After a while, Chen Qudong spoke first: "I've heard my wife mention that Xu Yuan before. Is that you?"
"Your wife? Who is she?" Xu Yuan was still looking in the direction where Mu Li and the others left.
"Liang Ruoyi." Chen Qudong frowned when he said this name.
This name evoked a memory in Xu Yuan.
She then turned her gaze to Chen Qudong and looked at him carefully for the first time: "So it was you who married her?"
Surprised, she answered Chen Qudong's question: "Yes, I am that Xu Yuan."
Chen Qudong clenched his fists tightly and had an idea in his mind.
Lin Qing, who was forcibly taken away, felt confused and banged on the door to get out of the car: "Mu Li, what are you doing? Let me get off the car!"
Mu Li glanced at her and said, "Don't move."
Lin Qing couldn't open the car door, so she had to take out her cell phone from her bag. At this time, Xu Yuan called.
She quickly answered the phone: "Hello?"
As soon as I said one sentence, there was no sound on the other end of the phone.
When he looked again, the phone had been taken away by Mu Li.
Mu Li turned off the phone and threw it on the back seat.
Lin Qing was annoyed: "What on earth do you want to do?"
Mu Li frowned but said nothing.
After walking four or five streets, Lin Qing felt that there was no need to protest anymore, so he leaned his head against the window and looked at the street view outside the window with boredom.
The colorful lights are just coming on and the night is very dark.
The bustling city exudes a faint loneliness.
"Stupid, are you jealous again?"
During the silence, Lin Qing asked dully.
Mu Li gripped the steering wheel tightly: "You had a crush on Chen Qudong before, so now you can't meet him less often?"
Sure enough, I guessed it right.
Lin Qing laughed at him and said, "I've already said it, it was just a coincidence that we met, we didn't make an appointment."
But Lin Qing used this reason last time, and Mu Li didn’t believe it.
Seeing that Mu Li still had a gloomy face, Lin Qing could only sigh, feeling sad, and leaned there limply.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered something and turned to Mu Li: "Do you... have a stomachache?"
Mu Li mentioned this two days ago.
Come to think of it, Mu Li hasn't been eating well recently and has been staying in the study most of the time.
Mu Li was silent for a moment, then said, "Not bad."
Lin Qing stared at him.
After a few seconds, she suddenly patted the car door and said, "I want to get off."
Mu Li didn't ask and parked the car on the side of the road.
Thinking that Lin Qing was going to go back to find Chen Qudong, Mu Li didn't even look at her, but frowned slightly because of stomachache.
Lin Qing grabbed her bag and jumped out of the car. Before closing the door, she said to Mu Li, "Wait for me for a moment."
Because of the severe pain in his stomach, Mu Li simply let go of the steering wheel after Lin Qing got out of the car, closed his eyes and leaned back in the chair.
After an unknown amount of time, Mu Li felt that Lin Qing probably wouldn't come back.
Maybe this is the only way she can escape successfully - wait for me for a moment.
Let him wait, thinking there is still hope of staying.
Mu Li suddenly wanted to know what position he held in Lin Qing's heart.
He had been working long hours these past few days, so he just put aside the unfinished work and rushed to pick up Lin Qing.
At this moment, he rubbed his temple tiredly.
The car door made a sound, opened and closed.
Mu Li opened his eyes and saw a miniature bag hanging in front of him.
"Take the medicine quickly!" Lin Qing urged, and handed the bottle of mineral water in his hand to Mu Li.
Mu Li took the water and watched Lin Qing take out another box of medicine from the bag. The logo on it was obviously from a famous pharmaceutical factory.
There are a few big words printed on the box: XX stomach medicine.
Looking at Lin Qing again, beads of sweat were appearing on her forehead.
However, she seemed not to notice at all, and focused on opening the medicine box, carefully taking out two pills according to the instructions and stuffing them into Mu Li's empty palm.
"Eat quickly!" She pushed Mu Li's arm.
Mu Li stared at the pill in his palm, motionless.
Lin Qing was anxious: "Don't you have a stomachache? Why don't you eat?"
Mu Li still didn't move.
Lin Qing took the mineral water back, lifted the back of Mu Li's hand to let him swallow the pills, and then put the water into his mouth.
"I took this medicine when I had stomachache before, and it was very effective." Lin Qing vowed and asked Mu Li to drink some water.
Mu Li's expression changed slightly, very subtly.
But Lin Qing was tightening the bottle cap and didn't notice it.
She had just put the bottle of mineral water away and wanted to ask Mu Li if he was feeling better, but she felt an undeniable force on her shoulder that made her turn around.
"Does it still hurt?" Facing Mu Li's eyes that were fixed on him, Lin Qing asked hurriedly.
Mu Li moved closer to her: "There's no pharmacy nearby, where did you buy it?"
Lin Qing pointed behind him with his little finger: "I remember passing by one just now and then turned back."
The pharmacy Lin Qing mentioned is about ten minutes away from here.
But it took her less than fifteen minutes to go back and forth.
Mu Li's eyes darkened: "Very far."
Lin Qing arched his eyebrows and said, "It's not far at all. Look, I came back soon."
Before he finished speaking, Mu Li hugged her tightly.
"Mu Li...are you feeling better?" Lin Qing hugged him carefully.
"Yeah, much better." Mu Li's voice was a little muffled, and he buried her in his arms.
Lin Qing felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief, feeling Mu Li kissing his forehead.
She raised her head slightly.
"I thought you were going back to find Chen Qudong and the others." Mu Li said, feeling a little funny.
"Mu Li." Lin Qing called him seriously.
His heart sank.
"Um?"
"Can't you trust me a little more?" Lin Qing sighed.
"I..." Mu Li was speechless.
He wanted to say that he trusted her, but when the words came to his lips, he realized that he had not done it at all.
It turns out that he was the one who was petty all along
After a long while, Mu Li said again: "I believe you."
"That's right." Lin Qing snuggled in his arms.
Outside the car window, the city center and the entire city are full of lights.
Their shadows were printed on the car windows, creating a warm and beautiful scene.
Lin Qing obediently did not contact Chen Qudong again, and Chen Qudong, perhaps out of concern for Mu Li, also stopped contacting her.
However, Xu Yuan came to visit their home quite often.
After work that day, Xu Yuan and Lin Qing received a call while riding in the elevator.
Lin Qing didn't have the habit of listening to other people's phone calls, so he started to daydream.
Halfway through the run, he heard Xu Yuanling say, "Impossible!"
Fortunately, there was no one else in the elevator. Lin Qing was startled and looked over quickly.
Only then did she realize that Xu Yuan was not talking to her.
With a sigh of relief, she accidentally heard a man on the phone saying, "Be obedient, I'll come to you."
Somehow, Lin Qing felt that the voice sounded familiar.
Xu Yuan suppressed his anger and said, "Go ahead. I won't go back tonight. Things have come to this point. Just let it go."
It seemed that someone said something else on the other end, but Lin Qing didn't hear it clearly and Xu Yuan had already hung up the phone.
Lin Qing didn't say anything, Xu Yuan apologized first: "I'm sorry, did I scare you?"
Lin Qing shook his head: "What's going on? Is someone pestering you?"
This scene was not unfamiliar. I remembered that when I was in college, Xu Yuan was always surrounded by various men who launched various offensives against her. But Xu Yuan never even looked at those men.
Is this the case now as well
Just as I was thinking about it, the elevator dinged and the door opened.
Lin Qing followed Xu Yuan out and kept thinking about this question all the way.
When they reached the front door, Xu Yuan had no choice but to say, "It was something from the past. I've been a little confused lately."
Judging from Xu Yuan's tone, Lin Qing felt that it must be no small matter.
So he clapped his hands in a refreshing manner and said, "Let's go to my house. Didn't you just say that you wouldn't go home tonight? If you have nowhere else to stay, you can stay at my place."
Xu Yuan hesitated: "Is it inappropriate?"
"Why is it inappropriate?" Lin Qing dispelled Xu Yuan's doubts, "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, no one will dare to say anything to you."
Seeing Lin Qing's enthusiastic invitation, Xu Yuan no longer refused.
When the two returned home, the house was pitch dark.
Lin Qing turned on the light in the dark and asked Xu Yuan to sit down first.
"Mu Li doesn't seem to be at home." Lin Qing went upstairs and took a walk, then returned to the living room and said.
Xu Yuan saw that Lin Qing was a little happy and didn't understand: "He's not at home, why do you look so happy?"
Of course, Lin Qing couldn't tell Mu Li that she didn't like Xu Yuan, so she just laughed it off and said, "It would be embarrassing if he heard us talking between best friends."
Xu Yuan gently tapped Lin Qing's brow with his finger: "You're so smart."
While Lin Qing was making tea, Xu Yuan received another call from the same person.
Perhaps it was because of the other party's tough attitude that Xu Yuan was also very impolite: "Even if you stand at my door all night, it will be useless."
Xu Yuan lowered his voice this time, so Lin Qing couldn't hear the rest of his words clearly.
When Lin Qing came over with the tea, Xu Yuanzheng hung up the phone. She turned off her phone and threw it into her bag.
"It seems that the other party is also very persistent?" Lin Qing joked.
Xu Yuan shrugged helplessly, picked up a cup of tea and put it to his lips: "What are you holding on to? It's impossible in the first place. It's useless to hold on any longer."
Lin Qing sat down next to her and didn't think so: "If there is still a chance, why can't we be together?"
Xu Yuan forbearingly said, "Things are a bit complicated. We can't be together just because we like each other."
"What are you talking about?" Lin Qing immediately retorted.
Xu Yuan was stunned.
Lin Qing added: "If we can't be together even if we like each other, then what should we do? Shouldn't we try as long as there is a chance?"
What she said seemed to make sense.
But Xu Yuan seemed to have not figured it out yet.
"I want to go out and relax these two days." Xu Yuan put down the teacup, his eyes a little dim.
Lin Qing encouraged her: "You must go! You will be fine after a few days of rest. Maybe you will suddenly change your mind when you come back."
Seeing Lin Qing so sincere, Xu Yuan was very moved and hugged Lin Qing.
"Thank you!" she said, her eyes slightly red.
Lin Qing patted Xu Yuan on the back and smiled: "Okay, what's there to thank me for?"
Xu Yuan's eyes became even more melancholy.
They chatted for a while, and it was almost ten o'clock.
Lin Qing went to clean up the guest room for Xu Yuan, and called Mu Li because he was worried.
The other end of the phone was unusually quiet, and Mu Li's voice was a little low: "Be good, I won't go home tonight."
I couldn't tell where he was.
"Then... let's go out for a walk tomorrow, okay?" Lin Qing was full of anticipation.
Mu Li paused: "It depends on the situation."
It's a bit disappointing.
Lin Qing lowered his head.
"Then you should go to bed early." She forced herself to be alert.
Xu Yuan stood at the door of the guest room and called her softly, "Lin Qing, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay." Lin Qing quickly put away his phone, smiled, turned off the lights and went out.
"Don't I live here?" Xu Yuan was puzzled and pointed to the house behind Lin Qing.
Lin Qing shook his head and winked at Xu Yuan: "Let's sleep together tonight. You can tell me more stories."
"Where is your husband?" Xu Yuan asked doubtfully.