My organs are too abstract.

Chapter 102 Her Gift!

Gu Ya's face was full of excited anticipation, but looking at the black card in Xu Yuan's hand, she couldn't help but hesitate and say, "But proposing with just a card, isn't that a bit too unromantic—"

"This card isn't even his own; it belongs to Captain Yu—" Cheng Tuo looked at Xu Yuan with the eyes of someone revering a god, marveling, "This is simply the highest level of living off a woman."

"Sigh." A nostalgic look appeared on his face, and he sighed, "If I had had that kind of shamelessness back then, would I have had trouble winning someone over?"

Of course, the two were just joking. Who would have thought that Captain Yu, who is usually aloof, taciturn and calm, would be forced into a state of helplessness today? Such a scene is a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.

Hearing the two's undisguised "whispers," Xu Yuan was so embarrassed he dug his toes into the ground. Even the usually composed Yu Hanqiu was somewhat bewildered by the scene: "What are you doing?"

"Ahem—well—" Xu Yuan coughed twice, his brain racing. After a fraction of a second, he forced himself to explain, "My shoelaces came undone, so I was tying them."

Yu Hanqiu looked at him silently without saying a word.

Gu Ya "kindly" reminded her, "But you're wearing slippers."

Xu Yuan: "————"

He seemed not to hear Gu Ya's words at all, and with an overwhelming sense of conviction, casually tied a knot in the air above the slippers.

A bow, and it's even being pulled taut.

"alright!"

He let out a long sigh of relief, then calmly stood up. With an air of absolute authority, he pressed the card back into Yu Hanqiu's palm and said gently with a smile, "I'm already very grateful to have a place to stay. Forget about everything else."

He was uninhibited in his demeanor and laughed freely. The morning light fell on his profile, and he truly had the air of a refined gentleman amidst the turmoil of the world, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

Yu Hanqiu's gaze shifted slightly downwards behind her sunglasses, and she happened to see Xu Yuan's bare toes, which were tightly gripping and curling up inside his slippers.

A faint smile, which she couldn't suppress, finally escaped from the corner of her cool lips. She tilted her head slightly, and her shoulders trembled almost imperceptibly, as if she was trying hard to suppress her laughter.

Sunlight shone on her delicate profile, revealing a faint smile on her usually cold face, like the moon emerging from behind clouds or the first clear day after snow, possessing an inexplicable beauty.

Xu Yuan was slightly taken aback and subconsciously glanced at it a couple more times.

Noticing his gaze, Yu Hanqiu quickly suppressed her smile and resumed her aloof demeanor. She put away the black card and turned to look at Xu Yuan again.

Looking at Xu Yuan, who was still keeping a straight face and pretending to be calm, she suddenly felt that this person was completely different from what she had imagined, and seemed to be—quite interesting.

"You ran off too fast last time, and we didn't have a chance to get to know each other properly." She hesitated for two seconds, then suddenly extended her right hand. Her voice was still cool, but with a touch of gentleness. "Hello, my name is Yu Hanqiu."

Xu Yuan was slightly taken aback.

He looked at the other person, his gaze seemingly passing through the sunglasses, meeting the other person's beautiful amber eyes, and the embarrassment in his heart slowly dissipated.

He then reached out his hand, and this time, firmly shook hands with the other person's cold yet soft hand, and smiled, "Hello, my name is Xu Yuan, it's a pleasure to meet you."

As the morning light grew brighter, it elongated the shadows of the two people standing opposite each other, casting them across the empty square.

A moment later, the two slowly released their hands. Xu Yuan looked at Yu Hanqiu, his tone somewhat awkward: "That—Yu—"

He only got halfway through his sentence before he hesitated, looking troubled as if he had encountered some problem.

Yu Hanqiu seemed to have seen through his thoughts, and said in a calm tone, "The title is just a label. You can call me whatever you want."

"That puts my mind at ease." Xu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled lightly. "Xiao Yu, what happened to the building I used to live in?"

Yu Hanqiu: "—

"???"

The two bystanders turned around instantly, their faces filled with disbelief.

Cheng Tuo's eyes widened like saucers: "Holy crap, this is amazing!"

Seeing that something seemed off, Xu Yuan pondered for a moment, then a look of realization dawned on his face: "Oh, sorry, I made a mistake—"

"I forgot you should be older than me—" Xu Yuan scratched his head and smiled apologetically, "Old Yu, what exactly happened to the building where I lived?"

Yu Hanqiu:

Gu Ya:

Cheng Tuo: "————"

Yu Hanqiu almost lost his composure, his eyes twitching slightly. He took a deep breath and said, "Just call me Yu Hanqiu, or Hanqiu."

Xu Yuan looked at her, puzzled. Didn't she say she could call him whatever she wanted? Why was she unhappy after he actually called her that? Are all women so fickle?

However, he was never one to mince words, and immediately readily agreed, adopting the calm tone of a seasoned cadre having a heart-to-heart talk, and slowly said:

"Oh, the cold autumn, my building—"

Before he could finish speaking, Yu Hanqiu closed his eyes weakly and coldly uttered, "It grew legs and ran away on its own."

"Long Legs—ran away?!" Xu Yuan's face was full of disbelief.

"This is a long story, let's go sit down over there and talk about it."

Gu Ya pulled the two of them to a nearby place to sit down, and then recounted the whole story from the beginning, starting with the discovery of the abnormality in the old building by the Sickness Management Bureau.

Xu Yuan was stunned.

"You mean, the old building I live in is different from what you usually see? And that it's inhabited by calamities?"

Gu Ya nodded solemnly: "That's right."

"What I see is an old building, what you see are ordinary residential buildings—" Xu Yuan stroked his chin thoughtfully, "This feels a bit like cognitive interference—"

Yu Hanqiu's eyes flickered slightly as she pressed for an answer: "Cognitive interference? What does that mean?"

Xu Yuan immediately recounted the unusual situation in his home to the others in a vivid manner.

"You mean, some unknown thing has been lurking around you for over a month—" Gu Ya's tone

Horrifying! "She's impersonating your deceased mother, and you haven't even realized it?!"

"yes."

Gu Ya imagined the scene and got goosebumps all over her body. This had nothing to do with the strength of the force, but rather with the deep-seated fear of the unknown in people's hearts.

Seeing the other person's calm demeanor, Gu Ya was somewhat puzzled: "Why don't you seem scared at all?"

Xu Yuan looked puzzled: "What's there to be afraid of? It can't beat me anyway."

Yu Hanqiu silently observed Xu Yuan and could sense the calmness in his words, which made her even more convinced that he was different from ordinary people.

Compared to others, he seemed to lack certain fears.

However, when she heard the term "cognitive interference," she suddenly thought of her own memory, which seemed to be missing. Could her lost memories be related to the existence that Xu Yuan mentioned?

After chatting for a while, Xu Yuan found their exaggerated reactions quite amusing, quite different from the image Wen Xiu had described. He couldn't help but become more talkative and began boasting about his achievements: "Let me tell you, that damn thing was chased and beaten like a grandson the whole time, it couldn't even scratch me—"

He automatically omitted the embarrassing story of being ambushed by the mentally challenged left hand, and was speaking enthusiastically when, as if suddenly remembering something, he abruptly...

He froze, stunned.

"Wait a minute—" He raised his hand and gently stroked his smooth, undamaged left cheek. "My face—how did it suddenly get better?"

His left hand suddenly moved, and he gently slid two words into the palm of his right hand—Tongtong.

"Tongtong?" Xu Yuan thought of the adorable little girl who lived in room 404. "Did she help restore my face?"

Just then, his left hand silently pointed to the ground. Xu Yuan seemed to sense something and slowly lowered his head to look at his clearly reflected shadow in the sunlight.

With a slight thought, he subconsciously issued a vague command.

The next second, the shadow on the ground twitched its fingers very slightly.

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