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When the substitute driver arrived, Zheng Zhuoting changed his destination and went to a five-star hotel eight kilometers away.

He went up to the top floor from the sightseeing elevator outside, walked through the corridor arranged like a tropical rainforest, and finally stopped in front of an open terrace.

Lu Hongxi was leaning on the half-height guardrail, overlooking the night view of the capital in the distance.

The lights here are dim, and there are very few guests. From Zheng Zhuoting's perspective, he looks like he will fall if he is not careful.Immediately, she quickened her pace to his side and grabbed his arm.

Lu Hongxi turned her head back, raised the corners of her mouth after seeing the person coming, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Just as Zheng Zhuoting wanted to say that you are not afraid of falling, he glanced at the safety device on the next floor.So he withdrew his hand, sat down on the chair opposite him, and called the waiter to order a glass of vodka.

Lu Hongxi still maintained the posture just now and leaned back, looking at the neon lights of the city again.Neither of them spoke, until the pianist in the corner stood up and left, and Lu Hongxi turned his gaze to that place.

Zheng Zhuoting looked from his angle, it was a white grand piano, with a faint pearly glow under the watery night.

After looking at it for a while, he turned around and asked, "Are you still listening to classical music?"

Zheng Zhuoting smiled and said, "Occasionally."

He straightened up, walked to the piano and sat down.After trying a few tones, the slender fingers played "Dream of Love" as if jumping.

This is a piano piece with a beautiful melody.Lu Hongxi was wearing black clothes and black trousers today, and her long hair was tied loosely at the back of her head, blown by the high-altitude wind like a flamboyant ink color.

Looking at the back of the one playing under the light, Zheng Zhuoting took a sip of wine, got up and walked to his side, and motioned him to sit over after he finished playing the piece.

Lu Hongxi gave way to the right, and Zheng Zhuoting raised his hands after sitting down, played a few notes with his fingertips, and then smiled at him.

The moment the melody came out, he already knew what the man wanted to play.So he put his hands on the keys and raised his eyebrows at Zheng Zhuoting.

A piece of cheerful "Hungarian Dance" flowed out from each other's fingertips. The guests who were lazily leaning on the back of their chairs looked at this side one after another, but their eyes stayed on each other's fingers.There is no score, no communication in advance, but this kind of performance can cooperate seamlessly.Just like one evening seven years ago, Zheng Zhuoting caught Lu Hongxi who was hiding in the music classroom.

Zheng Zhuoting, who was only 19 years old at the time, leaned against the door frame, watching the slender figure bow his head and play "Dead Overture".The light and melodious music blends with the setting sun shining in from the window, making it ethereal like a sand painting that will fly away at any time.

He didn't interrupt, and only walked in after listening to the whole song. He bent down beside Lu Hongxi, played a few syllables, and looked at the people around him inquiringly.

At that time, Lu Hongxi's hair was only slightly long. He put his bangs behind his ears, put his hands on the keys on the right, and looked at Zheng Zhuoting provocatively.

After looking at each other and smiling, they both stopped playing.Lu Hongxi said first: "It seems that you still practice often."

"It's far worse than before. Now I'm busy with work, and I haven't touched the piano for a year."

"Just now I almost played a few notes wrong." Zheng Zhuoting smiled wryly, stood up and returned to his seat after speaking.

Lu Hongxi followed behind him, ignoring the gazes from the surrounding guests, and after sitting down, he called the waiter and ordered a glass of "Manhattan".

Before Zheng Zhuoting came, he had already drank a lot. Seeing him drink such a strong cocktail in one gulp, Zheng Zhuoting reminded: "You don't want to enslave me to send you back, do you?"

Lu Hongxi put down his wine glass, feeling the acridness from his throat to his chest, he couldn't help raising his chin to look at the sky, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I often sleep here until dawn."

"Here? The sky is on the ground?" Zheng Zhuoting looked around. This kind of place can be open until dawn, but it is a bit exaggerated to really sleep until dawn.

Lu Hongxi pointed down: "The hotel is open." Then he looked at Zheng Zhuoting with great interest: "Didn't you want me to solve the riddle for you? Tell me what gossip you heard."

Originally, Zheng Zhuoting had forgotten about this, mainly because he was afraid that he would be unhappy if he really mentioned it.But looking at him like this, he felt that this was the best time to figure it out, so he didn't hide it and told everything he heard from Da Liu.

At first Lu Hongxi didn't speak, just listened quietly, even when he heard Huang Shengye's name, his expression didn't change.But after Zheng Zhuoting finished speaking, he asked back, "Do you believe it?" Zheng Zhuoting shook his head without thinking, but he was moved.

He didn't want to be seen the changes in his eye sockets, so he turned his head and looked away.

Then he heard Zheng Zhuoting continue: "To be honest, I don't believe it."

"You used to have a good family background, I don't think you will lose yourself because of this..."

The unfinished words suddenly stopped, Zheng Zhuoting fell silent, and his eyes stayed on the ice cubes that had mostly melted in the wine glass.

Alcohol tends to magnify emotions and blur the sense of boundaries.When he was at the top, he blurted out such a sentence, and he didn't need to be reminded by the person opposite, he also realized that he had crossed the line.

He moved his lips, and before he could say "sorry", Lu Hongxi turned around and looked at him.

There are a pair of amber eyes on that fair face, under the light, the color gradually deepens towards the center point, until the pupil part is indistinctly black.This kind of color transition made the eyes look much clearer, but at this moment, Zheng Zhuoting couldn't understand the real emotion in those eyes.

Although Lu Hongxi was smiling, with the corners of his mouth raised frivolously, the muscles around his eyes didn't move at all.

Zheng Zhuoting hesitated whether to end the chat tonight, but Lu Hongxi called the waiter and opened a bottle of brandy.

He poured Zheng Zhuoting a glass, picked up his own cup, touched Zheng Zhuoting's, and drank it down with his head raised.

It's too easy to get drunk like this, Zheng Zhuoting wanted to stop him, but he pointed to the cup and said, "Are you a fish tank?"

Zheng Zhuoting had no choice but to pick it up and take a sip.His expression was a little displeased, but he didn't say anything. He said lazily, "I didn't expect to be seen through by you after all these years. You really should study psychology."

Zheng Zhuoting smiled, and saw him look over again before answering, this time his expression was much more vivid: "People will change with the environment, how can you be sure that I won't bow down for fame and fortune?"

"Feel."

It was just two simple words, but Zheng Zhuoting said it very confidently.

He looked at Zheng Zhuoting.The hazy night and drunkenness are like a soft light filter, covering the handsome facial features of the opposite person with a layer of veil.

The more he stared, the more he couldn't see clearly. In the end, he had to close his eyes and squeeze the space between his brows.Thinking that I really drank too much, should I stop.

The sound of pouring wine entered his eardrums, and a moment later he heard the soft clink of glasses again.Opening his eyes, Zheng Zhuoting was leaning on the sofa drinking wine, and the empty glass in front of him was already full.

He smiled, picked it up and touched the person across the air, and drank it down again.

The author says:

This chapter is not finished yet, so there will be another update at [-]:[-] tonight.