urban life

Chapter 553 The Last Meeting

"haven't seen you for a long time."

"I've been busy with manuscripts recently."

"Oh."

"How long does it take for graduation?"

"tomorrow."

"I'm about to graduate. I didn't expect that we have known each other for four years."

"Three years."

"Oh, no, I'm one year older than you, but even after I graduated, we saw each other often, so it can be four years."

"Makes sense."

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Zhou Liang sat opposite Li Lin and looked at each other.

The upper body is a white T-shirt, and the lower body is a black mid-length skirt. The T-shirt is tucked into the bottoms casually, making it casual and casual without losing beauty.Her hair, as soft as black silk, fell naturally, smooth and shiny.

"Haha." Li Lin's mouth curved slightly, "Why are you staring at me?"

"It's okay." Zhou Liang looked away and replied calmly, "I didn't expect four years to pass by in a hurry, and I was about to enter the society, and I couldn't adapt to it for a while."

Li Lin smiled softly: "You always show your Versailles side inadvertently. As soon as you leave school, you become the boss of the company, manage the company's employees, and do whatever you want. If you have difficulty adapting, what about us ordinary people? Then It’s not about complaining and living in a miserable world.”

"If I had a choice, I'd like to do your job."

Li Lin is the vice president of the school's literary club. She has extremely high literary literacy. She has published many articles and novels in newspapers during her college years. After college, she became a writer.

The job is easy, the salary is decent, and the most important thing is that there is a lot of free time for reading, rest, and entertainment.
"If I had a choice, I would also like to be a boss, commanding my subordinates all day long, asking them to go east and never dare to go west. That would be so cool." The other party rolled his eyes, "Besides, you have seen it sometimes, and I can't write it. The way the manuscript looks scratching its head, that’s torture.”

Zhou Liang thought for a moment: "Yes."

If you treat your interest as work, your interest will disappear in an instant, and all you will have is endless torture.

Then there is a double loss, one is one more job, and the other is one less interest.

lost heavily!

The two chatted briefly for a while, then kept quiet and focused on their own affairs. Li Lin continued to write the novel, while Zhou Liang continued to read.

No one paid attention to anyone.

For four years, the two of them have always gotten along in this way. They started by chatting for a few words, then did their own things, finished reading, went out to eat together, and then parted ways.

Time passed quietly, and the scorching sun in the sky moved westward and was about to set.

Zhou Liang looked up at the horizon and couldn't help but stretch, making a clicking sound. After sitting for a day, he felt a little tired and sleepy.

"tired?"

"Yes." He replied, "But it's only the last day. I don't know if I will have the chance to come to school again."

After hearing this, Li Lin raised her eyebrows and pursed her lips: "There is a chance."

They packed up their belongings and immediately walked outside. The setting sun shone on the two of them, and the shadows stretched very long, and the long shadows gradually became farther and farther away.

The two found a hot pot restaurant. In the hot summer, the spicy hot pot has a unique flavor.

Today is Saturday, coupled with school graduation, students are celebrating and spending their last days happily. The store is extremely lively, chatting and drinking, getting drunk, and holding friends to whisper and recount four years of friendship.

Compared with everyone in the store, Zhou Liang and Li Lin looked very different. They were just eating hot pot and chatting without much mood swings. There was not even a bottle of wine on the table.

They seemed to be very calm about the upcoming parting, as if they were just strangers who met each other.

Parting is no big deal.

After eating, night has fallen, and the moon is shining with silvery white light.

As usual, Zhou Liang sent Li Lin home. The latter rented a house near the school in order to frequent the school library, which was not far away.

Zhou Liang walked slowly with his hands in his pockets, enjoying the gentle sea breeze.

"Huh!" Li Lin held her handbag and exhaled slowly, as if she was letting out the thoughts that had been accumulated in her heart for a long time. A smile appeared on her face, "What do you plan to do in the future?"

"What aspect? Career? Life? Love?."

"All."

"Yeah." Hearing this, Zhou Liang pursed his lips, thought for a moment, and replied, "That's what it should be."

Li Lin complained: "What a casual answer."

"The future is too far away, and I don't have any ideas. In terms of career, just don't bring down my mother's company; in terms of life, live as usual, go to work, get off work, and go home; as for love."

At this point, Zhou Liang paused for a moment, then laughed as if he was being teased: "You also know me, I really don't know what love is? Is it feeling? Or thinking? Or longing. Love is too abstract. I can't explain it with fixed vocabulary. I have never met love, nor have I been attracted to a girl.

The last time my heart moved was when Zhou Lingmeng beat me. "

Hearing his answer, a smile appeared on Li Lin's face: "Then you are so single?"

"You can be single as long as you're single. There's nothing wrong with being single. It's great that when I reach a certain age, my mother arranges a blind date, and I get married at will and live a simple life." Zhou Liang asked in return: "What about you? University There were so many people pursuing you, but you didn’t agree, and you’re still alone after graduating from college.”

Li Lin shook her head: "I am different from you. You are too rational and have lost your expectations for love, as if it is dispensable. But I keep my expectations for love and will never fall in love until I meet the right person. I hope I My future husband will come to pick me up under colorful auspicious clouds."

"That's fine."

"Ha ha."

Li Lin laughed and did not respond, but walked towards home.

After walking for about ten minutes, we arrived at the downstairs of the community.

Zhou Liang stopped and said, "Okay, let's get over here."

"Okay, thank you." Li Lin nodded and joked with a smile: "We say goodbye this time, and we don't know when we will meet again.

After graduation, you become the boss of the company, managing a company with hundreds of millions of dollars, while I am still an ordinary person. The gap between us suddenly widened like heaven and earth.When you see me outside in the future, you won’t deliberately pretend not to know me, right? "

Zhou Liang did not answer, but asked: "Do you want me to say hello to you or not to say hello to you?"

"No hello."

"Okay." He nodded and looked at the dark sky, "It's late at night, I'll take the first step."

"Okay" After receiving the permission, Zhou Liang smiled at her, then turned and left.

But Li Lin didn't leave in a hurry. She stood there and stared at the direction he was leaving. She didn't slowly look back until the figure disappeared. She opened her mouth to say something, but she didn't speak and could only bite her lips tightly.

A breeze blew by, lifting her hair and fluttering in the wind. Her face was as gentle as water, as if there was no flaw, like an exquisite painting.

There was a wave of ripples in the usually calm eyes, and when he looked carefully, the eyes were full of disappointment.

Li Lin closed her eyes, slowly opened them, took a deep breath, then entered the community and headed home.

Click!

"Ah, the great writer is back?" The sound of opening the door alerted her best friend Meng Qiannan, and she joked, "Are you dating that boy again? I haven't seen him for a long time. To be honest, I really miss him. He's just handsome and unrestrained. I also have a rich, high-quality boyfriend at home. If you weren’t my best friend, I would have slept with you long ago.”

Meng Qiannan teased her best friend while cutting her nails.

Bah bah bah bah bah, I made a lot of push, but unexpectedly got no refutation.

Meng Qiannan suddenly frowned and looked up at her best friend. Her delicate face was expressionless. She walked to the sofa, threw her whole body on the sofa, closed her eyes, and looked exhausted.

A series of behaviors immediately confused Meng Qiannan. In the past, she would go home happily after meeting Zhou Liang and sing a song from time to time. However, she was so devastated as today, as if she had died.

"What's wrong?" Meng Qiannan panicked, "Did Zhou Liang bully you? He's so arrogant. Just wait until I have to deal with him."

As she was about to call Zhou Liang, Li Lin opened her eyes and stopped her best friend: "Don't call him. I'm fine. I'm just a little tired."

"Tired?"

Meng Qiannan was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of what happened between her best friend and Zhou Liang, and then thought of the recent graduation from college, and that handsome young man was about to leave school. She suddenly understood the whole thing and fell silent.

As a best friend, she could only gently rub Li Lin's temples and comfort her in a trivial way.

Four years!

Four full years!

Zhou Liang and Li Lin have known each other for four years. They read together, wrote manuscripts together, ate together, and went back to school together. In these four years, they stayed together the longest, even longer than Meng Qiannan and Li Linzhi. time in between.

But, even so, the affection between them seems to be as thick as ten thousand years of ice and snow, and the estrangement can't be melted in the hot heart.

The two have always stayed in the friend stage, neither moving forward nor retreating, as if they were frozen in the moment when they first met.

"Cao!" Meng Qiannan spit out the quintessence of Chinese culture, "Zhou Liang is simply not a human being, not a man. Facing such a beautiful woman, he is not tempted at all. Is there something wrong with one of his body organs? No, I have to call and scold him. scold him."

As she spoke, she wanted to call again, but Li Lin quickly grabbed the other party's phone, hung up the call, and said, "Can you please don't cause trouble between us? It has nothing to do with you."

"." Seeing her best friend losing her usual calmness and her words filled with irritation, Meng Qiannan rolled her eyes at her. She was filled with anger but couldn't express it. They were best friends, what else could they do?I can only forgive her,
"Hey! Linlin, I'm not worth it for you. In the past few years, how many boys have pursued you, but you have ignored them and never opened your eyes to see them. After graduating from college, you rented a room near the school and talked about He said it was because he was close to the school, so he could borrow the library and read more books.

In fact, I know exactly what you are thinking, isn't it just to get closer to that stinky man, you go to the library every day just to wait for Zhou Liang, do you think I don't know?Don't look at me looking stupid, but I'm actually quite smart. "

While speaking, Meng Qiannan straightened her body slightly and put on a proud look.

She saw everything about Li Lin's daily life. Although she didn't say it, she knew it like the back of her hand.

Faced with Meng Qiannan's words, Li Lin just replied quietly: "Oh."

"Oh?!!!"

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The expressionless face, flat tone, and dismissive gesture made Meng Qiannan angry, but seeing her girlfriend's distraught look, the great anger in her heart also disappeared.

"Then what do you want to do next?"

"Cold."

"You two just separated like this?"

"Ah."

"See you again?"

"Where are we going to meet?"

"We all live in the same city, invite him to dinner, go shopping together, and then capture that man quietly."

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Cao!
Meng Qiannan was speechless.

She understood that her best friend could not do anything proactively and was unwilling to force her to do things. Moreover, facing Zhou Liang, there had been no progress for four years, and now she was despairing.

Li Lin looked at the ceiling, clenched her right hand into a fist, tapped her forehead lightly, as if she was deep in thought, and said slowly: "Fate is determined by heaven, just let it go. It's impossible to force it."

Li Lin felt particularly lost and empty. Today was the last time the two of them met. She stared at Zhou Liang's eyes, not seeing any reluctance in them. The separation between the two seemed to be an insignificant matter to him. Little things.

It was enough to prove his status in his heart.

As said, friends, the two of them are just friends.

"Alas!" Meng Qiannan also understands Zhou Liang's attitude, that is, he is an extremely rational person. He seems to be gentle and kind, but in reality he rejects people thousands of miles away. No one can enter his inner world, not even the two of them. We have known each other for four years and this is no exception. "There is no grass anywhere in the world, so why should you fall in love with a flower unrequitedly? Forget it, it's not that big of a deal."

"Huh? What's wrong with Linlin? She looks like she's out of her mind."

"It seems to be broken in love."

At this moment, the roommate they rented with came out and asked in surprise.

"I'm really heartbroken." Meng Qiannan replied.

"what?"

"Are you kidding? Linlin is not in love, isn't she? Where does the lovelorn come from?"

We had lived together for a year and got to know Li Lin somewhat, but she was always alone. Where did her boyfriend come from, and she was immediately surprised.

"The lovelorn who hasn't fallen in love yet, the secret love disappears in the bud." Meng Qiannan patted her best friend's shoulder while sighing, "A handsome guy who has money, good looks, and a scholarly air, he just came out of a book." Character, which girl can resist such charm.

It's a pity that most women are self-aware and will not rush to pursue others. Some people seem to be smart, but in fact they have no self-awareness and always think that they can catch up with others and make a good story.What a pity, what a pity. "

"I didn't chase him."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Meng Qiannan apologized, "You don't even have the courage to chase after him."

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(End of this chapter)