Lu Jinyan quickly said, "If you don’t speak, I’ll take it as your agreement. From now on, you’re my girlfriend!"

"Hey, I haven’t even thought..."

Wen Duoduo’s words weren’t finished when the man in front of her suddenly bowed his head and swiftly planted a kiss on her lips.

Wen Duoduo was stunned, completely petrified, her mind buzzing, a blank slate.

Lu Jinyan gently pinched her tender cheek, saying, "Good night, I’ll pick you up to go to work tomorrow morning, bye!"

Upon finishing his words, he stepped out of the elevator, not looking back, just raising his hand to wave goodbye to her.

Wen Duoduo was dumbfounded on the spot, and by the time she came to her senses, Lu Jinyan was already nowhere to be seen.

Lu Jinyan whistled as he reached the car door, while pulling out the car key with one hand and a phone from the other pocket, dialing a number.

Just now he had come up with a brilliant idea—a clever scheme to convince his mother that Wen Duoduo was his "girlfriend."

The phone rang with beep-beep-beep tones and quickly got answered by one of his students; just twenty years old, but had been learning the piano from him for two or three years.

The two had a good relationship, calling it a teacher-student dynamic, but it was more like a brotherly bond; they often performed together and occasionally hung out.

Importantly, his mother also knew Gu Yuan. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"Gu Yuan, come to my house tomorrow; I need your help with something." After hanging up, Lu Jinyan had a mischievous and mysterious smile on his face.

...

The next morning, the winter sun streamed through the windows into the room, illuminating the floor as if sprinkling it with gold inside.

Wen Duoduo hadn’t slept well last night, her mind felt like it was buzzing with bees, constantly echoing Lu Jinyan’s words—

Wen Duoduo, whether you believe it or not, I really need your help right now.

You’re a kind person; I believe you wouldn’t turn a blind eye, would you?

In my social circle, you’re the closest to me; besides you, I can’t think of a more suitable choice.

If you truly consider me a friend, shouldn’t you be willing to go through fire and water for a friend?

At times, these voices faded away, replaced by the scene of Lu Jinyan kissing her in her dreams...

Other times, the scene shifted back to the phantom she’d seen earlier, her and Lu Jinyan walking the red carpet in wedding attire...

All these chaotic sounds and images mixed together, filling her mind, making her toss and turn, unable to sleep.

Eventually, she didn’t know how many sheep she counted, barely managing to fall asleep.

Thinking that since there’s nothing going on, and she hadn’t found a new job yet, she could continue to sleep a bit more, she turned over wanting to sleep further.

At that moment, an annoying doorbell rang out.

Who is it?

Could it be the landlord?

But a familiar male voice quickly dispelled this assumption.

"Wen Duoduo, get up! Why aren’t you awake yet, look at the time, if you don’t get up you’ll be late!"

Wen Duoduo furrowed her brows, thinking she couldn’t possibly be poisoned by Lu Jinyan to such an extent, having auditory hallucinations so early in the morning that she thought she heard Lu Jinyan’s voice?

But, that voice came again.

"Wen Duoduo, get up! Hurry and come to school with me! Do you hear me? Get up; it’s already almost eight o’clock!"

It really was Lu Jinyan’s voice; she hadn’t heard wrong.

Lu Jinyan, Lu Jinyan, Lu Jinyan...

Suddenly feeling a jolt, her brain felt like it had been shot, snapping her awake immediately.