Chapter 96: If I become rich and powerful, I will not forget you.

Chapter 96: If I become rich and powerful, I will not forget you.

Although we've been roommates for three years, this was the first time we'd ever gone out and had so much fun, and it might even be the last. We all had a blast.

After singing the class song, a few popular internet songs, and a few famous TV drama theme songs in a haphazard and disorganized manner, everyone's voices were exhausted. Fang Yuenian, believing that no matter how bad one person's voice is, it won't be very noticeable in the midst of a group of people shouting, also sang a few lines.

So only Li Peixiang and Wang Wei were still able to sing passionately together. Chen Yufei dragged Meng Xiaoyang to play dice, but both of them were novices and made terrible mistakes. Later, Fang Yuenian couldn't stand it anymore and went over to give them a quick game, which shocked everyone.

Dazzled by his fancy cylinder spinning move, Chen Yu exclaimed, "Holy crap, Fang Yuenian, you've been hiding your true abilities!"

Fang Yuenian snorted, thinking to herself, if you had a father who spent all his time gambling, you could do anything too.

He shoved the dice into Meng Xiaoyang's hand. "Here, try doing what I did earlier."

Meng Xiaoyang: "Can I stop playing? This isn't for me."

Chen Yu eagerly said, "Let me do it! Let me do it!"

Fang Yuenian, who considered himself an expert, kept giving pointers from the side. He glanced back casually and saw Cheng Bing pouring tea from a small pot. He called out, "Brother Cheng, I want some too."

Cheng Bing gave him a small cup, then reached for a croissant and handed it to him, saying, "Eat up."

Fang Yuenian took it and put it in her mouth, saying, "I shouldn't have sung that. My throat hurts now."

When they first came in, they were complaining about other people's wailing and howling, but the noise they made in their own room probably scared them too.

Cheng Bing: "That's not singing, that's just shouting."

Fang Yuenian: "Are you making fun of me? Huh?"

Cheng Bing smiled but didn't answer. Fang Yuenian reached out and patted his waist a few times, "Why did I shout? I sang very well, with all my heart—"

Cheng Bing could only laugh and lean back, "Okay, okay, I was wrong."

Li Peixiang was multitasking. He noticed that if he didn't pay attention to the two of them for a while, they would start flirting again, and Meng Xiaoyang was even engrossed in playing dice. Without stopping them, he quickly put down the microphone, rushed over, and picked up his drink. "Come on, Cheng Bing, let's have a toast."

Fang Yuenian was displeased and confronted Li Peixiang: "Why do you keep asking him to drink? He's already had almost two drinks."

"What's it to you? I just love drinking with our Bing-ge. I hope he becomes a top student and then rich and powerful. So, don't forget me even if you get into Tsinghua or Peking University. Cheng Bing, don't you agree?"

Cheng Bing bumped into him.

"Thank you, but I probably won't get into Tsinghua or Peking University."

Li Peixiang said, "No way, what if you have an amazing performance?"

Fang Yuenian grumbled, "I think some people are the kind who will never forget their roots once they've become rich and powerful, right, President Xiang?"

Li Peixiang raised an eyebrow. "Good to know. I advise you to offer me a drink before midnight. Hey, why are you refusing to drink? It's just beer. Did you do something that's hard to talk about?"

His meaningful gaze fell on Cheng Bing's face, and Fang Yuenian immediately glared at him angrily: "Stop spreading rumors!"

These words sounded like an attempt to cover something up. Li Peixiang plopped down and leaned close to Cheng Bing. "Come on, tell me! We've all graduated, what's there to hide? What kind of drunken misdeeds have we committed every year that make you so strict with us now?"

Fang Yuenian: "Li Peixiang".

“What’s wrong? The tighter you cover it up, the more suspicious it is, and the more curious I become,” Li Peixiang said, tilting his head back to finish the can in his hand. “Tell me about it.”

Cheng Bing glanced at Fang Yuenian, who looked slightly nervous, and then at Li Peixiang. Fang Yuenian exclaimed urgently, "Brother Cheng!"

"It's nothing, but if he drinks too much, he'll come looking for me."

Fang Yuenian: "..." Why do I suddenly feel like blushing?

Li Peixiang: "..."

"Damn it, never mind, I asked for this myself," he said, blinded by the blatant disbelief, as if he were the one flirting with being discovered. He quickly turned his attention to Chen Yu, who was engrossed in shaking the dice cup, "Hey! Stop shaking, your technique is terrible, it's all luck, no fun. Let me teach you!"

Chen Yu: "Don't interrupt, I've already beaten Xiao Yang twice..."

Meng Xiaoyang inexplicably finished two cans of beer as well, and his face began to flush.

Fang Yuenian stared at Cheng Bing.

Cheng Bing: "I'm telling the truth."

Fang Yuenian cleared her throat. "Well, I like to come to you when I'm drunk, so you should be happy about that. Why won't you let me drink?"

Cheng Bing said strangely, "Didn't you swear that you would never drink again?" He thought for a moment, then moved a little closer, "If you want to drink, I can pretend I never heard of it before."

Fang Yuenian laughed and nudged him, "What are you talking about?"

Cheng Bing looked at him seriously for two seconds, then suddenly pursed her lips slightly.

Fang Yuenian's heart tightened.

He was too arrogant after the exam and went a bit too far in just a short while. He quickly said, "No, no, no, I said I wouldn't drink, and I mean it. You... you should drink less too."

Cheng Bing smiled gently, "Oh."

Fang Yuenian felt a chill run down her spine after hearing that "Oh." She picked up her phone and saw that it was almost ten o'clock.

After Wang Wei finished singing, he returned to the sofa. Everyone was tired, so no one requested any more songs and just left the music playing on its own.

Slightly tipsy from drinking, full from eating, and tired from playing dice, they all slumped onto the sofa.

In the quiet, Li Peixiang suddenly said, "Brothers, we've graduated just like that."

The celebratory atmosphere took a sharp turn after that sentence, suddenly becoming somewhat... melancholic.

Graduation wasn't an accident; it was something they had all known and prepared for all along. But when the day actually came, they still felt reluctant to part with their companions—those who stayed up all night studying and playing on the playground together, and those three years of youth that would never come again.

Wang Wei chuckled and said, "Hey, if we can finish high school together and graduate together, that's good enough."

Chen Yu sighed, "Although I'm not a top student, I didn't skip classes, cause trouble, or do anything wrong. I did everything I was supposed to do, so... I have no regrets."

Sometimes the bonds between people are very shallow; it is already rare to be able to struggle side by side and walk a part of the road together.

Meng Xiaoyang sat up, and it seemed like he wanted to get the wine again.

Li Peixiang stopped him, "Hey, how much are you going to drink? You seem to have drunk a bit too much."

Meng Xiaoyang smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'm fine, don't worry."

Chen Yu: "If Xiao Yang wants to drink, just let him drink. He just needs to have some fun. Have you known how easy these past three years have been?"

Fang Yuenian was touched by these words. He looked over there and saw Meng Xiaoyang smiling as he opened a can of wine. After drinking half of it, he whispered, "I thought it would be very difficult, but now it feels quite easy."

He had to beat around the bush to say anything nice, and Li Peixiang had to translate for him. "Holy crap... are you praising us? Does it mean that because of us, you feel that these three years of high school have been quite happy?"

Fang Yuenian couldn't hold back any longer. First, she chuckled, then burst into a long, loud laugh. Wang Wei couldn't help but say, "You know it, but you had to say it out loud. Come on, let's have a drink with Xiao Yang."

Several people rushed forward, sandwiching Meng Xiaoyang in the middle.

Chen Yu said, "Xiao Yang, let me tell you, once we get to college, we'll be perfectly independent and great young people, right? Just like they said in the TV series the other day, your good fortune is yet to come."

Wang Wei: "Hahahaha, are you poisoned? That's right, our Xiao Yang is handsome, has good grades, is a good person, in short, everything about him is good!"

"Alright, alright, have you praised me enough?" Li Peixiang said with a laugh, "Xiao Yang is going to blush."

Actually, Meng Xiaoyang wasn't blushing; it was just that her eyes looked a little red.

Before Fang Yuenian could speak, Cheng Bing suddenly raised her glass and said, "Meng Xiaoyang, you are really excellent and brave. I admire you very much."

Meng Xiaoyang's eyes widened slightly.

Fang Yuenian now fully understood what Cheng Bing meant. He felt a pang of sadness and quickly said, "Me too, me too, Xiao Yang, you don't know, we all admire you so much."

Meng Xiaoyang held the beer can in his hand, his eyes turning even redder.

Li Peixiang quickly said, "That's enough for now. Come on, let's finish this one, no leftovers!"

So the group drank it down in no time, and their faces started to flush.

Next, everyone stopped laughing foolishly and started holding hands and pouring out their hearts to each other, tipsy as they went.

From their first impression of each other in the dormitory, to being scolded by the teacher together one day, and then to all sorts of little things, the more they talked, the more chaotic the scene became, and the emotions of parting fermented in a cycle. As the boys talked, they even choked up a little.

Chen Yu, who had drunk the most, was slurring his words. He grabbed Cheng Bing and said, "Brother Bing—uh…actually, I've wanted to ask you for a long time, do you even have a girlfriend? Otherwise, why do you never mention it, and I've never seen you secretly make a phone call? Do you know…" His tone was so sorrowful, "The girl I have a crush on, I finally confessed to her, and she actually told me she likes people like you, and even asked if I could give her your phone number…"

No one knew about this incident, so Fang Yuenian immediately asked, "What happened next? Did you give it to them?"

"Damn it, shouldn't you be concerned about how your roommate is coping with heartbreak first?" Chen Yu cursed. "Give me a damn thing, do you think I'm that stupid!"

Cheng Bing said, "I don't know about this. But I really don't have a girlfriend."

Wang Wei was stunned: "It really is! Wow, so you really were lying. Why? To have fewer admirers and focus on your studies?"

Cheng Bing thought for a moment and said, "Pretty much."

Li Peixiang said haphazardly, "That's why we're not top students, which is why you can be one. Hey Meng Xiaoyang, you really shouldn't drink anymore!"

"Brother Xiang, don't keep stopping him. If he's happy, he can have a drink!"

The consequence of their joy was that even Li Peixiang was a little unsteady, Meng Xiaoyang didn't fall down but could only laugh foolishly, while Chen Yu and Wang Wei were completely unconscious, lying sprawled on the sofa asleep.

Fang Yuenian and Cheng Bing were relatively sober, just a little tired. After all, the two of them, completely drunk, took up a considerable amount of sofa space, so they could only sit on the edge of the sofa. Fang Yuenian leaned against Cheng Bing, remaining silent.

Tonight was quite enjoyable, but it also left a touch of sadness that everything eventually comes to an end. It was almost four in the morning when Meng Xiaoyang woke up and found Li Peixiang struggling to push away Chen Yu's outstretched leg. Cheng Bing was still awake, seemingly lost in thought, while Fang Yuenian, lying on his lap, was fast asleep.

When Li Peixiang noticed that Meng Xiaoyang was awake, he greeted her, "How are you? Does your head hurt?"

Meng Xiaoyang nodded: "Mm."

Li Peixiang turned to Cheng Bing: "Why don't the three of you go get a room upstairs? You've been cooped up all night, so you can get some sleep. I'll stay here and watch over them."

Meng Xiaoyang covered his head and shook his head: "I'm not going. I'm sleeping fine. Wake Fang Yuenian up, and you two go."

Fang Yuenian didn't know if she woke up naturally or was disturbed by the voices. She looked around in a daze and asked Cheng Bing, "Are you asleep? Did I make your leg go numb?"

Cheng Bing moved her legs, which were almost numb, and said, "I'm fine."

Li Peixiang said, "Why don't you two go upstairs and get a room to sleep for a while? My uncle also owns a hotel upstairs; I already told him beforehand."

Fang Yuenian looked at Cheng Bing questioningly, and Cheng Bing slowly straightened up, "Okay."

Before they left, Li Peixiang was still worried. Taking advantage of Meng Xiaoyang and Fang Yuenian's conversation, he called Cheng Bing aside, his expression conflicted, and he hesitated for a moment before saying, "Um, Cheng Bing, you two, you two, this..."

Cheng Bing hadn't slept all night and had been drinking, so his head was a bit fuzzy. He didn't react immediately until he noticed something strange on Li Peixiang's face. Then he said, "I know." He added, "Those two..."

"Okay, okay, I understand. You guys get some sleep. I'll arrange for the others to sleep when they wake up and want to. Don't worry about them. Just call me if you need anything."

Cheng Bing nodded and said, "It's up to you."

His expression seemed off, and Li Peixiang guessed wildly that the two of them had said something unpleasant. He thought he should quickly find a place for them to be alone for a while.

Li Peixiang was adept at handling trivial matters, and with Meng Xiaoyang around, he said, "It's alright, go ahead."

Fang Yuenian walked over. "Let's go. As long as you have your ID card, it's fine, right?"

"That's enough, go ahead, there's someone on night shift at the front desk upstairs." (Author's note:)

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