Spring Branches

The A1645 flight that Lu Tangtang was on landed at Los Angeles International Airport at ten o'clock in the evening.

There was a child on the plane who kept crying all the way. Lu Tangtang couldn't get a good nap and felt dazed after getting off the plane.

She dragged her suitcase out of the airport with ease.

As night falls and the lights come on, the bustling city is brightly lit, with yellow lights flashing and the street lights on the criss-crossing streets as bright as day. Cars are speeding by, and neon lights are flickering on various buildings, emitting colorful lights that dazzle the eyes.

Looking at the scenery passing by outside the car window, Lu Tangtang's fair face turned red and green under the colorful lights.

When I closed my eyes and rested, Smith Tang Wen called.

Lu Tangtang answered seriously: [Teacher, I'm here. I'm on my way to the hotel now.]

Smith Tang Wen: [Okay, go over there and order something to eat and then take a nap. After you adjust to the time difference, I’ll take you to meet someone tomorrow afternoon.]

Lu Tangtang: [Good teacher.]

After hanging up the phone, Lu Tangtang leaned back against the glass.

The airport is a bit far from the hotel where Lu Tangtang is staying, but on the contrary, it is very close to the event site.

It took 40 minutes to get to the hotel and it was already o'clock.

While checking in at the hotel front desk, Awang suddenly walked in from the door.

Awang pretended not to see anything and walked towards the elevator building. Lu Tangtang saw him and called out "Awang".

Awang then stopped and looked towards the front desk, looking very surprised. "Sister Lu, are you staying here too? I was just thinking about something and didn't notice you. Sorry."

After completing the check-in procedures, Lu Tangtang took the room card and walked towards the elevator.

Seeing this, Awang ran over attentively, took the suitcase from Lu Tangtang's hand and pushed it up. Lu Tangtang struggled for a while, but Awang held it tightly, so she gave up and let Awang carry it.

"Sister, I'll take your suitcase up, so don't give in to me."

Lu Tangtang nodded, "Okay, thank you."

I entered the elevator and pressed 25, then turned around and asked Awang, "Which floor are you on?"

Awang smiled and said, "Sister, Brother Lu and I are also on the 25th floor."

This hotel was arranged by Smith Tang Wen, and Lu Chixie also stayed in this hotel. Was it a premeditated plan?

Thinking that neither Tang Wen nor Lu Chixie knew Smith, he shook his head and shook off the self-conceited thoughts in his mind.

Lu Tangtang's eyes were fixed on the slowly rising floor without blinking, while Awang's eyes lingered on Lu Tangtang with ambiguous expressions.

He said, "Sister Lu, I heard from insiders that you seem to have an award-winning work, right? You are only 18 years old and you have won an award in the United States. It is really amazing and admirable."

Lu Tangtang automatically chose to skip over Awang's flattering words in the latter part.

As for the first sentence, insider information, she has an award-winning work? She herself doesn't know. Moreover, all the experimental results made in these years were attributed to Smith Tangwen in order to repay his kindness.

She doesn't have a single outstanding work that has been revealed to the public; all of them are just a little bit worse.

"They are all rumors." Lu Tangtang said lightly.

Awang opened his mouth and was about to say something, but he saw Lu Tangtang covering her mouth and yawning, so he swallowed his words.

When the elevator reached the 20th floor, Awang's cell phone vibrated.

Lu Tangtang glanced at him and quickly looked away.

Nothing was seen.

Awang: [Hello, Brother Lu.]

When she heard that it was Lu Chixie, Lu Tangtang's heart beat suddenly faster for some reason.

Awang glanced at Lu Tangtang, with a smile on his face, "I'm with Sister Lu, she also lives on the 25th floor of the same hotel, isn't that a coincidence?"

Lu Tangtang: “…”

Lu Tangtang was speechless and thought: How interesting, you guys can just make your calls and talk about what you want to say, why drag me in? I have nothing to do with you.

Just as I was thinking this, the elevator stopped at the 25th floor and the door opened.

As soon as Lu Tangtang stepped out, she heard Awang say, "Sister Lu, Brother Lu is looking for you."

"What?" Lu Tangtang looked confused and turned to look at Awang.

Awang came out dragging his suitcase, pointed to his cell phone, and said slowly, "Brother Lu wants to talk to you."

"..." Lu Tangtang: "I have something else to do."

After saying these four words indifferently, Lu Tangtang took back the suitcase and walked towards her room.

After swiping the card to enter, the room was decorated in a very popular style, with a faint scent of peaches, her favorite smell. The bathroom was also very spacious, with an oval pink bathtub and a basket of rose petals in the flower basket on the cabinet.

After taking a shower, Lu Tangtang wore a silk pink suspender dress pajamas and changed into the three-piece suit she brought with her on the bed.

Whenever Lu Tangtang stayed overnight outside, she would bring her own quilt covers and sheets, which were clean and hygienic, and she would feel at ease when she slept.

Lu Tangtang was very tired today, so she simply took care of her skin and went to bed.

Just as I was about to fall asleep, someone rang the doorbell from outside.

She is very irritable when she wakes up, especially when she is woken up just after falling asleep.

"Who is it?" Lu Tangtang asked in a daze, standing at the door, holding the white wall with one hand and slapping his mouth with the other hand and yawning repeatedly.

"I."

Lu Chixie's voice reached Lu Tangtang's ears, and she shuddered all over and instantly no longer felt sleepy.

"What's the matter?" Lu Tangtang pretended to be lazy and tired, "I'm very sleepy."

Lu Chixie: "Why didn't you answer my call just now?"

His voice was very soft, and his tone didn't sound like there were any complicated emotions, but there was still an electric current that went through Lu Tangtang's heart, making her feel tingling.

Lu Tangtang was silent, not knowing how to explain.

She was a little afraid of his weirdness, very angry at her initial decisiveness, and missed him a little.

After a while, Lu Chixie's voice floated in through the crack in the door again: "Since you didn't answer the phone, I had no choice but to come find you."

Lu Tangtang still chose to remain silent.

"Open the door, I want to talk to you."

Lu Tangtang still maintains the virtue of silence is golden.

If there was no reply the first time, Lu Chixie could coax her. If she was still silent the second time, he would patiently coax her again. If she was still indifferent the third time, Lu Chixie lost his patience.

He frowned, his gloomy face became more and more embarrassed, and a strong sense of hostility emanated from his whole body:

"Lu Tangtang, nominally I am still your brother. We are on the same household registration book. Is this your attitude towards your brother?"

"You've become my brother now?" Lu Tangtang sneered, his eyes gradually turned red, his voice was as cold as ice: "After sleeping with me, I left me alone in a strange city, why didn't you think of our relationship?"

Lu Chixie sighed and admitted that his solution to the problem was not perfect. He reflected on it and suffered a hundred times more physical pain.

But it has already happened, and we can only look forward.

He said, "Tangtang, that was my fault, but it won't happen again."

after.

Hearing these two words, Lu Tangtang couldn't tell whether she felt good or bad.

She loved him, so she was naturally excited and happy that they could have a future together. This was also part of her dream.

But he still has a girlfriend, how can he have the nerve to say such things?

Moreover, as long as Lu Chixie didn't explain, Lu Tangtang would never believe what he said.

Lu Tangtang's tone was as cold as her expression: "Lu Chixie, you have a girlfriend, and you officially announced your relationship not long after you broke up with me. Don't you feel embarrassed when you say these things now?"

Lu Chixie, who was outside the door, had just taken the room card handed to him by Awang. After hearing this, his face suddenly changed. He clenched the room card in his hand, squeezing it harder and harder.

The edges of the room card were sharp and Lu Chixie's skin was tender, so blood dripped down the room card onto the ground, making a clicking sound.

Seeing this, Awang, who was standing by, widened his eyes and quickly took the card from Lu Chixie's hand.

"Lu Tangtang." Lu Chixie called in a very soft voice.

"..." Lu Tangtang didn't respond.

Lu Chixie said again: "Go to bed early."

After saying that, he turned around and just as he grabbed the door handle to push it inside, a familiar sharp voice sounded from behind him.

An Zaolin walked out of the elevator, wearing a black hip-hugging suspender skirt, and looked at Lu Chixie's back and shouted, "Chixie."

The sound of high heels tapped on the ground, and An Zaolin smiled, "Chi Xie, wait for me. I brought some midnight snacks and wine. Let's go have a drink."

Lu Tangtang: “…”

Now, Lu Tangtang was completely enraged.

There was no way she could let his words affect her mood anymore.

*

After being woken up from her sleep, Lu Tangtang was no longer sleepy.

I lay in bed, tossing and turning, but couldn't fall asleep.

The room was pitch black with the lights off. A few soft lights shone through the gaps in the white curtains. That was the color of the neon lights in the metropolis.

Lu Tangtang got out of bed and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

At two o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles, the sky is dotted with twinkling stars, blending with the brilliant lights in the distance, making it difficult to distinguish.

The tall buildings are majestic and stand neatly and orderly in the vast night. The Santa Monica Beach not far away also adds a lot of beauty to the city.

During the ten years in the United States, Lu Tangtang liked to go to Santa Monica Beach in the evening. The sunset there was so beautiful that it could make people forget their worries.

Lu Tangtang closed her eyes and took a breath, then took out her cell phone to take a picture of the beautiful night view and posted the first circle of friends in her life.

Copywriter: Hello!

Lu Tangtang only has a few people on WeChat, and they are all close friends.

She likes to watch other people post on WeChat Moments, but doesn’t like to post on her own.

Today was a surprise. Emotion overcame rationality and I finally posted something.

After a while, someone liked the post on WeChat Moments!

The first like and the first comment were both given by Bobby Au-yeung.

Bobby Au-yeung: The scenery is beautiful, and I hope you are happy taking pictures of it.

Zhang Man: This is Los Angeles, it’s so beautiful! I want to go there someday!

Professor Kong: It's so late, why aren't you sleeping yet? Go to bed and come to the lab early tomorrow!

Lu Tangtang shook his head and smiled, then took his phone back and put it in his pocket.

After a while, Bobby Au-yeung called and Lu Tangtang was puzzled.

He never calls so late, even though I know he's not asleep, but today I called urgently and the phone kept ringing, continuously.

Is it something important?

[What's wrong?] Lu Tangtang picked up the phone and asked.

Ouyang Zhenhua said: [Are you and that Lu Chixie together? ]

Lu Tangtang frowned, [What do you mean?]

Bobby Au-yeung said: [I took a screenshot and sent it to you on WeChat.]

Lu Tangtang opened WeChat to see.

Lu Chixie posted a Weibo.

Copywriter: Revisiting an old place is like carving a boat to find a sword, but only that year, better than every year

The picture is... the night scene she just took...

When did he steal her picture?

None of them have WeChat.

Is there anyone in the circle of friends who knows Lu Chixie and sent this to him?

Ouyang Zhenhua's voice was very cold: [Do you two know each other? Both of you are surnamed Lu.]

Lu Tangtang remained silent, her whole attention focused on Lu Chixie's Weibo post, and she didn't hear clearly what Bobby Au-yeung said.

Why did Lu Chixie steal her pictures?

What does his copy mean?

While hesitating, Weibo had already been downloaded and Lu Tangtang logged in with her mobile phone number.

After logging in, Lu Tangtang opened the search box, and the first hot search was about Lu Chixie’s Weibo.

Lu Chixie's circle of friends

The meaning of carving a boat to look for a sword

Lu Tangtang suddenly panicked, afraid that she would be pulled out.

I am more worried about Lu Chixie.

Tomorrow is the Oscars ceremony.

He can't have any mistakes.

He entered the entertainment industry at the age of 10, and is now 24 years old, 14 years. Most of the movies he made are martial arts and fighting types, and each work is popular all over the country. A suspense movie was released some time ago, and the box office is the highest in the history of the entertainment industry, which is not much different from a hit movie in the United States. The most serious injury was that he stayed in the intensive care unit for a month and was rescued for 72 hours. Even if it is his turn, it is his turn to get the most recognized title.

Lu Tangtang read the comments one by one.

Ouyang Zhenhua on the other end of the phone was getting upset as he couldn't get Lu Tangtang's answer for a long time.

He said: [Lu Tangtang, what do you mean? I treat you as my best friend, but you are hiding this from me?]

[No.] Lu Tangtang explained: [We know each other, and our relationship is very complicated.]

[You still don't want to say it?] Bobby Au-yeung said in a cold tone, and sneered at himself: [Okay, I know, I'm hanging up.]

Hearing the busy tone in his ear, Lu Tangtang sighed.

Suddenly thinking of something, Lu Tangtang's face darkened and he clicked on the new friend notification on WeChat.

Just two months ago, I received a notification on WeChat to add a friend, and I added the account by searching. But I was busy with experiments at the time and ignored it.

This person is very strange. His avatar is black, he has no nickname, his WeChat ID is a long string of numbers and pinyin, and the background picture of his Moments is also black, with a single line inside.

A strong feeling told Lu Tangtang: This is Lu Chixie.

Lu Tangtang took a gamble.

I covered my camera and made a video call to this stranger friend.

The video call lasted for ten seconds, but there was no answer. Lu Tangtang's heart was in her throat.

My breathing suddenly became very rapid.

At the twentieth second of the ring, when Lu Tangtang was about to hang up, the person on the other end picked up.

The video is facing the ceiling.

Lu Tangtang didn't say anything.

"Who!"

A sharp and thin voice was heard, followed by the appearance of An Zaolin's heavily made-up face, wrapped in a bath towel.