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

Chapter 37 We look alike
It was not uncommon to be stared at by passers-by. Lin Lu just thought it was strange that the man was staring at her face.

She wasn't in the mood to deal with strange people for the time being.

She turned her body, sat in another direction and continued to think about life.

She glanced down at the time on her mobile phone screen, estimating when Pei Yizhou would call her to urge her to go back for dinner.

When she looked up again, the girl across the street was actually walking towards her.

The other person walked up to her step by step, his hidden eyes swept across her face several times, and greeted her in a calm and generous voice: "Hello."

Lin Lu frowned: "Hello. We don't know each other, right?"

"I am the project manager of Jinlian Company. We have cooperated with Linzhou Technology. The last time our company's representatives visited Linzhou Technology, they should have been received by the general manager's office."

Lin Lu pretended to be suddenly enlightened, stood up and said politely: "So you are a friend from Jinlian Company. What's your name?"

"My last name is Qi." Qi Juelin stopped there.

"Oh, Miss Qi, what do you want to talk to me about?"

After working for a month or two, she had made some progress in dealing with people, and she could tell at a glance that this man was not here to discuss serious matters.

But what important matters can she decide? No one in the company will come to her for help.

But the polite smile on his face was very sincere.

Qi Juelin shook her head. When she smiled, her facial lines were soft and her features were majestic and beautiful.

"It's nothing serious. I just made Mr. Pei angry when we were chatting at the dinner last time. I've been looking for an opportunity to formally apologize to him. I'm always worried that this will affect our cooperation."

A strange feeling arose in Lin Lu's heart.

"Boss Pei..." It felt strange to call him that after leaving the company. She coughed to suppress her subtle shame. "Boss Pei is not the kind of person who would let personal matters affect his work. Don't worry."

Then he smiled and asked, "But why did you come to me for your matter with President Pei? Besides, few people in Linzhou Technology know that I am here."

Qi Juelin shyly hooked the hair beside her ear and said, "We are also on vacation here. I happened to see you and Mr. Pei yesterday. I heard that you are Mr. Pei's sister?"

"Miss Qi is well-informed." Lin Lu smiled perfunctorily.

She was getting a little impatient with this useless talk.

"When we worked together before, I never heard that President Pei had a sister, so I was a little curious." The other party began to look at her secretly again.

Lin Lu smiled in response and had nothing to say.

Qi Juelin was quiet for a while, took a deep breath, and seemed to have mustered up the courage to finally tell her true purpose.

"Ms. Lin, this may be a little presumptuous, but I still want to ask, does Mr. Pei have a new girlfriend?"

Lin Lu looked even weirder: "New...girlfriend?"

A girlfriend is a girlfriend, why do you have to distinguish between the new and the old? Could it be that Pei Yizhou had just dated someone before she came back?
"Well," Qi Juelin lowered her voice, a little embarrassed, "I know he had a fiancée before, but she has passed away. I wonder if he has had any recent..."

Have you fallen in love again?

Lin Lu automatically completed the second half, feeling heavy in his heart.

Fiancée, she recalled the conversation on the phone with a middle-aged man she heard outside the restaurant on the day when she received the Jinlian Company some time ago.

So Pei Yizhou really had a fiancée who has passed away. He started dating her about two years after she disappeared. She was the next "support" he chose for himself.

Judging from the degree of taboos people have, Pei Yizhou should love his fiancée very much.

She couldn't tell what she felt, the complex emotions made her want to just sigh.

Just now she was still thinking about her brother's recent abnormal behavior, which made her think he was going insane. Now she thought that he might just have a simple psychological problem.

After losing his loved ones one after another, his mentality must have become as fragile as paper. "Miss Qi, my brother doesn't have a girlfriend now. If you..." For some reason, the rest of the words were a little difficult to say.

She opened and closed her mouth two or three times before continuing, "If you have any ideas, you can go to him yourself. It's useless to go to me."

There seemed to be some change in the way Qi Juelin looked at her.

"you……"

"how?"

"It's okay. I just don't know what to do. I know that liking him may seem like a workplace affair to many people, but I do have a good impression of him."

Lin Lu was silent. It was too fantastic for her to stay here and listen to others talking about her brother's worries instead of going home for dinner.

Unexpectedly, Qi Juelin's next sentence made her feel even more fantastic -

"…Although I also know that he was staring at me in a daze at the time, most likely because I looked a bit like his fiancée."

"what???"

What is this, substitute literature?
She was a little dumbfounded and listened to the whole story of the budding love in a daze.

Then both of them fell silent.

It was not until Lin Lu's cell phone rang that Pei Yizhou called her to come back for dinner.

She answered absentmindedly, but the phone was close enough that Qi Juelin could barely hear a word or two.

Pei Yizhou's voice was gentle and helpless, completely different from the coldness and harshness he had at the dinner that night.

Qi Juelin looked at the profile of the girl next to her. She looked so young and as tender as a peach.

She is still a carefully protected peach, not someone like her, who is manipulated at will in the workplace and is so oppressed by heavy work and annoying dinners that she really wants to take shortcuts and sell herself.

But she was not as stupid as the peach. She knew why Yu Jibin kept coaxing her, and why Pei Yizhou kept this peach.

"Sorry, I have to go home for dinner." Lin Lu hung up the phone and said politely, "If you... you can go find him yourself."

In fact, she wanted to just forget it. According to the legend, Pei Yizhou loved his fiancée so deeply that any substitute would just suffer.

Today you can be a stand-in, and tomorrow someone who looks more similar can also be a stand-in. Back and forth, only men enjoy it.

But if she were to take care of this matter on behalf of Pei Yizhou...it would be too weird, really too weird.

After saying this, she turned around and prepared to enter the hotel.

After taking a few steps, Qi Juelin called her again.

Judging from her conflicted expression, she probably hesitated about something and decided to tell it all.

"Don't you think we look a bit alike?"

Lin Lu opened his eyes wide: "What?"

A ridiculous thought flashed through her mind.

Before her brain could think carefully about that sentence, her gaze uncontrollably fixed on Qi Juelin's face, looking at her inch by inch.

She didn't see how similar they were. The DNA similarity between humans and pigs is as high as 97.7%. Humans and humans... No, she put aside the messy thoughts in her mind and finally figured out the meaning of that sentence.

Then my heart started beating wildly, and I felt my eyelids and cheeks shaking in this high-intensity vibration.

"What do you mean?"

Qi Juelin refused to say more, nodded at her, and left the resort.

(End of this chapter)