Seven years after my death, the male protagonist of the substitute novel was criticized

Chapter 4 Who is Duang Cheng Yu?

Pei Yizhou did not show any surprise or surprise, but Lin Lu was restless and anxious to find out what had happened in the meantime.

"Brother, what happened to me? Why did I go out and it's already been six years? No, how many years have passed in between? I don't remember buying orange clothes at all. I'm only eighteen years old now."

"Don't worry," Pei Yizhou tentatively touched the back of her hand, which was still unbearably cold. He endured the stinging pain between breaths and tried to speak in a calm tone, "I bought it the day you disappeared. It has been... nine years since then."

Actually it was seven years, but it didn't matter that she didn't remember anything about when she was twenty. He could just treat those two years as if they had happened all over again, without the disaster, without the separation, and they would still live together.

Lin Lu muttered to himself: "Nine years. Even if it's a time travel in a movie, there should be a chance. What happened that day? I only remember that I went out to East Lake Park, and I have no memory of what happened afterwards."

Pei Yizhou's back was stiff. He didn't want to think about the past anymore. He was even more afraid that he would touch upon some wrong keywords and make the scene in front of him disappear.

He had dreamt of her vague shadow before, but it would suddenly disappear whenever he mentioned that incident. He had experienced this too many times and didn't want to endure the pain of waking up again. Moreover, this time, she was not just her back, but so vivid.

"Maybe. I don't know. That day was very ordinary. You changed your clothes and went out to pick up a package. I never found you again after that." He calmly made up a lie and touched her hair as he did before. "But there are many strange things in the world. We don't need to figure out everything. As long as you come back, we can continue to live together. We can always get back the lost years."

"But don't you find it strange? You can't believe it, or, or you think I'm an imposter?" Lin Lu thought his attitude was very strange.

Pei Yizhou shook his head and took several deep breaths before he could utter a complete sentence: "Lulu, I have been looking for you for many years. I don't care why or how, I just need you to come back and be by my side."

Lin Lu saw the pain and pleading in his eyes, her eyes also became sore. She put down her chopsticks, leaned over and hugged him.

"Brother, it's okay, I'm back now."

They have been together for many years. When her parents died, he accompanied her to the funeral. When he was sick and almost died, she stayed by his bedside day and night. He worked hard to earn her tuition and living expenses. They discussed and chose his university major together. He helped wash her pants during her first menstrual period. She learned to cook for his first birthday and said that they would be a family in the future...

They are two vines that depend on each other. Their branches have entangled each other's flesh and blood. No one can live without the other. Even if they have their own partners and friends in the future, even if they no longer live under the same roof, they are still the closest people.

If it were her, she would also collapse if Pei Yizhou suddenly disappeared from her life for many years.

In the end, she didn't get to eat the bowl of noodles. After crying, Lin Lu was so tired that she couldn't even open her eyes. She didn't have time to think too much, so she lay down in the bedroom and fell asleep contentedly.

She was sleeping so soundly that she didn't notice Pei Yizhou, who was supposed to go to another bedroom, came into the room like a ghost and stood by the bed for a long time.

Today was not the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and the moonlight was so dim that he could hardly see the person on the bed.

I couldn't feel her breathing either.

But Pei Yizhou was now trapped in a wonderful illusion. The side effects of dizziness after drinking became more and more obvious. The background in his sight was all distorted and blurred. Only the bulge on the bed occupied all his clear perception.

After standing for a long time, he bent his knees and knelt beside the bed, leaning his head lightly against the pillow, his eyes carefully tracing her facial features.

There is a folk legend that says the ghost of the deceased will come back on the seventh day to see his relatives for the last time, and when he appears, he will look like he did at the time of death.

He didn't wait for her to come back on the seventh day that year, but he waited for her to come back today, the seventh year.

He didn't know how long the drunken hallucination would last, nor did he know how long she would stay. He only hoped that it would last as long as possible, longer, so that he could remember carefully what she looked like when she was twenty years old.

Seven years had passed before he realized that Lin Lu was so... so young at the age of twenty, with some flesh on her cheeks, full lips, curled eyelashes, and she was beautiful and lively even with her eyes closed.

She was a 20-year-old with 18-year-old memories, and he was already 30. Pei Yizhou suddenly felt uneasy. He had been busy all day and had drunk a lot. Would he look tired? Would she feel that she was getting older and uglier?
In the past, she loved to touch his face and praise his handsomeness, saying it would be great if she could stay young and capable forever.

Unfortunately, in the end, she was the one who remained forever young.

It was late at night, and even the cold wind that sneaked in through the window had stopped howling. It was the best time to fall asleep in the bedroom. Even though Pei Yizhou forced himself to stay awake and not close his eyes, he still fell asleep unconsciously at two o'clock in the morning.

Fortunately, he didn't sleep for too long. Like countless dizzy nights, he was once again awakened by the panic of emptiness in his heart, and then he couldn't fall asleep again. But this time he was very grateful for his clear mind. He ignored his numb legs, his heart was beating like a drum, and he turned on the bedside lamp. The person on the bed was still there.

Is the illusion still continuing, or...

Before he could think, Lin Lu's expression in his sleep suddenly became painful. He twitched twice like a spasm, his eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and his mouth was open, breathing rapidly and unconsciously.

"Lulu?" He panicked again and held her shoulders and shook her carefully, "Linlu?"

Lin Lu started dreaming again.

She ran fast, still on the ice with the howling wind, still on the cracks, her breath smelled of blood. Someone was running towards her in front, shouting her name.

It was a very familiar voice. She wanted to respond, but she instantly fell into the cracked ice, and her vision went black due to the constant impact and pain.

She wanted to call for help, wanted to shout, she struggled with her hands and feet, and tried hard to squeeze out a name from her throat.

"Duan... Duan Cheng... Duan Chengyu!"

Lin Lu suddenly woke up from his dream, sat up reflexively, and breathed rapidly.

When she opened her eyes and looked around quickly, just as she was about to calm down, she found that there was someone standing beside the bed. In the dim light, he was staring at her with deep eyes.

Lin Lu was so frightened that he pulled the quilt and shrank back. Only when he reached the edge of the bed did a pair of eyes pop out from behind the corner of the quilt.

"Brother? Why are you in my room?" she asked puzzledly.

Pei Yizhou witnessed her flexible movements throughout the process, and called her softly as if to get a verification code: "Lulu?"

"It's me," Lin Lu softened, crawled out of the quilt and walked in front of him, grabbed his hand and put it on his face, "Look, it's me, brother."

Pei Yizhou tried to ignore the coldness on her cheeks, held her face, forehead to forehead, and breathed a sigh of relief. Then he habitually touched the corner of her lips and wanted to hug her in his arms and kiss her.

But he was pushed away by Lin Lu the next second.

She jumped up and down in embarrassment, pursed her lips and glanced at Pei Yizhou's expression, and said uncomfortably: "Brother, don't be like this, we, we are brother and sister."

Yes, when she was eighteen, they did have a very pure brother-sister relationship.

Pei Yizhou quickly collected his expression and apologized, "I was a little confused. I just wanted to confirm whether you were real."

Lin Lu was helpless: "You've already touched it and you're still doubting it... Well, I mean, I'm here anyway, don't worry."

Oh, it all feels weird. It's all because of that accidental kiss before she disappeared. It makes them feel a little awkward when they are together.

"Well, brother, please go make breakfast. I'm really hungry now. I can eat fried chicken, rice, hot and sour noodles and a cow. Call me when you're ready. I'm so cold. I need to lie down for a while." She quickly ran back to the bed and wrapped herself like a silkworm cocoon.

Pei Yizhou nodded in agreement and glanced at the indoor temperature before leaving. It was 26 degrees. She was wearing winter pajamas, but she was still cold. Her hands and cheeks were cold.

He calmly closed the door and stared through the crack at the person rolling around on the bed.

He no longer felt dizzy from being drunk, but he could still see the living Lin Lu. What was going on?

Also, duan cheng yu, who is it?
(End of this chapter)