The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 426 Memories (Part 4) What happened last night?
Qin Yumo's face and the stray hairs at her temples were still wet. After washing her face, she seemed to have adjusted her state. She sat down on the sofa with a smile, as if she had not been affected by what had been said before.

Hu Yifei's mind raced, and she quickly made up an excuse, saying, "They want to give you a welcome dinner, but you came by bike, so we can't let you drink."

"Hehe, yeah, yeah," the crowd echoed.

"Huh? Oh right!" Qin Yumo was taken aback, looking at the wine on the table that had already been partially consumed. "I forgot, I've already had some wine."

"..."

Very good. It seems that Yu Mo is no different from the Yu Mo of the past.

Tang Youyou's eyes darted around and she smiled, "It's okay, just stay in an apartment. You've always lived here."

“Yes, Yu Mo,” Hu Yifei said, “We all miss you so much since you’ve been gone for so long.”

“But you’ve turned Yu Mo’s room into a study now,” Guan Gu Shenqi said honestly. “Although Shen Linfeng stayed there for three days, it’s not convenient for Yu Mo to stay there anymore.”

Upon hearing this, Qin Yumo glanced at Hu Yifei in surprise. This girl really kept her word; she turned her room into a study just like she said she would.

Qin Yumo sighed inwardly, then smiled and said, "Never mind, I'll just go back to the Lishui villa. I can just take a taxi back."

Perhaps my connection with this place, with love, and with this apartment has truly come to an end.

For some inexplicable reason, she suddenly remembered what Wen Sheng had said to her: when fate had run its course, it meant that heaven did not support them...

"No way, you'll live with me!" Hu Yifei's voice brought her back to reality. "Besides, I don't have class tomorrow morning, so we can have a good chat."

"This……"

Qin Yumo's face showed interest, but she hesitated for a moment.

"Tsk! Yu Mo, are you still my best friend?" Hu Yifei feigned displeasure. "You went out for a month to relax, and you've lost touch with us, haven't you?"

"How could that be?" Qin Yumo shook her head in denial, then nodded at the last moment, "Alright, then I won't leave tonight."

"Oh~"

It was clearly a small matter, but everyone cheered at Lu Ziqiao's urging.

Then Lu Ziqiao raised his glass again: "Come on, welcome back Yu Mo!"

"cheers!"

While drinking, Lu Ziqiao gave his aunt a wink, and Tang Youyou immediately understood.

"Hey, Yu Mo, tell us about some interesting things that happened during your trip?" Tang Youyou asked with a smile.

"Hmm, interesting things..." Qin Yumo tilted her head and thought for a moment, "I think they're all quite interesting, even the scenery is very interesting to see."

"..."

Well, it's like I didn't hear it at all.

Tang Youyou then asked, "Did you meet any handsome guys?"

Qin Yumo's eye twitched slightly, and he nodded, saying, "Of course."

"Is he as handsome as Teacher Wen?"

"..."

Knowing that Tang Youyou would answer this question, Qin Yumo rolled her eyes and said, "Youyou, what exactly do you want to ask?"

"I..." Seeing the warning in Hu Yifei's eyes, she shrank back and said awkwardly, "I was just asking, just asking."

"Alright, forget about my auntie, Yu Mo. Ever since you left, I feel like the average attractiveness of everyone in the apartment has dropped a notch. Now that you're back, I have to toast you for that reason alone," Lu Ziqiao said, pouring her another glass of wine.

"Yes, I like to hear that." Qin Yumo smiled and clinked glasses with him.

After a few drinks, Qin Yumo's condition returned to what it was like back in the apartment.

At this moment, she looked around and asked, "By the way, where are Teacher Zeng and Zhang Wei? I haven't seen them at all."

"Oh, they're probably dueling over a girl right now!" Guan Gu said.

"A duel?" Qin Yumo was taken aback. "What girl?"

"Ziqiao paid someone to hire her just to pretend to be Teacher Zeng's girlfriend."

"Then why did Zhang Wei challenge Teacher Zeng to a duel?"

“Well…” Guan Gu Shenqi thought for a moment, and finally could only say helplessly, “It’s a long story, but in short, it’s a complete mess.”

"I see." Qin Yumo nodded, then sighed softly, as if something had occurred to her. "Is it worth it to duel for a girl I paid money to hire?"

"Of course it's worth it!" Lu Ziqiao suddenly raised his voice.

Hearing him say that, Hu Yifei said irritably, "This is all your doing, how dare you say that!"

"Why not? Even though I did it, we have to consider my original intentions!"

"Your initial intention was just to watch the show."

“OK, I admit that.” Lu Ziqiao shrugged, but quickly changed his tone, “However! There’s a condition for me to watch the show, and that is to help Teacher Zeng save face.”

"Tch, how could you say that? You've completely disgraced Zeng Xiaoxian." Hu Yifei sneered.

However, Lu Ziqiao said, "If your aunt hadn't leaked the information beforehand, how would you have known that Sally was a fake? Don't forget, you just said that you lost to Teacher Zeng this time."

"..."

Hu Yifei remained silent, and Tang Youyou also remained silent.

At this moment, Lu Ziqiao glanced at Qin Yumo and continued, "So it's always worth it to duel with your love rival, whether it's for a girl you hired or for the one you love deeply."

"..."

Qin Yumo's eyes flickered slightly. Why did she feel that Lu Ziqiao's words had a hidden meaning?
"Do you know why there are so many lovesick men and women in this world? It's because when they meet their dream partner, they either lack the ability to think things through or they overthink and hesitate."

Lu, author of "The Art of Picking Up Girls," a master of seduction, the future patriarch of scumbags, and a relationship mentor, is back online.

"The former is always silly and doesn't think before he speaks or acts when he's with the person he likes. For example, he takes her out for hot pot and orders popsicles when she's on her period. She likes Barbie and Disney princesses, but he gives her Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. When she hints that they can take their relationship to the next level, he thinks he can go watch his favorite educational film by himself, etc."

Listening to what Lu Ziqiao said, Hu Yifei blinked. Why did these things sound so familiar?

At this moment, Guan Gu Shenqi leaned close to Tang Youyou's ear and whispered, "Yifei's younger brother, Zhanbo, is just like that."

Lu Ziqiao then added, "The latter always pretends to be smart and mature. When he's with the guest he's interested in, he's always thinking: Should I confess? Does she like me? I feel the timing isn't right yet. My image in her eyes isn't perfect enough. Should I be aloof tomorrow? Was I too aloof today? Should I be more witty? Should I be more proactive? Will being too proactive make me seem cheap, etc."

Hu Yifei blinked again. Why did this sound so familiar?

Guan Gu and Youyou looked at each other and mouthed "Teacher Zeng" in unison.

"The former is because he has too little emotional life. As long as he is not really brain-dead, he can be saved through experience and learning. As for the latter... he has become instinctive to think things through and hesitate. He will gradually lose the courage to fight for love. The only way to make him find his instinct to pursue love is perhaps to numb his overthinking brain with alcohol."

Seeing Qin Yumo's eyes twitching wildly, Lu Ziqiao drank a glass of wine and continued, "And if these two, especially the latter, fail to save themselves in time and thus miss out on their dream partner, they will become true lovesick men and women, men waiting in vain and women feeling sorry for themselves. At that time, they can only watch their beloved hold hands and hug someone else, and then regret their past selves."

"They keep regretting and reviewing their actions. They feel that if they could do it all over again, they would have seized the opportunity. However, when the opportunity arises, they make the same mistakes again, and they worry even more: Is it inappropriate for me to appear now? Is the other person just temporarily breaking up? Do I really have a chance now?"

"These people are always saying 'I want to, I want to…' but they are reluctant to take action. By the time the other person is pregnant, they are still not over it, because such people have lost the instinct to pursue love!"

Lu Ziqiao's words were so decisive that they left the other four speechless.

The air was silent for a long while before Tang Youyou whispered to Guan Gu, "Is he talking about Teacher Zeng or Qin Yumo?"

After regaining his senses, Guan Gu Shenqi shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

Hu Yifei straightened her jaw, glanced at the dazed Qin Yumo, and quickly chuckled awkwardly, "What are you talking about? Weren't you saying it was a duel between love rivals? Why are you rambling on like this?"

"Oh, this is the part about analyzing the symptoms of lovesick men and women in my 'Dating Guide,' and I accidentally blurted it out." Lu Ziqiao controlled his emotions well and immediately composed himself. But after glancing at Qin Yumo, he added, "This really has nothing to do with a love rival duel. After all, the premise of a love rival duel is that both of you have a love rival, or rather, you have the courage to be someone else's love rival."

After a pause, Lü Xiaobu added, "Of course, I'm talking about Zeng Xiaoxian and Zhang Wei. After all, Zhang Wei dared to duel with Teacher Zeng for Selene."

"..." A sense of unease, like someone trying to hide something obvious, instantly surfaced. Qin Yumo's lips twitched, and she proactively picked up her wine glass to clink glasses, saying:

"What are you babbling about? Ziqiao, are you drunk?"

“He’s definitely drunk.” Guan Gu Shenqi also picked up a glass of wine. “He’s talking nonsense. He probably drank too much during dinner.”

"Yes, but at least it proves that even when I'm drunk, I still have the wisdom to analyze problems and the courage to conduct self-examination."

"Zeng Xiaoxian and Zhang Wei aren't here, what are you analyzing?" Hu Yifei said, pouting.

Lu Ziqiao shrugged. He had already said what he needed to say, and there was no point in saying anything more.

You can't really say he actually wanted to watch women fight, can you?

After finishing his drink, Qin Yumo became somewhat silent. After a while, under the worried gazes of everyone, he calmly said, "The so-called courage to seek love after drinking is all nonsense."

Lu Ziqiao raised an eyebrow, about to retort, when Qin Yumo picked up another glass of wine and drank it down: "It's just drunken tantrums, don't take it seriously."

After saying that, she picked up another glass and drank it all in one gulp: "Rivals are not worth mentioning at all, because there is no guest you are so eager to fight over."

"A calm mind is what modern urban men and women need most."

"If I had been calm enough, I wouldn't have asked Tina to meet me."

"Thinking things through is the right way of thinking."

"..."

Qin Yumo drank a glass of wine with every sentence she spoke, keeping Tang Youyou so busy that she didn't even have time to pour any more. The others were all stunned by her bold and unrestrained manner.

"Yu Mo, stop drinking. You rarely come back, and you're going to talk to me in bed later!" Hu Yifei couldn't help but persuade her when she saw this.

"It's okay, didn't you want to hear about the interesting things that happened during my travels?"

"I think the most interesting thing was when I was riding a horse on the grassland, a wolf snatched my phone but broke its teeth in the process."

"And when I was having fun at a farmhouse in the mountains, the egg white face mask I made was actually stolen and eaten by a child who mistook it for cement."

"The vast grasslands make it easy to forget everything in the past, while the twilight in the mountains makes it easy to recall old memories."

"I'm not the same person I used to be. I'm not even afraid of a briefcase anymore, so this little bit of alcohol is nothing..."

Before she could finish speaking, Qin Yumo slumped onto the coffee table, and the wine glass in her hand fell to the ground.

……

The following morning, 3601.

Guan Gu Shenqi walked in from the balcony carrying several boxes of milk.

"Good morning, the neighbors next door are out of eggs and bread, so I came here to get some..."

Before he could finish speaking, he looked at the quiet suite and stopped what he was about to say.

Looking back at the bright, dazzling sunlight, Guan Gu Shenqi tentatively raised his voice: "Wen Sang! Yi Fei! Are you there?"

There was no answer; the room remained quiet.

Guan Gu Shenqi shook his head and went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat.

Good morning, Guan Gu!

Just then, the sound of a door opening came from upstairs, and Hu Yifei came out yawning.

"Good morning, Yifei, but it should be called 'the sun is already high in the sky' by now," Guan Gu Shenqi said, pulling a bag of bread from the cupboard.

"Really?" Hu Yifei squinted at the sunlight streaming in from the balcony. "Sigh, it's all Yu Mo's fault for drinking so much last night. After helping her get ready and getting her to bed, I was just too sleepy to continue."

"Then have a glass of milk to perk you up."

Guan Gu Shenqi poured the milk, then asked, "By the way, where's Yu Mo?"

"Yu Mo is still sleeping in my bed, I see..." Hu Yifei, who had been leaning on the attic railing to wake herself up, turned around, and then her throat seemed to be stuck.

"Huh? Where's Yu Mo?"

Looking through the open door, Hu Yifei noticed the empty bed she hadn't seen after getting up and couldn't help but wonder.

Hearing the commotion, Guan Gu Shenqi took a few steps into the living room: "What's wrong?"

"Why isn't Yu Mo in my room?!"

After searching the room, Hu Yifei raised her voice and called out, "Yu Mo!"

Seeing this, Guan Gu Shenqi guessed, "Could it be that Yu Mo has already left?"

"This..." Hu Yifei thought for a moment, then nodded dejectedly, "It's possible, I didn't expect Yu Mo..."

Before she could finish speaking, the door to Wen Sheng's room next to her opened, and a familiar figure walked out.

"Yifei, did you call me?"

"Yu Mo?!"

Hu Yifei stared blankly as Qin Yumo walked out of Wen Sheng's room, rubbing his head. Her head went blank for a moment.

Guan Gu Shenqi downstairs was equally bewildered. He stared wide-eyed and exclaimed, "Yu Mo, why did you come out of Wen Sang's room?"

"..."

Guan Gu's shout stunned Qin Yumo, who was still feeling dizzy. After two and a half seconds, she turned around and immediately showed the same look of shock on her face.

At the same time, a flood of vague memories came to her mind, making her feel like her head was about to split open.

"I do not know."

Hu Yifei helped Qin Yumo, who was a little unsteady on her feet, and peeked into Wen Sheng's room.

"Wen Sheng isn't here. Where did he go?"

"I don't know." Qin Yumo, wearing pajamas, rubbed her head with one hand and gripped the railing tightly with the other. But when she heard the name "Wen Sheng," she subconsciously tightened her grip, and the image of him being naked flashed into her mind.

Guan Gu Shenqi quickly took out his phone and called Wen Sheng.

"Dingling bell~"

A cell phone rang under the sofa pillow. He went over and lifted the pillow, and sure enough, he saw Wen Sheng's cell phone.

Why is Wen-san's phone on the sofa?

Then he looked up at Qin Yumo, who was covering her head and not moving, and asked, "What happened between you two last night?"

"I don't know," Qin Yumo said absentmindedly.

Hu Yifei narrowed her eyes slightly: "Do you feel there's something... off about your body?"

Qin Yumo paused for a moment, then subconsciously turned around and rubbed her head up and down before shaking her head: "There's nothing wrong with it."

Hu Yifei breathed a sigh of relief, then asked, "What other impressions do you have of what happened last night?"

“Last night…” Qin Yumo’s words faltered. This time, not only did the image of Wen Sheng being naked come to mind, but also the blurry scene of her pajamas scattered. However, these blurry images were sometimes near and sometimes far, and she couldn’t remember them clearly. Similarly, she couldn’t bring herself to say them now.

Qin Yumo covered her face, pretending to be uncomfortable but actually hiding her blushing, before shaking her head after a while and saying, "I don't remember much, but it just felt like... last night was very long."

"Long?"

"Hmm, what exactly happened last night?" Qin Yumo's eyes were blank; she really wanted to know now.

Guan Gu Shenqi put down the milk and quickly said, "Don't worry, we'll help you remember."

(End of this chapter)