Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 26: The Gate of Kassel (VI)
Beep-beep-
A series of busy tones.
The phone call was hung up in a hurry. Chu Zihang felt that Lu Mingfei might have something urgent to do. She spoke very quickly at the end of her conversation, as if someone was driving her with a whip from behind.
Chu Zihang turned off his cell phone and placed it on the bedside table. He took off his coat, which he had already put on, turned off the bedside lamp, and curled up in the quilt again, lying upright and looking at the ceiling, completely unable to sleep.
Lu Mingfei's imagination was correct. Chu Zihang was indeed fast asleep before she called. He woke up and chatted with her for a while only after seeing the caller's name. The N95 mobile phone was distributed to freshmen by the college. Chu Zihang added his contact information through his mentor Professor Schneider and entered Lu Mingfei's contact number on his mobile phone in advance. He knew that she would call him after seeing the letter.
But Lu Mingfei obviously didn't think it through. A late-night overseas phone call can often fill a person's anger tank and throw an EX killer. Fortunately, Chu Zihang is not one of these people. Just like he doesn't seem to smile much, he doesn't get angry much either. Even if you are face to face, it is difficult to judge what this person is thinking from his expression.
To put it in a more popular and romantic way, he just has facial paralysis, which fits the image of a domineering CEO. According to Chu Zihang's family background, he is likely to inherit his father's business in the future - the business of his stepfather. If this trend continues, it seems natural that he will become the facial paralysis hero in the romantic story.
But the real Chu Zihang is not overbearing at all. On the contrary, he is very warm. He is the kind of person who, when he sees a cat in a paper box on the roadside on a rainy day, will leave the umbrella for the cat and squat beside it until he meets someone who is willing to take them in, and then he will go home.
Just as he said, I help others when I have the strength, hoping that others will help me when they have the strength.
Lu Mingfei had helped him once on that Maybach. If it hadn't been for her, Chu Zihang would have definitely chosen to turn back and be with that man. It was an honor for the boy to die alongside his father, even if it was a wrong choice. Chu Zihang still thinks so today.
Lu Mingfei shouldn't have gotten on the bus, but that's what happened. Her presence changed Chu Zihang's decision at that moment, which allowed Chu Zihang to live to this day and still remember that man.
Chu Zihang felt that he owed Lu Mingfei a big favor, so he should help her more, even if his return was far beyond what the girl could accept. Lu Mingfei's idea of clearing both sides did not apply to Chu Zihang.
He slowly closed his eyes, his hands resting quietly on his chest, and his memory went back to that rainy night on the elevated road, when the man was driving his Maybach at full speed, and the boy and girl were leaning side by side on the back seat, watching him excitedly say the words he had nagged so many times.
Someone once said that human memory is like a magnet. After a long time, it will lose its magnetism and gradually forget some very important things. If you want to fight against memory and remember something stubbornly, you can only recall it over and over again.
This is a compulsory course for Chu Zihang. Before falling asleep every time, he would recall what happened that night. The faces of his father and the girl would never fade, but would only become clearer and clearer in his dreams until they were engraved deep in his heart.
“Aaaaaah…I’m such an idiot!”
At this time, Lu Mingfei, a classmate on the other side of the earth, was covering her face with shame and twisting like a maggot as the security guard looked at her like a fool.
It was her late-night phone call that woke Chu Zihang up, and she was so self-moved that she was not shy or impatient that she hung up the phone in a hurry to hide her restless heart that was about to jump out of her chest.
What would Chu Zihang think? Would he think she was rude? Or would he think her EQ was shockingly low?
She wanted to call back and apologize to her senior brother. Her fingers moved to the dial button several times. Her other hand seemed to have its own will and rushed over to hold her tightly, shouting, "If you call again just to say sorry, you are really a stupid woman! Girls should learn to be reserved! The hand holding the phone said, "Bullshit, can you eat with reserve?" Can reserve help your senior brother get back his impression of you?
The two hands were fighting wildly in broad daylight, like a husky spinning in circles and biting its own tail.
Finally, the security guard couldn't stand it anymore, so he pushed the door open, patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder and asked, "Classmate, are you okay? Do you need me to take you to the hospital?" Lu Mingfei blushed, nodded and said, "Uncle, I'm sorry, I'm fine, I'm just very sad." The security guard thought, "Come on, why are you acting out the Yangko dance here when you're sad?" I guess you must want to chat on the phone with your boyfriend but you're too embarrassed to take the initiative. "Uncle, I'm an experienced person too, don't I know what you little girls are thinking? Back then, I, Li, was a handsome young man in the area! The girl who came to propose marriage can flatten the door of my house!"
Lu Mingfei ran home with her tail between her legs. Lu Mingze was lying on the sofa eating potato chips, and the coffee table was full of snacks. Auntie usually wouldn't be so extravagant, at most she would buy some dried fruits. Uncle's company gave him two shopping cards, and he generously gave them to Lu Mingze, saying that he would buy some snacks for you and your sister, so there were so many delicious things.
Lu Mingze didn’t really want to share the food with his elder sister, but with so many snacks, it would take him several days to eat them all by himself. So he just pretended to be generous, patted the bag of potato chips and asked, “Who wants to join us?”
Lu Mingfei said "no need" and closed the door. After a while, there was a small noise from inside that the door was locked. Lu Mingze scratched his head and thought, this is really strange. His neck is so red, maybe he is sick. Why did he lock the door in the room instead of going to the hospital? Can he just lick his wound like a cat and it will get better?
The bed sheet was blown up high with a rustle. Lu Mingfei jumped onto the bed and hugged the pillow, letting the pink sheet cover her tightly. The mattress bounced with the clatter of her calves.
Only in her own little world could she calm down a little. Her cheeks felt so hot that they seemed to be burning. Something was extremely wrong.
The answer to why this happened was obvious, but she really didn't want to admit that she was so vulgar, just like those girls in Shilan Middle School. Just because that guy was so nice to her, just because he was so handsome and warm, she fell quietly into the gentle arms of his careless arrangement.
But she just falls for it. A stupid girl who has never received any warmth is like Cinderella. If suddenly a prince appears in front of her with crystal shoes, and she doesn't feel moved at all, then she's crazy, right ?
Hate hate hate!
He pounded the pillow frantically with his little fists to vent his anger, as if it was that damn Chu Zihang, who was always flirting with everyone and never responded, and who deserved to be surrounded and torn into eighteen pieces by the girls who liked him in the future.
Why is it him? Why do I like him? Lu Mingfei, you idiot! You have no backbone! You are a coward! I bought you off with a hairband and an invitation letter!
"Well, I look forward to meeting you in Cassel."
That gentle voice echoed in my ears again. Just imagining it was as if Chu Zihang was lying beside the bed, breathing those poisonous words into my ears.
Lu Mingfei's fists that had been used to vent her anger suddenly lost their momentum. She felt a little tired and extremely disappointed with herself for not living up to her expectations.
"It turns out that I have fallen in love with him a long time ago." She covered her face silently and admitted the fact that she least wanted to face.
