The two of them held hands and walked down the stairs, one step at a time.
"Are you really going to cover their budget?" Liang Zhirou asked softly, still not quite understanding the meaning behind Chen Lu's words.
"Anyway, it doesn't cost much money, and these kinds of favors are the easiest to buy." Chen Lu shrugged. "As the saying goes, 'He who eats another's food is bound to do his bidding, and he who takes another's money is bound to do his bidding.' In the future, if anything happens in the class, they will definitely take care of you a little, especially the class monitor."
"Just you wait and see, from now on, you won't need to apply for any subsidies, big or small; they'll apply for them for you automatically."
"That's just how human relationships are," Chen Lu said deliberately, enunciating each word carefully.
"What if someone actually takes it seriously?"
"What a stupid girlfriend. I was just making empty promises. We're all adults here, nobody takes it seriously. Even if they did, my company only hires recent graduates now. By then you'll have graduated long ago, and I won't need to bother with them."
As he spoke, Chen Lu took two more steps down the stairs, then turned around, raised his head, and stared intently at the girl in front of him.
The two, separated by several flights of stairs, looked at each other, one tall and one short.
"Next time, why don't you try not to hide behind me? Just try to stand next to me first, okay?" he said softly. Although this silly guy could flirt with him like crazy when they were alone, he was still a top-notch socially awkward person in public.
Basically, when facing strangers, they would shrink back behind him from time to time, just like they did just now.
She is undeniably cute, but this might not be a good thing in the long run.
If he were a selfish person, he might be hoping that this simpleton would become extremely dependent on him, even to the point that he couldn't live without him.
But he is not.
Being Liang Zhirou's support and being her reliance are two completely different things.
Liang Zhirou pursed her lips, looking somewhat troubled. Since being with Chen Lu, she had gradually become a bit lazy, always thinking that she could just leave everything to Chen Lu. Apart from necessary communication, she was still not good at dealing with other people.
Thinking about it this way, I haven't made any progress. I'm still as shy as before, instinctively avoiding social interaction.
At this moment, Chen Lu smiled slightly and said again in a gentle tone, "Of course I'm willing to protect you for the rest of my life."
"But we agreed from the beginning that things would get better gradually."
Liang Zhirou lowered her head and pondered for a moment, then nodded earnestly and said, "I will try my best in the future..."
Chen Lu clapped his hands at her with a smile, as if coaxing a child, "Come here, I'll give you a kiss as a reward."
"Who's really rewarding whom?" Liang Zhirou was speechless, but she still obediently walked up the stairs where Chen Lu was.
Chen Lu glanced at her sideways, "So, what if you don't want it?"
"Yes~"
......
More than half an hour later, the car stopped in front of the Yihe Yayuan gate.
I heard that this apartment building was finally delivered smoothly in the first half of this year after many back-and-forth negotiations between the developer and the homeowners.
Chen Lu didn't know much about the details; by the time he bought the house, these problems had already been resolved by those who had filed complaints.
For example, the windows that came with the house were of poor quality, the garage leaked, and even the garden was abandoned halfway through construction, and so on...
As the saying goes, one generation plants the trees, and another enjoys the shade.
Besides its good location, the advantages of this community are that a lot of effort has been put into landscaping. As soon as you enter the community, you can see a rockery and a fountain. The buildings are surrounded by flowers and plants, and the greenery is also very well done.
Occasionally you can see a pavilion.
Chen Lu stood at the entrance of the residential compound, looking at the name of the compound, and felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it.
"The names of residential communities these days are getting uglier and uglier," he couldn't help but complain. However, it seems that what determines the prestige of a community is not its name, but its price, such as "Mo Chen Yi Pin" (a name that sounds like "a prestigious residential community").
"What do you think we should call him?" Liang Zhirou turned her head and looked at him curiously.
"I don't know, I'm just nitpicking, it doesn't mean I'll actually do it." Chen Lu thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a better name.
Liang Zhirou seemed to suddenly remember something, and poked Chen Lu's waist with her index finger. "You're so lazy. You didn't even come up with the name of your company yourself."
"Stop mocking me. We're equally good at naming things. Your Bilibili account is even called Mu Zhi Mu."
"I think it sounds great."
Liang Zhirou said in a grand manner, and then she excitedly grabbed Chen Lu and pointed to the pavilion in the distance.
"This pavilion is similar to the one at our school, the one we used to go to all the time at lunchtime..."
Chen Lu also thought it was similar, but the difference was that it was easier to get mosquitoes here in the summer. "Haven't been there in a long time, have you?"
"Would you like to go again sometime?" She quite liked the place; after all, it held many memories for her. The first time in years she had been able to take a peaceful afternoon nap was in that pavilion.
“How am I supposed to hold you for your afternoon nap if we go there?” Chen Lu had just finished speaking when he saw the girl pouting at him, so he quickly cleared his throat. “Ahem, it’s mainly because it’s too cold now, and I’m afraid you’ll catch a cold.”
"Chen Lu... be careful, you might suddenly turn into Pinocchio one day," Liang Zhirou whispered, trying to scare him.
That guy is awful, all he does is lie to her all day...
"That would be great!"
Chen Lu said casually, "If I were Pinocchio, I would first say what the first digit of the winning lottery number is, and then see if my nose gets longer."
Or, to put it another way, this stock is guaranteed to go up, so you can make a living just by staying home and playing games every day.
"If we go to something even more complicated, I could even do scientific research. Pinocchio is a pure causal weapon. It can ignore all factors and directly judge whether something is right or wrong. The only thing that affects its performance is human imagination."
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