He Jinxing appeared without any warning.

Although he asked politely if he could join, he should have known that no one would dare to refuse him. Everyone present looked at each other in bewilderment. Gou An said "uh" and thought, he also knows this? The author, you better not be so outrageous.

However, she never expected that she only raised her doubts about the original author, but attracted the attention of He Jinxing. The man turned his head and looked at Gou An, his dark starry eyes flashing: "What's wrong, An An doesn't want to?"

It’s not that I don’t want to.

I just really don't want to.

"It seems that what you said yesterday was just to tease me."

Which sentence?

oh.

"Let's play games together next time."

…………So, never make any decisions late at night. It’s easy to regret after you wake up.

At this time, the people around looked at Gou An with a bit of horror. Although they had no idea what the two were saying, from the literal meaning, the person in this world who could amuse He Jinxing should not have been born yet.

Gou An could only bite the bullet, curled up the corners of his lips, and forced a smile: "What are you talking about? My uncle's joining does not require my approval. We are all fighting as a group."

This is said very reluctantly.

Soon, Gou An proved that her subconscious reluctance was indeed due to some risk-avoidance radar——

When this old man who suddenly appeared and was extremely good at being sarcastic cleared the balls on the table with unprecedented clean and neat movements and won a game, Gou An had to use all his strength to control himself from hitting him with the cue in his hand.

Zhou Yutong is right, none of them are good people.

I remembered He Jinxing's amazing driving skills at the Yima track. If nothing unexpected happened, billiards or poker was also one of the ways he made money when he ran away from home.

These were later reduced to what he casually called "earning some money for food". Now think about it, he might have had to eat wild boar mixed with elephant and sperm whale fried crocodile for every meal.

At this time, the people at the scene were shocked, stunned, and angry. No one thought of praising He Jinxing for being so powerful...

Except for Zhou Yutong, whose eyes were red from crying.

All I could hear was her sobbing, and she started to pull Gou An's sleeve again, and said in a voice that everyone could hear: "How come he can do everything? He's so amazing. Damn it... If he wasn't a villain this time, I might have been so eager to praise him again."

Looking at the man standing not far away with a look on his face that said "This entertainment is as boring as ever", who turned around with interest after hearing these remarks, Gou An covered his companion's mouth, which was busy crying and chattering, with an expressionless face.

"That's the highest compliment you can give to your enemy. If you can't speak, just shut up and destroy my prestige."

That's true.

But it was a long time before Gou An picked up the cue again and had the chance to touch the edge of the table.

It wasn't simply because He Jinxing made an accidental mistake or because he was being gentle with his girlfriend. He put down the club just because he felt tired.

The man casually threw the cue to the waiter next to him, then raised his hand to support his waist without paying any attention to the eyes of others, and turned to confess to his teammates not far away: "I haven't played billiards for too long, my waist is a little sore, I really don't like playing this."

Yes, yes, I don’t like playing.

Then he slaughtered everyone.

…………You said he was so pretentious that even the male protagonist in the stud novel would admit defeat, but he openly admitted that he had a weak waist.

The reason why I finally got the chance to continue fighting was because my waist was not in good condition as an elderly person. I really don’t know who should be blamed for the shame.

I have always refused "food given out of pity", so my mentality was a little shaken. I stood at the table and barely hit two shots. I couldn't ignore the light gaze falling on my face.

It really has a strong presence.

On the third shot, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and turned her head around, meeting He Jinxing's gaze. The elderly woman with a bad back was now sitting safely on an armchair with her long legs crossed, and there was no sign of a bad back at all.

——What are you looking at!

The two looked at each other for a few seconds before he spoke slowly: "An An, at this angle, the red ball can't go in."

It was as if from beginning to end, all he noticed was the golf club in her hand.

However, now under Gou An's club angle, she can touch at least three balls, but the annoying thing is that she was really going to take the red one.

Finally, he couldn't stand it anymore, his face suddenly turned cold, Gou An straightened up, and handed the club in his hand to He Yuan: "You come."

He Yuan: "Not fighting anymore?"

"I won't fight anymore," Gou An muttered, "I'm so fed up."

I don’t know if it was intentional, but after He Yuan took the club, he adjusted the angle and put the damn red ball into the pocket with incredible accuracy in one stroke.

Seeing this, Gou An was overjoyed and immediately turned to look at He Jinxing provocatively.

The latter didn't even change his sitting posture, and replied with a praising smile, "Not bad."

He Yuan didn't have time to respond.

"It's still worse than my uncle," Gou An said, "He can still perform steadily when drunk, and even give orders."

After saying this, He Jinxing was stunned for a moment, realizing that the girl in front of him was still thinking about the fact that he said he was sleeping and then got drunk in the bar...

This is treating him as a liar.

In addition, he actually joined the fight, seemingly colluding with others to snatch the little bear for Miss Xiao Miao—

No matter how you think about it, it's an aggravated crime.

So the words you say become more and more bold, with sarcasm and aggressiveness?

It just so happened that Mr. He had always been a man who could fight any enemy with his own hands and cover any water with earth. He showed no joy or anger at being ridiculed, and even thought that the younger generation staring at him with bright eyes was a little cute...

So Dan Dan just said "hmm" good-naturedly and nodded: "Thanks to An An for sending the hangover soup, it's very useful."

Then she opened her mouth and was instantly speechless.

It's like punching cotton, which bounces back and hits your nose.

——Is it possible that in the original novel, he was drugged purely because he said something too irritating, and it had nothing to do with the development between the heroine and him? Gou An choked up, unwilling to say anything.

Just then, He Yuan came over and whispered in her ear: "Don't be distracted, sister, this game is a bit difficult."

Her attention was immediately drawn, and she successfully avoided looking at He Jinxing again.

The number of times He Jinxing felt ignored in his life could be counted on one hand.

Just count it once now.

His eyes calmly swept over the profile of this nephew whom he had only seen a few times. This child was just casually called back from abroad, but he gave everyone an unexpected "surprise".

After a long time, as if he remembered something, He Jinxing sighed with some emotion.

Chen Jinli sat on the armrest of the same sofa as him, leaned towards the man sitting on the sofa, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "What did you see?"

"He looks a bit like me when I was young." He Jinxing praised generously, "The old man is not always accurate in judging people. This kid has grown up in China. Maybe he will achieve more than He Ran... Well, it is also possible that he has grown stronger because he was left abroad to grow wildly."

Chen Jinli was stunned. "Although the old man has a strong aura, this is the highest level of praise I can hear from you--"

"Don't mention it. I never seem to compliment others."

"Most of the time your compliments come across as sarcastic."

"That's the problem with you listeners."

“…”

"Instead of worrying about our uncle-nephew relationship, why not take care of your own family affairs." He Jinxing raised his chin in a certain direction towards the restless group of rich girls, "You're going to cry your eyes out."

Chen Jinli raised his eyelids and glanced in the direction that He Jinxing pointed. He easily saw who was flooding Jinshan Mountain...

Seeing that she was probably tired of crying and was rubbing her eyes with her hands, he frowned subconsciously.

But he quickly reacted and retracted his gaze. Chen Jinli's brows relaxed, "You should take care of your own business first. Gou Yu's daughter looked like she wanted to pounce on you and bite you just now. Do you have to tease her?"

This metaphor made He Jinxing laugh.

"I'm a little afraid of being hated."

He Jinxing waved his hands with a smile, and said half-seriously, "So it didn't just come down after a touch?"

"If that's the case, why bother showing up and annoying others?"

"I want to see what I really think."

"Um?"

"Do you like billiards?"

He Jinxing paused.

"It would be a bit difficult for me to like it at my age, but then I thought about it, it's not easy to get interested in it, and it's not something I can give up completely."

This is a weird answer...

Chen Jinli had no idea what was going on and could only sneer and scold him for being mysterious.

“It’s a sincere answer.”

The man let out a sigh that was almost like a sigh, and looked towards the distance without leaving a trace——

The eldest daughter of the Gou family, with her hands on the edge of the billiard table and a serious face, tilted her head and discussed with He Yuan what angle the next ball should be hit at.

Probably unconsciously.

The two of them leaned close to each other again, arm touching, like close teammates. They had only known each other for two nights, but they were already so familiar with each other that they felt like they had met too late.

It seems like you really want to win, An An.

He Jinxing changed his sitting position and suddenly changed his attention.

Putting down his long legs, he tilted his head and said to Chen Jinli, "Please tell Miss Xiao that if she really wants the bear, I'll have someone go back to the auction house in a few days to look for it."

Chen Jinli hummed, paused for a few seconds, and then asked belatedly, "What do you mean?"

"It was an impulse."

Chen Jinli raised his eyebrows and thought about what was wrong. "Impulsive? Why are you so impulsive?"

"Now I'm going to act impulsively for the second time."

"?"

He Jinxing ignored him, as if he didn't notice the confusion on his friend's face. Instead, after He Yuan and Gou An had a discussion and ended the current game with difficulty, he stood up again and returned to the table.

Facing everyone's blank looks, the man raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile, "I'm well rested, continue?"

He Jinxing, who returned to the battlefield, was as decisive and ruthless as ever.

Facing Zhou Yutong's crying, Chen Jinli at least knew to pretend to make a mistake, but he was like a blind and deaf man. With bursts of desperate gasps beside him, he did not stop his pace of conquest at all -

Oh, one time.

The cue pushed a green ball, and the ball "banged" away a red ball at high speed, deviated from its course and hit He Ran's hand on the edge of the billiard ball. The high-speed and hard billiard ball hit his fingertips like a bullet!

He Ran retracted his hand with a hiss, looked at his red fingers, raised his head, and saw his elders across the table. "Sorry," He Jinxing said in a voice without much sincerity, "My hand slipped."

Zhou Yutong pulled Gou An's sleeve: "You deserve it. He just took advantage of you with this hand. Is this justice from heaven?"

Gou An glanced at He Jinxing, who didn't think anything of hitting the ball away, and casually handed the club to He Ran.

His hands hurt so much that it seemed as if his fingernails were about to be lifted off. He Ran hit two balls, raised his hands and withdrew from the battle.

The pain in his hand was secondary. The main problem was that he was alone and helpless, and Jiang Zaiye refused to help. He had no chance of winning, so he refused to continue wasting time with the injury.

When they were leaving the court, Lu Wan pulled him back, and they looked at each other briefly. He Ran raised his hand and pulled her hand away with an expressionless face.

Gou An caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye, but curled his lips and didn't take it to heart.

I have no idea what these two people are up to, nor do I care why they are mixed up again, or why Lu Wan looks at He Ran with that kind of eyes——

"It's better to worry about our bears than worry about them." Miss Gou said with her arms folded, "The noble uncle with the big butt is going crazy. Is there anyone who can stop him?"

What Gou An said is absolutely correct.

He Ran's withdrawal only saved them a little time on their way to defeat, but He Jinxing did not stop his fighting spirit at all.

No one even knew what he was trying to do.

He Yuan and Gou An struggled to hold on for two more times, only to realize belatedly that they were no match for this inexplicable old man - they didn't know what was wrong with him, but after a short rest, he attacked again, each time more ruthlessly than the last.

The most outrageous one, if converted into more standardized snooker points according to the rules of the game, he might have scored nearly 130 points, while the current highest record in world competitions is only 147 points.

He was so ruthless that he didn't leave his opponent any chance of survival.

Even He Yuan couldn't hold back his smile in the end. He stared at the table solemnly for a while, sighed and shook his head, turned the cue in his hand around, and made a gesture as if he was going to give up.

"Huh? You don't want to fight anymore?" He Jinxing asked.

He Yuan stared at his elder for a few seconds, and finally couldn't help asking, "Uncle, how did I offend you?"

He Jinxing raised his eyebrows in surprise: "What are you talking about?"

He Yuan really couldn't see any clues on this face that always seemed to be wearing a mask. After a moment, he could only show a smile that was somewhat similar to the elder in front of him: "It's okay, just treat it as nonsense. It seems that I need to practice for a few more years."

Hearing this, the man's brows were cold, but his voice seemed gentle enough to say, "Forget it if you can't do it. This thing still requires some talent. You can't practice hard... I heard that you are good at horse riding. You can consider further study in that area."

"That's what my uncle said."

After a brief conversation, just as He Yuan was about to give up, the pole in his hand was suddenly taken away by the person behind him who had remained silent from beginning to end.

Ye Lang slowly rolled up his sleeves and stood beside the pool table. He tapped the table with his fingers and said to He Jinxing, "Come on."

Be brief and to the point.

A Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, and the air was suspended for a moment. Perhaps it was because they had never seen such an arrogant bodyguard in their lives. Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, and finally someone recognized it a little bit late -

"It's Yelang."

"Him? Why is it him? That's not surprising."

"Why is Brother Wolf here?"

"...I saw that he seemed to have been standing behind Gou An just now. Hey, what is Gou Yu doing? Has his daughter been kidnapped before? Why is he suddenly setting up such a serious security system?"

"...I'm superficial, but don't you think Ye Lang's face looks insecure? In many ways, he looks like a thief who has committed embezzlement."

Amid the discussion among the people around him, Gou An sighed, covered his face and retreated to the table.

Zhou Yutong: "...I feel so hopeless right now that I'd pick up any dog ​​that passes by my doorstep and let it try?"

"It's not an illusion," Gou An said numbly, "Guess why I sighed last second?"

"Is your bodyguard okay?"

Gou An looked at the man standing not far away holding a pole, staring at He Jinxing and not losing;

Then he looked at the person opposite him, the one who seemed not surprised at all and maintained a good smile, but in fact his aura dropped slightly and his eyes darkened. He was the leader of the He family.

"Strange, Alang is also interested in the stuffed bear."

"Just for fun."

Fortunately, He Jinxing lied with his eyes open. Mr. Bodyguard's coffin face didn't look like it could match with the plush bear.

"I heard that you are good at playing billiards. I didn't expect that you would be able to use this skill as a bodyguard—"

"Don't talk so much."

Judging from He Jinxing's expression, this was probably the first time in his life that he was scolded so much by someone.

Gou An sighed again.

However, she sighed too early, because they found out later that someone who could compete with He Jinxing tonight finally appeared -

Ye Lang is really something.

After four games, the two were evenly matched, but their playing styles were completely different. He Jinxing was fast, fierce and accurate, and his operations were like flowing water, as if he had everything under control; Ye Lang thought carefully about every shot, so that he never hesitated for much time in his positioning. After playing one shot well, he would switch to the next one, basically getting into position without hesitation.

He didn't show much extra expression throughout the whole process. When he leaned down, the fine hair on his forehead covered his eyes a little, but it didn't affect his performance at all.

In the end, it was Ye Lang and He Jinxing who fought so hard for a stuffed bear that the game, which started at 9:30, was dragged until after 11:00 p.m.

Gou An was watching from the sidelines with great enthusiasm at the beginning, but yawned continuously at the end. He could not stand it anymore and finally called for a stop, asking, "Are you going to fight until dawn?" At the end of the game, He Jinxing barely won with a slight difference of 3 points.

Sun Wukong’s seventy-two transformations failed to escape from the palm of Buddha.

Ye Lang casually wiped the golf club in his hand and put it back on the shelf. Although he still had no expression on his face, an air of unwillingness emanated from his whole body.

Turning around, he saw Gou An staring at him. He thought for a moment and said, "Sorry."

Gou An crossed his arms and looked at him in confusion. What was he apologizing for?

"If you act earlier, you won't necessarily lose."

Gou An opened her mouth, but ultimately could not come up with a decent answer... Recently, apart from scolding Ye Lang, she seemed to have barely said a word to him, and it was obviously inappropriate to scold him now. After all, his appearance turned the tide. Although they did not win the game, at least they saved their reputation.

Turning his head to look behind him, he watched with a painful look as the bar owner silently handed the little bear that countless people had broken their heads and bled for to his big boss. The bar owner's expression was very interesting when he saw the bear go from his left pocket to his right pocket in an instant...

And the stuffed teddy bear in He Jinxing's hand was indeed quite incongruous.

It was like Ultraman suddenly took out a rose while hammering the monster.

Gou An wanted to comfort Zhou Yutong——

The shy groundhog had completely given up on the bear cub. Well, to be precise, the bear was no longer a big deal. After all, strictly speaking, the fight for the bear was more exciting: someone pulled out a gun and shot her in the heart mercilessly.

Like it was intentional.

He did it on purpose.

After realizing this, Zhou Yutong couldn't even cry.

He glanced at Chen Jinli coldly, stomped his feet heavily, turned around and ran back to the cabin to sleep.

After Zhou Yutong left, Gou An sat in his seat and looked sideways at He Jinxing playing with the bear with great interest. It was actually a large stuffed toy, but when he held it in his hands, it looked like a baby product.

The strange thing was that the man just fiddled with it and didn't pass it to the little star Xiao Miao who was particularly interested in it, and the latter didn't come up to ask for it either.

“…”

Forget it, screw her.

Gou An retracted his gaze, unsure if he was simply avoiding the moment when the bear was handed over to someone else -

Maybe the strange mentality when he misunderstood He Jinxing giving Lu Wan the button last night will surface again.

She sat at the bar and ordered a Long Island Iced Tea, the same kind as Miss Groundhog's, which was an alcoholic drink limited to Heartbroken people tonight...but just after she took a sip, the table next to her was tapped twice.

Gou An didn't even need to look back to know who was approaching. After all, she would be able to smell the scent on his body even if it turned into ashes at any time.

She knew that the man had approached her because he wanted to say something, but perhaps because of the alcohol, she resisted and turned her head in the opposite direction...

This obvious refusal to talk caused the person behind him to chuckle.

Gou An turned his head back and stared at him.

In this silent stare, He Jinxing put the bear cub, whose hat was crooked due to his fiddling with it, on the bar counter and pushed it towards Gou An.

Gou An's mind went blank for two seconds, and before she could react, he quickly asked, "What do you mean?"

"I just wanted to play some billiards."

Indeed, from beginning to end, he never said that he joined to help anyone win a prize.

Compared to the previous second when she deliberately avoided and was afraid of the strange possessiveness, at this moment the man openly overturned her carefully concealed thoughts——

She didn't even ask, why was he explaining this inexplicably? Was it because of what happened to Lu Wan last night, so he had experience and knew that she was a stingy person?

Gou An pursed his lips.

He Jinxing sat down next to her and glanced at the drink in her hand casually: "It's almost midnight, use this instead of milk before bed?"

"Are you going to confiscate my wine, too?"

"I'm not as boring as Chen Jinli."

Gou An lowered his head and scraped away the mist on the wall of the cup due to the temperature difference of the ice with his fingertips, and stopped talking again.

"But Chen Jinli probably did that just out of concern for his juniors," he added, "and drinking was the cause of the problem."

Gou An was now very upset when he heard the word "junior". Fortunately, Zhou Yutong was not here, otherwise she would have jumped up and had a fight with him no matter who he was. "You also know that drinking will cause trouble."

Seeing that she was bringing up the old matter again, He Jinxing rubbed his brows with a slight headache and muttered "holding a grudge", but still took out his phone and showed Gou An a video -

I don’t know which internet celebrity recorded the clip in the private room at Hejinxing, but he showed up in the box at around 4 o’clock and as soon as he sat down, someone suggested playing a drinking game.

In the video, mobile phones are placed in a circle around a bottle of wine. The rule of the game is whoever's phone lights up first gets to buy the whole bottle of wine.

No one expected that He Jinxing's phone would light up first.

"You didn't have to get drunk." He Jinxing sneered briefly, "I've never lost this game before."

“…”

"Guess who sent me the message at that time."

“…”

Gou An: I’m so embarrassed that I’m the culprit, hahahaha.JPG.

"It's a little inappropriate for an adult to drink like that in the afternoon... but not to the point where the necklace was taken off."

What are you talking about? The necklace! I took it off because it doesn't match my outfit today! What are you thinking about, Deng Xi! Don't act aggressively towards He Jinxing, it's easy to get bounced back. Gou An is now suffering from the second punch on his nose tonight -

"It's okay to drink too much," she tried to avoid the topic of the necklace. "We're on a ship, there are surveillance cameras and people we know everywhere, so it's safe even if we drink too much in the afternoon."

"Um."

He Jinxing showed a slightly indifferent smile, and the corners of his lips unconsciously curled into a slightly sarcastic arc.

"These words coming from An An are very convincing. After all, no matter what An An wants to do, it seems that there are always a lot of people waiting to charge forward for you."

What I said was——

Gou An looked at He Jinxing blankly, his almond-shaped eyes, which were already round, now looked confused because of uncertainty.

After a long time, under He Jinxing's calm gaze, her lips moved, unconsciously using honorifics, and muttered, "Don't talk like that."

"What?"

Gou An let out a long sigh, shifted his gaze away from a bottle of wine behind the bar, and his voice became even quieter, "If I didn't know, I would have thought you were jealous."

The last two words were uttered in a volume as soft as a mosquito's hum.

But in nature, only the humming of mosquitoes can always wake up those who are sleeping.

In the end, the bear Gou An was so ungrateful that he refused to accept it.

But the next morning, when Gou An opened the cabin door and took a step forward, he realized that he had kicked something.

Holding the door and looking down, she saw the 400,000 yuan that she had kicked away, now lying pitifully on the edge of the cabin, only two millimeters away from falling into the sea.

An old lady who was rejected in public yesterday did not sleep in early in the morning and personally brought this damn bear and placed it at the door of her room.

(End of this chapter)