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

Chapter 14 Don’t You Know Me?

Lin Lu was invited into the restaurant and sat at table number three, taking the seat of the stranger just now.

Duan Chengyu asked the waiter to bring a glass of hot orange juice, and looked at her face as he handed it to her.

"Ms. Lin Lu, right? As far as I can remember, I don't know you." The pretty, youthful face was unfamiliar. She looked to be no more than twenty years old, and seemed to have nothing to do with his work and life.

Lin Lu just held the orange juice to warm her hands and looked at him, focusing on his eyes, trying to find some familiarity in them.

Unfortunately it failed.

"You...you don't remember my name?"

Duan Chengyu shook his head, stared at her expectant eyes and said slowly: "I have no impression."

The expectation in those eyes was dashed, and turned into disappointment and confusion, and the eyelashes drooped and trembled slightly.

He couldn't help but ask, "Do you know me?"

Lin Lu remained silent, not knowing whether to nod or shake his head, and finally chose to shake his head.

Duan Chengyu chuckled: "Ms. Lin, you look like a scammer. If you don't know me, how come you have my phone number and come to me?"

His tone was relaxed and he did not ask harsh questions.

Lin Lu also laughed, but her drooping eyelashes felt a little sour, perhaps because of the heat of the orange juice, and her throat felt blocked.

Duan Chengyu restrained his smile and asked again: "If you don't know me, why did you come to see me?"

His voice was the same as in the dream, except that one was shouting with love at the top of his lungs, while the other was a completely unfamiliar question.

The scenes in the dream appeared too many times and were too real, so the gap was too great. Lin Lu felt that his brain and body were split into two halves, and one half was still soaked in the Antarctic ice.

She took a deep breath, raised her head, and carefully described his facial features, trying to compare them with the vague shadow in her dream. Then she asked clearly, "Mr. Duan, have you been to Antarctica before?"

Duan Chengyu met her watery eyes and shook his head again: "No."

"Have you ever dreamed about Antarctica? The ice, you were shouting for someone," she asked again.

No, of course not. Such absurd plots in TV dramas would never happen to him. If someone asked him such a ridiculous question, he should just pay the seat fee and stand up and leave.

But Duan Chengyu was surprisingly patient towards this strange girl and shook his head again.

She looks so much like a poor person who can't find her way home.

Lin Lu got all the answers "no", and she felt heavy in her heart. She took a few deep breaths, suppressed her emotions, and briefly described the whole thing.

"I, I've encountered some strange things recently. Since those things happened, I often dream about you. In the most common dream, we were running in Antarctica, and you were shouting my name loudly, but I soon fell into the cracked ice. Although I don't know you and don't know what you look like, I remember your name. After waking up, I could write down the three characters directly. Then I searched the Internet, and after searching for a long time, I found your company and got your contact information... I'm sorry to disturb you for no reason, but I really want to know what's going on."

Duan Chengyu frowned, took a sip of the coffee beside him, and said, "It sounds... bizarre."

He thought that such fantastic things should be contacted to film directors.

Lin Lu closed her eyes and nodded, saying, "It's really bizarre." But compared to time travel, this is not so bad. But if she told him that she was a time traveler and suspected that she had a cross-time and space love affair with him in the past nine years, he would probably send her to a mental hospital and call Pei Yizhou to pick her up.

She didn't know why this happened, why there was a person named Duan Chengyu, and why he didn't remember anything... It seemed that she was the only coin that was placed in the wrong compartment.

Lin Lu thought for a moment, pushed away the orange juice that was gradually losing temperature, looked into Duan Chengyu's eyes and said, "It's okay. If you remember anything later, please call me and tell me. Mr. Duan, strange things happen every day. I just want to find my...kind. It doesn't matter if you can't find them. If you still don't remember, just think of it as me talking nonsense today. Sorry to bother you."

She stood up and left. As she walked out of the restaurant, the cold wind made her eyes sore. Only when she covered her head with the plush hood of her coat did she feel a little better.

The fur on her hat was blown all over the place, and she looked like a stray mushroom.

Duan Chengyu sat in his seat without moving, watching her blend into the crowd and continuing to drink his coffee. The pitiful look she had just shown outside the restaurant appeared in his mind again.

The confused look of standing on a busy street, unable to find a way home or anyone you know, is extremely conspicuous among a group of people busy heading to their respective destinations.

Perhaps it was because he drank too much coffee today. The caffeine increased the excitability of his nerves, causing him to suddenly feel palpitations.

Duan Chengyu frowned, put down his coffee cup, paid the bill and left the restaurant.

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It was exactly eight o'clock when we returned to Tanghu Mansion.

Lin Lu took out the key while holding the two boxes of blueberries she had bought, but before she could put her key into the keyhole, the door opened by itself.

Pei Yizhou stood inside the door, looking down at her. The small light on the top of the entrance made him look puzzled. He asked, "Why did you come back so late?"

Lin Lu was still surprised why he opened the door so quickly. She raised her eyebrows and opened her eyes wide, then handed him the box of blueberries and changed her slippers.

"Is it late? Didn't I tell you to come back after dinner at 8 o'clock? Have you eaten yet, brother?"

There was energy in his words, without any trace of the panic of having been away from him for a few hours.

"No." Pei Yizhou watched her change into furry slippers and followed her to the living room, his eyes glued to her back.

"You haven't eaten yet so late?" Lin Lu turned around and frowned at him, then went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. "There's not much food left. But I can order takeout for you. I'm very familiar with ordering takeout now. Eat some blueberries first. You work in front of the computer for so long every day. Eating this is good for your eyes."

Her chattering somewhat soothed Pei Yizhou's anxiety, and the pile of interrogations he had prepared during the two hours when she was away were also suppressed.

He took a deep breath, rolled up his sleeves to wash the blueberries, and asked casually, like a normal brother asking about his sister's friendships: "Which restaurant did you eat at? If you like it, we can go there next time."

Lin Lu: "It's not a restaurant, it's a casserole restaurant. It's quite good to eat this in winter. If you can eat it, I'll take you there next time."

Without even raising her head, she went out with her phone in her hand, and came back in again, leaning close to him and asking, "This shop is right here. Can I order some clay pot porridge for you?"

Their arms touched slightly, and the fabric rubbed against each other as if they were close. Pei Yizhou's face warmed up completely. He put aside all his speculations, doubts and anxieties, nodded and said yes, then pinched a blueberry with his fingers covered in water and fed it to her mouth.

Lin Lu paused, but still ate the blueberry.

Then she found an excuse to leave the kitchen, sat in the living room with her back to him, and touched her burning ears.

(End of this chapter)