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

Chapter 75 Treat Me Like a Normal Man

Monday is a day for departments to hold meetings.

It is already mid-February and the weather is getting warmer. Many people have changed into slightly lighter coats in richer colors.

Lin Lu was wearing a goose yellow coat today, with her long hair down and a simple cloth headband. She looked young and beautiful, and people would take a second look at her wherever she went.

After an hour of busy work after the morning meeting, it was time for lunch.

This time, Pei Yizhou didn't ask Sister Chen to pass the message. He came to the office personally to call people.

"Lulu, it's time to eat."

Lin Lu still had a data sheet that needed to be completed, so he continued typing without even looking up: "You eat first, I'll be there in five minutes."

Pei Yizhou didn't say anything and went back to the office to wait.

Sister Chen and the others looked at each other and asked tentatively, "Xiao Lin, have you reconciled with Mr. Pei?"

"Hmm?" Lin Lu was distracted for a moment, and answered carefully, "Yes."

Sister Chen: "That's good. For the past two weeks, one of you had a sullen face and the other looked like you hadn't slept all night. It was tiring to watch."

He didn't ask why they had a conflict, nor did he try to find out how they reconciled.

The person involved actually felt a little uncomfortable. If he didn't ask, he was afraid that they would misunderstand him. If he asked, he was afraid that he was trying to hide something.

In the end, she could only smile embarrassedly, thinking that everyone thought it was a conflict between brother and sister.

After completing the data sheet, Lin Lu walked into Pei Yizhou's office with a normal expression.

Lunch has been prepared on the small table. Pei Yizhou is estimating the time and opening the dishes one by one. The aroma of spicy and sour edamame wafts out.

"Drink the soup first." After setting the food, he lowered his head to peel fruit.

His suit was open, and his striped tie had fallen out and was swinging slightly, which was very inconsistent with his image as a good family man.

Lin Lu didn't like today's crucian carp soup. He picked up the bowl and put it down again, thinking about how to refuse the soup. Pei Yizhou looked up accurately as if he had a third eye: "Don't like it? Then have some fruit first."

He fed her a piece of freshly cut cantaloupe. Before Lin Lu could react, the cool flesh had already touched her lips.

Her lips felt itchy, and she ate the cantaloupe in silence.

Pei Yizhou smiled with relief: "Is it sweet?"

She nodded.

"Then take a box home after dinner and share it with everyone. I remember you didn't like eating fruit very much before. I heard Auntie Lin ask you to pack a box of fruit to take to school twice out of the three times I passed by your house, and you always ran away very fast."

She was stunned and even slowed down her movements in chewing the fruit.

Just as she rarely mentioned Aunt Pei and Uncle Pei, Pei Yizhou rarely mentioned her parents. After all, the departure of their parents was an old wound for them.

Moreover, Pei Yizhou prefers to talk about the past few years when they depended on each other.

"That's because my mother always picks the leftover fruits at home to make fruit plates for me. They are basically citrus fruits. Occasionally, if I eat a not-so-good one, it will be so sour that I can't eat lunch," she said.

"I don't see you like other fruits that much. You just eat them when they are placed in front of you. You won't buy them specially if they are not available." Pei Yizhou cut the fruits and put them in a box.

Some juice flowed onto his hands. He took out a wet towel and wiped along the base of his fingers towards his fingertips. He wiped the ring finger with the ring twice, and also took care of the back of his hand with faint blue veins.

The action is very... flavorful.

Lin Lu lowered his head and took a mouthful of rice, but the first bite of food tasted weird in his mouth after he had just eaten fruit.

Her expression twisted for a moment.

Pei Yizhou chuckled and threw the wet wipes away: "Wait a minute."

Her ears felt a little hot.

In the past, she was still too immature, and she only wanted to study hard and make money to support her brother in his old age. She had never experienced any temptations from men and women in the glamorous world. So she couldn't stand this, even though she was the one being pursued.

After talking about it yesterday, she started thinking about what this guy would do when she came to the company today. After all, he has experience and knows what her past self was most susceptible to.

To prevent him from being too wild, she had to look away immediately when she saw his face during meetings, alert for any moves he might make… Unexpectedly, it was the most primitive tactic, and she would be unable to avoid it as long as she had eyes.

After taking two more bites of rice, Lin Lu simply stopped looking at him.

"I have a dinner date with Zitong tonight, so I won't be eating with you."

Pei Yizhou frowned quickly, unwilling at all in his heart, but after a pause he still replied: "Okay. Where is it? I'll take you there."

"Need not."

He paused for a few seconds again and still said, "Okay."

Their relationship has finally been eased, and they cannot destroy the current situation just by temporarily escaping the cage.

Lin Lu was a little surprised that he let her go without saying a word. She took the opportunity to glance at him while scooping edamame with a spoon.

"Brother, you..."

"Can you stop calling me brother for a while?" Pei Yizhou said suddenly.

She held a spoonful of edamame suspended above the rice and said in surprise, "Huh?"

"I know that every time you walk through this door, you have mixed emotions, as if there are three of me inside. You don't know how to respond to my every word and action so as not to make the relationship worse. You want to scold me and beat me, but you want to care about me because I'm your brother, but you're also worried that I might have bad intentions towards you. You want to lose your temper, but you have to consider that I'm your boss and this is the general manager's office. I can see your contradictions clearly."

Pei Yizhou said calmly as she pressed her spoonful of tender green edamame into the rice.

"Before, I could only use your conflict to keep you from saying anything, but now I hope to stop being your brother for a while. Lulu, can you treat me as a normal man?"

Lin Lu pursed her lips.

No wonder he didn't talk about the little things they did together in the past today, but instead talked about the things that happened earlier when they were neighbors.

It is to remove the obstacles brought by family ties.

She mixed the edamame and rice and put it into her mouth, but she accidentally put it on her lips and had to eat it the second time.

After eating the rice, my dizzy head seemed to calm down a lot.

"I've been treating you like a normal man lately, and what you did doesn't deserve the title of brother. No, your behavior should be considered as an abnormal man."

Pei Yizhou curved his lips and said, "I haven't taken medicine recently. I will get better slowly."

She habitually wanted to tell him to take care of himself, but Pei Yizhou didn't want to be a brother, so she swallowed the words back.

Finally, he said, “I hope so.”

Treating your brother as an ordinary man requires more than just changing the way you address him.

They have been calling each other brother and sister for so long that they have long been accustomed to caring about each other as family.

The instructions that were swallowed and the atmosphere of getting along between men and women that emerged cannot be transformed amicably. At least Lin Lu believes that the relationship between them is still like animal fat in winter, which cannot be blended together.

After dinner, it was another busy afternoon.

The work is not difficult, but dealing with people is inevitably exhausting, especially on Mondays when everyone is counting the minutes until the end of get off work.

As soon as six o'clock comes, it's time to relax, but unfortunately Lin Lu was unable to keep the appointment with Ding Zitong.

Because she finally started her period after a few months.

Her pants turned red and her face turned visibly paler. Pei Yizhou postponed the project team's briefing meeting and drove her home.

(End of this chapter)