It happened in a flash, and Lu Shizhen was completely stunned.
The defenseless body fell forward under the pulling force. The faint smell of medicine mixed with the familiar fragrance filled Lu Shizhen's nostrils and enveloped her whole body.
Almost in the next second, Lu Shizhen heard a loud bang and shattering sound behind her, and a long electric sound suddenly passed through her eardrums.
The Sword of Damocles will never disappear out of thin air. This is her warning and punishment from the main system.
Calmness quickly turned into chaos like an avalanche.
Lu Shizhen knew that she was pulled over by someone to avoid the warning, and the person who pulled her over in time was Xu Shiyue, who clearly could not see anything clearly.
The slightly cool palm tightly grasped the girl's arm, and the other hand reached over her waist and pressed her whole body down.
The falling crystal chandelier did not hurt the defenseless Lu Shizhen at all. She just leaned against Xu Shiyue, with the distance between their nose tips barely visible.
Their eyes met, and the pair of empty and forever unfocused eyes in Lu Shizhen's memory lit up.
The dead silence and darkness seemed to have life moving in it, reflecting her cheek brightly and clearly.
The deep and gentle sounds of their breathing approaching each other reached Lu Shizhen's ears, and many memories flashed back in her mind.
In this lingering fear, Lu Shizhen looked at Xu Shiyue in disbelief, his lips slightly moving: "You..."
But before she could ask the question, another hand reached out and separated her from Xu Shiyue.
Lu Shize hurriedly stepped over the debris on the ground and interrupted Lu Shizhen's question: "Zhenzhen, Zhenzhen, are you okay, Zhenzhen?"
Lu Shizhen looked at the man in front of him who was no longer calm and shook his head: "I'm fine, brother."
Lu Shize was still worried, so he pulled Lu Shizhen aside and asked her everything: "Are you really okay? Do you want to go get checked to see if you have any injuries..."
While Lu Shize was focusing all his attention on Lu Shizhen, other people around him started to discuss quietly.
"How could this happen?"
"I don't know. The lamp suddenly fell down. If she hadn't dodged in time, Miss Lu would have died."
"This hotel's inspection is too careless."
"Maybe God is fed up with the behavior of some people."
As they were discussing, a particularly special statement suddenly interrupted them.
Xu Minjun watched coldly and was almost about to label Lu Shizhen with the word "retribution".
Some people don’t believe it: “It’s impossible…”
Xu Minjun already held a grudge against Xu Shiyue for what she had just done, but she had to bow to Xu Shiyue because she was the only one there.
Now that her father was by her side, she became even more unscrupulous in venting her hatred: "How is it impossible? These lights are reinforced and the hotel has to maintain them before every banquet. How could they just fall off?"
If anyone says that they don't believe in retribution, these upper-class people who have been in the business world for years are the least likely to not believe it.
Once you have a lot of money, you want to continue this glory, which cannot be achieved in the material world, so you choose gods and Buddhas.
Amidst the silence all around, Xu Shiyue stood up.
She did not give Xu Minjun the opportunity to continue with this idea, and asked: "Yes, why?"
Xu Shiyue's voice was as calm as ever, and his questioning voice was filled with coldness.
She walked slowly to stand in front of Xu Minjun, her raised eyes unfocused, dark and swallowing up all the light that came in.
The atmosphere in the meeting hall, which had just been quiet, suddenly changed to a quieter one, and the old foxes watching the scene chose to remain silent.
Xu Minjun thought that she wouldn't have to be afraid of Xu Shiyue anymore after returning here, but her strong and confident aura just now weakened at this moment.
"Sister, you are a graduate of S University's Business School after all. When you encounter something like this, instead of talking about sex first, you start to believe in ghosts and gods?"
Xu Shiyue addressed Xu Minjun as politely as she had just done in the bathroom, even with a bit of sisterly intimacy.
But the more she did this, the more Xu Minjun recalled the feeling of the scissors that the man had just put against the side of her face.
The broken glass reflected complex light, and people gathered around.
Xu Minjun just stared at Xu Shiyue like this, and was confused for a moment.
"Don't say too much before things come to a conclusion. Sister, have you forgotten? This is what our second uncle taught us." Xu Shiyue still had that calm and even somewhat intimate tone. While speaking, he slowly walked up to Xu Minjun, who was full of doubts.
The light fell between the two of them, and to those around them it looked like a completely friendly scene of the Xu sisters being friendly with each other.
Only Xu Minjun knew that when Xu Shiyue was helping her tuck her loose hair behind her face, he whispered something in her ear.
—"Sister, this strand of your hair is a little bit naughty."
The trimmed and round nails brushed against Xu Minjun's skin along with the long hair tucked behind her ears, and the sound wrapped in heat also fell into her ears.
Although both strokes carried human body temperature, Xu Minjun's palms still broke out in cold sweat.
She really couldn't tell whether Xu Shiyue could see or not, but this didn't stop her from feeling that even if her father was right next to her at the moment, Xu Shiyue could still take care of her.
The episode ended when Xu Shiyue took her hand away from Xu Minjun's ear, and the fragments reflecting different lights were picked up by the waiter.
What Xu Minjun couldn't tell, Lu Shizhen could tell.
Xu Shiyue really saw it.
From the tiny crystal fragments she had just walked around on the ground, from when she recognized the fake strawberry that even she didn't recognize.
Lu Shizhen was surrounded by various people who came to offer their condolences, and looked at Xu Shiyue's upright figure through the gaps.
There was a sense of loss and loneliness in the girl's lowered eyes, and she was completely unmoved by the condolences from those around her.
So Xu Shiyue deliberately hid it from him.
She actually still doesn't trust herself that much.
Qiuqiu floated out of the system space silently and said carefully: "Host, I detected that your emotional index is a bit low. Don't be unhappy. It's a good thing that Xu Shiyue saw it again."
"Yes." Lu Shizhen nodded in agreement, and with some resentment, she added: "It's a good thing that only she can celebrate alone."
Qiuqiu comforted him: "Well, maybe Xu Shiyue also has her own unspeakable secrets? For example, she wants to appear weak in front of Xu Shouxian, so she doesn't tell anyone..."
Lu Shizhen frowned slightly and interrupted: "Why doesn't she just keep pretending? If she doesn't plan to tell me, why does she reveal her true colors in front of me? Am I easy to fool?"
This was the first time Qiuqiu saw Lu Shizhen show such emotion, she was a little at a loss: "Host..."
Lu Shizhen didn't want to talk much.
She didn't know where this inexplicable sense of loss came from. It was clearly marked in the original text that Xu Shiyue didn't trust her.
She was a little angry.
Angry that Xu Shiyue didn’t tell me.
Angry that Xu Shiyue didn't trust him.
But Lu Shizhen didn't understand that these things are only possessed by close people.
She didn't realize that Xu Shiyue had been moved from one place to another without her noticing.
It was a place she had never explored.
But it has already sprouted in my heart.
.
Such a serious accident caused the New Year's Eve party to end early, and Lu Shizhen had to persuade Lu Shize to go home.
After being checked and advised by Aunt Sun in her room and coaxed to sleep, she finally opened her eyes, tiptoed out of bed, and went downstairs to look for food late at night.
—The banquet hall was not a place for eating. The portions were so small that Lu Shizhen and Qiuqiu didn’t even feel full.
But as soon as Lu Shizhen walked downstairs, he found that the lights in the living room were still on.
She was a little scared that she would be caught by Aunt Sun, but she found that it was Xu Shiyue sitting alone on the sofa in the living room.
Xu Shiyue had also changed out of her banquet dress. The monotonous white home clothes were loosely draped over her body, pressing her straight shoulders down a little, as if they had lost their strength.
Her long, smooth hair cascaded down, thick and black, and it was impossible to see her expression from the side.
It seemed that it was not only her shoulders that had lost their strength, but her straight back also leaned against the sofa.
The bright lights formed a sharp contrast with the darkness outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. The endless darkness outside the windows seemed to isolate this area.
And in such a large area, there is only Xu Shiyue.
Lu Shizhen lightly grasped the stair handrail beneath her, and the cold and lonely feeling in the sight made her feel a little uncomfortable.
She was indeed angry with Xu Shiyue, but when she saw Xu Shiyue like this, she took a step forward and wanted to comfort her.
Xu Shiyue was sitting on the sofa, thinking about something, when she heard a burst of light footsteps.
Just as she was about to raise her head to look at the voice, she heard Lu Shizhen's voice ringing out: "It doesn't matter. Even if we didn't get in touch with Mr. Wang this time, there will be a next time. He won't be deceived by Xu Shouxian, a villain."
Xu Shiyue was stunned for a moment.
She just listened to what Lu Shizhen said just now, blinked slightly, and said in a calm voice: "Really."
"Yes, I can promise you." Lu Shizhen walked around the coffee table and came to Xu Shiyue, patting his chest, "If he doesn't cooperate with you in the end, just come to me."
Xu Shiyue listened to the man's confident voice and chuckled: "Okay."
The simple conversation ended and the living room fell silent for a moment.
Lu Shizhen sat on the sofa with Xu Shiyue. Just as she was about to say something, she was interrupted by Xu Shiyue's voice: "Sorry."
This time, the person who was slightly stunned was Lu Shizhen.
She seemed to realize what Xu Shiyue meant by this sentence, but also seemed not to understand, and her eyes were a little confused.
Xu Shiyue did not let her guess and confessed: "I saw it at the horse farm at the beginning of the month."
Lu Shizhen's eyes flickered and he said "Oh" lightly.
She couldn't quite describe how she felt when Xu Shiyue took the initiative to explain things to her, and soon the confusion was replaced by another emotion.
Lu Shizhen realized that Shen Yanxing was also at the racecourse that day.
So is this the effect of the bond between the heroines? It restores the light to those whose body index just exceeds the critical point...
"It's in the VIP lounge."
Lu Shizhen was still thinking about it when Xu Shiyue interrupted her wandering thoughts.
The pair of eyes that had been watching him at the banquet turned towards Lu Shizhen.
Lu Shizhen once imagined what kind of eyes Xu Shiyue would have when she saw him, but she found that her imagination was less than one percent of hers.
The dark pupils reflected the bright light above. Although it was much weaker than the sunlight, it still looked like it was dotted with stars, or an all-encompassing Milky Way.
pretty.
But it’s more than just beautiful.
Lu Shizhen was still here regretting his limited vocabulary when Xu Shiyue's voice came to his ears: "The first person I saw was you."
"999"
Xu Shiyue's voice was as calm as ever, and it gently fell on Lu Shizhen's heart.
Along with the sudden bonus points from the points system.
It seemed like the lag of the points system, but also like Xu Shiyue's true psychological reflection.
Without any warning, Lu Shizhen's heart skipped a beat.
It was as if a bunch of fireworks suddenly exploded in her starry sky, so brilliant and huge that it occupied the entire sky.
She was the first one.
Instead of Shen Yanxing.
The twisted crack opened up, letting the light in.
Lu Shizhen didn't know how to describe it. She actually felt extremely happy about this matter.
But it was obvious that she didn't need to compete with Shen Yanxing for anything.
Xu Shiyue said as she leaned sideways on the sofa back, looked at Lu Shizhen beside her and asked, "So, will you be busy later? If you are, come watch a movie with me."
There was an indescribable sense of fatigue in Xu Shiyue's voice, as if he wanted to ask something of himself.
Lu Shizhen thought of how Xu Shiyue had just sat alone in the living room, and thought about the banquet that had come to an abrupt end without any gain. She thought it would be a good thing to have someone to accompany Xu Shiyue who was in a bad mood, so she agreed: "Okay."
Xu Shiyue's calm eyes curved when he heard this.
She manipulated the TV screen skillfully and said, "I have watched all the unlimited streaming movies you recommended to me. They are quite good, so I want to find some unlimited streaming movies to watch this time."
As he said this, Xu Shiyue's selection box landed on the poster with the previous screen reflected up and down, and he asked in a gentle voice: "Is "The Grim Reaper" okay?"
(End of this chapter)