Seven years after my death, the male protagonist of the substitute novel was criticized

Chapter 71: Restaurant "Encounter"

Far away from the cold smell of money in the city center, although the environment near the Third Middle School is a bit worse, it has a strong smell of living people.

The class reunion was held in a newly opened sour soup hotpot restaurant, which had two floors, with decorative woven straw curtains on all four sides, making it a private room.

There is an aisle for serving food between the private rooms, and there is also a balcony with a wild atmosphere where the breeze can dissipate the smell, and the environment is quite good.

Ding Zitong drove to the nearby area, got out and walked to the store. On the way, he looked at the people around him again in the light.

"Very good. This outfit has raised my age from 20 to 27, perfectly filling the gap of seven years."

Lin Lu: “…”

She pulled the hem of her skirt uncomfortably. The white sweater dress was nipped at the waist and was very elastic, so when she took off her coat, her curves were very prominent.

Fortunately, she used a black thin rope necklace as a waist chain and wrapped a long down jacket on the outside, so she didn't look so mature.

"Is it that exaggerated? You're wearing a black turtleneck sweater."

"Let me take another look. It's not too exaggerated. After all, you still have to dress better to show your brother's current financial strength." Ding Zitong raised an eyebrow and said.

Lin Lu immediately zipped up his down jacket to his chin.

"Remember what I told you, if anyone really asks about me and my brother, you should..."

"I'll just speak loudly to change the subject so that they can know without wasting any words that you and your brother have broken up." Ding Zitong repeated quickly and pushed her up the stairs.

Then he quickly ordered, "Now that we're there, quickly untie your hair. Later on, we'll say you have hair extensions. After all, a real 27-year-old doesn't have hair as thick as yours."

“……”Twenty-seven years old is really scary.

The classmates who came to the party were probably waiting to see Lin Lu. People at several tables were chatting and looking towards the store entrance from time to time.

When they saw people, their eyes all lit up and they started to chat with each other.

"Long time no see, Lin Lu!"

"She really hasn't changed at all. She's still as pretty and tender as she was in high school."

"Hey, are you two the only ones here?"

Lin Lu very naturally ignored the question and greeted everyone with a smile.

Thanks to her memory being frozen after high school graduation, she can now call out everyone's name accurately.

After the greetings, the gossip session began.

When people get together, besides eating and drinking and reminiscing about the past, they also come to update gossip, from who is still studying for a master's degree and hasn't graduated yet, to who has posted four official relationship announcements on their Moments in a year after starting work, to talking about their happy life after marriage.

Then the topic naturally turned to Lin Lu.

"Are you married too?"

Everyone turned their eyes away, and she felt like she was being stared at by hundreds of media outlets.

They may all be curious about the stage of development of the only pseudo-orthopedic romance in the class.

Lin Lu took a bite of shrimp paste in sour soup and answered calmly: "No, why would I get married when I don't make much money?"

Some people stretched their necks towards her: "Didn't I hear that your brother started a company? Doesn't this count as making money?"

"It's better to have it myself than to have it by my parents. Starting a family and building a career is my own business. It's not my brother's responsibility." She said lightly.

Everyone looked at each other and showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

Is this a blow?

The brother and sister broke up. Will they go home and sit at the same table for dinner?

Wouldn't it be awkward if both of you have new relationships?
Eye contact is nothing more than these questions.

Someone among them sighed heavily: "I was quite optimistic about you two. When you were in college, your brother would come to pick you up for dinner every now and then. You would smile so happily every time and run downstairs with a ding-dong sound. We would lie on the windowsill and watch you hug each other..."

Lin Lu paused.

Unexpectedly, there was a classmate who was admitted to the same university as her and witnessed the process of her and Pei Yizhou's love. This world is so wonderful, the bystanders still remember, but the parties involved have already forgotten.

Speaking of college, the man also asked: "But it seems that you haven't been in school since your sophomore year. When I asked your classmates, they said you took a long vacation."

"Oh, I was very ill at that time," she said calmly.

Ding Zitong changed the topic at the right time, and everyone's attention shifted to Wu Sihan's upcoming marriage.

Lin Lu breathed a sigh of relief and quickly lowered his head to eat the meat.

The hot steam from the hot pot made her feel hotter and hotter as she ate. She couldn't help but open her down jacket.

The sour soup was really appetizing and she ate it with great pleasure, listening to everyone talking about her memories of the past while her breath hissed from the spiciness.

It was at this time that Duan Chengyu came to see her.

It seemed that he caught a glimpse of her through the wide gap in the straw curtain decoration, lowered his head and came in to call her: "Lulu?"

The excited conversation was instantly suppressed, and everyone's eyes first moved around Duan Chengyu in a white shirt, and then around Lin Lu.

Among them is Ding Zitong.

Lin Lu almost choked, and exchanged an untranslatable look with Ding Zitong, trying to respond calmly and say hello: "Why are you here? Are you here to eat too?"

Duan Chengyu didn't just come to say hello and leave. He tilted his head to the outside and said gently, "Yes, it's a good thing to see you. Can you come out for a moment? I have something to tell you."

She had no choice but to go out.

Duan Chengyu helped pick up the woven straw mat, and after she left, he stayed behind, nodded to everyone in a friendly manner, and said, "Sorry to bother you, as compensation, this bill is on me."

After saying that, he lowered the curtain and went out.

As soon as the people left, someone immediately leaned over the curtain to look out, and someone else hurriedly asked Ding Zitong.

"Is that elite handsome guy Lin Lu's new boyfriend?"

Ding Zitong thought that Duan did want to, but replied, "Not yet."

"So you're still pursuing her? Oh my god, why can Lin Lu always attract such high-end models?"

Ding Zitong was still thinking about what this meant when Lan Jia suddenly said, "This person looks like Lin Lu's brother."

"Similar? How are they similar?" Ding Zitong was surprised.

Lan Jia: "Feeling. Don't you think so? Although the faces look different, the feeling they give and the attitude towards Lin Lu are very similar."

Ding Zitong opened his mouth and unconsciously compared Pei Yizhou and Duan Chengyu in his mind - it seemed, it seemed, that they were a little similar?

They are all cunning capitalists.

She shuddered, remembering the juicy beef burger metaphor Lin Lu had told her last time, which now seemed very vivid to her.

It takes two similar hamburger buns to hold a piece of juicy beef. Lin Lu has forgotten her experience of falling in love with Pei Yizhou, but she is still attracted to men who look like Pei Yizhou.

Oh my god, it’s so exciting.

She wanted to praise Lan Jia for her good eyesight, but the person lying next to the straw curtain was so excited that he whispered, "That man rubbed Lin Lu's mouth with his hand!"

"What are they doing on the balcony? What do they have to find a special place to talk about?"

"Isn't this a confession?"

"Lin Lu blushed!"

"They're quite a good match. I always say that fake love is not as good as a normal relationship. At least there's no burden when they break up."

"He looks so handsome when he's leaning sideways... He's even helping Lin Lu straighten her clothes!"

Ding Zitong put down his bowl and joined the group of people peeking, his eyes shining. In his mind, he gave Duan Chengyu an extra point on the evaluation form for their job trial.

(End of this chapter)