“My purpose for coming here is simple. I think you owe me an apology.”

After hearing what I said, the people around me seemed to understand what I meant, and the way they looked at me changed. After hearing what I said, the foreign students hesitated for a while…it seemed like they were a little embarrassed to do so.

But maybe it was because I had just given them too much of a shock, or maybe it was because they were a little embarrassed at the moment because of what I was doing. After much hesitation, they finally pushed out the culprit of everything, Carl.

They didn’t look like good brothers who would walk together for the rest of their lives. Instead, they felt like they were all running away when disaster struck. One after another, they distanced themselves from him, and someone even revealed that he was the one who said “easy girl” just now.

After hearing their words, the people around them suddenly showed some anger, and some of the spectators nearby even started recording. Seeing this, Carl’s face suddenly became ugly, so he slowly asked me:

“Who? Your girlfriend?”

“Ah.”

After hearing his words, I nodded subconsciously, but then I felt Liu Tongtong standing in front of me tremble all over, which made me confused.

Then I suddenly realized an important question——

Girl means girl, and Friend means friend. Putting these two together doesn’t seem to mean female friend, but… girlfriend?!

I rely on! ! !

Chapter 265 Dusty Memories

Although I also have fantasies, for example, Liu Tongtong cannot distinguish between the English of girlfriend and female friend, but after thinking about the fact that she has already passed the CET-4 and CET-6, I put this unrealistic fantasy behind me.

At this moment, I just felt like I was struck by lightning. I never expected that the car would overturn in this place. Of course, if it were someone else, this might not be called a rollover, but a God-given assist.

Especially after this little girl heard the conversation between me and Carl, her body trembled slightly. She seemed just a little surprised and had no intention of refutation at all.

If it were someone else, they would be overjoyed at this moment, but this matter is a bit…awkward. My interpersonal relationships have already become very complicated because of various things.

Isn’t this just adding fuel to the fire? What bothers me most is that I poured the fuel on myself.

Just when I didn’t know what to say for a moment, Carl, who was standing in front of me, mistakenly thought that I was waiting for him to express his opinion, so he gritted his teeth and obediently thanked Liu Tongtong.

This left me with no chance to interrupt and explain. I couldn’t just say…you’re wrong, can you please say it again?

As if he felt very embarrassed, Carl was about to leave with the others, but was stopped by the food stall owner and her people. It was simple… they hadn’t paid yet.

Carl looked at the broken beer bottle on the ground, his face turned purple with anger. He was about to say something, but after looking at me, he swallowed his saliva, as if he was forcing himself to swallow what he wanted to say.

I swear to God, I just broke the bottle of beer I brought with me, and the rest of the beer was knocked over by him. I didn’t do anything the whole time…

What’s more, he was the one who slammed the table first, not me…If we really want to settle the score, it can’t be pinned on me.

Seeing this, I didn’t want to stay here any longer, so I took Liu Tongtong and slowly walked out of the barbecue stall. The waiters and the bosses around there breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that there was no fight, and they all dispersed to do what they were doing.

Most of the onlookers left after the fun ended, and only a few stayed to laugh at the joke of Carl and the others.

“By the way…how did you get here?”

“Huh, looking at your expression, I know what you want to do.”

After hearing what I said, Liu Tongtong couldn’t help but put her hands on her waist and cast a faint glance towards me. That look made me feel a little embarrassed.

Especially after the misunderstanding just now, the atmosphere between us felt a little weird. Even though Liu Tongtong didn’t solve the problem, I still felt a little uncomfortable.

It seemed that we were no different from before, but the only exception was that the loneliness in Liu Tongtong’s eyes was gone, replaced by a hint of joy.

What is loneliness and what is secret joy? Perhaps only she herself knows this idea.

Even though I can’t read minds, I can more or less guess what’s going on. I’m afraid this little girl is secretly happy because I stood her up.

“Wait a minute, I was running too fast just now, and my hairband is a little loose.”

After hearing what Liu Tongtong said, I couldn’t help but stop and turn to look at her. Her head, which was originally tied with a headband, was a little loose. She slowly pulled down her headband, and her brown hair swayed in the night breeze.

Seeing me standing there blankly with the bag in my hand, the little girl couldn’t help but narrow her eyes slightly and said to me slowly and angrily:

“Bro!”

“Huh? What’s wrong?”

“Alas… when girls tie their hair, they don’t have any free hands. Help me get the hair tie.”

After hearing her words, I couldn’t help but sigh that I was almost becoming her tool, helping her carry bags and holding her hairbands. I sighed slightly, then moved the paper bag in my hand to the other hand and slowly stretched out my hand.

But the moment I stretched out my hand, I suddenly realized that when girls tie their hair, they need my help to hold the headband. Aren’t they usually put it on their wrists?

While I was puzzled, Liu Tongtong couldn’t help but reveal a sly smile, then she stretched out her hand, spread her fingers, pulled her hairband open, and then let go…the hairband in her hand was put on my wrist.

I was stunned when I saw this scene, then I looked up at Liu Tongtong, but I didn’t expect that after this little girl finished playing a trick on me, she turned her head to the side and pretended not to see that I was looking at her.

This little girl…

I was about to say something when I saw this, but just as I was about to open my mouth… looking at Liu Tongtong’s profile with her hair tied up, I was stunned for no reason, and that inexplicable sense of familiarity and déjà vu arose in my heart again.

The night breeze blew away the smell of alcohol on my body. The interweaving of light and shadow, and the vague feeling of blur, pried open the gate of my memory a little.

That was when I had just arrived at school as a freshman. After being freed from the complicated academic workload in high school, I felt that in this new environment of university, I could have a passionate love affair that only existed in novels.

In fact, my experience can indeed be described as what should be described in a novel, with a good beginning, ups and downs, and a very tragic ending.

After the breakup, I didn’t become depressed, but I became more cautious about relationships, and even lost some interest. I felt that so-called love was just like that, especially…it seemed even more fragile when faced with reality.

Fatty and the others never advised me to get back together, and I never looked for my so-called ex-girlfriend again. In fact…the university is so big, and we are not in the same college. As long as we don’t want to see each other, we basically won’t see each other again.

So in order to help me relax, Fatty and his friends often forced me to go out for dinner. I was already in a very bad mood, and when I heard the noise around me during the meal, I had a fight with the foreign students who were causing trouble.

To be honest, I didn’t have any other thoughts at the time. I simply thought it was very noisy. Plus, I was already very annoyed, and the other party provoked me first, so I just started fighting with them.

After the fight, I found out that the group of foreign students had forced a girl from our school to drink, and she was unhappy about it, so they made such a scene. As a result, I, who was originally taking out my anger on them, inexplicably became the hero who saved the damsel in distress.

“Can I add your WeChat account?”

Maybe it was because I felt guilty? Or maybe it was because everything happened too suddenly, and it even felt like it was planned in advance, which made me feel a little confused.

Having already gone through the same experience once, I didn’t want to go through such a dreamy start again, so I refused.

“Then what’s your name?”

“Me? My name is Lin Ran.”

The girl in my memory is very vague. I can no longer remember her appearance. I only remember the white woolen sweater, blue jeans, and…

The brown hair fluttering in the wind.

Uh-huh?!

Chapter 266 Brown Hair

Brown hair?!

At this moment, my train of thought was quietly disconnected, as if I was hit hard on the head with a hammer, but the beautiful picture under the torrent of memory was deeply imprinted in my mind.

I just felt my heart tremble, and I couldn’t even suppress my inner excitement and surprise, so much so that I even forgot to control the expression on my face.

“what happened?”

It seemed that my expression changed too suddenly, or maybe because she didn’t wait for my counterattack against her “prank”, Liu Tongtong stopped what she was doing when she was halfway through tying her hair and turned to look at me.

“Huh? Uh… nothing.”

After hearing what she said, I didn’t open my mouth to ask anything in the end. It wasn’t because I was afraid of recognizing the wrong person and being laughed at by this girl.

On the contrary, what I’m afraid of is that if this girl is really the same girl in my memory, really… the same person, how should I face all this?

What confuses me even more is that if all this is true, then why did this girl approach me and even have a relationship with me that is like a friend but not a friend?

Is it a repayment out of guilt, or does it have nothing to do with that?

“Well……”

As if noticing my unusual change, Liu Tongtong slowly loosened her hands that were tied up in her hair, then took a few steps back and stood where the light and shadow of the street lights intersected, half bathed in the light and half immersed in darkness.

“Bro.”

“Ok?”

“Am I pretty?”

When I heard her talk about such an irrelevant topic, I was a little confused and even thought I was hallucinating.

I saw her slowly turning her head to look at the street lamp beside her, then she turned her head towards me with a slight smile, and then turned around on the spot, letting her loose brown hair flutter in the air.

Looking at the familiar hair flickering in the light and darkness, I was stunned for a moment, but this brief moment of trance was still captured by the girl.

“Come back to your senses, little brother, you are not…fascinated by me, are you?”

“Uh……”

I was caught off guard by this sudden prank from this little girl. I couldn’t react at first and couldn’t help thinking about how to deal with it so that I wouldn’t be led by her by the nose.

But unlike before, when she would quietly give me time to think and watch my reaction, this time the little girl didn’t give me any time at all and directly chased me and asked:

“No way? Brother, are you……”

“Ahem, nothing happened.”

“I haven’t asked anything yet.”

After hearing her words, I immediately realized that I was so hasty to deny it, which was simply a case of covering up the truth. However, facing the girl’s relentless pressure, I really didn’t have much time to think.

“So bro… was I better looking before?”

“certainly……”

After I heard what the girl said, I nodded to her without thinking because I was still thinking about how to deal with the situation. However, I stopped talking halfway through my words.

Because the girl just said “before”, which immediately reminded me of that evening of that year, but she didn’t seem too moved when she heard my affirmative answer.

On the contrary, when I stopped talking, she showed a look of understanding and a slight smile on her lips.

“Brother, you still remember it, don’t you?”

“…”

Sometimes it is much easier to deal with smart people than with stupid people. There is a saying… “too clever is too clever”, and there is also a saying… “too clever is half the trick”.

The “before” she mentioned could be yesterday, the day before yesterday, or even a long, long time ago. However, the person who understood this “before” was not her who asked the question, but me who was answering the question.

If I continued with what I just said, I could still play dumb, but the moment I stopped talking, it meant that I already had concerns and knew the truth in my heart.

Thinking of this, I suddenly smiled bitterly, and sighed that if I were a little more stupid sometimes, I might not have so many troubles.

This little girl is really smart, but this is also…

After all, I couldn’t hide many things from her. It’s like dealing with smart people. What matters is not the words, but the actual actions.

A thousand words cannot compare to one action.

At this moment, I don’t know how to start talking, let alone how to face it, because from the beginning of our relationship to our meeting, from our encounter to our acquaintance, everything I thought I had done has been overturned.

It’s like when you read a math problem wrong. Once the starting number changes, the process and results will also change accordingly. A slight mistake can lead to a huge difference.

“I……”

Just when I wanted to say something, Liu Tongtong couldn’t help but give me a faint smile, then stretched out her index finger, put it in front of her lips, and made a gesture of silence.

Seeing her like this, I was slightly stunned, but I soon understood what she meant. Either she was not prepared, or she felt that I had not calmed down and organized my words.

Of course…it could also be——

……

“Well, even if I ask, you will evade the question, right?”

“…”

“Compared to asking, I think observing by myself is also a good choice.”

……

I don’t know why, but the words we just talked about at the barbecue stall were echoing in my mind. All the conversations that had been laughed off before, suddenly took on new meanings and significance the moment the mystery was revealed.

It’s like starting a new round of the game after knowing the ending. All the conversations between the characters have a new flavor.

At this moment, our eyes met each other. That beautiful face was obviously very familiar, but at this moment it felt very strange.

My mind told me that it was because I had been staring at her for too long and my cognition was saturated, just like when you look at a word for too long, you no longer recognize it. But my sensibility told me that it was because I had never really looked at her.