【23.】

  If you ask Liu Xin what the craziest thing she did in high school was, she would probably say it was falling in love with Shen Zhong like a moth to flame, but I think there's another one.

  It was just the drunkenness of that day.

  Actually, I should say I'm the crazy one between the two of us.

  Liu Xin may seem careless and sloppy at times, but in reality, she is quite similar to Tao Hao - both are extremely sensitive and know how to protect themselves. Therefore, getting drunk in front of outsiders is something Liu Xin would never do, even that one time when she pretended to be drunk to get Shen Zhuang to send her home, she wasn't completely intoxicated.

  My family has always thought I'm a sensible kid, so they're at ease with me hanging out with Liu Xincheng all the time. But actually, I'm a typical introverted person who's usually serious and proper on the surface but sometimes yearns for liberation in my heart. Even Tao Hao said: "I wouldn't be surprised if you did anything unconventional."

  That period of time, Liu Xin's psychological pressure was very great. She didn't say it, but I knew that her grades weren't particularly good. It was really too difficult for her to accompany Shen Zhuo to take the exam in Beijing. I also tried to persuade her, and I always felt that she put too much pressure on herself. After the college entrance examination, everything is an unknown number. Only a few people like Shen Zhuo can determine their direction early and don't have to worry about not being admitted.

  The troubles I'm having, everyone knows without me saying it. If two people who seem like troublemakers burst into your life and you're powerless against these two idiots, wouldn't you go crazy? Wouldn't you be furious? Besides, I'm not someone with a broad mind either. Even saints have said that only women and petty men are hard to deal with. Right?

  So that was really a headache, so I made a bolder decision with Liu Xin. The two of us ran to the bar to drink.

  Wearing a short skirt borrowed from Liu Xian, we made a stunning appearance at a well-known bar in the city.

  Only after entering did I realize how farmer I was, at the door I even worried that I wasn't wearing enough, looking around, I and Liu Xin's loss-making dress were actually considered to be wearing more! It's hard to say whether it's sighing that today's children are too open-minded or sighing that I'm old and can't keep up with the times.

  Since we came to relax, we inevitably drank some wine. I didn't know my capacity for alcohol and neither did I know how much of that wine would get me drunk, so Liu Xin and I recklessly drank five bottles each.

  Liu Xin stuck out his tongue and said to me: "Ah... sister... isn't it said that this wine is all diluted with water?"

  I listened to her speaking and couldn't help but laugh, watching her "heh heh" away. I completely forgot to respond.

  Xu Xian looked into the distance, suddenly her eyes lit up, and she smiled like me, with a drunken expression: "Wow! How refreshing! Look... look..."

  She "looked" for half a day and didn't say the next word. I followed her gaze and suddenly sobered up.

  He walked over, frowning: "Who allowed you to come here?"

  I pointed at myself with a foolish expression: "Say it about me?"

  Shen Diao's eyebrows were tightly knitted, looking extremely handsome. What was that phrase again?

  Right on, man!

  Great man!

  He took off his clothes and put them on my legs: "Go back."

  I narrowed my eyes: "I'm already in college, I'm an adult. It's not me who should be taken care of... she's the one who's still a minor."

  I pointed at Liu Xin's bewildered face, and the only thread of sanity in my mind reminded me not to lose my composure.

  Liu Xian looked for a while, suddenly closed her eyes, and I wailed in my heart, how could she fall asleep at such a critical moment!!!!

  "Yú Jiā." Shen Dang squatted in front of me, his hands on my knees, looking at me very gently. "What's wrong?"

  I pretended to be stupid: "Huh?"

  He took a deep breath, stroked my hair: "Liu Jia. I'm not by your side, can't help you with anything. But you've always been someone who knows what you want, so what is it that's worth making yourself so miserable?"

  I pushed him away with some annoyance: "I'm not ruining myself, I'm already twenty years old. Going to a bar is normal for someone my age. Didn't you come too? You're three years younger than me, aren't you still underage?"

  "But I am a man."

  "This is gender discrimination! I'm going to sue you!"

  He grasped my waving hand: "This is China!"

  The sentence is full of irony and it's really laughable. I burst out laughing: "Your words sound just like those of an angry youth!"

  He ignored me again, took out his phone and made a call. The surroundings were too noisy, I couldn't hear what he was saying at all, only saw his good-looking thin lips opening and closing. I tried my best to restrain the urge to kiss him, just when my willpower was about to collapse, he hung up the phone.

  I'm fed up with it and turned away in disgust.

  After he hung up the phone, he squatted in front of me without changing his posture. His legs must have been sore, but I liked him looking at me like that.

  After a while, a man who looked like a manager walked up to him and squatted down in sync with Shen Zhong's posture: "Young Master."

  "Shen Duan pointed at Liu Xin: 'This is my friend, he's a bit drunk. Can you arrange a quieter place for him?'"

  That man glanced around and looked at me with a very low voice: "Young master... where is this girl sleeping? Are you going over there in a while?"

  I suddenly realized, this emotional idiot thought Shen Dong was going to sleep with my sister!

  I angrily stretched out my little leg and kicked Shen Zhong, who was conveniently squatting in front of me, making it easy for me to use violence.

  That manager saw my movement and suddenly stiffened all over, I thought I wasn't scared yet, what are you afraid of?

  Shen Dang patted my calf: "Don't be naughty."

  I furiously continued kicking him, as if I was drunk.

  "Liujia!"

  "What's the point!"

  "He sighed and said, 'I'm just telling you, don't kick my knee. That's bone, it hurts when you kick.'"

  This time the manager who never changed his expression finally collapsed completely, worshiping me with his eyes, and a thousand words were hard to express. Probably he thought I was really too amazing.

  I deeply sympathize with him, guessing that like me, he has also been under the long-term oppression of Shen Dong's tyranny.

  "That girl is my classmate, she's never been to a bar before, and now she's drunk."

  In short, it means that their relationship is pure. The manager nodded: "Got it, don't worry, young master. I will absolutely guarantee your classmate's safety."

  He shouted for several people to come over and carry Liu Xian away.

  "Hey!" I pulled Shen Dong "Where did they take Liu Xin?"

  "Find a quiet place for her, she needs rest."

  "Oh."

  He suddenly said seriously: "What have you been drinking?"

  "Five bottles of beer, Heineken!"

  "Is that all?" He leaned in close to me "Has any stranger given you something to eat?"

  I tried hard to recall, nodding my head.

  Shen Dang gritted his teeth and asked with a scowl: "Who? Did you remember?"

  "No, I haven't eaten."

  "I asked you who gave it to you."

  I'm at my wit's end: "How can I possibly remember all this......"

  He fell silent for a moment, as if adjusting his emotions.

  "Do you feel uncomfortable now?"

  I shook my head and thought for a moment before adding: "It's just a bit dizzy."

  He stretched out his hand and slapped it on my leg with a "slap" sound: "Let you drink!"

  Oh!!!!!!!!!

  All those grievances and small emotions burst out, and for a while, I couldn't control them. Tears fell down in torrents.

  Shen Diao saw that I was really crying and panicked. He hastily wiped away my tears, saying "I... Liu Jia... ah, don't cry!"

  How could I bear to listen?

  He used the sleeve of his Western-style suit to wipe me, which was of good quality and felt a bit cool on my face. He probably thought it wasn't quite right either, so he used the T-shirt inside to wipe me again.

  "What's wrong?" He cooed like a child "What's making you unhappy?"

  I don't want to say it, and continue to vent with tears.

  He leaned in, his hands propping himself up on either side of my body, I had nowhere to escape. Shen Zhuo's icy lips kissed away my tears, and for a moment, I even forgot how to cry.

  "Yú jiā." He looked at me, beautifully unbelievable "Don't be like this anymore, I'm heartbroken for you."

  The tears I had just held back flowed out again. Shen Dong, he always manages to move me to tears.