flower shed
Xu Feifei looked up and saw Lin Yuan walk over, pushing aside the falling blue snowflakes. The sunlight shone on his face, making it seem to glow.
She stood up and walked over, asking, "Wow, what brings you here! How did you know I was here?"
Lin Yuan smiled at her and said, "I asked your maid, and she told me you were here."
"What did you and my dad talk about in the study? You talked for so long, he didn't give you any trouble, did he?"
Xu Feifei was still a little worried and concerned about this issue.
Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "No, my uncle is very good to me. He just asked me a few simple questions about what happened between you and me, and told me not to take you away without a word again."
After seeing that everything was alright, Xu Feifei was finally able to relax.
"Yes, Dad is right. You have to remember that from now on, okay?"
Lin Yuan's lips curled up. "Yes."
Nangong Ye stood still, pursed his lips and did not go up. He took a new cup from the table and poured a cup of cold tea.
Lin Yuan sat down and looked at the freshly poured tea: "Thank you."
Nangong Ye sat in the chair, glanced at her, then turned his face to look at the ground and said, "No need."
Xu Feifei placed a piece of peach cake in front of Lin Yuan and said, "I think the peach cake is pretty good. You should try it."
Lin Yuan picked up a fork and tried a small piece, looking at her with a smile in his eyes, and said, "It's really delicious."
A gust of wind blew by, and the blue snowflakes outside the flower shed swayed gently.
Nangong Ye looked at Lin Yuan for a while before asking, "Lin Yuan, how have you been lately?"
"fine."
Have you run into any trouble lately? Do you need my help?
Lin Yuan put down his fork and said, "No need."
Upon hearing the word "no need," Nangong Ye immediately became anxious. "Why not? More people mean more strength. Besides, my family's economic strength ranks first in City A, and I know a lot of people. Helping you is a piece of cake. You don't need to be so reserved."
Lin Yuan was about to refuse, but then he thought about it and slowly met Nangong Ye's gaze, saying, "We'll talk about it later."
Nangong Ye breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she had finally agreed, and smiled, "Then it's a deal. I will definitely do my best to help you when the time comes."
Xu Feifei looked at Nangong Ye, feeling something was off. Could it be that the male lead hadn't given up on Lin Yuan or still held onto hope?
Or perhaps it was just friendly help between classmates, and she was overthinking it? She picked up a spoon, took a bite of the peach cake, and found it to be just the right amount of sweet, with a rich peach flavor and perfectly balanced cream that wasn't too greasy.
"Lin Yuan, what is your relationship with Xu Feifei?"
"Cough, cough, cough."
Xu Feifei was taken aback by the male lead's sudden remark. She thought he wouldn't ask any more questions after she explained, but it seems he still cares a lot about her relationship with Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan pulled out a few tissues, handed them to her, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xu Feifei took the tissue, covered her mouth, and said, "It's okay, I just choked on the cake."
"So what's your relationship? Xu Feifei said you're good friends, but I don't think so."
"oh?"
Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow at her, as if to see how she would answer the question.
Xu Feifei picked up the teacup guiltily, the teacup obscuring half of her face, her eyes darting around unconsciously.
God knows how much she wanted to sew Nangong Ye's mouth shut!
Lin Yuan glanced at her, the smile on his lips fading as he said, "You say it doesn't seem like it, then tell me what my relationship with Feifei is."
"A romantic relationship."
"puff!"
Xu Feifei spat out all the tea in her mouth and coughed incessantly, even louder than before. Wasn't the male lead being a little too direct?
Lin Yuan handed her a few more tissues and said, "Drink slowly, don't rush."
Nangong Ye pressed on, "Is that so?"
Xu Feifei coughed to indicate that she couldn't speak, and secretly glanced at Lin Yuan to observe his reaction.
"No, Feifei and I are just good friends, just as she said."
Nangong Ye was a little incredulous, "Really?"
Lin Yuan didn't care about his thoughts, and simply said, "Believe it or not."
"If it's true, my engagement ceremony with Xu Feifei will go back to normal in a few days. By then, it will be too late for you to regret it."
Lin Yuan glanced at Xu Feifei, then turned his gaze to the blue snowflakes swaying outside the flower shed.
Xu Feifei bit her lower lip, about to explain, when a servant came over and said, "Young Master Nangong, the master is looking for you. Would it be convenient for you to go over now?"
Nangong Ye pouted unhappily, wanting to refuse to go.
"My dad is looking for you. It might be something urgent. You should go there quickly."
Nangong Ye hesitated for a moment before standing up. Looking at Xu Feifei with a hint of helplessness, he said, "Okay, I'll go right now."
After they left, only she and Lin Yuan were left in the flower shed.
Lin Yuan spoke first, asking, "What is your engagement date?"
"It hasn't been decided yet, and I don't know the exact time."
Do you think your engagement ceremony will go smoothly?
After saying this, Lin Yuan smiled and tilted his head to look at her.
Xu Feifei was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "What? You want to tie me up and take me back again? Let me tell you first, I'm not going back with you this time."
"I promised you before that I wouldn't do this kind of thing again."
With a smile in her eyes, she shifted her gaze and said, "Actually, this engagement is hard to say, but my engagement with Nangong Ye is a marriage between our two families, mainly to increase the commercial value of both companies."
In novels, engagement is merely a plot device, and unsurprisingly, it serves to advance the relationship between the male and female protagonists.
Following the original plot, the male and female leads should be together now, but her arrival has created a butterfly effect, causing their relationship to not officially begin yet.
Perhaps her mission will be complete once the male and female leads officially get together. At first, time seemed to pass slowly, but now it feels like it's flying by; three or four months have passed in the blink of an eye.
The merging and confusion of her consciousness constantly reminded her that it was time to go back.
Xu Feifei took a bite of cake and quietly looked at Lin Yuan.
However, Lin Yuan...
"I know that. But why are you looking at me like that?"
Lin Yuan reached out and ruffled her hair.
Xu Feifei didn't slap his hand away, but just let him touch her, saying, "What kind of look is that? I'm just looking at you normally."
Lin Yuan stopped what he was doing, thought for a moment and said, "That kind of look in your eyes, where you want to remember the person in front of you before you leave, is so sad. I don't like it."
He was immediately seen through, and instinctively panicked to hide the emotions in his eyes, saying guiltily, "What are you talking about? There will be plenty of opportunities to meet in the future! But I wonder when the next time we'll meet will be?"
Lin Yuan leaned back in his chair and smiled, "Soon. Whenever you miss me, I'll appear before you."
"When school starts? Summer vacation always goes by so fast. It feels like I didn't do anything and it was over. It's too fast!"
Lin Yuan chimed in from the side, "Because happy times always pass by especially quickly."
Xu Feifei sighed deeply. It felt like she hadn't spent the summer at all. She went to Europe but forgot about it all. She spent the rest of the time with Lin Yuan in that remote villa in the mountains, without going anywhere else.
However, speaking of Europe, Lin Yuan had promised to tell her about what happened there, but he still hadn't.
"Speaking of which, I just remembered something. You promised to tell me what happened in Europe, but you haven't. This time, you can't keep putting it off. Tell me what happened back then."
The events in Europe seemed to evoke some unpleasant memories for Lin Yuan; the smile faded from his lips and eyes, and his gaze darkened.
He stirred the tea in his cup with a spoon, the spoon occasionally hitting the side of the cup with a harsh sound.
"There's not much to say about our time in Europe. You forgot about me while you were there and kept wanting to go back to China, so I brought you back with me."
Xu Feifei looked puzzled and asked, "Huh? It's that simple? Could you explain in more detail?"
How detailed would you like it to be?
"The more detailed the better, not something that's just summarized in a sentence or two."
Lin Yuan sighed and said, "After we got off the plane in London, you kept saying you were very sleepy and wanted to sleep, so I told you to hold on and continue sleeping when we got to the hotel. After we got to the hotel, you slept for a whole day. When you woke up, you were startled to see me next to you and asked me who I was, why I was here, and where this place was?"
Xu Feifei frowned and continued listening to Lin Yuan.
“I told you my name and a lot about us, but you just wouldn’t believe me. You would sneak out every time I wasn’t looking. It’s not safe for you to be alone in a foreign country, and you didn’t have anything with you, so I caught you and brought you back with me.”
"The result was the opposite. The more I followed you, the more nervous you became and the more you wanted to run away. I took you to see doctors, and you underwent many examinations, but they couldn't find anything wrong. So I thought I would take you back to China for further examinations. You know what happened after we returned to China."
What followed was that she woke up in Lin Yuan's villa and stayed there for a period of time that was neither too long nor too short.
What Lin Yuan said was similar to what she had thought before, and it almost matched what Nangong Ye and her parents had said.
There was still one thing Xu Feifei didn't understand: "So, what did you think of me back then? Was I very different from usual?"
Does forgetting me count?
Xu Feifei hesitated for a moment and then nodded, saying, "Yes, besides that, are there any other aspects? For example, personality traits?"
Lin Yuan thought for a moment and said, "You're easily angered and irritable, and you even threatened and warned me. I think you might be doing this because the thought of losing your memory is hard to accept and makes you feel insecure, so you resorted to this method to protect yourself in an emergency."
Xu Feifei looked at him innocently; she had no idea about this.
"I'm sorry, I can't do that anymore."
Lin Yuan patted her head and said, "You don't need to apologize to me. You didn't do anything wrong. But I have something to do and I have to go back now, so I'll be going now."
Seeing him get up, Xu Feifei quickly sat up as well and said, "Ah! So fast?"
Lin Yuan looked at her and smiled, "See you next time, we'll meet again soon. When we meet again, I will stand before you as I did at the beginning."
Xu Feifei looked at him in surprise and asked, "What do you mean? Are you going to restore Lin Yuan's identity?"
Lin Yuan said mysteriously, "You'll see when you get there."
Xu Feifei was not satisfied with his answer, and frowned slightly as she asked, "When will we meet?"
"soon."
"How fast is 'very fast'?"
"It mainly depends on your side."
"Look at what I'm saying, and you're so sure we'll meet soon?"
The two chatted and laughed as they walked out of the flower shed, following the pebble path. Behind them, the blue plumbago swayed, and a leaf slowly fell from it.
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