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

Chapter 36 The Woman Staring at Her

The two people at home who are keen on cooking have no idea what people outside are thinking.

Pei Yizhou was not wrong when he said that he would not run into anyone he knew. The several identity checks at the resort could isolate most of the people who shouldn't be here.

Five or six kilometers south of the resort is the popular affordable tourist area.

Although the scenery is much the same, most of the accommodation here is sold as investment housing, and the hotel's villas and flats are bought and left alone, with private assets only used for three months a year.

For people in this resort area, vacation means "living and enjoying the scenery at the doorstep of another home."

Pei Yizhou felt that they were living an ordinary life now, the life he longed for.

But Lin Lu just couldn't calm down. She couldn't stay in a room with him quietly for more than three hours, and she would just want to go out.

"I want to go to the bay and take a speedboat ride. The brochure says the water there is so clear that you can see fish swimming underneath."

Pei Yizhou was reluctant for her to leave: "It's far away, and it's a diving area. You can't see many fish from a speedboat."

"Can you dive? You can dive down and take a look. I'll take a picture for you!"

Lin Lu lay on the back of the sofa, holding his shoulders from behind and shaking him: "Brother, there are no photos of you at home, don't you want to take a few? All the photos taken these two days are of me."

Pei Yizhou felt a little upset. How could there be no photos of him at home? It was just that he had put them all away.

Because they are all photos of two people, you can tell the relationship between the two people in the photo by their intimate postures.

“Okay,” but he still agreed, “I’ll take pictures of the fish underwater for you.”

“Good brother!”

It would be boring to take a sightseeing bus to the bay, so they rented two mountain bikes and swooped down the downhill road.

Lin Lu rushed in front, happily enjoying the feeling of the sea breeze on his face.

The sea breeze blew her hair, and it danced in the sunlight. When she turned her head, squinted her eyes and smiled, she looked like an elf.

Pei Yizhou looked at her from behind and stopped to take a picture of her back.

But after taking the photo and preparing to set off again, he found that Lin Lu had turned a big corner and disappeared from his sight.

The wind instantly turned into drifting snow, the Gulf Highway turned into the Antarctic ice field, and in just the time it took him to raise his head, the person who was supposed to be with him disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Seven years.

He doesn't want to have another seven years of pain.

The panic in his heart was like overflowing water. Pei Yizhou's breathing became rapid in an instant. He hurriedly rode his bicycle and rushed down, shouting loudly: "Lulu! Lin Lu!"

The continuous shouts echoed in the bay. Lin Lu didn't hear them until he rode to the foot of the mountain. He stopped his bike and waited by the roadside.

"Brother! I'm down there!"

After waiting for less than two minutes, Pei Yizhou appeared at the last corner.

She was about to wave with a smile, but Pei Yizhou dropped his bicycle and ran to her, then rushed over and hugged her.

The impact force brought with it acceleration. Lin Lu managed to stabilize himself with great difficulty. While he was still confused, he discovered that Pei Yizhou's entire body was shaking.

Her whole body seemed to be so heavy that she was falling down, and the arms that were holding her were so tight that it affected her breathing.

Her smile fell and she sighed, hugging him back and patting his back with her hands.

"Okay, I was just one step faster. Brother, you must be paddling behind me, so slow, you almost couldn't catch up with me."

"But I'll be waiting for you down there. You'll definitely find me."

Yes, he found it this time. Pei Yizhou's rapid breathing slowly returned to normal under her comfort.

Then he loosened his arms and pinched his brows to calm down.

Lin Lu asked hesitantly: "Can we still go diving? Otherwise, let's go back and come back next time." Pei Yizhou was silent and shook his head, not wanting to affect her mood: "It's okay. Do you want to learn diving? I can teach you, and we can go down and see the fish together."

"Forget it. I hate the feeling of being submerged in water."

"Really? I remember you weren't afraid of water before."

"But I fell into the water at the surf pavilion yesterday and it was really uncomfortable."

While chatting, they went to the diving area to rent a speedboat and make preparations.

Although Pei Yizhou behaved normally, Lin Lu was still worried about his condition. She said before coming that she wanted to play for the whole afternoon, but Pei Yizhou was called out of the water only half an hour after he entered the water.

Pei Yizhou obviously knew what she was thinking. He surfaced and grabbed the edge of the speedboat, smiling and saying, "I'm fine. Didn't you want to watch me dive? You even threatened to take a hundred photos of me."

Lin Lu lowered her head and pulled him: "I think something is wrong with you. Come up quickly."

She still doesn't know how much pain Pei Yizhou has suffered during the years she disappeared. After all, the information conveyed by bystanders is vague and distant.

But from his behavior today, she could tell something - it was much more serious than she had imagined.

Pei Yizhou wanted to say something else: "I..."

"Come up quickly, I don't want to play this anymore, let's go home and cook." Lin Lu's fingers tightly grasped his wrist.

Pei Yizhou was speechless. He went ashore and prepared to transform from a diver to a househusband with a smile on his face.

The man driving the speedboat glanced at him a few times with a look that said, "A man who is in love doesn't understand bad words."

Asking him to stop playing and go home to cook, what's so fun about that?

After returning to the hotel from the bay, Pei Yizhou devoted himself to the kitchen business with full enthusiasm.

After Lin Lu stayed with him for a while, he found an excuse to go downstairs and sat in a sheltered place in a daze.

After traveling back in time, there were dreams, Duan Chengyu, integrating into a new life... a lot of things were waiting for her to do, so she didn't have enough time to think carefully about how Pei Yizhou had been living in the past few years.

She thought that with money, friends, and maybe even a girlfriend, she should be living a good life.

Even though he would be sad for some time after losing his sister, it was not the first time he had experienced the death of a family member, so it probably wouldn't be too painful.

Because she didn't think she was important enough to Pei Yizhou to make him collapse.

Just like when her parents died, when faced with the problems of survival and the pressure of studies, the pain would be compressed and finally thrown into the recycling bin like a deflated can.

Maybe Pei Yizhou would run around looking for her in the first year after she disappeared, and in the second year he would cry while holding her photo, and in the third year...

After five or six years, he should have given up and only needed to say a few words of nostalgia when others talked about her.

This is enough.

It shouldn't be like this now. I'm afraid she will disappear again so I stay in her room in the middle of the night, I panic and tremble when I can't see her, and if I don't go home immediately after get off work, I will be questioned if I have eaten at another place.

She wondered if Pei Yizhou had been traumatized and was a little abnormal, or...

Lin Lu held his chin with a sad expression, his eyes wandering aimlessly.

Then I noticed that among the passers-by outside the hotel entrance, there was a girl who seemed to be staring at this side.

She looked back and saw no one. She looked over again and the girl quickly looked away, but the next second she looked back at her.

Are you looking at her?

Lin Lu frowned in confusion, confirming that he didn't know the man.

who is it?

　A certain incredible conjecture has emerged, poor Lin Lulu

　　
　
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