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Chapter 31 (Discovering Clues)

Huo Zhenyu has no sisters and has never seen the father and daughter get along. Although he thinks that the message sent by Yu Li's "dad" is a bit strange, he doesn't think much about it, just thinks that their father and daughter have a good relationship.

"Uncle must miss you, please call him." Huo Zhenyu thought for a while.

Yu Li cleared her throat: "No, I'll just send him a message."

"Well, then you go back." After Huo Zhenyu said that, he began to stare at her cell phone.

Yu Li was about to type when she suddenly realized something was wrong. As soon as she looked up, she met his sight: "...why?"

"I see you reply to the uncle," Huo Zhenyu paused after saying that, "I am idle."

Yu Li put down her phone silently: "Forget it, I won't reply."

"Why?" Huo Zhenyu was puzzled.

Yu Li coughed: "He likes chatting so much. If I reply, he will keep saying it."

Huo Zhenyu was confused for a second when he heard this, but in the end he became selfish because he was in a bad mood: "Then you reply tomorrow, and accompany me tonight."

After saying that, he opened his arms to her.

Yu Li looked at his light red eyes and crawled into his arms with pain. Huo Zhenyu hugged her tightly and quietly repaired her injured heart.

Three seconds later, Yu Li's cell phone vibrated, and Huo Zhenyu spoke in a silence: "Uncle is looking for you again."

"……Um."

As soon as Yu Li responded, her phone rang again. After several consecutive times, all emotions were disorganized. Huo Zhenyu sighed and let her go: "I'll go wash up, you can accompany your uncle. He keeps sending you messages, he must miss you."

"……good."

Yu Li looked at Huo Zhenyu with eyes wide open and walked towards the bathroom. After he went in and closed the door, he quickly opened WeChat and saw Huo Chen sending several messages to him -

"You shouldn't have sleeped yet at this time. Are you playing outside?"

"The snow is so heavy, and it should be a thick layer tomorrow."

"I remembered that quarrel with my mother. I was too ignorant at the time. Now I think I shouldn't be harassed her."

"I'm a little bored when I see the news."

He didn't mention seeing her again, but there was a feeling of needing her and wanting to see her between the lines. Yu Li looked at the short lines of news and could almost think of him standing alone in front of the glass window and watching the heavy snow.

Fragility, loneliness, and the restrained silence of adults. Just imagination, she began to feel uncomfortable. When she came to her senses, she had already sent him a hug emoticon.

She said intimately that it was too late to withdraw. Huo Chen almost replied to an emoticon package, which was the cat she had used before, and there was another sentence below: Where are you, I'll pick you up.

Yu Li swallowed her saliva and replied silently: I am in school.

Huo Chen: Come out and come with me tonight.

Yu Li was silent. Before she could think of how to refuse, he called his video call. At the same time, Huo Zhenyu also walked out of the bathroom. After looking at her eyes, Huo Zhenyu looked at her cell phone, calmed down and said, "Why don't you answer your dad's video?"

"...I can't take it." Yu Li smiled dryly.

Huo Zhenyu paused for a moment, and after thinking it through, he suddenly realized: "Why don't I go out first, what's the matter with you in the house?"

The phone was still buzzing, and Yu Li held the phone and didn't dare to hang up, and she hesitated for a moment.

"I'm just going to make a decision, I'll go out first." Huo Zhenyu said and walked out.

Yu Li was afraid that he would meet Huo Chen when he went out, so she quickly pulled him back: "I'd better go out and pick him up, otherwise he would ask me why I was in the hotel." After that, she quickly ran out, and when she reached the door, she still reminded her, "Don't come out, otherwise I can't explain that he would definitely be unhappy!"

Huo Zhenyu responded and watched her leave.

Yu Li ran to the stairwell in one breath, looked for a white wall and leaned against it. After confirming that the background was simple and there was no mistake, he clicked on the video. The mobile phone signal turned slowly twice, and Huo Chen's face appeared on the mobile phone screen. Yu Li let out a sigh of relief, trying to calm herself down. Just as she was about to speak, she heard him smile: "Why did it take so long?"

"...Well, something has been delayed." Yu Li whispered.

Huo Chen looked at her quietly, and after a long time he spoke: "Hungry."

"... Haven't you eaten yet?" Yu Li frowned.

Huo Chen shook his head slightly.

Yu Li looked at him disagree: "Call something, how can you do not eat? What if your stomach hurts again?"

"Come and eat with me." Huo Chen was particularly clingy tonight.

Yu Li probably knew what he was because of, so she couldn't bear to refuse, but if she didn't refuse... there was a child who was healing here, and she couldn't split herself into two, so she could only choose one.

"Little fish baby..." Huo Chen looked at her calmly. Although there was no snow, the roots of his eyelashes seemed to be wet, like an innocent big dog.

Yu Li was in a dilemma. When she was struggling, her phone vibrated again. She paused to narrow the video page and clicked on the message Huo Zhenyu had just sent--

"Why haven't you come back yet?"

Yu Li bit her lip.

"What's wrong with you?" Huo Chen asked suddenly.

Yu Li came back to her senses: "Hmm?"

"Why are you absent-minded?" Huo Chen frowned, "I feel uncomfortable when I blow too much wind today?"

"No..." Yu Li's eyes dodged.

Huo Chen sighed lightly, and pinched the bridge of his nose without holding his cell phone: "Sorry, I'm too willful. I really shouldn't bother you in such a cold day. You can have a good rest."

"What about you?" Yu Li blurted out.

Huo Chen paused: "I will rest after dinner."

"Lie." Yu Li frowned.

Huo Chen laughed: "Really, what else can I do?"

Yu Li stared at him for a moment, but could not see anything.

"Okay, let's not talk. I'll order something to eat, and then go out. Go to bed quickly and keep warm." Huo Chen waved to her and hung up the phone without waiting for her to come back to her senses.

Yu Li stared at the screen that had fallen dark for a moment, and her heart felt like a piece of cotton was blocked, so she felt tired when she breathed. I wonder how long she had been standing in the corridor, but Huo Zhenyu came out of the house, found her, and frowned and walked over: "What are you doing here?"

"...I'm fine." Yu Li was a little absent-minded.

"Go back to the room," Huo Zhenyu took her hand and walked back, "Where you're going to catch a cold by the window, you'll have a cool breeze."

Yu Li followed him back to the room step by step, looking at his phone from time to time, for fear of missing out on Huo Chen's news. Huo Zhenyu stared at the heavy snow outside the window in a daze, and his eyes turned red from time to time, but soon he returned to expressionlessness, as if he was thinking about something, but he seemed to be thinking about nothing.

After Yu Li was sure that Huo Chen would not send another message, she put her phone back in her pocket, sat down quietly next to Huo Zhenyu, and accompanied him to watch the heavy snow outside.

The snow outside the window was rustling, and a layer of white had accumulated downstairs. You can imagine the scene of tomorrow morning. The room was very warm, and Yu Li's face was red with warmth, but Huo Zhenyu held his legs and seemed to feel cold.

Yu Li pursed her lips and wanted to tell him a lot of things, but after thinking about it, she still held back and finally took a blanket to cover him.

After covering the thick blanket, Huo Zhenyu opened his face and seemed to be restraining something.

"Let's sleep for a while." Yu Li whispered.

Huo Zhenyu responded softly, wrapped himself in a blanket and held her hand. When he closed his eyes, he still felt a little wet. Yu Li frowned in pain and patted his arm like coaxing a child, and did not stop until he fell asleep completely.

Not long after Huo Zhenyu fell asleep, a knock sounded outside the door. He frowned and opened his eyes sleepyly.

"It's okay, I'll go and have a look." Yu Li comforted her and let go of his hand to open the door.

It is the hotel service staff, and behind it is a dining car.

"Hello, this is a dinner ordered from 607 downstairs. We knocked on the door but didn't open it. I would like to ask if I can send it here?" the service staff asked.

Yu Li frowned: "Didn't knock it open?"

"Yes."

After receiving a positive answer, Yu Li suddenly felt a little worried, and Huo Zhenyu also sat up: "Xiaoyu, what's wrong?"

"...It's okay, I'll go out and you're waiting for me in the room." Yu Li said that, and then went out to close the door, turned around and said to the service staff, "Let's go there together."

As she spoke, she hurried downstairs. When she was about to knock on the door at Huo Chen's room, she suddenly remembered that the service staff had a universal door card, so she quickly asked the other party to open the door. The service staff always felt that she had opened both rooms by her, so she didn't say anything when she heard this and helped open the door.

The lights were not turned on in the room, everything was quiet, as if there was no one. As soon as Yu Li called out Huo Chen, she saw a black shadow lying on the bay window in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.

She pursed her lips and walked forward, seeing him curled up, sleeping in vain.

"Huo Chen..."

She whispered his name, but saw his eyelids slightly moving and a tear fell from the corner of his eyes.

Yu Li stared blankly as tears fell into his temples, and the overwhelming heartache swept through her heart like a tsunami. She took a deep breath and leaned over to hug him.

Huo Chen woke up from the nightmare, and the Queen of God who had been slowing down for a long time was hoarse: "Why are you here?"

"Come with you." Yu Li whispered in a low voice.

Huo Chen was silent for a moment, and when he sat up, he pinched his nose bridge. Although he was a little tired, his other emotions had already subsided: "I just looked at the snow, but I didn't expect to fall asleep."

Yu Li looked at him pretending to be calm and said, "Let's go find your mother."

Huo Chen paused: "What did you say?"

"...Didn't you just say you missed her? Let's go find her. If you don't want to meet her, then we'll take a look and leave with a look?" Yu Li asked in a low voice. All his abnormalities at this moment should be because of the fight he had with his mother when he was 19 years old. He is back to this year and the day of the quarrel, so naturally he will not be in a good mood.

She always has to do something to make him feel more comfortable

Huo calmed down for a moment: "Where to find this time?"

Yu Li paused, and seemed to be in trouble: "I don't know, she shouldn't be in the mall now..."

Before she finished speaking, she realized that she had lost her words, her brain instantly turned blank, and it took a long time to come back to her senses. In the darkness, she couldn't see Huo Chen's expression clearly, and she didn't know if he had noticed any clues.
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