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Jiang Xi and Pei Chongyuan shouldn't have known each other.

In 2008, Jiang Xi was 18 years old and a freshman.

He stood at the gate of the school where the snow was falling heavily, and the man in the earphones was singing: Do you still remember the dream when you were young...

The extremely short-cut hair was covered with snow, and the cheeks, the tip of the nose, and the ears were all flushed red by the cold wind.

He lowered his head, tucked his chin and mouth into the collar of his coat, and looked at the snow-stained black shoes.

Amidst the snowstorm, a black car stopped in front of him, the window slowly fell, and a man asked, "Is it Jiang Xi?"

Jiang Xi looked up and took off one earphone, squinting his eyes because of the strong wind.

"Brother Pei?"

"Get in the car!"

Before Jiang Xi got into the car, he shook off the snow on his head vigorously, and then swept his clothes with his hands. He opened the car door, and a warmth surrounded him instantly, as if stepping from the midwinter into the warm spring.

"Is it frozen?" The man in the driver's seat said, and handed Jiang Xi a can of warm coffee.

Jiang Xi thanked him politely, and when reaching for the coffee, he was deliberately careful not to let his ice-like hand touch the other person.

In such a bad weather, Jiang Xi didn't plan to go out at first, but he promised Kong Xun to go to Subway to attend the birthday party early on, and his words should count.

Jiang Xi and Kong Xun met on a music forum. He was still in high school at the time, and he liked to write songs by himself, and then posted them on the forum. Famous independent musician.

Jiang Xi's songs were very popular in the forum, and the two got to know each other after going back and forth. Later, when Jiang Xi was admitted to the university, it was Kong Xun who picked him up at the airport.

Kong Xun has been taking good care of him since he came to college for more than three months.

Subway is a bar owned by Kong Xun, and he often asks Jiang Xi to hang out there.

Today is Kong Xun's birthday, and Jiang Xi planned to go there directly after class in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, the snowstorm made it impossible to get a taxi.

When Kong Xun called, Jiang Xi had already stood at the school gate for almost half an hour. When the other party heard this, he immediately asked for help from his friend who was doing business in the university town and was about to return to the urban area.

In this way, Pei Chongyuan made a detour and came to pick up Jiang Xi.

The snow was strong and the wind was strong, so Pei Chongyuan scolded Kong Xun all the way, but when he saw Jiang Xi standing in the snow, the scolding stopped immediately, he put on a smiling face, and stopped the car.

Tall and thin, dressed in black, very cool.

After Jiang Xi got into the car, Pei Chongyuan secretly looked at him.

Her short hair was wet with melted snow, and her ears were so red that they were about to bleed from the cold wind.

The eyelashes are long, the bridge of the nose is straight, the lips are thin, and the corners of the mouth are slightly raised.

The hand that Jiang Xi stretched out to take the coffee was beautiful, with cleanly trimmed nails, but it was also flushed red from the cold.

Everywhere is the look that Pei Chongyuan likes.

He smiled.

Jiang Xi, who was sitting on the side and warming his hands with coffee, didn't know what he was laughing at, but people who always cherish words like gold would not ask too many questions.

"How old are you?" Pei Chongyuan asked.

"18."

"Just started college?"

"Yeah." Jiang Xi originally only responded with one word, but thinking that someone came to pick him up specially, it was impolite to respond in such a perfunctory way, "This year is a freshman."

Pei Chongyuan laughed again.

Jiang Xi looked at him in confusion.

"How did you meet Kong Xun?" Pei Chongyuan asked, "Working at Subway?"

"No," Jiang Xi looked out the window, with headphones on in one ear, and the song was played on a loop. He replied, "I met you on Big Brother's forum."

"Oh oh oh." Pei Chongyuan understood, he had heard about that forum from Kong Xun, but he was not a music lover, so he had never read it.

The two were silent for a while, Pei Chongyuan asked him with a smile: "What are you listening to?"

Jiang Xi was taken aback, and suddenly realized that he seemed a little disrespectful, so he quickly took off his earphones and turned off the music player on his phone.

"Don't close it."

At the red light ahead, Pei Chongyuan stopped the car slowly, and looked at Jiang Xi with a smile: "Listen to me too."

Jiang Xi looked up at him, took out his phone from his coat pocket, and pressed the play button.

Pei Chongyuan laughed as soon as the prelude sounded, he didn't expect this young child to listen to this song.

Li Zongsheng's voice itself carries a story, mature and slightly vicissitudes, singing the so-called price of love, like an elder who has gone through a thousand sails earnestly persuading.

Pei Chongyuan looked at the blurred signal lights ahead, tapped the steering wheel with his fingers, and sang along with Li Zongsheng.

Remember the dream when you were young?

Like a flower that never fades.

Jiang Xi looked at him, listening to his soft accompaniment.

The person in front of him looked to be in his thirties, and he showed good taste from hairstyle to clothes. He wore a navy blue shirt with sleeves slightly rolled up to his forearm. He was mature and graceful, but not ostentatious or annoying.

Pei Chongyuan's voice was slightly lower than that of Jiang Xi's. When he sang intoxicatedly, he looked forward in a daze, which made Jiang Xi feel that the song must have evoked some memory in him.

The signal light changed color, from red to green.

The car in front started slowly. When Pei Chongyuan sang "I was sad and weeping", he chuckled and started the car.

Along the way afterwards, the song was always repeated as a single, and the two of them never spoke again, as if each had their own concerns and were looking for their own stories in the song.

Jiang Xi quite likes this kind of atmosphere. You don't need to talk to people you don't know. You just need to sit in a warm and comfortable car, smell the light and pleasant perfume, and listen to your favorite songs.

The wind and snow outside are getting bigger and bigger, and the road is getting more and more difficult. Originally, it only took half an hour by car, but it turned out that they took an hour to get to the Subway.

When parking, Jiang Xi turned off the song.

Pei Chongyuan said: "Okay, you go in, and give Kong Xun a message for me, tell him that I will treat him to dinner tomorrow."

"Brother Pei, aren't you going in?"

Pei Chongyuan smiled: "I won't go, I have something to do today."

Jiang Xi thought that the other party was just dropping by and happened to be coming too, so he picked him up, but he didn't expect to send him here on a special trip, so he was a little embarrassed for a while.

"Have fun, kids." Pei Chongyuan raised his hand and helped Jiang Xi unbuckle his seat belt.

Jiang Xi didn't like being called a kid, but when Pei Chongyuan called him that, he was unexpectedly not too unhappy.

"Okay." Jiang Xi was about to get out of the car, "Thank you Brother Pei."

"Wait a moment!"

Jiang Xi had already stepped on the snow with one foot, and was suddenly stopped again.

When he turned around, a business card was handed in front of him.

"Nice to meet you." Pei Chongyuan had a meaningful smile in his eyes, "You can contact me in the future if you have anything to do."

Jiang Xi took the business card, quickly put it in his coat pocket, thanked him, and got out of the car.

When Pei Chongyuan stepped on the accelerator and left, he glanced at Jiang Xi who was still standing there from the rearview mirror. Just stood there and looked at the business card carefully.

The business card has his name, contact information, and enough bluffing titles on it.

Pei Chongyuan smiled, and glanced at Jiang Xi's long legs again. He opened the car window, lit a cigarette and drove away.