Who is the heroine?

The pleasant "girlfriend's night" was short-lived, and soon, Lu Yun returned to the daily life of a student, going to the toilet after and after class, and having soda and spicy hot sticks.

The days passed so quickly, and it was the weekend in a blink of an eye.

Xu Shicheng's birthday party changed place - not his home, but a big hotel.Lu Yun didn't think too much about it, he just changed his mind temporarily, put on lotus color short sleeves and a pair of cobalt blue jeans, and took a taxi with Xia Yi to the hotel.

Jiang Yu's house was on the other side, and it was still early anyway, so the two simply found a shade tree near the hotel and waited for Jiang Yu.

"Look, is that the school belle Shen Chen?" Xia Yi stood under the shade of a tree and nudged Lu Yun with his elbow.

Hearing this, Lu Yun looked over unconsciously, there was a girl wearing a taupe-colored dress and sandals with heels, fair skin, holding a delicate bag in her hand, from a silver-gray car up and down.

"...It seems to be." She replied, "Oh, Shen Chen is white and good-looking. She really deserves to be a school belle."

"That's not the point..." Xia Yi lowered his voice, a little stiffly, "Do you think there are some small differences between us?"

"What's the difference?" Lu Yun was puzzled.

"Dressing!" he said, "I've been paying attention to it for a long time... The few people of the same age who went in just now were all dressed very formally, and there was a man who was wearing a suit directly... Damn! Something is not right."

"There's something wrong." Lu Yun replied, "People like to dress like this.... Do you think they all attended Xu Shicheng's birthday party? It's not like that. It's just a birthday party, and it's not a coming-of-age ceremony. It's necessary to be like this..." She was stuck, staring at Xia Yi beside her with an incredulous look.

Xia Yi was like a goose with its neck stuck, its expression gradually becoming desperate.

"Damn..." Lu Yun murmured, still struggling to survive, "I remember... this is Xu Shicheng's 17th birthday, right? It's impossible to still be a freshman in high school, right?"

He covered his face feebly: "...he transferred to another school and repeated it for another year."

"But I remember that he was only two years older than us..." Lu Yun didn't give up.

"You misremembered, it was three years old." Xia Yi said with a blank expression, "We are finished."

Lu Yun: "..."

Xia Yi wept bitterly: "How embarrassing, do you think it will work if the two of us say that we have something to do and can't go?"

"What do you say?"

He had a sudden thought: "Why don't we both go back and look for more formal clothes now?"

"How is it possible!" Lu Yun's face collapsed, "Do you think I have some kind of dress or something?"

Xia Yi looked at Lu Yun carefully, and sighed deeply: "It's not like that."

"Wouldn't it be embarrassing if there were only the two of us in the audience?" Lu Yun stared at the fallen leaves in front of him.

"Brother Cheng will also be ashamed at that time." Xia Yi added.

"It doesn't matter whether he will be ashamed or not, but we both will be ashamed for sure." Lu Yun squatted down, "I'm so tired."

Xia Yi patted her on the shoulder reassuringly: "Don't worry, we are definitely not the only ones who lose face..."

Lu Yun suddenly looked up at him: "Are you sure?"

"..." His eyes drifted away, and he suddenly thought of something, "Of course I'm sure, after all, wouldn't Jiang Yu be with me?"

Lu Yun was suffocating for breath, and had nothing to love. He turned his head to the side: "Damn, the three of us are together. How is the embarrassment of three people better than two?"

It was hot right now, Lu Yun squatted for a while and couldn't take it anymore, and stood up again.A private car turned into Yubai Road silently like a fish swimming, and it was getting slower and slower. It stopped at the side of the road. The door opened. Jiang Yu got out of the car and hid in the shade of a tree directly opposite. The two looked up at him.

He was startled: "...Fuck, what's going on with you two."

Xia Yi stared at him: "The two of us should say this, right?!"

"...Why are you dressed so formally?" Lu Yun stared at him quietly.

Jiang Yu was completely different from usual today, wearing a light gray shirt and a blazer over it. Although this blazer was more casual, it was more than enough for a birthday party for such a peer.He stood there with his pockets in his pocket, with a blank expression on his face: "Huh? Is it formal? It's okay... Isn't this the basic dress?"

"You traitor." Xia Yi gritted his teeth, walked over to hold him down, and then his expression changed, and his expression changed, "I rely on you to make a shape and put on mousse?!! Basic?? Basic??!! This is called basic?!"

"Aren't I afraid of embarrassing you?!" Jiang Yu hurriedly broke free, "What's wrong with me? I didn't even have to come!"

Under the scorching sun, cicadas chirped one after another, and the two of them were so bored for a moment that they could see the deep entanglement in each other's eyes clearly at a glance.

"Or we just don't go." Xia Yi gave up on himself, "I'll apologize to Brother Cheng later, and hand over the gift to him at that time, I believe he won't mind."

——Who is not good at this age?Wouldn't it be embarrassing to just go in like this?

Lu Yun wanted to agree, but looked at Xia Yi's expression again: she knew that he still wanted to go.

well.never mind.Isn't it just a loss of face?Who hasn't lost it yet?She patted Xia Yi: "Don't, we're not running naked, aren't we allowed to dress more comfortably?"

"But……"

"What's so good about it? Are you, brother Cheng, the kind of person who would despise himself as a child?"

"He's not that kind of person!" Xia Yi retorted immediately.

"That's fine. I think he may have forgotten to tell us about it... Although it's useless for him to ask, I really don't have the money to buy a better dress or something." Lu Yun said, He denied this idea by himself, and shook his head to himself, "No, with your brother Cheng's character, maybe he didn't even realize that he should be so formal, what he wears may be the same in his eyes..."

Xia Yi thought for a while: "You seem to make sense."

"It's also possible that he did it on purpose." Jiang Yu added dissatisfiedly behind him, "Don't be so stupid, you two, maybe he just wanted to make a fool of you two on purpose, and people don't regard you as friends at all."

Lu Yun pointed at Jiang Yu and threatened: "Hey, don't talk nonsense."

"Who's talking nonsense!" He stared. He said this on purpose to provoke, but when he saw Lu Yun's threatening tone, he immediately exploded.

——This is too unfair!Jiang Yu felt angrily in his heart: I went to Germany again for you, and went to similes for you.What kind of bullshit setting, still making it small?It's dangerous!

Maybe it's the kind of blue-faced vixen in the novel, who brings disaster to the country and the people!

"You know people, you don't know their faces, but you don't know their hearts, how much do you know about them!" He sprayed at Lu Yun, "Maybe someday you will be sold out and you won't even know!"

"Sell who—?" A deep male voice sounded from behind.

Jiang Yu froze, and looked back—as expected, it was Xu Shicheng himself.

"Why have you been outside for so long?" He was wearing a T-shirt and army green shorts, with a casual posture and normal expression. "I waited inside for a long time, but no one came."

Lu Yun's heart suddenly relaxed - it seems that things are not what she thought, isn't Xu Shicheng also dressed casually?

"Happy birthday, Brother Cheng." Lu Yun skipped this sentence, and put a pile of presents in his hand with a smile.

Xu Shicheng's expression relaxed for a moment, and his expression slowed down. He glanced at Lu Yun with an unclear expression: "Thank you..."

"And my gift, Brother Cheng." Xia Yi stood aside and sent his gift up, "Happy birthday, Brother Cheng."

Xu Shicheng patted him on the shoulder: "Thank you."

"That...cough," Jiang Yu stood aside, a little embarrassed to apply, no matter how "groupy" he is dressed in after entering, at this moment, among the four people, he is obviously the most heterogeneous The one who said, "Xu Shicheng, I wish you a happy birthday."

Xu Shicheng nodded slightly to him: "Thank you."

"Let's go in." He said so, and several people hugged him and walked into the community together.

"...just now I saw a lot of people dressed very formally, which made me and Lu Yun very nervous, wondering if we both dressed too casually today." Xia Yi scratched his head, "It turned out to be you It’s so casual, so I feel relieved.”

"I'm sorry," Xu Shicheng said with an ugly expression on his face, "I didn't expect this to happen...I just found out today that my dad held the birthday party here without telling me—I really can't help it." There was a trace of mockery on his face "But it doesn't matter. You can be casual, anyway, the food in this hotel is not bad, and you can't let you come for nothing - don't worry too much, if you are really uncomfortable, just leave."

Lu Yun looked at him in surprise.Get a calm look back.

"Don't mind me," he said. "This isn't 'my' birthday party anymore."

They entered through the side door of the hall, silently, and stepped into a flashy world that they had never touched before.The lobby is richly decorated, familiar faces put on adult costumes, as if they suddenly changed faces, as if they were observing the world through a distorting mirror-everything became weird.

There were also adults in the banquet hall, well-dressed, smiling at Yan Yan, speaking with a sophistication that made Lu Yun want to stay away from him.

——Compared with a birthday party, this place is more like a masquerade party.

Xia Yi was almost dumbfounded: "So many people?" He turned to look at Xu Shicheng, "Brother, do you have so many friends?"

Xu Shicheng pressed the center of his brows, pursed the corners of his lips, looking a little tired: "...not exactly."

What is "not exactly"?

Lu Yun didn't understand, she didn't feel very comfortable, a strange feeling of incompatibility almost made her want to turn around and leave - if it wasn't because Xu Shicheng was by her side, maybe she would have done that.

"Why is it so late?" A strange boy with a cup noticed this side, hooked Xu Shicheng's shoulder with a smile, and glanced lightly at the three of them, looking impolite, "I thought you, the birthday star, ran away."

"How come?" Xu Shicheng said.

"Hehe, that might be true....This is your friend in the west of the city?" The other party sized up the three of them, and fixed his eyes on Jiang Yu for a second, as if he was a little puzzled, but the doubt disappeared in a flash, and it was very easy. Almost turned into an indescribable contempt, he raised his cup and casually waved to them, "Hi, I'm Chu Hua, Xu Shicheng's friend."

"Oh." Xia Yi glanced at him coldly, put his hands in his pockets, and turned to Xu Shicheng for a moment, his expression turned into a normal smile again, "Brother Cheng, I'll take Lu Yun and the others to find something to drink first. It's a hot day, I'm thirsty."

Xu Shicheng nodded: "OK."

Xia Yi immediately turned his head. No matter what kind of expression that Chu Hua showed, Lu Yun looked at Chu Hua curiously for a while, and then turned his head to catch up without interest.Jiang Yu was more straightforward, with impatience written all over his face, he turned around more eagerly than Xia Yi, almost faster than Xia Yi, as if he couldn't wait to escape from this place.

"..." Chu Hua's expression was a little stiff, he said "heh", and turned to Xu Shicheng, "I said... buddy, you have a really big temper when you are so small in the past."

Xu Shicheng said "hmm" expressionlessly, pulled off his hand, and walked away.

This birthday party is no longer just an ordinary birthday party.He walked through those familiar or unfamiliar faces, and hypocritically spoke tacit words to those people.

He walked to the corner, wanting to be quiet for a while, but was held down by a hand.

is the father.

"Have you had enough trouble?" Xu's father lowered his voice and said to him, "I can still give you an excuse to be young people's rebellion by dressing so casually for such an occasion. What do you want now? As today's The protagonist left the table directly? Xu Shicheng——you are an adult, you are no longer a child."

"Today is my birthday." Xu Shicheng said coldly, "But Dad, this is how you prepare for my birthday."

"What are you dissatisfied with this banquet?!" He frowned, "Eat? Drink? Didn't I invite your friends as you asked?"

Xu Shicheng didn't speak, his eyes were ironic.

Xu's father looked at him for a while, and his face gradually softened, as if showing weakness: "...Okay, I know you don't like to get along with strangers, and you don't have to worry about other people, except for the young master of the Cen family. He just came back from abroad not long ago... I also met the Cen family by chance, so don't neglect him..."

Xu Shicheng stared at him, his voice was calm, but with a bit of sadness: "Why does it have to be on my birthday?"

Father Xu's voice paused for a moment: "You and him are the same age, so we should have some common topics..."

Xu Shicheng didn't listen anymore, he stood there silently and resisted, looking at his father's face that was no longer young, while resisting, he realized sadly that this would be another compromise.

He looked over to the banquet hall, and Lu Yun was sitting there. For a moment, she was overwhelmed by the crowd. He felt that she seemed to have disappeared together with his childhood and the memories of the past, as if nothing had ever existed. like that.

What was he planning to invite Lu Yun for?

Xu Shicheng felt as if he had forgotten.

His father suddenly patted him on the shoulder heavily, and he turned his head, but Xu's father didn't look at him: "...Xiao Cheng, this is what I said before... Young Master Cen who just came back from studying abroad." sounded.

With one hand in his pocket, the young man casually came out of the corner and looked at Xu Shicheng. Under the golden light, the two young men looked at each other, like two predators who met unexpectedly on the grassland, watching from afar .

It was a handsome face, full of juvenile rebelliousness, one could tell at a glance that he had not been tempered by life, a typical young master of aristocratic family, the grace in his gestures was permeated with an arrogance that did not eat the sufferings of the world.

"Hello," Xu Shicheng spoke first, and stretched out a hand towards the other party, politely as if having some kind of business meeting, "I'm Xu Shicheng."

"...Hello," this Young Master Cen yawned unceremoniously, stretched out his hand slowly, and the corners of his eyes and brows were full of domineering:

"I, Cen Zong."