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Chapter 188: Chapter 161: Carrying Cheng Zhu in My Heart [Vote for Monthly Pass!]
Chapter 188: Chapter 161: Carrying Cheng Zhu in My Heart [Vote for Monthly Pass!]
Lin Lu asked Cheng Zhu, “Have you ever had a crush on someone before?”
Cheng Zhu first countered, “What about you?”
Then he added, “So, do you have someone you like now?”
Such a question made it unclear for a moment whether he was asking if you currently liked someone or if you previously had a crush on someone.
Chinese culture is profound and extensive, yet sometimes it just gives people extra trouble with more “reading comprehension” to deal with.
Cheng Zhu was indeed making a probe.
He might be a grandmaster-level figure, able to clearly feel whether this girl was interested in him, whether she felt any electricity toward him, and whether their affections were progressing.
However, he was very clear about one thing: what you feel and what the other person thinks they feel do not necessarily align.
Human nature is very complex.
Some people are good at deceiving themselves, everyone can tell you’re madly in love with someone, but you keep lying to yourself internally.
Others are the opposite; they buff themselves up, maybe just getting carried away in the moment into thinking they’re super into the other person, but in reality, it’s just that – the excitement soon wanes.
This guy’s thinking was simple: confirm the feelings early, but not too early… confirm the relationship!
At that moment, the traffic light turned green. Lin Lu’s heart raced, and as the deer in her chest stumbled about wildly, she drove straight ahead without looking away, but spoke very directly, “I do.”
And she frankly added another line, “I do now.”
The emotional expression of a vibrant young girl is just so direct and open, passionate, and straightforward.
I won’t give you an ambiguous answer; I’ll give you a very clear one!
“Is it someone I know?” Cheng Zhu cheekily asked.
Lin Lu gripped the steering wheel tighter, pursed her lips slightly, and answered, “You don’t know him.”
Because in her logic, if Cheng Zhu knew who it was, he surely would not have asked.
Since he was asking, that meant he didn’t know.
–– “Cheng Zhu, you big dummy!”
–– “Super big dummy!”
This made her feel that the “Cheng Zhu” she had written on the little piggy toy was indeed accurate.
Cheng Zhu watched Lin Lu, who was forcing herself to concentrate on driving, and he could already guess the answer from her micro-expressions.
“She seems a bit angry, but also seems to be more proud?”
Good grief, you’re feeling smug now, huh?
He couldn’t figure out Lin Lu’s thought process, but because she was so pretty, busty, and had a pleasant voice, he didn’t find her dumb; instead, he found the girl even more endearing.
“Cheng Zhu, if you like someone, how would you act?” Lin Lu suddenly asked.
“It depends on the person, I personally think it varies from person to person,” Cheng Zhu still replied very sincerely.
To speak precisely, he was somewhat past that stage already.
For example, some people, when they like someone, would go out of their way to be nice to that person, as long as it was the one they liked.
Cheng Zhu wasn’t like that; he was a bit at the stage of judging people and adjusting his approach accordingly, or you could say, he had different modes for different types of girls.
You could say he had advanced; it seemed like his rank had been promoted.
Whether this was a cause for celebration or pity really depended on how you looked at it.
“Ah? Does it really vary depending on the person?” Lin Lu was taken aback.
She kept driving while mumbling to herself, “If I like someone, I’d chat with him every day and find all sorts of reasons to talk to him!”
–– Just give this blockheaded Cheng Zhu a hint!
“Oh? So that’s how you are,” Cheng Zhu said with a smile.
The two of them chattered about various things along the way, and about five minutes later, Lin Lu parked the car near Cheng Zhu’s apartment complex.
He didn’t linger in the car, as it wasn’t that stage yet.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gotten out of the car so quickly. The car was a very good private space.
After returning home, Cheng Zhu went to the bathroom to freshen up first.
As soon as he lay on the bed, he received a WeChat message from Lin Lu.
“Cheng Zhu, Cheng Zhu!”
“What’s up?” he replied.
Lin Lu’s response, combined with the conversation they’d had in the car, struck even someone like him, making him feel something coming on strongly.
“Nothing much, I just came to chat with you!” Lin Lu said.
…
Night fell, and perhaps because it was a holiday, or because the feelings between the two of them were heating up, they kept chatting until midnight, with Lin Lu going to bed half an hour later than usual.
Chatting during the ambiguous phase was just like that; you’d say it’s time to sleep, but then you weren’t sleepy and couldn’t fall asleep at all.
Sometimes you might have already said goodnight to each other, and then start chatting again.
The next day, after waking up, Cheng Zhu saw the good morning message Lin Lu had sent him along with a photo of the sumptuous breakfast she had at home.
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“I’m going to go downstairs for some Xiaolongbao soon,” Cheng Zhu replied.
“Do you have work to do today?” Lin Lu asked curiously.
“Busy as hell, there’s stuff to do both for the gaming side and for Youu Come to Play,” Cheng Zhu replied, “I might have some free time in the afternoon.”
Lin Lu had one good quality: she was the kind of girl who would find things to occupy herself with.
If you were busy, she wouldn’t bother you and would go watch anime or variety shows by herself or play video games.
Not like some people who would act as though it was a crime if you took a while to reply to a WeChat message.
After changing clothes, Cheng Zhu went downstairs to eat Xiaolongbao, and also had fried dough sticks with salty soy milk.
He personally loved dipping fried dough sticks into the salty soy milk, finding it especially delicious.
After eating, he first took a taxi to the Persistent Visit studio.
The studio had been recruiting lately, as they were short-staffed.
People who helped with cross-border e-commerce also needed to be brought in early for some basic training.
Wang Anquan even made a special trip to his office and asked, “Brother Zhu, are you going to the class reunion tonight?”
“Ah? Class reunion? You mean the high school reunion?” Cheng Zhu didn’t even know about it.
“Yes, didn’t you see it in the group chat?”
“I blocked it.”
Wang Anquan: “…”
So it turns out I was bragging for you in the group chat all this time, boasting about your booming career and how much money you’re making, and you haven’t seen it once!
Wang Anquan felt a bit disappointed, but not too much.
As Cheng Zhu’s diehard buddy, participating in the boasting was like sharing in the glory; he got a kick out of it every time he helped brag.
“Are you going?” Cheng Zhu looked at him.
“If you’re not going, neither am I. Doesn’t feel like there’s a point,” Wang Anquan shook his head.
He wanted to see the grandeur of Boss Zhu, the Bragger, at the reunion, but since that wasn’t happening, he just didn’t feel up to it.
“Okay, looks like you’re completely over Chen Rongrong now,” Cheng Zhu teased.
Chen Rongrong was Li Xinyue’s best friend; Wang Anquan had liked her for a long time.
Wang Anquan nodded and then a little embarrassedly said, “Actually… I’ve recently realized that Luo Xi from our class has gotten much prettier after starting university.”
“Brother Zhu, she’s also at Technology University, right? Have you seen her at school?”
“Luo Xi? Oh, she’s been to Youu Come to Play a few times,” Cheng Zhu recalled.
She came with Yue Lingjing, the girl who was quite popular among the new students; they were roommates.
“I saw her photos in her Moments, she’s gotten a lot prettier than in high school. Once girls learn to do makeup and dress well, they really change, huh? Does she look better in person?”
“That she does,” Cheng Zhu remembered.
“Brother Zhu, do you think I have a shot with her?” Wang Anquan asked.
Cheng Zhu thought for a moment, feeling there was something he had to tell him.
“Zhou Kang is pursuing her.”
“Zhou Kang? That idiot Li Rui’s idiot best friend?”
“Yep.”
“Not a threat at all!” Wang Anquan felt he was no longer the old Wang Anquan!
“Another thing, Luo Xi had a crush on me in high school,” Cheng Zhu thought it was necessary for him to know that too.
Luo Xi thought she had a secret crush on Cheng Zhu, thinking he didn’t know.
But in this world, there are not so many hidden crushes that go unnoticed; it’s just that if one doesn’t like the other, they pretend not to know.
Wang Anquan: “I’ll take my leave!”
In his view, Zhou Kang was just a bit player, even less than Li Rui.
But if she had Cheng Zhu, her white moonlight, in her heart… then it was better not to have any unrealistic ideas early on.
Anyway, he just suddenly thought Luo Xi had gotten a lot prettier, he was essentially just flustered by her looks.
And so, Cheng Zhu kept busy in the studio until the afternoon, then rode his fully charged electric scooter to Technology University.
Inside room 212 of the East Building, Wei Bo was leading everyone in the orderly development of their game.
When Cheng Zhu entered, everyone greeted him, “Boss.”
He looked around and asked, “How’s the progress?”
“We’re halfway done,” Wei Bo replied.
Cheng Zhu nodded, satisfied with the progress.
Dong Dong saw Cheng Zhu holding a scratch card and asked, “Brother Zhu, you didn’t hit a big jack—pot just now, did you?”
That would be just outrageous!
Cheng Zhu was holding two things in his hand at the moment, one was the key to his electric moped and the other was the scratch card Lin Lu had given him.
“No, this one won 150, far from a jackpot, just a little profit of 100 bucks!” Cheng Zhu looked down for a moment and stated directly.
He looked at everyone and asked, “Do you have any double-sided tape or transparent tape?”
“I have both,” Liu Feng, the class leader, opened his backpack and took out both double-sided and transparent tape.
Liu Feng’s backpack was like a treasure chest filled with all sorts of things, who knows what they were all for.
“Then give me the double-sided tape,” Cheng Zhu decided.
Then, he went to his own desk, seriously affixed the scratch card by his little money tree, where he posed it very deliberately.
After sticking it, he even took out his phone, snapped a picture of the scratch card next to the money tree, and sent it to Lin Lu: “All set!”
Dong Dong craned his neck to look over, puzzled, “Brother Zhu, it’s just a 150 win, why did you stick it up, and right next to the money tree?”
A mere 150, in other words, a profit of only 100 yuan, was barely any money for someone like Brother Zhu.
What puzzled him most was that Cheng Zhu wasn’t the kind to frequently use his phone to take pictures.
Yet there he was, doing it nonetheless, and even meticulously finding angles to snap a photo.
–– Something’s fishy!
Cheng Zhu heard him and looked up, waving his hand dismissively, “You don’t understand, this is someone lending me their financial luck.”
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