If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

Lin Nian closed the door of the private room with a thud, as if locking the hot atmosphere inside the door, a door separated two worlds.

Instead of going to the bathroom, he took two pieces of toilet paper from the cabinet and walked towards the door of the hot pot restaurant. There was a girl squatting there drinking, and the stereo in the shop was playing "Quiet", singing "Don't worry too much, I will always live well, you are far away, and I will walk away slowly," the girl cried while listening to the song.

The sound of beer cans opening suddenly sounded crisp and sweet.

Su Xiaoqiang turned his head and saw that Lin Nian was holding a can of Coca-Cola in his hand and was picking at the pull-tab, and carbon dioxide was constantly gushing out of it, making a buzzing sound.

"Want a drink?" Lin Nian asked.

Su Xiaoqiang didn't know how to say this for a while, and stared blankly at Lin Nian who was holding a Coke.

"Don't you want to drink?" Seeing that Su Xiaoqiang didn't take it, Lin Nian took the Coke back and put it to his mouth and drank it.

Su Xiaoqiang didn't know if it was the alcohol or something, he got up suddenly and snatched the Coke from Lin Nian's hand, drank it clean, and finally covered his mouth and burped lightly.

"Oh..." Lin Nian looked at the coke that was snatched away with regret on his face. He bought this can of Coke at the front desk with his own pocket.

"Are you really going?" Su Xiaoqiang asked as she put the empty Coke can by her feet.

"En." Lin Nian nodded.

"Why so suddenly." Su Xiaoqiang couldn't help asking Lin Nian after getting the affirmation.

"Is this sudden?" Lin Nian asked Su Xiaoqiang back: "The other classmates are all happy for me."

"Are you happy?" Su Xiaoqiang stood up, tidied up, and suddenly reached out her hand to pat Lin Nian's shoulder. One pat was not enough, so she patted twice heavily.

Lin Nian didn't hide or say anything, Su Xiaoqiang was silent for a long time before raising his head and said: "Yes, this is a happy thing, I should be happy for you!"

"If you said happy, you meant crying and running out, then you were indeed very happy." Lin Nian said jokingly.

Su Xiaoqiang was stunned for a moment, then reacted and bumped Lin Nian's waist, turned around and walked into the hot pot restaurant, but suddenly she stopped and asked nonchalantly, "Did you already know? "

"It's very early." Lin Nian said.

Su Xiaoqiang nodded involuntarily, strode into the hot pot restaurant, and said without looking back: "Since what happened today is all happy, we should celebrate it! Let's go back, let's drink more!"

"I'll come to buy another Coke." Lin Nian shouted from the door of the hot pot restaurant, looking at Su Xiaoqiang's back.

"Coke is boring! I want to drink!" Su Xiaoqiang's voice floated over from afar, and she walked quickly.

In fact, I said I was leaving, but it was more like running away. It seemed that if I walked faster, I could get rid of what happened just now and start over.

The inexplicable Lin Nian sighed softly. He bent down and picked up Su Xiaoqiang's empty Coke can. Looking at the lipstick marks on the mouth of the can, he couldn't help but murmured, "How old are you?"

"It's not too early for a girl to learn makeup." Someone behind him laughed at what he said.

Lin Nian turned his head subconsciously, and saw the blond girl leaning against the door of the hot pot restaurant behind him with a can of Coke, looking at him with a half-smile. The light was blurred into a charming golden color.

"Senior Mandy." Lin Nian straightened up and nodded in greeting, "What a coincidence, are you eating hot pot here too?"

After leaving the Regent Hotel, when he saw Mandy again, Lin Nian also called her "senior sister".

"How do you know I ate hot pot? Just because I'm standing in front of the hot pot restaurant holding a can of Coke?" Mandy asked with raised eyebrows.

Lin Nian glanced at the corner of Mandy's mouth, there was still a bit of hot pot oil that hadn't been wiped off, it was obvious that this guy had just eaten in the shop.

"Is there anything dirty on my face?" Mandy noticed that Lin Nian had been staring at her face and quickly turned to look at the glass door.

"Corner of the mouth, here." Lin Nian indicated to Mandy where the hot pot oil was. Mandy quickly took out the toilet paper and wiped it off, then looked at Lin Nian and smiled awkwardly, obviously realizing that the lines she said about being handsome just now were stupid.

Lin Nian sighed and asked, "So why are you here, senior?"

"Didn't I say it before? I want to try the local delicacies." Mandy sniffed the aroma of hot pot ingredients in the air and showed happiness: "You can only eat healthy meals with Professor Manstein, If you haven’t seen it for a long time, you should reward yourself.”

"So are you following me?" Lin Nian looked Mandy up and down and asked seriously.

"Following you? Hahaha, don't make me laugh, little brother." Mandy waved her hand and smiled, "Are you a dangerous person with alchemy items or a half-breed?"

In the middle of speaking, Mandy suddenly stopped talking, and immediately stuffed the Coke can into her mouth and drank a lot of Coke.

"What are alchemy items? There are also mixed blood?" Lin Nianduo glanced at Mandy, who immediately looked away and drank Coke while showing off his good figure.

"It's nothing, you're just talking nonsense like a senior." Mandy drank Coke in a hurry, and coughed loudly to cover up her gaffe.

Lin Nian looked at her a few more times, and found that the other party seemed to have no more to say, so he gave up asking: "Is there anything else you need? If there is nothing else, I will go back."

"Don't you like that girl just now?" Mandy asked suddenly.

Lin Nian paused, looked at her and said, "You said you didn't follow me, you were eavesdropping just now, right?"

"I'm sitting close to the door, and you're talking so loudly, I can't hear it, I'm sorry for my hearing." Mandy looked innocent, but the next second her face was full of constriction: "Junior brother, you have a story , I smell the smell of youth!"

"Okay, senior, if there's nothing else to do, I'm going back to eat." Lin Nian said with a sigh.

"What an unlovable junior. Compared to you and me, the other junior is much smarter and more sensible. She knows how to please me—but I still have something to do with you tonight." Mandy leaned against the glass door holding a Coke Looking sideways at Lin Nian, he said, "Take Lin Nian as a senior sister, I am busy, I want to ask you a question, do you know that people need to make different choices at each stage of life to determine the path to take in the future? Then Once you choose, your future can only go down this road. There is no such thing as Save/Load.”

"Sister, did you major in philosophy at Kassel College?" Lin Nian asked strangely.

"No, although I'm a liberal arts student, my main study of ancient history is equivalent to archaeology." Mandy shook her head: "Now I'm telling you this, you can also understand it as your senior sister, I drank too much tonight and got philosophical. I want to discuss life with you."

Does drinking too much Coke count as drinking too much? Lin Nian glanced at the Coke in Mandy's hand unobtrusively.

"About your question, Senior Sister, I can only say that even if I can't turn back the path I chose, I will keep going. I never regret the choice I made." Lin Nian looked back at the hot pot restaurant behind the glass door. said the bustling crowd in the aisle.

"In this case, you should also understand that after you choose one road, the other road will pass you by forever, right?" Mandy lowered her head and picked up the half-drunk Coke can, pressing the thin and crisp aluminum skin Crackling.

"Isn't this a matter of course?" Lin Nian asked in a casual and normal tone.

"Talk more than your head, elementary school boy." Mandy looked at Lin Nian and tapped his temple with his index finger: "You really realize how long and difficult the road you have chosen is, and the road you gave up may be There are many good things you can touch, but are you hard to set foot on in this life? Now maybe you still have a chance to regret it—at least before you really set foot on the road of choice, you will always have the chance to regret it.”

Lin Nian put his hands on the glass door of the hot pot restaurant and was about to push it away. He stopped his movements abruptly after hearing Mandy's words.

"It seems you understand what I mean." Mandy scratched her head.

"Why did you say these things to me? Aren't you supposed to be on the side of the Admissions Office of Kassel College?" Lin Nian turned to look at her and asked strangely: "There is always something in your words. A victim of Pheasant University Conscience discovers the feeling of persuading future generations to reconsider."

Mandy rolled her eyes decisively, patted Lin Nian on the back and said, "Go in, you heartless guy, it seems it's too early to tell you this now."

"Goodbye, senior." Lin Nian pushed open the glass door and trotted before disappearing into the crowd of people in the aisle.

Mandy looked at Lin Nian walking away through the glass door and sighed quietly. She whispered to herself: "Maybe when you really understand what I said today, it will be too late to say these things. We These people, when faced with a choice, can't see the road ahead too far—whether it's the life of a mixed race or the life of an ordinary person, but who knows which road will end in perfection?"

But after all, no one could hear what Mandy said at this moment. She drank the Coke in her hand, squeezed the can into small pancakes with one hand and threw them into the trash can ten meters away, and took out the car keys with both hands. Strolled to the parking lot. After a while, the red sports car dived out, and the engine roared across the night sky.

In the private room of the hot pot restaurant, Lin Nian, who kept pushing and resisting the toast, seemed to turn his head and looked outside the private room, but after a while, his attention was drawn back by the students who enthusiastically sang the farewell song.