Sure enough, Yang Sisi was sitting in the second row by the window, surrounded by quite a few young people around two years old. Yang Sisi was chatting happily with them, so laughter could be heard from their table from time to time...
I knew Yang Sisi wouldn't give me a friendly look, so I didn't rush in. Instead, I sat at the food stall across the street, ordered a plate of grilled rice noodles, and tried my best to create the illusion of a chance encounter.
I would glance at Yang Sisi every now and then. The young men were fairly well-behaved; none of them made any unwanted advances towards her. Yang Sisi, however, had her hand on one of their shoulders, chatting and laughing. But this scene didn't make me lose my composure, because for young people their age, such behavior when they're in high spirits is quite normal.
Before the roasted rice noodles arrived, I glanced at Yang Sisi again, and to my surprise, she looked over at the same time, and our eyes met.
I smiled at her with a cigarette between my fingers. She gave me a disgusted look and then turned her attention back to the handsome young man who had been chatting with her.
I didn't care too much. My only goal was to keep her from staying out all night. She can do whatever she wants, that's her freedom, so I slowed down how often I looked in her direction...
The next moment, I took my phone out of my pocket and started eating rice noodles while looking at today's trending news.
At this moment, Dai Qiang sent me another message, saying, "Brother, your wife isn't as cold as you say... Although she's not very communicative, she listens quite attentively when I talk to her."
What did you talk about with her?
"Back in your junior high school days, didn't you, Da Yu, and San Hai form the Azure Dragon Gang?"
"What happened later, when the principal changed it to the Azure Dragon Study Group?"
"Yeah... She laughed twice and said you went from being a king to a bronze... I guess that counts as being good at chatting?"
"It's alright... Are you sure you didn't lie to me about the military situation?"
"Do I look like someone who would lie... I guess she's just interested in your affairs."
"Does she know that I've already exposed our pretense of being a couple?"
"I didn't mention it to her."
Why not mention it?
“Even if she’s not my sister-in-law, I’ll still feel close to her and I won’t feel awkward talking to her about family matters… But if it’s President Ye sitting across from me, I won’t feel so comfortable… I’ll feel pressured.”
"You're just fooling yourself!"
"I don't think so. Anything is possible... Maybe one day she'll become my real sister-in-law!"
Even if you were struck by lightning ten times, she still wouldn't have the slightest chance of becoming your real sister-in-law.
After sending the message, I was amused by my own actions. There was really no need for me to argue with Dai Qiang, this hothead. He may not know Ye Zhi's actual situation, but do you think I don't?
In her life, there was a man she had waited for for so many years. For a woman in the prime of her youth, how much love must she have needed to persevere?
From this perspective, she should be a very perfect woman, because she has not been corrupted by the filth of society, and she loves independently and proudly... On the other hand, I have long since stopped believing in love... All I want is a makeshift love, where everything is just about making do.
Given these two diametrically opposed views on love, what kind of extraordinary encounter would it take for us to truly come together?
Or perhaps I shouldn't even be thinking about these things, as it makes me feel inferior. This inferiority has little to do with material differences; I just feel that love has become very insignificant to me on a spiritual level, and the word "just getting by" can sum it all up.
...
After being distracted for a while, I looked back at the "Bad Monkey" bar and found that Yang Sisi was no longer in the same spot, and the young men who had been surrounding her had also disappeared.
A bad feeling suddenly came over me. Even if I trusted Yang Sisi, I couldn't trust those young men. They had ulterior motives and were just trying to scam heartless girls like Yang Sisi.
At that point, I didn't even have time to think about what I had ordered; I still had more than half of it left uneaten. I quickly paid the bill and then asked the waiter at "Bad Monkey Bar." He told me that Yang Sisi had gone towards Yeyu Road with the young man she had been chatting with the most, while the others had gone to Foreigners' Street.
In other words, Yang Sisi is currently alone with that somewhat handsome young man. The problem lies in this "alone" situation. I've seen this tactic far too many times, because Tie Nan used to pick up girls this way before he met Taozi. And Yeyu Road is indeed a place with a lot of inns. If she really goes there, do you think she'll have a good ending?
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