Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 381 Missing
Wang Lengqiu was known as the "Never-Smiling Princess" at Lin University. No one had ever seen her smile, whether watching a comedy or experiencing something happy.

In fact, no one knows what makes her happy, because she never shares her feelings with others. Most of the time, she is lost in thought by herself. Even when she occasionally communicates with others, she often gives answers that are hard to understand.

No one knows what this girl is thinking all day long.

In a sense, Wang Lengqiu and Zhong Ling can be considered two extremes: one never laughs and the other never cries. And clearly, both of them carry heavy burdens in their hearts.

Han Zhou really didn't know how to describe Wang Lengqiu's expression at this moment; he only felt a little depressed.

Wang Lengqiu has said more than once that she doesn't joke.

If that's the case, then what she just said is probably true—she doesn't even dare to go home without someone by her side.

But why is this happening?
Wasn't Wang Lengqiu's grandfather very good to her?
While pondering, Han Zhou suddenly felt a slight itch in his palm; this time, it was Guzheng writing on his hand.

"Let's go home with her if we have the chance."

Han Zhou chuckled. It wasn't surprising that Gu Zheng would say that about him. Although this girl often lost her temper for no reason, she was actually very kind-hearted. Unless someone was competing with her for first place, she was usually very soft-hearted.

But he quickly realized something and wrote on the palm of the guzheng: "Us?"

“Otherwise what?” Gu Zheng wrote forcefully in his palm, “I will not let you go back alone with Senior Wang Lengqiu.”

She realized she had trusted Han Zhou too much before; this guy was clearly a scoundrel, and she wouldn't feel comfortable letting him be alone with other girls.

Moreover, going home with Wang Lengqiu likely means staying overnight at her house, and if she doesn't go with him to keep an eye on things, who knows what might happen.

"What if they don't welcome you?" Han Zhou joked.

"Then you're not allowed to go either!" Guzheng replied fiercely.

"That's what you said."

Seeing that Gu Zheng had said so, Han Zhou immediately stopped hesitating. Mo Yixia had just suggested that he could go back with her to take a look. Since neither of them objected to him going to Wang Lengqiu's house, he would find time to go.

He looked at the silent Wang Lengqiu and said, "Senior, I'll go home with you sometime."

Feeling the elbow strike from the guzheng in his arms, he quickly gritted his teeth and added, "But can I bring other people with me?"

Upon hearing that Han Zhou was willing to go home with her, Wang Lengqiu's eyes lit up. Without thinking much about the second half of the sentence, she asked, "How many people?"

"There might be one... or two?"

Han Zhou originally wanted to say it was just one person, but then he thought that Mo Yixia's willingness to go to Wang Lengqiu's house might mean she was hoping he would go with her, so he changed his mind and said it was just two people.

"Okay." Wang Lengqiu nodded gently. "Thank you."

She was about to leave when suddenly someone knocked hard on the door and kept turning the doorknob, the action was quite violent.

Han Zhou's lips twitched. He had just been thinking that most people probably wouldn't come, but he was proven wrong the next second.

Such a commotion... it must be Sister Yin, right?
He could even roughly guess why Zhong Yin was so anxious to open the door. It was nothing more than waking up to find her sister missing, worrying about her safety, and frantically searching everywhere, ultimately suspecting that her sister had been hidden away by some scumbag.

"Han Zhou! I know you're not asleep! Open the door!"

A loud shout came from outside the door, and as expected, it was Zhong Yin's voice.

However, contrary to Han Zhou's expectations, Zhong Yin did not come to find his sister.

He didn't know that Zhong Ling had left a note for Zhong Yin before leaving the room, so the latter knew her sister's whereabouts very well and wasn't worried. The reason she was so anxious was that she woke up to find that everyone in the room had disappeared and that she had seen a ghost, which is why she rushed to Han Zhou's room.

"Han Zhou! Get up! Everyone's gone! Come out and help me look for them!"

Han Zhou looked strange. He really wanted to tell Zhong Yin that everyone hadn't disappeared, but was playing hide-and-seek in his room, but he knew he couldn't say that directly.

He couldn't get up to open the door, worried that Zhong Yin might panic and bang on it. So he asked Wang Lengqiu to open the door and also asked her to guard the light switch and make sure Zhong Yin didn't turn on the light.

His room is now completely dark.

Wang Lengqiu understood, walked to the door and opened it, then silently stood by the light switch, protecting its safety like a door god.

Zhong Yin rushed into the room and was somewhat surprised to see Wang Lengqiu, but she didn't have time to think too much. She went straight to the bedside and looked at Han Zhou, who was huddled under the covers, with a serious expression: "Did you hear what I just said? Everyone is gone!"

Before Han Zhou could answer, she suddenly frowned, glanced around the room, and said in a deep voice, "Where is Xiao Ling?"

The bell inside the cabinet wanted to push open the cabinet door, but thinking that Teacher Ouyang would definitely be discovered by her sister, she hesitated and withdrew her hand.

She couldn't understand why Teacher Ouyang would hide in the closet in her junior's room.
Ouyang Lianyu, standing to the side, felt somewhat embarrassed. Her biggest mistake was hiding in the closet. She had a perfectly normal relationship with Han Zhou and a legitimate reason for visiting him late at night. She didn't know why she felt guilty.

No matter how legitimate the reason, it seemed weak and powerless the moment she crawled into the closet.

She was caught in a dilemma: whether to go out or not. She could only hope that Han Zhou could get Zhong Yin to leave as soon as possible.

Han Zhou also wanted Zhong Yin to leave, but Zhong Yin was different from the others. She neither pretended to be confused nor gave him face. Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, she didn't ask any questions, but just sneered.

"You're not going to tell me, are you? Then I'll find it myself."

Zhong Yin was certain that Zhong Ling was in Han Zhou's room, but was hiding for some reason. She wanted to turn on the light, but was stopped by Wang Lengqiu, who was guarding the switch.

"You guy..."

Zhong Yin felt a surge of anger, but this anger was not directed at Wang Lengqiu, but at Han Zhou. She could tell that the girl was acting under Han Zhou's orders.

After a brief standoff, she decided not to make things difficult for Wang Lengqiu and quickly moved away from the light switch—Han Zhou's attempt to cover up his intentions was too obvious. The more he didn't want her to turn on the light, the more it meant that Xiaoling was being hidden in this room.

She had noticed it as soon as she entered the room. Han Zhou had been huddled under the covers like a turtle, with only his head sticking out, and he was still motionless. This meant that there was obviously something hidden under the covers.

The thought that his younger sister might be hiding under Han Zhou's blanket made Zhong Yin furious. Of course, this anger was directed at Han Zhou—Xiao Ling was so well-behaved; she must have believed his sweet words to crawl under his blanket.

Zhong Yin did not directly state his intentions, but instead walked calmly toward the most conspicuous wardrobe in the room, thus creating the illusion that he wanted to check the wardrobe.

Just as she was about to reach the closet door, she suddenly turned around, grabbed a corner of the blanket on the bed, and forcefully pulled it open!

Han Zhou was on guard against Zhong Yin's attack, but the other party was pulling back the blanket at his feet, and he was sandwiched between Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia. His legs were acting as a "barrier" to prevent their feet from touching, and he was powerless to hold down the blanket at his feet.

"No! Sister Yin, I'm not wearing pants!"

His eyes were bloodshot, and he roared with a heart-wrenching pain, as if he was about to suffer a great insult. However, Zhong Yin was not affected by this at all. The quilt was immediately pulled off most of the way, revealing a man and two women under the quilt.

Zhong Yin was stunned.

She had considered countless possibilities, including the possibility that it wasn't her sister under the blanket, but someone else entirely. But she never imagined that besides Han Zhou, there would be two other people under the blanket. The crucial point was that Han Zhou wasn't lying; he really wasn't wearing any clothes, and was naked, embracing two girls!
These two people are...

Zhong Yin's expression froze, and she quickly pulled the blanket up to cover the three of them again, not knowing what to say for a long time.

Wang Lengqiu, who was standing next to the switch, naturally noticed what had just happened, but seemed not to be surprised at all. He simply walked over silently, carefully straightened the blanket, and completely covered the three pairs of feet that were exposed.

The atmosphere was terribly awkward.

Gu Zheng buried her head in Han Zhou's arms, her eyelashes trembling slightly, her face as red as a hot iron. She thought she had been discovered and wanted to go out to explain, but Han Zhou held her tightly, not giving her a chance to leave.

After a long silence, Zhong Yin broke the silence first, her expression complicated, and said, "Um... you really don't wear clothes to sleep..."

Han Zhou gave an awkward smile: "Yes, Sister Yin, I reminded you..."

Zhong Yin was silent for a moment: "Remember to wear it next time."

"I understand, I'll definitely wear it next time."

"It's best to avoid a next time."

"I understand, I understand." Han Zhou looked embarrassed.

"Well, it's good to understand."

Clearly, Zhong Yin chose to ignore what she had just witnessed.

She glanced at Han Zhou expressionlessly: "It seems Xiaoling and the others have gone somewhere else. I'll go out and look again; maybe I'll find them in a little while."

"We'll definitely find it," Han Zhou said with a dry laugh.

Whether Zhong Yin had guessed or not, it was good that the other person left, to avoid embarrassment for everyone. No one dared to leave.

But just then, he suddenly realized something and quickly called out to Zhong Yin, who was about to leave the room, and asked, "By the way, Sister Yin, you just said that everyone is missing, right?"

Zhong Yin was surprised that this guy actually had the nerve to ask. He turned around and frowned as he looked at him: "I went into every room when I came. None of the rooms were locked and no one was inside, except for your room."

She had a rough idea of ​​what was going on. Including Xiaoling, everyone was probably gathered in this room at the moment, but she didn't know why they were all hiding.

Han Zhou frowned slightly: "Isn't Xiao Xiao in her room either?"

“I told you, none of the rooms are occupied…”

Zhong Yin was getting impatient. Suddenly realizing what she meant, she frowned and said, "What do you mean by that? Does that mean Xiao Xiao..."

She didn't finish her sentence, but she believed Han Zhou would understand what she meant.

Han Zhou's face showed more worry, and he shook his head solemnly.

The people in the room weren't fools. They had already realized what was going on when Han Zhou asked if Xiao Xiaoxiao was in the room—everyone except Xiao Xiaoxiao was currently gathered in Han Zhou's room, so it was normal that Zhong Yin couldn't find them, but it was really strange that he couldn't find Xiao Xiaoxiao.

"Oh!"

Ouyang Lianyu, who was in the cabinet, could no longer hold back and immediately came out. She had come out to get medicine for Xiao Xiaoxiao, and she felt that she would be letting her down if she did not hurry up and make a quick return. When she heard that Xiaoxiao might be missing, she felt a sense of panic.

She thought of the hideous ghost face she had seen at night.

As the wardrobe door opened, Zhong Ling came into Zhong Yin's sight. The latter breathed a slight sigh of relief, then quickly walked towards the door and said, "I'm going to check the bathroom."

Zhong Ling jogged after her, clearly intending to accompany her sister.

"I'll go downstairs and look for it."

Ouyang Lianyu also hurried out of the room. Wang Lengqiu glanced at the bed and silently followed behind her.

The room was quiet for a few seconds. Guzheng suddenly crawled out from under the covers, took a few deep breaths of fresh air, and then hurriedly got out of bed, saying, "I'll go take a look too."

She rushed out of the room.

Han Zhou breathed a slight sigh of relief and was about to get up from the bed when he saw Gu Zheng suddenly peek her head in through the door. He was startled and quickly lay back down to block Mo Yixia behind him.

"Is there anything else, Guzheng?" he asked, trying to appear calm.

"nothing."

Gu Zheng hesitated for a moment, then pursed her lips and said in a nonchalant tone, "I just remembered that the girl named Mo Yixia isn't here either. Sister Yin said there's no one in any of the rooms, so maybe she's gone too. Remember to look for her later."

Han Zhou was taken aback and asked nervously, "Are you being sarcastic?"

"What are you saying!" Gu Zheng glared at him angrily. "You filthy scoundrel, stop lying in bed pretending to be dead, get up and help us find someone!"

After saying that, he left in a hurry.

The room fell silent.

After a long silence, Han Zhou took a deep breath and asked with a complicated expression, "Yi Xia, did you say that Gu Zheng found you in my room?"

He threw off the covers, got up, and quickly put on his clothes.

"What do you think?"

Behind her, Mo Yixia tidied her slightly messy hair, stretched, and looked towards the door.

Han Zhou sighed: "That's why I asked you, because I don't know."

"If you know her so well and still don't know what she's thinking, how could I possibly know what she's thinking?"

After a pause, Mo Yixia said slowly, "Actually, you already know the answer in your heart, don't you?"

Han Zhou smiled wryly and remained silent for a long while before nodding with a complicated expression: "There is indeed an answer, but there's something I don't understand..."

He turned around and looked at the girl with waist-length hair with suspicion.

Why would Guzheng call me a scoundrel?

The air was quiet for a moment.

"Hey, where are my slippers?"

(End of this chapter)