Zhang Liang yelled at Pei Zhi, and the atmosphere on the court became a little more harmonious, but it was still far from the atmosphere of hanging out with friends, and the entire game was still very dull.
Lin Chaoxi probably knew why Lu Zhihao agreed to play a badminton game with Zhang Liang, because Lu was a good man, but she could not comment on Zhang Liang.
Pei Zhi often said just the right thing to say. He would not say what Zhang Liang had said that day, nor would he analyze Zhang Liang's mentality that led him to say those words.
That may be something that only belongs to Zhang Liang, and may not even have anything to do with Lu Zhihao.
After three games and two wins, Zhang Liang won 2-1.
Zhang Liang and his girlfriend were packing up on the other side of the venue. Their area was relatively peaceful. Hua Juan teased Lu Zhihao, but Comrade Lu didn't seem to want to talk.
"Senior, do you want to take a shower? Is there a bathroom here?" Shen Mei asked a little shyly.
Lin Zhaoxi was stunned for a moment, then answered subconsciously: "Okay."
Shen Mei ran to the other side of the venue and called Zhang Liang's girlfriend.
Entering the bathroom with two beautiful young girls, Lin Chaoxi always felt that his vanity was satisfied. However, just like Zhang Liang and Lu Zhihao, Shen Mei and Zhang Liang's girlfriend seemed to have nothing to say.
They entered the bathroom in silence, changed in silence, and took their change of clothes in silence. Lin Chaoxi showered quickly, taking 30 seconds to shower, 1 minute to put on clothes, and then put on shoes on the stool.
The sound of slippers clacking could be heard in the bathroom, and Zhang Liang's girlfriend came in with wet hair and wrapped in a bath towel. Lin Chaoxi then saw that she had a tattoo of a cat biting a rose on her shoulder armor, which was very dark and different from the harmless look when she was snuggling up to Zhang Liang.
In the bathroom, there was the sound of Shen Mei taking a bath.
Lin Zhaoxi thought for a moment and greeted her: "Little sister, what's your name?"
"Annie, I'm not small. I'm the same age as Zhang Liang."
"Annie, your name is so sweet." Lin Chaoxi couldn't think of anything to say and could only chat awkwardly, "Playing ball today seems a bit awkward." She laughed dryly.
Annie said with a straight face: "It's not embarrassing. In fact, Zhang Liang is very happy."
Lin Zhaoxi: "You won, of course I'm happy."
"No, he's happy that you guys are willing to come out."
"Well, you don't include me in this." Lin Chaoxi said.
"Is he obnoxious?"
"It's very disgusting."
"He actually just wants to feel a sense of existence." Lori sneered, "All idiots are like this."
Lin Chaoxi was shocked. Miss Annie just sat down and took out a cigarette from her bag. Lin Chaoxi weakly pointed to the no smoking sign.
The girl put away her cigarette irritably: "Do you know why I'm with Zhang Liang?"
"Because..." Lin Chaoxi racked his brains, but couldn't think of a word to compliment Zhang Liang, so he could only say, "He's tall?"
The girl rolled her eyes at her and said, "Of course it's because his family is rich."
“…”
“But later I found out that his family wasn’t as rich as I thought, and he had no intention of staying in Switzerland. I wanted to get a stable status, so I wanted to dump him.”
"Then why didn't you throw it away?"
When Lin Chaoxi asked this question, the girl rolled her eyes again.
"Because I love him, of course."
Lin Zhaoxi's face was tangled.
Annie glanced at her and asked, "What's that expression on your face?"
"I think your taste is a bit heavy." Lin Zhaoxi said.
"When do you think a woman is finished with a man?"
Lin Zhaoxi: “???”
"You've never been in love?" Annie understood.
"Ahem." Lin Chaoxi cleared his throat: "I already have someone I like."
“It’s something to be proud of.”
Lin Zhaoxi: “…”
Anne squeezed the mineral water and took a sip, not even bothering to wipe her hair. "I tell you, when a woman starts to sympathize with a man, she is doomed, so you must never sympathize with a man."
Lin Chaoxi didn't know why the topic suddenly shifted to the emotional side, and what was even more terrifying was that because she didn't have a mother, she had never talked to anyone about such private emotional issues between girls since she was a child.
But sympathy? She suddenly thought of a possibility: "Has Zhang Liang's family fallen on hard times?"
"What are you thinking about?"
"Because you made Zhang Liang sound miserable."
"Do you care?"
"I don't care."
"Then there's nothing to say."
"Okay, I want to gossip a little." Lin Zhaoxi thought about it and found a tactful excuse, "He and I should be classmates in junior high school and high school. I have heard of his name. He has good grades."
“What’s the use of grades?”
"He's a good guy, he went abroad after graduating from high school." Lin Zhaoxi suddenly thought of Switzerland mentioned by Annie, "What can you learn in Switzerland?"
“Hotel management.”
Lin Chaoxi was stunned for a moment. Although it was different from what she expected Zhang Liang to choose, she still said, "It's a very good major."
"Of course, many rich second-generations like to study this major, and the tuition is expensive." Annie has long eyelashes. She blinked lightly, looking cute and lovely. "That's why I went to work near their school."
"Well, then?"
"Then I met Zhang Liang. This kind of boy is very deceptive. You don't even need to be nice to him. You just need to flatter him and coax him a few words every day, and he will be in a good mood and tell you anything." Annie crossed her legs on the bench, "Can I really not smoke?"
"No way."
"I found out about his family background and learned that his family runs a chain of express hotels in Taiwan. Later, I checked and found that only Anning has a hotel of that brand."
"No wonder you want to study hotel management and go home to inherit the family business." Lin Zhaoxi said calmly, "Being a second-generation rich person is the most stable career in the world."
"Your words are really hypocritical."
"Just a quickie."
Lin Chaoxi also followed Annie and sat cross-legged, feeling mixed emotions.
She and Zhang Liang had a few periods of study that only she knew about. Zhang Liang was her rival and enemy. Later, even when Zhang Liang followed Lao Lin to study, they were never friends. Because Zhang Liang was always high and mighty, and deep down he thought everyone was trash, just like his proud mother.
Such a proud person studied hotel management, maybe he wanted to turn his family business into Hilton. Lin Chaoxi reluctantly found a reason, but couldn't help but wonder, what kind of life path will Zhang Liang, who was trained by Old Lin in Cheese World, choose in the end?
Perhaps she was craving for cigarettes, Annie kept drinking water. After a while, she said, "Your expression is weird again."
Lin Chaoxi rubbed his face and sobered up: "I was just wondering, with his personality, would he offend all the customers if he went to work in the hotel industry?"
Annie also smiled in disdain: "Of course, does he look like a fool suitable for business?"
Lin Zhaoxi shook his head: "Now I finally understand why you sympathize with him."
Annie: "It's not so bad. It's just bankruptcy after all."
"What about Zhang Liang? Does he like doing this?" Lin Chaoxi asked involuntarily.
"You and that guy named Lu Zhihao are really interesting." Annie paused and suddenly looked at her seriously.
"What's wrong?"
"I didn't want to tell you, but you won't tell Zhang Liang anyway, right?"
"Of course not."
"I once flipped through Zhang Liang's QQ history, mainly looking at the blacklist, which is usually where his ex-girlfriends are kept." Annie winked at her.
"Is there a long list of QQ numbers in it?"
"No, there was only one." Annie smiled. "I thought it was some unforgettable love story, so I added the owner of that account. Then I found out that the other party was a male medical student from Yongchuan University."
"Lu Zhihao?"
"I didn't know before, but now I think it might be." Annie raised her eyebrows. "I was worried that Zhang Liang had a problem with his sexual orientation. One time when I went home with him, I secretly checked his chat history on his old computer."
"Can you finish it all at once?" Lin Chaoxi was confused.
"In the chat history, the blocked number said to him: I think you should take the college entrance examination."
Lin Chaoxi was stunned.
"The little idiot who was blocked was very talkative and left a lot of messages, such as 'If you don't take the college entrance examination, you will have no grades and will never be able to surpass me' and 'I worked so hard for so long just to crush you in the college entrance examination. If you don't take the exam, you are avoiding the battle and are a waste'. It's pretty much along these lines."
Anne rested her chin on her hand and said, "The last sentence is the funniest, 'I don't think you should go to Switzerland to study hotel management. You don't have the brains to make money. Don't you have anything else you like?'"
Lin Chaoxi calmed down his breath.
Even if Annie didn't add that boy on QQ, she could guess who said it just from the direct, crisp, and uncompromising conversation. It couldn't be anyone else except Lu Zhihao.
"Did Zhang Liang reply?"
"Of course not," said Anne softly.
Somehow, Lin Chaoxi thought of Lu Zhihao and Zhang Liang from elementary school, Lu Zhihao who once admired Zhang Liang, and Zhang Liang who looked down on Lu Zhihao.
Zhang Liang was so annoying that Lu Zhihao had probably been planning to compete with Zhang Liang in the college entrance examination for a long time. However, Zhang Liang shattered all of Lu Zhihao's fantasies by casually telling him to study abroad.
She could almost imagine how angry Old Lu was when he found out about this. She could also almost guess why Zhang Liang went crazy at Lu Zhihao that day. What qualifications do you have to educate me when you are like this?
If I had to describe it in a cheesy way, it would probably be: I don't allow my enemies to be trash.
Lin Chaoxi felt both amused and emotional.
A long time passed, so long that the sound of a shower in another part of the bathroom stopped without anyone noticing.
Shen Mei came out wrapped in a bath towel, her skin smooth and smooth, her face completely rosy.
Anne raised her eyes, as proud as a black swan: "Does gossip sound good?"
"Not bad." Shen Mei paused, "Can I ask a question?"
"What do you want to ask?"
"Why doesn't Zhang Liang rebel against his family? If he doesn't like the arrangement at home?"
"He doesn't dislike it either." Annie stood up and pinched Shen Mei's face lovingly. "Don't you think that only the luckiest people in the world are born knowing what they like and what they want to do, while most people don't like or dislike it. This is not bad, this is also good, isn't it the same for you all?"
Lin Chaoxi was silent for a while, then suddenly raised his head and asked, "Do you have anything you like or want to do?"
"Zhang Liang." Annie smiled slyly.
——
If it were just a normal gathering with friends, we might go out for a midnight snack after playing ball.
But the relationship between Zhang Liang and Pei Zhi, Lu Zhihao and Hua Juan is not like this.
After they finished showering and packing their things, they stood together at the door of the badminton hall. The night breeze was still hot. The street lights cast narrow shadows, but no one asked them out.
Zhang Liang took Annie's hand and walked away with the golf bag on his back.
Lu Zhihao's face was solemn: "Just leaving like this?"
Zhang Liang turned around: "What else?"
"Let's have a meal together." Lu Zhihao said a statement.
"Lu Zhihao, are you sick?" Zhang Liang looked up and asked, "How about our relationship and eating together?"
"Then why did you ask me out to play badminton?"
"Because you're an idiot." Zhang Liang said more and more harshly.
Lu Zhihao was unusually calm, and even completely different from the way he was in high school when he would be provoked by Zhang Liang: "Isn't it because of what you said, that we should meet again before graduating from college?"
"Haha." Zhang Liang was too lazy to waste time talking to Lu Zhihao, so he turned around and walked down the stairs.
Lu Zhihao: "You want to go back? Are you really going to be a rubbish rich second generation?"
This statement is very direct and crisp, which is very much in Lu Zhihao's usual style.
"What else?" Zhang Liang asked back.
Lu Zhihao: "I think you should still do what you want to do."
Zhang Liang turned around and left without saying anything.
They probably didn't even have enough time to drink a glass of water together, let alone be friends, and they just broke up like that.
Lin Chaoxi looked at Zhang Liang's back and recalled the scene when she saw Zhang Liang's mother in the park when she was a child.
They have the same pride, the same power, and the same attitude of treating all other kids like trash.
If the family created Zhang Liang like this, to what extent and how much effort does it take for a person to break free from the influence of the family and find himself?
Maybe it will never be possible?
When Pei Zhi sent her home, they passed by a familiar barbecue restaurant and she stopped at the door of the store.
She thought for a long time before she recalled that it was the Cheese World Elementary School. They came to Yongchuan together to participate in the Jin Cup team competition. Lao Lin took them to eat barbecue.
Zhang Liang said: "My mother said that eating barbecued food will make children stupid."
A bunch of kids laughed at him in unison: "You're not that smart."
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