Chapter 12

Parsed with an automated reader. The content accuracy is not guranteed.

TL : Rezzz

Gu Yu received an invitation from the expo held at the neighboring city and wasn’t too far. After thinking a little bit, he took a screenshot and forwarded the content to the editor. Gu Yu’s editor is a very serious person. Gu Yu has been with him since signing the contract for the first book and has received a lot of help.

After his articles became popular and published in the past, he began to have invitations to meet the readers, such as in exhibitions. However, he was still a college student at that time and didn’t like to show his face in public, so he rejected them all. The editor respected him and turned them down, so Gu Yu has not attended any signing events until now.

The editor quickly responded to his message. As always, he first asked Gu Yu if he wanted to go or not. Gu Yu was naturally prepared to refuse as in the past. After all, he wrote novels and was not selling his face. Why did he need to appear in public when he was making a living with his stories? As a result, the editor on the opposite side sent a series of messages.

Not long after the completion of Gu Yu’s last book, it’s still popular now. The physical books have been published. Readers have contributed a lot to the sales. There are also noises on the Internet asking when Gu Yu will come to sign and so on. After all, Gu Yu is considered a great author. When people look at other great authors, they did various signing events, and there were meetings one after another. Yet, when you look at Gu Yu, you can’t see his shadow even after so many years.

Everyone has a heart for gossip. It was natural that everyone is curious about the appearance of the creator of the book that they’ve been following for years.

This time the editor expressed the wish that Gu Yu would accept the invitation from the organizer of this expo because the website to which Gu Yu belongs to also participated in this expo. There will be many authors joining at that time. They took advantage of the previous book’s popularity and come to promote the book that is currently being serialized to the climax plot.

Gu Yu hesitated. He always felt that it was enough to present the text and the story when he wrote a novel. He had no real feelings about the meeting, signing, and so on. He had been to exhibitions too before and there were lots of people. But because he went around as an ordinary person, no one pays attention to him. Now, if he were to go with his identity as the author, he was somewhat nervous.

But there are things that must be experienced. Gu Yu knows that one day he will have to appear in front of the public. He can escape from the first, but he couldn’t escape from the fifteenth. Despite this, Gu Yu still unable to agree to the editor’s proposal for a while, so he told him that he would think about it. The editor was only proposing the idea. Gu Yu was the one that will make the decision.

After trying to abandon his jumbled thoughts, he opened the file and began to concentrate on writing again. As a result, he couldn’t calm down at all. He wrote for a while, but the number of words he wrote was not even half of the usual speed. Fortunately, he squeezed my brows and saved the file. He was ready to find some cartoons and comics to relieve the stress when his phone suddenly rang.

At present, he changed the ringtone from the gourd baby to a pure tone that he heard by chance. Gu Yu liked it very much. Every time he couldn’t help letting the phone ring for a while, because he was always at home, not many would call him. Except for occasional advertisements that deceive people, only his family members or Li Baishi that will call him, and maybe plus Jiang Rongye.

The caller was the man from the property. He said that he comes to repair the water pipe, and asked Gu Yu to go back and open the door. His tone was quite anxious, and he kept asking Gu Yu to come over quickly. The speed of work done by this company was really slow. He has already waited for two days and it still hasn’t been repaired. After that, they even urged them to return if they are not at home. Did their job is to trick people?

Gu Yu thought he would definitely complain later!

It was working time now, so there was no traffic jam. It didn’t take long for him to return home by bus. After Gu Yu returned home, he opened the door to let the repairman in. After thinking about it, he ran and knocked on the door of Li Baishi’s house. He was going to thank Mother Li for the meal she gave two days ago. Mother Li was packing her things when Li Baishi opened the door, and she was about to go back.

The elders liked the juniors that have good manners. Since Gu Yu went to thank her specially made her impression of Gu Yu a little better. She immediately decided to leave later and prepared to show off her cooking skill and let Gu Yu stay for dinner. Gu Yu was embarrassed to refuse again, and Mother Li pushed her train schedule in order to be able to cook, so Gu Yu stayed. He had to go back to Jiang Rongye’s house after the water pipe was repaired as he didn’t bring back his things because he comes in a hurry.

While waiting for Mother Li prepare the meal, Li Baishi happened to talk about the exhibitions.

“I also received the invitation from the organizer.” Thinking of the editor’s proposal, he had a headache. He didn’t expect that Li Baishi also received the invitation and was eager to ask him if he would go. After all, Li Baishi was not the same as Gu Yu, who was the center of attention that has never appeared before.

“Then, are you going?” Gu Yu blinked when he heard Li Baishi’s question. He was thinking of asking Li Baishi if he should go.

“I don’t know, my editor suggested that I go.”

“I… I accidentally bet with someone on Weibo and I have to go… Ahhh!!!”

Li Baishi remembered that day when he suddenly talks big and said that he was going. He wished he could go back and punch himself that day. Now all kinds of news on Weibo say that he will show up in the next expo. If he doesn’t show up, Li Baishi’s credit will indeed be significantly reduced! Although his original intention was to visit the expo as a passerby and comment on the man’s oh-not-so domineering act in passing. Now that the words have come out, he can’t say something he would not have much confidence in it, right?

And it just so happened that at this time, the exhibition organizer sent out another invitation and announced on Weibo that they would invite the COSER named “Zero Seven” to participate. They also indicated that some great authors would be invited to come. There are various kinds of excitement on Weibo now. Every girl guesses that Li Baishi will come, and all of them said that they would prepare the camera for recording!

“Gu Xiaoyu!”

“What?”

“Go! Let’s go together!”

Li Baishi stared at Gu Yu with tearful eyes. Gu Yu glanced at his appearance and looked away.

Then Li Baishi started his pestering mode. After a sustained effort, he finally got Gu Yu’s word of consideration. In any case, he was not completely turned it down. Li Baishi was confident that Gu Yu would agree the next time he asked. He could knock on the door of Gu Yu’s house and annoyed him when he was at home. If Gu Yu wasn’t at home, he could bombard him with text messages and various communication software like Weibo!

Anyway, he could see that Gu Yu did not refuse this invitation so much.

The meal cooked by Mother Li tastes excellent. This time, She has prepared a lot of dishes. Gu Yu and Li Baishi ate with satisfaction. They were very cooperative with praising her. They said words like ‘it exceeded the new east’ as if they have honey smeared on their mouth, coaxed Mother Li to be happy.

After eating like this, Gu Yu suddenly missed his mother’s cooking a little. Mother Gu was also a good cook. To satisfy the appetites of her sons, she tried all kinds of cooking skills.

When he was eating happily, there was someone called Gu Yu outside. Since someone was repairing the water pipe in Gu Yu’s house next door, Li Baishi’s house’s door was not closed but opened. At this time, after the water pipe was repaired, they naturally called Gu Yu. Gu Yu put down the bowls and chopsticks and went out. Remembering that there would be no electricity at home, he tried to turn on the light by the way, but it didn’t turn on after waiting for a long time.

After asking, he found out that the other party just repaired the water pipe and will call the property company. The other party explained that they would look at the circuit, and it is expected to return to normal tomorrow. In other words, the water in Gu Yu’s home has been restored, but the electricity is still off at the moment.

After the repairman left, Gu Yu inspected the house. After finding that everything was normal, he went to the kitchen and took out some of the salted duck eggs that Mother Gu asked him to take before when he went home. He packed a small bag as the gift to thanks Mother Li’s invitation for dinner. Although it wasn’t a valuable thing, but fortunately, his feeling was enough for Mother Li. As expected, Mother Li smiled politely and wanted to say a few words when she saw Gu Yu’s look. In the end, she only said that it would be good the two of them could eat together rather than letting Li Baishi take care of his meal on his own.

After a meal, it was time for Mother Li’s scheduled train to came, and Gu Yu had to go back to Jiang Rongye’s house. He received a text message from Jiang Rongye halfway through, saying that he would go home later tonight and no need to cook the dinner for him. Gu Yu was a bit puzzled, but then he thought he might be busy and have to work overtime. It’s no surprise to return late.

In the past two days at Jiang Rongye’s house, Gu Yu is not a person who likes to take advantage of others. Since he stayed here, he must do something. Hence, after seeing that Jiang Rongye can’t cook and will only order takeout bubble noodles, he volunteered to cooks the meals. Anyway, he also cooks his own food at home, and Li Baishi often comes over to eat. It would be no problem if it were changed into Jiang Rongye.

The three of them took a taxi to the station. It was still not dark yet. Before getting on the train, Mother Li warned Li Baishi to cleaned up the room properly, don’t only eat junk food, be disciplined, and don’t stay at home every day. Go out to meet the sun occasionally, and come back if he had time. Gu Yu watched from the side, and sighed as he suddenly felt that it was “the heart of parents in the world”.

At this time, the flow of people is high, and there would be traffic. It won’t be as smooth as when Gu Yu came. With his head on the window, as the bus moved, the streetscape outside the window passed swiftly, leaving only the lamp’s vague shadow. Gu Yu’s eyelids lowered unconsciously, and his head gradually became muddled.

When he opened his eyes again, he was awakened by the conductor. Looking at the conductor’s appearance, he was a little dull. When he asked, he realized that he had accidentally slept until the last station. At the terminal, the conductor saw he was asleep and he kindly wakes him up. Gu Yu jumped up abruptly, the sleepiness in his head disappeared instantly. He scratched his hair and thanked him, then hurriedly got out of the car.

Fortunately, the community where Jiang Rongye lives was not far from the terminal, so he took the bus and went straight back. This time, he was not as unlucky as last time and stopped at the right station.

The sky has darkened. After Gu Yu reported the address, he knocked on his head in a vague way. After sighing, he took out his phone and found that two hours had passed since he got on the bus.

At the gate of the community, Gu Yu was almost stopped by the security guard. Later, another security guard came. It happened to be that Gu Yu and Jiang Rongye had met the guard yesterday when they went out to buy dishes. Then, the security guard stared suspiciously as he entered the community.

After that, he couldn’t help but sigh in relief. The security measures for the expensive residential house are good!

Jiang Rongye gave him the spare key two days ago. Although Gu Yu only used it for two days and didn’t need to go out to work like Jiang Rongye during the period, Jiang Rongye still let him keep it in case something unexpected happened. Gu Yu took the key with him when he went out today and locked the door when he went out.

When the key drilled into the hole, he found that the originally locked door had been opened by someone at this time and was unlocked. Then he heard a faint voice in the room.

Did Jiang Rongye bring friends here?

Thinking of that, Gu Yu opened the door in one move. What caught his eye was that Jiang Rongye pressed a person on the sofa. The person’s hand was still swaying in a daze. Hearing Gu Yu’s movement, he craned his neck and took a look.

As a result, Gu Yu received the gaze from ttwo figures stacked on top of each other on the sofa.

The atmosphere was extremely awkward for a while.

“Sorry to interrupt.” He stiffened and closed the door again.

His head was still stuck with the picture he just saw. It was because when the person who was pressed by Jiang Rongye looked at him, Gu Yu saw the face clearly.

It was Xu Nan.

The author has something to say :

Xu Nan: ??? (Don’t know anything)

Jiang Rongye: …

Gu Yu: …Sorry to disturbed you. You can continue.

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