Feng Ning remained silent and said nothing. He just smiled as a response.
Min Yueyue noticed an ambiguous meaning in these words, and her eyes looked left and right, moving between the two of them.
She suddenly became curious: "Handsome Jiang."
Jiang Wen: "Just call me Jiang Wen."
Min Yueyue said, "I heard from Ningning that you two were high school classmates. Did you go abroad right after you graduated from high school?"
Jiang Wen did not answer immediately. After a while, he said, "No."
Min Yueyue hesitated a little: "So you went to university in China?"
“I studied for my undergraduate degree in the United States,” Jiang Wen answered.
Min Yueyue was stuck for a moment and asked the question in her heart, "So you studied halfway in China and then went abroad?"
"Um."
Just as she was about to continue asking, Feng Ning interrupted her, "Okay, are you checking the household registration?"
"I just care."
Jiang Wen's phone rang and he picked it up.
Bai Hongyi: "I'm here."
"Where?"
"At the door, where are you guys?"
"C-Zone 47."
A few minutes later, Bai Hongyi arrived at the battlefield. Min Yueyue went over to negotiate with him, leaving Feng Ning and Jiang Wen alone.
It might be a psychological effect. After Min Yueyue left, the atmosphere became a little strange when they were alone. Feng Ning felt uncomfortable. She took out her phone and started looking at the information. After looking for a while, she sent a voice message to Xiao Zhu, "Send me the translation of the business visit with Tina."
Xiao Zhu: Sister Ningning, please go check on Guan Tongfu's progress first. I want to have a good weekend. Please^^
So Feng Ning sent another message to Guan Tongfu:
-Have you finished the PPT for the hotel project you mentioned before? I want to see the finished product when I go to work next Monday.
She thought about it and made a phone call.
As soon as the call was picked up, the person on the other end howled, "Sister, are you a monster? Why are you urging me to work at this hour?"
Feng Ning: "I'm afraid you'll slack off."
"Just half an hour ago, the boss asked me the same question. You should go talk to the boss about life. You two workaholics are a perfect match!"
"Brother is back?"
"I got off the plane at noon."
Feng Ning said "oh".
Guan Tongfu suddenly realized something was wrong, "Sister Ning, why do I feel like you're a little weird?"
"What."
“Are you on a blind date?”
Guan Tongfu's words shocked her, and she was speechless, "It's already ten o'clock, who would go on a blind date at this time?"
"Why else would you have the time to call me and chat about this and that?" Guan Tongfu paused to analyze, "You're just looking for something to do, just like when I went on a blind date a few days ago."
Without saying a word, Feng Ning hung up the phone.
Jiang Wen glanced over and said, "Are you busy at work?"
Feng Ning was much shorter than Jiang Wen, and she was wearing a baseball cap, so she didn't have to worry about making eye contact with him. She politely asked back, "It's OK. How about you? You must be very busy after just returning to China."
"You are not as busy as me."
Feng Ning: “…”
It was dark here, with only the faint light from the phone reflected on her face: "After years of being influenced by America, you are indeed more eloquent than before."
"Yeah?"
Feng Ning's heart was far from being as calm as he appeared. When he spoke, his tone was unconsciously a little sarcastic: "Isn't it true? I say one thing and you can say ten things back."
Sensing her temper, Jiang Wen smiled faintly and said calmly, "I just want to see how long you can pretend to be in harmony with me as old classmates."
Feng Ning turned his gaze away and looked at Min Yueyue and the others: "I just don't want to embarrass both of us."
"Awkward?"
At this moment, Bai Hongyi turned around and shouted, "Ryan, come here!"
Jiang stopped talking, looked at Feng Ning and said nothing.
When he reached them, he asked, "What's going on?"
His tone was a bit aggressive. Bai Hongyi was confused, not knowing who had suddenly irritated Jiang Wen. He said, "I have to go abroad tomorrow morning. Add this young lady on WeChat, and I'll leave the car repair to you."
After Min Yueyue added him on WeChat, Bai Hongyi said, "Let's just leave it at that for tonight. My car is still parked outside."
Min Yueyue, who was standing nearby, had her eyes lit up. She had no fear of bothering others and said hurriedly, "Ningning and I have been drinking. Are you guys going the same way? Can you give us a ride?"
Bai Hongyi agreed readily: "Sure, it's totally on the way."
The two of them walked in front, and Feng Ning lagged behind by two steps.
Min Yueyue was very curious about Jiang Wen's past with her: "Why are you two so calm? You don't look like lovers who have been reunited after a long separation." She added, "Even though we broke up."
After a moment of silence, Feng Ning said, "How about we hold hands and look into each other's eyes in tears?"
"That's not the case either."
Min Yueyue exclaimed, "Well, at least, it will be a little stiff. Don't people become enemies after breaking up? Become strangers? I saw that you two were chatting quite naturally just now."
Feng Ning slowly calmed her breathing, lowered her voice, and spoke each word clearly, "If it weren't for you, blocking someone else's car and then crashing into someone else's car, would I be standing here now, chatting awkwardly with my ex-boyfriend?"
"Don't be so fierce."
Min Yueyue rarely saw Feng Ning angry, so she said, "You look like you haven't let it go."
Get in the car and fasten your seat belt. Bai Hongyi picked up the xylitol on the center console, took out two pieces of chewing gum, put them in his mouth, turned around and asked them, "Do you want it?"
Min Yueyue took it and said, "Okay, thank you."
He poured it into his palm and gave one to Feng Ning.
It tastes like mint. When you bite it and chew it, a refreshing cool feeling spreads on the tip of your tongue.
Bai Hongyi opened the rearview mirror and asked, "Where do you live?"
Min Yueyue gave an address.
"Beauty, what about you?"
After being bumped, Feng Ning came back to his senses, "What?"
"Where do you live?"
"Near Yunan City."
"OK, got it."
The temperature at night was not very high, the car windows were lowered, and the wind was very comfortable. After ten o'clock, the streets of Shanghai were quiet. Bai Hongyi asked, "Are you Ryan's high school classmate?"
Feng Ning leaned against the window: "Yeah."
"My name is Bai Hongyi, you can call me Andrew. Ryan and I are college classmates."
Min Yueyue is also a chatterbox and asked, "Oh... What school do you two go to?"
Bai Hongyi replied: "I studied for both my bachelor's and master's degrees at Yale, and Ryan went to MIT after graduation."
"Ah? Yale!!" This was a bit beyond Min Yueyue's expectation: "Oh my god... MIT!! Master's degree!! You are actually intellectuals?! I didn't realize it at all!!!"
Min Yueyue's social circle is quite wide. Although she has few close friends, she has a lot of bad friends. Anyway, in the domestic circle, they are all the same as her, the second-generation rich who are just living a life without any knowledge or skills. She can't even get close to the truly outstanding ones.
So when Min Yueyue found out about their educational backgrounds, she was quite surprised: "You don't look like nerds at all."
"Really? Then what do we look like?"
Min Yueyue answered honestly: "Scumbag."
Bai Hongyi was amused: "It's really not my fault that I'm too handsome."
The car was filled with their chatter, and the atmosphere suddenly became warmer. Min Yueyue sighed, "I originally planned to study in Melbourne, but my dad despised the fake schools and spent money to get me a self-recruitment quota, so I stayed in China."
"Actually, studying abroad is pretty good, and it's suitable for a party animal like me."
Min Yueyue said casually: "According to the American trend, you two must have had a lot of girlfriends in college, right?"
Bai Hongyi: "To be honest, there are singles all around me. Many of them have been single for four years, like the one next to me."
Min Yueyue was shocked for the second time: "Is this true?" She pointed at Jiang Wen, "Him? Single for four years?!"
"Yes." Bai Hongyi said with a smile, "But our school has a heavy academic burden, and this is also the reason."
"Then... I really didn't realize that. You don't even have a girlfriend?" Min Yueyue stuttered a little. "I was just thinking that a handsome guy like Jiang Wen must be a scumbag when it comes to relationships. Who knew he wouldn't even have one?"
Bai Hongyi seemed to remember something, "Actually, I'm not sure either. I only know that Ryan had a girlfriend in high school, and he said that when he was drunk."
Min Yueyue looked at Feng Ning meaningfully. Her curiosity was aroused, and she begged, "What did he say? Tell me."
When Feng Ning heard this, he couldn't help but turn around and glare at Min Yueyue, and mouthed, "Is this never going to end?"
Bai Hongyi didn't know the relationship between Feng Ning and Jiang Wen, so he said without much concern, "Ryan got drunk one time and talked about his ex-girlfriend."
"Uh-huh?"
Jiang Wen held his head up and looked at the road ahead without interrupting them. He seemed to not care at all about being exposed by his friends.
Bai Hongyi: "Didn't you say he was a scumbag when it came to relationships?"
Min Yueyue: "No, no, no, I just said they look a bit similar."
"Then you're wrong." Bai Hongyi always found this a little funny every time he mentioned it: "His ex-girlfriend from high school seemed to say that she was going to work outside at night?"
"Well, then what?"
Bai Hongyi glanced at Jiang and asked, "Then Ryan didn't dare to call every day, nor did he dare to ask his girlfriend if she had returned home from work, for fear that she would find him annoying. Do you know what he did?"
Min Yueyue said: "What should I do?"
"He stares at people's QQ to see if they are online via 4G or wifi to determine whether they have arrived home."
Min Yueyue couldn’t believe it: “Hahahahahaha, oh my god, so humble!”
"Yes, you can't tell."
They were both laughing.
Jiang Wen rested his elbows on the windowsill, staring calmly at the night outside, seeming too lazy to say anything more.
Feng Ning felt as if something had pulled at his heart, a mixture of pain and sourness that emerged belatedly.
After passing a traffic light, Bai Hongyi said, "Yunan City is just ahead. Where are you getting off?"
Feng Ning: "Just find an intersection to drop me off. Thank you very much."
"Then I'll go down with Ningning." Min Yueyue said, "It's so interesting to chat with you. Meeting you is fate. How about we add each other on WeChat?"
Bai Hongyi: "Sure, ask Jiang Wen to give you my business card and we can hang out together when we have the chance."
"Okay." Min Yueyue said to Feng Ning excitedly, "Ningning, give me your phone too."
Feng Ning sat still: "What are you going to do?"
Min Yueyue snatched it from her hand, fiddled with it for a while, then looked up at Jiang Wen and said, "Handsome, please approve Ningning's friend request."
Jiang Wen withdrew his gaze until the figure disappeared. He picked up his phone, opened WeChat, clicked on the friend request, and looked at it for a long while.
He suddenly thought of something, "Bai Hongyi."
"Ah, what's the matter?"
"I have a question for you."
"What's the problem?"
"In the world..."
Jiang Wen paused, thought for a moment, and turned his face away, "The toughest high school student in the world, what does this mean?"
Jiang Wen was very busy with his studies during the past few years abroad, and he started a business after graduation, so he had little time to surf the Internet. Therefore, he was not very familiar with the popular memes on the domestic Internet.
But Bai Hongyi is different. He always likes innocent girls. His last girlfriend is a sophomore in college. In order to keep up with the trend of young people, Bai Hongyi tries to catch up with other people's jokes during the chat. He often checks Weibo.
"The hardest... high school student?"
Bai Hongyi repeated it and thought for a moment, "Oh, I know this."
"That's right." He smiled obscenely, "Look down."
"Have you bowed your head?"
Jiang Wen lowered his head.
"See?"
"What are you looking at?"
"The toughest one among high school students."
Jiang Wen reacted and said "oh". He sneered and lit another cigarette.
Bai Hongyi asked: "Why, who told you that?"
"No one."
"Young girls nowadays like young wolves and little puppies. There is no market for old men like us." Bai Hongyi looked at the road. "However, regarding the hardest, I don't quite agree. Whether it is hard or not can only be determined in bed, don't you think?"
"You can go find a high school student to do this."
"You are so bad."
Bai Hongyi said, "By the way, did you go back to China to find your ex-girlfriend?"
He played with his lighter, his expression unchanged: "No."
At this time, it was just the two of them. Bai Hongyi did not shy away from asking, "Why, have you finally let it go?"
Jiang Wen turned away, and after a long while, he said, "I don't want to bother her anymore."
Feng Ning returned home smelling like hot pot, and the first thing he did was to go to the bathroom to take a shower.
She was thinking about what happened today, and everything she did was slow. She finished drying her hair absentmindedly, went to the living room to get a glass of water, and only realized it was boiling water when she drank it.
It was so hot that I spat it out.
She went back to the bedroom, picked up her charging phone, and found that Jiang Wen had accepted her friend request ten minutes ago and also sent her a screenshot of the chat.
Enlarging the screenshot, he didn't make any comments, and she recognized Min Yueyue's profile picture.
my: I have something to do tomorrow, so I plan to ask Ningning to help me watch over the car repair. Would you like to go with her
Feng Ning put down the cup of water beside him and was thinking about how to reply when his phone vibrated again.
Still the news from Jiang Wen:
-I'll smoke three cigarettes and go to sleep if you don't reply.
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