The Master's Mask Unveiled Again-Chapter 334 - 333: Lu Mian, Can You Help Me Look Up Someone? (Extra)
Chapter 334: Chapter 333: Lu Mian, Can You Help Me Look Up Someone? (Extra)
Xiao Qimo stared at his movements, his gaze deepening, as if the thoughts hidden in the darkness were rejected, with a hint of disappointment yet he remained silent, only able to watch quietly.
Lu Mian smiled: “If I hang it around my neck, that’s okay, right?”
“No problem…” Xiao Qimo spread his hands, seemingly asking why.
Lu Mian was straightforward, “Isn’t it closer to the heart here?”
As she spoke, she walked up to the pair of gifts and untied a thin red cord, hung the ring on it, and perfectly placed it on her chest.
She even felt pleased with her own cleverness.
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And to be honest, the thing really worked—it was as if there was an inexplicable magnetic field that regulated her erratic heartbeat, soothing it calmly.
“Thanks, this thing is really useful.” She was worried about how to face Xiao Qimo in the future.
Xiao Qimo: …
Ye Jinwen: Ironclad Lu Mian wasn’t just for show!
Su Lao next to them breathed a sigh of relief, and Han Jin quietly calculated Sikong Jian’s odds of success…
In the end, it was still Ye Jinwen who broke the awkwardness in the room, now just enlivening the scene.
“Come on, let’s celebrate Lu Mian’s birthday together!”
The others agreed silently.
The food arrived quickly, certainly delivered at a breakneck pace by the delivery guy.
The group gathered around the coffee table in the hospital room to eat, not minding the cramped space, not minding that this was a hospital.
Lu Mian couldn’t taste much in her mouth, her appetite wasn’t very good, so Xiao Qimo made her a bowl of fruit and vegetable salad.
Su Lao also subtly kept up the effort, ladling out a small bowl of lean meat porridge for her and helping to stir and cool it down.
Han Jin wasn’t as delicate, just kept bringing plates to Lu Mian’s side, “Eat, eat more light stuff, that’s nutritious. You’re too thin, too thin…”
Ye Jinwen observed these big shots.
All of a sudden, he also felt lost. Were Su Lao and Chief Han really so special to Lu Mian? Why?
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That evening, after tiredly seeing off Su Lao and Han Jin, Lu Mian returned to her hospital room.
Xiao Qimo, leaning on the windowsill with one hand, turned and smiled as he saw her walk in.
“They’re gone.”
“Hmm…”
“You know a lot of people,” Xiao Qimo said in a nonchalant tone, patted the empty space beside him on the windowsill, and gestured for her to come over too, “Han Jin also got involved with the Bai Family incident before, right?”
“Yeah.”
Lu Mian, with her hands propped on the windowsill, wearing only a hospital gown in the comfortable temperature of the room. The gown’s collar was a bit loose, and Xiao Qimo, with his height advantage, could see the ring she hung around her neck.
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With her leaning motion, it swayed slightly.
The man looked away, his palm resting on the windowsill pushed up his glasses, and when he put them back down, his hand was a few inches closer to Lu Mian’s.
Lu Mian didn’t notice.
The two of them just looked out at the night, the city lights glistening, people coming and going; it seemed as though outside was one world, and they formed another on their own.
It was already January, and there was a festive air everywhere, with bright billboards casting their crimson glow.
Xiao Qimo asked casually, his fingers moving sneakily a bit further, “How do you plan to spend the New Year this year?”
Lu Mian raised her hand to her chin, “Ah,” she voiced, “I haven’t thought that much.”
That little hand…
Xiao Qimo concealed a trace of desolation, turned back to lean on the windowsill, and kept one in front of the other with Lu Mian.
As he turned, his body slightly shifted towards her, almost brushing up against Lu Mian.
“If you don’t have any plans, you could come back to Jinjing with me,” Xiao Qimo said indifferently: “The snow in Jinjing is very beautiful.”
“Is that so…” Lu Mian smiled, neither agreeing nor declining.
Her attitude left Xiao Qimo even more puzzled—did she remember or not?
With a hint of suggestive reminder, he asked, “Why did you drink last night?”
“Oh,” Lu Mian tilted her head and recalled, “Shouhao ordered juice for me, maybe there was something wrong with the juice.”
Xiao Qimo nodded, taking note of it in his mind.
Lu Mian pulled a sincere smile across her face, which reflected on the glass and looked very bright.
She said, “I’m sorry for troubling you to take me home again.”
Xiao Qimo: “…”
Indeed, just as he thought, she had made things up in her own mind again! She didn’t remember anything from yesterday at all!
Those memories were his alone, not hers!
Lu Mian couldn’t understand the frustration on his face, and even asked with concern, “What happened to this spot on your cheek? As far as I know, Director Qimo, you’re not someone who gets approached so easily, right?”
She had noticed it before, but it wasn’t a good time to ask in front of Professor Su and Han Jin.
Xiao Qimo almost had a helpless expression, rubbing his cheek with his hand and a trace of slyness passing in his eyes.
“Lu Mian, could you help me look up someone?”
“Uh? I don’t know how to look someone up…” Lu Mian said with a light smile, “But I can ask around for you.”
“Good.” The man gazed at her, speaking with composure and elegance, “The person is an all-around professor, quite young, female, with very good teaching quality. If you can find out, please tell me her identity, okay?”
“Ah… that’s not much information, but I can try.” She smiled, taking out the ring from around her neck, “After all, you gave me such a practical gift.”
Xiao Qimo: “…”
“It’s late, sleep now. I’ll be just next door.” He took a deep breath and gently rubbed the top of her head.
Lu Mian didn’t dodge, “Goodnight.”
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Sheng Zijin returned to the hotel, still feeling dazed.
The camphor wood box in her hand was dropped on the floor, she couldn’t even bother to pick it up, her mind filled with the images of those people protecting Lu Mian.
Suddenly, she remembered that the first time she invited these people to eat, the incident with the Bai Family happened.
So it was because of Lu Mian that her banquet, which should have been splendid, turned out to be so bleak?
It turns out, it was Lu Mian from the beginning…
She had really underestimated this person.
But, even if today’s events were a misunderstanding, the man who bought the calligraphy and paintings for Lu Mian that night still left no trace whatsoever.
She smoked one cigarette after another until her phone rang.
She quickly stubbed out the cigarette and answered the call with an awkward tone.
“Grandfather.”
Sheng Zixin walked to the door, hearing his sister’s depressed voice, thought for a moment, and walked away with his phone.
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The next day, Lu Mian insisted on going to class.
Her fever had gotten much better, and with the aid of Xiao Qimo’s ring, her body was no longer in any serious trouble.
Fat Hao and Shouhao were both very excited to check on her.
The classmates were also quite enthusiastic.
Lu Mian, unaccustomed to dealing with so many people, said lightly that she was fine now, prompting them to leave her alone for the time being.
Fat Hao turned back and leaned on the stack of textbooks piled high on her desk, “Mian bro, what were you thinking last night? Why did you treat Director Qimo like that?”
Lu Mian leaned back in her chair, her pencil-spinning motion halted momentarily.
Shouhao nodded along too, both of them looking as obedient as little puppies.
“Mian bro, I feel like although Director Qimo is a bit cold, he’s actually quite nice. Shouldn’t you soften up and apologize to him?”
As Lu Mian listened to them, she asked, “What did I do to him?”
