The two looked at each other in silence. Feng Ning's mind froze for a moment, not sure if he was hallucinating.
The people who were traveling with Jiang Wen were a little surprised. Bai Hongyi observed for a while and asked, "Ryan, your friend?"
Jiang Wen was completely unaware of what he said.
Feng Ning was sitting in her seat, a little caught off guard. But she adjusted quickly, and stood up calmly in a moment, "Jiang Wen?"
"It's me."
There was about a table corner between them. She stepped back a little calmly and asked, "When did you return home?"
He said, "Last week."
"Oh... like this."
This time, Jiang Wen didn't respond.
An awkward feeling spread out, Feng Ning seemed to have no idea what to say next, he raised his hand and pointed at Min Yueyue, "I'm here to eat with my friends."
Jiang Wen said: "Well, I'll go first then."
"OK."
After they left, Feng Ning sat down again.
After a long while, she sighed, picked up a cookie from the snack plate and put it in her mouth, and asked, "Why are you staring at me?"
Min Yueyue's eyes were full of hearts, and she asked stupidly, "Ningning, where do you know this handsome guy? Why haven't I heard you mention him before?"
"What a handsome guy."
Min Yueyue kicked her foot under the table and said unhappily, "Why are you pretending to be stupid?"
"Oh, you mean the guy just now?" Feng Ning answered absentmindedly, evasively, "He was my high school classmate."
Just then, the waiter came over with a pot, "All the fifteen frogs you ordered are here, they are cooked and you can eat them right away."
Feng Ning stopped the waiter who was about to leave.
"Hello, what can I do for you?"
Feng Ning said, "Bring some wine."
Several bottles of Snow Flower Pure Draft were placed on the table. Feng Ning picked up one and, without using a screwdriver, skillfully knocked the cap off on the edge of the table.
Min Yueyue's eyes widened, "Ningning, you are so awesome."
Feng Ning poured himself a full cup and took a big gulp.
Min Yueyue was not a good drinker, so she drank a few sips with her and then started to fight among the bullfrogs. She lowered her head and ate for a while, then raised her head from the bowl and looked straight at Feng Ning, "I think it's more than just high school classmates, right?"
The topic was too jumpy, and Feng Ning took a while to realize that she was talking about Jiang Wen.
Min Yueyue's face was full of gossip: "Just the way you two looked at each other just now, it really tells a story."
"Have you been reading a lot of romance novels recently?"
"Is it an ex-boyfriend?"
Feng Ning shook the beer foam in his glass and replied slowly, "Yes."
"Really?" Min Yueyue opened her eyes wide, unable to believe: "Really the ex-boyfriend?"
Feng Ning smiled and took another sip of wine, "I was just kidding."
"Hateful." Min Yueyue was disappointed and threw away her chopsticks. "Is it true or not?"
"I told you and you didn't believe me."
After a moment, Min Yueyue asked tentatively: "Did you really talk about it?"
Feng Ning did not comment.
"-Ah!" Min Yueyue lay dejectedly on the back of the sofa, "I'm so sad."
"What are you sad about?"
"I just fell in love with the handsome guy at first sight, but before I could commit to him, I heard the bad news—he turned out to be your ex-boyfriend."
Min Yueyue slammed the table angrily, "Then how can I do it?"
Feng Ning was originally in a heavy mood, but she made him laugh, "Okay, the show is over."
After a while, Min Yueyue regained her spirits and decided to ask more questions: "How long did you talk?"
“I don’t remember.”
"Why is your memory so bad!"
Min Yueyue realized something was wrong as soon as she said this, and quickly changed her words, "No, shouldn't you remember this love affair with such a handsome guy forever? This is the highlight of your life!!"
Feng Ning smiled and didn't answer.
"Tell me about it, I'm really curious."
"What to talk about? It's been so long, what is there to talk about?"
Min Yueyue asked a series of questions like bombs: "Who of you chased who? Have you kissed? Have you slept with each other?"
She acted persistent, as if she would not let Feng Ning go all night unless she answered.
Feng Ning: "We kissed, but we didn't have sex."
"Who's chasing whom?"
"... I chased him."
At this moment, the phone vibrated, and a call came in. Feng Ning was concentrating on talking to Min Yueyue and didn't see it.
"Your high school classmates... How did you break up? Did you break up after graduation?"
Feng Ning patiently replied, "Almost."
"It's been ten years now, it's amazing that you still remember what the other person looks like."
Min Yueyue sighed sadly: "Ningning, what should I do? I really like handsome guys. Why can't I have several boyfriends at the same time? What do you think I should do? Wuuuuuu."
When it rang for the second time, Feng Ning finally caught a glimpse of the phone lighting up. She picked up the phone and answered her by the way: "Cooperate with the doctor and get treatment in time."
While talking, he slid the answer button and said hello.
No one responded.
"Why can't I hear any sound?"
Feng Ning called twice more, took down the phone and checked it, it showed that the call was still ongoing, put it back to his ear, and muttered, "Is there something wrong with my phone?"
Min Yueyue agreed and continued to eat frog with chopsticks, "You should change this broken phone as soon as possible. I can't get through to you on the phone recently."
She returned to the topic just now, with something in her mouth, and said vaguely: "You should have slept with your ex-boyfriend once before breaking up. There is a saying on Weibo that the hardest thing in the world is not diamonds, but the one between high school students."
After swallowing the food in her mouth, Min Yueyue said in a loud voice: "You didn't even have the chance to try the hardest man in the world. What a loss."
"... ..."
Feng Ning was speechless and was about to hang up the phone when a familiar voice suddenly came to his ear: "—Why did you put your phone number on my car?"
The voice on the other end of the phone was Jiang Wen.
She held the phone in her hand, thinking she was hallucinating, and paused, "Huh?"
"Phone number."
Feng Ning took a while to digest this outrageous thing. She said, "The car that was blocked... is it yours?"
His voice was inexplicable, "What."
She also asked: "What?"
For some reason, Jiang Wen didn't hear anything for a long time, and then he said, "Oh... Yes, my car is stuck."
After Feng Ning hung up the phone, Min Yueyue asked nonchalantly, "Who is it?"
Feng Ning picked up the glass and drank the remaining wine in one gulp, "The toughest high school student in the world."
Min Yueyue: “… ”
Feng Ning stood up, took the bag, and said, "Let's go."
Min Yueyue turned her head: "Huh? Don't want to eat anymore?"
"Move the car, big sister."
The lights in the parking lot were dim, and the place where Jiang Wen was standing was very dark. He bit a cigarette, lit it, and pinched it with his fingers. A cloud of smoke spread between his lips, and there was a flickering red light on his fingertips.
A few steps away, Feng Ning stopped silently.
For some reason, at that moment, she suddenly thought of the lyrics from Faye Wong's "Flowing Years":
—In this lifetime, we will meet each other on a narrow road and we will not be able to escape.
As soon as the thought came to her mind, Feng Ning cursed herself in her heart. When did she become so non-mainstream
Jiang Wen half-bent over, holding a cigarette in one hand and a phone in the other. With his back against the door of the fire escape, his expression was hidden in the unclear darkness, and he smoked in a very skillful manner.
Stopping at a distance of ten meters, she stared at him intently.
Min Yueyue, who followed from behind, shouted excitedly, "Handsome guy!"
Seeing them coming, Jiang Wen put out the cigarette in his hand.
Min Yueyue jumped over Feng Ning and came to him, "Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Min Yueyue, and Ningning is my best friend."
After looking at the person in front of him blankly for a few seconds, Jiang Wen stood up straight and extended his hand in a perfunctory and casual manner, "Hello, Jiang Wen."
Min Yueyue said obediently: "Oh, I'm so sorry for blocking your car. Didn't it delay anything?"
She was a girl from Southern Jiangsu, and she spoke in a coquettish voice, much like she was acting like a spoiled child. Jiang Wen pulled his hand away, "It's okay."
"Wait a moment, I'll move away."
There were two beeps, and the pinkie flashed and unlocked. Min Yueyue opened the door and said to Feng Ning, "Ningning, stand aside. I'm going to reverse."
After getting in the car and starting the engine, Min Yueyue honked the horn twice to urge him on. Feng Ning moved his feet and walked towards Jiang Wen.
Standing about a meter away, she looked around and asked, "Where are your friends?"
"I'm going back."
Feng Ning said "oh" and tried to greet him politely, as if he was meeting a long-lost friend. "Are you used to being back home?"
While speaking, she didn't even look at Jiang Wen's face.
Jiang Wen said indifferently: "It's okay, nothing to get used to."
Feng Ning stared at the cigarette ash beside her toes. She wanted to ask when he learned to smoke, but the words were on the tip of her tongue, and she couldn't open her mouth.
Their conversation was as bland as water, and it seemed that it would never cause any waves.
Just when Feng Ning thought that this was the end, Jiang Wen suddenly pulled her over and said, "Be careful."
There was a loud bang in the parking lot, and the rear end of the Maserati hit the front of the Bentley directly.
Feng Ning's chin hit Jiang Wen's shoulder, which was a bit painful. Both of them staggered.
Perhaps because he was afraid that she would bump into the wall, Jiang Wen subconsciously put his arm around her waist and used his other hand to support himself on the wall beside her ear to stop his body.
The two of them were so close that she could feel the heat of his skin through his clothes.
Feng Ning let him hold her.
It was too close, and my vision went out of focus, then came back into focus.
Jiang Wen's face was very close to her, his brows were furrowed, and she could even see the mole next to his eyebrow.
—Once upon a time, it was her favorite mole.
He lowered his eyes and asked in a low voice, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." After a brief moment of distraction, Feng Ning pushed Jiang Wen away a little, but didn't push him. Worried about Min Yueyue, she said to him a little anxiously, "Let go of my hand!"
Jiang Wen let go as he was told.
Min Yueyue got out of the car in a panic, ran to the back, looked at the tragic rear-end collision, and screamed in despair.
Feng Ning hurried over and pulled her to check: "Are you injured?"
"Wow, wow, I'm not hurt, but my little pinkie is hurt, and my heart hurts so much."
"How do you drive? You could hit something like this."
Min Yueyue pouted and stamped her feet: "It's all your fault. You made me drink and drive!"
"..."
Feng Ning's forehead twitched, "Miss, you only drank two sips of beer."
"Then I can't drink much!"
Min Yueyue was a little embarrassed, with a sad face, and asked Jiang Wen: "I'm sorry, handsome guy, have you bought insurance for your car?"
"I don't know, I just returned home, this is my friend's car."
Jiang Wen picked up his phone and called Bai Hongyi.
Min Yueyue and Feng Ning whispered to each other, "I can see that your ex-boyfriend is also from a wealthy family."
"What?"
Min Yueyue: "A luxury car crashed, but he was so calm and didn't even blink."
Feng Ning thought for a moment and said, "His family must be quite wealthy."
"Why didn't you hold him tighter at the beginning? I was worried about you."
"Nothing."
Min Yueyue lowered her voice, "Such a wonderful man, you can't miss him! God let you meet again, isn't this fate?"
After finishing the call, Jiang Wen came over. He bent down and picked up the keys that Feng Ning had dropped on the ground.
Feng Ning took it and said sincerely, "Thank you."
After a moment of silence, he replied with three words: "You're welcome."
Maybe because his arrogance in high school left too deep an impression on her, Feng Ning was still a little unaccustomed to his... gentle demeanor. "You've really changed a lot now."
Jiang Wen said casually: "You haven't changed much."
"Um?"
"You're still the same to me as always." Jiang Wen paused and said indifferently, "Indifferent."
The author has something to say: Thank you to the fairies who cast mines and nutrient solution! Bow!!