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

Chapter 28: I've heard a lot about you, Mr. Duan
Lin Lu privately thought that he was actually a very unsympathetic and impatient person.

People have limited energy. If everyone takes up some of her attention, she won't be able to see or hear enough.

Whether the sun is out or the weather is clear in some areas, her patience can only be focused on the people she cares about.

For example, this time, there was actually no problem with meeting, but she didn't want any more conflicts between the brother and sister - although she didn't think deeply about the reason why they had a conflict because of Duan Chengyu, she just followed her feelings, and she didn't want Pei Yizhou to be so angry again.

After dealing with the matter, Lin Lu didn't think about it anymore and actively devoted himself to work. In his free time, he would browse the Haishi Real Estate Software.

It was time to get off work, and she quickly picked up her bag and was about to leave. When she was clocking in at the lobby, she ran into Xu Jiayan coming from the marketing department, who called her and said "Hey".

"Getting off work? Go home early. Your brother is on a business trip and told you not to run around outside. The society in the new era is very chaotic."

There were a lot of people checking in at that moment, and many people heard it, and their gazes kept lingering over her.

Lin Lu was rarely embarrassed: "...Brother Jiayan, I'm not a child anymore."

Xu Jiayan patted her shoulder and said, "I can see that you were still wearing your school uniform in my memory. You look so young and beautiful now. Are you ready to go home?"

"……Yes."

"I send you?"

She took a deep breath and said, "I can go home by myself. Just go back to work and don't listen to my brother. He just worries too much."

"I am willing to worry about you as my sister," Xu Jiayan had already taken out the car keys and put his arm around her shoulders to signal her to follow. "It's okay. I just haven't found the time to talk to you."

Lin Lu could only keep up and walked out of the office building with his head down, amid the looks of the group of people who said, “Some are here to work, some are here to visit graves, and some are here to go to kindergarten.”

It's a bit embarrassing.

On the way to find a car, Xu Jiayan made some mental preparations. He thought that Pei Yizhou seemed indifferent on the surface but was actually on high alert, just like he was on guard against his wife cheating on him, which made him tend to lean in that direction.

It would be fatal if he said something he shouldn’t say later, so he had to sort it out from the beginning before he could communicate with confidence.

"Lulu, your brother didn't lose his temper last night, did he?" he asked as if chatting.

"No, he rarely loses his temper." Lin Lu said the lie with an honest look on his face. After getting in the car, he put his hands on his knees and behaved very well.

Xu Jiayan: "That's good. If he loses his temper, you should be more tolerant. You disappeared for so many years, and he almost went crazy looking for you. It's inevitable that he will react more strongly when he encounters something about you. You know, you are his only family."

"Yeah." She pursed her lips and nodded, her heart softening a little. In her mind, she linked Pei Yizhou's abnormal behavior during this period with madness, and automatically smoothed it over for him.

Seeing her gentle facial expression, Xu Jiayan breathed a sigh of relief, turned the steering wheel and drove out of the company, and continued:
"I heard from your brother that the reason why Duan Chengyu was investigated was because you were calling his name in your dream the night you traveled back in time. This is quite strange. You don't even know each other, so why would you suddenly dream of a stranger?"

"I also found it strange, so I thought I'd check it out myself first."

"But you overlooked one point. Strangeness means uncertainty. In your brother's eyes, this matter is just as uncontrollable as your time travel. So he is panicking, afraid that this will cause you to disappear again."

With the mediation of a third party, the psychological activities that neither of them had expressed last night came to the surface.

Lin Lu listened very carefully, but she did not analyze her own psychological activities. Instead, she asked curiously: "Brother Jiayan, did you minor in psychology in college?"

"How can I do that? I'm not a genius like your brother. But people who work in sales have to be familiar with customer psychology and apply what they have learned to other situations... Well, by the way, your brother will definitely help you check Duan Chengyu's matter, so don't worry about it."

His ultimate goal was to assist Pei Yizhou in separating Lin Lu and Duan Chengyu, and it would be best if they did not have any reason to meet and chat.

But Lin Lu is not a little sister who believes that being obedient will bring her a happy life. When she got off the car, she held the door and said to Xu Jiayan:
"I don't want to be a house cat that sits by an automatic feeder all day, thinking that I can always get food if I meow. My brother is not my next parent."

After saying this, he smiled calmly, closed the car door, and turned to leave. Xu Jiayan was stunned where he was.

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Pei Yizhou was busy until dinner time, and returned an hour earlier than expected.

When he received the call from Xu Jiayan, he had not eaten for nearly ten hours and was resting with his eyes half closed, tired.

Hearing Lin Lu's last words being relayed over the phone, he was silent for a long time before saying, "I didn't say that to you. I just used your mouth to tell it to me."

Xu Jiayan didn't believe it. The sound of his slurping instant noodles almost drowned out his voice. "That's impossible. She...hiss...her memory is only from 18. When I was 18, I only took my mother's words literally."

"So fools have good fortune."

"..." Xu Jiayan smacked his lips, "What does she mean? Does she think you can't take care of her forever, or does she not want to rely on you for everything?"

Pei Yizhou pinched the bridge of his nose and asked without any emotion: "What do you think?"

"I think your perverted plan will only fail. Think about it. After traveling back in time, you are the only person she is most familiar with. In order to keep the secret, she has no friends or classmates to confide in. In the beginning, she even had no job and no cell phone and could not go out. You were the only one around her... Don't rush to deny it. I was the one who accompanied you to see a psychiatrist."

Pei Yizhou did not deny that not everyone could understand the feeling of losing and regaining something. He just wanted to keep her while eliminating other possible harmful factors.

But as Xu Jiayan said, this plan will only fail.

Linlu is a vegetation with tenacious vitality and will never grow around just one tree.

She understood this truth after her parents passed away. The big tree that supported her life would collapse one day, and at that time she would have to rely on herself.

So her dependence is also limited, but she pays regardless of the cost.

Listening to Xu Jiayan's earnest advice on the phone, Pei Yizhou looked at the night view of Haishi City outside the car window being left behind.

"Okay, I'll continue to see the psychiatrist, and eat your meal. Did she go out after she got home?"

"Probably not. I asked Ding Zitong to chat with her, and she never stopped."

"How was her mood this afternoon?"

"Not bad. I ran to check in and left the people behind me who wanted to say hello and get close to me far behind."

He chuckled.

Lin Lu will definitely wait for him to come home. If she is not asleep now, she is either playing with her phone, watching TV or eating snacks. She should have prepared food for him.

With her around, when he returns home and opens the door, what greets him is no longer darkness and coldness, but his lover wearing dinosaur pajamas under the warm light.

But he didn't go home immediately, and stopped his car outside a restaurant.

Wintersweets were blooming in the quaint window, illuminated by the light. He walked in slowly and stopped in front of table number three.

The man at the table stood up, and the two men looked at each other and stretched out their hands.

"I've heard a lot about you, Mr. Duan." He said coldly.

(End of this chapter)