Chapter 46 Lu
"pat, pat..."

What's that sound? Liu Miaomiao wondered.

As thoughts emerged in her mind, Liu Miaomiao's consciousness gradually began to clear, as if she had just woken up from a deep and distant dream, but she could not remember the content of the dream.

Liu Miaomiao struggled to open her eyes, and the first thing she saw was a deep darkness. The dim light was scattered and sprinkled on her face from time to time.

"pat, pat..."

The crackling sound still echoes in my ears. Is it raining? Or is someone crying?
"Liu Miaomiao, Liu Miaomiao, are you awake?"

The sound came from the right. Liu Miaomiao closed her eyes drowsily. When she opened them again, the scenery in her vision gradually became clear.

In the clear night sky, street lights flickered one after another outside the car window, and colorful umbrellas were opened on the streets. It turned out that it had started raining at some point.

Raindrops played crisp notes on the glass window, and the iron fence-like grid surrounded the driver sitting in the driver's seat. The boy's face was close at hand, casting a concerned look.

"Ming, Mingfei?" Liu Miaomiao held her forehead and gently lifted her head from Lu Mingfei's shoulder, "What's wrong with me?"

Liu Miaomiao only remembered that she and Lu Mingfei agreed to meet on Wangfujing Street, and then they walked side by side for a while, and then prepared to take the subway back.

She remembered that it was still early when she was ready to go back, but how come it was dark in the blink of an eye. And she was not sitting on the subway, but in a taxi.

"We were just about to come back after our heart-to-heart talk, but you suddenly sprained your ankle, so I gave you a simple treatment and rested with you on a bench by the roadside for a while."

Lu Mingfei spread his hands and repeated, "Then I don't know if you were too tired or what, but you fell asleep after resting for a while, and I couldn't wake you up. I could only take a taxi to take us back to the hotel."

Looking down, Liu Miaomiao saw that something was fixed on her ankle.

Liu Miaomiao tried to move, and immediately felt a sore and swollen feeling in her ankle.

"Is that really the case?" For some reason, she couldn't recall any relevant memories. "Why don't I remember it?"

"Maybe you just woke up. People tend to be confused when they just wake up. Go get some more sleep when you get back to the hotel. You'll be fine tomorrow morning."

"Oh." Liu Miaomiao nodded, feeling that she seemed to have forgotten something very important.

What's the matter?
correct!

Liu Miaomiao seemed to suddenly think of something. She sat up straight in her chair and gently grabbed Lu Mingfei's arm. Lu Mingfei was so surprised that he was stunned, thinking that she remembered something.

"What time is it now?" Liu Miaomiao asked anxiously.

"What time is it?" Lu Mingfei didn't expect Liu Miaomiao to ask this. He glanced at the taxi meter and answered, "9:15 p.m."

"It's still early." Liu Miaomiao breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed in her seat again, but her eyes looked left and right out the window, as if looking for something.

Lu Mingfei was about to ask Liu Miaomiao what she was looking for, but Liu Miaomiao suddenly waved her hand and said, "Driver, please stop the car on the side of the road."

The taxi waded through the water on the road and stopped by the side of the road. Liu Miaomiao opened the door, covered her forehead with her hands, and jumped out in the rain.

The road was full of pedestrians holding umbrellas, so Lu Mingfei quickly lost sight of Liu Miaomiao, leaving only the hazy rain and fog filling his vision.

"Aren't you going to catch up?"

Lu Mingze said with a smile as if instigating, a small canine tooth showing from the corner of his mouth, and his legs swaying.

Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes. "Why are you chasing after her? Are you afraid that she'll get lost?"

"That's hard to say. The imperial capital is a small place, but it's also a big place. In this city, an average person travels 26.4 kilometers a day, takes 17.3 subway stops, and passes 397 people.

If you let a girl walk away today, she might be completely lost in this maze tomorrow. Brother, do you know? It is very easy for people to get lost in a crowd. "

"I know, I know." Lu Mingfei said impatiently, "I have my own plan. I've been staring at the clock since she left. If she hasn't come back after ten minutes, I'll chase her out to check."

"Isn't ten minutes a bit too long?"

"Okay, okay, five minutes then."

Lu Mingfei glanced at the meter that was temporarily set. "It's 9:18 now. If Liu Miaomiao hasn't come back by 9:20, I'll go out to look for him. You suddenly came out just to say something like this?"

"Of course not." Lu Mingze shrugged, "You came out at this time, of course, to have a midnight snack." "Midnight snack?" Lu Mingfei was stunned, "Where can I get a midnight snack for you?"

"There will be some soon. Remember to save some for me." Lu Mingze smiled mysteriously and suddenly changed the subject. "Speaking of which, I'm still very curious, brother, why did you choose to let Xia Mi cover up Liu Miaomiao's memory. I thought you would refuse."

Lu Mingfei sighed softly.

“Do you think I want to?” Lu Mingfei said, “But just like Xia Mi said, it’s not a good thing for Liu Miaomiao to remember these things. Most of the people I know who have something to do with dragons are unlucky, so I don’t want to involve Liu Miaomiao.”

Lu Mingze smiled and nodded, "Brother, you have really grown up and have learned to have your own opinions. But by the way, I also support you to temporarily erase Liu Miaomiao's memory."

Lu Mingfei was stunned. It was a rare occasion that the little devil agreed with him.

"Why?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"It's just like playing a galgame. If you raise the favorability of a certain heroine too high all at once, you will only enter the pure love line of a single heroine. Only if you deliberately control the progress of the strategy for each heroine and keep a delicate balance between them, can you achieve the harem ending."

Lu Mingze spread his hands, "If we take Liu Miaomiao down now, it will be difficult to capture other girls."

"Pah, pah, pah. Just think of dirty things!"

"I'm just thinking about you, brother."

Lu Mingze curled his lips. “Even Zhao Menghua can mediate between Chen Wenwen and Liu Miaomiao, why can’t you, brother? Is Zhao Menghua better than you? Brother, have you never thought about the life of an emperor with three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines…”

Lu Mingfei suddenly stopped talking, because he found that no matter what he said, the little devil could always find a set of twisted reasons to refute him.

"Look, look, brother, I have convinced you. You are already fantasizing about a life with girls on both sides."

Lu Mingze put down his crossed legs with a wicked smile, "Alright, alright, no more jokes, I'm almost leaving, you should go chase your girl, even if she won't get lost, it's not gentlemanly to let a girl get wet in the rain."

Lu Mingze disappeared in an instant, disappearing as quickly as his voice. The meter resumed ticking, and the time showed 9:18:43. Lu Mingfei hesitated.

Before the time on the meter jumped to 9:19, Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth and pushed open the car door, rushing into the rain.

He wants to find Liu Miaomiao.

The moment the car door was opened, Lu Mingfei almost bumped into Liu Miaomiao.

"What are you doing out here?" Liu Miaomiao blinked gently, holding a bag in her hand. Her bangs were stuck to her forehead by the rain, and even her eyelashes were covered with raindrops.

"I saw you haven't come back for so long, so I came out to take a look."

Liu Miaomiao burst out laughing and pushed Lu Mingfei back into the car.

"Hurry up and go in, you are soaked. I am not a child anymore, are you afraid that I will get lost?"

As she spoke, Liu Miaomiao got into the car and closed the door with a "click". Her clothes, wet by the rain, clung to her body, outlining the girl's graceful curves.

Lu Mingfei stood up straight and turned his eyes away from Liu Miaomiao without looking at her.

"Aren't you wet too?" Lu Mingfei asked, "What did you buy?"

"You mean this? Here."

Liu Miaomiao said this and smiled as she stuffed the bag in her hand into Lu Mingfei's arms.

Lu Mingfei took it and was stunned: "For me?"

"Yes, open it and have a look."

Lu Mingfei opened the bag and saw a beautifully packaged box inside with a blue ribbon tied in a knot.

Through the plastic shell, you can see a small and exquisite cake lying inside. Above the blessing "Happy Birthday" is a pinyin "Lu" squeezed crookedly with cream.

"I actually wanted to go back to the hotel earlier and prepare a bigger cake for you, but I accidentally slept until now. I can only buy one from a random cake shop on the roadside. The 'Lu' on it was squeezed by me, so you are not allowed to say it's ugly!"

Liu Miaomiao said, blinking, letting the raindrops drip from her eyelashes, tilting her head and smiling:
"Happy birthday, Mingfei."

(End of this chapter)