The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 428 Memories (VI) Successful Confession?
[Tang Youyou's Memories]

Last night around 10 p.m., at Lonely Corner Bar.

"Ziqiao, didn't you go back to mediate the fight?"

Tang Youyou, who was coming out of the restroom and heading back to her apartment, saw her nephew standing by the bar, peeking at the beautiful women in the bar. She quietly walked over and suddenly made a sound.

Lu Ziqiao was indeed startled, but immediately breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that it was Tang Youyou.

"Auntie, do you walk without making a sound?" Lu Ziqiao complained, then added, "What's the point of trying to mediate this fight? There are three kinds of fights I never try to stop."

"Which three?"

I don't intervene when women fight because I enjoy watching; I don't intervene when men fight because I need to protect myself; I don't intervene when men fight because I'm kind.

"So you're just not going to offer any advice at all!" Tang Youyou was exasperated.

"Maybe I'll try to talk to people of different genders who get into a fight in the future." Lu Ziqiao was exasperated. Seeing his aunt's displeasure, he could only say seriously, "Don't worry, they're unlikely to fight."

"You just said that they, as rivals, would have a duel."

“What kind of rivals are they? I guess only Zhang Wei would care about that Selena. As for Teacher Zeng…” Lu Ziqiao thought for a moment and said, “His soul is completely bewitched by Hu Yifei. If he wanted a duel, he would have dueled with Shen Linfeng long ago.”

"That's not necessarily true." Tang Youyou pouted. "A man and a woman alone in a room, who knows if Teacher Zeng will reveal his true colors?"

"Teacher Zeng's true form..." Lu Ziqiao couldn't help but laugh as he thought of something, "Then he's even less good at fighting."

Seeing her nephew still laughing and not worried about what was happening over there, Tang Youyou angrily pinched his ear.

"Isn't it all your fault for starting this? First it was Teacher Zeng and Zhang Wei, then it was Qin Yumo. Can't you do something that makes life easier for everyone?"

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" Caught off guard, Lu Ziqiao cried out a few times as his ear was twisted. After Tang Youyou let go, he covered his ear and cried out, "Heaven and earth bear witness, my intention in these two matters has always been to have their best interests at heart."

He paused, then continued, "Teacher Zeng wanted to save face in front of Hu Yifei, so I arranged for her to be with Selena. Yu Mo has a crush on Wen Sheng but doesn't dare to express it, so I advised her to bravely pursue love. Did I do something wrong?"

"But now both of these things have gone astray!"

“This…” Lu Ziqiao spread his hands helplessly, “I didn’t mean for it to be like this.”

Upon hearing this, Tang Youyou glared at him, feeling that he had completely ruined the reputation of the Lu family.

Seeing that his aunt was angry, Lu Ziqiao thought for a moment, then said mysteriously, "Auntie, there's actually a super big secret tonight. Do you want to know?"

"..."

Tang Youyou, who loved gossip, instantly held her breath, her attention shifting from her anger to the secret her nephew was talking about.

"What secret?"

"Hmph!" Lu Ziqiao chuckled smugly, then lowered his voice and said, "That Sally wasn't actually hired."

"..."

Tang Youyou's eyes widened, her face filled with shock.

She turned to look at her smug-smiling nephew and couldn't help but ask, "What's going on? Where did she come from?"

"I met her on the Love Apartment website. She said she was a fan of Teacher Zeng's show, so I asked her to come over."

"What?!" Tang Youyou exclaimed, "You called over Teacher Zeng's fans to pretend to be his girlfriend and even asked him for 500 yuan... Teacher Zeng's money is so easy to swindle!"

"Hehe, how can this be called a scam?" Zeng Xiaoxian said righteously. "Fans want to see their idols, and idols need a fake girlfriend. It's reasonable for me to help them match up and charge a small fee, isn't it?"

"Your behavior reminds me a bit of... pimping?"

"..."

Lu Ziqiao's face stiffened, as if he had been struck in the chest.

"So what does this Sally do for a living?"

"A lawyer! I've always said she's a professional."

"Who knows if the major you're talking about is... the escort profession."

"Who made your minds so filthy?" Lu Ziqiao retorted.

"You!" Tang Youyou was so angry that she wanted to pinch his ear again, but this time Lu Ziqiao was prepared and dodged.

Seeing that she hadn't managed to twist it, Tang Youyou put her hand down and said, "No, I have to go back and stop them. It would be terrible if Teacher Zeng or Zhang Wei really mistook that Sally for... you know... woman."

At this point, Big Yellow Girl's breath hitched, and she said in horror, "Even they together..."

Lu Ziqiao rolled his eyes and said speechlessly, "What are you thinking? They're not that...friendly."

“That’s true.” Tang Youyou nodded, but quickly added, “No, I still have to go and tell them.”

"I think you just want to use your ego to leak secrets, don't you?"

Lu Ziqiao saw through his aunt's plan at a glance.

Just as Tang Youyou was about to leave, she paused, wanting to explain something, when the bar door in her line of sight was pushed open, and a swaying person walked in.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am back!"

"Yu Mo!"

Tang Youyou exclaimed in surprise, exchanged a glance with Lu Ziqiao, and hurriedly went to help Qin Yumo to sit down on the sofa.

"Yu Mo, why are you back again? Didn't Yi Fei just bring you back to the apartment?"

"do not know."

Although she had finished vomiting, Qin Yumo's head was even more dizzy from the effects of the alcohol.

She shook her head and then said vaguely, "She seemed to have received a phone call, saying something about a rogue lawyer calling the police, and then she went out."

Upon hearing this, Tang Youyou's heart skipped a beat. She immediately guessed that it might be related to Zhang Wei, and couldn't help but glare at Lu Ziqiao, whose face was embarrassed.

However, after hearing that Hu Yifei had taken care of it, she breathed a sigh of relief and said to Qin Yumo, "Then what are you doing out here? Wouldn't it be better to just go to sleep?"

"I do not want!"

Qin Yumo pouted, a hint of sadness in her eyes: "You all left me there. I've lived alone for so long, I don't want to be alone anymore."

"No one is going to abandon you. I'll go back with you right now." Tang Youyou said, trying to help Yu Mo up, but Qin Yu Mo twisted her body and broke free from her hand.

"I said I don't want it, I still have things to do."

Tang Youyou asked in confusion, "What is it?"

"Ta-da!" Qin Yumo pulled her phone out of her pocket. "Of course, I'm going to continue confessing my feelings!"

"..."

Tang Youyou was startled and quickly said, "No, Yu Mo, calm down. Yi Fei won't let you confess. Teacher Wen has an ex-wife, you..."

"Ex-wife, ex-wife, ex-wife... I still have an ex-fiancé!"

Qin Yumo suddenly became agitated and said loudly, "I don't care whether he agrees or not, I have to make things clear, otherwise I'll feel uncomfortable keeping it bottled up inside. Even if he refuses, that way I won't overthink it."

"But……"

"No buts, your nephew is right. I can't keep looking back and overthinking things. We need to get things resolved!"

Qin Yumo squinted and pressed the redial button on her phone. While waiting for the other party to answer, she said, "Youyou, you actually support me, right?"

"I……"

"Of course we support you!" Lu Ziqiao, who had been silent until now, answered for Tang Youyou. "Go for it, Yu Mo! My aunt and I both support you. You are the future, and that ex-wife is just the past!"

As he spoke, he winked at Tang Youyou.

So Tang Youyou had no choice but to remain silent, after all, she had previously been the kind of person who wanted to support Qin Yumo, fearing that the world was not chaotic enough.

"Oh, Ziqiao, when did you get here?"

"..."

After saying this, Qin Yumo ignored Lu Ziqiao, who was being treated like air, and got up to walk to the other side to listen to the phone call.

"Hey, it's me again. Don't say anything yet, let me finish what I was saying before."

"I did have a few drinks tonight, but I'm perfectly conscious. I just hadn't organized my thoughts properly earlier. Now I know what I'm going to say."

“During the time we’ve been living together, I’ve been very careful around you. Sometimes I’d even deliberately avoid you. It’s not that I didn’t want to, but that I was afraid. I was afraid that if I got too close to you, the things I was hiding would come out on their own.”

"Like tonight, after hiding for a month, I saw you again. That suppressed emotion kept rising. It's a pity you left, not giving me a chance to continue. I thought I would continue to restrain myself, but maybe it was because I had a few drinks, or maybe it was what Ziqiao said, that made me able to tell you those things now."

“I know exactly when I fell for you. When we met in the elevator that day, I just thought you were handsome, and I didn’t have any other feelings for you. But later, when we met at the bar and you held my hand, I felt my heart skip a beat.”

"That day you said that fate is the greatest arrangement of God, and I believed it. After we parted, I both hoped that God would arrange for us to meet again as soon as possible to see if we were really destined to be together, but I was also afraid of actually meeting you again."

"At that time... I didn't want to be a bad woman."

“I’ve thought a lot during this time away. From the first time we met to the kiss I shared with you before I left, I feel like we’ve missed out on so much. Even though we see each other all the time, I always avoid being alone with you.”

"Perhaps at that time I was just attracted to you and had some feelings for you, but that night, that pot of fish soup in the middle of the night, and that gift that I thought would settle things between us completely, really dragged me into the whirlpool."

“I never expected things to become so complicated. I didn’t return your gift because I was always worried that we couldn’t be completely clean up. But I did return your gift, and that’s when I truly fell in love with you.” “After leaving Love Apartment, my life became dull again. After leaving you, I lost the warmth I used to crave. I spent a year waiting for the wrong man. Now I can’t let myself spend any more time waiting for my Mr. Right.”

"So I came back. After a month of suffering in those boring tourist attractions, I rushed back."

"I'm saying this tonight not to demand any response, nor to force you to make a statement. I just... I can no longer bear this heavy silence alone. It's too heavy, it's suffocating me."

“Speaking it out is like exposing a piece of amber that has been kept hidden for too long to the air—it may lose its color, it may shatter, but at least it no longer has to be trapped in the darkness silently.”

"But I still can't help but think more. You say you're a good man and I'm a bad woman, but all I want is more definite love."

“I know there’s another woman in your heart. You don’t want to be a bad man, but I have to say, if you are a bad man, then I love bad men.”

"Darling, leave that woman and come back to me, okay?"

In the bar, Tang Youyou and Lu Ziqiao stared wide-eyed at Qin Yumo, who was making a heartfelt confession. A feeling of getting to know each other all over again welled up in their hearts.

After a long silence, they saw Qin Yumo, who had been looking tense, suddenly beam with joy.

"Really? You said yes? Okay, I'll be waiting for you to come home!"

……

Inside the living room of Love Apartment 3601.

The atmosphere was even more deathly still than before, as if time had frozen at that moment.

Everyone—Guan Gu Shenqi, Hu Yifei, Tang Youyou, and Qin Yumo—held their breath, frozen in place with blank expressions.

After an unknown amount of time, perhaps unable to hold her breath any longer, Hu Yifei murmured in shock, "You confessed to Wen Sheng?"

Guan Gu Shenqi also looked shocked and asked, "Wen Sang agreed to your request?"

"I confessed?" Qin Yumo wasn't just shocked, she was utterly terrified. Her mind went blank, and she kept repeating, "I confessed? Wen Sheng said yes? I confessed..."

Fragments of memories flashed through Qin Yumo's mind. At this moment, she didn't know whether to cry or laugh. She felt like the sky had fallen, but at the same time, she felt like the world had become vast.

The tangled and complex emotions caused her mind to completely shut down.

"Yu Mo..."

"what!"

Qin Yumo shouted, startling the three people around her.

I confessed my feelings!

"So that's why you slept in Wen Sheng's room? And... your clothes were changed." Hu Yifei pointed to her pajamas, looking her up and down, sensing that Yu Mo had just lied.

How could I not feel that something was wrong with my body?

Could it be that Wen Sheng is impotent, causing Yu Mo... to feel nothing?

"No, I helped Yu Mo change her clothes," Tang Youyou said at this moment.

The group immediately looked at her, their faces full of confusion.

"The clothes you changed for me?" Qin Yumo frowned. "Isn't this Wen Sheng's?"

Tang Youyou shook her head: "No, I took you back to your apartment after you finished your call. I saw you were still wearing that leather jacket, so I helped you change into your pajamas."

"So, did you send me to sleep in Wen Sheng's room?"

"Of course not." Tang Youyou shook her head again. "You said you wanted to wait for Teacher Wen in the living room, and that you would make sure he saw you as soon as he came back. After I changed your clothes, I helped you lie down on the sofa, but you fell asleep as soon as your head hit the pillow."

"No wonder I saw Yu Mo lying on the sofa when I came back last night, I just didn't notice she had changed into her pajamas." Hu Yifei nodded in sudden realization, but then she asked curiously, "Then why didn't I see you when I came back last night? And did Yu Mo wait for Wen Sheng or not? And how did she get from my bed to Wen Sheng's bed?"

"This... I don't know either." Tang Youyou shook her head again.

"Didn't you bring Yu Mo back? Don't you know what happened afterward?" Guan Gu Shenqi pressed.

“Uh…” Tang Youyou hesitated for a moment before continuing, “I had a little accident at the time, and I left after putting Yu Mo on the sofa.”

"You also had an accident?" Hu Yifei's lips twitched. Would putting Yu Mo on the sofa trigger some kind of unexpected event?

"Also?" Tang Youyou was taken aback.

"Never mind that, tell me what happened next."

"Oh."

Tang Youyou nodded, glanced at Hu Yifei, and then sighed, "I was planning to go straight to sleep after I got back to my apartment last night, but I received a call from Ziqiao saying that he was being chased by Zhang Wei at a bar, so I rushed over there."

The group was taken aback at first, but then they remembered Zhang Wei's experience last night and Yi Fei's words about Zhang Wei going to settle scores with Lu Ziqiao, and then they realized what was going on.

"Serves you right." Guan Gu Shenqi sneered. "This is called retribution. Youyou, you shouldn't have stopped Zhang Wei. Even though you are Ziqiao's aunt, it's not good to spoil him too much."

"I didn't stop Zhang Wei!" Tang Youyou shrugged. "I went there as a notary to supervise Zhang Wei slapping Zi Qiao."

"what?"

Everyone was stunned again, so Tang Youyou then brought up the "Buddha's Palm" bet between Lu Ziqiao, Zhang Wei, and Wen Sheng.

Hearing this, Hu Yifei gritted her teeth, then asked curiously, "Shouldn't it be Wen Sheng slapping Zi Qiao? Why is it Zhang Wei?"

"Oh, because Wen Sheng sent a message to Zhang Wei last night saying that he would give Zhang Wei the chance to slap him. Zi Qiao was worried that Zhang Wei would retaliate against him, so he needed me, the notary, to be present before he dared to carry it out," Tang Youyou explained.

Upon hearing this, Guan Gu Shenqi looked surprised: "Judging from how Zhang Wei was tricked yesterday, this slap... must be extraordinary."

“Yes.” Tang Youyou patted her forehead helplessly. “Besides, this was Zhang Wei’s first time slapping someone, and he was really strong. He didn’t control the angle well and slapped Ziqiao on the nose.”

"..."

After a moment of silence, Tang Youyou took a breath and said, "At that time, Ziqiao's nose was bleeding profusely. Zhang Wei was shocked after fanning him and quickly took Ziqiao to the hospital with me. The doctor said that although the bleeding had stopped, he needed to be hospitalized to observe the condition of his nose. I stayed up until late at night but couldn't stay up any longer, so I came back first, leaving Zhang Wei there to stay with Ziqiao."

"..."

The group fell silent again, surprised that things had turned out this way.

"No wonder I didn't see Ziqiao and Zhang Wei last night," Guan Gu Shenqi couldn't help but say.

"Dingling~"

Just then, Tang Youyou's phone rang. She took it out and breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "Zhang Wei sent a message saying that Ziqiao's nose is fine, and even more prominent than before. They are on their way back now."

"..."

A sense of absurdity, both laughable and ridiculous, arose in everyone's hearts, and the atmosphere fell silent for a moment.

"Then... what happened to Yu Mo later, is it only Wen Sheng who knows?" Guan Gu Shenqi's question brought the group back to the topic.

Everyone looked at Yu Mo, wondering what had happened after she confessed to Wen Sheng, and whether it was really over...

"Cough cough!"

Just then, two coughs came from the balcony. Everyone turned around and saw Zeng Xiaoxian walk in with a stern face.

Good morning, Teacher Zeng!

Tang Youyou and Guan Gu Shenqi greeted Zeng Xiaoxian.

"Good morning, everyone." Zeng Xiaoxian nodded reservedly, then looked at Hu Yifei, "Yifei, good morning."

"Okay, good morning," Hu Yifei replied, lifting her eyelids slightly.

At this moment, Guan Gu Shenqi seemed to have discovered something and asked in surprise, "Teacher Zeng, did you get your hair done today and wear perfume?"

Upon hearing this, Zeng Xiaoxian instinctively wanted to laugh, but he kept a straight face and continued to say with composure, "As a host, you should also pay attention to your image in daily life."

"Heh, which female fan is trying to pretend to be your girlfriend again? Acting like a peacock spreading its tail feathers." Hu Yifei said with a smirk.

Upon hearing this, Zeng Xiaoxian almost lost his composure. He coughed twice to regain his composure, and then he said to Hu Yifei, "Yifei, don't you... have anything to say to me?"

"What did you say?" Hu Yifei raised an eyebrow. "Does it mean I have to pay my respects to your grandfather?"

"You!" Zeng Xiaoxian took a deep breath to suppress his emotions, then said in a deep voice, "Don't you remember what you did last night?"

"Last night? Don't mention that to me." Hu Yifei was furious. "None of you are easy to deal with, you, Zhang Wei, Lu Ziqiao, and..."

After glancing at Qin Yumo, she swallowed the rest of the name.

"That's not what I meant."

Seeing that Hu Yifei was hesitating to get to the point, Zeng Xiaoxian cut to the chase: "I mean... about the phone call you made to confess your feelings last night?"

"Me, confess my feelings over the phone? Are you out of your mind?!"

Hu Yifei raised her voice and called out.

The others, as if they had stumbled upon a major juicy story, all stared in astonishment at the "old married couple."

"Ha, you still don't want to admit it? Nuolan told me that you called to confess your feelings last night while I was preparing my manuscript, and she answered!"

"..."

The air was silent. Apart from Zeng Xiaoxian, Hu Yifei, Guan Gu Shenqi, and Tang Youyou all looked at the stunned Qin Yumo.

(End of this chapter)