Chapter 238 It’s All My Dad’s Fault
At the entrance of Jincheng Community in deep winter, under the dim street lights, next to the deserted street.

The boy and girl snuggled together and hugged each other. A dim halo of light fell on their heads, instantly tinging them with a layer of light gold.

The shadows fell at the feet of the two people, tangled into a ball, making it difficult to distinguish them.

"So it was my dad who told you something, right?"

Ying Chanxi buried his head in Li Luo's arms and rubbed it secretly a few times, as if wiping away tears.

The voice asked in a muffled tone.

After calming down a little, Ying Chanxi thought about Li Luo's transformation and easily thought of the variables.

Listening to Ying Chanxi's voice, Li Luo confirmed that her emotions had temporarily stabilized, and he felt a little relieved.

"Uncle is worried about you too." Li Luo hugged Ying Chanxi and said softly, "So, you have known about this for several days?"

Ying Chanxi did not answer, but just nodded in his arms.

Li Luo sighed and said helplessly: "Although it may sound a bit hindsight, I did intend to tell you about this during the Chinese New Year. I didn't intend to keep it a secret from you, it's just..."

"Let's not talk about this, okay?" Ying Chanxi looked up in his arms a little tiredly. Perhaps she had finally wiped away her tears, so she looked at Li Luo with the nerve to do so. Her face still looked a little depressed. "I shouldn't have lost my temper with you just now. I was wrong. I apologize."

"Uh...no...it should be me..." Li Luo was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Ying Chanxi to say that.

But Ying Chanxi had already grabbed his shoulders and threw herself into his arms. After pursing her lips, she whispered, "I'm sorry, I didn't control my emotions just now."

"It's not entirely your fault. After all, I was the one who kept it from you." Li Luo said quickly, "It's normal for you to be angry."

"No..." Ying Chanxi couldn't help but frowning when he heard what he said. She subconsciously tightened her grip on his shoulder and said, "I'm not so angry just because you kept the novel secret from me!"

"When my father first told me that you were secretly writing novels, I was a little angry."

“But that’s all.”

"After all, everyone has their own little secrets. I also have some secrets that I don't want you to know. This is normal."

"only……"

Having said this, Ying Chanxi paused for a moment, her throat subconsciously choking. The feeling of grievance that had been suppressed with great difficulty by Li Luo's hug came up again, making her stuck.

Ying Chanxi took a deep breath, finally calmed down, and then continued with a choked voice:

"It's just that I heard that Aunt Yuan knew about this, and Zhu Sheng knew about it too, but you didn't tell me."

"If it's just that, I can still explain it for you. After all, Aunt Yuan is a very famous singer, and you just happened to write a song in the novel, which is very suitable for the TV series in Dad's company."

"So it's understandable that Aunt Yuan and Zhu Sheng both know about your novel writing."

"But... later Dad said that after Aunt Yuan's song 'Annual Rings' became popular, she participated in many activities and her popularity increased. She even did an exclusive interview in conjunction with the novel you wrote."

"The effect is surprisingly good. Your book scores are getting better and better, climbing higher and higher."

"Zhu Sheng knew all this, but I was kept in the dark."

"It's obviously something worth celebrating, why does Zhu Sheng know it but I can't?"

Having said this, Ying Chanxi's eyes suddenly glowed with a bright light again, and tears fell from the corners of his eyes one after another, and he said aggrievedly.

"I just feel so bad."

"It should have been something worth being happy about for you, something I could have cheered and celebrated with you, but I missed it all!"

"And about your participation in the symposium, you won first prize in the essay contest. What a great honor!"

"If I had known about this earlier, I would definitely not have traveled abroad with my father. I also want to see you on stage to receive the award!"

"Dad said you had your own difficulties. I read your novel. Although I only read a little bit, I got a general idea of ​​it."

"You just feel embarrassed, so you don't want to let people you know know."

"I understand, but it just makes me sad."

"I've been feeling suffocated these days whenever I think about this, but I don't want to argue with you directly on QQ or on the phone."

"I thought I'd ask you about this matter in person when I get back in a few days."

"But, but... these past few days have been really hard to endure."

"If I can't explain it to you clearly, I'll always have wild thoughts."

"I was wondering, since Zhu Sheng knew about this, did Huan Huan, who was usually very close to her, also know about this?"

"Does Zhao Rongjun know about this?"

"Do your classmates know about this?"

"I think maybe we don't know, but it makes me uncomfortable to think that there might be another possibility."

"Then I thought about Aunt Lin and Uncle Li. Do they know that you are writing a novel?"

"After all, Dad said that you made a lot of money from this book. Logically, you should have told Aunt Lin and the others."

“But when I think of this…when I think of this…” Ying Chanxi’s lips pursed together and his whole body twitched with tears.

"The four of us often eat together at the same table. Aunt Lin is so nice to me. I feel like I'm at home. It makes me feel at ease."

"But when I think about the three of you hiding things from me, I just... I just..."

At this point, Ying Chanxi could no longer hold back his emotions, tears streamed down his face, he choked up and sobbed no matter what he said, and buried his face in Li Luo's arms again.

Li Luo swallowed silently, Ying Chanxi's words kept surging in his mind. He quickly held her face and wanted to help her wipe away her tears: "Don't say it, don't say it, it's all my fault, let's not say it anymore, okay?"

"Don't look at me..." Ying Chanxi's little face wrinkled up as she cried. She raised her hand and pushed Li Luo's face aside, whispering, "It's so ugly, don't look at me."

"Okay, okay, I won't watch."

"I haven't dared to talk to you these past few days, I was afraid I couldn't help it." Ying Chanxi cried for a while, then felt a little better, and then continued, "I think it's best to talk about this kind of thing face to face, it will be fine once it's talked out."

"I really thought so. When I got home and saw you waiting downstairs, I was already trying very hard to smile."

"I just want to control my emotions. I don't want to lose my temper at you."

"I should have told you the first thing I did when I saw you, but I felt so bad, and I was afraid I would cry if I said it."

"So I didn't tell you right away. I thought maybe it would be better if I told you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"But why did you sneak into my bedroom?"

"I'm not mentally prepared at all. I told you we'll talk about it tomorrow, but you didn't listen. I really... I really..."

"I might be able to adjust after a good night's sleep... I really didn't mean to get angry at you..."

"It's okay, it's not your fault." Li Luo patted her back gently and comforted her softly, "After all, it happened suddenly, and everything is caused by me."

"It's all my dad's fault." Ying Chanxi wiped her tears from his chest and whispered quietly, "If only he hadn't said anything, I would have felt better if you had told me during the New Year."

"Uh... ahem..." Li Luo almost couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "Uncle didn't think too much about it. This matter definitely can't be blamed on him."

"As for my writing a novel, it was actually just an idea I had during the summer vacation."

"Didn't I go to your house every day to play on the computer? Actually, I was secretly writing a novel."

"At that time, I didn't dare tell anyone. I was just happy about it. Eventually, the website said I could sign the contract."

"But I'm a minor, and I need a guardian to guarantee me when signing a contract with the website. I had no choice but to tell my mom about it in private."

"At that time, I did very well in the high school entrance examination, and my mother's attitude towards me changed. She actually agreed to my writing of novels. After all, it was better than me playing computer games every day."

"At that time, I thought that the book I wrote was quite embarrassing, so it would be better not to tell anyone I knew about it."

"You found out later because of the song 'Annual Rings', and Yan Zhusheng accidentally found out about it."

"It was a blessing in disguise. After Aunt Yuan made the song popular, the sales of my book also improved."

"As for the reason why I have been hiding it from you... besides not wanting people around me to know, it's also because..."

"Because why?" Ying Chanxi asked curiously.

"Because I drew inspiration from you. There's a character in the book that looks a lot like you." Li Luo said a little embarrassedly, "It would be too embarrassing if you saw it."

"There's such a thing?!" Ying Chanxi perked up. "I've only read a few chapters these days. I was in such a bad mood that I didn't continue. So when will this character appear?"

"Um... about ten chapters?" Li Luo scratched his head and said with a wry smile, "But why don't you just stop reading it? It's so embarrassing." "Why can't I read it?" Ying Chanxi snorted, "Didn't Zhu Sheng read it?"

“…I have seen it.”

"Is there a character in the book based on her?" Ying Chanxi narrowed his eyes and asked.

"……Have."

"Okay!" Ying Chanxi gritted his teeth and punched him, "Then I want to watch it too! You are not allowed to stop me."

"Okay, okay, then you can read it." Li Luo raised his hands in surrender. "But the plot of the novel is all made up, so don't take it seriously when you read it. It's all fictional and exaggerated, okay?"

"I see." Ying Chanxi nodded, but soon came to his senses and looked at him suspiciously, "You didn't write something bad about me in the book? Are you patching it up in advance?"

"How is that possible?" Li Luo shook his head repeatedly. "The character in the book is only about 70% as cute as you normally are, and there's nothing wrong with him."

"Even if you say that, I won't be happy." Ying Chanxi's face turned red and she punched him again, but the force of each punch was lighter each time.

Only at this moment did Li Luo realize that the two of them seemed to have been hugging each other for a little too long.

Seeing that the conversation had already been brought to an end, he finally let go of her hand and took a half step back, wanting to temporarily end the clinging state.

But when Ying Chanxi saw this, he immediately pulled him back and threw himself into his arms. Then he buried his face in his chest with a guilty look on his face and muttered softly, "I'm freezing to death. It's all your fault. I put on a down jacket and ran out. I'm almost freezing to death."

"Then let's go back quickly." Li Luo looked down and helped her zip up her down jacket.

But at this time, Ying Chanxi's lower body was only wearing a pair of thick-looking panda pajamas, with his ankles exposed.

Ying Chanxi cried so hard just now that he didn't even notice it. Now that his emotions have calmed down, he actually feels cold.

While leaning in Li Luo's arms, Ying Chanxi couldn't help stamping his feet a few times, and felt his feet were a little frozen.

"Put it on." Li Luo took off half of his scarf and wrapped it around Ying Chanxi's neck. "Let's go."

The two of them walked towards the community half hugging each other. Ying Chanxi leaned in Li Luo's arms, feeling the warmth brought by the scarf, and her mood gradually became brighter.

She was feeling relieved but also a little scared. Fortunately, Li Luo had chased her out just now, otherwise she would really not know what to do.

In fact, some things, if you talk about them like this, after you have vented your emotions, they won't be so painful anymore.

Ying Chanxi was simply suffocated during those days abroad, and a lot of random thoughts ran through his mind. The more he thought about it, the more suffocated he felt.

If I had really known about this in China and had confronted Li Luo and explained things to him right away, I wouldn't have had such intense emotions.

It was all a coincidence after all.

Fortunately, the ending was not bad. After the two of them talked it out, Ying Chanxi felt relieved and just wanted to go home as soon as possible to read the novel written by Li Luo to see what was about in the end.

But just as the two were walking towards the corridor entrance, Ying Chanxi suddenly stopped and subconsciously looked up at the sky.

Li Luo was pulled to a stop by her, and couldn't help turning his head to look at Ying Chanxi, asking curiously, "What's wrong?"

"Look..." Ying Chanxi raised one hand, gently held up a falling pure white elf, and watched it melt little by little in his palm.

Li Luo looked at the snowflakes, then raised his head and took a closer look. He immediately discovered that little bits of white snow were slowly falling from the night sky.

It fell on the branches, on the roof of the car, in the bushes, and between the two people's hair.

"Wow~" Ying Chanxi watched the snow falling heavier and heavier, and couldn't help but jump for joy, "Li Luo, it's snowing! It's snowing~"

"Yeah, it's snowing." Li Luo raised his hand and swept it across her head, with a hint of a smile on his lips, "But you should go back first. It won't be fun if you catch a cold during the New Year."

"I know~"

Ying Chanxi was just happy for a moment. She always felt that this snowfall after she and Li Luo had quarreled and reconciled must have a different meaning.

This made her seem particularly happy.

The two people returned to the corridor in the snow and went all the way to the fourth floor.

Li Luo sent her back to 402. After watching her walk into the bedroom, he thought for a moment and then walked towards the bathroom. He took out the foot bath basin that Ying Chanxi usually used and filled it with hot water.

"Huh? What are you doing?"

After Ying Chanxi returned to the bedroom, he covered his frozen little feet with the quilt and kneaded them with his hands, trying to warm them up.

Then she saw Li Luo walking in with a foot basin and was immediately surprised.

"Come and soak your feet to warm up your body, or you'll catch a cold." Li Luo put the footbath next to the bed, sat on the chair in front of the desk, and waved to Ying Chanxi, "Come over and test the water temperature."

"Oh." Ying Chanxi pursed her lips, trying hard to suppress the corners of her mouth that were curled up. She moved her little butt to the bed, stretched out a tender little white foot, and tested the water temperature.

Perhaps because he was really frozen, Ying Chanxi only felt warm and quickly put both feet in the hot water.

As a current of heat flowed up his spine along his feet and spread to his whole body, Ying Chanxi let out a comfortable sigh and fell back on the bed, feeling his toes gradually coming back to life and twisting them a few times in the water.

This feeling of being soaked in hot water, changing from a frozen state to warm, with a tingling sensation in the middle, really makes people feel relaxed and comfortable.

Especially since the worries that had been on his mind for several days were finally resolved, Ying Chanxi was in a better mood than ever before.

She thought about it, took out her mobile phone, opened the Qidian APP she had just downloaded a few days ago, and found Li Luo's book "I'm Really Not a Star". She planned to read it carefully from now on.

Li Luo was originally sitting in a chair bored, waiting for her to finish soaking her feet.

But when he saw her looking at something on her phone with great interest, he immediately asked with a look of alertness, "What are you looking at?"

"The novel you wrote." Ying Chanxi blinked innocently, "Didn't you say I could read it? I have to see what kind of person you wrote me into."

"..." Li Luo's eyes twitched, and then he reminded seriously, "I still have to correct your statement. Although the characters I wrote in the book are based on you, it does not mean that this character is you. Do you understand?"

Ying Chanxi didn't listen to what he said specifically, but just caught the key words in an instant. Suddenly he remembered that he seemed to have some questions to ask, so he narrowed his eyes and asked, "Besides Zhu Sheng, there won't be anyone else among you who you are talking about, right?"

"Forehead……"

"You can talk, I won't be angry." Ying Chanxi shook his feet in the footbath, stepped on the water and said, "Aren't we reconciled?"

"Okay." Li Luo coughed twice, then said, "Besides you and Zhu Sheng, there is also Senior Sister. Of course, some other supporting roles were also based on acquaintances around us, such as Zhao Rongjun and the like."

"Really?" Ying Chanxi couldn't help but ask, "So senior sister also knows that you are writing a novel? What about Zhao Rongjun? Has he known about it for a long time too?"

"Zhao Rongjun doesn't know." Li Luo waved his hand, "As for senior sister...well...she only knew it a little earlier than you."

“How long is a little bit?”

"Uh..." Thinking that she had to keep the fact that she was writing a novel a secret from her senior, Li Luo could only say, "It was during those days of the symposium. You don't know how much of a coincidence it was."

"Among the guests invited by the Writers Association, there is my senior sister's father. Do you remember him? His father is a professor in the Department of Literature at Qianjiang University."

"As a result, he happened to be invited to this symposium, and I was recognized immediately. Then the senior sister also knew about this incident... It was really force majeure."

After listening to this, Ying Chanxi nodded in understanding, without any intention of being angry anymore.

After all, it seems now that Li Luo exposed the fact that he wrote novels to others basically because he had no choice but to do so passively.

Thinking of this, Ying Chanxi no longer minded.

"Are you almost done soaking?" Li Luo checked the time and reached out to feel the water temperature. "It's getting a little cold. Let's wipe your feet."

As he said that, he handed over the towel that Ying Chanxi usually used to wipe his feet.

But Ying Chanxi had no intention of getting up. He still lay on his back on the bed, looking at his phone while lifting his feet with a smile: "Help me wipe them. I'm reading a novel."

Li Luo looked at the white and tender feet in front of him, whose skin was as white as freshly boiled eggs, and sighed slightly: "I really can't do anything about you."

As he said that, he picked up the towel, held her heels with his other hand, and wiped them clean carefully.

After wiping her left foot, he moved on to her right foot, then patted the two snow-white feet and told her to quickly put her feet back into the quilt.

"Okay, go to bed early." Li Luo picked up the foot basin and went to the bathroom to empty it. Then he returned to Ying Chanxi's bedroom and said to Ying Chanxi who was lying on the bed, "It's already late. I have to go shopping for New Year's goods tomorrow. Can you stop watching for now?"

"I know. I'll go to bed after I finish this chapter." Ying Chanxi responded while curled up in the quilt, then waved at him, "You should go back to bed too."

"Go to bed after reading this chapter." Li Luo gave her a final reminder before walking out of the bedroom and closing the door for her.

"Yeah, good night~"

"Good night."

(End of this chapter)