Chapter 63: Holiday Hot Spring Trip (4)
While the group was happily playing in the snow, a tall young man quietly approached Ye Feilu. He stopped only after reaching a spot right behind her.
At that moment, everyone except Ye Feilu noticed him.
Squatting on the ground, Ye Feilu shaped some snow into a carrot-like stick and then stood up with a smile.
"This is Rabbit-Ear Snowski's weapon, the Carrot Laser Rod!"
However, she soon noticed that everyone's expressions looked strange. Then a deep voice sounded from behind her.
"Xiao Lu."
Hearing the familiar voice, Ye Feilu froze for a moment. She turned around and, as expected, saw that person standing there.
"Why are you here?" she asked in confusion.
"Am I not allowed to be here?" Zhou Qikuan replied with an awkward smile.
"I never said that."
Ye Feilu looked away and continued building her snowman.
"Are you still angry with me?"
"I'm not anything special to you, so why would I be angry?"
"Do you really mean you've never liked me at all?"
"No."
"Alright then. But there is still something I want to make clear. My engagement to Su Wenwen has nothing to do with me. I've never liked her."
After thinking for a moment, Zhou Qikuan decided to say it anyway.
"Oh."
Ye Feilu's expression remained cold.
"Can we at least be ordinary friends?" Zhou Qikuan asked bitterly.
"......"
Meanwhile, the other three acted like spectators watching a drama unfold. None of them said a word.
After a moment of silence, Ye Feilu finally spoke.
"Are you done? If you're finished, could you please stop bothering me and let me play with my friends?"
Then she smiled at the other three.
"Let's go do something else. I'm tired of building snowmen."
With that, she turned and started walking away. Zhou Qikuan stood there in a daze with his head lowered.
After a while, he seemed to make up his mind. He raised his head and shouted toward Ye Feilu:
"No matter what happens, I will never give up on liking you!"
But Ye Feilu still did not look back.
Even Li Nuo felt a little sorry for him and quietly asked,
"Are you really not going to forgive him?"
"Why should I forgive him? I'm not anything special to him."
Ye Feilu gave the same answer as before.
"Xiao Lu, you still like him, don't you?" An Ran'er said as if she could see through everything.
"......"
Ye Feilu suddenly stopped walking.
After thinking for a while, she answered,
"I guess I do like him a little. But I don't want to become the third person in someone else's relationship."
"Didn't he already say that he doesn't like his fiancée?" An Ran'er continued.
"Trust me. He's definitely not lying about that," Li Nuo said confidently.
"I think you should follow your heart, Xiao Lu," Wu Yuxin said.
"I..."
Seeing that all three of them felt the same way, Ye Feilu began to hesitate.
"My mind is a mess right now. You all go have fun. I... I'll go back first."
Because of this small incident, nobody felt like playing anymore, and they all returned to the inn.
After returning to the inn, Ye Feilu locked herself in her room. She even turned off her phone, clearly not wanting anyone to disturb her.
The other three understood that she needed some time alone, so they did not try to bother her.
However, less than an hour later, Ye Feilu suddenly ran out of her room with a terrified expression.
"There's a ghost!"
At that moment, the other three were playing cards in another room. Hearing her scream, they immediately rushed over.
The moment she saw them, Ye Feilu quickly hugged Wu Yuxin and pointed toward her room with a trembling finger.
"There's a ghost... there's a ghost in there... sob..."
"Don't be afraid. Yuxin is here," Wu Yuxin said softly while patting her head.
"A ghost... really?" Li Nuo's heart skipped a beat as he immediately remembered all the supernatural stories about the inn.
"Even if ghosts were real, they wouldn't appear in broad daylight," An Ran'er said confidently.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, she boldly walked into the room and carefully looked around.
"Where's the ghost? There's nothing here."
"It was by the window... over there..."
Ye Feilu pointed toward the window while trembling.
"The window?"
An Ran'er walked over, opened it, and looked outside carefully.
Still, she found nothing.
"Xiao Lu, are you sure you didn't see it wrong? There's nothing here."
"I definitely didn't see it wrong! A white figure floated past the window."
"A white figure?"
Li Nuo immediately remembered one of the online stories about a woman in white haunting the place.
Could it actually be real?
His scalp tingled.
"Maybe it was just a white plastic bag blowing in the wind and you mistook it for something else," An Ran'er suggested.
"I'm telling you, I didn't see it wrong. It was a human face."
"Could those stories online actually be true?" Li Nuo muttered, shivering.
"Don't worry. Yuxin will protect all of you."
Wu Yuxin spoke with a blank expression, showing no fear at all.
"Stop scaring yourselves. Xiao Lu definitely just saw something wrong."
After closing the window again, An Ran'er dismissed the whole matter.
"But..."
Ye Feilu still firmly believed that she had seen a person floating past the window.
"Enough. Stop thinking about it. You're probably under too much stress and imagined it. Go soak in a hot spring and you'll feel better."
An Ran'er waved her hand dismissively.
Then she suddenly thought of something.
"Oh right! We haven't tried the outdoor hot spring yet. Why don't we go now?"
"But I really..."
"Come on, stop thinking about it. A hot spring will make everything better."
An Ran'er interrupted her again.
The three girls packed their swimsuits, bathrobes, towels, and toiletries before heading toward the outdoor hot spring.
Li Nuo, however, faced a difficult problem.
Should he wear a men's swimsuit or a women's swimsuit?
But no matter which one he chose, people would probably realize he was actually a boy.
After thinking about it for a long time, he finally decided to bring a thin short-sleeved shirt and a pair of shorts.
That way, nobody would be able to tell whether he was male or female.
In reality, though, all his worrying was unnecessary.
The inn truly had very few guests.
At that time, only the four of them were going to the outdoor hot spring.
As a result, the only people he was really hiding his identity from were Wu Yuxin and, at most, Yu Haoshen.
The outdoor hot spring was beautiful and surrounded by nature.
Three beautiful girls in swimsuits happily splashed and played in the water.
Meanwhile, at the edge of the hot spring sat a blue-haired "girl" wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, looking down at a phone instead of joining them.
Soaking in a hot spring while fully dressed felt like an insult to the hot spring itself.
After staying in the water for a short while, Li Nuo climbed out because the feeling was simply too strange.
"This feels like we've rented the entire hot spring for ourselves. I guess having fewer people around has its advantages too," An Ran'er said.