After coming out of Jin Huang, Cheng Yuelin did not respond to Qian Fan's warm invitation, got into the car with Ruan Zhiyin, and returned to the villa beside Lanjiang.
I don't know if it was because of hearing Qian Fan reveal the man's shortcoming, Ruan Zhiyin seemed to be in a good mood. When he left early, he also invited Qian Fan and the others to be guests at home another day.
As for Qian Fan who got the invitation, he turned his head and raised his eyebrows at Cheng Yuelin recklessly, gaining the man's lower air pressure.
As soon as he entered the door, Ruan Zhiyin walked into the kitchen, took a cup of yogurt from the refrigerator, and handed a bottle to Cheng Yuelin.
Then he glanced at the half-empty refrigerator, thinking about when to take time out, and invited Qian Fan and the others to come over for dinner, doing the best of the master's etiquette.
Cheng Yuelin's arrogant temper must have offended people a lot at ordinary times, and he has never asked anyone to come over for dinner since he got married.
It's not easy for Qian Fan and the others to endure him until now, she has to help him consolidate the bridge of friendship.
Cheng Yuelin took the yogurt with one hand, put it in his pocket, leaned idle by the kitchen door to look at her, and raised his eyebrows: "Are you not angry?"
Startled, Ruan Zhiyin shook her head.
After hearing Qian Fan talk about his chasing the thief just now, the little bit of anger in his heart has already dissipated.
Thinking of Cheng Yuelin's morning breakfast with some confession and flattery, she bent her lower lip towards the man: "Actually, thinking about it carefully, I don't seem to need to be angry. But I just couldn't hold back."
The reason why he did that, in the final analysis, was because of Qin Jue's annoying provocation at the dinner party. That circle of friends was only seen by Linlang and the others, and it didn't affect her in any way. It could be seen that Cheng Yuelin was still measured.
Even if she made some rude actions to make her angry, the man didn't seem to cross the line.
If this is her attitude towards others, she has lost her temper all day, which is indeed a big fuss. But when it comes to Cheng Yuelin, he can't help it.
Seeing that there was a hint of prudence in her words, Cheng Yuelin stepped forward and touched her head: "Ruan 嘤嘤, I said, you can be angry with me."
The promise made to her will never be broken.
She was able to get angry wanton, and gradually put down her burdens to face him. To a certain extent, Cheng Yuelin was happy.
Ruan Zhiyin's eyes turned slightly, she suddenly thought of something, and then smiled: "Then if I let you kneel on the washboard, is it okay?"
Cheng Yuelin's face was slightly stagnant, and after a long pause, he spoke unconvincingly: "You have to be so angry, you can do it at home, you can take a look at it yourself."
On the outside, he still wants it.
But in Cheng Yuelin's opinion, he couldn't do anything to make Ruan Zhiyin so angry. Therefore, such an opportunity to kneel on the washboard should not exist.
Ruan Zhiyin didn't stop at this topic, and instead said: "I met Wang Xin in Jinhuang today. He said that there was a class reunion some time ago. Do you want to go?"
"Classmates reunion?" Cheng Yuelin raised his eyebrows.
Ruan Zhiyin suddenly remembered that in high school, he was always alone in his class, and he skipped classes from time to time, so he didn't have a good relationship with his classmates.
Of course, apart from Qian Fan coming to him every day, he doesn't seem to have any intention of getting along with other people.
However, the man followed with a slight nod: "If you want to go, I will accompany you to go through the scene."
Ruan Zhiyin responded: "Well, then I'll see if I have time."
After the two finished talking, she went back to her room.
Although there were originally plans to move, Ruan Zhiyin was so angry that she threatened to go back to the second bedroom because of Cheng Yuelin's shameless behavior in the morning.
Cheng Yuelin's plan was forced to die prematurely, which can be regarded as a lesson. Gu Linlang said that men sometimes have to learn a lesson, and Ruan Zhiyin agreed.
Remembering that Wang Xin said that the location of the class reunion was posted in the class group, Ruan Zhiyin logged in to QQ, which she had not used for a long time, and glanced at the announcements in the group.
The time is next weekend, and the location is a long-established restaurant near Lanzhong that has been open for many years. The business of this store has been very good, and it is extremely difficult to book boxes.
In the group, several classmates were chatting with each other about the current situation. Ruan Zhiyin did not participate, but when she left, she received a message from her list friends: [Ruan Zhiyin, you are actually online? Wasn't it stolen? ]
Looking at the remarks, it was Su Yixuan, the study committee member of the class. The other party sat in front of Ruan Zhiyin and often asked her for questions, and the relationship was not bad.
Ruan Zhiyin bent her lower lip and replied: [No, I met Wang Xin today and he said that there was a class reunion some time ago, so I went to the group to check it out. ]
[Well, if you have time, remember to come. You have been abroad for all these years, and it is difficult for everyone to contact you. ]
[Well, if I have time, I will pass. ]
Speaking of which, Ruan Zhiyin had always maintained a not-so-cold classmate friendship with everyone back then. When I first graduated, I would occasionally get in touch with a few of my classmates to briefly exchange their current situation with each other.
However, unlike others, she is used to parting, and children of that age are not sober, and she understands that after graduation, everyone's relationship will gradually fade.
So from the beginning, Ruan Zhiyin didn't want to make close friends. The only exception was Ye Yanchu, who was two years younger than her and was rescued by her by accident.
Ye Yanchu is a lovely and cheerful girl who grew up in a loving family. The other party's warm approach made her unable to refuse.
As for other people, even if there is an Internet connection, the jet lag and distance will still make people drift apart until they lose contact.
Here, including Cheng Yuelin.
Although helping him with tutoring started with gambling, their relationship had eased a lot by the time they graduated from high school.
But in the end, she cut off contact with his family because of her going abroad.
Ruan Zhiyin couldn't help but think, what happened to Cheng Yuelin when she was strangers to each other when she was abroad for a few years
The youth who used to be reckless, has come to the present step by step, relying not only on the good luck of God.
—
After the weekend passed, Ruan Zhiyin quickly returned to her fulfilling work.
The factory reconstruction of the R&D base was basically completed. Zhang Chun also personally took the team to X province, where he will stay there and set up a research laboratory. Landbridge is more responsible for the marketing and cooperation negotiation after the launch of the first batch of sodium hyaluronate products.
Ruan Zhiyin had just read Zhang Chun's email last night, thinking about when to meet Xu Shuying, when Kang Yu knocked on the door and walked in.
"Mr. Ruan, President Zhang has arrived in Jiahong. Is your business trip scheduled for the end of the month or the middle of the month?"
Although Zhang Chun has already arrived in Jiahong, she still needs to go there. It's the end of the month, and there's still some other work to wrap up. If I go to Jiahong on a business trip, I will work overtime during this time, and I can arrange it in mid-December at the earliest.
But Ruan Zhiyin thought about this weekend's class reunion, and when it came to her lips, she took it back and turned back: "I'll be there at the end of the month."
Kang Yu nodded: "Okay."
—
Ruan Zhiyin was not the only one who kept working hard until Friday. Near the end of the year, Cheng Yuelin's affairs also increased.
Saturday night was a class reunion. She didn't work overtime, so she deliberately set aside time to participate, but Cheng Yuelin temporarily had too many entertainments that couldn't be dismissed.
In the evening, the driver took Ruan Zhiyin to the party restaurant alone.
…
In the splendid box, Xu Fei, dressed in a rich dress, just walked in, and immediately ushered in the ridicule of everyone at the table.
"I didn't say, Xu Shao, can we keep a low profile? Your big golden chain has been hanging since high school, and it's quite a long-term relationship." Su Yixuan laughed and joked.
Lanzhong is divided into international classes and college entrance examination classes. There are even two principals, one Chinese principal and one foreign principal. The school spirit is not rigid and students are not restricted in dressing up.
Among them, the college entrance examination class does not have a key class in name, but the so-called parallel class is also quite unique. Class 1 of the top 30 in the liberal arts is concentrated, and there are five students whose grades tend to be at the bottom of the grade.
No matter how good other people's grades are, if Xu Fei and Wang Xinyi are averaged, it can be regarded as 'parallel classification'.
Although Xu Fei and Wang Xin did not get good grades, other students did not have the lofty attitude of good students. Moreover, these two are open-minded and funny, and their popularity has always been very good.
At this moment, Su Yixuan didn't have any scruples when joking, and even Wu Lingxuan and Yu Chao, who were on the side, also made fun of them.
Xu Fei patted his big golden chain and raised the tip of his nose: "What do you know, this is my family's heirloom. My father said that it was all thanks to his golden chain that I could get into college. "
Both Xu Fei and Wang Xin were reluctant to study abroad because of their poor English, so they were transferred from the international class to the college entrance examination class.
Unfortunately, the final college entrance examination scores of the two were too low, and they were thrown abroad for more than half a year. They finally passed the IELTS score of the school they applied for.
This is Xu Fei's 'counter-attack'.
When Su Yixuan heard the words, he flattened his mouth: "Xu Fei, you can pull it down. If you want to talk about counterattack, look at how awesome Cheng Yuelin was back then, but he was admitted to A University."
Although the specialties have been increased by several points, the naked points of others have also increased to 600. I raised more than 100 points in a year, and later the teacher even used it as a typical propaganda for the younger students.
Cheng Yuelin was forcibly put into the Wen 1 class by a building donated by Cheng's father.
Although he skips classes and fights all day long, his memory is really good, and he can usually pass five hundred exams when copying and copying papers.
Cheng Fengsheng's own education level is not high, but he hopes that his son will be admitted to the A university that he had dreamed of. Later, Cheng Yuelin fulfilled his wish, and the other party was so excited that he gave Ruan Zhiyin a check on the spot in the teacher's office.
However, Ruan Zhiyin was confiscated.
"Hmph, if I have the first classmate at the same table and give me make-up lessons every day, I can still stay in the country to study."
Xu Fei was not convinced, why would there be such a gentle student at the same table to help with tutoring, but he was envious, and he didn't dare to compete with Cheng Yuelin at the same table.
How injustice was fate to him!
As soon as the voice fell, the box door was pushed open.
Ruan Zhiyin's slender figure appeared at the door, looking at the familiar faces on the dining table, looking at each other, she was a little stunned, she just smiled politely: "Sorry, I'm late."
I haven't seen you for a long time, and everyone doesn't dare to recognize it.
In particular, the difference between Ruan Zhiyin's smart and elegant dress now and her high school uniform is too great.
It was Wang Xin who reacted first and shouted with a smile, "Yes, say Cao Cao and Cao Cao are here, and the first of our grade is here."
"Ruan Zhiyin, you sit there, Su Yixuan and the others have been waiting for you." After extending his fingers, Wang Xin asked again, "Didn't Cheng Yuelin come with you?"
Ruan Zhiyin sat down in the vacant seat next to Su Yixuan, raised her eyes and said softly, "He has a temporary entertainment, and he may come over soon after it ends."
"Ruan Zhiyin, do you still have contact with Cheng Yuelin?" Wu Lingxuan asked in confusion.
Xu Fei said with a smile: "It's not just a connection, but both of them are married."
"Huh?" More than one person said.
Ruan Zhiyin didn't want to hide it, and nodded generously: "Yes, we are married."
Everyone was a little surprised, after all, the relationship between the two was not good at the beginning. But I haven't heard much about them in these years, but I quickly accepted it.
Wu Lingxuan murmured, "I didn't expect it."
At this time, looking at Ruan Zhiyin again, it seemed a little more embarrassing.
Ruan Zhiyin knew the reason.
In high school, Cheng Yuelin was handsome and outstanding in sports, but he was usually cold and silent, ignoring others. There are many girls who like him, but most of them dare not approach him. Some people summoned the courage to send him love letters, but they were all rejected.
Because she was Cheng Yuelin's roommate, Wu Lingxuan asked Ruan Zhiyin to help hand over a love letter on Valentine's Day. At that time, Cheng Yuelin accepted it in a good mood, and turned around and other girls came to her.
Ruan Zhiyin was busy doing the questions, looking at the love letters on the table, she was finally overwhelmed, and she piled more than a dozen love letters to Cheng Yuelin during the evening study.
As a result, he turned blue with anger on the spot, and he didn't speak to her for several days.
However, Ruan Zhiyin, who was all about studying at that time, only felt that without Cheng Yuelin's interruption, the world was a lot cleaner, and she was more devoted to the problems.
Within a few days, he was back to normal.
Ruan Zhiyin couldn't help but smile after thinking about it. Then he noticed something and raised his head to meet someone's gaze.
Not far away, the person staring at her with a complicated expression turned out to be Yang Xue, who had transferred to school. The other party changed so much that Ruan Zhiyin reacted for several seconds before recognizing the person.
I really didn't expect that Yang Xue would come too.
…
The hotel was booked by Wang Xin, who is the monitor, and there is a ready-made board game area in the luxurious box.
In the polite chat room, the meals are almost the same. After drinking and eating, Wang Xin greeted people to play board games on the long card table next to him.
Su Yixuan called Ruan Zhiyin to go over, but Ruan Zhiyin saw that Wu Lingxuan, who had already sat down at the poker table, looked at her with a somewhat embarrassed look, and declined the invitation, saying that she would go out first to get some air.
After walking out of the well-heated box, Ruan Zhiyin stood by the window in the corridor to blow the wind for a while, then took out her mobile phone and sent a WeChat message to Cheng Yuelin, asking him if the party was over and when he would come over.
Thinking that they were almost done playing, when she turned around and was about to go back, Ruan Zhiyin met Yang Xue who pushed the door out at the door of the box.
"Ruan Zhiyin, do you have time to chat?"
After Yang Xue finished speaking, she pursed her lips and smiled at her.
Ruan Zhiyin looked at Yang Xue, who had washed off the red hair in front of her eyes, and looked quite calm. She didn't speak, and her attitude was noncommittal.
"I heard that you will come here, and I came here on purpose today. I was naive and immature back then and caused you some harm. I am really sorry. Don't get me wrong, I know what I have done is wrong. I'm not asking for forgiveness, I just want to... convey my apology to you."
Yang Xue's tone was sincere and her face was sincere, and then she gave Ruan Zhiyin a deep bow.
After straightening up, she said again: "Also, now I'm a teacher."
Ruan Zhiyin's eyelashes slightly opened, quite surprised.
"I didn't expect it?" Yang Xue smiled, "The children are very cute, and I hope that when I meet a student like me, I can help him."
Ruan Zhiyin only heard about Yang Xue's family after Yang Xue transferred to another school and left Landbridge.
Yang Xue's parents are divorced, and her mother has no children. Her father opened a factory in another province and left her to her grandmother, who rarely came back to see her.
She doesn't have any special scheming, but the friends around her are surrounded by her because of her high spending, and they are easily provoked.
Mostly, it seems more powerful when you feel arrogant and domineering.
Yang Xue used to feel sorry for her, but with the passage of time, she has already learned the lesson she deserves. Speaking of the culprit, she doesn't count, Ruan Zhiyin didn't want to trouble the other party again.
So she nodded: "That's good."
"Since I've finished speaking, it's time for me to leave." Yang Xue nodded lightly, said goodbye to Ruan Zhiyin, paused, as if remembering something, and asked again, "By the way, you and Cheng Yuelin have a good relationship, right?"
Ruan Zhiyin didn't expect Yang Xue to care about this, but thinking of Cheng Yuelin, she still smiled and replied lightly.
Yang Xue also smiled: "That's good. When he took you out of the equipment room, I felt that he treated you differently. Bless you."
Ruan Zhiyin frowned slightly and looked up at her: "What did you say?"
—
When I received the news from Cheng Yuelin, the class reunion was almost over.
Ruan Zhiyin was still immersed in the last conversation with Yang Xue, and absentmindedly followed the crowd out of the restaurant.
In the cool night, it started to rain.
The night wind blew, and the moist mist blew on the face with water droplets wrapped in it, and the coolness brought back a bit of sobriety.
Ruan Zhiyin subconsciously glanced at the phone.
There were a lot of people at today's party. The boys who drank were either waiting to drive, or asked the few who didn't drink to give them a ride.
Standing in front of the hotel, Su Yi turned her head and asked her, "Did you drive?"
"no."
When she came, the driver went to the villa to pick her up.
"Then do you want me to escort you? Where do you live?" Su Yixuan asked kindly.
Just as Ruan Zhiyin was about to speak, the commotion around her subsided, and her voices gradually ceased.
Not far away, a familiar figure came into view.
The man's face is cold and his temperament is outstanding. With a straight suit jacket and a dark gray woolen coat, he approached the crowd calmly.
It was raining and he held a black umbrella.
Ruan Zhiyin looked at the figure walking towards her unhurriedly, and in a trance, everything around her seemed to stop.
Cheng Yuelin's handsome brows, after a long time, gradually overlapped with the hazy impression left in his mind for many years.
It wasn't until the man put his coat over her that Ruan Zhiyin came back to her senses and heard his light tone: "It's over? Let's go then."
She turned sideways, smiled and nodded to Su Yixuan: "Don't bother, you go back to rest early, I'll go first."
Cheng Yuelin greeted everyone with a nod and nods, and then stretched out his arms to embrace her, and both of them walked towards Bentley, which was parked not far away.
When the backs of the man and woman disappeared from view, Xu Feicai said in the silence of everyone: "Tsk, why didn't I think before that Ruan Zhiyin and Cheng Yuelin are a good match."
"Nonsense, can a serious couple not be a good match?" Wang Xin looked at him with disgust.
Xu Fei chuckled softly and whispered: "Then you said at the wedding that he used to be the groom to rob Qin Jue's daughter-in-law?"
But no one else heard it.
"It's all robbed, isn't Ruan Zhiyin his daughter-in-law now? You can give me a little more brains in the future, and please be kind."
Xu Fei twitched the corners of his mouth disdainfully: "It's as if your second-to-last brain must be stronger than mine."
"Why, forgot that I scored five points more than you in the college entrance examination? Our brains are separated by the sky." Wang Xin slapped his friend in a gesture of pride.
"Oh, it is indeed five points higher than me, and I passed 250 in the test."
"roll!"
…
On the way back, Ruan Zhiyin stared at the car window silently, and the words of Yang Xue echoed repeatedly in her ears—
"At that time, he sent you to the hospital. After hearing from the doctor that you were all right, he answered a phone call from home. His face was not very good. He didn't wait for you to wake up and left."
It was him.
Actually, it was him.
Looking at the shadowy lights in the bustling night scene, Ruan Zhiyin's immersed thoughts were stretched infinitely, and she suddenly recalled the days of high school.
Before transferring to Lanzhong, Ruan Zhiyin had been studying in a high school in the county seat. She worked hard, and her grades in the county were always good.
But after transferring to Lanzhong, the first blow he suffered came from the results of the monthly exam.
Ruan Zhiyin, who has always been among the best, has achieved a lower-middle grade for the first time.
The educational resources of the county seat and Landbridge, and the level of excellence of the students, are completely incomparable.
After Ruan Zhiyin carefully told her grandfather at the dining table that she could not keep up with the progress, Lin Cheng pretended to be a good person and found a tutor for her.
However, the other party just gave her some basic questions to do, which did not help her at all.
Later, the Lin family wanted Lin Zhe to make up lessons with her, and it seemed that they had the idea of letting Lin Zhe get along with the girl.
Lin Cheng was eloquent and eloquent, and Ruan Zhiyin didn't want her grandfather to think that she was a willful child, so she could only ask Qin Jue, who had no malice towards her, for help.
Qin Jue gave her his own notes and instructed her on some study methods. During class time, Ruan Zhiyin occasionally went to the next class to ask Qin Jue for some questions.
At that time, she just regarded Qin Jue as an example of hard work. Even though he had a good impression of Qin Jue, he had no other idea.
But her behavior has caused dissatisfaction among others.
At that time, Ruan Zhiyin had just transferred schools, and she usually wore only one school uniform, looking like a country bumpkin. Not many people in the school knew her identity, but there were quite a few girls who liked Qin Jue, and He Xiaolan was one of them.
She didn't dare to offend Lin Jingfei, but she was dissatisfied that Ruan Zhiyin, who appeared out of nowhere, frequently contacted Qin Jue.
He Xiaolan and Yang Xue had a good relationship, knowing that Ruan Zhiyin had offended Yang Xue on the day of the report because Ye Yanchu had offended Yang Xue, so she thought of teaching Ruan Zhiyin a lesson.
After school one day, He Xiaolan instigated Yang Xue, and asked someone to lock Ruan Zhiyin into the equipment room in the name of borrowing things from gym class.
Yang Xue wanted Ruan Zhiyin to teach her a lesson, but she just wanted to lock him up for an hour or two before releasing him. But when Yang Xue was about to release her, He Xiaolan said that she had lost the key to the equipment room.
Not only that, He Xiaolan also blocked the vent of the equipment room with Yang Xue on her back.
There was a lot of stuff piled up in the equipment room. The dust inside was heavy and there was no ventilation. Ruan Zhiyin suffered from asthma, which she hadn't had for a long time.
It was early winter at that time, and the Landbridge at night was very cold. Consciousness gradually faded, Ruan Zhiyin felt the darkness swallowing herself bit by bit, and suddenly felt a little desperate.
Before she fell into a coma, she only remembered seeing the boy in a suit kick open the door of the equipment room and carry her out.
When he woke up again, there were Qin Jue, Qin Xiang, and Lin Cheng in front of the hospital bed. Qin Jue went to participate in the speech contest that day and didn't go to school, and was still wearing formal clothes.
Ruan Zhiyin thought that the person who saved her was Qin Jue, but because Lin Cheng was also in the ward at that time, she didn't say any more.
But Yang Xue said that she followed Cheng Yuelin to the hospital that day.
She felt that she was in trouble and did not dare to show up. She heard the doctor say that Ruan Zhiyin was fine, and saw Qin Jue and Lin Cheng rushed to the hospital, so she also left with a fluke.
Later, Ruan Zhiyin heard Qin Xiang mention that Zhao Bing and Cheng's father made up the wedding, but Cheng Yuelin ran away at his father's and stepmother's wedding. I like Zhao Bing's stepmother, but I don't care.
Recovering the thoughts of Piaoyuan, Bentley had stopped in front of the villa.
Ruan Zhiyin followed Cheng Yuelin to get out of the car, and did not speak again until she entered the door.
"What's wrong? It's so quiet today?" Cheng Yuelin noticed her silence, patted her on the head, raised his eyebrows cynically, and said with a smile, "Did you meet your old classmates and start reminiscing about the past?"
Ruan Zhiyin didn't speak, she quietly raised her eyes and stared at the man's eyebrows.
The twenty-seven-year-old man overlapped with the one he remembered, but his youthful youth in high school had faded, and he seemed not as sharp as then.
She suddenly remembered that Cheng Yuelin used to beat her when she was depressed because of the small gap: "Ruan 嘤嘤, what's going on today? Don't fight chicken blood?"
Lanzhong is different from other schools. In order to save time, most students will have lunch at the school at noon.
In her second year of high school, her grades were not that good, and sometimes she was sad because of her grades, and she would not go to the cafeteria for lunch because she was in a bad mood.
At that time, Cheng Yuelin would always bring a meal back to the classroom 'spontaneously', and then said, "I don't want to eat it, you can eat it. I'll have to trouble me if I don't feel hungry."
Ruan Zhiyin couldn't describe her current mood, unlike the surprise last time when she suddenly learned that he liked her for a long time. It was an afterthought that he discovered that his intentions had long been hidden in the details of those long periods of time.
He was sulking when he received the love letter handed over by him, ran away alone at his father's remarriage wedding because of her disappearance, noticed her depression, and tried to please him in a clumsy and stinky way.
Although Cheng Fengzhi's expectation of taking the A University entrance examination was not his dream, but he was so tired that his eyes darkened all day when she gave him supplementary courses, because he wanted to go to the same university as her. Even for a bracelet, he chased the thief for a few streets.
But she didn't know that. But he liked her so ignorant for so many years.
Ruan Zhiyin once hoped to get the greatest preference, although it was very personal, but it seemed that only this kind of feeling could make her let go of the burden she had carried for too long.
"Why are you crying?"
Cheng Yuelin frowned, gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, stared at her red eyes, and slowed down her voice.
Ruan Zhiyin shook her head silently, without speaking. Then with that desperate mood, he wrapped his arms around the man's neck and took the initiative to kiss him.
Aware of her rare enthusiasm, Cheng Yuelin was just stunned for a moment, and Cheng Yuelin gradually tightened his arms. In the silent lingering and entanglement of men and women, he gradually turned against the customer.
After a long time, the man said hoarsely, "That's over?"
Ruan Zhiyin nodded slightly.
"Okay, since that's the case—" His deep eyes were full of turbulence, and he looked deeper than the night outside the window, "Ruan 嘤嘤, I'm going to open the present now."