Things about spending money on games (24)
The luxuriously decorated restaurant was glittering with gold. A group of men and women of similar age sat aside and chatted and laughed. Shen Tanggang, who had accepted Gu Rou's invitation, had just packed her clothes and picked up her bag to come to the restaurant, and saw such a scene. However, what shocked her was the man surrounded in the middle of the crowd. His fair and clean face under the loose hair immediately attracted her attention.
Didn't Gu Rou say that this person had just woken up? Although the time in the game is different from the time in reality, and one day in reality is equivalent to one month in the game, it is impossible for this person who just woke up to attend this so-called banquet, right?
Full of suspicion, Shen Tang found a place far away from the crowd. She was not sure whether Yan Lin saw her. To be on the safe side, she tried to stay away from him as much as possible to avoid any trouble.
As he was thinking, Shen Tang put the snow-white small leather bag in his hand on the empty sofa at the edge. After saying hello to Gu Rou, he sat there, drinking the drink he brought with him in a depressed mood.
Only when she realized that the drink in her hand was almost gone did she slowly raise her head.
It's not that she is shy, but she is still in the real world. When the male protagonist doesn't know her, it is impossible for her to reveal her true character. She has to maintain her original character as a female supporting role and pretend to be a gentle and quiet young lady.
As Shen Tang was thinking, her beautiful eyes turned slightly and looked towards the place where the rich young men were chatting, but coincidentally, her gaze met Yan Lin's.
The other person's clear peach blossom eyes were tinged with light brown. Shen Tang just looked at him like that, and he felt that the way he looked at people was like the whole world.
As soon as this thought came to her mind, Shen Tang shook her head in fear. It was not a good idea to think that if the male lead really treated her as the whole world, it would be her fault. Now she only needed to act in a routine manner as a female supporting role and help Yan Lin get rid of his distracting thoughts. Once the so-called bias was eliminated, she could leave this world.
"Hey, Mr. Yan, why don't you say anything and just stare at me?"
The person who was joking nearby noticed that Yan Lin's eyes kept on the girl after she walked in from the door. If the girl had not been drinking from the bottle in her hand and had not looked up for a long time, she would have been frightened by the man's eyes.
The man thought about it, glanced at Yan Lin again casually, and suddenly there was something weird in his eyes.
The man's eyes just now seemed to want to tear the woman apart and devour her, but how come the next second he turned into a gentle and intoxicated look? Did this instant face-changing technique become popular in their circle?
"Stop talking so much," Yan Lin said coldly, and glanced at him like a knife, but this man not only had no intention of shutting up, but also took the time to tease him.
"Hey, kid, if you're interested in her, just go up and ask for her contact information. You just sit here like a fool. Do you really think the girl will take the initiative to find you?" The man bumped Yan Lin's arm with his shoulder, squinted his eyes, and handed him an unopened glass of juice. "The girl has finished her drink, why don't you go and refill it for her?"
Yan Lin was silent for a moment, looked at the man with complicated eyes, and then actually stood up and went towards Shen Tang.
Want contact information? He didn't know how many contact information of this person he had stored in his mind.
The man snorted softly, but his expression did not change at all. He was still as gentle and well-behaved as Shen Tang remembered.
It's not that Shen Tang didn't hear the jokes from the gang of young masters. She was originally angry about being treated as a joke, but when she saw Yan Lin, she calmed down a little. This boy is really stupid. He just came over when someone called him. He's not afraid of being betrayed.
Although she thought so in her heart, Shen Tang still acted as if no one had anything to do with her. She looked at the man approaching, and just leaned her body to make room for the empty space beside her, while also perfectly avoiding the other person's hand that was extending a drink to her.
Yan Lin's body stiffened for a moment, and soon he put the hand holding the drink behind his body as if nothing had happened. He opened his petal-colored thin lips, but was unable to utter a word for a while. After a long while, he spoke dryly.
"Ms. Lin, can I sit here?"
Shen Tang looked at Yan Lin as if he swallowed his saliva and asked for her opinion cautiously, then she raised her eyebrows and smiled at him, "Of course I don't mind, just sit down, I'm not afraid that you will do anything in front of so many people in the hall." As she spoke, she pulled the space under her body wider, for fear that the other party would not come over.
She just said this, but Yan Lin's clean face turned slightly redder, and her delicate peach blossom eyes seemed to be tinged with smile.
What a fool! Not only is he so stupid in the game, he is still so stupid in real life. He just listens to whatever she says.
Shen Tang saw Yan Lin holding a drink in his hand while huddled behind his back, and looked at him with round eyes, "You hold this drink..."
"Well, I wanted to give this to you to drink," Yan Lin stretched his neck awkwardly, and turned his head away unconsciously, not daring to look at Shen Tang's expression. In his heart, he was still secretly cursing himself for being useless. It was obvious that his feelings had been completely deceived by this woman, but he still couldn't help but think about her well.
Yan Lin slowly stretched out his hand, "So, do you want to drink?"
The white and slender knuckles clasped the entire bottle. Shen Tang knew that this person would not have any bad intentions, so he pretended to take the drink.
She just accepted it to maintain her good manners.
"Ms. Lin, maybe I have been ill for a long time and I feel a little uncomfortable. Those people don't understand. I wonder if you are willing to listen to me?" Yan Lin was naturally very happy to see the woman in front of him take the drink in his hand, and then he asked this question tentatively.
Shen Tang thought he had just recovered from a long illness, so he nodded slowly, "If you don't mind, then I don't mind either, but do you really want to say this in public?"
As she spoke, she raised her head and glanced at the young men who were still looking at Yan Lin, and then glanced at Gu Rou who was happily clinging to the eldest son of the Yan family, and couldn't help but sigh.
She wondered why Gu Rou had no reason to invite her over, and it turned out that the person she was looking for was the male protagonist's brother.
Yan Lin took in Shen Tang's helpless sigh and raised the corners of his lips slightly, "Then let's find a place to talk."
Without waiting for Shen Tang to react, Yan Lin pulled Shen Tang out of the restaurant in front of a group of people, "I'll arrange a better seat for you."
Under the instigation of a group of people, Shen Tang was taken to another high-end restaurant. The location was naturally much better than that of a restaurant where a group of people gathered, but if this restaurant was not booked in advance, it would probably be impossible to enter, right?
There was some doubt in Shen Tang's eyes, but Yan Lin interrupted her thoughts the next second, "Ms. Lin, don't you want to listen to me?"
Shen Tang hesitated for a moment, suppressed his doubts, and nodded slightly, "Then go ahead."
"I have been receiving a kind of treatment since I had a car accident," Yan Lin said, holding the spoon with his index finger and stirring the coffee under his hand, "My brother is a doctor, and outsiders should know this."
"It was just kept secret that he was treating me specifically."
Shen Tang had a vague sense of foreboding in her heart. She looked at the familiar face in front of her and couldn't help wondering if she was thinking too much.
So she replied: "But you don't have to tell me such an important thing. I'm just an outsider."
Shen Tang, who lowered his eyes and looked at the food plate, did not meet Yan Lin's gaze, but he caught a glimpse of the other's fingertips moving faster with the corner of his eye.
"But sister, how can you be an outsider?"
Yan Lin continued to stimulate Shen Tang's ears: "You did so many things for me in that virtual game world, how could you be an outsider?"
The glass cup fell to the ground. Shen Tang was in a daze for a long time before he came to his senses and looked at the fragments on the ground.
There were still traces of water on each of the glowing fragments, but her mood at this moment was as chaotic as the fragments of the cup.
"Little lucky bag, little lucky bag, stop playing dead and come out quickly!"
She called out "Little Lucky Bag" countless times in her mind, but got no response. Knowing something was wrong, Shen Tang had to pretend to be calm and said with a smile, "Look at my hand. I was so careless that I accidentally broke the cup..."
The next moment, one of Shen Tang's wrists was grabbed by the person in front of him. The eyes under those thick and slender black eyelashes finally revealed their original emotions. The surging waves rolled in the bottom of his eyes, as if they wanted to swallow the person up.
"Sister, is it so difficult to admit what you have done?"
After hearing this, Shen Tang understood everything. The man in front of him clearly remembered everything. No wonder Xiao Fukudai Chu Yanlin's obsession remained high. If he remembered everything that happened in the game, it would be impossible to eliminate his obsession so easily!
Without waiting for Shen Tang to react, Yan Lin completely tore apart the forbearance in his eyes and told her word by word, "I really miss you."
"Even if you leave me alone in that world, even if you only bring back Gu Rou."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but tighten his grip on Shen Tang's wrist. "But why don't you just stop and take a good look at me?"
It is said that eyes are the windows to a person's soul, but what Shen Tang saw in Yan Lin's eyes was not the simplicity and purity he pretended to be, but loneliness and longing.
"You've helped me so much, why can't you just like me?" Yan Lin looked at the woman with some hurt as she broke free from his hand, and said in a light voice, "But it doesn't matter, I won't let you leave this world."
"Biased, huh?" Yan Lin chuckled, her voice gradually becoming gentle and tender, "I once heard it when you were asleep, but sister, have you ever thought that the only person I wanted from the beginning to the end was you?"
Shen Tang's heart was filled with alarm. If it was really as the male protagonist said, she might not be able to return to this world so easily!
"Yan Lin, you..."
Shen Tang looked angry and was about to speak when he was stopped by the other party.
"I know my sister's character, otherwise I wouldn't have come to find you as soon as I woke up." How could Yan Lin not understand her? If the first experience in the game was included, it would not be an exaggeration to say that his feelings for her had accumulated over two lifetimes. But because he knew her too well, Yan Lin knew that what he did was bound to cause Shen Tang's anger.
"All I want to do is have my sister fulfill a wish of mine."
Shen Tang looked at him warily, "What wish?" Could it be that he wanted her to stay in this world? That wouldn't work, her pension was still waiting for her!
Yan Lin guessed what Shen Tang was thinking just by the subtle expression on her face. His brows relaxed, and he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to her.
"Open it and have a look."