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: "Do you have time tomorrow? Let's have a meal together?"

Cheng Jialin said blankly, "Sorry, I've been busy with work recently."

The goddess seemed to say "Oh" suddenly, and then said, "I heard from Lao Yang that you changed jobs." She paused, glanced at Cheng Jialin with flickering eyes, and continued to sigh, "You used to be like this I have been busy with work, and I heard from Lao Yang that you have finally made it to the top position, you can relax a bit, I don’t want you to change jobs and continue to torment yourself, hey... your temperament that regards work as your life has really not changed at all. "

Xiao Ran was so agitated by her singing "Hey" that she sang three sighs that the hairs on her arms stood on end, a trace of doubt arose in her heart, she turned her head to look at Cheng Jialin, and saw that he was still unmoved , the confusion in my heart deepened a bit.

Cheng Jialin was noncommittal, politely perfunctory said: "You should work harder while you are young."

goddess:"……"

Xiao Ran was choked up when he heard his preaching words, and when he looked at the goddess again, the smile on the goddess' face was far-fetched.

The atmosphere was a bit delicate, but fortunately, the goddess' friend came to find her and broke the embarrassment.

"Yu Rui," the beautiful friend first looked at Cheng Jialin and Xiao Ran, and then said with a smile, "I said why did you go to the bathroom for so long, so you will be handsome here."

"Don't talk nonsense," Yu Rui said apologetically to her friend, "I happened to meet an old friend, so I'll ask you to karaoke next time." After speaking, she looked at Cheng Jialin affectionately.

This is what it means to chase people away, and the beautiful friend didn't mind, she nodded knowingly, and said with a smile: "Then I'll go first, you and your old friend ~ will talk later."

Xiao Ran had just taken a sip of red wine, and was almost spit out by her last sentence of "old friend" who deliberately changed the tone. He covered his mouth and coughed violently. He just heard those three words as "boyfriend" ".

Cheng Jialin frowned and looked at Xiao Ran, handed him a tissue, and handed him the cup of water in front of him.

Xiao Ran took it naturally, took a sip, and relieved the choking in his throat.

Only then did Yu Rui turn her attention to Xiao Ran, and said with a smile to Cheng Jialin, "Bring your brother to eat? It's a bit of progress to have a brother's love."

Xiao Ran was caught off guard for a moment, yes, this is the normal relationship association in the eyes of outsiders.Before Cheng Jialin could speak, he stood up and pulled a chair from the empty seat next to him, and said to Yu Rui, "Sister, sit down."

Yu Rui glanced at him gratefully, and silently awarded a little red flower to this sensible brother in her heart.

Xiao Ran's act of interrupting his conversation was so obvious, no matter how rough Cheng Jialin was about feelings, he also realized the unspeakable hidden meaning.His eyes darkened, and he pursed his lips and looked at Xiao Ran.

Seeing that his eyes were dim, Xiao Ran thought it was his own initiative to let Yu Rui sit down, which made him unhappy, so he raised his eyebrows and complained to him with his eyes - he obviously wanted to talk at the pace of a long talk, you don't even have a butt Move it a bit, would you mind?

Cheng Jialin took a commanding look at the less than half of the food left in front of Xiao Ran, then raised his eyes to look at him again, with a very clear meaning - eat quickly, leave as soon as possible after eating.

"..." Xiao Ran felt his eyelids twitch.

In this room, Yu Rui was lowering her head and wondering how to get Cheng Jialin to take her home, but she didn't see the silent interaction between the two.She hesitated to speak for a while, then raised her head, her eyes were affectionate, with a little guilt mixed with thoughts in her eyes, she said to Cheng Jialin in a tactful and moving way: "How have you been these two years?"

"Click", the fork in Xiao Ran's hand fell onto the dinner plate, he smiled apologetically at Yu Rui, lowered his head and continued to eat as if nothing had happened.

Hearing this, if he still can't guess the relationship between Cheng Jialin and this girl, then he is really retarded.He ate the last piece of beef quickly, only to feel that the delicious beef before now tasted like chewing wax.

Cheng Jialin looked at Yu Rui squarely at this moment, and said calmly, "Very good."

"That's good." Yu Rui smiled lightly, but she couldn't hide the disappointment that flashed in her eyes.

"Let's go?" Cheng Jialin summoned the waiter to check out.

Xiao Ran didn't say anything, and was still a little fussy, but Yu Rui happily answered: "Well, let's go."

But when she got out of the restaurant, she couldn't be happier. Seeing that Cheng Jialin ignored her hints and still wanted to take Xiao Ran away, she had no intention of seeing her off, so she had to find the stairs by herself and pretended to pick up a Called, said that a friend came to pick it up, and reluctantly watched Cheng Jialin drive away without any nostalgia.

In the car, Xiao Ran looked sideways at Cheng Jialin's calm face, and couldn't help but blame him for his coldness in his heart.This person's indifference, as if nothing would cause ripples in his mirror-like lake of heart, makes one feel dejected but at the same time unstoppably flocking to him.

He lowered his head and thought, is this person inherently cold-tempered?Or did something happen the day after tomorrow that caused his current indifferent temperament?Or maybe there is actually a fragile little rabbit heart hidden under his cold appearance, crying out wronged: Don't hurt me?

……

Huh... Xiao Ran couldn't help being frightened by his own thoughts, and folded his arms to wipe off the goosebumps that had exploded on his arms.

Cheng Jialin caught a glimpse of Xiao Ran's movements from the corner of his eye, twitched the corners of his mouth, and said coolly, "What are you thinking about?" I especially want to get into his head and see how different it is inside.

Xiao Ran seemed to be caught on the spot doing something bad, so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, he said awkwardly: "No, it's nothing, hehehe..."

With such a self-contained physique, he felt that Cheng Jialin was naturally deserted.

Cheng Jialin gave Xiao Ran a funny look, and took advantage of the red light to stroke his hair.

Xiao Ran's heart sank, feeling faintly sour. After a while, he hesitated to speak, but Cheng Jialin stepped forward and said: "If you want to ask anything, just ask."

Xiao Ran pinched his fingers and asked softly, "Who was that girl just now?"

Cheng Jialin looked at the road ahead without squinting, and said calmly, "My ex-girlfriend." After he finished speaking, his brain paused abruptly.

really.Xiao Ran thought in his heart, and said jokingly: "You're pretty, it's a pity that we broke up."

Hearing this, Cheng Jialin turned his head and gave him a strange look.

Xiao Ran laughed "hahaha" twice, realized that he had said the wrong thing, covered his mouth, turned his face to the car window, and was not ready to speak.

Cheng Jialin shook his head with a smile, he felt that sometimes Xiao Ran's thinking was quite mature, and sometimes his actions were childish, which made people laugh and cry.

The weather in early spring was still chilly, and just as Xiao Ran dropped the finger-wide car window, he was shocked by the cold wind scrambling to squeeze in, so he gave up the stupid idea of ​​opening the window for ventilation.

The scenery outside the car window flashed like a movie, Xiao Ran followed those intermittent images, and counted in his mind the few moments of getting along with Cheng Jialin in the past half a year.

From the beginning of their relationship, each other has reached a tacit consensus not to ask about their past.These days, who doesn't have an ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend?Even the little ones in kindergarten know that when you talk about love, you have to start with yourself.In contrast, his old virgin is even more precious than dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic century.

He didn't expect Cheng Jialin to be as good as a jade like him, an unprecedented old antique. After all, it was because he could meet someone who was like him and he liked at the same time in the world. 13 billion population.Even compared with those short, poor, ugly and scumbag men, the probability of marrying a daughter-in-law is appallingly low, not to mention overcoming all difficulties and staying with your true love for the rest of your life.

He didn't care about the existence of Yu Rui, or Yu Rui's intentional or unintentional desire to rekindle the old relationship. What he cared about was "Cheng Jialin had an ex-girlfriend", to be precise, it should be " Ex-girlfriend" three words.

To this day, when such a matter was truly presented in front of him, he reluctantly took the worry that he had been deliberately ignoring and burying to the surface, and let it go without any cover. Look straight at himself——The cognition of "Cheng Jialin liked women before" is like a timed/bomb buried in his body. When he thinks about it, he is always terrified, and the point is, he doesn't know what this bomb is. Time will blow him to pieces.

When some things can predict the inevitable result, no matter how cruel and terrible the result is, you can accept it calmly in the end, because you know that it is destined, it will happen sooner or later, and you will feel less terrible after the panic .

What is really frightening is the irregular waiting process and the mental torture that is always on the verge of collapse.

Xiao Ran was on the verge of that right now. With the bomb that sounded the alarm in his pocket, he was thinking wildly and anxiously all the way. When he raised his eyes again, he found that he had already arrived at his own door.

Cheng Jialin drove all the way without distraction until he reached his destination, only to belatedly remember the pause in his mind just now—he felt that he needed to re-examine the word "ex-girlfriend".

The two people with their own concerns sat in the car for a while, and it was rare that neither of them noticed that each other was in a daze.

When a young couple outside the car passed by playfully, Xiao Ran and Cheng Jialin were startled at the same time, and they both came back to their senses suddenly.