Brainoid

Qi Min took the subway to the party venue, which was at a barbecue restaurant. It looked very informal, which alleviated her social phobia in formal situations to a certain extent.

However, Qi Min arrived a little late. When she opened the door of the private room, she found that almost everyone else had arrived. She and almost half of them had never seen each other since graduation, so she couldn't help but be a little surprised to see them again.

In my impression, they were all active and "cool" guys in their grade. They even had their ears pierced and tattooed in high school. However, now it seems that many people are much older than she thought. Also, no matter how handsome the girls and boys were in the past, they are now almost thirty. Qi Min then remembered that she had just graduated less than a year ago, while some of her high school classmates had been going through social hardships since they graduated with undergraduate degrees six or seven years ago—doing a PhD really slowed down the pace.

Qi Min's classmates can easily recognize her when they see her. Although her hairstyle is different from that in high school, her dress is obviously Qi Min's style when she was in high school.

But whether it is Qi Min in high school or Qi Min now, he is usually not the focus of the crowd. Qi Min sat down on the seat at the far side and ate in silence while listening to these unfamiliar classmates talk about their recent situation.

There are still many outstanding students among her high school classmates. Of course, it may be because those who are too miserable will not come to the class reunion. Qi Min didn't know whether it was good or bad for her to become a PI at the University of Science and Technology of China, but what was certain was that her income as a laboratory PI was definitely not up to the level of her high school classmates who were currently in the first echelon.

Since ancient times, those who engage in natural science research must either have money at home or be funded by others. In short, this is a costly job, and very few people make a fortune from this job.

High school classmates who hadn’t seen each other for a long time finished their barbecue and went to sing karaoke. For Qi Min, this kind of activity is equivalent to eating fruit on the side. Although when she was eating fruit, several classmates who were familiar with her before came and asked her to come up and sing, but Qi Min remained unmoved. .

No, Qi Min was sitting on the sofa eating cantaloupe from the fruit plate. Wu Ling, who had just finished singing, sat next to her and asked while pouring beer: "Hey, Qi Min, why don't you go up and sing?"

"Let me forget it...the songs I know are relatively biased." Qi Min declined.

"Everything is online now, and you can find anything you want." Wu Ling smiled and patted the back of her hand, "encouraging" her as if encouraging a child, "Go ahead, it's okay, we're all singing Just having fun."

Even though Qi Min was a GEEK in high school, she could still tell what some people were thinking. Wu Ling and she were classmates from junior high school to high school together, but they always tried their best to squeeze her out. Although Qi Min didn't know why, he still avoided her intentionally.

But now Wu Ling obviously wants Qi Min to go up and make a fool of herself - a GEEK like her who doesn't sing well will probably not sing well.

No matter how good Qi Min's singing was, she just made up her mind not to go up, so she said: "I have a cold and my throat hurts and I can't sing, so I'll just listen here." After that, she coughed twice.

It's true that she hasn't recovered from her cold yet, that's not a lie.

This answer did not satisfy Wu Ling. She was going to say something else. Suddenly Du Yalin came over and called her: "Wu Ling, Jiang Wanghuai seems to have something to do with you."

Wu Ling had been hanging out with Du Yalin when she was in high school. It is said that she seemed to have a crush on Jiang Wanghuai at that time. But to be honest, Qi Min didn't know Jiang Wanghuai very well, nor did he understand this gossip very well. Just hearing Jiang Wanghuai's name, Wu Ling gave up having fun with Qi Min and went to find her former boyfriend.

Du Yalin sat next to Qi Min and picked up the cup Wu Ling poured beer into: "Huh... I'm so thirsty. Is this your cup? Lend me a sip?"

"It belongs to Wu Ling." Qi Min replied.

"Oh, no wonder." Du Yalin took a napkin from the coffee table and wiped it on the rim of the cup. "The lipstick was even stained on the cup."

Qi Min glanced at the traces of lipstick wiped off on the napkin. It was a very girly pink. Wu Ling's overall dress today is girly pink, but to be honest, her appearance is much inferior to class stars like Du Yalin and Zhang Songxue, because her skin color is darker and she does not look young. The color scheme of her outfit is like a twenty-eight-year-old girl forcing herself to wear eighteen-year-old clothes, which is a bit degrading.

But this is not a formal occasion, people just like it. Qi Min withdrew his gaze and continued to eat the cantaloupe in the fruit plate.

"Stop eating, the fruit plate is almost empty by you." Du Yalin teased her from the side.

Qi Min swallowed the mouthful of cantaloupe and then put down his fork: "Oh, really. I just have nothing to do."

"Why are you still the same as before? Alas." Du Yalin looked at her with an ambiguous smile.

"There is a slight difference." Qi Min also smiled to avoid embarrassment, "I never came to karaoke before."

"You're not singing even now." Du Yalin said with a smile, took two more empty paper cups, poured two more beers, and handed one to Qi Min.

Qi Min took the beer and just took a small sip. She belongs to the genotype that cannot drink, and for health reasons she has never forced herself to practice drinking.

"Don't you want to drink? Oh, that's right. You are a role model." Du Yalin also straightened up, leaning over as if naturally, and put her hands on her shoulders from behind.

This is really embarrassing. Qi Min hid a few centimeters to the left, but it was difficult to avoid it directly. He just asked: "What's wrong? Have you drunk too much?"

"No, I haven't drunk yet." Du Yalin suddenly put her face in front of hers, as if she was looking at Qi Min's glasses, "Your pair of glasses... seems to be the one you used in high school. So. After so many years, it’s still not broken.”

It might be perfume, clothing fragrance, or just shampoo - in short, there was a faint scent of roses mixed with fruits. And from being so close, her appearance was still exquisite, her long and curly eyelashes seemed real, and the color of the lipstick on her lips also looked very bright and dazzling.

Qi Min is a beauty, and I'm afraid many people know that she is a beauty. Du Yalin is indeed good-looking, and she looks much better than before after dressing up. But Qi Min really felt that she really couldn't cheat here - this was too baffling, right? !

"Yalin, you must have drunk too much." Qi Min turned sideways and gently broke away from her arm, then moved half of his body to the left, "How about I get you some Coke?"

"You are such a strange person." Du Yalin leaned on the sofa and looked at her with a smile on her face and said, "Are you still thinking about Songxue?"

Qi Min doesn't quite understand this logic. Does she look so much like a pure LES? "No, Songsong has been with Dayue for a long time - what does this have to do with me?"

"If it doesn't matter, then I'll come find you, isn't that good?" Du Yalin took a sip of the beer in her cup. At this time, everyone was immersed in the joy of singing karaoke, and no one paid attention to the sofa. "Or do you think I'm any worse than Zhang Songxue?"

Qi Min feels uncomfortable whenever he thinks about Du Yalin competing with Zhang Songxue. It's not that she dislikes Du Yalin - Du Yalin is indeed good-looking - it's just that she and her friend Ji are not the same kind of people at all.

"I'm really not interested." Qi Min said helplessly, "Besides... you're not single now."

Hearing her point out this point, Du Yalin's expression suddenly dropped. She put the cup back on the coffee table with a bang, said "hypocrisy" and got up and left.

Qi Min just felt more confused, but still took another piece of cantaloupe from the fruit plate to eat.

Almost came out \u0026 cheated (wrong)