Chapter 56: Helpless Vigilance

  After Jiang Fengchen left, An Yijun seemed to smile and walked out from the inner room, saying: "Sister, are you playing the pitiful card?"

  An Yiran glanced at him lightly and didn't answer, instead asking: "What are you doing here?"

  An Yi Jin innocently shrugged his shoulders, "I was here a long time ago, but when I saw you guys coming in, I just hid to the side, so as not to be a light bulb again."

  An Yiran glared at him, "When did you learn to hide in the corner and eavesdrop?"

  "Sister, this can't be blamed on me, it's you who insisted on rushing in." An Yijun cried out in grievance, then smiled slyly and leaned in close to An Yijun, saying: "However, sister, I'm really curious, how did you manage to trick even the great Dragon Brother into coming? Don't tell me he was willing to cooperate with your play, I'm not that easily fooled!"

  An raised an eyebrow and said, "He comes every week at this time, what's there to scheme about? I just happened to take advantage of the situation."

  An Yi Jin hummed twice, still unsatisfied with what he knew, and asked again: "So, how can you be so sure that there will be a conflict between them?"

  He tilted his head slightly, answering indifferently: "It's better to have conflicts, and it doesn't matter if there aren't any. Anyway, we haven't lost anything, let alone the fact that my goal has already been achieved, which you can't deny."

  At this, An Yijun couldn't help but give a thumbs up from the heart and praise: "Really worthy of being my sister."

  An Yiran rolled her eyes and ignored him.

  The Jiang City No. 2 Middle School is still full of vitality as always. The lives of the third-year students, like birds in a cage, have not affected the liveliness of the first and second-year students, who are still jumping around with ease. Every time Su Yisuo leans on the windowsill of the classroom to look down, seeing the "little brats" she mentions with their smug smiles, she can't help but feel itchy teeth, "Hmph, you just laugh now, very soon you'll be crying."

  On this day, Su Yisu was again leaning on the balcony during class, listlessly staring at the people coming and going below. Li Shuiyan suddenly ran out holding her phone, saying irritably: "Someone is looking for you." She shoved the phone into Su's arms and turned back to the classroom.

  Su Yisu looked at it in confusion, "What's this?" She lowered her head and looked at the screen with a puzzled expression, but when she saw that familiar name, she suddenly burst out laughing, her eyes narrowing into slits. Excitedly, she pressed the call button, "Chen!"

  Jiang Fengchen's familiar voice came from the other end, "Yixu, are you done with class?"

  "Uh, I was in the hallway, so I didn't know you called. It was my deskmate who picked it up and gave it to me."

  "Ah," Jiang Fengchen suddenly sighed, "Now that I think about it, the days when I was a student, I feel that life in society and in school are really incomparable."

  "Chen?" Su Yisu called out in puzzlement, "How come I feel like you have something on your mind?"

  Jiang Fengchen smiled and said, "Nothing much, just casually sighing, besides, schools and society are very different, this is a fact."

  Su Yisuo pouted and said: "We agreed that we would share our lives with each other, but you don't want to tell me now."

  "It's better if I don't say it," Jiang Fengchen thought to himself.

  Su Yisu didn't care what he thought, "I know you don't want me to be distracted, but I'll also worry about you, do you understand?"

  "Alas," Jiang Fengchen sighed again, telling the truth: "It's just that this society is too complicated, and people's hearts are treacherous." So he told Su Yisu everything that had happened in the bar that night.

  Su Yisu felt a bit uneasy and advised, "Chen, why don't you go somewhere else? Wouldn't it be better to join a company? Why do you have to stay in a bar? Bars are so chaotic, and..." She stopped mid-sentence, realizing that what she was about to say might not be suitable.

  Jiang Fengchen, however, caught the implication of her words. "Yi Su, you also think that everyone in the bar is no good, right? We, who are on campus, always believe that bars are dens of evil and habitually look at them with colored glasses. It wasn't until now that I realized how unfair this was to them. Just like An Yiran, she's such a kind-hearted, pure, and innocent girl, yet she has to bear so much injustice from her fate."

  "Chen, I didn't mean it that way..." Su Yisu hastily explained, "I just think that the bar is so chaotic, you're staying there, what if..."

  Jiang Fengchen couldn't help but smile, "If a girl like Yiran can stay, why can't I, a man? Moreover, the siblings have been kind to me and treated me well usually. I won't forget their kindness and betray them by leaving so easily."

  When Jiang Fengchen said this, Su Yisuo knew that saying anything else would not change his mind. He had already made up his mind, and all she could do was silently support him.

  "And also, what makes me miss this bar the most is its name."

  "Flowing scenery..." Su Yisu softly murmured this name, a strange feeling surging up in her heart. Flowing scenery. These two words carried so many memories between them. But that was Flowing Scenery Park, not Flowing Scenery Bar.

  "I always look up at the neon-lit four words when night falls every day, thinking about the bits and pieces in Flowing Scenery Park, and that way I feel like I've always been by your side, living in the environment we've walked through together."

  Su Yisu raised her head, biting her lips, trying not to let tears fall, "Chen, whether we are together or apart, we must be good... You must be careful and take care of yourself."

  "Uh-huh, I know."

  The 20-minute long class break slipped away quietly in the conversation between the two, and the bell rang on time, the ear-piercing sound was turned up loud, Jiang Fengchen could also hear it clearly from over there.

  "It's time for class, you should hurry back. I'll call you again next time."

  "Okay." Su Yisuo reluctantly hung up the phone.

  Back in the classroom, Su Yisu's uneasy mood still couldn't be dispelled. She kept feeling that the bar called "Liu Jing" was hiding a huge conspiracy behind it, and she even felt that the woman named "An Yiran" was somewhat strange. However, she couldn't tell Jiang Fengchen about this, because he would definitely think that all of this was just coming from a woman's natural jealousy. In the end, it would only lead to an unpleasant breakup.

  And Jiang Fengchen, after many years, suddenly looked back and remembered that he had once said so firmly that he wanted to stay and help An Yiran. Thinking about his past self, would he have any regrets?