Chapter 500 339: We Live Together

She could just get up a little earlier tomorrow and wash the bowls.

'Hmm... maybe Lin Ruoxi will leave in a bit?'

"So sleepy..." Gu Muxue yawned. The medicine she took earlier had a sedative effect, and she hadn't expected it to work so quickly.

...

Lin Ruoxi sat on the sofa in a daze. It was already nine o'clock at night. 'Should I go back to the university?'

Xue Rui had called several times asking where she was. She'd told him via WeChat that she was having dinner with Gu Muxue.

She had been nervous while typing, but Xue Rui wouldn't be able to tell she was lying through text.

No one could find out about Gu Muxue's illness. That was what Gu Muxue wanted.

'But no matter how you look at it, she and Xue Rui are the beneficiaries.'

She decided to secretly keep it from Xue Rui and tell him that she and Gu Muxue had become good friends.

Lin Ruoxi replied to Xue Rui: [Rui, I'm not coming back to the university tonight. I'm staying with Gu Muxue. Master Yang gave me a key.]

Xue Rui was pacing below the dormitory building. Just as he was about to go out and look for the girl, he received a message that shocked him to his core.

'Lin Ruoxi is staying with Gu Muxue?'

He had once thought about having Lin Ruoxi and Gu Muxue become best friends, which would make their conflict easier to handle...

'But their conflict had become irreconcilable, yet Ruoxi got the key to Muxue's apartment?'

Confirming it would be simple. He just had to make a call to Yang Xing.

However, he had a nagging feeling there was more to it.

Xue Rui: [What's the address? I'll come over and see.]

Lin Ruoxi: [Don't come over. She doesn't want to see you.]

Xue Rui scratched his head, feeling like everything was spinning out of his control...

...

「The next morning」

A question still hanging in his mind, Xue Rui woke up early and ran to the dormitory opposite his to glance downstairs.

Lin Ruoxi hadn't come...

'Was this what being abandoned felt like?'

'Playing hard to get? What's going on?'

He took out his phone and saw a message from Lin Ruoxi saying she would be at the university later...

Xue Rui: "..."

At that moment, Lin Ruoxi was standing in front of Gu Muxue's bed. She had looked up Gu Muxue's class schedule on the campus app and found that Gu Muxue had a class first period this morning. However, Gu Muxue showed no sign of getting up.

She pulled open the curtains, letting the morning sunlight spill into the room.

She had looked up a lot of information about depression last night. Some sources said that getting more sun was beneficial for recovery.

The sunlight fell on Gu Muxue's face, but she only showed a pained expression, burying her head deeper into the blankets like a little cat curling into a ball.

"You have a class first period this morning. Time to get up, okay?" Lin Ruoxi said softly, gently lifting a corner of the blanket.

"Mmm..." Gu Muxue mumbled in response.

Lin Ruoxi nodded and took away Gu Muxue's dinner tray from last night. 'She did eat after all. That's a good sign.'

But by the time Lin Ruoxi finished washing the dishes, she found that Gu Muxue had fallen asleep again...

"Time to get up and get dressed," Lin Ruoxi said again.

Gu Muxue shifted a few times and replied subconsciously, "Mmm."

Lin Ruoxi knew it was probably the effect of the medication, or maybe that Gu Muxue hadn't rested well in a long time...

But she couldn't skip class. Gu Muxue hadn't requested a leave of absence.

She gently helped Gu Muxue sit up in bed. "You can sleep in class, too. Just get up first."

That's what she used to do in high school—work at home at night and sleep at school during the day.

Lin Ruoxi sighed. The Gu Muxue in her memory wasn't like this. Her eyes filled with sympathy, she hugged the dazed Gu Muxue and gently patted her on the back. "It's going to be okay."

She picked up the clothes from the hanger and slowly began to pull them over Gu Muxue's head.

Just then, Gu Muxue seemed to realize what was happening, and her face instantly flushed red to the tips of her ears.