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

Chapter 38 Terrified
Lin Lu sat at the dining table and picked up the chopsticks, his soul still floating in the air.

The sentence "Don't you think we look a bit alike?" was like the Diamond Sutra, playing in her mind on a loop, making it impossible for her to escape the truth behind it.

"What's wrong? You're not paying attention while eating. Is it not tasty?" Pei Yizhou served the fish soup and placed it next to her.

She couldn't look Pei Yizhou in the face now. She lowered her head and ate her food, mumbling, "It's delicious, but I'm not particularly hungry."

Then my mind continued to think in a messy way uncontrollably.

It was an automatic behavior, and she couldn't stop it after she told herself to stop, even though she knew she could draw the final conclusion immediately.

Lin Lu was a little flustered. He took two mouthfuls of rice and picked up the small bowl to drink soup. Unexpectedly, he drank too quickly and choked, bursting into a deafening cough.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough--cough!"

The soup bowl fell on the table and spun around. As she coughed, the fish soup spilled on the table, clothes, and carpet.

Pei Yizhou reacted quickly, stood up and walked to her side, patting her on the back and taking out a tissue to wipe the soup off her mouth and clothes.

"What are you thinking about? You're so careless even when drinking soup." He said helplessly.

Lin Lu's cough eased a little, but she had coughed too hard just now, her face turned red, and she was holding back tears.

Pei Yizhou naturally used a tissue to wipe away her tears, left and right, without rubbing the tissue against her skin. His movements were more skillful than when he wiped her mouth.

Lin Lu wiped her tears, stopped coughing, and looked at him.

What was he thinking about? He was thinking about what it meant that she looked like Pei Yizhou's fiancée. He was thinking that she appeared by his side earlier than his fiancée, so it wasn't that she looked like his fiancée, but that his fiancée looked like him.

She was wondering what the look was when Pei Yizhou looked at her that night.

I was wondering, when exactly did he do that...was it that unexpected kiss on the night when I was eighteen?

She was wondering whether Pei Yizhou realized that she was like a shrimp in his arms.

Thinking……

Something frightened her as they looked at each other.

Lin Lu leaned forward calmly, avoiding Pei Yizhou's enveloping embrace.

"I'm fine," she pretended to get a cup of water, "Brother, I'm a little traumatized by the fish soup you made."

The gentleness on Pei Yizhou's face was slightly distorted like a mask as she struggled to break free, but he smiled again in an instant.

"You drank too hastily, and you blamed the fish soup."

Lin Lu smiled awkwardly and tried to distract himself from his panic by drinking water.

He swallowed down big gulps of cold water, just like swallowing down a guess that should not be spoken or pointed out.

Until you calm down.

I didn't eat much of the meal and finished it quickly.

Pei Yizhou was going to listen to the year-end reports from various departments of the company in the afternoon, so Lin Lu made the excuse of being sleepy and hid in the room to sleep.

This was a lame excuse, but Pei Yizhou just looked at her, nodded, and told her not to sleep too long and that they would have dinner early.

"I just ate a few bites. How about we go out for a Japanese dinner? Get up after two hours of sleep, or you won't be able to sleep at night."

"I know, brother."

She looked at Pei Yizhou's gentle gaze looking at her until the door closed.

There was a click.

The person inside the door turned around, pressed against the wall, and slowly slid down.

The person outside the door had a gloomy look in his eyes and called the hotel to ask what happened half an hour ago.

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Lin Lu really took a nap.

Sleep makes the mind clear, and when she woke up, she had returned to normal and began to ask Ding Zitong about the price of the top psychologist in Hai City.

Ding Zitong sent a message: [What happened to your brother? ]

Two seconds later, Lin Lu watched the message being quickly withdrawn.

Ding Zitong: [Hey, why did you suddenly mention the psychologist? What’s wrong with you?] The dim light of the phone screen hit her face, which was as calm as dead water; [Wow, you were so slow to withdraw, I saw it.]

Ding Zitong: [……]

Ding Zitong: [Okay, so what happened to your brother? ]

[I began to suspect that he had been hurt too much during the years I was gone, and that he was mentally unstable.]

Ding Zitong: [For example?]

[For example, when I turned a corner on my bike, he thought I was flying and was so scared that he hugged me and trembled.]

Ding Zitong: [Wow, this is a story that makes anyone cry.]

Ding Zitong: [I do know a few psychologists, and I recommend them to you. Please arrange for your brother to visit them more often as soon as possible.]

[So he had seen a psychiatrist before, right? ]

Ding Zitong didn't feel anything was wrong yet, and answered seriously: [Yes, many people who have lost loved ones due to broken families have some psychological problems.]

[It was normal when his parents died. I thought he would be upset, but he shouldn't be so upset. What do you think? ]

Ding Zitong replied after a while: [I am silent]

【I am also silent. 】

It was a conversation like a secret code. When they were in high school, Lin Lu and Ding Zitong often complained about things that only you knew, I knew, and everyone knew.

Nowadays, it has another effect - as long as some things are not pointed out, both parties can pretend to be ignorant.

Lin Lu put away his phone just as someone knocked on the door.

"Lulu, don't sleep anymore. Get up and listen to the report from the General Manager's Office with Sister Chen and the others."

"Okay, right away." She raised her voice slightly.

Work could temporarily put the weird atmosphere behind her, allowing her to breathe a sigh of relief from the suffocation that was strangling her neck.

But it wasn't long before the questions inevitably came during dinner time.

They went to the Japanese restaurant on the eleventh floor of the hotel and chose a seat by the window.

Like her room, it had an excellent location. Just by turning her head she could see the deep blue sea, the white waves crashing onto the beach, and a few people running on the beach.

Pei Yizhou is a good brother and always gives her better things.

Lin Lu sighed in his heart, and after sitting down, he felt that Pei Yizhou was not that good either.

Because there was a Japanese lantern hanging in this place, the light was dim, and it was a bit far away from the guests at other tables. The atmosphere was very much like a perfect interrogation room.

They were all silent while the food was being served.

When everything was served, Pei Yizhou picked up a piece of Taiyaki for her and asked casually, "Do you still have a poor appetite? Who did you see when you went downstairs this morning? You haven't been feeling well since lunch."

Lin Lu lowered his head and took a bite of Taiyaki, saying, "I met the manager of a partner."

"Oh? Came here just to see you?"

She swallowed the food hard, raised her head, and a teasing smile appeared on her face: "Yes, because you are too hard to approach. I want to chase you."

Pei Yizhou looked into her eyes with a gloomy look.

"Really?" His voice was extremely flat.

Lin Lu turned her eyes away, acted like a younger sister and said, "Brother, I've been away for so many years, you should have had a relationship before, right? Otherwise, it would be so hard to be alone."

The conversation became smoother and smoother. She picked up a grilled cheese salmon sushi, took a bite, and continued to talk as if chatting with her family:

"But judging from your behavior, you probably haven't had a love life in the past year. I think you can try to accept another relationship. Now that I'm back, if you find a girlfriend who's easy to get along with, our family will be happy."

Pei Yizhou didn't say anything. The Japanese food on the table turned into choking limestone. He put down his chopsticks expressionlessly.

The metallic tip of the chopsticks makes a crisp sound on the ceramic chopstick holder, like touching the pause button.

Lin Lu stopped talking, but did not stop tasting the sushi.

The brother and sister didn't look at each other, and depression spread in the air.

　Yes, it was put on the shelves without any warning (covering face)
　　While trying to adapt to the new rules of the website, the tabloid reporter shook my computer madly with his arms swinging - please quickly generate the plot of Pei Yizhou going crazy, Duan Chengyu going crazy, and Lin Lulu being shocked! There are people waiting outside the small dark room!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)