He stood against the light, and the orange-red afterglow of the setting sun surrounded him, but for some reason, those phoenix eyes were particularly dark and cold.
Shen Li froze for a moment:
"... What's the matter, second brother?"
She seldom saw such an expression on Lu Huaiyu's face. For a moment, she almost felt that he had seen her clearly and thoroughly from the inside to the outside.
But it was only for a moment. Hearing her voice, Lu Huai and his eyelashes moved slightly, and the sharpness disappeared quietly again.
"nothing."
he said,
"I just suddenly remembered something from the past."
His voice was as low and rambling as ever.
With that said, he lifted his legs and walked towards this side.
Shen Li was a little surprised:
"What's the matter, the second brother is so preoccupied?"
Lu Huaiyu had already walked to her side, he paused for a moment, seemed to laugh, and met her clear and dark peach blossom eyes.
He said:
"Thinking about... the first time you called me."
Shen Li was stunned.
He tilted his head slightly:
"I remember, you came home late that day, and Su Yuan deliberately made things difficult for you, didn't you?"
Shen Li nodded, and replied: "En."
"How did you think of calling me?"
he continued.
Shen Li blinked:
"Because the second brother is the second brother."
The Ye family dared to trouble her, but they never dared to offend Lu Huaiyu in the slightest.
She raised her small face and smiled with the corners of her lips curled up:
"Hold your thighs, can't you?"
Her eyebrows are curved.
Lu Huaiyu stared at her eyes for a few seconds, then laughed softly:
"Okay, why not. Just give you a hug."
When Shen Li got the answer, she nodded with satisfaction, and asked again:
"It's been a long time, why did the second brother suddenly think of this?"
Yes, it's been so long, how could he not notice it at all.
After the accident at Yan Huifeng, she never dialed that number for a whole year.
It wasn't until he finally saw her back again that night, until he chased after Ye's house, formally met her and supported her, that she made that phone call when she was in trouble.
She didn't even know that he had been in a car accident. When she was at the headquarters of Pheno Laboratory in Baicheng, she worriedly asked him if the scar on his back was from the car accident.
—If she had seen that business card, if she knew clearly that he was the one who saved him, why would she ask those words
She doesn't know anything.
But he was preconceived, so he ignored these obviously wrong places intentionally or unintentionally.
So much so that it was only now that he suddenly woke up.
But-
How did she call him when she didn't get the business card
Including later, she knew that he didn't like onions and what kind of coffee he drank.
Those are also things that he never mentioned to her, but she knows everything.
And, from the very beginning, she trusted him completely.
——If she didn't know that he was the one at Yanhui Peak, then how could there be anyone in this world who would give all their trust and dependence to a person they just met
In particular, she grew up in such a native family, and obviously she would not hand over these things easily.
Shen Li didn't care about his moment of silence.
Because she just asked that sentence casually, and didn't really want him to say anything.
She takes his hand:
"Second brother, let's go eat—huh?"
She paused suddenly, and looked down at the hands they held together, a little surprised:
"Second brother, why are your hands so cold?"
Lu Huaiyu came back to his senses and looked at her again.
She was lowering her head slightly, with a few strands of hair hanging down her cheeks, her voice was light and natural, and she was staring at his hand seriously.
"Ali."
He suddenly called her.
Shen Li looked up:
"Um?"
His Adam's apple rolled.
It is obviously such a simple sentence, but it is so difficult to say it at this moment.
At this moment, the cell phone in his pocket rang suddenly.
Seeing that he didn't move, Shen Li asked:
"Second brother, don't you want to see whose news it is?"
Lu Huaiyu calmed down a little and took out his phone.
Gu Tinglan's news.
[Tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, don't forget the consultation.]
It was as if a gust of cold wind suddenly poured into the stuffy and closed space.
He suddenly woke up.
Gu Tinglan probably knew that he had returned to China, so he specially sent this message to ask him to come over for a routine psychological consultation tomorrow afternoon.
Originally, he refused these, but after several negotiations with Gu Tinglan, the two each backed down a step.
Gu Tinglan stopped persuading him to take medicine, and he went to receive psychological counseling regularly.
In fact, his overall situation is constantly improving, but this time he accompanied him to Lilan, and his work and rest were reversed, so Gu Tinglan came to remind him again.
He turned his eyes slightly, and looked at Shen Li again.
If he continues to ask, it means that everything from the beginning will have to be spread out again.
Then, she also most likely knew about him—
"It's Gu Tinglan."
He quickly replied with a [OK], then turned off the screen, put away the phone,
"Invite me to dinner tomorrow."
The relationship between the two of them was good from the beginning, Shen Li didn't doubt that he was there, so she nodded her head:
"oh."
He held her hand tightly, and his voice was as low and gentle as ever:
"Let's go, the dinner will be cold at night."
With that said, he took her to the living room.
In the bedroom, the cabinet door had already been closed, and nothing seemed to have happened.
…
Shen Li felt that Lu Huaiyu tonight seemed to be different from usual.
But specifically, I can't tell.
At the dining table, while drinking porridge, she looked at the man sitting opposite from time to time.
This little move was quickly captured by Lu Huai.
He looked over, raised his eyebrows slightly:
"Why don't you eat well and keep peeping at me?"
"It's not peeping."
Shen Li coughed lightly,
"I was just thinking, did Second Brother have something to ask me just now?"
Lu Huaiyu put down his chopsticks and thought for a while.
He was actually restrained enough, but she obviously knew more about him than he expected.
When he was thinking about how to speak, Shen Li's cell phone suddenly lit up, and messages popped up on the screen.
She clicked on it, and found that the dozen or so messages were all from He Xiaochen.
Hmm... She sent the photos she took earlier.
[Ali! Here are ten of the best ones I've picked! Do you like it? In addition, there are hundreds of original pictures, I sent you the online disk!]
Shen Li: "..."
The photo came too suddenly, and the screen was swiped directly.
From her and Lu Huaiyu's appearance to their departure, within a short distance, He Xiaochen managed to capture a coherent sense of story.
And in all the photos, Lu Huaiyu was holding her hand tightly, protecting her tightly.
The last one is the back view of the two of them standing at the exit.
He was pushing the suitcase with one hand and holding her with the other. The crowd was crowded behind him and the traffic in front of him was constantly flowing.
He lowered his head slightly, and she raised her face, as if she was talking about something.
The gesture of looking at each other.
The surrounding scenery is blurred, only the appearance of the two of them is the clearest.
She picks up the phone:
"Xiaochen sent the photo."
Lu Huaiyu stared at the last photo on the screen, remained silent for a few seconds, and said with a smile:
"Well, that's what I want."
Well, when I started to connect the foreshadowing left over a thousand chapters ago, it proved that the story was officially coming to an end.
Of course Ali will confess, not now, but soon.
And for her, this confession has too much to say.
The concluding speech has already begun to brew in my mind.
(end of this chapter)