Recalcitrant

The rain tonight might not stop. After the rain gradually subsided, Lu Shaoheng suggested to go back first.

Because of that unexplained hug, the atmosphere between the two became delicate again. Chen Zhuo and Lu Shaoheng were leaning against the wall, as if being punished to stand.

Fortunately, two girls rushed in from the rain carrying milk tea, laughing and laughing, and the air under the eaves of this small hut began to flow again.

On the way back, Lu Shaoheng was very quiet, and Chen Zhuo had nothing to say. Although the two walked side by side, they were separated by the rain curtain.

After passing through a corridor full of roses, Chen Zhuo stopped, turned sideways and said to Lu Shaoheng, "You're here."

Only then did Lu Shaoheng withdraw his thoughts, looked up and looked around, and found that they had unexpectedly walked outside his house before he knew it.

"Why are you here?" Lu Shaoheng opened the corner of his mouth, smiled bluntly, and apologized: "I should take you back to the hotel first."

After all, the visitor is a guest, so he should do his best to be a landlord.

Chen Zhuo didn't seem to care too much, and said, "It's okay, you go up, I'm leaving."

Hearing Chen Zhuo said that he was going to leave, Lu Shaoheng immediately asked, "Do you want to sit up?"

"No more." Chen Zhuo's face froze, as if bitten by a poisonous insect in the southern rainforest.

Lu Shaoheng traveled far and wide along the way, and his mind was not in the right place. Only when he said it did he realize that based on his past performance, such words can easily cause ambiguity. No matter how he sounds, it seems that his motives are impure and he is reverting to his old ways. He has that aspect to Chen Zhuo attempt.

After all, in the past 20 years, he has been such a person.

"I don't mean anything else." I felt it was unnecessary in my heart, but Lu Shaoheng still explained for himself: "I just want you to go up and change your clothes and take an umbrella."

"No need." Chen Zhuo really didn't want to have any troubles, and his trust in Lu Shaoheng was limited, so he simply refused: "You go back first."

Now that Chen Zhuo said so, Lu Shaoheng didn't insist anymore, he said good night to Chen Zhuo, then turned and pushed open the courtyard door.

The wooden board was hit by rain, and it was a bit slippery to step on. Lu Shaoheng walked up the wooden stairs carefully.

He knew that Chen Zhuo was still there, and he could feel his gaze.

Just when Lu Shaoheng stepped on the last step, a thought flashed in his mind, and he realized that something was wrong—how did Chen Yao know that this was his home?He clearly never told him.

A heart rose to his throat in an instant, he didn't have time to think about it, and immediately turned around and rushed down the stairs.

But under the street lamp, Chen Zhuo was nowhere to be seen.

After a sleepless night, Lu Shaoheng went to the store early the next morning with two dark circles under his eyes.The assistant director was sitting on the set today, and Chen Zhuo didn't show up until noon.

After lunch, Qiao Yue came to Lu Shaoheng's place to eat and drink as usual. Today, Lu Shaoheng showed a rare enthusiasm for him. He first boiled a pot of Pu'er, then asked the kitchen to bring fruit, and poured it into the small plate in front of Qiao Yue. After buying two candied fruit, he pretended not to ask, "Why didn't I see you Director Chen today?"

Qiao Yue took a sip of tea and said heartlessly, "I heard that the director is sick."

Lu Shaoheng waved his hand pouring tea, almost soaking Qiao Yue's sleeves: "Why are you sick?"

"It's said that it rained last night, and it started to have a fever in the middle of the night." Qiao Yue narrowed his eyes and asked narrowly, "Where did you go last night? It was such an exciting game."

"Where are people now?" Lu Shaoheng put down the teapot, not in the mood to joke with him.

"I'm resting in the hotel. I haven't seen him today." Seeing Lu Shaoheng's serious face, Qiao Yue put away his playful thoughts and comforted him repeatedly: "Don't worry, the doctor has already seen it. It's nothing serious, just I caught a cold."

Seeing Lu Shaoheng's preoccupied and moody appearance, Qiao Yue finally had some insight and didn't dare to disturb him any more. After making tea and drinking, he found an excuse to escape.

After Qiao Yue left, Lu Shaoheng stared at the bowl of small goldfish on the low table. After a while, he suddenly got up, went to the desk, opened the drawer, and took out a ring from it.

This ring was originally a pair of rings, and there was a similar one at Chen Zhuo's place. In order to deal with Chen Guangyu, Chen Yao asked his assistant to go to the mall to buy it casually.

The pair of rings actually didn't have any special meaning to them, but when they left City H two years ago, Lu Shaoheng didn't take anything special with him, except for this ring.

Lu Shaoheng's eyes fell on his calendar, and it was completely unexpected for him to reunite with Chen Zhuo here.Two years later, Chen Yao might not be single, it is said that he is married and has an unborn child.

But the endless hug last night, the familiar ring on Chen Zhuo's ring finger, and his indifferent attitude and vague words hinted at another possibility.

Lu Shaoheng didn't think about it anymore, he held the ring in his palm, and while the impulse was still there, he pushed the door and walked out quickly.

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With a sound of "crash", the heavy curtains were drawn open, and the sunlight came in directly from the window.

Putting one hand on Chen Zhuo's forehead, he clumsily tried his body temperature. The sudden light made Chen Zhuo frown and opened his eyes.

What came into view was a pair of eyes that resembled Bai Jie. Chen Zhuo woke up instantly, and when he took a closer look, the owner of these eyes was not Bai Jie, but a little girl less than five years old.

"Lita." Just after waking up, Chen Zhuo's head was still a little drowsy. He looked at the worried girl beside the bed and asked, "Why are you here?"

"To see you." The girl withdrew her hand, put on a small face, and asked Chen Zhuo like a little adult: "Zhuo Zhuo, are you feeling better?"

"What Zhuo Zhuo, no big or small." Hearing the girl call him that, Chen Zhuo pretended to be angry and said, "I want to call him Godfather."

The little girl was not intimidated by Chen Zhuo's pretentiousness, but giggled happily.

Lita is the daughter of Bai Jie and Zhang Luyu. Before Bai Jie passed away, she asked Chen Zhuo to be her godfather.Two years ago, Zhang Luyu decided to return to China for development, and she also came back from the United States to live with her mother.Probably because she lost her father since she was a child, she and Chen Zhuo have a particularly deep relationship.

"Why did you come here alone?" Chen Zhuoqiang rallied and sat up, leaned against the head of the bed, looked around the room, and asked, "Where's your mother?"

"Mom went to see my brothers and sisters filming a movie." Lita sensiblely went to the bar to get a glass of water, and held it in front of Chen Yao wobbly.

Chen Zhuo nodded clearly, probably because Zhang Luyu saw that he was still sleeping when he arrived, so he went to visit the set first, leaving Lita waiting in the room alone.

"Is the baby hungry?" I don't know when Zhang Luyu will come back, Chen Zhuo finished drinking a glass of water, put down the glass, and asked Lita patiently: "What do you want to eat?"

The little girl was not polite to Chen Zhuo, she stretched out her chubby hands, and ordered several kinds of sweets that her mother would not let her eat.

Because of Lita's arrival, Chen Zhuo didn't go to the set immediately after his condition improved.He asked the hotel to deliver food to the room and had dinner early with her.

Halfway through the dessert, Zhang Luyu came back from the set. Zhang Luyu's stomach was about to be full-term, and it was a bit difficult for him to walk.

"Where is Brother Zhao?" Seeing her faltering, Chen Yao got up and pulled the chair away first, and joked, "Why is he willing to let you out alone?"

"It's in the car downstairs. I said there was some video conference to be held, so I won't come up." Zhang Luyu sat down on the chair, looked at his daughter who was buried in the cake, and asked, "Are you full baby, we have to prepare gone back."

When Lita heard this, the speed of stuffing the cake into her mouth slowed down significantly.

Chen Yao noticed the girl's sudden depression, lowered his head, and carefully probed: "Why, don't you like you, Uncle Zhao?"

Lita pursed her lips and shook her head honestly.

Zhang Luyu patted his daughter's head helplessly, and said, "He is more serious and doesn't please children."

Chen Yao picked up the coffee, and started to talk clichéd again: "You have children, so you can't ignore Lita."

"Understood, let's talk about yourself first." Zhang Luyu is not interested in talking about parenting experience with a person who doesn't even have children, she looked at Chen Zhuo, and pointed out: "Why do you suddenly want to come to this town to film? Why, the unknown knight who has been silently for more than a year, finally can't hold back, and is going to appear in front of the stage?"

"Nothing." Chen Zhuo seemed to be held seven inches away, looked away at the distant mountains outside the window, and said, "The scene is suitable."

Zhang Luyu sneered, apparently not believing his words.

Zhang Luyu's time was limited, and he was about to leave after the meal. The driver was already waiting downstairs.The little girl couldn't bear to be separated from Chen Yao, she cried and lost her temper, Chen Yao played with her for a while, and finally sent them downstairs.

There was a long corridor outside the room. Zhang Luyu had a work call to make, so he walked in front of her immediately. Chen Yao hugged Lita and followed her, chatting patiently with her.

The little girl and Chen Zhuo had a lot to say before they parted. She hugged Chen Zhuo's neck tightly and asked, "Zhuo Zhuo, do you have time next month?"

"I've said it all, I can't call you Zhuo Zhuo anymore, I have to change my words slowly." Chen Zhuo stretched out his hand to straighten her bangs, "What's the matter?"

Lita said sullenly: "Mom is going to give birth to a younger sister."

From Lita's tone, Chen Zhuo keenly sensed the little girl's mind.She lost her father since she was a child, and her mother rebuilt a new family. Now Zhang Luyu is about to give birth, and the whole family's attention is on her. In the future, they will all revolve around the newborn, and they will inevitably ignore her.

Apart from movies, Lita is the only continuation of Bai Jie in this world. On the one hand, this little girl is really sensible, cute and lovable.On the other hand, maybe Chen Zhuo transferred all his feelings for his old friend to this little girl, so he always treats her a little more tenderly and patiently.

So Chen Yao said to her: "Then I will arrange the work and go back next month to accompany you until my sister is born, okay?"

"Okay! What you say is what you say!" Lita immediately became happy when Chen Yao said this: "I'm going to be a big sister!"

Chen Zhuo said solemnly: "Yes, congratulations, little friend Bai Pianpian."

The three of them came to the elevator room. The elevator in the middle was about to go down. Zhang Luyu quickly stepped forward and said, "Wait a minute."

It's a pity that the person in the elevator was not of high quality and didn't intend to wait for the pregnant woman. Zhang Luyu was a step late and could only watch helplessly as the elevator door slowly closed.

"Look at this man—" Zhang Luyu turned his head, and was about to complain to Chen Yao, when he saw him staring at the numbers on the LCD screen with a solemn expression.

Zhang Luyu asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Chen Yao retracted his gaze, and walked forward with the girl in his arms, "Let's go, let's wait for the next trip."

The author says:

Chapters 57 and 58 have been revised. I used a misleading style of writing and a one-sided perspective to describe before, in order to guide readers to empathize with Xiao Lu and misunderstand the relationship between Chen Zhuo and Zhang.The original intention was to create a reversal when the endings of the last few chapters were announced, but because I didn't grasp the strength well, this way of writing caused dissatisfaction among readers.

There is no change in the plot before and after the revision. It was Zhang Luyu who brought his daughter to visit Chen Zhuo, and was bumped into by Xiao Lu, who misunderstood that Zhang and Chen were married.After the modification, the information "Zhang is married and her husband is downstairs", "L is Zhang's goddaughter", "Chen went back to accompany the delivery to accompany Lita" and other information that were originally released in the next few chapters are put forward in this chapter. The plot where Lita called Chen "PaPa" and some descriptions that deliberately led readers to misunderstand Chen Zhuo were deleted, and only the misunderstanding from Xiao Lu's perspective was retained.

So don’t make a mistake about Battle. Readers will get different information and feel differently before and after the modification.

Apologies again for making everyone uncomfortable.

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