Chapter 110
A moment of silence.
The people in the room either stood up, turned their faces, or looked up, staring blankly in this direction.
The casual remark, "Let me introduce you all, this is my girlfriend," left everyone speechless.
Of all the people in the room, only Jiang Li remained calm. After speaking, he turned his head and asked, "Here or upstairs?"
“Uh…” Guan Nan stammered, taken aback by the sudden turn of events, “Let’s just stay here.”
Xie Shuwan was the first to react, staring intently at Guan Nan, and tentatively asked, "You two, have you started talking?"
"Mm." Guan Nan had no intention of hiding anything from anyone from the moment she entered the room, so she immediately nodded.
The next second, Xie Shuwan quickly picked up her phone, tapped the screen twice, then pressed the voice message button and almost collapsed as she uttered...
"It's over, your family's precious cabbage has been eaten by a pig!"
Chirp chirp chirp, messages keep coming in one after another.
"What is it?"
That's Yena's voice.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
This is Chen Fei's voice.
"Xie Shuwan, are you out of your mind? Go see a doctor!"
—Is this Xin Jia's voice?
At the same time, Guan Nan's phone in his pocket was constantly vibrating.
Her expression showed some surprise.
Immediately afterwards, Xie Shuwan sent out a voice message.
"Your Nannan got eaten by that pig Jiang Li!"
At noon, a group of people sat around a table on the second floor of the coffee shop.
They huddled together, leaving Jiang Li and Guan Nan alone on a small sofa, turning off all the lights but leaving only the spotlights, as if they were interrogating criminals.
Facing a dozen or so eyes, even if they were close friends and acquaintances, Guan Nan still felt inexplicably awkward. Moreover, she knew that Jiang Li wasn't someone who enjoyed being in the spotlight after stepping down from the stage.
So she subconsciously turned her head to observe Jiang Li's emotions.
However, Jiang Li not only had a good temper, but also seemed to enjoy being with this group of people.
Guan Nan was at a loss for words.
"Speak," Chen Fei said, crossing her arms and standing up instead of sitting down, in an attempt to intimidate them with her imposing presence.
Guan Nan blinked: "What did you say?"
Yena leaned forward, her fingers darting between the two of them, "Tell me how you two secretly carried out your affair and formed a secret bond!"
"Hey, are you interrogating a prisoner?" He Jiafen pouted, dissatisfied, and got up as if to stop them.
Seeing this, Xie Shuwan put her hand on her shoulder and pushed her down.
The group of people all shouted at her, "Shut up!"
"Boy friend?"
"girlfriend?"
When did this happen?
"How could we not know?!"
Ye Na and Chen Fei took turns performing, and with Xie Shuwan as a backup at any time, the three of them put on a show and their performance was so good that no one could keep up.
Just then, Guan Nan suddenly regretted what Jiang Li had asked her when she came in—whether she wanted to be honest about it.
But I'm also somewhat relieved that I only confessed half of what I knew.
Looking at her friend's demeanor, Guan Nan immediately nipped the idea in the bud.
So, he gave a vague and ambiguous answer, and then gave a brief explanation.
"Really?"
You were the one who pursued him!
"You really know how to do big things quietly, little Guan Guan!"
In their brief account, they learned that Guan Nan had meticulously planned to get close to Jiang Li, seizing every opportunity to advance her relationship, from initial casual contact to taking things one step at a time until they officially became a couple.
Chen Fei was convinced of this, after all, she had the impression of university.
She was convinced that Guan Nan had been plotting this for a long time.
But Yena had Yu Shu beside her, who winked and made her doubtful, "Really? When did you two get together... and start dating?"
Guan Nan replied, "The day we ate crabs."
"Damn it!" Yu Shu, completely unaware of the situation, yelled, "Jiang Li, you bastard, you didn't say a word about something this big!"
"Wait a minute!" Yena covered his mouth with her hand and continued to ask, "You two, say it again, who pursued whom?"
"I pursued her."
"I pursued him."
When faced with this question, the two spoke in unison.
Xie Shuwan glanced at the expressions of the two people beside her and reminded them, "Think carefully before you speak."
"I pursued him." Guan Nan seemed to have mentally prepared herself, and said with a slow smile to them, "I've liked him for a long time, how could I bear to let him pursue me?"
She sat upright with her hands on her knees, very proper, but with a faint smile in her eyes.
The next second, Jiang Li grabbed her hand, his cold fingers lowering the temperature of her palm, connecting with her ten fingers, her small hand wrapped in his large one.
They are very outspoken and don't shy away from anything.
Guan Nan paused for a moment, looked down at the hand she had just clasped, and then glanced at her friend across from her, who was both annoyed and amused.
She instinctively tried to break free.
Jiang Li's voice was low and tinged with laughter: "Why are you hiding?"
In an instant, Guan Nan realized that the two of them were already openly holding hands, and her expression went blank.
She regained her senses, and the nerve that had been constantly taut finally relaxed, along with the force that had been gripping her hand as she tried to break free.
Her hand moved naturally with the movement, resting on her thigh, and she stammered, "I didn't dodge."
Jiang Li glanced at them and said lazily, "Have more confidence. There's nothing shameful about liking Jiang Li."
Upon hearing this, Guan Nan felt embarrassed.
"...How shameless." Qi Qi couldn't help but complain.
Chen Fei also said with a stern face: "You're spineless."
The others shrugged and frowned, looking like they couldn't bear to watch anymore, but then quickly returned to the previous topic and continued talking about the tour.
After the tour ended, the staff complained bitterly and even started to talk about metaphysics.
During a break when Jiang Li was talking to them about work.
Chen Fei walked over and gently patted her shoulder, "When are you planning to start work?"
Upon seeing who it was, Guan Nan said, "I'm not going to work."
"Not going to work anymore?" The screen lit up, and Chen Fei glanced at her phone before blurting out, "You're not still up to your old tricks and want to go back to being that lousy teacher again, are you?"
Guan Nan frowned slightly: "Being a teacher is pretty good too."
After hearing this, Chen Fei ignored the sentence and moved closer to her. "Have you considered starting over?"
Starting over?
Guan Nan turned her head and stared at Chen Fei, her eyes still showing a blank look.
“Actually,” Chen Fei stepped back, picked up her wine glass, took a sip, and said slowly, “my work hasn’t been going very well lately. Maybe I’m just not used to the market. Switching from screenwriter to wedding planner is tough on me, and I’m a bit tired.”
"So, how about you consider letting me latch onto someone powerful and give it another try?"
After she finished speaking, Chen Fei stared straight at her, as if afraid that she would refuse.
Guan Nan suddenly smiled inexplicably, picked up her cup and gently clinked it against hers, her voice soft and reassuring: "Pleasure doing business with you."
The idea of "doing it again" had been brewing in her mind for some time, but with Ye Na gradually focusing on her planned future family, Chen Fei's job was stable at the moment.
Guan Nan understands and respects this.
However, new partners need to be observed, and there will be a long period of adjustment and adaptation. In the end, it is uncertain whether both parties will remain steadfast in their positions and continue on this path with aligned values and future goals.
All of this was an unknown variable, which made Guan Nan, who had this idea, feel somewhat troubled.
So much so that after hearing Chen Fei's words, she was still somewhat dazed and couldn't quite come to her senses, as if she was trying to confirm the truth of Chen Fei's words.
As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Li walked over and lightly tapped the back of her head twice with his fingertips.
Guan Nan looked up and saw his downcast eyes.
Their eyes met, lingering tenderly.
The atmosphere was unusually ambiguous.
"Here you go." Jiang Li handed over a few coupons.
Guan Nan glanced at the paper and asked, puzzled, "What is this?"
"Tickets," Jiang Li said succinctly, "aren't the young ladies in your company my fans?"
Suddenly, Guan Nan remembered the first day she checked into Yuyuan, when Xie Qiao joked at the dinner table that he couldn't get tickets and asked if he could give her two next time.
Guan Nan took the tickets: "It seems there are more than two."
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