Chapter 439: Birthday Party
As soon as the music began, Liu Lingmei stood up. From the moment she first arrived at the bar, she felt that this Zhao Xiaoyue had stolen the limelight from Xia Qiu, and there was no distinction between the guest of honor at all. As Xia Qiu's sister group, he must suppress Zhao Xiaoyue's momentum as soon as possible.
She shouted at the top of her voice, "That...... Let me introduce myself first! I am Xia Qiu's best friend since I was a child, my name is Liu Lingmei. Today is the birthday party of our good friend Xia Qiu, we have to let Xia Qiu say a few words to us and have another glass of wine, right? ”
"That's right!" Siamese young babies were the first to agree.
"Yes, yes!"
"Xia Qiu hasn't spoken yet, and everyone is here! Say a few words! ”
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"Xia Qiu, say a few words!" Zhao Xiaoyue also followed everyone to coax.
In fact, Zhao Xiaoyue has no malicious intentions, her character is to love Zhang Luo, plus she has been engaged in personnel work for a long time, and she is used to dealing with people. and has been with Xia Qiu for two or three years, and she also knows Xia Qiu's personality better, she doesn't like to be in the limelight in everything, and she will be more silent when there are many people, so Zhao Xiaoyue is also out of good intentions.
Xia Qiu saw that the eyes of the whole table were on him, and because the singer introduced someone with a birthday at the beginning just now, the tables next to him were also looking for who the birthday girl was. As soon as she stood up, she almost became the focus of the entire area.
She tried to sort out her language in her head, because it had been a long time since she hadn't spoken in front of people, so she was somewhat unable to speak. After taking a deep breath, she said, "First of all, thank you all for coming to my birthday party, and especially thank you Lingmei for coming from Yongchuan!" I'll do it first! ”
After Xia Qiu finished speaking, he drank all the champagne in the quilt.
"That's it?!! Hahaha...... Then drink it! Zhao Xiaoyue saw that everyone seemed to be waiting for Xia Qiu to continue, so she hurriedly helped the round field and drank the wine in her cup.
After that, it entered the stage where everyone present took turns to toast the birthday star Xia Qiu, although Liu Lingmei and Zhang Ke were helping to block the wine, but after rounds of pushing the cup and helping the cup, it still made Xia Qiu, who didn't drink often, a little unbearable.
She stood up and said, "I'm sorry, I'll go to the bathroom first!" ”
Then she left her seat, and Liu Lingmei followed closely behind, wanting to see how she was doing.
The band's performance gradually reached its climax, the rhythm of the music became stronger and stronger, and the atmosphere became more and more agitated. As the number of customers in the bar increased, the circle of dance floors in front of the stage gradually became full. Xia Qiu and his hands were originally tightly tied to Liu Lingmei, but they were scattered when they passed by the dance floor.
When she turned around again, under the psychedelic light, everyone looked so similar, but she didn't see Liu Lingmei's figure. She stood there for a while, and from time to time the opposite sex came up and wanted to dance with her, and she only had to move to the side every time, but then other members of the opposite sex would quietly squeeze behind her, leaving her helpless and unsure of what to do.
Suddenly, a large hand passed through the crowd on the dance floor, grabbed her, and walked out with him. In a slightly drunk state, the person only left Xia Qiu with his back, and that back had a fatal temptation for her. And the coldness that came from that hand made her think that it must be him.
"Hey, Xiaoqiu!"
Xia Qiu's shoulder was gently patted, Liu Lingmei stood in front of her with a worried face, and the person who grabbed her just now disappeared at some point. Standing side by side with Liu Lingmei is Zhang Ke and Zhao Xiaoyue.
"A few of us thought you had drunk too much and were looking for you everywhere! I can't wait to search every cubicle in the bathroom, and the people inside are probably broken! Zhao Xiaoyue said like a cannonball.
"Unexpectedly, Zhang Ke found you in the end!" Liu Lingmei squeezed her eyes hard towards Xia Qiu, and her impression of Zhang Ke was very good. This kind of long-legged handsome guy suits her appetite the most, if she wasn't already a married woman, she would have to pocket this handsome guy.
"Did Zhang Ke find me?" Xia Qiu listened to each of them finish speaking, but she was still at a loss. She wasn't sure whose hand it was.
"Who else but him?!" Zhao Xiaoyue asked rhetorically.
Zhang Ke smirked on the side, patted Xia Qiu's head and said, "Little girl, don't run around!" It's worrying! ”
"Aren't you going to the bathroom? Did you go? Liu Lingmei asked suddenly.
"No......" Xia Qiu shook her head.
"I'm really convinced!" Liu Lingmei grabbed Xia Qiu and said to Zhao Xiaoyue and Zhang Ke, "I'll accompany her to the bathroom, you guys go back to their seats first!" I won't lose her anymore! ”
Compared to the noise outside, the restroom is too quiet, perhaps because of the excellent sound insulation. Xia Qiu looked at her face reflected in the mirror when she washed her hands, and in the dim light, her makeup looked more delicate, and the small dress on her body also shimmered with a soft luster.
"What do you think?" Liu Lingmei leaned over from behind and asked.
"I'm thinking...... Forget it. Xia Qiu wanted to speak and stopped.
"Say whatever you have to say, don't keep it in your heart!" Liu Lingmei frowned and urged.
"Was it really Zhang Ke who brought me off the dance floor just now?" Xia Qiu turned to Liu Lingmei and said seriously, "I seem to have seen Xiao Leng in the library during the day. ”
"Are you still thinking about him?!! It's been 10 years!! It's not ten days, it's not ten months, it's nothing to them, but we're different! Wake up! Liu Lingmei grabbed Xia Qiu's shoulders and shook them gently.
Xia Qiu was speechless about Liu Lingmei's words, she knew that Liu Lingmei was out of concern for herself. Human life is just a flash in the pan compared to demons, and the maze that connects the human world and the demon world may never recover, or when it recovers, it will have already turned into dust.
When Ouyang Xiaoleng forcibly asked Blackfall to bring her back to the world, the demon world was in a great crisis, facing destruction at any time, what was the situation later? No one knows. And why should she keep waiting? Even though reason keeps telling itself not to have any illusions, the mind keeps running in the direction of complete opposites, and that is the direction in which he is there.
Xia Qiu and Liu Lingmei returned to their seats together, everyone was obviously a little impatient to wait, and when they saw her come back, they said that they would punish her for drinking. She knew that she would be drunk tonight, and her mood was so complicated and frustrated, so she just had a good drink.
In the blink of an eye, she didn't know how many glasses of wine she had drunk, but she felt that the whole world was spinning and jumping to the beat of the band, and she began to melt into the beat. There were constantly people on the seats going to the dance floor to dance, and for a while, only Zhang Ke and Xia Qiu were left.
Zhang Ke knew that everyone was creating opportunities for him and Xia Qiu, so he moved next to Xia Qiu. I usually talk to her like a boss when I go to work, but I don't know how to speak at this time, and I finally said: "Everyone didn't have a chance to say just now, you are very beautiful today!" ”
No matter which girl gets the affirmation of her appearance from others, she should be happy from the bottom of her heart, Xia Qiu is the same, she raised her glass and said to Zhang Ke: "Thank you!" ”
"Drink less!" Although Zhang Ke persuaded him, he still raised his glass.
When Liu Lingmei came back, she seemed to have become the queen of the entire bar. From time to time, strange men came to toast, and even waiters brought up wine that they didn't order, saying that it was for Miss Liu.
At this time, a text message suddenly came in from Xia Qiu's mobile phone, she quickly opened it to see, and it was a message from Du He:
"Xia Qiu, I wish you a happy birthday! You and Reimi both drink less alcohol, the main thing is safe! In addition, the reaction from the Mystery Path connecting the demon world has been particularly strong recently! ”
Du He's message made Xia Qiu even more determined in her thoughts, whether it was the pair of eyes she saw in the library during the day, or the hand that took her from the dance floor just now, maybe it was not her hallucination, and the time to meet him again might come.
She really wanted to leave and show this text message to Liu Lingmei, telling her that her waiting had not been in vain, and everything she had paid was worth it. But just looking down at the time of a text message, Liu Lingmei disappeared again. She picked up her phone and decided to go to the dance floor to find her.
The whole dance floor can really be called shoulder to shoulder at the moment, and it is impossible to see the stitches, and Xia and Autumn tried several times and couldn't squeeze in, so I had to give up. The result of squeezing around is that she feels a little breathless, remembering that this bar is famous for the terrace, so she plans to go to the terrace to get a little fresh air.
She remembered that the path leading to the terrace was hidden behind a glass door in which countless golden butterflies felt, and it felt like they were visitors from another world, preparing to enter this world. She circled around a few times before she finally found the door, and as she put her hand on the door to push it open, she felt her gaze jump a few times in an unnatural way.
When she came back to her senses, countless butterflies flew towards her, and she had no choice but to walk through them. What appeared in front of her was a place that was not quite the same as the terrace she remembered, the terrace of X Bar was the same as the style of the interior of the bar, European-style, but here it exudes a Chinese antique atmosphere.
She wondered if the place had recently been renovated. But what about those butterflies just now?
Suddenly, she subconsciously looked at her little dress, and found that there were many golden butterflies that had been transformed into decorations on her dress, and their wings were very light to the touch, and I don't know what material they were made of. She walked towards the edge of the terrace, and the further she went, the brighter the light became, and it must not have belonged to the moon.
In the light, there seemed to be a figure standing quietly against the railing, although there was only a back, but it made Xia Qiu feel the urge to get close to him.