Long Xi asked Xiaolu with concern, "Have you met Weiwei last night?"
Xiaolu said, "Yep. We appointed to meet in the coffee house near her house."
He talked about what happened when he met with Weiwei last night.
He went back to X City and waited for Weiwei at the Persian Cat's Coffee at around seven o' clock.
The name of this coffee house came from the owner's cat. It was a plump lazy white Persian cat. It seemed that it didn't like to move around. It would spend a whole day lying in a large bamboo basket on the counter of the coffee house, sleeping, pillowing on a woolen ball, looking exactly like a fortune cat of the coffee house.
Although Xiaolu was an extreme fan of the dogs, he also liked cats and couldn't help stroking the cat.
That big lazy cat opened its amber eyes a st.i.tch wide, glancing at him, and then closed its eyes again, stretching itself comfortably and turning around with four feet and its belly up towards the sky.
"Does that mean that it wants him to stroke it again?" Xiaolu was happy and touched the cat again as he was waiting for Weiwei.
Weiwei came before long.
Weiwei made a point of dressing up today, cosplaying her favorite manga role, the lovely maiden Sena Kas.h.i.+wazaki. She dyed her hair gold and wore green cosmetic contact lenses, dressed in a deep V-neck dress Sena Kas.h.i.+wazaki wore in the manga with a light blue b.u.t.terfly-shaped headwear that is often worn by Kas.h.i.+wazaki, too.
The dress was her birthday gift from Long Xi in March. The spring dress was the masterpiece of Long Xi and she only wore it during the birthday gathering once. She liked it too much to wear it too often.
Although she was still angry with Long Xi now, the dress made by Long Xi matched well with her "adorkable", sweet, proud and a little s.e.xy temperament, making her charmingly attractive.
She wore a dark coat covering her half-baring-breast dress to fit the autumn weather.
Weiwei saw Xiaolu admiring her dress and asked shyly, "Ain't I lovely wearing in this way?"
Decided to start their conversation from her daily life, Xiaolu said with a smile, "You look like a beautiful maiden in manga naturally, so you are quite lovely in your outfit! I heard that your father has an online shop?"
Weiwei said, "Yes. But he has always been losing money and now is in debt. I guess he's going to be bankrupt. Ah, misfortunes never come alone! He is too busy. I haven't seen them these days at home! But even if I met him, it would be of no use. He is a careless father, loving money more than anything else. Will he know his daughter's worries? As for my mom, she is being an audio engineer of a movie recently. She's occupied, too!"
Xiaolu smiled and said, "Then tell me about it. What on earth made you so anguished? You even wanted to end your valuable life!"
Weiwei hesitated for a while and said, sobbing, "I was...I was...That. Do you know about it?"
Xiaolu said, "I didn't know at first. That day, Long Xi found you a little weird and gave me a long-distance call, telling me the things briefly and asking me to phone you immediately. She was quite worried about you! Weiwei, although you lose one of your treasures, you still have your loving parents and considerate friends. You are still young, beautiful and lovely. You still have the world!"
Weiwei said, crying, "But I lost you! For me, you are the whole world!"
Xiaolu hesitated and struggled with his own thoughts. He finally told her what his true feelings were. "Weiwei, you didn't lose me. I am always considering you as my sister!"
Weiwei said in tears, "But I don't want to be your sister! Couldn't we try it? One month. Could we be in a love relations.h.i.+p for a month? If you still consider me as your sister after a month, I will regard you as my brother ever since and gave up my thoughts. Could we? Please!"
Xiaolu thought twice and guessed if he refused her now, she might suicide again, so he accepted eventually.
Tears of happiness rolled down her face. She knocked on the dining table three times with her finger.
Xiaolu asked, "What do you mean?"
Weiwei took his hand on the table to her and kissed his hand affectionately. Then she put his index finger into her cherry-like mouth and use her sh.e.l.l-like teeth bit it softly.
Xiaolu took his hand a little embarra.s.sedly and touched his head.
Weiwei said with a smile as she knocked on the table three times, "Have you ever read the short story, knocking three times, I love you, written by the auth.o.r.ess, Chiung Yao? Xiaolu, could you knock three times for me?"
A piece of beige knit tablecloth with ta.s.sels covering the table, the deep red light flowing down from the sliver candelabrum reflecting with the mellow blue light, various shapes of shadows displayed on Weiwei's face, making her more vividly enchanting.
She looked at Xiaolu hopefully. A flame seemed to flicker in her misty eyes, which were like the ineffably clear Mucuo Lake with the handsome reflection of Xiaolu.
Xiaolu's heart seemed to melt in her long-missing soft and lovely smile. He drooped his head and also knocked on the table three times.
They had a candlelight dinner together and Xiaolu sent Weiwei back home. At the moment of goodbye, Weiwei took the chance to kiss Xiaolu on his face...
Long Xi heard out what Xiaolu recounted and said happily, "Brother Lu, Weiwei is so lovely. Maybe after a month, you will really fall in love with her!"
Xiaolu said a little worried, "I hope so. But what if I didn't? Will it do more harm to her?"
Long Xi said determinedly, "Time can change everything. Brother Lu, please be kind-hearted. In this month, you can try your best to make her happy and to get back to the mindset before. After a month, she will go over it herself."
Mo Kun said straightforward, "Xiaolu, I hope you will fall in love with Weiwei so that we can be lifelong brothers instead of rivals in love! But I still believe that affection cannot be forced."
Long Xi retorted and said, "Affection can not be forced, but it can be fostered! We, you and me, fostered affection for each other when we were alone in the back hill, right? We should create more opportunities for them to spend time alone!"
Mo Kun said, "That is not the case. I fell in love with you at first sight. Ain't you the same?"
Long Xi recalled the situation she first met Lord Mo Kun. At that time, he saved her from the phantom of women ghost. In a sense, she did like him at first sight.
But she actually fell in love with him the moment he captured her first kiss. Love and affection were sometimes too magic-like to be seen clearly!
Xiaolu also retorted and said, "I spent two years and a half being your deskmate and you have never fallen in love with me! You two have only known each other for such a short period and pledged to marry each other personally?"
Long Xi shrugged her shoulders in the way Xiaolu did and smiled without an answer.
Xiaolu said seriously, "You should not create opportunities for us, please. Don't bother me. Let nature take its course!"
Long Xi was afraid that she might do something bad out of good intent, which would let Xiaolu dislike Weiwei. So she said with a smile, "Alright. Let it take its course. Brother Lu, you have beautiful appearance and an interesting soul with a heart of gold. No wonder Weiwei is so obsessive with you."
Xiaolu was amused by her flattery.
Mo Kun asked Long Xi with a smile, "Then what about me? Why are you so obsessed with me?"
Long Xi said naughtily, "You? You combine the two advantages of Xiaolu. You have...interesting appearance!"
"Interesting...outlook? What? Are you laughing at me? Do you believe that I will hold you back into my room now?" Mo Kun thought for a while and understood what she meant and thus said so, threatening.
"Oh...I eat my words. I'd like to take a look at the newspaper." Long Xi begged immediately.
She grabbed a piece of the daily newspaper of X City. She leafed through the part of entertainment news and found nothing interesting. Then she skipped that part and read the headlines.
Huh? This headline today was actually related to them!
"Hey, take a look. Cheng Gong and Cheng Yilun was found guilty with conclusive evidence and would be executed by lethal injection two days later according to the judgment of the second instance. Heaven, at last, repays a crime!" Long Xi said.
Xiaolu asked, "What about Mr. Xu? I want to visit him in the prison."
Long Xi said, "Me, too. Let's visit him together next Monday. Police Fu called to tell me that there was evidence to prove that he was a chief plotter. Gong Liuxing helped to carry Chen Qiangjian from his home to the stream beside the back hill. And it was also Gong Liuxing hung Gong Liuxing's body in the tree. After the trial, Yuan Yuan also admitted that she disguised herself as an old lady and created the so-called Woman ghost death prophecy."
Xiaolu asked, "Then what about Cheng Yimei?"
Long Xi said, "She was arrested in X City. But there was no solid evidence. She was released again."
Mo Kun said, "Cheng Yimei will hold a press conference tomorrow and clarify herself. Haha, I will let her admit her crimes herself at the conference. I said before that I won't forgive her as she treated Xixi this way! You could just wait and watch the show!"
Long Xi said, "Brother Kun, you always have your way. I give you a thumb up! 666! Awesome! Hahahaha!"
Lord Mo Kun smiled at her pamperingly. Wow, it was what we called incredibly handsome out of the whole generation! The male Helen of Troy!
Xiaolu drank out his coffee and said, "You have just finished your breakfast so you'd better not to swim again. We can teach Master Xi how to swim after the sun goes down. Take a bath. I will lead you to our rose garden together with my dog. And we will have a hot pot battle at noon!"
He brought Mo Kun and Long Xi each to a guest room and let them bath and change clothing.
Long Xi's clothes were wetted when they were at a water gun war so she changed into another outfit she brought along.
It was also made by Long Xi herself. She used the modern clothing materials and combined the pomegranate dress of Tang dynasty and the fairy-staying dress of Han dynasty with modern fas.h.i.+on factors, thus working out her modified Han clothes.
The birth of the fairy-staying dress was said to be related to the queen of Western Han Dynasty, Zhao Feiyan.
The story began when Zhao Feiyan loved to wear dresses.