In order to keep the appointment with Zhou Rong, Song Xuanhe didn't even drive today. He just called a car and went to the address Zhou Rong sent.
When seeing the destination, Song Xuanhe raised his eyebrows. Zhou Rong was very good at choosing places. This newly opened high-end club built in a remote area was indeed the most suitable choice. It would not arouse his suspicion, and it was hidden and would not be disturbed.
"Second Young Master!"
A young man with a handsome face and a righteous look walked away quickly. He walked with a breeze and his brows were full of excitement and smiles of reunion after a long separation.
Song Xuanhe stepped forward and grasped the hand he extended, bumped his chest against his, and said with a smile, "Why did you come back just now?"
"You're not allowed to leave because of the pressure from the family." Zhou Rong patted his shoulder, raised his eyebrows in surprise, and said jokingly, "It seems that you have been exercising during the time I was away."
"How's it going?" Song Xuanhe stretched his shoulders, and without waiting for his reaction, he took a quick step forward and hooked his right leg, then turned over and bent over to knock him to the ground. Under Zhou Rong's complex eyes of shock and vigilance, he squatted down and stretched out his hand to pull him up, and asked with a smile: "Are you making any progress?"
"You've made rapid progress." Zhou Rong used the force to stand up, lowered his head to brush off the dust on his body, and said with a smile: "I can't knock you down by myself."
Song Xuanhe also dusted him off twice and said with a smile, "These are the only few moves I know. This time I caught him by surprise."
Zhou Rong smiled and put his arm around his shoulders: "Come on, go in. You promised to stay with me all night, and you won't leave until you're drunk."
"You haven't had a girlfriend in such a long time?" Song Xuanhe turned around, inadvertently avoiding his outstretched hand, and asked, "You've only been home once or twice in half a year, and we haven't met. I thought you already had a girlfriend."
"I follow my dad around every day, so how can I find the time to find a girlfriend?" Zhou Rong's eyes flickered and he said, "How about you? I heard that the eldest son of the Xiao family who is in the limelight recently is your boyfriend?"
"Ex-boyfriend." Song Xuanhe's expression faded.
"Break up?" Zhou Rong pressed the elevator button, took a step back and stood shoulder to shoulder with him, and said with a smile: "I heard them say before that this was the first time you were serious, and you had a fight with Chaozi because of this. We have been brothers for so many years, and you can still quarrel for him. I thought you were serious this time."
"That can't be considered a quarrel." Song Xuanhe walked into the elevator and said nonchalantly, "That kid Lu Chao is trying to trick me with Song Jiani. I always knew that he liked Song Jiani, but you also know that we have been brothers for so many years. If he had played too much normally, I would have turned a blind eye. But Xiao Yuanmu is different, and he even wants to kill me. I am really disappointed."
Zhou Rong entered the elevator at an almost unnoticeable angle and paused for a moment, then walked in as if nothing had happened. He looked at the closed elevator door and said, "I didn't know there was such a story."
"It's normal that you don't know." Song Xuanhe sighed inaudibly and said, "After all, Lu Chao has already..."
Zhou Rong clenched his fist at his side, and loosened it before Song Xuanhe noticed. He lowered his eyes and said dejectedly: "Yes, the three of us plus Song Jiani grew up together, and I didn't expect it to become like this now."
Song Xuanhe leaned against the transparent glass wall of the elevator, looking at the clear artificial oasis below. The unobstructed sunlight outside the transparent glass shone on his face, and his expression could not be seen clearly: "So that's why people's hearts are fickle, isn't it?"
Zhou Rong's eyelids trembled, and he subconsciously looked at Song Xuanhe. However, he couldn't see his expression clearly against the light, and could only see the slightly raised corners of his mouth.
"Let's go." Song Xuanhe walked out of the sunshine and stepped out of the elevator first: "We're here."
Zhou Rong came back to his senses, smiled and followed his steps, saying: "I found that you have changed a lot when I came back this time. If I had known that I would have met you in the previous few times, people say that a man will be treated with new eyes after three days of absence. Now I feel that you are a stranger."
Song Xuanhe stopped walking, turned around and looked at Zhou Rong, who was about the same height as him, and suddenly smiled and said, "Actually, I think you're quite strange, too."
Zhou Rong stopped one step away from Song Xuanhe. When he heard the words, something flashed across his eyes, and he looked puzzled: "What's strange about it?"
"You're tanned and look unfamiliar." Song Xuanhe smiled and pointed to the door in front of him: "This is the place you ordered."
Zhou Rong looked up and saw the majestic doorplate above. He smiled in a daze, stepped forward, swiped his card, opened the door and said, "I've been talking to you so much that I forgot we're here. Come in. I've got someone to prepare some good wine for you. It's all stored here and will be delivered. Drink as much as you want. Don't be polite with me, brother."
Song Xuanhe nodded, then walked inside with a smile on his face.
Zhou Rong's gaze stayed on the back of his head for a few seconds, then he went in and closed the door.
After Song Xuanhe looked around inconspicuously, he walked to the bar, took out the chilled wine from the ice bucket, wiped it with a towel, looked at the foreign words on the bottle in the sunlight outside the window, turned around and smiled, "I didn't expect you to be so willing to spend money on it. This is a huge investment."
"If it were someone else, of course I wouldn't be willing to do that, but if you're treating someone, of course I have to spend a lot of money." Zhou Rong walked forward, took the wine from Song Xuanhe's hand, skillfully sobered up the wine and poured it into the glass next to him, then handed it to him and said, "Try it."
[The wine is fine.] 】
Song Xuanhe took it, sniffed it, and drank it all in one gulp: "Not bad."
"Of course, you said I spent a lot of money." Zhou Rong poured himself a glass, sat down on the sofa, and said, "Besides, this bottle of wine was originally intended to be given to you as a birthday gift, and it's the same if I give it to you now."
Song Xuanhe sat down on another single sofa, holding a wine glass in one hand, crossing his legs, looking quite dandy, with a casual smile: "No, that won't do. You have to give me a better bottle for my birthday."
"This bottle of wine was bought on the black market with my dad." Zhou Rong pointed at the wine that was casually placed aside and said, "I spent a lot of money on it. I ate my dad's bamboo shoots and pork stir-fry. I was waiting to give you a surprise. We three would drink it together. I didn't expect that things have changed. So I brought it out for you this time. It's always right for the right people to drink it. After all, no one knows what will happen next second."
Song Xuanhe drank the wine in the glass and poured himself another glass: "You are right."
After a moment of silence, Zhou Rong looked down at the glass in his hand and whispered, "If Chaozi was still here, we wouldn't be so quiet right now. You like to make noise, but not as much as he does. He likes to play everything, whether it's fun or not, and he can invite a bunch of people to a party, whether they are men or women. Every time I want to have a good chat between the three of us, it doesn't work. I thought we wouldn't be able to squeeze into a room and talk properly when we were in school until we were old, but I didn't expect that day to come so soon."
"Song Er, Er Shao, how come Chaozi died like this?" Zhou Rong raised his head, his eyes reddened: "We agreed to be good brothers for life, and now our lives are not over yet, why did he leave first?"
Song Xuanhe pointed at his chin, his eyes calm and unfocused, and said calmly: "You also said that things have changed and people have changed, and things in the world are unpredictable."
Zhou Rong was stunned for a moment, then he raised the corner of his mouth and nodded, "Yes, it is true that things have changed and people have changed, things have changed... things are unpredictable."
Song Xuanhe reached out and clinked his glass with his: "My condolences."
Zhou Rong finished his drink, and then filled his own and Song Xuan's glasses with more wine. As he poured, he asked, "Who do you think is happiest that Chaozi is gone?"
Song Xuanhe glanced at his expressionless face and asked, "Who?"
"I guess it's Lu Yue." Zhou Rong said, "He has been out for so many years. When he was a child, he followed his mother into the family. Now Chaozi is gone, all the things in the Lu family belong to them. Do you think he is happy?"
Without waiting for Song Xuanhe to answer, Zhou Rong asked again: "Besides Lu Chao, who else do you think will be happy?"
[Be careful, his mood swings are very volatile. 】
Song Xuanhe sat back calmly and said, "I don't know."
"How could you not know?" Zhou Rong looked up at him and said with a smile, "It's very easy..."
Bang, bang, bang——
Zhou Rong frowned and looked towards the door where the sound came from. Song Xuanhe said, "Maybe it was the waiter who came to deliver the fruit plate."
“I didn’t order a fruit plate.”
"I ordered it." Song Xuanhe said with a smile, "How can we drink without a fruit plate?"
Zhou Rong glanced at him, turned around, swiped the card and opened the door.
Song Xuanhe followed behind him and paused when he saw the people outside the door: "Song Jiani, what are you doing here?"
Song Jiani glanced at Zhou Rong, took a step forward, took Song Xuanhe's hand, and said with a wink: "Brother Xuanhe, Auntie asked me to call you. You have to go back for dinner today. Did you forget?"
Zhou Rong's eyes flickered, and he walked to Song Jiani with a smile, looked into her eyes and said, "What's going on? You two...?"
Song Jiani avoided Zhou Rong's sight, moved closer to Song Xuanhe, hugged his arm and said with a smile: "I have always liked Brother Xuanhe, don't you know? Now that my aunt wants him to go back, I have to take him away."
Having said that, Song Jiani took Song Xuanhe's hand and wanted to leave.
Zhou Rong stopped Song Xuanhe and said to Song Jiani, "Xuanhe and I agreed not to return until we are drunk, why are you here to make trouble? Are you going to join us in drinking among men?"
Song Jiani looked at Song Xuanhe, her fingers gripping his arm so tightly that they dug into his flesh, "Brother Xuanhe, you can drink anytime, but if you don't go today, Auntie will definitely not like me. Can you come back with me?"
"What if I don't let him go back with you?" Zhou Rong held Song Xuanhe's other arm, squinted his eyes and asked Song Jiani in a long voice: "You shouldn't want to interfere in the affairs between us men, right?"
Song Jiani's face turned pale instantly. She bit her lower lip nervously, holding Song Xuanhe's hand tightly. "I don't want to leave, but Brother Xuanhe must go with me today. Auntie has called several times to urge him. If I don't take him back, Uncle Song and Auntie Song will definitely have a lower impression of me. Zhou Rong, can't you drink next time?"
"We haven't seen each other for so long, I just want to drink tonight." Zhou Rong said, "Go back and tell Aunt Song first, I'll go and apologize to her tomorrow."
Song Jiani glanced at Song Xuanhe, her expression changing. After a while, she said in a trembling voice, "I'm not leaving."
Zhou Rong looked at her for a while, then suddenly laughed: "Since you don't want to leave, then come in and drink with us."
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