Chen Jue did look a little pale, but it was not because he had slept poorly the night before. It was because he had never expected this college roommate of his to suddenly drive over.
There was still a wild tiger weighing over four hundred jin holed up in Wang Biao's old family home in Wazhai! His sudden appearance had given Chen Jue such a fright that he nearly had a heart attack. How could he not look pale?
His situation was just like the lyrics of that old song: "What I fear most is the air suddenly falling silent, what I fear most is a friend's sudden concern."
"..."
"Biao, what are you doing here?"
"Don't you have work? Sister-in-law Biao is heavily pregnant, too. You felt comfortable just leaving her like that?" A jumble of feelings surged through Chen Jue, as though someone had knocked over a bottle containing every flavor imaginable. Still, he kept his expression composed, opened Wang Biao's car door, and settled into the passenger seat, tossing the two large bags of shopping into the back.
"Well, I happened to have the weekend off!"
"You came all this way from Wenzhou alone. It must be pretty boring without anyone to show you around. My workplace happened to give us two Gongshan scenic area package tickets yesterday, so I sent my wife and kid to stay with her parents for a couple of days and came over to hang out with you."
"The six of us from the dorm scattered all over the country after graduation. We get fewer and fewer chances to meet up. Since you're finally here, I wanted to take the opportunity to relax for a couple of days, too. You're not married yet, so you wouldn't know-working and raising a kid is