Chapter 164: Are You Stupid? (2/2)

The truth. Nothing more, and nothing less.

Lu Chenzhou didn’t get mad. He just cooly replied, “Oh,” and then didn’t speak another word.

With that, he sent Lu Chenming back, leaving him very confused.

That night, Lu Chenzhou told Cheng Xi, “It didn’t work.”

How could Cheng Xi have extrapolated what had happened from those few words? So, all she said in reply was, “It’s fine. As long as his feelings haven’t intensified, that’s good enough. Just let my brother try talking to him a little more.” And then she instructed, “Keep checking up on him too.”

And so, whenever Lu Chenzhou wasn’t too busy, he’d call someone to bring Lu Chenming over and sit down with him for a few minutes. It would always last until Lu Chenming……wanted to die. However, he was stubborn enough to never relent in front of Lu Chenzhou.

At the same time, after Cheng Yang and Lu Chenming “got to know each other,” they started to become “close friends” in real life even though the former thought that the latter stayed at home too much and went out too little. In fact, Cheng Yang even said, “Given what you do in real life, how many females have you actually met? It’s because you’ve seen too little of the real world that you grew so attached to an online relationship, you know?”

So, whenever Cheng Yang had the time, he would drag Lu Chenming out to a nightclub. Of course, they started with something mild, like just inviting a few drinking buddies along and having fun. Lu Chenming was soft, delicate, and liked to blush, so all the girls treated him like a younger brother, and they particularly enjoyed teasing him. Every time this happened, Lu Chenming would hide behind Cheng Yang, and Cheng Yang would pretend to scold everyone. “Hey, that’s my brother! You’re not allowed to tease him like that!” In Lu Chenming’s eyes, his “sweetheart’s” brother was a larger-than-life personality.

And perhaps because Cheng Yang’s personality gave him more courage, or perhaps it was because he’d grown used to Lu Chenzhou’s aura after meeting him so often over these past days, but one day, right when Lu Chenzhou was about to send him away, he asked, “Brother, do you really like her?”

Lu Chenzhou nodded without a trace of hesitation. “Yes.”

“Do you like her to the point where she’s the only person in the world for you, where she’s the only person you’d ever be willing to marry?”

Lu Chenzhou seriously considered his question for a little, and then calmly responded, “I don’t know. But I know that I’ve never loved anybody else as much as her before.”

Honestly, this really wasn’t a deep confession or anything for Lu Chenzhou; these were just his heartfelt thoughts. For this fellow who loathed troublesome affairs, finding a girlfriend was troublesome enough that he greatly desired to tightly bind Cheng Xi to himself. Otherwise, he’d have to start over from the beginning, make a new plan, pick out more presents, and look at trashy books and ridiculous “action flicks;” the energy that he’d have to spend to find a new girlfriend was just too much, ok?!

But Lu Chenming was really shocked by his brother’s words—as Lu Chenzhou’s brother, even if they weren’t very close, he was still very familiar with what kind of person Lu Chenzhou was. For someone who didn’t even care about his family that much to care so much about Cheng Xi was…… incredible. Lu Chenming felt his heart ache, ache with tremendous pain.

Lu Chenming looked at his brother in a daze. “Brother, what does liking someone feel like?” He clutched at his chest and wanted to ask him if it really felt like what the books described: where your heart raced, your soul felt like it was departing, and for her to fill your heart and eyes. However, his heart was aching too much for him to say anything.

“It feels terrible.”

“???”

Lu Chenming looked at his brother with a stupid expression.

And then, he heard his brother, who seemed to never partake in worldly affairs, say, “It feels terrible. Whenever I see her, I really want to have sex with her. However, I still have to restrain myself.”

Lu Chenming was speechless.

Lu Chenzhou asked him with a severe expression, “Do you want to have sex with her whenever you see her?”

Lu Chenming’s face caught on fire with a “Ping!” He blushed a deep red, and quickly responded by shaking his head and waving his hands in refusal.

“Oh, so you don’t really love her then.” He looked at the silly little brother sitting in front of him and aloofly lectured, “If you still insist on saying that you love her even if you feel this way, then wouldn’t that just be silly?”

Lu Chenming: ! ! ! ( ⊙ o ⊙ ) ! ! !