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There were a few people sitting sporadically in the tavern playing folk songs, the night outside the window was very low, and the indoor lights were also dim.

Xie Jingnian was fiddling with the lemon slices on the rim of the cup, and Liang Yuan's endless complaints could be heard in his ears.

As soon as he got out of the car, Liang Yuan pulled him over before putting his luggage back in the dormitory, as if treating him like a tree hole pouring bitter water.

"The main reason is that Han Ce is too fucking handsome." Liang Yuan drank a lot of wine, his fair face was flushed, his tone was sticky, and he compared Xie Jingnian to eight with trembling hands, " He has eight pack abs!"

Xie Jingnian nodded perfunctorily, thinking that his family's dead brother also has: "So you are with him?"

"Together ass! He just wants to fuck me." Liang Yuan scolded, "I'll just play with him, whoever fucks his heart first will be the grandson!"

Liang Yuan's drinking capacity is very poor, he belongs to the category of food and drink, so Xie Jingnian is not willing to go out to drink with him.He always felt like a nanny called by Liang Yuan to take care of the drunk.

Later, Liang Yuan scolded Han Ce a few more times, and then his voice fell silent, and he was so drunk that he lay down on the wine table.

Xie Jingnian was worrying about what to do with him, when he turned around, he saw Han Ce hastily pushed the door open and walked in.Probably due to a familiar face, Han Ce nodded at Xie Jingnian, and went straight to Liang Yuan.

"Yuanyuan..." Han Ce bent down and leaned into Liang Yuan's ear, his voice was so gentle that water could be squeezed out, coupled with the tiring address, Xie Jingnian's scalp tingled as if he was getting an electric shock.

Liang Yuan sat up reflexively when he heard the sound, looked up at Han Ce in a daze, and hugged Han Ce in the next second: "Ce Ce..."

"I'm here." Han Ce hugged Liang Yuan, and stroked his hair one by one.

Xie Jingnian sat beside him with lowered eyes, not knowing where to go.

"You go back to school, I'll take him back to the dormitory." Han Ce said.

Xie Jingnian hesitated for a moment, stood up and walked over to pat Liang Yuan: "Are you going with him or with me?"

Liang Yuan was so drunk that he hugged Han Ce tightly and kept chanting Ce Ce, Ce Ce, Xie Jingnian couldn't listen to anything he said.

Han Ce raised his eyebrows at Xie Jingnian, as if he really did.

Xie Jingnian was still worried, and watched the two of them get into the car before returning to school.

Ji Guanfeng and the senior girl he hooked up with last semester are still in the period of passionate love, they are inseparable every day, and the daily essential task is to hold hands in the ring on the playground.

Xie Jingnian just looked at them and felt so tired that his teeth ached.

Ji Guanfeng stood in front of the mirror for nearly an hour, and finally left the room smelling of perfume and walked out the door.

The pungent smell made Xie Jingnian dizzy.He ran to the balcony and opened the window, and the cool evening breeze came in through the gap in the screen window, which made his brain a little clearer.

"Mr. Xie, it's my birthday on Saturday, come to play?"

It was a message from Jia Feichen.

Since the end of the college entrance examination, Xie Jingnian has rarely contacted them. He only got a rough overview of each other, and then nothing happened.

Both Jia Feichen and Fu Xue came to the capital for their exams. Although they were not in the same school, fortunately the two schools were close to each other, and it was only six or seven stops away by bus.

Zhuang Jie went to a nearby province, which is also a good university.

"where?"

Xie Jingnian replied.

Jia Feichen called directly, in a hurry, with noisy background voices, mixed with wind and car horns.

"Hello, Mr. Xie? Let's just go to the small restaurant on the other side of the central street, shall we?"

Central Street is not far from Capital University. Xie Jingnian glanced at the class schedule and found that only the afternoon was free.

"Okay, but I have classes in the morning."

"Then let's get together at night, it's not a problem." Jia Feichen said, "That's fine, I'm going shopping with Xiao Xueer outside, I'm hanging up, Mr. Xie."

As soon as he hung up the phone call with Jia Feichen, Chen Xi's caller ID appeared on the screen.

When Xie Jingnian picked up the phone, his right eyelid suddenly jumped without warning.

"What are you doing?"

"Blowing air on the balcony." Xie Jingnian rubbed his eyelids casually, "I just got dizzy from my roommate's perfume."

Chen Xi laughed and told him to be careful of catching a cold.

While closing the window, Xie Jingnian heard the sound of a lighter.

The right eyelid twitched violently again.

"Didn't you say it's okay to quit?"

Xie Jingnian's heart sank.Chen Xi couldn't have agreed to quit smoking and then suddenly started smoking, it could only be that he had recently encountered some bad things that made people burnt out.

Neither of them spoke again, and there was a long silence.It was so quiet that Xie Jingnian could hear the rustling of the wind blowing through the leaves on Chen Jiu's side.

Just when Xie Jingnian was about to lose his mind, Chen Yu's hoarse voice pulled him back.

He heard Chen Xi say that Anti-Blade is about to sign a contract with the record company.

Xie Jingnian's heartbeat accelerated suddenly, and even the gray night sky brightened up in his eyes.

He grinned, making no secret that he was overwhelmed with excitement and joy: "That's just in time for our new album to be released."

Chen Xi exhaled a mouthful of smoke, his voice revealing exhaustion.He also said that Xie Jingnian's name was not on the contract.

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Xie Jingnian slammed down the handle of the window and completely closed the window, preventing any air from coming in.

He suddenly felt that all his oxygen was sucked out in an instant, and his brain became unresponsive.So much so that he thought over and over the meaning of Chen Jiu's words, but in the end he didn't understand.

All I could do was ask dryly, "Why?"

The rapid beating frequency in the chest cavity has not yet subsided, and the rush of adrenaline has made him as emotionally high as he was just now.

There is no pause button for everything, it's just that his brain is stuck.

Xie Jingnian's heartbeat slowly calmed down with Chen Xi's deep breathing, his whole body lost temperature, the fingertips holding the window handle were cold, and the wind blowing on his face again unexpectedly became warm.

His lips trembled and he wanted to say something more, but suddenly the tip of his nose became sour, and the grievances that flooded him instantly drowned him, and the suffocating pain in his chest made him lose his voice, and finally he only made a nasal sound like a sigh.

"Every year..."

"Why?" Xie Jingnian asked with a sob.

Why does he know how important Backblade and rock music are to him, but he still excludes him without asking him even half a sentence.

Chen Xi is always like this, making decisions without saying a word, turning all words into post-event announcements, making people have no choice but to accept them all.

He knew in his heart that Chen Xi had always wanted him to live an ordinary life, but these were not what he wanted.

He wants to be accompanied by Backblade and rock music every day in his life, together with Chen Xi.

But why couldn't Chen Xi tell him?