Xu Tingbai definitely had a deep impression of Huang Chengxu.
He spilled his wine on the first meeting, and when his friend questioned him, he said his girlfriend would come and deal with it.
Later, he never thought that the person who came would be Lin Qingle.
He didn't know the story between them, but he was actually unwilling to have someone like Huang Chengxu standing next to Lin Qingle.
But he knew what kind of person Lin Qingle was. If she chose to be with him, that man must be really good to her, and she really liked him... So after that day, he was afraid that he would not be able to control himself and disturb her, making her uncomfortable, so he kept suppressing himself.
But he never expected that the man he thought would be very good to Lin Qingle was actually flirting with another woman and hugging her intimately behind her back.
Lin Qingle is a simple-minded little girl. There is no way she knows that someone is playing with her at the same time!
"Why did you get up? Are you still drinking?" Chen Ke turned around and saw Xu Tingbai looking ahead with gloomy eyes, so he pulled him.
However, Xu Tingbai did not react at all.
"Hey, Tingbai—"
Chen Ke's hand was shaken away by Xu Tingbai, and he looked at Xu Tingbai walking forward with a puzzled look on his face.
It is now past eleven o'clock in the evening, and the bar is gradually getting into its proper atmosphere. The music is deafening, and everyone is trapped in a vortex of desire for life and death.
Xu Tingbai walked towards the couple, and his frosty face turned into anger.
On the other side, Huang Chengxu, who had no idea anything was wrong, was holding his girlfriend's hand and being affectionate with her a few more times while the foreman wasn't noticing.
"I can't stand here for long, baby. I have to go to work."
"Then I'll wait for you here and come back to your house in the evening."
"Yeah, okay, baby."
Huang Chengxu's eyes were glued, and he reluctantly let go of her hand. As a result, he turned around -
"ah!"
Someone punched him in the face!
After Xu Tingbai knocked Huang Chengxu to the ground, he grabbed his collar and was about to punch him again without saying a word. Huang Chengxu screamed and reflexively raised his arms to cover his face, "You you you! What are you doing!"
"Who are you! Let him go!!!" After Yu Tingting reacted, she screamed and came over to pull the man.
However, Xu Tingbai remained unmoved. His fist stopped in front of Huang Chengxu and he said harshly, "Do you know what you are doing?"
"I, I was just... being lazy. Who are you? Is it necessary for you to do that?" Huang Chengxu's eyes appeared a little from behind his arm. When he saw Xu Tingbai's face, he was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered it instantly.
This is the guest he poured wine on last time.
Huang Chengxu: "Fuck... Didn't we already deal with the last incident? Why did you hit me again?!"
"Why did you hit my boyfriend?" Yu Tingting tried to pull the arm that was holding down Xu Tingbai, but she couldn't move it at all.
Chen Ke, Xia Tan and others also noticed something was wrong and hurried over.
"What happened?! What happened?!"
Xu Tingbai turned a deaf ear to him. He glanced at the woman who was pulling his arm and said coldly, "Did you know that he has a girlfriend?"
The light in the bar was dim, and Xu Tingbai came suddenly, so Yu Tingting didn't notice what he looked like at first. When she saw him turn around so close, she was completely stunned.
"I, I know, I just..."
"Who are you?" Xu Tingbai took a deep breath and looked at Huang Chengxu, "Two girlfriends? Where do you put Lin Qingle?"
Huang Chengxu: “…?”
Xu Tingbai: "Do you want to die?"
Huang Chengxu saw that he was getting angry, so he quickly protected his face: "What Lin Qingle! My girlfriend is here, how can Lin Qingle be my girlfriend!!"
Xu Tingbai was stunned: "What?"
"Xu Tingbai? Damn... You are Xu Tingbai!" Before Xu Tingbai could digest what he meant, he suddenly heard the woman next to him calling out his name.
Xu Tingbai turned around and looked at her with a frown.
Yu Tingting was excited: "No way, your eyes... Ah, I'm Yu Tingting! Do you remember, we met in high school? I'm Qingle's good friend."
Lin Qingle's good friend.
Xu Tingbai paused for a second and remembered.
Then he felt something was wrong. He slowly turned around and looked at Huang Chengxu: "Then he—"
"He is my boyfriend. Did you misunderstand something? How could Qingle be his girlfriend?"
—
When Lin Qingle received Yu Tingting's call, she was watching a movie with Dong Xiaoni at home.
"Hey, what's up?"
Yu Tingting: "Qingle, come to Max!"
Lin Qingle: "I'm watching a movie. It's almost over."
"Oh my goodness! Really! Xu Tingbai is here!"
The potato chips pinched by his fingertips fell back into the bag. Lin Qingle sat up straight suddenly: "You guys ran into each other? What happened?"
"Oh my god, this is outrageous. This is a big deal. Xu Tingbai beat up my boyfriend!"
"What?"
"Really! Do you know why?" Yu Tingting's voice was high-pitched, but it was more like she was too excited to see Xu Tingbai than to say that she felt sorry for her boyfriend.
"The reason Xu Tingbai hit him was because he thought you were Huang Chengxu's girlfriend, and I was at the bar today, so he saw me and thought Huang Chengxu was cheating on me!"
Lin Qingle: “… ?”
This is really a big deal...
Moreover, she didn't understand why he thought she was Huang Chengxu's girlfriend. Was it because of the last time they met in the bar
Lin Qingle was full of doubts, so she quickly packed up and went to Max. After arriving, she was directed by the waiter to a private room on the second floor.
When she pushed the door open, she saw Yu Tingting, Huang Chengxu, Xu Tingbai and Xia Tan.
The moment Xu Tingbai saw Lin Qingle coming in, his eyes lit up and he couldn't hide his joy. But today was a misunderstanding, so while he was happy, he also felt a little embarrassed.
"How is it? Are you okay?" Lin Qingle walked in front of Huang Chengxu. She saw that his right face was swollen, and it looked... quite serious.
Huang Chengxu was furious, but just as he was about to say something, Yu Tingting pushed him back: "It's okay, it's okay, this is just a misunderstanding."
Huang Chengxu: "Baby, I'm not okay at all..."
"Quiet, you're fine."
Huang Chengxu: “…”
Yu Tingting: "Xu Tingbai has already apologized to us, but I think there is a misunderstanding, so it would be better if you come over and talk about it."
Lin Qingle hesitated and looked at Xu Tingbai.
Xu Tingbai sat on the sofa, his expression difficult to discern in the dim light of the box.
"Well... I think there's nothing else to do now. I'll go find Chen Ke and the others first, and you guys chat." Xia Tan patted Xu Tingbai's shoulder and said.
Yu Tingting quickly pulled Huang Chengxu up, "Let's go out too! I'll take him to get some medicine!"
"… "
The box that originally held five people was suddenly left with only the two of them. Lin Qingle coughed lightly and said, "Um, are you okay?"
Xu Tingbai stood up and walked over. As he left the shadow, his facial features suddenly became clear. He looked straight at her, his light-colored pupils deep and quiet.
His eyes were still as attractive as before, especially in the light, but the difference was that his eyes could see now, and they were more lively than before.
Lin Qingle moved back a little silently, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by him like that.
"I'm fine. I hit him, he didn't hit me." He stopped in front of her.
Lin Qingle: "Oh... Well, thank you."
This thank you was a little funny, but she thought he was doing this for her own good, so she should say thank you.
Xu Tingbai turned his head away, feeling a little embarrassed: "No, you can apologize to him for me later."
Lin Qingle nodded: "Yes."
Xu Tingbai paused for a few seconds and said, "So that day, you were just helping him on behalf of Yu Tingting."
"Um."
Xu Tingbai raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Okay."
"If there's nothing else, I'll leave first?" The two of them just stood there, and Lin Qingle didn't know what to say, so he turned around and wanted to go to the door.
"Wait." Xu Tingbai grabbed her sleeve.
"Anything else..."
Xu Tingbai lowered his eyes and looked at her. He was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "Lin Qingle, do you hate me?"
Lin Qingle was slightly stunned. She looked at him who asked this question and she felt as if they were back to being sixteen years old.
But the positions were swapped.
Lin Qingle: "I, I don't have any."
Xu Tingbai looked at her and said, "But you don't want to be with me, don't you?"
"No… "
“I can feel it.”
"I said I didn't."
"You obviously have it."
"… "
"Lin Qingle, you—"
"So what if there is?" Lin Qingle interrupted him.
Xu Tingbai's words were immediately swallowed back. He looked at her slightly frowned brows, and his hand holding her sleeve became a little stiff.
Lin Qingle slowly pulled his hand away. She lowered her eyes and said in a low voice, "I mean, friends who haven't seen each other for so long will always have a little estrangement. I don't hate you, I just don't know what to say..."
Xu Tingbai: "Is that all?"
Lin Qingle raised her eyes and smiled at him: "Well, that's all."
"But I don't want there to be any estrangement between us..."
"But how can two people be exactly the same after so many years?" Lin Qingle said, "We lead different lives and have no intersection at all. You haven't tried to find me, and I can't contact you. In this case, we will definitely become strangers."
She said it very calmly, but of course only she knew that she was just forcing herself to be calm.
Xu Tingbai's throat tightened: "I looked for you... before I returned home."
When he had finally dealt with all his problems and finally felt that he was capable and qualified to stand in front of her, he went to look for her.
But she had changed her number, and he asked someone to check at her former high school and found out that she had transferred to another school in her senior year. The teacher there didn't have her family's contact information, but fortunately, the teacher knew where she had been admitted to college.
So after returning to China, he asked someone to inquire at A University, and from this he learned that she had worked in two companies after graduation, but then the connection was cut off because she resigned three months ago and there was no way to track her down for a while.
In fact, when he dragged her to University A, she sent him her graduation photo.
But he didn't look.
When they met for the first time, he had always wanted to wait until she got a job so that he could find her where she was and then go meet her in person.
But he didn't expect that there would be something about the bar.
"Did you look for me before you returned home? Why didn't you call me earlier? I waited for you for a long time in high school." Lin Qingle looked up at him and asked jokingly. But deep down, she couldn't help but feel annoyed.
As she asked, she told herself that they were all grown up and Xu Tingbai was living a good life. There was no need for her to bring up things from so many years ago and get angry with him.
She had no right or position to be angry with him. Everything he chose was right.
"You changed your number..."
"I changed my number when I went to college, but what about before that?"
"I… "
Xu Tingbai's face turned a little pale.
Lin Qingle looked at him and frowned again. There was no need to be angry with him, so why was she pressing him so hard
Thinking of this, she took a deep breath secretly: "Okay, actually I know that your choice is right. I was ignorant when I was a child and thought too much. How could I really help you at that time? You were right to leave with your family. I was just a little sad at the time, because even if you went to a very far place, you could still contact me... You can tell me that you are fine, I just want to know."
"I'm sorry, I didn't want to affect you anymore..." Xu Tingbai's body tensed up. He had faced so many difficulties over the years without changing his expression, but in front of her, he couldn't keep his composure. "You have gone through a lot of things that you shouldn't have gone through because of me, including your studies and my father's affairs... I promised your mother that I would not let me in that state drag you down or affect you again."
Lin Qingle's eyes suddenly felt a little hot, but she quickly concealed it.
Why didn't he understand... That year, Lin Qingle never considered the blind Xu Tingbai as a burden.
He was her direction and motivation. Because of him, she kept working hard. She didn't fall behind in any of her studies and even learned better.
But everyone, even himself, felt that he would influence her and become a stumbling block in her life.
Obviously... that's not the case.
Lin Qingle lowered his eyes.
But there's no point saying more now, they can't go back to the past.
Lin Qingle was silent for a moment, then calmed down: "Actually, there's no point in talking about the past now. It's good that you're doing well now, and we've reunited and are still friends, which is good. Um... I just mentioned it casually just now, don't mind it."
Lin Qingle thought about it and said, "Well, I'd better leave first, right?"
Doesn't it make sense
But to him, all of them meant something.
Moreover, regardless of whether she was really not angry or really didn't care, he knew clearly that he didn't want to remain just friends.
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