Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 398 Lover's Diary? (5000+ words)
The timing of Lao Lu's phone call was actually not very wise.

It is still around noon and the sun is high in the sky. Some people who eat lunch late at home are probably still eating at this moment.

It is a taboo to call someone when they are having dinner when you are asking them to do something. Logically speaking, with the skills that Lao Lu has acquired over the years in the workplace, he should not make such a low-level mistake.

But Lao Lu was a little overjoyed. When he was happy, he was not thinking about other things. He just wanted to quickly revitalize his relationship with Chen Wenwen's father. After all, they might meet each other every day in the future. If they meet this year, they will meet again next year. It is better to get married sooner rather than later.

In his heart, Lao Lu had silently changed the way he addressed Professor Chen to "Chen Wenwen's father."

Fortunately, the Chen family had finished lunch. Chen Wenwen returned to her room as soon as she finished her meal, saying that she was going to do her homework. Chen Wenwen's mother didn't know that her daughter was in a relationship yet. After finishing her housework, she returned to school. It was her turn to be on duty at the university's Youth League Office today.

Only Father Chen was left standing on the balcony with his hands behind his back, smoking a cigarette, thinking about the scene of wild boars digging up cabbages downstairs when he came home last night. His eyes swept over the pedestrians passing by downstairs, as if he was watching the grudges in the world with a cold eye.

At this time, the phone rang. Father Chen took out his phone and it turned out to be Wild Boar's uncle calling.

He had been on the phone with Lu Mingfei's uncle quite a bit recently, all about work, so he put out his cigarette in the flowerpot and answered the phone naturally: "Hello, is this Lao Ye... Lao Lu?"

Father Chen was still thinking about Lu Mingfei in a depressed mood, and the words "old wild boar" almost came out of his mouth. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and changed the name to "Old Lu" before the words came out, so there was no mistake.

When Lao Lu heard Chen's father calling him Lao Lu on the other end of the phone, he scratched his head in surprise.

The reason why I felt strange was that in previous contacts, Professor Chen had always been a very restrained person in keeping a distance. To put it simply, he was not approachable, and no matter how warmly you tried to get along with him, he would only call you Section Chief Lu.

And today, Professor Chen unexpectedly called him Lao Lu for the first time...

Is it because of Ming Fei?
Lao Lu thought secretly, because Professor Chen knew that Ming Fei was in love with her daughter and also knew that Ming Fei was my nephew, his attitude towards me also changed?
Thinking of this, Lao Lu suddenly smiled, thinking that the path of family affection seems to be really feasible!

Who said that the more a father-in-law looks at his son-in-law, the more he dislikes him? Look, Professor Chen likes our Ming Fei quite a lot...

So Lao Lu held the phone to his ear and replied with a smile: "Yes, yes, it's me, Lao Lu."

Father Chen thought that Lao Lu called him this time to discuss the project just like before, and he had already prepared a draft of a polite refusal in his mind.

But what surprised him was that Lao Lu didn't talk about the project at all, but just chatted about trivial matters. The topic was all about Chen Wenwen and Lu Mingfei, and his tone was weird...

How to put it, it was just like the tone of in-laws chatting. Even if Lao Lu asked him when he would find an auspicious day to get engaged, he would not find it strange.

No, no. Father Chen shook his head, thinking that he was just being too sensitive. It was just a child's love affair...

As Father Chen was thinking this, he heard Lao Lu on the other end of the phone getting excited and asking, "We were so busy talking about the kids that we almost forgot about the main thing. Professor Chen, do you think we should find time to meet and arrange a dinner or something? Some things can't be explained clearly over the phone."

Lao Lu's original intention was that work matters could not be explained clearly over the phone, and many details still had to be discussed in person.

But when Mr. Chen heard this, his eyes widened and he almost swore. Fortunately, his good upbringing over decades made him hold back his impulse.

How come the two families are meeting just now? You really want to discuss an auspicious date for the engagement with me? I am just open-minded, but that doesn't mean I am open-minded. If it were someone else's father, he would have beaten your Lu Mingfei away with a stick! If it weren't for the fact that your Lu Mingfei went to the hospital to see my Chen Wenwen every day, I would not have turned a blind eye to this matter.

He held the phone angrily, thinking to himself, aren't the people from Lao Lu's family too cruel? Not only do they want the project, they also want to kidnap my daughter whom I have raised for more than ten years?

Father Chen wanted to refuse righteously, but he hesitated as soon as the words came to his lips, and changed his words and said, "Let me see if I have time first."

When Lao Lu heard this, he thought, there's a chance! He quickly replied happily, saying that there was no rush, it was still early, and he could arrange it based on his schedule. We could meet for dinner whenever we were free, and then he hung up the phone happily.

However, Lao Lu hung up the phone happily, but Chen's father looked at the call records with mixed feelings.

No, isn't Wenwen just in the first year of high school? Three years of high school, four years of college, and two or three years after graduation. In his expectation, it would be at least ten years before his daughter would get married and start a family. This little cotton-padded jacket of his could be worn for another ten years at least.

How come Wenwen has just entered the first year of high school and he is about to meet his in-laws?
He suddenly felt that it might be a mistake to let his daughter go to Shilan Middle School.

But since the mistake has already happened, it seems that I can only let it go. I can't let my daughter transfer to another school next year, right? Besides, what's the point of transferring schools? Wenwen is already in a relationship. Forcing the wild boar and the cabbage to separate may even backfire.

As a father, Mr. Chen probably knew that his daughter was a love-minded person, because her bookshelf was filled with The Lover, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Jane Eyre.

Fortunately, Lu Mingfei, at least as a student, was acceptable to him. Chen Wenwen often mentioned him at home.

He also said that he was the monitor of the class, that he was responsible and patient with his classmates, and that he was a bridge of communication between teachers and students; that Lu Mingfei had good grades, especially in math, and that he would ask him questions about math that he didn't know; that Lu Mingfei was highly conscious, and that he often went to help out in the student union even though he didn't have a position there, and that he was a close friend of Chu Zihang, the vice president of the student union...

Every time when talking about Lu Mingfei, Chen Wenwen always had a smile on her face, which made the old father feel pain in his heart. He felt like he was being shown off by his daughter.

But the reason why Chen's father accepted Lu Mingfei's relationship with his daughter was because Chen Wenwen was misdiagnosed with lupus at the time, and no one was with her, only Lu Mingfei would visit her every day. This made Chen's father feel that Lu Mingfei didn't like Wenwen because she was pretty, because lupus is a disease that will make you ugly even if you cure it.

After much hesitation, Father Chen still felt that he should pay attention to Wenwen's relationship. Although he always adhered to the Huang Lao doctrine and insisted on letting nature take its course when it came to his daughter's relationship, Lu Mingfei's uncle even made an appointment with him for dinner...

I have to find out clearly whether Lu Mingfei is good to Wenwen before deciding whether to have this meal.

Thinking of this, Father Chen went to the bathroom to wash his face; feeling that it was not enough, he brushed his teeth to make sure that the smell of cigarettes in his mouth was gone; then he adjusted his collar in front of the mirror, and then came to his daughter's door and knocked on it.

"Wenwen, are you awake?" Father Chen asked in a low voice. He knew that his daughter would occasionally take a nap.

Chen Wenwen was also worried. She had just finished her homework for Chinese and English. She was going to take a break and write a novel during this time, but she emptied her bag and couldn't find her notebook.

She sat among the messy books and immediately remembered that she took the notebook out with her on a date yesterday... No, she took it out with her good friend when she was scouting a place, and then Lu Mingfei confiscated it and said he would return it to her after the date.

She remembered this incident when she and Lu Mingfei were riding on the bus back home, but when she got off the bus, she ran into her father and Lu Mingfei's uncle, and she forgot about it because she got nervous.

The notebook probably won’t be lost. Lu Mingfei is not the kind of person who loses things easily, so he should help her keep it safe.

But, but, the contents of that book must not be shown to Lu Mingfei!

Chen Wenwen felt that Lu Mingfei was definitely not the kind of person who liked to rummage through other people's things, but what if something unexpected happened, for example, Lu Mingfei put the notebook on the desk, and then a gust of wind blew in from the window and just opened the notebook to the most shameful page that was filled with her girlish fantasies.

Then Lu Mingfei returned to the room and glanced around, and saw...

Chen Wenwen's mind suddenly flashed with the image of Lu Mingfei returning to the room naked after taking a shower.

He opened the book and checked it. It was unsigned. On every page were the words "Lu Mingfei" written crookedly. He couldn't sleep anyway, so he looked carefully for half the night. Only then did he see the words between the lines. The whole book was written with two words: "like"!
Ah! No, if Lu Mingfei really saw it, how would she face Lu Mingfei in the future...

When Chen Wenwen thought of Lu Mingfei flipping through her book, which could almost be called a collection of love letters, she couldn't help but clench her cute toes. She wanted to bury her face with a pillow, as if this could stop Lu Mingfei from reading her "lover's diary".

It was obviously useless to just bury your head in the sand like an ostrich. Chen Wenwen, who had been tossing and turning in bed, got up with a red face, fished out her phone from under her pillow, found the top contact in her address book, and hesitated whether to call Lu Mingfei now and ask him indirectly whether he had read the contents of the book.

If not, that would be a blessing. She could also take the opportunity to ask Lu Mingfei out and get the notebook back.

If I had seen it… If I had seen it, I would have insisted that I was just writing down some sentences and using them as material for writing a novel!

As for whether Lu Mingfei believed it or not, she could only be stubborn... She couldn't really admit to Lu Mingfei that she liked him, right? And she was still writing a romance novel in private where he was the hero and she was the heroine. Chen Wenwen stared at the phone number she had memorized by heart in a daze. She had clearly decided to call and ask, but her fingers seemed to have no strength. She couldn't press the green dial button no matter what she did.

Just at this moment, there was a knock on her door, which startled her.

"Wenwen, are you awake?"

"I, I'm awake." Chen Wenwen said as she stuffed her phone under the quilt. "What's the matter, Dad?"

"If you have nothing to do, can't you come and check on my daughter?" Father Chen said through the door. Not sure if it was an illusion, but Chen Wenwen always felt that her father's voice sounded more nervous than usual.

"Can I come in?" Chen's father asked.

"Sure, I'll open the door."

Chen Wenwen slipped out of bed and opened the door in her plush slippers. Hearing the lock tongue snap open, Chen's father thought with some melancholy that his daughter had really grown up. She would lock the door in her room.

Father Chen walked into the room and closed the door behind him. Chen Wenwen sat on the bed obediently and gave the stool to her father.

"..."

Father Chen looked at the messy books on the bed and wondered what Wenwen had done in the room before he came in.

Could it be that she was secretly chatting on the phone with Lu Mingfei for a long time, which was why she rolled around in bed so messily?
"I was looking for something just now. I wanted to check my notes when I was doing my homework, but I couldn't find my math notebook." Chen Wenwen also noticed her father's gaze and quickly changed the subject and asked, "Dad, what do you want to say?"

Math notebook? But there are only Chinese and English homework on your desk.

Father Chen didn't expose her. After clearing his throat, he asked indirectly, "I don't have anything to say. I just want to ask about your life in school... By the way, the boy who sent you home yesterday was the monitor of your class, right?"

"Yes, he is Lu Mingfei." Chen Wenwen nodded, wondering if Lu Mingfei had anything to do with her school life?

"I've seen him several times before. When you were in the hospital, he went to see you every day."

When the two keywords Lu Mingfei and hospital were mentioned, Chen Wenwen subconsciously recalled the scene when Lu Mingfei kissed her when she was hospitalized. Her pretty face couldn't help but blush and she said "hmm" softly.

However, this blush was meaningful in Chen's father's eyes.

Why does Wenwen blush when the hospital is mentioned?
Father Chen pondered for a few seconds, and became more certain of his previous guess. He thought that it must be because Lu Mingfei went to the hospital to visit Wenwen every day, and took this as an opportunity for the two to get together. Maybe the two had already confirmed their relationship before Wenwen was discharged from the hospital, so Wenwen blushed when she mentioned the hospital.

And he actually watched the wild boar eat his cabbage without stopping it. What a sin!

But he was generally calm, probably because he had accepted the reality.

"So how is your relationship with Lu Mingfei? Is it going well so far? Is it going smoothly?"

Chen Wenwen was a little confused. She kept wondering why her father kept mentioning Lu Mingfei today. What did he mean by "is it going smoothly?" What kind of weird questions were these?

"Dad, why do you always ask about Lu Mingfei?"

Chen Wenwen muttered, "Lu Mingfei and I are doing fine. Dad, you don't have to worry about it anymore. We went to the water together yesterday..."

"water?"

"…I went to the city library to study for a day, Dad. You heard me wrong."

Father Chen pushed his glasses and looked at the bag with the aquarium logo on it on Chen Wenwen's bedside table. "Oh? You went to the municipal library to study, so why did you bring this aquarium bag back? Is it the aquarium's cultural commemorative shirt?"

"..."

Chen Wenwen, who was seen through, lowered her head unconsciously, feeling annoyed that she had forgotten to put away the gift that Lu Mingfei had given her.
"You're still lying to dad."

Father Chen rubbed Chen Wenwen's head and said, "It's okay to go out and play. Just tell mom and dad. After all, you are a big kid now and you will have your own life. Tell dad, did you and Lu Mingfei go to the aquarium yesterday? Is that dress a gift from Lu Mingfei?"

Chen Wenwen replied softly, "Lu Mingfei gave it to me." She didn't know why, but she always had a sense of déjà vu as if she was caught by her parents in a premature love affair, and then her parents gave her earnest advice...

Father Chen was looking at the clothes in the bag, a little distracted, thinking that the two of them were even wearing couple shirts, and their relationship was developing faster than he thought.

No wonder Lu Mingfei's uncle has already started to arrange for the two families to meet. Young people nowadays fall in love very quickly, like riding a rocket. I heard that some modern people get married after knowing each other for three days. According to this progress, the two families can discuss the wedding date on the day of graduation.

"Okay, Dad doesn't have any more questions to ask. Dad is not a rigid person. Dad has no objection to you doing the right things at the right age, as long as you protect yourself. Also, you must remember our teachings and know what you should and shouldn't do. Dad wishes you happiness."

Father Chen patted Chen Wenwen's head as if he were a priest blessing a believer, and felt that he had asked most of the questions he should ask.

Since his daughter felt that Lu Mingfei treated her well and their relationship was going well, he could rest assured. However, he still needed to consider whether to accept the dinner invitation from Uncle Lu Mingfei. He would discuss it with the child's mother when she came back.

Chen Wenwen accepted her father's blessing in a daze, and then watched her father walk out with heavy steps, with a dazed expression on his face.

What happened to Dad today?
Chen Wenwen was confused and thought that her father's behavior today was very abnormal.

Although she was concerned about the reasons behind her father's abnormal behavior, she had more important things to do now, which was to call Lu Mingfei and ask for her notebook back. This matter should be done sooner rather than later, because the later she called, the greater the probability that Lu Mingfei would open the notebook.

"Strange, where's my phone?"

Chen Wenwen searched for her cell phone over and over again on the desk beside her bed.

"Where did it go? No, we have to find it quickly. We can't let Lu Mingfei open the notebook and see what's inside! If he knew that I have always liked him and secretly wrote a novel about him..."

Chen Wenwen talked to herself anxiously, smoothed her hair and bit her lip, wondering where she had put her phone.

The next moment, I suddenly remembered that I seemed to have stuffed the phone under the quilt when my father knocked on the door.

Thinking of this, Chen Wenwen quickly climbed onto the bed, knelt down and lifted the quilt. Sure enough, the cell phone was lying quietly under the quilt.

"Ah, I found it." Chen Wenwen picked up the phone happily, "I have to call Lu Mingfei and get the notebook back..."

She swallowed the last word "OK" before she even uttered it.

She knelt on the white sheets, holding the phone in both hands, staring blankly at the screen... The screen showed that she was on a call, and the call lasted 16:34.

The caller column showed a familiar name: Lu Mingfei.

……

(End of this chapter)