Chapter 179: Shen Li

The cold arc of the glass pressed against her palm, and Shen Li's fingertips tightened suddenly, her knuckles turning slightly white.

The soft background music of the coffee shop and the figures coming and going outside the window were all separated by a layer of fog in an instant, blurring into irrelevant phantoms.

In her ears, over and over again, only Zhang Zixin's light sentence remained, piercing through her entire heart.

Six years ago, he had a car accident.

It was all because of a phone call she had personally cut off; that breakup sentence, cold and leaving no room for maneuver, was while he was rushing to her.

It was she who harmed him.

She hadn't moved for too long, and no great emotion could be seen on her face; it was still that cold and indifferent look of her usual days.

But the calmness in the depths of her eyes had long been severely chiseled with a crack.

After a long time, Shen Li found her voice again, as light as a falling leaf, and asked a sentence: "So... did he lose his memory because of the car accident, which is why he forgot me?"

Zhang Zixin tilted her head, looking at her appearance, curled her lips and laughed inexplicably, saying: "I thought you would cry in front of me and shed tears when you heard this news."

Unexpectedly, not only did she not shed tears,

Instead, she focused on whether Xie Qin had forgotten her.

A bit funny.

Shen Li pursed her lips tightly, her chest feeling a bit panicked.

Zhang Zixin took a deep breath and continued helplessly: "Yesterday in the private room, he was just pretending."

"Don't talk about him, even I don't really want to pay attention to you."

"Even if Xie Qin didn't lose his memory, the cliff-like breakup you gave him these six years, no one could stand you cheating like this."

So...

He was deliberately pretending not to know her.

Why...

Is it because of the girlfriend he is dating?

That's why he wanted to deliberately keep his distance from her.

Didn't want his girlfriend to misunderstand.

Shen Li moved her lips and explained: "I... have contacted him."

Just seven days after she went abroad.

"It was him..."

Just as she was about to say, Zhang Zixin hurriedly shouted, "Stop."

Shen Li's words were stopped abruptly, and she quieted down to look at her.

Zhang Zixin sighed, "If you have any hidden bitterness, go and explain it to him clearly right now. I don't want to be the first to know about these things of yours."

"Among the few of us back then, Qiao Lang was the first to discover that your grades were good. He also kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything even if he knew. It wasn't until after the winter break and the start of the semester that your math competition results were exposed, and you finally confessed to us. Xie Qin wasn't present at the time."

"To this day, we still don't dare to tell Xie Qin about this."

Qiao Lang's ability to live peacefully for six years was all thanks to the few of them.

Shen Li lowered her eyes, her heart also falling into disappointment. After a moment of silence, she shook her head: "Better... not."

"So many years have passed."

He probably doesn't want to see her.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have pretended not to know her when they met last night.

"He has a new girlfriend, and he should be living a very good life now. I don't want to disturb his stable life now."

"Who told you he has a girlfriend? He's single and doing just fine."

If Xie Qin really had a new relationship, she wouldn't have asked Shen Li out at all to tell her these things.

"You didn't notice?"

Shen Li was slow and asked her uncomprehendingly: "Notice what?"

Zhang Zixin rolled her eyes and almost cursed, but held back for the sake of quality and said: "She is Zhao Zhouyuan!"

Yesterday in the private room, her attention was all on Xie Qin, and she didn't pay much attention to his girlfriend.

At that moment, Shen Li really didn't see that it was her; she probably didn't look carefully enough, so she didn't recognize her.

After a while, she slowly spat out a sentence: "She has changed... quite a bit. I didn't pay much attention to her at that time."

"Oh, it's normal that you didn't recognize her."

After finishing, Zhang Zixin added: "She had plastic surgery!"

Shen Li opened her mouth and froze.

So that was it.

No wonder.

Facing this news,

Shen Li's mind was a bit unclear for a moment, and she didn't know how to answer. Finally, she just said politely and faintly: "That's... quite beautiful."

Seeing her like this, Zhang Zixin curled her lips and smiled, "You really haven't changed at all from before."

Shen Li asked her in a gentle and hesitant voice: "Can you tell me... what has happened over these years?"

Zhang Zixin spoke in riddles: "Want to know?"

Shen Li nodded: "Mm."

Zhang Zixin eased the atmosphere between the two: "You pay for this meal, and I'll tell you."

Shen Li: "Okay."

Later, Zhang Zixin told her what happened during the six years she was abroad.

After Xie Qin was hospitalized and recovered from the car accident, he didn't return to Di Du, but stayed in Wuchuan to repeat a year, and finally got into the Computer Science Department of Jiangchuan University.

He didn't get in the first year, only scoring 557 points, more than a hundred points away from the admission line.

Finally, in the second year, he chose to retake the exam.

He achieved a very good score, 690 points.

Exceeding the admission line by more than twenty points.

Xu Zhouyuan, Zhou Mingyu, and Qiao Lang all dropped out and accompanied him to repeat the year.

The head teacher of Class 1 of the Fourth High School, who had taught them before, had finally hoped for them to graduate from high school.

Who knew that these troublemakers would come back and be assigned to her class, almost making her vomit blood, and she had a headache for a long time.

Fortunately, they were promising in the end, and each of them achieved excellent results.

They didn't let her down.

It could be considered a relief.

However, they didn't apply for the same major.

Because the three of them knew their own limits, they appropriately lowered their requirements and took a major with a lower score line.

Zhang Zixin didn't repeat the year, but got into the internet early, created her own account, and shared her daily clothing matching on the platform.

Now she is also a blogger with ten million followers.

She opened a factory and has her own production line.

Xie Qin and the others all have partnerships, and the benefits are quite good.

It's just that she didn't mention why Zhao Zhouyuan had plastic surgery and was able to stay by Xie Qin's side.

She liked Xie Qin longer than she did.

She had known Xie Qin longer than she had.

She felt inexplicably concerned about this matter and couldn't help but think too much.

She wanted to ask, but didn't know in what capacity to ask her about this.

She clearly remembered that Xie Qin didn't like studying at all.

Zhang Zixin had told her that Xie Qin smoked secretly behind her back because he had a headache from studying and wanted to relax.

Xie Qin didn't want to tell her, and Shen Li pretended not to know.

Actually, she wanted to say, it doesn't matter.

She wasn't that opposed to him smoking.

Studying was inherently a very boring and uninteresting thing.

Was it because of that phone call?

Was it because of that decisive sentence back then?

She said, "I don't like boys with poor grades at all."

…

Waiting for the waiter to serve the meal.

Zhang Zixin still had to control her figure, so she dealt with it casually: "Xie Qin and Zhang Shanfeng, Xu Zhouyuan and the others have opened a game studio together. It's near Jiangchuan University, not far from here. Shall I take you to see it?" ===== CHAPTER 180 =====