Boss Lu: A reborn life is destined to be without regrets!
Chapter 98 - 90. October is the harvest season

Chapter 98: 90. October is the harvest season

Dorm 203, when Zhong Ruixi returned, her roommates were huddled together, watching the latest popular Korean drama.

"So handsome, so handsome! Look at Li Zhongshuo’s lips, they look so kissable!"

"Wow! They are kissing, they are kissing!"

The roommates chattered excitedly as Zhong Ruixi changed into her slippers and pajamas, joining in.

In the Korean drama, the male lead firmly grasped the female lead’s shoulders, steadied her chin, and decisively kissed her.

This action plunged her into memories.

"It looks like he’s a good kisser..."

Xu Ya immediately shook her head and laughed in response.

"Rui Rui, being a good kisser is relative, and without a comparison, how can you know who is better?"

Zhong Ruixi blinked, thinking about her own performance just now downstairs.

"It might also be because... it’s unforgettable?"

Lu Jincheng’s heart-attack strategy was not as complicated as the emotional bloggers described.

He simply displayed his feathers, created the atmosphere, and seized the moment.

Barely advancing.

If one kiss couldn’t open the heart’s door, then wait a few days, test a few times, and then find a way to deliver a second.

During the night Lu Jincheng ambushed her, her dreams were filled with him.

When she woke up the next day, she still couldn’t stop thinking about him.

Zhong Ruixi foolishly waited by her phone for quite a while.

Until noon, she still hadn’t received any message from Lu Jincheng.

There was no invitation to lunch, nor the customary ’good morning’ after waking.

This...

This was a bit different from what she had imagined?

She finally sobered up a bit.

Although Zhong Ruixi was straightforward and rarely beat around the bush, she was certainly not a naive, simple-minded girl.

Recalling the previous night, she replayed it in her mind.

She realized that the man’s statements from the previous day had significant loopholes.

"In my heart, you have always been."

Being his person didn’t mean mutual joy or an immediate exchange of promises, falling into passionate love.

It meant she was the prey laid out on the table, an utterly one-sided slaughter.

If she continued to be led by the nose, she would become the passive one.

From initial resistance, to acceptance, to expectancy, and now to this point of staring at her phone like the Wait-for-Husband Stone, eventually becoming the ageless tree...

People can be tamed, and so can hearts.

Zhong Ruixi hated this feeling; merely defending herself would only postpone the inevitable.

She was like a fish swimming against the current, stubbornly allowing the torrents of reality to toss her around.

Since you’re as elusive as the wind, then I too can strike back.

Intimacy is just this sort of thing; we’ve kissed a few times already, and sweet nothings don’t cost a thing.

Thus, time moved into the third day, the holiday of October 1st.

She sat alone on the plane returning home, determined to fight back.

Back in her hometown, Zhong Ruixi scrolled through Weibo all day and caught up on Korean dramas all afternoon, finally coming up with a plan.

She set her alarm for late at night, then went to bed early in her room.

When the alarm buzzed at night, she firmly got up, irately opened her chat with Lu Jincheng, took a deep breath, adjusted her tone, and tried to sound like a girl madly in love.

She didn’t type; she pressed the voice message button and her voice carried a tone of longing: "Ai~"

"I miss you so much."

"I keep dreaming about you recently, I can’t sleep because I miss you so much."

She planned a direct attack, metaphorically raising a white flag high, testing the victor’s reaction.

The message sent.

The long night dragged on, and outside the window, only tree shadows were visible.

The distant streetlights resembled a general’s tent where songs and dances were performed before the battle; in this emotional struggle, she launched a solitary, knife-armed night attack, partly scared yet partly proud like a lone hero.

Hmph.

When he wakes up and sees the message, and then sees the time it was sent, any man would have wild thoughts.

It was like a deer crashing into Buzhou Mountain.

Soldier Zhong Ruixi!

You will capture the enemy commander’s heart and win the victory!

She contentedly swiped her phone, locked the screen, and pulled the dark curtains closed, planning to return to her dream where she was the army’s sole decorator and commissioner.

Unexpectedly, just as she was about to put on her steam Eye Mask, her phone nearby started vibrating.

This guy replied instantly?!

It’s past 2 AM, why isn’t he asleep?

She was shocked and couldn’t help but immediately sit up, shakily unlocking the screen.

In the deep night, Lu Jincheng’s voice message of more than ten seconds seemed extraordinarily glaring.

She long-pressed to convert it to text, thought for a moment, then canceled, mustering the courage to press play.

"Such a telepathy? What a coincidence... me too."

The man’s voice, enveloped by the rustling tree shadows, carried an elusive magnetism.

It fiercely captured her heart.

Zhong Ruixi was startled, almost throwing her phone under the bed, then hid her face under the blanket.

Perhaps sensing the girl’s lack of response, the other party directly made a voice call.

The phone vibrated endlessly on the bedside, like mutual taunting before armies clashed, compelling her to answer.

Can’t beat him, can’t beat him!

I just can’t beat him!

After a few rounds, Zhong Ruixi admitted defeat; where was she the lone cavalier?

Soldiers facing death before battle, the beauty’s tent still echoed with song and dance—she was clearly the novice soldier foolishly presenting herself at the enemy commander’s gate!

She was like Wuyang before King Qin, deploying every move, yet suppressed by his aura, unable to rise from the ground.

She obediently answered the call, with an attitude of resigned mockery.

"You say you miss me, why did you wait so long to answer the phone?"

"..."

Zhong Ruixi took a deep breath.

"I really do miss you, but this holiday has been too busy; I truly couldn’t accompany you back."

The man on the other end spoke for himself.

"Winter break, definitely during the winter break."

Zhong Ruixi’s carefully controlled emotions began to surge effortlessly.