"Night.
It’s pitch black everywhere.
All the lights in the room are off. Only the light in the bathroom is still on. It pierces through the complex glass door, casting a small amount of light onto the bedroom in the shadow.
Lin Xudong is standing in front of the bedroom window, his expression serious as he looks out.
The outside is shrouded in darkness.
All the street lights in the compound are off. You can only faintly see the windows of the building opposite through the hazy moonlight.
Everything is completely black over there, you can’t see anything at all.
Lin Xudong just stands there. He has been standing there for five minutes since he finished his evening routine.
He keeps looking at the window opposite, feeling that sothing is wrong.
From the bedroom opposite, a voice calls out, "Xudong, Xudong, what are you doing?"
"Xudong!"
Zhao Hongjuan walks over in her slippers and complains at the door, "What are you doing in Qingqing’s room? Missing Qingqing? Qingqing will be back tomorrow. Go to bed early. Aren’t you working tomorrow?"
"Oh~~"
Lin Xudong is lost in thought. He responds without moving, just continues to stare at the opposite window.
Zhao Hongjuan cos over and follows his gaze, frowning as she asks, "What are you looking at? There’s nothing!"
She suddenly reaches out and demands, "Hand it over!"
"What?" Lin Xudong is sowhat confused.
"Don’t play dumb!"
Zhao Hongjuan proceeds to frisk him and quickly retrieves his phone from his pocket. She starts scrolling through his ssages, even logging into his Penguin Number on the phone. After squinting at it for a while and finding nothing of interest, she hands the phone back with a puzzled look, "What are you doing?"
Lin Xudong takes his phone back with a dark expression.
Even though he doesn’t mind his wife checking his phone, having the contents of his phone inspected is quite uncomfortable.
There’s no choice!
How else can he deal with a wife like this at ho?
Lin Xudong sighs and starts explaining hesitantly, "I just feel that sothing isn’t right. Yesterday at noon, Qingqing called to say she would buy flight tickets and co back soon, but in the evening she said she couldn’t get any tickets."
"If she couldn’t get any tickets, shouldn’t she have told us in advance? Why did she only tell us just now?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Hongjuan can’t help but laugh. She points at Lin Xudong’s forehead, "You’re just being paranoid. Anything that happens makes you suspicious. Maybe Qingqing just forgot."
"Maybe..."
As Lin Xudong worded his doubt, he was about to turn around when he suddenly saw a glimr of light appear across the way.
He imdiately turns around, pointing across the way, "Look, why is there a light?"
"Where?" Zhao Hongjuan follows his gaze.
"That window, it should be their master bedroom. The large one."
"It seems like it!"
Beyond the curtains of the opposing window, a faint light appears. It seed as if a bedside lamp had been switched on?
But there shouldn’t be anyone at ho!
Lin Xudong and Zhao Hongjuan glance at each other, shouting in unison, "Thief!"
"There’s a thief!"
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Zhao Hongjuan even moves faster than Lin Xudong, quickly going to the bedroom to get dressed.
Lin Xudong puts on his police uniform, not forgetting to secure a gun to his waist.
The two rush out together.
...
Across the way.
Lin Xiaoqing lazily turns on the painful lights, puts on a large T-shirt and heads to the bathroom. When she cos out, she decides to sort out her things.
She has makeup products that she bought for her mom in her suitcase, and she wants to give them to Zhao Yi so that he can deliver them to her mom the next day.
As Lin Xiaoqing is sorting out her suitcase, she hears a sound from the door. It doesn’t seem like a knock. With curiosity, she walks over slowly to look at the cara.
The light at the door isn’t on.
Through the cara’s field of vision, she sees two shadowy figures standing there, seemingly consulting with each other.
"Thieves?"
Standing at the door in the middle of the night, sneakily. If they’re not thieves, then what are they?
Lin Xiaoqing slowly walks into the bedroom and whispers to Zhao Yi, "Stay on the bed and don’t move, there are thieves!"
"What?"
"Never mind!"
After Lin Xiaoqing finishes speaking, she goes to the kitchen and finds a rolling pin. The rolling pin is brand new and hasn’t been used yet. The tag hasn’t even been ripped off.
It’s ti to make use of it!
Outside the door.
Lin Xudong is speaking softly to Zhao Hongjuan, "Let’s just hide here and stay still. We don’t know what the situation is inside. What if it’s dangerous?"
"If the thief wants to co out, he can only go through the door. The windows all have theft protection, he can’t get out."
"Right."
Zhao Hongjuan nods vigorously, her face becoming flushed.
That’s excitent!
Opportunities to confront a thief aren’t frequent. She thinks she’ll definitely make the first move.
Just then, the door is suddenly flung open. The quick movent catches them off guard. Lin Xudong only has ti to raise his arm and gets bumped backwards by the door.
Zhao Hongjuan is standing a bit further back and manages to avoid it. But the suddenness of the door opening stuns her a bit.
Before she can react, she sees a figure rush out from the door, wielding a rolling pin, and swings it at Lin Xudong.
Through the room’s light, Zhao Hongjuan recognises that figure, "Qingqing?"
Just as Lin Xiaoqing’s rolling pin is coming down, she hears a shout and realises her mistake. However, it’s too late to stop.
The next mont --
"Ouch!"
"Hiss——"
Lin Xudong’s face gets grazed, and his arm is throbbing in pain. An anger rises in him, and he quickly gets up intending to pin down the person, but he hears Zhao Hongjuan shout, "It’s our daughter!"
"Qingqing!"
"Don’t fight!"
"Ah?"
At this sound, the hallway light flickered on.
Both parties locked eyes.
They stared at each other, at a loss for words.
Zhao Yi walked to the door in slippers and instinctively asked, "Xiaoqing, what’s wrong?"
Suddenly.
The entire family turned to look at Zhao Yi.
"Ahem..."
Zhao Yi felt awkward for a mont and quickly said, "Aunt Zhao, Uncle Lin, co in, co in! Why are you so late... haha..."
Two minutes later.
Zhao Yi and Lin Xiaoqing sat neatly on the sofa like obedient children, both keeping their heads down and silent.
Lin Xudong sat opposite them fuming, with a noticeable bruise on his cheek and a swollen arm.
Zhao Hongjuan sat next to him, applying dicine to his wounds with a heartache, turned to look at Zhao Yi and Lin Xiaoqing, feeling a mix of annoyance and amusent.
The living room was silent.
Lin Xudong glared at them, inhaled sharply from the sting of the iodine, and asked through gritted teeth, "Lin Xiaoqing! Didn’t you say you couldn’t get a flight!"
"I~~"
Lin Xiaoqing’s face turned red, she didn’t know how to explain, and almost burst into tears. Instead, she dove into Zhao Yi’s arms. He quickly stroked her back to comfort her.
Lin Xudong beca even more aggravated and turned to Zhao Yi, "You tell , what the hell is going on!"
"Well..."
Zhao Yi felt like crying too.
His girlfriend was staying at his house, her parents ca looking for her and were hit by his girlfriend, and now he was asked to explain...
What’s there to explain!
Zhao Yi collected his thoughts and finally said, "Uncle Lin, we arrived ho late and we were tired from our trip from the capital to Zhengyang. So, I suggested Xiaoqing stays at my place so we could rest well and then..."
"We live just behind you!" Lin Xudong snapped, gritting his teeth. "Are you too tired even to walk a few steps!"
"Ha... ha..."
Zhao Yi decided to stay silent.
The living room fell silent again for a while. Zhao Hongjuan finished applying the dicine and simply said, "It’s too late today, Xudong, let’s go ho first. We can discuss it tomorrow."
After saying this, she turned to Lin Xiaoqing, "Are you going ho?"
Lin Xiaoqing was reluctant but seeing Lin Xudong’s piercing gaze, she quickly nodded, "Yes."
She said to Zhao Yi, "I’ll go ho first."
"Okay."
After he saw off the family of three, Zhao Yi let out a deep sigh of relief, laying on his bed, communicating with Lin Xiaoqing via his phone, trying to make sense of the situation.
At least, for now, he was safe.
But, tomorrow seed like it was going to be a test!
...
The next day, Zhao Yi heard that Lin Xudong had gone to work and decided to visit Lin Xiaoqing, bringing so gifts.
Zhao Hongjuan was easy to deal with. The mont she opened the door and saw Zhao Yi, she warmly welcod him in.
Zhao Yi presented the makeup products he had prepared.
Zhao Hongjuan repeatedly said ’you shouldn’t have’ while gleefully accepting the gift. Upon seeing that it was her favorite brand, she complinted Zhao Yi for his good taste and shopping skills.
Then Zhao Yi took Lin Xiaoqing shopping and brought back a lot of stuff. They returned to the old house for lunch.
Liu Jing and Zhao Zhenxi were both at ho.
They knew that Zhao Yi had co back the day before, but they didn’t expect him to bring Lin Xiaoqing along too. Was it an official announcent of their relationship?
It was no secret that Zhao Yi and Lin Xiaoqing were together, there had been signs since high school, but it was their first ti bringing it up at ho.
Zhao Yi thought...
Since Lin Xiaoqing’s family was aware, he should also tell his parents. It would make things easier once everything was out in the open.
Lin Xiaoqing was pleased with this as well.
The lunch was lively. Liu Jing and Zhao Zhenxi were extraordinarily warm towards Lin Xiaoqing, making Zhao Yi feel less valued. He sat quietly to the side, criticizing this and that.
Zhao Yi stayed at ho all afternoon. In the evening, he took so gifts and went to Lin Xiaoqing’s house. In addition to the usual gifts like cigarettes and alcohol, he also bought a nice wristwatch.
Lin Xiaoqing knew that her father liked wristwatches, so she urged Zhao Yi to buy one.
Zhao Yi didn’t opt for sothing too expensive, he spent just over ten thousand. It wasn’t cheap, but it wasn’t particularly costly either.
This price range for a watch was exactly what Lin Xudong desired – sothing he wouldn’t buy for himself but wished he owned.
The mont Lin Xudong saw Zhao Yi, he snorted dismissively.
Zhao Hongjuan found it amusing.
Zhao Yi promptly placed the gifts and handed the watch to Lin Xudong, "Uncle Lin, this is a special gift I chose for you. It suits your style."
Lin Xudong opened the box, and instantly liked what he saw but pretended otherwise, he snorted again and placed the watch on the coffee table.
This was progress.
Actually, there was no need for any explanations. It was clear that Zhao Yi and Lin Xiaoqing...ahem.
Everyone understood!
What made Lin Xudong unhappy was, one, his daughter was...ahem.
And two, his daughter was staying at Zhao Yi’s place, but didn’t even co ho, instead lied about not being able to get a flight ticket.
After a day, Lin Xudong’s anger had simred down quite a bit.
Zhao Yi stayed for dinner.
Lin Xudong finally started to speak. As soon as he opened his mouth, Zhao Yi wished he hadn’t.
The first thing was a lecture.
"Look at you two, just started college, not even twenty, this is too fast!"
"And you lied about not being able to buy a flight ticket!"
"Really, when a daughter grows up, she forgets her parents!"
"Dad~~~"
Lin Xiaoqing’s sweet call softened Lin Xudong’s tone and he switched topics, beginning to discuss future plans.
"Since it has co to this, you should think about how to solve it."
Lin Xudong’s tone beca much calr than before. The next thing he said nearly made Zhao Yi and Lin Xiaoqing choke "How about... you two get married after graduating!"
"..."
"..."
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