Chapter 73 No.20 Chapter [-] The Approaching Shadow

During the next performance, He Tianran slowly drank the half bottle of white beer.

It was the first time he drank alcohol, but when Cao Aiqing looked at him from the audience, besides playing the piano, he could only drink to cover up.

Gradually, his spirit became excited, and the pressure of study accumulated in the daily life was released with the sound of a song, which made him feel very relaxed, and he played harder, and he played several guitar solos smoothly. There was a burst of applause.

Cao Aiqing would applaud vigorously every time, it's just that a single girl like this, who is also pretty, will inevitably be accosted when she comes to this kind of place. The buddy is very good, and he didn't deliberately invite her to drink at his table, but just came over to chat from time to time, and drove away a few groups of strike-ups.

"Do you want to ask others to come up and participate? You have finished drinking, and you have not seen any action."

The lead singer teacher would joke with He Tianran in the interval.

"It's just a friend helping out. I didn't know she would come."

He Tianran responded honestly, took the time to glance at Cao Aiqing, and then silently continued his performance work.

The female college student playing bass covered her mouth and smiled. The drummer boss ordered the bartender to bring some snacks and a fruit platter to the little girl. The lead singer hummed and sang "Old Boy" again.

"That's the person I miss day and night and love deeply. How should I express it? Will she accept me?"

He Tianran suspects that the whole band is trying to punish him now, but he has nothing to do. He really wants to find a hole to get in, or tell them bluntly that his relationship with Cao Aiqing is not what they think.

It's just that the explanation for this kind of thing will only get darker and darker now.

So, he simply chose to shut up.

The performance ended at ten o'clock, and Cao Aiqing also waited until ten o'clock.

As the guitarist who changed shift came to the store, He Tianran finally finished his day's work.

He first glanced in Xue Yong's direction, and the animal looked like he was enjoying the show, and slapped his hands outward repeatedly, signaling him not to approach the people at his table.

He Tianran had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk towards Cao Aiqing.

When the girl saw him approaching, her body suddenly became a little cautious. She hurriedly picked up the boiled water on the table and drank it, but just like the beer that He Tianran drank, there was not much water left in it.

"Well, now that I am in front of you, I really have no secrets."

He Tianran shrugged, and made a joke that wasn't a joke.

In fact, thinking about it carefully, he broke up with Wen Liang, broke up with Jiang Xixi, he is a rich second generation, and even includes the current part-time job, Cao Aiqing seems to know everything directly or indirectly.

"Most of them are what you said yourself, you can't blame me for that!"

Cao Aiqing responded with a smile.

"But I haven't really thought that you will actually come. How do you know this place?"

He Ranran picked up a nut from the snack plate and threw it into his mouth.

"I...Xue Yong posted on Moments, I guess it was you, so I came here..."

"Boy, you not only observe me, but also observe me through my friend?"

"I didn't, I saw it by accident...just...curios...afraid that you would do something bad..."

Cao Aiqing argued, but her voice became smaller and smaller.

"Hey, it's not a bad thing to beg for life, the squad leader can rest assured..."

He Tianran was chewing something, his eyes were flying wildly.

The two were silent for a while. The boy noticed the cut in the other's sweater and asked:
"What happened to your clothes?"

Cao Aiqing quickly grabbed the hole in the sweater with her hand, but said nothing.

Could it be that he skipped class because he climbed over the wall, and accidentally scratched it when he came down?
This kind of words made the innocent girl a little hard to say.

"correct!"

He Tianran suddenly thought of a question, Cao Aiqing looked at him carefully.

"It's past ten o'clock now. Is it okay for you to go back so late?"

Cao Aiqing was stunned for a while, then her eyes widened visibly under her long eyelashes, and then she quickly stood up anxiously.

She took out her mobile phone and checked the time. At ten fifteen, there were still three missed calls from "mothers" on the screen.

"I... I... I have to go back quickly!"

Cao Aiqing hurriedly said something and was about to go out, He Tianran also stood up.

"I'll take you back. It's too late. You're alone with me... I should go back too."

……

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The two walked out of the Yanjiao Lane tavern. He Tianran walked in front with his guitar on his back and said, while leading the way:

"where is your house?"

"Pinestone Street..."

He Tianran was taken aback, Jiang Xixi's family also lives there, not far from his house, but if you take the school as a circle, there are two directions, but here, it is one direction.

"On Songshi Street, you need to transfer twice to the subway from here, but there is a bus station nearby, and there is a direct connection. We rush there now, and we might catch the last bus at 10:30. Hurry up."

After finishing speaking, the two ran all the way, and finally caught up with the last bus that was about to leave in a hurry.

There were three or four passengers sitting sporadically in the car. The boy who took the lead went straight to the last row of seats, and then his body collapsed, and the girl followed him and sat down.

The car door was closed, the car started, the two of them shook their bodies, and their tense nerves finally relaxed.

The boys and girls looked at each other involuntarily, seeing the disheveled look in each other's eyes, they both laughed.

He Tianran looked at Cao Aiqing's smiling face, her little face was moist and flushed, even though her hair was a little disheveled by the night wind, but just like this, she had a different kind of beauty.

He suddenly closed his eyes, raised his head, and panted heavily, as if he was trying to relieve the beating heart that had been pounding just now due to running.

Cao Aiqing lowered her head, holding her mobile phone, thinking about how to explain this late return to her mother. The tavern was too noisy just now, so she didn't pay attention to the call.

Coincidentally, the phone rang again.

She answered nervously, and the questioning from the other side came as scheduled.

"Mom... I... I was doing test papers with my classmates at school today, and I wasted some time..."

"No... I just went to the toilet just now and didn't look at my phone..."

She obviously didn't know how to lie, and she stuttered a sentence, as if her mother was right in front of her eyes, and her flustered appearance made people feel nervous.

"Hey, that monitor, don't leave first, I found that this question is wrong, please help me to look it up."

He Tianran suddenly said in a deep voice, Cao Aiqing didn't react for a while, only to hear the boy change into a normal voice again, and shouted impatiently:
"Oh, He Tianran, let's go, what time is it now, you can't finish the test paper, can't you go home and continue to do it? Why do you insist on us staying with you?"

Cao Aiqing came back to his senses, suppressed a smile, and said to the other end of the phone: "Mom, I'll be right back, don't worry, um, um, got it, oops, my classmate, I'm out of the classroom, um, that's it, bye !"

The girl hung up the phone, turned her head to one side with a smile and pretended to be serious, and said nothing.

The boy leaned back on the seat, rubbing his fingers on his forehead, as if he was about to thank me.

"What should I do if I wear clothes?!" She pursued the responsibility.

"I don't know how to wear bandits. People who don't know me can't tell the difference with my voice." He vowed.

"My mother just asked me who He Tianran is."

"You just say, it's the grassroots of our school."

"Bah! Shameless!"

"This is called the reality and self-cognition to maintain a high degree of consistency!"

After He Tianran said this sentence, he felt so sick to himself, his body trembled first, and he started laughing.

"Monster!"

Cao Aiqing slapped him on the shoulder.

The bus bumped occasionally, especially when they sat in the last row. He Tianran was a little tired after two hours of performance, so he closed his eyes unconsciously and took a nap.

Cao Aiqing looked at him with a wicked look, and thought of him who was dumbfounded outside the car door again.

I really didn't expect that these two images would be the same person.

She knew all of He Tianran's secrets, so she also witnessed his whole process of change.

"It's amazing..."

The girl murmured, imitating how he slept and raised her head.

Occasionally, when passing a stop, the lights in the bus will turn on, and then turn off as the engine starts.

When it was on, Cao Aiqing noticed that their shadows would get very close.

But she prefers the dark after extinguishing.

Because of this, the shadows will blend together.

(End of this chapter)

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