Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Brother, you are so handsome...
Ye Anyu woke up from her sleep in a daze. When she opened her eyes, it was pitch black all around. She touched the bedside table where her cell phone was placed, but it was empty and she felt nothing.
She felt around again, but still nothing. Wasn't she sitting in the car waiting for Lu Mingzhou to wake up? Ye Anyu suddenly woke up.
She turned on the light in the dark. She was still wearing clothes except for her coat. Where was her phone? It should be in her coat pocket. Ye Anyu looked around. Her coat was placed on a chair. She reached over and touched her phone.
She opened her phone and checked the time. It was 1:30 in the morning. Ye Anyu thought carefully about what happened last night. Wasn't she in the car? How come she was suddenly in bed? She had no recollection of it at all.
Thinking of this, Ye Anyu thought of a possibility, that it was Lu Mingzhou who brought her back to bed, otherwise there was no reasonable explanation.
She glanced out guiltily, but unfortunately the bedroom door was closed and she didn't see anything.
Ye Anyu wanted to continue sleeping, but she felt a little thirsty. She opened the door and walked to the water dispenser downstairs. She took out a cup and filled it with water. Just as she took a sip, the lights upstairs suddenly came on.
The next second, a figure popped his head out of the room. Lu Mingzhou walked downstairs while talking on the phone. "I'll deal with this matter tomorrow!"
"I'll go to the company tomorrow morning."
"Um."
Lu Mingzhou hung up the phone and just as he walked downstairs, the lights in the living room suddenly lit up. The sudden brightness made Ye Anyu a little uncomfortable, so she put her hands in front of her eyes to block them.
The position where she was was blocked by the cabinet next to her, so Lu Mingzhou did not see her. After she adjusted to the light, Lu Mingzhou's figure appeared in front of her.
Lu Mingzhou was holding a mobile phone in his left hand and a laptop in his right hand. He was obviously stunned when he saw Ye Anyu.
Ye Anyu was the first to react. She pointed to Lu Mingzhou's right hand and said, "Is your hand okay?"
Lu Mingzhou paused for a few seconds, shook his right hand, pursed his lips, and finally said, "I'm almost all right after a night."
No one would believe what he said!
Ye Anyu did not expose him and said, "So that's how it is. I thought you had forgotten it." Only a fool would forget. Ye Anyu might as well have exposed him by saying this.
Seeing that Lu Mingzhou didn't say anything, Ye Anyu asked, "Are you thirsty too?"
Lu Mingzhou nodded. Ye Anyu had just finished drinking the water in the cup. She took a glass of water with the cup in her hand and handed it to Lu Mingzhou. Lu Mingzhou took it without hesitation and drank it in one gulp.
When Lu Mingzhou finished drinking and returned the cup to her, Ye Anyu realized that they had just drunk water from the same cup.
Ye Anyu thought: It's not a big deal. Good friends usually don't care about these things. "You still have to work in the middle of the night?"
"There's something urgent that needs to be dealt with." Perhaps because it was night, Lu Mingzhou's voice was a little hoarse and sounded warm.
Ye Anyu nodded and said, "Then I'll go upstairs to sleep."
Lu Mingzhou said: "Okay."
Ye Anyu didn't know why he had to report to Lu Mingzhou before going upstairs to sleep. Usually they slept separately, but strangely, Lu Mingzhou actually responded.
When Ye Anyu woke up again, she was woken up by the alarm clock. She thought she would not be able to sleep after what happened in the early morning, but she did not expect that she fell asleep within a few minutes after returning to the bed in the bedroom.
Ye Anyu pushed open the door in her pajamas and glanced at Lu Mingzhou's room. There was no movement. She looked around downstairs and the entire living room was quiet.
Thinking about what Lu Mingzhou said yesterday, he should be going to the company now, and he should go directly to the company later.
Ye Anyu went upstairs to get his cell phone, intending to send a message to Lu Mingzhou. As soon as he opened his phone, he saw two unread messages, which were sent by Lu Mingzhou an hour ago.
【I'm going to the company to take care of some things.】
【Wait until I come back and we'll go together.】
Ye Anyu thought for a moment and edited a message: [When will you be back? ]
As soon as Ye Anyu put down his phone, the screen lit up: [Before 10 o'clock.]
Ye Anyu looked at the time. It was now 8:55, which meant there was still about an hour left.
Taking advantage of this time, Ye Anyu found something to eat in the refrigerator, and then returned to her room. She opened the plain white wardrobe and then remembered that the clothes she bought yesterday were still in the car. They should still be in the car. It was already very good that Lu Mingzhou carried her home, so she didn't care about those clothes.
Thinking of this, Ye Anyu's mind seemed to have pressed the replay button. Last night, she seemed to have done some inappropriate actions in a daze.
"Brother, you are so handsome."
"Um."
"Brother, you look better when you smile."
"Um."
…
Were these words really spoken from his own mouth? He hadn't drunk anything, so why was he acting so drunk? Ye Anyu patted his face lightly, but his memories became clearer.
Ye Anyu clicked on the message sent by Lu Mingzhou. He didn't seem to care about what happened yesterday and didn't seem to mind it. Thinking of this, Ye Anyu felt better.
Brother, Ye Anyu hasn't called Lu Mingzhou like this for a long time. When he was first taken to the Ye family, Ye Anyu was unfamiliar with everything in the new home, a strange father, a strange aunt, a strange sister and a strange brother.
There was only one person who made him feel very close to him the first time he saw him. He didn't know if it was because of the lollipop that Lu Mingzhou gave her on the rooftop, because Lu Mingzhou called her "little sister", or because she called him "brother".
From then on, whenever Lu Mingzhou came back from vacation, the two of them would always go to the abandoned rooftop tacitly and sit side by side. Sometimes they would talk, but most of the time they would just sit there quietly, looking at the vast treetops in the distance, watching the sun slowly set in the distance, and watching the clouds in the sky being blown away and then gathered again.
Ye Anyu went downstairs and just walked to the entrance, he saw a pile of gift bags. They were clearly the things they bought yesterday, or to be more precise, the things Lu Mingzhou paid for.
Lu Mingzhou did not forget these things and helped her carry them back from the car.
While having dinner yesterday, Ye Anyu asked Lu Mingzhou why he suddenly took her out to buy clothes. Lu Mingzhou replied that she didn't have any formal wear and had nothing to wear to the birthday party today.
However, Ye Anyu looked at the pile of gift bags at the entrance and thought, there is no need to buy so many if you don’t have any clothes to wear.
Whether it was because she had no clothes to wear at the birthday party today or for other reasons, Ye Anyu was actually very happy. In fact, Ye Anyu had been very happy during this period. For some reason, Lu Mingzhou seemed to have changed a little during this period. He no longer ignored her or spoke coldly to her.
But at the same time, she was a little worried because the marriage contract was less than a month away from expiring, and Lu Mingzhou did all this just because he wanted to have pity on her.
Ye Anyu ran up and down twice before finally carrying all the gift bags to the room. She looked through them and found the dress she had tried on in the store, and then changed into the pair of light blue crystal shoes.
Looking at herself in the mirror, Ye Anyu touched the tip of her nose unconfidently. Remembering the compliment from the salesgirl yesterday and Lu Mingzhou's expression when he looked at her, Ye Anyu regained some confidence.
Ye Anyu took some time to put on some light makeup when she heard some movement in the living room. She looked at the time. It was nine forty. Lu Mingzhou said he would be back at ten o'clock. She didn't expect him to be back so early.
Ye Anyu pushed open the door and saw Lu Mingzhou standing in the living room. He was drinking water from the cup. Ye Anyu took a look and found that it was the cup she used yesterday.
Lu Mingzhou didn't mind, so what was she thinking? Maybe Lu Mingzhou didn't even realize that they shared the same water cup.
Lu Mingzhou took a sip of water, and his sexy throat moved, which Ye Anyu actually found very charming.
"It suits you very well." After Lu Mingzhou finished drinking the water, he heard footsteps and looked over, and happened to see Ye Anyu coming down the stairs.
Yesterday, Lu Mingzhou gave her these clothes. Although she thanked him verbally, it was not very sincere. Ye Anyu thought hard for a long time and could only think of treating you to a meal as a way to thank you. She said, "To thank you for the clothes, I would like to treat you to a meal. Is that okay?"
Unexpectedly, Lu Mingzhou agreed immediately, "Yeah."
Ye Anyu's face lit up with joy. He looked at Lu Mingzhou and said, "When are you free?"
Lu Mingzhou picked up the phone on the table and casually swiped it a few times. After a moment, he said, "Tomorrow."
"Ah?" Ye Anyu didn't expect that there would be time so soon.
Lu Mingzhou stared at Ye Anyu with an expression that seemed to ask if there was a problem.
"It's okay. What do you want to eat? I'll make a reservation at the restaurant in advance." After saying that, Ye Anyu was about to take out his cell phone to check, but after searching for a long time, he found that his clothes had no pockets, and his cell phone was left in the room upstairs.
"The grilled fish restaurant we went to last time." Lu Mingzhou stared at Ye Anyu and said.
Ye Anyu originally wanted to treat Lu Mingzhou to something expensive, after all, the clothes Lu Mingzhou bought were quite expensive, but he didn't expect that he would choose such an affordable store.
But to be honest, the food at that grilled fish restaurant is really good.
"Okay, then let's go to that restaurant together tomorrow night." Ye Anyu said with a smile.
Lu Junyi's 60th birthday was held at the most upscale Glacier Hotel in Bei'an City. Not only famous bosses from Bei'an City were invited, but also some rising young talents. The event was held in a non-public manner.
When Lu Mingzhou and Ye Anyu's car arrived at the hotel entrance, apart from the guests attending the birthday party, there were no media reporters. It seemed that the confidentiality work was done quite well.
Lu Mingzhou was wearing a well-tailored suit, a pair of shiny black leather shoes, and his hair was combed high in front of his forehead. As soon as he got out of the car, he attracted the attention of people nearby.
After Lu Mingzhou got out of the car, he stood at the door and stretched out his left hand. Ye Anyu in the car was startled, then held on with her right hand. She was wearing high heels that she was not used to yet, and she slowly stretched one foot out of the car. After swaying for a while, she was steadily helped up by Lu Mingzhou.
The autumn wind was brisk, and Ye Anyu wore a blue-gray coat over her skirt.
There were people talking around, but because they were too far away, Ye Anyu only heard a few words sporadically: The man is talented and the woman is beautiful, they are really a perfect match.
Was he talking about her and Lu Mingzhou? She was distracted until Lu Mingzhou stretched out his arm in front of her.
"Hold on tight, don't fall." The tone was still cold, but Ye Anyu heard the concern in Lu Mingzhou's words.
Ye Anyu took Lu Mingzhou's arm and the two of them walked towards the top floor where the birthday party was held.
As soon as she reached the elevator door, Ye Anyu ran into a few people she didn't want to see, the Ye family, including her father, stepmother, and younger brothers and sisters.
"Brother Mingzhou!" This was the voice of Ye Xinyi, her stepmother's daughter, her so-called sister.
Ye Xinyi, who was originally excited, saw Ye Anyu's arm around Lu Mingzhou, her expression suddenly changed, and she glared at Ye Anyu fiercely.
Ye Xinyi has liked Lu Mingzhou since she was a child, and when she grew up she wanted to marry Lu Mingzhou. However, her plan was disrupted by one person, that person was her sister Ye Anyu, who was not a real sister, but an illegitimate daughter.
An illegitimate daughter actually dared to take away her things. Ye Xinyi was naturally angry and wished that Ye Anyu would die immediately, but her parents were by her side, so she couldn't do anything excessive.
In that case, she must embarrass Ye Anyu.
Ye Xinyi walked up to Lu Mingzhou, smiled at him, and then looked Ye Anyu up and down.
Blurting out: "Some people can't look presentable no matter how they dress up."
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