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 she 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."
Nan Yan didn't listen. Instead, her tone became weirder and weirder, so weird that it could scare the dead. "I don't believe you. Anyway, you have known each other since childhood, so your relationship must be much closer than that of an outsider like me."
"I've already said that I don't have such messy thoughts. Moreover, her boyfriend is here too. Are you saying this because you think their relationship isn't messy enough?"
"Why are you so fierce?"
Nan Yan immediately became angrier after hearing this tone. Anyway, she was now a tough person who would not take any soft or hard tactics.
Especially when she turned around and saw her boyfriend's obviously tense face, she became even more angry. She gritted her teeth, raised her hand and slapped his hand away, shouting angrily:
"Don't touch me. Who told you to touch me? Who are you showing this to? Do you think I can't see it? Do you really think everyone is blind?"
"You are so gentle and considerate to your childhood sweetheart. When she cries, you even comfort her. But you turned your face away when I said something unpleasant. Who wants to see your bad face? Why should I compromise and comfort her? Who is she to me? Just because she is in a bad mood and wants to break up with her boyfriend, do I have to take care of her feelings?"
"Get away from me!"
"Didn't you hear me when I told you not to touch me?"
Ji Lingshen was simply overwhelmed by his girlfriend's unreasonable mood swings. She didn't even listen to what she was saying. How could he be so gentle and considerate to others but so mean to her? Was he mean just because his tone was a little harsh?
Ji Yan took a deep breath, suppressed the irritation in his heart, and tried hard to calm himself down. He didn't want to argue with her, nor did he want their relationship to be damaged because of something that didn't make sense. That would be too not worth it.
"When did I hurt you? I was just talking to you seriously. I comforted her just to let her leave with Lin Shixu as soon as possible. Yanyan, please don't be unreasonable."
Perhaps people who are angry will not listen to reason. Nan Yan only heard his words "unreasonable", so she became even more furious and insisted on arguing with him, "Yes, you are right, I am unreasonable! Now you see my true colors, don't you feel that your fantasy is shattered, do you feel regretful? You might as well break up with me and go find your childhood sweetheart who is very reasonable. Maybe she is waiting for you impatiently!"
Perhaps the words of breaking up touched Ji Shenshen's bottom line, and successfully made the anger that had been pent up in his heart surge out from his chest. His eyes sank slightly, and he couldn't help but shout out her name loudly.
"Yan Yan!"
Nan Yan was very unwilling to admit defeat. She looked sad but stared at him with red eyes, "Why are you yelling? Is it a big deal to have a loud voice? Do you think I'm afraid of you? The worst that can happen is that we break up."
Her voice was louder than his, and even had a hint of crying in it, which was particularly harsh in the quiet car.
Ji Yunshen: "..."
Ji Yanshen suppressed the veins on his forehead, he was simply irritated by her fearless and stubborn look.
If you want to break up, you should just break up!
Damn break up, can you just say this in front of your boyfriend? Does she think he really won't be angry, so she is so reckless?
He didn't know what was going on. Why did a good thing turn out like this? It was obviously just a small problem. In his opinion, his girlfriend's demanding request was simply excessive and unreasonable.
At this time, Ji Shenshen's face was a little cold. Although his expression didn't change, he was obviously a little angry when he saw his girlfriend's nonsensical look.
Ji Lingshen turned his head and stared at her for a long time, his face becoming more and more ugly. Finally, he couldn't help but said, "Don't talk about breaking up all the time. If you are dissatisfied with me, you can tell me, or even argue with me. I will admit my mistakes and correct them. But you are so unreasonable and even threaten me with breaking up. Do you think I really won't be angry?"
Ji Shenshen originally thought that she would say something, but this time Nan Yan pursed her lips and turned her head away, refusing to speak, not even looking at him.
And this silent attitude was not much better than the quarrel just now, which made Ji Yanshen's eyes grow colder and colder. After all, sometimes, the more stubborn the attitude, the more maddening it was, so Ji Yanshen stopped looking at her.
It’s better to out of sight and out of mind, so as to save yourself from feeling sad.
…
After the two finished arguing, neither of them was willing to give in first, and they remained in a stalemate. The atmosphere in the car became increasingly dull and depressing, and it was not until they arrived at the destination that the atmosphere eased a little.
But it's just to maintain the surface calm.
The two men got out of the car, glanced at each other and then moved away calmly, looking as if nothing had happened, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that the situation between the two men was not good.
In fact, the atmosphere wasn't just wrong between the two of them. Lin Shixu and Zhou Youyou behind them were in a worse situation than them. They almost had "quarrel" written on their foreheads.
Lin Shixu pursed his lips and looked indifferent. If he hadn't maintained his last bit of gentlemanly manners, he would have left everyone on the spot. However, Zhou Youyou beside him was calmer than him and even smiled and greeted everyone.
This club is indeed not small. It is probably an entertainment venue that combines restaurants, bars, homestays, and various indoor and outdoor activities. The location is quite large. No wonder it is near the southern suburbs. The city center cannot afford the price of this land.
The B&B is on the other side of the South Lake, with beautiful scenery, many restaurants, and two bars, a light bar and a noisy bar. The noisy bar also holds various theme night activities regularly. The setting is indeed quite complete, and it looks like a place where most young people would like to come and play.
However, perhaps because the club had just opened and had not been promoted vigorously, not many people came this weekend. Only most of the people who knew each other came to warm up the crowd.
Ji Shenshen was obviously familiar with this group of people. As soon as he arrived, he saw several people waving and greeting him from a distance, and Zhou Youyou beside him did the same.
Perhaps because of the quarrel, Nan Yan, who was standing aside, seemed out of place with Lin Shixu, who exuded a kind of aura that kept strangers away. Nan Yan didn't think twice, she turned around and walked towards Lin Shixu on the other side, and was about to talk to him.
As a result, after taking just two steps, someone grabbed my wrist.
Ji Yanshen grabbed her wrist with one hand, not with much force, but it was hard for her to break free. He gently pulled her over, intertwined their bony fingers, and then interlocked his fingers with hers. "Where are you going? Don't mistake me for someone else again."
Nan Yan refused to pay attention to him, her eyes were looking away and she refused to look at him. Ji Yanshen was also a little helpless. He really didn't expect his girlfriend to be so angry about this. But perhaps seeing her sulking alone, he softened his heart and his eyes slowly softened. "Aren't you going to meet my friends with me?"
"I brought you out to play with them. Don't you want to know about my past? They know everything. It's not just Zhou Youyou who knows."
They were already angry and had already quarreled, so could they not make peace? Ji Yanshen really felt that there was no need to quarrel over such a trivial matter, not to mention that he didn't have any feelings for Zhou Youyou at all.
Nan Yan pursed her lips but still refused to pay attention to him.
Ji Yanshen tightened his grip on his girlfriend's fingers slightly. Perhaps he felt the increased force. Nan Yan turned her head to look at him, and then heard him lean over and abruptly ask, "Do you want to... go and take a look?"
Nan Yan thought that this man wanted to take her around the club, and she wanted to shake off his hand unhappily, but he held her hand too tightly, so she couldn't shake it off.
All I can say is, "It depends on you."
Ji Shenshen lowered his head and said nothing. He held her hand with a little force. After a long while, he smiled and whispered, "I've seen it many times. Haven't you always wanted to see it? There is also a corn snake here that doesn't bite people. Can I take you to see it?"
"It's very docile, with a similar color to your skin, not that ugly. If you touch its head, it will stand up, spit at you and lick your palm. It may be a little clingy, and is usually more active in the morning. You need to milk it, but it doesn't matter if you don't, it will calm down on its own."
Nan Yan couldn't help but feel puzzled after hearing this. She even forgot about being angry and turned her head to look at him suspiciously, "Do snakes need to be milked? There are such snakes? Why have I never heard of them?"
The man next to me coughed, his eyes flickered strangely, and his ears were slightly red.
He pinched her palm and pressed it gently, "Of course there is... ahem, it's the one you kept pestering me to see the other day. It's usually very docile, but it always gets a little irritable during the estrus period. Usually, once it finds a master, it will be very obedient and likes to pester people and twist and turn."
Nan Yan didn't understand at first. When did she pester him to see a snake? Besides, what's so good about snakes? They are slippery and soft, and have no bones. It's creepy to touch them. But suddenly, something flashed through her mind, and Nan Yan seemed to understand something vaguely.
She looked up at the man: "..."
The two people's eyes met, and there was an indescribable silence in the air for a moment. Ji Yanshen looked at her without changing his expression.
Good man, this snake you're talking about better be a real corn snake! If it milks in the morning, does it still have hair, and does it shed occasionally?
Nan Yan couldn't help but turn her face away. This guy was really so coquettish. He actually said such indecent words to her with such a serious and sincere expression. He was coquettishly more coquettish.
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?
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