The Unreturnable Refrigerator - Chapter 27.2
Chapter 27.2
Lu Yin uncontrollably lunged forward, but a pair of hands caught her and pushed her back into the depths of the hanging chair.
The woven rattan basket had many small holes, and only a little moonlight could get through, making it difficult for the air inside to escape.
In the darkness, there were only two quick breaths, very close to each other.
“Be careful.”
Sheng Xiali’s voice was extremely soft, but it made Lu Yin’s heart tremble. She pushed her away and ran away again.
She ran into the master bedroom and locked the door.
…
The next day, Lu Yin didn’t open the door no matter what Sheng Xiali said, and she didn’t leave the master bedroom. When she was hungry, she ate some bread, and when she was thirsty, she drank some bottled water.
Thankfully, she had also stockpiled a lot of things in her master bedroom, so lasting until Sheng Xiali left wouldn’t be a problem.
But on the third day, Lu Yin woke up and realized something: This is her home! Why was she hiding in her own home?!
She woke up and looked at her phone. There was a message from Sheng Xiali.
“Tell me when you’re awake.”
“Go to hell!” Lu Yin turned off her phone. She felt so weak, not even having freedom in her own home and being confined to one bedroom.
The person who had usurped her place was acting like the owner.
No, she couldn’t be so weak! She could stay wherever she wanted in her own home. Sheng Xiali was the one who should be hiding!
No, not hiding. She should get out!
Lu Yin opened the door and walked out, her footsteps heavy with an air of aggression.
Sheng Xiali heard the footsteps and turned around.
“You’re up?”
Her one sentence shocked all the designers from [Yue Jian] who were in the video conference.
Lu Yin also saw the shocked faces on the screen immediately.
“What, what are you doing?”
Sheng Xiali explained: “Monday morning meeting. Wait a moment, it’s almost over.”
When Lu Yin heard “meeting,” she had already started moving. As soon as Sheng Xiali finished speaking, she turned and ran.
Does Sheng Xiali have a brain? Why didn’t she say she was in a meeting earlier! Was she on camera just now?
Sheng Xiali looked at her rabbit-like speed and smiled. She had thought this person would hide for another day…
She looked a lot more energetic today.
“Pause for two minutes.”
Sheng Xiali said this, muted herself, took off her headphones, and got up to go to the kitchen.
The various group chats for Yue Jian employees all exploded. Amy was jumping between different chats, trying to get firsthand information.
Sheng Xiali poured a glass of warm water and went to the master bedroom door to knock, but there was no answer.
She tried opening the door, and it wasn’t locked.
When Sheng Xiali knocked, Lu Yin remembered she had forgotten to lock the door. She had just jumped out of bed to lock it when she came face to face with the person who had opened the door and walked in.
“What are you doing in here?!” Lu Yin was surprised. Wasn’t she in a meeting?
Sheng Xiali handed her the warm water: “What do you want for breakfast?”
Lu Yin really wanted to punch her. How could this person be so self-absorbed? Thinking of the situation just now, Lu Yin asked, “Is the meeting over?”
“Almost.” There were only two people left to report.
“If it’s not over, what are you doing here?!”
“Do you want a fried egg for breakfast?”
“No.” Lu Yin’s mouth was always faster than her brain. She sometimes wanted to ask her brain why it was always a beat too slow!
“Then I’ll cook noodles.”
Lu Yin frowned: “I don’t want any.”
“Tomato or scallion oil?”
“Tomato.”
Lu Yin slapped her forehead. Great, this brain is useless.
Is there a hole she can crawl into?
…
Amy, as the last person to report her work, looked at her boss cooking in the video and wished she could be there.
Who was it? Who was making her boss cook for them during a meeting?!
Could it be Xinlei-jie?
So envious, incredibly envious!
Looking at the two bowls on the kitchen counter, and it was breakfast! They were living together!
How did things progress so quickly?
What happened over the weekend?
Sheng Xiali was cracking an egg, and there was no sound from her headphones. She turned to look at the dazed Amy on the screen.
“Hm?”
Amy came back to her senses. Feeling her boss’s urging, she was very cooperative, simplifying her report and speeding up her speech, finishing a ten-minute report in just two or three minutes.
After the meeting ended, Sheng Xiali privately told Amy that she wouldn’t be coming to the office for the next few days and to call her if anything important came up.
Amy agreed repeatedly.
After hanging up, Amy saw all the explosive messages in the group chats. When she saw that Song Xinlei had also taken the day off, she became even more excited.
Her ship was really sailing!
Just as she was about to tell her friends the juicy news, she saw Song Xinlei walk out of the elevator…
“Xinlei-jie, didn’t you take the day off?”
Song Xinlei handed a cup of coffee to Amy: “My car tire blew out. I’m a little late.”
She said this as she started walking toward Sheng Xiali’s office.
Amy quickly called out to her: “Xinlei-jie, the boss isn’t in today…”
Amy felt a little guilty saying this. When she saw Song Xinlei, she knew her boss wasn’t with her.
Then who was she with?
Song Xinlei was surprised: “Did she say why?”
Amy hesitated, not knowing what to say.
Just then, Song Xinlei’s phone rang.
“Xinlei-jie, everyone at the company is saying the boss is living with someone. During the video conference this morning, she was cooking for them!”
Song Xinlei read the message twice. What do you mean, “living with someone”?
She looked at the hesitant Amy, and a bad feeling settled in her gut.
She quickly called Sheng Xiali. She hadn’t contacted her for the past two days because she didn’t want to hear anything she didn’t want to hear.
The call didn’t go through.
Song Xinlei looked at Amy: “What happened during your meeting this morning?”
Amy sighed. If she didn’t tell her, Song Xinlei would find out later anyway. It would be better if she told her now.
After hearing the story, Song Xinlei slumped into Amy’s chair.
With a trembling hand, she called Sheng Xiali again.
Under the pillow that was lying on the sofa, Sheng Xiali’s phone lit up again, but its owner walked by without noticing it.
Sheng Xiali went to the master bedroom to call Lu Yin out to eat.
Lu Yin didn’t want to answer, but Sheng Xiali said the food was ready.
If she didn’t eat it, it would go to waste.
Thinking of her decision to reclaim her home, she knew she couldn’t keep hiding.
Lu Yin left the bedroom and walked to the dining room. She saw two bowls on the clean dining table, each on a placemat. Inside were steaming hot bowls of tomato and egg noodles.
Sheng Xiali came out with two pairs of chopsticks.
Lu Yin couldn’t describe her current mood. All she knew was that it was a mix of emotions, especially when Sheng Xiali casually asked her what she wanted for lunch while they were eating.
It was so natural that it felt as if they had always lived together like this and had eaten many meals together…
After eating, Lu Yin, in a show of weakness, retreated back into the bedroom.
Her original plan to reclaim her home was a complete bust…
So annoying, so annoying. Sheng Xiali’s behavior was too abnormal.
She still hadn’t left!
Lu Yin couldn’t understand her. Feeling frustrated, she wanted to find someone to help her analyze the situation. Lu Yin opened the drawer and took out her phone, intending to contact Beibei.
As soon as she opened the drawer, she saw her phone light up.
A message had just come in.
Lu Yin unlocked her phone and saw it was from Cheng Siyu.
She hadn’t replied since Lu Yin had messaged her back.
She wondered why she was looking for her now.
“Lu Yin, did you block Song Xinlei on WeChat? She asked me for your number.”
Lu Yin hadn’t expected Song Xinlei to go to Cheng Siyu. She typed back: “What does she want?”
Soon, the other person replied: “She didn’t say. What happened between you two? Was it because of the message I sent?”
When Song Xinlei came to her, Cheng Siyu thought she had found out about her gossiping behind her back. When she heard her say that Lu Yin had blocked her, she was a little worried that it might be her fault.
They were all this age. They usually got along on the surface even if they didn’t like each other. Lu Yin wasn’t a petty person, so she couldn’t figure out why Lu Yin would block Song Xinlei.
She was worried that her mentioning that Song Xinlei liked her had caused trouble for her.
Lu Yin saw Cheng Siyu’s explanations coming in one after another and quickly stopped her from overthinking: “It has nothing to do with you.”
As soon as the message was sent, the other person sent a sigh of relief emoji.
“Did something happen? Song Xinlei seemed pretty anxious. I told her I didn’t have your number, and she looked pretty upset.”
Lu Yin frowned. Song Xinlei really did want to talk to her, even going to Cheng Siyu.
“I don’t know what she wants, but I have nothing to say to her.”
Since Lu Yin said that, Cheng Siyu didn’t need to make Lu Yin unhappy for Song Xinlei and didn’t press for the number.
“Oh, by the way, I have some gossip. Do you want to hear it?”
Lu Yin was confused: “What?”
Cheng Siyu had just remembered it when Song Xinlei called. She had held back from telling Song Xinlei, but now she couldn’t hold it in and wanted to tell Lu Yin.
“Sheng Xiali, she also has someone she likes! It’s a woman!”
After Song Xinlei came out about her sexuality, she had guessed that Sheng Xiali was the same, and she was right.
“Huh?” Lu Yin sent a confused emoji.
Cheng Siyu wanted to forward the picture Sheng Xiali had sent her, but she found she couldn’t open it.
Oh no, her phone’s storage was full yesterday, so she cleared the cache.
Cheng Siyu was disappointed and had to describe it in words.
“She looks like she’s in her twenties, a cute and energetic type. No wonder Song Xinlei couldn’t get Sheng Xiali. The person Sheng Xiali likes is a completely different type from her, but she looks quite a bit like you.”
Lu Yin was truly surprised that Sheng Xiali had someone she liked.
“How do you know? Have you seen her?”
Cheng Siyu replied: “I saw a picture.”
Lu Yin didn’t hear what Cheng Siyu said in the voice message after that. Maybe she was still feverish and her mind was buzzing.
Lu Yin quietly processed the news.
Sheng Xiali had someone she liked.
Who could it be? Is it someone she knew?
No, wait. If so, why is she here? Wouldn’t the person she likes care?
Sheng Xiali, why is she so lacking in boundaries all of a sudden? What would the person she likes think if they found out?
Isn’t she just causing trouble for her?
Who could it be?
Lu Yin tossed and turned on the bed, thinking about it. She felt she couldn’t let this go on. She had to get Sheng Xiali to “leave” quickly.
As soon as she left the master bedroom, she faintly heard a sound.
The sound came from the balcony. Lu Yin peeked out from the hallway and saw Sheng Xiali with her back to her, talking on the phone.
Sheng Xiali had confirmed the time for the medicated meals with Yang Sanhao and wanted to hang up, but the other person clearly didn’t want to let her go.
Yang Sanhao couldn’t just be a cook for nothing: “What’s going on with you and Lu Yin? Last time you seemed unfamiliar, and now you’re staying at her place?”
The progress is a little too fast and a bit illogical.
Sheng Xiali looked at the shimmering light on the river and thought about her situation for the past two nights. She only had a sofa, which was a far cry from “living there.”
“What stage are you two at now?” Yang Sanhao threatened, “If you don’t tell me, I won’t deliver the food.”
Sheng Xiali wasn’t threatened, and she hadn’t planned on keeping it a secret.
“I’m pursuing her.”
Sheng Xiali’s unique cool and clear voice, with a hint of determination and an emotion that even Lu Yin couldn’t understand, rang out on the balcony and was clearly transmitted to Lu Yin in the hallway.
Lu Yin quickly pulled her head back, leaning against the hallway wall and clutching her wildly beating heart.
It was true… Sheng Xiali had someone she liked and was pursuing her.
She was actually pursuing someone…
How much did she like her?
Back when they were together, Lu Yin was the one who pursued Sheng Xiali the entire time. It was especially hard to pursue someone as arrogant as her.
But it turned out she could pursue someone.
Lu Yin leaned against the wall and slowly retreated back into the bedroom.