love on the turquoise land

Chapter 75

The night before, Yan Tuo stayed up late. The next day, he slept until nearly eleven o'clock.

And he didn't wake up naturally; it was the pounding on the door that woke him. In that moment of shock, a cold sweat broke out on his back, and the first thought that came to his mind was: It's over, something's happened?

Then he recognized Lu Xian's voice: "Yan Tuo, Yan Tuo? Are you dead asleep? Going to sleep until you turn into a pig, huh?"

Yan Tuo let out a long sigh, got out of bed, and opened the door for Lu Xian. If this keeps up, he'll end up with a nervous breakdown.

When the door opened, Lu Xian swung his fist into the empty space and almost stumbled into the room.

He steadied himself and straightened his clothes: "What's wrong with you? Getting up so late."

Yan Tuo yawned. "Stayed up late. Watching movies."

Lu Xian stormed in: "Do you know why I'm here? Borrowing someone's car and not returning it, becoming a deadbeat, huh? And the phone—do you know I'm still making do with an iPhone 6? A 6! We're at iPhone 12 now, and I'm still on 6!"

That's pretty pathetic. Luckily, Yan Tuo took care of things last night.

Yan Tuo pointed to the new phone bag on the sofa: "Didn't forget. And the car is downstairs, isn't it? Do you think I'd keep your old car?"

Lu Xian's eyes lit up, and with a yell, he dashed over, too excited to even retort to Yan Tuo.

Yan Tuo sat in the computer chair, watching Lu Xian gleefully unbox and test the new phone, noticing that Lu Xian was dressed unusually formally today.

He sneered. "Wearing a tie, huh? Got hair gel on your head too?"

Lu Xian didn't look up. "Meeting my goddess, gotta be formal."

"When's the meeting?"

"It's already over. You think everyone sleeps in until noon like you?"

Wow, it's already over?

Lin Xirou probably set this up to matchmake him with Lin Ling. If it's already over and he's this happy, does that mean... it worked out?

He cautiously probed: "So you... agreed?"

It was fine until he brought this up. Once mentioned, Lu Xian got angry. "Yan Tuo, you're so inconsiderate. You knew about this from the start and didn't even give me a heads-up. Damn it, pushing me together with Lin Ling, it was super awkward, you know? No mental preparation at all."

Yan Tuo didn't care if he was awkward. "Did you agree or not?"

Lu Xian leaned back on the sofa, crossed his legs, and got animated. "It's the new socialist era, you rich people still think you can buy off the love of a righteous man like me?"

Can you speak normally?

Lu Xian continued: "Initially, I thought about being subtle, but then I decided to nip it in the bud. I told your aunt directly that feelings should be based on emotions. A lot of things in this society are already impure, but I hope my feelings can be purely from the heart..."

Yan Tuo didn't have time to listen to his highfalutin talk. "How did Aunt Lin react? She wasn't too happy, was she?"

"Of course not," Lu Xian gave him a disdainful look, "The goddess was... completely impressed by me. She probably didn't expect me to be such a principled person. I think I've caught her attention..."

Yan Tuo was speechless. He got up and walked over, looking down. "Lu Xian!"

Lu Xian spread his arms on the back of the long sofa, looking up at him. "What?"