George's birthday party was held at the focaccia chain near the school. Waiting for Xu Jingjia and his party prepared a long table for ten people, plus a place for dining.

Starting at the main seat by the window, George, Philip, Edwin, Zita, James, Alex, Marvin, Rex, Xu Jingjia, Vanessa, and Jay filled the long table at once, leaving no room for Fion, Mia, and Nina.

As soon as she sat down, Xu Jingjia felt that such a combination was different from usual. Since Philip, Edwin, Marvin, and Rex have never been in their circle, and Marvin has not been in touch with George since the group report, it is hard to imagine Marvin coming to George's birthday party.

However, since it is a birthday party, it is naturally the biggest birthday star. He invites whomever he likes.

"Didn't Fion, Mia, and Nina say they'd come over in a moment?" Xu Jingjia still asked Vanessa beside her.

Vanessa replied disapprerovingly, "Didn't they say they wouldn't come?"

Vanessa's answer made Xu Jingjia a little disappointed, but she came here, and it was not good to leave like this. Xu Jingjia sat in front of James, while Vanessa was chatting and laughing with Jay, Philip, and Edwin, and Xu Jingjia was not sitting in a good position to join, so she lowered her head to eat while listening to Marvin and Rex chatting with each other.

For a moment, only James, Alex, and Xu Jingjia in the middle of the long table were silent.

With the delivery of two portions of Portuguese seafood gratinous rice and Italian style sesame heart, everyone finally ordered the food. After a while, Marvin stood up slightly, took a pancake from his plate, and said to Rex as he sat down again, "I've had a crush on a female classmate from middle school for a long time, and she just recently returned to singleness, and I want to give it a try." The sound was not much, and it was just right to reach Xu Jingjia's ears.

Xu Jingjia only felt that it was difficult to breathe, and even the body movements of eating became stiff in an instant. She subconsciously glanced up at Marvin, the movement of raising her eyes slightly clumsy due to the stiffness of her body.

I saw that Marvin was also looking at her, with a smirk on his lips.

"If you like it, take advantage of it!" Rex replied.

At the same time, Xu Jingjia lowered her head and ate a small bite of baked rice, closed her eyes, adjusted her breathing, and forced herself to suppress the sourness surging in her heart.

She couldn't cry.

At least, can't cry here.

After a few long deep breaths, Xu Jingjia still felt like she was stuck in her throat, but she knew that James and Alex had been watching her, and she couldn't let people see her abnormality.

Xu Jingjia only felt that the table full of ordinary favorite foods suddenly lost their color.

She took a deep breath, stopped eating silently, and reluctantly raised the corners of her mouth to join the conversation of Vanessa and the others, showing an active side that she had never been more active, as if the happier and louder she laughed, the more she could relieve the sourness in her heart. Xu Jingjia also took the initiative to make Marvin's jokes, seeing that Marvin was embarrassed by her jokes, refuting no, not refuting it, she could only stare at her with round eyes, and she felt a little more comfortable breathing.

Xu Jingjia exhaled the depression in her chest while leaning on her breath, and tried her best to make her rigid movements natural, while singing the birthday song loudly and happily with everyone, and cutting the cake that had been prepared for George a long time ago.

Watch the cake fade off everyone's plates...... Xu Jingjia slightly relaxed the corners of her mouth that had already been smiling stiffly, thinking, it's good, she finally survived this difficult birthday party.

Xu Jingjia didn't expect that the real show would officially start at this time.

After everyone put down their knives and forks, Zita began to talk about Owen's recent situation, from how he became an art student and how he suffered from depression. After saying this, there were needles hidden in the cotton, soft and thorny, and the spearhead was pointed at Xu Jingjia, who had been lowering her head and fiddling with her fingers since she spoke.

Xu Jingjia had never observed his fingers so closely, and the echoing sound from time to time brushed Xu Jingjia's ears, but they did not really enter Xu Jingjia's ears.

Xu Jingjia only knew that the words that came out of everyone's mouth were just like when she was a young one, and her homeroom teacher was so righteous and strict, which also made her ears buzz.

At that time, a girl with excellent character and academic performance falsely accused Xu Jingjia and another boy of stealing a piece of potato chips to eat. It was precisely because of the girl's excellent character and learning that the head teacher didn't listen to a single explanation, listened to the girl's words, and accused Xu Jingjiaan with the sentence "stealing gold when you are young, stealing needles when you are big". As a result, in the next six years, Xu Jingjia has been excluded by her classmates.

Everyone here is actually as "righteous" as the head teacher.

Xu Jingjia finally understood why these people were combined in this day's birthday party.

The presence of Ian and Norman is no coincidence. In this way, except for Owen, who has dropped out of school, along with Edwin and Marvin, all the people who are rumored to have had "emotional entanglements" with Xu Jingjia are all together at once.

Because, this is the day that Zita is scheduled to settle accounts with Xu Jingjia.

This scene is so similar to the day the first semester ended more than a year ago.

Xu Jingjia thought that Zita had fallen silent, she didn't realize that Zita had always remembered what happened that day in her heart and never forgot it for a moment. Zita had never forgotten to re-enact the scene in the werewolf game where she was accused of being blamed on Xu Jingjia, and even the days were carefully selected to be the last day of the semester.

Even, Zita has learned Xu Jingjia's calmness and gathering people's hearts to whitewash Taiping, and it is even better. It's just that these methods are used to deal with Xu Jingjia.

At this moment, whether it was really for Owen or herself, she knew in her heart.

Xu Jingjia is so honored to have such a careful layout from her. At the very least, it took a lot of effort for Philip and Edwin to complete the Applied Computing web page, so that the two of them would not hesitate to sacrifice their hue and work hard to accompany them. It's hard to make a web page, but the second one is a little bit redesigned, and it's hard to get Zita, who is proficient in computers.

So, what is Marvin for? After thinking about it, Xu Jingjia felt that it was not important again.

Philip and Edwin, who were beside Zita, weren't sincere, so they stopped talking casually. Zita wasn't satisfied, of course, and kept making eye contact with the two of them to say more, but Philip and Edwin refused to say anything more.

Everyone, including Vanessa, who was closest to Xu Jingjia, did not say a word for Xu Jingjia.

Only except Marvin.

"Isn't it said that people who study art are prone to sentimentality? Perhaps, Owen's depression has nothing to do with it." This was the first time Marvin spoke for Xu Jingjia, but Xu Jingjia couldn't laugh at all.

An idea gradually took shape in Xu Jingjia's heart, but Xu Jingjia didn't want to admit that it was true.

Xu Jingjia didn't know how she left the restaurant, and let Vanessa hold her tightly.

Compared with the usual, Vanessa silently accompanied Xu Jingjia for a while.

Xu Jingjia's heart was thus lit with hope, and she said, "They ......."

"Actually...... None of them were wrong...... Vanessa replied.

Xu Jingjia opened her mouth to speak, and then she heard Vanessa say, "They are just helping you grow."

Xu Jingjia looked at Vanessa blankly, feeling a biting chill for the first time in the scorching summer.

Xu Jingjia slowly relaxed the hand holding Vanessa, leaving Vanessa to hold Xu Jingjia tightly.

The events of the day were too complicated, Xu Jingjia went back to sleep, and when she woke up, she saw Vanessa's friendly message as always, inviting her back to school to retrieve the assignment that the professor had just completed.

The content of the message was no different, as if nothing had happened, and Xu Jingjia Huer didn't know how to react.

After thinking about it, I felt that Vanessa had always been upright, maybe she just said that because of a misunderstanding due to rumors.

After thinking about it, Xu Jingjia responded "yes", as if nothing had happened.

The next day, after picking up her homework, Xu Jingjia, who had nothing to do, came to Vanessa's part-time student support center and met Jay, who was also idle.

Jay has always been out of the world and is a light-hearted person. Therefore, Xu Jingjia can understand the reason why Jay didn't interject yesterday.

Xu Jingjia smiled reluctantly at Jay, and then sat down in the seat across from him. She sank her shoulders to herself, thinking about what had happened the day before.

Suddenly, Jay looked at his phone and laughed, Xu Jingjia raised his eyes, and Jay continued, "So this is from Marvin? If I didn't look closely, I thought it was me...... There's nothing special about this Marvin!"

Xu Jingjia knew that Jay was coaxing her to be happy, so she gave her a smile on her face. As soon as he smiled, he saw Rex walk in from outside, just in time for Xu Jingjia's smiling face.

That night, Xu Jingjia saw Rex share Wu Ruoxi's song "I'm not sad" on the face, and deliberately quoted one of the lyrics "I'm not sad, I'm not unhappy", and added a funny emoji at the back.

Looking at the nearly twenty associate degree students below who were either familiar or unfamiliar, they left messages and echoed.

One of them said, "If you don't feel sad, the punishment doesn't work" is a girl in Marvin's circle.

Xu Jingjia looked at the messages one after another in a daze, and only felt that she couldn't move.

In their eyes, all they do is "doing the right thing for heaven and punishing the wicked."

Therefore, after the tutorial class of "Database Design and Practice" that day, the active girl that Marvin and her friends laughed and talked about was actually Xu Jingjia.

Xu Jingjia has always known that among all the people in the circle, Zita is the one who knows her best.

This time was no exception, Zita had long known that those words during the banquet were not lethal enough for Xu Jingjia. Therefore, Zita has long been left behind.

Whether it is Edwin and Marvin, one is handsome and versatile, the other is gentle and careful, and like-minded, they are not afraid that Xu Jingjia will not fall into the trap.

When things go wrong, there must be demons.

It is said that Xu Jingjia has never had peach blossom luck.

The scenes of the past were replayed in Xu Jingjia's mind, in fact, everyone knew that she was the only one who was kept in the dark, like a clown.

Like an extremely ridiculous beam-jumping clown......

Who should she believe?

Or rather, who else could she trust?