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

Chapter 84 I'm unwilling to say I love you

The person who delivers the flowers should also be tasked with notifying the customer who placed the order. Not long after receiving the flowers, Duan Chengyu called.

To be honest, it was very strange whether I answered Duan Chengyu's call in front of Pei Yizhou, or answered Pei Yizhou's call in front of Duan Chengyu.

It seemed like she was a busy professional girlfriend, and she was making an appointment with another person while having dinner with this one.

However, Duan Chengyu didn't talk about anything else during this phone call. He just asked her if she wanted any foreign specialties.

She said no.

Duan Chengyu said, "It's just one more order. It's okay. Just ask. How about a bracelet? The crystals here are very famous."

After all the talk, she could only ask someone to buy a crystal bracelet for her.

To show her gratitude, she also asked about his work: "Is it very busy? It shouldn't be evening abroad?"

Duan Chengyu: "Yes, I am a bit busy. Thanks to Mr. Pei, I got a big order. I have been working day and night these days and I don't even have time to dream."

"...Haha, then take care of yourself." She could only laugh dryly.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Lu looked at Pei Yizhou who was eating beef with a cold face.

The action of cutting the beef made his shoulders move, and he didn't know whether he was cutting beef or a person.

She couldn't help laughing, and the glass gurgled as she drank her orange juice.

She laughed until Pei Yizhou looked up at her, and then she said, "Why didn't you know you were so childish before?"

"What do you mean by childish? In order to pursue your wife, you pack up and kick out the annoying rival. This can only be called a strategy," he said calmly.

"Cough cough cough!" Lin Lu was shocked by those two words. He choked even when he was about to swallow the orange juice.

Her face turned red from coughing, and she stared at him: "Stop talking nonsense!"

Pei Yizhou: "I have been hit by you with a pillow for more than 20 times. If I went a little too far today, the charge should not be postponed to tomorrow, right?"

"I hit you because you had a fever and you were not behaving like a human being. Did I give you the right to pay first and use later?" She glared at me again.

Pei Yizhou surrendered and pushed the cut beef over. The overly large plate knocked the bouquet of flowers off the table.

Several petals of the pink tulips were knocked off.

"Sorry, it was an accident." He said calmly.

"...You are really childish."

The naive President Pei transformed into the company's boss a few minutes later, skillfully shaking hands with the customers who came to say hello and talking about work.

Several men and women in suits were chatting about the new control system extended from the polar rescue vehicle. The atmosphere was so serious that the waiters didn't dare to pass by.

Lin Lu covered his head while eating. After he finished the medicinal meal, the spoon was about to make a hole in the wall of the casserole, but the people around him did not leave.

Probably because she stood out too much among the group of people talking about work, the old man, who couldn't understand Pei Yizhou's impatient look, stopped talking and turned the topic to her.

"Oh, I'm so sorry to interrupt your meal. Yizhou, who is this?"

Lin Lu thought he would introduce her as his sister, but he said, "The girl I'm pursuing."

A group of people looked over in surprise, and the embarrassment of disturbing his good deeds finally made them say goodbye and leave in embarrassment.

Pei Yizhou looked indifferent, not feeling that he had said anything wrong. The impatience he had been suppressing just now made him lose his appetite after he sat down.

Seeing that Lin Lu had finished eating, he rang the bell for the waiter to come for the bill and took everyone out.

"Didn't you eat well?" he asked.

As she spoke, she walked to the door and threw the bouquet of pink tulips into the trash can in one go.

"…I've finished eating," Lin Lu looked at him speechlessly, "I told you not to come, but you insisted on coming, and then you were unhappy when you came." "If you don't come, I'll just watch you go home with a bouquet of flowers?"

"You can't see that I didn't allow you to stay home tonight."

Pei Yizhou: “…”

They walked back; the restaurant was not far from Tanghu Mansion.

At this point, there are still a lot of people on the street.

In the gloomy night, the popular colors of their clothes made them blend perfectly into the crowd.

But it was a little strange that they didn't talk. Others were in groups of three or five, chattering as they walked, and the only space between them was the night.

As Lin Lu was walking, her shoelaces became loose, so she squatted down to tie them. When she stood up, Pei Yizhou's figure disappeared into the crowd and she could not find him no matter how hard she looked.

She subconsciously searched the crowd, standing still and turning her head to look around.

A crowd of people passed by with a similar shadow. She chased after him a few steps and wanted to call for help, but was pulled back by a hand from behind.

Pei Yizhou was panting, his hair was a little messy, and his hands were tightly grasping her shoulders.

"Where have you been?" he asked anxiously.

Passersby cast their eyes over him, and Lin Lu held his arm and pulled him down: "No, no, I squatted down to tie my shoelaces, and when I stood up, you disappeared."

After saying that, she wanted to pull him away: "Hurry up, hurry up, there won't be so many people if we go around this street."

Pei Yizhou glanced at the new shoes on her feet, and was dragged out of the street and turned into the riverside greenway leading directly to Tanghu Mansion.

There were not many people here at night, and Lin Lu wanted to go home early, but after walking a few steps, his shoelaces became untied again.

She sighed, then squatted down to tie it. When she was done, Pei Yizhou suddenly said softly, "Let me carry you back."

"what?"

"Do you remember? When you were sixteen, you bought a pair of expensive sneakers for the school's track and field competition. But the laces of those shoes kept coming undone, and you stepped on the laces and fell on the track. You limped and cried on the way home. I waited for you at home for a long time, and when I came to find you, you were squatting on the side of the road tying your shoelaces, gritting your teeth and wishing you could kick your shoes off and throw them into the river. That night, I carried you home."

As he spoke of the past, he squatted down in front.

His broad shoulders are no longer as youthful as they used to be. They are more than enough for a girl he likes, or a sister, to lie on them.

There is a light on at regular intervals along the riverside greenway. When walking from one light to the next, the human shadow is stretched and shortened, regularly illuminating the shape of the shadow.

Lin Lu lay on Pei Yizhou's shoulder, silent and quiet.

Pei Yizhou actually felt like talking.

"You said once that when I carry you on my back it's the best time for us to talk, because you can't see my eyes and we can say things that we can't say face to face. Now I feel that you are right. I can't see your eyes, but at the same time I am sure that you are by my side, so I can say some things even if you don't like to hear them."

Lin Lu didn't remember saying such words, but it did sound like something she would say.

They couldn't see each other's eyes, but their bodies were closely touched, their heads were touching, the distance was infinitely close and yet infinitely far, it was a good time for conversation.

"What do you want to say?" she asked in a low voice.

Pei Yizhou's voice was gently carried away by the wind, and it seemed to be getting farther and closer.

"I've been thinking recently, did you still remember me when you met Duan Chengyu in the parallel world? Did you let go of me and accepted him because seven years had passed and you couldn't come back, or did you forget me and were attracted to him? Why were you attracted to him? When I was pursuing you, I knelt down, chased the car that was carrying you, and asked you to see me in the rain, and you reluctantly agreed to me. I gave you everything I had, and in return you said that you liked me too. Our relationship was at its best before we went to Antarctica. But what was it about him that attracted you that could erase my existence and get your acceptance without going through all this?"

Lin Lu didn't answer. She leaned her head on his shoulder and looked at the various projections on the river.

When she was almost at the end, she murmured to herself, "Zitong told me the other day that Duan Chengyu is very similar to you."

　Brother was ecstatic and shook Lu's shoulders: Even if you like him, it's because he looks like me, right? He's just a substitute, right? You still love me, right? Speak!
　　(End of this chapter)