Chapter 406 Let At Least One of Us Be Happy
"I remember last time, you and Li Jing had a fight here!"
Tian Xin stood at the door of the tavern, folded her arms and looked at the sign above her head, thinking.
Of course, if I hadn't chased Li Jing that day, Tian Xin wouldn't have been kidnapped by Liu Bo. And the subsequent scandals wouldn't have happened at all.
Zhang Shuai felt extremely regretful every time he thought of this incident. He didn't even want to mention it, let alone recall it in front of Tian Xin.
But since she brought it up, he could only bite the bullet and agree: "Well, it's been so long, let's not talk about it!"
"Well, I can't help but mention it." Guo Zhenmin smiled and waved his hand. While welcoming the two into the store, he described the scene of that day to Tian Xin.
"Xinxin, you don't know. You left in a hurry that day. The girl with you was Mr. Li from the online store. Oh, let me tell you, city kids are really open-minded. That girl kissed Zhang Shuai right here in front of everyone..."
He gestured as he spoke, his movements and expressions were extremely exaggerated, and he didn't notice at all that Zhang Shuai, who was following behind him, had a dark face.
"I never thought that our Zhang Shuai was so capable that he could hook such a beautiful girl..."
Ah... If possible, Zhang Shuai would like to roar like a lion at this moment.
"Uncle," he sighed, "Is business bad today or what? Did you drink too much?"
"No, no, no, I don't drink when I open the shop!" Guo Zhenmin smiled and waved his hands, not noticing his dark face and gnashing teeth.
"If you didn't drink, how can you say such drunken words? You can drink as much as you want, but you can't say anything you want. When did you see me hooking her?"
Before Guo Zhenmin could retort, he had already explained to Tian Xin: "Boss, don't worry, it was... a pure misunderstanding. She was in a hurry to leave that day, so I went over to pull her away, and she fell into my arms. Then I accidentally kissed her. Uh, no, no, it wasn't a kiss, it was just a touch on the mouth..."
He spoke so fast that Tian Xin could hardly hear what he was saying. Before he finished speaking, his entire face, head, and ears were red, almost ripe.
Then, he saw Tian Xin's face turn from gloomy to sunny, then to a cloudless sunny sky, and finally she gave him a big smile.
He hadn't finished speaking yet, but he suddenly couldn't go on! He turned his head and looked around randomly.
"Why are you nervous?" Tian Xin asked him.
"...No, I...I'm just afraid you'll think too much!"
Zhang Shuai regained his composure and turned to look at her again. His face, which had turned red for a moment, returned to normal in an instant.
Tian Xin said nothing, turned around and asked Guo Zhenmin to serve them a pot of wine. Then she pointed to the table and chairs behind her and said to him, "Sit down!"
No questions, no smiles, not even basic jokes.
Zhang Shuai suddenly felt like something was missing from his heart, empty and hollow.
It sank to the bottom.
"Boss, I'm sorry!" He said this out of the blue.
Tian Xin was startled and raised her head sharply and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I shouldn't have left you to chase her that day!"
"Well, what's the big deal? I asked you to go, I don't blame you!"
"But if I insisted on not going, you wouldn't..."
"What is coming will come, and there are many things you can't predict in advance. If I knew that Li Jing would confess to you that day, I would have to wait before leaving. At the very least, I wanted to see how she had the courage to kiss you in front of so many people. This girl is much braver than me!" she said with a smile.
It sounds like serious words.
"It's not a confession, just a joke! You know, she's not a serious person!" Zhang Shuai lowered his voice, his chin trembling slightly.
"How can this be a joke? Do you think it's that easy for a girl to muster up the courage to confess her feelings?"
"What does that have to do with me?" His jaw began to tremble violently, and he could hear the sound of his teeth chattering. Then it got out of control, and even his hands began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Zhang Shuai——" Tian Xin called him.
"Um?"
"Do you like Li Jing?"
"dislike!"
"But I can see that she is sincere to you!"
"What does that have to do with me?"
"You should at least respond, for example, directly..."
"Are you teaching me?" Zhang Shuai finally couldn't help but raise his head. But when he looked at Tian Xin, his eyes were filled with the same empty expression she had before. He asked, "Are you going to teach me even something like falling in love?"
This time the speaking speed was not fast, even very slow.
But in his questioning, Tian Xin could still hear his unspeakable sadness.
"I... I didn't, what I meant was..." She hurriedly explained her thoughts just now. She just wanted Zhang Shuai to stop being so stubborn. After all, Li Jing was a girl and should be respected.
"I've been thinking about something lately!" Zhang Shuai suddenly said, "If it was me who was kidnapped that day, or if it was me who was hit by the car, would you have risked everything to save me like you did to him?"
"certainly……"
"Yeah, of course! I know you will!" Zhang Shuai smiled and said, "Of course you want me to be happy! But Boss, don't force me."
"I didn't mean that, I just—"
Tian Xin paused, then picked up the bottle of plum wine that Guo Zhenmin had just brought to the table, tilted her head back and took a big gulp.
The plum wine was sweet and not too strong, but she still felt excruciating pain from head to toe.
"Don't drink like that, you'll get drunk easily!" Zhang Shuai reached out to grab her bottle, but she dodged by twisting her arm.
"Brother, at least one of us should be happy." After saying that, she took another big gulp.
This time she seemed to be really drunk. She felt that the blood flowing from her heart to her limbs seemed to be mixed with poison, and it hurt every time it beat.
In the end, the pain was so severe that I felt numb, and I wanted to cry and die...
Zhang Shuai still took the wine from her, and he was also sad.
"You said, I have lived two lives, why can't God let me be happy once?" She opened her drunken eyes and lay on the table to look at Zhang Shuai's face.
"He will be fine, he will! You have to have faith in him and in yourself."
"Forget it, don't lie to me, there's no hope!" She smiled, buried her head in her arms, and spoke drunkenly.
"Didn't you say you were willing to wait for him for the rest of your life? I just don't believe he can keep sleeping like this. As long as you are willing, he will wake up one day."
"There's no hope... there's no hope..."
The wine bottle on the table fell over with a thud, tumbling and rolling to her side. She touched it, still lowering her head to straighten it, and continued to mutter the same words: "There's no hope..."
"At least one of us should be happy!"
Zhang Shuai looked at her, thinking about the meaning of this sentence.
After a long time, a phone call came.
Li Jing told Zhang Shuai on the phone: She would wait for him at the place where they first met in an hour, and asked him to be sure to come and meet her.
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