When Lu Yiwei came out after changing the cat litter, he saw Mu Zhengqing and Liang Qi sitting on the sofa.
He looked around the room, then took a basketball and said to Liang Qi, "A gift for your son."
"Son? You have a son?" Mu Zhengqing asked in shock when he heard that Liang Qi had a son.
"That's right, my son just started elementary school this year. He's been pestering me to buy him a basketball, so I'll thank you both on his behalf,” as soon as he mentioned his son, a smile appeared on Liang Qi's face.
"Your son is already in elementary school." Mu Zhengqing said, shocked again. ‘If he's in elementary school, he must already be old enough to remember things, and I wonder how good Lu Yiwei would be as a stepfather.’
It seems like Lu Yiwei really likes Liang Qi, otherwise he wouldn't have specifically sent a gift that his son likes after knowing that he has a son. If this isn't love, then…
Lu Yiwei could tell from Mu Zhengqing's expression that he was still misunderstanding, so he had to continue, "Director Liang is one year older than you, he and his lover are childhood sweethearts, and they got married as soon as they reached the legal age."
“I didn’t expect Director Lu(2) to care about me so much,” Liang Qi didn’t expect Lu Yiwei to know so much about his family, and said with a moved expression.
Lu Yiwei didn’t explain. In fact, after realizing that Mu Zhengqing had misunderstood that he liked Liang Qi, he had someone investigate Liang Qi’s family background, just waiting for the right opportunity to clarify things with Mu Zhengqing.
Finally, he had waited for this opportunity, how could he let it slip away.
After knowing that Liang Qi had a child and was married, Mu Zhengqing didn’t say anything else.
It was all a misunderstanding.
Thankfully, no one knew what he was thinking, otherwise he wouldn’t know how to face Lu Yiwei and Liang Qi.
After Liang Qi left, Mu Zhengqing looked at the netizens’ comments and realised that the cat litter actually didn’t have much of a smell. The reason it had a smell just now was because the cat litter the program team bought for them was wrong.
To make amends, Liang Qi, who had just left, quickly bought new cat litter and sent it over.
Although the misunderstanding was resolved, Mulu was still mad at Mu Zhengqing. No matter how much Mu Zhengqing coaxed him, Mulu just ignored him.
In the end, it was Lu Yiwei who couldn't stand it anymore. He carried Mulu over and massaged him, which made Mulu meow at Mu Zhengqing.
Seeing that Mulu was paying attention to him, Mu Zhengqing quickly apologized to Mulu and promised that he would never dislike him again, no matter how smelly he was, and he took out a cat toy to tease it.
After an hour, Mu Zhengqing finally coaxed Mulu into a good mood. He happily hugged Mulu and kissed it, raising it high. Meanwhile Lu Yiwei was on the side, cleaning up the toys that had been scattered everywhere by the man and the cat.
Seeing Lu Yiwei silently cleaning up, Mu Zhengqing felt that he was a very unqualified father.
Lu Yiwei fed the cat, changed the cat litter, cleaned up the cat toys, and even clipped the cat's nails.
That's right, after Mulu scratched his hand, Lu Yiwei did three things. The first thing was to disinfect his hand, the second thing was to call Liang Qi and ask him to find someone to help take care of Mulu, and the third thing was to clip Mulu's nails.
Mu Zhengqing was a little worried about whether he could take good care of Mulu in the future. No, he couldn't let Lu Yiwei help him with everything.
Taking advantage of the last day of living alone, he planned to get a head start on adapting to living alone with Mulu.
"I want to discuss something with you," Mu Zhengqing said to Lu Yiwei beside him before going to bed.
"Hmm, go ahead," Lu Yiwei put down his phone and said.
"Can you pretend that Mulu and I don't exist tomorrow?" Mu Zhengqing said. Seeing Lu Yiwei frown, Mu Zhengqing quickly explained his thoughts to Lu Yiwei.
"I can take care of Mulu with you," after listening to Mu Zhengqing's explanation, Lu Yiwei frowned even deeper.
"I have to be alone sometimes. Now you're watching me from the side. If you're not around in the future, I won't even have anyone to ask," Mu Zhengqing said.
"I understand," Lu Yiwei thought for a moment and said.
The reason he agreed was because what Mu Zhengqing said made sense. He needs to work, and there will always be times when he's not around, and that's when Mu Zhengqing will have to rely on himself.
The next morning, Mu Zhengqing didn't eat breakfast with Lu Yiwei, instead, he cooked noodles himself.
Although the taste wasn't very good, he still finished all the noodles.
After breakfast, he fed Mulu and then changed his litter.
Although Lu Yiwei wanted to help several times, he held back.
To get used to living with Mulu alone ahead of time, Mu Zhengqing treated Lu Yiwei as if he were invisible.
He cooked alone, ate alone, played with the cat alone, and cleaned up the cat's toys alone.
If it weren't for the fact that Mulu couldn't bathe frequently, he might even have given him a bath.
The netizens in the live chat room quickly noticed something was off with the two of them.
But after thinking about it for a long time, they finally came to the conclusion that there was nothing wrong with it.
Other guests, when they didn't have any tasks, treated each other as if they were invisible, just like them now.
Lu Yiwei endured for a whole day, and finally waited until ten o'clock at night.
After Mu Zhengqing carried Mulu into the bedroom, he immediately looked over expectantly. However, as if he didn't see him, Mu Zhengqing put Mulu down and lay on the bed.
"It's been a whole day, and you've only said three sentences to me," Lu Yiwei said.
And all three sentences were questions.
If he had known it would be like this, he wouldn't have agreed yesterday no matter what.
"It won't be a whole day until eight o'clock tomorrow," Mu Zhengqing reminded him.
He remembered that Lu Yiwei was a time management master, the kind who couldn't stand even a minute less.
So a day is a day.
Lu Yiwei could only grit his teeth and bear the fruit of his own sowing.
It's not like it's going to be eight o'clock tomorrow.
Just one sleep and it will be over.
It's just that he forgot, tomorrow he would end his cohabitation with Mu Zhengqing and start living with other guests.
Footnotes:
陸影帝 (Lù yǐng dì): not a typo, it lit. means, “Mainland Movie Emperor”, a title given to extremely talented and accomplished male movie actors.
“Director Lu”: Weird Chinese titles, part 3. Not an actual director, but more like a person in position of authority. It’s used by fans to denote actors or celebs they think of as role models.
And with this, the first arc, co-habitation arc, is finally over. We are almost half-way done. Next chapter onwards, new characters and new drama will be introduced.
