The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 213 Turning around and looking at each other
Time ticked by, and ever since that day when Meng Yun proposed to marry Xia Lu, everything seemed to have been fast-forwarded.

Perhaps it was because the blow of the previous night was a little too severe for him, so in the following period of time, he treated Xia Lu well as if in revenge. He went to meet Xia Lu's parents and prepared for their marriage, as if... he had really made a break with the past.

……

Sunday, Tiexiang Temple Water Street.

Yu Fei and Xiao Ai came here to hang out, sitting at a small stall and drinking tea while watching the drama performance on the open-air stage in front.

"Uncle, your brother is getting married, aren't you in a hurry?"

It was a June day, and Xiao Ai was wearing a white, thin short-sleeved shirt, a light blue shawl, and a white knee-length skirt. She looked youthful and elegant, but the questions she asked seemed unfriendly.

Hearing this, Yu Fei continued to stare at the drama performance on the stage, and replied: "You seem to be anxious when you ask this question. Don't forget that you haven't graduated yet!"

After a pause, Yu Fei smiled and said, "What's wrong, Xiao Ai? Do you want to use your marriage certificate to get extra credits?"

"..."

Xiao Ai rolled her eyes at him and snorted, "I'm not in a hurry. I'm only in my twenties, not like an old man like you. I'm just thinking about you."

"Thank you, but I also think I'm quite young." Yu Fei pointed at his face and said with a smile, "If you didn't know my real age, do you think I look older than you?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ai stood up and pulled up the chair. After two steps, she moved from opposite Yu Fei to next to him. Then she put her hand around the uncle's neck and pulled him in front of her. Finally, she pinched Yu Fei's chin with her other hand and shook it like a gangster.

"Ugh!"

Yu Fei, who was being kneaded wantonly by Xiao Ai, asked curiously: "Why are you sighing?"

"I was wondering if you were some kind of monster, uncle. I fed the monster with my own body and sighed for myself."

When I took a quick look, I realized that the uncle was almost the same age as me.

Yu Fei smiled and said seriously: "Then don't be in a hurry to sigh, there will be many places to sigh in the future!"

"Huh? What does that mean?"

"Nothing, I was just kidding."

Xiao Ai let go of her hand, and when Yu Fei stood up to continue making tea for her, she rolled her eyes and asked again: "By the way, uncle, I have a question for you."

"Ask, I have the right to refuse to answer."

"..."

Xiao Ai glared at him. The uncle was good in every way except that he could be very stubborn sometimes.

So she hesitated for a moment and asked directly: "Uncle, who do you think is prettier, me or your ex-girlfriend?"

Yu Fei glanced at her, not expecting her to ask such a question.

At this time, Xiao Ai took out her mobile phone and put it on the table with a smile. It showed that she was on a call with Dingdian.

"Dingdian, you are bored, aren't you? Why did you call me when I was out on a date with Xiao Ai?"

"What's wrong with me talking to Xiao Ai on the phone? Can't I like her too?"

"..."

After seeing the two men talking, Xiao Ai interrupted in time and said, "Uncle, you haven't answered my question yet?"

At this time, Dingdian on the other end of the phone was silent, waiting for Yu Fei's answer.

Yu Fei didn't expect that the two of them would do such a thing to him at this time, but he never took such problems to heart. Adhering to the principle of seeking truth from facts, the dog man said lightly:

"Not as good as my ex-wife."

"Ex-wife?!"

"Ex-wife?!"

Xiao Ai and Ding Dian on the phone were surprised at the same time, and at this time Yu Fei hung up Ding Dian's call directly.

Although Dingdian called back, unfortunately no one paid attention to her this time.

At this time, Xiao Ai pouted and said, "Uncle, where did your ex-wife come from? Humph, this answer is very perfunctory!"

When she and Yu Fei were not together yet, she heard him talk nonsense about dreaming about his wife from several lifetimes ago, and said that she was his dream lover.

Yu Fei smiled and said, "How was it perfunctory? I answered very seriously!"

A factual answer, isn't that serious?

Seeing Xiao Ai still pouting, Yu Fei finished his tea, pulled her up and said, "Let's go, let's eat first."

"Uncle, you're not really married, are you?"

"Don't worry, not in this life."

"..."

In the restaurant, Xiao Ai was still a little bit persistent and asked: "Uncle, tell me, who is your dream lover?"

Yu Fei took a bite of the dish, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "You said we were from the previous life, where can I find you?"

"Really?" Xiao Ai still had a suspicious look in her eyes. Seeing the man nod, she asked again, "It's not the girl you had a crush on when you were in school?"

"Of course not!" Yu Fei denied categorically. Are you kidding? How could he still remember any female classmates from school?

But when he saw that Xiao Ai still seemed a little skeptical, he smiled and said, "Actually, I now feel that there is someone who looks a bit like my ex-wife."

"..."

Xiao Ai's fist hardened, still mentioning his ex-wife, and then narrowed his eyes and sneered: "Who is it? Do you want me to help you bring her back?"

"Thank you very much, Xiao Ai." Yu Fei smiled and poured a glass of juice for the two of them. Then, as he handed it to Xiao Ai, he said, "To be honest, this person is both far away and close at hand."

This answer was not quite what Xiao Ai expected. She expected that the other party would not dare to mention another woman at this time.

But she still felt something was strange. Although she knew that the so-called ex-wife was just a cover-up made up by the bastard, and maybe it was just something he made up to find a topic to talk about when he was chatting with her, but now listening to it, it felt like a kind of substitute literature.

So she took a sip of juice and suddenly asked, "Then how do you think I am similar to her?"

Yu Fei, who was eating, was stunned. He looked at Xiao Ai with a strange look, then smiled and said, "Are you sure you want me to tell you?"

Xiao Ai, who felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by the dog man, straightened her clothes and said firmly: "Speak!"

"Ok."

Yu Fei put down his chopsticks, then leaned over to Xiao Ai and whispered something in her ear.

"..."

Xiao Ai subconsciously lowered her head, then immediately raised her head and glared at the man. No wonder this guy advised her not to lose weight and would make moves on her whenever he touched her.

"Uncle, I guess you say similar things to every girlfriend, right?"

At this time, Xiao Ai said this with a half-smile, and then added: "Either they have long legs, or they look like your ex-wife in other places."

Yu Fei paused after hearing this, and after thinking seriously, he smiled and picked up some food for Xiao Ai and said, "I swear to God, I have only told you this."

"What about Tiny?"

"I never said that, I really never said that!"

Xiao Ai then snorted, lowered her head to eat, and passed over the topic.

But at this moment, Yu Fei suddenly moved a plate of shrimps in front of Xiao Ai.

"Honey, do I deserve a plate of shrimp you shredded yourself?"

Xiao Ai took a bite of the dish and looked at the uncle strangely, then nodded: "It goes well."

Then she put on gloves and helped him peel a shrimp. After all, Xiao Ai knew this habit of his. She was prepared for it after he ordered shrimp when ordering the dishes just now.

After she put the peeled shrimps into Yu Fei's bowl and was about to continue eating, the dog man spoke again.

"Don't I deserve to have one to be fed?"

"..."

Xiao Ai turned her head to look at him again, then picked up the shrimp and was about to feed it to him.

"I won't eat it anymore. You didn't even dip it in the seasoning. You didn't feed my heart."

"..."

Xiao Ai clenched her other hand into a fist again. After taking a deep breath, she attributed the man's behavior to revenge for the trouble she had just made.

So she smiled and coated the shrimp with the dipping sauce prepared by the restaurant, and then fed it to the dog man's mouth.

"I don't want to eat it."

"Snapped!"

Xiao Ai slapped the table with her other hand, and Yu Fei immediately said, "I don't mean to be hypocritical. It's just that many girls rushed to peel shrimp for me before, but I didn't want them. I just want you to peel it for me because I just love you purely, you know. Isn't it because of love?"

"..."

Yu Fei, Mai Yan and Mai Yu were stunned by Xiao Ai. She looked carefully at the man who seemed to be taking revenge on her boyfriend, then slowly picked up the shrimp and handed it to the other's mouth.

Yu Fei smiled and said, "You don't understand my heart."

"Snapped!"

……

On Monday afternoon, when Yu Fei came to the company after being absent from work for half a day, he was surprised to find an invitation letter on his desk.

"Meng, has the wedding really been decided?"

Yu Fei took the wedding invitation of Meng Yun and Xia Lu to his good brother's office and asked.

Meng Yun stared at the work document on the computer and said "hmm", then turned around and said, "Get married soon, otherwise Xia Lu will have to exchange rings with me when she's pregnant."

Yu Fei nodded, then pointed towards Luo Xi's office and asked, "Where is that person?"

"..."

Meng Yun was silent for a while, then sighed and said, "Luo Xi hasn't come to the company today."

Tsk, it looks like that person is going crazy soon!
Yu Fei thought for a moment and then asked, "You said before that Zhao Ming proposed to her. How was it? Did she agree?"

"do not know."

Meng Yun didn't want to know the answer to this question either.

But Yu Fei's heart-touching words hadn't finished yet, he just smiled and said: "It's also good, you have Xia Lu, Qian Ye has Zhao Ming, and I also have a girlfriend... We all have a happy future!"

"..."

Meng Yun glanced at him. Is this human language?

Then Yu Fei sighed again:
"Tell me what you two have been doing all these years? When you were in school, you were single and she had a baby. She was single and you had a baby. Later, she quit her job at a Fortune 500 company to start a business with you. Then you got Lin Jia. Wow, fate. It's amazing." "Can you shut up?"

At this moment, Meng Yun felt like a rat that was fished out of a sewer and placed under the sun. He felt physical discomfort from head to toe and from inside to outside.

Seeing this, Yu Fei immediately waved his hands and acted coquettishly. After Meng Yun calmed down, he spoke again with a smile.

"Have you ever thought about regretting it? Don't worry, as a brother, as long as you ask, I will help you break the axle of Zhao Ming's wedding car."

Meng Yun stopped talking. It was unclear whether he didn't want to pay attention to Yu Fei or was thinking about the possibility of this matter.

After a long silence, he finally spoke: "Old Yu, tell me, is Luo Qian happier with me or with Zhao Ming?"

Yu Fei was a little surprised at first, then thought about it seriously before hesitating and said, "No one can answer this question except her, but I think you also need to consider another question. Are you happier with Luo Qian, or with Lin Jia, or with Xia Lu?"

People who are in emotional debt always find it difficult to answer this kind of question. Although this question is not like the question of "Do you love your father or your mother more?", it is also a difficult question to get an answer in terms of emotional comparison.

If Meng Yun was happier with Xia Lu, it wouldn't have been so difficult for him to propose marriage to her before. After all, the emotional foundation between the two was not very deep, and perhaps a slightly bigger setback might have broken them up. However, because of the child, or for other reasons, Meng Yun still chose her.

As for Luo Xi, strictly speaking, she and Meng Yun did not have a definite boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. They had never been officially together for various reasons over the past decade, but they were both well aware of their feelings for each other.

Just like in the TV series, the first pair of male and female characters obviously had a good relationship, interesting interactions, and they had feelings for each other, but as time went by, at the finale the audience had to sadly admit that they missed each other, and their respective official partners were not each other.

The plot changes are weird, and the emotional changes are also weird. Only in the extra or easter egg plots will people be surprised to see the two people who have always been regretful meet each other after many years, and then say to each other: "How are you?"

Finally, they lost each other.

When it comes to love, the argument that who came first is not tenable; it is normal for someone to come last and win.

As for Lin Jia, Yu Fei felt that she and Lao Meng were the ones torturing each other. There was no way. From some aspects, Lin Jia and Lao Meng were quite similar, and the more similar they were, the harder it would be for them to be together until the end.

What's more, this time, Meng Yun and Lin Jia really broke up.

Some stories seem destined, not because of chance or miss, but an unsolvable knot. If it happens to be a tragedy, then its sadness is destined at the beginning of the story.

"Yu Fei, have you seen Norwegian Wood?"

"I have read it. I heard it was a famous book when I was in school. I read it with a pious attitude. Later, I secretly tore off a few pages and read them in bed at night. This can be regarded as one of my early sexual enlightenment literature works."

"Besides these, what else is there?"

"I don't remember that."

Of course Yu Fei still remembered the content of this novel, about adolescent boys and girls who were lost in lust and ended up either committing suicide or redeeming themselves. However, he did not think that the story in the novel could be applied to Meng Yun.

At least, Lin Jia won't commit suicide like that psychopath Naoko.

As soon as Yu Fei had this thought, he suddenly remembered something.

Huh? wrong!

……

In a small coffee shop.

"Sister, what's wrong with you? You've been scolding Yu Fei since this morning."

While wiping the cup, Ye Ke'er looked at Dingdian who was mumbling beside her and asked curiously.

Ding Dian was annoyed when he heard this: "That bastard Yu Fei has an ex-wife!"

"Boom!"

The cup in Ye Ke'er's hand fell onto the table. Fortunately, she reacted in time and grabbed it, otherwise the cup would have broken.

Then she frowned and said, "That's impossible. How could Yu Fei have an ex-wife? You've been with him for two years, and you never heard him mention it!"

Dingdian curled her lips. She knew of course that this was a lie, but after hearing that bastard say that yesterday and not answering her call, she became a little angry.

She snorted coldly and said, "Who knows if he has hidden it from me?"

Seeing this, Ye Keer realized that what she had just said was nonsense, and she felt relieved immediately.

How could my brother-in-law have a previous relationship?
As the two continued to work, a woman walked into the coffee shop.

The woman was wearing a pink lapel embroidered shirt on the upper body, a work skirt on the lower body, a small black leather bag on the shoulder, and her long brown-black hair was naturally loose. She peeked around when she entered the store.

"Welcome, what would you like to drink?"

Ye Ke'er greeted him subconsciously, and the woman who came in smiled at her, but did not rush to place an order. Instead, she looked around the coffee shop and took a look at the recommended coffee and light meal set menu.

Then the woman came to the bar and started looking at the coffee category. When Dingdian looked at her, she smiled and greeted Dingdian.

Then the woman noticed the packing paper bag behind Ye Ke'er's cabinet. After seeing the note with the words "Lin Jia" on it, her eyes narrowed slightly and she smiled and asked Ye Ke'er:

"what is that?"

Ke Er was stunned, but replied: "This is the coffee that the customer ordered."

The woman smiled gently and said, "I want a cup of the same one."

After placing her order with a smile, the woman returned to the sofa at the door and waited quietly.

At this time, Dingdian came to Ye Ke'er and whispered, "Ke'er, do you feel that this scene is familiar?"

"Ah?" Ye Ke'er, who had just finished processing the order, raised her head and asked in confusion, "Where does it look familiar?"

Dingdian clicked his tongue and said, "It was the same when Xiaomeng came here."

"Xiaomeng?"

Ye Ke'er first muttered the name, and then immediately recalled what happened at the beginning. That day, the coffee shop almost became a battlefield, so she said in surprise: "You mean this girl..."

"No, I just felt that way. There's no way so many ridiculous things would happen."

"That's right!"

Xia Lu, who was sitting on the sofa at the door, didn't know what they were whispering about. She was still a little nervous at the moment.

If she guessed correctly, the girl who had just been standing there without saying anything was Yu Fei's ex-girlfriend Ding Dian. In fact, this was the first time they had met.

At this time, she still had the wedding invitation between her and Meng Yun in her bag, and she didn't know whether to give it to Ding Dian.

After all, she came here today without telling Meng Yun.

But her real plan was to meet the woman named Lin Jia.

Tomorrow she and Meng Yun will go to get their marriage certificate. They will get the certificate first and then get married. However, the day before getting the certificate, she always had a knot in her heart.

That is Meng Yun’s ex-girlfriend Lin Jia.

When Meng Yun left her and left home, the most direct trigger was that she saw Meng Yun messaging Lin Jia, and in the past, the name Lin Jia was mentioned from time to time by people around Meng Yun.

This made her even more curious about what kind of woman Lin Jia was.
This is almost becoming her obsession!
The reason why she was able to find this place was because of Xiaowen’s help. She didn’t know how Xiaowen knew about this coffee shop. After refusing her best friend’s company, she came here alone.

Just a meeting...that's all.

At this time, Dingdian was behind the bar and still felt that something was wrong. He couldn't help but keep secretly watching Xia Lu who was sitting at the door.

"Could it be someone who has something to do with that bastard Yu Fei?"

Anyway, she had some understanding of Yu Fei's nature, so she couldn't help but think this way when she saw a pretty girl.

Not only does she make such an association with the girl at the door, but she also sometimes makes such an association with Ke'er beside her. She even sometimes thinks of some beautiful female customers she occasionally meets.

But she also knew that this was unlikely. Not to mention those female customers with whom she had little interaction, even Ke'er, who was beside her, had always been under her nose. How could she possibly get involved with that bastard?

Besides, she knew her little sister very well. What she wanted was a sweet love. How could a bastard like Yu Fei possibly meet her requirements?

Groundless worries!

I'll find that bastard and make it up to myself later!
After calming down, Dingdian withdrew his gaze and helped Ke'er make coffee.

After a while, Ye Ke'er brought the coffee and placed it in front of Xia Lu.

"Please enjoy."

"OK, thanks."

After Ke'er left, Xia Lu began to drink her coffee slowly, trying to calm her fluctuating mood.

Although she wanted to see Lin Jia today, she felt a little nervous when she got here.

I had clearly told Meng Yun at the beginning that I would keep these things secret, but I really couldn't help but want to meet the legendary Lin Jia.

Now she was a little worried that Meng Yun might be angry if he knew that she came to see Lin Jia.

But if she didn't see him, she couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart.

What she hoped was that Meng Yun could love her wholeheartedly, instead of still keeping a place for his ex-girlfriend in his heart.

Is it really just something that can only be left to time?
Xia Lu lowered her eyes and became determined.

"If Lin Jia hasn't shown up after I finish drinking half a cup of coffee, I will leave and not see her."

She is pregnant now and can't drink too much coffee.

I don’t know if Xia Lu’s voice was heard by God, or if it just happened that she came at the time when Lin Jia came to get coffee.

When she had finished half of her coffee, the door of the coffee shop was pushed open and Lin Jia walked in.

The moment Lin Jia came in, Xia Lu's eyes stayed on her and didn't move at all.

"Jiajie, your coffee."

Ye Keer smiled and handed Lin Jia's packaged coffee to her. After Lin Jia took it with a faint smile, she leaned forward and whispered:
"Lin Jia, what's wrong with you recently? Why do I always feel that you are a little strange?"

Lin Jia rubbed the paper bag with her fingers. The rough grainy feeling came through her fingertips, making her shake her head and say:

"Nothing, maybe I've been working too much overtime recently!"

She didn't really want to talk about what happened between her and Meng Yun again.

When she broke up with Meng Yun last year, her emotional sensitivity was almost exhausted, making her perception as dull as this paper bag. This was not a bad thing, at least she did not cry and make a fuss this time.

It is inevitable to feel sad and cry, but there is more regret.

Perhaps she had been mentally prepared for this after she reunited with Meng Yun online. Just like countless couples in long-distance relationships, when they are in different cities, they always wonder if the other party is with other girls or boys. In the end, when they meet, they look at each other in silence and leave a "sorry".

This is still a decent idea. If it is not decent, the other party may hide the new love from you until you accidentally discover the truth...

Lin Jia felt regretful that she and Meng Yun could not continue their relationship after five years, and also regretted that the relationship ended... It was not very decent.

After hearing Lin Jia's words, Dingdian wanted to continue asking questions, but he caught a glimpse of the female customer at the door staring at him, as if she was staring at Lin Jia?

So she asked Lin Jia curiously: "Lin Jia, the girl at the door has been looking at you, do you know her?"

Hearing this, Lin Jia turned around and met Xia Lu's eyes.

(End of this chapter)