It was a clear day with clear skies and just the right amount of sunshine.
The corner coffee shop.
Xu Lai sat there alone, taking advantage of the gap to type words on his laptop with extremely fast hand speed.
His handsome appearance and attentive attitude have attracted the attention of many female customers, but after all, only a few of them dare to take the initiative to ask for their contact information.
Not long after, a long-haired beauty wearing Prada sunglasses calmly sat down on the seat opposite him.
She took off her sunglasses, her skin was as radiant as snow, her eyes were like a pool of clear water, her appearance was extremely beautiful, she was really like a shining pearl, her beautiful jade was shining, and there was a vague aura of book between her eyebrows.
Xu Lai closed his laptop and was a little surprised to receive an invitation from this girl after seven years.
There was inevitably a ripple in his heart. After all, who didn't have such a secret love in their youth?
Not to mention, they had actually known each other since childhood, had been neighbors for several years, and went to the same elementary school and the same high school. However, they no longer had any contact after graduating from high school.
Time can dilute everything. He was originally rational and indifferent, but the ripples quickly calmed down. His mood at this time was extremely peaceful.
"Xu Qingru, long time no see." Xu Lai greeted him with a polite and distant smile.
Xu Qingru supported her cheek with a slender hand. The watch on her wrist was worth a lot. There was nostalgia and scrutiny in her eyes.
She looked at him for a while, without being polite to him at all, and said straight to the point: "Xu Lai, do you have a girlfriend?"
Xu Lai thought she was abrupt, but in his memory, she seemed to have always been like this. Beautiful girls always have the qualifications to be willful. Plus, her family was well off, so she could live a more wanton life.
Sometimes he envied her carefree life.
"No." Xu Lai replied calmly.
"You are so handsome, but you don't even have a girlfriend. I already have a girlfriend!" Xu Qingru smiled. This smile was full of charm and very touching.
"You? Have a girlfriend?" Xu Lai was a little confused.
"Well, her name is Jiang Xue. She is super beautiful, very virtuous and considerate. I will introduce you to her some other time... Unfortunately, no one in my family supports me except my brother, and I don't dare to reveal my orientation at all. , then my parents always asked me to go out on blind dates, but now the requirement has been lowered to a man, and they even said they regretted letting me study for a Ph.D."
Xu Qingru opened up her chatterbox and started to complain.
However, at the age of twenty-six, she was indeed at an age where she was urged to get married, but it was normal for her parents to urge her to find a boyfriend.
Xu Lai didn't have such worries, because during the summer vacation of his third year in junior high school, his parents died in a car accident, leaving him and his grandmother to depend on each other. And just two years ago, his grandmother also died, and he has been alone ever since. No worries.
Sometimes he can't help but laugh at himself. His life is full of buffs. He is simply a member of the Qidian Orphanage and the protagonist of an old online novel. It's a pity that he hasn't activated the system for so many years.
But one thing is that he is actually quite satisfied with his current life. As a freelance writer, his royalties can support himself. He does not need to buy a house, and he is not planning to get married.
He has deep author friends, sincere and loyal reader friends, and words that will never betray him. He never feels lonely.
Xu Qingru is still confiding: "Actually, I really regret studying medicine. My dream is actually to be a great writer, or maybe a great artist. In fact, I am very literary at heart..."
Are you Brother Xun too? Xu Lai complained silently in his heart.
However, now is a prosperous time when the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and the prospects for studying medicine are bright.
In his words, at best he is a freelance writer, new media person, and online writer, but at worst he is an unemployed vagrant without a fixed job.
He didn't blame anyone else, but he himself couldn't get over the shadow of his parents' death. The whole high school was abandoned, and he finally went to a second-rate university. And the key high school he attended had a first-rate rate of 95%. The second copy rate is 98%.
He stopped contacting any of his high school classmates after graduating from high school, perhaps because he felt ashamed to meet people after failing in the exam. After all, that was the period of his youth when he had the strongest self-esteem and the most excessive self-awareness.
"Do me a favor. Pretend to be my boyfriend and fool my parents." Xu Qingru talked about it for a long time and finally came up with the idea.
Xu Lai's smile faded. He didn't expect that he would encounter such bloody plots that often appeared in Internet articles.
He admitted that the girl across from him was indeed very beautiful and in line with his aesthetics. She was still his "white moonlight" and even had the attribute bonus of "childhood sweetheart". If it were any other man, he would have agreed to her long ago.
However, he shook his head and refused: "Sorry, I can't help you."
Xu Lai is extremely tough at heart and very independent. Since he has made up his mind to live alone, he will not make an exception for any girl. He has no girlfriend and simply does not want to find one.
Xu Qingru felt the alienation and indifference in the other party's bones, and she felt a little uncomfortable. She obviously played well when she was a child, but when she grew up, everything changed.
The story of childhood sweethearts, long time no see, and reconnecting seems to end here.
She didn't mess around with anything. After being rejected, she said "I'm sorry", picked up the Hermès bag worth nearly 300,000 yuan and left, with a touch of sadness on her brows.
Xu Lai did not stay in the coffee shop for long. He packed up his laptop and left immediately. Eason Chan's "Long Time No See" was playing in the coffee shop——
"...We can't go back to that day. Will you suddenly show up at the coffee shop on the corner..."
After going out, Xu Qingru was in a daze. When crossing the sidewalk, she actually ran a red light, and then the classic dump truck came without slowing down at all!
When Xu Lai saw this, he didn't think much at all. He rushed over and pushed Xu Qingru forward, allowing her to escape this unexpected disaster!
However, he himself was seriously injured, his body flew out, and he could no longer die.
All this happened in the blink of an eye.
When Xu Qingru came to her senses, she ran like crazy to Xu Lai who was lying in a pool of blood, calling the emergency phone while crying like rain!
"Xu Lai, don't die! We made a promise when we were young that we would always play together and never separate... You have changed since you were in high school, and you have completely lost contact after college. You are a big liar... Woohoo."
Xu Lai's soul had floated into the air. When he was dying, he saw this scene and felt mixed emotions in his heart.
If he had been young and accomplished and had not felt inferior, or if he had also been admitted to a prestigious school, then maybe he would have really mustered up the courage to pursue her.
Next, he felt that his soul traveled through the time and space tunnel of the parallel world, and a reminder of "system binding" appeared in his mind. After the binding was completed, he unexpectedly regained consciousness.
Xu Lai felt refreshed for a moment. The classic time-travel artifact, the dump truck, plus the stack of buffs from the starting point orphanage, really has something to say!
"Xu Qingru, that's a good name. Ask the channel how clear it is, so that there is a source of running water. Sit down. The next classmate behind you, it's your turn to introduce yourself." Cai Bin, the Chinese teacher and head teacher, said to her with a smile.
Xu Lai sat down blankly. He, or rather she, looked at the face of "Xu Qingru" in the small round mirror in the pencil case, then looked at her slender and beautiful palms, and then she put her hands on her chest... …
Her heart was full of "wtf!"
She doesn't want to have such an argument!
He did save Xu Qingru with his own life, but now this kind of divine expansion that travels into the other person's body is too much of a trick of fate, right?
