The system is very abstract, fortunately I am also.

Chapter 479 All eyes are on me, I have something to announce.

A devastating crisis in our relationship!
Reminded by her friends, Chen Yuying immediately realized what was going on.

stare--

She even puffed out her cheeks slightly to match, turning her face into a little bun.

Cute.

Noticing that everyone's eyes were fixed on him, and they all looked very serious, Lin Li rubbed his temples and smiled silently with his eyes half-closed.

—Wow, I didn't know that was the case. I was born this way. I almost forgot about it if Bai Bufan hadn't told me.

There are many people on this bus who deserve to die, but without a doubt, Bai Bufan is the one who deserves to die the most.

He was also the one who most wanted to die.

In a way, it's a two-way journey.

"Lin Li, aren't you going to say something...?"

Chen Yuying spoke in a cool tone, with a hint of amusement hidden in her voice, and said in a low, resentful tone.

“I’m sorry,” Lin Li sincerely raised his head and looked at Chen Yuying. “You are not anyone’s substitute. I have never had such thoughts. She is just my sister. She said that purple has a lot of charm.”

When they saw the victim join in with a serious expression, everyone instantly broke down in laughter, filling the car with a joyful atmosphere.

"Alright, alright, that's enough playing. Lin Li, go stop now."

Ding Sihan got off the bus first, and then asked the others who got off at the same time:
"Should we go straight to the store, or do we browse around the plaza first? We've already made a reservation and paid a deposit, so as long as we're not more than half an hour late, we can hold our seats."

"Anything is fine..."

"You guys decide, and send me the details on WeChat once you've agreed. I'm going to find a spot now." Lin Li left these words and drove away.

I chose a parking spot about one block away from the area where I wouldn't be quickly affected by crowds or blocked by other cars after midnight.

After glancing at his phone and learning that they still planned to look around first, Lin Li headed to the designated meeting point.

Although Yuetian Plaza is called a plaza, it is actually a commercial center. The area that can truly be called a plaza in the conventional sense is actually not very large.

After all, the Gregorian New Year is just around the corner, and the surrounding shops are bustling with activity.

Even though it was already past 8 o'clock, which was past lunchtime, the restaurants were almost full, and some popular restaurants had rows of chairs outside where people were waiting for a table.

Luckily, that shop wasn't well-known and was quite expensive, otherwise I might not have been able to find a place to stay and have a late-night snack tonight.

"Shopping is more fun when there are many people around; shopping alone is too boring."

After strolling around for nearly an hour, when it was almost time to go to the hot pot restaurant before all the seats were taken, Ding Sihan smiled and sighed as she led the way.

"Have you ever considered amputation? That way you'll never go shopping alone again. When you don't have friends, you'll have half a person to go shopping with, and when you have friends, you'll have 1.5 people to go shopping with. It sounds really interesting," Lin Li suggested casually, holding the back of his head.

"What the hell does this mean! Lin Li, shut up!"

Ding Sihan used a water splash jump, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

Lin Li, who dodged Ding Sihan's flying kick, curled his lip. He had offered advice with good intentions and could have fundamentally solved Ding Sihan's problem, but the result was that she bit him like a madman. It was truly chilling.

Thinking of this, Lin Li's eyes lit up, and he looked at Bai Bufan:
“Bufan, I have an idea. What do you think? During the Mid-Autumn Festival, we can make a mooncake with the name of Lü Dongbin on it and give it to Old Jiantou to express our respect and love for him?”

Bai Bufan immediately understood, and his eyes lit up:
“Absolutely! And we can not only send mooncakes in the Lü Dongbin style, but also in the ‘Weight Weight’ and ‘Tender Grass’ styles. Old Jian will definitely be so moved by our filial piety that he'll regret making us write a thousand-word apology.”

The girls, who heard the two girls clearly, didn't lower their voices at all, and their lips twitched slightly.

You will definitely regret it.

How can I not regret writing only a thousand words?

But it is indeed a business opportunity.

If they actually release them, they might buy one or two.

"Taking an elevator is the fairest thing in the world, since there are no back doors to take."

As the elevator went up, since there was no one else inside, Bai Bufan remarked with a sigh, then pointed at the elevator buttons and complained:
"Damn it, but some designers are crazy. They put the buttons on the back instead of the door."

When I was a child, the elevator reached my floor, but the door wouldn't open no matter how many times I pressed the buttons. I couldn't even pry it open. It scared me to death. In the end, I cried and went to find my mother and the elevator manager.

Later, when they checked the surveillance footage to find out the cause of the problem, they saw that the door behind me opened more than ten times, and I was crying while watching the footage in front of me. My mom laughed so hard.

When asked why I didn't turn around, I stammered and was too embarrassed to answer.

After all, it felt like a cold wind was blowing from behind, so who would dare to turn around?

Why make an elevator so quiet?

“That’s quite a life,” Lin Li said with a smile, “but the people who had an even more life than you were probably the others waiting for the elevator on the first floor.”

Upon arriving at the hot pot restaurant, although it was on the top floor, the location was actually divided into indoor and outdoor areas. After all, if there were only an outdoor rooftop, it would be almost impossible to do business in the summer.

But it's winter now, and we're eating steaming hot pot. Plus, the goal is to join the New Year's Eve celebration with the people in the square, so everyone unsurprisingly chose an outdoor spot.

The food they ordered couldn't be served immediately, so after mixing the dipping sauce, the group curiously headed towards the edge of the rooftop.

Lin Li and a few girls took a look at the rooftop view first. For safety reasons, the railing was very high, but fortunately it did not obstruct the view. They could overlook a large part of the square. When everyone gathered downstairs at 12 o'clock, the view should be quite good.

Bai Bufan went to examine the telescope next to him.

"Why is this angle fixed so I can only look up and not down?" Bai Bufan clicked his tongue in amazement when he tried to adjust the telescope's angle and discovered that it had a limit.

"What exactly are you looking down for? Spying, huh?" Lin Li glanced at him.

"I would never do something like spying, so don't slander me maliciously."

I have a small one at home, and I've been using it to do good deeds. Recently, I've been using it for half a month to search, but I still can't find the peeping tom who's been rumored in the neighborhood using binoculars to spy on people from their balconies.

Moved by the scene, Bai Bufan said sadly:
“Especially when my neighbor appears on the balcony after taking a shower, I become extremely vigilant, but I still find nothing. I feel like they're just making this up to deceive me. I was even thinking of helping them punish evildoers, sigh.”

Lin Li was able to quickly determine that Bai Bufan's statement was a lie.

Because when this mentally challenged child tried to use the telescope on the rooftop, he subconsciously closed one eye and then pressed his closed eye against the telescope's eyepiece.

When did the assassin Zhang Wei arrive?
Bai Bufan was stunned for a moment, then asked in confusion:
Why do I see the same scene in every way?

“Sometimes modern medicine is advancing too fast, and we don’t know if it’s a good thing or not.” Looking at this scene, Lin Li shook his head at Chen Yuying and said.

"Yes." Chen Yuying nodded sincerely. Of course, she understood what Lin Li meant—in theory, a fetus like Bai Bufan should not have survived at birth, but unfortunately, modern medicine saved him.

Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu also looked at Bai Bufan with concern: "I wonder if artificial intervention in the survival of the fittest is a good thing. Won't human genes degenerate?"

Bai Bufan: "TAT".

None of these four people chose to lower their voices when they were badmouthing themselves.

"I'm never doing anything abstract again. It's one thing if nobody understands my wit and humor, but everyone just treats me like an idiot," Bai Bufan said sadly.

The group then actually used the telescope.

Although it was clearly not a professional-grade astronomical telescope, the quality wasn't too bad. After adjusting it, you could see a few lone stars shining faintly through the gaps in the clouds, which, after identification, were probably Orion's Belt.

And the North Star, which can be seen with the naked eye, can be seen with a clearer and more realistic outline through a telescope.

The weather wasn't great today, and with the neon light pollution from the shopping district, seeing these scenes is already a pretty good result.

Unfortunately, my phone couldn't capture it.

The food they ordered had been arriving one after another while the five of them took turns using the binoculars, so they stopped hogging them and returned to their seats.

It's already past nine o'clock, and with the energy we've just expended while shopping, everyone is more or less feeling hungry.

Began to eat.

……

"Why are you always making things difficult for me? What have I done to offend you?" Bai Bufan looked at Lin Li with resentment and cold eyes.

"Because tripe gets tough if cooked for too long, I accidentally added a lot of it just now." Lin Li replied calmly, not only continuing to add tripe to Bai Bufan's bowl with serving chopsticks, but also adding tripe to the three girls opposite him.

They were much more polite; they would say thank you instead of accusing Bai Bufan, that ingrate.

"Hehehe—!!"

The girls looked up, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan also turned around.

It was two little children who had appeared outside a few minutes earlier and had been making a ruckus.

Children's voices are naturally high-pitched, and these two were running, jumping, and screaming, which was quite jarring. Most of the guests on the rooftop frowned slightly, hoping that their parents would appear or that a staff member would intervene.

But no hero appeared.

Bai Bufan picked at his ear and shook his head: "I finally understand the saying 'the customer is God' now."

“It’s probably difficult for the shop to handle this situation,” Ding Sihan nodded. “Everyone has paid so much more money, the shop probably knows they are in the wrong and dare not do anything about it.”

Ding Sihan believes that the best place for unruly children is to be kept in the bear enclosure at the zoo or released into the wild.

“Dingzi, you’ve misunderstood what Bufan meant,” Lin Li chuckled. “What he meant by ‘the customer is God’ is that, as the son of God, he’s better off crucified than left to roam freely.”

Ding Sihan: "(；☉_☉)?"

"Cough cough." Ding Sihan, who almost spat out all the tripe, took the water Chen Yuying handed her to clear her throat, then shook her head helplessly.

My own path to growth is still long and arduous.

We underestimated the murderous intent of creatures like Lin Bai.

However, before Lin Li could get up to try and calm the two mischievous kids down, their parents came out of the indoor area and took them back inside.

It doesn't matter if my fellow Daoist dies rather than me; anyway, the outside world has returned to quiet.

Hot pot is something that, as long as the ingredients aren't mushy and the broth is good, can't be too bad.

Given that it was outdoors in winter and the food was piping hot, most people thought the taste was pretty good, of course, all of which were opinions that disregarded the price.

But if you really disregard the price, this restaurant won't have many seats left tonight.

"Click——"

Lin Li and Bai Bufan's chopsticks touched.

This is part of the plot in a romance anime.

If this were set in Chengdu, it would be considered a romance anime.

But this is just ordinary reality, so the two of them simply had their eyes on a piece of chicken that was already cooked in the pot.

Their eyes met, their fighting spirit burning, and a spark seemed to fly between them.

"Damn, I feel a real shock." Bai Bufan shuddered again, having actually been shocked.

Lin Li: "Isn't it normal to have static electricity in winter?"

“That makes sense.” Bai Bufan thought it was reasonable, but he was still unwilling to give up the chicken, or more accurately, the chicken that he could snatch from Lin Li.

Lin Li narrowed his eyes: "Bu Fan, let me test you. Dogs bark, cats meow, what can chickens do?"

Bai Bufan narrowed his eyes: "300 per time, 600 for the whole night?"

"What do you mean, 'the first chicken to fall'? Wrong!" Lin Li sneered, then, taking advantage of Bai Bufan's momentary distraction, his movements were as swift as lightning—"Opportunity—is reserved for those who are prepared!"

Lin Li put the chicken in his mouth. It was fresh out of the pot and scalding hot, so he stirred it several times with his mouth, but he just wouldn't spit it out.

At the same time, he looked down at Bai Bufan with a superior gaze.

"My chicken! You bastard—my stomach's ready too!! Throw it out!"

"Someone like you who has no chance shouldn't bother preparing!"

The girls were already used to seeing the two boys across from them arguing again, and it even escalated to the point of physical violence. They simply shook their heads and smiled.

For them, even a simple meal is enough to make them unable to eat anymore, or rather, unable to eat any more.

They didn't chat for a long time, since it wasn't like they hadn't been apart for a long time and had endless topics to talk about. Strictly speaking, the five of them actually met again after being separated for two or three hours today.

I sit here quietly, playing on my phone, and sharing anything interesting I see with the people around me.

Occasionally, like now, when the two people opposite are making a ruckus, I look up and observe the monkeys in a civilized manner.

I planned to wait until 12 o'clock.

From a certain perspective, tonight's activities weren't particularly interesting; it was just having a late-night snack and chatting. This kind of conversation and sharing can be done at home, or even more comfortably in bed.

But is it boring? Not really.

Do I regret coming out? Absolutely not.

There is something to say.

Youth is something that is worthless yet as precious as gold.

"Ordinary" moments may seem worthless now, but they are indeed precious.

When a good friend suddenly drives up to your apartment building and invites you for a spontaneous trip, your brain might freeze for a moment, but the instant joy and amusement wash over you, that moment is already filtered through a golden lens.

Isn't life all about certain moments?

Youth is like a gecko; it's hard to catch its tail, but fortunately, for the five of them, the whole gecko is within reach.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan were not like Zhou Baowei, who was a sloppy eater. Gradually, as their hunger levels increased, their eating speed began to slow down.

Similarly, there were no plans to do anything else. The girls and I chatted on our phones, occasionally checking on the square from the edge, and waiting together for the new year to arrive.

Time flies like an arrow, years pass like a shuttle, and time slips away like a white horse galloping past a crack in the wall.

As the noise downstairs gradually became clearer and more noticeable, as shopkeepers sent people to promote their balloons, and as the LED screen in the distance began its final 60-second countdown, the year was drawing to a close.

Lin Li and his four companions were already standing on the edge of the rooftop.

His left shoulder touched Bai Bufan's, and his right hand held Chen Yuying's.

Everyone held a balloon that Chen Qianjin had given them as a treat, and looked at the crowded people and the countdown that waited for no one with smiles on their faces.

"five!"

"Four!"

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

"Happy New Year!!!"

Fireworks burst into bloom in the distance, and colorful balloons rose from every corner of the square, like raindrops moving against the current, carrying countless wishes into the night sky.

"Wow--"

A second wave of noise came from the other side of the rooftop; it turned out someone was confessing their love.

But none of the three people and the dog were drawn to it.

Just now, Lin Li suddenly smiled at them and said, "Everyone, look at me."

Bai Bufan looked to the right, while Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu looked to the left.

With a smile, Lin Li extended his free left hand to support the cheek of the girl who was also looking up at him, his thumb gently brushing against her chin.

Then he leaned down and pressed his heartfelt feelings onto her lips.

(End of this chapter)