You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Chapter 214 and Yu Luying

2023-05-29

Xiao Yao and Yu Luying were sitting in the back seat of a modified car with neon lights on the front, back and base. The driver was a high school student who looked like a rich second-generation - or rather, a high school student who looked like a rich second-generation and was quite handsome.

His short black hair was neatly combed into an adult look, revealing a hint of exquisite demeanor, his long eyebrows were slightly raised, and his face had clear lines and contours, very similar to the features in Fujiko Fujio's comics that were forcibly added to express the concept of "handsomeness".

Sitting on the passenger seat was a dark-skinned child, very short and looking completely under-grown.

His face was slightly rounded, as if it had been exposed to too much sun, and his hair was messy and unstyled, giving him a lazy impression.

"This is my junior high school classmate, Xu Ruiyi, my best buddy." Xiao Yao introduced him to Yu Luying: "This is Wang Hao, uh, also my junior high school classmate."

"Hello." Yu Luying nervously pressed the keyboard of her mobile phone with both hands, raised her head slightly and glanced politely at the two boys in the front row.

After thinking for a while, he said to Xu Ruiyi who was driving: "Thank you, I'm sorry for the trouble."

"It's okay, just one word." "Hello." Xu Ruiyi and Wang Hao both greeted Yu Luying in Mandarin.

Although the lights in the car were dim, Xiao Yao still noticed that Wang Hao looked at Yu Luying with a somewhat direct gaze - that is to say, if Wang Hao was the male lead of the movie, a slow motion shot should be played at this moment, with the male and female leads looking at each other, and then background music like "I love you, my dear girl" should be played.

It's a pity that Yu Luying didn't even look at Wang Hao, but continued to focus on coaxing her mother on the phone. Wang Hao was naturally not the male protagonist, but just a passerby who barely had a name.

Passerby A looked at Yu Luying for a while, then started looking at Xiao Yao, with eyes full of "jealousy makes me deformed".

Xiao Yao guessed that Wang Hao was wailing in his heart, "How can I be worthy of this, how can I be worthy of this?" He chuckled and ignored him, just humming a song by Han Han.

"This is mine, you don't need to fight with me for it, you just need to think in the corner..."

"Fuck it," Xu Ruiyi interrupted Xiao Yao's singing in Mandarin: "What else, 'my best buddy', don't listen to him - when did you go back to Dongru, and you didn't even call me to get together, how can you call me a best friend?"

"Fuck it," Xiao Yao said, "I just arrived this afternoon. If you don't believe me, ask her. She might be leaving tomorrow, otherwise she would definitely tell you."

"Ah?" Yu Luying raised her head and looked at Xiao Yao in a silly tone and said, "Are you leaving tomorrow?"

Xiao Yao: "..."

Xu Ruiyi: "It's too late today, forget it, come to my house tomorrow."

Xiao Yao: "Okay."

Then, Xu Ruiyi switched to Dong Ruhua and asked Xiao Yao: "Where did you get this girl? Is this the wife you found in the Magic City?"

Since Dong Ru didn't have the word "girlfriend" in his words, he could only call her "girl" or "wife" or "mother-in-law", so Xiao Yao nodded and replied, "Yeah, yes."

Yu Luying naturally didn't understand, she only heard the word "wife". Then when she heard Xiao Yao admit it, she felt a little secretly happy in her heart.

"Damn, the quality is quite good," Xu Ruiyi continued in dialect, "Even you can - it makes me want to go to the Magic City. Where did you get it?"

Xiao Yao was already a little uncomfortable with the gangster tone of this old junior high school friend, so he just said vaguely: "Just a classmate."

As mentioned earlier, it was only three kilometers from the Party School to the Dongru Bus Station. It was night time, so Xu Ruiyi drove very fast and without saying a few words, he dropped the two of them off at the door of "99 Express Chain".

Xiao Yao and Yu Luying got out of the car and thanked Xu Ruiyi again. The latter simply rolled down the window of the cockpit and shouted in Mandarin: "Come out and play tomorrow!"

"Okay." Yu Luying responded.

The hotel is just an ordinary budget hotel. The environment is even worse than that in Shanghai. It is similar to the "7 Days Inn" in Qingpu in terms of grayness.

"Do you really want to go out with him tomorrow?" Xiao Yao was a little surprised that Yu Luying responded to the question.

"Should I say I won't go? Aren't they your best friends? It's rare for you to come back, and you're so lucky to meet them on the street. Don't you really want to get together with them?"

"I can, but... I just don't think you'll like them and won't be able to play with them."

"When you're away from home and meet people from your hometown, you'll become close to them even if you don't know them well. But they are your junior high school classmates, so they are not yet adults, right?" Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao when they finished the formalities and walked into the room.

"Isn't that right?" Xiao Yao said.

"Change your ID card to get a driver's license?" Yu Luying's expression showed that she had encountered an event beyond her worldview.

"Who would bother? That guy doesn't have a driver's license." Xiao Yao answered as a matter of course.

"..."Yu Luying couldn't continue the conversation.

"Anyway, his dad knows all the traffic police on the road." Xiao Yao shrugged.

"Your place is really lawless," Yu Luying did not hide her disgust, "and you, why do you always make friends with little hooligans no matter where you are."

"He's not a small gangster," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "He's a big gangster."

"I hate you." Yu Luying said, swiping the room card and entering.

Xiao Yao followed him in and thought to himself, someone made a special trip to send you off, and now you're disgusted with him, what's going on?

Yu Luying didn't bother to question Xiao Yao about his friendships. She just kicked away one of her Crocs and knelt on one knee on the bed.

Xiao Yao habitually turned off all the lights and began to check for any hidden infrared probes.

"What are you doing?" In the sudden darkness, Yu Luying said in shock, "Stop messing with me. I need to call my mom."

"Who wants to mess with you?" Xiao Yao pouted and said, "You can do whatever you want, I'm just checking the camera."

"Thirteen points?" Yu Luying said: "Oh, you learned it from her again. Now you have become her shape - Hello, Mom?"

The girl said "Hello, Mom?" and made a "hush" gesture to Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao quickly held his breath.

After hanging up the phone, Yu Luying drove Xiao Yao into the bathroom again, took a few photos of the room with her mobile phone, and sent them to her mother.

"Speaking of which..." Xiao Yao walked out of the bathroom. He had just said "speaking of which" but before he finished speaking, his cell phone rang again.

Xiao Yao originally thought it was Shen Jie calling, but after a closer look, he realized it was a number he hadn't saved. He thought for three seconds and said, "Oh, why is your mom calling me again?"

"There's nothing I can do," Yu Luying also looked at a loss: "Just answer it, and remember to tell her you're at home."

"Hello, Auntie~" Xiao Yao answered the phone enthusiastically, with a smile on his face, and called in the sweetest voice possible.

"It's over." After Xiao Yao put down the phone, he said to Yu Luying with a look of despair: "Your mother asked me to take a picture of my home for her."

"How could she treat you like this?" Yu Luying stomped her feet and said angrily.

"Hey, wait, it's okay," Xiao Yao suddenly thought of something happy and became proud again: "I just happened to take a picture."

"When did you take the photo?" Yu Luying asked with eyes wide open, "It has to be taken at night. Wouldn't it be exposed if it was taken during the day?"

"It's at night," Xiao Yao said proudly, "Damn, I'm really a genius - come and see."

Yu Luying came over wearing a pair of Crocs and put her little head next to Xiao Yao's head: "Emmmm sure, hurry up and send it, or she will get suspicious again if it's too long."

Xiao Yao quickly picked out two or three photos and sent them to Yu Lihua via MMS. He received a message: "Very warm, very good. Go to bed early and come back early. Good night."

"Good night." Xiao Yao read out loud for some unknown reason while replying to Yu Lihua's text message.

Yu Luying leaned against the bed, her expression seeming to be a little more relaxed.

"What about now?" Xiao Yao asked her.

"Everything should be fine now, right?" Yu Luying guessed.

"Is your mother coming?" Xiao Yao asked anxiously.

"I don't think he'll come over," Yu Luying tilted her head and thought for a moment, "1% chance of him going crazy?"

"Ah, this..." Xiao Yao scratched his head.

"Xiao Yao," Yu Luying suddenly said with an apologetic look on her face, "If you... go back now, will there be a car? Can you still get into the Party School?"

Xiao Yao had actually predicted that Yu Luying would do this, so he was neither very surprised nor very angry.

It's just... I'm still a little disappointed.

I'm not disappointed in Yu Luying, I'm just disappointed in my own expectations.

However, from another perspective, maybe this is the type of Yu Luying that I like, someone who will not easily compromise or give up her principles?

If you think about it carefully, today was the first time that Yu Luying accompanied me for a "nap" and she even used her "hind paws" to "scratch" me on the balcony.

Even if this is a small step for a woman, it is already a big step for Yu Luying.

Xiao Yao, you shouldn't be greedy.

After figuring this out, Xiao Yao decided to make one last effort. Well, one last effort today. If he was still rejected, he would go home in a dignified manner.

"That's not a problem," Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "We can always find a car if we think of a way. If that doesn't work, we can just walk back three kilometers."

"Uh..." said Yu Luying.

"You know the access control of the Party School," Xiao Yao continued calmly, "I definitely can't get in if I go back, but if I really want to go in, I can just call the guard. At most, I'll get scolded again, but I can just buy him a pack of cigarettes. I don't live here anymore, so I'm not afraid of offending him."

Yu Luying seemed to want to say something but stopped herself.

"But I still hope you will allow me to stay." Xiao Yao said sincerely, "Besides the fact that I don't want to make any trouble and I want to be with you, the most important thing is that I want to feel that I am trusted.

"Just as I promised you this afternoon and finally did it, I can promise you again: if you let me stay, at least tonight, I won't touch you. You have my word."

"That's not the question..." Yu Luying muttered.

"Of course, I know that my speech is essentially self-centered," Xiao Yao said, "I won't force you, nor will I emotionally blackmail you. I will respect your boundaries. If you still refuse, I will," Xiao Yao said "I will" for a long time, "I will go to the bar all night."

"You still want to go clubbing?!" Yu Luying said with her eyes wide open.

"It's an Internet cafe," Xiao Yao explained. "It's near the bus station. It's called 'Internet Master'. We all call it 'Internet Cafe'."

"You are not allowed to go to the bar." Yu Luying said: "You——"

Before Xiao Yao finished saying the word "you", his phone rang again.

Both of them became nervous - could it be that the evil mother-in-law had come back to attack them again?

Fortunately, the words "My dear wife" appeared on the screen.

"She's your sister." Xiao Yao told Yu Luying.

"Go and answer it," Yu Luying said, "I just need to take a shower."

"Hey, honey..." Xiao Yao said as he slipped out of the room and paced in the corridor of the hotel: "Honey, are you done with your studies?"

Fortunately, Shen Jie's tone was the same as usual, and she didn't seem to be sarcastic about her clumsy lie before dinner, which made Xiao Yao relax a little.

After some small talk, flirting, and reporting the day's events to each other, Shen Jie changed the subject: "I haven't been out lately, I just surf the Internet sometimes, and I found some rumors online."

"What rumors?" Xiao Yao's heart tightened when he thought of the messy remarks he saw on the "St. Francis Xavier Middle School Forum" last time.

"Incidents of 'changing one's mind' are still happening, at least two or three." Fortunately, Shen Jie seemed to be talking about something else: "I've sent you the link, you can go to the Internet cafe to check it out when you have time."

"Can you tell me what happened first?" Xiao Yao asked Shen Jie.

"It's a bit like Teacher Yao's situation," Shen Jie said, "They are usually very good and honest people, but one day they suddenly jump out and say they have all kinds of dirty secrets that are unknown to others - in fact, they are all just thoughts and desires in their hearts. One of them seems to be getting divorced, one said his daughter turned against him, and another said he was fired from his job and died socially."

"Have these people become 'useless'?" Xiao Yao was startled.

"That's the weird part," Shen Jie said, "It seems like there isn't any. At least I can still post online or accept interviews normally..."

"Do you suspect that Lord Nottingham and Joan did it?" Xiao Yao asked Shen Jie.

"Either the two of them," Shen Jie said simply, "or, there are more than just Earl Nottingham and Joan in their group."

"Fuck," Xiao Yao exclaimed, "You finally spelled the Earl of Nottingham's name correctly!"

"Where are you? Are you at home?" Shen Jie suddenly changed the subject and asked.

"It's so late, where else could he be if not at home?" Xiao Yao became alert.

"No, why did I just hear faint footsteps?" Shen Jie asked hesitantly, "Are they girls' footsteps?"

"The old house can't compare to your mansion. There are prefabricated panels upstairs and downstairs. It's normal to hear noises. What's wrong with you now? You've become suspicious. You weren't like this before." Xiao Yao frowned and looked back at the waitress who had just walked past with some annoyance: "It might have been my own footsteps just now. You know I like to walk around when I answer the phone. Where did the footsteps of a girl come from?"

"Okay," Shen Jie replied reluctantly, "So, you are home alone now? Where is Silly Sister?"

"Silly girl?" Xiao Yao told the truth: "She went back to the hotel her mother booked for her in advance. Where else could she go?"

"Oh~~~~~~~" Shen Jie's voice was very long: "Oh, I suddenly remembered that you haven't shown me what your hometown looks like?"

"Hmm?" Xiao Yao said.

"Why don't you hang up and take some pictures for me?" Shen Jie said, and then added, "I just want to see what your old home looked like."

My goodness, you and Yu Lihua...what's going on between you two?

He said good night to his wife in a cheerful tone and hung up the phone reluctantly. Xiao Yao quickly took out those photos again, thought about it, and deleted the ones he sent to Yu Lihua.

You guys are attacking in groups, wave after wave.

I'm too difficult.