Chapter 67 Chapter 67 Don’t reject me because of this matter…
Lu Yu pressed Cheng Yi onto the bed, not giving him any chance to struggle. The two were so close that he could see his own shadow in the young man's misty eyes.
"Lu Yu." He heard the person under him calling him.
His eyes followed the sound and fell on Cheng Yi's lips. His lips were slightly opened, then slightly pursed, like a small fish, breathing nervously.
At this moment, an idea flashed through Lu Yu's mind. He wanted to bite Cheng Yi's mouth, bite it hard, and let Cheng Yi also taste the pain.
This mouth has cheated on him so many times because of a former boyfriend. A lying mouth must be punished.
His breathing began to become rapid and forceful, and the force he pressed on Cheng Yi's wrist unconsciously increased, and his eyes became darker.
Cheng Yi had no idea what was happening and didn't dare to breathe. He tried to struggle, but it was useless. Lu Yu bound his calves and wrists tightly, pressing them down.
It’s so strange, why did Lu Yu’s expression suddenly change? He was fine before he went to bed? See how many hearts he has? What is going on?
He couldn't figure it out, his mind went blank, and he saw Lu Yu staring at his lips, as if he wanted to eat him up.
Just when the other person's lips were about to brush the corner of his mouth, suddenly, Lu Yu's cell phone rang.
The noisy ring of a cell phone broke the tense atmosphere. Lu Yu paused and looked at the caller on the phone screen. After seeing who it was, he loosened his wrist, then let go of Cheng Yi and straightened up.
Cheng Yi let out a long breath, sweat broke out on his forehead, his wrists were sore from being pressed, and his skin was red. The intense feeling of oppression in his body had not yet dissipated, and his chest felt like a string was stretched tight, and his heartbeat quickened.
Did Lu Yu want to kiss him forcefully? Or...want to enter his body? That's impossible. He is not the kind of person who would be impulsive in this regard. There must be some other reason.
Cheng Yi stared at the man in front of him. He saw Lu Yu pick up the phone and press the speakerphone button.
"Mr. Lu, the bid for the DDETR project will be opened the day after tomorrow."
This is the voice of the company's marketing director.
"This project is the last straw for Chengsheng Group. Please confirm our price."
When Cheng Yi heard this, his brain buzzed and he jumped out of bed.
"Don't look at the price," Lu Yuchong said on the phone, "Since this is a project that can save Cheng Xiaoyong's life, grab it for me at the lowest price." After that, he hung up the phone.
Cheng Yi felt as if his heart was punched. He jumped off the bed in an instant, ran to Lu Yu and grabbed his wrist.
"Are you planning to bring Cheng Xiaoyong's company to its knees?"
Lu Yu looked at him, the temperature in his eyes continued to drop: "Yes, what's wrong."
Cheng Yi subconsciously grasped the hem of his clothes, causing wrinkles on the neat fabric. He had a vague guess in his mind that Lu Yu's abnormality just now might be related to Cheng Xiaoyong.
In other words, it was with Cheng Xiaoyong & him.
"Cheng, Cheng Xiaoyong's company is already in that state. He and you will no longer have any competition. You..."
"You know him well? Why do you still care about him?" Lu Yu interrupted him coldly, forcing the young man to retreat step by step to the wall.
"Or you've never let him go."
The romantic time he just spent with Cheng Yi was not an illusion, but why did things turn out like this?
He could feel that Cheng Yi liked him, but when he mentioned Cheng Xiaoyong, he seemed like a different person.
Can't you let go of a relationship that has long ended? All the details of Cheng Yi's plea for his ex flashed through Lu Yu's mind. A fire was burning in his heart. He wanted to pinch the young man's chin and scold him loudly, but in the end he held on to his reason.
"You keep begging for your ex in front of me. This makes me very uncomfortable. Can your heart accommodate two people at the same time? Or, do you want both of them?"
"I..." Cheng Yi bit his lip hard, his eyelashes trembling, "It's not what you think."
"What does that look like?" Lu Yu looked at him, his voice still cold. "Cheng Xiaoyong is heavily in debt and is on the verge of bankruptcy. He may also be involved in other illegal operations. I will ask someone to dig out all of this, organize it, and submit it to the relevant authorities."
As he was about to take out his cell phone, Cheng Yi suddenly shouted, "No!" He took a step forward and hugged Lu Yu tightly.
His mind was in a mess now, with so many thoughts pulling at his body that he couldn't care about anything.
Now his eldest brother is the only pillar of the family. If anything happens to him again, his parents will not be able to bear it.
"No." He said again, looked up at Lu Yu, his eyes were wet, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on the arms that were holding Lu Yu.
The darkness in Lu Yu's eyes was like a storm that was gathering and about to swallow him up. Cheng Yi clenched his fingertips, and before the other party's more turbulent emotions erupted, he grabbed the other party's palm and said, "Cheng Xiaoyong is not my ex at all, he is my brother!"
Lu Yu: “……?”
"I'm sorry, I have been hiding my identity from you and lied to you that Cheng Xiaoyong was my ex-boyfriend. In fact, my identity is the same as his. We are both members of the Cheng family." Cheng Yi bit his lip and revealed all his secrets.
Lu Yu's expression, which was as gloomy as a black cloud, froze for a moment, and then he revealed a rare look of shock.
"Cheng Xiaoyong, is he your brother?" He repeated, his completely deviated train of thought seemingly still not being reversed or straightened out.
"Yes, he is my biological brother, the real one." Cheng Yi lowered his eyes and said in a low voice.
Lu Yu moved his lips and wanted to say something, but for the first time he felt at a loss for words, as if his brain had crashed.
His expression was extremely complicated at this moment, and his deep gaze fell on the young man's face, full of inquiry.
Cheng Yi let go of him and buried his head deeper, occasionally raising it to steal a glance at Lu Yu before immediately lowering it again.
"This is what I said before, my secret. I wanted to find a chance to tell you after I got back."
Lu Yu took a deep breath, turned around, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "I want to be alone for a while."
Cheng Yi: “.”
Cheng Yi had seen this line many times in melodramatic novels, and its meaning was similar to "I don't want to see you."
He felt a dull pain in his heart, lowered his head, and said with difficulty: "Okay."
After taking two steps, he stopped and said to Lu Yu's back, "At first, I did come to you with a purpose, but from beginning to end, I have never done anything to hurt you. Except... hiding it from you."
Lu Yu turned his back to him, without moving or saying anything. He just tilted his head and then turned back.
The air was deathly silent, and everything around seemed to have been paused.
Lu Yu stayed on the balcony to enjoy the fresh air for a while, and when he returned to the room, Cheng Yi was gone.
There was a yellow sticky note on the mirror with a few lines of small words written on it.
Don’t be angry, don’t be angry. Being angry will lead to early death. Cross out.
The two horizontal lines were drawn sloppily, but the original handwriting could be clearly seen.
Lu Yu's chest heaved and he moved his gaze downward again.
Further down is a not-so-beautiful-looking kitten, with its paw raised to beg for mercy, and a line of small words next to it: I know you may not want to see me, I’ll go out and face the wall first.
Lu Yu pursed his lips, tore the sticky note off the mirror, folded it into a small square, and placed it on the table.
At this time, the phone rang again, and Cheng Yi sent him a link on WeChat.
——"AI Apologetic Villain (Cheng Yi Version)".
Lu Yu clicked on it expressionlessly, and saw a cartoon portrait of an AI man pop up on his phone. If you look closely, you will see that it is a Q version figurine customized in the image of Cheng Yi.
The AI man (Cheng Yi version) was crying bitterly, holding a sign in his hand that read "Sir Lu, calm down."
A line of words was typed below: Sir, I know I was wrong.
Three buttons popped up at the same time, the first one was [Forgive him], the second one was [Discipline him], and the third one was [Get out].
Lu Yu lowered his eyes, moved his finger to [Train Him] and clicked it.
The scene on the screen suddenly changed. The AI man was hung upside down on the eaves by a hemp rope, with his butt facing him and a small black whip next to him.
Snap——
He didn't operate it, but the whip started to dance by itself and hit the AI man on the butt.
The AI man let out a howl and rubbed his red butt. At this time, the three buttons popped up at the bottom of the screen again.
[Forgive him], [Discipline him], [Get out of here].
Lu Yu didn't make another choice. He put down his phone, went to the bathroom and washed his face to make his mind clearer.
Cheng Yi is still on his mind.
From his first day on the job till just now;
From the time he first stood one meter away from his desk to now he was leaning on his arms...
My thoughts were turned upside down and I couldn't calm down for a long time.
But the feeling of my heart being cut open and stabbed by a blunt knife disappeared, replaced by a complex feeling of discomfort but also relief.
Cheng Xiaoyong is not Cheng Yi’s ex-boyfriend, but his relative. Cheng Yi is from the Cheng family. The eldest brother Cheng Xiaoyong, the second brother Cheng Wuju, the third sister Cheng Ranxing...
These people have been causing trouble for him in recent times, and they are also the ones who have been punished the most severely by him in return.
They had been causing trouble for him one after another before, and Cheng Yi must be fully aware of it. Now when Lu Yu recalled some things that he couldn't understand before, everything made sense.
So Cheng Yi was protecting him while deceiving him with lies. In order to keep her identity, she even pretended to be her ex-boyfriend to gain his "trust".
Lu Yu closed his eyes, lowered his head and thought for a long time, then picked up his cell phone and opened the door.
As soon as I came out, I saw Lu Lingyi coming out from the next door.
"Hey brother, are you going out? Where's your sister-in-law?" Lu Lingyi raised his eyebrows at him.
Lu Yu lowered his eyes and didn't look at him: "Go out for some fresh air."
"Huh? Himself?" Lu Lingyi vaguely sensed something was wrong and moved closer to observe his brother for two seconds. "You look unhappy. What's wrong? Did you have a fight with your sister-in-law?"
Lu Yu didn't say anything.
Lu Lingyi suddenly thought of something and grabbed his brother's arm: "Did you know some secret of my sister-in-law?"
Lu Yu's eyes froze for a moment, and he suddenly raised his eyes to look at Lu Lingyi: "You knew it a long time ago?"
"Ah, I definitely don't know his secret, but he told me that he had been struggling with this matter before." Lu Ling thought of what Cheng Yi had said to him in the morning, "Well, my sister-in-law looks worried, as if she has been struggling with this for a long time."
Lu Yu withdrew his gaze from his face. The cold lenses blocked his eyes, making it impossible to see the emotions in his eyes.
Lu Lingyi reviewed Cheng Yi's words carefully again, and his intuition told him that his secret should be the same as his own, that they had a history of cohabitation, but for some psychological reason they did not mention it to their significant other.
His brother is a very traditional man who is still a virgin. He might not be able to accept it all of a sudden, so he got into a quarrel.
"Hey, brother, don't be so feudal. The Qing Dynasty has fallen." Lu Lingyi counseled him seriously, "Sexual behavior is a thing of the past, isn't it? Everyone has a passionate youth..."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lu Yu interrupted his brother.
Lu Ling was stunned for a moment: "Isn't it because your sister-in-law has a history of cohabitation that you feel unhappy?"
"Who spread the rumor? He has no history of cohabitation." Lu Yu said in a deep voice.
Lu Lingyi was stunned again: "Hiss, if it's not because of this, what else could it be?"
Lu Yu didn't say anything else. At this time, his phone rang again. An unfamiliar number appeared on the screen and he hung up.
But the next second, a strange number called again. Lu Yu frowned and pressed the answer button.
"Hello, is this Mr. Lu? I'm running errands." The other party said on the phone, "A gentleman asked me to deliver something to you. Are you in the room?"
Five minutes later, Lu Yu received a small box delivered by the errand boy.
In the box is a light pink mugwort hammer. Judging from the logo, it should have been bought at a Chinese medicine health care center in the scenic area. The instructions say that tapping the armpits, breasts, and Tanzhong can relieve liver and depression, and calm the mind.
In addition to the mugwort hammer, there was also a small note in the box, which was clearly written by Cheng Yi:
——Meow~Are you still angry? Please don't deny me because of this incident. At least keep me at home and observe me for 60 years, okay?
When Lu Yu saw this line of small words, the unhappiness in his heart seemed to be suddenly blown away by a spring breeze. I rubbed the small hammer with my fingertips and brought it to my nose and smelled it. It had the very fragrant scent of mugwort.
Lu Lingyi poked his head aside and asked, "What's written in it? Isn't it a farewell letter?"
"You're talking nonsense again. Don't you want next month's pocket money?" Lu Yu scolded.
Lu Lingyi quickly shut up and reached out to touch the small hammer that relieves liver and depression, but Lu Yu slapped the back of his hand mercilessly: "Don't touch it." He said in a deep voice.
Lu Lingyi clicked his tongue and patted his brother heavily, "Okay, I won't touch anything my sister-in-law gave me. But I have to say, fate is a very precious thing. Once you miss it, you will regret it. No matter what secrets my sister-in-law has kept from you, since she chose to tell you and be honest with you, it means that she cares about you very much."
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At this moment, the frank Cheng Yi was sitting at a dessert station not far from the hotel drinking a banana milkshake.
Bananas are rich in tryptophan and potassium, which can stabilize mood and relieve stress.
The phone lay quietly on the table, and several messages that Cheng Xiaoyong had sent him before appeared on the screen.
"Oh." Cheng Yi sighed.
He had originally planned to pick an auspicious day to be honest with Lu Yu, but he never expected that things would turn out so...
Thinking back to what happened just now, he could actually understand why Lu Yu was angry, even though he, as an undercover agent, had not done anything to hurt him and had even helped him ruin the schemes of his eldest brother, second brother, and third sister.
But from Lu Yu's perspective, he was unaware of the situation. He only felt that an undercover assistant with an ID card had kept it a secret from him for so long. If he hadn't been exposed by accident and his family's company was about to go bankrupt, perhaps this secret would have remained a secret.
Cheng Yi took a big sip of banana milkshake, then checked his phone and saw that the errand boy had already delivered the item.
But it was quiet over there, with no phone calls or WeChat messages.
Forget it, he sighed again. Maybe Lu Yu is still angry at the moment, so it would be better to let him calm down alone.
When he returns, he will sort out the "physical evidence" and "witness evidence" of his role as an "undercover firewall", and then take them to explain to Lu Yu.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yi made a decision.
He decided to return tonight.
The sooner the physical evidence and witness testimony are presented to Lu Yu, the sooner the other party will calm down.
So he sent a message to Lu Lingyi, and just as he got up to leave, his phone rang again.
But this time it wasn't a ringing phone or a WeChat message, it was an alarm buzzing, warning of an earthquake.
Not only his phone was ringing, but also the phones of the young couple next to him were ringing.
"Hey, it's an earthquake warning." said the young couple.
The warning APP shows: Warning magnitude: 3.8, warning details: You are 97 kilometers away from the epicenter, and the earthquake wave will arrive in 40 seconds.
When Cheng Yi saw this line of small words, his eyes suddenly widened, and he jumped up from his seat almost in a second. In the surprised eyes of the young couple, he spread his legs and ran towards the hotel.
Finished! Warning magnitude 8.3! He closed his eyes in pain.
A magnitude of 8.3 is a major earthquake. This is the rhythm of destruction!
He swung his arms violently and ran at full speed with all his strength, dialing Lu Yu's number while running, praying that Lu Yu would answer the call quickly!
The call was connected in a second. Without waiting for him to speak, Cheng Yi asked anxiously, "Where are you?"
"On the first floor of the hotel, where are you?" Lu Yu said on the phone.
There was no sound in the receiver.
Lu Yu glanced at his phone and found that the call had been hung up. He called back, but the other party did not answer.
When he turned around again, he saw a lightning-like shadow running straight towards him from outside the hotel gate.
It’s Cheng Yi.
The young man had a serious and resolute expression, biting his lips tightly. Every step he took seemed like he was desperately pulling against time and space. Sweat soaked his forehead and cheeks, and slid down his jawline.
"What are you standing there for? Run! There's a big earthquake!" Cheng Yi yelled at Lu Yu, rushed over, grabbed his wrist and ran towards the hotel with him.
Lu Yu was a little surprised, but still ran with Cheng Yi. His wrist was held tightly by the young man. He never thought that Cheng Yi was so strong. His wrist was so painful that his nails seemed to dig into the flesh, leaving a picture that he would remember for the rest of his life.
The wind whistled in their ears, their blood rushed, washing their brains, and at this moment it seemed as if the air was making way for them.
The two ran out of the hotel and ran to the open lawn outside. Cheng Yi was panting, his cheeks and neck were flushed, and his T-shirt was completely soaked with sweat, revealing the honey-colored muscles on his back.
He was breathing heavily and coughing heavily, but his hands were still tightly clenched around Lu Yu, not loosening at all.
The ground beneath my feet seemed to shake slightly, like a small boat rocking on the water. There was no earth-shattering collapse or shaking of the mountains as I had imagined. Everything was safe and peaceful.
Cheng Yi: “?”
He opened his mouth and looked around. Everyone seemed normal; some were chatting, some were taking a walk.
Cheng Yi was confused. He lowered his head to look at his phone again. This time he could see clearly: real-time magnitude 3.8, level: mild.
Cheng Yi: “!!!”
It’s 3.8, not 8.3, so it was just a false alarm. What the hell is that look in his eyes!
Cheng Yi looked towards Lu Yu, only to find that he was still holding the other's hand tightly. The skin on his wrist was red, and several deep nail marks were clearly visible.
"It must have hurt you." He quickly let go of Lu Yu and scratched his head apologetically.
"Um... my phone just gave me an earthquake warning, but I misread it and thought it was a magnitude 8.3 earthquake."
Lu Yu looked at him, and there seemed to be a sea hidden in his pupils, deep and profound. A very strong emotion rolled like waves, hitting his heart.
"If you thought it was a big earthquake, then why did you run into the hotel?" he asked.
Cheng Yi trembled his eyelashes. He couldn't really explain why. It seemed to be instinct, a decision he made instinctively in a split second.
"I don't know. I didn't think too much about it at that time. I just thought you were still in the hotel and I had to go back to find you." He said truthfully.
There was no sound in the air, as if even the wind had stopped. Their eyes met, and warmth gradually enveloped Lu Yu's eyes. After a while, he said, "If you really encounter a big earthquake, you run away by yourself, understand?"
Cheng Yi choked in his throat, took two steps forward, and stood less than half an arm's length away from Lu Yu: "No," he grinned, raised his hand, and gently stroked Lu Yu's cheek.
"I think I will still go back to find you. Although I have been struggling during this period, being together is what I want to say to you the most. No matter what happens, I hope that we can be together."
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