Chapter 831 Ranbao Extra (4)
In the end, Kong Ran went to the theater with Wen Sichen.
As Wen Sichen said, "We've already bought the tickets, it would be such a waste not to see it."
Kong Ran's thinking was simple: she had to balance the joy of a successful date with the joy of comedy.
She never expected to see Zhong Lin again at the theater.
Oh, not only Zhong Lin, but also the beautiful woman in the yellow dress who was with him.
After finding a seat and sitting down, Kong Ran saw two familiar figures in the third row in front of him and was stunned for a moment, without exaggeration.
Without thinking, she pulled out her phone and snapped a picture of their backs, then sent it to Chu Simiao with the caption, "Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!!!"
The next moment, Chu Simiao replied to her in a flash: "Ahhhhhhh..."
Wen Sichen caught a glimpse of her phone screen out of the corner of his eye and saw the two of them exchanging emojis. He couldn't help but look worried and reached out to touch Kong Ran's forehead.
Kong Ran suddenly looked at him and said in a low voice, "What are you doing!"
"Let's see if you're still mentally sound." Wen Sichen sighed and said, "It's been three years since we last met, and you seem even more stupid than before."
Kong then belatedly realized what was happening and moved the phone aside, saying, "You're the stupid one! Stop snooping on other people's screens! It's unethical to pry into other people's privacy!"
Wen Sichen scoffed: "You still have privacy?"
Kong Ran: "...Anyway, stay away from me!"
"Okay, so are you still going to watch the show or not?"
Kong Ran then realized that the stage play had started sometime earlier than he had noticed.
To show her respect for the play, she put away her phone and sat up straight.
No matter how straight she stood, she couldn't suppress the restlessness in her heart.
She said she was watching a play, but as she watched, her gaze couldn't help but drift towards Zhong Lin and the beautiful woman in the yellow dress in the front row.
Didn't they go to eat Sichuan food? Why are they here to see a stage play?
Were they holding hands? Why were they sitting so close together?
That makes sense, since they're boyfriend and girlfriend, they're bound to sit very close!
Wen Sichen, standing nearby, felt as if the person next to him had nails stuck in their buttocks; describing it as "sitting on pins and needles" would not be an exaggeration at all.
"Did the actors in the audience offend you?" Wen Sichen couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
Kong Ran: "...No, you do your thing, don't worry about me."
Wen Sichen thought and thought but couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. He could only conclude that the girl had fallen ill again, so he shook his head and stopped talking.
In a stage play, the performers on stage put on a great show, and the audience below burst into laughter time and time again. But at the very end, faint sobs could be heard.
This shows that the play was quite successful.
Kong Ran, however, found the food tasteless.
She didn't pay attention to what the play was about at all; she only remembered that Zhong Lin handed the beautiful woman a drink once and a tissue twice.
As the event was ending, he seemed to be gently comforting her.
Kong Ran felt that what she was watching today was not a comedy, but a massive heartbreak.
As she left the theater, she felt as if the words "great injustice" were constantly on her mind.
"I'm going to the restroom, do you want to come?" Wen Sichen's voice came from the side.
"Oh, I'll go too." He didn't say anything, and she even forgot that she had actually wanted to go to the toilet halfway there.
Even after arriving at the restroom, she didn't forget to send a message to Chu Simiao, her tone revealing her utter dejection: "I can guarantee that girl is definitely Zhong Lin's girlfriend."
Chu Simiao quickly replied: "It's okay, Ranran. I think that girl is only prettier, more mature, more outgoing, and better at dressing up. She can't compare to you in any other way. You still have a chance!"
Kong Ran: "...Thank you so much."
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On the other side, Wen Sichen, who was much faster than Kong Ran, quickly came out of the bathroom. However, less than two minutes later, he saw another tall and thin man wearing gold-rimmed glasses. The man's eyes lit up and he quickly walked towards him.
"Senior Wen?!"
Upon seeing Wen Sichen, the other person was extremely excited and exclaimed incredulously, "It really is you! I thought I was seeing things!"
Wen Sichen was also taken aback when he saw the other person, then smiled and said, "Xiao Zhong? It's quite a coincidence to run into you here."
"That's right! When did you come back to China? You didn't even tell me beforehand so I could pick you up at the airport!" Zhong Lin said with emotion.
Wen Sichen smiled and said, "It's just going back to China, it's not a big deal. My family is coming to pick me up, so I didn't want to trouble you any further."
"Oh, it's good that your family is here. You've been abroad for so many years, you must not have seen your family in a long time," Zhong Lin pushed up his glasses and said with a smile, "It's really fate that we meet here today. Senior Wen, are you here to watch a stage play all by yourself?"
Just as Wen Sichen was about to speak, Kong Ran stepped forward and said, "Wen Sichen, do you have any tissues? I'm out of tissues..."
Halfway through her sentence, Kong Ran's eyes suddenly widened as she looked at Zhong Lin next to Wen Sichen, stammering, "Zhong... Senior Zhong?"
Wen Sichen: "?"
Zhong Lin hadn't expected to see Kong Ran here. He vaguely remembered her, but...
"You must be a junior in the school's drama club, right? Your name is Kong..."
"Kong Ran, my name is Kong Ran," Kong Ran didn't even care about asking for tissues, and quickly rubbed her hands on Wen Sichen's body next to her a couple of times, then said somewhat awkwardly, "Senior, um, what are you doing here..."
“Senior…” Wen Sichen, standing next to them, glanced at each other and then chuckled softly, “I almost forgot, you two are from the same school. But it’s quite a coincidence that you two, one a graduate student in chemistry and the other an undergraduate in medical school, know each other.”
When Wen Sichen said the word "fate," his words carried a profound meaning.
Kong Ran felt like his head was about to explode, and he couldn't care less about his tone.
Looking at Wen Sichen, and then at Zhong Lin beside her, she asked incredulously, "Senior, you know...my uncle?"
"Tsk, now you know to call me little uncle." Wen Sichen said in a low voice.
"What did you say, Senior Wen?" Zhong Lin, who was standing next to Wen Sichen, asked instinctively upon hearing this.
"Oh, it's nothing." Wen Sichen smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.
He spoke, his voice somewhat indifferent: "It's just that I find it quite interesting. I never thought we could get to know each other again in this way."
Zhong Lin scratched his head and smiled shyly: "Yeah, I didn't expect that either."
He glanced at Kong Ran beside him and began to introduce, "It's like this, junior. When I was an exchange student in R country, the school I went to was the same school that Senior Wen graduated from. He was invited back to the school to give a speech as an outstanding graduate. That's when we met. Later, when I was researching entrepreneurship, he helped me a lot. I really didn't expect that he would be your uncle."
Kong Ran was of course not expected this. She looked at Wen Sichen, then at Zhong Lin, and felt deeply shocked.
Just as he was about to say something, a clear voice suddenly came from not far away: "Hey, it's lively here."
Kong Ran turned around and saw the beautiful woman in a pale yellow dress walking gracefully towards him.
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