we are not friends anymore

Mr. Huo was getting old, and he was not very energetic after talking for a while, so the two siblings of the Qiao family said goodbye to him temporarily and went downstairs.

Qiao Mingxi pushed Qiao Mingyue to the garden. There was a long corridor of vines on the road. Some white wild flowers bloomed among the branches and leaves, and they fell down when the wind blew.

"You go there first." Qiao Mingyue said, "I'll stay here for a while."

Qiao Mingxi stopped in her tracks: "I'll accompany you."

"No need." Qiao Mingyue patted the back of his hand lightly, with a slight smile on his face, "Let's go and play with friends."

Seeing that her expression was calm but unquestionable, Qiao Mingxi nodded, bent down to straighten the thin blanket between her legs, turned and walked into the garden.

When he walked to the end, he looked back, half of Qiao Mingyue's face was covered under the hanging vines, and the eyes that were exposed were calm, making it impossible to see what was going on in her heart.

In the first half of Qiao Mingyue's life, she lost her father and mother, lost her love, and then lost the ability to walk.She is weaker and more lonely than any girl of the same age, but she has been walking forward with blood and tears in her eyes. Now she is the "three princesses" that everyone respects a little bit, the only head of the huge Qiao family.

Qiao Mingxi looked at his sister under the vine, as if something was beating on his heart, he seemed to understand something in a flash.

Gently rubbing the cool things in the bag with her fingers, Qiao Mingxi lowered her eyes and pursed her lips slightly.

When Ji Yan and Ye Mingzhi got out of the car together, Huang Shen just got out of the car with Tong Shiyue, and the two people on the opposite side were stunned, as if they had something to say.

Here Ji Ye and the two had the same indifferent expression on their faces, treating the opposite person as air.

Lin Zining jumped out of the car and rolled her beautiful eyes at Tong Shiyue.

"Why did she follow?" Lin Zining muttered as he followed Ji Yan in.

"It's been said that Huang Shen's head was caught by the door." Ye Mingzhi sneered, "I don't have a long-term vision, nor do I have a long-term heart."

During the conversation, the three of them entered the garden. Ye Mingzhi had long sleeves and was good at dancing, and many familiar people came to say hello.Yue Xinyou, the queen of the three golden actresses, was holding a little girl to talk, when she saw Ye Mingzhi, she came to talk to him.

Lin Zining had nothing to do, and asked La Jiyan to go to another place, but saw that the other party's eyes were indifferent, and he looked a little absent-minded when he looked carefully.

"Brother Yan?" Lin Zining called him, "What are you looking for?"

Ji Yan paused, and replied: "Nothing."

Lin Zining glanced at him suspiciously, scanned the spacious garden, and ran forward suddenly: "Axi!"

Qiao Mingxi in front of the flower bed raised his head subconsciously when he heard the voice, and saw a phantom-like figure rushing towards him. He was startled, and the conditioned reflex flashed to the side, and Lin Zining rushed towards Shen Jiaen next to him.

"Go away! Are you disgusting?" Shen Jiaen pulled Lin Zining down in disgust.

Lin Zining also hurriedly took a big step back: "You are the one who is disgusting."

The two quarreled childishly, but when Qiao Mingxi saw Lin Zining appearing, his heart skipped a beat. He hesitated for a while, then looked up.

Ji Yan was walking towards him.

The tall and handsome Ji Yan, the kite that Qiao Mingxi held tightly in his hand, but finally let it fly away.

When Lin Zining rushed out, Ji Yan saw Qiao Mingxi at a glance.

The two people next to him were as lively as a villain in an animation, but he just stood silently beside him, thin and emaciated.

Ji Yan paused, remembering the past.Qiao Mingxi, who likes to be quiet and always stays in the corner silently, will run up to him when he comes, put his hands on his arms lightly, and there will be a warm smile on his delicate eyebrows and eyes.

At this moment, they were just standing facing each other at a distance, and Qiao Mingxi's eyes fell on him lightly, showing no emotion at all.

The thin ring was close to the heart, already warmed by the body temperature, Ji Yan's fingers moved.

A voice notifying everyone to enter the banquet came from afar, Qiao Mingxi looked away, turned and walked towards the restaurant.

Ji Yan stood where he was, until Lin Zining, who had gone out, turned around and called him, and then he came back to his senses.

Qiao Mingxi came to the birthday as Qiao's family member. She sat with Qiao Mingyue and her sworn brothers. Everyone brought their family members, which was just enough for one table.Even Shen Jiaen stayed away from him.

"Where's Sister Yao?" Qiao Mingxi asked Qiao Mingyue in a low voice, not seeing Xing Yao.

Qiao Mingyue didn't speak, just looked up at the man across the table, Qiao Mingxi suddenly understood.

Sitting across from him was a tall man with a very unruly temperament. Qiao Mingxi also knew him. He was Xie Zhen, the fourth brother among his sister's sworn brothers. Everyone called him the fourth brother.Xing Yao has been in love with Xie Zhen for many years, but the other party has already had a childhood sweetheart, and he never forgets it even during the years of swords and blood, and now they are married.

Qiao Mingxi is far from the only one who cannot love in this world.

Huo Laode is highly respected, not to mention those juniors who have been promoted all the way up by him and sincerely respect him, even if it is the two parties who would fight to the death and never meet each other, they have to pretend to be harmonious in front of the old man.Therefore, the banquet is harmonious and happy, but it is also as false as a phantom.

After eating, Qiao Mingxi put down his chopsticks and left the table. The little lady from the Zhao family in the south also came, and when she saw him, she pestered him for a while and said hello, and took a photo with him before leaving contentedly.

He stood in the garden in a daze for a while, when a man in a suit with a pot belly stopped his former third aunt and came out of the restaurant. The third aunt also saw him, as if she had something to say.

Qiao Mingxi was taken aback, turned around and left.

The woman's face when she was young kept flashing in her mind, and he looked down from the low windows of the attic when he was young, and those banquets where the wine was drunk.

His fingers trembled a little, and he quickly reached into his clothes bag, holding that thing tightly in his hands, and gradually calmed down.

Ji Yan is actually a very impatient person.

Just like at this moment, Tong Shiyue found another opportunity when no one was around and stopped him, crying so pitifully and pitifully.

"Brother." Tong Shiyue cried and said, "I know I'm doing something wrong, but for the sake of the company, you can help me say something... Otherwise, just repost my Weibo or like it ... Netizens are still scolding me until now, it's really too ugly..."

Ji Yan said: "Did this incident affect your choice of script?"

Tong Shiyue was taken aback for a moment: "No...no."

In fact, there are more or less opportunities, although they are not so good.

Ji Yan smiled very lightly, with a hint of sarcasm: "Did it affect your appearance on variety shows and your promotion?"

Tong Shiyue shook her head in a daze.

"Then what are you dissatisfied with?" Ji Yan asked expressionlessly.

Tong Shiyue opened her mouth: "I...Director Ye, he, he is very angry, he will trip up Brother Shen..."

Ji Yan said: "Then you should ask Ye Mingzhi, not me."

"But..." Tong Shiyue wiped away tears, "If you don't speak up, netizens will continue to scold me. Brother Yan, I'm a girl, you don't know what they scold..."

She broke down in tears again, but Ji Yan just said: "Tong Shiyue, you are a public figure."

A public figure, even if he is as perfect as He Xingzhou, there will be occasional people who will sing against him; even Yue Xinyou, who is known as the goddess of the nation, was silenced by the entire Internet for half a year many years ago.

What's more, you are such a young rookie who failed to hype?

If you don't hear anything bad, why don't you go home and be your little princess, and come out to be an artist?

Ji Yan didn't say these words, he just looked at Tong Shiyue who was crying into tears, his coldness made the other party startled.

Tong Shiyue looked up at Ji Yan, but finally felt disappointed, turned and ran away with tears.

Qiao Mingxi walked a little fast, he didn't want to talk to the third aunt who used to be Qiao's family.With his head down, he quickly turned the corner, but was suddenly hit by a force.

He lost his balance and fell to the ground with the man who hit him.

The things in the pockets of the clothes fell out, making a crisp sound on the stone floor.

Qiao Mingxi frowned in pain, the person who bumped into him quickly got up, choked up and said, "I'm sorry."

The apology was not perfunctory, and no one came to pull Qiao Mingxi up, and Mai Tai ran out.

Qiao Mingxi: "..."

When Ji Yan saw Tong Shiyue bump into Qiao Mingxi, he had already subconsciously walked over. Seeing Qiao Mingxi sitting on the ground dull, his eyes changed, and he squatted down in front of him.

Qiao Mingxi raised her head, and was taken aback when she saw him.

"... Are you okay?" Ji Yan asked in a low voice, reaching out to pull him up.

For some reason, Qiao Mingxi recalled that on the first day he went to the set of "Wolf Smoke", he threw something at Lin Zining, and Ji Yan was standing under the dim light, looking at him expressionlessly.

"Joe Mingxi, what are you doing?"

That sound beat his heart one after another, together with the sound of closing the door when Ji Yan left half a year ago, intertwined and echoed in his mind endlessly.

He violently pushed Ji Yan's hand away.

Ji Yan was stunned for a moment, his eyes stained with a bit of astonishment.

He watched Qiao Mingxi lower his head, the boy's hands trembled a little, he turned around and groped for a long time on the stone floor, and picked up something.

The moment he saw that thing, Ji Yan's expression changed.

Qiao Mingxi held the thing in both hands for a while before handing it to Ji Yan.

"Ji Yan." He said softly, very slowly. "When you left that day... I didn't seem to say goodbye to you."

Ji Yan's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't reach out to pick it up.

Qiao Mingxi gently took his hand and put the things in his hand into his palm.

The boy's hand was very cold, he only touched him very lightly and quickly, and then took it back.

Qiao Mingxi didn't look up at Ji Yan from the beginning to the end, he just put the things in his hands, then pushed away the hand he wanted to help her, and slowly stood up.

He stood in a garden full of precious flowers and plants, and there were lively human voices in the distance, but he was still the same as usual, like the background of human nature in a pantomime.

"It will be indefinite later."

Qiao Mingxi's back disappeared bit by bit.

Ji Yan lowered his head to look at the things he handed over to him.

The same thin chain, the same ordinary but mysterious ring.

This is a real ring that can match Ji Yan's finger, and someone else's name is engraved inside.

It's Qiao Mingxi's name.