Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 817 Ying Zhicheng: Room Check!

"Sister, you're so naughty! You said you'd sleep in your own room tonight, but you still sneaked over here."

The room was dark, with no lights on. Before Yan Zhusheng even reached the bedside, her voice had already reached their ears.

Upon hearing her younger sister's voice, Ying Chanxi immediately whimpered in Li Luo's arms, "How dare you say that to me? At least my room has a walk-in closet connected to the master bedroom, but what about you? You still came over."

"I'm here to check on the patients." Yan Zhusheng walked to the bedside, and the moonlight fell on her profile, allowing Li Luo to see her serious face. "I found out as expected. Sister, you should go back to your room."

"No." Ying Chanxi has become shameless now, hugging Li Luo tightly and refusing to let go. "Since we're already here, I'm not going back. If you're just checking the rooms, go back to sleep as soon as you're done."

"That won't do." Yan Zhusheng shook her head. "Mom and Dad are staying here today. What if they come up here?"

“How could that be?” Ying Chanxi immediately shook her head. “They sleep on the first floor, why would they come up to the third floor in the middle of the night? As long as we get up early as usual tomorrow, we definitely won’t be discovered.”

"Since you say so, sister, then I won't leave either." Yan Zhusheng said as she crawled onto the bed, grabbed Li Luo's arm, and leaned into his other arm, letting Li Luo hug her.

"You call this a ward round?" Ying Chanxi retorted immediately upon seeing this. "If you want to sleep together, just say so. Stop beating around the bush."

"I was worried that Li Luo would be too lonely," Yan Zhusheng said, blinking her eyes as she lied. "It's better to have more people on such a big bed."

Li Luo listened to the two girls bickering in his arms, but didn't interfere. He simply enjoyed embracing them on either side, occasionally making a lewd move, and was completely satisfied.

Before the two sisters had even finished arguing, the door to the master bedroom was gently pushed open again.

"Huh? They're all here."

Xu Youyu's soft laughter came from the doorway. She quickly came to the bedside and said with a grin, "You two are not being honest. You even sneaked away."

"Isn't it the same for you, senior?" Ying Chanxi felt Xu Youyu pressing against her back and immediately pouted and hummed.

"Hehe." Xu Youyu was not shy at all. He hugged Ying Chanxi from behind, but his hands were already wandering over Li Luo's pants. "The bedroom here is too big. I'm not used to sleeping alone, so I have to come and squeeze in with you guys."

Li Luo's breathing quickened, and then she became even more silent, only slightly arching her knees to make Xu Youyu's hand less noticeable under the blanket.

We had agreed to sleep in our own bedrooms tonight, but in the end we ended up sleeping in the same bed.

Li Luo was also quite helpless about this.

If I had known, I wouldn't have arranged bedrooms for the three of them at all. I could have just put them all in one master bedroom and used the other three bedrooms for other purposes.

However, considering the need to deal with the elders' visits just in case, Li Luo only thought about it in her mind.

Hmm... Once we've settled things with the elders and everyone's lives are completely settled, and we have a child, those three bedrooms can be used for the baby...

Li Luo was envisioning the future in his mind.

And at this moment.

In the guest room on the first floor.

Ying Zhicheng lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

Yuan Wanqing, who had already finished applying a face mask and was getting ready for bed, was annoyed by his noise and couldn't help but say, "Are you having trouble sleeping in this bed? You drank quite a bit today, and you still can't sleep?"

"How can you sleep?" Ying Zhicheng couldn't help but turn to look at Yuan Wanqing and say, "Right now, Zhusheng and Xixi might be lying in the same bed as Li Luo."

These words almost made Yuan Wanqing lose her composure.

"What can you do then? Can you run up there and drag Xixi and Zhusheng out?"

"I'm feeling really down," Ying Zhicheng said, feeling a bit frustrated. The more he thought about it, the less he could sleep, and he sighed several times. "You have no idea."

"I went out to use the restroom in the afternoon, but there were people in the restroom on the fourth floor, so I went to the third floor and happened to walk into Li Luo's bedroom."

"His bed in the master bedroom is several meters wide, it's clearly designed for sleeping with two big blankets on either side!"

"Tell me, isn't this going too far?"

"It's bad enough that they kidnapped our two precious daughters, but they even had designs on..."

Towards the end, Ying Zhicheng was almost speechless.

Yuan Wanqing added the phrase for him: "One dragon and two phoenixes, right?"

Ying Zhicheng: "...Could you please not say it? It makes me feel even worse."

“But Zhusheng said she hasn’t done it with Li Luo yet,” Yuan Wanqing blinked and reminded her. “If she really had, she would definitely have told me. She never hides this from me.”

These words made Ying Zhicheng feel even worse.

"Why didn't Xixi tell me?" Ying Zhicheng sighed again, feeling like his white hair was about to grow.

“Dad and Mom are a little different, aren’t they?” Yuan Wanqing quickly comforted her. “After all, it’s a rather private matter. Daughters are definitely more likely to talk about these kinds of topics with their mothers. It’s normal that Xixi doesn’t tell you.”

Ying Zhicheng lay on the bed and wiped his face.

Having worked for so many years and served as general manager for several years, he had long since mastered the skill of not showing his emotions.

But when it came to his daughter's marriage, he unusually found himself unable to control his emotions.

I've already broken through my defenses so many times today.

"I haven't been caring enough for her..." Ying Zhicheng sighed softly, feeling that he was not a good enough father.

At this point, Ying Zhicheng suddenly had a whim and turned to Yuan Wanqing, asking, "How about I go upstairs and have a chat with Xixi? We just moved to a new house today, so I might use this as an excuse to have a heart-to-heart talk with her. What do you think?"

Yuan Wanqing sighed and rubbed her forehead: "...Are you sure you want to go up at this time? It's almost eleven o'clock."

"Isn't it still early?"

“But…” Seeing his somewhat tempted look, Yuan Wanqing couldn’t help but remind him, “What if you go up and happen to run into Li Luo and Xi Xi doing… that… what do you do then?”

These words were like a bombshell, exploding in Ying Zhicheng's heart and silencing him completely.

Just thinking about that scene made him clench his fists.

But the thought of himself sleeping on the first floor while his precious daughter was being bullied by Li Luo on the third floor was unbearable for Ying Zhicheng.

"No, now that you say that, I'm even more determined to go up!"

Ying Zhicheng sat up abruptly in bed, ultimately unable to suppress the indescribable feelings in his heart.

I wouldn't call it anger, but it's not exactly jealousy or possessiveness either.

Anyway, it's just that awkwardness of my father that's hard to explain.

But after Ying Zhicheng got out of bed, he didn't leave the room immediately. Instead, he paced back and forth by the bed, muttering to himself:
"I'll go up first, knock on Xixi's bedroom door, and say I need to talk to her."

“If she sleeps alone in the bedroom, without anyone else, then I’ll have a heart-to-heart talk with her.”

“If I’m with Li Luo, but we’re not doing anything, then I can call her out for a chat.”

"If... um... then I won't bother them. I'll just come down and ignore them!"

Yuan Wanqing lay on the bed, listening to Ying Zhicheng ramble on and on, and was speechless. However, Yuan Wanqing was also somewhat surprised, after all, she had always felt that Xixi's personality was more introverted and gentle, far less proactive than Zhusheng.

Logically speaking, unless Li Luo actively sought it out, Ying Chanxi would never have gotten to this point with Li Luo so quickly, right?

But since things have come to this, there's not much more to say.

Anyway, Yuan Wanqing had long accepted the relationship between her two daughters and Li Luo, and her mind was not as twisted as Ying Zhicheng's.

As long as Li Luo treats Xi Xi and Zhu Sheng well and doesn't let the two girls down, Yuan Wanqing will be content.

But seeing Ying Zhicheng finally make up his mind and push open the door, Yuan Wanqing's heart stirred, and she got up and followed him out of bed.

It would be good to have a heart-to-heart talk.

Zhicheng will talk to Xixi later, and I'll talk to Zhusheng too.

With that in mind, Yuan Wanqing didn't let Ying Zhicheng go up alone, but accompanied him in the elevator, and they soon arrived at the third floor.

"By the way, do you know which room Xixi is in?" Yuan Wanqing followed Ying Zhicheng out of the elevator and walked down the dimly lit corridor, asking him in a low voice.

At this moment, due to the sound of footsteps, the motion-activated lights in the corridor slowly turned on, maintaining a level that was not dazzling yet still allowed people to see the corridor clearly.

Ying Zhicheng walked ahead and soon arrived at the room next to the master bedroom: "Xixi mentioned last night that her room is next to Li Luo's, that's the master bedroom, opposite is Zhusheng, and diagonally opposite is Youyu."

As he said this, Ying Zhicheng arrived at Ying Chanxi's door. After taking a deep breath, he looked up and gently knocked on the door.

Yuan Wanqing watched Ying Zhicheng knock on the door, her gaze shifting back and forth between Ying Chanxi's door and Yan Zhusheng's door.

She thought she would wait until Ying Zhicheng found Xixi before going to check on Zhusheng's room.

When they knocked on the door, there was no response from inside.

Ying Zhicheng's face darkened, a bad feeling creeping into his heart. But he still stubbornly raised his hand and knocked a few more times, clearing his throat with a cough, and said into the doorway, "Xixi? Are you asleep?"

Yuan Wanqing looked at the unresponsive door and had already guessed what was going on, so she turned her gaze to the door of Li Luo's master bedroom.

"How about... you go knock on Li Luo's door?" Yuan Wanqing coughed lightly and reminded Ying Zhicheng.

Ying Zhicheng fell silent instantly, somewhat reluctant.

But at this moment, he already had a picture in his mind, and his fist hardened.

But just as he was desperately about to knock on Li Luo's door, footsteps that seemed like salvation finally came from Ying Chanxi's bedroom.

The footsteps were very hurried, and the person rushed to the door, opened it abruptly, and revealed Ying Chanxi's somewhat tense face.

"Dad? Why did you come up here?"

Ying Chanxi asked in a low voice, then turned her head and saw Yuan Wanqing next to her, and was immediately surprised, "Yuan... why is Mom here too?"

“Your dad insisted…” Yuan Wanqing helplessly spread her hands, about to explain.

Ying Zhicheng, who was standing nearby, quickly interrupted her and said to Ying Chanxi, "I have something to say to you. Is it convenient for us to go in now?"

"Yes, sure..." Ying Chanxi nodded somewhat guiltily, then opened the room door completely.

She was wearing an adorable panda pajama set. After welcoming Ying Zhicheng and Yuan Wanqing in, she didn't turn on the main bedroom light, but instead lit only a bedside lamp.

The dim light only illuminated a corner of the bedside.

Ying Chanxi consciously led the two towards the head of the bed, but Yuan Wanqing followed behind into the room and subconsciously reached for the wall: "Xixi, I've turned on the light."

"Ah? No..." Before Ying Chanxi could finish speaking and stop them, the bedroom was instantly brightened by the main light turning on.

But the entrance to the walk-in closet on the right-hand side after entering the room also lit up.

According to the light range of the bedside lamp, Ying Zhicheng and Yuan Wanqing would have passed the sliding door of the dressing room after walking a few more steps after entering the room.

It's highly unlikely that anything will be discovered.

However, because Ying Chanxi came over in such a hurry, he didn't have time to close the sliding door.

With the lights on, it was impossible for Ying Zhicheng and Yuan Wanqing not to notice.

So the two of them turned their heads and saw the scene in the dressing room, as well as the sliding door at the other end of the dressing room, which was also open.

This direction...

This distance...

The couple weren't stupid; they immediately realized where the other door led.

Looking at the bed in the room again, the blankets were still neatly folded and placed at the head of the bed, showing no signs of having been slept on.

Ying Zhicheng glanced at his guilty daughter, said nothing more, and simply turned and walked straight toward the dressing room.

Yuan Wanqing glanced at Ying Chanxi, waved to her, and then gently comforted her by taking her small hand in hers, "It's okay, your dad just had a lot of shocks today, he'll get used to it."

Despite listening to Yuan Wanqing's comforting words, Ying Chanxi was not entirely at ease.

After all, when she ran over to open the door, the senior student was still lying on Li Luo's bed.

What if we get caught...?

But just as Yuan Wanqing was holding Ying Chanxi's little hand and following Ying Zhicheng into the master bedroom, the bedside lamp was turned on.

Yan Zhusheng was lying in Li Luo's arms, her arms wrapped tightly around his neck, blinking her big eyes as she greeted Ying Zhicheng and Yuan Wanqing, "Good evening, Mom and Dad."

Ying Zhicheng: "..."

Yuan Wanqing: "..."

Seeing her daughter's shameless behavior, Yuan Wanqing covered her face and sighed helplessly.

Ying Zhicheng's lips twitched as he watched Li Luo wave and greet him awkwardly. He could only nod slightly in response.

At that moment, Xu Youyu had already slipped into the bathroom and hidden there, eavesdropping on the situation outside through the door. He was both nervous and excited, and his heart was pounding.

"Uncle Ying... what's going on here?" Li Luo sat up from the bed and asked awkwardly, scratching his face.

"N-nothing..." Ying Zhicheng waved his hand, "I just wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with Xixi..."

As for now... who has the heart to have a heart-to-heart talk?

The young people are playing too fancy, turning their walk-in closets into secret passages. What can he say about that?

The thought of his two precious daughters actually sleeping with that brat Li Luo filled Ying Zhicheng with heartache.

I wish I hadn't come up here...

(End of this chapter)