Sun Ruoxi was momentarily stunned upon seeing the message.
Then she slowly curled up in the blanket, biting the blanket tightly with her mouth, and suddenly burst into tears.
She didn't know why, but she didn't have the courage to do such a thing.
She didn't dare at all.
......
Qiongzhou.
"Wow, you're going to elope with me? That's so decisive."
Chen Lu lay down next to her eating melon seeds, chuckling as he teased Liang Zhirou.
He didn't go to ask Li Sinian what was going on. Even if they were close, he could only wait for Li to come to him for help. Going over to ask directly would only have the opposite effect.
You can't just see your deskmate fail a test, and before they even think about telling you, you say, "It's okay to not do well on one test, just try harder next time," right?
That's way too much.
Liang Zhirou then realized that Chen Lu had been watching her. A blush immediately crept onto her cheeks. She moved closer to the bed, buried her face in the blanket, and pretended not to have heard anything.
"I feel... she's so pitiful." After a while, the girl moved back and lay on him, letting out a soft sigh.
Chen Lu pondered for a long time, "It would be pitiful if she really continued to listen to her mother."
He still had some impression of Sun Ruoxi's mother. They had only spent a short time together, but he felt that her controlling nature was so pathological that it made him uncomfortable.
If Sun Ruoxi were even slightly smarter, she would have realized just how fragile and vulnerable the shackles her mother had placed on her were.
"What if your aunt starts crying, making a scene, or even threatening suicide? Would you still be willing to come with me then?"
"I would elope with you then."
"Why?"
“Elopement and repaying my mother are not mutually exclusive.” The girl blinked her clear and beautiful eyes and counted on her fingers one by one. “I just married you against my mother’s wishes. I will not abandon her. These are two different things from the beginning.”
And if Mom did that, it only means... she wasn't doing it for my own good at all.
"That seems to be true."
For a moment, Chen Lu didn't know whether this simpleton's thought process was just too peculiar, or whether his own thought process had been too heavily tainted by worldly concerns.
“I’ve discovered that you can be quite clever at times,” he said earnestly.
"How can you talk like that?" Liang Zhirou puffed out her cheeks, saying indignantly, "I'm only a little silly sometimes, but most of the time I'm quite smart..."
"Okay, okay."
Chen Lu turned over and stared intently at the white ceiling.
Damn, 300,000 yuan. Even if he were willing to lend it, Li Sinian would feel humiliated spending that money himself.
If that girl isn't willing to change for this...
It's a dead end.
......
There's a saying that goes, for couples, going on a trip is just about finding a different place to be lovey-dovey.
Chen Lu never believed it.
They arrived at their destination in the evening on the first day. Both of them were exhausted and had no desire to go out or have fun, so they didn't even leave the hotel.
The next day, the two slept until noon. Waking up in a hotel inevitably stirred up some thoughts, and after fussing for a long time, they were even more exhausted. They snuggled in the blankets and watched anime for a long time.
On the third day at noon, Liang Zhirou realized that the hotel cost nearly a thousand yuan a night. She couldn't stand it anymore and dragged him out.
"We stayed for two days and ordered takeout for both days!"
Liang Zhirou held up two fingers, speechless, and said that after doing a little calculation, she felt like dying.
Especially last night, when she saw Chen Lu eating spicy hot pot at the Qiongzhou Hotel, she didn't know how to describe her feelings.
That restaurant is part of a national chain; you can find it in Hangzhou too...
"Relax, just think of it as recharging." Chen Lu didn't mind. The point of traveling is to do whatever you want. Otherwise, it would be meaningless to feel like you're on a mission every day by checking off various places.
Moreover, he hasn't been idle these past two days. Contacting wedding photographers takes time—he plans to take all the solo photos of Liang Zhirou himself, but for group photos, he'll have to find another photographer.
I stepped out of the hotel amidst greetings from the hotel staff and soon arrived at the beach.
The seas in the north are generally greenish, like the one near Jiaozhou, which is slightly bluer.
The azure sea stretches to the horizon, merging with the skyline, seemingly endless.
Seeing that many other tourists around him were shirtless, Chen Lu decided to wear a swimsuit as well, just to sunbathe and get some calcium. Liang Zhirou, on the other hand, was still dressed very conservatively.
He didn't keep urging Liang Zhirou to change into her swimsuit. After all, guys all have the same mentality: the less other girls wear, the better, but when it comes to their own girlfriends, they want to make her wear two more layers.
Today, Liang Zhirou was wearing a white dress and strolling slowly along the coast with him, letting the sea breeze blow through her long hair. She looked very artistic.
When they reached a less crowded area, the two of them stopped there and quietly watched the sea.
"Come here quickly." Chen Lu suddenly walked into the sea, turned around and waved to Liang Zhirou.
The girl hesitated for a moment, then lifted her skirt, revealing her fair and tender feet and calves, and slowly stepped forward into the warm seawater.
"Ah—" The sudden, strange sensation made the girl exclaim in surprise, and she quickly moved closer to Chen Lu, as if she were afraid of being swept away by the waves.
The two helped each other regain their footing. Waves surged toward them, sometimes big, sometimes small, each one like opening a blind box with a different force.
The girl could clearly feel the waves crashing and receding beneath her feet, carrying away the mud and sand.
She felt like she could play here for ages just by standing there.
After a while, Chen Lu suddenly pointed his index finger into the distance and said expressionlessly, "The enemy is on the other side of the sea."
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