The Lonely Whale

Chapter 30: Chapter 30

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"My name is Ji Hongzhe, Ji for commemoration, Hong for Xu Beihong, and Zhe for philosophy. The juniors next door all call me Brother Zhe. What's your name?" The young man was sweating profusely and looked at her with a gangster smile.

"Bullshit, we all call you Brother Ji!" another person shouted from the side.

"Get lost!" The man kicked the other person.

Zhan Xi had almost forgotten what he looked like and his name, but she still remembered the first words he said to her.

Luo Jingyu went to the kitchen to cook, while Ji Hongzhe and Zhan Xi stayed in the living room, sitting far away from each other.

Ji Hongzhe crossed his legs and saw Zhan Xi's expression and stiff body. He smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. I won't tell Xiaoyu. This is the first time we meet today. Do you understand?"

He was just bullying Xiaoyu because she couldn't hear him, so he didn't lower his voice at all. Zhan Xi couldn't do that, so he whispered, "I'm not afraid that Xiaoyu would know."

"I understand. It's nothing." Ji Hongzhe smiled and shook his head. "What a coincidence, you and Xiaoyu know each other. I have known him for more than 20 years. We grew up in the same neighborhood when we were young. His family lived on the same floor as mine."

"Oh." Zhan Xi was still listless and felt that the world was too small.

Ji Hongzhe was very curious: "How did you know him?"

Zhan Xi didn't want to talk about the cause, and replied: "I just met him because we lived in the same building. He helped me install two cabinets."

"Huh? Luo Jingyu is so good at flirting now? She's really capable!" Ji Hongzhe found it very interesting. "When he was a child, he was very introverted. When the little girls in the neighborhood flirted with him, he would ignore them and would just go home and cry."

Zhan Xi: “…”

The crying little fish... wow, why does it look so cute

Ji Hongzhe asked again: "Have you graduated?"

"Yeah." Zhan Xi nodded, "I graduated last year."

Ji Hongzhe handed her a business card: "I'm selling a house now, a new one, and the property is quite far away. If you're interested, you can contact me."

Zhan Xi took it and muttered, "How can I buy a house?"

Ji Hongzhe laughed: "Why not? Xiaoyu bought this house two or three years ago, and it's about the same size as yours now."

Zhan Xi asked back: "Have you bought a house?"

"No." Ji Hongzhe said indifferently, "We are not in a hurry to get married, why should we buy a house?"

Seeing Zhan Xi turning his head to look at the kitchen again, Ji Hongzhe asked, "What is your mother doing now?"

"Ah?" Zhan Xi was surprised. "Just retire and stay at home."

"Haha." Ji Hongzhe smiled strangely, "I thought she was gone."

Zhan Xi's expression changed: "What do you mean?"

"It's nothing." Ji Hongzhe pointed at the kitchen door and took out a cigarette case and a lighter. "Go find Xiaoyu, you're distracted. Don't worry about me. I'm going to have a cigarette."

Zhan Xi had wanted to go to the kitchen for a long time, and he ran away immediately after hearing this. Ji Hongzhe made a "tsk" sound, stood up and walked towards the balcony.

In the kitchen, the aroma of beer duck was already very strong. There was a steamer on the other stove, and no one knew what was being steamed. Luo Jingyu was cutting mushrooms on the chopping board with his back to the door, and he didn't notice when Zhan Xi came in.

She watched him chopping vegetables from behind, and the mushrooms were quickly cut into small slices of uniform thickness. Zhan Xi felt that Xiaoyu's hands were like treasures, and he could do anything with ease.

Well... except for typing.

Thinking of this, Zhan Xi couldn't help laughing. Luo Jingyu happened to look up and saw a vague figure behind him on the tile wall in front of him. He turned around and smiled at Zhan Xi. Zhan Xi walked to him and asked, "What dish are you going to cook?"

Luo Jingyu pointed at several different kinds of mushroom slices, then at a bowl of blanched pork ribs beside her, and made a big bowl with both hands, and said happily: "Mushroom pork rib soup!"

Luo Jingyu gave her a thumbs up.

He used a spatula to stir the beer duck in the pot. When he thought it was almost done, he turned off the fire, scooped the duck out and put it on a plate, then filled the soup pot with water and took it to the stove to start the fire.

After being busy for a while, he turned around and found Zhan Xi leaning against the sink with empty eyes, as if he was in a daze.

Luo Jingyu stretched out her hand and waved it in front of her. Zhan Xi came back to his senses. He drew a question mark in the air with his right index finger, and his eyes were full of concern.

Zhan Xi smiled at him and patted his arm naturally: "I'm fine, don't worry about me."

Luo Jingyu pointed at her and then pointed outside the door.

Zhan Xi asked, "Do you want me to go out and chat with your friends?"

Luo Jingyu nodded.

"I'm not happy." Zhan Xi simply crossed his arms, "I don't know him, I just want to stay here with you."

She actually said that... Luo Jingyu felt so touched! She originally thought that since she couldn't hear, Huanhuan could chat with Xiaozhe and wouldn't be so bored, but it turned out that she would rather accompany him. It was really... so happy!

So happy... Luo Jingyu immediately picked up a duck leg and put it in a small bowl, and handed it to Zhan Xi together with chopsticks, asking her to eat.

Zhan Xi didn't hesitate, he picked up the bowl, picked up the duck leg and started to eat it, saying as he ate, "Hmm... It's delicious! What is this? Braised duck? The braised duck my mother makes doesn't taste like this."

Luo Jingyu picked up a can of beer and showed it to her. Zhan Xi immediately understood: "Beer duck! Wow, you can also make beer duck! So cool!"

It's time for dinner. There are five dishes and one soup on the folding table: beer duck, six steamed hairy crabs, scrambled eggs with sausage, dry-pot cauliflower, stir-fried snow peas, and mushroom and pork rib soup.

"..." Ji Hongzhe looked at the dazzling array of dishes and said to Zhan Xi, "Tell me, is it because of you or me that it's because of you? It's so sumptuous!"

Zhan Xi was almost drooling and said nonchalantly, "Go ask Xiao Yu."

"It's because he is warm and hospitable." Boss Ji Hongzhe sat down without any hesitation. Zhan Xi wanted to sit diagonally opposite him and let Xiaoyu sit next to him, but Ji Hongzhe stopped her.

He said, "Sit next to me."

Zhan Xi was unhappy: "Why?"

"Miss, use your brain. He needs to see your face to know what you are talking about. It is best to sit opposite him, understand?" Ji Hongzhe was speechless. "Do you think I want to sit next to you? I want to talk to him too. If I sit next to him and use sign language with him, our necks will both be sore."

So that's how it is. Zhan Xi understood. He went to help Xiaoyu get the bowl, chopsticks and cup, and then sat down obediently next to Ji Hongzhe.

Gift was full, so he climbed onto the cushion and licked his fur for fun, watching the two-legged animals prepare to eat.

The three of them sat down. Ji Hongzhe was driving, so he didn't drink. Luo Jingyu poured them coconut milk. The coconut milk was heated because Zhan Xi said she wanted to drink hot drinks.

Ji Hongzhe looked at the folding dining table and asked in sign language: "Xiaoyu, you have such a big house, why do you have such a shabby table? It looks like a food stall."

Luo Jingyu glanced at Zhan Xi who was sitting across the table and answered in sign language: I always ate alone before and didn’t usually use a table.

Ji Hongzhe also turned his head and glanced at Zhan Xi with a joking expression: How do we use it now

Luo Jingyu frowned and signaled him with her eyes to stop talking.

Zhan Xi looked at them strangely and asked Ji Hongzhe: "What are you talking about?"

Ji Hongzhe fished out a hairy crab and untied the rope: "We were talking about Xiaoyu wanting to buy a new dining table."

Zhan Xi turned to Luo Jingyu: "Ah? Why?"

Luo Jingyu didn't see what Ji Hongzhe said, and didn't understand what Zhan Xi was asking. She wanted to get her phone, but Zhan Xi quickly stopped her: "Eat first, and we'll talk later."

Ji Hongzhe looked at them with a smile and cracked open the crab shell: "Wow, it's so full of yellow! Really good."

With Ji Hongzhe present, the meal was not as silent as usual.

Ji Hongzhe carried on his translation work during the day into the evening, and consciously served as the liaison between Zhan Xi and Luo Jingyu. When talking to Zhan Xi, he would cooperate with simple sign language so that Luo Jingyu could also understand, and most importantly, he would translate Luo Jingyu's sign language to Zhan Xi.

So, for the first time, Zhan Xi saw Xiaoyu signing so relaxedly and very quickly, sometimes with one hand, sometimes with both hands. All he could see was his beautiful hands making a series of gestures in front of him.

She had only learned a few rudimentary sign language words and could not understand them at all. Then she realized how ridiculous it was that she had promised Xiaoyu that she would learn sign language. She didn't know how long it would take to reach Ji Hongzhe's level.

Ji Hongzhe really likes to eat the beer duck made by Luo Jingyu, especially the duck legs. He watched Luo Jingyu pass a duck leg to Zhan Xi, and then went to the plate to find another one, but... failed.

"Why does this duck have only one leg?" Ji Hongzhe was full of questions.

Zhan Xi was chewing his leg with an innocent look on his face.

Luo Jingyu laughed so hard that her shoulders were shaking. She handed a duck wing to Ji Hongzhe and said in sign language: Sorry, please make do with it.

Later in the meal, the three of them started chatting.

"When I was courting girls in the past, I would always go to Xiaoyu," Ji Hongzhe said while using sign language. "I would get a lot of little things from him that girls like, such as scented candles, small jewelry, and key chains. I would give them to girls, saying that I made them myself, and I wouldn't pay him."

Luo Jingyu was amused by him and shook her head and sighed.

Zhan Xi turned his head and glanced at Ji Hongzhe: "How dare you say that? You bully him like this!"

"I helped him too." Ji Hongzhe smiled, "I helped him with his homework when he was in school. You have no idea how bad his grades were! He had to guess all the English multiple-choice questions."

Luo Jingyu blushed and quickly used sign language to tell him not to expose her secrets anymore.

Zhan Xi was already chuckling: "Don't you have to guess the answers to the Chinese language multiple-choice questions?"

Ji Hongzhe said: "The Chinese language multiple choice questions were fine, but the disaster was the essay. An eight-year-old's essay would probably be more fluent than his."

“Hahahahahaha… you can imagine!” Zhan Xi laughed so hard that tears were about to come out.

Luo Jingyu got angry and picked up a crab leg and threw it at Ji Hongzhe.

"Oh, let's not talk about it anymore. It happened many years ago." Ji Hongzhe didn't drink either, but for some reason he felt a little tipsy. He looked around the spacious living room, then looked at the handsome man opposite him, and said to Zhan Xi, "Xiaoyu and I haven't been in touch for many years. We moved far away. His home is in the north of the city, and mine is in the south. You should know it, right? It's over there on Wanjiang Road."

Zhan Xi was stunned: "I don't know."

"Really?" Ji Hongzhe smiled, "I thought you knew."

Zhan Xi was curious: "Why would I know that?"

Ji Hongzhe did not answer.

Luo Jingyu saw this conversation clearly, but did not understand it. However, he did not take it to heart. He just felt that the current atmosphere was very comfortable.

Xiaozhe is his childhood friend and Huanhuan is his friend. They had a very happy chat when they met for the first time and there was no barrier between them. Huanhuan was even amused by Xiaozhe.

Luo Jingyu was actually very envious. Xiaozhe had been good at speaking since he was young. With him around, she didn't have to worry about a dull occasion. It wasn't like when she and Huanhuan usually had dinner together, which was so quiet and boring.

After dinner, when Luo Jingyu went to wash the dishes, Zhan Xi slipped into the kitchen again. Ji Hongzhe looked into the kitchen through the glass sliding door. The man was washing the dishes, and the girl stuck to him, occasionally pulling his sleeves, leaning to talk to him, with a particularly bright smile on her face.

Luo Jingyu turned to look at Zhan Xi’s face. Ji Hongzhe couldn’t see his expression, but he could imagine that he was “listening” very patiently.

Ji Hongzhe was very puzzled. From the scene in the kitchen, it seemed as if Luo Jingyu could hear and speak. But the fact was that Xiaoyu was extremely deaf and had no hearing at all. It was useless to wear a hearing aid, let alone learn to speak.

How did Zhanxi chat with him so naturally? How did Xiaoyu not care that he couldn't hear

Is this how they usually communicate

How is this sweet feeling different from being in a relationship

Is Xiaoyu dating Zhanxi

Is this true or false

Ji Hongzhe's heart skipped a beat. This was not an ordinary matter...

After Luo Jingyu finished washing the dishes, Zhan Xi helped him put the clean dishes in the cupboard. Luo Jingyu thought for a long time, took out his phone and typed to her: Huanhuan, the day after tomorrow night, I think you can come to dinner

Zhan Xi looked at it and asked, "Why?"

Luo Jingyu types: My 26th birthday.

Zhan Xi: “…”

The day after tomorrow, Tuesday, January 21st, is Xiaoyu’s 26th birthday!

Zhan Xi looked him in the eyes and asked, "Don't you go home?"

Luo Jingyu shook her head and typed: Busy, no time.

Zhan Xi thought for a moment and asked again, "Just the two of us?"

Luo Jingyu nodded nervously, afraid that Huanhuan would refuse to come if she knew it was just the two of them.

Zhan Xi did not disappoint him and said with a smile: "Okay, I will celebrate your birthday with you."

Luo Jingyu smiled immediately, her eyes curved, and she looked very satisfied.

It was quite late, and Zhan Xi and Ji Hongzhe were about to leave. Xiaoyu had to work at night, and he was not getting enough sleep due to the recent deadline, so Zhan Xi didn't want to disturb him any more.

Luo Jingyu stood at the entrance and watched them change their shoes.

Ji Hongzhe signed to him: Give me the garbage bag, I'll help you take it out. It's cold outside, so don't make the trip.

Luo Jingyu didn't think much about it, sorted out a few garbage bags and put them at the door.

Ji Hongzhe bent down to put on his shoes with his back to him, and suddenly said, "Zhanxi, I'll wait for you downstairs. I have something to ask you."

He spoke at a normal volume. Zhan Xi was startled and looked at Xiao Yu quickly. Xiao Yu was laughing foolishly. Then Zhan Xi realized that he couldn't hear.

She also lowered her head to put on her shoes, turned her back to Xiaoyu, and said, "I know."

"Yeah." Ji Hongzhe picked up the garbage bag at the door, waved to Luo Jingyu, and went downstairs.

As I recall, it was also winter, probably early December.

Zhan Xinian is a freshman in college and just celebrated his nineteenth birthday.

Luo Xinran's boyfriend at the time was on the school basketball team, which was playing a friendly match with the team from the neighboring university, so several of her roommates accompanied her to cheer for their team.

In the end, we lost the game because there was a boy on the other team who played particularly well. He was very tall, had sharp eyes and was very arrogant.

It was such cold weather that Zhan Xi and the girls were shivering on the sidelines of the court, but that guy took off his shirt after the game, revealing his beautiful muscles, and drank water on the sidelines and played and joked with his teammates.

Zhan Xi had never seen this type of boy before, so she couldn't help but look at him a few more times. Unexpectedly, the man also noticed her, ran up to her with his long legs, introduced himself, and asked her name with a smile.

Somehow, they added each other on WeChat, and later, the man chatted with her from time to time.

Zhan Xi had just escaped from the depressing atmosphere of high school and had not yet adapted to the slightly relaxed pace of life in college. He seemed very dull and reserved when chatting.

She thought he would find her boring like her high school classmates, but he didn't.

He always maintains a strong curiosity and is very patient. He is good at creating a good atmosphere during conversations. His words are very interesting and full of jokes. He often makes Zhan Xi laugh and the conversation is never dull.

Luo Xinran said that this man was an expert in love and told Zhan Xi not to take it too seriously.

Zhan Xi was skeptical, but she was reluctant to draw a line between them. She was too young at that time, and it was the first time she met such a boy, tall, handsome, humorous, and caring about her. Zhan Xi knew that she had a good impression of him, but her reason told her to observe him more and not be deceived.

They had met three times in total. Apart from the first meeting on the basketball court, the second time was when the man asked Zhanxi to go for a walk outside the school and treated her to a cup of milk tea. The third time was during Christmas, when the man came to Zhanxi's school and Zhanxi treated him to a meal in the cafeteria.

He gave Zhanxi a Christmas gift, a strawberry hairpin made of heat shrink film, very cute. He said he made it himself, but Zhanxi didn't quite believe him. He looked so careless and didn't seem like someone who could make such a gadget.

On New Year's Day that year, Zhan Xi returned home and kept in touch with that person on WeChat.

She didn't know what happened and had no idea how Chi Guilan knew this person.

In short, when I returned to school after New Year's Day, my mother suddenly rushed to the school and found the counselor and made a big fuss, saying that the school had lax management and allowed boys from other schools to come in and out freely. Those people were hooligans and they even tried to abduct her innocent daughter. If something happened, the school could not take the responsibility!

Not only that, Chi Guilan also dragged Zhan Xi to her dormitory and scolded her three roommates, especially Luo Xinran.

When reporting for school at the beginning of the semester, Chi Guilan disliked Luo Xinran and kept nagging Zhan Xi to change his dormitory.

As luck would have it, Luo Xinran had just dyed a few tufts of blue hair, and his cigarettes and lighter were casually thrown on the table. When Chi Guilan saw this, she went crazy and almost rushed over to hit him, but was stopped by the counselor.

Luo Xinran ignored her and left the dormitory directly. Chi Guilan cursed for a long time in the dormitory again, and stopped Yao Ying and Zhao Qingqing who stayed behind, saying that they had led her precious daughter astray. Finally, she asked the counselor to change Zhan Xi's dormitory, otherwise this matter would not end!

From beginning to end, Zhan Xi stood beside her mother with her head down, crying silently. Yao Ying and Zhao Qingqing's eyes were on her, and she was so ashamed that she couldn't raise her head.

Thinking about how it was the same in high school, it wasn’t the first time Chi Guilan had caused trouble at school. But now that she is in college, why is it still like this

A lot of people gathered at the dormitory door, coming and going, excitedly watching Chi Guilan scolding people, and Luo Xinran simply didn't come back that night.

Zhan Xi didn't know what had happened at the time. Later, Chi Guilan herself said that she looked at her daughter's mobile phone, found the chat history between her and that person, and warned the other party.

Zhan Xi was horrified and asked what his mother had said to him. Chi Guilan replied that she didn't say anything, but just asked about the other party's family situation. His family conditions were very poor! She asked him to stay away from her daughter.

In fact, Zhan Xi didn’t know the other party’s family situation at that time. They had known each other for less than a month and their conversation had not yet touched on these issues.

Chi Guilan was very proud and said that if she had not discovered the clues early, Zhan Xi's life would have been over if he had been entangled with such a person.

Later, Zhan Xi's dormitory was not changed because no dormitory was willing to accept her and everyone was scared by her mother.

Zhan Xi cried secretly for several days. She was very timid at that time and could only cry. She did not even dare to ask her roommates for forgiveness. She went in and out alone every day and felt that everyone was looking at her and talking about her behind her back.

Seeing that she was really pitiful, Luo Xinran expressed her opinion in the dormitory, saying that this matter had nothing to do with Zhan Xi and she was willing to continue living with Zhan Xi.

Yao Ying and Zhao Qingqing were both very tolerant and agreed, but Yao Ying suggested that Chi Guilan could not come to the dormitory anymore, otherwise they would be driven crazy.

Zhan Xi promised, and from then on, she never got close to any boy and focused all her attention on her studies.

As for that person, after the incident, she sent him a message saying "Sorry, let's not contact each other again", but was surprised to find that she had been blocked.

After Zhan Xi said goodbye to Luo Jingyu, he first took the kitten back to 802 and then took the elevator downstairs.

When she walked out of the unit door, she saw a tall figure standing in the darkness with a little fire flickering. It was Ji Hongzhe smoking.

Zhan Xi walked up to him with his hands in his pockets and asked, "What do you want to ask me?"

Ji Hongzhe took a puff of his cigarette and said with a smile, "What do you think?"

"I have no idea."

"You and Xiaoyu..." Ji Hongzhe asked, "What's the situation now?"

Zhan Xi was alert: "This has nothing to do with you, right?"

"It's okay, don't be nervous. I'm not interested in you right now. I have a girlfriend, so don't think too much about it." Ji Hongzhe said, "Do you know why I asked you just now, is your mother still here?"

This was a very rude question. Zhan Xi had never thought that someone would directly ask whether the other person's relatives were still alive. After hearing this, he said angrily: "You are very rude!"

"Don't get me wrong. What I mean is, if your mother were still alive, how could you have the guts to associate with Luo Jingyu?" Ji Hongzhe really couldn't understand. "Don't you know what kind of person your mother is? She treated me like that. If she knew that her precious daughter was dating a deaf-mute, wouldn't she kill Xiaoyu?"

Zhan Xi caught an important message in his words and asked, "How does my mother treat you?"

Ji Hongzhe was so angry that he laughed: "You really don't know?"

Zhan Xi shook his head.

"Let me put it simply." Ji Hongzhe told her, "On New Year's Day that year, your mother pretended to be you and chatted with me. She said she wanted to send me a New Year's gift and asked me for my home address. I was stupid, so I told her."

Zhan Xi suddenly felt a chill on his back. Chi Guilan had never mentioned this matter before.

Ji Hongzhe continued, "After New Year's Day, she suddenly came to my house. I was at school at the time, and only my parents were at home. As you just learned, my parents are deaf-mute, just like Xiaoyu. Zhan Xi, please imagine what your dear mother would do after she knew that my parents were deaf-mute?"

Zhan Xi couldn’t imagine it, and only one word came to his mind - bloody storm.

"I won't tell you what I did specifically. Anyway, my parents were very sad at that time and felt very sorry for me. I even wanted to kill someone at that time." Ji Hongzhe finished his cigarette, pressed the butt into the trash can, and looked up at Zhan Xi. In the darkness, his eyes were cold and Zhan Xi didn't dare to look him in the eye.

All she could say was, “I’m sorry, I really don’t know.”

Ji Hongzhe smiled mischievously again, his usual smile: "You don't have to apologize to me, I have forgotten about it a long time ago, I just didn't expect that you would associate with Xiaoyu. I still say that Xiaoyu and I are different, I am healthy after all, your mother went crazy, but it was actually my parents who were hurt more deeply. I think it's okay, but Xiaoyu is different."

Zhan Xi looked at him blankly.

Ji Hongzhe pointed to his right ear and said, "He can't hear. He is deaf-mute and disabled, just like my parents. His whole family can't hear. His father, mother, sister, and his deceased grandfather and grandmother can't hear. Zhan Xi, do you understand?"

Zhan Xi was stunned: "..."

Ji Hongzhe's tone became serious: "If you are just friends with Xiaoyu, it doesn't matter. He has few friends and almost no one with good hearing. I can't even be considered his friend. But if you have any thoughts about him that are more than just friends, I hope you can think it over. Can you handle your mother? I can see that Xiaoyu already likes you very much, and I can also see that you are interested in him, but Zhanxi, really listen to me, don't flirt with him if there is no result. Tell me yourself, will your mother agree with Luo Jingyu?"

Zhan Xi was speechless.

"Let me be frank with you. I didn't like you that much back then. I pursued you just because you were pretty." Ji Hongzhe sighed. "I know I'm a scumbag, but later I found out that you're really simple and serious. You're too good! You're not the kind of girl who can have fun. It's actually very tiring for me to chat with you. Your personality doesn't match your appearance at all. I was about to give up. I thought I'd talk to you clearly before the winter vacation and not cause you any more trouble. But what happened? I didn't have time. Your mom came first."

"Luo Jingyu is different from me. He is... even simpler and more serious than you!"

Ji Hongzhe felt that this matter was really fucked up, but he had to say, "Zhanxi, I would rather not have met you today. No matter what happened to Luo Jingyu, it has nothing to do with me. But I happened to meet you, and you want me to stand by and watch, I really can't do it!"

"My relationship with him is just average, but I really don't want to see him get hurt. Others have no right to say this, but I do! His whole family is good and honest people. They have taken good care of me since I was a child. I don't want his family to get hurt! Deaf people have suffered a lot. I don't know if you can understand. Xiaoyu has not had a smooth life since he was a child. He has worked hard to achieve his current results. You just... Well, I won't say much more, think about it yourself."

Ji Hongzhe waved his hands, becoming more and more upset the more he spoke.

Zhan Xi couldn't say anything.

Ji Hongzhe looked at her pale face and said, "I'm leaving first. I won't add you on WeChat anymore. If your mother sees you chatting with me again one day, she knows my home address and might rush over and get mad again. Call me if you have anything to say. You have my business card."

"Really Zhanxi, you should think about it more. Also, don't tell Xiaoyu about what I told you. I don't know if he has told you about his family situation. If not, just treat it as meddling in other people's business."

After saying that, Ji Hongzhe left.

Zhan Xi stood alone downstairs for a long time, until his whole body was cold, then he took the elevator back to the eighth floor in a daze.

After entering the house, she opened the side cabinet that Xiaoyu had helped her install and took out a small cardboard box. In the cardboard box were the small gadgets she had collected since college, which she had brought to Zhanjie's house after graduation and now moved to 802.

She searched inside for a while and finally found the strawberry hairpin.

Zhan Xi has worn it a few times. It looks a bit childish, but it still looks good with a red dress.

Four years have passed, and the metal clip of the hairpin has rusted, but the strawberry made of heat shrink film on it is still cute, bright red, and inlaid with tiny rhinestones. A few of them have fallen off, leaving a few black pits.

Zhan Xi's fingers stroked the strawberries and he couldn't help but feel tears in his eyes.

She told Xiaoyu that she also had a strawberry hairpin.

Ji Hongzhe was so shameless that he said shamelessly that he made this himself.

I really didn't expect that it was actually done by a small fish.

It turns out that her fate with Xiaoyu started so long ago. :,,.