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"I thought I had recognized the wrong person, but it turns out to be Mr. Lu from Nanyang Hongye. What a coincidence." She glanced at him.

Lu Shicheng just stared at her hand with concern. She looked down and found two fresh scratches on the back of her hand, which must have been caused when she was playing the role of an old lady in a "fight".

Before he could ask, she put her hands behind her waist and said, "Is this Mr. Lu's room?"

She looked around with her hands behind her back in a serious manner. No matter where she went, she could feel Lu Shicheng's eyes following her closely from behind. She felt a little confused. When she bought the ticket, she only heard that it was a Nanyang ship number, but she never thought it was a Lu family ship. Did he just return home? Did he settle all the family affairs? Then she thought again, these things seemed to have nothing to do with her.

Looking carefully, it turned out to be a large suite. There seemed to be a bedroom inside and a spacious living room outside. There were three large sofas placed together, as well as a wine cabinet and a long table.

Wherever you look, everything is clean, tidy and orderly - this is exactly Lu Shicheng's style.

Lying down on the comfortable sofa, she must have felt very relaxed. She even wanted to go to the wine cabinet and have a glass of wine to calm herself down. However, she did not forget that they had broken up, so she glanced at them "indifferently" and considered the visit over.

However, his room was located so high that the view from the door must be very pleasant. She couldn't resist her curiosity, so she walked to the door and quietly put her ear to it to listen.

"The boat has already started, but the police should still be searching the second floor."

He spoke behind her.

This reminded Wen Tingli. She thought about it, then returned to the coffee table and picked up her small suitcase. "It's okay. Now is the right time for me to go out. Thank you, Mr. Lu, for what happened just now."

She turned around and walked away, but he caught up with her and held her back. She glanced at him and said, "Mr. Lu, do you have anything else to say?"

"Someone is coming." He said in a low voice.

Is there anyone there? How come she didn't hear anything? Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Without waiting for Wen Tingli to respond, Lu Shicheng pushed her and her luggage into the inner room.

Wen Tingli had no choice but to ask him with her eyes: Where am I hiding? In the closet again?
He pointed at her feet and told her to just stay there.

The person who came seemed to be a waiter.

"Mr. Lu, your dinner."

"Just put it on the table. Have those police officers downstairs left?"

"They are searching room by room. It seems that they will not leave until they find the murderer. Mr. Kuang has already negotiated with them seriously. They promised to get off the boat early tomorrow morning. Mr. Kuang asked me to ask you when he can come upstairs to see you."

"Tell him he doesn't need to come up. I'll go downstairs to find him later."

Then there was the sound of a door closing. Wen Tingli leaned out and saw Lu Shicheng returning to the bedroom door. He met her gaze and nodded at her.

As soon as she went out, she smelled a strong aroma of food. At noon, in order to help Head Nurse Liu and others deliver boxes, she just had a quick bite at a small shop on the side of the road. Now she was so hungry that her stomach was sticking to her chest.

She couldn't help but glance at the food on the table. Lu Shicheng followed her line of sight. Almost instantly, his eyes softened. He looked at her silently for a few seconds, then went straight into the inner room and picked up a file on the desk: "I have to go out for a while."

Wen Tingli couldn't stay any longer: "I have to go too."

"No, there are people cleaning the deck outside right now, and the police are conducting a major search below. We have to wait until dark before we can think of a solution. Don't worry, I'm safe here."

Wen Tingli had no choice but to stop and pointed at the food on the table: "Mr. Lu, don't you want dinner?"

"This is your dinner, I'll just eat it downstairs."

Seeing Lu Shicheng walking towards the door, Wen Tingli couldn't help but follow him and took two steps. When they reached the door, Lu Shicheng whispered, "These people outside can finish their work in half an hour. To be cautious, you'd better stay in the inner room after dinner."

As soon as he left, Wen Tingli could no longer hold back her expression and lowered her head and chuckled. He sounded so righteous, but he just wanted her to stay with him a little longer.

He was so painstaking, she didn't want to make it hard on herself, so she went to the sofa and sat down comfortably. She was exhausted after being tense in front of Lu Shicheng for so long. She wanted to treat him as an irrelevant stranger, but it took all her strength.

After resting for a while, she became lively again. She sat down at the dining table with great interest and ate up the dinner that originally belonged to Lu Shicheng.

After dinner, she hid in his bedroom to avoid accidentally making noises when walking around in the outer room.

There is a large round bed in the bedroom, so big that you can almost dance on it.

The white bedding on the bed was so neat and tidy without even a wrinkle, as if no one had ever slept on it. The large desk on the left was obviously not idle, as there were a large number of books and notes spread out on it.

He is a real workaholic, which is very similar to her.

Finally, she sat on the single sofa beside the round bed and looked around. It was not the first time she entered his bedroom, but both the one in Lu Mansion and the one in front of her had the same style, clean, bright, and without a trace of superfluous things.

There was a sense of world-weariness, as if he could withdraw from this prosperity at any time.

He is such an unfathomable man.

She was fiddling with the flowers on the table out of boredom when she suddenly felt some pain in the sole of her foot. She looked up and found that there was a small wound on her ankle. She turned over her elbow and saw two more long wounds on her arm.

In the evening, in order to attract as much attention as possible, she deliberately stepped on a banana peel and fell in public. Her elbows, legs, and back were all scraped, and even her buttocks were aching.

She hurriedly looked for cotton balls and gentian violet in the room, but couldn't find them. Lu Shicheng was not there, and she couldn't rummage through all the drawers, so she had to give up.

Looking at the clock on the desk, it was already 7:30 in the evening. She was always full of energy and would never feel sleepy at this time on other days. But tonight, for some reason, she was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes. She guessed it was because she had eaten too much at the meal just now.

In order to cheer herself up, she tried to force her eyelids open with her fingers, but it had the opposite effect. Her eyes felt sore after keeping them open for too long, so she had to close her eyelids to relax. As time went by, she fell asleep on the sofa with her head tilted.

After an unknown amount of time, she woke up from her dream. When she opened her eyes, she saw warm lights in front of her and the surroundings seemed a little strange. After a while, she suddenly realized that the clock on the table had pointed to more than ten o'clock. She was so scared that she stood up quickly.

When he moved, he found that he was covered with a suit, which seemed to be... Lu Shicheng's clothes.

Wen Tingli looked outside in surprise and saw Lu Shicheng sitting alone on the sofa in the outer room.

"When did you-Mr. Lu come back?"

There were some documents on the coffee table in front of Lu Shicheng. He looked up at her, then returned his gaze to the documents on the table: "I didn't notice, it was probably nine o'clock."

In other words, she had slept in front of him for more than an hour, and during this time, he had been working outside? She was still a little confused, rubbed her eyes, took his coat off her body, stood up and walked out.

She slept too long and was very thirsty. She went to the wine cabinet and found that there were only bottles of unopened wine in the cabinet, but no kettle or cup. She looked around the cabinet, but the more anxious she was to drink water, the harder it was to find.

Lu Shicheng looked at her from behind for a while, then stood up and walked behind her, helping her pull back the cabinet door in front of her. It turned out that the kettle was not placed on the countertop, but was stuck inside the door. The base was fixed, so that the water would not spill out even if the ship was bumpy.

Lu Shicheng poured her a glass of water and handed it to her. Wen Tingli drank it in big gulps.

He watched her finish her drink, poured her another glass, and then returned to his seat.

Wen Tingli had almost finished drinking, so she turned her head to glance at Lu Shicheng. At this moment, she heard a faint noise coming from outside.

She tilted her head in surprise and listened: "What happened? Did they find the bandit leader Liu Kai?"

"We found it, but it's a dead body. It's probably that he was assassinated by his accomplices on the ship during the chaos. The police officers believe it was an internal conflict and are trying to find the murderer."

Wen Tingli gasped: "Willn't that mean we won't be able to have peace all night?"

No, not only that, after several rounds of searches, the patrolmen had a general impression of the guests on the second and first floors. At this time, her unfamiliar face suddenly appeared in the cabin on the second floor, and she was inevitably regarded as a key suspect.

Lu Shicheng lowered his head and signed various documents: "You can only stay here for one night."

"How can this be possible?" She frowned and shook her head exaggeratedly.

Lu Shicheng stopped writing and looked at her, as if waiting for her to come up with a better suggestion.

Normally, Wen Tingli would have come up with a hundred new ideas. But now, probably because she had just woken up, she thought for a while but seemed to have no better ideas.

So she put the cup of water on the coffee table with a stern face, and was about to say something stern, when she suddenly saw a bottle of purple medicine and a bag of cotton next to him.

He didn't look up, but just pushed the thing towards her: "The weather is hot, and the wound is prone to inflammation. You'd better take care of it as soon as possible."

After a pause, he continued, "There are some common trauma medicines and anti-inflammatory drugs on the bedside table in the inner room."

Wen Tingli carried the things into the house without saying a word.

He never asked her how she got those injuries, just like he didn't even ask those policemen why they were looking for her and just stood in front of her as a matter of course.

He also possessed these virtues in the past, but she vaguely felt that Lu Shicheng was now more considerate and tolerant than before.

He seemed to see everything, but he was willing to understand everything.

She couldn't help wondering where these subtle changes in him came from.

She was applying medicine in the room while he continued working outside. For a while, the only sound was the movement of the pen on the paper.

Suddenly, the sound outside stopped.

Wen Tingli looked up curiously and saw Lu Shicheng opening the door and going out. She was just about to check the wound on her elbow, but the sleeve was a bit narrow. When she rolled it up, she couldn't help but hiss in pain. The best way was to take off her top and check it, but she was only wearing a thin blouse underneath.

Although Lu Shicheng couldn't see what was happening next to the bed from where he was, there was no door between the two rooms.

He would take the initiative to avoid her, simply because he heard that she was inconvenienced...

After he left, she simply stood by the bed and took off her shirt to check herself. She knew that with his personality, he would never suddenly come back to the room in the middle of a visit.

He had just taken off half of his clothes and fastened the buttons again. He went to the outer room and put his ear to the door to listen for a while. Then he quietly opened the door a crack and saw Lu Shicheng standing on the deck with his back to the cabin door, as if looking at the sea. There was no one else around him.

"Hey." She called him in a low voice, "Come in for a moment."

Lu Shicheng came in and looked at her, and she said to him, "It's too hot. I want to take a shower before applying the medicine. Where is the bathroom?"

Lu Shicheng took her to the bedroom. It turned out that the bathroom door was hidden in the wall next to the round bed. It was a secret door. No wonder she couldn't find it just now.

He turned on the hot water tap for her, and after a moment of silence, he asked her, "Do you need a towel and soap?"

"I have it in my suitcase." She didn't look at him. Perhaps because of the mist in the bathroom, both of them looked a little uncomfortable.

He didn't say anything else and went out to help her close the door. Wen Tingli looked in the mirror and found that her face was red from the heat.

After washing, she habitually found her pajamas, but felt it was not appropriate to walk around in front of Lu Shicheng in this outfit, so she picked out a clean cheongsam to wear outside and put it on. When she came out, she saw that he was still working on the sofa, so she sat down and said to him, "I'll sleep on the sofa tonight."

"I'll be up till late."

"It's okay." Wen Tingli sat on the chair opposite the sofa, "I'll wait until you're done before I go to sleep."

Lu Shicheng seemed a little absent-minded. He suddenly stopped writing and said, "You should sleep in the inner room. If anything happens, you will have more time to deal with it calmly in the inner room than in the outer room. I'll sleep on the sofa." Wen Tingli was convinced by this, but she didn't get up and go back to the room immediately. Instead, she looked at the pen in his hand. It was the one she gave him for his birthday last year, and she still kept it. She pursed her lips and turned her face to the other side: "The weather is so hot, why don't you take a shower? I'll wait for you in the outer room."

He has always been very clean. If she went straight into the room and fell asleep, he would never go back to disturb her. He would probably feel uncomfortable all night.

Lu Shicheng continued to sign a few more words on the document, nodded and said, "I'll be out soon."

Although Wen Tingliren was sitting outside, her eyes were not honest. As soon as he entered, she curiously glanced inside and saw Lu Shicheng opening the wardrobe opposite the round bed. His clothes were hung in rows and classified, with outer wear on the left and inner wear on the right.

She immediately spotted the familiar pajamas in the row of clothes on the right. It had been so long, and he still kept them, what a nostalgic person.

It only took Lu Shicheng ten minutes to finish his shower. When he came out, there were water droplets on his short hair. He did not change into pajamas, but changed into outer clothes like her.

He walked out without looking around and poured himself a glass of water: "It's getting late, you should go inside and rest."

Wen Tingli noticed that he had been deliberately avoiding her sight since just now.

She looked at his slightly wet collar, then looked down at her own slightly wet long hair scattered on her shoulders, and walked into the house thoughtfully.

She lay down on the round bed with her clothes on.

The bed was really big, so big that it seemed to have no boundaries, and the bedding was also soft. Lying on it, the whole person felt like sinking into a pile of cotton, and it was indescribably comfortable.

Her greatest ability is to go with the flow, and she was so happy that she tossed and turned on the bed, having a lot of fun by herself.

Suddenly, there was a loud crash in the quiet outer room. She jumped out of bed and looked outside. It turned out that Lu Shicheng's water cup fell to the ground and broke.

Lu Shicheng seemed to be in a daze, but he quickly came to his senses and squatted down to pick up the broken glass at his feet.

She couldn't sleep anyway, so she got out of bed and went out to help. As soon as she reached out to the pile of broken glass, he raised his hand to block it.

"I will do it myself."

He picked up the broken pieces on the ground one by one and put them on the coffee table.

She noticed that he avoided her sight again. After he had picked up the things on the floor, he stood up and walked towards the door, apparently preparing to go out for a while.

"What are you hiding from?"

Lu Shicheng stopped.

"Why bother sitting there so much? Why not just pretend I don't exist?"

Obviously, he can't.

She walked around to him and said, "Let me ask you, why did you pull me into your room and hide me there? Aren't you afraid that I'm an accomplice of the bandit leader?"

He didn't answer, so she tiptoed close to his ear and said maliciously: "To tell you the truth, I was the one who killed the bandit leader surnamed Liu!"

"Oh."

"You don't believe it?" She snorted. "Think about it. If I didn't do it, why did those policemen target me from the beginning? Are you scared? It's not too late for you to push me out now."

She stood in front of him with her hands on her hips and said viciously.

Lu Shicheng suddenly spoke up: "Do you feel bored staying in the cabin?"

She choked. She was a little depressed, but that was not the reason why she picked a fight with him.

"If you really feel bored, I'll take you out for a walk." Wen Tingli fell silent for a moment. She wanted to see where he was going to take her.

Unexpectedly, he took her straight into the bedroom.

Wen Tingli remained calm at first, but when she saw him bringing her to the door of the bathroom, she couldn't help but panic. Unexpectedly, there was a floor-to-ceiling door behind the shower room. Lu Shicheng turned the black iron handle and motioned her to look outside the door.

There was actually a small escalator outside.

He climbed up the stairs, pushed open the lid above his head, leaned over and said to her, "Come."

Wen Tingli followed him without hesitation. When they reached the stairs, she handed him her hand, and Lu Shicheng pulled her out.

As soon as Wen Tingli got out, her eyes suddenly widened. It turned out to be a platform for viewing the sea.

She had never known that the night sky over the sea could be so magical. The sky was like a large peacock blue velvet curtain, floating quietly above her head. The stars in the night sky were so close that they seemed within reach. For the first time in her life, she was so close to the sky and the stars, as if the universe above her head could hear everything she said.

Her soul was instantly sucked away by the scene before her. She couldn't take her eyes off or move her steps for a long time.

While she was dazed, she heard Lu Shicheng say beside her: "This observatory has been specially designed, so there is no need to worry about being seen by people below."

She was completely relieved and opened her arms to the wind.

The wind blew from all directions, bringing with it a cool breath, as if it could wash away everything.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and all her worries went away with the wind.

Lu Shicheng stared at her long hair blown by the wind from behind. After a long silence, he also looked up at the starry sky above his head.

Later, he sat down not far behind her, occasionally looking at the dark sea, and then his eyes stayed on her back for a long time. Wen Tingli enjoyed the breeze for a while without distraction, then turned around and sat down beside him. In this way, the two of them stayed together quietly, without speaking, and without the need to speak. Nature has its own power to soothe the soul.

When she returned to the cabin, Wen Tingli felt reborn.

She stopped picking on Lu Shicheng and went to bed quietly.

Not long after she lay down, Lu Shicheng turned off the lights outside and fell asleep on the sofa.

The entire suite was plunged into darkness.

Wen Tingli opened her eyes in the dark, she still couldn't sleep.

They actually slept in the same room, so close together.

She didn't know what he was thinking at the moment, but she knew that a person's breathing when awake and when asleep were different. Judging from the noise, he was clearly not asleep yet.

She rested her face on her arm and absentmindedly played with a strand of hair on her shoulder.

"I lost my gun."

"When the police were searching the second floor, I hid the gun in a wine barrel. I managed to escape, but the gun was lost," she said with regret.

She knew he was listening carefully because his breathing suddenly became lighter and slower. She wanted to say something more to him, but she was afraid that if they continued talking, they would not be able to sleep for the whole night.

Soon, she fell asleep and slept very soundly and peacefully that night.

When she woke up, Wen Tingli's first reaction was to get out of bed and look outside, and she saw Lu Shicheng still sleeping on the sofa.

He was covered with one of his own suits, lying on his side facing the bedroom, with his head buried on his chest, sleeping soundly.

Wen Tingli tiptoed into the bathroom to wash up. When she came out, Lu Shicheng had not woken up yet. She couldn't help but wonder, he was sleeping so soundly, could it be that he fell asleep very late last night.

She deliberately didn't try to guess the reason for his insomnia. Since there was nothing else to do, she simply sat down on the chair opposite him without saying a word, rested her chin on the back of her hand, and waited patiently for him to wake up.

Lu Shicheng looks quiet and beautiful when she sleeps, just like a sleeping dove - the kind of white dove that uses its wings to cover its face when sleeping.

Wen Tingli was laughing silently at her own association, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

She couldn't help but frown, and Lu Shicheng was indeed awakened all of a sudden.

He looked up absentmindedly, as if looking for the source of the sound, and unexpectedly saw Wen Tingli beside him, who fell under the sofa when she turned over. However, he reacted quickly and immediately supported himself with one arm on the sofa behind him and the other hand on the coffee table. He looked up at Wen Tingli in a daze and astonishment, as if trying to judge whether he was dreaming.

Wen Tingli had never seen Lu Shicheng in such an embarrassed state before. She couldn't help but feel at a loss whether to laugh or cry. She waved her hands at him and pointed outside the door.

At this moment, Lu Shicheng finally came to his senses and seemed a little annoyed about his loss of composure. He lowered his head to calm down for a moment, then stood up, took her arm and carried her to the inner room.

Then he went back to the door, cleared his throat and asked, "Who?"

"Mr. Lu, I'll deliver breakfast."

Lu Shicheng looked at his watch. It was already past eight o'clock and he was sleeping so soundly.

In an instant, he had returned to normal, walked forward to open the door, watched the visitor put breakfast on the table, and after the person left, he returned to the bedroom door, looking a little uncomfortable: "When did you wake up?"

Wen Tingli said happily: "A little earlier than you."

Lu Shicheng brushed past her and went into the bathroom to wash up.

When he came out after washing up, he saw Wen Tingli sitting beside the round bed, holding a small mirror in her hand and fixing her hair.

This scene made his chest inexplicably warm.

His heart beat faster, but he walked out of the bedroom calmly.

Wen Tingli also came out because she was hungry.

Looking at the table, although there were many types of breakfast, because Lu Shicheng was the only one eating, the portion of each item was not very large.

She sat down with her arms folded on the table. Either he would go out to find something to eat like he did last night, or they would share breakfast. This time, Lu Shicheng sat down directly opposite her.

She looked at him and started to divide her breakfast.

"This is mine, this is yours. Take half of the bread and the poached egg each. The sausage is too salty. I'll give it to you. I don't want it."

No matter how she distributed it, Lu Shicheng had no objection. She suddenly asked him, "Where's your cup?"

He went to the wine cabinet and got an empty glass and handed it to her. She poured out most of the juice and gave it to him, leaving a small portion for herself. "I can't drink something too cold in the morning," she said.

He nodded and waited for a few seconds. Seeing that she had officially started eating, he began to eat the breakfast that she had left over.

(End of this chapter)