Chapter 123 Cupid

That evening, Xia Xinyu and Chen Yuan each changed clothes in their respective rooms, then met in the living room, as mysterious as Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

And what they were about to do was also very interesting.

As double agents, eating from both sides.

Helping each other's good son (daughter) to rekindle their love.

"Let's go then."

And so, the two sneaked out.

And each boarded a different bus.

Chen Yuan arrived a little earlier.

At a barbecue restaurant near Eleventh High School.

Then, he saw a melancholic, handsome dog, holding a glass of beer, sadly chugging it down—

To be honest, when a man gets melancholic, he really looks like a clown.

Although Zhou Yu might have a tragic protagonist aura from his own perspective, to Chen Yuan, he might as well have 'I'm a loser' written on his face.

So, Chen Yuan took a seat.

Then, Zhou Yu filled the empty glass in front of him with beer and raised his own glass.

Chen Yuan casually picked up his glass and clinked it.

After drinking it all in one gulp, he raised his hand and said to the waiter: "A serving of chives, oysters, and kidneys."

"?"

Zhou Yu was stunned, looking at Chen Yuan in astonishment: "What do you want to do? Don't tell me you're already... Don't make me envy you!"

"It's nothing like that, I just like eating these things, bro, don't be too sensitive."

Chen Yuan explained with a straight face.

"Alas, if I hadn't broken up, I would probably love eating these things too..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Yu's mood turned bitter again.

And that was the meaning of Chen Yuan's arrival.

This Yu is more fun than my dog at home now.

"Then tell me, what exactly happened? Did Lao Mo really use a scheme?" Chen Yuan asked, concerned.

"Lao Mo kept our parents behind and said some things. Then, my dad told me that the head teacher told him not to focus on this kind of thing in high school, and if he found any more signs of this between us, not only would we be moved, but it would also be reported to the school for a school-wide self-criticism," Zhou Yu said.

"Isn't that pretty good of Lao Mo?" Chen Yuan said rather objectively, "He didn't punish you or force you to break up. It's basically saying, don't flirt in school?"

"At the same time, our grades have to improve, returning to at least the previous level," Zhou Yu said.

"Don't worry, Daddy will help you."

To this, Chen Yuan gave an "ok" sign and said rather domineeringly, "Although I can't get you into Tsinghua or Peking University, surpassing your most glorious moment in life is still no problem."

"Thank you, Daddy."

Zhou Yu clasped his hands in front of him, his tone sincere.

"You being like this suddenly... I'm a little unaccustomed to it." Chen Yuan said embarrassedly, then quickly added, "You're welcome."

Embarrassment aside, he couldn't pass up an opportunity to take advantage.

How many times would he get to hear that in his life?

"Actually, I'm quite grateful that Lao Mo said that, at least he saved me some face. And it's for my own good, hoping my grades don't drop too much."

"Indeed, you're much more sensible than when you were a kid, Teacher Lao Mo and I are both very gratified."

Chen Yuan sighed, raised his glass, and lightly clinked it against the other's, then chugged it down.

"But Jiaojiao, she doesn't understand." Speaking of this, Zhou Yu also had some complaints.

"How so?"

"After the parents' meeting, after we were both scolded by our respective parents, I gave her a call."

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu was very dissatisfied and said, "I said, Lao Mo is watching us now, so we have to keep a little distance at school, try to talk less, and don't interact too much until our grades go up."

"Isn't that a good thing to say?"

"Yeah, it's a great thing to say." Zhou Yu got angry when he said this, "Then she asked me if that meant we shouldn't be together for meals, PE class, or club activities either?"

"What did you say?"

"I said that in order to avoid suspicion of puppy love, that's all we can do at school. Then she got angry and said, there are many ways to avoid it, do we have to go to this extent to be considered innocent?"

"Hiss, so what does she mean?"

"She said just be normal like before, but study harder and get the scores up, and Lao Mo won't have anything to say. But, do you think that's possible?"

"Not very possible, after all, Lao Mo is watching, and if you don't show a change in attitude, he might arbitrarily separate your seats and even forbid you two from dating."

"Yeah, just put on a show at school, how can women be so extreme?" Zhou Yu was genuinely puzzled.

"Yeah, so clueless."

Chen Yuan nodded, agreeing with the other's statement.

"Was Xinyu this extreme when you were caught dating by the school?" Zhou Yu asked curiously.

"Not at all." To this, Chen Yuan waved his hand and said, "She listens to me, saying that if she causes me trouble, she'll be very sad. So, she fully cooperated with me."

"Alas..." Hearing this, Zhou Yu's eyes were full of envy and jealousy, "You're so happy."

………

"At the time, I said, are we really going to pretend to break up? He said, there's no other way, we have to fool Lao Mo first."

Walking with Xia Xinyu, He Sijiao said with great grievance: "I think it's enough to keep a little distance and not be so intimate, just be normal friends, and Lao Mo won't nag. After all, he just doesn't want our grades to be affected. But this Zhou Yu, alas..."

"Yeah, so cold."

Patting He Sijiao's back, Xia Xinyu echoed in consolation.

"Did Chen Yuan say you should pretend not to be a couple when you two were caught then?" He Sijiao looked at Xia Xinyu and asked.

"No." Xia Xinyu thought for a while, then replied with a smile, "Although I thought about pretending for a bit, he insisted that he wouldn't act cold towards me or pretend not to know me just because of other people's opinions."

"He had good grades back then, right?"

"Not at all, only 504."

"See! That's the difference between men." He Sijiao finished indignantly, then looked at Xia Xinyu expectantly, "I'm so envious, Chen Yuan is so good."

"There's nothing to envy, seeing how sad you are, I'll lend him to you for a few days."

"No way."

He Sijiao made a "no" gesture, and after saying that, she suddenly realized something and said vigilantly, "Were you trying to trick me just now? Did you already set up an ambush, and as soon as I agree, I'll be..."

He Sijiao made a neck-cutting gesture.

"Just kidding, Chen Yuan is only a treasure to me, Jiaojiao definitely wouldn't be interested."

"Indeed, he's too much of a smart aleck." After scolding Zhou Yu, He Sijiao also scolded Chen Yuan, feeling a sense of refreshing clarity.

"I heard this barbecue restaurant is good, let's go eat there."

Walking to the entrance of the barbecue restaurant, Xia Xinyu's lips curled into a smile, and then she acted like she suddenly made a decision and said.

"Barbecue? Sure, I suddenly want to drink a little."

"But I can't drink much..."

"I know, you have a boyfriend, just keep me company."

And so, the two entered the restaurant.

Then they suddenly stopped at the same time.

Because they saw Chen Yuan.

And the person across from Chen Yuan was Zhou Yu.

Although they were out of his sight, anything they said would be heard.

So Xia Xinyu acted flustered and was about to drag He Sijiao away.

But He Sijiao was very insistent.

She went straight into the restaurant.

At the table behind Zhou Yu, the two sat on one side, facing Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan saw the two and was about to say hello, but Xia Xinyu stopped him with a "shush" gesture.

Then, He Sijiao ordered food using her phone, pretending to be mute the whole time.

And this also fell into Xia Xinyu's trap.

This was the plan of the Xinyuan duo.

They just needed to bring the two together.

Then, Chen Yuan would deliberately ask some questions, so that Zhou Yu would reveal his true feelings, and He Sijiao, who was currently angry, would be moved, and wouldn't this matter be settled?

Advising people to reconcile, what a beautiful thing.

"Although I say that, what do you really think of Jiaojie as a person?" Chen Yuan asked.

This question made He Sijiao's ears suddenly perk up.

Looking at Zhou Yu's back at the front table, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Although she and Zhou Yu had such a big argument and broke up, it wasn't because they didn't like each other after all, it was purely because they had a difference of opinion. If the other party really couldn't bear to be without her, what couldn't she forgive...?

"Just an unreasonable, crazy woman."

Forgive your mom.

He Sijiao held a skewer of barbecue, sucked it all in one gulp, and then pointed the iron skewer at the back of Zhou Yu's head, preparing to pierce him with a salty fish thrust.

Xia Xinyu next to her could only quickly grab her arm and advise her to calm down.

"No, that's just her personality. Jiaojie's personality is just so straightforward, but when it comes to feelings, she definitely can't let go..."

"Hilarious, directly a divine separator, precise cut."

Zhou Yu made a hand-chopping gesture, did it very dashingly, and then gulped down the wine.

He had completely become a clueless drunkard.

Chen Yuan could see He Sijiao's expression from this angle.

Whether it's precise or not is the difference between surgery and slaughter.

He Sijiao probably wanted to give Zhou Yu a surgery without anesthesia right now, with the goal of slaughtering this scumbag she thought he was.

Honestly, Chen Yuan really thought Zhou Yu was a little right about some things.

But then he thought, if he were him, he deeply loved Jiaojie.

In order to avoid the teacher's scolding, would he separate from Jiaojie?

If he loved her deeply enough.

Maybe, he really wouldn't.

He would pretend to be serious in class to deal with Lao Mo, showing his attitude.

So to say, Zhou Yu might be a little too rational.

But was he that kind of rational person?

Just as he was thinking this, suddenly two boys, about college students or so, stopped across from Xia Xinyu and He Sijiao and asked, "Can we share your table?"

At this time, there were indeed no other seats in the restaurant.

And these two weren't good at talking.

So, the two could only accept helplessly.

Chen Yuan was anxious.

Would someone be flirting with Xinyu?

If you dare to do such a thing, be careful of your whole family and your eighteen-year-old dog at home!

The first thing the two college students saw when they came in was a pretty girl.

And there was no boy sitting next to her, plus there were no seats in the restaurant, so they couldn't help but come over under the pretext of sharing a table to strike up a conversation.

But the two seemed to be unable to speak, and hadn't opened their mouths the whole time.

Instead, they were constantly paying attention to the situation at the table behind them.

Could it be that they wanted to strike up a conversation with them?

Since they had such a proactive personality, maybe they wouldn't refuse a chat under the guise of making friends.

But after all, she was really too pretty...

Neither of them dared to take the initiative to speak.

Or, should they start with the girl next to her?

But she looked so fierce...

He Sijiao wanted to kill someone.

Chen Yuan felt very regretful, the chance encounter scene he had originally planned had been 80% completed, but who could have thought that Yu would be so uncooperative, and would actually criticize Jiaozi so much.

There was no way, he didn't dare to continue trying to elicit information.

If Yu kept talking nonsense with that mouth, an iron skewer would pierce through the back of his head.

And today, Yu really seemed to be here to drown his sorrows.

He kept drinking and drinking.

"Beautiful ladies, which school are you from? You shouldn't be college students, right?"

At this time, the two guys behind were about to make their move.

Chen Yuan couldn't help but prepare to get up and say something to Xinyu to dissuade them from having any ideas.

Just then, after chugging down his drink, Zhou Yu suddenly sighed: "I'm really useless, man."

"Don't say that, it can't be helped," Chen Yuan said, sitting back down halfway.

"No, if it were you, you definitely wouldn't be so chicken."

Zhou Yu shook his head and said very sadly, "He Sijiao dumped me rightly so, as a man, I'm just too pathetic."

As soon as this sentence came out, He Sijiao was stunned.

Bastard, how did it become me dumping you...

But after all, he seemed to be reflecting.

So, she gradually calmed down a bit.

"It's nothing like that." Chen Yuan denied, then deliberately brought it up, "Xu Chen is over 1.8 meters tall, stronger than an ox. When the ball hit Jiaojie back then, didn't you rush up and beat him up? At that time, you were braver than Lü Bu."

When he said this, He Sijiao also remembered...

She had heard about that moment.

Li Youyou also said that Zhou Yu, who was usually a funny character and nonchalant, looked especially serious at that time, and was so angry for the first time.

It was also at that moment that she felt Zhou Yu was quite handsome.

So, he was brave.

Then why was he so timid this time...

"Just recklessness, if I had studied properly, I would have been able to study with Jiaojiao, and wouldn't have been scolded by Lao Mo like this." Zhou Yu said very remorsefully, "It's nothing for me, a boy, to be scolded, but she's a girl, she was kept behind by her parents and criticized by her mom, she definitely couldn't take it. When I called her, I heard her crying. At that time, I couldn't hold it in."

He Sijiao also remembered, when Zhou Yu called her, his tone was quite funny at first, and he was thinking of teasing her, but after she cried, he seemed to panic instantly...

And feel guilty.

Perhaps, he really wanted to protect her.

"Then, do you still like Jiaojie?" Chen Yuan asked.

He Sijiao's eyes sharpened, and she raised her head.

"Hmph."

After thinking for a long time, Zhou Yu snorted coldly, then picked up the wine bottle and chugged it down. Then, he said forlornly, "It's more than just liking, I love her to death."

"..."

Hearing this sentence, He Sijiao's body suddenly stiffened.

Her thoughts were racing, but her head was empty.

"Then make up, it's not going to be good like this," Chen Yuan advised.

"Loving someone doesn't necessarily mean you have to be together, maybe she'll be better off with someone else." Zhou Yu shook his head.

"If you love her, are you willing to hand her over to an unknown someone?"

To this, Chen Yuan immediately denied, "Man, you think you love very rationally, but I think you, you love very timidly."

"Stop fucking talking." Zhou Yu covered his face with one hand and was about to cry.

He had already couldn't help but recall his deceased wife.

And at this time, Xia Xinyu felt that it was time for her to carry.

Ignoring the hesitant attempts at conversation from the two boys in front of her, she picked up her plate and looked at He Sijiao.

He Sijiao was a little nervous, but still, she was led by her, and the two of them picked up their plates together and walked to the opposite table.

Then, the two college students were instantly dumbfounded.

They had thought about being rejected...

But they didn't expect it to be so ruthless.

They directly went to strike up a conversation with other people!

Then, Xia Xinyu sat down next to Chen Yuan, and He Sijiao sat down next to Zhou Yu, who was covering his face and about to cry.

"Excuse me, can we share your table?" Xia Xinyu asked a little embarrassed.

"Sure."

Chen Yuan directly put his arm around Xia Xinyu's shoulders, moving and gesturing for her to sit down.

The two college students were shocked at the same time: So handsome guys can play like this?!

"Huh?" Zhou Yu opened his eyes after hearing a familiar voice.

Then, he saw Xia Xinyu sitting next to Chen Yuan.

So, he turned his head again.

And directly, his eyes met He Sijiao's.

His deceased wife... appeared!

"I know, I know, I know everything." He Sijiao bit her lip and said very unhappily, "I agree with your idea, but we must eat together."

"Why?" Xia Xinyu asked, puzzled.

He Sijiao's face turned red, she looked away, and said softly, "If we don't even eat together, we won't be able to say a few words all day."

"I'm sorry, I was wrong, baby."

The husky-like Zhou Yu immediately pounced on He Sijiao's shoulder and hugged her.

He Sijiao didn't resist or dodge, just let him hug her.

Then, a faint smile gradually appeared on her face after the haze had dissipated...

"You two pay the bill."

Chen Yuan stood up and pointed at the two of them with two fingers.

Xia Xinyu also stood up, making a gesture in sync with Chen Yuan.

Then, the two of them left the barbecue restaurant hand in hand.

"In the end, people still speak the truth after drinking," Xia Xinyu said with emotion, walking down the street at night.

"Does Xinyu remember when you got drunk in my room and babbled nonsense?" Chen Yuan asked jokingly.

"You're drunk."

Xia Xinyu's face turned red, and she reached out to make a "no" gesture.

"Then what's the wish you want to make this time, tell me."

"Eh? Isn't it not 650 yet..."

"I'll lend you one point, just treat it as if you've reached it." Chen Yuan stopped and looked into her eyes, smiling and saying, "Besides, as long as you have an idea, I have an obligation to fulfill your wish."

"Are you a genie?"

"A genie still needs to find Aladdin's lamp, but for me, Xinyu just needs to say one sentence: Husband, I want."

"...The topic has suddenly become indecent again."

Saying that, Xia Xinyu was still quite happy.

After all, he took all of her affairs to heart.

Looking at Chen Yuan, Xia Xinyu thought for a while, then said, "During the Spring Festival, I want to take a day off with you to go to Shaoxiang to sweep my parents' graves."

"Okay, then we'll go back together," Chen Yuan said cheerfully.

Then Xia Xinyu looked at him, her lips pursed, wanting to laugh but holding it back, just staring...

"Did you already think that as long as you said you wanted to go back, I would definitely go back with you?" Chen Yuan asked immediately.

Xia Xinyu was still holding back.

Then, Chen Yuan tickled her armpits...

"Hahaha..."

Having been exposed, Xia Xinyu laughed directly, and then immediately hugged his waist, buried her head, and said softly, "Acting coquettishly is only useful to the people who love me."

Xia Xinyu realized that she did have a little cunning.

Everything she did was on the premise of not bothering Chen Yuan, and that's what she said.

But in her heart, she desperately wanted the other party's company.

But fortunately, even if she didn't say everything, Chen Yuan could see through her mind and immediately satisfied her.

So, she was experiencing a love that never failed.

"But through this matter, I can sum up some experience," Xia Xinyu said after separating her body from Chen Yuan.

"Tell me."

"That is..."

After thinking for a moment, Xia Xinyu said, "Whether Ajiao falls in love with A Yu, or A Yu falls in love with Ajiao, as long as the love remains unchanged, love can conquer all."

"That's the essence of love."

After summarizing, Chen Yuan said with emotion, "I only wish that the heart will not change."

………

Zhou Yu was drunk.

He said a lot of words, and then passed out.

But he felt that in his sweet dreams, a hand was gently stroking his face.

He Sijiao looked at Zhou Yu lying on her lap, touched his cheek with her hand, and then took out a cherry-flavored lipstick and slowly painted fluorescent light pink characters on his face...

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(End of chapter)