"It seems that not all care is like that from my dad..." Zheng Yubai felt a little cold when he thought about how his father always let the two dogs chase him when he was a child, claiming that it was to promote his physical development and that it was a father's care.
Soon they arrived near the Meihua Commercial Building. There were sirens nearby and many people were talking about someone jumping from a telephone pole onto a speeding car on Shuanghui Road. It sounded incredible. Zheng Yubai listened to their exaggerated interpretation and laughed in his heart.
Ding Beibei was standing at the entrance of the shopping mall with a shopping bag in her hand. Zheng Yubai saw her from a distance and ran over.
"Where have you been?" Ding Beibei looked at Zheng Yubai with a suspicious look, "Do you know what happened on Shuanghui Road just now?"
"What happened?" Zheng Yubai scratched his head, looking confused.
Ding Beibei seemed a little disappointed: "Nothing, I thought it was you..."
Zheng Yubai felt uneasy. The last time he helped Ding Beibei get her handbag back, she knew that he had kung fu skills. The Shuanghui Road incident happened right after he ran out. Ding Beibei was smart, so it was natural for her to have doubts.
"What's wrong with your clothes?" Ding Beibei asked, pointing at Zheng Yubai.
Zheng Yubai lowered his head and almost cried. The new clothes he bought for 8,000 yuan had a big tear on the hem, and his pants were covered with dust. This must have happened when he jumped out of the car just now. He was protecting Master Qi all the way and forgot to clean it up.
"Well... I just fell down." Zheng Yubai made up a lie that he himself didn't believe.
Ding Beibei was not angry, but smiled: "Forget it, I've already given it to you. Besides, I bought two, so you should change into this new one."
Seeing the cunning look in Ding Beibei's eyes, Zheng Yubai knew that she had guessed something. However, explaining at this time would be a trap, so he could only take the shopping bag and go to the restroom of the shopping mall to change his clothes.
After changing his clothes, when Zheng Yubai appeared next to Ding Beibei, the eyes of passers-by looked less jealous and more envious. It was no wonder, Zheng Yubai looked handsome and tall in a well-tailored suit, while Ding Beibei was cute and dainty, and they were a perfect match.
Ding Beibei said the party would start at 2pm, at the Lotte Hotel near Hailong Community. Seeing that it was still early, Ding Beibei dragged Zheng Yubai to go shopping with her. This was the first time in Zheng Yubai's life that he went shopping with a woman. When they were carrying countless shopping bags, Zheng Yubai finally understood the crazy shopping ability of women.
They took a taxi and headed straight to Lotte Hotel. When they arrived at the hotel entrance, Ding Beibei got off the car first. Zheng Yubai was fiddling with the shopping bags when he heard someone say, "Beibei is here. I haven't seen you for a month. You look more beautiful now."
Zheng Yubai got out of the car with the shopping bags and saw the person who was talking. It was Zhu Yunsong, his class monitor in college.
When he saw Zheng Yubai, Zhu Yunsong was obviously stunned for a moment, probably because he felt that he looked familiar, but couldn't remember where he was. Ding Beibei smiled and said, "Class monitor, you don't recognize me after just a few days of graduation. It's Zheng Yubai."
"It's Xiaobai. You've changed a lot. I didn't recognize you." Zhu Yunsong's face changed several times and he hurried over to greet him.
"Come here, let me help you carry it. Why do you carry so many things?" Zhu Yunsong asked enthusiastically as he took a few bags.
"Ding Beibei bought it when she was shopping just now. I'm helping to carry it." Zheng Yubai said hurriedly.
"Oh?" Zhu Yunsong looked at them meaningfully and said nothing.
The three of them walked into the restaurant and came to a large private room where seven or eight classmates were already sitting. When they saw Ding Beibei, they immediately greeted her warmly. When they saw Zheng Yubai, they had the same reaction as Zhu Yunsong. They did not recognize that this tall young man in a suit was the taciturn and slightly rustic "Xiaobai" in their previous class.
After Ding Beibei introduced them, everyone looked at them with strange eyes. Ding Beibei was very generous and chatted with the classmates. Zheng Yubai was not very comfortable being looked at. Just like in college, he just sat in the corner and looked at others without saying a word.
Listening to Ding Beibei's chat with others, Zheng Yubai learned that since graduation, many classmates who stayed in Jinghai have gathered once a month, one is to maintain the relationship between classmates, and the other is to exchange information when looking for a job. Several classmates got the application information and found the job during the gathering.
Unfortunately, Zheng Yubai was never notified of this kind of gathering, probably because his classmates had forgotten about him a long time ago. But Zheng Yubai didn't care too much about it, he poured a cup of tea and sipped it slowly.
"Beibei, have there been any changes in your life recently?" A female classmate named Sun Li asked Ding Beibei, while glancing at Zheng Yubai out of the corner of her eye.
"Nothing has changed. It's still the same. I just joined the company and there's not much work to do. I'm still learning." Ding Beibei said with a smile.
Sun Li was a little disappointed, but immediately asked in a low voice with interest: "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Several girls came over to wait for the answer, and the boys also pricked up their ears secretly. Even Zheng Yubai was looking forward to Ding Beibei's answer. Maybe he didn't care much before, but now, he seems to really like Ding Beibei.
"Of course not." Ding Beibei's answer disappointed the girl and relieved the boy. Zheng Yubai also felt refreshed after hearing it.
The girls chattered, and the topic soon turned to cosmetics and clothes. Ding Beibei took out the shopping spoils from her shopping bag and discussed them with the girls. The boys discussed the latest computer games and football matches. Zheng Yubai didn't understand much about these, so he could only listen in confusion.
"Xiaobai, what kind of job are you doing now?" asked a classmate named Wang Huan.
"Apartment manager." Zheng Yubai told the truth.
"A management apartment? A property management company?"
“I guess so.”
Wang Huan showed a look of disdain on his face: "How can a history major work in a property management company?"
"There's no way. It's hard to find a job." Zheng Yubai said with deep emotion as he recalled the unlucky days when he was looking for a job.
"It's indeed not easy to find a job." Wang Huan nodded in agreement, "But the jobs of our classmates are all pretty good. The class monitor works at Huihuang Real Estate Company, Huang Ming works at the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau..." Wang Huan talked incessantly, and at the end he did not forget to show off to Zheng Yubai that he was now the personal assistant of the CEO of a foreign-funded enterprise.
Zheng Yubai listened and heard that although it had only been three months since graduation, everyone was already doing well. It seemed that he was the only one who had no future. He was just a small "apartment manager" and was probably not much different from a security guard in the eyes of his classmates. (To be continued)