Chapter 197 Chapter 197 [Jinjiang Exclusive, Introduction. Invitation...
The dinner was over, and the four of them walked out of the cafe together. When they stood at the door to say goodbye, Lin Yimu glanced outside inadvertently and saw a familiar-looking car parked in the parking space next to him.
Lin Yimu frowned and stared at it for a few more times. He felt that it looked very familiar, but he was also a little unsure.
His absent-minded state was noticed by the people who were talking to him. They looked in the direction he was looking, but did not see anything.
Only Yuan Mingxu couldn't help but look in the direction of the car again in confusion, but he didn't say anything.
Huang Minglei, who was standing next to Lin Yimu, asked worriedly, "Lin Yimu, what did you see? Why do you look so absent-minded? You didn't even hear me talking to you just now."
Hearing the question, Lin Yimu turned his head and looked in the direction where the car was parked, and said uncertainly: "I saw a car that looked familiar, but I only saw the logo and the front part of the car, so I'm not sure."
"Hmm?" Hearing his words, Yuan Mingxu, who had the same feeling when he looked over there just now, turned his gaze over there again, and even took a few steps forward, trying to see clearly whether the car was the one he was thinking of.
But before he could take any action, the car they were staring at was pushed open from inside, and a tall, stern, handsome man walked out.
After the man got out of the car, he looked straight over here, but he just stood next to the car and didn't come over.
Seeing the man getting off the car, Lin Yimu and Yuan Mingxu were a little surprised. Then Lin Yimu subconsciously took a step forward and wanted to go over.
At this moment, his cell phone vibrated slightly. Lin Yimu saw He Xiuji took out his cell phone beside the car, and his cell phone rang immediately afterwards.
Lin Yimu subconsciously took out his cell phone, opened it and took a look. A smile flashed in his eyes, but he didn't do what he asked.
Instead, he said directly to Yuan Mingxu, who had been hiding behind Ke Chengyan after seeing He Xiuji's figure, "You don't have to send me off today. Someone will pick me up."
When Yuan Mingxu saw his uncle appear, he knew this would be the result. He nodded wildly without hesitation and refused to come out from behind Ke Chengyan.
Seeing him like this, Lin Yimu rolled his eyes speechlessly, and did not hold out any hope for him. He turned to Huang Minglei and continued, "Someone is here to pick me up, so I'll leave first. We'll contact each other in the group later."
As he spoke, Lin Yimu pointed at He Xiuji who was not far away, shook his phone, turned around and ran to He Xiuji.
The other two people were shocked by Lin Yi Mu's words and hadn't recovered for a long time. They stared blankly at Lin Yi Mu running towards the man with a cold temperament. They stood beside the other person and said something. The cold temperament around the other person melted instantly, and there was even a hint of a smile on his face.
When Huang Minglei and Ke Chengyan were staring in the direction of Lin Yimu and He Xiuji, Yuan Mingxu also came out from behind Ke Chengyan and secretly observed Lin Yimu and He Xiuji.
Seeing his uncle's worthless look in front of Lin Yimu, Yuan Mingxu became bolder again, "Tsk tsk, my uncle is so worthless, I feel disillusioned no matter how many times I see it, it's too shameful!" As he said that, he couldn't help but shook his head.
His sigh also brought Huang Minglei and the other man back to their senses, and they turned to look at him in disbelief.
"What did you say?! That man is your uncle! Your uncle is Lin Yi Mu's boyfriend? Did I hear correctly?" Huang Minglei was so shocked that he asked louder, attracting many people to look in their direction. Even Lin Yi Mu and He Xiu Ji, who were still talking, vaguely heard something and glanced in their direction.
Noticing everyone's gazes, Huang Minglei realized his gaffe. He smiled apologetically at everyone who was looking at him, then quickly turned to look at Yuan Mingxu for an answer.
Yuan Mingxu was also startled by his shout just now, and subconsciously looked at his uncle not far away, and happened to see Lin Yimu waving at him.
He didn't even bother to answer Huang Minglei's question. He pointed at himself and then at the two people beside him. After Lin Yimu nodded, he immediately pulled the two of them towards the car.
As he walked, he said, "He is my uncle, for sure, but he is only in his twenties. As for their relationship, you can ask them later. I don't know everything."
He paused for a moment, then asked hesitantly, "Do you two have any prejudice against that kind of relationship?"
As he spoke, he gestured in the direction of Lin Yimu and He Xiuji, who were now standing side by side beside the car and talking.
The two who were still surprised in their hearts heard this, and immediately put away their surprised expressions on their faces, turned into serious faces, and said in unison: "No!"
Then the two looked at each other, and Huang Minglei was the first to explain: "No, I was just a little surprised. I didn't expect that Lin Yimu's partner was a man, and he was your uncle."
Ke Chengyan nodded in agreement, "That's right, I was also very surprised. Before you came to the dinner today, Huang Minglei said that Lin Yimu would bring a date, maybe a beautiful woman. Now that I know that the other party is a man, I was a little surprised for a moment. I definitely didn't mean to discriminate against the same sex."
The two of them began to explain hurriedly, fearing that Yuan Mingxu would misunderstand, and then tell Lin Yimu about it, which would probably hurt their friendship and make their friend sad.
Hearing the answer, Yuan Mingxu felt relieved for Lin Yimu, but he also felt that it was really worrying that Lin Yimu said his partner was a man without any warning or preparation.
While the three of them were talking, they had already walked to He Xiuji's car. Lin Yimu and He Xiuji stopped talking, looked at Huang Minglei and Ke Chengyan with a smile, and introduced: "This is my partner, He Xiuji. I think Ah Xu should have told you about our relationship at the door just now, so I won't say more about this."
After that, he introduced Ke Chengyan and Huang Minglei to He Xiuji, and both sides politely shook hands to show their acquaintance.
After they finished their polite greetings, Lin Yimu looked at them and said, "Aji and I are going to get engaged after the Chinese New Year, on February 24th of the lunar calendar. I don't have many friends, so I hope you can come and join us."
After saying that, he thought of Mo Shanshan and Ye Yuankai who had left earlier, and continued with a smile: "Mo Shanshan and Ye Yuankai, if they don't mind, you can also come together. I will send the invitation to you then."
"Well, I'll go back and ask them today. If they go, we can go together." Then he asked, "Where are you holding the engagement party, Yancheng or Jingshi?"
Lin Yimu: "We plan to hold it in Beijing. Everything is already prepared there. The address will be included on the invitation we give you."
"Okay, no problem, we will definitely be there by then." Huang Minglei assured, and Ke Chengyan beside him also nodded.
After the three of them finished talking about this topic, they chatted for a few more sentences. During the time, He Xiu Ji and Lin Yi Mu never let go of each other's hands. When they saw Huang Minglei and Ke Chengyan off, the two took a few steps forward and left the area blocked by the car body. The scene of them holding hands was just seen and photographed by someone.
Sun Hongzhuo came here to have dinner with his family today. His family has many people, and they have to get together for dinner before the Chinese New Year every year. Every dinner together is an occasion for uncles and aunts to show off.
He is now at the critical period of his senior year in high school. He just wanted to study at home after just two days of vacation, but he couldn't stand his parents' nagging and finally followed them out.
Who knew that as soon as I got off the car, I saw Lin Yi Mu and a few others standing together and chatting about something, and Lin Yi Mu was standing side by side with a man holding hands. From their close distance and intimate posture, it was obvious that their relationship was not ordinary.
Afterwards, for some unknown reason, he subconsciously took out his cell phone and took a picture of the scene.
After taking the photos, he looked at them in his phone, not knowing what they were for, but he didn't delete them after all.
Sun Hongzhuo walked out of the parking space, turned off his phone and put it in his pocket. He subconsciously turned his head and looked in the direction of Lin Yimu, but only saw the closed car door.
Retracting his gaze, Sun Hongzhuo lowered his eyelids with a complicated expression, and held the mobile phone tightly in his pocket, feeling a little complicated for a moment.
Thinking back to when he and Lin Yimu were studying together in the national training team, he always boasted about his good grades and felt that he would definitely be selected for the national team, but the questions that year were too difficult, his results were not ideal and he was not selected.
And Lin Yimu, the dark horse that suddenly emerged, walked ahead of him accompanied by bad words and slander along the way.
At that time, he was thinking, why?
A person who has been muddle-headed for the past ten years suddenly becomes so dazzling and powerful. Isn't it strange no matter how you think about it?
It was for this reason that he had been paying attention to Lin Yimu, and the more he paid attention to him, the more jealous he became.
As for academic masters like Huang Minglei and Ke Chengyan, everyone knows each other's names more or less in various competitions. They have made a lot of efforts to achieve excellence.
Only this Lin Yimu who suddenly appeared completed what others took more than ten years to accomplish in just a few months, and he was even so high-profile during the training camp.
At that time, Sun Hongzhuo was thinking, is talent really something that cannot be compared with hard work?
Some people have great talent but have wasted their time for more than ten years. Once they work hard, those who have worked hard since childhood become like a joke.
He had been living and studying under the high pressure and expectations of his parents since he was young. He dared not relax for a moment, for fear that if his grades dropped a little one day, he would have to endure their disappointed eyes, endless nagging, or even scolding.
Because his grades have deteriorated, they will have nothing to show off, and they will be embarrassed in public and even ridiculed.
Such a distorted environment, coupled with tremendous pressure, made him feel boundless jealousy and hatred towards people like Lin Yimu.
Why does he have such a talent but doesn't cherish it at all, while an ordinary person like him has to stay up until late at night to achieve a little bit of achievement. God is so unfair!
It was this idea that made him deliberately interrupt Lin Yimu when he was solving a mathematical conjecture.
But afterwards he was very scared and regretful.
In his heart, he actually knew that it was wrong to do so, but his thoughts were very extreme at the time, and he was so excited that he didn't think too much and just wanted to vent.
Later, Lin Yi Mu went to college and the two of them had no more contact, but he still couldn't help but pay attention to Lin Yi Mu's news.
Therefore, when a hot search about him appeared on the Internet, he also rushed forward with his second account to curse the other party, and even followed netizens to spread rumors.
What was he thinking at that time?
It seemed as if his heart was filled with resentment and hatred, and he wished that everyone in the world would have a hard time, living like him, under pressure, abuse, and endless inquiries about their grades every day.
At that time, it seemed that his monthly exam results were not ideal, and he dropped from first in the grade to second.
I was only two points behind the first place, but when I got home, the first words from my parents were not words of concern.
Instead, ask him why he became number two.
Where are the two points deducted? Why were points deducted?
What followed was endless tutoring and exercise. If you didn’t do what they wanted, they would scold you.
They scolded him for not living up to expectations, for not caring about them, and for not working hard enough.
They even say things like "Why did we give birth to such a stupid person like you?" or "We shouldn't have given birth to you in the first place, you're useless."
He would hear these every time his ranking dropped in the exams, but he would still feel sad every time he heard them, as if he was born to be a tool for them to show off.
That day, he talked back to his parents, and was beaten and scolded even more harshly in response, as if they wanted to vent all their unhappiness on him.
I think he might have inherited their genes, dark, mean, selfish, yet timid and only dared to vent all the negative emotions in his heart to innocent people.
Two years later, when he met Lin Yimu again in real life, he only dared to look at him from a distance. As he watched the other person become more and more dazzling, he slowly became an ordinary person overwhelmed by pressure.
Thinking about these random things in his mind, Sun Hongzhuo followed his parents into the restaurant box.
Sitting in his seat, he took out his mobile phone and looked at the photo he had just taken again. His eyes were complicated and dark, and then he returned to his normal expression and pressed his hand on the delete key.
Just as he was about to delete it, his mother gently bumped his arm and signaled him to put away his phone because his grandparents were calling him.
Sun Hongzhuo glanced at his grandparents who were waving at him, and could only put down his phone temporarily and walked towards the two elderly people.
Shortly after he passed by, his cell phone, which was placed on the table, was picked up by a slender and beautiful hand and unlocked easily.
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