Chapter 12 The Self-Deceiving Liar

System: "I took it."

System: "Convince yourself."

Lin Xiaodong was soaking in the swimming pool of the Gu family's mansion, with the central air conditioner on the top of his head, the drinks, fruits and snacks just brought by the housekeeper on the left, the remote control and scented candles on the right, and there was a wide square in front of him. The huge two-meter projection is displaying his favorite SpongeBob SquarePants and Piet Star.

Just a magical day.

Hearing the admiration of the system, Lin Xiaodong pretended to be modest and waved his hand: "It's okay, thanks to my cheap brother, with him, I can also drink soup with the boss."

"But he didn't promise to come and live." The system wondered.

"Of course he won't agree," Lin Xiaodong said. "That little madman has already controlled him to the point of perversion. If he lived here and watched me and Gu Xi together every day, he wouldn't be directly stimulated into an epileptic seizure."

He ate enough watermelon, patted his stomach and went ashore to take a shower.

When going downstairs for dinner, Lin Xiaodong found that today's meal was extraordinarily rich, and couldn't help but curiously asked the housekeeper, "Is today a special day?"

The housekeeper said lightly: "Miss Bai is coming to be a guest, and Mr. Gu specially ordered it."

He deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of the word "specially".

So Lin Xiaodong asked again, "Who is Miss Bai?"

"The daughter of the Bai family, Bai Zhizhi," the housekeeper reminded him, "she is the heroine in the recently aired TV series "Summer in the Woods"."

"...I still don't know." Lin Xiaodong thought for a long time and looked at him sincerely.

His show list has been filled with SpongeBob SquarePants.

The butler was silent.

He disliked the young man Gu Xi brought home very much, especially when he knew about Lin Xiaodong's experience, this disgust reached its peak.

He was out of high school, he didn't know how to learn, and he hung out with a bunch of hooligans every day. Letting him live here simply lowered the Gu family's style.

The housekeeper really didn't understand what Gu Xi was looking for in Lin Xiaodong.

He felt that even the younger brother of the young man was a hundred times stronger than Lin Xiaodong, at least Lin Xiamian still looked like a serious and good student.

"Anyway, you only need to know that Mr. Gu and she grew up together as childhood sweethearts," the housekeeper said. "In fact, there is a marriage contract between them."

But when he was talking, Lin Xiaodong was only focusing on cooking, as if he hadn't heard those words.

The housekeeper frowned and couldn't help but say, "Mr. Lin, won't you wait for Miss Bai and the others to come and eat together?"

"Ah?" Lin Xiaodong's mouth was dipped in sauce, and he looked up blankly, "The two of them are reminiscing about the old days, what am I doing with me? Of course, I have to finish my meal early and leave early, so I don't want to stay here. See you."

The housekeeper took the opportunity to slap him, and his face suddenly turned blue and white, and he was speechless.

"What a powerful mouth," a chuckle came from the door, "Gu Xi, this little brother you're looking for is quite interesting."

The two looked up. Bai Zhizhi, who was wearing a small red dress, held a small bag and leaned on Gu Xi drunkenly. Seeing them look over, she narrowed her eyes and stretched out her hand to greet Lin Xiaodong: "Hi~"

Lin Xiaodong: "Uh, hi?"

"Miss Bai, you are..."

The butler hurriedly walked beside them.

Seeing him coming, Gu Xi immediately pushed the person over, and took off his wine-stained suit jacket with a sullen face.

"Why are you showing such a disgusting expression?" Bai Zhizhi shook off the butler's hand and walked to the edge of the sofa with three steps. , there is always the illusion that this eldest lady will break her foot if she is not careful.

"You are still my fiancé in name."

She giggled, grabbed a handful of unpeeled melon seeds in the fruit bowl and stuffed them into her mouth, and then spit it all out on the carpet.

"Bah, it's really unpalatable." She said with a look of disgust.

Looking at the pool of unknown objects on the ground, the butler's face gradually changed from surprise to blue and white.

"If it wasn't for this name, do you think I would take care of you?" Gu Xi said coldly, "Go take a bath to sober up. Just in time, I will settle this matter for me today."

Lin Xiaodong sat at the dining table, watching Bai Zhizhi being pulled further and further away by the nanny.

When he came back to his senses, he happened to see Gu Xi sitting down at the dining table, and he took a piece of spareribs for him.

"Eat," he said.

"Oh." Lin Xiaodong replied obediently.

Half an hour passed.

"Can I ask..."

"Can't."

"......Oh."

Lin Xiaodong poked at the pudding in the bowl with a fork sullenly.

Gu Xi sighed and put down his chopsticks: "Forget it, just ask if you want."

"It's actually nothing," Lin Xiaodong stared at him with sparkling eyes, "Can I borrow a small room to store the figurines I bought?"

Gu Xi was silent for a while.

"That's what you want to ask?"

"if not?"

"You..." The man glared at him, his voice gritted his teeth inexplicably.

But Lin Xiaodong felt even more inexplicable: Did he say something wrong?

"You don't want to know about her?" Gu Xi didn't give up, and said to himself, "I can explain, the marriage contract was made by my grandfather's generation, but there are not many families. Seriously, it's just that it was hyped up by the media once, and finally became what it is now. Bai Zhizhi is not short of money, and now that she has entered the entertainment industry, her career is on the rise, so you don't have to worry about anything."

Lin Xiaodong bit his fork and looked at him innocently.

"I'm not worried."

Gu Xi: "..."

The man patiently closed his eyes. "That's good."

Generally speaking, under normal circumstances, Lin Xiaodong would wait for Gu Xi to finish eating together.

But today is different.

After Bai Zhizhi came out of the bath, Lin Xiaodong obediently picked up the bowl and went up to the second floor, leaving enough space for the two of them, without anyone needing to say anything.

Gu Xi was left alone at the dining table, and the chopsticks he had just stretched out stopped in the air.

Seeing this scene, Bai Zhizhi almost lost her breath without laughing.

"Gu Xi, Gu Xi," she said while wiping away her tears, "it's really a reincarnation of heaven. After so many years, God opened his eyes and finally sent an immortal to accept you! I laughed so hard, hahaha, you know what you just said. How wonderful is the expression?"

Gu Xi's face was so cold that he could scrape off a layer of ice.

"Shut up, are you still eating?"

"Eat, why don't you eat." Bai Zhizhi sat down on Lin Xiaodong's seat carelessly.

She winked at Gu Xi and teased: "To be honest, I have heard a lot of rumors about him outside, don't be fooled by a teenage boy, you will be deceived by then. Laughing to death."

"Don't worry about it." Gu Xi said indifferently.

"Tsk, looking at your attitude, even if you were deceived, you deserve it." Bai Zhizhi said angrily, "But it's useless for you to ask me about the marriage contract. Why should I pay for you to come out of the closet? I want to break the contract with you. Talk to the media yourself, I don't do it anyway."

"I know." Gu Xi said, "so I just let you know."

Bai Zhizhi's chewing movement stopped.

"No way," she widened her eyes, "Gu Xi, are you here for real this time? It's just for fun. Lin Xiaodong is a man, so why don't you plan to spend the rest of your life with him? ?"

"Why not?" Gu Xi asked back.

Bai Zhizhi was speechless: "But..."

Gu Xi finished eating.

He wiped his mouth and calmly got up and left.

"You can take a taxi and go after you eat, no delivery."

Bai Zhizhi stared blankly at the back of the man striding up the second floor, and shook his head incomprehensibly.

"This is poisoning," she muttered to herself.

In fact, Gu Xi himself had not thought about what kind of feelings he had for Lin Xiaodong.

To say that Lushui's marriage is too unkind, but to say love... This word is heavy and daunting.

He admits that he feels very comfortable when he is with Lin Xiaodong.

There is a kind of magic power in this child, and it is obvious that sometimes Gu Xi knows in his heart that he is lying to himself, but he still feels that Lin Xiaodong is very real.

It was as if he had seen through the skin a magnanimous soul hidden in the darkness.

Standing outside the bedroom door, Gu Xi wanted to knock on the door, but for some reason, he finally pushed the door and walked in: "I'll see how you-"

Halfway through the speech, it stopped abruptly.

Lin Xiaodong changed into the uniform of No. 1 Middle School that had been washed and turned slightly white. He was sitting on the edge of the bed with his head down, shaking his feet, wondering what he was thinking.

Hearing the knock on the door, he raised his head sharply.

He didn't even have time to put on his shoes, so he ran over in three steps, jumped up and wrapped his arms around the man's neck.

Gu Xi took a half step back because of the sudden hug, but his arms still caught the young man firmly.

Looking at the black hair spinning on the head of the person in his arms, his eyes unconsciously softened a little.

"what happened?"

Lin Xiaodong shook his head, raised his head, and bit his lips awkwardly like a little woodpecker.

Gu Xi's eyes dimmed, and he realized that as long as Lin Xiaodong changed into this dress, it was basically impossible to stop overnight.

But not today.

"I'll accompany you later," Gu Xi pressed the child to the side of the bed and asked patiently in a seductive tone, "Tell me first, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing." Lin Xiaodong was a little angry when the goal was not achieved.

He lowered his head in anger, and would rather stare at his feet than look at Gu Xi: "It's just unhappy."

"Why are you not happy?" Gu Xi's voice brought a smile.

"Is there any reason to be unhappy?" Lin Xiaodong glared at him, and immediately became angry after seeing the man's expression of restrained smile, stretched out his hand and pushed him hard: "Bum, I don't want to see you!"

Gu Xi finally couldn't help it and laughed in a low voice.

Ignoring the struggle of the youth, he pulled Lin Xiaodong into his arms with all his might, and the two of them fell on the big bed. Lin Xiaodong, who was unable to resist, huffed and buried his head with a pillow, as if he wanted to suffocate himself to death.

But Gu Xi grabbed the pillow forcefully, forcing the young man to look at him.

The man propped himself up on the bed, grabbed his wrist, and looked down at him.

"I thought you really didn't care at all," he said.

Lin Xiaodong was lying on the big bed, gasping for breath because of the strenuous activity just now, his face flushed/red. Hearing Gu Xi's words, he was stunned for a moment, and then raised a gentle smile at the other side.

The young man held Gu Xi's cheek, raised his head, and gently placed a kiss on the man's lips.

"How could it be," said the young man with a smile, "I like you so much."

"Whether you love me or not, I will always be by your side."