Chapter 232 Let's Go to Your Place Tonight

At around 7 o'clock in the evening, Ying Chanxi followed Ying Zhicheng and took a flight from London and landed smoothly at the airport in Ohio.

After taking a bus all the way to Cleveland, Ying Zhicheng arranged for them to stay in the best hotel in the area.

"Dad is going to meet a friend tonight. If you're hungry, why don't you have a meal in the hotel restaurant? Is that ok?" Ying Zhicheng said to Ying Chanxi before leaving. "I'll ask Secretary Rong to accompany you to dinner later."

"Oh, no problem." Ying Chanxi nodded and watched his father leave. Then he took out his mobile phone, took a few photos of the night view outside the hotel, and couldn't wait to send them to him.

But after a long while, Li Luo did not respond.

So Ying Chanxi couldn't wait and called Li Luo.

After waiting for about ten seconds, the call was finally connected.

Li Luo's faint and indistinct voice came from the other end: "Hello? Who is it?"

"Me, what are you doing?" Ying Chanxi asked, "Sleeping in?"

"Xixi..." Li Luo mumbled twice, probably rubbed his eyes, and barely woke up a little, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to chat with you, but if you're still sleeping, forget it, just go back to sleep."

"Nothing." Li Luo yawned, got off the bed, went into the bathroom and washed his face. "I'm up, let's continue chatting."

"Didn't you go to the store to help today? It's already seven o'clock in the morning there, right?" Ying Chanxi turned over in bed, lying on his back, holding the phone to his ear.

After rubbing his feet hard a few times, he took off his shoes and dropped them to the ground, revealing a pair of small feet wearing white socks.

"Well... I stayed up late last night and went to bed a little late." Li Luo picked up the disposable toothbrush and toothpaste in the hotel bathroom, turned on the speakerphone of his mobile phone and put it aside, then started to wash.

After finishing typing last night, I went out with Xu Youyu for a midnight snack and drank some beer.

When I came back, I brought some peanuts and melon seeds. I went back to the house and continued drinking, eating melon seeds and chatting.

Because Xu Youyu had just written a plot that he was very satisfied with, he pulled Li Luo aside to talk about the book.

They chatted from midnight until after three o'clock. Based on the book "Literary Age" that he had read in his previous life, Li Luo provided Xu Youyu with some inspiration, which often made her eyes light up. She would slap her thigh, take out the notebook, and quickly write down these inspirations one by one.

Later, both of them drank a little too much.

And then...then...then what happened?

Li Luo can't quite remember.

But at this moment, footsteps were heard outside the bathroom.

Li Luo looked up at the mirror and saw a dazed figure walking in from the bathroom door in the mirror.

Xu Youyu rubbed his eyes, looking like he hadn't woken up yet. After he walked into the bathroom, he muttered, "You... um!"

Just after uttering a word, Xu Youyu felt Li Luo in front of him shake and rush in front of him in an instant.

With a bang, Li Luo pushed her against the wall and covered her mouth to prevent her from making any sound.

This sudden shock made Xu Youyu wake up instantly and struggled with sobs.

Until Li Luo gritted his teeth and whispered in her ear: "Shh! I'm talking to Xixi on the phone, don't make any noise!"

Hearing this, Xu Youyu finally reacted, blinked, turned his head to look at the sink, and saw the phone that was on the line.

"You scared me." Xu Youyu shook off Li Luo's hand and said in a low voice, "I thought you were going to do something. You suddenly turned into a beast so early in the morning."

Li Luo's face was full of black lines, and he complained in a low voice: "It's all your fault. You drank so much last night that you slept next to me. I forgot about it when I woke up in the morning."

"We are just having a good time chatting." Xu Youyu said with a smile, "I don't mind, so what are you afraid of? It's not like we haven't slept together before."

"Li Luo, what's wrong?" Ying Chanxi's puzzled voice came from the other end of the phone, "Are you talking to someone?"

"Oh, nothing." Li Luo let go of Xu Youyu and hurried back to the sink, saying something nonsense, "A courier was delivered to my door just now, and I went to pick it up."

"Then why did I hear a bang? It sounded like something hit something."

"I just woke up and was a little groggy. When I walked out of the bathroom, I bumped into the door."

"Ah? Are you okay? Does it hurt?"

"fine."

Xu Youyu, who was standing by, heard Li Luo lying and immediately rolled his eyes. Then he moved his eyeballs and thought of something funny.

So when Li Luo was chatting with Ying Chanxi and washing up, Xu Youyu quietly walked up to Li Luo and blew into his ear.

Li Luo: “???”

【What are you doing? 】

Li Luo spoke with his mouth, covered his itchy ears, stared at Xu Youyu with wide eyes, and questioned silently.

【What do you care about me?】

Xu Youyu smiled proudly, took out a new disposable toothbrush from the sink, stood beside Li Luo and started washing.

Seeing this, Li Luo wiped the corners of his mouth after brushing his teeth and quickly slipped out of the bathroom.

"I just came to the United States with my dad, but I didn't go to New York or San Francisco. I came to Ohio in the north."

Ying Chanxi didn't pay much attention to what was going on over there, and enthusiastically shared his schedule with Li Luo, "But my dad said he had to meet a friend, so he asked me to stay in the hotel first."

"Is that so?" Li Luo nodded, sat down at the desk and opened his laptop. "You haven't eaten yet?"

I'm chatting with Ying Chanxi right now. I have nothing to do, so I might as well write an outline of a novel or something.

"Not yet, I'll go eat soon." Ying Chanxi said, "Remember to eat breakfast too. Also, don't stay up late all the time, it's not good for your health."

"I know. I'll listen to you."

"That's good to know." Ying Chanxi turned over happily, raised her little feet, and dangled them in the air. "But foreign food tastes terrible and not really to my taste. The food in Chinese restaurants tastes weird, too. I really want to eat your food."

"There will be plenty of opportunities to eat when you come back." Li Luo replied with a smile, "Have you decided when you will return?"

"Well, Dad said that he has booked a flight back on the 15th, but it will probably be late at night when he gets home." Ying Chanxi said, "Dad said that he has made an appointment with your parents to go shopping for New Year's goods together on the 16th, and then we will go back to the countryside together on the 17th."

"Okay, I'll wait for you to come back."

"Yeah~" Ying Chanxi nodded. Just then there was a knock on the door. It was Secretary Rong who came to ask her to go downstairs for dinner, so she said to the person on the other end of the phone, "I'm going to eat. Remember to eat breakfast too. Bye~"

"Bye-Bye."

By the time Li Luo hung up the phone, Xu Youyu had finished washing up, walked out of the bathroom, threw himself on the bed again, and wrapped himself in the quilt: "Xixi, why did you call you so early in the morning? I was sleeping soundly and you woke me up."

"It's night time over there, and there's a time difference with us." Li Luo put his phone aside and took advantage of the fact that he was awake now to type for a while.

But Xu Youyu, who was lying on the bed, heard the sound of him typing on the keyboard and immediately said speechlessly: "Are you sick? Getting up so early in the morning to type? Can't you get some more sleep?"

"I advise you to go back to your room even if you want to sleep." Li Luo complained while typing on the keyboard, "What if your dad comes upstairs to tell us to get ready for lunch before noon, and then sees you in my room? How are you going to explain it then?"

"Hiss..." Upon hearing this, Xu Youyu jumped up from the bed, "Why didn't you remind me earlier? I'm gone."

Having said that, Xu Youyu jumped out of bed, picked up his notebook, and prepared to go back to his room to catch up on some sleep.

But as soon as he reached the door, Xu Youyu turned his head to look at Li Luo and couldn't help laughing: "Hey, do you think we are having an affair? It's like we are secretly meeting with the underground party."

Hearing this, Li Luo rolled his eyes and said, "Go to sleep now."

"As for collecting materials, you are such a boring person." Xu Youyu curled his lips, opened the door and walked out of the room, waved at him, and slipped back to his room.

After Xu Youyu left, Li Luo typed for a while until nine o'clock in the morning, when his phone rang again. Li Luo originally thought that Ying Chanxi had contacted him again after dinner.

When I picked up the phone, I found that it was Yan Zhusheng calling.

"Hey?"

"Li Luo, are you busy?"

"It seems like you like to find me when I'm writing."

"You are too diligent. It is still morning over there."

"The early bird catches the worm. If you want to make more money, don't you have to get up early and work hard?"

"So you want to write?"

"If you really want to talk to me, you can take a break."

"Then you take a rest." Yan Zhusheng said, "Mom is out meeting her friends, I'm a little bored alone."

Upon hearing this, Li Luo was stunned for a moment.

Ying Zhicheng went out to meet friends, and Yuan Wanqing also went out to meet friends?
What did Ying Chanxi say just now... She and her father had just arrived in Ohio, USA...

"By the way, you and your mother are in America, right?"

"Yes."

“Where in America?”

"Cleveland." Yan Zhusheng said honestly, "Cleveland Clinic. Their research and medical conditions for heart disease are among the best in the world. My mother's heart disease was cured here."

"Cleveland is in Ohio?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Uh... nothing."

Li Luo blinked and had some guesses in his mind.

He just found out a while ago that the film and television group company where Yuan Wanqing worked was the same company where Ying Zhicheng usually worked.

Strictly speaking, are the two people in a superior-subordinate relationship?

To be honest, we were from the same company and happened to go to the same place, and we both said we were going out to meet a friend.

Li Luo felt that there shouldn't be such coincidences in the world.

Moreover, this made Li Luo think of another thing.

He remembered that in his previous life, when he had just entered college, when he went home for dinner during the Chinese New Year, his father casually mentioned at the dinner table that Ying Zhicheng had remarried.

However, at that time, Li Luo and Ying Chanxi had not been in contact for several years, so they didn't care much about this matter.

After all, Ying Zhicheng has excellent conditions, so it would be easy for him to remarry if he really wants to.

But now it seems that after Li Luo pondered for a moment, a very shocking guess popped up in his mind.

It can't be such a coincidence, right?
But logically speaking, with Ying Zhicheng's level, it is not necessary for him to personally negotiate endorsement contracts or something.

Seeing that he and Ying Chanxi only stayed in Paris and London for four or five days in total, was the contract signed so easily? Was it necessary for Ying Zhicheng to do it personally?
Today, on the 9th, we arrived in Ohio, which is mainly based on agriculture, mining and manufacturing. It has nothing to do with the entertainment industry and is not a famous tourist city.

In other words, Ying Zhicheng went to Ohio purely to meet friends.

What kind of friend do you want to see for five or six days in a row? Do you want to stay until the 15th before coming back?

……

In a private room of a high-end restaurant in Cleveland.

Ying Zhicheng changed into a neat custom-made suit and sat quietly in the window seat.

It was not until the cell phone on the table vibrated that he withdrew his gaze from the night outside the window and picked up the phone to answer it.

"Hey?"

"Reached?"

"Okay, a waiter will bring you up."

"See you later."

Not long after hanging up the phone, the door of the box was pushed open by the waiter.

Following behind the waiter was Yuan Wanqing, who was wearing a black dress.

Ying Zhicheng, who was sitting on the chair, stood up at this time, picked up a bunch of white violets that had been prepared long ago from the cabinet next to him, and handed it to Yuan Wanqing with a smile.

"Thank you, Mr. Ying." Yuan Wanqing smiled reservedly, took the bouquet of flowers, held it in her arms, and thanked him politely.

"In private, we don't need to call each other that, right?"

"Zhicheng... let's sit down first." Yuan Wanqing walked to the table holding the flowers and lowered her head to smell the fragrance of the flowers. "Thank you for the flowers. I like them very much."

"I'm glad you like it. Put it aside for now." Ying Zhicheng helped her open the chair, took the bouquet in his hands, and then handed it to the waiter next to him, asking her to put it in the vase that had been prepared. Then he returned to the seat opposite and sat down, "You can serve the food."

"You didn't have to come all the way here to see me." Yuan Wanqing smiled helplessly, "It's a bit too much trouble."

"It's okay." Ying Zhicheng shook his head. "I was planning to travel with my daughter, and I just came to see you."

"Just stopping by?" Yuan Wanqing clasped her hands together, supported her chin, and looked at him with a smile in her eyes.

"Okay." Ying Zhicheng admitted, "I came here specially to see you, but it's also true that I'm traveling with my daughter."

"Thank you for your concern."

"It should be." Ying Zhicheng said, "What are the results of the reexamination?"

"Everything is normal." Yuan Wanqing smiled, "As long as you don't participate in particularly strenuous exercise or have drastic emotional ups and downs, you'll be basically the same as a normal person."

"That's good." Ying Zhicheng nodded and raised the red wine glass in his hand, "We have to celebrate."

"The doctor said it's best not to drink."

"Don't worry, your glass is plum juice."

"You are really thoughtful." Yuan Wanqing smiled and raised her glass to clink with his. "But don't drink too much. You should drink less when you are older."

"Of course, I only drink a little when I'm happy."

The meal was very enjoyable.

The two of them ate and chatted until around nine o'clock in the evening, when they were seen coming out of the restaurant.

Ying Zhicheng held Yuan Wanqing's shoulders with his right hand and whispered in her ear, "Shall I take you home?"

Yuan Wanqing glanced at him and chuckled, "You say one thing and mean another."

As she spoke, she leaned gently into Ying Zhicheng's arms and whispered, "Let's go to your place."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)