Soon, the designated driver called by Meng Yuning also came.

Xue Zhu was used to sitting in the back. She had just sat down and planned to close the door, so she supported the car door with one hand.

Isn't he in the passenger seat?

After a few seconds of stunnedness, Xuezhu quickly moved into a position.

Meng Yuning also sat in.

Maybe it was because he drank some wine and was blown by the low-temperature car air conditioner, Xuezhu's head hurt even more, so he had to speak: "Brother Yu Ning."

The man had already leaned against the back of the chair and closed his eyes for a nap. When he heard her calling him, his face was stunned at first, and then he immediately opened his eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"Can I open the window? The head hurts a little."

"Drive," Meng Yuning nodded, "Did you drink a lot?"

"I didn't drink much, but I just didn't have a good alcohol tolerance."

"Then try to drink as little as possible from now on," Meng Yuning took off his glasses and rubbed his nose with his fingertips up and down. "Drinking too much wine is not good for your health."

He wears glasses and sometimes feels uncomfortable in the bridge of his nose, and this small movement has almost become a habit.

Because he was studying abroad before, he still had the habit of carrying a handkerchief with him. He took it out of his suit pocket, lowered his head and wiped the lenses that were not dusty at all in Xuezhu's eyes.

He said that, his movements were calm, but his eyes filled with drunkenness were unconvincing.

Xue Zhu couldn't tell whether he was drunk or not, so she pursed her lips and asked, "Then how much did you drink?"

Meng Yuning thought for a while, smiled and shook his head: "I don't remember, there should be a lot of them."

Xuezhu muttered: "Then you still say I..."

Meng Yuning smiled a little deeper than just now, and said softly: "I'm a social event, I can't refuse."

Xuezhu asked casually: "What are you socializing?"

Meng Yuning replied: "He took good care of me when I was in the UK before, so I invited him to dinner this time."

The human relationships and worldly styles in the workplace are much more complicated than those in school, not to mention that they are transnational. Xue Zhu doesn’t understand and has no interest in asking in detail.

His personality and personality have always been impeccable. In this industry, connections are a very important part. His smooth sailing in recent years may be due to countless late-night stomachaches and fatigue loss.

Actually, I really want to ask how he has been doing in the past few years.

I feel a little uncomfortable when I can't say a lot of things in my heart. I always feel like my body is blocked by a big stone.

Xuezhu could only hold her chin, trying to wake up while blowing the wind, staring at the scene whizzing past the window in a daze.

The silence between them is no longer as comfortable and comfortable as they were when they were young.

Meng Yuning put on her glasses again and looked at her face hidden under the neon light.

In the past, her cheeks were still chubby, but now she only had a small nose tip and a white porcelain chin like a little wine pot. The hair on her forehead was as much as she was when she was a child. She was furry like a small animal. Because she had taken care of it, her beards on both sides drooped on her temples and rose up as soon as the wind blew it.

His throat was slightly hot with wine, and there was a thigh in his chest that was pressing his breath, making him dizzy, and the shadow of the person in front of him seemed to gradually become blurred.

The car drove to the destination, Xuezhu was about to get off, and the people around him also unbuttoned their seat belts.

"No, I'll just go upstairs and just leave by myself," she waved her hand, "You go home and rest quickly."

The driver in the front row suddenly said, "Your boyfriend is not worried about you, so let him take it away. I will park the car here and wait for your boyfriend to come back. I will definitely not run away if I don't worry."

After being misunderstood several times, Xuezhu finally couldn't help clarifying for herself: "What, this is my brother."

"Ah? Brother and sister?" The driver scratched his face and smiled to help him. "Sorry, I don't think you look like you, and I think you are lovers."

Xuezhu felt inexplicable. She and Meng Yuning were often said to look like each other when they were young. Even if others knew that they were not brothers and sisters, they would add another sentence that they looked more like brothers and sisters than brothers and sisters.

Now that I'm growing up, I don't look like it anymore.

Meng Yuning sighed with his forehead, patted the main driver's seat and said to the driver: "Wait for me here."

Then got off the car.

His actions have always been more straightforward than his words.

Xuezhu could not refuse. When she was going up the stairs, she was afraid that Meng Yuning would not be able to control her long legs if she drank too much and walked slowly. She also turned on the flashlight function of her phone and shone him in the front row.

Meng Yuning saw her concerns and felt helpless: "I'm not drunk."

Xuezhu didn't listen to his explanation: "If you fall, I can't carry you to the hospital."

Meng Yuning knew she was joking, raised the corners of her lips, shook her head according to her words and said, "I was so careless when I was a child."

When he arrived at the door of his house, Xuezhu was about to ask him if he wanted to go into the house to have a glass of water.

"I won't go in," Meng Yuning said, "and the smell of alcohol disturbs my aunt's rest."

He completed his mission, said goodbye to the gentleman, turned around and prepared to leave.

Suppressing the words on his lower lip, Xue Zhu nodded: "Then you go downstairs and be careful."

Without trying to keep her, she lowered her head to look for the key from her bag.

Just as the phone rang, she had to answer the phone first.

It's Chi Yue.

Xue Zhu said concisely: "Hey, I'm at the door of my house, okay, don't worry. What can my brother do if I send me back..."

Hang up the phone and she continued to look for the key.

This chance encounter will come to an end again.

No one can guarantee if there will be a second coincidence.

There was always an idea in my heart that was entangling her, but her reason obviously suppressed this idea.

She never thought of contacting him on his own initiative, and even added WeChat. Except for the automatic message from the system, the chat interface was blank.

Xuezhu didn't see Meng Yuning behind her looking at her back, with a large amount of mixed emotions flashing in her eyes, and suddenly stretched out her hand with the intention of drinking.

The right hand holding the key was suddenly held by an external force.

Xuezhu turned around in surprise. Because of the height difference, she only saw the man's tie.

"Brother Yu Ning?"

"Xiaozhu," Meng Yuning looked at her with a very gentle tone, "Has I done something wrong?"

Xuezhu was stunned for two seconds and shook her head: "No."

Meng Yuning closed his eyes, and the strong smell of alcohol eroded away the clean and steady eyes that had always been clean and steady.

Independence will make people grow up quickly. Meng Yuning has been learning independence since he graduated from high school. For him, independence means liberation and freedom. When he was a teenager, he had to rely on his father's life. Even if he felt wronged and sad, he had to grit his teeth and endure it. For others, the heavy workplace at that time was a kind of constraint, but for him, studying was the only key to untie the shackles.

After graduating from undergraduate, he went abroad to study. Although he also had classmates and friends around him, whenever he was alone in the apartment, he looked out the window and saw that the sky and buildings there were strangers.

On the first Christmas in the UK, on ​​school holidays, Meng Yuning went to Manchester City alone.

The city center is very lively, with tourists surrounded by huge Santa-shaped lights. Even though the sky is gloomy, the rain that had fallen last night is still accumulated on the stone brick road under your feet, but it still cannot stop the strong Western festive atmosphere.

He suddenly remembered the Spring Festival at home.

It was not the home that had been gone, but the New Year red envelope specially prepared for him by Grandpa Pei, the New Year dishes filled with rice bowls, the uncles and aunts who insisted on taking him home for the New Year, and the Xiaozhu who was excited to dance with him while holding his hand.

He misses it very much.

I can't forget the warmth that the girl in front of me once gave him.

Therefore, when she heard the news of her return, she hurried to the airport to pick her up, from the airport to the hospital and then to the housing management bureau, and finally found her.

Meng Yuning really wanted to ask her why she hadn't contacted him in recent years.

He clearly kept in touch with everyone. Even today, elementary school classmates who were in a state of equality more than ten years ago were able to sit together for dinner, but they were so alienated from him.

The strangeness and restraint in her eyes made Meng Yuning a little helpless.

He could never let go of her indifference and forgetfulness about the relationship. He was both lost and angry, but he could not blame her. He was afraid that she would feel abrupt or uneasy, so he could only ask himself repeatedly if he had done anything that made her unhappy and said something that made her sad, which made them reach this point today.

The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, but they were once so close.

Now that she can't take care of her emotions with the intention of drinking, Meng Yuning just wants to ask clearly.

"Why haven't you contacted me in the past few years?" He frowned at this point, his voice with a little anger. He was afraid of scaring her, so he tried his best to maintain a gentle tone. "Even classmates who were talking about their annoying when they were young can sit with you now for dinner. Xiaozhu, you are unfair to me like this."

Five years ago, he was plagued by projects. He went back and forth from the UK four times. The first time he was because he knew she was in love early, and he was angry and disappointed.

When I came back the second time, I wanted to apologize to her. Even if I was angry at that time, I shouldn't have read the letter.

But the room opposite was empty.

Later I found out that Xiaozhu moved out with her father.

Last year, he was transferred back to Shanghai for work because of his job. The second time he set foot on, the city was prosperous and busy, but he didn't find anyone. He took the time to go to the Siping Road campus of their school, but she had graduated and left.

The time difference between them seems to be impossible to make up for.

Her WeChat friends application and text messages remind Meng Yuning that she was ignored was clearly intentional.

If she told her in advance that she would come to find her, would she have been hiding where she would be afraid of avoiding her?
To be continued...