Lin Nian closed the door of the private room, with a bang that seemed to lock the hot atmosphere in the door. A door separated two worlds.
He didn't go to the bathroom, but casually pulled out two pieces of toilet paper from the cabinet and walked to the door of the hot pot restaurant. There was a girl squatting there drinking. The stereo in the store was playing "Quiet", which sang "Don't worry too much, I will always have a good life. You have left far away, and I will slowly walk away." The girl drank and cried while listening to the song.
The sudden sound of a beer can being opened was clear and sweet.
Su Xiaoqiang turned around and saw Lin Nian holding a can of Coke with an easy-tab ring in his hand, and carbon dioxide kept pouring out of it, making a sizzling sound.
"Want to drink?" Lin Nian asked.
Su Xiaoqiang didn't know how to start this conversation for a while, and looked blankly at Lin Nian who was holding a Coke.
"Don't you want to drink it?" Seeing that Su Xiaoqiang didn't take it, Lin Nian took the Coke back and put it to his mouth and drank.
Su Xiaoqiang didn't know whether it was because he was drunk or something, but he suddenly stood up and snatched the Coke from Lin Nian's hand and drank it all. Finally, he covered his mouth and burped lightly.
"Oh..." Lin Nian looked at the Coke that had been snatched away with some regret on his face. He had just bought this can of Coke at the front desk with his own money.
"Are you really going to leave?" Su Xiaoqiang asked, putting the empty Coke can at his feet.
"Yeah." Lin Nian nodded.
"Why so sudden?" After receiving the affirmation, Su Xiaoqiang couldn't help but ask Lin Nian.
"Is this sudden?" Lin Nian asked Su Xiaoqiang, "The other classmates are all happy for me."
"Are you happy?" Su Xiaoqiang stood up, calmed down, and suddenly reached out and patted Lin Nian's shoulder. One pat was not enough, so he patted Lin Nian twice more.
Lin Nian didn't hide or say anything. Su Xiaoqiang was silent for a long time before he raised his head and said, "Yes, this is a happy thing. I should be happy for you!"
"If when you say happy you mean running out crying, you did appear to be quite happy." Lin Nian said jokingly.
Su Xiaoqiang was stunned for a moment, then reacted and nudged Lin Nian's waist, turned around and walked into the hot pot restaurant, but suddenly she stopped and asked confusedly: "Did you know this a long time ago? "
"Very early." Lin Nian said.
Su Xiaoqiang nodded to himself, strode into the hot pot restaurant, and said without looking back: "Since everything that happened today is happy, we should celebrate it! Let's go back, let's drink some more!"
"I'll buy another bottle of Coke." Lin Nian stood at the door of the hot pot restaurant and shouted looking at Su Xiaoqiang's back.
"The Coke is boring! I need to drink!" Su Xiaoqiang's voice floated over from afar, and she walked quickly.
In fact, when I say I'm walking, it's more like I'm running away. It seems that if I walk faster, I can get rid of what happened just now and start over.
Lin Young sighed inexplicably. He bent down and picked up the empty Coke can that Su Xiaoqiang had drunk. Looking at the lipstick mark on the mouth of the can, he couldn't help but murmured: "How old are you?"
"It's never too early for a girl to learn how to put on makeup." Someone behind him said teasingly to him.
Lin Nian subconsciously turned around and saw a blond girl holding a can of Coke and leaning at the door of the hot pot restaurant behind him, looking at him with a half-smile. The warm yellow light in the hot pot restaurant illuminated the girl's facial lines very softly, and the look in her eyes was very soft. The light was dyed into a charming golden color.
"Senior Mandy." Lin Nian straightened up and nodded in greeting: "What a coincidence, you are here too... eating hot pot?"
After leaving the Regent Hotel, Lin Nian also called Mandy "senior sister" when he saw her again.
"How do you know I ate hot pot? Just because I was standing in front of a hot pot restaurant holding a can of Coke?" Mandy asked with a raised eyebrow.
Lin Nian glanced at the corner of Mandy's mouth. There was still a little bit of hot pot oil that had not been wiped off. It was obvious that this guy had just had a feast in the store.
"Is there anything dirty on my face?" Mandy noticed that Lin Nian had been staring at her face and quickly turned around to take a photo at the glass door.
"The corner of the mouth, here." Lin Nian gestured to Mandy where the hot pot oil was. Mandy quickly took out the toilet paper and wiped it clean. Then she looked at Lin Nian and smiled awkwardly, obviously realizing that the line she had just played was stupid.
Lin Nian sighed and asked, "So why are you here, senior?"
"Didn't I say it before? I want to try the local delicacies." Mandy sniffed the aroma of the hot pot base in the air with a happy face: "I can only eat healthy meals with Professor Manstein. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, so I’ll treat myself to something.”
"So are you following me?" Lin Nian looked Mandy up and down and asked seriously.
"Following you? Hahaha, don't make me laugh, little junior brother." Mandy waved her hand and said with a smile: "Are you a dangerous person with alchemy items or a hybrid..."
Mandy suddenly stopped talking mid-sentence, and immediately stuffed the Coke can into her mouth and drank tons of Coke.
"What are alchemy items? And mixed blood?" Lin Nian glanced at Mandy, who immediately looked away and drank Coke while showing off her good figure.
"It's nothing, just think that the senior sister is talking nonsense." Mandy drank Coke in a hurry, coughing loudly to cover up her gaffe.
Lin Nian looked at her a few more times and realized that the other party seemed to really not say anything more, so he gave up asking: "Do you have anything else to do? If nothing else, I will go back."
"Don't you like that girl just now?" Mandy suddenly asked.
Lin Nian paused and looked at her and said, "You said you weren't following me. You were eavesdropping just now, right?"
"I'm sitting close to the door, and you guys are talking so loudly. I can't hear you, so sorry for my hearing." Mandy looked innocent, but the next second her face was full of constriction: "Junior brother, you have a story. , I smell the scent of youth!”
"Okay, senior, if nothing happens, I'm going back to eat." Lin Nian sighed.
"You're such an unlovable junior. My other junior is much smarter and more sensible than you. She knows how to please me - but I still have something to do with you tonight." Mandy held a Coke and leaned against the glass door. He looked at Lin Nian sideways and said, "Lin Nian, just think of me as my senior sister. I want to ask you a question... You know that at every stage of life, people need to make different choices to determine the path they want to take in the future. ? There is no such thing as Save/Load in the kind of forked path in life where once you choose it, your future will only follow this path."
"Sister, did you major in philosophy at Kassel College?" Lin Nian asked curiously, turning his head.
"No, although I am a liberal arts student, I major in studying ancient history... which is equivalent to archeology." Mandy shook her head: "Now that I am telling you this, you can also understand it as your senior sister. I drank too much tonight. Dafa, I want to discuss life with you."
Does drinking too much Coke count as drinking too much? Lin Nian glanced at the Coke in Mandy's hand.
"As for your question, senior, I can only say that I have to keep going on the path I chose even if I can't turn back. I never regret the choice I made." Withdrawing his gaze, Lin Nian looked at the hot pot restaurant behind the glass door. said the bustling crowd in the aisles.
"In this case, you should also understand that after you choose one path, the other path will pass you by forever, right?" Mandy lowered her head and picked up the half-drunk Coke can, pressing the thin aluminum skin until Clicking sound.
"Isn't this natural?" Lin Nian asked in a sparse and normal tone.
"Speak above your head, little brother." Mandy looked at Lin Nian and tapped her temple with her index finger: "You really realize how long and difficult the path you have chosen is, and the path you gave up may be There are a lot of good things that you can touch, but are you finding it difficult to step into them in this life? Maybe you still have a chance to regret it now - at least you will always have a chance to regret it before you actually embark on the path of choice."
Lin Nian put his hands on the glass door of the hot pot restaurant and was about to push it open. He suddenly stopped after hearing Mandy's words.
"It seems you understand what I mean." Mandy scratched her head.
"Why are you saying these things to me? Aren't you supposed to be on the side of the admissions office of Cassel College?" Lin Nian turned to look at her and asked strangely: "There is always something in your words... from Pheasant University The conscience of the victim has revealed the feeling of urging others to reconsider.”
Mandy rolled her eyes decisively and slapped Lin Nian on the back and said, "Go in, you heartless guy, it seems it's too early to tell you this."
"Goodbye, senior sister." Lin Nian pushed open the glass door and trotted away, disappearing into the crowd of people in the aisle.
Mandy looked at Lin Nian walking away through the glass door at the door and sighed quietly. She whispered to herself: "Maybe by the time you truly understand the meaning of what I said today, it will be too late to say this. We These people, when faced with a choice, cannot see too far ahead of the road ahead - whether it is the life of a mixed race or the life of an ordinary person, but who knows which road will be happy at the end?"
But no one could hear Mandy's words at the moment. She drank all the Coke in her hand, crushed the can into small cakes with one hand and threw it into the trash can ten meters away. She took out the car key in her pocket with both hands. Wandered to the parking lot. After a while, the red sports car jumped out, its engine roaring across the night sky.
In the private room of the hot pot restaurant, Lin Nian, who kept resisting the toast, seemed to have a feeling and turned around, looking in the direction outside the private room. However, his attention was pulled back after a while by the students who sang the farewell song enthusiastically.
