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Lin Xingjiao didn’t know what to say. He felt like he would cry if he spoke. He really had no other choice. He couldn’t say that he was a traveler from a book, or that he had lost his memory. He felt that Lu Qi would not believe it. The cold feeling that had been absorbing into his bones came back again.
The only one who could hold him from falling was Lu Qi.
Lu Qi could push him down, or pull him up, as long as Lu Qi would not pursue the matter.
Perhaps it was the fact that Lu Qi did not blame him before that gave Lin Xingjiao great courage.
He took a few steps forward, suddenly pulled Lu Qi’s left index finger, lowered his head and dared not look at him: “Can I… explain it to you later.”
The master pulled his fingers back without hesitation. Lu Qi looked at Lin Xingjiao with amusement: “It’s not impossible.”
As soon as Lin Xingjiao’s face, which had just turned pale from fright, regained some color, he knew that Lu Qi was a good person.
Without giving Lin Xingjiao a few seconds to catch his breath, Lu Qi said slowly: “But before that you have to answer a question for me.”
Lin Xingjiao nodded rapidly. Not to mention one question, even if Lu Qi asked ten questions, he would tell him as long as he knew them.
”Were you wearing underwear when you slept on my bed yesterday?” Lu Qi was really exhausted. If Lin Xingjiao was wearing underwear, he would just make do with it and sleep directly.
Lin Xingjiao regretted it. He shouldn’t have thought that Lu Qi could ask ten questions. Just this one question made him freeze in place for a long time. Then, the tips of his ears started to turn red, then spread to his cheeks. He felt like he was ripe.
An unprecedented sense of shame exploded in his heart, and Lu Qi’s subtext was that he felt he was dirty.
”Of course, I wear it!”
”Then you can go out.” Lu Qi didn’t know whether he heard it or not, he just responded casually, probably just to seek psychological comfort for himself.
Seeing that he didn’t take it seriously, Lin Xingjiao became anxious: “I didn’t lie.”
Lu looked at him and said, “You emphasize it so much that I am beginning to doubt it.”
Lin Xingjiao was not swearing because of his upbringing. Otherwise, he could use some less elegant interjections to strengthen his statement. But now he could only say without any momentum: “I’m not lying to you.”
”I took it from this cabinet. I saw that the package was unopened, so I put it on.”
It is true that many brands would send some new products of the season to Lu Qi, but Lu Qi basically cannot wear them all, as the aunt at home receives and sorts them, so even if Lin Xingjiao said so, he is not sure. He can only say that this possibility does exist.
Seeing that he still didn’t take what he said seriously, Lin Xingjiao wanted to find some way to prove his words. After thinking hard, he said hesitantly: “Then I’ll take off my pants and show you.”
Hearing this, Lu Qi calmly took a step back, as if to find a better viewing angle: “Take it off.”
Lin Xingjiao regretted it so much when he just spoke. He was actually just talking to strengthen the credibility of his words. Lin Xingjiao felt that he had really put himself in a difficult situation.
He stood there in a dilemma. Why didn’t Lu Qi just say that he believed him and save him from having to prove himself? Instead, he just watched him like a show.
Lin Xingjiao’s tears began to well up in his eyes again, and he felt that there was still an essential difference between Lu Qi and his family.
Despite the shame of being stared at, Lin Xingjiao told himself that it was okay, just show it to Lu Qi and he will believe him.
When Lin Xingjiao slowly unbuttoned the third button of his pants, Lu Qi shouted to stop.
”Get out,” he said condescendingly.
Lin Xingjiao’s neck shrank slightly, and he felt that Lu Qi’s attitude had changed again, but he was not sure about the specific reason for the change.
Lu Qi watched him leave before he raised his hand to touch his brow. The headache caused by staying up all night did not get better.
He found that Lin Xingjiao had not given up and was trying to seduce him. Although this method was really hard to describe, it might have been intentional by Lin Xingjiao.
What Li Rong said was right. Banning him directly was also a good choice. However, he still had some confidence in himself. At most, he would be more careful in the future and not fall into Lin Xingjiao’s trap.
Lin Xingjiao’s face fell as soon as he went out, so where should he go? Where did his original body live?
It’s strange to say, such a big thing happened to him and it has been on the hot search for the past two days, but there is not a single friend who cares about gossip.
Lin Xingjiao walked out of the villa. He didn’t know how to drive, and it was impossible for Li Rui to be his driver.
He stood at the door in embarrassment, and happened to meet the aunt who brought him clothes in the morning passing by with a water pipe. He hurriedly got out of the aunt’s way.
When the aunt saw him, she asked with concern: “Are you standing here to bask in the sun?”
Lin Xingjiao didn’t like basking in the sun, so he shook his head and said honestly, “I have to go. I’m thinking about where to go.”
”Don’t you have anywhere to go? Your family is out of town?”
Not somewhere else, maybe in another world.
Lin Xingjiao nodded: “I’m leaving. Goodbye, Auntie.”
Before Lin Xingjiao could walk out of the gate of Lu Qi’s villa, the aunt threw the water pipe and chased after him.
”You have nowhere to go? You are the young master’s friend, right? We have an empty room here. If it’s convenient for you, just stay here. I can clean it up for you right away. Don’t be embarrassed. I will ask for you. I watched the young master grow up. He is very easy to talk to.”
”No, no, he has helped me a lot. Thank you, Auntie. Actually, I have somewhere to go.” Lin Xingjiao felt that one should not be too pushy. Lu Qi had already agreed to take him back to Haicheng, so he should not trouble him anymore.
After telling a harmless little lie, Lin Xingjiao was ready to leave. Before turning around, he saw the water pipe lying on the lawn, facing the sky and the sun, and the water sprayed, forming a small rainbow.
The midday sun in early autumn was still strong, and Lin Xingjiao’s nose was already sweating slightly after walking a distance.
South City is divided into two parts by a river. The villa area where Lin Xingjiao is now is just a little further away from the suburbs, and he now has to go back to the city, which is on the other side of the cross-river bridge.
In his opinion, the roads that Lin Xingjiao is walking now are more than the roads he has walked in the previous 18 years of his life. Before he traveled through the book, his physical condition did not allow him to leave the sterile room, and the most he experienced in his life was moving around in various major hospitals.
So Lin Xingjiao is now tired, and the villa area seems to him to be endless. He has been looking at the navigation for a long time, but still has doubts about the correctness of the direction he has chosen.
Lin Xingjiao set a three-minute time limit for himself and would continue walking when the timer was up. No matter what, he had to get back to the city before dark so that he would have a chance of finding a place to stay.
He sent a message to his agent’s WeChat account but received no reply. Lin Xingjiao used these three minutes to research loans. Notifications popped up on several platforms saying that he still owed money.
Lin Xingjiao had never been short of money before, let alone owed money. He had no place to spend money, so it was difficult for him to understand how the original owner owed so much debt.
Three minutes were up, and Lin Xingjiao just stood up and was about to continue walking when he found a phone call coming in.
It’s his agent Wang Hua.
he didn’t reply to the WeChat message, but called him. This was another person he had never met before, so Lin Xingjiao picked up the phone hesitantly.
The other end was aggressive and spoke like a cannonball: “Where are you? Didn’t we agree that we won’t contact you after you and Lu Qi are tied together and we will avoid the limelight? How dare you walk outside with a bare face now?”
”Hurry up and leave. The farther away from where you are now, the better. Someone has taken a photo of you walking and posted it online. Someone in the company has added Lu Qi’s fan group, and some extreme fans are ready to look for you.”
”Hurry up if you don’t want to be pelted with eggs.”
Lin Xingjiao received the message and imitated the way they addressed each other in the previous chat. Before Wang Hua hung up, he said, “Brother Wang, lend me some money so I can take a taxi.”
The person on the other end hung up the call, and then Lin Xingjiao received a transfer of 200 yuan on WeChat.
Lin Xingjiao’s current balance: 280
But it was difficult to get a taxi in the villa area. Lin Xingjiao stood under the shade of a tree and waited for about 5 minutes but no one took his order.
Lin Xingjiao tried to give the driver more money, 5 yuan, 10 yuan… When it reached 50 yuan, someone took the offer.
This way, after taking a taxi, he could still stay in a hotel for one night. Lin Xingjiao knew how much a hotel cost, so he breathed a sigh of relief and waited quietly for the taxi to arrive.
Although Wang Hua sounded anxious on the phone just now, he himself didn’t know where he was in the villa area. Therefore, Lin Xingjiao felt that some extreme fans would not come so quickly.
Lin Xingjiao was wrong. Human potential is unlimited.
The ride-sharing car stopped getting closer when it was still two hundred meters away from him. Lin Xingjiao looked left and right but didn’t see anything. Instead, there seemed to be more unfamiliar cars nearby, and they drove past and stopped not far away.
Lin Xingjiao gradually realized that something was wrong. He seemed to be… surrounded.
On one side of the road where he was now was the wall of someone else’s villa area, and opposite the wall were trees. Lin Xingjiao was currently standing under the tree, and next to the tree were more trees, then the road, and then other villas.
There is no place to hide.
Lin Xingjiao held his phone and wanted to ask the driver where he was, then he saw the notification received on his phone.
”Your order has been cancelled”
Some people gradually got off the convoys blocking the road on both sides. Lin Xingjiao did not run away. He was already very tired from walking, and the road was blocked, leaving no place for him to run.
The original owner was not nearsighted like him. Lin Xingjiao thought about what Wang Hua said. The only thing he could do was to see if they had eggs in their hands.
In fact, there is another option. Lin Xingjiao opened the address book and found Lu Qi’s contact information, with the nickname still “Brother Qi”.
Lin Xingjiao wanted to click it several times, but finally switched the interface to the dial-up electronic keyboard, and pressed “110” on the electronic keyboard with trembling fingertips.
Forget it, he didn’t seem to have any qualifications to ask Lu Qi for help. Lu Qi had already helped him a lot.
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