A is in StarCraft, just disembarked from the Zerg Prince spaceship.

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The mornings at the mountaintop villas are beautiful, with clear air and melodious birdsong.

Gao Tian, ​​shuffling in his slippers and yawning, walked to the door of Lu Jianan's room.

Raising Lu Jianan is really difficult. Last night, Lu Jianan pretended to be a mushroom and sat on their sofa until midnight before going back to her own room.

—Of course, this was after confirming that there was no movement in the room next door and not a ray of light through the crack in the door.

Like a thief.

Gao Tian raised his hand and knocked on the door, then yawned: "Lu Jianan? Get up, come downstairs for breakfast."

Lu Jianan didn't sleep well after returning to his room; it's true what they say, raising a child is a lifelong worry.

Something that causes a lot of trouble.

There was complete silence inside the door; not even the rustling sound of someone turning over.

Gao Tian frowned, then knocked twice more, this time with a little more force: "Lu Jianan?"

There has still been no response.

There was a sense of foreboding.

Gao Tian tried turning the doorknob—

Click.

Door......

It wasn't locked.

Gao Tian's heart sank, and he pushed open the door.

The room was empty.

The morning sunlight streamed in through the clean floor-to-ceiling windows, and only tiny dust particles floated quietly in the air.

The bed was made too neatly, the blankets were folded into perfect squares, and the pillows were arranged with meticulous care.

The cool morning air still carried a faint scent of Lu Jianan's usual shower gel. The room was well-lit, clean, and tidy, but his presence had vanished without a trace.

Gao Tian's gaze quickly swept across the room.

There were no clothes on the clothes rack, no items on the table, and no water glass on the bedside table.

The glass was cleaned and placed upside down back in its original position.

The room was clean and empty, with a chilling feeling of deserted place, as if no one had ever lived there.

"Holy crap..."

Gao Tian cursed under his breath and rushed to the window.

Outside the window, the morning mist on the mountaintop had not yet completely dissipated, and the winding mountain road appeared and disappeared among the verdant forests.

nobody.

He turned around abruptly, rushed out of the room, and headed downstairs.

He grabbed a female soldier on duty downstairs and asked, "Did anyone leave last night?"

The female soldier, puzzled, said, "Yes, the guest who came last night called a shuttle bus to the villa in the early hours of the morning and left. Since he said it was for personal reasons and he was leaving normally, we didn't stop him..."

"It's over..." Gao Tian muttered to himself, a chill running from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.

Lu Jianan actually ran away! She didn't even explain things to her older brother, and this idiot just ran off in the middle of the night!

My brother will kill me if he finds out, won't he?

He turned and headed straight for the restaurant.

Lan was sitting at one end of the long dining table, eating her breakfast slowly and deliberately.

Today's breakfast was honey pancakes and milk coffee, delicious.

Seeing Gao Tian rush in with a serious expression, Lan raised her beautiful blue eyes and looked at him with a questioning look: "?"

"Oh no, baby! Lu Jianan, he..."

Before Gao Tian could finish speaking, the commotion from the other end of the restaurant abruptly interrupted him.

"Bang!"

The restaurant door was suddenly pushed open from the outside with tremendous force.

"What's wrong with Lu Jianan?" Bi Shen walked in from outside, still wearing the same suit he wore last night, but now the collar of the suit was ripped and messy, and his face was so gloomy it could drip water.

I'm so angry.

Knowing that Lu Jianan would feel uncomfortable, Bi Shen simply went out last night to have a heart-to-heart talk with the Chief of the General Staff. Who knew that he would hear this news as soon as he returned this morning.

Lu Jianan ran away.

It was unexpected... but not that unexpected :)

Every day, I'm so angry at that good-for-nothing, that idiot Lu Jianan.

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Lu Jianan didn't sleep at all last night. She sat in her room for half the night until dawn, still not knowing how to face her older brother tomorrow.

He dare not.

He believes in family and friendship because Gao Tian provided him with a good environment to grow up in, and family and friendship give him a strong sense of security.

He actually didn't know what love was and was very afraid of entering into such a relationship.

He had never seen it before; it was completely unfamiliar to him.

He is essentially a pessimistic person; anything unfamiliar to him is dangerous.

All was quiet, save for the occasional low murmur of the mountain wind brushing past the window.

Lu Jianan curled up in the small single sofa in the guest room, maintaining the posture of hugging her knees with her hands, remaining motionless for a long time, like a stone.

The eldest brother has encroached upon the safe distance between family and friends.

The older brother kissed him.

He didn't hate his older brother, but what followed was immense panic and confusion.

Why did my brother do this? Aren't they on good terms now?

Will he still be able to be with his older brother in the future?

Lu Jianan buried her face deeper into her knees, anxious, her eyes fixed straight ahead, unable to close them.

He felt he couldn't do it anymore.

He didn't want his relationship with his older brother to change.

Only family and friendship are truly reliable, like Gao Tian, ​​who will not leave for twenty years.

The eldest brother and he, their world, are like the villa on the mountaintop and his familiar underground laboratory, separated by insurmountable clouds and rocks.

He is a very, very bad person and cannot be a very, very good partner who can provide positive energy.

He's just a troublemaker, negative, and immature. People have different expectations of family members and partners. Once his older brother becomes his partner and spends time with him, he definitely won't like him anymore.

My older brother will be disappointed and will leave.

They'll end up looking terrible. The older brother will get tired of him, think he's trash, and never want to see him again.

And then he never saw his older brother again.

Lu Jianan stared straight at a point in front of him, as if he had stopped blinking.

In the early hours of the morning, as the moonlight began to be diluted by the pale dawn in the east, Lu Jianan finally moved.

He stood up stiffly, like a machine with a pre-programmed sequence of events.

Without turning on the lights, using the faint daylight from the window, he mechanically and numbly stuffed his few personal belongings back one by one.

Fortunately, I only stayed here for one night and didn't really arrange the room much.

He carefully inspected every corner of the room to make sure he hadn't left any trace of himself, then folded the blankets into neat squares and straightened the pillows.

After doing all this, he stood in the center of the room and took one last look at the place where he had only stayed for one short night.

This was a great experience.

But this place doesn't belong to him.

He's experienced it all; now, he's going back to where he's familiar.

Go back to where he belongs, back to the world he knows, back to those cold instruments, rigorous data, and absolutely rational research laboratories.

There, everything is under control, safe, and resolved.

He only needs to use his brain to calculate numbers and arrive at scientific answers.

You don't need to communicate with others, you don't need to socialize with others, and you don't need to worry about someone suddenly leaving.

I went downstairs under the cover of night, called the shuttle bus from the state guesthouse to go down the mountain and back to the research institute.

He knew that running away was wrong, but he really couldn't face his older brother.

He doesn't believe that a relationship with such a large age gap can last.

He doesn't believe that a relationship with such a large age gap can last.

Gao Tian and the Crown Prince are happy because Gao Tian has a powerful core; he possesses a special light that can melt away all barriers.

They stood together, dazzling, well-matched, and perfectly natural.

Everyone can draw power from Takaten.

But he didn't.

He's just a nobody.

It's very troublesome, very frustrating, and very abnormal.

Lu Jianan, like a weightless shadow, wandered silently through the dimly lit corridor, illuminated only by a few wall lamps.

Footsteps on the thick carpet in the corridor make no sound at all.

This place is so high-class.

He avoided the elevator, found the escape route on the side of the corridor, and silently descended, step by step.

The escape route was dark. He had always been timid, but at this moment, he was numb like a ghost without self-awareness, completely unaware of fear.

The vast villa area appeared empty and unfamiliar in the pre-dawn darkness; it was a place he did not recognize.

He himself had forgotten how he got out and how he called the car.

Lu Jianan opened the car door and got in, burying herself tightly in the shadows of the back seat.

All he wants now is to escape from here.

Constantly giving to your partner can lead to burnout.

He didn't believe his older brother would always like him.

If you're not good enough, you're not good enough.

If Cinderella wasn't likable, wearing those glass slippers wouldn't have made a difference.