Lin Yuxi encountered this situation for the first time not long after she moved back.
Qiyue Mansion is an old community and still uses old-fashioned electricity meters, which require plug-in cards to store electricity.
But she only charged her electricity bill last week, so it stands to reason that she would not be in arrears so soon.
At this moment, Tan Xingchen's call came and Lin Yuxi picked up.
"My dad drank too much. He just caught me and criticized me for a long time. I'll go find you right away."
"You... don't come over yet."
Lin Yuxi was easily frightened due to the psychological shadow she had as a child. She had not yet understood the current situation and could not tell whether she was too suspicious or something was really wrong.
She briefly explained the situation, and Tan Xingchen immediately said: "Then I have to go there. What will you do alone?"
"In case my sixth sense is true, it would be dangerous for you as a girl to come here. I'll stay at home and nothing will happen if I don't open the door."
Lin Yuxi tried to stay calm at this time, "Maybe I'm overthinking it. I'll call the housekeeper again. Anyway, don't come over yet."
After hanging up, Lin Yuxi called the property manager. The housekeeper said, "We've sent someone to deliver the electricity. Hasn't it been delivered yet? Please wait a moment, and I'll call the master to remind him."
Lin Yuxi waited in the darkness for a while. Ten minutes later, the lights at home came on again.
When she looked out through the peephole again, there was no one outside.
Is that man just now really the electrician of the property?
The cells in her body that were tense and on guard were finally able to relax. Lin Yuxi slumped down in a chair and reflected on whether she had made too much of a fuss.
After Tan Yu heard Tan Xingchen's nervous request for help, when he hurried over, there was no suspicious person in the corridor.
He smelled a smell of smoke, pushed open the door of the emergency passage, and saw several cigarette butts on the ground.
When knocking on the door, Lin Yuxi's voice was slightly wary: "Who?"
"Yuxi, it's me."
Hearing that it was him, Lin Yuxi opened the door and looked behind him.
"There is no one else, don't worry." Tan Yu didn't know whether he should tell her about the cigarette butt, maybe it was just a coincidence, and he was afraid of scaring her.
But Lin Yuxi had a very good nose and could already smell the overly strong smell of smoke.
Following Tan Yu's line of sight, she also saw cigarette butts on the ground.
At the normal pace of smoking, someone had been there for nearly half an hour.
"Don't stay at home these days. Go to our house. You will feel safer if Xingchen is with you."
If she stayed here, Lin Yuxi might not be able to sleep well all night.
She still shook her head: "It's too presumptuous to go to your house so late at night. I have other places to go, so don't worry about me."
Tan Yu no longer persisted. She had a strong sense of boundaries. If she stepped over her boundaries rashly, she might retreat hundreds of miles at once.
The villa in Songyun Bay has been transferred to Lin Yuxi's name. The materials and procedures were basically handled by Yang Kang. Zhou Yanjing did not appear during the whole process.
Tan Yu sent Lin Yuxi to Songyun Bay and helped her take her luggage home.
Mrs. Chen, who had already fallen asleep, heard the noise and ran out quickly. When she saw her expression, she looked like a left-behind child waiting for her parents to come home.
"Madam, are you back? Let me help you carry your luggage up. I clean the bedroom upstairs every day. It's clean!"
"Are you hungry? Let me get you some midnight snack! Do you want chicken wontons or fish ball noodle soup?"
"There's no need to be busy." Lin Yuxi stopped the excited Mrs. Chen, "I'm not hungry."
Mrs. Chen stood there and looked at Tan Yu: "Who is this?"
"I'm Yuxi's friend." Tan Yu handed her luggage to her and said to Lin Yuxi, "It's very late. Go up and have a rest. Have a good sleep. It's very safe here. If you have anything, you can contact me at any time. I The phone is on 24 hours a day.”
Lin Yuxi apologized: "I'm really troubling you today."
"I don't find it troublesome at all." Tan Yu looked at her, "I'm very happy to be able to help you a little."
It was like a fireball of sincerity was thrown at her. Lin Yuxi didn't know how to catch it. It might be hot to her hands.
Sister-in-law Chen looked directly at me from the side.
Tan Yu cleared his throat: "Then I'll leave first."
After a long night of tossing, it was almost midnight. Lin Yuxi went back to the room, took a shower, and then lay down to sleep.
The quiet room was filled with her familiar scent, and the soft glow of the floor lamp was like a knight, loyally guarding all around.
It makes her feel safe.
In fact, the psychological shadow caused by the kidnapping case in her childhood has gradually eased a lot over the years. She is no longer as frightened and prone to nightmares as she was when she was a child, and she has not had such a fearful intuition in many years.
The feeling of uneasiness slowly faded away in this familiar environment, and Lin Yuxi fell asleep.
At a certain moment, she woke up again and saw a figure on the wall of the bedroom.
Her scalp exploded almost instantly, and she screamed in fright. She sat up from the bed and backed away. When her back reached the head of the bed, she realized that the person standing there was Zhou Yanjing.
Her heart, which almost stopped in shock, resumed beating after two seconds. She picked up the pillow and threw it at Zhou Yanjing.
"Are you sick? Do you know it's scary to stand there in the middle of the night!"
The pillow hit Zhou Yanjing and fell to the ground. He bent down to pick it up and walked over with it in his hand.
"I didn't want to scare you, I just wanted to look at you. Who knew your sensitive skin was so sensitive? You'd wake up after just one look."
Lin Yuxi was so angry that she went crazy. As soon as Zhou Yanjing put the pillow down, she picked it up and patted him.
Zhou Yanjing's handsome face was firmly photographed. He closed his eyes, waited for the pillow to be removed from his face, then opened them and clicked his tongue.
"My nose is usually made, and now the prosthesis has been smashed into pieces by you." He touched the sore nasal bones, his mouth was still casual and unruly, "Have you relieved your anger? If you don't relieve your anger, I will give you a few more blows. .”
Lin Yuxi really hit him hard with a pillow, and she couldn't be more resentful towards an sworn enemy than she was towards him.
She hit her several times, and Zhou Yanjing finally couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed the pillow, and took it away from her.
"I've never seen you so ruthless in fighting cockroaches."
Lin Yuxi glared at him angrily, tears welling up uncontrollably, but she suppressed them back with all her strength.
She didn't want to cry, and it would be too pointless to be scared into crying.
Zhou Yanjing paused when he saw the glimmer of water in her eyes.
Even though Lin Yuxi is usually cold and gentle, never crying or making trouble, in fact she is very capable of crying, and tears come whenever she wants.
It's just that she can always tolerate it in front of others and only shows her hard protective shell to the outside world.
It took Zhou Yanjing a long time to coax people into trusting him and letting her precious little pearl go unscrupulously in front of him.
But in those six months, Lin Yuxi cried very rarely.
After all, he almost gave her his heart and soul just to coax her.
Zhou Yanjing looked at her eyes filled with mist and moisture, glaring at him dimly and angrily, not threatening enough, but as fragile as a sensitive deer in the forest.
This made him feel guilty that he had bullied someone, and his tone softened a lot.
"Am I that scary? So scared."
He gently touched her face with his palm, which was quite gentle, but Lin Yuxi slapped her away mercilessly.
"Didn't you move away?" She sat back on the bed, breathing quietly, holding back her tears and calming down her emotions that were rising and falling due to fright.
Zhou Yanjing patted the pillow, put it back in place, put his hands in his pants pockets, and asked in a confused manner: "Who was the man you brought back last night?"
"It has nothing to do with you." There was still a slight and delicate nasal voice that had not been softened.
"Tan Yu?" Zhou Yanjing stood beside the bed, looking at her in the dim light, "How far have you progressed?"
"It's none of your business." He started to curse.
Lin Yuxi calmed down, raised her head, and started to trouble him: "This is my home now. Why did you come in without my permission in the middle of the night?"
Zhou Yanjing said without changing his expression: "Something fell here."
Lin Yuxi asked: "What?"
He imitated her words: "Why should I tell you my things?"
"..." Lin Yuxi got up from the bed and put on her coat, as if she wanted to deal with this trouble on the spot and avoid future troubles. "Then take it now and leave after taking it."
