Zhu Xingyao probably guessed that Lin Jiayu's father must have helped Jiang Tu after his college entrance examination accident. Jiang Tu seemed to have always been this kind of person. He would remember any kindness others showed him and would look for opportunities to repay them.
He even agreed to help Lin Jiayu find a boyfriend...
This is really unlike Jiang Tu, no wonder Lin Jiayu said he was crazy.
Zhu Xingyao thought about all the things Jiang Tu had done for her. It was very unlike Jiang Tu, so no one had noticed that he liked her. Zhu Xingyao sighed and asked Lin Jiayu, "Who did he introduce to you?"
Lin Jiayu said: "He was his college roommate, and happened to work in the same company as him."
Lin Jiayu said: "Will you go with me?"
Almost at the same time, Jiang Tu sent a message.
Jiang Tu said, "Xingxing, let's have dinner together tomorrow night. Lin Jiayu and my college classmates will be there too."
Zhu Xingyao replied "OK" to Lin Jiayu and Jiang Tu respectively.
The next day was Saturday. At 6pm, Zhu Xingyao came down from the practice room with her cello on her back. Jiang Tu's car was parked on the side of the road. She put away her cello bag, sat in the passenger seat, turned around and looked at him, and suddenly asked, "Have you asked Jiayu what type she likes?"
Jiang Tu said helplessly: "Jiang Lu asked, and she said to look at the face."
Jiang Lu also asked Lin Jiayu: "Who is the standard? Someone as handsome as me?"
Lin Jiayu scolded him for being narcissistic and said, "You think too much. I like Peng Zhou."
Peng Zhou is a popular actor. He is very handsome and has great potential.
Zhu Xingyao couldn't help laughing. She said, "It's very real."
Who doesn’t like good-looking people
The restaurant was booked by Lao Yuan. It is a Chinese restaurant in the city center, very close to here, only ten minutes away.
When Jiang Tu parked the car, he asked Zhu Xingyao to call Lin Jiayu. Lin Jiayu said with resentment, "I was kicked out by my parents at five o'clock. I arrived a long time ago and am now sitting in the milk tea shop on the first floor. I'll go upstairs now and meet you at the door later."
The restaurant was on the sixth floor. When Zhu Xingyao and Jiang Tu walked out of the elevator, they saw Lin Jiayu standing outside the door.
Lin Jiayu held onto Zhu Xingyao, looked at Jiang Tu with dissatisfaction, and muttered, "I haven't even got a girlfriend yet, and you're still looking for a boyfriend for me..."
Zhu Xingyao: “…”
Jiang Tu walked in front. He looked back at Zhu Xingyao and said calmly, "My pursuing her does not conflict with helping you find a boyfriend."
Zhu Xingyao's cheeks were slightly hot. Lin Jiayu turned her head to look at Zhu Xingyao and said helplessly: "But I'm only 26 years old, not 30 years old. Is it necessary to go on a blind date?"
Zhu Xingyao comforted Lin Jiayu: "I've been on blind dates before, and parents are sometimes just like this, worrying a lot."
Lin Jiayu exclaimed in shock, "You're going on a blind date too?"
Jiang Tu paused, and Zhu Xingyao suddenly realized how provocative her words were. She lowered her head and whispered, "It happened at the beginning of the year. The son of my father's friend wanted to bring us together."
Jiang Tu said calmly: "Go in first."
Old Yuan was already waiting in the box. He had added Lin Jiayu's WeChat two days ago and the two had chatted. Old Yuan had a cheerful personality and smiled as soon as they met: "I asked Jiang Tu to invite you out for dinner before, but he never did."
In fact, Lin Jiayu and Lao Yuan knew each other. When Lin Jiayu couldn't find Jiang Tu before, she called his dormitory several times, and Lao Yuan answered most of the time. Lao Yuan had a good character and temper, and he looked pretty good. He was single, so Jiang Tu's first choice was him.
Lin Jiayu smiled shyly: "We are all in Jiangcheng, we will meet sooner or later."
Zhu Xingyao wore a loose white sweater, jeans, and a scarf around her neck, covering half of her face. Old Yuan took a glance and thought she was beautiful and elegant. Zhu Xingyao took off her scarf, and Old Yuan's eyes widened. He pointed at Zhu Xingyao and stuttered, "Zhu, Zhu Xingyao?"
"Hello." Zhu Xingyao smiled.
Old Yuan looked at Jiang Tu, then at Lin Jiayu: "So, you are all classmates?"
Lin Jiayu said: "I am from the class next to them. They were desk mates in high school."
Jiang Tu pulled out a chair and said to Zhu Xingyao, "Sit down first."
Old Yuan sighed and said, "I tell you, Jiang Tu is really too secretive, it's scary! We lived in the same dormitory for four years in college, and he never mentioned any of his high school classmates. We only know that he has a childhood sweetheart, Xiao Lin Meimei." He looked at Zhu Xingyao, "Another buddy likes you very much and treats you as a goddess. He mentions you almost every day in the dormitory. When you released an album, he bought 30 copies in one go. Jiang Tu was your deskmate, but he didn't even mention it... Don't you think it's scary?"
Zhu Xingyao was startled, and she looked up at Jiang Tu.
Jiang Tu said lightly: "I don't know how to say it."
Lin Jiayu came over and whispered in Zhu Xingyao's ear: "When he was in the United States, he found out that you and Lu Ji had broken up."
Zhu Xingyao felt a little uncomfortable. She didn't expect that he had such a roommate. What was he thinking when he heard his roommate talking about her every day
The atmosphere suddenly turned cold.
Old Yuan lowered his head and sent a WeChat message to Du Yunfei: "Guess who I'm having dinner with now?" He looked up at Zhu Xingyao, "Can we take a photo together later? I'll send it to Du Yunfei to make him jealous."
Zhu Xingyao smiled and nodded: "Sure."
Du Yunfei was probably busy and didn't reply.
After the meal was served, Lao Yuan looked at Lin Jiayu and said with a smile, "I heard from Jiang Tu that you are now a full-time author. Can you tell me your pen name? I'll go check it out."
Lin Jiayu's pen name had always been a secret, but it was accidentally discovered by Jiang Lu at the beginning of the year, which exposed her. Later, when she joined the Provincial Writers Association, she no longer concealed it when others asked about it. Li Xixi and Zhu Xingyao were busy in the first half of the year, and she didn't know whether they had read her books.
"Lin wake up." She looked at Lao Yuan and said.
Old Yuan smiled, then suddenly his eyes widened.
He saw Jiang Tu peel the shrimp and put it into the small bowl in front of Zhu Xingyao.
Old Yuan stuttered again: "I... Can I ask, what is the relationship between you two?"
Lin Jiayu smiled and blinked: "That's what you saw."
Jiang Tu and Zhu Xingyao paused for a moment, neither of them defended themselves. Old Yuan was completely confused, and cursed a few times in his heart. Du Yunfei just replied to the message, and he quickly took a look, raised his head and said: "You can't leave me alone in confusion, I will keep this secret and not tell Du Yunfei. When he comes to Zhu Xingyao's concert next month, let him see it with his own eyes, I want to see his heartbroken look."
Zhu Xingyao pursed her lips and changed the subject: "Du Yunfei is coming to the concert?"
Old Yuan glanced at Jiang Tu and said with deep emotion: "Brother Tu, I am completely convinced. No wonder we, the beauties in the school, couldn't catch you no matter how hard we tried. So it's like this..." No matter how beautiful the beauties in the school are, can they be as beautiful as Zhu Xingyao? Not to mention her temperament and talent.
Zhu Xingyao is a goddess.
Old Yuan brought up the betting incident in their dormitory again: "At that time, the whole department was saying that he was extremely poor. Even the money he paid for his room with the department beauty was paid by the department beauty. He was just a gigolo. I said that he would be single for four years in college. Guess what he said?"
Old Yuan really thought Zhu Xingyao was Jiang Tu's girlfriend, and he imagined a lot of plots in his mind, such as there has always been ambiguity between classmates. No wonder he had such a cold expression when he met Lu Ji. Zhu Xingyao broke up with Lu Ji and got together with Jiang Tu, so she must be feeling resentful.
"He said 'I bet on you to win'."
Old Yuan said excitedly: "I would be willing to be a monk for a few years in exchange for such a beautiful girlfriend."
Zhu Xingyao raised her head and looked at Jiang Tu's quiet profile. Her heart was filled with sourness and sadness. She began to feel distressed again.
After the dinner, Lao Yuan finally realized that today's dinner was a blind date party for him and Lin Jiayu, but he had been talking about Jiang Tu and Zhu Xingyao all night. He slapped his head and said to Lin Jiayu in annoyance: "Little sister Lin, can I treat you to a movie?"
Lin Jiayu smiled and said, "Forget about it tonight. I have something else to do. Let's chat on WeChat later."
Old Yuan nodded quickly: "Okay, okay."
Zhu Xingyao and Jiang Tu walked to the front of the car. She stopped and looked up at him: "I'll go with you to get the glasses."
Jiang Tu waited for many days and finally got her response.
He looked down at her, his voice a little low: "Okay."
There was a doctor's glasses store on the street downstairs from the restaurant. Zhu Xingyao and Jiang Tu walked in. There were not many people in the glasses store. She buried her face in her scarf. The clerk came over to greet them, looked at her a few more times, and asked politely: "Do you want to get glasses?"
Jiang Tu said: “Yeah.”
"Can I help you choose a frame?" Zhu Xingyao looked at the counter and spoke.
Jiang Tu smiled, "Okay."
Jiang Tu went to have his eyes tested first.
Zhu Xingyao walked slowly along the counter, running her fingers across the glass counter, subconsciously picking something more affordable. When the clerk took it out, she suddenly realized that Jiang Tu was no longer the poor student he used to be.
She hurriedly said, "Don't take this. I'll go over there and take a look."
When Jiang Tu came out after having his eyes tested, Zhu Xingyao had already picked out a pair of glasses that were similar to the ones he had worn before, also with gold rims.
When Jiang Tu swiped his card to pay, Zhu Xingyao looked up at him and asked, "What's your vision now?"
"425."
"It's 75 degrees hotter than senior year of high school," she whispered.
Jiang Tu looked down at her, his eyes dark, and whispered, "Do you still remember?"
“I remember…” Zhu Xingyao nodded. After all, he was the only one she had ever accompanied to get glasses in her life.
This is the third time.
The glasses were quickly matched, and when Jiang Tu put them on, his temperament instantly became a little colder.
Zhu Xingyao turned to look at him. When she was in high school, she thought he looked better without glasses. Now, she felt that he looked different with and without glasses, and she couldn’t tell which one looked better.
Jiang Tu saw that her entire face was exposed and caught a glimpse of someone staring at her.
He narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to help her adjust her scarf. His expression was calm and gentle. His warm fingers brushed across her cheek. Zhu Xingyao bit her lip and looked at him, her heart moving slightly.
It seems to be too late...
"Ah! Are you Zhu Xingyao?"
Suddenly a girl ran up to her and shouted happily.
Jiang Tu said coldly: "You are wrong."
He grabbed Zhu Xingyao's wrist and pulled her out of the eyewear store.
On Sunday morning, Zhu Xingyao went downstairs to have breakfast. Zhu Yunping was sitting on the sofa watching the news on his iPad. He looked up at her and said gently, "Xingxing, go out for dinner with your parents tonight."
Zhu Xingyao hadn't gone out to eat with them for a long time. She nodded without hesitation: "Okay."
Ding Yu heated up a cup of milk for her and asked, "What time will Hua Ling come over this afternoon?"
Zhu Xingyao took the milk and said, "Come to our house around 2pm."
They agreed to discuss the contract at home.
Ding Yu nodded: "That's great, let's go out after we finish talking."
Lin Jiayu sent a message to the WeChat group of three people. She was very excited: "I have good news to tell you. I am going to be rich! The film and television rights of "Embrace the Moon" have been sold. I will go to Beijing to sign the contract in a few days."
This is Lin Jiayu's first book to have its film and television rights sold. Zhu Xingyao could sense her joy and she got excited too, replying: "Wow! Congratulations!"
After a while, Li Xixi said, "The one you pre-sold today? I forwarded it to you."
Ten minutes ago, Lin Jiayu posted a Weibo post about the pre-sale of her new book. It had only a few hundred reposts, but after Li Xixi reposted it, it instantly reached a thousand, and is still increasing rapidly. Lin Jiayu quickly sent an emoticon saying "Thank you, boss": "I'm a little worried that there won't be enough books to sell later."
Zhu Xingyao smiled and also logged into Weibo to repost it.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lao Liu took Hua Ling home. Zhu Yunping and Ding Yu sat in while Zhu Xingyao discussed the contract with Hua Ling.
Hua Ling asked: "Do you need me to help you manage your Weibo?"
Zhu Xingyao's Weibo was very busy today. She clicked on it and took a look, then looked up and smiled: "No need for that. I don't post updates very often, and I'm not in the entertainment industry, so I don't think there will be any scandals. I don't need to control comments or anything like that. You can set up an official studio blog."
"That's true." Hua Ling said with a smile.
Zhu Xingyao clicked on the comments on Weibo and suddenly saw the top comment. She was stunned.
"Oh my god! Zhu Xingyao is the prototype of the heroine in the book "Waiting for the Stars", right? I went to see it. Wasn't it revealed when she and Li Xixi attended the school celebration some time ago? There is absolutely no mistake!"
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"It's her, definitely her! The goddess who plays the cello!"
"It matches! It's her!"
"I didn't expect the truth to be like this. Now I'm really curious about who the prototype of Jiang Xing is? What does he look like?"
"Mr. Lin Xing is here to fill in the blanks! I found the prototype for your heroine, Lin Xing."
At the same time, Lin Jiayu’s Weibo and WeChat exploded.
The author has something to say: Here it comes, I scrapped this chapter, and I expect the next chapter will have good progress!
I have to revise a special manuscript for publication tonight, and the editor needs it urgently, so I won't be able to update it until tomorrow evening. It won't be later than 12 o'clock, so don't worry.
There are some things I still want to say:
Because this book is written from the perspective of the male protagonist's secret love, and the secret love of a young girl and a young boy is very different, the entire style and writing method have been adjusted quite a lot, which is very different from my previous style. In addition, the character settings of the two are relatively limited, and they are more realistic. Brother Tu doesn't have any golden fingers, nor is he a school bully. He is a very cold and low-profile school bully. The most difficult part is that he didn't take the initiative to chase Xingxing during his school days, let alone flirt with Xingxing. Xingxing doesn't want to fall in love early. Her feelings are the most ignorant period of her teenage years, and she is not a female protagonist who will flirt with others. I have a headache every day just thinking about how to make their interaction look better, and then there is Lu Ji waiting to fall in love with Xingxing. This love must be talked about when the time comes... Generally, most romance novels have one person taking the initiative, which is much easier to write. This setting is quite twisted.
In the urban part, Tu Ge’s character still has many limitations. It would be wrong if I suddenly spent a lot of words to describe him. At this stage, if I write about him saying something naughty or flirting, you might be scared... It will be better after we are together and married.
So this article is not the mainstream sweet pet article nowadays. If I wrote about a seductive male protagonist, it would be much easier for me to write.
I start writing with an outline of nearly 20,000 words, and the preliminary preparations take a long time, but the general framework is there. When filling in the details, I will find any mistakes and make adjustments. Basically, I will write an outline before writing each word, so I don’t really start writing without an outline. I will write an outline for every book before starting writing. This is basic work.
This is really the book I put the most thought and energy into. I basically didn't get a full night's sleep after reading this book. The pressure was so great that I often had emotional breakdowns. Many times I felt like I was going to be depressed, but I managed to get through it. Whether it was revising the text or something else, I just wanted this book to be better.
I will definitely finish writing this article well, because I have already thought about how Xingxing and Tu Ge propose and get married, as well as everyone's ending.
I am sorry to the readers who follow the serials for not being able to keep updating and revising the articles every day. I am sorry that this is definitely my problem, but I still hope that you will enjoy reading the articles. If you are not happy, you can change to a sweet article. There are really a lot of sweet articles on Jinjiang, or you can read my column. There are also many sweet articles in my old articles. I have won the full attendance award for my previous articles. This one is really difficult, so I have no choice. I also want to keep updating, but sometimes I really can't write good things, and I don't want to update in a hurry, so I am really sorry. As for whether the article is good or not, everyone has different preferences and everyone has the right to evaluate. I am a writer, and I will try my best to write my own articles well. I will be more cautious in choosing topics in the future.
Finally, I hope that everyone will not be affected by me.
Being happy is more important. Thank you everyone.