When Bright Moon Encounter the Dark Clouds

He was teasing me.

He was absolutely teasing me.

Otherwise, why would he stay mute and seem hesitant when I asked him if he did not need me to accompany him to the hospital? Why would he ask me if it was my first time taking care of someone with his peculiarly husky voice while standing behind me?

When we were having ice cream, those eyes of his that were fixed on me, seemingly focused and sinful as if suppressing something that was on the brink of exploding.

The car cruised along the winding road up the hill. The peaceful twilight enveloped the endless greenery surrounding us. Currently, my heart was tense like a twisted rope.

The man beside me was focused on driving. He seeme to be pondering about the development of the case without saying a word. I obviously knew that now was not the time to think about such things, yet he was like a gleaming body of electricity that I could no longer ignore.

Sure, I could be overanalyzing it. Come to think of it, the things he said actually seemed fairly normal. What got to me was his gaze, his appearance, and all that indescribable, unclear, romancing exchange. Yet, it was exactly because it was unclear that I could not be sure. What if I were just imagining things?

The restlessness and chaos lasted until Wu Yu stopped the car, which brought me back to reality. It felt like I had just woken up from a dream.

“What are you thinking about? It’s like your mind went on a journey,” he asked.

“How do you know I was thinking about something?” I asked quizzically.

I followed his brief glance to my dress and found that my hands were clenching it, causing it to totally wrinkle. “F*ck!” I promptly relaxed my hands and straightened my dress.

“Okay, it looks good now.”

His comment injected a hint of sweetness into my heart. However, he remained focused ahead with a stern look as he shut off the engine.

Fantastic! Why did I have to become a romance novelist? Now that I’m in actual combat, my imaginative mind has already brought me to cloud nine without him saying or doing anything romantic!

At the end of a snaky road, the Zhu family finally stopped their car at the entrance to a hill. There was no road up the hill, only a narrow dirt path that the Zhu family took after exiting the car.

“We’ll look for another way up and get up there quicker,” Wu Yu said.

“Why?”

“So as to avoid that man and those birds.”

He’s pretty smart, not the type to be taken advantage of twice. Oh, he’s truly a combination of brains and brawn. Perfection.

… Ugh, what am I thinking about?

Sure enough, we found another road. Unfortunately, weed and thistles filled it. Wu Yu was fast-footed after he said to get there quicker. He practically used those thistles to rush up without caring about the thorns at all. It was as if his skin was nine-inch thick, feeling nothing. Yet, he turned around to give me a hand when he noticed my soft exclamations of pain. I held onto his warm hands while my heart felt like a swing set gently being pushed. When we arrived at a difficult area, he would naturally support my waist to help me up. Sometimes, he would even sweep me off my feet. This whole time, he said nothing, only fixing his gaze onto me. His calm and deep eyes seemed to have something behind them.

Soon, we found them.

A patch of tall weeds and a narrow path covered with leaves laid ahead of us. We crouched behind the weed. Wu Yu placed his hand onto my shoulder as if I worried him a lot. Even though I felt underestimated, I did not shake his hand off me.

The Zhu family appeared.

Zhu Zhihan’s father, Zhu Zhongling, walked in the front with Zhu Jirui’s fiance, Yan Yuan. Behind them were Zhu Xianfeng, Zhu Zhihan’s mother, and Zhu Jirui.

Initially, I felt that them not informing the police they had received information from that man was suspicious. However, after giving it some thought, I felt it was possible that the man had threatened to kill the child if they notified the police. And, they probably felt less afraid with the whole family coming here.

Hold on, why did he ask the entire Zhu family to come here?

A phrase that Wu Yu said previously popped into my mind, It must be love or hate.