Addicted to My Cutie and Sweetie

Chapter 806: It’s True If You Believe, False If You Don’t

Lu Jing’s words were so direct that they caught people off guard.

He was like the most skillful negotiator, leading his opponent step by step into his rhythm, discovering their weaknesses, and then swiftly crushing them.

Seeing Zhang Lingying’s face change instantly, unable to respond, the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

"You’re so articulate, like an expert, so what? You’re still just a lonely single." Zhang Lingying snorted, unconvinced.

Lu Jing: "..."

He felt personally attacked and couldn’t even retort.

Zhang Lingying didn’t give him a chance to mock her further, getting up and returning to her room.

Before sleeping, she specifically checked the door lock.

She wasn’t sure if it was because of Lu Jing’s words, but she thought too much before sleeping and had a bit of insomnia.

In the middle of the night, she woke up thirsty, and forgetting there was an extra person in the house, she groggily walked out of her room in the dark and poured herself a glass of water.

After finishing the water, she turned her head, ready to go back to sleep.

Who knew that as she turned, she would see a faint silhouette on the living room floor in front of the sofa...

"Ah—"

As soon as Zhang Lingying shouted, she instinctively reached out and quickly turned on the living room light.

Seeing that the person sitting on the floor was Lu Jing, the scream halted abruptly.

She looked at Lu Jing, who was sitting on the floor in the middle of the night acting all mysterious.

Lu Jing obviously hadn’t expected her to wake up in the middle of the night, and he was startled by her scream. Stiffly, he turned his head to look at her.

It was then that Zhang Lingying noticed he seemed to be staring at the balcony’s floor-to-ceiling window, lost in thought.

What was so intriguing that he stayed up watching it?

Seeing that Lu Jing had no intention of explaining his behavior, and not being all that curious herself, she lifted her foot, ready to go back to sleep.

"Someone told me that when a person dies, they become a star. You can see them when you look up, but today, no stars are visible." A deep voice sounded behind her just as she was about to step into her room.

She turned back to look at Lu Jing.

The man’s devilish eyes were covered with a thin fog, looking unfocused from afar.

There was no emotion in his eyes, yet a hard-to-describe oppressive atmosphere lingered around him.

Zhang Lingying glanced out the window, realizing that today’s weather wasn’t good, with a gloomy sky that looked like it was going to rain, so no stars could be seen.

Compelled by something, she replied, "That saying about people turning into stars is just something adults use to comfort children."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jing’s eyes slightly wavered, as if a light was extinguished, and he said, "Really? It’s to comfort children? I actually believed it."

As his expression showed obvious despondency, Zhang Lingying suddenly felt a bit of compassion and instinctively changed her tone: "...Actually, it’s not necessarily. For these kinds of things, believing makes it true, not believing makes it false."

She really couldn’t comfort people, and just as she was about to tell Lu Jing to act more normal and not be so sentimental, she heard him speak again: "My mother died."

Zhang Lingying: "..."

Lu Jing: "It was just last night."

Zhang Lingying: "..."

Whether his news was too shocking or because he spoke those two sentences too calmly, for a moment, she didn’t know how to respond.

The scene of Lu Jing suddenly appearing at her doorstep yesterday, pitifully squatting and refusing to leave, flashed through her mind.

At that time, she thought he just wanted to garner sympathy by showing his injuries.