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

Chapter 99 I Will Choose Pei Yizhou
Pei Yizhou’s method of occupying the line didn’t last long.

Because Duan Chengyu made the video call in the middle of the night, when everything was quiet, Lin Lu fell asleep.

The phone vibrated and I opened it with hazy eyes, and a handsome face, slightly tipsy, popped up on the screen.

He was half-lying on the table, with a glass half-filled with wine next to him. The faint light from a lamp on the table slightly illuminated his eyebrows.

There was darkness on both sides, only that face was the clearest, even the dazed look in the eyes and the moisture on the lips were clearly visible.

Lin Lu suddenly became half awake.

"What are you doing?" she asked with a yawn.

Duan Chengyu stared at her, his eyes motionless, and after a while he spoke slowly: "I'm sorry to bother you."

He speaks very slowly, and it's obvious that he's drunk.

She was helpless: "You know you're bothering me by calling me. Is getting drunk late at night a must for a successful entrepreneur?"

Duan Chengyu lay down and laughed, then closed his eyes and said, "Maybe."

Lying in bed, with the phone too close to her, the words sounded like they were whispered in her ear, which made her feel uncomfortable.

She moved the phone further away and covered the leaking area with a blanket, leaving only a head and a few fingers sticking out.

It was barely like they were whispering in bed anymore.

"So what do you want to talk to me about?" she asked.

There was silence and no answer from the other end, but Duan Chengyu was still closing his eyelashes regularly.

After a moment he said, "I just wanted to talk to you. But now I don't know what to say."

In a relationship, being hesitant to speak is often a sign of a sudden downturn.

This shows that there are at least negative emotions such as unwillingness, panic, and anger between the two people.

Lin Lu has no memory of being in love, but as long as one is not insane, one will have this subtle perception.

"Just say whatever you want to say. Don't expect me to understand what you haven't said. It's a waste of time, effort and mood."

"But do you want to hear it?" Duan Chengyu's smile was a little bitter. "You don't expect me to keep you, so some words are useless before you say them. I just... am a little unwilling."

"You approached me first," he muttered.

Lin Lu pursed her lips.

In fact, things haven't reached the final step, but feelings are like pedestrians with a preferred destination, so everyone knows the ending before crossing the intersection.

"I don't want to keep trying to bait you with words like 'I'm not ready to be with anyone'. Even if I recover my memory and don't end up with Pei Yizhou, I'm afraid I won't fall in love with you. I admire your face and your personality, but that's not love. At least since we've been together, I haven't been nervous or excited about meeting or video chatting with you. If you like someone, you'll at least feel shy, awkward, and nervous towards that person, right? I don't."

Duan Chengyu closed his eyes again and asked hoarsely, "Do you have these feelings towards Pei Yizhou?"

She was silent for two seconds, then said truthfully: "A little bit."

Her memory is fragmented, and the natural relationship between Pei Yizhou and her makes their relationship complicated and blurred, and it is difficult to tell which category many emotions belong to.

A very slight self-deprecating voice came from the phone.

"I don't know how things turned out like this. I thought the word 'same kind' was enough to give us a start..." Although I couldn't smell anything, Duan Chengyu's speed of speech and his drunken demeanor were all full of alcohol. He said, "I've had friends, family, classmates, colleagues, and partners, but no one has ever said that we are the same kind. Sharing secrets with someone is a very private thing. I thought I was different to you. In the end, I'm just a shadow of Duan Chengyu in a parallel world, right?"

"If, if you regained your memory and remembered the seven years you spent with him, if it was him who was begging for your sympathy, would you say something different to him?"

Lin Lu shook his head sleepily: "I don't know. But the result is obvious. It is impossible for me and him to have any development in this world."

"What if he also traveled through time? What if you can travel through time to the past? What if I asked you to choose between him and Pei Yizhou?" The alcohol made him stubborn, and Duan Chengyu insisted on getting to the bottom of the matter.

Night is truly the time when human emotions are at their richest. The brain's persistence in getting to the bottom of emotions and love can surpass scholars' centuries of research on physics and mathematics.

Although it seems now, it was just an ordinary night and an ordinary phone call.

She was silent for a long time, as if thinking about the different consequences that each answer would bring.

But Schrödinger's cat also had a moment when the box was opened and stared at, and she actually already knew the only answer.

"I will choose Pei Yizhou." Lin Lu's voice was soft but certain.

After saying this, I started to daydream.

Duan Chengyu let out a meaningless groan from his throat, and stopped lying down. He propped himself up with his elbows, supporting his lowered head with both hands. Only the hidden blue veins on the back of his hands could be seen.

"Sometimes, falling in love with a person with high moral standards can be painful," he said. "Instead, I start to think, it would be better if you were a fickle, shameless, self-centered person. At least I would still have a chance."

Who wants the person they like to be fickle and shameless? But there is really no other way. Without the right time, place and people, he will never be able to join the team.

Lin Lu did not respond to this sentence.

She didn't think she had a high sense of morality, she was just being a normal person.

Duan Chengyu murmured to himself again, "It seems that I should call Pei Yizhou and ask him how you managed to deceive your moral sense and be with him."

"…Just call them." She had never heard these two people swear before, so this might be an opportunity.

Sleeping on the side pressed the face a little, so Lin Lu turned over and tucked the quilt tightly again.

"It's half past twelve, can we go to bed now?"

The voice on the phone was faint: "You can sleep, but I can't."

"Didn't you say that I have a high sense of morals? I tell the truth to everyone, so I don't have any guilt, fear, or unwillingness, and I can sleep soundly through the night." As she spoke, she sighed and stretched out a hand to tap on her phone.

Her movements can be seen in the video. Duan Chengyu turned his head to stare at her again and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Drinking alcohol in the middle of the night is very dangerous. I'm looking for someone to come to your house to check on you. It seems that your friend added me as a friend last time."

"No, I'm fine."

"More than half of the people like to say these words before something happens. Don't feel embarrassed if I reject you."

Duan Chengyu proved with his own actions that he was not embarrassed. He refused the kindness of his friends to visit him and made a request:

"As long as this call is connected, you will know if anything happens to me. Lulu, I beg you one last time. I don't want to have dreams about you with the feeling of being abandoned."

(End of this chapter)