Chapter 232 I Only Like You
As soon as Li Pengfei put down his phone, the smile on his face couldn't help but become ambiguous.
Chen Siqi turned around and saw the smile on Li Pengfei's face. She immediately frowned and said, "Why are you smiling so ambiguously?"
Li Pengfei didn't expect Chen Siqi to turn around so suddenly. He immediately put away the smile on his face and said, "I'm not smiling. You saw it wrong."
Chen Siqi took a deep breath and rolled her eyes.
But Chen Siqi was not curious about what Li Pengfei was planning and was too lazy to care.
After finally choosing the paper, Chen Siqi communicated with the staff from Jiangyin Publishing House and finalized it. He glanced at the time and it was almost half past twelve.
Chen Siqi said, "Do you want to have dinner together?"
The staff at Jiangyin Publishing House shook their heads and said, "I have an appointment with someone else in an hour."
Chen Siqi nodded and said, "Thank you very much for coming with us to pick out the paper."
After everyone left, Chen Siqi turned to look at Li Pengfei and said, "Let's go, let's eat."
Li Pengfei clasped his hands behind his head and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? I need to go to the bathroom first. Wait for me."
After saying that, Li Pengfei went to the bathroom.
Chen Siqi had no choice but to stand there and wait for him.
As soon as Li Pengfei entered the bathroom, he quickly called Lu Yanhe.
"Hey, where are you? We're done here, and Chen Siqi said she wanted to find a place to eat." Li Pengfei said.
Lu Yanhe was also panting and said, "I'm here."
Li Pengfei immediately clenched his fist, grabbed it hard, and silently let out a "Oh Yeah!"
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Chen Siqi lowered her head to look at her phone. Since she didn't have many friends, most of the time no one came to visit her. Several hours passed, and there were still zero unread messages.
Chen Siqi had always felt that she didn't care much for this kind of empty social interaction. Even without friends to chat with regularly, she didn't feel lonely. Later, she thought that perhaps it was because she had been hypnotizing herself for so long that she had such thoughts. But whether or not she was hypnotizing herself, she had truly believed this for a long time, and she still does.
But she didn't know when she started to develop the habit of checking her phone from time to time.
Mainly to see if someone has sent her a message.
When Chen Siqi saw the news online this morning, she subconsciously thought it was nothing.
Lu Yanhe knew Lin Miaomiao, and she had known about this for a long time.
Lu Yanhe did not hide it from her.
But after a while, a sour feeling that I couldn't explain still filled my heart.
She knew that the name of that emotion was jealousy, but she didn't want to admit it.
Chen Siqi didn't like emotional people. Because of this, she had suffered too much at the hands of Liu Wei'an. Now, another emotion had emerged. She knew rationally that she couldn't let it continue, but she couldn't control it.
Lu Yanhe hasn't sent her any message until now.
Chen Siqi couldn't tell what she was thinking.
Hope Lu Yanhe can come and explain to her?
Or do you hope Lu Yanhe will deny this matter?
Chen Siqi's face showed no expression, but her heart was filled with all kinds of emotions, as if it had been soaking and fermenting in a jar for a long time. She couldn't even stand the problem that had fermented out.
——Why did Li Pengfei take so long in the toilet?
When Chen Siqi was feeling upset, she thought of Li Pengfei who had left for a while.
"Chen Siqi." Suddenly, Lu Yanhe's voice rang out from behind her. It was like the sudden movement of a long-still wind chime. Chen Siqi heard her heart skip a beat. She turned around in surprise. Was it hallucination? Then, Lu Yanhe really appeared before her.
Chen Siqi was a little overwhelmed at this moment and didn't even pretend to react.
"Why...are you here?"
Lu Yanhe said, "You guys are picking out paper here. I happened to have nothing to do, so I came over to take a look."
He looked into Chen Siqi's eyes seriously and said, "I also need to confirm whether you are really not angry."
Chen Siqi subconsciously wanted to say that of course she was not angry.
However, when she looked up and saw Lu Yanhe's eyes, Chen Siqi was suddenly speechless.
The main reason is that Lu Yanhe's eyes are too sincere and genuine.
Chen Siqi felt that anyone who saw Lu Yanhe's eyes would definitely not be able to continue defending.
"I'm not angry." Chen Siqi said, "Do you think I'm jealous?"
"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded honestly.
Chen Siqi immediately rolled her eyes at Lu Yanhe and said, "No way, I wouldn't. It's not like I don't know that you and Lin Miaomiao are just friends."
"Um."
"So, why did you two come back together so late?" Chen Siqi asked, "Did you meet at the airport?"
"She went to Baichuan to visit a friend and happened to run into me, so we stayed in Jiangzhi together for a day." Lu Yanhe answered honestly.
Chen Siqi's eyes widened in shock and she asked, "You stayed with her in Jiangzhi for a whole day?"
Seeing this, Lu Yanhe's tone became a little cautious.
"Yeah." His "hmm" didn't sound so confident.
Chen Siqi nodded and said, "Alright, that's amazing. Even when you go to record a show, there are beautiful girls accompanying you."
Chen Siqi thought that no matter how sincere and genuine Lu Yanhe's eyes were, it would be useless.
In fact, Chen Siqi knew rationally that there was definitely nothing between Lu Yanhe and Lin Miaomiao, but at this moment, Chen Siqi still felt unhappy.
She felt like she was filled with jealousy - Chen Siqi really didn't expect that this metaphor was not an exaggeration, but a realistic one.
If you haven't experienced this feeling, you can't understand it at all.
Lu Yanhe said helplessly: "I..."
"What?" Chen Siqi glared at Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe scratched his head, gritted his teeth, and said without hesitation, "I only like you." After saying that, he immediately turned his head away, not daring to look Chen Siqi in the eye.
Chen Siqi was stunned.
At this moment, Chen Siqi suddenly realized something very crucial.
Before this, the two of them had never truly confessed their feelings to each other.
This is the first time.
Chen Siqi, who realized this, looked at Lu Yanhe at a loss. At this moment, Chen Siqi felt like a broken robot, unable to react at all.
petrochemical.
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If Li Pengfei hadn't run over, Chen Siqi didn't know how long he would remain petrified.
Ever since Lu Yanhe said that, he didn't dare look at her again, and his ears turned red.
Chen Siqi is not much better.
Li Pengfei looked at Lu Yanhe, then at Chen Siqi, and asked, "You two didn't have a fight, did you?"
Chen Siqi didn't know why she and Lu Yanhe looked like they had just had a fight.
Li Pengfei's eyes saw something unknown.
But fortunately Li Pengfei came.
Chen Siqi said, "Let's go have lunch."
Lu Yanhe nodded immediately, "Yes, let's go."
Li Pengfei always felt that the atmosphere between these two people was a bit weird.
He looked at the two of them in confusion, his eyes becoming extremely suspicious.
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As soon as he finished lunch, Li Pengfei said he was leaving.
"I got up too early today. I need to go back and take a nap. I have to pick up Zijun later." Li Pengfei said, "I'm leaving first."
Lu Yanhe nodded, and as soon as Li Pengfei left, he looked at Chen Siqi.
Chen Siqi noticed his gaze and suddenly looked away.
Lu Yanhe said, "I have to go record a program again tomorrow. This time I have to record for five days straight and won't be back until five days later."
Chen Siqi nodded and said, "The first draft of 'Jump Up' has already been completed. It's definitely not going to be finished in time for the end of August, so there's no rush now."
Lu Yanhe said, "Yeah."
Chen Siqi asked, "When does your school start at Zhenhua?"
"September 2nd, what about you? When are you planning to register at Jiangguang University?"
"Our registration date is September 4th, and I plan to go there a few days in advance, probably on the 30th or 1st," Chen Siqi said. "Then I'll have to handle these things online."
"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded.
Chen Siqi: "We worked so hard on this book, not knowing what it would become. Now it suddenly seems like our idea of turning it into a series is really a fantasy. Right now, we both have so many troubles to deal with in Yuming, let alone in the future when one of us is in Yuming and the other is in Jiangguang."
"As long as we're willing to keep doing it, there's definitely a way," Lu Yanhe said. "This is a book we created together, so we must work hard to keep it going."
Chen Siqi: "Yeah, that's right. What am I doing? My first book hasn't even been officially published yet, and I'm already saying something discouraging."
"Are you under too much pressure?" Lu Yanhe said apologetically, "Almost everything has been pushed onto you lately."
Chen Siqi: "Being busy is fine, since I don't have anything else to do right now anyway, but the pressure... I'm a little anxious. I'm worried that this book won't do well and will affect your reputation. I didn't want your real name to appear in the editor-in-chief column because I was worried about these things. Now, if this book fails, you'll be the first to take the blame."
"It's okay, I'll take the blame," Lu Yanhe said. "If it's really not done well, we won't do it again. It's just a failure. We have to accept failure. We always have to accept it. Why can't we accept it this time?"
Chen Siqi looked at Lu Yanhe suspiciously, "Are you so open-minded?"
Lu Yanhe thought silently, that’s not the case, but shouldn’t I be enlightening you now?
He said: "It's not about being open-minded, but I always have to find a reason to be more open-minded. Every time before I go on stage, I worry that no one will welcome me or applaud me, so I always have to do this kind of mental preparation."
Chen Siqi nodded, somewhat empathizing, and said, "I can now understand a little bit of your psychological pressure."
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In fact, both of them knew that they had met a very good partner.
Neither Yemai.com nor Jiangyin Publishing House caused them any other pressure.
Whether it was the future sales or the content of the book, both parties left it entirely to them without interfering.
However, for them now, any problems and difficulties they encounter are problems and difficulties they have never encountered before, so even the smallest things are a big challenge.
Without experience, facing the real society with the naivety of a high school graduate, no matter how much help you get from others, you will still be walking on thin ice.
This is where they are now.
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When Lu Yanhe returned to the dormitory, he was in a particularly good mood.
When he said that to Chen Siqi today, he didn't expect that he would say it suddenly.
This was not something he had planned in advance. He just spoke suddenly at that moment and was stunned after he finished speaking.
It's a completely instinctive impulse.
However, after he finished speaking, he suddenly felt cheerful.
Because he had never said this to Chen Siqi in person.
Now, I finally said it.
Lu Yanhe didn't need Chen Siqi's answer, her expression at that time was already an answer.
For many things, language is a form of expression, and keeping silent is also a form of expression.
Lu Yanhe could feel Chen Siqi's attitude from her, and that was the most important thing.
Seeing him come back, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang looked at him seriously, as if they were going to put him on trial.
"Why are you all looking at me like that?" Lu Yanhe asked.
Li Zhibai snorted coldly and said, "Why did you rush out at noon? What were you doing?"
Lu Yanhe said, "Chen Siqi was selecting paper for 'Jump Up,' so I went over to help her."
Tell lies with open eyes.
Lu Yanhe admired his ability more and more.
Li Zhibai looked puzzled, as if he had heard something, "Choose paper?"
"You have to choose the paper used for that book." Lu Yanhe explained helplessly. He felt very clearly that he was using his acting skills at this moment. There was a kind of pretense of being relaxed and speechless. He didn't know if Li Zhibai and Yan Liang had noticed it.
Li Zhibai looked at him doubtfully.
Lu Yanhe asked, "Have you had dinner yet? If not, should we go out for dinner together?"
"I didn't finish the roast duck and pizza at noon, so I have to finish them tonight." Li Zhibai said speechlessly, "I was just saying it. I ordered your portion, but you suddenly ran away."
Lu Yanhe showed an apologetic expression and asked again: "Is that enough to eat? If not, I'll go buy some more food."
"I'll cook the dumplings later," Yan Liang said. "It's so hot, don't go out and buy more. We already bought some frozen dumplings."
"Oh, yes." Lu Yanhe nodded, "That's fine."
He wiped the sweat off his face, washed his hands, and worked with Yan Liang to heat up the roast duck and pizza, and boil water for the dumplings.
Yan Liang whispered, "Li Zhibai seems to be in a bad mood."
"Ah?" Lu Yanhe was stunned. "What's wrong?"
Yan Liang said, "In the afternoon, Zhou Ping'an gave Cheng Hai the play he had originally intended for Li Zhibai."
"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was puzzled. "Why? Why would Zhou Ping'an do this?"
Yan Liang shook his head. "I don't know. I only found out about it this afternoon when he received a call from Zhou Ping'an. He got very angry with Zhou Ping'an on the phone."
