Chapter 628
Rose
Chapter 628 Rose
Hu Mengdie usually has training, but she comes to the company in her spare time since the school is not far from the company.
"He's your roommate. Would he like to treat you to a meal?" Li Zhuangsheng asked casually.
"No, it's a friend in class... Oh." Hu Mengdie sighed and said helplessly, "Actually, I didn't want to go, but she said it was her birthday."
"Why don't you want to go?"
"She often matches me up with other men... I think she wants to ride in a Porsche more than I do."
Li Zhuangsheng heard that he was in the same group with Lu Qian, and guessed that he had been bribed by others.
"If you don't want to go, then don't go." Li Zhuangsheng smiled.
Hu Mengdie smiled bitterly: "It's not like I can just not go. We are all classmates and we train together during the day. If I don't go, I don't know what they will do to me behind my back."
"Indeed, interpersonal communication is sometimes troublesome. There are some things you don't want to do, but sometimes you just can't help it."
Li Zhuangsheng said this and thought of himself before his rebirth. The time when he was a otaku was the most free and undisciplined time for him.
But it’s not bad now, although when I come to the company usually I just attend meetings, stay in the office to read comments and play games.
The studio staff left work one after another, and only Li Zhuangsheng was still in the office, typing on the keyboard.
"Why don't you go back?" Hu Mengdie sat opposite Li Zhuangsheng and poured him a glass of water.
"Ah, it's so late...you should go back first!"
Li Zhuangsheng raised his head, checked the time, and smiled apologetically.
"how about you?"
"I'll write a novel for a while." Li Zhuangsheng took a sip of water and smiled slightly. "A reader complained that I wrote too little."
"Is it because Li Xiuyu is not here that you are too lazy to go back?" Hu Mengdie tilted her head and smiled.
"Uh... maybe that's the reason!" Li Zhuangsheng thought about it and didn't deny it. "There's no one at home, so I feel like I can be a little freer."
“Are you lonely?”
"No, haha."
Hu Mengdie said softly: "Then I'll stay with you for a while. Anyway, there's nothing to do if I go back now."
Li Zhuangsheng hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's fine."
He was a little lonely, after all, Li Xiuyu was gone. But Hu Mengdie was there, which reminded him of their honeymoon.
Li Zhuangsheng continued to type on the keyboard, pressing the backspace key repeatedly. He was confused. He didn't know when Hu Mengdie went out, and when she came back, she had a fruit plate in her hands.
"There are still a lot of fruits in the company. I've cut some for you to try. If you don't have a fork, just use a toothpick." Hu Mengdie smiled and placed it next to Li Zhuangsheng's monitor.
Li Zhuangsheng was stunned for a moment, he looked up and stared at the smile on Hu Mengdie's face, his heart seemed to be hit hard, he was suddenly in a trance and couldn't tell who was in front of him.
"What's wrong?" Hu Mengdie waved her hand in front of him, "Why are you daydreaming?"
Li Zhuangsheng slowly came back to his senses, his eyes drooping, unable to utter a word.
He took his hands off the keyboard and stared at the fruit plate in a daze.
"Is there anything wrong with this fruit?" Hu Mengdie asked puzzledly.
"...No." After a long while, Li Zhuangsheng finally spoke slowly, then smiled and said, "It's just that you two are really the same person."
Hu Mengdie blinked her eyes: "You mean, she will also cut the fruit plate for you?"
"Well, I've said it before, she's a very good person." Li Zhuangsheng said in a hoarse voice, but he didn't even have time to say sorry in the end.
Although he said sorry countless times, he always felt that something was missing.
"Do you still... love her?" Hu Mengdie suddenly bit her lip.
Li Zhuangsheng noticed that Hu Mengdie's tone seemed to have changed, but he didn't think much about it and was completely immersed in Hu Mengdie's questions.
"I...I don't know."
Hu Mengdie stared at Li Zhuangsheng and said, "So, do you regret it?"
"Well, I regret it."
"What do you regret?" Hu Mengdie pressed, her tone becoming increasingly sharp.
But Li Zhuangsheng did not notice Hu Mengdie's aggressiveness and slowly closed his eyes.
This feeling can be treated as a recollection, but it was lost at the time.
"You regret your attitude towards her after you came back, right? If it happened again, would you make the same choice?"
"No, I won't!" Li Zhuangsheng immediately shook his head, "At least, I won't shake her hand off again..."
But if that were the case, what would Zhu Zhixue do? He didn't say, and there was no such thing as "if" in reality.
"Why... not anymore?"
"Because of her, it's really good."
Hu Mengdie took two steps back, a little unsteady on her feet. This was the first time she heard these words from Li Zhuangsheng, and she knew very well that Li Zhuangsheng was not lying. There was no need to lie at this time.
Although Hu Mengdie knew in her heart that it was a layer of filter of the dead, and her current image was overlaid on the original image.
Her body still couldn't stop shaking, her eyes were red, she never thought that the grievances hidden in her heart for many years would be completely exposed because of just a few words!
"What's wrong with you?" Li Zhuangsheng finally noticed that Hu Mengdie was acting strangely.
"It's okay, it's okay..." Hu Mengdie wiped her tears hurriedly.
Li Zhuangsheng thought about what he had just said, which seemed a little inappropriate for Hu Mengdie at the moment, but why did she look so excited?
Li Zhuangsheng showed confusion in his eyes: "Why are you crying?"
"I'm not crying. I'm just sad."
"What are you sad about?"
"It turns out that no matter how much I have done, I can't replace her."
Hu Mengdie's quick thinking made Li Zhuangsheng feel confused again. He hastily turned his eyes away, and the initial sense of vigilance disappeared instantly, leaving only endless shame and confusion.
He naturally didn't know Hu Mengdie's lies, because her grievances at the moment were real.
"I, I...you, you are different. You are you, and she is she..."
Li Zhuangsheng hesitated. To him, Hu Mengdie's words were no different from a direct confession.
Hu Mengdie stopped crying and turned away: "You write, I'll read a book for a while."
Li Zhuangsheng nodded repeatedly, and Hu Mengdie sat on the sofa and took out a copy of The Little Prince.
After a moment of silence, Li Zhuangsheng started typing again, but he couldn't think of anything at the moment.
He knew that Hu Mengdie would most likely not bring up the topic again, but the damage was done and the already shaky wall finally collapsed.
Li Zhuangsheng pounded on the keyboard vigorously, as if this was the only way to stop his mind from wandering. Before he knew it, he had been writing for two hours.
Backspace, backspace, backspace... two hours, but he only made progress of more than a hundred words.
Trash! Li Zhuangsheng cursed himself in his heart. He just ate the fruit and didn't write anything!
He looked at Hu Mengdie, who was holding The Little Prince in her hand and was also glancing at him. The two looked at each other and then looked away in tacit understanding.
"Finished." Li Zhuangsheng said softly and turned off the host.
"Then, let's go?" Hu Mengdie said.
"Well, I'll take you back to the dormitory first..."
"Our dormitory has access control and is now closed."
Li Zhuangsheng was stunned: "Didn't you say before that there would be no curfew during the summer vacation?"
Hu Mengdie lowered her head: "It was only yesterday." Li Zhuangsheng scratched his head. He didn't believe it. Hu Mengdie must be lying. But there was no way to prove it.
"Then I'll get you a room. After all, you're waiting for me..."
"It's such a waste of money to rent a room. I'll stay at your place tonight."
"Eh……"
"I live in Xiu Yu's room."
"Oh... Actually, it doesn't cost much to open a hotel."
"There might be cameras in the hotel."
Li Zhuangsheng was silent for a moment, and when he saw Hu Mengdie lowering her head timidly, he finally nodded.
"Okay, let's go."
He turned off the lights and locked the door in one go, then Li Zhuangsheng pushed out the electric bike and Hu Mengdie sat in the back seat.
"You like reading The Little Prince very much."
After a period of awkward silence, in the night breeze, Li Zhuangsheng finally couldn't help but speak.
Although saying this may be considered as making small talk, both the Hu Mengdie of the past and the Hu Mengdie of the future have a special liking for "The Little Prince".
"Well, I like this story very much." Hu Mengdie replied.
Perhaps in order to make Li Zhuangsheng hear more clearly, she gently hugged Li Zhuangsheng and leaned closer to him.
“You must have watched it many times.”
“Yes, I watched it many times.”
“Why do I have to read the same story so many times?”
"Because I love it."
"Oh...I see." Li Zhuangsheng fell silent again.
The summer evening breeze is so cool, perhaps it is brewing a night rain. The croaking of frogs on the roadside is somewhat disturbing. The shadows of people on the electric cars are getting longer and shorter as they pass by street lights one after another.
"Of course I love you. It was my fault for not letting you feel it." Hu Mengdie said with her head leaning lightly on Li Zhuangsheng's back.
Li Zhuangsheng was shocked. He didn't know what this sentence meant. He knew it was a sentence from The Little Prince.
Is it just a sentence from The Little Prince?
After returning to his residence, Li Zhuangsheng asked Hu Mengdie to take a shower first. He went to Li Xiuyu's room and took her clean clothes and put them outside the bathroom.
The two of them have similar body shapes, so Hu Mengdie shouldn't mind wearing Li Xiuyu's clothes.
After doing all this, Li Zhuangsheng took out a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator and gulped it down.
He felt that he needed to calm down, his instinct told him that something might happen tonight.
He felt a little tinnitus for a moment. Without a moment's hesitation, he pulled out the key from the door and hid it.
Then he pretended to play with his phone in the room, silently waiting for Hu Mengdie to come over.
Not long after, Hu Mengdie, who had changed into clean clothes, knocked on the door.
"Please come in!" Li Zhuangsheng immediately sat up straight.
"I'm done." Hu Mengdie walked in and smiled, "You can use it."
"Okay, I'll be there in a minute... Oh, there's some water in the fridge, feel free to drink it."
Hu Mengdie has just finished taking a shower, so it’s best not to go in right away.
Li Zhuangsheng controlled himself not to look at her. Although it was still the end of the sage time, it was really hard for him to control himself when Hu Mengdie came out of the bath.
"Li Zhuangsheng, you have read "The Little Prince", right?" Hu Mengdie sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Ah... I've seen a little bit of it. It was a long time ago." Li Zhuangsheng responded casually.
Hu Mengdie looked at Li Zhuangsheng with a smile. She thought, Li Zhuangsheng must know. Even if there are 5,000 roses in the garden, his rose is unique.
"So, what do you think of the little prince's rose? Do you think the little prince has returned to B612..."
Hu Mengdie bit her lip lightly, but the ringing of the phone interrupted her words.
"Your phone is ringing." Li Zhuangsheng pointed at Hu Mengdie.
Hu Mengdie picked up the phone and the caller ID showed it was Hu Mengke.
"Well, you answer the phone. I'm going to take a shower first..."
Li Zhuangsheng got up quickly, he was afraid that he really couldn't control himself. No matter what, he would go to bed after taking a shower. She wouldn't really stay in his room, would she?
"Why are you calling me so late?" Hu Mengdie was a little displeased at being disturbed.
"Sister, don't be angry, it's mainly because I saw it today..."
"What did you see?"
"I saw my brother-in-law with that girl named Lin Yuehua."
Hu Mengdie was stunned, and the smiling look in her eyes quickly cooled down.
Hu Mengke stammered: "Yes, I saw them riding an electric bike..."
"Oh." Hu Mengdie hung up the phone.
There was silence for a long time.
Li Zhuangsheng went back to the county town these days and just came back today. He didn’t say what the matter was... But if you think about it carefully, his family is not at home, what could he have come back to the county town for?
It turned out to be for Lin Yuehua.
That’s right, apart from her, who else could have the charm to make Li Zhuangsheng temporarily put down his studio.
A hint of self-mockery appeared on Hu Mengdie's lips, and her eyes gradually turned cold.
She picked up the mobile phone that Li Zhuangsheng left in the bedroom and opened it, which required a fingerprint or password.
She unlocked the phone easily; Li Zhuangsheng had never changed his password.
She opened QQ and WeChat and found Lin Yuehua. She looked through their chat records. They did not contact each other frequently and there was nothing special about them.
After thinking for a while, Hu Mengdie clicked on Lin Yuehua's QQ space. Then she was stunned.
She has Lin Yuehua as her friend, whom she added shortly after entering university. Actually, there is no special reason, she just wants to see what Lin Yuehua posts on a daily basis.
But Lin Yuehua was as boring as ever, and her space was empty.
It turns out that she is not empty, it turns out that her life is so rich. It turns out that this is just a little interest between the two of them, which others cannot see.
Hu Mengdie swiped her phone and looked at the hundreds of blog posts that Lin Yuehua had written regardless of the weather. She couldn't help but smile, her eyes gloomy and cold.
She put her phone down and couldn't help laughing again.
Is she his rose?
She was so ashamed that she wanted to die. She suddenly thought that she was just a rose in the rose garden, listening to the little prince's confession to his own rose. She should feel embarrassed, but she was self-indulgent and thought that the object of the confession was her.
……
"Eh? Are you gone?"
When Li Zhuangsheng returned to the bedroom after taking a shower, Hu Mengdie was gone.
He went out to take a look, and saw a faint light coming through the crack of the door of the next bedroom. He was a little disappointed that it went so smoothly, but he still breathed a sigh of relief and locked the door.
(End of this chapter)