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

Chapter 30: Ankle Marks

At exactly ten o'clock, Pei Yizhou returned home on time.

The lights were on in the living room, and Lin Lu was indeed still waiting for him.

He tiptoed closer and saw a green dinosaur lying on the sofa. The hood of the dinosaur's pajamas covered its head, and only its white chin was visible.

Pei Yizhou moved gently and wanted to carry her back to the room, but he woke up as soon as he approached Lin Lu, and pulled open his hat to reveal a head of frizzy hair.

"You're finally back, you look tired. Have you eaten? I left some food for you." She got up and sat down, and her eyes hadn't adjusted to the light yet, and she started chattering.

Just as he guessed. Pei Yizhou smiled gently, touched her hair, and put the package on the table.

"What a coincidence. I packed some food for you, too. Have you brushed your teeth?"

"I've brushed it, but I can still eat something with you...Ah qiu!" A huge sneeze almost knocked her unconscious.

She wondered if she had a cold or someone was whispering about her behind her back. Pei Yizhou had already frowned as he turned up the temperature in the living room and put his coat, which carried his body temperature, on her shoulders.

"Did you catch a cold? Are you only wearing this pajamas? Is your forehead hot?" Without thinking, he put his forehead against hers to test it. "You don't have a fever. Are you cold?"

"It's, it's okay." Lin Lu stumbled and immediately controlled his breathing, fearing that the dangerous distance would be shortened again because of his breath spraying in the wrong place.

Fortunately, Pei Yizhou quickly released her, let her sit on the sofa to take her temperature, and deprived her of the right to have a midnight snack.

"…You brought it back for me to eat, let me see it, and then told me to forget it and not eat it. Don't you think you're being cruel?"

"It can be your breakfast tomorrow," Pei Yizhou asked again, "Is it really not cold?"

"not cold."

"Lift your feet."

"What?" she asked as she did what she was told, lifting her feet forward. The dinosaur pajamas made her legs appear one-third shorter for no reason when she did this.

Pei Yizhou lifted her legs, pulled up her pajamas with skillful movements, pressed down the fluff of her slippers, and held her ankles.

Lin Lu froze.

"It's so cold." The low temperature reminded Pei Yizhou of the cold wind in Antarctica and her body temperature when she just came back, which was so cold that it didn't seem like a living person's. "Soak your feet again before going to bed, and wear socks to sleep."

He lowered his head as if studying the purple skin on her ankle that was frozen. Lin Lu could only see his furrowed brows and nose, and he looked completely worried.

She relaxed her body and tried to justify her behavior by saying, "It's just that my brother is too worried about me."

"I know, I know. But I've made enough preparations. All I'm short of is building a fire under the quilt and roasting it directly." She kicked her legs twice and pulled her feet back.

The legs of his pajama pants were still rolled up in the middle of his calves, and there were obvious finger marks where he had just been held, which were very conspicuous against his purple skin.

Pei Yizhou suddenly stared at the traces without moving, his head lowered so that his expression could not be seen clearly.

Maybe silence always breeds something else. Lin Lu felt something was wrong. His heart started beating fast. He immediately pulled his trouser legs down and wrapped himself up like a dinosaur in fur.

"Brother, go have your midnight snack. I'm going to sleep."

Pei Yizhou raised his head, suppressed the impulse that was about to burst out, said yes gently, stood up and sat back at the dining table.

The tall figure of the man moved away. Lin Lu breathed a sigh of relief, left his coat on the sofa, and trotted back to the room.

But before she could get into bed, Pei Yizhou knocked on the door again.

"We're leaving for vacation the day after tomorrow, so you should prepare. If there's anything you want to buy, make a list and go buy it tomorrow. The temperature there will be between 15 and 20 degrees, so you can bring some extra clothes for taking pictures."

"Leaving the day after tomorrow?" She was a little surprised. She had thought it would be earlier, but she hadn't expected it to be so far in advance. There was still more than half a month before the holiday.

She ran to the door, opened it a crack, and used her one-eye technique to look at people through the crack: "Can you handle it? Don't delay your work."

"It's okay, you can take your work with you. You can't stand the temperature in Hai City now, what will happen if the temperature drops sharply in a few days? Go there earlier so that you can sleep more comfortably."

"Oh, that's good. How much can I take?"

Pei Yizhou's smile was also very beautiful through the crack of the door: "Take as much as you want. We will charter a plane and a car for the whole trip."

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Excluding the preparation time on the last day, for Lin Lu, this vacation was simply a spontaneous trip.

He didn't even figure out what clothes were suitable for the resort's climate, so he could only hurriedly pack a suitcase and was taken away by Pei Yizhou.

Ding Zitong and Xu Jiayan came to see them off, hoping to get some benefits, but when they got there they found that the place was empty.

The two could only express their frustration over the phone, then go downstairs and return home to continue working.

On the way downstairs, Ding Zitong complained: "He left in such a hurry, as if he was afraid that Lin Lu would develop an out-of-control romance if she stayed in one place for too long. I've only seen big companies not allowing management to be leaders in the same place for too long. Is he going to manage Lin Lu like a business?"

Xu Jiayan couldn't help laughing: "Your words are really interesting. Please be more tolerant, considering that he has been pitiful for so many years."

Ding Zitong sneered.

"There are so many poor people in the world, and I don't have that much sympathy."

Xu Jiayan noticed that she rarely treated Pei Yizhou well in private matters, so he asked curiously, "I remember that you used to respect him and followed Lin Lu in calling him brother."

“How can they be the same? One is Lin Lu’s brother, and the other is the man who caused Lin Lu to be gossiped about and disappeared for so many years.” Ding Zitong rolled her eyes.

"Isn't that a person alone? And the incident in Antarctica was an accident. Pei Yizhou has invested a lot in this relationship..."

"Stop." The two friends were each speaking for their own friend and couldn't reach a consensus.

"I don't care what Pei Yizhou paid for. I only see what Lin Lu paid for and lost. She is very good, very good. Even without Pei Yizhou, she would have lived a very happy life without any accidents. There is absolutely no need for her to get into trouble just because of hanging out with her nominal brother, and she doesn't have to hide from her former classmates and friends now."

Xu Jiayan also got excited: "We can only blame God for making them brother and sister first, blame Pei Yizhou for falling in love with his sister, blame Lin Lu for falling in love with him willingly, blame the two of them for loving each other to death and not being able to live without one of them."

Ding Zitong: "Forget it! What do you mean by willingly falling in love? It was Pei Yizhou who took advantage of his age difference to seduce Lin Lu first!"

Xu Jiayan: "Then they have the capital to seduce, and Lin Lu is willing to take the bait, what can we do?"

"...If Lin Lu hadn't been blinded by him and hadn't looked at men, do you think he could have gotten what he wanted? I should have introduced a few more boys to her back then, so that Pei Yizhou could only be the uncle of Lin Lu's child for the rest of his life!"

"Damn, you sounded serious when you said that! Be careful that Pei Yizhou doesn't fund the hospital's abortion business!"

The two had a passionate debate at the parking space. At the end, Ding Zitong got into his car with a frown on his face and slammed the door shut.

Xu Jiayan quickly moved aside and looked at the off-road vehicle rushing out with a sigh.

Pei Yizhou, Pei Yizhou, if you can't be my husband, then be my uncle. You'd better speed up your second seduction plan.

　Because the trial push was not accepted (scratching head in embarrassment), I have to wait for the editor to notify me during the day before deciding when to publish the next chapter. I’m sorry.

　　If I can have a chance to test the water again tomorrow, I hope everyone will follow more and not hoard. Thank you in advance (Tabloid reporter spinning in circles.jpg)

　　
　
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