Chapter 199
Soon, several friends in the circle knew that He Mian was in love. The playboy Da Luo Luo, who had been single for thousands of years, had a girlfriend who was six or seven years younger than him.
He keeps his phone in his hand all day long, and from time to time he uses voice to report his work schedule for the day to his girlfriend.
The loving look on their faces was enough to make one's teeth ache.
Someone couldn't help but make a fuss, wanting He Mian to bring his girlfriend over so that they could get to know each other and go out together in the future if there was a chance. However, that guy was very hesitant and even such a simple request was rejected.
That guy is so stingy, is it just a love affair? He is acting like he has never been in love before! I don't know if he thought his girlfriend was a treasure dropped from the sky, and he is still hiding her, saying that his girlfriend is not used to this kind of occasion and is a bit shy, so he will bring her over after she gets a little familiar with him.
Everyone was fed a big mouthful of dog food by this guy without being noticed, and they all felt a little bit jealous. When did this guy become so considerate? Wasn't he shameless and cold to the girls who pursued him in the past? The little girl who pursued him with good intentions and gave him gifts could be scared to tears by his eyes. How could such a thief be liked by anyone?
The sour Wei Chuan just felt that his mouth was filled with acid. He had been in a bad mood recently and couldn't stand seeing men and women flirting and showing affection. His marriage with his girlfriend was also off. That bastard Xu Sisi pretended to be innocent on the surface, and she would blush even if he held her hand or kissed her.
But secretly, the woman was so arrogant that it was hard to believe. She took a junior classmate to get a room. What's more, she was caught by her real boyfriend. If he hadn't discovered it early, who knows how long he would have to wear this green hat?
After the two broke up, the Wei family quickly withdrew their investment. In order to save the company's decline, Xu Sisi quickly got engaged to a divorced man. The day before the engagement, she came to him and cried, saying that she didn't mean it. Haha, he really took advantage of her!
Anyway, he has the green hat on his head firmly on. Now, seeing that among his group of bad friends, even the most unreliable and playboy has a girlfriend, he can't help but complain:
"Come to think of it, you guys are getting quite old. Cousin Zhong Ling's child is already one month old, and I'm still hanging out with a bunch of single guys like you. It's really boring!"
He turned his head and looked at He Mian again. He was texting something on his phone with a smile on his face, as if he was afraid that others couldn't tell that he was in a good mood.
Wei Chuan said gloomily, "I say, among us, you and Zhong Ling will not be the first to get married, right?"
Let’s not talk about Zhong Ling. He is a good young man. He has been smart and sensible since he was young. He is a role model among their group of people.
But I don't know what happened these days. I couldn't make an appointment with him no matter what. I asked him two days ago and found out that the guy was actually sick. It was quite serious. He had a fever for two days. In addition, Xiaoxiao also came back and should be taking care of him now.
The key is this annoying killer next to him. I didn't expect him to come ashore early. I don't know which sister was so blind that she fell in love with him!
Wei Chuan suddenly said something tartly, somewhat unbelievably, "No way, He Mian, are you really going there to get married this time? Are you really going to get married first?"
……marry?
Hearing this, He Mian frowned slightly.
His slender fingers that were originally pressing on the phone screen paused slightly, and the phone screen went out.
He didn't care. Instead, he turned around and replied in a relaxed and natural tone, "You think too much. It's too early to get married. There's no rush for this kind of thing. Besides, we've only been dating for a few days. I guess the other party doesn't have that idea either."
He Mian responded casually, trying his best to ignore the strange feeling in his heart. He didn't know whether Nan Yan had any thoughts of getting married, but he himself had no thoughts of getting married at the moment.
He also knew that his behavior might be criticized as bad, but love and marriage are completely different things.
And to be honest, he felt that he didn't like Wen Nanyan that much, and he was with her mostly for other reasons. Although the time they spent together was indeed quite happy, when it came to getting married, he didn't seem to have that kind of anticipation in his heart.
Wei Chuan at the side couldn't help but pat his shoulder, "It's still too early. How old are you? You're already 27 years old, and your cousin Zhong Ling's child is already one month old. As a man with a girlfriend, don't you have any thoughts in your mind?"
Oh, he does have this idea, but it’s useless to just think about it. If the hardware is not good, what can he use to make his move?
He Mian sneered and shook off the hand on his shoulder. His tone became more casual and perfunctory, and he raised his hand to reply a message to his girlfriend across from him.
"Why are you in such a hurry? If you want to get married, just get married. There's no point in rushing things like this. It won't come true anytime soon. Besides, who is like you? My girlfriend is still very young. Wouldn't it be harmful to her to get married so early?"
He Mian couldn't help laughing as he spoke. He raised his hand and saw the math problems sent by his girlfriend on the screen. He Mian looked down and for a moment he had a nightmare like he was back in his senior year of high school.
He has graduated for many years. He is so old, but his girlfriend still asks him to solve trigonometric problems. Who can remember this nonsense? It is even more ridiculous than reading a book in heaven! He thinks his girlfriend is doing it on purpose to make things difficult for him.
There was no other way, He Mian replied helplessly: "Really not, I have been a poor student since I was young, and after graduating from high school, I lost all the knowledge I had. I only did well in one subject, which was the subject of detailed technical analysis and research of human surface organs and soft tissues. It has little to do with the category you are going to take now."
Nan Yan was puzzled and replied: "What is that?"
He Mian couldn't help laughing again. He raised his hands to cover his cheeks. His slender fingers casually moved the black hair scattered in front of his forehead twice. He looked lazy and relaxed. He tapped the screen twice with his fingers: "Fighting, my brother is the best!"
There was a row of small black dots on the opposite side.
He Mian chuckled, perhaps because he was speechless and his girlfriend refused to pay attention to her.
He Mian could almost imagine his girlfriend's current look. She must be unhappy. Her face was soft, her lips were slightly pursed, and her eyes were rolled up with white eyes. Her eyes must be full of contempt and disgust.
Well, he looked like a mentally retarded person.
He Mian couldn't help but ask again, "Girlfriend, where are you doing your homework? Can I pick you up for dinner after I finish here? What do you want to eat tonight? Is Japanese food okay? Girlfriend, I want to video call you, but there are too many people here. Can you let me see what you look like now?"
The two were sending messages as if no one was around. The people on the sofa just watched this person chatting with them, and then they started staring at their phones and laughing for no apparent reason.
My goodness, I know without even looking that he is definitely texting his girlfriend. How shameless to be so clingy!
While they were talking, the door outside was pushed open again. This time two people came. Zhong Ling finally arrived, and Ruan Xiaoxiao, who was following him, also came over.
During this time, Zhong Ling hardly met with this group of friends, nor did he contact Yanyan. In addition to his own deliberate distance from these people, avoiding someone he didn't want to see, Ruan Xiaoxiao also came back.
Their current status is a bit strange, they are not friends, nor lovers, but the parents of both sides are trying their best to bring them together. Especially that night, since his mother learned about Yanyan's previous career, she became particularly happy about Xiaoxiao's return and kept urging him to get engaged as soon as possible.
Xiaoxiao returned to China this time for no other reason than to explain to him the misunderstanding when they broke up. She did not cheat. That night was her birthday and he was busy preparing for his graduation and had no time to attend. So she drank too much that night and slept in a bed with a boy after getting drunk. But in fact, nothing happened between them.
The subsequent messages were indeed sent by the man on purpose, and his purpose was very simple, which was to ask for money. After he left alone and returned to his country, Xiaoxiao finally found out the truth of the matter from several friends that night. So the incident at that time was a misunderstanding from beginning to end.
After hearing this explanation, Zhong Ling didn't know how to describe his feelings. He was thinking, if she had told him everything on the day of their breakup, and the two of them had made things clear instead of remaining silent, perhaps they would have been engaged now, they would not have broken up, and he would not have returned home alone.
He was not the kind of person who would hold on to a mistake and not let it go. What he cared about was her attitude at the time. In his eyes, that taciturn attitude did not mean she had any other difficulties, but was trying to protect the "cheating" man.
But now she told him that it was all a misunderstanding. He really didn't know what expression he should show, let alone what attitude he should have towards her.
Because in the end, the breakup was actually his fault. He was the one who didn't notice that something was wrong with his girlfriend at the first time, didn't give her enough time and company, and couldn't attend the party on her birthday, which led to the misunderstanding. In the end, he was the one who broke up, and everything became his fault.
It was inexplicably ridiculous, but it couldn't be said to be completely unreasonable. But why did he take all the blame on himself? Did he think he was living too happily, so he wanted to find something to make himself feel guilty and miserable?
他還沒那麽蠢，錯過了就是已經錯過了，更何況他當初也不是沒有給過機會。
而且那些事情全都是如果，真正的情況是，他們已經分手了，并且在他們分手的期間，他喜歡上了另一個女孩兒，盡管對方對他沒有絲毫感情，但也不可否認，他就是喜歡她，而且，他跟潇潇之間再也回不到過去了，不可能跟她複合，也不想跟她訂婚。
原本鐘嶺一直避讓着跟這兩人接觸，怕自己會控制不住情緒，最後事情會變得一發不可收拾，但今天還是不可避免的遇上了。
鐘嶺被衆人招呼着坐到了沙發的另一邊，現在氣氛明顯有些奇怪，奇怪的不是他們，而是鐘嶺跟賀冕之間的關系，長了眼睛的人都能看得出來這兩人是鬧矛盾了。
雖然不清楚具體發生了什麽事，但就這麽僵持着也不是個事，畢竟這群朋友兄弟之間都是相互認識的，從小一塊玩到大的，誰沒跟誰紅過臉啊？但鬧過之後，喝完酒，大家又會跟從前一樣，絲毫不會放在心上。
所以他們才趁着這次組局的機會把鐘嶺也拉過來了，想讓兩人關系緩和一點，起碼別再像之前那樣僵着了。
而鐘嶺一來，幾人自然是招呼上去了。
尤其是衛川，他近來跟鐘嶺關系算是最好，這人一來，他那手立馬就搭到鐘嶺肩上了，順勢遞過來一杯酒，“盼星星盼月亮的，可算是把你給盼出來了，請了你那麽多次都不出來，你現在也太不給人面子了！”
“怎麽樣，鐘老板，身體好點了吧？”
鐘嶺聽到那聲熟悉的鐘老板，伸過去的手指頓了下，不知為何，腦海中下意識地浮現另一個人身影，他将那點心思壓抑下去。
目光随意掃過對面坐着的幾人。
看到賀冕那懶散模樣，眸光閃了閃，擡手接過酒杯喝了一口，感覺喉嚨裏的幹意緩解了些，随意應付了一句，“沒什麽大問題，只是最近有些忙，所以沒什麽時間出來。”
跟着他一起坐過來的還有阮潇潇。
她也轉頭跟這幾人打了聲招呼，幾人都認識她的，所以關系還算融洽。
不過衆人看這情況就有種摸不着頭腦的感覺，這兩人算是和好了嗎？
其實從阮潇潇那天收到賀冕發過來的那條消息時，心底就已經忍不住在緊張擔憂了，她很早就想回來的，想跟鐘嶺解釋清楚。但一開始是因為沒臉解釋，之後又因為學業上的一些事情，挂科次數太多被留校察看，一直畢不了業，沒辦法離開。
所以那段時間，她一邊努力忙着畢業，一邊找人打探那晚聚會上到底發生了什麽事情，最後在一個朋友随身攜帶的錄像機裏終于看到了當晚事情的所有經過。
原來她那晚跟那男人之間什麽都沒有發生，她沒有出軌過，也沒有做對不起鐘嶺的事情，所有的一切都是誤會，而她這次趕回來就是為了解釋清楚這場誤會的。
可是不知道為什麽，她感覺鐘嶺好像變了，原本她以為自己只要将事情的經過從頭到尾解釋清楚之後，鐘嶺就會氣消了，而他們倆之間的間隙也會完全消失，之後所有的事情都會恢複原樣的。
但事實卻不是這樣，她記得很清楚，那天她将所有的事情解釋清楚之後，鐘嶺臉上根本沒什麽反應，他那時坐在沙發上，半張臉隐在光影中，冷聲平靜跟她說了聲：
他們已經分手了。
這讓阮潇潇有些控制不住自己的情緒，當場就哭了出來，她不明白，為什麽才短短幾個月的時間，鐘嶺就已經不在意她了，明明他們從前關系那麽親近的不是嗎？
後來等她哭完心情逐漸平複之後，她又在想，是不是鐘嶺還在生氣，因為生氣之前她隐瞞的事情，所以才一直不肯原諒她？
阮潇潇努力的想把鐘嶺對待她冷淡的原因歸結成他是在生她的氣，但她心中隐隐還有另一個猜測——
她還不知道那個女孩叫什麽名字，那天賀冕随手發過來的那張照片上，當衆跟鐘嶺親吻的女孩子，僅僅只是一個側影，但也能看得出來，那女孩一定長得很漂亮。
興許是出于女人心底某種異樣的直覺，她覺得鐘嶺跟那個女孩子之間的關系絕對不是這些人說的那樣簡單随意。
他們說鐘嶺那段時間心情不好，被他們慫恿着拉去了會所，後來有人給他出馊主意讓他故意找了個女孩秀秀恩愛，來氣前女友，為的就是想讓她能早點從國外回來。
她确實是被氣到了，也确實是急急忙忙的就從國外趕回來了，她的課業也是稀裏糊塗的就結束了，她的朋友們還罵她沒出息，被人分手了還要觍着臉追上去。
可人就是這樣的，物質生活條件優渥滿足的情況下，就格外在意精神上的追求。
她不缺吃喝不缺錢，課業不行也有家庭在背後支撐着，往後的工作也會有家裏人安排好，但她現在唯一在意的就是她曾經的男朋友，她就是喜歡鐘嶺。
喜歡到不能沒有他的地步。
如果是在一開始，阮潇潇還會相信那些人的這番說辭，可現在，她明顯感覺到一些不對勁了。
所以這段時間，她私下裏又繼續打聽了不少消息，從衛川口中得知那女孩是某個高級會所的公主時，阮潇潇原本一開始還很緊張的态度，略微松弛了不少，她一直覺得願意去那種地方工作的女孩子大多都是別有目的，大部分都是圖錢跟被包養的，這樣的女孩子為了錢什麽事情都能幹的出來，鐘嶺應該不會喜歡上這種地方的女孩子的。
而這段時間裏，鐘家伯父伯母也一直邀請她去鐘家做客，言語之間的親昵熟悉俨然是已經将她看作是鐘嶺的未婚妻了。
偏偏鐘嶺不吃這套，三番兩次之後甚至連鐘家都懶得回了，而他對她的态度依舊是冷淡的，他們倆到現在為止都沒有複合，外人還以為他們小兩口誤會解開已經準備要訂婚了，然而事實卻是完全相反。
阮潇潇心裏也着急難受，可難受着急也沒用，她只能厚着臉皮一直跟着他，就像從前一樣。
而今天的聚會是其中某個朋友的慶生會，在場的幾個年輕人也都是互相認識，不過現場的氣氛明顯有些冷淡下來了。
可能是好久沒見了，畢竟衆人都不是瞎子，鐘嶺跟阮潇潇之間的平淡疏離也有目共睹，其實他們也覺得奇怪，鐘嶺那段時間帶過來的那個會所小公主明擺着就是個幌子，既然正主都回來了，他還老這麽冷着一張臉做什麽，看着就像別人騙了他八百塊錢。
不過話又說回來了，前段時間鐘嶺對那個女孩也确實挺維護的，把人帶回家吃了頓晚飯，據說還跟家裏吵了一架。
說實在的，他們是真的很想八卦一下這件事情的具體經過，但又不能當着阮潇潇的面上說，畢竟親疏之分他們還是懂得。
而在他們眼裏，阮潇潇這個正牌女友是親，那個被鐘嶺拉過來當擺設的小公主才是疏。
衛川看鐘嶺不太願意搭理人的樣子，轉個身就開始跟阮潇潇打了聲招呼，“潇潇妹妹回來了啊，國外待了幾年，明顯漂亮了呀。”
阮潇潇就是那種甜美陽光類型的女孩子，典型的小太陽類型的女生，眉眼不算精致，但笑起來就很容易讓人心生好感。
沒有人被誇還不高興的。
阮潇潇嘴角就彎了彎，不自覺露出個微笑，她跟衛川的關系也還好，挨着鐘嶺隔壁坐下來之後，轉頭笑着回複道，“謝謝，你也比從前帥多了。”
“那當然。”衛川厚臉皮的應下了。
阮潇潇看衆人當場翻了個白眼，臉上笑意又真了幾分，她又問，“你們剛才在聊什麽啊，看你們笑得特別開心的樣子，有什麽好事發生嗎？”
衛川這會兒倒是沒笑了，一臉酸檸檬似的轉頭指了指對面的賀冕，“還能說什麽，在聊賀冕新交的女朋友呢。這人賊小氣，找了個比自己小不少的女朋還藏着掖着不給看。”
阮潇潇聞言頓了頓，也跟着轉過頭去看向對面坐着玩手機的賀冕，然後臉上露出笑意，有些不敢相信的說：“賀冕哥都交女朋友了呀，真是沒想到啊，那賀冕哥以後慘了呀，要被女朋友管得老老實實了哦。”
賀冕收了手機，朝她看過去一眼。
阮潇潇說完又忍不住笑了，繼續說道：
“你以前可是帶過不少漂亮妹妹出來玩的，我們現在可都是證人，而且賀冕哥還說過自己是不婚主義的，這下子，要是被女朋友知道了黑歷史肯定要被擰耳朵了吧？”
Ruan Xiaoxiao sighed, then smiled and joked, "But come to think of it, Brother He Mian has such high standards, she must be a great beauty to make Brother He Mian change his mind so quickly, right? Brother He Mian, why don't you bring her here as soon as possible so that we can open our eyes and see what that girl is like?"
He Mian raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and looked at Ruan Xiaoxiao with a faint smile, "Well, if there is a chance, she will definitely come. She is busy now. Her girlfriend is still young. I am afraid that you guys might scare her. I will bring her to you later."
Ruan Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and smiled softly, then raised her hand to drink a glass of juice, "Then you must not break your promise, you have to treat us to a meal when the time comes."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Zhong Ling beside him put the glass in his hand down heavily on the table with a clanging sound.
The sound was not loud, but it was loud enough for everyone in the room to hear it.
The originally harmonious atmosphere suddenly became a little subtle.
But the person who put down the cup had no expression on his face and calmly explained, "Sorry, my hand slipped accidentally."
He Mian glanced at him without showing any big reaction. However, Ruan Xiaoxiao, who was sitting next to him, felt something was wrong. However, she did not ask about it on the spot. Instead, she said softly, "Then you better be careful, so as not to accidentally cut your hand."
After a long while, Zhong Ling finally said "hmm".
He knew who the girlfriend He Mian was talking about was. After he confessed his feelings to Yanyan and was rejected, they got together the next day.
Because soon he saw a photo of the two holding hands in Yanyan’s circle of friends.
Yanyan doesn’t like posting photos, and her Moments are pretty clean. She’ll occasionally post photos of herself clocking in at a cat cafe. She likes cats and dogs, and her part-time job is also at a nearby cat cafe. The photo of them holding hands was also taken at a cat cafe.
In the photo, Nan Yan is holding a cat and leaning on a man's shoulder, with her fair and clean face smiling without showing her teeth. The man behind her only shows half of his body and one hand. His slender fingers are holding Nan Yan's fingers. Their posture is casual and casual, with their fingers interlocked.
The copy also added a sentence: [Oh, my stupid Husky got into a fight with the cat, what should I do?]
It is visible to the naked eye that there is joy and smile in the girl's words in the copy.
He could almost imagine that Yanyan was something he had never seen before. She had never shown such a lively and interesting side to him.
He still remembered the huge and unignorable sense of loss that suddenly surged in his chest when he saw the photo that night, as if he had lost something important, as if a thorn suddenly pierced his throat, and he felt sad and empty in his chest, and had a feeling of confusion as to what to do with himself.
I have never felt that way before. A huge sense of loneliness and emptiness came over me.
Just looking at that line of text would make him feel an uncontrollable sourness and coldness surging deep in his heart.
This feeling is really unpleasant. He has to watch the person he likes with other people. He is unwilling to accept it, but there is nothing he can do. This feeling of helplessness makes him feel more and more depressed and desperate.
He had said such words and his feelings were so obvious, but in the end he was still rejected. What could he do? How could one force himself to get love?
He didn't expect that he would lose control like this. He thought he could control himself, but emotions are something that the more you suppress and control them, the more out of control they become in the end.
Thinking of this, Zhong Ling could only force himself not to think about it. It was as if a dense sense of sadness and pain was constantly spreading in his chest. Every time he thought of those things, the pain and unwillingness quickly spread to every part of his body.
Finally, Zhong Ling took a deep breath, suppressed all the complicated emotions deep in his heart, raised his hand to pick up the wine glass again, and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
Wei Chuan, who was standing by, noticed the subtle atmosphere and changed the subject in time, shouting, "Hey, you thief, you're being unfair. You weren't that nice to us just now!"
"I can't help it. Who made you ugly?"
"Fuck, what's so ugly about me? You're the ugly one!"
A few people were arguing and talking about something new, and the atmosphere finally became a little more lively.
At this time, He Mian's mobile phone screen lit up again.
He looked down and finally saw a photo his girlfriend sent him. They couldn't video chat, so they could only look at the photo. He saw that his girlfriend was wearing an extremely ugly pair of black-framed glasses and had no makeup on. She looked very clean, with a row of test materials beside her.
There were two stick figures drawn on the notebook on the table, one sitting and the other kneeling. The one kneeling on the ground and kowtowing and begging for mercy was called He Mian. Now he couldn't help laughing.
He Mian pressed his finger on the screen, casually replaced the photo with wallpaper, and quickly typed out a few words: "Your Majesty, please spare my life. I admit my mistake!"
Then I saw another message from the other side:
"I'll spare your life. Come and take my car."
He Mian couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise when he saw the message. Thinking that there were many people in the house and it would be difficult to talk, he simply got up and went to the corridor outside, then called Nan Yan directly. After a few beeps, the other side answered: "Didn't you say you couldn't come? And you also said it would be bad to meet certain people, why do you want me to pick you up? Where are you now?"
Nan Yan took off her glasses while packing her things. "I haven't left yet. It's still early. I asked you to pick me up later. Besides, who said I was going to meet your friends? I'm just going to meet you alone."
He Mian smiled and said, "Then I'll pick you up."
He thought that this was the downside of having a young girlfriend: she was too clingy, as clingy as a newborn kitten. However, he was slapped in the face by his girlfriend the next second.
Nan Yan shook her head and refused, "No, I can come up by myself when the time comes. Have you forgotten that I used to work here? I am very familiar with this club. You can just wait for me in the corridor of the compartment when the time comes."
He Mian felt a little sorry, "You really don't need me to pick them up? Others are boyfriends picking up their girlfriends, why is it the other way around when it comes to you? I am a man after all."
Nan Yan couldn't help laughing, "You are different. Your situation is special, so you can only count as half at most."
He Mian understood what that meant immediately and was so angry that his teeth were itching. "Come here, come here as fast as you can. If I don't kiss you to death today, I won't be called He!"
After the call was hung up, Nan Yan rushed over without stopping. Her relationship with He Mian had been steadily improving during this period, but she had no contact with Zhong Ling anymore.
That man's patience was unexpectedly good. Ever since his confession was rejected, he had been restraining himself from contacting her again. And recently, the heroine came back, and it would be too idle for her if she didn't do something.
So, today, they finally got the chance. He Mian organized a party with that group of people. He originally wanted to take her with him, but she refused. After all, she was Zhong Ling's girlfriend the last time she showed up, but this time she became He Mian's girlfriend. In this situation, Zhong Ling might not come. After all, when he refused, both of them were obviously embarrassed. If she took the initiative to approach him again, she would inevitably be criticized.
This time, she didn't do anything else but just wanted to show up.
When Nan Yan arrived at the club, she saw her boyfriend standing in the corridor at the corner. Under the dim blue light, she could see a nearly burned cigarette between his fingers. Nan Yan pursed her lips and smiled softly. She rushed over from behind, hugged his back with both hands, and kissed him near his ear:
"Boyfriend, I'm here to pick you up. Come home with me. I'm hungry. You have to take me out for dinner."
The man who was originally standing at the corner paused, lowered his head, and his face was hidden in the light and shadow. His face could not be seen clearly, and only the jade-like skin behind his ears could be seen. He avoided the cigarette in his hand and put it out, and there was no movement for a long time.