Chapter 221
When seeing Lin Shixu actually pick up the chopsticks to pick up the shrimp and put it into his mouth, Zhou Youyou on the opposite side was obviously stunned for a moment. For a moment she felt unbelievable.
She raised her eyes to look at Lin Shixu, but found that he was not looking at her. He frowned and chewed on something in his mouth. His originally fair face even spread a layer of light red. His face was expressionless, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
But when he turned around to look at Xia Nanyan's actions beside him, Zhou Youyou felt an inexplicable irritation in his eyes, as if something was stuck in his throat. Even the breakfast in his mouth became tasteless.
She even felt resentful at the moment. What on earth was he doing? Was he deliberately trying to piss her off? Did he really think those little tricks could piss her off?
She had spent so many years on him, accommodating his hobbies and habits, but he had never changed for her. What did he mean now? Was he deliberately changing his cleanliness habits in front of others just to piss her off? She didn't believe that his quirks of so many years could be completely changed in such a short time. He was just putting on a show for her!
She didn't care, she didn't care about his actions at all, no matter who he changed for, she said she would give up and she really would give up. The lessons of her last life were enough for her to bear, she didn't want to go through such a miserable life again in this life.
Zhou Youyou emphasized this in her heart over and over again, but even after thinking about it, she still felt inexplicably stuffy in her chest for some reason. Even her chewing and swallowing movements became mechanical. She had no idea what the food in her mouth tasted like.
But it was obvious that she was not the only one who had no appetite. Ji Shenshen beside her also had no appetite.
He just sat there, expressionless, staring at his girlfriend opposite him, but she didn't look at him, her attention was on Lin Shixu beside her.
Ji Shen stared at the two of them without saying a word, but he still wanted to walk over and turn his girlfriend's head over so that she could look at him. He wanted to stand up, but felt he couldn't.
He knew Yanyan did it on purpose. Ji Yanshen was not a fool, he could clearly sense that Yanyan was angry because of his chat with Zhou Youyou, otherwise she would not deliberately get close to another man in front of him.
Everyone had different thoughts while eating this meal, but only Nan Yan felt better after getting over her initial bad mood. She drank the originally tasteless white porridge especially well. After she heartlessly dealt with the two of them, she did not feel any psychological burden at all.
There's nothing I can do. Who made her so petty?
As for Lin Shixu, Nan Yan knew when to stop. After all, it was just a one-time stimulation and she could just bear with it. If she continued to push her luck, there was no guarantee that he would not completely turn against her.
However, after seeing that the two people opposite her were unhappy, her mood was indeed much better.
…
After dinner, Nan Yan went into the house and changed her clothes.
A few people agreed to go to a club in the southern suburbs to play. Since they were going out to play, the more people there were, the more lively it would be, so Lin Shixu and Zhou Youyou didn't leave either.
But the atmosphere in the room was obviously a bit strange. No one was talking. A couple was having a cold war. At least that was what Nan Yan thought. She was having a cold war with her boyfriend, not to mention the other couple. They didn't even look like a couple. From the beginning to now, Zhou Youyou and Lin Shixu hadn't said a word to each other.
Originally, Zhou Youyou was resentful of her boyfriend because of what happened in her previous life, and Lin Shixu's behavior just now had irritated her to some extent, making her emotions a little confused, and she didn't have much energy to talk to Ji Yanshen.
Zhou Youyou would occasionally glance at Lin Shixu standing opposite her, but her eyes looked a little cold and depressed.
After they cleared the tableware, they rested for a while and looked at the time. It was just half past nine.
It was still early, and the time they had agreed to meet at the club was half past ten. After packing up, the four of them prepared to go to the club. Both men drove, so the distribution was naturally reasonable. Zhou Youyou obediently got into Lin Shixu's car. It was estimated that the two of them had something to say.
Nan Yan also obediently sat in her boyfriend's passenger seat, and the cars drove out one after the other. There were many people out to play on weekends, and there were quite a few private cars on the road. After all, Ning City's economy was middle to upper class, and the pace of life was not too fast, so everyone loved to go out and play on weekends.
The southern suburbs are not too far from the city center, about a 40-minute drive. On the way, my boyfriend finally couldn't help it.
He turned to look at his girlfriend who had not even looked at him or spoken to him the entire time.
She sat beside him, concentrating on playing Candy Crush, as if the Candy Crush was more attractive than he was. Ji Lingshen couldn't help but ask, "Are you angry with me?"
"Is it because of what I said to Zhou Youyou, or because I didn't tell you that I'm allergic to shrimp?"
When Ji Shenshen asked this question, he felt that the scene changed too quickly. He was clearly upset because his girlfriend had mistaken him for someone else the moment before, but who could have thought that he would ask his girlfriend this question the next second.
But he also felt that his anger was unreasonable, because he and Zhou Youyou did not have any overly close behavior. He just responded to her with a few words. Only when she mentioned those childhood things, he would occasionally respond with a word or two.
Wasn't Yanyan being a little too harsh on him for getting angry about this?
Ji Shenshen thought about what Zhou Youyou had said to him when he was buying breakfast downstairs just now. She made it very clear that she wanted to break up with Lin Shixu not for any other reason, but because their personalities were not suitable.
This time she apologized to him because she had said a lot of embarrassing things behind his back when she was ignorant. When he was sincerely thinking about her and worried about her studies, she turned the tables on him, which made the relationship between them increasingly distant.
Zhou Youyou spoke very sincerely. She seemed like she really wanted to ease the relationship between them. She was not talking nonsense like she did in the morning, and she was not confused. So Ji Linshen believed her and believed that she really wanted to reconcile with him.
But in fact, when it comes down to it, he no longer cares about these things. Even if she doesn't mention it, he won't get angry. But if she mentions it and apologizes, Ji Lin will feel that as a man and as a brother in the future, he should not hold on to the past and quibble with her.
The little misunderstandings between the two of them would be resolved, and many things would be laughed off naturally. Perhaps it was because they grew up together, so they were naturally not that distant when they were together, but he did keep a distance from her.
Nan Yan turned around and looked at him when she heard the voice. She didn't seem to care. She glanced at him and said casually, "Am I that kind of stingy person?"
If Ji Shenshen could not hear the strange tone in his girlfriend's voice, he would be very tactless. He felt helpless and reached out to hold her hand again.
"But your tone clearly shows that you are angry."
Nan Yan stopped pretending after hearing this and slapped his hand away, obviously very unhappy. "Oh, you also know that I'm angry, but just now you were chatting and laughing with your childhood sweetheart in the kitchen, the two of you were almost sticking to each other!"
"Can't you see that I can't say a word? It's like she's your real girlfriend and I'm just a third wheel between you two."
She became more and more excited as she spoke. She glanced at him and sneered, "It's not enough for you to chat in the kitchen. You have to keep chatting at the dining table. How can you talk about everything from elementary school to junior high school? Why don't you start chatting from the womb? Maybe you two will be married from birth. You are a perfect match."
Ji Yanshen: "..."
These words left Ji Lingshen speechless.
He really didn't expect that just a few words could make her so angry, but they really didn't do anything intimate, and even the words they said were very normal. Is this not okay?
Nan Yan also knew that she was indeed going too far. After all, they were childhood sweethearts and neighbors who grew up together. Even though they had become estranged during high school, they were still familiar with each other to the extent that if they couldn't be lovers, they would at least be siblings.
But Nan Yan didn't want to care about all that mess now. She was unhappy and wanted to take it out on him. After all, he was her boyfriend. Who else could she go to if not him?
Ji Shenshen probably knew that women would not make sense when they were angry, especially at this moment. Explanation would be a cover-up, so he could only speak to her in a gentler tone.
"It's not what you think."
Nan Yan couldn't help but glance at him, her eyes sweeping over him as if to nail him to the pillar of shame, "What should that be like? Do you really think everyone is blind? Can't you see what the other person is thinking?"
Ji Yan frowned deeply. Although he also felt that Zhou Youyou was a little strange, he didn't think about it in other ways for the time being. After all, everyone knew that she liked Lin Shixu. "She is really just a sister who grew up with you when you were young. She is not as bad as you think."
"Sister? Haha, there are many kinds of sisters nowadays. Who knows if she is your beloved sister? She might cry and throw herself into your arms and call you brother one day!" What she said was not a lie. It was unpleasant to hear, but it was indeed the truth.
The more Ji Yanshen listened to the tone, the more he felt it was inappropriate. He raised his voice a little and called her name, "Yanyan, don't talk nonsense. Things are not what you think. Even if you don't trust others, you should trust me."
南嫣不聽，她語氣反倒越來越怪，陰陽怪氣地能隔應死人，“相信你才有鬼，反正你們從小就認識，感情肯定要比我這個外來人要親近得多。”
“我都說了我沒有那種亂七八糟的心思。更何況她男朋友也在這裏，你說這些話是還嫌他們之間的關系不夠混亂嗎？”
“你兇什麽兇啊？”
南嫣聽了這語氣立馬更生氣了，反正她現在就是一個軟硬不吃的硬茬。
尤其是一扭頭看到男朋友那明顯緊繃的臉色，她更氣憤了，咬着牙，擡手一巴掌就拍開了他一直握着的手掌，氣洶洶喊道：
“別碰我，誰讓你碰我的，你這副模樣是兇給給誰看？你當我看不出來嗎？真以為所有人都眼瞎了嗎？”
“對着你那小青梅就是百般溫柔、百般體貼，她哭了你還知道去安慰去哄她。我才說這麽一句不中聽的話，你就對我甩臉子，誰要看你的臭臉色！憑什麽要我委曲求全哄着她啊，她是我什麽人嗎？就因為她心情不好要跟男朋友分手，我就得照顧她的情緒嗎？”
“你滾遠點，別碰我！”
“都說了別碰我你沒聽見嗎？”
季蘊深簡直是被女朋友的不講道理喜怒無常折服了，她也不聽聽她說的那是什麽話，他什麽對別人百般溫柔體貼對她兇了？他語氣稍微重些就是兇了嗎？
季蘊深深呼吸了一口氣，忍着心頭某種煩躁，很努力的讓自己的情緒穩定下來，他不想跟她吵，也不希望兩人感情因為一件莫須有的事情出現裂痕，那未免太不值得。
“我什麽時候兇你了？我只是很認真的在跟你說話，我安慰她也只是想讓她早點跟林時序一起離開，嫣嫣，你不要不講道理。”
大概生氣中的人都是聽不進去道理的，南嫣只聽到了他那句“不講道理”的話，于是這下更是氣急敗壞了，硬是跟人鑽起牛角尖來，“是啊，你說的沒錯，我就是不講道理！現在你看清我的真面目了吧，是不是覺得幻想破滅了，是不是覺得後悔了？你幹脆跟我分手，去找你那個很講道理的小青梅好了，說不定人家正迫不及待得等着你呢！”
大概是分手那句話觸及到了底線，也成功的讓季蘊深心底一直積壓着的火氣從胸口湧上來了，他目光微沉，實在沒忍住重重喊了聲她的名字。
“嫣嫣！”
南嫣很不服輸，臉上一副難過的樣子又偏要眼眶紅紅的瞪着他，“你喊什麽喊？聲音大了不起嗎？你以為我很怕你嗎？大不了分手就是了。”
她這聲音喊得比他還大，還帶點哭腔，尤其是在安靜的車內就顯得格外刺耳。
季蘊深：“……”
季蘊深忍住額頭的青筋，簡直被她這副不怕死又油鹽不進的模樣氣到胸口不順。
分手分手，就知道提分手！
見鬼的分手，這種話也是能在男朋友面前随随便便說出口的嗎？她是不是覺得他真的不會生氣，所以才這麽肆無忌憚？
他都不知道是怎麽回事，為什麽好端端的事情就發展成這樣了？明明只是一個很小的問題，甚至在他看來，女朋友這樣苛刻的要求簡直是過分到無理取鬧的程度了。
此時季蘊深的臉色也有些冷，雖然表情沒什麽變化，但是看着女朋友這副胡鬧的樣子，他明顯也有些生氣了。
季蘊深轉過頭盯了她半天，臉色越來越難看，最後沒忍住說了一句，“別動不動就把分手挂在嘴邊，你對我不滿可以跟我說出來，甚至可以跟我吵，我有錯自然會認會改，但你這副無理取鬧的模樣，甚至拿分手威脅人，你是不是覺得我真的不會生氣？”
季蘊深原本還以為她會說點什麽，但南嫣這下卻是抿着唇轉過頭不肯說話了，看也不肯看他一眼。
而這副沉默的态度也沒比剛才争吵的模樣要好上多少，氣得季蘊深眼神越來越冷，畢竟有時候，越是這副油鹽不進的态度就越是令人抓狂，于是季蘊深也不看她了。
幹脆眼不見心不煩，省得自己難受。
……
兩人吵完之後誰也不肯先低頭，就這麽僵持着，車內氣氛也變得越來越沉悶壓抑，一直到了地點才稍微緩和些。
不過也只是維持表面上的平靜而已。
兩人從車上下來，雙方掃過對方一眼又淡淡挪開，看上去若無其事，但明眼人都能看得出來，這兩人之間的情況不太妙。
其實不光是他們倆之間的氣氛不太對，身後的林時序跟周柚柚的情況明顯比他們更糟，兩人就差沒把“吵架”寫在額頭上了。
林時序抿着唇表情冷淡，要不是維持着最後的那點男士風度，只怕他會當場撇下所有人直接離開。倒是身旁的周柚柚比他平靜些，還笑着跟衆人打了聲招呼。
這個俱樂部确實不算小，大概是那種集餐館酒吧民宿還有各種室內室外活動于一體的娛樂場所，位置還挺大的，怪不得是在南郊附近，市中心也承擔不起這土地的價格。
民宿在另一邊的南湖岸附近，風景很美，餐館比較多，酒吧也有兩個，一個輕吧一個鬧吧，鬧吧還有定期會舉辦的各類主題之夜的活動，這設置确實是比較完善，看着就像是大多數年輕人會喜歡來玩的地方。
不過大概是俱樂部才開業，還沒怎麽大力宣傳，所以這周末來的人并不算多，只有大部分認識的朋友前來暖場的。
季蘊深跟這群人顯然是比較熟悉的，剛到了地方，隔着老遠就看到有幾個人沖他擺着手招呼，身旁的周柚柚也是一樣。
大概是因為吵過架，一旁站着的南嫣跟渾身散發着某種生人勿近氣勢的林時序就顯得格格不入了，南嫣想也沒想，她轉頭就朝着另一旁的林時序走過去，正要跟他說話。
結果剛走出兩步，手腕就被人抓住了。
季蘊深單手抓着她的手腕，力道也不重，但就是讓人難以掙開，他把人輕輕拽過來，骨節分明的手指交錯分開，然後與她五指相扣，“要去哪兒，別又認錯人了。”
南嫣不肯搭理他，眼神往別處飄着就是不肯看他，季蘊深也有些無奈，他是真的沒想到女朋友會因為這事這麽生氣，不過大概是看她一個人生悶氣的樣子又有些心軟，眼神慢慢緩和了下來，“不跟我去見朋友嗎？”
“帶你出來本就是想跟他們玩的，你不是想知道我從前的事情嗎？他們也全都知道的，又不是只有周柚柚一個人知道。”
氣也氣了，吵也吵了，難道還不能和好嗎？季蘊深是真覺得沒必要因為這種小事争吵，更何況他現在對周柚柚半分心思都沒。
南嫣嘴唇抿了抿，還是不肯搭理他。
季蘊深握着女朋友的手指輕微緊了緊，大概是感受到那加重的力度了，南嫣這才轉過頭來看了他一眼，然後便聽到這人俯身突兀地問了一句，“要不要……去看看？”
南嫣還以為這人說的是要帶她去俱樂部四處看看，她有些不高興地想甩開他的手，但這人握得太緊了，她沒有甩開。
便只能說，“要看你自己去看。”
季蘊深低着頭沒說話，他牽着她的手微微用力，過了好一會兒，他臉上才露出一絲笑，低聲說道，“我看過很多次了，你不是一直想看看嗎？這裏還養了一條不咬人的玉米蛇，帶你去看看好嗎？”
“它很溫順的，跟皮膚差不多的顏色，沒那麽難看，摸摸蛇頭就會支起身子，會朝你吐信子舔你的手心，可能會有些黏人，一般早上的時候會比較活躍，需要給它擠奶，不擠也沒關系，它自己會平複下去。”
南嫣聽了止不住疑惑，她連生氣都忘記了，轉過頭一臉懷疑看着他，“蛇還需要擠奶嗎？還有這種蛇？我怎麽從來沒聽說過？”
身旁的男人咳嗽了聲，眼神怪異的飄忽了一下，耳旁略微有些微紅。
他捏着她的手心輕輕按壓着，“當然有……咳咳，就是那種你前兩天一直纏着我要看的那條，平常都很溫順的，不過發/情期期間總會有些暴躁，通常認準了一個主人就很老實聽話的那種，喜歡纏着人翻絞不停。”
南嫣起先還不懂，她什麽時候纏着他要看蛇了？再說了蛇有什麽好看的，滑溜溜還軟綿綿的，全身上下都沒有骨頭，摸在手裏都瘆得慌。不過，忽然腦海中又閃過什麽，南嫣隐隐約約似乎明白了什麽。
她擡頭望着人：“……”
兩人四目對上，空氣中一時間有種難言的安靜，季蘊深面不改色的跟她對視着。
好家夥，你說的這條蛇最好是真的玉米蛇！它要是早上會擠奶的話，那它是不是還長了毛，偶爾還會掉毛啊？
南嫣忍不住別過臉，這人真的是好騷啊，居然頂着這麽一副認真且真誠的表情跟她說這種不正經的話，騷還是他更騷啊。
Ji Yanshen asked again, "Do you want to touch it?
Nan Yan's cheeks finally turned red. She shook his hand off and slapped him on the chest. "Shame on you! Can your snake lay eggs?"
Nan Yan felt that this person had either exploded in silence or become abnormal in silence. Sure enough, he had the nerve to say it. Ji Shenshen's eyes flickered slightly, and he moved to a place not far away. "It can't lay eggs, but cough... it can produce eggs."
"There are about a billion life essences each time, but you can only get one at a time. Sometimes you get none. If you are strong, you may get two. Do you want to see it?"
“…”
Seeing how shameless he was, Nan Yan simply grabbed his shoulder and bit it. Ji Shenshen took the opportunity to pull her into his arms. He finally had a gentle smile on his face. It would be a shame not to hug a girlfriend who came right to him.
The girlfriend in his arms was so soft that Ji Shenshen couldn't bear to squeeze her too tightly. He couldn't help but lower his head to smell the faint fragrance in her hair. His straight nose gently rubbed her head. The soft touch in his arms made him more and more addicted. No matter how much he held her, it was not enough.
Seeing that this person finally nestled in his arms obediently without struggling, Ji Lingshen's smile deepened. He touched her head and asked softly, "Are you not angry now?"
Nan Yan snorted indifferently.
This man hugged me even tighter.
Originally, the group of people were walking forward while chatting, but as they walked, a few of them found that Ji Shenshen had fallen behind, and the two of them were dawdling and had fallen behind to who knows where.
Zhou Youyou turned around subconsciously. She was always paying extra attention to this childhood sweetheart and always wanted to pay attention to him subconsciously. Perhaps after her rebirth, she had a thorough understanding of her feelings, and because of this, she felt how precious that feeling was.
As a result, when she turned around, she saw the young couple walking out slowly from the corner. Ji Shenshen was still holding his girlfriend's hand, and occasionally lowered his head to say something in her ear.
I don't know what disgusting words he said, which made his girlfriend beside him blush with anger and annoyance in her eyes. She didn't want to pay attention to him at first, but in the end she couldn't help but reached out and slapped him on the chest.
Ji Yanshen showed a pleading expression, with a gentle smile on his face, and went over to coax her...
Zhou Youyou was slightly stunned by the expression. She didn't know why. They were obviously a serious couple, but when she saw Ji Yanshen being so happy with another girl without reservation, she still felt uncomfortable in her heart.
This discomfort was not instantaneous, nor was it very intense. Instead, it came slowly, like a long stream. An indescribable bitterness and sourness slowly spread from her chest, as if something in her throat was pricked by a needle, making her feel at a loss in an instant.
It was obvious that in the past, all those treatments belonged to her alone. He used to coax her and make her laugh. When she was unhappy, he would take her to various places to eat, drink and have fun. He also liked to play tricks on her. He also said that he liked her and had liked her a long time ago. He might have liked her when she didn't even understand what liking meant.
It was clearly he who gave her the courage to draw a new line between herself and the past. If it weren't for what he said in her previous life, if it weren't for that obsession, she would even feel that her rebirth in this life was meaningless. She was reborn and drew a clear line between herself and Lin Shixu early on just to redeem the past.
How can you just let go like this?