Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Long Time No See
Lu Wanwan’s gaze landed on a corner of the sofa, where a handsome man in a black coat leaned back with a cell phone in his hand. When those eyes looked toward her, he was the only one who hadn’t looked up from start to finish.
“Ji Shaoyang, long time no see,” Lu Wanwan said without hesitation this time.
Lu Wanwan and Gu Annan attended the same high school, with Gu Annan a grade above her, and Ji Shaoyang was not only in the same class as Gu Annan but also his good friend. There was a time when Lu Wanwan, like a little tail, followed Gu Annan every day, naturally coming to know Ji Shaoyang as well.
At first, she always wondered how such a tough and cold loner had a friend as approachable and kind as Ji Shaoyang, which seemed nothing short of a miracle.
Shao Zhiheng’s curious gaze lingered for a while, “So you are Lu Wanwan, back then I…”
Seeing him about to bring up the group fight from years ago, Ji Shaoyang interrupted without hesitation, “Wanwan, do you play mahjong? We just happen to be one short.”
She glanced at the private room, not counting herself, there were exactly four people; where were they short one? Clearly, it looked like they already had a full set up.
“Annan doesn’t play, just look at his face, he doesn’t want to play, now we are just three short of one,” pleaded Ji Shaoyang, his hands pressed together and his gaze sincere. “Wanwan, you must know how to play!”
Does that mean Qiao Moran will also play? She definitely needs to know how!
Even just to write about the grace of Qiao Moran at the mahjong table would do! Plus, once she could become a fellow player, asking him when he would return to the scene would be a matter of course, right?
“Know, know, know,” said Lu Wanwan, not hesitating and rushing to the table even more eagerly than him.
Shao Zhiheng was a bit disappointed; who wants to play mahjong at a time ? He hadn’t even commemorated his first group fight yet.
Just then, the door to the room was pushed open with a flourish, “Qiao Moran, you’re fine to fire your bodyguard… Lu Wanwan?”
Lin Weiyang was in the same school year as Lu Wanwan but not in the same class; they also knew each other through Gu Annan. However, since the year before she graduated, they had not interacted further due to Gu Annan.
Shao Zhiheng commented with a tinge of envy, “You guys had it so good attending school domestically.”
Dichen High School is a renowned aristocratic private school in Manchester, the top choice for the upper echelons, so it’s no surprise they all went to the same school.
If Shao Zhiheng hadn’t gone abroad in middle school, he would have attended Dichen High as well.
Worried Shao Zhiheng might stumble into a sensitive topic again, Ji Shaoyang urged, “Hurry up and start, stop dawdling.”
“You guys are playing mahjong?” Lin Weiyang came over excitedly.
Ji Shaoyang had finally made a three-player gap, and he couldn’t let Lin Weiyang disrupt it, “Weiyang, you half-starter, don’t disturb us, just watch from the side.”
A few rounds later, Ji Shaoyang realized that Lu Wanwan’s ‘know’ was even worse than his description of Lin Weiyang as a half-starter.
“She’s bluffing, right…” Lin Weiyang commented enthusiastically from the sidelines.
Lu Wanwan, flustered, quickly stood the tile she had just pushed back up, “Then let me think again.”
Lu Wanwan held her head; heaven knows how much she regretted not playing a few extra rounds ordinarily. Her knowledge of mahjong was limited to what Xu Yuan taught her in theory, and this was her first practical attempt.
Having unexpectedly won a few rounds earlier, with several bills of Mao Zedong piled next to her, she thought she was on a gambling streak, seeing the changing expressions of the other three players; but then Lin Weiyang openly called her out for bluffing.
Damn, now she didn’t even know which tile to play!
A hand suddenly reached out, a slender index finger coldly pushing out one of her tiles, the two of bamboo.