Afraid of being repelled by the same sex, Li Xiang felt in danger. Unexpectedly, Zhang Ling's popularity was far beyond his imagination. He stepped forward warily and took two more steps.
"Senior Zhang Yu, you still like to tease me so much. Stop saying that. You have been away from campus for so long and have been in society for so long. It would be so embarrassing for outsiders to hear." She looked a little shy.
As a re-examination candidate, Zhang Yu once studied in the same class as Zhang Ling. The so-called senior was just a polite term for Zhang Ling.
"You're so humble! In my opinion, the school beauty is even more charming than before." Zhang Yu praised with a bright smile.
"This..." Zhang Ling smiled reluctantly, thinking about how to escape.
She imagined that it would be nice if someone could call her at this time.
Li Xiang obviously couldn't bear it. Zhang Ling talked and laughed with another man in front of him.
What made him even more uncomfortable was that this man actually ignored his existence because the clothes he wore today were too ordinary.
He glanced at Zhang Yu's badge, then took out his hotel VIP card and said with hostility:
"I'm talking to Manager Zhang, is your hotel's way of treating guests nowadays just to block the guests at the door and talk?"
Zhang Yu naturally recognized the few VIP cards in the hotel, and there was a bit of embarrassment and worry in his smile. If he offended the card holder, his position might not be guaranteed, so he quickly turned sideways and invited:
"I'm sorry, I was negligent. You two distinguished guests, please follow me."
Li Xiang was very dissatisfied with Zhang Yu's reaction. It was the first time that he brought someone with a different surname to dinner. A man still needed this bit of dignity, so he deliberately guided him:
"Manager Zhang, your President Mo will be back from Paris soon."
Zhang Yu was shocked. Mr. Mo (restaurant owner) traveled abroad, and few people knew about his itinerary. It seemed that Li Xiang had an unusual relationship with Mr. Mo.
Zhang Yu immediately said with a flattering smile: "Yes, every time Mr. Mo goes out to play, he will bring back some gifts for us subordinates."
Li Xiang said in a contemptuous tone: "Yes! Mr. Mo has always been so generous. If I have the opportunity, I will sit down with Mr. Mo and talk about this business and management issue. After all, there is a difference between employees and friends."
Speaking of which, for someone like Zhang Yu, who is involved in the workplace, he understands the stakes. His face instantly turned pale, and he quickly stopped Li Xiang, bowed and said:
"Dear guest, I'm sorry. It's all because of my negligence that you had a very bad experience. In order to make up for my mistake, I will pay for all your purchases today."
Li Xiang has regained his lost face, so he won't care too much about Zhang Yu anymore.
Zhang Ling looked at Li Xiang's confident look and admired him even more intensely. She even felt that Li Xiang was the best candidate to play the fake boyfriend.
The two of them walked towards the second floor of the hotel. Zhang Ling suddenly leaned into his ear and said, "Thank you!"
The moment he whispered, it was like an electric current passing through him, giving him a wonderful and indescribable tingling sensation all over his body.
For Li Xiang, this feeling was too enjoyable.
He turned his head and saw Zhang Ling smiling slightly and winking to express her gratitude. The root cause was Zhang Yu.
It seemed that she disliked meeting this old classmate very much.
Li Xiang was basically sure that his status in Zhang Ling's heart was obviously much higher than that of his so-called classmate Zhang Yu.
After Zhang Yu arranged them in the VIP private room, he felt extremely unhappy and wanted to see who Li Xiang was.
So Zhang Yu used his super memory to check the ownership of Li Xiang's VIP card.
When he found out that the card was given by his boss to the hotel decoration contractor, he immediately sent the explosive news to his classmates.
Brother Yu: Classmates, school beauty Zhang Ling brought her boyfriend to our hotel for dinner. She used her boyfriend’s VIP card.
Sad Rose: Is it handsome? Please take a hot photo!
The young man is getting married: I know it’s hard to get the VIP card of the hotel where Brother Yu works. It seems that the boyfriend of the school beauty has an unusual status!
Brother Yu: It’s unusual (sinister face)
prick:???
The young man is getting married: Brother Yu, please explain clearly
Brother Yu: I checked, and that man was the stinky migrant worker who decorated our hotel. Our boss gave him a card because he appreciated his decoration skills.
Sad Rose: I just want to know if he is handsome? Please take a hot photo!
A hedgehog at the dinner table: Do you think the school beauty will dare to bring her boyfriend to the class reunion organized by Li Xi in the next two days?
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Zhang Ling didn't know what was being discussed enthusiastically in the classmate group. In other words, she was disgusted with such gossip and had already quit the classmate group, so those people would discuss it unscrupulously.
During the dinner, they were silent for at least half of the time.
Zhang Ling wanted to bring up the plan to let Li Xiang pretend to be her boyfriend, but she always felt that no matter how she spoke, it would make the atmosphere extremely awkward.
After thinking about it again and again, she decided that in order not to affect each other's pleasure in eating, she should wait until the meal was over before looking for an opportunity to talk.
Li Xiang felt that the dining environment was a bit depressing. In order to adjust the atmosphere, he accidentally saw the wind turbine on the giant screen advertisement outside the window.
So, he pointed at the giant screen advertisement and said, "Zhang Ling, what do you think that is?"
The moment Li wanted to speak, he realized that most girls probably didn't like this kind of topic.
Zhang Ling glanced sideways and said a little excitedly: "Wind turbine!"
"I know a place with wind turbines that has great scenery. I took a video at that time, and I also made a short film of ten minutes, which uploaded to the Internet and got tens of thousands of clicks."
"Where is the video? Take it out and take a look." Zhang Ling put down the bowl and chopsticks in her hands excitedly and asked for it.
Li Xiang took out a 15-minute edited video he had shot. In the video, except for the blue sky, white clouds and undulating mountains, there was the milky-white "giant" protagonist.
He didn't know whether it was the cool breeze like water, the dotted white clouds, the clear blue sky, and the mountains that attracted her; or the rolling milky white fans on the towering fans stretching over the mountains that attracted her? Or it was the combination of the two that made her feel
It's very shocking.
Zhang Ling held Li Xiang's cell phone in her hands and looked at it three times. Li Xiang spent the other half of the meal looking at her.
How much he hoped in his heart to just keep watching quietly without anyone or anything disturbing him.
"Oh my God, what kind of place is this? It's so beautiful!" She looked up and said, still not fully satisfied.
When she saw Li Xiang staring at her silently, she actually lowered her head slightly in embarrassment, and habitually brushed a strand of black hair from her temples behind her ears.
Li Xiang smiled and asked, "Would you like to go? It's not far, just over an hour's drive from here. I think the weather is pretty good today, so I can take you to see it together."
He is very much looking forward to a successful invitation and believes that the more time he can spend alone, the higher his success rate in pursuing Zhang Ling.
"Okay, okay!" Zhang Ling stood up immediately with great excitement, put the bag on her shoulder with one hand, grabbed Li Xiang's wrist with the other and rushed towards the door of the private room, "We're leaving now."
Li Xiang hurriedly persuaded: "Don't worry, you didn't even eat much in order to watch the video. It won't be too late for us to go after you finish eating."
Zhang Ling didn't look back and said: "It's okay, just treat it like losing weight, don't waste time, I just want to see the beautiful scenery in the short film as soon as possible."
It wasn't that the scenery in the short film was too charming, but that when she heard the huge fan rotating and making an inexplicable sound, she felt surprisingly calm.
It feels like a heart wrapped in cold, non-biting liquid, immersing you in infinite tenderness and not wanting to surface;
It's like your soul being gently touched by your mother's hand, making you return to your childhood, curled up in your mother's arms and not wanting to grow up.
When she was watching the short film, a sweet memory of her childhood came to her mind. Although she did not have the voice and face of her mother, she had hands that were big enough to replace her mother.
A little girl took the paper pinwheel from her father's hand and ran happily into the wind. The paper pinwheel rotated rapidly and made a very pleasant sound. There was always a pair of big hands surrounding her.
"Slow down, slow down, be careful of falling."
The sound in your ears is the sound of happiness, and the pinwheel in your hand is the source of happiness.
She hadn't felt this kind of happiness for a long time after entering the society. She didn't laugh as happily and recklessly as she did back then.
It's just that the happiness she feels through her mobile phone is always intermittent due to time issues, making it impossible to fully enjoy it.
She desperately hopes to be in nature, standing under the windmill on the top of the mountain, the wind mixed with the smell of grass, passing through every pore on the skin, sweeping away all fatigue, admiring the mountains and rivers with her eyes, it will definitely make people feel relaxed.
vast.
Li Xiang drove Zhang Ling to the destination.
He glanced at Zhang Ling who was sitting in the passenger seat and said, "Do you have anything to say to me?"
Li Xiang carefully noticed that Zhang Ling hesitated to speak many times.
"You can see it!" She was a little surprised, but she didn't panic because of it and admitted it calmly.
Perhaps it would be more natural to approach the topic like this.
Li Xiang stopped the car steadily by the side of the road, looked at her with expectation and sincerity in his eyes and said, "You can speak up if you have something to do. As long as it concerns you, I will do my best."
He thought that his charisma was so strong that Zhang Ling took the initiative to confess her love. So, he suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and waited...
Maybe she was in a small and confined space, and a man's breath hit her nostrils, making her feel dizzy for a moment. The man she saw in front of her was not Li Xiang, but her most trusted father.
For a moment, she didn't know how to speak?
Li Xiang saw that Zhang Ling's words were on her lips, but she still didn't say them out. He was sitting in the driver's seat looking straight ahead and said:
"It seems that you don't trust me enough, so you haven't thought about speaking up yet. Well, I won't force you. I'll wait until you want to say it."
He felt a little sad, thinking about what he had not done enough? Perhaps the purpose was too obvious, which made Zhang Ling instantly wary again.
After all, a woman like her, who has been in the workplace for many years, is probably already well aware of men's little thoughts.
Zhang Ling heard the roar of the car again, and a force forced her to speak: "Wait a minute, I'll say it."
"I'm listening." Li Xiang pulled the handbrake again, his tone calm and without any waves.
She lowered her head slightly, not daring to look directly. She bit her lower lip lightly with her white teeth, and licked a strand of green hair behind her ear with her jade fingers. At the same time, she slowly raised her head again and said with a somewhat embarrassed smile:
"I, I have a class reunion in two days, and they require me to bring my companions with me. You know that kind of gathering..."
After a slight pause, Li Xiang nodded in response. She smiled slightly, seeming to have seen the hope of acceptance and continued:
"So I would like to ask you to pretend to be my boyfriend for a day?"
After saying that, her eyes were filled with anticipation when she saw Li Xiang's face darken and he fell into deep thought.
Did he want to just pretend to be a boyfriend for a day? It seems that he overestimated his charm and appearance. It was not a confession or anything. This was far worse than expected.
Then I thought about it, when a woman like Zhang Ling met for the first time on a blind date, she used a repulsive attitude that almost made him unable to get off the stage.
Now being able to allow him to stand by her side and do something as important as pretending to be her boyfriend was obviously a huge change for her. Or it could also be said to be a huge opportunity for him.
His meditative face suddenly revealed a smile. He looked up and saw Zhang Ling's expectant smile disappearing. She had already lowered her head sadly. She made a disappointed voice and said:
"I know this matter is unfair to you and a bit too absurd. If you are in trouble, I won't blame you. Just treat it like I just..."