Chapter 3

“Boss Zhou!” Lu Xiaoqiao greeted the man inside.

Lin Ziyang noticed Lu Xiaoqiao’s reservedness and thought that the girl might be frightened by her uncle’s aura. After all, her uncle had been in a high position for a long time and had a serious face. He didn’t know when he last smiled. Even he was a little scared, let alone a little girl who had not yet been involved in worldly affairs.

He patted Lu Xiaoqiao’s shoulder in a comforting way and said softly: “Xiaoqiao, don’t be so formal. It’s not like you don’t know each other. Just call me uncle like me and Lin Lin!” Lu

Xiaoqiao’s mouth corners slightly raised, and after saying “OK” softly, she bent down and sat in the car. 𝕎🆆🆆.🅅𝕆𝓓🅃𝕎1.𝘾𝙘Lin

Ziyang then got in the car and sat down. While fastening his seat belt, he briefly introduced the young man sitting in the passenger seat and Lu Xiaoqiao. Then he asked Lu Xiaoqiao for the address. After the navigation was debugged, he started the car and drove away.

The car was driving on the pitch-black asphalt road. The temperature inside the car was just right, which formed a sharp contrast with the scorching heat outside just now. The unbearable heat just now receded instantly.

Lu Xiaoqiao stood up straight, knees together, holding the backpack on her knees with both hands, and glanced at the young man in the passenger seat. She just learned from Lin Ziyang that this man was Zhou Qizhen’s childhood friend and colleague. He looked much easier to get along with than the one sitting next to her.

She was not actually very afraid of Zhou Qizhen. Of course, she was a little bit afraid, after all, he was such a powerful person and an elder of her best friend, but she was more of a guilty conscience.

The reason was that her best friend Lin Lin concealed her identity when she was in college. Once Zhou Qizhen drove her home, and someone took a photo and posted it on the school forum, saying that Lin Lin was supported by a rich man. Rumors spread for a while.

Lin Lin wanted to confess her identity to Lu Xiaoqiao, but she was afraid that she would lose her friend because of her previous lies. Her hesitation made Lu Xiaoqiao, who originally believed in Lin Lin, misunderstand her.

At that time, Lu Xiaoqiao pulled Lin Lin and said all kinds of bad things about Zhou Qizhen.

In order to make the little sister see the truth, she was trying to persuade her earnestly, and she didn’t know how long Zhou Qizhen, who came to the school to solve the storm, had been standing behind her.

Lu Xiaoqiao was unsure about the rest of the words, but the sentence “old age, old man” might really have touched his heart.

After knowing the whole story, when Lu Xiaoqiao followed Lin Lin to call him “Uncle”, he actually replied “Do I look old?”

From then on, whenever Lu Xiaoqiao saw him again, she would call him Mr. Zhou.

She couldn’t help but secretly glance at the person next to her. The lights outside the car window were sometimes bright and sometimes dim. Occasionally, a beam of light shone through the car window into the car, just falling on the man’s face, making his already handsome face more three-dimensional.

The last time Lu Xiaoqiao had this standard sitting posture was in the distant elementary school days. However, at this moment, after only sitting for a while, she felt a burst of pain in her back and waist, and she didn’t know what to do.

“How did you hurt your hand?” Zhou Qizhen suddenly asked.

Lu Xiaoqiao looked at him blankly, only to see that his brows were knitted. Following his line of sight, her eyes also fell on the wound that Zheng Yan had just scratched on her.

She subconsciously retracted her hand, her expression slightly unnatural: “I accidentally broke it.”

Lu Xiaoqiao was lying with her eyes open, and she couldn’t say that she was scratched because of a fight.

Zhou Qizhen pursed his lips tightly, and the slightly tense lines revealed his dissatisfaction with Lu Xiaoqiao’s answer. His eyes revealed a hint of displeasure, and he asked softly: “Did you fight with someone?”

He asked directly, without any euphemism, making Lu Xiaoqiao embarrassed and not knowing how to answer.

Hearing Zhou Qizhen’s question, the man sitting in the co-pilot suddenly turned around and cast his eyes on Lu Xiaoqiao, and then moved his eyes to Zhou Qizhen, his eyes full of gossip.

Lin Ziyang, who was driving in front, took advantage of the time when waiting for the red light to look back at Lu Xiaoqiao: “Xiaoqiao, are you injured in the fight? Is it serious?” Because of Lin Lin, Lin Ziyang has always treated Lu Xiaoqiao as his own sister. When he heard that Lu Xiaoqiao had a fight with someone, he couldn’t help but feel worried.

Seeing that they were all looking at her, as if they were determined to get an answer from her, Lu Xiaoqiao could only vaguely reply: “It’s not what you think.”

Zhou Qizhen saw that she didn’t want to say more, so he didn’t ask any more questions. However, seeing that her skin was originally delicate, white and tender like porcelain, but now it was covered with scars, he felt annoyed: “Go to the hospital for a check-up!” He knew Zhou Qizhen’s good intentions, but for Lu Xiaoqiao, who grew up in the countryside, it was just a little skin breakage and a little bleeding. It was not really an injury, let alone going to the hospital: “It’s okay, I’ll go back and disinfect and apply some aloe vera gel later.”

Zhou Qizhen didn’t speak again for the rest of the journey, and Lu Xiaoqiao was relieved.

Fifteen minutes later, the navigation prompt indicated that the destination had been reached.

Seeing Lin Ziyang about to drive the car into the community, Lu Xiaoqiao hurriedly said to him: “Brother Ziyang, you can just park the car on the side of the road. It’s not easy to park and turn around in this old community. The unit I live in is very close to the gate, so I can just walk there.” Lin Ziyang didn’t listen to her and insisted on driving the car in: “Your old community doesn’t have an elevator. You can’t move such a heavy thing. It’s convenient for me to drive. Don’t be polite to me.”

Lu Xiaoqiao thought of her roommate who hadn’t replied to the message yet. It was not convenient to make a phone call in the car. It was indeed a bit difficult for her to carry the luggage and the pet cage alone. Besides, the other person’s car had already driven in, so she didn’t pretend to be hypocritical.

They drove to the downstairs of the unit and parked the car.

Lin Ziyang asked Lu Xiaoqiao to carry the relatively light pet cage, while he carried the heavy suitcase.

After saying goodbye to the remaining two people in the car, Lu Xiaoqiao led Lin Ziyang upstairs.

At this time in the car.

Li Yuxuan, who was in the co-pilot, looked back.

I saw my friend’s eyes slowly rising up with the sensor lights gradually lighting up in the unit floor…

“Don’t look! I want to see why you didn’t go down together just now.”

Zhou Qizhen retracted his gaze and ignored Li Yuxuan’s words.

Seeing that his friend did not respond, Li Yuxuan became more and more interested! The question that he had been holding back all the way finally came out: “Is it her?” After saying that, he raised his eyebrows.

According to Li Yuxuan’s understanding of Zhou Qizhen, it is impossible for him to have such an attitude and expression towards ordinary opposite sex.

Zhou Qizhen leaned on the back seat and glanced at Li Yuxuan lightly: “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

“Your soul has gone up with others, and you are still pretending here! And just now…” Before Li Yuxuan finished speaking, Zhou Qizhen suddenly kicked his seat.

Li Yuxuan turned around and saw that Lin Ziyang had gone downstairs and was walking towards the car.

Afraid of being heard, what does this mean?

Li Yuxuan had a smile on his face and his eyes revealed an ‘I knew it’ expression. When Lin Ziyang opened the car door, Li Yuxuan turned around and sat down.