they arrived at the gate of the residential complex, before the car had even come to a complete stop, Lin Luo unbuckled her seatbelt, but Fu Xingchuan had locked the car door.
"You..." Lin Luo turned her head to look at him and found that Fu Xingchuan had unbuckled his seat belt and was approaching her. She was confused and asked, "What are you doing?"
Fu Xingchuan continued to move closer to her. Lin Luo could feel his breath, and her whole body seemed to heat up. Even more fatally, he whispered, "Didn't you say you weren't satisfied yet? Don't you want to inspect the goods first?"
From a fist's length away, Fu Xingchuan's hand touched her face, pinching her chin. Lin Luo's head froze, her brain inactive. Her only thought was curiosity about the flavor of the lollipop he'd just eaten, so she didn't move away.
Fu Xingchuan was almost about to touch her lips when the phone rang. Lin Luo woke up and pushed him away.
"Hello, Mom." Her voice was a little vague.
Du Yunyan asked: "Are you off work? When will you be back?"
"I'm at the door. I'll be right in."
After the call ended, Lin Qi recalled the time she had kissed his tattoo and her face flushed. "Open the door for me."
Her tone was slightly aggrieved, as if she'd been bullied. Fu Xingchuan pressed the button, and Lin Luo opened the door and tried to run, but he quickly grabbed her hand and reminded her, "It's only a verbal agreement now. You won't take me to meet my future mother-in-law? Don't regret it."
If he really agrees to that condition, it seems that this nominal wife is very important to him.
Thinking of this, Lin Luo felt a surge of resentment. Fu Xingchuan was only willing to look at her because she had become more beautiful and beautiful, satisfying his needs. But even if she became beautiful and excellent, Fu Xingchuan would not fall in love with her.
Lin Xiao pinched his palm hard and said angrily, "Whoever regrets this is a puppy."
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