Lu Yao said, "No." Then she answered the phone and called, "Stepbrother?"
Why was Qi Ji calling her so late
"Yao Yao, haven't you slept yet?" Qi Ji's voice came from the cell phone. Lu Yao was surprised in her heart. He replied: "Not yet. Is there anything wrong with stepbrother?"
Qi Ji said: "You are at school, we will be there soon. Please pack up and come out."
Lu Yao heard this. He couldn't help but change from lying to sitting, and asked in surprise: "Why are you here at school?"
Qi Ji said: "You girl. Have you forgotten that tomorrow is your brother's birthday?"
Lu Yao has been very forgetful recently. She came back to Night City just because Du Hui called her to tell her. Jian Chengli's birthday is coming soon. As a result, she ran back to school from the city and hid for a few days, but she forgot about it again.
After being stunned. Lu Yao replied: "It's not tomorrow. You guys are coming here so late..."
Qi Ji said: "When Cheng Li's parents and your mother come to the hospital tomorrow, how can we take your brother out? You can't do bad things in the middle of the night... We are almost at the gate of your school. You can pack up and come out. . We'll wait for you at the door."
Lu Yao hung up the phone. Xu Yingjia was sitting on the lower bunk beside the bed. He looked up at her and asked, "What's going on?"
Lu Yao looked stunned, showing no emotion or anger. Just the machine replied: "Qi Ji and the others are here and said they would take me back to the city. Let's celebrate Jian Chengli's birthday in advance."
Xu Yingjia's expression changed and she quickly asked: "Are you going?"
Lu Yao didn't want to go in her heart. After all, she didn't know what Jian Cheng Li was thinking. It would be less awkward and conflicting to meet less. But Qi Ji and the others had already driven to the gate of Ye University, and Lu Yao couldn't refuse.
Seeing Lu Yao climb down and start changing clothes, Xu Yingjia called out from the side: "Actually, it's okay to go. There are so many people here. It's Jian Chengli's birthday. If you don't go, you'll be feeling evil. It's okay. Just be calm. Son, do whatever you want, and come back to my house after the fun."
As he said that, Xu Yingjia suddenly changed his mind and said openly, "I'll go back with you."
Lu Yao hurriedly said: "Don't go back with me. There is an exam tomorrow. It doesn't matter whether I go or not. You can't be absent."
Xu Yingjia frowned and said, "You are alone, I'm afraid you will feel uncomfortable."
Lu Yao said: "Don't worry, I have figured it out and won't get into trouble again."
Xu Yingjia also saw that Lu Yao would never look back. Now that she had such a good relationship with Ji Guanxin, there was no need to break up with Jian Chengli.
Lu Yao changed her clothes and came to the school gate, and she saw Qi Ji sitting in a car with another young man. She walked over quickly, opened the back door and got into the car, saying hello.
Qi Ji sat in the driver's seat and turned to look at Lu Yao. He smiled and asked, "We were afraid you would fall asleep."
Lu Yao smiled lightly and replied: "Not yet."
The man in the passenger seat said: "It's Cheng Li's birthday, and Yaoyao has to get up even if she falls asleep. Can we still have this kind of relationship? Don't you think so, Yaoyao?"
Lu Yao was sitting alone in the spacious back seat. The lights were not turned on in the car, so she didn't have to worry about the awkward smile on her face being discovered. She responded casually, but she couldn't be completely calm in her heart.
As the car drove back to the city, Lu Yao asked aloud: "You took Jian Chengli out of the hospital. Is his leg okay?"
The man in the passenger seat smiled and said, "Don't mention it. We used a wheelchair to smuggle him out of the hospital today. He grinned and kept complaining about pain, so we had to use a stretcher to carry him out."
Qi Ji laughed and scolded: "It's not you, his leg is really broken, and you still think he's joking. If you make him lame, how will you compensate him in the future?"
Listening to the conversation between the two, one could tell that Jian Chengli had been tortured a lot.
Lu Yao whispered: "He is like this, you really shouldn't let him leave the hospital."
Qi Ji said: "What we don't want is Bebeti's request, saying that we don't want to spend our birthday in the hospital, which makes us feel depressed."
Lu Yao was speechless. She really didn't know whether Jian Beibei felt sorry for Jian Chengli or was afraid that he would not die.
On the way back, it was getting late and there were few cars on the street, so Qi Ji drove very fast and entered the city in less than an hour and a half.
Lu Yao said at the right moment: "Stepbrother, let's go to Guangning Road first. I want to buy a cake."
When Qi Ji heard this, he quickly replied: "No need to buy cakes, they are all ready."
Lu Yao smiled lightly and replied: "I can't go empty-handed, right? Jian Chengli will say I'm stingy."
Qi Ji was stunned and asked subconsciously: "Didn't you prepare a birthday gift for Cheng Li?"
Lu Yao smiled a little awkwardly, and the man in the passenger seat said, "Don't you send Cheng Li bracelets every year? I thought it would be the same this year."
Lu Yao couldn't help but sigh in her heart, and said with a smile: "I don't have much time recently, and I give the same thing every year, nothing new."
Qi Ji said: "Cheng Li really likes it. Look at his hands. He always wears things you gave him."
"That is, if you don't give him a bracelet this year, he will have to continue wearing the one you gave him last year."
In the past, Lu Yao didn't think she had anything, it was just a bracelet. Jian Chengli wore it if he liked it, and liking the bracelet had nothing to do with liking her as a person.
But after listening to Jian Beibei's words, Lu Yao always felt uncomfortable listening to anything.
Jian Chengli is accustomed to liking the new and hating the old. He plays with everything for a few days and then puts it down. Why do you wear the things she gave you for a whole year
Didn't Jian Beibei lie to her
There will still be a dull pain and sourness in my heart. Lu Yao forced herself to think about Ji Guanxin. She was Ji Guanxin's girlfriend. It was better not to think about the past.
Trying to raise the corners of her lips, Lu Yao still said the same thing: "I originally wanted to make a cake for him, but I didn't expect you guys to come tonight, so I had to buy one for him. It's a token of my gratitude."
Qi Ji also likes Lu Yao in his heart, so she will do whatever she says. I drove to Guangning Road, where there was a cake shop open late.
Lu Yao picked a chocolate cake, took it to the car, and went to the hotel with them.
Pushing open a private room door, it was very lively inside. There were four large round tables, each table was full of people, and at first glance there were dozens of people there.
Jian Chengli usually loves to make friends. Every year on his birthday, a large group of people celebrate together. He likes this lively atmosphere.
Qi Ji picked up Lu Yao and took her to the round table on the right. Lu Yao saw Jian Chengli sitting in the front seat at a glance. Of course, he was not wearing a hospital gown, but a dark blue shirt. He didn't know if he had turned pale in the hospital recently. Lu Yao was inexplicably surprised when she saw him. I thought of Ji Guanxin.
Ji Guanxin's face was very pale, and she wanted to secretly call him "White Face", but it was a pity that he gave this name to the dog.
Jian Chengli was talking to the person next to him. When he saw Lu Yao, a look of nostalgia quickly flashed through his eyes, and then turned normal.
Lu Yao knew almost everyone at this table. After saying hello, she sat between Qi Ji and Su Shanyun.
Seeing her coming in with a cake, a man opposite asked: "Did Yaoyao make the cake herself?"
Lu Yao was inevitably a little embarrassed, and replied with a faint smile: "I didn't make it, I bought it when I just came here."
Qi Ji helped Lu Yao explain: "She didn't know there was a situation tonight, it was too sudden."
Jian Beibei sat on the left side of Jian Chengli. She did not look at Lu Yao, but played with her mobile phone and said nonchalantly: "How sudden is it? My brother's birthday is not just a random date. of."
Qi Ji smiled and smoothed things over: "It doesn't matter. The most important thing is that the person is here. We didn't give him anything."
Everyone at the table started laughing and changing the topic.
Jian Chengli glanced at Lu Yao. Every year on his birthday, she would prepare a birthday gift for him in advance. Why... not this year
Lu Yao also accidentally looked up and saw Jian Chengli staring at her. For a moment, she was a little nervous and inexplicably embarrassed.
At this moment, she couldn't look away as if she couldn't see him, so she had to bite the bullet and said with a slight smile: "Happy birthday."
What else could Jian Chengli say? He just maintained a calm smile with her, and after a few seconds he said: "I've put you here so late at night, are you sleepy?"
Lu Yao said: "It's okay, I'm not sleepy."
"By the way, Jiajia asked me to say happy birthday. This is her gift to you."
Lu Yao took out a doll's keychain from her bag, which Xu Yingjia made up under her supervision.
Jian Chengli took it and suddenly felt so sad that his throat choked.
"Thank you... tell her for me."
"Okay, she has an exam tomorrow, so she didn't come over. She will go to the hospital to see you another day."
Lu Yao's beautiful face always had a smile as usual.
Jian Chengli put the keychain on the table and didn't touch it again.
The so-called birthday party is to find a reason to gather many friends together, and then everyone has a fun together. In the next period of time, the huge private room was filled with laughter and laughter. A group of people were divided into several factions. One side was trying to knock Jian Chengli down, and the other side was protecting Jian Chengli to the death. Of course, there were also some Remain neutral, as long as the flames of war do not burn you.
Jian Chengli stood up on crutches and challenged the provocative people in front of him. A group of people surrounded him, sometimes pushing and sometimes bumping. Lu Yao was frightened when he saw it. She was not afraid of anything else. She was afraid that Jian Chengli's legs would be damaged. Anyway.
Jian Chengli seemed to be in a particularly good mood today. A group of people obviously came to make trouble for him, but he still drank ten glasses of beer in a row, leaving the other party speechless.
Qi Ji beside Lu Yao had already stood up to protect Jian Chengli, and Su Shanyun was also pulled away by others. Only Lu Yao and a few other female companions were left at this table. She was sitting alone, neither eating nor expressionless. She had to take out her mobile phone and thought about whether to send a text message to Ji Guanxin. Ask him what he is doing now.
Just as she was thinking about it, a woman suddenly sat next to her. Lu Yao turned her head and saw that she was originally sitting at Jian Beibei's place. She didn't know if she was Jian Beibei's friend or someone else brought her.
"Hello." The woman greeted Lu Yao with a smile.
Lu Yao also nodded politely: "Hello."
"My name is Qiao Yuxi, sister Lu Yao, you are so beautiful."
She had a sweet mouth as soon as she came up. Lu Yao felt embarrassed when she praised her, so she could only smile and said: "Thank you."