The sound of water in the bathroom stopped suddenly. After two seconds of silence, the person inside shouted: "An Ran, you called me?"
The voice was very familiar. Jian Anran opened the quilt and saw that she was fully clothed. The only difference was that the white T-shirt on her body was wrinkled.
As if he didn't wait for her response, the bathroom door opened suddenly, and the person inside poked his head out.
The other party looked into the room and asked, "Are you calling me? I was taking a shower just now, and the water was so loud that I couldn't hear anything clearly."
It was Ning Beibei's voice, "Huh-", Jian Anran rubbed her chest, breathed a sigh of relief and leaned on the bedside.
The lingering energy of alcohol was still there, and Jian Anran couldn't remember what happened last night after recalling it for a long time.
"Why are you dazed?"
When she came back to her senses, Ning Beibei was wiping her hair and walking out of the bathroom.
"How did we get here?" Jian Anran asked anxiously, "One night here is not cheap."
She knew the price of this hotel very well. The last accident with Wen Siheng happened in this hotel.
Afterwards, in order to express her open-mindedness and the appearance that she didn't care about the matter at all, Jian Anran checked the hotel room price and paid Wen Siheng the other half of the room price. The result was obvious -
The transfer was returned 24 hours later, and the other party didn't receive a dime.
"Of course it was Chu Chen who opened it. You were all broken at that time." Ning Beibei said.
"Chu Chen?" She vaguely seemed to have heard of this name, but Jian Anran's mind went blank and she couldn't remember this person.
"It's the one who squeezed you down. How come you forgot about it from now on?" Ning Beibei disapprovingly hung the towel on the chair.
"Shen Huainan's wealthy cousin."
Jian Anran said "Oh——" and then vaguely remembered.
"Yesterday after you drank the wine, he made a phone call and booked a room with a wave of his hand. The family's driver even came to see us off." Ning Beibei helped Jian Anran remember step by step.
After taking turns to take a shower, they were packing their things and preparing to check out before twelve o'clock.
Jian Anran was sitting by the bed, worrying about how to return the money to Chu Chen. Should she transfer it directly to Shen Huainan and ask him to forward it? Or should she ask Shen Huainan for Chu Chen's contact information?
As if seeing her little thoughts, Ning Beibei ran a few steps, jumped onto the bed, lay on the pillow and looked at Jian Anran's frown.
"Seriously, why do you always want to pay others back?"
"Huh?" Jian Anran didn't realize what Ning Beibei was talking about.
"The same goes for Chu Chen. To him, this room rate is less than half the price of the champagne he opened last night. He may not even remember this small amount of money."
"But after all, Chu Chen and we don't know each other..."
Before Jian Anran could finish speaking, Ning Beibei immediately stretched out her index finger and made a "shh" gesture on her lips.
"Putting aside these things, the same thing happened with your relationship with Professor Wen before. Whatever he gave you, you always wanted to give him something in return."
"Every transaction is calculated very clearly, not to mention that you have received the certificate, so he should pay something."
"But you know, we are not real either..."
Ning Beibei interrupted again: "I have been with you for so many years, and I have a certain understanding of your style of doing things."
"You can't always owe others anything with peace of mind, not only financially, but also emotionally."
"Those weird ex-boyfriends you had before, it wasn't always after the other party launched a fierce offensive that you somehow just went along with them and ended up with them."
"When I looked back, I realized that I had no feelings for them at all. In the end, I could only immerse myself in painful emotions alone."
…
There was a long silence in the room, and Jian Anran reflected on her past. It was indeed what Ning Beibei said.
She has always been stuck in the "AA system", which does not mean eating and spending money with her classmates, but she has always been like this in relationships.
You don't want to owe others anything, and deep down in your heart you are afraid that others will be dissatisfied with you.
I heard the central air conditioner in the room whirring for a long time. Jian Anran and Ning Beibei just sat on the bed in silence.
It wasn't until Jian Anran seemed to remember something that she suddenly said: "Let's go back to the dormitory first. I have to go to the department in the afternoon."
"Come here, the revolving restaurant in H Hotel is so famous, we have to go there once and spend a lot of money?" Ning Beibei suggested.
Before she could refuse, Ning Beibei took Jian Anran's bag and walked out of the room.
After checking out in the lobby on the first floor, they immediately pressed the elevator to go up.
Although she had only been here once or twice, with her strong understanding of space as an architecture student, Jian Anran was not a stranger on the way to the restaurant.
During lunch time on weekdays, there were not too many people in the restaurant. The waiter in a tuxedo led them straight to the window seats that originally required reservation in advance.
Looking down at Luojiang City from a high altitude, you will never get tired of seeing this kind of scenery.
Not sure if it was because of her competitiveness, Jian Anran suppressed the throbbing in her heart and only occasionally glanced at the window.
Ning Beibei just put her face on the window, sighing "wow" at the scenery.
"I guess I understand what it means to see the mountains at a glance." Ning Beibei took a sip of the lemonade that the waiter had just poured.
"I now understand why those rich people are so arrogant." Ning Beibei said proudly with her chin raised, as if she had understood the truth of the world.
"Looking at this kind of scenery every day, with the whole city under my feet, I would be so proud that I would float."
"Don't forget." Jian Anran whispered, while she glanced at the well-dressed people around her with her peripheral vision.
"We are a limited-time trial card. After this bleeding, we will return to the prototype immediately after returning."
"You don't understand our romantic idea of 'life must be full of joy' at first glance. Go back to your realism." Ning Beibei rolled her eyes.
Unlike ordinary restaurants where all the dishes are served at one time, the dishes in this restaurant are served one by one.
From appetizers before meals, to soups, side dishes, main dishes, desserts, etc., the next dish will not be served until this dish is finished.
In a full sense of ceremony, Jian Anran and Ning Beibei finally finished all the dishes they ordered until dessert.
Just as they were packing up their things and getting ready to get up after enjoying their meal, the waiter came over with two more cups of coffee.
"Didn't we order this?" Ning Beibei asked doubtfully.
"Hello madam, this is the Blue Mountain coffee sent by the gentleman at the table over there. Please use it with caution."
