For Lu Zhe, everything seemed normal today.
Although lunch was a private time with Tang Qi, Miss Tang didn't do anything too outrageous. At most, she would occasionally steal a kiss on the cheek or hold hands...
The afternoons that followed were uneventful yet fulfilling. A busy work schedule, interspersed with moments of relaxation and study, lasting until six o'clock when I would leave work.
After get off work, I make dinner, eat, and then hand the dishes to Miss Tang to wash. After that, it's game time.
While Lu Zhe and Tang Qi were playing games, Xue Xiaodie was drawing on the side. She was wearing headphones and seemed completely oblivious to the interaction between the other two people in the same living room.
However, because Xue Xiaodie was present, Tang Qi didn't dare to cross the line and just played the game obediently.
However, when the game ended and it was time to wash up and go to bed, Miss Tang became restless.
Not long after Lu Zhe finished showering, Tang Qi barged into his bedroom again. This time, she had obviously just showered as well, her hair still wet and not even dried.
"Can you help me blow-dry my hair?" Tang Qi asked with a grin, fiddling with the wet hair by her ear.
Lu Zhe: "Why don't you brag about it yourself?"
Tang Qi: "I'm too lazy to do it."
"Lazy..." Lu Zhe had nothing to say about this reason.
He went into the bathroom, picked up the hairdryer, and waved for the young lady to come over.
However, Tang Qi flopped onto the bed and said lazily, "I just didn't want to stand while blow-drying my hair, that's why I came to you! Please, I don't want to do it myself or stand up, so I'll leave it to the assistant..."
Seeing her like this, Lu Zhe could only helplessly take the hairdryer out of the bathroom, plug it in, and then sit on the edge of the bed.
Tang Qi cooperated by brushing her hair back, pushing the wet strands behind her back.
This makes it very convenient for Lu Zhe to operate.
He turned on the switch, and instantly the room was filled with the noise of the hairdryer running.
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It was late at night, but Xue Xiaodie was not asleep, not even in her bed.
The girl stood in her bedroom, holding her phone, her face somewhat gloomy. The phone screen displayed a WeChat conversation; she had sent three messages but hadn't received a single reply.
【Little Rainbow, are you asleep?】
I have something quite important to tell you.
[You should be done showering by now, right? What are you doing?]
The three WeChat messages sent to Tang Qi seemed to disappear without a trace.
Xue Xiaodie couldn't help but recall that she had sent Tang Qi some messages before, and received replies much later, sometimes even the next day. These messages with particularly late replies seemed to have one thing in common: they were sent before she went to bed at night.
What does this tell us?
Tang Qi didn't have time to reply during this time, so what was this girl doing? What had she been doing in the days leading up to today?
Thinking of this, Xue Xiaodie's expression grew even more serious. She clutched her phone and walked out of her bedroom, arriving at Miss Tang's door.
He knocked on the door twice, neither too hard nor too softly.
There was no response whatsoever.
Xue Xiaodie turned the doorknob and pushed the door open. Then she saw that the room was empty, without a single person in sight.
"So you're not here after all. Then, where could you be..."
Although it was a question in the form of a soliloquy, there was not a trace of doubt in Xue Xiaodie's tone.
She turned and went straight to Lu Zhe's bedroom.
But when she stood in front of the third bedroom door, her hand on the doorknob, Xue Xiaodie still hesitated.
At this moment, she was faced with two choices. The first choice was to go in without knocking; the second choice was to knock first and then go in.
If the goal is simply to catch them in the act, then there's no doubt that barging in without knocking is the best option. But if you actually catch them cheating, how can you maintain a relationship afterward?
Moreover, the key question is whether, given Lu Zhe's personality and stance, he might simply and openly acknowledge his relationship with Tang Qi, thus definitively confirming it.
If that's the case, wouldn't I be the one helping him?
This made Xue Xiaodie hesitate.
While hesitating, she listened quietly to the sounds coming from inside the door. A few noises drifted out from behind the door, but they didn't sound like human voices; they sounded more like machines.
Xue Xiaodie thought for a moment and realized it was probably a hair dryer. After all, the only things in the room that could make that kind of noise were a hair dryer and a vacuum cleaner. And at 11 p.m., it was highly unlikely that Lu Zhe would be using a vacuum cleaner in his bedroom.
She raised her right hand, curled her fingers into a fist, and her knuckles were only a few centimeters away from the door.
However, just before knocking on the door, Xue Xiaodie suddenly felt a strange fire rising in her heart—her love rival had raided the bedroom of the boy she liked, and it was during the bedtime, a time that was extremely easy to imagine, while she was still silently thinking outside the door.
That's so spineless!
Xue Xiaodie gritted her teeth, grabbed the doorknob, and twisted it sharply!
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As Xue Xiaodie opened the door, Tang Qi already sensed something was wrong.
Because she was lying face down on the bed, from that angle she could see right in the direction of the bedroom door. She saw the doorknob move slightly.
Besides myself and Lu Zhe, who else lives in this apartment?
Tang Qi had been feeling somewhat guilty, and every night when she came to see Lu Zhe, she would first peek through Xue Xiaodie's door to make sure there was light coming from under the door and that Xue Xiaodie was inside before tiptoeing over. Now, her long-held guilt seemed to finally detonate a bomb!
In an instant, Tang Qi felt as if she had been electrocuted, tumbling off the bed and landing heavily on the floor. Ignoring the pain, she quickly crawled under the bed.
Fortunately, there was plenty of space under the bed. There were several tens of centimeters between the bottom of the bed frame and the floor, more than enough for a petite girl to slip in.
Tang Qi's swift and agile movements startled Lu Zhe. Then, he heard Xue Xiaodie's voice:
"It's so late, are you still blow-drying your hair?"
Lu Zhe turned his head to look at the door and saw Xue Xiaodie standing there.
The girl was still wearing her glasses, and her gaze behind the lenses seemed calm, revealing no particular emotion. Her figure, clad in an apricot-yellow nightgown, exuded a slender and quiet elegance.
The hairdryer in my hand was still running, buzzing loudly...
Lu Zhe turned off the hairdryer and forced a smile: "Yes, I'm drying my hair."
He really couldn't be sure if Xue Xiaodie had discovered Tang Qi. Judging from the girl's current behavior, it seemed she hadn't... wait, that might not be the case.
After spending these days together, Lu Zhe had come to realize that Xue Xiaodie was not the kind of girl with a simple mind. Perhaps her goals were simple, but her shrewdness was far from simple.
The fact that they suddenly opened the door and came in at this particular time seems to say a lot...
Thinking of this, Lu Zhe's smile became even more stiff.
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