Lin Xiaoran has never regretted it like today.
He felt more and more that he shouldn't have brought Nan Xiangwan to the class reunion. He could see that she was very active in wanting to blend in with everyone, but the barriers in reality always made her fail. Especially after Jiang Darling came, she found an excuse to leave the private room with a lonely face.
Seeing that Nan Xiangwan hadn't come back for a long time, Lin Xiaoran followed him out. He searched twice but couldn't find anyone, so he decided to go back and have a look. It wasn't until he looked down from the window in the corridor by a ghost that he saw Nan Xiangwan sitting The flower bed under the hotel was crying with pear blossoms and rain.
It turned out that although Nan Xiangwan had an enviable educational background, everything was not going well for her. She cried and said that the landlord wanted her to move immediately, but she failed to find a new house, and the company was about to lay off her, but she failed to find a new job. "My best friend doesn't know me anymore."
Lin Xiaoran didn't know how close her "good friend" was to her, but he could guess from her sad appearance that he must be someone very important to her.
Maybe it was out of pity, maybe it was out of the friendship of classmates, since then, their contact has gradually increased. He'd send a picture of the airport tarmac at seven in the morning and ask her if she was up. Or post a photo of her crew meal at lunch and ask her what she had for lunch. Sometimes I will take pictures of the scenery I see and say, "Hey, this person really looks like you."
What should come has finally come.
Nan Xiangwan said that the vice president asked her to talk, "I probably won't be far away."
"I'll support you." Lin Xiaoran typed a few words, and quickly deleted them, replacing them with "Why don't you come back, there's nothing wrong with the family."
The vice president's office is upstairs, and the whole city can be overlooked through the corridor glass, but Nan Xiangwan is not in the mood to appreciate it at this moment. She came to the door of the vice president's office, took a deep breath, opened the door and went in.
The conversation lasted for a long time, and when the conversation ended, Nan Xiangwan returned to the office and packed his things dully. Colleagues gathered around one by one, saying goodbye.
Nan Xiangwan walked out of the company building with his suitcase in his arms. The bright sunlight reflected off the glass curtain wall and hit his face, making Nan Xiangwan unable to open his eyes. Speaking of it, she was really not used to it. In all these years of work, she had never left work at dawn.
When he got home, no, it should be a rental house. Nan Xiangwan found that the manicure couple next door had moved out, leaving a mess everywhere. Everyone came and went in a hurry, and she didn't even know what the other party was called or where they went.
Nan Xiangwan felt disappointed.
Just as she put down her things, there was a knock on the door, and a few strong men broke in. After looking around, they told Nan Xiangwan that the house had been sold and she was asked to move out within three days.
Nan Xiangwan remained calm as usual, and said without haste, "I'm leaving now."
After getting off the plane, Nan Xiangwan immediately sent a message to Lin Xiaoran, "I'm back." She returned to the city where she was born, but this time she didn't come back to visit relatives, but started her life here again.
Lin Xiaoran wanted to take care of her, and choose the location. Without even thinking about it, Nan Xiangwan chose the location at a newly opened fried skewer restaurant in a shopping mall.
Compared to the roadside stall next to No. 3 Middle School, the fried skewer shop in the shopping mall is much more beautiful and clean. Various dishes are displayed in exquisite glass cabinets. Nan Xiangwan and Lin Xiaoran are on the left and right, each picking their favorite thing. Strange to say, the two picked them separately, but the dishes they picked were almost the same, and they accidentally touched their hands together when they took the fish balls.
Lin Xiaoran withdrew his hand as if electrocuted, with an embarrassed expression on his face, "You take it first."
Nan Xiangwan smiled, picked up two skewers of fish balls, put one on his plate and the other on his own.
While waiting for the fried skewers, Lin Xiaoran comforted Nan Xiangwan, "Isn't it just that I lost my job? If you don't stay here, you have your own place to stay. You are beautiful, smart, good at studying, and strong in ability. I'm afraid you won't be able to find a better job." OK?"
As Lin Xiaoran talked, he gradually realized something was wrong. When he said "beautiful and smart", Nan Xiangwan's eyes were down, but the corners of his lips could not stop rising.
Finally, Nan Xiangwan couldn't help it anymore, and burst out laughing. "I got a promotion," she said.
"Ah?" Lin Xiaoran was in disbelief.
"I couldn't believe it at first, but it's true." That day, the vice president called her to the office. After setting up a branch company, she also said that she felt that she was the only one who was most suitable to take up an important position in the branch company, "After all, you graduated from Guanghua University."
At that moment, Nan Xiangwan especially wanted to laugh, Xiao He really succeeded and defeated Xiao He. When layoffs, she was pushed out first because she graduated from Guanghua, and when she was promoted, she was trusted unconditionally because she graduated from Guanghua. Guanghua University seems to have become a part of her body, sometimes it is a halo above her head, and sometimes it becomes a shackle on her body.
After listening to Nan Xiangwan's words, Lin Xiaoran breathed a sigh of relief after being stunned for a moment, "Congratulations."
"Same joy, same joy." Nan Xiangwan smiled narrowly.
When the fried skewers came, Lin Xiaoran used a brush to brush the sauce on the fried skewers, took a bite, and the gate of memory opened with a bang. Lin Xiaoran put down the fried skewers, and sighed slightly, "There is also a fried skewers shop in front of No. 3 Middle School. I used to eat there when I was in school. Unfortunately, it was demolished later, and I don't know where it was moved."
Nan Xiangwan just took a bite of the eggplant and said vaguely, "Did you mean 'Xiaowanpu'?"
Lin Xiaoran asked in surprise, "You actually knew?"
"How could I not know, I often ate there when I was in high school." Nan Xiangwan said lightly.
"I thought you schoolmasters never ate roadside stalls."
Nan Xiangwan smiled, "Scholar is not a god."
After finishing the fried skewers in his hand, Lin Xiaoran felt that he still couldn't get enough, so he went to get some more from the glass cabinet.
Nan Xiangwan couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Pilots also like fried skewers so much?"
Lin Xiaoran disagreed, "Pilots are not gods either."
"Hahaha..." The two laughed in unison.
When paying the bill, a middle-aged man came in from the outside, and the waiter called "Hello, boss" to the man.
Lin Xiaoran noticed that Nan Xiangwan had been staring at the man, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Nan Xiangwan frowned, "I think that person looks familiar, as if I've seen him somewhere before."
Lin Xiaoran joked, "In a dream again?"
Nan Xiangwan gave him a blunt glance, "I'm serious, I seem to have seen it somewhere."
The two were whispering, when the man walked over and said pleasantly to the two, "Are you from No. 3 Middle School?"
Lin Xiaoran was still wondering how he knew, Nan Xiangwan was the first to realize, "You are the owner of 'Xiaowanpu', you opened this store?"
Lin Xiaoran suddenly realized, "No wonder the taste is exactly the same as in memory."
The boss also said with emotion: "It was demolished over there, and the old customers disappeared all of a sudden. I didn't want to do it at first, but I still felt itchy after staying for a few years. No, I opened this store again." After the boss finished speaking, Looking at the two of them, "In a blink of an eye, you children have become adults. You, are you... together?"
"No no."
Before Nan Xiangwan could speak, Lin Xiaoran denied it flatly, as if a cotton plug had been stuffed in his throat, Nan Xiangwan couldn't speak, so he could only shake his head.
"Oh..." The boss prolonged his tone on purpose, as if he understood something.
Walking out of the skewer shop, Lin Xiaoran proposed to take a stroll in the mall, but Nan Xiangwan was not interested, saying that he still had a lot of work to do and wanted to go home. Along the way, Lin Xiaoran was talking about interesting things at work, Nan Xiangwan had something on his mind, so he didn't listen too carefully, but occasionally responded with "um", "ah", "oh".
Lin Xiaoran sensed that her mood was not right, and asked with concern: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
Nan Xiangwan decided not to bear it any longer. Downstairs in her house, she confessed her feelings to Lin Xiaoran. She would agree to the vice president to return to this city to take care of the branch's affairs, not only because she had suffered many setbacks in the original city, but also because some people and things here attracted her all the time.
Nan Xiangwan lowered his head from beginning to end, and said in a soft voice, "You don't have to answer me right away, you..."
"I can answer you right now." Lin Xiaoran said seriously.
Nan Xiangwan felt her heart was about to jump out. She slowly raised her head and looked at the man in front of her without moving.
"I think it's good that we are like this now. We are alumni and classmates at the same level. It is a kind of fate that you can get on my flight. You just came back now, and you may have some discomfort..."
Lin Xiaoran also said a lot, but Nan Xiangwan didn't listen to a word. She kept recalling everything in the dream, imagining how Lin Xiaoran in the dream would react if he heard her words. A tear rolled down his cheek, Nan Xiangwan laughed at himself, how could she be so stupid, the Lin Xiaoran in the dream was always in the dream, the Lin Xiaoran in front of him was the real him. The fact is that they have only known each other for less than a month, and they have met no more than three times. Even though her love is as deep as the sea, Lin Xiaoran is still a stranger to her.
She didn't blame Lin Xiaoran, she only blamed herself for being too reckless. Fortunately, Lin Xiaoran didn't mind, otherwise she might not even have to be friends.
Thinking of this, she shed tears and showed a big smile, "I understand, anyway, thank you."
"That's good."
Under Lin Xiaoran's gaze, Nan Xiangwan turned around and went upstairs. Her mother hadn't come back yet. She seemed to have a relationship recently. Every day she either danced or played cards, and didn't care about her at all.
Nan Xiangwan noticed a photo album thrown on the sofa in the living room, and she didn't need to ask to know that her mother was showing her off to others again. It recorded her schooling experience, and the photo with the gate of Guanghua University was her mother's most proud work.
She flipped through the photo album to find the period in high school. On the day of graduation, she had some group photos with her classmates in the rocket class. Only then did she notice that there was a blurry figure of Lin Xiaoran in the background of a photo. It turned out that they had been dating for a long time, but they rubbed shoulders countless times and did not get a lifetime promise.
"Hey..." Nan Xiangwan sighed, and suddenly, with a loud "bang", fireworks crackled and flashed outside the window. Almost at the same time, Nan Xiangwan received a message from Lin Xiaoran.
"Fool, how can you let a girl do something like confession?"
"You may not believe it. Last night, I had a dream. I dreamed that I woke up and went back to high school. There were endless papers in front of me. When I turned around suddenly, I found you behind me."
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