Finally, I managed to get a leave from Gu Fancheng.
The price was that I kept dozing off while having breakfast with Zhao Zifeng in the morning, looking like a "diligent" kowtowing bug.
"Xixi, did you... bring your boyfriend to your dorm?"
Zhao Zifeng gave me a naughty smile.
"No wonder you sleep in a dorm alone. You're enjoying the world of two in advance!"
"Don't talk nonsense!"
I stuffed a steamed bun into Zhao Zifeng's mouth, but there was a sweet feeling in my heart.
Apart from being a bit overbearing, Gu Fancheng was indeed a devoted man.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You value your lover more than your friends! No wonder you don't video chat with me at night... Oh, right!" Zhao Zifeng quickly finished the bun and suddenly seemed to remember something. She whispered in my ear, "How was the effect of those two sets of lingerie I picked for you?"
My face immediately flushed like a boiled shrimp. Those two sets of expensive lingerie didn't even last one night. They were all torn to pieces under Gu Fancheng's "clutches".
I swore that I would never listen to Zhao Zifeng again and buy any sexy lingerie for a "decisive victory".
It was a waste of money and useless!
"It seems the effect was great! Your boyfriend is really fierce!" Zhao Zifeng laughed seeing my embarrassment. "But still, as the old saying goes, don't get yourself into trouble!"
"It won't happen." My mood suddenly turned gloomy.
He was a ghost and I was a human. Humans and ghosts were on different paths. I didn't know where our relationship would end.
Maybe the best ending would be like that of Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. They could be husband and wife for a few years, then one would be reincarnated and the other would spend the rest of their life alone...
I spent the whole morning floating in this kind of mood of being worried about losing what I had. It wasn't until after the second class in the afternoon that my aunt Lu Ling called me.
We met at the school gate.
I hadn't seen my aunt for half a month, and she had already changed to a new car. It was a pink Beetle, looking mini and cute.
"Xixi, this is your birthday gift."
After I got in the car, my aunt pointed to a beautifully wrapped box in the back row. "I've been away on business these days and didn't have time to ask about your situation."
I naturally knew what my aunt wanted to ask about was definitely the incident at Fanjing Mountain Villa. I quickly replied, "I'm fine."
My aunt sighed, "That's good... I really didn't expect that there would be something you couldn't handle! The skills you've learned are the true inheritance of the Zhengyi School. I knew my elder brother wouldn't let these things be lost!"
"Aunt, what do you mean?" I was a bit confused.
The talismans I had secretly learned were just some things recorded in the old books at home. I had learned them secretly while my dad was out. My dad definitely didn't allow me to learn these superstitious things.
His lifelong wish was probably for me to work in a high - class office building!
"Nothing..." My aunt seemed to have said something she shouldn't have and immediately changed the topic. While starting the car, she motioned for me to open the box. "Take a look. Do you like the gift I bought?"
I opened the box, and inside was a delicate black lambskin bucket bag. The golden double - G hardware accessories looked very expensive.
"Aunt, this is too expensive. I don't need it..." I quickly put the bag back into the box.
"Keep it. Consider it as an adult gift from your aunt. I bought it at a duty - free shop in Hong Kong. It's not that expensive."
My aunt was driving and looked at me with a smile in the rear - view mirror. "You'll be eighteen on Sunday. You should pay more attention and dress yourself up."
I smiled, but in my heart I thought of my stubborn dad. I hesitated whether I should go home and take a look on Sunday.
The cute Beetle shuttled through the city traffic. After about an hour's drive,
we arrived at Huadi Qiancheng Fenglingyuan, the most expensive apartment building in Lucheng.
It was located in the most prosperous downtown area of Lucheng. It was a 28 - story high - class residential and commercial building. There was a large chain shopping mall downstairs. It was a weekend today, and there were so many people coming and going.
My aunt didn't take me upstairs directly but went to a coffee shop in the shopping mall.
In a dimly lit booth, there was already a young woman in her thirties. She was wearing a Chanel - style dress and had a thick and delicate makeup on her face. She looked like a porcelain doll.
My aunt greeted her, and the woman nodded and smiled at us as a greeting.
"What would you like to drink?"
After my aunt pulled me to sit down, the woman asked.
"Ice - cold Americano... Xixi, have a cheese latte." My aunt knew I had never been to such a place and made the decision for me.
The woman waved to the waiter and ordered two cups of coffee.
"Xiaolin, tell us the specific situation." My aunt seemed to be very familiar with this woman.
Ms. Lin sighed and began to tell the story of her small apartment on the 28th floor of Building D.
Ms. Lin was also a stewardess. Since she flew international routes, she had a high salary, so she bought this well - decorated 50 - square - meter small apartment in Fenglingyuan in full payment.
But she flew in the sky for at least 20 days every month and had no time to enjoy life at home. So she rented the apartment to her colleague who flew domestic routes.
The colleague was very generous and paid a whole year's rent at once.
I heard that this colleague had a very rich boyfriend who had already bought a house in Lucheng. She lived here just for a temporary transition.
So Ms. Lin didn't care. Anyway, she had already got the money, and she was too lazy to ask about other people's lives.
She didn't contact her colleague for a whole year. It wasn't until the rent was about to expire that she called to ask if her colleague wanted to renew the lease. But unexpectedly, the phone couldn't get through.
Two days later, she finally had a day off and returned to Lucheng.
She opened the door of the apartment with the spare key and found that everything inside was in good order and her colleague's things were still there.
Ms. Lin had no choice but to call other colleagues in the company to ask. She then learned that this renting colleague had already left the company. It was rumored that she had gone back to Hong Kong with her rich man to be his legal wife.
"Legal wife?" I asked in surprise.
"Yes, little girl." Ms. Lin looked at me and smiled. "Rich men are no good! They just keep women for fun. For a woman like my colleague to rise from being a mistress to a legal wife, she must have very high - level skills!"
"...And then? Didn't you go to find her again?"
"Then? There's no then." Ms. Lin spread her hands. "Once a woman turns from a canary into a phoenix, she wishes all the people who know her were dead! How could she let us former colleagues show up and expose her past?"
She took a sip of the coffee in the gilded porcelain cup and then said, "Then I packed up all her things in the house and threw them away. I rented the house to someone else!"
"Threw them all away?" I couldn't believe it.