Classmate Li Zhuangsheng doesn’t want to be reborn

Li Zhuangsheng was pulled into the car by Zhang Qixiang.

"A BMW X5, you're so rich!" Li Zhuangsheng couldn't help but click his tongue, not daring to move his buttocks.

"It's not that I'm rich, it's that my old man bought it for me."

"Oh yeah, I heard from Li Xiuyu that your family is very rich. Wow, I didn't realize that!"

Li Zhuangsheng was surprised. In his memory, Zhang Qixiang was quite poor; the other party had borrowed money from him several times, but of course, he had never paid it back.

But it wasn't much, just a dozen yuan in total, less than Li Zhuangsheng's daily living expenses. Seeing that he was usually so frugal and couldn't afford to spend any money, Li Zhuangsheng didn't press him for more.

"Didn't see that coming, did you? That's called keeping a low profile! The richer you are, the more low-key you are, you know!" Zhang Qixiang raised his eyebrows seemingly smugly, stepped on the gas pedal, and said casually, "Come on, I'll treat you to mutton hotpot today!"

Li Zhuangsheng was quite nervous sitting in the car.

Although he was relatively unfamiliar with Zhang Qixiang, male friendships are simpler, and after chatting for a while, he felt much more familiar with him. However, the car Zhang Qixiang was in really made him a little apprehensive.

He doesn't know much about cars, but he's heard of the BMW X5. Although he doesn't know the price, it appeared in countless online novels from his era and was a symbol of wealth.

I'm really afraid I'll break something sitting on it and won't be able to afford to pay for it!
Zhang Qixiang noticed Li Zhuangsheng's awkwardness and said with a smile, "Don't be shy, I'm your driver, boss. Please don't stand on ceremony. It would be my honor if you wore out!"

"Haha... This must be the most expensive car I've ever ridden in!"

Zhang Qixiang laughed heartily, his tone teasing: "That's not necessarily true. Didn't you say you have a friend who drives a Ferrari? You might have ridden in his car before?"

Li Zhuangsheng was taken aback: "I have friends who drive Ferraris?"

"Hahahaha, you were bragging to me the other day, you don't even have a friend like that!" Zhang Qixiang laughed incessantly. "If that convertible Ferrari 488 really is driven by your friend, I'll call you dad from now on!"

Li Zhuangsheng didn't know how to answer, so he just smiled awkwardly. He vaguely understood what he had heard and figured it must be the boast he had made to Zhang Qixiang before he lost his memory.

Zhang Qixiang laughed for a while, then comforted her, "Don't be nervous. Actually, BMWs and Mercedes aren't worth much anymore. My current used X5 can probably only sell for a little over 200,000 yuan. Your sister's car cost about the same when she bought it. Sigh, I'm planning to buy a domestic new energy vehicle for my next car. I really can't afford to fill up with gas anymore!"

Li Zhuangsheng's eyes lit up: "Li Xiuyu's car seems pretty good."

"BYD is actually not bad. If the market is good, I'm planning to buy the Yangwang U8 in the future... Sigh, but the market probably won't be good lately! Damn it, I'll just buy the Wenjie instead!"

Li Zhuangsheng tilted his head, and a short while later, Zhang Qixiang parked his car by the roadside. Li Zhuangsheng followed him into a roadside mutton restaurant.

“My aunt brought me here once before, and the food was really good.” Zhang Qixiang picked up the menu and tossed it to Li Zhuangsheng. “Here, order whatever you like!”

Li Zhuangsheng politely ordered two inexpensive dishes, while Zhang Qixiang ordered a pot of mutton and offal, as well as several lamb chops.

"You can't eat that much, can you?" Li Zhuangsheng advised from the side.

"It's alright, you can take any leftover lamb chops back to your wife and the others!" Zhang Qixiang waved his hand dismissively.

Li Zhuangsheng's expression was complicated. The two sat by the window, watching the cars coming and going on the road.

"Hey, you're saying you only have memories of high school?" Zhang Qixiang said. "You really don't remember anything else?" "Ah, yeah..." Li Zhuangsheng nodded. "I have no recollection of anything after the second year of high school. But I remember things from high school very clearly, like they just happened a few days ago."

"Really... Did you lose your memory in the first or second semester of your junior year?" Zhang Qixiang asked again.

“Last semester,” Li Zhuangsheng frowned slightly, “What was the date in September again…”

Zhang Qixiang waved his hand: "Don't force yourself to remember, it doesn't matter!"

As he spoke, Zhang Qixiang muttered to himself, "So you were the one last semester... You and she were pretty close back then, weren't you?"

"Who are you talking about?" Li Zhuangsheng asked.

Zhang Qixiang waved his hand with a smile: "Nobody, I meant you get along pretty well with the girls in our class!"

He was given a gag order by Li Xiuyu, forbidding him from mentioning the names of two female classmates in front of Li Zhuangsheng. Even if Li Zhuangsheng brought it up, he had to change the subject and brush it off.

Li Zhuangsheng blinked: "It's alright."

He was simply easy to talk to, so the girls treated him well. However, he felt quite conflicted at the moment. On one hand, the female classmates he remembered were all easy to get along with. Perhaps because they were only nodding acquaintances and not very familiar, Li Zhuangsheng felt that most of them were quite reasonable, at least like him.

But these days, while surfing the internet, Li Zhuangsheng felt a profound sense of disconnect. He often felt that the women on the other end of the internet cable were not the same kind of beings as him; it was as if they had collectively lost their minds, their thinking and intelligence had suddenly regressed to an ape-like state… like some indescribable thing. Although sometimes they seemed quite normal.

Li Zhuangsheng tried to reason with them, but after he replied, he was attacked with extremely vicious language. He almost doubted whether he was still on Earth. This world was truly unfamiliar to him.

Fortunately, Li Xiuyu was also nearby at the time. Seeing Li Zhuangsheng being attacked and with tears in his eyes, he snatched the phone and started hurling insults back, using equally sharp and sarcastic language. After finishing his insults, he immediately blocked the other party and told Li Zhuangsheng to stay away from these filthy maggots in the future.

Li Zhuangsheng and Zhang Qixiang chatted casually about high school. Li Zhuangsheng became increasingly open, even bringing up some embarrassing stories about Zhang Qixiang from high school. Zhang Qixiang firmly denied them, but Li Zhuangsheng insisted that Zhang Qixiang's memories were at most 480p, while his own 2K ultra-high-definition memories were absolutely accurate. Zhang Qixiang could only feel embarrassed.

The mutton hotpot was bubbling away, and the two chatted happily. Zhang Qixiang suddenly said, "By the way, I'm getting engaged. You'll have to come to the banquet!"

Li Zhuangsheng was taken aback: "Congratulations! So you're not married yet?"

Zhang Qixiang laughed: "Yeah, it's time for me to get married. I didn't expect you to get married before me. I've fallen behind you."

Li Zhuangsheng's expression was strange, because he was thinking about how to get a divorce. But he couldn't say that to Zhang Qixiang at the moment.

“Come on the 18th of this month, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. You can bring your sister and wife with you!” Zhang Qixiang added.

"Oh... um, I don't know, how much should I give as a gift?"

"No need for a gift for the engagement," Zhang Qixiang said with a smile, shaking his head. "You only need one for the wedding. I'm getting married in May, so you can be my best man then!"

Li Zhuangsheng pointed to himself: "Me? I've never done it before. But if you think I'm okay with it, then I can do it."

"Okay, it's decided then!" (End of Chapter)