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

Chapter 13 Duan Chengyu

Half a month passed by in a flash.

To be honest, life is pretty good working at Linzhou Technology.

Because Lin Lu's identity was not a secret in the general manager's office, she generously admitted that Pei Yizhou was her brother.

Although no one had heard that the boss had such a young sister before, it did not stop them from building a good relationship with her.

Lin Lu took this opportunity to actively absorb all kinds of knowledge like a sponge. No one dared to ask her to work overtime, so she enjoyed going to work every day.

After working for half a month, she made two friends and was invited to go shopping after get off work for the first time.

She was like a piece of energetic popping candy, typing away on the keyboard. When it was time to get off work, she packed up her things, popped her head into Pei Yizhou's office and quickly said goodbye. Before the people inside could hear her clearly, she had already flown past and ran to the elevator.

"Brother, I'll be home at eight after dinner!"

Pei Yizhou frowned and wanted to call the person back, but the laughter of several girls at the elevator entrance was heard as the elevator was carried down with a "ding" sound. He walked to the office door, but there was no sign of that person.

He frowned again and picked up his phone to make a call.

Ding Zitong was reporting on the equipment status in the office and gave a look to Xu Jiayan who was complaining.

Xu Jiayan immediately said, "Hey, it's alright, our sister finally has a new friend to accompany her, she's so happy, why are you so strict?"

Ding Zitong chimed in: "That's right. She originally wanted to go out with me, but you were in a hurry to get the task done, so I didn't have time. She always has to have friends."

She said this with a bit of sourness in her tone. Her best friend was only eighteen years old when she came back to life, and there was a generation gap between her and everyone in the room.

Pei Yizhou was persuaded to stop making a phone call, but he could not calm down his anxiety.

Xu Jiayan was sincere in his persuasion this time. He looked at the door like a thief, and then lowered his voice to make sure that no one was there:

"She finally integrated into the life here, isn't that great? What are you worried about? There are no men with her. Even if you want to go back to your previous life, she is in the company and by your side. There is plenty of time, so don't be so anxious."

Pei Yizhou couldn't explain the anxiety deep in his heart and the dark thoughts swirling around him. After a moment, he said in a deep voice: "She won't stay in the company forever."

Maybe I won't stay by his side forever. It's an indescribable and terrifying premonition.

Xu Jiayan was curious: "Why do you say that? I see that she is very happy working in the company every day. To judge whether an employee is satisfied with her job, just look at how much stuff she has at her workstation and how well she gets along with her colleagues. If you judge by this, she probably already regards the company as another home."

He looked outside and nodded his chin at a workstation in the general manager's office. "Look, there are three twisting dragonflies on her workstation nameplate."

"People who are in a relationship so good that they are getting married tomorrow can find their second true love in their last single night." Ding Zitong expressed her sharp opinion in a high-handed manner. After she finished speaking, she remembered that she didn't need to argue this time, as she should have been a member of the persuasion committee.

So she coughed, picked up her phone and pretended to send a message: "Don't worry, she will tell me if there is any situation. The day before yesterday, she secretly sent me a message saying that a male salesperson in the marketing department had a strong perfume smell, as if ten of my past selves were put into a distillation bottle and condensed into 0.5... She really looks like she is 18 years old. When she complains about people, it makes people speechless and want to laugh."

Pei Yizhou's eyelids twitched when she smiled, which was only able to maintain basic politeness. After a moment of silence, he tried to explain calmly: "She is still young now..."

Ding Zitong said sarcastically, "Yeah, the age difference between you and me has gone from three years to ten years. Oh no, my mental age is twelve years. Tsk, no wonder I have nothing to say to you. If my brother became my uncle, I would also become silent."

Pei Yizhou was stabbed hard. Xu Jiayan almost burst out laughing, and before Pei Yizhou's face turned black, he pulled Ding Zitong out of the office.

"That's enough, now that Lin Lu is back, if you're still acting weird, he may not tolerate it anymore."

Ding Zitong was forced to remember the reason why Pei Yizhou had been so patient with her before. She shook off his hand, pulled a frown on her face, and looked sarcastic in her eyes.

"Whether he comes back or not, that incident... was originally his fault. You two are in the same group. No one knows whether you have done anything to offend Lin Lu in the past few years. Everything now is just a whitewash. So he deserves it if Lin Lu forgets him. I cooperated with him back then just for the same purpose, for Lin Lu's sake, not for his sake. If he can't stand it, he can fire me."

"Yes, yes, Engineer Ding, but don't talk nonsense. There is no such thing as being worthy or not," Xu Jiayan said seriously. "As long as the person is still around, they still have a long time to spend together. One day they will return to their previous way of getting along. He will not tolerate any other possibility."

Ding Zitong used Pei Yizhou's words: "Lin Lu will not stay in the company forever. This is just a stepping stone for her. What possibilities there are in the future depends on what she wants, not on what Pei Yizhou can do."

After saying that, without caring about Xu Jiayan's reaction, he dialed Lin Lu's number, turned around, got into the elevator and left.

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Lin Lu was completely unaware of the turmoil among her three old acquaintances. After shopping and dinner, she said goodbye to her office sisters and walked home alone.

The smile on her face was like the setting sun, slowly sinking into the night and turning into a state of dazed emptiness.

Three streets away from home, she turned to the other side of the intersection, near a quaint, upscale restaurant.

It was cold, and the night wind was pervasive. The chill air fell from the frost-covered leaves of the roadside trees to the hair and shoulders of pedestrians, then sneaked through the gaps in their clothes to the surface of their skin. The hot air they exhaled was quickly blown away and torn apart by the cold wind.

Lin Lu kept his hands in his pockets, with his chin lightly resting on the raised collar of his coat to ensure that he was protected from the cold air.

But people in high-end restaurants obviously don't have to worry about this.

In the quaint square window, glass separates two worlds. On the left side of dining table number three sits a thinly dressed man. While the pedestrians outside are all wrapped up in bulky clothes, he only has an open coat to keep warm. Under his informal loose shirt, a black turtleneck reaches his Adam's apple. His profile lines are superior, making him particularly conspicuous among a group of men talking about business.

Lin Lu subconsciously chose him as the anchor point of his vision, picked up the phone, hesitated for a long time and then dialed a number.

The man in the window seemed to say sorry to the person he was chatting with and then picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

Her heartbeat was pulling at her eardrums, one beat faster than the other, and she only noticed the dryness in her throat when she opened her mouth.

"Hello," she said, like a foreigner who was just beginning to learn a language, with uncertainty in every word she spoke, "Excuse me, are you Duan Chengyu?"

The man she was looking at followed the "yes" in the microphone and made the same mouth shape.

Her heartbeat was getting faster and faster, and she licked her dry lips before she could say the next sentence smoothly -

"Hello, I'm Lin Lu. I don't know if you remember this name. I have something I want to confirm with you. Is it convenient for you to meet now? It will only take a few minutes."

Duan Chengyu seemed to realize something, took the phone away from his ear, and turned to look out the window.

　Next, let us welcome our male second classmate to the stage (Dangdangdangdang——)
　　The tabloid reporter wanted to describe this person in more detail, but a suspect named Pei was greatly stimulated at some point in the future, and traveled back to beat the reporter inhumanely. His dark resentment was almost enough to feed five evil sword immortals, so the reporter had to leave the scene to heal his wounds(^`)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)