【21.】

  It's been only a few days since the summer vacation ended, and it's already my birthday. I invited some close friends to celebrate at a restaurant. The classmates of Liu Xin who came to my house that day also came to celebrate with me. Of course, it can't be compared to Du Bin's grand birthday party, but poor people have their own ways of having fun. Tao Hao and the people from my dormitory all came, and I was surprised to see Jin Tongtong, but she just sat there without saying a word, not even talking to me, I really don't know why she insisted on coming.

  But when I saw the person behind Tao Hao, I suddenly understood... It's just that in my heart, I resented this little girl for making my birthday dinner so depressing.

  It was unexpected that Du Bin would come, but it was expected that Shen Zhong came.

  He handed me a box, just by looking at the packaging, I knew it must be expensive. I looked over and he smiled: "You've seen it, think it's very suitable for you."

  I was very curious about what it was that suited me. Taking advantage of no one noticing, I followed Tao Hao and opened the box together.

  "My goodness!" Tao exclaimed, tugging at my sleeve "Isn't this too expensive?"

  I'm also a bit embarrassed: "Yes... this... it's so expensive, and it's not good to return gifts in the future."

  Tao Hao turned around and brought another box: "This was given to you by Du Bin, open it and take a look."

  I carefully opened it... damn.

  "Exactly the same?"

  I helplessly nodded: "What's the use of having two... I only have one neck."

  The people around him came over with a mysterious look on their faces: "Come on... Shen Zhong and Du Bin must have an underground relationship."

  It's enough if there is...

  Xiao Xin shouted loudly at this time: "Sister, who is this? Is it the handsome guy who sent you back last time?"

  I glanced at Jin Tongtong, who was stiff, and responded in a low voice. Unfortunately, Liu Xian's gossip spirit was too professional, and she continued to ask relentlessly: "What is your relationship with my sister?"

  Du Bin smiled and seemed more relaxed than me: "I actually wanted to have some kind of relationship, but unfortunately your sister didn't give me the chance."

  Tao gave me a look, and I understood what she meant. She was probably worried about me. After all, Du Bin said that Jin Tongtong must have had a hard time, and it's a good birthday party, but this pair of foolish men and women are going to ruin it for me.

  "Wow!" One of Liu Xin's male classmates said with a smile, "With Jiajia sister looking so good, there must be many people who like her. You have to work harder!"

  I remember this boy, his name seems to be Yu Yong.

  Ignorance is bliss... I guess that's the idea. I looked at Tao Hao, her beautiful eyebrows were tightly furrowed together, thoughtfully staring at Jin Tongtong.

  Yu Yong might have felt that everyone wasn't interested in the topic he was talking about, so he changed the subject and looked at Jin Tongtong saying: "This sister is also very beautiful, who says there are no beauties in science and engineering, when I take the college entrance exam, I will apply for science and engineering."

  Originally, according to Jintong's temperament, she shouldn't have accepted this kind of talk, but unexpectedly, after taking a sip of water, she replied indifferently: "What's the use of being beautiful?"

  Finally someone responded to what he said, Yu Yong excitedly said: "How can it not be useful? In the future, finding a good husband will make this life all set!"

  Jin Tongtong smiled slightly, with a thousand charms: "Then you're wrong, now the world is not at peace, some people are too cautious, can't guard against everything, what's the use of being good-looking? Don't be a shield."

  The already not-so-good atmosphere was brought down to the extreme by this sentence, and even Yu Yong just awkwardly smiled and didn't know how to continue.

  "Hah!" Shen Zhong burst out laughing, looking at Jin Tongtong with a scornful smile "You say you're good-looking?"

  His expression is really so infuriating, yet it makes the listener feel ashamed, because in front of his absolutely beautiful face, no woman dares to swear that she is beautiful.

  She gazed straight at Shen Dong, and Jin Tongtong's slightly displeased expression had a captivating beauty.

  He glanced over carelessly, seemingly disdainful: "No wonder he was abandoned."

  "It's because of this cheap person causing trouble!" She pointed at me with her hand, her eyes slightly red. I was just about to speak when Tao Hao beside me got angry.

  "Who are you talking about?" Tao Hao was furious at this moment, and her momentum was so strong that ordinary people would succumb to her majesty.

  "Did I say something wrong?" Jin Tongtong rarely had this kind of expression, it was actually quite an eye-opener for me.

  "Don't you have any dignity? You're just a housewife buying vegetables at the market door, aren't you? What did Liu Jia do to you? Can't even take care of your own man and now blaming others?" Tao Hua's hands were clenched tightly, a sign of her extreme anger.

  I patted her on the back, afraid that she would get angry over such a trivial matter and hurt herself. Tao looked at me with a glance, still with lingering anger.

  "It's my birthday today, can't you just leave early? I came to celebrate, not to quarrel." I glanced at Jin Tongtong, with a strong sense of resentment. "As for what happened between me and Du Bin, I didn't want to make it public so soon. Since you brought it up today, I'll tell you straight out. We're just dating, he's the one who dumped you. How about that?"

  Jin Tongtong bit her lip tightly and stood up after a while, pushing the door to leave.

  "Look at you! You're so old, and yet you still speak carelessly about this matter!"

  I hadn't had time to explain to Tao Hao when Shen Zhuo stood up from across, without even looking at me: "I'm not feeling well, I'll leave first."

  "Ah!"

  Liu Xian wanted to go out and looked at me, I nodded. She ran away without looking back.

  It wasn't until now that I realized how infuriating my own arrogance and competitiveness can be. To think about it, my relationship with Du Bin started out like this too.

  Later, I asked Shen Duan about it, and he said that time was really angry, hated to see me for the rest of his life. I also knew I was over the line, Shen Duan helped me out, but I made such a childish decision. At that moment, I thought only by saying so would hurt Jin Tongtong, but I didn't think about it, besides Jin Tongtong, I would also hurt many people.