Chapter 26: Don't Laugh!

  The 3-on-3 basketball game was in full swing, but Lin Hui didn't take it too seriously. He had signed up for the competition solely for the prize money, but now his mindset had changed and so had his thoughts.

  Wu Mengui's studio has almost finished its preparations, and with the foundation of many awards and excellent design style, Wu Mengui has already taken two orders, one of which is a restaurant design order that is not small.

  "Boss Wu, when are you going to open for business?" Lin Hui asked jokingly as he wiped the table, today he was dragged by Wu Mengqi to be a laborer again, a daunting task, cleaning up.

  "Listen, don't call me that again." Wu Mengqi, who was wiping the window on the other side, said suddenly, "There have been a lot of things recently, let's wait another week or two, anyway, now everyone is looking for orders themselves, and there isn't much impact."

  "I'm not here most of the time, and we still need to recruit someone." Wu Mengqi's face revealed a hint of fatigue. "Sometimes I feel like I'm quite stupid, can't even do this little thing well, now my brain is a bit messy."

  It's not easy for Wu Mengui to start her own business, everything is done by herself alone, let alone she still needs to take care of school courses.

  "If you're useless, should I go find a hole to crawl into?" Lin Hui laughed and said, "Don't be too anxious either, things are done one by one slowly, don't pile everything on yourself."

  "I'm asking for your help, aren't I? It'll probably take until this afternoon to finish cleaning up here." Wu Mengqi's face fell as she looked at the blackened rag in her hand.

  "Should I feel honored then?" Lin Hui said.

  "You're quite eloquent."

  Men and women work together without feeling tired. This saying is really true. At least Lin Hui didn't feel a bit tired. The two of them chatted while they worked.

  "Ah...!"

  Just then, Wu Mengqi suddenly let out a loud cry.

  "What's wrong?" Lin Hui hurriedly ran over.

  Wu Mengui pulled Lin Hui's arm and pointed to a corner, "Cockroaches, several cockroaches..." She still had a lingering fear.

  "Haha..." Lin Hui thought something had happened, but upon hearing this, her heart suddenly burst with joy. Looking at Wu Mengqi's expression on her face, she couldn't hold it in anymore and burst out laughing loudly.

  Wu Mengui is actually still afraid of cockroaches... Lin Hui really didn't expect that.

  "What's so funny!" Wu Mengui suddenly said with a blush of anger.

  "You're still smiling!!" Seeing Lin Hui still smiling, Wu Mengqi pretended to be serious and straightened her face.

  "Stop laughing, stop laughing, really stop laughing..." He said with his mouth, but he couldn't help but continue to laugh. He just couldn't control himself, every time he thought of Wu Mengqi's expression, he wanted to laugh.

  "Don't laugh!" Wu Mengqi was furious and directly chased after Lin Hui to hit him.

  Lin Hui was not that easy to hit, but Wu Menggui seemed determined to keep chasing Lin Hui until she caught up.

  One ran and one chased, in a small workshop, two people started running around the table.

  Just as Wu Mengqi was walking past a chair, her foot suddenly tripped and she lost her balance.

  "Ah..."

  Just as Wu Mengqi had called out, a figure rushed over.

  Bang!

  The person heavily fell onto the floor, but it wasn't Wu Mengqi, it was Lin Hui. Both of them fell to the ground, with Lin Hui at the bottom.

  Just now Lin Hui was startled, wanting to hold onto Wu Mengqi but it was too late, without any hesitation, Lin Hui used himself as a cushion.

  Just as Wu Mengui was about to fall and lose her center of gravity, she felt herself being hugged by someone, then fell to the ground, but it didn't hurt at all.

  As soon as Wu Mengui saw Lin Hui, she immediately understood what was going on.

  "Are you okay?" Almost at the same time, two people asked in unison.

  The two people were slightly stunned, and then burst out laughing. However, just the next moment, the expressions of both people became a bit unnatural. Their bodies were tightly pressed against each other, their faces extremely close, to the point where they could clearly feel each other's breathing.

  Time seemed to have stopped at this moment, and both pairs of eyes were staring at each other.

  "Does it hurt?" Wu Mengqi asked, her eyes showing a complex expression, with a slight flush on her face.

  Lin Hui shook his head, "I'm fine."

  "Just fell so heavily, it's strange if it doesn't hurt." Wu Mengui said, and then she wanted to get up, but at this time Lin Hui's two hands were still tightly wrapped around her waist, and she couldn't get up.

  "Don't let me go yet." Wu Mengqi said with a red face, but without any sign of anger.

  Lin Hui naturally didn't want to continue holding on, and soon the two of them stood up from the ground. There was now an obvious layer of ambiguity between them. Just thinking about what had just happened, Lin Hui couldn't help but reveal a hint of a smile on his face.

  "You can still laugh." Seeing Lin Hui still smiling, Wu Mengqi couldn't help but scold.

  "Uh, even smiling is not allowed."

  "No way!"

  From 9 am to 4 pm, the two of them finally got everything done. Now all the preparations in the studio are complete, and we just need to find one more person to open for business.

  On their way back to school, the two of them had dinner at a restaurant outside.

  Two people walked into the school for a short time, Lin Hui saw Chen Yanxin and several people walking together with laughter, and soon Chen Yanxin also saw Lin Hui.

  Lin Hui.

  Seeing Lin Hui, Chen Yanxin and a few people said something and then quickly walked over to greet her, but just after calling out, she saw Wu Mengyi next to Lin Hui slightly stunned.

  "What are you up to?" Lin Hui stopped in his tracks and said with a smile. Now he and Chen Yanxin were quite familiar with each other.

  "We'll go shopping together, and then we'll have to go home again." Chen Yanxin said, turning her head to face Wu Mengqi, "Mengqi, it turns out you also know Lin Hui."

  Wu Mengqi smiled and said, "I didn't expect you guys to know each other."

  It was Lin Hui's turn to be surprised, "Do you know each other?"

  "What's surprising about that? Why can't we know each other?" At this time, Chen Yanxin looked at Lin Hui and Wu Mengqi with a smile that was not quite a smile, "You two...?"

  Seeing Chen Yanxin's expression, Lin Hui suddenly understood what she meant, but he didn't rush to say anything, should he say 'You misunderstood, I have nothing to do with her...'

  Only a fool would say that. Now that it's been said, I guess there won't be any relationship in the future either. If Lin Hui doesn't have any thoughts about Wu Mengqi, then so be it, but can Lin Hui really not have any thoughts?

  "Don't guess randomly, we're just friends." Wu Mengqi explained immediately, but her eyes were slightly unnatural.

  Because Chen Yanxin's classmates were waiting, she left after chatting for a few sentences. When leaving, Chen Yanxin's expression was slightly unusual, but neither Lin Hui nor Wu Mengqi noticed it.

  "Why didn't you explain earlier?"

  After walking for a while, Wu Mengqi suddenly spoke up.

  "What's going on." Lin Hui was taken aback for a moment.

  "Don't pretend to be confused, just now when Xinyin asked about our relationship, why didn't you say anything?" Wu Mengqi turned her head and said to Lin Hui.

  Lin Hui shrugged, "What's there to explain? Why are you asking this?" Lin Hui looked at her with a hint of a smile.

  Hearing such a casual response, Wu Mengqi suddenly glared at Lin Hui with a huff. "Nothing."

  ...

  Night falls as scheduled in a huge luxurious villa in Dongcheng District.

  "Hey, Zhiqiang, have you noticed that Yanyin seems a bit off lately? As soon as she gets home, she's been feeling down and depressed, like there's something on her mind." Sun Li said softly from the kitchen, glancing over at Chen Yanyin not far away.

  Chen Zhiqiang looked at his daughter and smiled, "Daughters grow up, always with some worries, it's not normal to have no worries."

  "I knew you'd laugh, hurry up and take a look, wait till something happens to your daughter and see if you can still laugh then." Sun Li said, her eyes still looking at Chen Yanxin with some concern.

  "I'll go take a look then..." Chen Zhiqiang replied, and after some thought, he indeed found that his daughter was acting somewhat unusual today.

  Chen Zhiqiang walked into the living room and sat down beside Chen Yanxin.

  "What's Xīn watching on TV?"

  "Ah, Dad, take a look." Chen Yanxin said, handing the remote control to Chen Zhiqiang as she leaned on the sofa.

  Chen Zhiqiang smiled wryly in his heart, it seemed that he really had something on his mind. That distracted look was not from watching TV at all.

  "Has something happened, tell Dad about it." If the employees of the group saw Chen Zhiqiang like this, they would definitely not dare to believe that the usually stern chairman could speak so gently.

  "Is there?"

  "Go take a look in the mirror, it's all written on your face." Chen Zhiqiang said, "Speak up, maybe Dad can help you?"

  Chen Yanxin immersed herself for a while, then said gloomily, "I just feel uncomfortable... really uncomfortable."

  Chen Zhiqiang looked at Chen Yanxin and suddenly said, "Don't tell me you've fallen for someone?"

  Chen Yanxin's face showed a complex expression, and after a while, she said slowly, "I don't know if I like it or not."

  Seeing Chen Yanxin like this, Chen Zhiqiang was speechless and couldn't help but laugh. The heart that had been hanging in the air suddenly felt a lot lighter. "What's there to be worried about? Who is it that's making my precious daughter so troubled? Tell me, let Dad hear." Chen Zhiqiang was also quite curious, his daughter had always been picky and had never taken a liking to anyone over the years, who could have such great appeal?

  "You know, I told you last time." Chen Yanxin thought for a moment and didn't hide it.

  Chen Zhiqiang was taken aback for a moment, then said, "The one called Lin Hui?" He also knew that it was Lin Hui who had saved Chen Yanxin that day. Originally, he had planned to thank him in person, but Chen Yanxin didn't let him, she didn't want to scare Lin Hui away.

  Chen Yanxin nodded, "Just now I saw him walking with another girl, they seemed to be in a good relationship."

  Chen Zhiqiang suddenly laughed and said, "You don't even allow him to make friends with other girls? Excellent men are always surrounded by many women, it's up to you to grasp it. My daughter shouldn't lack this confidence, right?"

  "But... but that girl is not only beautiful, she's also capable and has a better temper than me. After thinking about it, I realized that apart from having a rich old man as her father, there's nothing else that can surpass her."

  Chen Zhiqiang couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time, his curiosity about Lin Hui grew even more. His daughter, who had always been full of confidence, was now lacking in self-assurance and looked anxious.

  "This isn't like you, if you like someone then go fight for it, how will you know if you don't try? In the past when your mom was young, there were countless men around her who were more handsome than me, and even more who had more money than me, but in the end she still chose me..." Chen Zhiqiang said this with a hint of pride.