The heavy blackout curtains blocked out the sun, making the room dark.
A few pieces of clothing, condoms, and a torn red ribbon were scattered on the ground. There was a knot at the end of the streamer and it was cut in the middle.
Lu Xiao only wore a pair of pajama pants, her back muscles were covered with scratches, and she fell unconscious while sleeping with a white quilt in her arms. Ye Cheng rolled all the quilt away, not covering Lu Xiao at all, and even dragged half of his own side to the ground, revealing a few black hairs under the quilt.
The two were woken up by the ringing of the phone.
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring.
Ye Cheng covered the quilt even tighter, completely hiding herself.
His cell phone kept ringing, deafening and extremely noisy.
Lu Xiao got up with her messy hair, connected it to her ear, and said with a grumpy face, "You wake up early in the morning? Hit, hit, hit, don't you?"
Song Haoran on the other end was frightened, and it took him a long time to whisper: "It's half past ten... Is Ye Cheng there? Teacher Sixiu called the roll."
Lu Xiao yawned, and said, "You can shout for help, he won't deduct points."
"Huh?" Song Haoran was confused.
Lu Xiao hung up the phone and fell down again, half lying on top of the quilt.
Too sleepy.
They didn't go to bed until nearly seven o'clock, and they were woken up as soon as they closed their eyes.
Ye Cheng completely lost consciousness under the quilt, and fell into a drowsy sleep until the afternoon.
He underestimated the madness of the male college student too much. Last night, Lu Xiao seemed to have eaten a whole box of that guy, pressing him from the bed to the chair, from the bathtub to the mirror, from the French window and back to the bed.
That poor red ribbon became a tool to bind his hands.
In the end, Ye Cheng's voice became hoarse, and she pushed his shoulder and said no. Lu Xiao hugged him intimately to take a bath, and then came again in the shower.
The two of them stopped for a moment in the middle, but as long as they looked into each other's eyes and talked, they couldn't help but entangled again.
Ye Cheng only felt that his bones were about to fall apart, and he lost consciousness as soon as he touched the pillow.
When he opened his eyes weakly and tiredly, Lu Xiao's face was lying on his pillow. Lu Xiao put her hands under her chin, and just stared at him intently for an unknown how long.
"What time is it?" Ye Cheng rubbed the center of her brows, and only when she opened her mouth did she realize that her voice was as hoarse as if a handful of sand had been sprinkled on it.
Lu Xiao stretched out her hand to help him press, her soft fingertips lightly brushed his eyebrows and temples.
"Three o'clock," he said.
Ye Cheng suddenly opened her eyes wide and sat up from the bed.
This action involved something, and he couldn't help "hissing" in pain.
"It's over, Lao Yang has class today." He lifted the quilt and was about to get out of bed, "Old Yang likes to roll call."
Lu Xiao easily pushed him back, and said with a smile: "I asked him for leave, and he said he would let me treat him to the cafeteria's beef noodles next time as compensation."
Ye Cheng stopped and looked at him strangely: "Isn't it strange that you asked for leave for me?"
"I said you are my cousin." Lu Xiao said nonsense, "Let me see if the shoulder is better."
He turned Ye Cheng over and touched the rose on his shoulder with his fingers.
Fortunately, he remembered to take the medicine before going to bed, otherwise he would not be able to read it today.
Ye Cheng avoided it itchingly, turned his back to him and said, "Lu Xiao, don't do this next time."
He didn't say which, but both of them knew it.
It's too much to do so many times, and he will have to confess his life here a few more times.
Lu Xiao pretended not to understand, and surrounded him from behind: "What? Is it like this, or like this..."
Ye Cheng clasped his fidgeting hand and said angrily, "Lu Xiao!"
"Tsk, that's not what you called last night." Lu Xiao looked him up and down, "Why did you turn your face and deny anyone when you put on your pants? Oh no, you haven't put on your pants yet."
Ye Cheng shook off his hand, and wanted to climb out of bed.
Lu Xiao dragged him back like a toy, hugged him in her arms and coaxed in a low voice: "Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore, I'll take you to wash up, don't move around by yourself."
Ye Cheng blushed: "You must be sick."
As if she was taking care of a doll, Lu Xiaozhen brushed his teeth and washed his face with her own hands, bought breakfast and fed him bite by bite. A posture of holding it in the palm of your hand for fear of falling, and holding it in your mouth for fear of melting.
This is not the most frightening thing, what is even more frightening is that for the next whole day, he will be as clingy as if he has no bones. When I was in class, I sat on the side and stared at Ye Cheng. After staring at Ye Cheng, I became impatient, and whispered to him: "Can you stop looking at me? The teacher has looked at you several times."
Lu Xiao held her face up, her expression was pure and beautiful, not at all like the devil who fucked him all night last night.
He finally looked back and asked the girl in front to borrow a post-it note to write with her head down.
Ye Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and continued to take notes.
A few seconds later, Lu Xiao pasted the pink post-it note on the back of his hand, with only two words on it: Mine.
I still remember that when I was a child, before Lu Xiao had eaten spicy strips, she had no interest in this peerless delicacy. Later, I ate it once by chance, and I knew the taste after eating it, and I ate it every day. Then he was educated by Mrs. Wang, saying that it was unhealthy and he was not allowed to eat it. As a result, Lu Xiao got out of control and often secretly ate it behind her back.
There are two most taboo points, one is to eat marrow to know the taste, and the other is not to allow him to do so.
But for these two points, Ye Cheng stepped on the thunder.
After Lu Xiao tasted it once, she became more and more attached to him, wishing to stick together anytime, anywhere. If you ask him out on weekends, he will definitely not be able to get up the next day.
Out of health considerations, Ye Cheng made a rule of living with him only one day a week.
The consequence is that on this day, he needs to make up the remaining six days' debt.
Until one morning, he answered a call from Lu Zhanyang to Lu Xiao.
Lu Zhanyang immediately said: "Oh, nephew and daughter-in-law, why is your voice like this?"
Ye Cheng drank her saliva and slightly moistened her throat.
He struggled too much last night. In Lu Xiao's words, he was so delicate that he would scream when touched.
"Ahem, cousin, what's the matter?" He asked.
Lu Zhanyang crossed his legs, waved Xiao Qing'er away, and taught him, "It's not good to be too indulgent. That kid Lu Xiao is really lucky."
Ye Cheng automatically ignored the inconsistency of his two sentences, and asked again: "Is there something wrong?"
Lu Zhanyang said unhurriedly: "You guys are about to take the final exam, are you going back to Nandu together after the exam? It just so happens that the old man is back, I'll go and see him."
Ye Cheng was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly remembered that it was time for the old man to return to China for the second time.
At this time in the previous life, Lu Xiao had dropped out of school for more than a year, and Lu Jinnan came back from abroad to mediate for him, so he could send this ancestor to study abroad.
After Lu Jinnan returns to China this time, he will not go out again.
He has slowly transferred his main industries back and plans to retire in China.
However, what Ye Cheng thought of was another question—
Lu Jinnan always felt that Lu Xiao was rebellious, and he needed a woman to restrain him in order to change his violent temper. So in the first year Lu Xiao went abroad, he started looking for a blind date for him. Later, Ye Cheng heard from people in the Lu family that every year when Lu Xiao returned to China, he would be forced to meet several famous ladies.
A few years later, Lu Xiao met him, and Lu Jinnan stopped letting him see his blind date.
Ye Cheng tightly held the phone, wondering if Lu Jinnan would repeat the same trick after they returned to Nandu.
"Nephew, nephew?" Lu Zhanyang called him twice, "No way, you are nervous, are you worried about seeing the old man?"
Ye Cheng said helplessly: "To tell you the truth, I am quite worried."
Lu Zhanyang smiled and said: "That's good, treat me to a meal, and I'll tell you what kind of person the old man likes..."
Before he finished speaking, the phone in Ye Cheng's hand was snatched away.
Lu Xiao said, "Fuck you." Then she hung up the phone rudely.
"Are you afraid of my grandpa?" He asked Ye Cheng.
During the last family gathering, Ye Cheng didn't get close to the old man, nor did he say a word to him.
In fact, Ye Cheng is not worried about this, because besides Lu Xiao, he probably knows the old man best. The elderly like drinking Taiping Houkui, fishing, playing chess, and watching other people ski. Yes, he always likes to let Ye Cheng record skiing or bungee jumping videos for him to watch, but he never does it himself. I also like to keep birds of prey.
The reason why Lu Jinnan admired Ye Cheng in the previous life was firstly because his mentor was an old friend with him, and secondly because of his outstanding business ability in the company. Now that Ye Cheng didn't learn from her former mentor, and also didn't join the company, she really didn't know where to start. If you only start with his preferences, it will appear as if you have inquired about him in advance, which is even more impolite.
Lu Xiao squeezed his face: "Since you don't like it, then don't see him, just smile and don't sulk."
"I don't see any use now, I have to touch it." Ye Cheng laughed.
Lu Xiao said, "I'll take the money and run away with you, regardless of these difficult guys."
Ye Cheng smiled: "Don't be poor, didn't you say that there are questions you don't know, I'll help you look."
Lu Xiao took out the after-school homework of "Western Economics" from her schoolbag, looked at him adoringly and said, "Honey, why do you know everything? I've been dazed for a fucking semester, and you didn't listen to a class. They still look at the financial statements."
"These are the basics. You should pay attention to the lectures so that you don't have to learn them later when you enter the company." Ye Cheng said.
Lu Xiao nodded obediently.
Ye Cheng knew very well how difficult it was for Mr. Lu to walk all the way. In the most straightforward words, all the debts he owed had to be repaid.
It was impossible for Lu Jinnan to hand over such a large family business to a business rookie, so he was taken to do it at the beginning. At that time, Lu Xiao was completely illiterate. Apart from being able to fool people, she had no other strengths. So much so that after Ye Cheng took over the internal affairs, he found that he, Mr. Lu, was really aggrieved, and he didn't know how many old fritters with evil intentions under his hands tripped him up.
With his help, Lu Xiao gradually improved.
When he really took power, the first thing he did was to cut out those who were not his confidants.
Ye Cheng didn't want him to repeat such hard work in the future, so he strictly grasped his foundation.
"Look carefully at the demand curve..." He looked at Lu Xiao while explaining, but saw him taking pictures of himself with his mobile phone.
"What are you doing?" Ye Cheng asked inexplicably.
Lu Xiao said solemnly: "Take a picture of the way you taught me and send it to my grandfather. He likes academics the most. Go ahead and ignore me."
Ye Cheng: "..."