It was another coffee shop, and Lin Leyao felt a little nauseous when she smelled the coffee.
This time, the person sitting opposite her was An Ran, not Jian Yan, and she felt even more depressed. After all, she had other plans in mind, and she always felt uncomfortable .
She thought about it for a long time before opening her mouth, considering what words would make An Ran sad, but when the words really came out, she didn't know how to say it.
"Yaoyao, are you going to ask me about Ma Ruge?" An Ran asked first. There was a hint of expectation in her eyes. After seeing Lin Leyao nod, that expectation turned into sadness. She concealed it very well and hid it without letting Lin Leyao notice. "Ma Ruge and I don't have a special relationship. I like someone else. You can rest assured."
"An Ran, that's not what I meant. I just don't want you and Ming Liang... You are both my good friends, I don't want to..." Lin Le Yao hurriedly explained.
Cheng Anran smiled gently and comforted her, "I know what you're thinking, so I didn't argue with Mingliang no matter how she picked on me during this period, because I was afraid that it would be difficult for you. Yaoyao, a true friend will never make things difficult for you."
"An Ran, thank you." Lin Le Yao breathed a sigh of relief. This matter was not as bad as she had imagined. If she had known this, she would not have asked Jian Yan for help.
"We're going on an off-campus . Are you ready?" Cheng Anran asked, changing the subject.
"Off-campus...travel..." She had forgotten about it. She didn't want to go at first, but in addition to Zeng Jiahao, nearly 20 other people in the club signed up. It seemed bad for her not to go. "It's only two days, and there's nothing to pack. Just thinking about going out with you, it's fun."
"I'm very happy too." Cheng Anran smiled, but her smile was obscure.
The location of the off-campus trip was a small county town in the suburbs, which took an hour and a half by bus. The grapes here are particularly famous and the scenery is also very beautiful.
An hour and a half after setting off, they arrived at their destination.
Mingliang is not from the Social Union, so he can't come. Lin Leyao kept chattering with Anran along the way, talking about the embarrassing things that happened when she came here last time.
Last time, she came with Jian Yan.
During this time, she secretly glanced at Jian Yan a few times. He exuded an aura of "keep away from strangers". He was the only one sitting in that row of seats. Several girls who wanted to approach him were scared back by his terrifying gaze.
Lin Leyao patted her fragile little heart and decided not to provoke the old man this time.
But what on earth was he angry about? Was he pretending? It didn't seem like it.
After getting off the bus at the destination, Jian Yan still had a cold face. As his good friend, Lin Leyao walked to his side in small steps and asked tentatively: "Uncle Jian, are you constipated?"
Jian Yan took her backpack, did not answer her question, and led her towards their residence.
"President, don't tell us that this villa belongs to you." A boy looked at Jian Yan with shining eyes after seeing the villa in front of him.
"My father bought it many years ago, but he has hardly lived in it," said Jian Yan.
Humph, you're being so subtle. It's not that they haven't lived here much. His parents have never lived here. This house has been bought for seven years, and only she and Jian Yan have been here twice.
"There are two houses here, one for girls and one for boys. There are two people in one room, and you can decide who to sleep with." Jian Yan pointed at the two identical houses in front of him. As if sensing the inquiring gazes of the people around him, he explained, "The other one is borrowed from a friend. It's not mine."
This friend is both far away and close at hand. The house next door belongs to Lin Leyao.
"Lin Leyao, do you really not know or are you pretending not to know?" When men and women went into the house separately, a girl in the club who had a good relationship with her said.
"What?" Lin Leyao didn't quite understand what she meant.
"After Jian Yan got on the bus, many girls wanted to sit next to him, but he said that there was someone there. From the beginning to the end, he was waiting for you to sit over there. Why are you so slow?" The girl sighed, "Jian Yan is such a handsome guy, why don't you take him seriously?"
"Ah?" Lin Leyao tilted her head and asked Cheng Anran, "Am I really that slow?"
"Yes." Cheng Anran nodded, not giving her any face at all.
After entering the house, Lin Leyao took Cheng Anran straight to her room to put down her things, and the other girls also found a place to live.
After everything was arranged, she noticed that there were 16 people coming this time, exactly eight men and eight women.
Jianyan took everyone on a familiar tour around the area and introduced the surrounding buildings and scenery. Then everyone was free to move around and meet at the entrance of the farm house at ten o'clock.
The main purpose of everyone coming here is to eat grapes. The grapes here are small and sweet. Many of the grapes sold in the city are not tasty. Here, you can eat as much as you want for 20 yuan, but you are not allowed to take them away. If you want to take them away, you can only buy them at the door.
"Lin Leyao, your eyes are shining." Jian Yan said teasingly as he stood beside her.
"You're not angry anymore?" she turned to him and asked.
"I'm not angry, I'm just thinking and my expression is a little serious." Jian Yan denied.
"Yes, yes, yes, you were just thinking seriously, and you accidentally thought for an hour and a half. I understand, I understand." Lin Leyao teased him.
The feeling of being blocked and speechless is really great!
"Lin Leyao, are you very proud?" Jian Yan asked through gritted teeth.
Oh my god, no. She shuddered and immediately changed her expression: "No, absolutely not. Because Master Jian was in a bad mood, I was also very depressed. Now that Master Jian is in a good mood, I decided to release myself and turn my grief and anger into food."
"Eat less. It's not like you won't have any more to eat in the future." Jian Yan patted his head and said gently, "If you like it, just take more back when we leave."
Lin Leyao trembled all over. She was not afraid of Jian Yan being angry or going crazy, but she was afraid of Jian Yan being gentle.
"It will be difficult to store if you bring too much back home." Lin Leyao said.
Jian Yan: "The vineyard is ours. Whenever we want to eat, we just need to let them know and have them deliver it to us."
My own! You evil capitalists!
While thinking this, Lin Leyao had no idea that she was also a second-generation capitalist.
"Have you forgotten? You said you liked it very much when you came last time. I helped the company with a project some time ago, and the money I earned was enough to buy this small vineyard. If you want to buy the whole thing, you may have to wait a few years." Jian Yan said.
I see…
No, did he mean the vineyard he bought for her? That's too Mary Sue. A chill ran down my spine.
Lin Leyao decided to eat grapes first and then continue chatting with Jian Yan. Who knows what else he will say to shock her? As a second-generation rich man, why can Jian Yan earn money to buy a vineyard while she can only be a parasite?
She wants to work hard! She wants to rise!
Let’s talk about it after we finish eating the grapes.
After coming out of the vineyard, Lin Leyao was almost unable to stand. Cheng Anran supported her and she swayed for a long time before she came back to normal. When she turned around, she clearly saw the mocking eyes of her classmates.
She just likes to eat a little, is it so funny? Besides, she didn't eat so much on purpose, but she just thought that this garden belonged to Jian Yan, and she couldn't help but...
At ten o'clock, everyone arrived at the entrance of the farmhouse. Jian Yan divided the work among them: the girls went to pick vegetables, and the boys went to the river to fish. An hour later, everyone went back to the villa to cook.
An hour wasn’t a long time, but everyone gained a lot.
The villa is fully equipped with kitchen utensils, and cooking is one of Lin Leyao’s pleasures in life.
After the boys walked into the villa, one of them said, "Although these two villas are next to each other, their decoration styles are completely different. The one the boys live in is simple but not simplistic, and this one... feels like a nouveau riche."
"You are the nouveau riche, your whole family is nouveau riche." Lin Leyao cursed in her heart. The building next door was designed by Jian Yan when he was in the second year of high school, and this one... just happened to be the European gorgeous retro style that she liked.
"I advise you not to say anything more, otherwise you will miss out on lunch. Don't blame me for not reminding you." Jian Yan reminded the boy.
Lin Leyao almost exploded when she heard the word "nouveau riche". She glared at the boy and remembered his appearance.
The boy didn't have no food to eat, he just accidentally took a big mouthful of mustard while eating. He wandered around the living room like a headless fly, wishing he could drink all the water.
You said I was a nouveau riche, huh!
"You..." Jian Yan looked at her with amusement and helplessness, "You are still so childish."
When she turned her head, she met Cheng Anran's gaze, but she ignored it as if she didn't see it.
Maybe it was because she played too late that night and the temperature difference was too big in this season, that night Lin Leyao caught a cold. She lay in bed feeling like she was falling apart, her throat was so dry and painful but she didn't have the strength to pick up the water cup.
She endured the next morning in a daze. When her classmates got up one after another, she turned her head to look at Cheng Anran, and found that she was still asleep.
No, her head was about to explode.
Is she dying?
In a daze, she felt someone put his hand on her forehead and murmured, "It's burning badly."
Then she heard someone calling her name and asked her, "Yaoyao, do you know who I am?"
Who are you? She wanted to open her eyes, but her eyelids felt heavy and her mind was a mess. She didn't know who was talking to her. It should be a woman, or a man?
"It hurts..." she moaned.
With a creaky sound, the door opened and she felt someone rushing in and picking her up. Then she heard the sound of someone's rapid breathing and heartbeat.
This embrace is so gentle, it’s a familiar feeling to her.
She seemed to have had a very long dream. In the dream, many people were talking in her ears. Some were anxious, some were sad, some were joking, and some were deep...
She couldn't see the faces of the people in her dream and could only identify them by their voices.
The one who said "Silly girl, why don't you wake up and eat meat!" was Jian Yan, the one who said "Is her brain burned out?" was the guy who ate mustard, and that one...
Who said, "Lin Leyao, I'm so jealous of you."
Who said again: "Lin Leyao, I like Jian Yan, it's Jian Yan I like."
When she woke up again, it was already dark and the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant. Needless to say, Lin Leyao knew she was in the hospital.
Jian Yan sat on the bed, feeling exhausted. Seeing her wake up, he took a pillow and leaned against the bed, helped her half lean on the pillow, and asked softly, "Do you want to eat something?"
She shook her head, still trying hard to think about who the person was who told her that he liked Jian Yan.
That voice sounds familiar, as if I hear it often.
"Yaoyao, you're awake." Cheng Anran walked in with a thermos cup in her hand. "I bought the porridge from the restaurant downstairs. Try it. I see a lot of people queuing up there. It should taste pretty good."
"Thank you." Her throat was sore and saying those two words felt like being pricked by needles.
"You, why didn't you wake me up when you were sick? If I slept until late, wouldn't you have to suffer a lot more?" Cheng Anran walked to the bedside and put the thermos cup on the table. She poured out the porridge, blew it a few times, and then handed it to Jian Yan, "Jian Yan, you should feed it."
Lin Leyao, I like Jian Yan, what I like is Jian Yan.
"I like Jian Yan..." Lin Leyao repeated, "Jian Yan..." Her eyes suddenly widened. The voice was Cheng Anran. It was Cheng Anran who said that she liked Jian Yan.
"What, you like me?" This sentence dissipated all of Jian Yan's fatigue. He used a spoon to feed the porridge to Lin Leyao's mouth, "Eat something first. You will have the strength to confess after you get well."
Was it a dream, or did Cheng Anran really say that when she was asleep? She looked up at Cheng Anran, who was standing quietly behind Jian Yan, with nothing unusual.
Maybe it was just a dream. She ate the porridge brought by Jian Yan, glancing at Jian Yan and Cheng Anran from time to time, but still couldn't convince herself that it was just a dream.
She herself didn't realize that her attitude towards Jian Yan was different from before.
After eating, her stomach felt much warmer and her body gradually regained strength. She then realized that because she was sick, the others had gone back first, leaving only Jian Yan and Cheng Anran to take care of her. Jian Yan had already asked for leave from the school for her, and they could wait until she got better before going back.
"I'll go get some money. You take a rest first." Jian Yan tucked the quilt in for her and walked out the door.
She was so careless before that she never noticed that Jian Yan had never taken Cheng Enran seriously.
Cheng Anran walked to the window and opened it. The wind blew, blowing up the white curtains. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on her face, as if covering her with a layer of soft gauze, giving her a hazy beauty.
The ward was very quiet, with only the ticking of the clock. Lin Leyao looked at Cheng Anran standing quietly by the window, her heart was like a crumpled newspaper.
She was still unsure whether that sentence was a dream or reality. Subconsciously, she took it as a fact, and because of this, she never dared to look at Cheng Quanran in the eye.
Now looking at her back, there was something she really wanted to ask.
She had made many friends before , and those girls followed her and enjoyed the pleasure of her giving them things. If one day they had conflicts, Lin Leyao would not hesitate to abandon these so-called friends and find a group of new friends to fill the gap.
This time, it's different.
"Do you have something to ask me?" Cheng Anran suddenly turned around and asked. Before she could answer, she smiled bitterly and said, "You heard those words, right?"
You heard those words, right?
Lin Leyao wanted to say that she didn't hear anything, she didn't hear anything! But she couldn't say it, she has always been a person who is not good at lying.
"Lin Leyao, I remember when you were talking to me about Ma Ruge, I told you that I already have someone I like." Cheng Anran's voice was very soft, as if it would be blown away by a gust of wind.
"I don't want to know." Lin Leyao buried her head in the soil like an ostrich. She didn't want to listen, she didn't want to know, she didn't want to listen, she didn't want to know...
“I’ve always liked simple words.”
"Bang!" A bomb exploded next to her ear, and she could hear nothing except the buzzing sound.
"Lin Leyao, stop pretending to be a coward. You heard what I said, didn't you? You feel bad, don't you? When I said I like Jian Yan, your heart hurt, didn't it?" Cheng Anran walked up to her, looking down at her, her eyes full of sarcasm, "You keep saying that you don't like Jian Yan, and you are just ordinary friends. Then why are you like this now?"
"I..." She opened her mouth, but nothing came out.
"Are you speechless? Are you thinking, Cheng Anran, you are my good friend, how could you betray me?" Cheng Anran sneered, "How did I betray you? I just like your friend, not your boyfriend."
Yes, Jian Yan is just her good friend, he will fall in love and get married one day...
A long time ago, there were girls who liked Jian Yan, and he seemed to have some interest in girls. At that time, she just felt a little awkward, but still smiled and said she would bless them.
So why do I feel sad now? Has she changed?
No, how could she change? She wouldn't like someone, she wouldn't fall in love with someone, she didn't believe in love. Love, no matter how beautiful it was at the beginning, would end up in tatters, just like... just like dad and mom.
She had not forgotten the relief they felt when they got the divorce certificate, it was eye-catching.
"Lin Leyao, admit your hypocrisy. You don't like Jian Yan, but you want to hold him in your hands so that you can show off. You have a handsome guy as your good friend. You enjoy the ambiguity between you but don't acknowledge your relationship. You are so cheap." Cheng Anran's words were poisonous and merciless. The girl who used to be gentle and smiling was gone, replaced by an unfamiliar viciousness.
Lin Leyao stared at the person in front of her in amazement, unable to find a word to refute.
Cheng Anran: "Do you know why I want to be friends with you? I thought, since you don't like Jian Yan, and since you are good friends, maybe I can use you as a breakthrough point to break through the barrier between Jian Yan and me. Unfortunately, I was wrong. I didn't expect you to be such a selfish person."
"So the reason you did all this was because of me?" Jian Yan pushed the door open and walked in. His smile made Cheng Anran feel like she was falling into an ice cave. "Should I say that I'm honored to be thought of so highly by you?"
Cheng Anran's plan was disrupted by Jian Yan's sudden entry. She calculated the time and thought that Jian Yan would not be able to come back for a while, so she chose this time to confront Lin Leyao, but she did not expect that he would come back early.
She calculated that no matter how vicious Lin Leyao would not tell Jian Yan. She would have plenty of opportunities to get close to Jian Yan in the future. Even an iceberg will melt one day.
Jian Yan really went downstairs just now. When he thought about Lin Leyao's eyes, he always felt that something was wrong. After turning around, he went upstairs again and ended up hearing a very remarkable conversation.
He walked up to Lin Leyao, smiled and poured a cup of warm water into her hands.
The cup of water felt warm in her hand, and the ice in her heart was no longer so cold because of the water. She looked up at Jian Yan, her eyes were dry and painful.
She never cried again after her parents divorced.
"It's okay." Jian Yan comforted her, and then cast his eyes on Cheng Anran who was still in shock. He always smiled at an insignificant person, "Jian Yan is really flattered by what you said. I'm just an ordinary person, and it's not worth it for you to use so many tricks."
Cheng Anran: "Jian Yan...you..."
"Senior, if you don't want to hear anything too unpleasant, I hope you can leave. If you leave now, you may be able to catch the last bus. I'll see you off." Jian Yan sent Cheng Anran to the door. When the door closed, he said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Senior, I'm a narrow-minded person. I will remember anyone who has hurt Yaoyao. I hope you can remember this, too."
"You..." Cheng Anran smiled bitterly. She had planned everything, but she had overlooked Jian Yan's meticulous observation.
She was worried about the last warning. The proud and domineering Hu Yunxin was defeated by Jian Yan. She didn't dare to say a word after being humiliated by Lin Leyao. So what about her? How would Jian Yan treat her?
The door slowly closed, and with a sound, it cut off all of Cheng Anran's assumptions.
After leaving the hospital, she looked up at the sky, and what appeared before her eyes was Lin Leyao's pale face. She couldn't help but wonder, was this journey really just for exploitation?
"Jian Yan, she used to be my friend, please don't hurt her, okay?" Lin Leyao said to Jian Yan, her voice was as dry as her eyes.
"Hey, Lin Leyao, do you think I'm a petty-minded man who will take revenge for any slight?" Jian Yan rolled his eyes at her and asked in a nonchalant manner.
Lin Leyao: “Yes.”
Jian Yan: "Then I'll listen to you."
Lin Leyao didn't say anything else.
Jian Yan knew that she had a lot on her mind, so he didn't say much and just stayed with her the whole time.