Chapter 19 19 Liang Guanyue raised her head upon hearing the voice and saw that it was Fu...
Liang Guanyue looked up at the sound and was stunned when he saw Fu Yunlu. Then his eyes gradually turned red. He seemed to feel embarrassed and bit his lower lip to hold back the tears. He was about to speak, but the first word that came out of his mouth was a sob.
Fu Yunlu frowned slightly, stroked the corner of his eye with her thumb, and asked, "Does it hurt?"
Liang Guanyue hurriedly shook his head.
"Then why do you look like you're about to cry?"
"I... I thought..." Liang Guanyue covered the upper half of her face with her uninjured arm, lowered her head in embarrassment, and choked out, "I thought you would be very angry... I didn't dare to contact you... Woo..."
Fu Yunlu was silent for two seconds before softening his voice. He said, "Rather than being angry, I'm more worried about you. Liang Guanyue, I haven't seen you for just a week. How did you get yourself into this state?"
"I didn't mean to..."
The hospital was crowded with people and eyes, and even though all media reports about Nino and Aya were monitored by the royal family, it was inevitable that some would slip through the net occasionally. Fu Yunlu said, "Let's talk in the car, okay?"
"Mr. Fu, don't you blame me?" Liang Guanyue was too embarrassed to straighten his back. Like a child being led by his parents, he held the other's hand and let Fu Yunlu take him out of the hospital.
Fu Yunlu kept walking, turned around and looked at him helplessly, then smiled: "How can I bear to say anything harsh to you when you are like this?"
"I……"
Fu Yunlu opened the car door for him like a gentleman. Liang Guanyue didn't get in immediately. Instead, she stood at the door, looking at him pitifully with tears in her eyes, and asked, "Are we reconciled then?"
Fu Yunlu laughed and said, "Reconcile? I don't remember when we ever had an argument."
Liang Guanyue reached out and grasped one of his index fingers, shaking it, and said, "You can have a fight with me now, and then we can make peace right away."
Fu Yunlu scolded with a smile: "Hurry up and get in the car. I don't have the heart to argue with you right now."
Liang Guanyue said dryly, "Oh."
After Fu Yunlu sat next to him and closed the car door, and the car drove slowly, Fu Yunlu brought up what happened a week ago: "Alpha marking will hurt, Liang Guanyue, you can't be so willful next time. Let it go this time."
Liang Guanyue was silent for a while, glancing at him from time to time, wanting to say something but stopping herself. Fu Yunlu couldn't bear it any longer and asked, "What do you want to say?"
"I want to ask... at that time, besides the pain, did you feel nothing else?"
Fu Yunlu turned around and stared at him with a half-smile. Liang Guanyue immediately sat up straight as if feeling guilty, leaving only the side of his face for him to tease. Fu Yunlu said, "How about I bite you off and see?"
Liang Guanyue froze at first, his hands visibly clenching the corners of his clothes, but hesitantly nodded and agreed: "Then... bite for bite."
Fu Yunlu stretched out one arm behind the seat and said with a deep smile, "Come closer, then."
Liang Guanyue closed his eyes and approached Fu Yunlu, his voice trembling as he looked towards death. "You, come on, Mr. Fu. I'm not afraid."
Fu Yunlu leaned over to his neck, tilting his head slightly to stare at Liang Guanyue's trembling eyelashes and tightly pursed lips. After admiring them, he chuckled and kissed the side of Liang Guanyue's face, sitting up straight: "Are you so scared?"
Liang Guanyue looked at him in confusion: "Mr. Fu..."
"Your arm is still injured. I feel bad about bullying a wounded man." Fu Yunlu pinched his cheek. "Besides, you're such a crybaby. What if your tears of pain flood the main city? Wouldn't that make me a sinner for all eternity?"
Liang Guanyue blinked blankly, then smiled, leaned on Fu Yunlu's shoulder and said coquettishly: "I know that my brother loves me."
"There's only one month left until the three-month agreed deadline, Liang Guanyue. You can't go back on your word then." Fu Yunlu played with Liang Guanyue's hair and said, "But I won't mark you for now. We'll talk about it when you're willing, okay?"
“…”
"Aren't you mentally prepared yet?" Fu Yunlu turned her head and looked down at him. "You even marked me temporarily. You're not completely clueless, kid."
"…Being mentally prepared is one thing, but being afraid is another."
"What should I do? Honey, you can't let me see you but not be able to eat you."
Liang Guanyue whispered: "...I hate you."
Fu Yunlu suspected she had misheard. She widened her eyes slightly and said with amusement, "You were crying and apologizing to me in the hospital half an hour ago, and now you say you hate me?"
Liang Guanyue stopped talking.
Fu Yunlu stretched out her fingers and rubbed his face, like soothing a cat: "Okay, okay, don't hate me, we'll talk about this later."
Liang Guanyue said, "Okay."
Fu Yunlu asked: "So you went to the restaurant to work part-time today, right?"
"Um."
"Didn't I give you a lot of money? You're not going to spend a penny? You're going to save it for starting a business after graduation?"
Liang Guanyue was silent for a while, and Fu Yunlu sighed: "You're mute again."
"No... I just feel like if I tell you, you'll think I'm not good."
Fu Yunlu smiled and shook her head: "I have seen many bad people. Even if you are not good enough, you can't be ranked."
Liang Guanyue hesitated and said, "Actually, it's because... I was afraid of being poor before, so I always wanted to save money. The more money I saved, the more at ease I would feel. And in the future, we will..." He stopped talking at this point.
Fu Yunlu raised her eyebrows: "What are we going to be like in the future?"
Liang Guanyue sulked and said, "I don't want to talk about it."
Fu Yunlu lowered her head and kissed his forehead, saying, "Whether we are together or not in the future, as long as we part ways amicably and I still have the power I have in the main city, I will help you with any difficulties you encounter in your future life."
He said: "Is this commitment enough?"
Liang Guanyue suddenly sat up straight, turned his head and looked at Fu Yunlu's expression with some disbelief. Lie? It didn't look like it. Truth? He didn't believe Fu Yunlu could be so kind.
Or did Fu Yunlu really fall in love with him?
This was a huge temptation. With someone like Fu Yunlu protecting him, his future was a safe bet. If he continued according to his plan, Fu Yunlu's promise would never come true.
Liang Guanyue asked tentatively, "Mr. Fu, what if I... am unwilling to submit to you?"
Fu Yunlu's eyes changed. He held up his face and showed an impeccable smile: "Guan Yue, one should not be greedy."
Liang Guanyue looked at him quietly, thinking that it was indeed not his turn to get such a good deal. If he really had the chance to go back in time, he would not have chosen to accept the temporary job offered by Fan Na. In this way, he would not have met Fu Yunlu and would not have been forced to choose to be with him.
Liang Guanyue didn't want to be controlled by anyone. His life was already chaotic and full of poverty and hardship, but Liang Guanyue gladly accepted everything because he firmly believed that even if the road ahead was full of thorns, as long as he held the reins of the horse in his hands, he would be invincible.
Perhaps it was because Fu Yunlu had revealed too much to him about the world of that class that he had never been exposed to, and just now he was actually shaken by the so-called fantasy.
Finally, Liang Guanyue lay back on Fu Yunlu's shoulder obediently, and complained softly, "Don't scare me by saying such things."
Fu Yunlu was a little worried at the moment. Even though he said it so decisively, if Liang Guanyue really refused wholeheartedly by then, he might not have any other feasible method except to drug him for the time being.
He decided to change the subject and asked, "How is the injury of the man who hit you?"
Liang Guanyue said, "I didn't dare to kill him, so I just kicked him twice."
"That won't do." Fu Yunlu looked at the bandage on Liang Guanyue's left hand, his face darkening as he sneered, "We can't let this go so easily."
"you……"
Fu Yunlu interrupted, "Don't plead for him. I don't want to hear it." Fu Yunlu interlocked her left hand with his and said, "Be good. I'll handle this for you."
"And you're not allowed to do your part-time job anymore," Fu Yunlu said. "If you can't stay idle, try cultivating other interests like photography, dancing, singing, art, etc. It's up to you to choose. I'll find the best teacher for you."
Liang Guanyue said in embarrassment: "I don't want to keep eating your free rice... I want to make some money on my own, so that I can feel more at ease."
Fu Yunlu sighed with a headache, thinking that if a person lacked backbone, they would be too flattering, while if they were too backbone, they would be difficult to obey. Liang Guanyue belonged to the latter. Fu Yunlu pondered for a while and said, "How about this, I will find you a stable tutor for a noble family, and you can go tutor the children and turn down all other part-time jobs."
Liang Guanyue retorted: "I also have a part-time job as a tutor myself."
"Tuition fees are not a fixed price." Fu Yunlu said gently, "Okay, just agree to me this time, otherwise I will always worry about whether you will be bullied by others outside."
Liang Guanyue had only been pretending to refuse. She had been looking for hard part-time jobs these days, hoping to arouse Fu Yunlu's sympathy after she found out. So, she went along with it and agreed in a low voice, "...Okay then."
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If Home 0 hadn't been so obsessed with Home 1, this chapter might have gone down the path of a favored top (pretending to be) sweet plot...
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