YA Ch96: Moqiao

Ming Yan lay on the bed, unable to sleep because of the teasing from the study room. He waited for a long time, but Lu Yu still didn’t come, so he called over President Ball to play a round of SmartBrain.

He first checked the live feedback for Shooting the Heavenly Wolf. Everyone was very upset about the morning’s interruption, but quite satisfied with the afternoon content. The afternoon episode was about the Cheng family girl who had broken off her engagement; she followed the scholar through hardships and calamities everywhere, with no way to survive, and finally arrived at Hua Wenyuan’s territory seeking a job. At that moment, Hua Wenyuan was standing on a high hill, a young general brimming with pride.

This was a major highlight in the story. Though it was a cliché, it was still satisfying.

After reading the feedback for a while, Ming Yan felt relieved and exited the interface. Seeing that Lu Yu still hadn’t come, he decided to look up some information on the AI Data Alliance to find out who this Mitchell Li really was.

The official website was hosted abroad, and it loaded very slowly. After a while, he finally found the personnel section. As the page loaded line by line, a profile photo gradually appeared.

The woman in the photo had no makeup on and wore a serious expression, but that did not detract from her beauty in the slightest. Her defined jawline and high nose bridge gave her a heroic look, making it hard for one to look away. More importantly, this woman bore a seventy percent resemblance to Lu Yu.

If it weren’t for the overly stern expression, Ming Yan might have thought it was Lu Yu secretly cross-dressing and posting a photo on a fake official website to mess with him.

Reading further down: Mitchell Li, a graduate of M State Institute of Technology, holder of dual PhDs, senior professor, member of the World AI Research Group, recipient of numerous…

A bewildering array of awards that seemed disproportionate to Professor Li’s age, who was not yet fifty.

Ming Yan’s brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

M State Institute of Technology, a woman, working with the AI Data Alliance, which is connected to the Lu family, Mitchell, Moqiao… He couldn’t help but overthink it.

Lu Yu stayed in the study room in a daze for a long time.

Earlier, he felt sorry for Lu Dayu. Lu Dayu was like a scene on a computer desktop—he disappeared and became “that dog” occasionally mentioned by others, while he, Lu Xiaoyu, held onto Yan-ge and obtained long-lasting happiness.

Now, Lu Dayu’s memories were starting to appear.

If one day all the memories returned, Lu Dayu would be back!

During the time when Lu Dayu’s body was occupied by him, not only did he manage to win over Yan-ge and eat carrots, but he also gained the approval of the parents. When the memories return, Lu Xiaoyu will disappear, and Lu Dayu will possess everything.

Damn! So I’m the one who’s actually the dog!

Lu Yu lay down on the carpet in the study room, right in the spot where he had first woken up, playing a character in a game who returns to base to heal after losing a lot of HP. He muttered to himself, “Don’t come back, don’t come back.”

“Father, what are you playing?” Mermaid ball flew above Lu Yu, scanning his body condition.

Lu Yu patted Mermaid ball’s head. “Dongdong, do you have a recording of the scene when Father fell on November 9th? It would be best if it included the trajectory, landing point, and impact force.”

Lu Dongdong swished its fishtail and said, “I wasn’t inside the balloon that day, so I couldn’t record you falling from a third-party perspective. But I did record the body’s motion trajectory. It indicates that it was a stationary fall, with no running or somersaults.”

Lu Yu looked closely and said, “Great, simulate a model just in case.”

Mermaid Qiu blinked, “What kind of ‘just in case’?”

Lu Yu sat up and pressed the spot on his head where he had hit it, then made a fist and gave it a hard knock. “If I ever turn back into Lu Dayu, I’ll just knock myself again.”

He returned to the bedroom and pounced onto Ming Yan, who was leaning against the headboard. He whined and snuggled, “Yan-ge…”

Ming Yan moved the light screen in front of him and said, “I have something to tell you.”

Lu Yu tilted his head at him, “Why so serious? Have you changed your heart?”

Ming Yan flicked his forehead, “No, look at this.”

Lu Yu rolled over and rested his head on Ming Yan’s chest, looking at the light screen. After a while, he said, “Hey, she looks like me in women’s clothes…” Then, his smile faded.

Is she… Li Moqiao?

Ming Yan didn’t speak, waiting for Lu Yu to figure it out on his own.

Lu Yu gave a bitter smile. “Damn, I really do have connections, huh?”

Ming Yan stroked Lu Yu’s face. “If she is your biological mother, then the strange behaviors of the Lu family can be explained. They were doing it for Mitchell’s benefit.” Letting Mitchell see that they were taking good care of Lu Yu, in hopes of gaining assistance on obtaining admission approval.

After Lu Yu posted the recording on BirdBook and caused a commotion, Professor Li, who was far away in M Country, saw the news and immediately removed the Lu family from the list.

Ming Yan felt a bit happy. From this perspective, the biological mother still cared about Lu Yu.

However, Lu Yu shook his head and sneered, “If it’s really her, would someone of her stature only see my news through a trending search?”

NiaoShu is a globally used app, and foreigners use it too. If she cared about Lu Yu, why would she have to wait until it became a hot topic, crashing NiaoShu’s servers, before noticing it?

Ming Yan fell silent. Indeed, if Li Moqiao truly cared about Lu Yu, her behavior wouldn’t be like this. This seemed more like leaving a puppy in someone else’s care and only when the puppy ran away and made it to the news did the owner, out of anger, refuse to pay the caretaking fee.

Ming Yan kissed Lu Yu’s forehead, “It doesn’t necessarily mean anything; it could be a coincidence. What were you going to tell me just now?”

Sure enough, Lu Yu got distracted. He rolled over and lay on top of Ming Yan, tilting his head to kiss his chin, “If I turn back into Lu Dayu, will you still love me?”

“I’ll still love you,” Ming Yan stroked the back of Lu Yu’s head, sighed, and honestly said, “But we might not be able to stay together for long.”

Lu Dayu was decadent, alcoholic, and refused to communicate—being together for a long time would be painful for both of them.

“Right, he’s impotent,” Lu Yu said angrily. “I don’t want to turn back into Lu Dayu.”

Ming Yan was helpless, “How is he impotent?”

Lu Yu pouted, “Married for three years, with a great beauty beside him and did nothing. If that’s not impotence, what is it? Unlike me—I got my prize within three weeks, hehe…”

Ming Yan watched Lu Xiaoyu slide onto his lap, chuckling to himself, and laughed while ruffling his hair.

Lu Yu enjoyed his thoughts for a moment, then persistently asked, “If I turned into a puppy, would you still love me?”

Ming Yan: “Puppies are so cute; I’d design pretty little suits for you and take you to work with me.”

Lu Yu: “What about a snake?” Snakes aren’t cute.

Ming Yan: “I’d wrap you around my neck as an accessory.”

Lu Yu: “What about a cockroach?”

Ming Yan: “…”

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Author’s Note:

Ming Yan: Don’t push me to slap you while we’re flirting.