Chapter 27

This billiard room is located near Silin Middle School. Lu Jiyu and Li Mu came here to play a few times when they were in junior high school. However, they were still young and their skills were not very good at playing. After being beaten, they left in shame and haven't been here for a long time.

When Lu Jiyu returned, Li Mu was teeing off.

He crouched in front of the stage and looked at him sarcastically: "You and your grandmother have a really good relationship."

Lu Jiyu sat on the sofa next to her and picked up an unopened bottle of water on the coffee table. "How could it be bad? I burn a lot of paper money for her every year. I guess she's driving a Bentley and a Ferrari by now."

Li Mu's touch wasn't good this round, and he missed a putt. He cursed and walked off the court with his club in his arms. He snatched the water that Lu Jiyu had just opened but hadn't had time to drink, and took it for himself. He couldn't help but be curious: "Who is it? The pretty girl from the mall last time?"

Lu Jiyu glanced at him coldly: "Didn't Zhou Zifang tell you everything?"

Li Mu swallowed the water in his mouth and said, "He told you it can be the same. It's not the difference between a seller's show and a buyer's show."

"But why are you a little distracted after receiving the phone call?"

Lu Jiyu thought that his emotions were already showing on his face. He was indeed a little confused about how to confess to Jiang Wan that he was actually the German gangster who was rumored to have gone to No. 3 Middle School and got a place in the F University.

"What's there to be entangled about?" Li Mu was completely baffled after hearing what his good brother had said. "I think she's been hanging on to you because you're a poor student in German. If she knew you were the god of No. 3 Middle School, I guarantee she'd immediately look at you differently."

Lu Jiyu thought it was no wonder Li Mu was dumped by Li Qingxi. This guy's train of thought was so simple it was frightening. Moreover, for Jiang Wan, appearance was definitely more important than brains.

"Well, and by the way, let her know that I got into No. 3 Middle School through the back door."

Li Mu suddenly realized, "So you're afraid she'll mind this? What's there to worry about? As the saying goes, a hero doesn't ask for a way out, and a top student doesn't fear backdoors. I've noticed that you always have some inappropriate moral sense in some areas."

To be frank, Lu Jiyu didn't think this was a deception. It was just a misunderstanding. If anyone was to blame, it was because he didn't explain the misunderstanding clearly at the time. But who could have imagined that he would get into so many troubles with her in the future?

"You also know that a lie often requires more lies to cover it up. If you really care, why don't you just tell her directly?" After applying chocolate powder on the golf cue, Li Mu handed it to Lu Jiyu beside him.

Lu Ji raised his cue stick and aimed at the white cue ball. After aiming, he hit a side shot without much hesitation, and the red No. 3 ball sticking to the side of the table went into the pocket.

"Well played, but the ball spun a bit too much. It seems you're still very confused." Li Mu took the club from Lu Jiyu and looked around at the current situation on the table. "I thought that clearing the table was the starting point, but I didn't expect it to be the end of your glory."

Li Mu made a beautiful combo and the colored ball went into the pocket.

Lu Jiyu leaned sideways on the table and applauded him, his eyes fixed on his buttocks, which were still raised. "It seems my grandmother was right. A big butt is good. It makes your lower body stable and your shots powerful."

It sounds like a compliment, but it's worse than an insult.

Li Mu twisted his body shamelessly and said: "Have you not heard that men with a sticky butt have the best life?"

Lu Jiyu clicked his tongue twice: "I really want to take a picture of you like this and send it to Li Qingxi."

Li Mu stood at attention for a second: "If you dare, I will immediately detonate the earth. Then you, Lu Jiyu, will be in trouble and you will become a sinner for all eternity."

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Jiang Wan sat at a noodle shop in the food court near the school, waiting for Chen Meiyun to finish school. She ordered two servings of family-style rice noodles and then looked through the footage she'd taken that day. The school scenery was fine, but then she saw the student messages taken later in the classroom, their innocent and warm faces reflected in the camera. Jiang Wan hadn't noticed it before, but now, as she looked, she felt a sense of separation.

Chen Meiyu arrived faster than expected. As soon as she entered the store, she threw her schoolbag over and sat down opposite Jiang Wan. Her face was hot and it was obvious that she had run here.

"How are the photos? Let me see." Chen Meiyun's eyes lit up. She took the camera from Jiang Wan's hand and examined it carefully. "Sony a7m4? Who lent you this camera? Lu Jiyu?"

Jiang Wan nodded.

"This handsome guy is really rich."

"I heard from Zhou Zifang that he also enjoys skiing and flies to Europe almost every winter break. We're only vaguely acquainted with him, but he's quite generous in lending me a camera worth tens of thousands of dollars. I wonder how he'll treat his girlfriend in the future."

"I guess it's the kind that comes from the heart." Chen Meiyu added after thinking for a moment.

Jiang Guan took a few tissues to wipe the chopsticks and then distractedly thought about Lu Jiyu's heartfelt sincerity. Considering this man's usual arrogant demeanor, to be honest, it was quite hard to imagine.

After looking through the photos, Chen Meiyu returned the camera to Jiang Wan.

"How is it?" Jiang Wan asked knowingly.

Chen Meiyun calmly replied, "Jiang Wan, I think you should close your eyes and take the photo next time. I think you can take a better photo than now."

After all, there's a saying that goes: The harder you work, the more heartbroken you feel. I never thought that one day this saying would apply to Jiang Wan.

"It's just raw material now. It should be watchable once I edit it into a film." Jiang Wan was still quite confident in himself and was busy making up for himself.

Almost twenty minutes had passed since the school bell rang, and the rice noodle shop gradually became lively.

Many students wearing Jiayuan school uniforms ran in talking and laughing. Judging from their energetic appearance, it was obvious that they were from the lower grades.

Chen Meiyun glanced around and sighed, "Do you remember when we were in the first year of high school, the school held a ceremony to send off the seniors for the exam? After the whole school finished the morning exercises, the freshmen and sophomores watched the seniors do it again. I felt so stupid at the time, like a monkey letting others watch. But today, when it was my turn to stand there, I felt so uncomfortable that I almost cried. Several girls in our class had tears in their eyes."

"Wanzai, are you saying that our youth has come to an end like this?" Chen Meiyu supported her chin and looked at the girl opposite her in a daze.

Jiang Wan was also somewhat affected by Chen Meiyun's sadness, but only slightly: "But in fact, the end of one story also foreshadows the beginning of another."

Jiang Wan is a person who is willing to move forward, but that doesn't mean she is heartless and cold-blooded.

But.

"Isn't it cool, Chen Meiyun, to step into a new story with old friends?"

Hearing Jiang Wan mention this, Chen Meiyun couldn't help but frown even deeper. "Honestly, you'll definitely make new friends as soon as you get to college! After all, you're so popular!"

Jiang Wan silently reminded her: "Who on earth went to the cafeteria to eat alone for a week in a row in the first year of high school and ignored me?"

Chen Meiyu was also happy to start digging up the past with her: "That's because you were so close to so-and-so at the time. It's natural for me to be jealous! But she is really heartless. You're so kind to her, but she doesn't appreciate it."

"Oh, right." Chen Meiyun was halfway through her rice noodles when she reached into her pocket and pulled something out, handing it to Jiang Wan. "Chen Wulin asked me to give you the ticket to Cheng Xiang's writer's exchange meeting."

Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment, then took the color-printed ticket handed to her by Chen Meiyu and looked at it carefully. The last time she told Chen Wulin about this on the phone, he didn't agree immediately, but just said he would give it a try. Later, there was no response. Jiang Wan had thought that the matter had fallen through.

Unexpectedly.

Jiang Wan took out his phone and took a picture of the ticket in his hand, then sent a thank you message. He tilted his head and saw Chen Meiyu's thoughtful expression. He knew what she wanted to say and immediately changed the subject: "How are you and your Bai Yueguang?"

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"I'm telling you about Chen Meiyun's white moonlight. I really don't want to talk about it anymore. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't want to bother with him at all."

Lu Jiyu was wearing a Bluetooth headset, leaning against the concrete fence in front of his house, looking down at the picture on the drone remote control, and absent-mindedly listening to Zhou Zihua's complaints on the other end of the phone.

Li Mu leaned against Lu Jiyu, holding the instruction manual and studying it. "What did Zhou Zifang say to you again?"

Lu Jiyu tilted his head and took off one of his headphones and handed it to him. The meaning was very clear: listen for yourself.

Just now, the two of them were returning from the billiard room and passing by a large shopping mall. Li Mu saw a display behind the floor-to-ceiling windows and, on a whim, bought a drone. But he didn't dare take it home for fear of being scolded by his family for wasting money. After all, he had been scolded more often than he had eaten since returning to China. However, Li Mu still overestimated himself. When he returned to Ji Yu's house, he happily unpacked the package and wanted to test fly it. However, he felt unfamiliar with the drone and nearly crashed it into someone's window glass, scaring the elderly man who was using the bathroom so much that he screamed and cursed his entire family before he calmed down.

Li Mu was still frightened and simply gave the machine to Lu Jiyu for research.

Zhou Zifang rambled on for the longest time on the other end of the phone, all about a man named Wei Lin. He said he was two-faced, seemingly innocent but actually cunning, and that this was the man who had charmed Chen Meiyun to death. But no matter how hard you try, you can't teach people; you have to teach people through things to be effective. Chen Meiyun probably wouldn't be able to stop until she fell for him. "Lu Beibei, you don't know she bombards me with text messages at the same rate as three meals a day. Even a strong man is afraid of a clinging woman!"

"Who is Chen Meiyu?" Li Mu glanced at Lu Jiyu without knowing what was going on, but he just stared at the remote control in his hand, his face tense, and he said nothing, as if he was engrossed in something.

Zhou Zifang heard Li Mu's voice and shouted, "You two are getting together again behind my back!"

Li Mu had no time to take care of Zhou Zifang at the moment. He simply took off his headphones, leaned over, stared at the picture on the screen for a while before he felt familiar: "Lu Beibei, isn't this--." He glanced at Lu Jiyu's gloomy face and deadly cold eyes, and tactfully kept quiet.

In the center of the screen, the girl named Jiang Wan is smiling sweetly with a handsome mixed-race boy.

"How did you and my mother meet?"

"Your phone was snatched when you went out, and my mom passed by and got it back for you?"

The blond mixed-race man standing next to Jiang Wan, whose full name was Jason and whose nickname was Sen Sen, grinned and replied in very pure Chinese: "Yes, I have never seen a woman as charming as your mother. The moment she handed me the phone, I fell in love with her!"

Jiang Wan was a little suspicious that this foreign friend had downloaded some red vegetable app and had his brain washed.

The blond man had a neat hairstyle, a nice mouth and a nice nose. Of course, the most amazing thing about him was his pair of sapphire-like eyes. When he came closer, Jiang Wan looked at him carefully for a few seconds and finally understood what it meant to fall into your eyes. It was as if there was an ocean calling her in those eyes.

As for why she met him, it was because she and Chen Meiyu had just finished their meal and were about to go home when she received a call from Li Wan. She was doing some work nearby and knew that Jiang Wan was going back to school today, so she wanted to meet her. However, Chen Meiyu and Jiang Wan waited there for more than ten minutes, but did not wait for Li Wan. Instead, they unexpectedly waited for a handsome mixed-race guy.

Li Wan had something urgent to do, so she sent her boyfriend to apologize.

After Chen Meiyun spent three seconds figuring out the other party's identity, she immediately picked up her phone to dial her mother and said shamelessly:

"If there's such a good thing, I have to let my mom try it! I'm sorry, Dad!"

Jiang Wan knew that Li Wan was not a weak person, but he did not expect that his life would become more and more exciting. Even idol drama plots such as chasing a mobile phone in the street could happen to him.

However, she also knew that although Li Wan seemed open to relationships, she would definitely run away if she were to enter into another marriage. Thinking that this blond man was destined to never become her stepfather, Jiang Wan, with the mentality of taking a look at him, almost never looked away.

The blond handsome guy was very enthusiastic. Not only did he send Jiang Wan home, he also insisted on seeing her off to the door. Fortunately, Jiang Huainan was traveling recently, otherwise Jiang Wan was really worried that his father would be stimulated and take the money to go to Korea overnight to rebuild himself.

"I heard from Amanda that you're going to college soon."

Amanda is Li Wan's English name.

"I've prepared a gift, I hope you like it." The handsome guy said as he took out a Tiffany blue box from his trouser pocket.

Jiang Wan remembers watching the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with Chen Meiyun. Young at the time, all she remembers is Audrey Hepburn's stunning beauty and her first introduction to the Tiffany brand. At the time, Chen Meiyun, draped in a veil, stood on the windowsill and made a beautiful wish: "I will wear a Tiffany diamond ring and marry the person I love most."

After the high school entrance exam, Jiang Huainan and Li Wan divorced. Jiang Wan used all his New Year's money to buy two Tiffany silver bracelets in the mall, one for each of him and Chen Meiyu.

At that time, Jiang Wan had only one thought, which was to cherish the people in front of him and not to place too many fantasies on the future.

The handsome guy was about to open the box in his hand.

Jiang Wan was still thinking about how to refuse when the phone in his hand suddenly vibrated. He looked over and saw that it was Lu Jiyu calling.

It’s really timely relief.

She guessed that the other party was probably asking her about the camera, so she answered the call immediately.

The person on the other end remained silent. Jiang Wan tried to call his name, but there was still no response. She began to wonder if the cell phone signal was bad or if the other party had dialed the wrong number. Just as she was about to speak again, Jiang Wan suddenly felt a humming sound from above her head. She subconsciously raised her head to look at the source of the sound.

A black drone appeared out of nowhere and hovered in the air with its body half tilted, facing Jiang Wan motionlessly. The cold and black camera under the fuselage looked like a human eye, staring at her. This feeling of wanting to see through everything made people feel uncomfortable.

Jiang Wan turned his eyes away and took two steps to the side, but the drone followed closely, did a beautiful somersault in the air, and then landed accurately above Jiang Wan's head again.

This time she finally couldn't help herself and began to look for a brick that was handy.

At the same time, Lu Jiyu, who seemed to have been poisoned and silenced on the other end of the phone, finally spoke.

"Jiang Wan."

"Say hi."

His voice was slightly hoarse and his emotions were unclear.