Chapter 41: Class reunion
When Li came from the south, Ji Xianting had already left.
"Where's Lao Ji?"
"Look at what time it is, they're gone." Huachen pointed to the watch on his wrist.
"It's only ten o'clock, isn't this the time to drink?" Li Congnan sat down.
Hua Chen shook his head.
"Anyway, I don't understand." Mu Ze also dared to ask questions after Ji Xianting left: "How long have Lao Ji and Na Ruan Cen known each other, why do you like it so much?" β
Hua Chen cocked Erlang's legs and looked at Mu Ze: "You don't understand this, right?" Ruan Cen and Xianting met for the first time very dramatically, and it was difficult for the two to be together every day without having feelings. However, there is another big reason why Xianting did this. β
"What?" Makizawa leaned forward.
"He also wants to take this opportunity to rebel against his family, and Xianting has been very depressed for so many years."
"Also, their family is too serious. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Xianting to stay abroad for so many years and not come back. Makizawa shook his head slightly.
Li Congnan looked confused: "What are you talking about?" Why can't I understand anything? β
The two continued to drink and ignored Li Congnan, who was sitting there alone in a hurry.
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Before going to work on Monday, Ruan Cen did a long time of psychological construction.
She didn't know how she should face Ji Xianting, and she didn't know if Ji Xianting would ask her how she thought about it.
I was haunted by this all Sunday.
Ruan Cen didn't know if she should take what Ji Xianting said seriously, she was afraid that Ji Xianting would just say it casually.
She didn't even tell Xin Qing about this.
In the thinking room, the elevator has reached the fifteenth floor.
Ruan Cen stepped off the elevator, looked at the conference room not far away and took a deep breath.
"Why don't you go in?" Suddenly, Ji Xianting's voice sounded from behind.
Ruan Cen was taken aback.
"Why are you standing outside stunned?" Ji Xianting continued to ask.
Ruan Cen shook his head and did not speak.
Ji Xianting handed the coffee in his hand to Ruan Cen: "Good morning." β
Ruan Cen took the coffee, but wondered if the phrase 'good morning' was said late.
But even so, he replied: "Good morning." β
The two walked into the conference room one after the other.
And on this day, Ruan Cen's heart did not let go.
She was afraid that she would have a chance to be alone with Ji Xianting, and she was afraid that he would take advantage of this opportunity to ask her that question, so that she was distracted all day long, and the progress of her work was very slow.
But until the end of the day, none of her worries happened.
Although Ruan Cen breathed a sigh of relief, she felt strange in her heart, and she couldn't tell what it tasted like.
In the next few days, Ji Xianting still kept a short distance from Ruan Cen.
According to his habit, he would bring coffee or other snacks for Ruan Cen, but he was never alone.
Ruan Cen couldn't figure out what he was thinking, and he couldn't see through what he was thinking, which made Ruan Cen feel even more upset.
"It's over!" Liu Wei knocked on the last stop and finally finished the report.
Ruan Cen closed the computer and looked at her: "Congratulations." β
"If you're not happy, we can go back to the group next week." Liu Wei leaned on Ruan Cen's shoulder, feeling that this torturous censorship was finally over.
"Hmm." Ruan Cen nodded slightly.
yes, I can finally go back to the group. But when I go back, can we still see each other like this every day?
At this time, Ji Xianting walked in: "Let's stop what we're doing first." β
Everyone looked up at him: "Everyone has worked hard during this time, and the review work has come to an end. After everyone handed over their respective reports to Team Leader Zhao before getting off work today, they can return to their respective posts next week. β
βYes!β Everyone couldn't help but say happily.
Ji Xianting's expression was also a lot more relaxed, and he continued: "It may take a few days to finish the work, so when everything is over, we will have a dinner together, and it will be regarded as a withdrawal banquet." β
"Wow, it's time for a big meal again." Liu Wei said happily.
Everyone was also very excited, after all, Ji Xianting had a generous hand, and everyone could eat a lot of things that they didn't have a chance to touch with him.
Ji Xianting raised his hand and looked at the time: "If everyone has already submitted the report, then you can get off work now." β
After he finished speaking, he opened the door and walked out, as if he was in a hurry.
Ruan Cen looked at his back, and a wave of loss came up again.
When he got home in the evening, Ruan Cen sat down on the sofa.
She didn't turn on the light, and turned her head to look out the window at the little light.
Time flies really fast, and it has been more than a month.
This more than a month is as long as half a year for me, breaking up, being beaten, being hospitalized, moving, and meeting Ji Xianting.
Ruan Cen curled up on the sofa, letting the night slowly devour him.
She hadn't felt this lonely feeling in a long time.
She seems to have been like this for a week.
When Ruan Cen is alone, she often feels like she is sinking, she wants to grab something, but she doesn't know what to catch.
She often looked at her phone in a daze, in fact, she knew that she was waiting, waiting for Ji Xianting to call or send a message to her.
Ruan Cen knew that he had already fallen from the moment he began to look forward to it.
She seemed to have fallen into the gentle trap set by the man named Ji Xianting.
Ruan Cen would secretly scold himself for being useless, but he couldn't control himself.
In the dark, her phone lit up.
It's an unfamiliar number.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Ruan Cen?"
An unfamiliar voice came over the phone.
"I am, who are you?"
"It's me, Gao Yang!"
Nguyen Cen remembers him, the class president in college.
"It's you."
"Yes, will you come to the class reunion tomorrow? I see that you haven't replied to the message, and I thought I'd give you a call and ask. β
"Well, I'm not going."
Gao Yang actually knew that Ruan Cen didn't want to come, so he made this call.
"Ruan Cen, we haven't seen each other for a long time, and it's not easy to get together this time. I'm going abroad next month, and I want to meet my old classmates before I leave, so I can save face. Gao Yang's words were full of sincerity.
Ruan Cen hesitated.
"Ruan Cen, it's just this time."
When he was in school, Gao Yang also took good care of himself and helped him a lot. At this moment, those scenes came back to my mind.
Maybe I can feel better when I go to meet my old classmates.
She was relieved, asked the time and place, and hung up.
Soon, she dialed Xin Qing's number.
"Gone again?" Xin Qing was a little surprised.
"Well, Gao Yang called me, it's hard to refuse."
"Aren't you afraid to see Xu Jinyu?"
Ruan Cen smiled bitterly: "I can't hide for a lifetime, I don't have any feelings for him now, it's the same whether I see him or not." β
Xin Qing smiled: "Oh~ Who does that feel for you?" β
Ruan Cen immediately thought of Ji Xianting's figure, but she didn't answer but said, "You come and pick me up tomorrow, let's go over together." β
"Done."
At three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Xin Qing drove to Ruan Cen's house on time.
"Why did you come so early?" Ruan Cen had just washed her hair and was still wearing pajamas.
"I'm okay when I'm idle, so I'll come over." Xin Qing arrived at Ruan Cen as if she was at home, she took out a bottle of drink from the refrigerator, sat on the sofa and drank it.
Ruan Cen walked into the bedroom: "You wait for me." β
"It's okay, you clean up slowly, didn't you say that it won't start until five o'clock?"
Even though Xin Qing said this, Ruan Cen still sped up the movements of his hands.
Blow dry her hair, and she immediately began to put on makeup.
"That's right, Cen Cen." Xin Qing walked to the bedroom: "How are you and Ji Xianting doing recently?" β
Ruan Cen raised his eyebrows and paused to pretend not to care: "What's the matter?" β
"You still lie to me, Ji Xianting's affection for you is so obvious, I don't believe you can't see it." Xin Qing sat on the bed and looked at Ruan Cen's expression through the mirror.
Sure enough, Ruan Cen's face changed.
"What's going on, isn't it?" Xin Qing asked.
"Nope."
"Why is this like this without your expression?"
"It's been busy lately, and we haven't spoken individually." Ruan Cen deliberately concealed Ji Xianting's confession to himself.
Xin Qing frowned slightly: "You two haven't spoken alone since you moved?" β
"Hmm."
"Impossible. Hua Chen obviously told me that the two of you have made new progress, and he will not lie to me about this. β
Ruan Cen put down the eyeshadow brush: "Okay, don't mention others every time we meet, okay?" β
Xin Qing smelled something unusual: "No, is there something that happened that I don't know?" Didn't he send you back that day? Didn't you talk on the road? β
Ruan Cen looked at Xin Qing through the mirror: "I said, it's just some inconsequential words." β
"This Huachen actually lied to me, I want to settle accounts with him."
Seeing this, Ruan Cen immediately got up and pressed Xin Qing's hand: "What's there to settle accounts for, you go out and wait for me, I'll change my clothes and leave." β
"Remember to dress better."
Ruan Cen nodded and closed the door.
But Xin Qing didn't listen to Ruan Cen's words, and still called Hua Chen.
"Hey, baby." Huachen's hippie smiling voice came from the earpiece.
"How dare you lie to me."
Hua Chen was stunned: "What did you lie?" β
"Didn't you say that the relationship between Ji Xianting and Ruan Cen was going further? Why did Cen Cen say that neither of them had spoken recently? β
"What did Ruan Cen tell you?"
"Nonsense."
Hua Chen smiled and glanced at Ji Xianting, who was sitting on the side: "Good, I'll go back and tell you in detail at night, he'll be next to me at this time." β
"You're out drinking?"
"No, a friend has returned to China and asked us to come out for a reunion."
"Male or female?"
Hua Chen looked at Xu Xiaoshu, who was sitting diagonally opposite, and replied, "Woman, don't worry, it's not my food." β
"Okay, see you that night."
When Xin Qing hung up the phone, Ruan Cen just opened the door and came out: "I can do it." β
Xin Qing looked at Ruan Cen, who had dressed up, and was very satisfied: "Yes, let's go, let's go and dominate the audience." β
Ruan Cen chuckled: "It's just a class reunion, what is glamorous to dominate the audience." β
Xin Qing thought for a while and changed her words: "No, it's Yan presses her ex-boyfriend!" β
Xin Qing didn't expect that the two met Xu Jinyu and his female companion in the hotel lobby.
If she knew that she would be here, she would have taken care of her first, and she would definitely take back the words before going out, which was really unlucky.
Xu Jinyu was originally holding her female companion's hand, but immediately let go after seeing Ruan Cen.
Xu Jinyu really thought that Ruan Cen would not come, so he brought a female companion, and now his panic is obvious: "Cen Cen ......"