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Chapter 56
At night, the observation restaurant on the 30th floor of the L'C Hotel.
It was only when Ruan Yan got downstairs that she realized that Jia Yanyuan's suggestion of going out for dinner meant going to the most expensive hotel and restaurant in the city.
The waiter, wearing a well-tailored suit and vest, respectfully led them to their seats.
Walking through the corridor, accompanied by lazy and relaxing jazz music, Ruan Yan saw a whole row of 360-degree panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, which almost overlooked the night view of the entire City C.
The seat Jia Yanyuan chose was next to the window, with a great view, and it was a perfect place to enjoy the night view.
The twinkling lights outside the window are like a winding, sparkling river.
Dazzling and magnificent.
"Brother Ayan, why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming here to eat?" After taking a seat, the look in Ruan Yan's eyes became more complicated.
Jia Yanyuan smiled and said, "I just wanted to give you a surprise."
Ruan Yan pursed her lips.
"Why, are you unhappy?" Jia Yanyuan saw that there didn't seem to be any joy on her face.
Ruan Yan smiled: "No, but if I had known earlier, I would have changed my clothes."
"It doesn't matter. The outfit you're wearing is also very beautiful. You'll look good in any clothes. You will always be the most beautiful fairy in my heart." Jia Yanyuan said in a slick tone.
Ruan Yan felt as if she had swallowed a huge piece of fat and it was so greasy and unbearable.
Only a faint smile is her protective color.
Fortunately, the appetizers arrived quickly.
Ruan Yan used the time of eating to reduce ineffective communication with him.
He talked about some boring and irrelevant topics, and she responded perfunctorily.
Until he suddenly put down his knife and fork, wiped the corner of his mouth, and began to show his affection again.
"Xiaoyan, do you know what day it is today?"
Ruan Yan shook her head.
"Today is our eighth anniversary," Jia Yanyuan said gently, "We've been together for so long without realizing it."
Ruan Yan put down the red wine glass in her hand and raised the corner of her mouth: "Sorry, I don't remember."
"It's okay, I just remember it," he said with sympathy, "I will keep all the good memories between us firmly in my heart."
Ruan Yan adjusted her sitting position, and there was no warmth in her mechanical smile.
The scumbag's lips moved up and down, and greasy sweet talk came out of his mouth: "I hope that in the next eight years, the next eight years, and every eight years after that, we can celebrate together like tonight."
The direction of his words was too obvious. The vague thoughts that had been brewing in Ruan Yan's mind since she stepped into the restaurant were now further confirmed.
Seeing his hand slowly reaching inside his suit, Ruan Yan couldn't help but frown.
She tried hard to suppress her disgust and aversion, and tried to stop him before he took out the things in his pocket.
"Brother Ayan, you're not going to propose to me here, are you?" Ruan Yan lowered her voice deliberately and said, "No, please don't. I don't like to do such private things in public. Otherwise, I will be unhappy."
Jia Yanyuan's hand paused, and the expression on his face instantly became awkward.
"Xiaoyan, I..." He hesitated for a moment, but finally compromised and did not take out the things.
He felt a little unhappy, but he didn't dare show it. The most important thing at the moment was to please Ruan Yan.
"No problem, since you don't like it, I will prepare something that will satisfy you next time." Jia Yanyuan said very "considerately".
After returning home at night, Ruan Yan still couldn't calm down.
She didn't expect Jia Yanyuan to propose to her so suddenly, which was different from what she had expected.
Fortunately, she discovered it in time and stopped it, otherwise the embarrassing scene would give her goosebumps just thinking about it.
She didn't want to give him the beautiful memory of being proposed to. It was so unlucky and would definitely become a nightmare that would wake her up in the middle of the night countless times in the future.
She had no appetite at all when she had dinner with him in the evening, so she didn't eat enough. Now she was so hungry that she made a bowl of noodles and opened WeChat to check her Moments while eating.
Her circle of friends is basically filled with the daily updates of Zhuo Lu's colleagues.
Liu Mengmeng is making jokes again——
One night, a man went to a bar with his dog.
The man told the bartender: My dog can talk.
The bartender didn't believe it, so the man said that if his dog could talk, the bartender would buy everyone a round of drinks.
The bartender agreed.
Man: Let me say something auspicious first.
Dog: Prosperous!
Man: What is the tiger to the forest?
Dog: King!
Man: What is the last name of the most famous host on Hunan Satellite TV?
Dog: Woof (Han)!
After hearing this, the bartender couldn't stand it anymore and threw the man and the dog out.
On this dark and windy night, a man and a dog sat outside the bar.
Suddenly, the dog turned to look at the man and said: Could it be He Jiong?
Liu Mengmeng concluded with the caption: [I saw this on Xiaohongshu in the middle of the night, and laughed so hard in my room that my mom thought I was possessed and rushed in to wake me up, hahaha!]
Zhao Tian commented below: [Tell my mom for me not to be lenient.]
Fang Yuan: [I agree with what the dog said!]
Yang Xiao: [Why didn't the bartender let the dog finish his words? That's too much!]
Ruan Yan grinned, and her previous bad mood disappeared in an instant.
Since leaving Zhuo Lu, she rarely laughed so heartlessly.
I used to hang out with them every day, and I was always happy. I was much happier at work than after get off work.
Now she couldn't help but miss them, and...
Thinking of this, she returned to the main interface and scrolled down for a long time before she saw his WeChat.
His profile picture is very simple, a picture of the universe and the stars, which is somewhat similar to his personality, deep, mysterious, and with a bit of cold melancholy.
I wonder if he's asleep now? Is he used to the days without her around to get in his way?
Ruan Yan slurped her instant noodles, feeling inexplicably empty again.
*
In the evening, Qiao Qianqian took the elevator out of her home. She didn't expect Ruan Yan to suddenly ask her out.
Ever since Ruan Yan knew about her and Jia Yanyuan, they had completely fallen out.
Later, Ruan Yan disappeared, returned, and lost her memory... Although it seemed that "the years were peaceful" on the surface, Qiao Qianqian knew clearly in her heart that their relationship was several times worse than directly quarreling and fighting.
After the incident, Ruan Yan rarely asked her out. She tried to take the initiative a few times at the beginning, but was always rejected with various reasons.
This is fine. Anyway, she doesn't want to pretend to be a loving sister with Ruan Yan from time to time.
What's even worse is that every time she faced Ruan Yan, she had a vague sense of crisis that the enemy was hidden and she was in the light.
Jealous of her, unwilling to accept her, and at the same time fearful of her.
This complex and intertwined feeling made her not want to see her even more.
Qiao Qianqian arrived at the bar ten minutes earlier than the agreed time, but she didn't expect Ruan Yan to be already sitting there waiting for her.
She was a little uncomfortable with the fact that this young lady, who was always late, came so early.
This is a relatively quiet bar with a resident singer on the stage singing English songs that are affectionate and lingering.
The warm and ambiguous light falls on the wooden table, and the air is filled with a complex mixture of nicotine, alcohol, perfume, etc., which arouses the little beast lurking in people's hearts and makes them run wild at night.
"Sister Qianqian, you're here." She waved to Qiao Qianqian from a distance.
Qiao Qianqian walked over and sat down across from her: "Why are you so interested in asking me out for a drink today?"
"Didn't I rarely ask you out to play before?" Ruan Yan tilted her head slightly and asked her.
"Not really." Ruan Yan used to go out with her quite often. Ruan Yan had a good alcohol tolerance, but she was just average.
Ruan Yan only likes to come to the bar when she is extremely happy or when she is in a bad mood, but it makes no difference to Qiao Qianqian, because whether Ruan Yan is happy or unhappy, she always acts as a boring emotional trash can.
"Didn't I tell you before that your personality has changed dramatically since you lost your memory? You've even stopped wanting to go to places like bars," Qiao Qianqian stared at her face and asked tentatively, "Did...something happen to you today?"
Ruan Yan blinked and raised the corners of her lips: "Sister Qianqian, you are really amazing. You guessed it before I even said anything."
Qiao Qianqian had no idea what she was up to, so she patiently cooperated: "Oh? Really? Did something good happen?"
A song ended on the stage. In the brief blank space, Ruan Yan held her cheek with one hand and spoke in a voice that was neither loud nor soft.
"Brother Ayan proposed to me..."
Music started again, a slightly cheerful tune lingering around, and Qiao Qianqian's expression was stunned for a moment.
"He proposed to me out of the blue, and I was really shocked," Ruan Yan gently covered her eyes with her hands. "I was so nervous at the time, my whole body was shaking uncontrollably..."
Qiao Qianqian stared at her crimson lips as they opened and closed for a long moment before she said, "Really...you're getting married..."
"Not yet. I haven't agreed to his proposal yet. I told him I don't like proposals in that kind of environment. Brother Ayan said he respected my opinion and said he would give me a more formal proposal ceremony that would satisfy me next time."
Ruan Yan kept talking, and Qiao Qianqian's expression became visibly more and more unnatural. The corners of her mouth gradually curved up, overlapping with her usual arc of disdain and indifference.
"Didn't you say before that you were in love with Lu Peishi? Why, have you changed your mind now?"
Hearing her words, Ruan Yan's eyes dimmed for a moment, and then she looked at her with a sense of loss and helplessness: "I don't know how to put it, although...but the gap between him and I is too big. We are not from the same world. Forcing ourselves to fit in will only make me feel very painful."
This answer made Qiao Qianqian feel a little better: "Did you confess your feelings to Lu Peishi?"
Ruan Yan didn't comment, but just drank the wine in the glass silently.
"Anyway, I've made up my mind. In order to completely break with the past, I've resigned from Zhuo Lu so I don't have to face him so often. Let's just keep all those good things in our memories."
Qiao Qianqian sneered softly. It seemed that things were not going well between her and Lu Peishi.
"Brother Ayan treats me very well. He is the one who is truly right for me. I have thought it through clearly." Ruan Yan stared at her with her round eyes. "Sister Qianqian, you will bless us, right?"
"Hmm..." Qiao Qianqian wanted to say her blessing in a sarcastic tone, but strangely, those simple words were stuck in her throat, and it was difficult for her to say them one by one, making her sound awkward and stiff, as if she was reluctant to do so.
All night long, she felt as if something was pressing down on her heart, making her feel suffocated and anxious.
"I'm so nervous and excited right now. I wonder what kind of surprise Brother Yan will give me next time?"
"Actually, I'm still quite confused about married life. On the one hand, I'm looking forward to it, but on the other hand, I'm also very scared."
"I don't even know if I can be a good wife..."
Ruan Yan spoke very excitedly, and Qiao Qianqian occasionally agreed with a word or two, but most of the time they were drinking.
Seeing Ruan Yan's eyes full of bright longing for married life, Qiao Qianqian felt it was dazzling and the more she listened, the more uncomfortable she felt.
The moment she heard the news of Jia Yanyuan's proposal from Ruan Yan, she was completely stunned, followed by anger and sadness.
She had no idea about such a big thing. She had just met him two days ago, but he didn't even mention a word to her.
Now he kept many things from her.
His thoughts, his plans, his future...
From the beginning to the end, I was not in his future plans.
Although she didn't want to admit it, she was indeed more sad than angry now.
She originally thought that she was strong enough in her heart and would not worry about such things anymore.
After going through so much before, didn't she see that this man was a bit heartless?
So why is she still worried now?
"Sister Qianqian, can you be my bridesmaid?"
Faintly, she heard Ruan Yan ask her this in her ear.
Qiao Qianqian didn't remember how much she drank tonight. She only knew that she kept repeating the mechanical action of pouring the wine into her mouth.
"Bridesmaid? Why should I be your bridesmaid?"
"You're so great! Don't you have a lot of friends? Why did you choose me as your bridesmaid? Are you deliberately mocking me?"
"Ruan Yan, I lost to you again this time. You must be very proud of yourself. You must be laughing at me in your heart, laughing at me for being your defeated opponent..."
"What are you talking about? I don't understand... Sister Qianqian, are you drunk?"
"Sister Qianqian, Sister Qianqian?"
Looking at Qiao Qianqian lying on the table, completely unconscious, Ruan Yan slowly withdrew her hand that was patting her.
“See you tomorrow” is indeed worthy of its reputation.
She just poured some into the cup when she wasn't paying attention, and after a while she really lost consciousness.
Of course, the main reason was that she drank too much tonight.
She was already in a bad mood after hearing the news, and with Ruan Yan's constant verbal provocation, she couldn't control herself as she drank.
The lights around were dim and flickering. Ruan Yan was not in a hurry to do anything. She just sat quietly in her seat, waiting for time to pass without any rush.
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