Chapter 13
The other side of the video is very dark, as if the lights are not on.
But with the dim light, I could vaguely see the sleepy but still handsome face of the person opposite me.
Realizing that the other person had just been sleeping and was woken up by her, Xia Ruirui couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.
Shen Yuqing, you have come to this day.
"Xia Ruirui, what are you doing?"
It’s still the same voice, but it seems more mature and casual than it was ten years ago.
Looking at his face, Xia Ruirui did not speak until Shen Yuqing was completely awake. The joy of successful revenge in her eyes was about to overflow.
"Good night, Shen Yuqing."
"?"
Good evening? Waking someone up at three in the morning just to say goodnight?
Thinking he hadn't woken up and heard it wrong, he asked again: "What?"
"I said, good night~"
Looking at the smug smile on someone's face, and thinking of the pranks Xia Ruirui always liked to play in high school, Shen Yuqing gradually came to his senses.
"Xia Rui!! Rui!!" Before she finished speaking, she had already hung up the video call.
Because she was worried that she would be woken up by Shen Yuqing's call later, she carefully turned off her phone.
After everything was settled, Xia Ruirui lay down on the bed in the hotel, closed her eyes, and fell asleep in a short while.
On the other side, Shen Yuqing laughed angrily when he heard the words "Sorry, the number you dialed is turned off..." from the other end of the phone.
Since he couldn't sleep anyway, he simply got up, walked barefoot to the refrigerator and opened a bottle of mineral water.
After drinking the water, he didn't play the game a second time. Instead, he walked to the study and took out a photo album from the depths of the bookcase.
Shen Yuqing first touched the cover of the album lightly with his hand before gently opening it.
There is only one photo in the huge album.
After removing the plastic film, Shen Yuqing picked up the photo. It was a group photo of 51 people, and he still found Xia Ruirui's position accurately.
Looking at the girl with a bright smile in the photo, Shen Yuqing's eyes softened a lot.
After he put the photos away, he stood up and sat at his desk again, studying the tactics that would be used in the upcoming e-sports league.
*
A week passed quickly.
At four o'clock on Friday afternoon, Xia Ruirui was drawing the draft of the embroidery of dragon and phoenix that the client wanted in the hotel when she received a voice call from Shen Yuqing.
"Hello?"
"I'm already on my way. I'll be downstairs at your hotel in 30 minutes."
Xia Ruirui was stunned when she heard this. She thought Shen Yuqing was joking when he said he would take her to the class reunion.
"But I'm not ready yet. Is it too early to go? Doesn't the class reunion start at 6 o'clock?"
There was silence on the other side for a moment: "You will know it won't be too early soon."
"What do you mean?" She was also confused.
"I'll pick you up in 30 minutes."
"All right."
After hanging up the voice call, Xia Ruirui began to prepare.
She first put on some light makeup, then picked and chose in her suitcase and found a skirt that looked suitable.
Before going out, she changed into high heels, but then she felt that the skirt and shoes did not match, so she went back and changed into a more formal skirt.
When she walked out of the hotel, Xia Ruirui saw Shen Yuqing's black business car at a glance.
She opened the passenger door and said awkwardly, "Am I late?"
Shen Yuqing looked at her with a gloomy look in his eyes: "To be precise, I'm 45 minutes late. It's already 5:15."
As if wanting to refute what he said, she looked down at her phone and found that he was indeed wrong.
She pointed out righteously: "It's already 5:16."
"......" Shen Yuqing glanced at her with a smile, "Fasten your seat belt."
"oh......"
When we arrived at the restaurant for the class reunion, it was exactly 6 o'clock.
He held the steering wheel with one hand and was still looking for a parking space. Xia Ruirui glanced at him casually.
I thought it was perfect, but it was still discovered.
"what."
"...I thought you had pretty good timing."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was ridiculed by the other party as expected.
"It's because you were late all day when you were studying." But Shen Yuqing still didn't say this.
He knew that Xia Ruirui didn't like walking for a long time, so he asked her to get off the car first and drove to a nearby parking lot by himself.
Xia Ruirui felt it was not a good idea for him to park the car alone when he came to pick her up, so she asked tentatively, "Can you do it alone? Do you want me to accompany you?"
Shen Yuqing glanced at her when he heard this: "The nearest parking lot is about 500 meters away, are you sure..."
Xia Ruirui interrupted him without thinking: "Go ahead."
“…”
He hadn't expected her to go in the first place, and he scoffed at her answer, with an 'I knew it' expression on his face.
Looking at someone parking the car alone, Xia Ruirui didn't feel the slightest bit of guilt.
The door of the hotel was open. As soon as she entered, a waiter led her to the elevator and went to a private room on the third floor.
The box was quite large and there were quite a few people there. As she looked at the familiar faces, her memories of high school were triggered.
"Isn't this Xia Ruirui, the beautiful girl in our class?"
"Brother Rui is here."
Xia Ruirui looked at the man and woman walking towards her, paused for a moment, and then looked confused.
She first pointed at Yao Hui, then at Dong Jiawei: "You...what are you two doing?"
Yao Hui touched her belly, a little embarrassed: "Ever since that basketball game in high school, Jiawei and I have been..."
Xia Ruirui watched her subconsciously touch her belly and looked at her former squad leader in shock.
Combined with Dong Jiawei's expression of being ready for a great enemy, she looked at Yao Hui with a teasing look and asked, "Squad Leader, are you pregnant?"
"It's been three months, but I'm not showing any signs of pregnancy yet." Yao Hui's face was full of maternal love.
Upon hearing this, Xia Ruirui hurriedly helped the squad leader to sit on the sofa and asked her gossipy questions about her love story with Dong Jiawei. They had just chatted for a while when Chen Ke also came.
When Chen Ke saw her and Yao Hui, he walked straight over, took their hands with a look of surprise, and asked them about their recent situation.
When old classmates meet, and they are all girls, they naturally have a lot to talk about.
Dong Jiawei, a boy, couldn’t get in at all, so he turned around and saw Shen Yuqing coming in alone.
When he saw Shen Yuqing, his eyes lit up and he stepped forward and punched him on the shoulder with his fist, neither light nor heavy.
"Brother Chen, you're here today too. I haven't seen you at the previous class reunions."
As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at Xia Ruirui, who was attending the class reunion for the first time in these years. She seemed to understand something.
Dong Jiawei looked at him with eyes full of ridicule.
Shen Yuqing did not deny it, and punched his shoulder with a smile.
"Brother Chen, you and Brother Rui were on the trending search a while ago. The class group was in an uproar, and no one posted a single message to you two."
Seeing that Shen Yuqing didn't say anything, Dong Jiawei bumped his shoulder and said, "Are you guys rekindling your old feelings?"
Shen Yuqing shifted his gaze away from Xia Ruirui and looked back at him, his tone relaxed: "Not yet, but I will."
Yes.
Old feelings will rekindle.
It will happen eventually.
Two sentences and six words contained too much information, and Dong Jiawei's gossip fire was burning fiercely.
At this time, several boys from Class 18 saw Shen Yuqing and surrounded him with wine glasses. Seeing this, he didn't ask any more questions.
When Shen Yuqing was in school, he was the top student in his grade. After graduation, he became an e-sports anchor, and his popularity has been rising.
Only people like Xia Ruirui who don’t use their phones very often don’t know him.
Even elementary school students who play games know the name of Shen Yuqing.
Not to mention the classmates he had been with for several years. As early as when he came in, someone came over to say hello.
Shen Yuqing was surrounded here. He glanced at Xia Ruirui, who was also surrounded by a few friends, and the smile in his eyes grew deeper.
On the other side, Xia Ruirui was pulling Wang Kelly, who was dressed like a wealthy woman, to sit down.
"I haven't seen you for a few days, and you're dressing more and more exaggeratedly."
When Wang Kelly heard her teasing, she snorted proudly and sat down next to her.
When the others saw Wang Kelly's artificial reaction, they all seemed to be tickled by her cuteness and burst into laughter.
Especially Xia Ruirui, she laughed so hard that she fell on Chen Ke.
"Xia Ruirui, I didn't have time to tell you the truth last time. Your sense of humor has been getting lower and lower over the years." Wang Kelly pinched her fingers with an orchid shape while speaking.
Seeing the orchid finger, Xia Ruirui laughed so hard that she couldn't even straighten her waist. Even the usually steady squad leader Yao Hui couldn't help laughing.
After they finished laughing, they ate some snacks together.
When everyone arrived, they sat around the big table and started chatting again while waiting for the food to be served.
After chatting for an unknown amount of time, the student council member suddenly seemed to remember something and slapped his thigh: "I forgot to take it out just now. This is Xia Ruirui's self-criticism when she was deified."
Xia Ruirui and Chen Ke on the right looked at each other, both a little confused.
What review?
The first person to react was Wang Kelly, who was sitting on her left. When she heard the review, she knew they were talking about that time—
The time when Xia Ruirui was asked by the dean of studies to make a public self-criticism at the flag-raising ceremony.
Thinking about the chaos that day, it was Wang Kelly's turn to laugh so hard that she couldn't straighten her back.
Apparently, she wasn't the only one who remembered this; everyone present at the class reunion remembered it.
Including Xia Ruirui and Shen Yuqing.
The person involved thought of the dark history of the past, and her face turned very dark, but Shen Yuqing looked at her with interest.
Everyone was cheering and asking her to recreate the grand occasion of that year.
Xia Ruirui smiled and waved her hands, refusing to read. However, Wang Kaili volunteered to read for her...
*
During my second year of high school, at the flag-raising ceremony after the basketball game.
"Dear teachers and dear classmates, I am Xia Ruirui from Class 18 of Senior 2. Today I want to make a public self-criticism to everyone..."
On the rostrum, Xia Ruirui held the microphone in her right hand and a self-criticism in her left hand, looking serious and solemn.
Standing on the playground were all the teachers and students from grade one to grade three, and everyone was looking at her.
Even in such a public place, she did something that was beyond everyone's comprehension.
She tore the review in half and threw it into the air...
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