Chapter 198: Just in this area, the bones were shattered

Zhou Mingyu casually rested his arm on Qiao Lang's shoulder, scanning Xu Zhouyuan up and down, not taking his words seriously at all: "Yo yo yo, talking about marriage already. You haven't even started drinking, and you're already bragging here? Forget about marriage, why don't you get engaged first and show us brothers?"

Zhang Zixin rested her hand on the chair and turned her head to look at the people walking in the door, "Xu Zhouyuan! If you're going to brag, leave me out of it! Who wants to marry you! Did I agree to it!"

Xu Zhouyuan's expression changed instantly. He ran over to Zhang Zixin's side, brushing past Xie Qin, and hugged her body, "Honey, why are you tearing me down in front of everyone? You're not giving me any face in front of them."

"If you don't marry me, who are you going to marry?"

"Go away." Zhang Zixin pushed his face away with disgust, but she didn't agree or refuse his statement.

Xu Zhouyuan: "Hmph, I'm not going. I'm going to stick to you."

Zhang Zixin complained: "That's enough, isn't it disgusting? Do you think you're still an eighteen-year-old college student?"

Shen Li sat on the sofa, her gaze fixed on Xie Qin who was walking toward her.

Before long, Xie Qin sat down in the empty seat beside her, the faint scent of tobacco mixed with a cold aura on him creating a breeze with his movement.

Shen Li turned her head, her nose sensitively smelling the scent of smoke, and asked softly: "Did you smoke?"

Xie Qin paused, crossed his long legs, and replied nonchalantly: "Mm, smoked a few on the way."

At this time, Zhou Mingyu jumped out and immediately reported him: "I report that it was more than a few! At least half a pack."

"Tsk." Xie Qin looked over with an unhappy expression, "Did I tell you to speak?"

Shen Li smiled faintly: "It doesn't matter, you can quit slowly."

Seeing her empty hand, Xie Qin took it and placed it on her lap.

Qiao Lang sat alone on the other side, just happening to be next to Shen Li.

Shen Li's gaze met that gentle look, and they didn't greet each other out loud, just nodded.

Zhou Mingyu spoke up: "Don't just sit there, see what you want to order."

Several people scanned the QR code on the table and ordered what they wanted to drink.

Zhang Zixin spoke up at this time: "None of you mainstays are working overtime. Who's holding down the studio? Aren't you afraid of problems?"

Zhou Mingyu stood up, took a bottle of beer from the table, bit the cap off, leaned back lazily, crossed his legs, and took a drink from the bottle, saying: "Who else could it be. It must be Zhang Shanfeng; he's the big boss, and we're just working for him. If he doesn't hold it down, who will?"

Shen Li asked curiously: "Don't you guys have shares?"

Several gazes looked toward Shen Li, and the atmosphere was quiet for about two or three seconds.

Perhaps it was because everyone wasn't used to it yet, and Shen Li's appearance always made people feel a bit strange.

At this time, Xu Zhouyuan explained, speaking in a casual tone: "Just invested some money, went there to find a job to do. It's been okay these past two days, nothing much to do, just sitting in the office drinking tea and chatting, sitting for a whole afternoon, it's quite boring."

So...

It was spending money to find a job for themselves.

Alright.

Shen Li still couldn't quite keep up with the thinking of rich people.

She nodded slowly.

At this time, Zhou Mingyu suddenly thought of something, sat up straight, and asked Shen Li: "I heard from Xie Qin that you've been studying medicine abroad all these years? What field are you studying?"

"Can you take a look for me?"

This was said without treating himself as an outsider at all.

Xie Qin was unhappy, frowning slightly: "Tsk, if you're sick, go to the hospital yourself. Why are you bothering my wife!"

This title immediately made Shen Li's face feel a bit hot, burning to the roots of her ears.

Zhou Mingyu explained: "It's not that! I really feel like I have a problem. A while ago, wasn't our game rushing the schedule? We pulled all-nighters for more than half a month, and I feel like I ruined myself during that time. My chest feels a bit tight, it's not comfortable."

Shen Li looked up at Zhou Mingyu, her tone gentle: "There are quite a few reasons for chest tightness and discomfort; staying up late, high pressure, and irregular heartbeats are all possible."

"You should still pay more attention to rest usually. If you're uncomfortable, it's best to go to the hospital for a check-up; your health is important."

Xie Qin, who was beside her, was unhappy. He reached out and gently pulled her waist toward him, warning her in a low voice: "That's enough, you're really taking care of him now."

Turning his head, he warned Zhou Mingyu: "If you're really sick, go to the emergency room somewhere else."

The things they ordered were brought up by the waiter, and Shen Li ate while watching them bicker.

One sentence after another, no one was willing to yield to the other.

Later, they chatted a bit more about game matters, as well as a few employees who were slacking off at work, who was late, and who was having an office romance.

Shen Li couldn't get a word in, so she just listened from the side.

Xie Qin occasionally chatted with them a bit.

About half an hour later, Xie Qin took a bottle of wine, tilted his head back, took a drink, his gaze falling on Shen Li beside him. His throat rolled up and down, he put down the wine bottle, turned his head, leaned in, and asked her softly: "Bored?"

Shen Li met his gaze and shook her head in response: "No."

Xie Qin: "Tell me if you want to go back."

"Okay."

In this short time, several people had really drunk quite a bit, and there were several empty wine bottles on the table.

Shen Li didn't actually feel bored.

She used to think that she was born not liking excitement and detested crowded occasions.

But now she realized that she didn't hate crowds; she just hadn't met someone who made her willing to melt into the fireworks of life.

The laughter and noise around her rose and fell, and the atmosphere was just right.

She sat quietly to the side, not speaking, and not deliberately blending in, yet she didn't feel alienated at all.

The so-called habit of being alone was just not having met someone who could illuminate her.

In the blink of an eye, they had been sitting for almost ten-thirty.

One by one, they were drunk.

Xie Qin went to the restroom.

As Xu Zhouyuan chatted, his emotions suddenly couldn't be held back. With red eyes, he gulped down a large mouthful of wine and brought up the past: "Shen Li, I'm not targeting you. We didn't treat you badly before, did we? You left just like that back then; you had too cruel a heart. You don't know how Xie Qin survived it. That car accident he was in, he was in a coma for more than half a year before waking up. At that time, the doctor said... if it had been any later, his hand would have been ruined."

Shen Li's heart tightened, her voice trembling: "His hand... what happened to it?"

Zhang Zixin immediately frowned and reached out to grab the wine from his hand: "Xu Zhouyuan, don't act drunk here, say less."

"No, honey, let me say it; if I don't say it, I won't feel right. If I don't say it, that dog Xie Qin definitely won't mention it at all." Men don't shed tears easily, but Xu Zhouyuan, who had lived for twenty-four or twenty-five years, shed manly tears in sorrow: "His hand was broken; just in this area, the bones were shattered."

He gestured toward his arm to Shen Li.

"It took three whole years of recovery to barely recover."

"Even like this, he was still thinking about holding a pen to study and take exams."

"Back then, I scolded him, saying, 'Damn it, why are you taking the exam, you can't even hold a pen steady.'"

"Why repeat the year!" ===== CHAPTER 199 =====