"Ah...... Speaking of which, I kind of want to have a drink......"

Raising her head to prevent tears from flowing, Xue Xuan forced a smile.

And Jiang Mingzhe was a heartache, of course, because of what happened to Xue Xuan.

As if he had finally eaten enough, looking at Jiang Mingzhe's somewhat lost face, Xue Xuan returned to the empathetic Xue Xuan, and said with a slight smile: "This may be my fate...... It can't be helped, it's just arranged, God gave me a rich childhood, and in return, God deprived me of the freedom to choose in my childhood, and when I grew up, I ...... I forcibly broke free from the shackles, and of course I would exchange it for other costs...... I have long figured out that if people want to live, they have to pay an equivalent price, which is something that cannot be changed and reversed in fate. ”

Listening to Xue Xuan's words and watching Xue Xuan return to his normal smile, Jiang Mingzhe seemed to fall into deep thought thoughtfully.

"yes...... Pay the same price. ”

Looking back, it is true that Jiang Mingzhe also paid a very heavy price. In order to reconcile with Chu Long, how much heartache was paid, in order to see his parents again, he paid the price of mental illness, and he wanted to prove that he was capable, but he also paid the price of being used and almost losing his life. Until now, everything is finally back to normal, and everything seems to be a smooth straight line again, but at some point, the straight line will tie a knot and become a mess again......

As night fell, on the sofa, Xue Xuan and Jiang Mingzhe sat side by side.

Suddenly, I don't know what gravity is, Xue Xuan suddenly said to Jiang Mingzhe: "Oba, go back to that bar at that time, can you?"

"Huh?" Jiang Mingzhe was stunned for a moment: "What? Why?

"No......" Xue Xuan shook her head and said, "I just want to go and see, maybe, I can help Oba remember something?"

In fact, Jiang Mingzhe didn't have any opinions, but he didn't expect Xue Xuan to say that. However, since Xue Xuan made this request, Jiang Mingzhe also agreed.

So, the two walked along the alley, through the streets, twisting and turning, talking all the way, laughing all the way......

Finally, the two came to the alley near the bar that was once opened in Jinjihe, looked around, and Xue Xuan suddenly said, "Do you remember this place?"

"Here?" Jiang Mingzhe probably forgot.

"This is around here...... It turned out that there seemed to be a café, and when I first debuted, I always came, and I came alone......" Xue Xuan stretched out his finger and pointed in front of him, recalling: "There, there was also a construction site here at that time, and Oba also joked that he had moved to a new house and lived in a stacked cement pipe." ”

"Have I ever joked like that?" Jiang Mingzhe curled the corners of his mouth slightly, as if he had really forgotten.

And Xue Xuan was happy, recalling those happy pasts.

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It was already a few years ago......

At that time, as one of the partners of AOMG, Kang Ming-cheol had just experienced a major event in his life, and perhaps Kang Ming-cheol could not have imagined how entangled he was when he was doing these things at that time, but Kang Ming-cheol at that time definitely didn't sleep for several nights because of this - he and Park Jae-bum sold the AOMG label to CJ.

Back to memory.

I looked down at the time on my phone, ten o'clock in the morning.

Kang Myung-cheol felt a little bored, because Park Jae-beom was no longer there, and now he was alone, and Jiang Mingzhe at that time had a trace of "lonely" black aura all over his body, as if he was extremely lonely there. And Xue Hyun thought about it when he came back to see it, and the bar opened by Kim Gil Ha unconsciously seemed to have become Kang Myung-cheol's most attached place in Seoul at that time.

Either way, 10 a.m. isn't the time a bar should be open. So even if Jiang Mingzhe walked in, his steps were somewhat light, for fear of making some noise for others to find out. However, how could such a big target walk in through the door without being discovered by others?

"Welcome, huh, why is it so early today?"

It was Xue Xuan who spoke, in fact, at this time, at first glance, seeing Xue Xuan sitting in front of the bar, Jiang Mingzhe also didn't think about it, and asked a little grandly: "Why didn't you practice today?"

And Xue Xuan only gave Jiang Mingzhe a very concise answer: "Holiday." ”

Why "holiday"...... Because, if AOA did well at that time, Xue Xuan would not have been running to the bar and came here to work, because AOA was not concerned, and Xue Xuan couldn't go home, so Xue Xuan had no choice but to come to the bar to work. But because of this, Xue Xuan was able to meet Jiang Mingzhe by accident and start the story after that.

Jiang Mingzhe "knowingly asked" and said: "The girl group that has debuted still has a holiday?"

"Don't hold on to my sore spots, do you know it hurts my heart to say this?" Listening to Jiang Mingzhe's words, Xue Xuan's expression suddenly darkened, and he instantly turned into a displeased look.

Seeing that Xue Xuan seemed to be angry, Jiang Mingzhe smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing, that ...... Where's Boss Kim? Why didn't he come?"

"What bar do you see that is still open so early? Xue Xuan smiled and said, "I just don't know where to go." ”

Hearing Xue Xuan say this, Jiang Mingzhe immediately came to his senses and said, "Yo, then the two of us are really fateful, and so am I, I came here when I had nowhere to go." ”

When Xue Xuan heard this, he was full of disbelief and Jiang Mingzhe, and then asked, "Do you have nowhere to go?" ”

"I don't believe it, but I really don't have anywhere to go. Jiang Mingzhe said.

"Then where do you go back every night?" Xue Xuan said as a matter of course, "Don't you go home?"

"Don't say it, I really won't go home......" Jiang Mingzhe smiled slightly: "My parents are in the United States, how can I have any home." ”

"That'...... It's been so many days, where are you going back every day?" Xue Xuan asked innocently.

"Well......" thought about it, and it was also because Jiang Mingzhe was in a good mood that he planned to joke with Xue Xuan: "It's better to ...... Anyway, you're fine, and I'm also a vagrant, so I think it's quite appropriate. ”

After listening to Jiang Mingzhe's words, Xue Xuan's face was a little displeased, but after thinking about it, he finally said: "Although I am very dissatisfied with your statement, I do want to go and see, do you have time?"

"There are ......" Jiang Mingzhe smiled and said, "Not only there are, but there are ......"

"Then go for a walk, it just so happens that I have time too, and ...... I'd also like to hear your story. Xue Xuan said, smiling.

And this smile made Jiang Mingzhe a little confused.

But even so, Kang Ming-che watched Xue Xuan lock the door of the store, and then the two walked out into the street together.

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Thinking of this, Xue Xuan suddenly laughed, not like being amused to laugh, but a bit of a "nymphomaniac" laugh.

Seeing Xue Xuan smile inexplicably, Jiang Mingzhe asked a little embarrassed, "What do you think...... Laughing so suddenly. ”

"At that time, you often joked with me, and you could tell me stories, you were good-looking, talented, and you were the perfect object......" Xue Xuan pursed her lips.

"Ah......" Jiang Mingzhe nodded thoughtfully, and said, "So you mean, I'm not joking now? It's not good-looking, and I'm not talented? I'm quite grudgeful, I'll tell you......"

"Then I'm just going to let you remember me, how about it?" Xue Xuan also pouted like a little girl very occasionally.

But in the next second, even Xue Xuan himself couldn't stand such a self, so he quickly shook his head and said, "I'm sorry......"

"What's there to be sorry for. Jiang Mingzhe smiled dotingly and said, "Occasionally, it looks cute." ”

"But...... It's like something like this is really getting farther and farther away from me. Xue Xuan became intellectual again: "Because along the way, there have been too many setbacks, and people will grow...... I also feel that this kind of thing is becoming more and more unsuitable for my mature self, in fact, when I first debuted, I was a very spoiled person, with teammates, with agents, but now...... I don't know what my former teammates are doing now, but the agents at that time may have changed several times...... has even experienced the level of life and death, really...... Really grew up......"

Speaking of this, Jiang Mingzhe gradually fell silent.

Looking at Jiang Mingzhe, who lowered his head, Xue Xuan asked a little curiously, "What are you thinking......

"Huh......" took a deep breath, and Jiang Mingzhe said, "Actually...... It seems that all the memories of my parents when I was a child, except for the ones that Chu Long told me, those memories are all gone...... Now I don't even know how I grew up, and no one will tell me anymore, so I envy you, with these bitter and sweet memories, supporting your complete life, and my life ...... It's already forever crippled. ”

Although "Oba ......" couldn't see Jiang Mingzhe's eyes under the sunglasses, Xue Xuan knew Jiang Mingzhe's mood at this time and wanted to cry.

"I don't think I should have brought Oba out to recall this......" Xue Hyun seemed to be admitting her mistake to Jiang Mingzhe.

But Jiang Mingzhe shook his head and said: "It's okay, these are the prices I have to pay, I still remember that the teacher said that I suffered from mental illness because I missed my parents, and it became more and more serious, so ...... That's the price I paid to survive, didn't you just say that people have to pay a price to live, right? ”

"......" Xue Xuan pursed her lips and didn't say anything.

"I don't regret it, I just want to try to recall some of them, or re-establish some of them, in the past, I always pursued my dreams on the way to prove myself, to prove that I could write good songs, to prove that I could do great things, but these proofs did not end well, and now I ...... My dream is simpler than ever, and that is to find as many lost memories as possible. ”