Rebirth Counterattack with Space

Everyone else was in the living room.

Pei Qingyuan, Zhang Min, along with Uncle Lu and Auntie Lu, once again entered Lu Yun’s room to take a look, while Lu Aiguo, Xia Yuan, and Shitou inside shook their heads.

"Xiaoyun still hasn’t woken up?" Zhang Min’s face was filled with disappointment.

"We can’t wait any longer, the rest of us should head out first. If Xiaoyun hasn’t woken up by seven, we’ll use the excuse Shitou mentioned yesterday." At this point, they couldn’t worry about whether everyone would believe it or not, they just had to muddle through for the time being.

As for tomorrow, they would deal with it then.

Pei Qingyuan sighed helplessly, remembering the call he received last night from the leader... He couldn’t afford to dwell on it any longer, right now he had to handle the current situation. What came after would have to be dealt with step by step. As long as Xiaoyun was not in grave danger and eventually woke up, that was all that mattered.

He glanced at the time, and it was now nearing five o’clock. If they didn’t leave for the hotel soon they would be late; it was not proper to have the guests waiting while the hosts were nowhere to be seen.

Yet at this moment, Lu Yun still showed no signs of waking up. Truthfully, Pei Qingyuan had little hope that Lu Yun would wake up in time for the engagement party tonight.

"It can only be this way," Uncle Lu and Auntie Lu also sighed.

Even with all the trials and tribulations Pei Qingyuan, Zhang Min, Uncle Lu, and Auntie Lu had weathered in their lives, making them tough and composed, their hearts couldn’t help but be filled with surges of emotion at this moment.

Lu Aiguo looked worriedly at Xia Yuan, who had a flash of bitterness in her eyes. When the moment of truth arrived, she showed no sign of fragility, her expression composed as she nodded in response, "Let’s go. Aiguo has his phone, as soon as Xiaoyun wakes up, Shitou will call. We’ve also left the stylist and driver at home."

All the family members were already dressed up, especially the women, who had been made up to look fresh and beautiful by an entire team of in-house stylists who had come to help.

Interestingly, these stylists were not hired from outside but were part of the Lu Group, belonging to "Lu Entertainment."

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Everyone had left.

Shitou sat on the carpet in front of Lu Yun’s bed, quietly looking at her as she lay sleeping like Sleeping Beauty, murmuring, "Aren’t you waking up yet? If you don’t wake up soon, you’re really going to miss our engagement party."

He couldn’t help but lean down and gently kissed Lu Yun’s rosy lips.

It took him a long time to raise his head and sigh, "But if an engagement party is missed, so be it. As long as you end up safe and sound, that’s all that matters."

Time passed by the minute and second, and the room gradually darkened. Shitou remained motionless in his original posture, his eyes unwavering as he stared at Lu Yun’s face, the darkness not affecting his ability to see her face clearly at all.

After an unknown amount of time, Lu Yun’s eyelashes suddenly fluttered like the wings of a butterfly.

Shitou’s face lit up with overwhelming joy, his gaze locking on her even more intensely, not even blinking.

"Huh?"

When Lu Yun opened her eyes, what she saw was Shitou’s face, extremely close and filled with excitement. Before she could react, her head was embraced tightly.

Breathing in the familiar scent, Lu Yun quietly let Shitou hold her without struggling at all.

"What time is it now, and how long have I been out?"

When Shitou finally let go of her, Lu Yun glanced at the sky and asked.

Shitou looked at his watch; it was already 8:17 PM. At this time, the engagement banquet was probably almost over, so there was no need to waste time getting dressed and rushing there anymore.

"You little lazy pig, you’ve slept right through our engagement banquet," Shitou said with a smile that emerged on his face now that Lu Yun had woken up and appeared to be fine, not resisting teasing her a bit.

"Ah... so I’ve slept for at least two or three days then?" Lu Yun’s mouth dropped open in disbelief.

"Yes," Shitou said with a laugh, a helpless expression on his face, "You’d better check if anything has changed in the space, and then take out your phone so I can give them a call."

"Oh, alright, you call them first." Lu Yun hurriedly took out the phone from the space for Shitou.

Shitou dialed with practiced ease, and soon, amidst the noisy sounds on the other end, Lu Aiguo’s voice came through, filled with surprise, "Shitou, is it...?"

"Yes, she just woke up, and she’s all right," Shitou responded with a laugh.

"I know, I know. We’re also wrapping up here and it’ll be over very soon." Lu Aiguo nodded excitedly and gave a reassuring smile to the people around him. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

In fact, from the moment his phone rang, Xia Yuan and Pei Qingyuan among others at his table were already focusing their attention on him. Once they heard him call out "Shitou" and saw the unstoppable smile at the corner of his mouth, everyone had already heaved a sigh of relief.

Without needing further explanation, everyone was already aware of the news that Lu Yun had woken up. Although late, they wouldn’t have to worry about the birthday banquet tomorrow lacking its main guest. Thus, a lightness appeared on everyone’s faces.

"I say, Old Pei, which place has this custom of the engagement banquet’s main characters not attending? Forgive my ignorance, but I’ve never heard of it before?"

As Pei Qingyuan and his group made toasts around the tables, most people, even if they were dubious about the absence of the engaged couple, would not speak up loudly about it.

But most does not mean all, and there are always exceptions. Just then, one of Pei Qingyuan’s old buddies couldn’t help giving him a skeptical look, insisting on getting to the bottom of it.

"Haha, well, I’m not clear about exactly which place it comes from, but when I was young, this is what I was told by my grandparents and parents. Just think of it as a unique custom of the Pei family," he said.

Knowing that his "granddaughter-in-law" had woken up, Pei Qingyuan was in high spirits, and he spoke with more confidence—after all, his son and grandson had never had an engagement banquet; they’d gone straight to marriage. He wasn’t worried about people bringing up the old accounts.

In the future, if the Pei family’s descendants didn’t have engagement banquets or simply didn’t have the main couple attend them, it wouldn’t "spill over" to the Lu family’s side, and there wouldn’t be any lingering issues to deal with.

"..." Is that even possible? Not only did the person who asked the question freeze, but others who heard also smiled helplessly to themselves. Wasn’t this explanation a bit too shameless?

Zhang Min took a glance at Pei Qingyuan, the smile in her eyes spreading.

Using his in-laws and grandparents who had passed away decades ago as an excuse, nobody would be able to challenge him on that. If today Pei Qingyuan had claimed it was a custom on the Lu family’s side, it probably wouldn’t take two days before someone presented "evidence" to dispute his claim.