Inside the Presidential Palace:

Wen Ning took a shower and walked out of the bathroom. She saw Lu Yu sitting on the sofa chair by the floor-to-ceiling window.

The tall man leaned over, bent his back, put his arms on his knees, crossed his hands, and closed his palms.

Lu Yu lowered his head, his handsome face sunk in the shadows.

Ever since Si Muxue disappeared during the engagement ceremony, Wen Ning noticed that Lu Yu was tense and nervous.

Lu Yu was worried, but he tried to maintain his usual cool and elegant appearance, trying hard to pretend not to worry about Si Muxue's disappearance.

Others could not detect the subtle changes in Lu Yu's aura, but Wen Ning could feel it.

Wen Ning rubbed her wet hair with a towel, "Ayu, there is a new call on your mobile phone."

Lu Yu suddenly raised his head and realized that the mobile phone on the coffee table had a bright screen.

He was always very attentive, but this time, he didn't even notice someone calling him.

He hid the panic in his eyes, picked up the phone, and saw the word "Yutong" displayed on the screen.

Lu Yu answered the phone.

"Yutong, you have something to do with me."

When Wen Ning heard the word "Yutong", she turned her back.

She had no intention of listening to the chat between Lu Yu and her little Qingmei.

But the room was so big, even if she didn't want to hear it, Lu Yu's voice would still get into her ears.

"I'm staying at the presidential palace today."

Lu Yutong asked Lu Yu to spend the night with her in the apartment, but Lu Yu refused.

Usually whenever she spoke, Lu Yu would rush to her side even on a dark night with thunder and rain.

Lu Yutong was unexpectedly rejected by Lu Yu so decisively.

"Ayu, why do you want to stay at the Presidential Palace? You rarely stay overnight at the Presidential Palace!"

Lu Yutong raised his voice.

Lu Yu raised his hand and pinched his eyebrows.

"Something went wrong at the engagement ceremony between the Qin and Wen families. If I go out to see you, the Wen family will be worried and will definitely send someone to follow me."

Lu Yutong said: "Just let them follow us. We are all aboveboard. Are you afraid that they will see it?"

Lu Yu persuaded me kindly, "The Wen family won't just follow me for one day. If I leave the Presidential Palace at this time and spend the night outside, there will be more troubles that I can't get rid of in the future.

I'll go find you again when the fuss caused at the engagement party is over."

Lu Yutong asked, "How long will it take?"

"I don't know." Lu Yu was nervous about what happened between Shen Yinyin and Si Muxue. He had no intention of dealing with Lu Yutong.

Lu Yutong felt Lu Yu's indifference, and she immediately shouted, "Ayu, you can't be like this. You've been elusive lately. It's hard for me to even see you!"

Lu Yu frowned. Recently, he had been in frequent contact with Shen Tianming and Shen Ci to discuss how to rescue Si Muxue and properly resettle him.

Lu Yutong studied his whereabouts in depth. If Wen Jinli's people found out, they would suspect Lu Yu.

"Ayu, why don't you take a bath? The water in the bathtub is getting cold!"

Wen Ning's voice suddenly exploded in Lu Yu's ears, and her voice was accurate and entered the phone.

Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and saw Wen Ning bending down, the woman's wet hair touching his cheek, leaving cold water stains on his face.

Wen Ning wanted Lu Yutong to hear what she said, as she was extremely close to Lu Yu.

Lu Yu took a deep breath unconsciously, and the woman's warm fragrance after bathing entered his nose.

Wen Ning met his eyes, her clear eyes flashing with a sly smile.

On the other end of the phone, Lu Yutong was ignited like a powder keg.

"Ayu, are you and Wen Ning together?"

Lu Yu responded vaguely, "Yeah."

Wen Ning said to Lu Yu's cell phone again: "It's so late, if Ayu isn't with me, who can he be with?

During this period of time, Ayu has been with me, didn't he tell Miss Lu?"

Wen Ning's tone sounded innocent.

Seeing her like this, Lu Yu couldn't help but laugh.

Lu Yutong held her mobile phone, her face looking like an overturned palette.

It turns out that Lu Yu’s whereabouts have been unknown these days and he was deliberately hiding it from Lu Yutong!

The reason why he kept it secret from Lu Yutong was because he wanted to be with Wen Ning!

Lu Yutong couldn't breathe smoothly. She opened her mouth to say something else, and Wen Ning's voice came from the phone again.

"Go take a bath! Didn't you say you want to wash out the bath water I used? The water in the bathtub is cold!"

Lu Yutong's voice was stuck in her throat. She clenched her molars and hung up the phone with an embarrassed look on her face.

Lu Yu put down the phone. When Wen Ning saw that the call between Lu Yu and Lu Yutong was over and her task was completed, she turned around and walked towards the master bedroom.

Lu Yu looked at Wen Ning's back, the corners of his lips rising unconsciously.

Lu Yu walked to the bathroom door and saw the empty bathtub, although he knew that what Wen Ning just said was nonsense.

"Where's the water in the bathtub?"

Wen Ning turned to look at him, and Lu Yu raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you ask me to wash your bath water? Where did your bath water go?"

Wen Ning's cheeks heated up, "If you want to take my bath water, just go ahead and dream!"

Lu Yu swallowed his throat and said, "Okay."

He closed the bathroom door, picked up a bottle of shower gel in the stainless steel basket and smelled it.

He usually uses a piece of sulfur soap when taking a shower, but today he wanted to use Wen Ning's usual shower gel, so that his body would be stained with the same smell as Wen Ning.

*

In another room of the Presidential Palace, Si Yuzhu held a hot compress device and gently massaged Wen Xi's cheek.

"Xi'er, your face is no longer swollen."

Wen Xi looked in the mirror and saw that although the swelling on the side of her face that had been beaten had subsided, it was obviously larger than the other side.

"Mom!" Wen Xi was about to cry but had no tears.

Si Yuzhu comforted her with a warm voice, "I have already lit the incense in Master Qin's room. You will go in in twenty minutes."

Wen Xi took a breath and said, "Mommy, do you want to..."

Si Yuzhu said to Wen Xi with sincerity, "Now only by hugging Mr. Qin's thigh tightly can your status surpass Wen Ning.
Chapter completed!