Chapter 1: Let's Get Married
"Chen Luyao, let's get married."
The person lying next to me was frightened by my sudden words, this was the first time I had met Chen Luyao in ten years.
That's right! We slept after the first meeting in ten years.
I never imagined that ten years later I would be able to achieve the goal I set for myself in high school: one day I would have a large number of readers of my own and hold a book signing.
"My sister Lin, tomorrow you will sign the meeting, what are you staying up all night tonight?" The woman standing in front of me is my own sister, Lynn.
Ever since I started writing books and making money, my sister has been in charge of my work with some publishing houses, as well as arranging for me to go out to sign sales, and to put it bluntly, she is now my personal bodyguard. If you want to ask, won't my sister think that this is "insulting" her? I can tell you firmly, no!! It's simply not possible!!
When I started writing until I was getting my first payment, this woman was more excited than I was when she heard that I was earning a fee, because she thought it meant that she could start preparing to quit her job as an assistant and lie down.
I still remember that when I first started writing novels in the first year of my graduation, I couldn't find a stable job at that time, I ran around the major job fairs, and hundreds of resumes were lost, until one day I was sitting in a daze in the mall and saw someone holding a book signing, I suddenly remembered that I would be keen to write all kinds of novels in high school (although I didn't finish writing a complete book), and at that moment an idea came to my mind, instead of running up and down like a dog like a dog every day, I should try to control my own future. After all, writing books was my biggest hobby when I was younger.
So I made up my mind and began to regain the great dream of my youth β to be a writer.
When I first started writing, I couldn't hold a fart all night, and my parents were extremely angry that I didn't look for a job and planned to write a novel at home, because their generation felt that they should take a job in the system and be more stable.
So the pressure I was under at the time made it even worse for me to be inspired, and I locked myself in my room for a week, ignoring everything except pooping, peeing, and eating, which would get me out of my bedroom door.
It was Lynn, the woman who kicked open my locked door with my useless brother-in-law, and I was sitting in front of the computer in a daze.
"Lin Shu, are you sick, I'll take you, I thought you couldn't think of suicide, if you can't write a fart, you just go out for a walk, inspiration comes from life, not from being in a daze!"
Lynn was babbling on and on, and kept tidying up the mess of books and clothes on my bed.
"Why can't you write it and plan to plagiarize! Yo! I also copied the great writers! You can really do it, and you're not afraid that people will sue you when the time comes. β
She clapped the novel she had just picked up from the bedβLu Yao's "Ordinary World", a novel that I had read countless times.
"Lynn, do you think you're my sister and can tell me anything?"
I was not convinced
"Why, since I was a child, I haven't pointed fingers at you much, I'm really speechless."
"Chen Ke, can you take care of your wife, if you are married, you can run to your mother's house, just run, why do you take you to break down the door!"
"I don't dare to control her, but if I can control her, I will never stand here and tear down the door today, and I will have to compensate my father-in-law for a new one after the demolition."
Chen Ke, who was squatting on the ground to clean up the mess, said my brother-in-law.
"Let's go, turn off your computer, and take you out to dinner!" The computer in front of me was slammed shut by Lynn. The curtains and windows were also opened by the woman at the same time.
Suddenly, a beam of light shone in from outside the window, accompanied by the fresh air outside, at this moment I greedily inhaled the "aroma" that I had not smelled in the past half a month, I wanted to get some inspiration from here, or I wanted to get some redemption, it was an indescribable feeling, probably the most stressful too much.
I remember that I want to go back to work after graduation and it is for this reason that the air in my hometown is always the best.
"Sister-in-law, why are you as depressed as smoking a big cigarette, and if you can't write a novel, you will find your sister to take you out for a walk to breathe, why lock yourself in the house and let your sister and parents worry." Chen Ke brought in a plate of fresh fruit from outside and handed it to my sister Lynn.
"Shut up!"
"Shut up!"
Lynn and I said in unison. I know that Lynn has been a knife-mouthed tofu since she was a child, and he will never say his love for me, and often uses violent means to express her deep love for me. So she doesn't allow anyone to say that mine isn't, except herself, of course.
I still remember that after she scolded me once, I didn't go home to drink with my friends at night, this woman looked for me all night, for fear that I wouldn't be able to open, and made countless phone calls, until I finally couldn't stand it, and her first words were: "Where is the death, get back to Lao Tzu." β
When I went back, I saw that she looked like she had just cried, so she didn't speak, and after a while she suddenly said sorry, she shouldn't put so much pressure on me, and since that time she rarely said me again, and I feel guilty when I say it, and my young and frivolous nature has made the family too much.
"You clean up quickly, give you half an hour to put on makeup, your brother-in-law and I will take you out to dinner, if you can't drink again, don't put too much pressure on yourself, I am at home, you can do what you want."
After Lynn said this, I instantly felt a little less stressed.
"Okay, I see, thanks." I hugged Lynn, and when you're at your most tired, you often want someone to stand by your side and support you.
"Okay, you've just graduated, you're still young, don't think too much, I'll carry it with my parents, good."
It was precisely because of Lynn's words that I came back after dinner that night to explode a new book with tens of thousands of words, and within a few days my first novel was successfully signed with the platform. At the time, I thought it was a fake that everything was going so well.
It wasn't until the Chinese New Year that the first manuscript fee from the platform was credited to my account, which was a small income, but not a big income, but it was the first money I received since I graduated and became unemployed for so long, and my account balance successfully broke through from 0.
Later, my freelance job of writing books gradually got on the right track, and I needed to go to various places to negotiate with publishers about signing contracts and copyrights, and I was alone at that time, so my sister became my assistant under the title of "fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders" and didn't want my sister to work too hard.
This signing session was held at my alma mater in high school at the time, and of course it was also Chen Luyao's alma mater, to put it bluntly, the story of me and Chen Luyao is recorded here, and you will definitely think that Chen Luyao is the male protagonist of my youth.
The day before this signing meeting, I posted a circle of friends: I'm going to meet my youth, in the final analysis, I want those who looked down on me when I was young and my seven aunts and eight aunts to see, I still have something to look like.
A lot of my friends from high school commented below
"It's great, isn't it?"
"Oh my God! Lin Shu, you are my idol, I must go to the scene to meet you. β
There is also a comment from Chen Luyao: Long time no see
But it didn't take long for him to delete it.,I didn't think it's strange.,I haven't had any contact with him since I graduated from high school and went to college.,He also disappeared into my world.,He used to do this kind of comment and then deleted it.,At that time, for some reason, he said that he wouldn't contact me again in the future.,I said that a manly husband is hard to follow.γ Unexpectedly, because of this sentence, he really never contacted me again.
On the day of the book signing, I met a lot of people I knew.
Until a voice appears.
"Lin Shu, long time no see."
I stopped the name I had just written, the voice I knew all too well, the man who was chirping in my ear every day, and I was dull for a moment to look up.
The man in front of me was wearing a casual suit, but I could see that his body was carefully prepared, and the Chen Luyao I knew was a person who wore casual clothes every day, and even appeared in front of me in casual clothes at the coming-of-age ceremony held for us at the school when we were eighteen years old.
"Chen Luyao, long time no see."
I pretended to be calm, but no one knows how many years I've been waiting for this man.
After graduating from college, I imagined this man in front of me countless times, but I never imagined that it would be in such a scene, and he would be the same as when he was younger.
After the signing session, I looked at Chen Luyao, who was talking to the teacher of our high school graduating class, in fact, he has always been so good, but I have never seen him good when I was young, so people are owed, and you will never see the people who are good to you around you.
I walked over to Chen Luyao, who was talking.
"Kobayashi, I didn't expect you to go back to school in this way after so many years. I really didn't misread you back then. The middle-aged woman standing in front of Chen Luyao said.
Oh, I thought to myself that it was because of her that I had doubts about my hobby for a while, and I still remember that she laughed at me in front of the whole class, and she wrote so badly that she still wanted to write a novel.
But I don't know why I was inspired to write a novel, but an 800-word essay almost killed me.
"I would also like to thank my teacher for his teachings back then, so that I could not give up on creating." I said in a weird way, and Chen Luyao also heard the dissatisfaction and provocation in my tone.
"I'm embarrassed to say Xiaolin's sincere thanks, then I should also thank the teacher for caring about me back then, otherwise how could I be admitted to XXX school."
Chen Luyao continued.
In fact, my teacher was really attentive to Chen Luyao back then, because Chen Luyao's academic performance in the class was considered to be in the upper reaches at that time, so he was a child that all teachers would like, unlike me who was in the middle of the grades, not up or down, and half-dead and not liked by the teacher.
After a brief politeness at school, I went to dinner with Chen Luyao.
He took me to a restaurant with few people, and that's what Chen Luyao always does, where it's just us and the other table.
"Chen Luyao, after so many years, you really haven't thought about coming back." We didn't speak until halfway through the meal.
Chen Luyao, who was immersed in eating, stopped the chopsticks in his hand and looked up at me. The look in his eyes was exactly the same as the way he looked at me when I parted with him a few years ago.
"So, Lin Shu, do you really think that I haven't been by your side for so many years?" He asked me rhetorically.
When Chen Luyao said this, I suddenly remembered that when I was in college, I had seen a person who looked very much like him appear not far from the school, but it quickly disappeared in front of my eyes.
"Then why didn't you tell me."
"I'm afraid you still love Yang Yi."
Yang Yi --- the hero of my youth story.
"Chen Luyao, if I say that I have been waiting for you for many years, do you believe it?"
"I believe it!" The eyes of the man in front of him became firm, and I knew that Chen Luyao would always believe what I said.
After eating, it was almost early in the morning, the restaurant was closing, Chen Luyao and I both drank again, and what I wanted to do most at this moment was to use the strength of wine to make the most of what I hadn't seen for so many years, so I said shamelessly:
"Chen Luyao, let's go open the house."
I feel extremely ashamed to think of this sentence now, and I don't understand how much courage I mustered up at that time.
"I'll take you home, back to our home."
"Ah???h
When I didn't react to his words, Chen Luyao took me all the way.
"Chen Luyao, what did you just say?" I was panting as he pulled me all the way.
Chen Luyao, who was pulling me to run, stopped
"I say, our home."
"Didn't you say you weren't coming back?"
"That's all the words of the young and frivolous, you really believe that you are not stupid, you think I came back this time just to let you sign."
"Then why did you keep me waiting for so many years! Chen Luyao! You give me back! By the time I reacted, Chen Luyao, the man, had already run several meters away from me.
I stood under the street lamp and suddenly felt that everything was not so real, this is what I dreamed about countless nights, every time I didn't want to wake up from these dreams, and then I recorded every dream related to him in the phone memo, but then when I changed the phone, I couldn't help but format everything on the previous phone, as if I could start my life again by deleting these, I could forget about him, but it turned out to be useless. He still appears again and again in my dreams. It's so exaggerated that when I tell my friends that I'm dreaming about him again, my friends start to get impatient.
"Good girl, what else do you want to get in the car and take you to see our home,"
"It's not Chen Luyao, where did you drive the car from?"
"Fool! You really think I'm going to take you on a run, and as a mature man, it's not right to have a car, so get in the car. β
This man once refreshed my cognition, just like I didn't think he would suddenly appear, let alone think that he would buy a house and decide to settle in his hometown, I clearly remember that when he was in junior high school, he said that when he grew up, he would not go back to his hometown to develop.
Chen Luyao drove the car downstairs to a residential area, and to my shock, this neighborhood was just across the street from my house.
"Chen Luyao, why did you buy this house next to my house."
"I remember some people saying that when he grows up and gets married, he must buy a house next door to his house so that he can come home every day to eat. However, it doesn't seem like it was for me at the time. β
"You γγγγγγ"
Yes, I said this to Yang Yi at that time, when we were still young. I thought that in the current state we could get married.
The whole decoration style of this house did not match the man in front of me at all, and at this moment I seemed to understand why he said to go back to our home.
"The renovation of this house ???"
"That's what you think, everything is according to your preferences, I thought about it when I renovated the house a month ago, if we can't be together this time, I'll rent out this house, and I won't come back, if we can be together, this is our home." You see that the platform by the window is specially made for you, you are so fond of watching the scenery in a daze, it is the most suitable for us to sit there I hold you and we are in a daze together, and you look at this wine cabinet, I know that you are a wine Mengzi now, here are all kinds of wine you like to drinkγγγγγ β
I didn't think Chen Luyao still had this side, I don't know how he "spied on" my preferences and my love of drinking over the years, because now this house is exactly the same as my imaginary future home.
"Lin Shu, do you know, I have dreamed of you almost every night for nearly ten years, I have dreamed that we got married, and we grew old together...
Chen Luyao said as he took out the unfinished wine we had just drunk at the dining place, his hand looked particularly slender and powerful under the light reflected in the window, as if it were a work of art.
"Chen Luyao~"
Because of the wind, the wine is strong. Chen Luyao put down the wine in his hand and was about to enter the cup, and hugged me into his arms, which made me feel painful.
"Hmm~~, Chen Luyao is too lucky, I can't get angry." After saying this, I felt that the man was relieved, and the hand holding me relaxed a lot.
"Shu, I miss you so much." I looked up at him, his art-like hands caressing my face, everything so unreal. After all, this was only possible in my dreams before me.
"Chen Luyao, are you telling me that this is all true?" Chen Luyao didn't speak, he looked at me seriously.
He suddenly lowered his head and kissed me, I suddenly felt numb all over, and at that moment I felt that all this was true, I opened my eyes and repeatedly confirmed that this person was Chen Luyao who I had been waiting for for several years.
"Obediently, close your eyes." Chen Luyao said while stopping his mouth movements and his restless hand.
"No, I'm afraid I'll wake up from a dream when I close my eyes." I looked up at Chen Luyao with a gentle face.
After listening to me, he stopped saying nothing and began his next move.
"Chen Luyao, I'm afraid~"
"Let's come little by little, don't be afraid, don't worry, I will protect you."
A burst of pain ensued.
I only remember that it rained heavily outside that night, and Chen Luyao and I didn't sleep all night, and we all wanted to vent our grievances in the past few years, for fear that it would be a dream to open our eyes tomorrow morning.
At dawn, I looked at the tired Chen Luyao beside me, who still hugged me tightly.
"Chen Luyao, you pinch me, I'm afraid I'm dreaming, and when I wake up, you'll be gone."
"No, it's been a night's toss, and I'm reluctant to pinch you again." Chen Luyao said.
"So, Chen Luyao, let's get married! Do you remember, the last text you sent me back then? β
"How can you not remember, I remember that it was Qingming Festival, I sent it to you and said, as long as you don't get married in the future, I will always wait for you."
"So, do you still talk about it?" I looked at the man in front of me seriously.
"??? Now" Chen Luyao said with some hesitation.
"Well, right now, we'll go get the certificate when we're done washing."
"Shu, I want to get the certificate now more than you, but I have to go to your house to propose marriage first, and then we get engaged and finally I will hold a wedding for you, which is indispensable. I must call Yang Yi and let him see that the person who finally marries you is me Chen Luyao. β
"You're not naΓ―ve."
"It's not naΓ―ve, it's all a man's desire to win. Okay, I'll go out and find something to eat when you sleep. β
Chen Luyao put on yesterday's clothes.
"Huh! You don't change your clothes, you've been wearing them all day yesterday. β
"Yo, now you're starting to adapt to your wife's identity??" He stood on the edge of the bed and suddenly leaned down and said teasingly, his unbuttoned clothes just showed his figure in front of my eyes, and I felt my face instantly burn.
I covered my eyes.
"Shy, didn't you watch it all last night?"
"Chen Luyao!"
"Okay, okay, I won't tease you, this house has just been renovated, my clothes are still in Shanghai and haven't been sent, so I can only wear these clothes, let's go shopping at night, and then buy a few decent ones."
I nodded.
After Chen Luyao left, I looked at the ceiling and still felt that all this was unreal.
I'm Tutu a little naughty and curious about the worldγγγγγ The mobile phone rang, I glanced at the caller ID, it was my sister Lynn, the woman, I took a sip of the water that Chen Luyao had just put on the bedside table, and moistened my throat.
"Hey, sister, what are you doing early in the morning."
"Lin Shu! Where did you die last night, and as soon as I turned around, you were gone, and you didn't answer the phone, and! You still don't go home at night, let your parents know that you have to die!! Where, where. β
"Sister, I'm twenty-six, not eighteen."
"But don't you know, when your parents have treated you as an adult since you were a child, for fear that you will do something that violates ethics and morals."
"As long as you don't say it, how will they know."
"How do you know I won't say, really, what I look like you don't know???"
"Lynn!! I'm twenty-six!! There's no need to tell your parents everything!! β
"Teasing you, so tell me where you went yesterday, and I can see you walking with a man."
"I'm not going to tell you, what's going on."
"As your assistant, I have the right to know what you did with other men."
"Oops, I can't say a word or two on the phone."
"Okay, I'm going to have breakfast with your brother-in-law, you can play by yourself."
"Stand down, my little assistant."
"Lin Shu, don't be embarrassed, I'll γγγγγ if you force me again" Before she could finish speaking, I hung up the phone in my hand, I knew this woman as well as myself, she only talked about it, she would not do anything practical.
The phone rang again, it was still Lynn, and I knew that this woman would never give up without finishing a sentence, but me! Lin Shu! I just don't get used to her problem.
I threw my phone aside, got up and got dressed, and saw that the clothes that I threw on the ground last night were all put by Chen Luyao at the head of my bed. A smile unfolded on my face.
I opened most of the windows in the house, because the house had just been renovated, and there was still some formaldehyde smell that had not gone away, and I stood on the balcony and breathed in the wind.
"What, standing on the balcony and reminiscing about last night?"
"Eh~Chen Luyao~"
"Okay, I won't tease you, you haven't changed your shy habit since you were a child." He touched my freshly washed hair.
"Don't blow the wind here if your hair is still wet, and you won't wash your hair with cold water again." He asked.
"Washing your hair with cool water helps your health."
"Don't talk nonsense, come with me to the bathroom, dry my hair, and have breakfast."
Chen Luyao picked me up again.
"It's not like I can't walk."
"You can walk, but if you don't obey, you can't brag here with me for a long time before you go."
And so I was carried into the bathroom by this man.
He blew my hair gently.
"Chen Luyao, don't really say it, your hands are really good-looking."
"You just know. Okay, blow dry, let's go eat. β
"Chen Luyao, I want to γγγγγ"
"No, you don't want to, you're thinking about it after eating."
I was "dragged" from the bathroom to the restaurant by this man again, and I looked at a table full of breakfast, soy milk, fried dough sticks, steamed buns, and a mess of special snacks from my hometown.
"So, Chen Luyao, if I get fat after eating so much, how can I establish a good image in the hearts of readers."
"It's okay, you write suspense novels every day, and in the eyes of your loyal fans, you're not a good person anymore."
I didn't even know how to refute what he said, after all, I had been writing suspense novels and fabricating countless cases for the past few years, and sometimes Lynn's woman would ask me if I would be forced to wipe her neck one day. I have also stated countless times under my novel that the content of this book is pure fiction and should not be linked to the author himself. Another part of the book that some readers said the most when I signed the book was that I was actually a girl, and they always thought that the people who wrote suspense novels would only be their big men.
So later I would add a sentence at the bottom of each of my novels that the author is a woman, and even then there are many people who don't believe it, and they will comment on the fact that the author is a woman at the bottom of my book.
"Eat it, what do you think, there are your favorite fritters and soy milk, don't you like fried dough sticks in soy milk the most?"
I didn't expect this man to know what I like to eat after so many years.
When I was in school at that time, I would eat soy milk fritters almost every morning, and the most common question Chen Luyao asked me at that time was: how to eat soy milk fritters every day without getting tired.
I still remember that he ate with me every day, until one day he vomited in the classroom, and I never saw him eat soy milk fritters again.
"Chen Luyao, why don't you eat soy milk fritters."
I asked deliberately.
"Why don't I eat it, you don't know yet? Pretending to be confused here, there is another sentence of Chen Luyao, tell my husband to listen. β
Well, this man has really not changed for so many years, and he is still so "cheap".
"I don't, and I didn't get a certificate, so I didn't call you husband, you're thinking about fart."
"Say it again!!"
"Just say it, and you haven't got the certificate yetγγγγγ" Before I could say the next word, the man kissed me again, and I still had unswallowed soy milk in my mouth. A handful pushed him away.
"Chen Luyao! It's not disgusting, it's still eating! Is it sick! Is it sick! β
"I think you're going to eat about it, so we're going to get down to business."
"No, I haven't finished eating yet."
"No, I think you're full."
Chen Luyao picked me up from the chair again and walked straight to the bedroom.
"Chen Luyao, let's discuss it again, I haven't eaten yet, I'm really not full!" At this time, Chen Luyao couldn't listen to me at all, and his hand had already begun to unbutton my shirt.
"Not full? Eat me if you're not full. β
Chen Luyao !! I shouldn't have gone home with you!! β
"It's too late to regret it, you're going to marry me anyway." Before I could say anything more, the man kissed again.
I'm Tutu a little naughty and curious about the world, and I have more questions than I can countγγγγγγ
I pushed the man in front of me away
"Telephone, telephone, telephone thought." Chen Luyao picked up the phone and hung up.
"No matter!" Then he moved on to the next step, and the phone rang again.
"Wait a minute! Maybe it's my mom. β
"No way, I just saw it. It's a phone call with no notes. β
"I'll talk about it when I take it, it's all too much."
"Then you call your husband to listen."
"Husband." Well, I'll admit that at this moment I'm a human being and have to bow my head under the eaves.
Chen Luyao stopped what he was doing, sat on the edge of the bed, and handed me the phone.
I seem to have seen this phone number, and it is very familiar anyway.
"Hey, hello."
After waiting for a few seconds, the person on the other end of the line did not speak.
"Hey, hello!" I said it again.
"Lin Shu, long time no see."
I was stunned, this voice was familiar but very unfamiliar, I couldn't believe it if it was strange.
This time I'm silent. Chen Luyao seemed to see something.
"What's wrong, why did you suddenly stop talking." Chen Luyao asked as he took my call.
"Hey, hello, what's the matter?"
"It's Yang Yi." I said
Chen Luyao looked at me.
At this moment, I don't know what to say, and I don't know why this person always shows up when I'm happy and then the next step is to ruin my life.
"Hang up, I don't want to hear a little bit of his voice."
"Haven't you put him down yet?" Chen Luyao hung up the phone and asked hesitantly. I know he's most afraid of me being right at this moment, and I haven't forgotten about him.
"No, I began to forget about him after he suddenly disappeared at that time, I remember searching all the places at that time, until his mother told me not to pester him anymore, he deserves a better life, I knew that I didn't have a future with him, no matter what he suddenly contacted me for this time, I can't go back to him, because I love you Chen Luyao now, and the only person I have been waiting for in the past few years is you Chen Luyao."
"I believe it!"
I won't be like what I did in a movie or TV series, the other party left without saying a word, and then came back many years later, and then came back to him, this is not what I, Lin Shu, will do.
I looked at Chen Luyao, who was still stunned in front of me, and I knew that he must be uncomfortable at this moment.
"Chen Luyao, you must believe me." I kissed him as I spoke, and he seemed to be relieved at this moment.