Chapter 41 The Truth
Sunday is Tan Shu’s birthday.
Because of Yan Sui's family affairs, she originally didn't plan to celebrate it, but under Yan Sui's persuasion, perhaps because of Yan Sui's words "I will feel guilty if you don't celebrate your birthday because of me", Tan Shu finally decided to find some good friends to go to the restaurant for dinner.
The meal was scheduled at a Sushan-style home-style restaurant in the evening.
Yan Sui and Tan Shu's family lived close together, so they set out from Luwan together.
Tan Shu put on some makeup today, which was done by Yan Sui.
Yan Sui's makeup aesthetics remained at the time of her rebirth. At that time, the girls on the street had long since shed their heavy makeup, and everyone preferred to apply makeup based on the characteristics of their facial features.
Initially, Tan Shu thought Yan Sui's makeup was too light and wanted her to go heavier. But after the full makeup was applied, she was completely shocked by her appearance.
This makeup look was different from her usual favorites. She changed the currently popular straight brows and created upturned eyebrows that suited her face shape. She also changed her lipstick from Barbie pink to a bean paste pink that blended with other lipstick colors, which matched her eye makeup perfectly.
Tan Shu hugged Yan Sui and kissed her again and again, leaving light lip marks on her face.
Yan Sui let her hug him and laughed with her.
Seeing Tan Shu so happy, Yan Sui felt a lot more relieved.
She knew that Tan Shu must love the hustle and bustle, and she didn't want Tan Shu to miss the birthday party because of her.
In the taxi, Yan Sui helped Tan Shu put on makeup for the entire afternoon. As they chatted about makeup, she forgot to ask who Tan Shu had invited to the party.
She was not concerned about others, but was deliberately avoiding Yu Shuli.
But Yan Sui knew that Tan Shu and Yu Shuli had a good relationship, so the probability of inviting him was still very high.
She didn't tell Tan Shu about her and Yu Shuli, mainly because she didn't want her to change her social life because of her.
Yan Sui couldn't refuse to attend the party just because Yu Shuli was coming.
That wouldn't be good for Tan Shu.
She and Yu Shuli could not avoid this party.
When we arrived at the restaurant's private room, someone had already arrived earlier.
Although she was mentally prepared, the moment Tan Shu pushed open the door of the box, Yan Sui's gaze still paused for a moment when she saw Yu Shuli's silhouette through the gap.
"The birthday boy is here!" A boy sitting next to Yu Shuli was the first to see someone coming in through the door.
Then, Yu Shuli also looked towards the door.
The moment their eyes met, Yan Sui saw the joy in his eyes.
But this joy didn't last long and slowly faded away, replaced by frustration.
In just a second, his emotions were fleeting, and it was unknown what he was thinking about.
Yan Sui's gaze fell on him for a second, and soon moved away with Tan Shu.
Tan Shu smiled and greeted Yu Shuli and the others: "You two are here so early!"
"Right! I definitely put my sister's birthday first in my heart, so I dragged Yu Shuli here early. Oh, by the way, Cheng Jia went out late and may arrive late. I don't know what this bastard is doing. He actually dared to be late for my sister's birthday. Sister Shu, remember to punish him later." The boy happily held a handful of Tan Shu, and did not forget to drag down another classmate in the same class.
Everyone here today has a good relationship with Tan Shu, so there's no need to be shy about joking around.
Tan Shu immediately responded, "Then remember to help me hold him down while I cut him in half."
"Of course, boil some water before peeling. Heat the oil in a pan. We're celebrating the New Year tomorrow."
“Hahahahahahaha.”
After making a joke, Tan Shucai remembered Yan Sui behind him and turned sideways to push Yan Sui forward: "I almost forgot to introduce you. This is Yan Sui from the first class of liberal arts. She is my good friend."
The boy said politely, "I know. She's the girl you always talk to by the back door of the classroom! My name is Chen Wensheng, and I sit in front of Tan Shu."
Yan Sui greeted him.
Chen Wensheng slapped Yu Shuli on the shoulder again: "This is the class beauty, Yu Shuli."
Before he finished speaking, Tan Shu beside him couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Yu Shuli waved Chen Wensheng's hand away with an unhappy look on his face: "Don't talk nonsense to me."
“That’s right!”
The two brothers started arguing, and Tan Shu also leaned over to whisper in Yan Sui's ear: "Some time ago, a boy in the third year of high school handed a love letter to Yu Shuli at the door of our class. Chen Wensheng saw it. He was promoted from class idol to class beauty."
This was the first time Yan Sui heard this story and she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.
Yu·Class Beauty·Shuli didn't seem to like this title, but she couldn't compete with the boys around her, so she could only sit down alone and sulk.
Seeing this, Tan Shu hurried out to "maintain order": "Alright, alright, be careful not to upset anyone. By the way, what's wrong with Yu Shuli today? He doesn't seem to be in a good mood!"
Yan Sui followed Tan Shu and sat down in the two seats at the back of the box, next to Chen Wensheng and Yu Shuli. There were four seats between her and Yu Shuli. With a slight tilt of her head, she could see Yu Shuli's expression clearly.
Yu Shuli seemed to glance over here, but quickly retracted his gaze and drank a glass of water in a muffled voice: "No."
"Who offended you? Today is my birthday, can you please give me a smile?"
Hearing this, Yu Shuli was forced to raise his head and slowly grinned at Tan Shu.
Tan Shu: “….”
Tan Shu: "Forget it, just turn back! Your smile is uglier than crying."
Chen Wensheng was laughing so hard that he couldn't straighten his back. After he had laughed his heart out, he came to excuse his brother, saying that he probably hadn't woken up yet and that he would be in a good mood after drinking two bottles of wine.
While we were chatting in the box, the rest of the people slowly arrived.
Except for Yan Sui and another girl who were from the next class, the rest were all students from Science Class 1.
Tan Shu has a cheerful personality and gets along well with both boys and girls. Science Class 1 is mostly boys, so half of the people who came to eat today were boys.
When boys get together for a meal, someone is bound to bring up the idea of drinking.
Thinking that today was Sunday, Tan Shu asked the waiter to bring a few bottles of beer.
In Tan Shu's impression, Yan Sui didn't drink, so she ordered a bottle of Coke for her.
Someone immediately asked, "Why only order Coke for your friend? Don't you want to drink some together?"
Tan Shu immediately retorted: "Why don't you just drink? She doesn't drink."
In fact, Yan Sui can drink at this moment.
In her previous life, work often required her to dine with clients, and drinking was inevitable when she spoke with those difficult clients. She didn't know why this "drinking culture" was so prevalent at the dinner table, but Yan Sui only knew that the more she drank, the faster the contract would be signed, and the more projects she would win.
In Tan Shu's eyes, she is still a seventeen-year-old student, and he doesn't know that she learned to drink when she grew up.
Yan Sui didn't say anything. She actually enjoyed the feeling of being protected.
There's a reason why Tan Shu is so popular. Her cheerful and cheerful personality allows her to chat up anyone who's talking. She's always able to happily add a few words to any topic raised, keeping the entire room lively from the beginning until now.
When a group of people start chatting, they always start with the latest conversation.
A girl asked about the choir: "Shushu, are you guys going to have a competition soon? I saw you guys rehearsing in the lecture hall on Friday, and I overheard you while I was cleaning the assigned area."
Tan Shu drank two bottles of wine, and his cheeks were already flushed: "Yes, yes, it's December, right?"
She shifted her gaze to another choir member at the table.
Yu Shuli nodded and answered the question for her.
"I really want to go to the concert with you guys. Can you send me a copy of the concert venue? I'll see if I can skip class and go watch your performance there that day."
"Well, after their choir competition is over, they will perform again at our school on New Year's Day. Can't we just listen to it then?" Cheng Jia said.
The girl sitting on the other side of that girl winked and said, "Do you think she really came to watch the game?"
"Ah, if it's not a competition, then what is it?"
The group of girls suddenly started laughing, and the girl who asked the question first blushed.
She waved her arms, trying to change the subject: "Okay, don't talk about me. Let's talk about something else!"
Her friend still gave her face and changed the subject away from her.
After chatting for a while, another girl at the table who was not in their science class suddenly asked, "Shushu, is the friend next to you the one who sang with you last year?"
"yes."
"Eh? I remember you were chosen for the choir? Why didn't you go?"
This question made Yan Sui look stunned.
Not only was her mind stunned, but Yu Shuli, who had been sitting there silently and not participating in the conversation, also raised his head and looked in her direction after the girl asked this question.
Seeing that Yan Sui didn't say anything, Tan Shu quickly jumped out and said, "Sui Sui is busy with her studies so she doesn't want to participate."
"Oh, that's the case. What a pity! I remember Yan Sui was a very good singer."
Hearing this, Yan Sui smiled at the other party and said, "It's nothing. I'll come again when I have the chance!"
Halfway through the meal, the waiter suddenly brought up a bowl of sago pudding and said, "Sorry, we made a mistake with one bowl of sago pudding just now. The note said one bowl didn't need grapefruit granules, but the kitchen staff didn't notice and put grapefruit granules in it."
Yan Sui was stunned.
Tan Shu exclaimed, "Ah!" "Who ordered without the grapefruit seeds?"
"Not me."
"It's not me either."
Tan Shu rolled his eyes and suddenly remembered something: "Is that you, Sui Sui? I just remembered that you don't eat grapefruit."
Yan Sui shook her head: "No, I didn't eat it, but I also forgot to make a note."
"Who is that?"
"Oh, it's okay, don't worry about it. Maybe someone who has a crush on my baby secretly ordered it for her. Come on, pass this bowl of sago to me!" said Tan Shu.
The sago was placed next to Yan Sui's hand. This little episode quickly passed, and the group of people continued chatting as before.
Only Yan Sui was staring at the bowl of sago in a daze.
Although there was no evidence, she thought that this bowl of sago pudding with the note "remove grapefruit cubes" should be Yu Shuli's masterpiece.
Combined with her previous guess about Yu Shuli, he was one of the only two people here who knew that she didn't eat grapefruit seeds.
However, Yan Sui's mood was a little complicated.
When everyone was ordering sago flavors and asking about allergies and dietary restrictions, Tan Shu forgot she didn't eat grapefruit, and she herself had forgotten that she didn't eat grapefruit. Only Yu Shuli remembered and quietly helped her change the note.
Just now when she got the sago, she took a bite and tasted grapefruit particles in it. She regretted forgetting to add a note and had to put down the spoon and stop eating it.
But she didn't expect that someone would help her remember it.
Yu Shuli remembered the hobbies that she herself had forgotten.
It was still early after dinner, and seeing that everyone was in low spirits, Cheng Jia suggested going to the nearby KTV to sing, and everyone agreed.
Yan Sui originally wanted to go home, but seeing that no one refused, she didn't want to spoil Tan Shu's fun, so she had to go with them to the KTV next door.
A group of people came in a lively manner and booked the largest private room.
As soon as we sat down, before our butts even got comfortable, someone volunteered to go on stage, picked up the microphone and started howling, making a group of people laugh and cover their ears, not wanting to listen.
The private room they booked came with complimentary drinks, but after singing for a while everyone got bored, so Cheng Jia suggested playing some games.
I don’t know which two people in the group had something going on, but a few girls in Tan Shu’s class got together and talked for a while, and suddenly they suggested playing truth or dare.
Everyone agreed, and the game began after the rules were set.
There are exactly fifteen people in total. They deal out fifteen playing cards, and the person who draws the king becomes the loser.
Yan Sui didn't say a word the whole time, and a poker card was stuffed into her hand without her knowing it.
She glanced at it fearfully. It was the number seven.
It was a close call.
Everyone showed their cards together, and the one who drew the king in the first round was Tan Shu.
Cheng Jia laughed so hard that he clapped his hands, saying that the birthday boy had a good start today.
Tan Shu didn't choose the truth, he chose to drink directly.
After drinking a bottle of beer, a group of people shouted and called her sister.
After Tan Shu sat down, he leaned on Yan Sui's shoulder and complained to her: "If I drink any more, I will really get drunk. If I get drunk, remember to take me back to your house. My parents will scold me to death if I go back home."
Yan Sui agreed with a smile.
There was nothing about Yan Sui in the next two rounds.
It was not until the fourth round that Yu Shuli drew the king.
He paused holding the cards, then lazily dropped them onto the table. "Truth be told."
Cheng Jia seemed to be waiting for this moment, holding the truth card in both hands and handing it to Yu Shuli.
Yu Shuli randomly pulled out a card that read: "Do you have someone you like? If so, does that person like you?"
As soon as the answer came out, Cheng Jia immediately whistled: "Hurry up and tell me, I wanted to ask you last time. You refused to tell me last time, but you must tell me this time."
Yu Shuli glanced at him and said, "Why should I say that? I choose to drink."
"Show your answer and choose to drink five bottles. Yu Shuli, think it over carefully."
Yu Shuli: "..."
Yu Shuli: "When was this rule established?"
"just."
Yu Shuli wanted to protest his innocence, but everyone present agreed to the agreement, leaving him with no way to resist.
He stared at the cards for a while, then suddenly looked up.
In the shadows, Yan Sui could feel the burning gaze of Yu Shuli looking at her from across from her.
The music had somehow changed to A-lin's "Give Me a Reason to Forget". When Yu Shuli performed it, he was singing the climax of the song -
"Give me a reason to forget you who loved me so much
"Give me a reason to give up the decision I made."
For some reason, she seemed to see these lyrics in Yu Shuli's eyes.
He was asking her why, why she was unwilling to accept him.
It was just like what he had whispered before, why was it different, why didn't she like him.
It seemed that in his world, this wasn't the right ending for him and himself.
Yan Sui recalled that day when she said "get out of class is over", Yu Shuli suddenly grabbed her wrist and asked, "Why, why do you want me to give up on you?"
Yan Sui turned back and said, "Because it's impossible."
"Is it impossible, or do you not like me?"
Yan Sui lowered her eyes, but she couldn't say "I don't like it" out of her mouth.
Yu Shuli gritted his teeth and asked, "Look, you can't even answer this question for me. You clearly——"
"Because it's meaningless," Yan Sui said suddenly, "No matter what the answer is, it means nothing to you and me."
Yu Shuli suddenly fell silent.
Yan Sui stared into his eyes for a long while, then suddenly sighed: "Don't struggle, everything is in vain."
.
Yan Sui had no way of answering the question then, nor now. She lowered her head to avoid his gaze.
Her actions represent her answer.
The next second, the person opposite picked up the bottle opener next to him and opened five bottles of beer in a row.
Cheng Jia exclaimed, "Holy crap, what are you doing? It's such a simple question, and I didn't ask you to name anyone. What's so hard to answer? And you actually chose to drink?"
Yu Shuli drank five bottles of beer in silence, rubbed the wine stains on the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand, and said in a hoarse voice, "Pass."
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