fall in love by chance

Knowing that Zhou Yan was coming, Liang Ruixi was so nervous that he ate the bread in two or three bites. He quickly dug out the mobile phone playlist and searched for suitable songs for Zhou Yan.

When Jiang Sheng came back after mixing the drinks, Liang Ruixi said to him without raising his head: "My classmate will come to our bar later, you give him a whole glass of your specialty, don't charge him!"

"Your classmate?" Jiang Sheng was stunned, "Oh, Zhou Yan, right? You can just say his name from now on, don't be old with this classmate or that classmate, who is not your classmate anymore."

As he talked, he looked up and down for something.

Liang Ruixi warned again: "He is probably not in a good mood. You heard last night that the girlfriend he has been talking about for many years is going to get married. Don't give him any 'broken love mood'. Bridge' kind, give it a little joy."

"The whole what? 'Not coming home tonight'?"

"...Come on, it's also blue, looking melancholy."

"When the time comes, give him the wine list and let him choose by himself. There are things on this list that I'm not good at."

"Alright," Liang Ruixi saw that the time was almost up, and was about to go on stage for business. When he stepped up, he thought of something, turned his head and said to Jiang Sheng, "Oh, yes, I just ate half of your bread."

Jiang Sheng: "???" Damn.

At [-]:[-] in the evening, Zhou Yan drove out from the underground garage of Shiyang Building and found that it was raining again outside.

The lingering rain was invisible and intangible, and it covered the windshield with water mist in just a short while. Zhou Yan adjusted the frequency of the wiper to the lowest level, turned on the navigation and drove towards the location sent by Liang Ruixi.

The bar was at the junction of Linshan Park and the Second Hospital of Lingzhou, and it was closer than when he returned from the hospital in the early morning. However, the city center was still a bit congested at this point, and it took him 10 minutes to arrive.

It was not easy to park nearby, so Zhou Yan walked around for another 10 minutes to find a commercial parking space, and then walked there. It was almost ten o'clock before he found the sign that said "Expect Possibilities".

The five slender characters with rounded corners glow warmly in the dark, separated by the rain curtain, like a cluster of fireworks that explode and are about to scatter.

This term, which only law students understand the deep meaning, appears in such a scene, which is quite romantic.

When Zhou Yan walked to the door, he heard a familiar melody, his heartstrings twitched slightly, and he touched the wooden door with the "open" sign with his wet hand, and pushed hard, like pushing open a prison that had been closed for many years.

And inside the prison, locked up were his emotions and thoughts that he hadn't dared to open for two years and 64 days.

"...Will you suddenly appear, in the coffee shop on the corner, I will smile and wave my hand..."

The singing first invaded his ears, Zhou Yan saw Liang Ruixi on the stage, and Liang Ruixi was also looking at him, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time, his expression was still anxious last second, now his brows were relaxed, and his smile was relaxed and bright.

Zhou Yan looked around, found an unremarkable empty seat and sat down, and soon Jiang Sheng came to receive him in person.

"Hey, why did you come here?" He leaned close to Zhou Yan and whispered, "Brother Rui said at eight o'clock that you were coming, and waited for you all night singing love songs."

"……Is it?"

Jiang Sheng glanced at the singing stage regretfully: "But he usually doesn't sing until ten o'clock at the latest, and this is probably the last song."

Zhou Yan nodded: "Well, long time no see."

Jiang Sheng wondered: "Didn't we just meet last night?"

Zhou Yan smiled: "I mean the song he sang is "Long Time No See" by Eason Chan."

"Oh..." Jiang Sheng hurriedly handed him the wine list, "Look at what you want to drink, and there is also food."

"I'm driving, so I can't drink, just bring me a glass of water." Zhou Yan said.

"How can I do that?" Jiang Sheng instructed Zhou Yan to turn the page, "There is the kind of non-alcoholic cocktail that girls like to drink, you choose."

Zhou Yan glanced at it and saw that there was one called "Grain Rain Season", which was in line with the weather, so he said, "I want this."

"That's great." Jiang Sheng collected the wine list and got busy.

This song has come to an end. When singing "Long Time No See", Liang Ruixi looked at Zhou Yan with a smile, as if he was really saying "Long Time No See" to him.Zhou Yan also smiled, feeling that his whole body was surrounded by a warm current.

When the singing faded, the two girls in front still sighed, "Tonight's happiness is over", but they waited for a while, but they didn't see Liang Ruixi come down. Said: "Thank you for your support. It was supposed to be the last song, but just welcomed an old friend. He didn't catch up with the full singing, so I want to sing another song for him."

Immediately there was enthusiastic support from the audience, and many people looked around, wanting to see which "noble person" made them have the blessing of listening to one more song.

The music sounded soon, Liang Ruixi raised his eyes, his long eyelashes looked like two small fans under the spotlight, and his starry eyes looked straight at Zhou Yan, as if discharging.

The two girls in front covered their faces excitedly: "Is he looking at us?"

At the end of the prelude, Liang Ruixi lowered her eyelashes again, and entered the state with a low voice: "The crowd is crying, you just want to become a transparent color, you will never have dreams, or pain, or heartbeat, you have decided Well, you've already decided..."

Zhou Yan's whole body trembled when he heard it, and his thoughts gradually drifted away with Liang Ruixi's singing.

Two years and four months ago, he resigned from his job as the clerk of the Nanshi Intermediate People's Court and returned to Haicheng. After Yintian joined the job, he immediately called Liang Ruixi and invited him out for dinner. He wanted to personally tell him about his future development in Haicheng plan.

But Liang Ruixi showed a depressed mood on the phone, and even pushed back on his invitation, which made Zhou Yan doubtful.

A week later, Zhou Yan accidentally chatted with a senior from the same company as Liang Ruixi, and learned that Liang Ruixi's grandfather died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Liang Ruixi took half a month's leave to return to his hometown to deal with the funeral.

Zhou Yan knew that Liang Ruixi was very close to his grandfather, but Liang Ruixi was unwilling to tell him about such a major event in the family.

Liang Ruixi didn't ask him to meet until after the Chinese New Year.It was February 2th, the day after Valentine's Day.

They met at a simple restaurant, a seat by the window, and ordered some chips, beef or something, and two cups of hot coffee.

After talking about Zhou Yan's current situation after entering Yintian, Liang Ruixi congratulated him, his tone full of longing and admiration.

"There will be a judicial examination in September this year," Zhou Yan encouraged him, "Try again, I will wait for you in Yintian."

Liang Ruixi lowered her eyes and said in a low voice, "No."

"Don't take the exam?" Zhou Yan asked.

"Well, I heard that the salary of new lawyers is low, and it takes several years to make money, so let's forget it." His tone was very calm, as if after careful consideration, "My current company pays very well, and I have only been in for half a year. When the old man passed away, my sister in personnel affairs also granted me 20 days of personal leave. If I change to another company, I will be fired a long time ago..." When he said these words, he was still smiling, his eyebrows were curved, and he seemed very happy, "Maybe It’s because I’m good-looking that I’m lenient.”

Zhou Yan couldn't help but said: "If you need, I can..."

"Not Zhou Yan," Liang Ruixi refused without hearing what he could do, "I've already decided not to take the exam."

Like what he's singing on stage now - you've made your decision, you've made your decision.

"You bear it quietly, tightly holding yesterday in your fist, and the sweeter the memory, the more hurtful it is, and the denser the deep and shallow knife cuts are left on the palm of your hand..."

The memory goes back to their freshman year. Zhou Yan remembers that once Liang Ruixi pointed at the sky in front of his classmates and declared domineeringly: I want to become the most handsome lawyer in China, and I want all criminals to have nowhere to escape. Xing, I want the light of justice to shine on the earth, and let the legal profession remember my name!

He is so daring when he speaks such big words... But at the age of eighteen or nineteen, it doesn't make people feel that it is against harmony at all, but it makes people feel moved.

Maybe it's because he's handsome, so he's naturally likable.

In contrast to his arrogant declaration, it was the keychain on his index finger that was turning desperately.Although the silver keychain made his fingers look slender and beautiful when turned, being silly was really silly.

After he said those words, the classmates laughed and made fun of him, and they didn't take it seriously at all.

Recalling that scene, Zhou Yan couldn't help laughing, and couldn't help wanting to use all his strength to care for the beauty of that moment.

I want to see Liang Ruixi like that all the time, standing gleaming in the crowd, not ashamed to speak big, and able to get up after falling down.

Rather than living in a corner of the bar like now, singing frustrated love songs, far from the previous declaration.

"You are not really happy, your smile is just the protective color you wear, you decide not to hate, and you decide not to love, you lock your soul in a body that is locked forever..."

Zhou Yan still remembers that it rained heavily on the day they met on February 2.

He arrived first, and after waiting for about ten minutes, he saw Liang Ruixi in an off-white down jacket appearing outside the glass door of the restaurant.He put away his umbrella, and his clothes were splashed with raindrops. He shivered casually like a small animal before coming in.

He gained a lot of weight during the Spring Festival, but his chin became much sharper, and his face lost its luster due to the setbacks of reality. With a height of 1.8 meters, she looks very small wrapped in a down jacket, and her eyebrows are different from the past. They are so flamboyant that they almost fly into the temples, but droop slightly.

Zhou Yan really wanted to record his appearance at that time, but it may have been too long, the picture at that time has become more and more blurred, and it is far less vivid than the one who sang on stage.

"You are not really happy. Your wounds never fully heal. I am standing on your left side, but it is like a galaxy across the river. Could it be that you really hold regrets until you grow old..."

At the dinner table, Zhou Yan stared at him without giving up, until Liang Ruixi had to raise his eyes to meet him, but the other party avoided it in just a second.

There were too many things revealed in that look, which made Zhou Yan confirm why Liang Ruixi no longer turned to him for help.

His enthusiasm seemed to be frozen and sealed in an instant, and he didn't dare to reveal any more.

Zhou Yan nodded after being rejected, and said in a deep voice: "Then do whatever you want."

From the beginning to the end, Liang Ruixi never mentioned about his grandfather, and Zhou Yan didn't ask about it, nor did he tell him like he did when he graduated, that he would come to me whenever he needed it.

However, at this time, Liang Ruixi looked at him from time to time, his eyes were stained with wind and frost, and they were still shining brightly, with undisguised sincerity, which made Zhou Yan suspect that he was wrong two years ago , He misjudged.

He sang to him: "You deserve real happiness, you should take off the protective color you wear, why lose it, and be punished, can you just let all the sadness end at this moment, and start living again..."

At the end of this song, there is also a piece of lyrics: "I know your hurt, I understand, I want you to be happy, I want you to be happy..."

There were less than thirty people in the whole bar, and they all hummed "I want you to be happy" in unison with Liang Ruixi at the end, like a group of strangers expressing their blessings to Zhou Yan.

But Zhou Yan thought, this sentence is obviously what I want to say to you.

When Liang Ruixi stepped down, the bar was still immersed in the beautiful atmosphere after the chorus.

Jiang Sheng pulled him over and beamed, "Brother, you are so awesome! Zhou Yan was made to cry by you!"

"What? True or false?" Liang Ruixi happily looked in Zhou Yan's direction, only to see a paralyzed face, "No, why are you crying?"

"You can't see from this distance! When I just brought him a drink, his eyes were red, and he ignored me when I talked to him. He was so engrossed in listening!"

"Hey, as expected of me, he is broken in love, listening to this kind of song is the most suitable." Liang Ruixi took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and just about to go to find Zhou Yan, remembering to ask, "Did you make him a drink?"

Jiang Sheng said: "He said he was driving and couldn't drink, so I made him a 'Grain Rain Season'."

Liang Ruixi was taken aback: "The green one?"

"Ah, pale green."

"Damn," Liang Ruixi grabbed Jiang Sheng's collar and said angrily, "He just got raped, and you got him a cup of greens?"

Jiang Sheng said urgently: "Can he blame me for ordering by himself?!"

"You wouldn't fucking recommend him a cup of other sex?" Liang Ruixi was almost dizzy, and angrily punched Jiang Sheng, "Then it's no wonder he doesn't cry!"

The author has something to say:

Two songs in this chapter ① "Long Time No See" Eason Chan; ② "You Are Not Really Happy" originally sung by Mayday/The text uses Deng Ziqi's "Singer" version

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【Interlude】

Zhou Yan: It's like pushing open a prison that has been closed for many years.

Liang Ruixi: Wuhu~ finally released after serving his sentence (≧▽≦)/

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Jiang Sheng: Brother Rui waited for you all night singing love songs.

Liang Ruixi: Your words are ambiguous, so don't talk nonsense!

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Liang Ruixi: I know your injury, I understand~~

Zhou Yan: You don't know.

Liang Ruixi: ...