Seven years after my death, the male protagonist of the substitute novel was criticized

Chapter 10
Lin Lu had a strong desire to return to normal life, and Ding Zitong was too cruel to say anything else. Even though her mind was still struggling with the matter of time travel, she agreed first.

They were talking close together on the sofa, while Pei Yizhou was talking about company matters with Xu Jiayan on the other side. He was holding a cup of coffee in his hand, with a calm expression, and didn't seem to be paying attention to their conversation.

Ding Zitong glanced at him from time to time. Lin Lu noticed it and started to look at him too, just like when he used to stare at handsome guys on the street.

"Brother Jiayan looks much more serious, and my brother seems to talk less." She recalled the past easily.

"He didn't talk much before because he was busy. He was busy studying, working on projects, working to make money, and going home to cook. Now that he has money, he doesn't have to rush home to cook for me, but he seems to be even more taciturn. Can he really run a company with this kind of personality?"

Ding Zitong: "The company is managed by rules and regulations and problem-solving methods. He just needs to establish his prestige. This kind of faint sense of death is very suitable for being a boss."

Lin Lu was surprised: "How dare you say that to him? I used to call him Brother Pei properly. Do you have a good relationship with him in private now?"

"Not really. It's because of you that he is more tolerant of me." Having said this, Ding Zitong looked at her and hesitated to speak.

"how?"

"You really only remember things before you were eighteen?"

Lin Lu was puzzled: "Should I remember what happened after that day? Did something special happen?"

"No, it's just..." Ding Zitong sighed, "Nine years, you missed so much. The time from eighteen to twenty-seven should have been the best time of your life."

"I am eighteen now, and I have not missed this wonderful time. But from what you said, I did overlook one thing——"

She leaned closer and asked quietly: "In these wonderful years, my brother should have had a love life, right? Did he get married? Did he have a child? Or did he get divorced and his child was taken away?"

Ding Zitong was shocked. This was the point.

"he……"

"There are no signs of other people's life in this house. He probably hasn't brought anyone back to live here. The slippers are clean and the quilt didn't have any special smell at first, so he probably didn't come here often. He must have other properties, where do they live? This place is indeed not suitable for children to go to school." Lin Lu guessed to himself.

Ding Zitong interrupted quickly: "No, no, no, no children, no divorce or marriage..."

She paused for a moment as she thought of something. In fact, they were not far from getting married, but the disaster happened first.

But Lin Lu didn't remember anything after he was eighteen. Seeing her vague reaction, he paused and uttered the expected "Oh, so that's it". His voice was soft, and a light feather seemed to fall in his heart.

Nine years. When she was a child, it took her a long time to memorize the multiplication table up to the number nine, not to mention more than three thousand two hundred days, which is enough time to scrape away traces of a person from life like scraping away paint from a wall, and then to create complex connections with other people.

It was already good enough that Pei Yizhou recognized her and accepted her at first sight.

Ding Zitong saw that she seemed to have misunderstood and wanted to explain it, but Pei Yizhou had warned her at the beginning not to mention the past. How should she explain it?
After a while of hesitation, Pei Yizhou called a halt to the meeting, saying that Lin Lu was still weak and needed to rest. Lin Lu knew too much information at once, and was indeed depressed, so he went back to his room to lie down.

Ding Zitong and Xu Jiayan were asked to leave the house. They watched Pei Yizhou gently instruct Lin Lu to cover herself with the quilt. He turned his head and the curve of his mouth disappeared. He asked them coldly: "What did she say?"

Xu Jiayan pinched his nose and took three deep breaths: "Don't rush us. Give us some time to switch to the science fiction channel."

Ding Zitong seemed calm but had actually been gone for a while: "It is known that time travel is to randomly select a special time node in the four-dimensional space-time to travel through parallel spaces. Each parallel world is actually a different life trajectory caused by different choices made by people in this life. Antarctica has indeed been known as the center of the earth and the earth's axis since ancient times..."

"So what did she say?"

Ding Zitong took a long breath: "She said she wanted to find a job and gradually return to normal life."

Pei Yizhou looked puzzled: "She said she didn't want to stay at home with me?"

"She doesn't want to be a burden or responsibility to you. When she was in high school, she often took advantage of various opportunities to make a little money to reduce your burden. Now she has this idea even stronger. After all, this place is very unfamiliar to her, and she needs normal social interaction to integrate as soon as possible."

Pei Yizhou understood. They had moved once before, and she was like this when they first moved. No matter whether she was afraid or not, liked it or not, she tried hard to act like an adult and get along well with others first. She was able to fit in quickly and give him guidance in return.

She is like a plant with strong roots, able to live tenaciously and well anywhere.

But finding a job, having normal social interactions, and returning to a normal life is equivalent to stepping out of the bedroom and out of the door step by step, breaking away from his sight and flying away from his chest.

The current brother-sister relationship can't bind her at all.

"I see." Pei Yizhou lowered his eyes and did not respond directly. He asked, "Besides that, what else did she say?"

Ding Zitong hesitated for a long time but still didn't tell Lin Lu about his love life. He still helped Lin Lu: "I heard that you only let her eat raw and cold food recently. The reason is that time travel makes the body's magnetic field unstable and it is necessary to avoid the intake of heat radiation? You still remember that she is a good student and very smart, right? She is just putting up with you. But she is also worried that this kind of "time travel" will happen again. What if she travels back again? You have to make her feel at ease. Finding something to do is one of the ways."

At this point, she lowered her voice and continued, "We all know where she disappeared that year. Is she really a science fiction now, lost two years of memory on the way through, or is she some other strange creature? I know you have learned about some mysterious events. Feeding her raw and cold food at the beginning might mean you are raising her as a monster. Of course, we don't consider these now. As long as she is still here, it's a good thing. The biggest problem now is that she is most familiar with you and you have been acting strangely recently. She is a little uneasy."

He warned everyone not to mention what happened in the past, but he couldn't control himself and treated her as a lover instead of a sister. Lin Lu might think that he had become a perverted beast.

Pei Yizhou knew very well that she was pleading for Lin Lu and just wanted Lin Lu to go out to work smoothly, but every word she said made sense. His breathing seemed to be wet, falling heavily, suffocating in his blood vessels and in his heart, bringing a dull pain.

After seeing them off, he still stood outside the door. A dim evening sun poured in through the window on the side of the corridor. As time passed, it slowly sank from his shoulders to his toes until the sensor light automatically lit up. Only then did he shake off the coldness in his body and turned to face the door.

When it gets dark, he can open the door and have a warm home again as an older brother.

But he held the door handle and was unable to open the door.

(End of this chapter)