Chapter 10 Coveted 10
I didn't sleep well last night.
When Lu Yu came down from upstairs with his brows pinched, the person who had been churning in his mind at night was already sitting at the dining table, leisurely eating breakfast.
Gu Yuechuan and Lu Ting were also there.
Lu Yu paused and could only sit next to Gu Rong, and then greeted Gu Yuechuan and Lu Ting.
In fact, he felt a little out of place in this family.
Even if he was Lu Ting's biological son, he would still be a burden, not to mention that he was just Lu Ting's adopted child.
It’s just that Gu Yuechuan loves Lu Ting and treats her well, so she treats him well too.
He should have self-awareness and know how to keep his distance.
In fact, Lu Yu did the same. After Lu Ting got married, he either used the excuse of staying over or went out to work, and seldom came back. If he and Lu Ting did not have a good relationship, Lu Yu would have preferred to work on his own and rent a house outside. But if that was the case, I'm afraid Lu Ting and Gu Yuechuan would have thought too much.
What's more, he also discovered Gu Rong's hostility towards them.
For Lu Ting's sake, Lu Yu couldn't just sit there and do nothing.
But until last night, things were far different from what he had imagined he would have with Gu Rong... It was as if fate had added another string to the mix, and he didn't know where it went wrong.
Just as I was thinking about it, a heat source approached.
"Yesterday you..."
The voice was very low, as if he was whispering.
"After returning home, did you relieve yourself?"
"Cough—cough cough cough!"
Lu Yu suddenly let out a violent cough, and almost spit out the porridge in his mouth.
He was so scared that he immediately looked up at Gu Yuechuan and Lu Ting, and found that the two seemed to be whispering to each other before, and only raised their heads in surprise when they heard his movement and looked over here.
"What's wrong? Why did you choke on your food?"
"Are you okay? What were you talking about?"
Lu Yu waved his hands quickly, coughed a few more times, and finally recovered: "Nothing, nothing, I'm fine."
He spoke a little quickly, as if he was trying to cover up something.
Gu Rong retired after accomplishing his mission and stood aside, smiling with his chin in his hand.
He reached out and touched Lu Yu again: "You have to go to class after dinner. When will you be back this afternoon? Do you have time to come back at noon? Otherwise, I will be very bored at home alone."
Lu Yu didn't look at Gu Rong, but whispered, "Even if I have time to come back at noon, I can't do anything in that little time—I can't be your nude model."
"So when will you be back today? Remember to send me your class schedule so I can wait for you to come home on time."
Gu Rong looked so affectionate that Lu Yu couldn't tell whether he was sincere or just pretending. If Gu Yuechuan and Lu Ting were not still here, Lu Yu would have really wanted to sigh. How could there be such a person? He had no idea how to deal with him.
But Gu Rong's performance obviously satisfied Gu Yuechuan.
"I told you two kids you'd definitely get along."
"But Gu Rong, since you're about to graduate from college, it's time to focus on your studies."
Gu Yuechuan brought up another topic: "When you chose this major, Dad didn't stop you, but you are my only son. After graduation, you should think about other things, understand? Besides, you are not young anymore, isn't it time to think about getting married? A man should start a family and build a career, which is what he should do."
Gu Rong didn't say anything.
Lu Ting smiled and said to Gu Yuechuan, "How old is the child, and you're already urging us to get married?"
"I have to urge him. He hasn't brought a girlfriend home to me in these four years of college. He's an adult now, and I'm not stopping him from falling in love freely."
Hearing this, Lu Yu was a little surprised.
Then he squeezed the chopsticks in his hand.
After Gu Yuechuan finished speaking, he looked at Gu Rong again: "Did you hear that? You are already such a grown-up, it's time for you to find a girl to fall in love with and get married."
"oh."
As Gu Yuechuan spoke, Gu Rong slowly bit into a bun and answered while chewing, "But you don't have to find a girl to fall in love with and marry, right?"
"What did you say?"
Gu Yuechuan thought he was hallucinating and asked again: "What did you just say?"
Gu Rong smiled at Gu Yuechuan: "Dad, didn't you hear it clearly? Do you want me to repeat it again?"
"I could repeat it, but I'm afraid you wouldn't want to hear it."
"Gu Rong!"
Gu Yuechuan's expression suddenly changed: "Don't give me that frivolous smile. What nonsense did you just say?!"
"If you don't like what I just said, don't get angry with me with this nonsense!"
Gu Yuechuan was obviously a little angry. Seeing this, Lu Ting quickly spoke up to smooth things over. Gu Rong shrugged and said nothing more.
The meal ended a bit unpleasantly.
After dinner, Lu Yu did not leave immediately. Instead, he watched Gu Rong limping up the stairs before he looked away, picked up his bag, and prepared to go to school.
But when he reached the door, Lu Ting called him.
Lu Ting walked over and looked at the injury on Lu Yu's face. She seemed to be hesitant to speak, but she still asked: "Ayu, you said yesterday that the injury on your face was caused by an accidental fall? How did you fall and why did it become like this? And...Gu Rong's ankle is also injured. You two were injured at the same time, what a coincidence——"
"mom."
Lu Yu bent down and gently hugged Lu Ting, and said with a smile: "Mom, you think too much. You really worry too much."
Lu Ting whispered, "Ever since Yue Chuan and I got married, I may have neglected you in many ways. Besides, Mom knows that our family is indeed too different from the Gu family, or even incomparable. It's just that Mom has been alone for so many years, and she really wants to be brave for herself. She doesn't want to look back with only regrets in her old age."
"But seeing you living alone on campus and rarely coming back, I sometimes wonder if I'm being too selfish. Yue Chuan and I are both being selfish not only to you, but also to Gu Rong..."
"No, Mom."
Lu Yu shook his head. "Didn't I tell you that I chose to live on campus because it's convenient, not for any other reason? Otherwise, I wouldn't have agreed to come back every day. Besides, I'm already this old, and I'll start a family in the future...in the future. Why shouldn't you have the right to choose? This isn't fair."
"You've given enough for me over the past decade."
Lu Yu glanced upstairs and continued, "And Gu Rong bought me a bag of medicine. Nothing happened between us...it was all an accident."
"Don't worry."
Lu Ting finally breathed a sigh of relief. "That's right. Actually, Yue Chuan told me that Gu Rong is a tough kid with a soft heart. Moreover, ever since his mother left the country when he was a child, they might not see each other for a year. When he was a child, he often hoped that Yue Chuan and his mother would get back together. He was always crying and making a fuss. He was a pitiful child."
Lu Yu nodded, responding to Lu Ting, and subconsciously thought of the phone call yesterday.
Can a mother record her child’s birthday incorrectly?
But then again.
Would someone who has always been targeting him and harboring ill will towards him react to his body?
"Ah, so you haven't heard of what physical liking is?"
Zhao Zhuzhi glanced up and down at Lu Yu and asked in a low voice like a thief, "Who could possibly be interested in you? And the key point is that you actually care about them!"
"First of all, I didn't say anyone was interested in me."
Lu Yu took a deep breath: "Secondly, the person I just mentioned is not me. I was just giving an example, for example-"
"Oh, okay, okay, you're just making an analogy, and the person you're making the analogy to is still your friend."
“…”
"And finally?"
Lu Yu spitted out pent-uply, emphasizing each word: "I don't, I care a lot."
Zhao Zhuzhi said "Oh" in an exaggerated manner.
"Okay, then I'll smooth it out for you."
Zhao Zhuzhi cleared his throat. "You said you, oh no, you said your friend, has always been maliciously hostile to someone. Then suddenly one day, that person changed their attitude toward your friend and even became interested in you, oh, your friend's body. Do you want to know what happened?"
"What else could it be? It's just a physical liking."
"In my opinion, the initial malicious targeting wasn't genuine. It was just to attract you and your friends' attention. But then they realized that method wasn't working, so they switched to something else. Didn't you want to bully some girl for attention in elementary and high school?"
Lu Yu glanced at Zhao Zhuzhi and asked, "So you get bullied just to get their attention?"
"ah."
"You deserve to be hated."
“…”
Lu Yu paused and asked, "What does physical liking mean?"
"No way, college bully, you don't even know this?"
Zhao Zhuzhi searched for the term and showed it to Lu Yu: "Well, in short, it means it can cause a physiological reaction in your body, sensory priority, and hormonal effects?"
Lu Yu took Zhao Zhuzhi's phone and took a look at it.
——Even though you know that the other person is not suitable for you, you still can't resist.
——Similar to the primitive impulse of animals seeking mates.
——The trigger mechanism is directly caused by sensory stimulation.
Summary: It's just an attraction and reaction based on physical instinct.
It is not the result of rational thinking.
After reading it, he returned the phone to Zhao Zhuzhi.
"There's a message on your phone."
"Oh, I'm Kangkang."
Lu Yu took out his cell phone and wanted to search again, but after turning the phone around in his hand, he felt it was unnecessary.
At this time, Zhao Zhuzhi was checking his phone while nudging Lu Yu with his arm. His voice was filled with excitement: "Hey, Lu Yu, this senior student that Senior Gu introduced me to is so efficient! She really got our two schools together! It's scheduled for next weekend, and I've signed you up."
"I'm not going."
"Hey, look at you."
Zhao Zhuzhi rejected Lu Yu's refusal: "No, you must go. If you don't go, not only the girls in our department, but also the girls from the art academy across the street will not want to come."
"Then you will be a sinner and a public enemy of men!"
Lu Yu: "I went there too."
Zhao Zhuzhi: "...Fuck! You've become shameless!"
Lu Yu thought, I learned this from someone.
Someone suddenly sent a message.
No words, just a picture.
Lu Yu subconsciously clicked on it and found that it was still a close-up picture?
This is--
[Nervous Cow Cat: See? It's the outline of your eyes.]
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