Lu Xue thought for a while and said, "I do have a few ideas I'd like to discuss with you. But before that, I need to find a place to stay first."
Ji Jingcheng said, "That's easy. You can stay at my place tonight. My house is quite big. There are two empty bedrooms. I'll help you tidy one up later."
Lu Xue glanced at the empty bedroom and seemed to be hesitating. Finally, she said, "Forget it. I'll find a hotel outside to stay in for the time being."
Ji Jingcheng got anxious. "Why are you being so polite? You've come to my place with your suitcase. Now you're going to carry it around to find a hotel outside. If Han Xiaolv knew about this, she'd think I'm so unkind! By the way, why didn't you go to Han Xiaolv's place?"
Lu Xue was hesitating and about to speak when suddenly there was a knock on the door. Ji Jingcheng got up to open it and saw Han Xiaolv standing outside, looking extremely anxious.
Just by one look at Han Xiaolv's current appearance, Ji Jingcheng could roughly guess her intention. He casually stepped aside.
"Lu Xue is in the back. Go in!"
Hearing that Lu Xue was there, Han Xiaolv finally let out a long sigh of relief and quickly went in to look for her. Immediately afterwards, Mu Yuze and Mu Ziyue also appeared at the door.
Lu Xue stood up. Caught off guard by seeing these three people enter, there was a faint sense of awkwardness in the atmosphere for a moment.
Lu Xue's gaze fell on Mu Yuze and she asked, "Why are you here?"
Seeing that Lu Xue was safe and sound, Mu Yuze let out a long sigh of relief. But thinking that he found her in Ji Jingcheng's apartment, for some reason, a sour feeling welled up in his heart.
He said, "What happened before was a misunderstanding. I originally brought Ding Muyun here to explain it to you."
Mu Ziyue immediately said beside him, "Yes, yes. I've already managed to get Ding Muyun to admit everything. I also brought her here to apologize to you in person. It's just a pity that we couldn't find you at your place and Ding Muyun slipped away quietly."
Saying this, Mu Ziyue felt a bit resentful and immediately took out her phone and wanted to call Ding Muyun again.
Lu Xue said, "There's no need."
She was somewhat reluctant to look Mu Yuze directly in the eye. Originally, she had already made up her mind not to see Mu Yuze again.
But now seeing him appear in front of her in such a hurry, his hair in a mess and a look of anxiety on his face, her heart softened a little.
Ji Jingcheng glanced at the current atmosphere, quietly patted Han Xiaolv and Mu Ziyue on the shoulders, and whispered in their ears.
"Let's step out first and leave some space for the two of them. Let's not be the third wheel here."
Mu Ziyue was a bit emotional and didn't want to leave. She obviously still wanted to stay and explain things further.
She thought her elder brother definitely couldn't handle the situation alone. If things got worse, it would be bad.
Han Xiaolv quite agreed with Ji Jingcheng's words. She grabbed Mu Ziyue's arm, dragged her outside while whispering in her ear.
"The matter between the two of them can only be resolved by themselves. All we can do is give a hint. Lu Xue will make her own judgment."
Mu Ziyue had no choice but to be reluctantly pulled out. As soon as the door closed, only the two of them were left in the enclosed space.
Lu Xue avoided Mu Yuze's gaze. She looked at the ceiling, then at the bookshelf, and finally lowered her head to look at her own toes.
Mu Ziyue stepped forward, hesitating to speak. Finally, he let out a soft sigh and placed his hand on her hair.
He stroked Lu Xue's long hair gently, like stroking a little pet that was throwing a tantrum, twirling her hair between his fingertips.
"I don't want to force you to give me a response. I just hope you know that what happened before was really just a misunderstanding. Nothing happened between me and Ding Muyun. If you don't believe me, you can confront her face to face."
Lu Xue remained motionless, letting Mu Yuze stroke her long hair and pinch the soft ends of her hair in his palm.
She felt the tenderness in Mu Yuze's palm and only felt that many emotions were struggling in her heart.
Finally, she slowly said, "So what exactly happened to the video I received that night?"
Mu Yuze said, "I don't know why she had that video. But she was just drunk that night. I helped her back to her room. Besides putting her on the bed, nothing else happened. She deliberately intercepted some fragments and sent them to you just to ruin our relationship."
Saying this, he let out a soft sigh quietly. Maybe it was his lack of caution that left a handle for others.
What he didn't expect even more was that Ding Muyun would choose to send this video on that night of fireworks. The perfect night of confession he had originally constructed was just brutally destroyed like this.
Mu Yuze's gaze slowly moved and finally landed on Lu Xue. He hesitated for a moment and finally held Lu Xue's hand in his palm.
"Although there's no longer a candlelit dinner or fireworks now, I still want to ask the question I asked that day again. Lu Xue, would you like to be my girlfriend?"