Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 404 The Phone Call at Dawn

Ziqiao looked around, but couldn't see Youyou's shadow.

Where is my aunt?

"She went back to her apartment quite early, why haven't I seen her?"

Yu Mo shrugged: "Youyou has been staying in her bedroom ever since she came back, I don't know what she's doing."

Ziqiao looked quite surprised upon hearing this: "Given her restless personality, how could she stay in her bedroom for so long without coming out, except when she's sleeping?"

He looked at Nanfeng: "Can you hear what she's doing in the bedroom?"

Nanfeng glared at Ziqiao with displeasure: "Lu Ziqiao, do you even know what it means to respect others?"

Ziqiao looked completely bewildered: "She's my aunt, how could I disrespect her?"

"I meant respect me!"

Nanfeng rolled her eyes at him: "I'll reiterate, unless I say it myself, none of you should use me as a listening device, or the consequences will be severe!"

"How stingy."

Ziqiao muttered something under his breath, then teased Guangu, "Guangu, do you think she's been scared off by how eagerly we've been trying to match you two up? Is she packing her bags now, ready to leave in the middle of the night?"

Guan Gu immediately tensed up upon hearing this.

Meijia comforted Guangu, saying, "Don't listen to Ziqiao's nonsense. He's just teasing you. This doesn't seem like Youyou's style at all."

Guan Gu breathed a sigh of relief, and the tension in his heart finally eased.

It's not that he was nervous for no reason. The reason why Guan Gu didn't rush to confess to Youyou was, just as Zi Qiao said, because he was afraid of scaring Youyou.

Even though they had known each other for half a year, Guan Gu still felt that half a year was too short and too rushed, too rushed to contain his love that was as hot as a volcanic eruption.

It was precisely because his love was so overwhelming that he worried that Youyou would be frightened by him, and even more worried that Youyou would feel lost and helpless in the face of him.

"Yeah?"

Just as Guan Gu was slightly relieved by Mei Jia's comfort, Zi Qiao sneered, "She's been my aunt for over twenty years. Do you think I know her better or you do?"

Sekiya：/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~

Ziqiao tightened the tension in his heart that he had finally managed to relax.

"Lu Ziqiao, are you ever going to stop?!"

Yifei couldn't stand Ziqiao teasing Guangu like this, so she kicked him and said, "If you can't speak properly, then speak! If you can't, then shut your mouth!"

Ziqiao immediately gave an OK sign and then obediently shut his mouth.

There was nothing he could do; he and Yifei were like a scholar encountering a soldier—they couldn't reason with each other.

Can't be bothered, can't be bothered.

"Exactly, if you can't speak properly, then shut up!"

Meijia first made a face at Ziqiao, and then she excitedly encouraged Guangu: "If you ask me, Guangu, you think too much and worry too much. You should just knock on Youyou's door right now and say something to her affectionately."

"Yuyu-chan, there's something I've been keeping to myself for a long time, and now it's reached the point where I have to say it."

She waved her hand, her voice suddenly rising: "Then, no matter what Youyou says, just pin her against the door!"

"Just say to her: I love you, will you be my girlfriend?"

"Then, without waiting for Youyou's response, grab her and start kissing her passionately."

Meijia stretched out her two thumbs and made them intertwine intensely, while making exaggerated sounds.

"Sekiya...muamuamua...don't...muamuamua...（づ￣3￣）づ╭～"

She clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Doesn't that settle things between you two?"

Yifei agreed with Meijia's idea, praising it as "Excellent, simple, direct, and effective!"

She rubbed her hands together excitedly: "If everything goes smoothly for Guan Gu and Youyou, I can be their godmother in ten months!"

The group looked at each other, then fell silent.

Everyone thought that Yifei was unbeatable when it came to matchmaking, but they never expected that this small apartment was full of hidden talents, including a peerless matchmaker like Meijia.

She not only provides you with a way to confess your feelings, but also has someone specially deliver a silver bracelet to you after you succeed in your confession. For the next few years, you will live a carefree life without worrying about food or rent.

Anyone who confesses their feelings according to her arrangements is truly blessed.

Seeing that everyone else remained silent, Mika even had the audacity to ask, "Won't my method work?"

"The punishment is too severe."

Nanfeng couldn't help but complain, "Other people confess their love in order to get married, but you confess your love in order to go to jail. You really can create a new track for matchmaking."

However, for some reason, even though Nanfeng knew that Meijia's idea was completely wrong, he was secretly filled with anticipation.

Humans are always curious and yearning for things that are unlikely to happen.

If Guan Gu really confesses his feelings like Mika said, it would be really exciting.

Ziqiao patted Meijia's head with concern: "I told you to stop watching those domineering CEOs falling in love with me dramas. Look at you, you've gone completely mad from all that watching."

Without saying a word, Mika elbowed him: "Didn't I tell you to shut up?!"

"Why are you being even more ruthless than Yifei lately!" Ziqiao complained, clutching his stomach in pain.

Xiao Xian chuckled mischievously, "It's a good thing Zhang Wei hasn't come back yet, otherwise he would definitely start his legal education lecture after hearing your outrageous confession."

Guan Gu hesitated, then said, "Meijia, your idea..."

He sighed and said, "It wasn't easy for me to come to China, please don't send me to jail, okay?"

He was even afraid that a normal confession would scare Youyou. If he really did what Meijia said, Youyou would definitely think he was a pervert!

"How could that be!"

Mika's eyes widened: "Aren't you two mutually in love? What are you afraid of?"

Shouldn't two people who are mutually in love do this: a wall slam, a forceful kiss, whispering sweet nothings, and then...?

Besides, Guan Gu is so handsome, it would be a shame if he didn't become a domineering CEO.

Moreover, Youyou is a professional actress, so she will definitely be very cooperative and dedicated.

The scene must be incredibly exciting to imagine.

"I told you, you watch too many domineering CEO dramas."

After recovering from Meijia's elbow strike, Ziqiao said, "A forceful kiss is an advanced technique with very limited applicability. Whether it can succeed depends on the personalities of both the man and woman, as well as various factors such as timing, location, and circumstances."

"You think it's like in TV dramas where you can just kiss someone whenever you want? A girl's instinctive resistance to being forcibly kissed is not as weak and powerless as it is on TV."

As Ziqiao spoke, he squeezed his legs together with a look of lingering fear, clearly indicating that what he had just said was not just a theory he had come up with out of thin air.

"snort."

Meijia protested, but she couldn't keep encouraging Guangu to forcibly kiss Youyou.

This is absolutely insane.

……

They then comforted Guan Gu for a while, and it wasn't until it was almost time for everyone to rest that they returned to their respective suites to wash up and go to sleep.

In the early hours of the morning, Guan Gu was suddenly woken up by his cell phone.

He groggily picked up his phone and glanced at it, muttering half-asleep, "Why is the alarm going off so early today?"

"Fine, I'll turn it off and sleep for another half hour."

Guan Gu squinted, half-asleep, and reluctantly declined Youyou's voice call. He then tossed his phone aside and fell into a deep sleep.

One second, two seconds, ten seconds, half a minute...

A minute later, Guan Gu suddenly woke up from his sleep.

Realizing he had just missed something important, Guan Gu sat up abruptly in bed. He frantically reached for his glasses on the left bedside table with his right hand and groped for his phone on the right with his left.

As a result, Guan Gu almost twisted his own arms into pretzels.

He quickly threw off the covers, got up and slammed the switch on the nightlight on the bedside table, then squinted and groped for his glasses.

Guan Gu didn't even have time to put his glasses on properly. He just held them up with one hand and searched through the lenses for the phone that he had somehow lost.

When Guan Gu finally found his phone, he opened it and saw that it showed that he had just hung up on Youyou's voice call a few minutes ago.

"How awful!"

Guan Gu muttered a curse under his breath, then put on his glasses and sat on the edge of the bed, lost in thought.

Why did Youyou call me in the middle of the night?

Is she trying to tell me something? Or does she have something urgent that requires her to contact me at this time?

Will she be angry if I don't answer her call?

[Also, should I... fight back?]

At this moment, Guan Gu was like a child who was on tenterhooks, cautious and afraid that if he made the wrong choice, he would face unknown consequences.

As the Mario music played in his ears, everything before his eyes began to blur, replaced by a classic Mario pixel-style game.

Mario, dressed as a plumber, is running around aimlessly, feeling dizzy and disoriented.

Above his head were three squares flashing with golden question marks.

【A】: Call her.

【B】: Just pretend nothing happened and go back to sleep. We can talk about it tomorrow.

【C】: Let's play a thrilling and exciting Mario game.

A game controller gently landed in his hand, and Guan Gu's imaginary companion Mario stopped running around and quietly waited for him to control it.

Guan Gu took a deep breath and controlled the little Mario character to push towards one of the blocks.

When he came to his senses, the illusory game scene in front of him had disappeared, and the game controller in his hand had turned into the mobile phone he had been holding.

At this very moment, his phone was displaying a voice call he had made to Youyou.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Time slipped away quietly. Guan Gu's heart pounded with anxiety over the unanswered phone call.

Why hasn't Youyou answered the phone yet? It's been six seconds! A full six seconds!

Guan Gu held his phone in both hands, his anxious eyes fixed on the screen. He kept standing up and sitting down by the bed, demonstrating with his actions what true restlessness meant.

Oh no, Youyou isn't answering my calls. Either she's angry, or something happened to her.

Guan Gu slammed back onto the bed and began scratching his head anxiously.

Just when Guan Gu thought Youyou wouldn't answer his call, Youyou's voice came from the other end of the line.

"Guan Gu, are you awake?"

"The signal was bad in the elevator, so I couldn't answer your call."

Youyou's voice was as usual, seemingly unaffected by this afternoon... no, yesterday afternoon.

She asked apologetically, "Guan Gu, I'm sorry, did I disturb your rest just now?"

No, no.

Guan Gu quickly replied, "I sleep very well, I fall asleep quickly and wake up quickly, and I also..."

He yawned, and the words that were on his mind slipped out of his mouth: "So sleepy."

Youyou laughed awkwardly a few times.

Feeling equally awkward, Guan Gu skipped the question and went straight to the point: "By the way, Youyou, what was it about when you called?"

On the other end of the phone, Youyou mumbled, "It's nothing... something is... just a small thing... actually it's nothing... it's not a big deal... it's not even a big deal..."

Youyou's vague "whether there's something to say or not" completely confused Guan Gu, who was already sleepy. He felt like he was back to the first time he took a Chinese listening test, and the blank look on his face back then was exactly the same as it was now.

[Chinese is so difficult! Does what she said mean something's wrong or nothing's wrong?]

Guan Gu was thinking to himself, but the words that came out were: "So, Youyou, are you alright?"

"ah?!!"

Upon hearing this, Youyou's eyes widened. She naturally misinterpreted the confusion in Guan Gu's words as impatience at being disturbed from her sleep.

She laughed angrily, "It's nothing, nothing at all."

"I'm sorry to have disturbed your rest."

"You should get some rest. Goodnight!"

Youyou hung up the phone after saying that.

"Youyou, that's not what I meant!"

Guan Gu wanted to explain, but all he saw on his phone screen was the glaring message that the call had ended.

"How can this be repaired!"

At that moment, Guan Gu didn't think about anything. By the time he realized what was happening, he didn't even bother to put on his shoes and ran straight out of the bedroom to the living room.

Guan Gu stopped in his tracks. He looked at the door of 3602, then turned back to look at the door of his own bedroom.

Without much hesitation, Guan Gu continued running forward, opening the door of 3602 and heading towards 3604.

……

At the elevator entrance on the first floor of the apartment building, Youyou stood there angrily carrying a large suitcase, muttering a few curses at Guan Gu.

"Guan Gu Shenqi, just go to sleep!"

She stomped her feet in frustration, then slowly dragged her heavy suitcase toward the apartment entrance.

One step, two steps, three steps.

Youyou suddenly turned around.

Seeing that there was no one behind her, she pursed her lips and continued walking forward.

One step, two steps, three steps.

Youyou suddenly turned around again.

"snort."

She turned her head and looked ahead with a determined gaze.

One step, two steps, three steps.

"Things should not happen more than three times."

She muttered something to herself, then turned back for another look, unwilling to give up.

But there was still no one behind him.

That's true, she didn't even have a chance to tell Guan Gu that she was leaving, so how could Guan Gu possibly come after her?

Youyou took a deep breath and looked at everything familiar around her, speaking softly.

Goodbye, Love Apartment.

"I will miss you all."

Youyou continued forward, dragging her large suitcase. Just as she stepped out of the apartment building, she finally heard the elevator doors open.

She turned her head in surprise and delight, and saw a familiar male figure appear in the slowly opening elevator doors.

"Youyou, where are you going with your suitcase?" Xiao Hei asked, looking haggard with dark circles under his eyes.

"fine."

Youyou's face darkened, and she said listlessly.

"long!"

At the stairwell, Guan Gu, barefoot and panting, rushed down.

Then, a long, piercing shriek echoed through the apartment.

"That's insane!!!"

Guan Gu looked down in surprise, only then realizing that he was not only barefoot, but also seemingly naked.

I'm coming

That's just one update today. I need to adjust my mindset. I'll be adding more updates at the end of the month.

Before paying off my debts... I'll owe you one more chapter.

To be honest, I initially planned to stop at the moment when Guan Gu was standing between the two doors making a choice, but then I thought I'd stop at the moment when the elevator doors opened and Youyou discovered it was Xiao Hei.

But I feel like I'd get yelled at for breaking it there.

(End of this chapter)