Chapter 17 Chapter 17
Saturday is the day when Gao Yan holds her birthday party.
Mu Xiangxiang got up early for this. When she woke up, she was rarely sitting on the bed in a daze. She weighed the facts between memorizing words and picking clothes. She chose the latter without hesitation.
I struggled to find a suit that was hung in the corner of the cloakroom with a dust bag, which seemed to be rarely visited by my master. After Mu Xiangxiang put it on, he also checked the gift that Qiao Nan gave her before. The moment he stood up, he felt nervous in his heart. To be honest, it may be a little stronger than when he found out that he had exchanged his body with Qiao Nan.
This is something she is invited to participate in group events very, very rarely.
When she was a child, she was homeless and was unable to maintain normal social interactions with her parents because she often changed schools. After growing up, she learned about her parents' difficulties and shifted her focus to her family. Over time, she seemed to have lost her normal ability to make friends. Then she went to a place like Yingcheng, where she was difficult to understand the daily topics of her classmates around her, and the word friendship became more and more distant.
She thought that those students from wealthy families who were always very silent when facing her might not want to know her poor students who were out of place.
For example, Gao Yan, the two of them have been in the same class for more than a year, but they hardly spoke. Mu Xiangxiu didn't know why the other party invited her to pretend to be Qiao Nan's Neiri this time, but she was still very happy.
This happy mood finally remained until the door was opened and went downstairs.
In the living room on the first floor of the Qiao family, two male owners, one old and one young, were already sitting on the sofa, holding a newspaper and reading it carefully, but the eyes behind the newspaper swept over one after another.
Among them, Qiao Rui is the sharpest, and her already serious expression is more important than the previous few days. Mu Xiangyan even analyzed the accusation from it, and she reflected on herself—
Oh, the door was locked yesterday.
Damn it, someone sneaked into the room in the middle of the night for three consecutive days and pulled his hair. If you don’t lock the door, you are mentally retarded! Brother, are you serious about your accusation?
Mu Xiangyao was powerless to complain, which was different from the first day. In the next two days, when Qiao Rui came to make trouble, she fell asleep. The other party ran away very quickly every time without leaving any trace. If she hadn't been pretending to be asleep on the first day, she was awakened by the sting of her scalp and faced the empty room, Mu Xiangyao might really think it was just an illusion.
Therefore, she became more and more curious about why Qiao Nan's brother could pretend to be nothing in front of his younger brother after doing such a childish thing?
She really couldn't be in awe of that cold face now, as for the other person...
Her eyes turned away from Qiao Rui and fell on the middle-aged man wearing a thick wool inner and outer coat.
Well, his face was rosy and he seemed to be energetic.
The prerequisite is that the whole house of Qiao's family is heated and the room temperature is kept at 21 degrees throughout the day.
Mu Xiangyao sighed and gave up on the stalemate with them: "What do you want to eat in the morning?"
"Porridge!"
In a unanimous answer, she rolled up her sleeves and walked towards the kitchen, while at the same time she was puzzled from the bottom of her heart.
It was just the first day she encountered them as they were embarrassed not to invite them to eat together.
But why did these people start to wait for her to make breakfast every day since that day?
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After meeting Qiao Nan, Mu Xiang thought about it and asked in a complicated mood: "Do you want to buy something for your brother?"
Qiao Nan moved away his eyes staring at the screen and fell on her like a mentally retarded for a few seconds: "...Are you crazy?"
Mu Xiangxiang looked at him for a moment and silently changed the topic: "...I think you should go back and change your clothes."
Today, Qiao Nan wore a dark black pullover with light-colored casual pants, with a gray cardigan and a black down jacket on his head, and flat leather boots on his feet. They are all equipment he bought himself. The combination is a cool and trendy neutral effect. It looks good, but it is too casual.
Mu Xiang thought that he had never attended a "party" and always felt that he should be more cautious.
Qiao Nan is an old man in the circle. Not only can he count the big occasions he has lived to this age, but he can't count them even if he has attended them. A birthday party of his peers is a P. He is not afraid of him: "What kind of clothes to change? I've given her face without flip-flops. But you are so nervous that you dress like this."
He sat there casually with his legs spread apart, his eyes wandering on Mu Yaoyao with dissatisfaction. He had not been dressed so coquettishly at the birthday party himself, but at this moment, Mu Yaoyao was almost blinded by him.
He also respects his cynical character of Brother Nan.
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City A, Xiaomingshan, Waihai Villa.
This is a resort built on the top of a mountain. It is very remote, but because of its beautiful scenery and high fees, it still has a great reputation.
Rich people in several cities around like to relax when they have nothing to do, but today, after nightfall, the grand occasion of the past continues. In addition to Gao Yan’s birthday party, a group of racing enthusiasts gathered in the city in several villas.
The aroma of food fills the lobby of the holiday villa, and the birthday star Gao Yan can greet friends easily. City A is not big, and there are only a few people in the circle of the second generation. Everyone is classmates or has friendships since their parents' generation, and each one is familiar with them.
The scene was quite lively, and under the hustle and bustle, there was an undercurrent surging.
Yingcheng girls leaned against the table in groups and chatted. If you look carefully, you can see that they are all dressed in particular exquisitely today.
He glanced around but couldn't see the object he wanted to see. Someone was disappointed: "Didn't Gao Yan say that Brother Nan promised to come? Why haven't he arrived yet?"
"It's not that I'm not here to have something to do! No, I haven't seen him for almost a year, and I finally had a chance..."
"Ahhh Gao Yan just said that she had called and asked, she was already on the way!"
Listening to the discussion in his ears, Fang Lingli was dazed for a moment, and her memory seemed to return to the day before the first semester of high school, which seemed to be no different from now.
She entered Yingcheng from junior high school and went straight to high school. Like her friends around her, she witnessed the days when "Brother Nan" was in Yingcheng. Now that the other party has transferred to school for nearly a year, she closed her eyes and could still clearly see the scene of the other party shooting in the venue.
It is really hard to imagine the shock of hormones coming towards them without seeing them with your own eyes.
This is by no means a level that a simple handsome face or agile posture can reach. There are almost no girls in Yingcheng who are not attracted by it, and Fang Lingli is of course no exception.
Or rather than falling in love, it is more like a kind of worship. As long as this person appears in his eyes, everything else will be dull.
It was not until the other party transferred to school that she turned to the same handsome Jiang Hai.
But to this day, "Brother Nan"'s transfer to school is still a scar that cannot be removed in the hearts of Yingcheng girls.
It is undoubtedly a happy thing to see the other party tonight, but Fang Lingli seemed a little absent-minded. Her eyes wandered in the villa, and suddenly she heard the voice of her friend Mixiang coming to her ear: "Who are you looking for? Jiang Hai?"
Fang Lingli was stunned for a moment and nodded vaguely.
"Jiang Hai has been training with the school basketball team recently, and probably didn't arrive so early. In the past few years, it was all up to Brother Nan to output. Brother Nan was not here this year. They must be under great pressure. I heard that in order to practice football, he even pushed the physics competition at the end of the month." Mixiang Si said, and hugged her shoulders, "You are more decent, you can see it in the school basketball hall every day. Haven't you seen it enough yet?"
Fang Lingli was so angry that she suddenly remembered that she hadn't gone to the basketball hall to see Jiang Hai for several days, and she didn't know how to explain.
Mixiang suddenly changed the topic: "By the way, I heard that Gao Yan invited everyone in their class, the poor and elegant student you said before, who was pestering Jiang Hai."
The sharp-looking girl's face suddenly jumped into her mind, and Fang Lingli nodded subconsciously.
Mixiang rolled her eyes and recalled the girl who went on stage to receive the full scholarship at the end of last year. She looked like she didn't remember it clearly, leaving only a figure with long-haired glasses and unable to see her face. She slowly sipped the sparkling wine in the glass, feeling unhappy: "Everyone is invited here, Gao Yan really has no style..."
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden noise in the direction of the villa gate.
Mixiang turned her head and immediately saw the face that she could not forget even if she turned into ashes. She was so shocked that she trembled all over: "Brother Nan!"
But at the same time, his eyes couldn't help but fall on another figure that came in together.
Snow-skinned, short hair, delicate eyebrows and eyes, and a girl is followed by Qiao Nan.
The next second, perhaps because her eyes were too sharp, the girl turned her head in a sense, raised her brows slightly when she met her gaze, and her smile suddenly became evil, with indescribable aggressiveness.
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Qiao Nan narrowed his eyes and swept over the group of small animals pretending to be deep in the room. Unexpectedly, he met a few bad gazes. He made the owners with the eyes blush without much effort. At this moment, all the images of them screaming wildly for themselves in the basketball hall. He glanced at the side, thinking that only Mu Xiang thought that such a fool would feel nervous because of them.
Mu Xiang thought out of anxiety, today she packed herself up very carefully. Not only did she wear Qiao Nan's suit, but she also made a hairstyle. Before going out, she even found a pair of flat glasses to put on the bridge of her nose.
After wearing glasses for many years, the weight on the bridge of her nose can give her a sense of security.
But the decorative glasses in Qiao Nan's cloakroom are definitely different from those she has worn for a long time. The delicate silver-framed glasses on her face not only did not cover her facial features like black-framed glasses, but instead made her gaze look deeper and sharper.
This made Gao Yan stunned for a long time before picking up the courage to come forward and say hello.
But what surprised her even more was another person.
The girl wearing casually short-haired girl did not avoid her eyes when she saw her eyes turn, but just stood there with her hands in her pocket with her hands, stretched out one arm, hung a paper bag that was shaking back and forth with her index finger, tilted her head and curled her lips and smiled: "Happy birthday~"
The ending sound had a bit of teasing, as frivolous as the curly hair that had fallen on her forehead.
Chapter completed!