Yesterday

Li's family booked a two-story villa cafe to hold the engagement banquet. Except for the parents of both parties, they only invited colleagues, classmates and friends of the younger generation.

Although the cafe is small, it has a garden and a terrace, and the dinner is held in the form of a buffet, free and easy, as Xu Yanqing said, like a private party.

Li Wenshan was talking to his family, when he saw Xu Yanqing approaching, he greeted him immediately, his eyes turned to Qin Yu, who was stunned for a moment.He explained a few words to the people around him, and then walked to Xu Yanqing's side.

Xu Yanqing asked Qin Yu to sit by himself for a while, and then went to the inner bakery with Li Wenshan.As soon as he entered the room, Li Wenshan closed the door.

"What's the matter with you?" Li Wenshan was keenly aware that something was wrong, "Is he the one you want to bring?"

Two days ago when Xu Yanqing asked if he could bring someone, Li Wenshan thought he was joking, and said casually, "If you can bring someone, you can bring it." It turned out that it was Qin Yu who he brought.

"Yes."

"It's the one I thought—" Li Wenshan searched for words in his mind, "Really?"

"When did I play fake?" Xu Yanqing smiled in a non-standard way.

"But you haven't really messed with it...why is it still him!" Li Wenshan rubbed his forehead with one hand, "When did it happen?"

"last month."

"You—" Even if Li Wenshan joked about them before, he didn't really regard Xu Yanqing as gay, "It's over, it's over, I told Zhou Han that you don't have a date... If she asks you, go tell her yourself Bar."

"...Well." Xu Yanqing understood Zhou Han's intentions, and even if the result was unsatisfactory, he would always give her an answer.

"So you're looking for that phone number because of him?"

"Okay," Li Wenshan resigned, "The business card is in my bag, I'll give it to you later."

"Thank you." Xu Yanqing said from the bottom of his heart, and pushed him, "Okay, hurry up and accompany Xiao Feng, don't make people wait."

"Bah, we're both old couples, why are we tired now?" Li Wenshan disdainfully said, "It's clear that you want to accompany your little lover!"

Xu Yanqing smiled dryly, he was a little worried that Qin Yu would be bored, as that person never liked to be lively.

"Don't be like a mother." Li Wenshan added.

"Fuck you!" Xu Yanqing remembered that he had teased Qin Yu like this back then, and couldn't help laughing endlessly, making Li Wenshan baffled.

"are you crazy."

They returned to the main hall together.

"How are you, are you bored?" Xu Yanqing asked Qin Yu.

"No." After working, Qin Yu has participated in a lot of social gatherings, and he has already adapted to it, and he just walked around. The place is not big, but the environment is very elegant. The garden is even more beautiful, and there are colorful lights , has the feeling of a castle in a fairy tale.

Qin Yu saw two big heart-shaped patterns formed by glasses on the long table where the wine was placed, and the guests came forward to take the wine one after another.He was a little interested in the side of the orange-red wine, and was about to go over and get a glass.

"This cocktail has a relatively high alcohol content," Xu Yanqing said while picking up two glasses of red wine from the side, "Drink this."

"I also drank strong alcohol at the dinner." Qin Yu said.

"I want to drink later," Xu Yanqing whispered in his ear, "Don't get drunk today."

Although he didn't understand why he said that, Qin Yu instinctively followed Xu Yanqing's instructions and took the wine glass in his hand.

The engagement ceremony is simple, but there are still necessary procedures.The group photo of Li Wenshan and his fiancée Feng Wan has been shown on the projection in the main hall. Later, they exchanged rings and swear oaths to each other under the witness of relatives and friends.

The lights shone on the two parties, and the audience was temporarily dimmed.As a bystander, Qin Yu could tell that Li Wenshan loved that girl very much.After the host announced that they could kiss each other, he walked up to her and hugged her, and the guests screamed.

Qin Yu quietly stretched out his fingers and hooked Xu Yanqing's right hand.Xu Yanqing's eyes were still on the stage, but his hands were held back without hesitation. Qin Yu couldn't break free no matter how hard he tried.After the light came on, he let go of his hand, the two looked at each other, and smiled tacitly.

"Yanqing!"

After free time, Xu Yanqing met Zhou Han.Zhou Han came a little late due to work, and arrived before the ceremony started, and he had a chance to talk to Xu Yanqing after the ceremony was over.

"Good evening." Xu Yanqing greeted her politely.

"Can I talk to you?"

"Now?"

It was getting late, and guests had already started to leave.

"I can't help it, I haven't been able to find a suitable time to ask you out," Zhou Han smiled, "There is no one in the garden, let's go sit down."

Xu Yanqing looked at Qin Yu, who nodded at him.

Xu Yanqing wasn't used to being alone with Zhou Han for a long time, and the girl's feelings for her were basically written on her face.She is beautiful, good-natured, and capable, but she can't make her heart move. Xu Yanqing can only lament the unreasonableness of love.

"Yanqing," Zhou Han asked him when he walked to a place where no one was around, "Are you going to continue like this forever?"

Xu Yanqing frowned, not knowing why Zhou Han said this: "What is this?"

"You understand what I'm talking about, Yanqing, you are so talented, you shouldn't waste your life like this."

"You think I'm wasting my life?" Xu Yanqing was a little shocked, even Li Wenshan had never said such words to himself.

"I don't mean anything else, don't be angry," Zhou Han's tone was slightly flustered hearing his displeasure, "I know you were forced to suffer a lot, why didn't you tell us?"

"If I knew what happened in your family back then, I would definitely help you, and Wenshan would too...how could you drop out of school?" Zhou Han's nose was sore when talking about the past.

Xu Yanqing said solemnly: "Zhou Han, I have no reason to let others bear my life. This is my catastrophe and has nothing to do with others."

"I know," Zhou Han nodded, "You are so proud, why would you beg for help?"

"Don't be sorry, I have nothing else to ask for."

"Nothing else?" Zhou Han looked at him in confusion, "You're only in your twenties, and there are plenty of opportunities to display your ambitions."

"Yanqing," she pursed her lips, "you can go back to City S with me, you can join my uncle's company, no one will mind your education, or if you want to work in a radio station or a newspaper... we can think about it manage--"

"Zhou Han," Xu Yanqing immediately interrupted her, "I will not leave City A."

"Because of auntie? Don't worry, we will take auntie with me, and I can find the best care for her."

"No," Xu Yanqing looked at the flickering lights on the bushes, and said slowly, "I like my life now."

"Why did you work so hard in college?" Zhou Han was puzzled, "Just to live this kind of retirement life?"

"You think so because you don't know me...it's not your problem, because I couldn't see who I really am at that time." Xu Yanqing sighed heavily, "I lived in a family with strict family education since I was a child. In the family, to prepare for becoming an heir, everything must be done to the best, and it is a matter of course to become the pride in the eyes of the elders and the envy of the peers."

"I wanted to study journalism at that time, and my parents allowed me to work in this industry for a few years, but in the end I still had to inherit the family business. I couldn't live up to their expectations. Later I realized that even if I wanted to study journalism, I just liked that kind of journalism. The flash, the feeling of being noticed, I was used to being the center of attention.”

"So what?" Zhou Han was even more puzzled, "You are already dazzling, so what's wrong with wanting attention?"

"In the past few years... I have lived with my mother, and I have done all kinds of things to pay back the money. I gradually discovered that I am just an ordinary person. I have lost the attention of others, and I still live well. Even It's more practical, and I don't need to hold it and put it on like that."

"Yanqing, have you forgotten what you said in your English speech before?"

"I haven't forgotten, it's just that I can see through myself now." Xu Yanqing turned to her and said solemnly, "Zhou Han, thank you for your kindness."

"You know?" Her eyes were red and her hands trembled slightly.

"Well, but I'm no longer the Xu Yanqing you imagined, or I never was," he said, "I don't want to live the life that others expect. I'm just an ordinary person with no ambitions. A tiring life, being able to support myself, having a small house, being able to see relatives and lovers every day.”

"You—do you have a lover?"

"Yes," Xu Yanqing confessed, "I will always be with him."

"I still...miss you." She took two steps back and said softly.

"Sorry, it's not that there is a lack of opportunities between us, but that we are not suitable at all." Xu Yanqing handed her a tissue, "Today is a good day for Wenshan, so you should give him some face, come on, be happy."

Zhou Han smiled at the end, tidied up his makeup, and returned to his usual beauty, as if nothing had happened.