Boss Lu: A reborn life is destined to be without regrets!
Chapter 191 - 155. The moonlight is tranquil, waking up from a dream at the third watch_2

Chapter 191: 155. The moonlight is tranquil, waking up from a dream at the third watch_2

Including Lu Jincheng at her side, no one had designed any special actions for her.

But her steps were steady, and she didn’t appear rushed like some of the hosts who lacked a strong camera presence.

By the third day, the number of viewers had actually dropped from the first day.

Because it was a weekday, people like Deng Yuan and Zhong Ruixi’s group of four roommates had all dutifully returned to school to attend classes.

After the initial novelty, most of the local audience of Jiang City who came for the excitement tapered off.

Yet, it was on this day that Zhou Yuanxin and Douyu had finalized their investment signing.

The two young ones managed to get seats inside the venue and watched Mou Keyan walk down the flower path with perfect clarity.

They saw her tightly clinging to a man’s arm, the corners of her mouth curling up in a radiant smile.

They saw the path before them flowered beautifully, their future seemingly promising.

"This guy looks pretty handsome in a suit, huh!"

"Yeah, he looks okay."

"Did you hear what the audience is saying? Handsome guy, beautiful girl, they’re all shipping them as the top couple!"

"Well, it does look... kinda suitable."

At that moment, Zhou Sinin could still control her emotions, chatting and laughing with her best friend beside her, making witty comments.

Lu Jincheng, that guy, glowing on the red carpet while escorting a female guest, indeed looked very dazzling.

Even Guan Guan, who rarely complimented others, couldn’t help but give a rather high appraisal of his handsomeness and snapped several photos to share in their group chat.

[Your Miao Miao looks stunning! Someone today is also a bit handsome.]

Guan Yongyi was joking as usual, she knew full well.

But as she poised her fingers over the keyboard, she couldn’t bring herself to praise.

Staring at the words "your family," she knew it was just a joke, yet somehow it felt glaringly irritating.

Something was off.

Zhou Sinin, why can’t you even take a joke anymore?

Something was off!

Forget it, there’s nothing off.

Just admit it.

Your reaction was simply jealousy.

Just jealousy, huh?

What’s the big deal!

So, after she clarified her inexplicable mood, she finally started trying to analyze it.

But when she was alone, Zhou Sinin found she couldn’t feel happy.

After seeing off her father, she aimlessly drove around the vast city.

Observing how people in different areas lived, trying to dilute her strange emotions.

To clear her mind.

She saw a young man making gestures and posing for photos with his girlfriend in front of the Light Valley Duomo Cathedral, grinning as he squatted on the spot.

And so, she couldn’t help but think of Lu Jincheng.

He had also taught her to pose in the same way.

She saw people at the Xiao Longkan sitting on plastic stools waiting for a table.

And so, she couldn’t help but think of Lu Jincheng.

And about how they yearned to eat hot pot there, but the restaurant had been closed that day.

She saw an old man selling cotton candy on Beiyuan Street, where you could buy a huge bunch looking like white clouds for just five yuan.

And so, she couldn’t help but think of Lu Jincheng.

He ridiculed her for being childish but then ran over and spent ten yuan on two sticks, each eating one happily.

She saw couples on Nanhu Avenue on a rainy day, sharing an umbrella, walking together in silence.

And then, she couldn’t help but think of...

Jiang City was too large, but no matter where she drove or where she went.

It seemed that the lengthy memories about Lu Jincheng poured into the calm lake like a torrential downpour.

Just when she suppressed one small ripple from emerging, the rest erupted with sound, bubbling up in her heart.

She couldn’t untangle herself.

Yes, it wasn’t until she fell into memories that she realized.

She had actually felt jealous not just once before.

Except last time, it was nowhere near as intense, nor had it been so evident.

Zhou Sinin remembered the afternoon she went to look for him in Nanhu Industrial Park, remembered the two minutes Mou Keyan borrowed him.

It seemed like an ordinary part of daily work.

But if one paid enough attention, they would discover that the act of Mou Keyan calling Lu Jincheng away in her presence pulsated with more than ten thousand undercurrents.

She couldn’t deceive herself.

Those two minutes, she had been unhappy.

But since when had she started to care about him?

Even she couldn’t figure that out.

"Since he hasn’t provoked you, why are you angry?"

The words that Guan Yongyi followed up with pulled Zhou Sinin back to reality from her reverie.

"Yeah... you’re right, I’m not angry anymore."

Zhou Sinin nodded, leaving the second half of her sentence unspoken, looking like someone who had come to a realization.

"It’s not like anyone did anything wrong, there’s nothing to be angry about."

"That’s more like it."

Guan Yongyi twisted her neck and stretched a long lazy stretch, her feet casually resting on the coffee table, as she turned up the TV volume slightly.

It seemed that her best friend’s bad mood had dissipated, so she continued watching the drama.

"I was just jealous."

After a moment of silence, Zhou Sinin suddenly blurted out.

"...Huh?"

Guan Yongyi’s relaxed expression froze as if it had turned to ice, thinking she had heard wrong. She quickly pressed the pause button and turned her head.

"What did you say?"

"I said, I’m upset because I was jealous."

Zhou Sinin’s tone was affirmative.

"Jealous of whom? Lu Jincheng?"

Guan Yongyi vaguely realized that something was amiss.

"Yes."

Zhou Sinin nodded.

"No, so... you’re jealous of him and Mou Keyan? Ah, it’s just work."

The clear-thinking law student stood frozen, and even though she quickly realized who the object of jealousy was, her ability to express herself lost all basic logic.

"I know that too, the red carpet is just a show, but I just can’t control myself."

With her troubles laid out in the sunlight, Zhou Sinin felt somewhat less gloomy.

She shrugged her shoulders, her lips curving up again, trying to regain a little bit of her smile.

"You’re jealous because... you like him?"

Guan Yongyi’s expression was serious, she sat up straighter, her legs coming off the coffee table and pressed tightly together.

This was a rhetorical question.

What else could it be if not love, for a girl to use the word jealous?

As expected, Zhou Sinin nodded again.

"You like... Lu Jincheng?"

Guan Yongyi involuntarily raised her hand to her temple, trying to tuck a stray lock of hair back behind her ear, even though it was perfectly neat.

Her mind was in turmoil, her mouth dry, struggling to keep her voice calm.

"It seems like it."

Zhou Sinin lifted her chin, her voice soft and mushy in the living room.

She had always been a decisive person by nature, her inner conflict lasted only a brief moment.

The resolute Zhou Sinin began to openly and correctly face her own feelings.

For a moment, one could hear a pin drop, silence spreading through the living room.

The TV was quietly muted, the living room completely still.

Even the lively and adorable Guan Mianmian, sitting to the side, swished her tail listlessly, making no noise.

Guan Yongyi involuntarily opened her mouth, she had so much she wanted to say in that instant, but then she fell silent again.

She liked Lu Jincheng...

Then, what about me?

"He’s just a jerk, getting so close to other girls, and you’re already jealous before you’re even together. It’s going to be exhausting."

"So, what exactly do you like about him?"

After much thought, the short-haired girl broke the silence and spoke again.

"Do you need a reason to like someone?"

Zhou Sinin’s gaze was intense as she countered.

"Don’t you?"

Guan Yongyi tried to convince herself.

"Do you?"

"I don’t know, looking back, liking someone seems to be just a matter of a moment."

Zhou Sinin leaned back on the couch, her gaze toward the pristine ceiling, murmuring.

"If you ask me what conditions need to be satisfied to trigger a heartbeat, I can’t answer you."

"Alright... I’ll go freshen up, we can talk later!"

Now, it was Guan Yongyi’s turn to be distracted.

She shuffled in her slippers toward the bathroom, walking unevenly and hurriedly ended the conversation.

...

"So, was it in that moment that you realized you liked him?"

During the long night, the two, close as sisters, laid in bed, deeply engaged in conversation.

A beam of moonlight slanted into the bedroom, Guan Yongyi stared at Zhou Sinin’s profile, her brown hair seeming to be coated in light, her confiding look extremely beautiful.

In an unseen spot, the short-haired girl tightly clutched the corner of the sheet, a vein faintly visible from the strain.

Although the moon wasn’t perfectly round for her, the serene moonlight had indeed once shone on her.

"That’s great."

Guan Yongyi forced a smile, turned, and pulled the curtains, blocking the last ray of light in the deep night.

Thus, no one could see her reddening eyes or the tightly clenched palms.

She suddenly felt a bit dazed.

"Yes, I just realized that yesterday."

"It’s like..."

Zhou Sinin continued.

"I woke from a midnight dream, and he was a star that had fallen on the eave."