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

Chapter 39 The Second Kiss of the Year

A dinner that was too much to eat and tasteless.

After returning to the suite, Lin Lu said "good night" as usual and went into his room.

She behaved so normally that Pei Yizhou's silence seemed inexplicable.

He did not return to his room. He stood at the door for a long time, until his legs became stiff. Then he sat down on the sofa and closed his eyes tiredly.

The door to the terrace was not closed. The night outside was like a two-dimensional creature, swallowing up the light bit by bit. The darkness spread over his chest, making him feel as painful as drowning when he fell asleep.

Perhaps it was because the reality was too hard to accept, or perhaps the topic Lin Lu talked about was very similar to the past, so he dreamed of the past again after a long time.

It was midsummer, the weather was so hot that people were getting restless. It was Pei Yizhou’s twenty-first birthday.

Ever since they accidentally kissed each other on the night of Lin Lu’s eighteenth birthday, the relationship between the brother and sister has become a little awkward.

It is a very subtle awkwardness, like the hot wind in midsummer, passing through the two ends of the dining table, during the washing time that is deliberately avoided, and the distance that is created when walking side by side.

The sense of presence is very low in the heat wave, but no matter how low it is, you can still feel it clearly once you become the person involved.

At that time, they had been living like this for half a year - one was a college student and the other was a high school graduate, and time passed very quickly for them.

But summer vacation was inevitable, and they had to live under the same roof for another two months.

It was also on such an evening, when they were having dinner, Lin Lu suddenly asked him if he had a love relationship at school.

As if she couldn't stand the embarrassment of the past six months, she finally chose to face the problem head-on, wanting to cut the Gordian knot and get things back in the right direction.

Pei Yizhou said no, he was busy studying, making money to support his family, and taking care of his younger sister at home. He really had no mood or time to fall in love.

Lin Lu didn't give up and said that he had already graduated and there was no need for him to work so hard in the future and he could go and experience the feeling of being in love.

He didn't know what her mentality was, but Pei Yizhou felt at the time that she was pushing him out of the family.

If the brother and sister are in love with their own relationships, is it still a family? Will they only get together on Chinese New Year throughout the year?
He felt a little depressed. The summer heat made his emotions fluctuate greatly. He put down his chopsticks and went to tidy up the clothes on the sofa, venting the pent-up anger in his heart and coldly told her not to worry about him.

Lin Lu ate her food and said vaguely that she was not as family-oriented as him and that she would definitely fall in love after going to college.

This sentence was like a punch to his temple. He inexplicably imagined opening the door in the future and seeing her leaning against a strange man, talking and laughing. Certain emotions were like spider webs in an old house, climbing up in tangles and unable to be pulled away.

He didn't know what he was doing, and suddenly grabbed Lin Lu's arm and pulled her up.

Just staring at her like that.

Lin Lu was probably frightened. She put her hands against his chest in a protesting manner and kept calling him “brother, brother, brother, brother…”

It seemed that this could bring back his sanity and put the matter behind him.

But she did something wrong again. Her resistance caused Pei Yizhou's emotions, which had been suppressed for half a year, to go to the opposite extreme as hers. He pushed her down on the sofa.

The kiss half a year ago was accidental, but the kiss now was active and forced.

Lin Lu slapped him in the face and turned it to the side.

He slid down to the ground, resting his forehead on Lin Lu's knees, and said sorry.

Asking him to explain, to repent, to sober up, it's no use, he just says sorry.

As Lin Lu was speaking, she hit him hard with a pillow and rushed into the room to hide.

……

Pei Yizhou slept uneasily and was awakened by the cold wind in the middle of the night. He immediately looked towards Lin Lu's room. She had matured a little and didn't slam the door as fiercely as before. Tonight, from dinner to returning to the room, she acted as if nothing had happened.

It was as if she was really worrying about her brother's life.

While he hated it so much, he also felt a strange admiration.

He pressed his forehead and stood up to close the terrace door.

Instead of going back to the room, he just started working in the living room.

When Xu Jiayan saw his reminder in the middle of the night, he sobered up from drinking with the client and immediately called to say hello.

"Aren't you on vacation with our sister? Don't you stop working after 11 o'clock? What are you doing now? A conscientious entrepreneur is still working in the middle of the night to earn performance?"

Without waiting for Pei Yizhou to reply, he let out an euphemistic "Oh" and added, "I understand. You had a fight and you were kicked out."

"..." Pei Yizhou's temples throbbed again, and he lowered his voice and said, "You have nothing better to do than go to sleep."

Xu Jiayan is already alert, why is he still sleeping? He has to dig into the matter as a military advisor.

"Some things are useless if you rely on yourself alone. You have to learn to use the wisdom of the masses. I bet Ding Zitong that you two will be together again soon. Consider my money. Tell me, what happened?"

Pei Yizhou was silent for a long time. Xu Jiayan waited until she was about to doubt the quality of the Internet before she heard him say, "She asked me to date someone else."

Xu Jiayan performed on the spot and gasped.

"That's it?"

"...How serious will it be?"

"Can you at least tell me the whole story? She doesn't remember anything about you two now, and isn't it my duty as a younger sister to urge you to fall in love? You've let her guard down like this."

Pei Yizhou took a deep breath and narrated the story as calmly as possible: "The project manager of Jinlian came to see her during the day. I don't know what he said, but she became a little weird. During dinner, she suddenly asked me to accept his pursuit and try to have a relationship."

Xu Jiayan: "That Qi Juelin? But the story up to this point is very normal. Someone is pursuing you and has found her. She is urging you to fall in love, but... wait a minute."

There was silence on both sides of the phone.

Xu Jiayan spent a few seconds wiping his face with cold water, thinking of the most abnormal part of the incident.

"Qi Juelin looks a bit like her, especially from the side."

Pei Yizhou frowned.

Xu Jiayan continued to mutter to himself: "She discovered that Qi Juelin looked like her, or Qi Juelin said something that made her realize something was wrong, such as that she looked like your missing fiancée..."

"She didn't mention Antarctica, she didn't have a fiancée, and she didn't appear to be in any way upset."

"That means she only noticed that you were not right with her, and advised you to fall in love. She was pointing at you!"

The sympathy on the other end of the line was about to overflow: "Even if I don't say it, I can guess that her attitude is biased towards rejection, right? My poor boss——"

"Okay, shut up." Pei Yizhou said coldly.

"I advise you to take it slow," Xu Jiayan turned serious in an instant, "She is now against you and your relationship changing from siblings, after all, this is somewhat related to incest. You have to take it slow, otherwise if she becomes more and more against it, and there is Duan Chengyu next to her, she will make some irrational decision, and you will be finished."

At this point, I couldn't help but lament for him: "My poor brother, there aren't so many difficult things in life, and you've encountered them all. A good lover is now on the edge of being eliminated..."

The call was hung up and Pei Yizhou threw the phone into the corner of the sofa with a cold face.

(End of this chapter)