I don't want to fall in love, I just want to get rewards

Chapter 160 Qinghe Internet Cafe
It was a little after five o'clock and almost everyone who wanted to have dinner had arrived.

Liu Yang's generosity was considerable, and the whole meal was quite sumptuous. The atmosphere of the gathering was quite lively, although it was still slightly worse than the atmosphere at the farewell dinner.

After all, after graduation, no matter how good the relationship was before, if you don’t study in the same city, the relationship will become more or less distant; even if you used to have a very close relationship, you can’t chat as unrestrainedly as before, and you always have to think about whether what you say is appropriate before speaking.

Of course, the atmosphere at Chen Che's table was pretty good...

After all, Wang An's talent lies almost entirely in social skills, and most of the people sitting at this table are boys, so the atmosphere became lively after chatting for a while.

Talk about my college life, criticize the stupid school rules of the "university" and the food in the cafeteria that even dogs wouldn't eat...

Chen Che did not intend to be the center of conversation. He would occasionally express his own opinions, but most of the time he was concentrating on eating.

But halfway through his meal, Wang An suddenly patted him on the shoulder.

"What's wrong?" Chen Che let go of his chopsticks and asked Wang An.

"Hehehe, Wei Yan wants to go out... Ruan Jia just went to the bathroom and he followed her out." Wang An urged, "Brother Che, Brother Jin, let's go out and take a look."

"No, you still have time to pay attention to him at this time." Chen Che was a little puzzled and a little shocked. In his memory, Wang An had never stopped talking just now, and he was chatting enthusiastically with the people at the same table...

In this situation, he was still able to pay attention to Wei Yan's actions.

"You are so boring." Yang Jin couldn't help but complain.

"Okay, I'm bored, do you want to go?" Wang An looked at Yang Jin.

Without any hesitation, Yang Jin nodded and agreed.

"Go, of course."

Then the two of them looked at Chen Che together...

Before he could say anything, two people grabbed one of his arms and urged him as they walked away: "Let's go, Brother Che, let's go and see what's going on with them."

Chen Che himself was also a little curious about what the two were doing. Although eavesdropping on other people's private conversations might be a bit unethical, but...

He's already a yellow-haired man, what does morality have to do with him...

Isn't the moral bottom line meant to be lowered?

So Chen Che followed and quietly touched it...

Before they had taken a few steps, Wang An suddenly turned around and said to Su Zhiyu, who was still sitting on the chair and wiping her mouth with a wet towel:
"Sister Zhiyu, do you want to come over and take a look?"

"Okay." Su Zhiyu nodded, put down the towel, and a bright smile appeared on her face.

……

Listening to the "gurgling" sound of water in the sink outside, Wei Yan took a deep breath, gave himself courage, and then strode over.

Ruan Jia, who was washing her hands, saw that the person coming out of the men's restroom was Wei Yan. A flash of surprise flashed across her eyes, then she lowered her head and hastily washed off the hand sanitizer on her hands. When she was about to leave...

"Can we talk?" Wei Yan said in a low voice.

Ruan Jia knew his character well and knew that if she left now, Wei Yan's extreme attitude might make things worse.

Everyone present today were her former classmates, and she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of so many people.

"Okay, go ahead." She nodded.

"I was wrong last time. I know you were with him because you were angry..." Just as Wei Yan was organizing his words and thinking about what to say next, Ruan Jia shook her head and denied it.

"No, I just don't like you. You're a little too self-centered."

"No, if you didn't like me, why did you accompany me to repeat the year?" Wei Yan's tone was full of disbelief. Ruan Jia's answer and the determination in her tone were completely beyond his expectations, and all his original words were in vain...

"I didn't accompany you to repeat the year. I wasn't very satisfied with my grades at the time, and you just happened to confess your love to me. It was just a coincidence that we got together."

Ruan Jia turned her head and said in a slightly weaker tone, "My boyfriend and I have a very good relationship. We will go to the same city to study. Don't bother me anymore."

"You're talking nonsense!" Wei Yan's voice suddenly became several degrees louder, almost shouting: "Don't think I didn't see it. You kept looking at Chen Che while we were having dinner just now. If you really like your boyfriend as you said, you can't do such a thing..."

"You..." Ruan Jia subconsciously wanted to refute, but the words froze at her lips and she was speechless for a moment.

Seeing Ruan Jia's expression, Wei Yan immediately realized that he had just hit upon her thoughts. In a rage, he continued without thinking:
"You think Chen Che likes you? You were so obvious about your affection for him in your senior year of high school, but he didn't even bother to look at you... It's fine if he was just being affectionate, but when Su Zhiyu was around, you didn't even dare to get close to him. How dare you say you like him..."

Wei Yan's words were very impolite. Ruan Jia's face turned pale and blue. Finally, she turned her head away and said coldly, "If you think so, then I can't help it. I shouldn't waste my time on you."

After saying that, she walked out of the toilet with a thump.

But just as he stepped out of the bathroom, he caught a glimpse of four pairs of eyes staring at him from the other side... and the two parties involved in her conversation with Wei Yan were among them.

Even Su Zhiyu was waving at her with a smile on her face.

Ruan Jia just felt dizzy and wished she could get on a rocket to leave the earth right now and never come back...

But now she still has to face reality.

Ruan Jia forced a somewhat forced smile, nodded to the four people beside him, and then trotted away.

……

Chen Che felt three pairs of eyes shifted to him.

"It's none of my business. How can this involve me?" Chen Che said with a depressed tone.

The depression on his face was not fake.

It was fun to watch the play, but he was very unhappy to be a character in the play...

And the fact that Ruan Jia liked him did not make him feel that his vanity was satisfied in the slightest.

If a pretty girl likes him, most guys will feel complacent and have their vanity satisfied; but if a pretty girl likes him, he should pray that his good friends around him will not jokingly call him "your wife" when they are together in private.

This is true for both men and women. After a girl is confessed to by an ugly boy, she may turn around and send a message to her best friend to complain.

This kind of thing is a bit bad from a moral point of view, but it is very realistic and happens all the time in our lives.

Ruan Jia was not considered a tough girl, and her looks were even slightly above average, but Chen Che felt no emotion at all at the moment, and even felt a sense of depression as if he had been "affected by the consequences".

Just from what those two said, why do I feel like I'm a yellow-haired guy...

I didn't do anything wrong, but they still quarreled with me...

"I told you that Ruan Jia likes Brother Che, but you didn't believe it at that time, Brother Jin." Wang An lowered his voice and laughed at Yang Jin beside him.

"You farted, I saw it at the time, okay?"

……

Seeing Ruan Jia turn around and run away, Wei Yan's face flashed with panic. He came here just to make peace with Ruan Jia, but it turned out like this... This was completely different from what he had originally imagined.

Seeing Ruan Jia change from a fast walk to a jog, Wei Yan thought that he had said too harshly. After a moment of hesitation, he quickly started to chase after her.

However, as soon as he walked out of the toilet door, he saw four pairs of gazes.

For a moment, he and the other four looked at each other in silence.

Finally, it was Wang An who spoke up and broke the silence.

"Hahaha." He laughed dryly twice and said awkwardly, "What a coincidence, Wei Yan, you're here to use the restroom too."

Seeing Wang An like this, Wei Yan's face turned pale and he almost suffocated.

He was not a fool. He knew that this group of people must have come here to eavesdrop. The question was how much they had heard...

Judging from their expressions, they must have heard everything.

The irrational, humble, and angry look I had just shown was completely exposed to the people I hated and the people I had a crush on...

The embarrassment of being on the verge of social death and the anger of having their privacy peeped into were intertwined and kept circling in Wei Yan's mind.

Then he thought of many things.

He always looked down on Wang An, thinking that this guy was too slick and always had a shameless look.

He had no feelings for Yang Jin, but because he often hung out with Wang An and Chen Che, Wei Yan also developed a subjective interest in Yang Jin.

He hated Chen Che because the girl he liked launched a bold and passionate pursuit of him after she rejected him without hesitation; the anger caused by the hurt self-esteem became a scar buried deep in his heart after he realized that he was indeed inferior to the girl in all aspects. It was difficult to erase it with time, and he would have a stress response if it was even mentioned.

As for Su Zhiyu...

Before coming here, Wei Yan didn't expect to meet her here, and he thought he had forgotten her. However, when she appeared, he still felt a strong throbbing in his heart.

But more of it is the feeling of having my self-esteem shattered.

……

Chen Che was just thinking about how to end this, but he saw Wei Yan gasping for air and staring at him with wide eyes.

"Will the anger be transferred to me? I'm not a meat shield, why do the monsters always focus their hatred on me?" Chen Che sighed in his heart, and then pointed to the restaurant not far away, "Do you want to go over there?"

Then he turned sideways, pretending to give way.

"Chen Che, are you very proud?" Wei Yan stared at Chen Che and clenched his fists, as if he was going to beat him up.

But his words made Chen Che feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

It seems that someone told him not long ago...

Yes, that was when Lu Yan was talking to Xu Ang on the phone, and I rushed in behind her. After she hung up the phone, Lu Yan said this to me...

"Why do you always say this? I might as well change my name to Chen Xiaodong." Chen Che couldn't help but complain in his heart.

……

Things did not develop in an uncontrollable direction.

After sitting back for another half an hour, the dinner was almost over and people left the restaurant one after another.

According to the normal dinner party process, there should be some other activities, such as KTV or something like that, but Liu Yang obviously organized the dinner party just to complete the task. Now that the task has been completed, he is too lazy to continue, so he simply goes back to his own homes and finds his own mothers.

"Brother Che, it's still early, do you want to go to an internet cafe and play some games?" Wang An looked out the window and saw that it was still dark, and suggested, "Anyway, it's only a few steps away from Qinghe Internet Cafe, and we haven't been to an internet cafe for a while."

"That's not right. I remember we went there to play games together at the beginning of the month." Yang Jin directly refuted.

"Hey, I'm just asking you whether you want to go or not." Wang An said to Yang Jin unhappily.

"If Brother Che goes, I'll go too."

"Go ahead. I don't have anything to do tonight anyway." Chen Che raised his hand to check the time. Seeing that it was still early, he nodded and agreed.

Su Zhiyu, who was standing by, naturally did not ignore his action, and a hint of surprise and worry flashed in her eyes...

She really wanted to know who bought the watch.

Based on her understanding of Chen Che, it was unlikely that he would choose such a watch. Given his family conditions, even if his parents wanted to give him a watch, they would not likely choose one at this price.

So it was given by another girl?

Su Zhiyu couldn't help but think in this direction, and at the same time, the tension and worry in her heart continued to rise.

The fact that Chen Che could wear this watch on his hand meant that the girl definitely had a certain importance in his heart. If this watch was really given by a girl...

Su Zhiyu really wanted to ask Chen Che, but she knew that even if she asked, Chen Che might not answer; and she did not have the identity and qualifications to ask him.

After a moment of silence, she smiled and raised her hand and said, "Can I go to the Internet cafe with you?"

……

Chen Che didn't know how long Qinghe Internet Cafe had been open here, but it had been here since he was in high school.

But at that time it was called Qinghe Internet Cafe. It was only when Chen Che was in his third year of high school that the owner renovated the store and finally transformed it into an Internet cafe.

"Uncle, this is a multi-person room for three hours."

Wang An pushed open the door and while shouting, he reached into his pocket to take out his membership card.

The boss knows who is coming without even looking up. Having run the shop for so many years, he has memorized the faces of some of the old customers.

Of course, the one who impressed him the most was the most handsome boy among the three. He was so handsome that he could be compared with himself when he was young.

"Okay." The boss raised his head, and sure enough, in front of him was the familiar trio.

Wait, there are not three people, there is also a beautiful girl this time.

He was not a stranger to this beautiful girl. For a while, that girl often accompanied that handsome boy here to play.

"You're back together. I told you guys you look like a couple and you'll stay together even after you break up." The boss said with a smile.

A sincere smile appeared on Su Zhiyu's face.

"No, we just happened to meet at the dinner party, and she came over to play games with us." Chen Che denied.

Su Zhiyu's smile froze for a moment, and then quickly dissipated like ink beads scattered into a clear pond, replaced by a hint of sadness in the corners of her eyes.

(End of this chapter)