Chapter 41
Seeing that his good friend was about to call the police to arrest him, Lian Yu quickly found an excuse to get away with it.
"Where do all those drugs in novels come from?"
Lian Yu turned off the computer screen and went downstairs muttering.
"I saw the protagonists rolling around with drugs all the time, and I thought this kind of drug was easy to get."
"What's wrong, young master?" Uncle Li looked up from the dining table. "Is there anything I can help you with?"
It was almost dinnertime, and Uncle Li was setting out the plates, ready to start eating once the dishes were served. Across the hallway, the evening news blared from the television. Lian Yu glanced at Qin Yi and Chu Tian, each seated at one end of the sofa. The space in the middle was wide enough for two Asian elephants.
"Hehe, look at me bringing you back to health."
Uncle Li had a confused expression.
"Hey, Uncle Li, come here."
Lian Yu pulled Uncle Li to a corner and lowered his voice mysteriously:
"Can you open a bottle of wine for me tonight?"
"Wine?" Uncle Li tilted his head in confusion, wanting to persuade him but not knowing where to start. "...Of course, that's fine. So, what kind of wine would you like, young master?"
"Choose whatever wine makes you drunk."
"Hmm?" Uncle Li made a sound like a cow in confusion.
"Oh, don't ask. Just do it, Uncle Li." Lian Yu pushed Uncle Li's shoulders and walked towards the basement. "Uncle Li, you're the best. Uncle Li, you're the best."
Under Lian Yu's coercion, inducement, coaxing and deception, Uncle Li finally went to the basement to choose wine with a head full of question marks.
Lian Yu snapped his fingers: "Perfect."
"Perfect?" A clear voice suddenly sounded behind him: "You clearly know that your current body is not suitable for drinking."
Lian Yu's shoulders trembled and he jumped back instinctively.
"Why is he like a ghost?"
"What did you say?" Qin Yi frowned, and stared at Lian Yu with a pair of bright black eyes.
His stepmother seemed a cold beauty. A frown on her face turned her once affectionate eyes into something tinged with anger. Her slender neck was raised, fragile yet repellent enough to keep anyone at arm's length. She stood there, tall and graceful, and the refrigerator in the kitchen seemed to be on hiatus.
"No, no, no, I'm just saying hello to stepmother." Lian Yu bent down with a playful smile.
Qin Yi's brows furrowed even tighter.
Lian Yu was a little at a loss: "Did I say something wrong?"
[Hey, it's normal for him to dislike his ex. If he didn't hate you, why would he ask you to do the task, Xiaoyu?] Tutu was cracking those lousy melon seeds again.
That makes sense.
Lian Yu met Qin Yi's eyes and said, "Thank you for your concern, little mom, but this wine is actually for you."
"I?"
"After all, today is a special day. You and my dad are newlyweds, and this is the first time we're all together as a family. I think we should open a bottle to celebrate."
Lian Yu said this, casting her gaze towards the living room. Perhaps attracted by the noise in the dining room, Chu Tian was also watching them, his phoenix eyes sharp behind his silver-rimmed glasses.
Lian Yu curved her eyebrows and suddenly bent down to whisper in Qin Yi's ear:
"Look, my dad is looking at you."
Qin Yi's eyelashes trembled, and he suddenly looked up at Lian Yu.
The whispers were as hot as breath, and as intimate as love words between lovers, but the person whispering was completely unaware.
Lian Yu blinked and raised his hand to touch his face: "Did anything get on it?"
Qin Yi withdrew his gaze.
"Lian Yu, you are really something to say such things."
Lian Yu's hands froze on his face, sensing the resentment in these words. He suddenly didn't know how to respond, but fortunately, the awkward atmosphere didn't last long, as Qin Yi turned and left.
"You're right," Lian Yu thought to himself, grabbing Tutu's mechanical claws that were throwing melon seeds into his mouth, and said with a sad face, "The mission is really difficult, and the protagonist really hates me."
"Yes, ma'am."
As Qin Yi was leaving, he bumped into Uncle Li who was coming up from the basement. Uncle Li was holding a glass of wine and greeted Qin Yi warmly:
"Please wait a moment, the meal will be served soon."
"Celebrating your wedding?"
Qin Yi suddenly chuckled. He turned around and looked at Lian Yu, raising his eyebrows.
"Use this to celebrate your wedding, you know how to drink it."
Lian Yu looked at the Feitian Moutai in Uncle Li's hand. The red and white bottle was inexplicably dazzling. He smiled awkwardly: "Haha, a red bottle is rounded to a red wine bottle, and a red wine bottle is rounded to a red wine."
"What tongue twister are you talking about?"
Chu Tian walked over confidently.
Seeing Chu Tian walk to the dining table, Uncle Li hurriedly put down his wine and pulled out the main seat for Chu Tian, and Chu Tian sat down slid down.
The man was over forty years old, but the only thing he had were some barely noticeable fine lines at the corners of his eyes. His hair was combed back from his forehead, with a few strands of silver hair occasionally sandwiched among his black hair, and the flowing lines were like clouds, making him look elegant and shrewd.
"Mr. Chu, the young master asked me to go downstairs and pick up a bottle of good wine. He said he wanted to get drunk..."
Lian Yu winked at Uncle Li frantically.
Fortunately, Uncle Li received his signal and quickly changed the subject: "The best, so that you can be worthy of my wife."
Lian Yu nodded rapidly beside him.
Chu Tian glanced doubtfully at the festively colored Feitian Moutai on the table: "This can't be considered the best, right?"
"Because there are better things waiting for you later." Seeing that the topic was about to collapse, Lian Yu quickly took over the conversation and used high emotional intelligence to urgently save the situation.
Afraid that Chu Tian was still dwelling on the previous topic, he quickly pulled out a seat closer to Chu Tian and pushed Qin Yi in.
"Thank you for your kindness, but I won't drink today." Chu Tian pushed the wine glass away from the tableware.
With his hand suspended in the air, Lian Yu opened his mouth and looked at Qin Yi.
Qin Yi twirled the wine glass between his fingers.
Lian Yu's heartbeat quickened. If no one wanted to drink, wouldn't all his efforts have been in vain? No, no, he couldn't let all the hard work he had put in so much effort in the early stages go to waste.
Lian Yu made up his mind and gritted his teeth to persuade her again.
But Qin Yi suddenly stood up and took the bottle of wine.
"Why not drink it? Since it's Xiaoyu's blessing, I certainly can't let it down."
Lian Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank you, Mom!"
Lian Yu jumped into his seat like a happy little tiger, completely unaware that the two people at the table had frozen in place because of the name he had just called them.
In order not to delay the development of the relationship between the protagonists, Lian Yu consciously found the farthest seat and sat down.
"Why are you sitting so far away?" Chu Tian looked at him puzzledly, "Can you get some food?"
It seems...I really can't catch it.
Suddenly, the cell phone on the table buzzed and Chu Tian frowned.
"Uncle Li, please prepare the car for me. I need to go back to the company."
"ah?"
"What? Come sit here with me."
"No, Dad, you can't leave..."
"Don't be so irritable."
"But I—!"
Bang, Lian Yu was pressed onto the main seat.
Without giving Lian Yu any chance to keep him, Chu Tian came and went like a gust of wind. After the door closed, he swept Uncle Li away with him.
Lian Yu and Qin Yi were the only ones left in the huge room.
Click.
With a crisp sound, the bottom of the glass hit the table. Qin Yi held his forehead, and two blushes flew on his cheeks. But he saw the cold beauty's thin lips slightly parted, and with a hot breath, she called Lian Yu's name:
“…Xiaoyu.”
Exactly the same way his dad called him.
Lian Yu immediately got goosebumps. He waved his hands in the air, not knowing whether to help or not.
Qin Yi leaned his head on his shoulder.
Lian Yu froze, as if under a spell, and could only feel steam rising from his collar. He couldn't call out "Mom" in this situation, so he could only croak out her name:
"Qin, Qin Yi..."
I heard the sound of a car engine in the yard and Uncle Li's footsteps began to walk back.
"Let me help you up first!"
Lian Yu rushed upstairs carrying the person, leaving Uncle Li with only a determined back.
Uncle Li who just walked in:?
Qin Yi was much lighter than he had imagined, but he was like a heavy time bomb.
"Excuse me!"
Lian Yu shouted and rushed into Chu Tian and Qin Yi's bedroom. However, it was different from what he had imagined. There were no wedding photos, no special decorations that showed any traces of the wedding, and there was even only one pillow on the bed.
Lian Yuding stood there and thought for a moment.
"It seems like you and my dad aren't that unfamiliar with each other. We even sleep on the same pillow."
"What?" Qin Yi raised his hazy, drunken eyes.
"It's nothing, nothing. I still have an exam to take. You should have a good rest. I will urge my dad to come back soon!"
Lian Yu threw the man onto the bed, without even looking at Qin Yi's face, and ran away.
"call--"
Lian Yu sat back in front of the computer and took a deep breath.
The screen was still on the online exam page, but the countdown on the screen gradually seemed imminent.
He shook the mouse, and just before he was about to press the start button, Lian Yu stood up.
"Oh, I'm so sweaty from this. Let's take a shower first."
Lian Yu fanned himself by his collar as he walked towards the bathroom.
Tutu suddenly popped up:
[Procrastination is a very common psychological problem among college students.]
"I-I'm not stalling! I really need to take a shower!"
[Yeah! Xiaoyu is right.]
Tsk, why does it feel so weird?
Lian Yu rubbed the foam on her hair, but couldn't help thinking of Qin Yi in the bedroom.
I didn't expect him to have such a low alcohol tolerance. He was knocked out with just one sip of white wine. But isn't it unsafe to leave a drunk alone in the house? Chu Tian should be back soon, though.
With wet hair hanging on her shoulders, Lian Yu stared at the computer screen in a daze.
In the last two hours, the countdown on the webpage has turned red.
"I don't want to think about it anymore."
Lian Yu shook his head and moved the cursor.
"Young Master!"
Uncle Li's voice sounded outside the door, sounding a little anxious.
"Ma'am, he's gone!"
"What?"
Lian Yu rushed over and opened the door.
Uncle Li seemed to be surprised that Lian Yu would answer the door so quickly. He was obviously stunned for a moment before continuing:
"We've searched many places but haven't found Madam. Young Master, where was the last place you saw Madam? Let's look for her again."
A bad premonition crept into Lian Yu's heart.
"Damn that drunk."
Uncle Li's eyes widened slightly.
Lian Yu didn't have time to explain. She rushed towards Chu Tian and Qin Yi's bedroom and said, "Look for it first. I'll contact you if I find it!"
Push the door open suddenly.
The moonlight penetrated the soft gauze curtains and enveloped Qin Yi lying on the bed.
The collar had been ripped open at some point, now wide open, exposing his fair chest. Lian Yu immediately saw the small mole on that bright red spot.
"Isn't this right here?"
His breathing was a little disordered, and Lian Yu forced himself to smile as he backed away and prepared to leave.
But the next second, he was hugged by someone.
"Help."
"I'm not my dad!"
Thinking that Qin Yi was drunk and had recognized the wrong person, Lian Yu hurriedly pushed Qin Yi away from her, but unexpectedly her feet tripped and gravity caused them both to fall towards the door.
With his back against the door panel, Lian Yu supported Qin Yi, but his hand accidentally rubbed the other's lower abdomen.
Qin Yi shuddered violently, his cheeks turning abnormally red.
"Please help me, Xiaoyu."
Qin Yiyi's eyes were red as if he had been crying. He took Lian Yu's hand and leaned down to his body.
"I feel so bad."
Is this the effect that alcohol can achieve?!
Lian Yu widened his eyes.
Dad, where are you?! If you don't come soon, your son will steal our house!
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