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

Chapter 124 End of extra chapter
【 If there was no kiss back then. 】

It's July again.

Lin Lu finished the last course of the second semester of his sophomore year and officially went on vacation.

Pei Yizhou has entered society and is working. There is no such thing as summer vacation. Since there is no one at home, she did not go back and stayed in school to continue taking the driver's license test.

Practicing driving under the scorching sun can cause heat stroke within three days. Pei Yizhou had this experience before and was always worried that she would get sunburned, so he called her every now and then to ask about it.

Lin Lu said he was fine every time, but there were two times when his voice was obviously listless when he answered the phone.

When she finally got her driver's license, Pei Yizhou took the opportunity to suggest, "Come to my place for two days and I'll treat you to a nice meal."

He rented an apartment near his company. Lin Lu went to see it when he moved in and heated the stove for him in a very professional manner.

"Okay! I also wanted to come and see if you have eaten and slept on time." Lin Lu happily agreed.

Pei Yizhou was in a good mood that day. When it was time to get off work, he left on time for the first time, thinking of buying some vegetables and snacks that his sister liked.

Not far from the company, he saw Lin Lu at the bus stop.

With the corner of his mouth raised, just as he was about to say hello, Pei Yizhou discovered that a tall boy was following Lin Lu.

The two were talking and laughing. The boy touched Lin Lu's head, but she slapped him away with a mixture of anger and laughter.

Then the two people held hands together.

Pei Yizhou's mouth corners dropped, he pursed his lips, and then frowned.

When did Lulu start dating? Why didn't you tell him?

When he returned to the rental house after buying groceries, Lin Lu was already waiting downstairs. When she saw him, she greeted him with bright eyes.

"Buying so many vegetables? Wow, chocolate hazelnut ice cream." She shared a bag of snacks and went upstairs together while licking the ice cream.

Pei Yizhou watched her expression change from the corner of his eye and asked gently, "Why don't you go up first if you have the key?"

"Even if I have the key, I can't just enter your room. What if it's messy? What if there are female colleagues~"

"There are no female colleagues." He denied it directly.

The elevator reached the fourth floor, and the footsteps echoed in the corridor. He asked again, as usual, showing concern for his sister's life: "You seem to be in a good mood. Has anything good happened at school recently?"

Lin Lu: "The test went smoothly and I got my driver's license. Of course I'm happy."

"Nothing else?"

"No?" Lin Lu thought for a moment, ate the entire layer of chocolate crispy ice cream, and then said with certainty, "No."

Pei Yizhou didn't say anything, but he felt mixed emotions as he opened the door sideways.

As we grow older, brothers and sisters no longer talk about everything with each other.

After this big meal, Lin Lu only stayed with him for one day before going home.

After all, it is not a good idea to have two adult siblings living in one apartment.

Pei Yizhou, however, suspected that she wanted to get rid of parental control so that she could be free with her boyfriend. It was okay when she was at work and was too busy to have time, but when she got home from get off work, she couldn't help but think about it. She called her on video and frowned as she checked for any abnormalities in the video.

But there was no sign of any men in their home in the video.

In late August, universities began to open one after another.

Lin Lu returned to school three days early. When asked, she said it was because of club activities - this is normal. Pei Yizhou is an experienced person and knows that there are always various activities and competitions in school. In order to avoid the peak period of returning to school, many students choose to return to school early.

But there is always a voice refuting these normal reasons.

It happened that there was an opportunity to go out that afternoon. Pei Yizhou sat at his workstation and, for the first time ever, took the initiative to apply to go out to assist. After finishing his work, he took a detour to Lin Lu's school.

The school is very big, and it is not easy to find exactly one person among thousands of people, but the people you care about are always different. When he walked to the basketball court, he saw Lin Lu at a glance.

She was riding her bicycle excitedly, passing quickly on the tree-lined avenue with dappled light and shadows. The wind lifted her long hair and skirt, her smiling face was youthful and beautiful, and her laughter was as clear and pleasant as the sound of the bicycle bell.

Unfortunately, there was a striking boy on the bicycle next to me, who was equally young and energetic. He was the same person I saw at the bus stop last time.

He did not call out to Lin Lu, but turned around for unknown reasons and followed them from a distance, and saw them enter the indoor badminton court.

Through the large glass windows, I could see that they were having a great time playing badminton, but Lin Lu’s skills were not very good. He was sweating from picking up the balls, so he went to the side to drink some water.

The boy chased after her with a smile on his face, coaxing her left and right, and finally kissed Lin Lu on the forehead.

Pei Yizhou stood outside the window. Even though the sun was shining brightly, he felt a chill in his heart.

Mang felt that the kiss was like a shot of poison, which polluted Lin Lu and made her incurable.

Not long after the school opened, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival in September.

Lin Lu and Pei Yizhou both returned home for the holidays and prepared a reunion dinner together.

The mooncakes were not finished on the first day, so they were eaten as snacks on the second day. Lin Lu liked the mooncakes with double yolk and lotus paste the most. Pei Yizhou made one for himself and fed it to her. He took a bite and was about to ask how it tasted when someone called.

Lin Lu grabbed her phone and went back to her room to answer it. After a few minutes, she said she was going out. Pei Yizhou nodded calmly, but at dinner time, before she went home, she sent a message saying that she wanted to bring two classmates home for dinner.

Pei Yizhou could guess what was going on as soon as he heard the embarrassed tone. Sure enough, the students who came in were Ding Zitong and that boy.

The other person came in and called me "Brother" politely.

Harsh and unpleasant.

The food needed to be reheated, and Pei Yizhou was not in the mood to entertain his sister's classmates, so he went into the kitchen.

There were laughter and joy outside. When he picked up the bowl and chopsticks, he glanced back and saw the man peeling an orange for Lin Lu. They passed it to each other with a smile on his face.

He turned back expressionlessly and stared at the dancing flames at the bottom of the pot.

The fire was turned on high, and a drop of oily soup splashed out of the pot and landed on the back of Pei Yizhou's hand, scalding him so much that his heart sank.

He suddenly felt that he was like this pot of soup, being boiled.

Why are you suffering? He turned his head and looked outside again.

It is normal for his sister to fall in love, it is normal for her to bring her boyfriend to meet her parents, and it is normal for her to get married and have children in the future - during the persuasion process, he kept denying it in his heart, no, it's not normal!
He was the one who was going to live with Lin Lu for the rest of his life, so how could other strangers come in between? She got married and had children normally, but what about him?

Did he have to watch Lin Lu marry someone else, move out of this house, and only come back once or twice a year, and every time she came back he would have to hide in the kitchen and watch her being intimate with another man?
He couldn't bear to think about things he had never considered in the past.

So the normal and the abnormal are pulling at each other, and it's very painful.

His imagination added pictures to these words, which made the torment even worse.

Just like this pot of soup, it is cooked until the edges turn yellow and burnt.

"Brother, the soup is almost boiled away!" Lin Lu came in, turned off the fire, and wanted to ask him what he was daydreaming about.

When she looked over, she found that Pei Yizhou was staring at her strangely.

"Is he your boyfriend?" he asked.

Lin Lu was a little embarrassed, her toes curled up, and a bulge appeared in her cotton and linen slippers: "Did you see it?"

"How long have you been in love? Do you plan to continue the relationship? He doesn't look that good." The slanderous tone was still restrained, otherwise the sentence would have been even more harsh.

"It's, it's okay," she said, hiding in the kitchen with her brother to discuss her boyfriend outside, feeling even more embarrassed. "I didn't expect the conversation to last long, so let's continue anyway."

"Then you take him home? If we break up, won't it be awkward to bring the next one back?"

"…Today is just a coincidence."

"You like him very much?"

"..." Lin Lu didn't want to answer anymore. She felt that he was asking questions one after another, like forcing her.

Pei Yizhou said to himself: "It seems that he doesn't like me that much. Then why are you with him?"

Lin Lu was discouraged: "Brother, we don't have to like each other super much to be together. We just dated when we liked each other. Feelings can be cultivated. It doesn't matter who you date..."

"Then why don't you look at me?" Pei Yizhou blurted out this sentence. After he saw Lin Lu's surprised and confused reaction, he closed his mouth tightly again.

There was no sound in the kitchen for a while, only peace and silence.

After a while, Lin Lu took a deep breath, lowered his head to turn on the fire, took the bowl and chopsticks and the soup bowl, and made some normal noises, as if to suppress the abnormal words he had just said.

Her behavior of pretending not to hear made Pei Yizhou's thoughts, which he had originally stopped, emerge again unwillingly.

The rekindled fire scorched the air to the point of distorting it slightly.

Lin Lu picked up the dishes and was about to go out, but when he pushed the door open, he was grabbed by a hand that came across.

"Lulu, let him go after dinner and let's have a good talk, okay?"

Lin Lu struggled a few times but couldn't get free, and his whole body was covered by Pei Yizhou's figure.

She was horrified to discover that her brother was actually an aggressive adult man.

"Brother...Brother, do you know what you are doing? Let go, let's go out to eat, I..."

"Why not let him go now? Maybe I can't bear to see him finish his meal at our house. This is our home, Lulu, I don't like seeing outsiders come in."

"you……"

"Can you please go out and persuade him to leave?" Pei Yizhou slowly released her wrist, his tone gradually calmed down, and he even said in a negotiating tone, "Let's talk it over."

What to talk about? How to transform their relationship and continue to maintain this family without allowing others to interfere.

The only person who can be by Lin Lu's side is him, both as a brother and as a man.

But now he doesn't want to be just a brother anymore.

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