Chapter 18
Chapter 18
The man's drunkenness disappeared in an instant. At this time, he was sensible and apologized shamelessly.
Two security guards held him on either side. The man looked embarrassed and aggrieved, but he didn't dare to say a word. He lowered his head and let himself be slaughtered like a piece of pork.
Eventually he was thrown out of the bar.
The corridor was quiet again.
Chen Ye turned around, and their eyes met, the coldness in his eyes still lingering.
Shu Yao cleared his throat. They hadn't seen each other for many days, and it seemed like they were a little estranged from each other again.
She wanted to ask him why he was here, but then she thought, the owner of this store is his good brother, maybe he also has some share, which is quite normal here.
So I just said a polite hello: "Long time no see, just now... thank you."
Chen Ye curled his lips slightly indifferently: "It's been quite a while, have you met a new oppa?"
"...What?" Shu Yao's mouth twitched, and it took him a while to react. "You're not going to South Korea this time."
Why is she talking so cold that she almost gets rheumatism?
Shen Ye said faintly: "Didn't you send it to me yourself?"
Shu Yao was puzzled. She opened the chat history with him and was stunned.
She might have just typed zaijouba instead of zaijiuba.
So this input method automatically helped her complete and recognize the sentence intelligently, and what she sent was not "at the bar" but "meeting Oppa".
Shu Yao: “…”
No wonder he replied with a question mark.
Shu Yao smiled awkwardly, "It was a mistake, a mistake. I meant to post "I was in a bar!" It's the input method's fault."
Chen Ye seemed to be just mentioning it casually, not really paying attention to the question. He glanced downstairs and asked, "Are you here with Zhao Tiantian?"
"Um."
"There's a lot of noise downstairs. If you want to drink, go to the private room."
The price of the private room at Zaiyu was something Shu Yao would never be willing to spend.
She hesitated for a moment and asked Zhao Tiantian. Sure enough, Zhao Tiantian agreed immediately. In less than thirty seconds, she appeared at the stairs panting.
The two followed Shen Ye into the exclusive box.
But surprisingly, Xu Zhaoli was there too.
Shen Ye didn’t expect it: “Why are you here?”
Xu Zhaoli forced a smile and said, "Is there a possibility that I am the boss?"
The same four people, by some strange coincidence, traveled through time and space several years later and ended up in the same box again.
But the relationship between them is completely different.
The ambiguous object has become a stranger.
The assists turned into a couple.
What a magical joke this is.
Shu Yao couldn't help but think of the weekend when Zhao Tiantian first asked her to be an assist.
Zhao Tiantian said that if she and Xu Zhaoli went out alone and happened to meet a teacher, it would be considered premature love.
But if four people go out together, even if they meet, it is just a normal class reunion.
Shu Yao couldn't bear to see her first love die so early, so he accompanied her.
At that time, Fuchuan had entered late autumn, the temperature dropped sharply, and the wind was blowing violently. Even the most exquisite beauty would be blown like Mei Chaofeng if she stayed outdoors for one more minute.
So Zhao Tiantian booked a KTV box.
As soon as they entered, Zhao Tiantian and Xu Zhaoli were holding the microphone and singing songs from "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond" to "Happy Breakup".
Shu Yao and Chen Ye sat on the sofa on the left, about a meter apart, each in silence.
There are a lot of people in the school and the two of them are not in the same class, so they rarely meet each other. At most, they can only see each other from a distance.
This was the first time she had been in close contact with him since she refused the clothes he offered her.
In order to appear less embarrassed, Shu Yao picked up a can of Coke and struggled with the pull ring. At that time, for convenience, she had trimmed her nails cleanly and it was impossible to pick it open.
In his peripheral vision, Shen Ye crossed his legs, rested his left hand on the armrest of the sofa, supported his temples with his fist, lowered his head and fiddled with his mobile phone with a cold expression.
He had a very arrogant posture, but he had a lollipop in his mouth.
Shu Yao hesitated for a moment, but still didn't dare to ask for help. After all, she had rejected his kindness last time, and she didn't know if he thought she was ungrateful.
And the two people in the distance...
Forget it, let’s not drink it.
Shu Yao put the Coke back on the table.
Just then, the screen of the mobile phone on the table lit up and Zhou Beichuan's name popped up. Shu Yao glanced at it, but in the end didn't answer it and just sent him a message.
However, at this moment, Chen Ye leaned forward, grasped the can body with four fingers of his right hand, hooked the pull ring with his index finger, and gently pulled it back.
"Squeak—"
The Coke was opened easily.
Shu Yao thought he wanted to drink it, and was thinking that since she took the Coke, she should at least tell her, but she saw him lean back as if nothing had happened.
The can of Coke was still in front of her, untouched.
Did you open it for her?
Shu Yao tentatively reached out and took the Coke back.
The word "thank you" was drowned out by Zhao Tiantian's singing because of the distance, so I don't know if he heard it.
*
After Xu Zhaoli got married, there was no fault to be found in his male morality.
As soon as Zhao Tiantian came in, he was about to leave, but before leaving, he turned back and asked Zhao Tiantian curiously, "What did you say to my wife the other day? Why is it that no matter what I do these past few days, she always looks at me with such distressed eyes?"
"Ah?" Zhao Tiantian said seriously, "I just told her that it wasn't easy for you. Your parents didn't support your dreams back then, and you worked hard on your own for so long to achieve what you have today."
Xu Zhaoli seemed to have not expected Zhao Tiantian to say something nice about him, and said generously, "Thank you. Drink as much as you want today. It's my treat."
After Xu Zhaoli left the box, Shu Yao glanced at Zhao Tiantian suspiciously: "Did you really say that?"
Zhao Tiantian curled her lips. "I said he was hit by a car in high school, so if his brain isn't always so sharp, it might be a side effect."
“…”
Anyway, it was a free meal.
Zhao Tiantian was sipping the whiskey that she usually avoided because of the price, while video chatting with a new boy she had just met, and had no time to pay attention to them.
Hearing Chen Ye ask her what she wants to drink, Shu Yao thought for a moment: "Do you have iced Coke?"
Shen Ye: “Yes.”
I thought I would ask the waiter to bring it up, but I didn't expect Shen Ye to walk directly to the refrigerator in the corner, where there were a few cans of Coke.
He took a can and opened it for her on the way back.
Shu Yao took it and while expressing his gratitude, he recalled what happened a few years ago.
It was strange, because she used to think that Chen Ye was just an illusion in her life.
She didn't even think they could be called friends.
But now I realize that they had quite a few interactions in the past.
She jokingly asked, "Do you remember the first time the four of us went out? You opened my Coke for me, and I thanked you, but didn't you hear me?"
Chen Ye sat next to her, leaving a distance of thirty to forty centimeters, unpacked a lollipop and stuffed it into his mouth: "I heard it."
Shu Yao was surprised: "Then why didn't you reply to me?"
"I mouthed you're welcome."
"Huh? Why didn't I see it?"
"You were at that time..." Chen Ye glanced at her and concluded, "Your eyesight was indeed not good."
“…”
Shu Yao was drinking Coke. After realizing what he was referring to, he couldn't help but cough twice guiltily.
After a while, she changed the subject somewhat abruptly: "You lost that day, does the bet still count?"
Shen Ye directly extended his hand towards her.
Shu Yao understood immediately and took out her phone from her bag and handed it over: "Password 118888."
Shen Ye unlocked his phone casually: “11, does it mean anything?”
"Yaoyao, it's my nickname, but only my mom calls me that."
Chen Ye suddenly realized that that night, Shu Yao's mother called her "Yaoyao" instead of "Yaoyao".
With his legs open, his arms resting on his thighs, his back slightly arched, he skillfully opened the game.
The lights in the box were already dim, and Shu Yao was using a privacy screen. From her angle, she could only see his fingers moving, but the phone screen was pitch black.
She wanted to know how he could do it so quickly, and she unconsciously leaned her upper body towards him.
Even she herself did not realize that the normal social distance between them had already been broken.
Chen Ye lowered his eyes and could see her long eyelashes fluttering like butterfly wings, which easily caused a storm in his heart.
He paused with his finger, and the little Kuaikuai man on the screen fell to the ground and the picture went dark.
Shu Yao looked up in confusion: "What's wrong with you?"
"I've never died before, just look closely." Chen Ye resurrected the little man without changing his expression.
Shu Yao: “…”
What a special interest.
As he spoke, a faint scent of lemon mint wafted into his nose. Shu Yao asked curiously, "Are you eating lollipops to kill time? But why do you always eat the same flavor? Don't you get tired of it?"
"I'm a very focused person."
"Oh." Shu Yao stared at the screen in his hand intently and muttered to himself, "But I think this smell seems a little familiar."
The finger paused again, and the little man died again.
"..." Shu Yao couldn't help but ask, "Are you not in a good state today?"
Chen Ye raised his hand and pressed his solar plexus: "The time difference hasn't reversed."
Shu Yao just remembered this and immediately took the phone back: "Then I'll handle the rest myself, you take a rest."
"Yeah." Chen Ye leaned on the sofa, his eyes slightly gloomy, and mentioned it casually, "What did you just say that the smell is familiar?"
"It's this lemon mint flavor." Shu Yao lowered her head, her gaze fixed on the phone screen. Her hair on both sides completely covered her face. "It feels a little familiar to me."
"How familiar?"
"It's a bit like—" Shu Yao thought for a moment, looked up at him, and was very sure, "It's the smell of the clothing fragrance I used to use."
Shen Ye: "..."
Never mind, she didn't mention the smell of toilet freshener.
Thank God for that.
Thanks to the fact that Chen Ye had already helped her fight most of the way, Shu Yao finished the battle in less than five minutes.
Putting away her phone, she took a sip of Coke and thought of another thing: "By the way, how did your grandma's surgery go?"
Shen Ye said: "It went well and I'm ready to be discharged from the hospital."
"That's good." Shu Yao was also happy. "You said you were going to visit your grandma. It just so happens that I've resigned and have some free time recently. If you need anything, feel free to contact me."
Shen Ye pondered for a moment: "Are you free this weekend?"
Shu Yao: “Yes.”
Shen Ye: “Okay.”
Shu Yao's attitude was extremely serious, as if he was preparing for a test. "Which hospital is your grandma in? I'll take the subway there directly. Do you need anything prepared? After all, it's our first time meeting."
Generally, when visiting a patient, people seem to bring flowers, fruit baskets, etc. When Shu Yao was thinking about which one would be better, he heard Shen Ye's answer:
"Get your passport ready."
Shu Yao: ???
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