"What time is this?" Shi Zhou stretched out two fingers and waved them in front of Sang Tianen's eyes.
Sang Tianen slapped her hand away without saying a word and said, "This is your second uncle." Then he continued to drink.
"Are you drunk or not?" Shi Zhou looked at her with a puzzled look on his face. "Give me some money to spend?"
Sang Tianen turned around and looked at her: "Are you the idiot or am I the idiot?"
Shi Zhou: “…”
After finishing the last sip of wine in his hand, Sang Tianen threw the wine can on the ground and said, "Let's go!"
Shi Zhou watched her walk with one foot deep, one foot shallow, and staggering, so he walked up to her and put his arm around her: "I'll take you home."
When Sang Tianen heard this, he immediately burst into laughter: "Home? Where is my home?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Shi Zhou pulled her towards the side of the road. "Your hometown is Sangjia Village at the foot of Jingyang Mountain, and you currently live in Jingran Community."
"No!" Sang Tianen shook his index finger at her. "That's not my home. I don't have a home."
Shi Zhou pulled her fingers down with a headache, and said in a tone like coaxing a child: "Okay, you don't have a home, I'll take you to the hotel, okay?"
"No, I'm not going to the hotel. I don't like staying in hotels. I still want to drink." Sang Tianen pulled out his hand, pushed Zhou Chao away and walked back to where he was originally.
Drunk people are very heavy by nature, and Sang Tianen was tall and strong, so Shi Zhou, who was fat as a bloated person, couldn't move her at all. He tried to pull her back several times but failed, and instead he was exhausted and out of breath.
"If you don't want to stay in a hotel, you can stay at my place. As long as the place is not too small for you." Shi Zhou reluctantly compromised, "Come back with me first."
Sang Tianen acted as if he didn't hear what she said. He sat down on the recliner and then didn't move. His back looked like he was in a daze.
Shi Zhou walked forward and wanted to say something, but was shocked when he saw Sang Tianen's tearful face.
The woman's eyes looked into the dark distance, tears kept flowing from her eyes, but she made no sound, and even her breathing was calm.
Shi Zhou had seen many people cry, some hysterically, some in unbearable pain, and some out of grievance, but he had never seen such an extremely calm way of crying.
Her heart suddenly tightened, she squatted down and sighed, "It's always like this when we break up for the first time, it will be fine after a few more talks."
"Tell me, am I really that bad?" Sang Tianen suddenly asked with difficulty.
Shi Zhou was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise: "Why do you think so?"
Sang Tianen smiled, and two tears fell: "They all said so."
"Don't listen to their nonsense. That's because they don't understand you. If they knew you, they would know how good you are." Shi Zhou said quickly, "If you weren't good, could we have been classmates and good friends for so many years?"
"But I...but I feel like I've been a failure." Sang Tianen sighed deeply, "I've been a failure in both of my lives."
"I don't know how your first half of life went, but you will definitely not fail in this life. At least it will be better than mine."
"Just look at me. I came from a rural family, but I finally got into Didu University. After graduation, I got a job at a top technology company in China, and then I married my first love."
"When I think about it now, it feels like a dream. Now I'm awake, alone. My husband is gone. I have nothing."
Sang Tianen turned his head and looked at her: "How are you and Xu Mingming now?"
Shi Zhou smiled, his face full of bitterness: "He's getting married."
"What?" Sang Tianen's eyes widened. "When did it happen?"
"They got engaged last week. The girl is from the local area. Her family was relocated. She's an elementary school teacher. Judging by her face, she seems like a nice person."
"My dad has been arranging a blind date for me recently. The man is from my hometown. I should be getting married soon."
"Is that it?" Sang Tianen asked, "Does Xu Mingming like that woman? Do you like the man you are with now?"
Shi Zhou looked at her and said, "Does love matter? Look at how many couples in this world are married because of love? Even if they are married because of love, they will eventually become unhappy couples due to various reasons."
"So liking it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter at all."
After saying this, both of them fell silent in tacit understanding. The late autumn wind brought a chill that turned their faces white, and they both wrapped themselves in coats.
At this moment, a rustling sound suddenly came from the grass behind him, like the sound of people walking, or the sound of some animal running.
Sang Tianen and Shi Zhou looked at each other and pricked up their ears at the same time.
The sound suddenly disappeared, and just when the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, the sound became louder again. Sang Tianen stood up with a somersault and rushed towards the source of the sound.
"Ah, it hurts!" A clear little boy's voice rang out, "I'm not a bad person, Auntie, please don't pull my ears, it hurts!"
"Why are you not sleeping in the middle of the night and hiding over there acting suspiciously? Do you believe I will throw you into the pond right now?" Sang Tianen grabbed a half-height boy in school uniform and walked out of the bushes.
"What's going on?" Shi Zhou looked at the two of them in confusion. She had just rushed out, but she was too fat and it took her a lot of effort to get up, while Sang Tianen had already pulled the person out.
"Tell me, are you a little demon who has transformed into a spirit?" Sang Tianen grabbed the boy's ear tightly. "If you don't tell the truth, you will be thrown into the pond!"
The boy gasped and said, "Auntie, I'm not a goblin, I'm a human. Please let go, it hurts!"
"Who are you calling auntie? Do you believe I will beat you up?" Sang Tianen became more and more ferocious.
Shi Zhou saw that the boy's ears had turned red, so he immediately went forward to pull Sang Tianen's hand and said, "Let's talk it over nicely."
Sang Tianen then let go of his hand: "Leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist!"
The boy rubbed his ear, throbbing in pain as he said, "Do you think I want to hide in the bushes and get bit by mosquitoes? If you hadn't been nagging here for so long, would I have bothered?"
"Little brother, why are you hiding here so late at night instead of going home?" Shi Zhou asked curiously, "Your parents will be worried."
"They won't worry." The boy saw some food on the ground and took out a bag of potato chips without hesitation. He started to eat it. "I'm starving."
"You little bastard, why are you still eating..." Seeing the food he bought go into the stomach of this child of unknown origin, Sang Tianen got furious and went forward to pull his ears again, but was stopped by Shi Zhou.
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