Chapter 6 KTV

  Over the weekend, Gu Xixin finally had a relaxing holiday. No mother chasing her home, no endless interviews and manuscripts from the newspaper, no miscellaneous trivial matters entwining her.

  In the morning, Gu Zixin indulged herself in bed, lounging until the sun was high in the sky before reluctantly getting up. She simply made some breakfast for herself, tidied up her room, and then snuggled back into bed with her laptop to watch a movie.

  Gu Xixin recently suddenly became obsessed with Wong Kar-wai and watched all of his films in one go.

  It's strange to say, but I've seen them before, "Days of Being Wild" and "Ashes of Time", watched for half a day without understanding anything, barely figured out the relationships between characters, and the rest was just dozing off. I once even lamented that masterpieces are indeed masterpieces, if they're made to be easily understood by children, then it's not interesting at all. Like "The Three Transformations of Liu Xiang", "Wherever there is well water, one can sing Liu's lyrics", without any depth at all.

  Gu Xixin seems to still be quite convinced of her own theory, like self-hypnosis. But now, Gu Xixin suddenly understands this man who always wears sunglasses, and also acknowledges the emotions he always tries to express, whether it's decadence, sentimentality, or helplessness.

  Gu Xixin had once dragged Gao Muyang to watch one of his movies, and after explaining it for half a day, Muyang stared at her with the eyes of someone looking at a mental patient and concluded: "I think I originally understood it, how did your explanation make me confused again? Are you crazy or am I crazy?" This made Gu Xixin feel depressed for a long time.

  The movie wasn't finished yet, when Gao Muyang's phone call came, asking her to go shopping. Gu Zixin thought she hadn't been out for a long time and should get herself a new outfit, so they agreed on a meeting spot. Gu Zixin put on a comfortable set of clothes and headed out.

  The two of them strolled from store to store, spending four or five hours doing so. Gu Xixin was getting a bit fed up with Gao Muyang's habit of entering every store they came across and trying on every piece of clothing she saw, and instinctively sensed that something must have been bothering her.

  As expected, when the two were having coffee on the top floor of the mall, Gao Muyang lowered his head and was silent for half a day before spitting out a sentence: "At the end of this month, I have to attend a wedding."

  Gu Xixin didn't speak, waiting for his next words. But after Gao Muyang finished that sentence, there was no more to say, and he lowered his head to stir the coffee as if there were gold coins inside.

  Gu Zixin understood something between the spark and the flint.

  "Is he getting married?"

  Gao Muyang silently nodded his head.

  "You still keep in touch?"

  "I don't know where he found my phone number, but he called me yesterday to invite me to his wedding." After barely finishing these few sentences, Gao Muyang's eyes were already welling up with tears.

  Seeing her like this, Gu Xiang's heart was thoroughly lost for words. She knew how much pain that person and those past events had brought to Mu Yang, and she also knew that this hidden pain would never be able to disappear completely. However, in these few years, Mu Yang had been living with great effort every day, laughing and helping others, solving troubles for them, making the people around her happy. Gu Xiang hadn't seen Mu Yang's sad face and the tears accumulated in her eyes for a long time, so long that she almost forgot, she just hid those weak things away.

  Gu Xixin thought that this friend of hers was really not up to par.

  But now, Gu Zhi Xin knew that any comforting words were pale and powerless, saying them was no better than not saying them at all, and would only stir up painful memories. So, all she could do was tightly grasp Mu Yang's hand, giving her strength.

  "I'll accompany you at your wedding."

  Mu Yang lifted his head and looked at Gu Xi Xin with a smile, the tears in his eyes had vanished without a trace, as if it was just Gu Xi Xin's misconception earlier.

  "Good."

  After finishing the coffee, the two took the elevator to the bottom floor's bookstore to read books. They each picked out a few books and while waiting in line to pay, Gu Zhi Xin received a call from Xu Rui. Gu Zhi Xin thought that they had been contacting each other quite frequently lately, and as she was thinking this, the words slipped out of her mouth:

  "What's going on? You've been asking me out a lot lately, are you regretting it and wanting to pursue me again?" Gu Xixin teased with a smile.

  "Sister, my impression of you is changing more and more, I really didn't expect that you're still such a fierce person! Even if this is true, there's no need to say it out loud, can't you leave me some privacy?" Xu Rui was the kind of person who would never let a joke go on indefinitely, he always knew how to strike while the iron was hot.

  "Alright, alright, what do you want from me?"

  "We're having a KTV party here with friends and thought of inviting you over to meet more people."

  "Can I bring another friend?"

  "Of course, the more people the merrier, preferably a beautiful girl."

  "Get out of here, even if you're a beauty, you've got no chance." She hung up the phone and opened the text message from Xu Rui with the KTV address on it. Gu Xi Xin pulled Gao Mu Yang to go outside.

  "I'll take you out to have some fun and introduce you to some friends."

  "What kind of friend is this?"

  "We met through blind dating, and he's quite interesting." After finishing speaking, she realized something and stopped, saying to Gao Muyang: "No chance of romance, being friends is pretty good, we've already talked it out, so I didn't tell you."

  Gao Muyang's face suddenly lit up with a look of realization.

  They arrived at the KTV building and got out of the car. Gu Zixin received a call and gestured to Mu Yang to wait for her at the entrance, then walked away to answer the phone.

  After a dozen minutes of phone call, I walked back to the door and suddenly found that Gaoyang and Xu Rui were standing together at the door, seemingly still talking about something. As I walked in, I saw that Yang was furious, while Rui had an innocent smile on his face.

  "Xu Rui, what are you doing here?"

  "Is that Xu Rui? How can you still be friends with someone like him?" Originally, my mood wasn't great to begin with. Looks like Xu Rui has really hit the nail on the head this time.

  Gu Xixin saw a white Golf parked behind Xu Rui, which looked like a new car.

  "What's going on?"

  "I didn't turn in time and almost scraped this miss, she might have sprained her ankle from not standing firm."

  "What's so great about driving a broken-down car? Can't you honk the horn earlier? You scared me to death from such a close distance."

  Xu Rui still stood on one side with a forced smile.

  "Alright, Murong Yu, for my sake, Xu Rui didn't mean to. Gu Zixin whispered in Murong Yu's ear: "Don't let other things affect your mood, it's not good to make the scene too awkward, listen to me."

  Gao Muyang fell silent after hearing Gu Xixin's words.

  Gu Zi Xin stood up straight and said, "Let me introduce my good friend Gao Mu Yang. The blind date from a few months ago, now my good friend Xu Rui, for my sake, you two make amends?"

  Xu Rui heard Gu Zhi Xin say this, and with a fist in his hand, "I didn't know, I offended this beauty, I hope you won't mind the mistakes of a lowly person, I apologize!" The strange tone made Gu Zhi Xin laugh. Gao Mu Yang also wanted to laugh, but he couldn't afford to lose face, so he just hummed and didn't speak again.

  Gu Xixin looked at Mu Yang and didn't get angry anymore. She gave Xu Rui a glance, beckoning the three of them to walk inside together.

  After taking two steps, Mu Yang couldn't move anymore. Gu Xi Xin squatted down to take a look and saw that his ankle wasn't swollen much, but it should still be slightly sprained.

  Xu Rui saw this and went forward to help Mu Yang up. Mu Yang struggled a bit but couldn't break free, so he let Xu Rui lead him away.

  Entering the package room, the light inside is dim and the shouting is earth-shaking. More than a dozen men and women are already seated.

  Xu Rui first made an introduction for the two, then helped Murong Yang sit down on the sofa in the corner. "Let me take a look at your foot, bear with it a bit, it might hurt a little." Xu Rui said after grasping her ankle and gently swaying it back and forth before suddenly using force to twist it, then releasing his hand and standing up.

  Gu Zi Xin saw that Mu Yang wasn't crying out in pain, Xu Rui signaled her to get up and walk around, Mu Yang got up and found that the pain was really gone.

  "Not bad, I didn't know you had this skill!" Gu Zixin looked at Xu Rui with a face full of admiration.

  "Hey, you forgot I'm a surgeon, this little injury is no big deal." Xu Rui said as he picked up the beer bottles on the table and handed one to Mu Yang and Gu Zixin each. "Today is really quite embarrassing, it's not very pleasant for Zixin's friend to meet us for the first time, I'll punish myself, I'll drink this whole bottle of beer to apologize." After saying that, he tilted his head back and gulped down the beer in a few mouthfuls, finishing the bottle.

  "Mei Yang bowed his head in thought, then raised it to say to Xu Rui: 'I'm not in a good mood today, maybe I took some anger out on you, so I apologize. From now on, let's just forget about it. Since you're a friend of Zhi Xin, that means you're also a friend of mine, Gao Mei Yang. Let me join you for this drink.' After finishing speaking, he downed the wine in one gulp. The crowd erupted into applause."

  Gu Xixin smiled and said: "You drink like this, what can I do?" At this time, someone in the crowd shouted, "Beauty, bottoms up!"

  Gu Xixin thought, since she came, she might as well have fun and drink the wine in one gulp. The three of them drinking like this naturally stirred up a small commotion, and the slight awkwardness and embarrassment they had just felt were all swept away.

  They ordered a few songs for themselves and Mo Yang, and after singing until they were tired, the two of them snuggled into the corner sofa to chat.

  Gu Zi Xing whispered to Mu Yang, "You're reacting a bit abnormally today!" Mu Yang didn't respond, just staring at the beer in her hand. She had already drunk four or five bottles while sitting there for a short while.

  Gu Xixin grasped her hand, "You can't drink anymore, you've had quite a bit today."

  Mo Yang still didn't speak, thinking for about half a minute, closing his eyes tightly and reopening them to look at Gu Xi Xin: "Yang Yang, don't worry about me, I promise you, from this minute on, I will make myself better."

  Gu Xixin looked at her and could only nod.

  Xu Rui walked over to invite them for a drink, Gu Xi Xin smiled and said: "With your drinking capacity, you'd better be careful." Xu Rui looked like he had indeed drunk too much.

  At this time, someone in the crowd shouted: "Old Xu, give Kang Yue a call, this kid hasn't arrived yet? I just called to tell him half an hour later, and it's been several half hours?" Several people also echoed.

  Gu Xixin was puzzled, who is this Kang Yue? Just as she was about to ask, a pleasant voice came from the entrance of the private room: "Who misses me so much and wants to see me?"

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