Chapter 39: Ling Ran! Ling Ran?

  "Granddaughter, do you know how curious Grandpa is about you? There are many questions I want to ask, but with what you just said, Grandpa won't ask anything else! Some answers are better left for you to figure out yourself!"

  Mu Yu didn't expect Mu En's answer to be like this, and was slightly taken aback in her heart. She then smiled understandingly afterwards.

  Her grandfather was indeed a wise man, and his heart was so transparent. However... it's already late in the day. "Don't worry, I can only send you off this far, from now on, you're on your own... work hard..."

  The next day, Mu You was sent to the gate of Harvard University by Luo Rui'er, but he refused to take another step forward, staring blankly at the simple and ancient gate.

  "Mu Jie, why are you so reluctant to go in? Anyway, it's inevitable that we'll part ways eventually, right?" Mu You looked at her with a puzzled expression. In fact, she was still afraid of being alone in an unfamiliar environment, although Mu You couldn't accompany her in the days ahead, but for now, every extra minute they spent together was precious to her.

  Yu An comfortingly grasped the hand that was about to be let go, and with Luo Rui'er rolling her eyes in exasperation beside him, he said very seriously: "It's precisely because I'll eventually end up here anyway, so I want to save that curiosity for later. This way, maybe I can motivate myself to get here faster, because the atmosphere here is really something I love!"

  "Cut the crap!" Luo Rui'er rolled her eyes, which twitched at the corners, and no longer dared to wrong her own eyes. She pushed Nu Jie along as they walked inside, while facing away from Mu You, shouting loudly: "Wooden head! I'm going to send someone off, don't get lost without your brother's company!"

  Moyou snapped out of her daze, just about to say that she didn't have a single penny on her and couldn't even use her phone because they were abroad, wondering how she could get back by herself. But before she knew it, the two figures had vanished into thin air!

  This time, Mu You really had the urge to kill!

  Unable to do anything, I could only loiter around the entrance for a few rounds to see if I was lucky enough to bump into another Chinese person who was also abroad and borrow their phone to use. That Luo Rui'er, wait until I get back, let's see if he can still smile!

  However, Harvard ten years ago... were there really too few Chinese people? I waited for half a day and still didn't see one.

  Just as Meng Yu was considering whether to use her still awkward English to try and pick up a foreigner, a figure suddenly appeared in front of her, freezing her in place.

  The heat of summer has already passed, and it is now autumn. A gentle breeze blows by, accompanied by the warm sunlight, making everything feel cozy and comfortable. The man walks towards me from under the shade of a tree, with several books tucked under his arm. The soft, fragmented light filtering through the gaps in the leaves casts a warm glow on him, bright and elegant. In stark contrast to this serene scene is the pair of sunglasses perched on the man's face, which stands out as particularly jarring against the warm yellow tones of autumn.

  Suddenly! After the stiffness, what surged up in Mu You's eyes was a flame of anger. He had just gone abroad, and he followed her? Did he really think she was his possession? This time, she must make him understand clearly that she is an independent person with her own sky! Don't be restrained by anyone!

  "Seriously! What do you mean? I took 20% of your family's shares, but that doesn't mean I've become a possession of yours. You even want me to follow you abroad, don't you think you're being too overbearing?"

  Muyou spoke as she ran towards Ling Ran, and by the time she reached his front, her last word had already been spoken, leaving only a slightly disordered breathing sound.

  Then...the other person walked past her with a completely indifferent expression, as if she hadn't seen her at all.

  Yu Yu was taken aback, and for a moment, she suspected that she had been too hasty in judging this person to be Ling Ran just based on a similar outline. But thinking again, if it really was him, wouldn't she have been played without even realizing it?

  "Hey! I'm calling you, Ling Ran!" Mu You took a deep breath and stepped forward, grasping her wrist firmly, making it impossible for him to escape. His eyes stared straight at the sunglasses, and the more he looked, the more certain he became.

  That person seemed to be caught off guard, the books clutched in his wrist scattered all over the floor, but he didn't even bother to pick them up. He tilted his head and looked at Mu You for a long time before those perfectly arched lips slowly uttered a sentence, "Who are you?"

  This sound... although extremely short, but Mu Yu was very sure that it was indeed Ling Ran's voice. Compared to before, although it was a bit lower, the tone and feeling were something she wouldn't misrecognize!

  "Hmm, don't you recognize me?" Mu Yu's mouth curled up in a mocking smile. "It's only been two months since we last saw each other, and you've already forgotten about me? Should I be grateful that you didn't want me as your 'fiancée', or should I resent your 'heartlessness'?" Having made up her mind, Mu Yu no longer minced words, speaking in a cutting tone, trying to get him to admit it outright.

  For some reason, after saying this sentence, Mu You obviously felt his emotions drop a lot. He was first startled, and then indifferent. The shock was that he would also be heartbroken by his own sarcasm, and the indifference was that no matter how heartbroken he was, he would never be the rebellious but pure boy he saw at first sight again...

  "Miss, you really got the wrong person." The person in front of her picked up the books that had fallen to the ground one by one, dusting off the dirt, as if not wanting to entangle any further, and was about to leave.

  "I see how you're doing now..." Before he could finish, Mu Yu awkwardly stopped himself, the sunglasses in his hand feeling like a hot potato, unable to decide whether to hold on or throw them away, only thinking that this was the most embarrassing moment of his life.

  Under the sunglasses, there is a face that is equally handsome, but compared to that person, it lacks a few evil charms and has more elegance and melancholy. Those eyes are like a pool of water on an autumn day, reflecting the red leaves in the sky, making people immerse themselves in them and unable to extricate themselves.

  "Against... sorry..." Muyou's voice was as low as a mosquito hum, and her face gradually flushed with red.

  For the first time, she acted so recklessly on something, driven by a sense of urgency from within herself that even she didn't understand. She took off those annoying sunglasses, but the outcome was not as expected, or perhaps...

  "It's okay." The man in front of him spoke with a warm tone that was tinged with a hint of coolness, extremely contradictory yet extremely pleasant to hear.

  He took the sunglasses from Muyu's hand and put them back on his face, continuing to walk forward without any hesitation or lingering feelings, as if he were just a passerby... just a passerby.

  Looking at the narrow and long path covered with fallen leaves, Mu You no longer had any other thoughts, slowly walked back to the original place, and chose the most stupid method, wait!

  When Luo Rui'er came out of Harvard, he saw Mu You leaning against the main gate of Harvard University in a daze. The corners of his mouth were about to rise high, but when he saw the desolate and lonely expression on her face, they fell again. He muttered something and walked towards her with some resignation.

  "Off you go, abandoned wood!" Loriel hummed as she came up to her, circled around once, and then walked off in the direction of where she had parked.

  Muyou didn't say a word and surprisingly followed quietly until the car drove away without making a sound.

  In a place she didn't know, someone was watching her leave, with red leaves overflowing in his eyes...