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Facts proved that Yang Zichen still had a little misunderstanding about his work efficiency. He made an appointment for dinner at 07:30, but he didn't get off work until [-] o'clock that day, making Lin Qiao and Xing Yue who arrived first wait for nearly an hour.

"It's not easy to have dinner with you."

Xing Yue sat at the table and drank boredly. There was another cup next to him, but he drank the loneliness of being alone.

"I have work to deal with temporarily, so it's late." Yang Zichen put his coat on the back of the chair, but he couldn't find another person in the room, so he asked, "Where's Lin Qiao?"

"Out for a smoke."

Yang Zichen looked at him suspiciously, doubting the authenticity of this answer: "Did Lin Qiao go out to smoke?"

Lin Qiao basically has no addiction to cigarettes, and he probably doesn't carry cigarettes with him at ordinary times, so he can go out to smoke before eating?

Seeing his disbelief, Xing Yue said angrily: "Then you can ask him yourself."

His attitude was too strange. As an innocent person who didn't know the situation, Yang Zichen really couldn't answer the conversation, so he had to sit down first and asked the waiter to order.

This is a private restaurant with a hidden location, opened in a low-key neighborhood where many celebrities live.Yang Zichen also came here with his brother once before, and he thought the taste was good, so he made an appointment here this time.He ordered a few dishes according to today's menu, and then asked Xing Yue: "Drink?"

"Drink some," Xing Yue nodded, "Just don't drink too much."

"It's okay to drink too much. Both Lin Qiao and I don't have to go to work tomorrow Saturday." Yang Zichen looked in the direction of the doorman again to make sure that Lin Qiao hadn't come back. Then he asked in confusion, "What's going on with you two? Lin Qiao doesn't seem too happy to mention you?"

When he was studying in the past, he always ran outside and often took Xing Yue crazy together, but Lin Qiao is a relatively obedient student with good attendance and grades, which is in stark contrast to the two of them.After playing for two years, Xing Yue suddenly realized that his credits might not be enough, so he turned around and ran away, and stopped playing wildly with Yang Zichen, and started going to and from the library with Lin Qiao, changing his appearance to be a good student.

Yang Zichen didn't have a companion, and he felt that going out to play alone was not interesting, so he went back to school in despair not long after.It wasn't until he joined the ranks of the library's regular customers that he realized that Xing Yue had quickly become one with Lin Qiao, and he had nothing to do with him, so he could only sit by and watch the two discuss issues.

With this level of relationship, it can be said that Xing Yue and Lin Qiao are definitely better than him, and Lin Qiao is famous for his good temper. Yang Zichen really can't understand why he suddenly became unhappy?

He asked bluntly, Xing Yue's face was not very good-looking, obviously he didn't want to say it very much, so he prevaricated: "It's nothing, it's just... a little conflict."

The word "contradictory" was a bit forced, and before he finished speaking, the door was pushed open from the outside, and Lin Qiao walked in with his coat on his arm.

"Zichen is here." Lin Qiao greeted Yang Zichen and asked, "Have you ordered?"

He didn't look at Xing Yue, as if he didn't hear anything just now, and he wasn't that familiar with him.Xing Yue originally opened his mouth to say something, but when he saw that he didn't see what he meant, he closed his mouth resentfully, like a wronged little daughter-in-law.

The two of them are in this state, if they really want to talk, they can't talk about anything. Yang Zichen is caught in the middle, he is not human, he feels like the filling of a sandwich biscuit, he can't laugh or cry.

He had no choice but to fix the topic on himself, and talked about the reason why he was so busy recently, so that those two—especially Lao Xing, whose face was full of mistakes—would not be too embarrassed.

Sure enough, as long as you don't talk about the two of them, everything is easy to talk about.Yang Zichen raised his head, and Lin Qiao's attention was attracted first, and he asked with great interest, "So now Fei'en is in your hands?"

"Well, they told me to try it out for a while, and wait for the next new series to be released to see the response before deciding whether to continue." Yang Zichen smiled, and poured half a glass of wine for each of them, "So drink a little wine today, It’s like celebrating that I’m finally getting something to do.”

Lin Qiao didn't refuse, picked up the cup and touched him: "It's very good, do it well."

He was very happy when Yang Zichen was kicked back to the country to shoot commercials. After all these years after graduation, he saw that several friends he had a good relationship with each had good jobs. Only Yang Zichen was still not sure what he wanted to do.Lin Qiao was worried about being a mother in front of his good friend, and kept persuading him to try the job he was interested in. Now he was relieved to hear that he took the initiative to ask Ying to manage Fei'en.

"Are you and Yi Xian okay?" Thinking of the past, Lin Qiao asked again, "Last time what happened to Lu Rui...it seems to have developed in a very strange direction in the end, are you okay?"

Speaking of this, Yang Zichen had a headache: "Fortunately, anyway, my account is newly registered, and I don't have any personal information, but everyone I know can probably see it, so there's nothing I can do about it."

There was really no way, even his own mother knew about it, and asked him to take the children home to play.Things have come to this point, and if he pretends not to be himself, he will inevitably be suspected of treating his mother as a fool. Yang Zichen has no choice but to agree to wait for Yi Xian to come to Fengshi on vacation before taking him home as a guest.

Lin Qiao laughed.

"Yi Xian is pretty good. You see, it's a good thing that you have become more active after being with him."

"I was not active before?" Yang Zichen raised his eyebrows, "I think it's okay?"

"It depends on what aspect it is." Lin Qiao said, "At least when facing your family, you are much more active than before—on the premise that the target is your elder brother, you couldn't say 'what about him' before. talk."

Even Xing Yue, who had been silently drinking and eating beside him, couldn't help but nodded.

This is the truth, and Yang Zichen has to admit that he has gained a lot of courage.And it's not just himself who has changed, even his brother has changed to some extent, at least after he went to the office to bargain last time, he didn't receive the merciless "education of love" like before.

It's as if even his brother thinks he's grown up.

"You made it sound like Yi Xian is some sort of fairy godmother, I'll be completely reborn once he comes?"

Yang Zichen thought it was funny, and while shaking his head, he glanced at his lit phone screen out of the corner of his eye—saying that Cao Cao was here, Yi Xian suddenly sent him a message.

This point in G City should be during the daytime classes.Yang Zichen opened it with some doubts, feeling strange, why would Yi Xian send him a WeChat message at this time?

After clicking on it, he realized that even the content of the message was very strange. There were only four simple words: "Are you home?"

Yang Zichen looked at the time, it was past eight o'clock in the evening.Usually he is still in the company right now, so he left work early tonight because of an appointment with Lin Qiao and Xing Yue. Yi Xian already knew that he was working overtime recently, so why would he ask him such a question during class?

Although he felt puzzled in his heart, he replied truthfully: "No, I just got off work and had dinner with Lin Qiao and Lao Xing. I didn't have time to take you to eat at the private kitchen last time."

After sending the message, he felt that he seemed a little cold again, so he added: "What about you? Are you in class?"

After finishing this sentence, Yang Zichen raised his head, and happened to look at Shang Linqiao and Xing Yue with somewhat teasing and gossipy eyes.

"Where's your little boyfriend doing rounds?" Xing Yue glanced at the watch on his wrist and said deliberately, "It's not even nine o'clock yet, isn't it a bit strict?"

"Shut up, don't you pretend to be dumb?" Yang Zichen smiled back and explained, "Yesterday I worked overtime and didn't take care of his phone calls. I'm free now, so I can't stop reading. Bar?"

Xing Yue seemed to have finally found a shortcut to join the topic, trying to use Yi Xian as an entry point to turn the conversation into a three-person conversation, and started chatting with him about the advertising ideas of Feien's new series.But while chatting, he discovered that Lin Qiao, who had been having a good chat with Yang Zichen just now, suddenly shut up after he joined the topic, and became an invisible person who listened silently.

So he also shut up.

The room was suddenly quiet, leaving only Yang Zichen more and more puzzled, looking at this and that while holding the wine glass, thinking that there might be something tricky between the two of them.

"Is there anything you can't tell me?" He didn't know how to deal with this deadlock, so he asked directly, "When did the two of you have a fight, and are you going to die forever?"

The two people sitting on the left and right sides of him were silent, and it seemed that neither of them meant to confess directly.Yang Zichen sat like this for a while, feeling bored, so he shook his head, filled his glass with wine, and began to drink and eat in silence.

He doesn't know what's going on with Lin Qiao and Xing Yue, and it doesn't look like he can get in to make peace at the moment, so he can only deal with it coldly first, and then find time to talk to them separately.

The drink I ordered had a bit of stamina, and no one talked anymore, so we all ate and drank, and everyone got a little drunk after drinking.Yang Zichen drank more than Lin Qiao, but he also had a better capacity for alcohol, and he was not obviously drunk. He called a car to take the two of them home separately, and then sat in the lobby of the private restaurant to find a driver for himself. ——He has to go home tomorrow, and it is inconvenient to park the car here.

After taking over Feen, he moved out of his old house and rented an apartment in the city center by himself.Anyway, I usually have to work overtime, so I go back to take a shower and sleep at night. When I get busy, I even make do with the night in the office. It doesn't make much difference whether I live well or not.

He had just set the destination and was about to call a valet driver, but a new call popped up on his phone first—it was Yi Xian.

"Have you finished eating?" the child asked over there.

"Just finished eating, ready to go home."

"Okay," Yi Xian responded, and then said, "Then... look at your ten o'clock direction?"

Yang Zichen was a little dizzy and rubbed his temples with his free hands, thinking that he would have to buy a box of sour plum soup at the convenience store downstairs to sober up after a while, otherwise he might not get up early tomorrow... huh?Why does Yi Xian seem to have an accent when speaking?

The entrance hall of the private restaurant is connected to the yard, and it is open, and the sound from the outside can be heard.He subconsciously followed Yi Xian's words, looked up at his ten o'clock direction, and found someone standing at the gate of the yard.

Against the light of the street lamps, the facial features could not be seen clearly, but the outlines were all too familiar.

"I'll pick you up," said Yi Xian's voice on the phone, "won't you come give me a hug?"