sinovels Chapter 299 Trending Search
Chapter 299 Trending Search
Zhao Li was stunned.
That voice... it sounds so familiar!
He turned around shakily, and through his teary eyes, he saw a face wearing a dark blue apron, whose delicate features were still visible even with a mask on.
The girl wore a name tag around her neck that read:
Store Manager: Tian Ya.
"...Xiaoya?"
Zhao Li cried out in disbelief.
The girl froze, scrutinizing the face, a mess of alcohol and tears. Then, her clear eyes widened slightly:
"Zhao... Zhao Li? Is that you? Why are you crying?"
"It's nothing."
Zhao Li looked at her, at the fine lines at the corners of her eyes.
The words that had been suppressed in his heart for seventeen years were on the tip of his tongue, but when he saw her holding the hand of a little girl, he swallowed them back.
"It's nothing," Zhao Li said self-deprecatingly, wiping his face. "I listened to a song and felt homesick."
As he watched Xiaoya leading that exquisitely beautiful little girl, the last embers of his passion were extinguished.
Yes, it's been seventeen years.
Who styled your long hair? Who made your wedding dress?
The answer is at hand.
As Tian Ya looked at him, at the fine lines around his eyes, a sense of the passage of time that had been suppressed in her heart for so long welled up inside her.
She sighed softly and handed over a clean tissue:
"For the sake of our deskmate, I'll give your table a 8% discount later, so don't cry."
Xiaoya smiled, took the child's hand, and turned to walk away.
Zhao Li looked at that retreating figure and sighed deeply.
Youthful days are gone forever.
Now, one of them has started a family, and the other has established a career; they can no longer go back to that afternoon filled with the chirping of cicadas.
Just then, the little girl with braids tugged at Xiaoya's sleeve and asked in a childish voice:
"Auntie, why is this uncle crying like a big monkey?"
Tian Ya gently patted her head:
"Maybe my uncle is heartbroken."
Auntie?
This girl isn't hers!
Zhao Li was about to sit back down when he heard the words "Auntie," and he jumped up again as if he had been injected with adrenaline!
"Wait...wait! Xiaoya!"
Zhao Li pointed tremblingly at the little girl, his eyes wide like saucers:
"What did you just call her? Are you her aunt?"
Tian Ya turned around and nodded, somewhat puzzled.
"Yes, it's my sister's kid. I'm helping her look after him today."
"Then...then you..."
Zhao Li swallowed hard, his voice trembling uncontrollably, "Are you married?"
At that moment, all the sales elites at the table held their breath and looked at the two of them in unison.
Tian Ya froze for three seconds, her face flushing red. Before she could speak, the little girl next to her spoke first.
My aunt is single!
"My grandma said if she doesn't find a boyfriend soon, she'll kick her out of the house!"
Unmarried, single?
These words struck Zhao Li like stones.
Zhao Li stared at Xiao Ya, and the courage he had been holding back for ten years exploded in that instant. He shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Then—can I be your boyfriend?!"
The eyes of dozens of guests at the restaurant all turned to this place at once, and they immediately joined in the fun.
"Together! Together!"
Tian Ya was a little stunned by this sudden straight shot.
She glanced at the noisy crowd around her, then at her deskmate whose eyes were red but whose gaze was extremely sincere.
She pursed her lips, revealing a sly smile:
"That depends on your performance."
"Settle this bill first, and then I'll consider whether to reserve a spot for you in the assessment."
The words fell.
The colleagues who had been watching the commotion at that table completely lost it when they heard this.
Old Wang wiped away his tears while cursing:
"I'm here listening to 'My Deskmate' and crying like a 200-pound idiot, and you just take 'My Deskmate' home? Was this song written for you by Silver Fox?!"
"You have to pay this bill! I'm so upset, I'm going to call my junior high classmate too!"
"Waiter! Another case of Yanjing beer! We're drinking until we drop!"
After watching the excitement...
The dozens of tables of guests in the restaurant, who were originally there to eat, drink, and relax, now looked like they were attending a large-scale collective memorial service.
Some people are flipping through old photos on their phones, while others are staring blankly at a long-forgotten number in their contacts.
The barbecue restaurant's revenue doubled within a minute due to this "emotional blow".
Inside the barbecue restaurant, the last notes of the song faded away like a gentle breeze, dispelling the last trace of restlessness in the air.
Who will marry someone as sentimental as you?
Who will comfort you when you cry?
Who put your long hair up?
Who made your wedding dress?
La la la la~
.......
Room 404, the male dormitory at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in Shanghai.
After washing up, Jiang Bai quietly climbed onto the upper bunk.
"Hey, third brother, did the sun rise in the west today?"
Su Ze, with a toothbrush in his mouth, poked his head out of the bathroom, staring at Jiang Bai's actions with a suspicious look:
"Don't you usually never close your eyes before 1 a.m.?"
"What's wrong? Did the Maldives' climate and environment knock you out, you 'warrior of all-nighters'?"
Jiang Bai rolled his eyes in bed, shrank back guiltily, cleared his throat, and replied in a slightly tired voice:
"Can't I be sleepy?"
"I fought sharks in the sea for three days and three nights, I'm completely exhausted, and now I need to rest and recuperate, understand?"
"Give me a break."
Su Ze pursed his lips and retreated back into the bathroom.
"I think you're afraid of getting caught by Old Zhang during roll call tomorrow, so you're putting on 'good boy' mode here in advance."
Jiang Bai ignored him and, after confirming that the group was quiet, secretly took out his phone from under his pillow.
His heart is like a hundred firecrackers bouncing inside him; he can't calm down at all!
I skillfully swiped through Weibo.
Jiang Bai's fingers even trembled slightly with excitement.
"Master, I just heard it, the popularity value is rising faster than boiling water."
"If my big account doesn't become popular soon, I'm seriously planning to play Guanyin Bodhisattva in 'Journey to the West' and then retire from worldly affairs."
[Ding! Host, that's wonderful! From now on, your alternate account, Jiang Baizhi, can focus solely on becoming an all-around movie queen without the distraction of your main account!]
"It's fake, I'm just kidding."
Jiang Bai snorted coldly and clicked on the trending topics list.
The rows of red entries made him dizzy. He held his breath and swiped his fingers quickly to find them.
Got it!
The 10th trending topic: #MyOldestClassmate: That Youth Buried in the Drawer#
"Holy crap! Tenth!!"
Jiang Bai pinched his thigh hard, wincing in pain, but secretly he was overjoyed.
He opened the comments section and was instantly overwhelmed by a strong sense of "remembering youth".
[I cried listening to this. My deskmate and I have been married for ten years, and we were just crying like idiots on the bedside table, hugging our phones. This song is like having a security camera installed right next to my bed!]
I reconnected with my old deskmate, but sadly, I'm married and she's married too. Time flies, and we can never go back to the past.
Am I the only one who thinks Silver Fox's voice is too overpowered? That tenderness after heart-wrenching emotion... is he some kind of old monster who traveled back from the golden age of folk music?
To be honest, both "The Sea" and "My Deskmate" are pretty catchy; I'm a fan now!
Jiang Bai looked at the string of comments, his lips almost curling up to his ears.
"Hehe, did you see that?"
"The big voice is finally here! My old voice is finally going to shed its 'accessory' status!"
He refreshed the list again, still feeling a bit unsatisfied, and muttered to himself:
"Since we're already tenth, let's try again. We should at least break into the top five, right?"
"Who knows, we might even become number one!"
With a swift swipe of the finger, the screen refreshed instantly.
next second.
Jiang Bai's smile froze instantly.
"???"
Suddenly, the entry for "My Deskmate," which was originally ranked tenth, disappeared without warning in that instant.
Instead, an entry with the bright red character "沸" (boiling) took its place, directly replacing the tenth position.
Number 10 on the trending topics: #The Masked Singer's viewership ratings surpass 2!#
Jiang Bai: "......"
It felt as if he had painstakingly built a beautiful little villa there.
I was just thinking of inviting my neighbors over for a visit.
As a result, a skyscraper was built next door, blocking out all the sunlight from his house!