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This was the first time Yu Anran met Xu Wei after graduating from high school.

What is different from the past is that the man in front of him has lost his youthful innocence. Although there is a sense of maturity in his eyes, the cowardly and unsteady energy still exists.

Yu Anran thought that she would run into him one day, but she didn't expect it to be so sudden, and the scene was a little funny.

Xu Wei said, "Long time no see."

Hearing this cliché line of reunion after a long absence, Yu Anran got goosebumps all over her body.

She looked at him expressionlessly, and replied, "Yes."

Behind him, the waiter ran over in a hurry, scolding Xu Wei for being careless and spilling the customer's order.

"I'll pay for this bill. I'm really sorry." He nodded humbly towards the other party.

The waiter was cursing, and when Xu Wei said that he would take over the responsibility, he got angry and didn't find fault.

Yu Anran frowned, and wanted to leave.

Xu Wei grabbed her wrist in time, "An'an, why didn't you pass adding your WeChat last time?"

Yu Anran broke away from his pull, and put her hands into her pockets.

"I didn't see it, maybe it was blocked."

"Then I'll add you again."

"No need," Yu Anran said, "We don't usually contact each other, and it's useless to add WeChat."

After a second pause, she added: "Also, don't call me An An."

Xu Wei tugged at the hem of his clothes, and said in a unwilling tone, "Why, didn't I always call you that since I was a child?"

Yu Anran felt a little ridiculous, she raised her eyelids, and looked directly at the man opposite, "But you are no longer my brother."

After finishing speaking, she walked back to the box without waiting for Xu Wei to speak.

The food has already been served, seeing that Yu Anran has been out for so long, Jian Qing specially packed a bowl of rice for her.

"Sister An Ran, why have you been here for so long?"

She prevaricated with an excuse: "I answered a call."

"Could it be your boyfriend?" Jian Qing teased, "I even made a phone call because I care about you so much."

Yu Anran pulled her lips, but did not refute.

She poked the rice in the bowl with her chopsticks, took a bite, and it tasted like chewing wax.

In order not to let her thoughts wander, she forced herself to listen carefully to the chats of other colleagues.

After eating for a while, the supervisor asked the waiter for a case of beer, muttering, "If you don't go to work tomorrow, everyone has to drink!"

"The supervisor should make a sample!" Someone yelled.

The supervisor graciously filled the glass with wine, drank it all in one gulp, and turned the empty glass upside down after drinking.

It was from this moment that the atmosphere became tense.

They toasted each other, and the men even made wine fists.After several rounds, Yu Anran was not spared and was poured several cups.

Inadvertently catching a glimpse of the juice in Jian Qing's glass, Yu Anran asked, "Why didn't you drink?"

"I think so too," Jian Qing said distressedly, "but I'm allergic to alcohol."

The number of empty bottles on hand gradually increased.

On weekdays, Yu Anran is a little alcoholic who eats food and loves to drink, but she often restrains herself when she is outside.

I don't know what happened today, I drank one cup after another.

Until she was not so clear-headed, she received a message from Qi Pei saying that she would come to pick her up.

She replied vaguely with a "yes".

After a few more rounds of drinking, two or three people passed out at the dinner table, and the others either drank less or couldn't drink because they were driving.

Double images began to appear in front of Yu Anran's eyes, fearing that she would lose her composure after drinking, she leaned into Jian Qing's ear: "Look at me a little bit, my boyfriend will come pick me up later."

Jian Qing: "Okay."

After nine o'clock in the evening, a group of people finished the departmental dinner and went out to find a way to go home.

The environment was noisy, Jian Qing helped Yu Anran stand a little further away from the entrance of the restaurant, and after a short wait, Qi Pei's car appeared in front of them.

He parked the car and walked down, nodded politely to Jian Qing, then took Yu Anran's shoulder from her side, and said helplessly, "Why did you drink so much?"

Yu Anran let go of her strong support, and nestled softly in Qi Pei's arms.

"Are you Miss Yu Anran's date? She said just now that her boyfriend came to pick her up."

"I'm."

Jian Qing breathed a sigh of relief, "Then I will..."

"Who are you?" Before she could finish speaking, a voice suddenly interjected beside her.

Jian Qing looked around the source of the sound, and a familiar man appeared from nowhere, staring defensively at Qi Pei opposite her.

Qi Pei obviously heard it too, but he felt a little baffled, "We know each other?"

Xu Wei had already changed his professional attire, and his eyes shifted from Qi Pei's face to Yu Anran.

After a while, he stretched out his hand to pull her to his side.

Qi Pei frowned, and quickly took Yu Anran back a few steps, avoiding Xu Wei's touch.

"What's the matter?" Qi Pei's tone was not very good.

"Who else do I want to ask you!" Xu Wei pointed at him, "Holding An An in public?"

"An'an?" Qi Pei laughed angrily, he looked down at Yu Anran, then looked up again, "Where are you touching porcelain?"

Jian Qing was completely dazed, she couldn't even tell who was Yu Anran's boyfriend.

She snatched Yu Anran back from Qi Pei's arms vigilantly.

Hearing the conversation, Yu Anran frowned and opened her eyes.Her vision was still blurred, but she could vaguely make out the two men on the opposite side.

Jian Qing struggled and whispered: "Sister An Ran, who is your boyfriend..."

Yu Anran shook her head, walked up to Qi Pei a few steps, wrapped her arms around his waist, and buried her whole body in his arms.

Muttered in his mouth: "I want to go home"

Qi Pei hugged her back, rubbed the back of her head comfortingly, and said to Xu Wei who was still unwilling, in a cold voice: "I'm breaking the law by hugging my girlfriend?"

He had a look of disbelief, "Your girlfriend? I've known her for so many years, why didn't I know she had a boyfriend!"

Qi Pei straightened his lips, ignored him, and carried him to the car.

Xu Wei stood where he was, he struggled for a long time, but he still didn't have the courage to go forward and snatch Qi Pei away from him.

He pretended to be aggressive, but he and Yu Anran hadn't been in touch for so many years, and now she had a boyfriend, which was unexpected, but after thinking about it, it wasn't surprising.

Jian Qing stood beside her, confused, "Who are you, Sister Yu Anran?"

Xu Wei clenched his fist. After a long time, he said in a hoarse voice, "I am her...brother."

The relationship that can connect the two of them in name, but only he knows it, and he doesn't like this title.

All emotions were hidden at night, and the sound of trumpets occasionally rang in his ears. Half asleep and half awake, Yu Anran realized that Qi Pei had brought him back to the Summer Palace.

As soon as she entered the door, she lay down on the sofa and pulled the scarf uncomfortably.

Qi Pei went to the kitchen to make a cup of honey water, and when he came out, he saw Yu Anran sleeping obediently on the sofa.

He walked over and knelt down, touched her face, "Get up and drink honey water before going to sleep."

Yu Anran let out a "hmm", leaned on the remaining sobriety to prop up her body, and brought her lips closer.

"Next time I'm not here, don't drink so much." Qi Pei said.

Yu Anran didn't know if she had listened, she lay down again after drinking, and closed her eyes.

Qi Pei stared at her for a while, and finally sighed softly, brushing the broken hair away from her face.

After Chaos fell asleep for an unknown amount of time, Yu Anran gradually woke up.

Seeing what she saw, she was stunned for a while.Looking at the wall clock on the wall, it was eleven o'clock at night.

The living room was empty, only the sound of running water came from the bathroom.

About 10 minutes later, Qi Pei wiped his wet hair from

Coming out of the bathroom, I saw Yu Anran sitting on the sofa, "Are you awake?"

"Ah."

"Do you have a headache?"

"It's okay," Yu Anran said, "Why didn't you send me back to my house?"

Qi Pei lifted his lips, "You have been hugging me and never letting go, how can I send you back?"

"……"real or fake?
Yu Anran remembered the last time when she was drunk in Nanlan, the man also said that she hugged his neck, could it be her gaffe after drinking, was it hugging?

Qi Pei walked into the kitchen again.

Taking advantage of this time, Yu Anran took out her mobile phone and looked at it, only to find that Jian Qing had sent her two messages not long ago.

[Jian Qing: Sister An Ran, are you home yet? 】

[Jian Qing: Fortunately, you can recognize people when you are drunk, otherwise two men suddenly appear, and I don't know which one is your boyfriend. 】

two men?

Yu Anran can't remember the scene before losing consciousness. Only when she heard Jian Qing say this, did she have a vague impression.

Reminiscent of the person he met in the restaurant, Yu Anran guessed that the other man Jian Qing mentioned should be Xu Wei.

She pursed her lips and turned off the screen of her phone.Getting up and walking into the kitchen, Qi Pei was making brown sugar water with his back to her.

"Qi Pei." She said softly.

Qi Pei glanced back at her: "What's wrong?" Yu Anran opened her mouth as if a ball of cotton was stuck in her throat, but she couldn't utter a word.

But she didn't say anything, Qi Pei asked first.

"When I went to pick you up, a man suddenly appeared."

Yu Anran was startled: "Really."

Qi Pei described the man's appearance: "He called you An An, do you know each other?"

"Ah."

Hearing Yu Anran admit it, Qi Pei didn't feel anything.But he is a man after all, when he heard someone calling his girlfriend so intimately, he felt somewhat uncomfortable in his heart.

Besides, no matter who that person was, he said that he and Yu Anran had known each other for many years, but Yu Anran never seemed to mention it.

The atmosphere became a little subtle.

Qi Pei turned around and handed her the brown sugar water, "Drink it."

Yu Anran stretched out her hand subconsciously, but when she didn't pay attention, she missed it, and the glass slid down her fingertips and fell vertically.

"Snapped!"

There was an ear-piercing sound as it was broken, the red liquid dripped all over the ground, and the ground instantly became a mess.

Qi Pei frowned, and held Yu Anran's hand instead, "It's so hot..."

Before the end was finished, he raised his eyes and noticed something was wrong with her.

Yu Anran's expression had become dull, she was staring blankly at the pool of water stains and glass shards on the ground, vaguely about to be dragged into a nightmare again.

Qi Pei curled up his fingers, stepped over the chaos and embraced her, and patted her on the back lightly.

The scene is all too familiar.

During the Nanlan charity sale, the glass handmade lamp was broken, and Yu Anran looked like this.

There is a term in medicine called post-traumatic stress disorder.

Qi Pei is a smart person. After thinking about it carefully, he guessed what Yu Anran must have experienced to make her react so differently to the broken glass.

He asked once, but Yu Anran didn't want to tell him, this is the second time, Qi Pei can't pretend that nothing happened, so he said: "Why is there such a big reaction?"

Yu Anran opened her mouth, she thought she could say something calmly, but she didn't expect it to be so hard to say.

After a while, the screen of the mobile phone in his hand suddenly turned on, and Yu Anran's fingertips accidentally touched the voice Song Shi sent her: "Anran, when are you coming back so late, do I need to hold the door for you?"

A faint sense of powerlessness enveloped Qi Pei, he thought Yu Anran was still unwilling to tell him.

"Come on, I'll take you back."

He took Yu Anran out of the kitchen, walked to the entrance and wrapped her scarf around her.

Seeing his face darken, Yu Anran pursed her lips: "Qi Pei, are you angry?"

"I said, I won't lose my temper with you."

Yu Anran lowered her eyes to look at his hands arranging her scarf, "Just now because..."

"Yu Anran," Qi Pei interrupted her loudly, "the same thing happened to you when you were in Nanlan, you said you didn't want to talk about it, why?"

Yu Anran bit her lower lip, her mind was in a mess.

Qi Pei continued: "I remember you told me that you don't trust anyone emotionally."

"So you don't believe me, you don't believe that we can go on forever, and then you have reservations about me, right?"

Yu Anran raised her head suddenly, met Qi Pei's serious eyes, and said in a pale tone, "No..."

"But why don't you believe in our feelings?" Qi Pei guessed to himself, "It's because of the abandonment of your parents and aunt, which makes you feel that you have no reason to be loved. You think that one day I will abandon you like them, right?"

Frankly speaking, what Qi Pei said hit the most stubborn point in Yu Anran's heart.

A person's habits are hard to change, even though she has the courage to start a new life because of Qi Pei, those nightmares that haunt her in the middle of the night still remind her from time to time that she will not get long-term love.

In any case, she will always be abandoned.

Yu Anran suddenly didn't know how to argue.

Qi Pei straightened up and took the car keys: "You just asked me if I was angry. Yu Anran, what I care about is not whether you are willing to tell me."

"I'm mad at you for not believing that you are worthy of eternal love."