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"Hello, my name is Xing Chen, and I'm Nan Ke's friend."
As soon as Xing Chen finished speaking, laughter was heard from the other side.
"Ah, I know you!"
Xing Chen paused and said, "She hasn't returned home yet. Are you two together?"
"Yes, she is here, wait a moment."
Su Shuo seemed to hold the phone farther away, but Xing Chen soon discovered that he was wrong. She had gone to a more noisy environment.
But after a while, the environment over there became much quieter.
"Hello? Xing Chen?"
"It's me."
All the bad imaginations finally disappeared after hearing Nan Ke's voice.
"Sorry, I dropped my phone and it won't turn on. You called me a lot, didn't you?"
"Not many..." Xing Chen bit his lip and asked her, "Where are you now? When will you be back?"
"I don't know yet. It might be a little late. Don't worry about me. Remember to eat."
"What's going on?"
"A gathering of friends."
Nan Ke's voice sounded somewhat helpless. "You're crazy and won't let us go. It's okay. I'll go back after I finish here."
Xing Chen kept frowning. He had so many things he wanted to say, but he knew that none of them would be appropriate here.
In the end, I could only ask one more question: "When will it be over? I can pick you up."
He said, "It's too late for you to come back by yourself."
Without waiting for Nan Ke to respond, he continued: "Send me the address, I-"
"Why haven't you finished yet?"
A strange voice suddenly joined in, and Xing Chen's eyebrows jumped. It was a boy.
"I've been waiting for you. Who have you been talking to on the phone for so long? Your boyfriend?"
"My brother."
It sounds like Nan Ke doesn't like that person very much.
Even through the phone, I could hear that his tone was a little cold.
"You have a younger brother? Call him over to play with you!"
Xing Chen's irritability suddenly turned into smoke and dust.
He was so choked that he wanted to curse.
It sounded like the man wanted to snatch Nan Ke's phone and say something to him, but Nan Ke pushed him back.
"I'm fine. You should rest early tonight. I'll be back when you're done."
"That--"
The phone has been hung up.
The state of being unable to do anything lasted for another half an hour.
Xing Chen suddenly looked out the window.
He seemed to hear thunder just now.
I got up and went over, and sure enough, I saw lightning and heard thunder.
Looking at the situation, it's going to rain heavily soon.
Xing Chen took a deep breath, edited a very polite text message and sent it to Su Shuo's number.
As expected, Su Shuo did not reply.
It's easy to imagine that she probably didn't see it.
Xing Chen forced himself to calm down and solve the problem, temporarily forgetting everything.
Two hours passed, Su Shuo did not reply to the message, and Nan Ke did not come back.
Xing Chen held the phone and pondered over and over whether he should make another call.
He really didn't want to seem like a control freak, as he kept asking Nan Ke questions even though she clearly said she didn't need his attention. However, he was upset because he couldn't see Nan Ke.
Just a gathering of friends.
He persuaded himself.
But... he clearly knew that it was just a gathering of friends, and Nan Ke obviously didn't like the person who was suspected of organizing it, so why did he become like this?
Xing Chen thought that if Nan Ke saw through what he was thinking and knew what he wanted to do to her, she would definitely hate him.
Will definitely...
Want to escape from him.
Just as I was daydreaming, my cell phone rang unexpectedly.
Xing Chen's heart beat faster when he saw the unfamiliar number.
He picked up the phone almost in a panic.
"Hello."
He pretended to be calm and blurted out the two words lightly.
"...Xing Chen? Right?"
It’s not Nan Ke, it’s Su Shuo.
Xing Chen still maintained a very polite tone.
"Yes, it's Nan Ke. What's the matter?"
"She's a little drunk, can you come and get her?"
"able!"
Xing Chen immediately asked for the address.
Su Shuo repeated it and asked him if he remembered it clearly.
"Remember that. I'll be there in a moment. Please take care of her first."
Xing Chen hung up the phone and left immediately.
It's raining heavily outside.
Xing Chen remembered that if Nan Ke was outside in the rain, she would be in a bad mood, but if she was at home when it rained heavily, she would like to listen to and watch the rain.
Today's situation is obviously the former, and she must not be in a good mood.
Xing Chen almost never takes a taxi when he goes out, and today is a special case.
There was a traffic jam on a rainy day, and Xing Chen was extremely anxious, but he also knew that it was useless to urge the driver in this situation.
He could only ask if there was a better way, but the driver gave a negative answer.
Xing Chen leaned back in his chair, looking at the rain pouring down outside the window.
Took several deep breaths.
I prayed that when I passed away, Nan Ke would still be there.
His wish came true.
The road ahead was not easy to walk on, and so is the road ahead.
Before getting off the car, Xing Chen asked the driver to wait for a moment, considering that it would be difficult to get a taxi.
Just when I was about to call Su Shuo to ask for the specific address, I saw a group of people standing at the door.
It was so crowded that even Nan Ke standing next to them was the most conspicuous one.
A short man was circling around her. Nan Ke was almost hanging on a girl, Su Shuo. Xing Chen had seen a photo of them together and seemed to recognize her.
"I can just take her home. Who knows how long we'll have to wait for someone. Look how heavy the rain is—"
"You know it's raining heavily, so it won't take long for you to take her back. Besides, I've already told her that if he goes there in vain in such bad weather, Nan Nan will definitely scold me when she sobers up for bullying her child."
"I'll take you back first, and then I'll take her—"
"Liu Fuyun, don't think I don't know your little thoughts."
"I have some little thoughts."
The boy still refused to give up: "She's so drunk, it's not good for her to stand here in the rain——"
"Sister Susu."
Xing Chen walked up the stairs holding an umbrella, interrupting what the boy was about to say.
He didn't look at the man. He was completely relieved after just one look at him, but he also felt disgusted. How could such a person be worthy of having dreams about Nan Ke?
"Xing Chen?"
"It's me."
Nan Ke opened his eyes in a daze, glanced around, and moved his mouth, but failed to make any sound.
Su Shuo handed Nan Ke to Xing Chen, who reached out to take her. He had no other choice but to hug her tightly.
"Why are you so drunk?"
"Heh, it's because someone with ulterior motives forced her to drink..." Su Shuo glanced at the people around him while speaking.
Only then did Xing Chen look over, his eyes cold.
It was not known whether the man was really stupid or just pretending, but he greeted Xing Chen warmly.
"You are Nan Ke's younger brother, right? You are indeed a family, handsome and talented. My name is Liu Fuyun, your sister's—"
"I'm not her brother, and she's not my sister."
Liu Fuyun was stunned for a moment: "But Nan Nan said——"
Xing Chen said in a deep voice: "She always tries to be as perfunctory as possible to people she's not interested in. You'll just have to get used to it."
Liu Fuyun saw Xing Chen's hostility towards him, and his expression changed and became no longer friendly.
"You are not her brother, how can I let her go with you?"
Xing Chen sneered, "It's enough for Sister Susu to know me. Whether you can rest assured or not shouldn't be decided by someone who has no sense of propriety and forces girls to drink. You are not qualified enough."
"You little brat—"
Xing Chen didn't bother to pay attention to him. He put his arm around Nan Ke's waist and let her arm rest on his neck.
Looking at Su Shuo: "Do you want me to take you home? It may be difficult to get a taxi at this time. I asked the driver to wait. He is over there. I can take you first and then we can go back."
"No need." Su Shuo waved his hand: "Don't worry about me, I have an appointment with those guys over there to go to the next game, you take her back."
Xing Chen turned his head and saw a few girls who seemed to be waiting for Su Shuo, and were looking at them and whispering to each other.
Seeing Xing Chen looking over, she smiled and waved to him gently.
"You're very welcome. Do you want to join us?"
Xing Chen felt the strength of the fingers pinching his waist, and couldn't help but smile slightly.
"No, we'll leave first."
After saying goodbye to Su Shuo, Xing Chen deliberately ignored Liu Fuyun, who was furious but had nowhere to vent, and turned around and walked down the stairs with Nan Ke.
He tightened his arms, and Nan Ke's body was pressed tightly against his waist and abdomen.
Fortunately, it was raining so heavily, he thought. Only in such a noisy environment could he successfully cover up his pounding heart.
You have to do the whole show.
Xing Chen decided to ignore Nan Ke's whispered protest for the time being.
"They are watching from behind." Xing Chen leaned close to Nan Ke's ear and whispered.
He glanced at the slightly red tip of Nan Ke's ear.
This was very effective. From his point of view, Nan Ke grumbled and didn't want to cooperate, but still cooperated with him.
Xing Chen put Nan Ke into the taxi and was about to move to the other side when he saw Nan Ke move and prepared to give her his seat.
"Personality."
Nan Ke glared and poked him, but stopped. Xing Chen smiled and walked around to the other side to get in the car.
"Going back to the neighborhood we were in?"
"Um."
“It’s even more congested here…”
The driver whispered something, and the car stopped after a few steps, getting closer to the people who had just said goodbye to them.
The other party can see them in the car, but cannot see clearly.
Xing Chen's heart moved slightly, and he pretended to hug Nan Ke.
Nan Ke looked up at him in confusion.
"You are now a drunkard who can neither stand nor sit still."
Nan Ke glanced outside the car and frowned at him: "What do you want to do?"
No matter how uncomfortable she felt, Nan Ke still let Xing Chen play with her like a Barbie doll.
He originally wanted her to lie on her side on his legs, but just thinking about it seemed a bit too much, and he was afraid that Nan Ke would not cooperate.
So he just let her lean on him with her eyes closed.
Xing Chen succeeded, but he had a new worry. In this space, in this posture... his heartbeat might not be able to be covered up.
He opened the window a little.
The car started moving again. Nan Ke looked up at him, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing.
Just this one glance, at such a close distance, made Xing Chen's breath stop.
Nan Ke's eyes were slightly red and he smelled strongly of alcohol.
Xing Chen realized that she was not completely drunk.
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