Never Mind

After searching all around the rental apartment,

Lin Yu quickly spotted Gu Yue.

She was standing on the balcony with her phone in hand, sweating profusely as she spoke in a hushed voice, explaining something to someone.

Seeing this, Lin Yu didn’t make a sound.

He lightened his steps and crept behind the balcony wall, perking up his ears as he secretly listened in.

After listening for a while,

Lin Yu understood why Gu Yue was so nervous.

As it turned out, it was her mother calling.

Gu’s mother had apparently just found out that Gu Yue had moved out of her school dormitory.

She was absolutely furious.

And it seemed she knew more than that.

She was now sternly demanding to know who Gu Yue was living with.

Her angry voice carried far across the balcony. Even with a phone and a wall between them, Lin Yu couldn’t help feeling nervous.

Gu Yue had actually been hiding this from her mother all along?

What nerve!

Lin Yu grumbled inwardly.

On the other side of the wall,

Gu’s mother’s anger seemed to reach its peak after Gu Yue’s deliberate concealment. She brought out her ultimate weapon and threw out a furious threat:

“Just you wait. I’m coming to your school right now to see what on earth you’re up to!”

Just you wait.

Those five words were probably every child’s worst nightmare.

Seeing that her mother was about to come charging over from a thousand miles away,

Gu Yue could only surrender and reveal the truth.

“Oh, come on~”

“Mom, don’t come!”

“I’m with Lin Yu right now.”

“I just injured my leg and it’s inconvenient for me to take care of myself, so he came to look after me.”

Hidden behind the wall,

Lin Yu heard Gu Yue sell him out just like that.

He couldn’t help feeling a wave of sorrow.

He had a feeling that he was about to be subjected to the same kind of scolding as Gu Yue.

What Lin Yu hadn’t expected, however, was that after Gu Yue’s confession, there was a brief silence on the other end of the call.

Then, instead of an eruption of rage, a drawn-out “Oh…” came through.

It sounded rather like she had suddenly understood everything: Oh, so that’s what’s going on.

“Ah.”

“You two are together?”

“All right, then.”

“Nothing to worry about.”

Mother Gu let out a relieved sigh. As soon as she finished speaking, she hung up, leaving Gu Yue standing there in complete confusion.

Her face began to burn uncontrollably.

Hidden behind the wall, Lin Yu’s eyes lit up.

Did this mean his future mother-in-law had accepted him?

Just as Lin Yu was thinking this,

another ring came from the phone on the balcony.

Lin Yu hurriedly leaned closer again and pressed his ear to the wall to eavesdrop.

“Hello, Mom.”

Gu Yue called out softly.

Mother Gu didn’t bother with pleasantries and went straight to the point.

“Make sure you’re both careful when you’re together.”

“Don’t let anything happen.”

When Gu Yue first heard her mother say this, she felt a little puzzled.

Why had she suddenly brought that up?

She and Lin Yu weren’t children anymore.

They knew perfectly well how to avoid danger and run home when it rained.

But soon, Gu Yue’s quick mind made the connection, and she realized that her mother’s “be careful” meant something entirely different.

Her cheeks, which hadn’t even had time to cool down, grew several degrees hotter. Unable to hold back, she complained coyly:

“Oh, Mom!”

“What are you talking about?”

“We’re just living together. Nothing else is going on!”

On the other end of the call, Gu’s mother fell into a long silence after hearing what Gu Yue had said.

Apparently, the fact that her precious daughter was living with Lin Yu was easier for her to accept than this.

“All right,” Gu’s mother finally said, sounding as though she was throwing up her hands and washing them of the matter. “You young people can do whatever you want.”

“But if things between the two of you progress any further…”

“Make sure you take proper precautions, understand?”

“Mm.”

“I know…”

Their conversation was drawing to a close.

To avoid being caught by Gu Yue, Lin Yu tiptoed back into her bedroom and quietly lay down on the bed again.

Gu Yue remained alone on the balcony.

Gazing into the distance, she could take in several stretches of verdant mountain ridges.

No one knew a daughter better than her mother.

And no one knew a mother better than her daughter.

Gu Yue could more or less guess what her mother had been thinking during that long silence.

She felt a little dejected.

Was she really that lacking in charm?

With that thought in mind, Gu Yue lowered her head.

She cast a brief glance at the two uncooperative things, then angrily glared at them again.

Honestly, they were hopeless!

In truth, by the time a girl reached university, her figure had already more or less settled.

Anything she was going to have, she already had. Without the aid of Hextech, anything she lacked would probably never appear in this lifetime.

Gu Yue’s figure fell somewhere between that of a young girl and a mature woman.

It gave the impression that she had been developing perfectly well, only for some unforeseen mishap to occur and tragically bring her growth to a halt during her teenage years.

Gu Yue had long, slender legs, a slim and graceful waist, and small, rounded hips.

If only her chest weren’t so frustratingly flat.

Perhaps she might even have had a chance at the legendary S-shaped figure.

But now, it was too late.

Gu Yue looked up at the sky and lamented her fate, shedding silent tears.

If she could go back to the past,

she swore she would never again be a picky eater at the dinner table.

Pushing her wheelchair back into the bedroom, Gu Yue discovered that Lin Yu still hadn’t woken up.

She returned to the bed.

Almost instinctively, she looked toward Lin Yu.

Although she had known Lin Yu for so long, this was the first time Gu Yue had a chance to observe him from such close range.

And she didn’t even have to do it secretly!

Taking a careful look, Gu Yue noticed that Lin Yu’s features were quite defined, though not especially rugged.

There was even a faint trace of softness to his face.

It was that subtle, almost imperceptible hint of androgynous delicacy hidden around his brows and eyes that made the fellow look slightly roguish.

As for why Lin Yu sometimes gave people a fierce impression, Gu Yue studied him closely for a while.

She felt the problem probably lay with his eyebrows.

Lin Yu’s eyebrows were extremely thick, like a clump of wild grass that had never been trimmed. They were so dense that they were almost unruly.

Gu Yue thought that if someone tidied up Lin Yu’s eyebrows, his looks would improve considerably.

And then there was the fact that Lin Yu paid absolutely no attention to skincare.

All year round,

except in spring and winter, when the ultraviolet rays were relatively mild, he wore the same dark, weather-beaten face, as though he spent every other season being roasted beneath the sun.

Gu Yue felt it was time to start giving Lin Yu some proper skincare.

As his girlfriend,

it was her duty!