It's not my child.

Gou An stared at the podium intently, holding onto the edge of the platform, and described his trip to Hejin when he was eighteen years old in language that was not boring but was obviously fabricated.

Eighteen-year-old He Jinxing.

Rumor has it that he was in a rebellious period at the time. He refused to take a penny from his family and was busy hanging out in the underground motorcycle gang, risking his life in exchange for food money...

When he spoke, it became about him studying late into the night by lamplight in the study room at university.

It seems like there is hardly any truth coming out of this guy's mouth.

Perhaps he heard her muttering, as the man's eyes swept towards her inadvertently. When she changed her sitting position uneasily, she didn't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to see that the corner of the man's lips on the podium raised a little more.

The back of her neck began to feel numb again, and goose bumps appeared all over her body.

"An'an." Zhou Yutong stretched out two fingers and pinched Gou An, "That button——"

"It's his."

The faint sound, which only two people could hear, was enough to make people on both sides gasp.

Gou An sighed. According to common sense, she should be standing with her hands on her hips and looking proud at this moment, showing that she has turned the tables. But now she really can't laugh——

The main thing is that the way to get the buttons is not as pleasant as imagined.

The button was actually half-forced upon her, although He Jinxing did not ask for it from beginning to end.

She was the one who was bewildered.

Time goes back to about an hour ago.

After tidying up the bow around Gou An's waist, He Jinxing did not continue to discuss the borrowing game with her. As for the button matter, he half-jokingly said, "I'm very sad that you didn't think of me," and then did not mention it again.

It seemed like a harmless joke from beginning to end.

"It's very windy. You'll catch a cold. Go back to the cabin and rest."

He Jinxing brought Gou An back to the cabin with a perfect reason. Back to the noisy atmosphere of the casino, she found that this was not a bad thing. At least the music playing from the slot machines could dispel the strange silence and make people less nervous.

However, He Jinxing's identity meant that he would be the focus wherever he went. When he came in from outside, with a little girl stumbling behind him, it was hard not to attract other people's attention.

"Who is it?"

"The daughter of the Gou family."

"Ah, the one dancing with Mr. He tonight? They..."

"Shh, don't make blind guesses. It's probably because there were too many rumors that made this person unhappy, so the dancing incident happened. I remember someone said that He Jinxing has no interest in dancing and doesn't like it."

There were two sentences that still got into Gou An's ears. When she couldn't help but glance sideways to see who was discussing it, the person in front of her seemed to have eyes on the back of his head: "Ignore them."

She had no choice but to give up.

The casino has a specially set up drink bar, which is located right in the center of the lobby on the first floor of the casino. Seeing the owner of the ship in person, the bar boy was stunned for a long time, until He Jinxing tapped the table with his fingers and asked for a glass of orange juice for Gou An.

The bartender was stunned when he heard this request. Of course there were fruits stored in the refrigerator, but in most cases they were sliced ​​as garnishes on the rims of cocktails or as cocktail bases. Now, in order to get a glass of orange juice, almost all the orange stocks in the small refrigerator were emptied.

Gou An also felt a little embarrassed, the same awkward feeling as when he said to the salesperson in a disco, "Excuse me, give me a glass of milk."

"I attended the Bar Mitzvah banquet two years ago."

She climbed onto the high stool and sat down, then gave a tactful reminder.

As expected, after she opened her mouth, he saw a rare moment of confusion on He Jinxing's face, but he quickly realized that she was dissatisfied with his arrangement for Orange Juice.

The man chuckled. "Want to drink? Not impossible. Do you want to change?"

He didn't even say a word to her.

This attitude of "I won't stop you" made Gou An feel suffocated: it seemed that her resistance just now was indeed a bit childish.

Just like the kids in kindergarten, they always emphasize that they are already big kids in the middle class.

So annoying.

The strange possessiveness that had arisen just now had already made Gou An feel uneasy, and now this possessiveness suddenly drifted in an uncontrollable direction... She stared at the relaxed brows of the person in front of her, and couldn't help but suddenly said, "Lu Wan is obviously the same age as me."

"Um?"

"Why don't you think she's a child?"

He Jinxing was blank for two seconds. Gou An thought he was hesitating and was furious. The next second, the misunderstanding was resolved: "I was thinking seriously about who Lu Wan was. Why did you suddenly mention her?"

"You just met her tonight, and now you're pretending to be unfamiliar with her?" Gou An said, "She even asked you for buttons."

"I didn't give it to you." He Jinxing showed a superficial expression of not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Why is An An still holding a grudge about this?"

She held back her words.

"Ms. Lu's age is not that important to me." Seeing that she didn't say anything, the man didn't ask any more questions. He just pushed the orange juice to Gou An and said in a lighter tone, "She's not my child."

But you ended up marrying her.

Gou An added maliciously in his heart.

She took the orange juice and drank most of it. She bit the straw and emphasized vaguely, "Me neither."

He Jinxing rested one elbow on the edge of the bar, looking at her with a faint smile, looking very patient.

"You are only eight years older than me." Gou An said, "Don't always talk to me in the tone of an old man—"

"I don't think I'm that old either... but age is a gap that cannot be crossed."

"No."

"I was already in primary school when you didn't even learn to speak."

"Do I have to give you this example? When we are older, when you are 80 and I am 72, this concept will become blurred when we both have one foot in the coffin."

I know nothing.

Gou An herself couldn't tell what she was obsessed with. Her lips moved and she was about to say something else when a commotion not far away attracted their attention.

Gou An looked up and saw a tall young man who had been with He Ran and the others at a busy table not far away. He was holding a cigar in one hand and a large number of chips in the other hand.

After the great harvest, he tilted his head and suddenly said "Oops" as if he remembered something. The diamond earrings were extremely bright under the lights of the casino. He hooked a finger through the belt buckle of an uncle next to him and said with a smile: "I almost forgot. Lend me your belt. I don't want to treat you tomorrow."

The uncle who was caught might have been asked to unbuckle his belt by a man for the first time in his life. He instantly showed an expression as if he was struck by lightning. However, when he took a closer look at the smiling and evil face in front of him, he realized that he could not afford to offend this man.

The uncle unbuckled his belt in confusion.

"The youngest of the Jiang family, Jiang Zaiye." He Jinxing's voice sounded in his ears at the right time, "It seems that he is the only one who dominates the motorcycle clubs and track training in Jiangcheng now... He should be 27 this year."

Gou An retracted his gaze and looked at the man, wanting to say something but stopping himself——

She is 27 years old and still playing the borrowing game with us, what about you? He Jinxing seemed to understand her gaze in an instant and said speechlessly: "The way you look at me makes me feel that it is a very pitiful thing for me to be the toastmaster tonight."

Gou An: “…”

He Jinxing: "Come to think of it, you didn't consider inviting me when you played games, right?"

Gou An: “…”

Who has the courage?

Although no one has ever thought of this, probably.

Gou An felt a little guilty for no reason.

Seeing her silence, He Jinxing sighed half-heartedly and said, "On the contrary, when those old men invited me to the casino to play a few rounds, their tone was so natural, as if I was born to be with them... But I didn't resist and really came along."

Gou An: "And then?"

He Jinxing sneered: "Then I won back the money for the necklace around your neck."

After a pause, he added, "It has increased tenfold."

Gou An couldn't tell whether he was happy or unhappy, and he realized that the necklace was indeed given by He Jinxing and had nothing to do with the old man of the He family.

Gou An jumped off the high stool at the bar and said it was about time for her to go back to the banquet hall. He Jinxing didn't stop her, but turned around and asked the bar boy for a glass of whiskey with a smile.

Gou An took two steps towards the casino gate.

Suddenly stopped.

Turning back, the man was still sitting there in the same posture as before, with two slender fingers circling the transparent glass, shaking it absentmindedly.

The ice cubes hit the wall of the cup with a crisp sound.

"Age is a gap that cannot be crossed."

"The way you look at me makes me feel pathetic for being the toastmaster tonight."

"You didn't even consider inviting me when you were playing games, did you?"

For some unknown reason, Gou An turned around and returned to the man.

This time she was standing and he was still sitting on the high stool, his long legs in trousers crossed naturally and relaxedly.

A familiar sweet fragrance swept over, covering the strong smell of alcohol at the tip of his nose. He Jinxing made a confused "hmm" sound from deep in his nose, and raised his eyelids to look at the little girl who came back again——

Did you forget something? Gou An looked at He Jinxing seriously at this moment, as if he had made a great decision: "Can I have your button?"

Not an elder who is high above and unapproachable.

If you are considered as your peer, you can have anything you have.

She tried to look calm, raised her chin slightly and looked at the man.

The atmosphere became tense the moment He Jinxing stopped shaking the whiskey glass in his hand and fell silent.

It was probably because the noisy sounds of the dice rolling, the sieve shaking, and the slot machine music in the casino all faded away, and the surroundings suddenly became very quiet...

All that remained was the clear and resounding voice of the little girl in front of him as she made her request decisively.

At this second, Gou An seemed to have become the little girl in high school who stood in the school corridor and mustered up the courage to ask the graduating school celebrity for the second button on her shirt.

Although she tried hard to act natural, her acting skills were probably too poor, and anyone could see her nervousness. After all, a tight jaw and slightly trembling eyes could not fool anyone at all...

What's more, it's a shrewd person like He Jinxing——

However, after a brief moment of silence, the man said nothing, but raised the corners of his lips slightly, and said in an unprecedentedly indulgent tone: "Of course."

That gentle, smiling tone did not sound awkward or hesitant at all.

On the contrary, it was as if he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Sense of disharmony.

But without giving her a chance to regret this feeling of incongruity, He Jinxing turned around and asked the bar boy for a pair of scissors, cut off the special five-hole button, and handed it to her.

At the same time, he took off his tie, which was still hanging there, and casually stuffed it into his trouser pocket.

The collar was untied, and the man's gaze became uninhibited.

Gou An held the button in his palm, and his heart beat faster.

"Next time we play games, let's play together."

He Jinxing lowered his eyes and looked at her for a long time, then chuckled without comment.

The moment Gou An actually stepped out of the casino, she heard the system's stupid cat meowing, and He Jinxing's friendship level rose by [40].

(End of this chapter)