Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Before Lu Chengyu could say anything, Liang Deyou and Chen Jin had already walked before them, and for a while the three of them were speechless.
Liang Deyou knew in his heart that he liked Chen Jin, so he had a sense of rejection towards Lu Chengyu, a potential love rival, and was even happy to see Lu Chengyu’s downtrodden face.
He wanted to let Chen Jin understand that people like Lu Chengyu were not worthy of his love at all, and the only person who was worthy of him was Liang Deyou.
He had a good family background and was loved by his elders since he was a child. Everyone around him tried to please him and wanted to get benefits from him. Only Chen Jin was different from these people. Naturally, he would not let such a special person leave his side. As for Lu Chengyu, he had seen all kinds of people in his circle of life. People like Lu Chengyu, who were smooth and versatile, often valued profit over righteousness. At the critical moment, the first person to run away must be someone like Lu Chengyu.
Maybe he had a prejudice against Lu Chengyu from the beginning, so he found nothing good about him. But there were many people he disliked over the years, and Lu Chengyu was just one of them. Did he have to find a reason to dislike someone?
When two people who disliked each other stood together, they would exude an inexplicable aura of repulsion. But Lu Chengyu looked at Chen Jin with a smile on his face and said nothing.
“Your speech today was wonderful,” Chen Jin was silent for a long time before saying, “Many people below went crazy about your speech.”
“Thank you,” Lu Chengyu smiled, “We are going to have lunch later, do you want to go together?”
When Chen Jin heard the word “we”, he found that a few steps behind Lu Chengyu, there was a man wearing a white shirt and with a suit jacket on his arm. He had never seen this man before, but he guessed that he must be Lu Chengyu’s relative, so he nodded to the man and said, “No, I have already discussed a place to eat with Deyou.”
Liang Deyou was different from Chen Jin. He could tell at a glance that the person behind Lu Chengyu was not simple, so he smiled and said, “Mr. Lu’s friends are really extraordinary.”
Lu Chengyu’s smile remained unchanged: “Mr. Liang, there is no need to belittle yourself. You are also not ordinary.”
Liang Deyou sneered: “People who are good at talking are often strong on the outside but weak on the inside.” He turned around and put his arm around Chen Jin’s shoulders as if unintentionally, “Xiao Jin, where is the store you just told me about? I’m hungry.”
It turned out that the two of them had an ambiguous relationship this early. Lu Chengyu glanced at Liang Deyou who deliberately showed his affection in front of him, put one hand in his trouser pocket, and said gracefully: “Since the two of you already have a place to go, I won’t bother you anymore. Goodbye.”
Chen Jin’s lips moved, then he glanced at Liang Deyou who had his arm around his shoulder, and finally remained silent.
Liang Deyou felt it was a little boring. This Lu Chengyu looked graceful from beginning to end, which made him seem a little unreasonable. If he had known this, he would not have rejected Lu Chengyu’s interview materials at the beginning. If Lu Chengyu was working at Liang’s now, he didn’t believe he would dare to treat him with this attitude.
People like Lu Chengyu were best at changing their minds according to the situation and forgetting their principles when they saw benefits.
After the two of them walked away, Chen Jin pushed Liang Deyou away and said with a frown: “What you said just now was too much.”
“What’s too much?” Liang Deyou sneered and looked at the direction in which Lu Chengyu had left. It didn’t take much effort to deal with such a powerless person.
“The two people just now were your classmates?” Yan Mu asked after they left the gate of Q University, “Do you have a conflict with each other?”
“One of them is my classmate, and the other is his friend,” Lu Chengyu bought a bag at a roadside boutique and put all his certificates and bachelor’s gowns in it, “There are indeed some conflicts.”
The two walked side by side. There were small stalls selling all kinds of food on both sides of the road. Yan Mu walked on this road and felt somewhat out of tune with the environment. He looked at the people coming and going and tried to recall some words to comfort people. But he could only come up with three dry words: “Don’t be sad.”
Faced with his boss’s lack of vocabulary, Lu Chengyu already accepted it calmly. He took him to the restaurant he used to go to often. After finding a good seat and sitting down, he said: “Although the price of this restaurant is not as good as Bai Weixuan, the taste is good.”
After saying that, he handed the menu to Yan Mu. Looking at the menu in his hand, he saw that the names and prices of the dishes were printed on A4 paper, and then sealed with plastic film to prevent it from getting greasy. There was no pattern on it. The only advantage was that it was black text on a white background, so people could see the words on it at a glance.
After ordering two dishes with a more popular taste, Yan Mu handed the menu back to Lu Chengyu, and he ordered a few dishes skillfully without even looking at the menu. The waiter who was writing down the names of the dishes next to him said as if they were very familiar with each other: “Do you want to add a boiled fish? The big river fishes that just arrived this morning are still alive and kicking. If you want, we’ll kill one for you.”
“Okay, don’t pick a big one, otherwise the two of us can’t finish it,” Lu Chengyu agreed with a smile. After the waiter left, he unpacked a set of sterilized tableware in front of him, “There won’t be many opportunities to eat in these places in the future.”
Yan Mu silently unpacked his tableware. After the dishes, cups and chopsticks were set, he said: “If you want to eat in the future, you can drive over.”
Lu Chengyu smiled, but he knew in his heart that he would have less time to come to these places in the future. He still had a lot of things to do, so much that he didn’t know if he could even achieve them.
The dishes were served one by one, and the last one to be served was the boiled fish. After the meal, the two of them were a little full. But even until they left the restaurant, Yan Mu couldn’t believe that he could have such an unrestrained time eating.
The afternoon in June was not suitable for activities such as walking. Yan Mu did not say that he wanted to leave immediately, so Lu Chengyu took him to a book bar near Q University to kill time. The book bar provided free books, but seats and tea and coffee had to be paid for. It was a good place for some petty bourgeoisie young people to kill time.
Yan Mu asked for a cup of coffee, and Lu Chengyu asked for a cup of tea. The two chose a small round table by the window and sat down. They each took the book they wanted to read and sat quietly. Although they did not talk, the atmosphere was particularly good.
After reading an essay, Yan Mu regained his concentration from the book and looked up at the opposite side but saw that the young man had fallen asleep on the sofa with a joke book on his knees. He really didn’t expect that someone would pose in such an elegant posture to sleep and read a book, and it was still a joke book.
With a smile on his lips, he lowered his head and continued to read the essay book in his hand. In this quiet afternoon, he suddenly felt that occasionally leaving his circle and just sitting quietly was also an interesting thing.
Lu Chengyu slept for nearly an hour before waking up. He rubbed his aching neck and saw Yan Mu still reading a collection of essays. Looking at the bright sunlight outside the window, he took out the pen and notepad from the box on the table and started drawing a kitten.
Yan Mu saw his action and knew that he was a little bored, so he closed the book in his hand and made a gesture to him to go out.
The two of them left the bookstore, stared at the sun at three or four in the afternoon, and walked around Q University. There were lotus ponds with blooming lotus flowers, groves frequented by couples, and other interesting places.
Along the way, Yan Mu also saw people he knew greeting Lu Chengyu from time to time. When the two found a bench under the shade of a tree and sat down on it, they realized the beauty of the shade.
Yan Mu rolled up his shirt sleeves and looked at a teaching building hidden behind the shadow of the tree: “Your school is beautiful.”
“After four years, I’m used to seeing these beautiful things,” Lu Chengyu smiled and shook his head as he unscrewed the bottle cap of the beverage he had bought on the road. “My parents said that after I graduated, they would definitely choose the most beautiful place in the school to take a photo with me. As a result, the couple left together sweetly, leaving me alone here to take photos. The places that I thought were beautiful have thus become ordinary now.”
Yan Mu nodded: “When I graduated, I was the same as you.” He was studying abroad at the time. His mother had passed away, and his father was having an affair with his lover and even had an illegitimate child. His grandfather was old and couldn’t go abroad casually, so there was no family to accompany him to the small graduation ceremony.
“Come to think of it, I have to thank the boss for staying with me for so long,” Lu Chengyu held the cold beverage bottle, “If it weren’t for you, I would really be taking photos alone.”
“You’re welcome,” Yan Mu’s eyes moved from Lu Chengyu to the green grass, but he still had that expressionless look, “It’s just on the way.”
Lu Chengyu looked at this expressionless and taciturn man, and suddenly felt that the person who was rumored to be the number one diamond bachelor did not seem so cold and noble and difficult to approach.
Yan Mu left at around five o’clock in the afternoon. Lu Chengyu happened to have to attend the class graduation dinner at six o’clock in the afternoon, so he did not keep Yan Mu. When he arrived at the hotel, more than half of the 40 classmates in the class had already arrived.
Seeing him coming, the classmates in the class greeted him, and a group of people quickly gathered together to talk about what they encountered at work. After working for just over a month, many classmates had become much more mature than before leaving school.
Some people also asked Lu Chengyu about Huading. Lu Chengyu said helplessly: “If I knew the inside information of Huading, I would be a senior manager of Huading, and I would be a successful person now.” Since you have entered the workplace, you must remember your identity. Don’t leak the company’s affairs. Who knows if your classmates might be from a rival company?
“Just be beautiful,” the boys laughed. They were all fresh graduates. Even if they graduated from a prestigious school, the company would not immediately reuse them. So no one thought Lu Chengyu was lying. Instead, they made fun of Lu Chengyu. Lu Chengyu was not angry. He immediately teased these boys back. Anyway, with his ability to hurt people in a roundabout way, he would not suffer any loss.
When the atmosphere was just right, the monitor counted the number of people and found that there seemed to be one person missing. He didn’t know who was missing for a while, so he had to ask the people to see whose roommate was not there. If they found the person who was not there, they should call that person immediately. After all, it was time for dinner.
Zhu Guanglin pulled Zhang Hong and Lu Chengyu aside and whispered, “It seems that Chen Jin hasn’t arrived yet.”
Lu Chengyu didn’t say anything. It was not appropriate for him to take care of Chen Jin’s affairs now, so he had to give Zhu Guanglin a helpless look. When he was about to ask the other party to call Chen Jin, he saw Chen Jin walked in from outside and choose a place some distance away from Lu Chengyu to sit down. He didn’t say a word the whole time.
Zhu Guanglin had a violent temper. Seeing Chen Jin like this, he couldn’t help but frown, but seeing that Zhang Hong and Lu Chengyu didn’t react much, he had to swallow his dissatisfaction in his heart. The three of them sat down together and just pretended that this didn’t happen.
Other classmates in the class who were interested also found that something was wrong between the few people, but Chen Jin was usually aloof and arrogant. However most of them had a good relationship with Lu Chengyu and the other two. Seeing that the three of them didn’t say anything, of course, the others wouldn’t say much. As soon as the dishes were served, they started to pour wine for each other.
At this time, no one cared. After all, it was the last madness of their college life. Even girls like Chen Ya began to roll up their sleeves and toast. In a place like Q University, no matter how beautiful a woman was, she was not a pure woman, but a beautiful tomboy.
After Chen Ya and several other girls got several boys drunk, Chen Ya put a bottle of ice beer in front of Lu Chengyu: “Lu Chengyu, we will go our separate ways in the future. We are all classmates. Do you want to drink this beer or not?”
“I have to drink the beer given by a beautiful woman even if I have to lie down under the table,” Lu Chengyu picked up the bottle, smiled at Chen Ya, and drank the whole bottle in front of the whole class.
Chen Ya looked at him drinking with his head tilted up, and her eyes, which were originally full of feelings, gradually returned to calm. After he finished drinking, she reached out and patted him on the shoulder, looking like a good brother: “Okay, I won’t embarrass you anymore. When you come to eat the food cooked by my mother in the future, don’t tell her that I drank alcohol.”
“No problem, Queen!” Lu Chengyu knew that Chen Ya had really let go of this relationship. He remembered that Chen Ya was also like this in her previous life. She dared to love and hate and could take it or put it down. In the end, she still married a good man who could cook.
The other people in the class had already started to make a fuss when Lu Chengyu drank the whole bottle of beer in one breath. After hearing what Chen Ya said, everyone finally believed what Lu Chengyu said before. It seemed that Chen Ya really had no other intentions towards Lu Chengyu. It turned out that because the two families really knew each other for a long time, Chen Ya acted a little specially to Lu Chengyu.
The accidental death of Lu Chengyu’s parents was no secret in the class. At this time, no one made fun of Chen Ya and Lu Chengyu, but they all made a fuss to get Lu Chengyu drunk, accusing him of only daring to drink the beer offered by the class beauty.
A group of people were drinking in a mess. At this time, someone came up to Chen Jin to toast but was rejected by Chen Jin directly. The person who came to toast was already a little drunk and said directly: “If you don’t drink this wine, you will not give face to your buddy.”
Chen Jin looked at the glass of wine in front of him and didn’t move. “Drinking is harmful to the body. If you are my buddy, even if I don’t drink this glass of wine, you will still be a buddy. If you are not a buddy, no matter how much you drink, you will never be a buddy.”
“Forget about not drinking, why are you making up so many excuses?” The person who toasted took the wine glass and was a little unhappy with Chen Jin’s words, so he complained, “You keep looking so proud, as if everyone should be willing to hold you in high esteem.”
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward. The person who spoke was a little drunk, but there were still many sober people present, and Chen Jin, who didn’t drink, was even more sober. He looked at the person who said this with a sullen face: “Wang Yang, what do you mean by this?!”
“Don’t you understand what I mean?!” Wang Yang put the wine glass on the table and spilled most of the wine. “You always look unhappy, do you think anyone owes you anything?”
“Wang Yang, what nonsense are you talking about when you are drunk?” The monitor saw that the situation was not right and did not want to ruin the graduation dinner. After all, this was the last meal of everyone’s college life. So he pulled Wang Yang to sit next to him and poured him a cup of tea. Seeing that he seemed to be a little sober, he said to Chen Jin, “Chen Jin, don’t bother with a drunkard. He was upset from work and got drunk.”
Wang Yang also knew that he had said the wrong thing. Although he did not appreciate Chen Jin’s behavior, the other party did not do anything to wrong him. He just didn’t like Chen Jin’s pretentious look, and Chen Jin’s words just now were not pleasant to the ears, so he got a little angry. Now that he was a little more sober, he knew that what he said was wrong, so he followed the monitor’s words and apologized to Chen Jin: “Chen Jin, I’m sorry, I was confused just now, you just took what I said as fart, don’t take it to heart.”
“The monitor may not be right, people say that the truth comes out after drinking, I think what Wang Yang said was almost the same,” Chen Jin’s face was cold when looking at the monitor and Wang Yang who were trying to smooth things over. These people always looked like one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes. If he was a rich second generation like Zhao He in the class, these people would probably have a different face. “I also want to ask Wang Yang what those words just now meant. Some things are better to be said clearly. It’s meaningless to hide them.”
Originally, Wang Yang apologized for this matter, and it should have been sorted out on the surface. Even if there was something inside, the two of them could deal with it privately. But after Chen Jin said these words, the monitor and Wang Yang felt embarrassed, and the other students couldn’t play anymore, and suddenly they all felt that it was a bit boring.
Seeing that the monitor and Wang Yang were silent, Chen Jin stood up with a mocking smile on his face: “Okay, since someone here doesn’t welcome me, I won’t affect your mood. I’ll leave first.”
The whole class watched Chen Jin leave. After a moment of silence, the rich second-generation Zhao He said: “F**k, this Chen Jin is mentally ill, it’s just a matter of drinking a glass of wine, what a fuss!”
Lu Chengyu remembered that at the graduation party in his previous life, Wang Yang and Chen Jin seemed to have some conflicts, but the scene was not as awkward as it was now. Later, he attended only one class reunion. At that time, someone praised Chen Jin, but Wang Yang, Zhao He and others seemed unwilling to talk to Chen Jin from beginning to end, and Chen Jin did not seem to like these people as well.
After everyone finished their meal, they went to the KTV opened by Zhao He’s family to sing. Zhao He’s parents even reserved a luxurious private room for them. The classmates in the same class sang until late at night before being picked up by their relatives or friends.
Zhao He wanted to arrange a driver to take the already drunk Lu Chengyu to the hotel to rest for a night, but he found that Lu Chengyu’s cell phone was ringing. After answering the call, he found that the other party was Lu Chengyu’s boss.
After hearing that the other party was coming to pick up Lu Chengyu, he reported the address of his own KTV. As soon as he finished speaking, his phone automatically turned off because it was out of battery. Looking at the black screen of the phone, and then at Lu Chengyu who was sleeping on the sofa, the half-drunk Zhao He shook his head. It was a pity that such a capable and handsome guy had no parents and had indifferent relatives. Fortunately, the boss he met was quite humane, although… his tone sounded a little cold.
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