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Chapter 001 Ten Years

When Ren Pingsheng walked out of the banquet hall of the Golden Dragon Hotel, he definitely did not expect that this would be the last hour he would stay in this world.

In fact, he had no leisure to think at all, because as soon as he walked out the door, he was blown by the cold wind, his neck became cold, and his stomach began to swell. The seafood and red wine he ate at the dinner were working together, and a sour air burst into his throat.

Fortunately, he hugged a flowerpot before the spout was about to come out, otherwise the waiter in a nearby golden uniform would definitely roll his eyes to serve him.

Even so, when Ren Pingsheng spitted the food residue in his stomach into the flower pot, these well-trained waiters couldn't help but squeeze their eyes, wrinkled their noses, and showed an unwelcome look.

No wonder, these waiters have naturally developed a set of skills to observe people of all kinds for many years.

Those who have a lot of fun at the dinner party, don’t know how much they can weigh, and always pour wine into their mouths, are often the most incompetent in real life.

This type of person can be called a fool.

People who have a little bit of status and know how to control their roles at dinner parties usually adjust their alcohol volume and drinking rhythm according to their different targets.

If the other party is stronger than you, drink more yourself; if the other party is weaker than you, let the other party drink more.

This type of person is usually called a slap.

People with real strength usually let the first two types of people perform at dinner parties, and they just try it out and order it, because the most important thing is always arranged after dinner parties.

This type of person is obviously awesome.

These three types of people are indispensable in every dinner party. Everyone’s role positioning in the dinner party is determined by the comparison of their strength.

Of course, Ren Pingsheng is not an idiot, but he is not a mess, let alone awesome. The reason why he made himself so embarrassed today was mainly because he did not see Zuo Xiaoxiao.

When he got up and went to Hanhai University to attend the 10th anniversary party of the 2002 classmate, Ren Pingsheng had made all his mental preparations and had imagined countless dialogue scenes.

Ten years ago, they were in their prime and full of energy. They were the couples that everyone envied and praised at each other, and were the winners who were ready to reach the peak of their lives.

Unfortunately, this gorgeous play came to an abrupt end before it started.

No one, including Ren Pingsheng, expected that the two would break up on the day of the graduation ceremony and ended the college relationship.

After that, I will follow the path that the masses must follow like the peers around me.

After marrying a wife, having children, spending, socializing, and doing everything that parents and people around him should do, Ren Pingsheng could only watch his wife play one popular TV series after another, and his children enrolled in one interest class after another, and had dinner after another...

Ten years later, seeing his growing belly over time, Ren Pingsheng has given up all his fantasies about the future. As time goes by, he no longer has hope and gradually forgot that person.

Just as he was following the crowd, without any joy or worry, and was about to numbly spend his ordinary life, the news of the 10th anniversary party of college classmates cast a ripples in his heart that was already like stagnant.

Ren Pingsheng has never liked to attend such gatherings. He always believed that having feelings among classmates would naturally get together, and it would be meaningless to force them to be together without feelings.

As we graduate longer, fewer and fewer students from back then can get together, and even fewer people have common topics together.

But this tenth anniversary party is different. Both the organization and scale are unprecedentedly powerful. Many teachers and outstanding alumni will attend, and naturally the name that makes him unforgettable is indispensable.

There is only one reason why Ren Pingsheng came to the party from beginning to end, and it always came for her.

He originally planned to use this party to ask Zuo Xiaoxiao a question in person, the question he had been waiting for for more than ten years.

But things went against my wishes. From the opening ceremony at noon, the garden party to the dinner, the beautiful figure that made him dream of never appeared.

Ren Pingsheng didn't know whether Zuo Xiaoxiao was delayed or did not show up in order to deliberately avoid him, and had no way to guess, but it is certain that his journey to the Hanhai was in vain and his delusional fire was extinguished.

With loss and unwillingness, Ren Pingsheng put aside his usual rationality and calmness, opened his mind at the dinner, raised his glasses and drank frequently, hoping to numb himself with alcohol, and use this self-deprecating behavior to vent his inner depression.

When people are frustrated, they often do some stupid things.

Ren Pingsheng is very stupid now.

That's why, in front of everyone, I was holding the flower pot in the hotel corridor and vomited a lot, like a domino pouring over. The whole stomach seemed to be about to turn over until the last bit of food residue was vomited.

By the time Ren Pingsheng stood up, there were already a pile of food residue mixed with the smell of alcohol and fermentation in the flower pot in front of him.

The eyes of the waiter next to him have gone from surprise, contempt, to disgust, to contempt. This middle-aged man looks inconspicuous, has no proper behavior, and cannot control himself. He is simply a loser.

After vomiting the burden in his stomach, Ren Pingsheng became a little more awake and began to understand the eyes of the people around him. However, at this time, he did not want to prove anything and was unable to correct others.

Compared to the outstanding alumni at the party, I am indeed not a heavy role.

After graduating from the undergraduate degree in economics and management of Hanhai University, Ren Pingsheng did not find a job smoothly like many of his classmates after experiencing fierce struggles in the employment market, because he had already passed the civil servant in Hanzhou City, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province in the second half of his senior year.

In 2006, when he graduated his life, civil servants were not as popular as they are now, but this stable job of ensuring income from drought and flood is also what many people dream of.

Ren Pingsheng's employment was very smooth, but unfortunately, a good beginning did not mean that the ending was perfect.

Perhaps it was the price that had to be paid for the employment that was too smooth. Ren Pingsheng did not develop in his career in his career. He just stepped on his years and was promoted to the full-time department level. He stayed at this position for 5 years, and then went up to the deputy department level. But just this step was more difficult than climbing to the sky.

If a person is limited to a ceiling for a long time, even a hero will have to bow his head and bend over after a long time, and exhaust his passion and heroic spirit.

Ren Pingsheng is not a hero, he is just a mortal. He can't rise yet, so it's even more impossible for a mortal to be.

Loser is lost, idiots are stupid. Anyway, after tomorrow, there will be no intersection with each other. Do you have any control?

After Ren Pingsheng won his self-spiritual victory, he wiped his mouth, tidied his clothes, and walked downstairs in the eyes of others as if nothing had happened, and continued the next game.

The second program of the 2nd class of Economics and Management Class 3 was set up in the KTV box on the second floor of the Jinlong Hotel. The main initiator and arrangement of this event was Ling Feng. He was one of the local tyrants in this class reunion and one of the few fellow villagers and friends in Ren’s class.

After Ling Feng graduated, he worked as a follower at a foreign trade company in Hanzhou City for a period of time. After mastering the basic situation of industry operations, he opened his own company with the support of his family and relatives.

With his outstanding foreign language skills and understanding of foreign legal rules, his foreign trade company has grown rapidly, and has also extended to the production of upstream products. It currently has 3 factories, 1 company and hundreds of employees, and its assets have reached hundreds of millions. It is considered a well-known figure in the class.

Ling Feng has always acted generously. The venue for this dinner was provided by Ling Feng. The five-star Golden Dragon Hotel is only twenty minutes away from the Hanhai University campus.

This hotel was run by a fellow Wenzhou native. Ren had heard of it a little before his lifetime. The hotel owner is a typical local boss in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who made a fortune by speculating on housing and land, so the hotel's decoration style is also a magnificent and wealthy way.

Ling Feng arranged the largest and most luxurious room in the hotel. The equipment and decorations inside were the same as the hotel's style. They were piled up with various golden jewelry and genuine leather European furniture, for fear that people would not know that the owner was a nouveau riche.

When Ren Pingsheng walked in, the KTV box was already full of people and singing.

The male classmates were busy showing off their achievements. The scope of showing off was nothing more than cars, houses, seats, those with luxury cars, those who were high-ranking officials talked about politics, and those who were rich discussed what location to buy for a house... There was nothing, so they had to get themselves drunk on the side.

The female classmates became much more reserved. As soon as they entered the box, they were busy looking for various angles to take selfies, trying their best to highlight the results of their careful dressing. Even if it was a group photo between the female classmates, they were fighting for the best position, exuding a strong relationship between plastic sisters.

Some thoughtful female classmates focus on some capable male classmates, singing, walking around, showing their faces, and showing their presence from time to time.

Although it was not intentional, the students in the box naturally formed three circles.

The first circle is of course led by Gao Yuanyuan. She once served as the class monitor of Class 3 of 202 and was also one of the leaders of this class reunion.

When she was at school, Gao Yuanyuan was a sensational figure on the campus, from the president of the school’s student union to the representative of the National Youth Federation, from the organizer and backbone of the school’s literary and artistic performances to the school’s enrollment image ambassador. She has been incredible in the past four years at school, and she can be said to be both good at character and academic performance and full of honors.

Of course, Gao Yuanyuan herself is very outstanding, but she can be at ease in many fields such as school and society. Some people can't help but associate it with her father, Gao Weicheng, who was once the Organization Minister of Handong New District, Hanhai City and currently the Deputy Mayor of Hanhai City.

In addition to two or three female classmates who are good at Gao Yuanyuan, there are mainly male classmates who fantasize about being able to cling to her family. This circle is located in the middle of the box, with a huge momentum and a full of style. Gao Yuanyuan is even more dazzling under the crowd.

Another circle is a few beautiful female classmates, and they are composed of male classmates who are doing well now. They don’t want to follow the crowd and so join the group with similar conditions. They each have some followers. Although this circle is not that big, it has more people, and it feels like they can compete with Gao Yuanyuan’s circle.

The last circle is strictly not a circle. It can only be said that the wandering soldiers who did not squeeze into the first two circles came together in order not to make themselves look alone. This circle is mainly composed of male classmates who have not achieved much success, female classmates are pitifully few, and the quality is not very high.

Ren Pingsheng found that he had been arranged to the third circle without realizing it, just like on campus, but he did not complain about this arrangement, and he had already adapted to this role.

Many of the circles where Ren Pingsheng is located are his roommates. There are 24 boys in Class 3 of 22, and they are evenly distributed to three dormitories. There are usually 8 people living in one boy dormitories. There are 6 people coming to the 107 dormitories where Ren Pingsheng is located today. Except for Chang Yuan, the class leader and party organizer, the other four are in this circle.

Zhang Wenwu is a gentle little fat man. He has been the dormitory director for four years and is now a teller in a business department of Handong Bank. He helps the old man and the old lady open an account in a suit and tie every day. Although he has bought a house in Hanhai City, he has not yet gotten married.

Helianji came with Cheng Zhi. They were both from Donglai City, Qilu Province, and the only pair of students from the north in the dormitory. They were also the closest to school. After all, in this university dominated by southerners, a few northerners would naturally hold each other together to help each other keep warm.

Although both of them are typical northern men, both of whom are about 180 in height, their personalities are completely different.

Helianji has a square face and a square chin, and his whole head is as square as a wooden board. Although his skin is white and clean, his facial features are as solemn as granite. He usually looks serious and terrifying, which makes people intimidate.

But he is actually a very decent and kind person. He usually doesn't speak much in the dormitory. Once he speaks, it means that others have done too much and crosses his inner moral bottom line. At this time, he has to express his own opinions. Usually, as soon as he opens his mouth, everyone's arguments will basically subside.

Cheng Zhi happened to be the other extreme. He has dark skin and deep facial features. A pair of talking peach blossom eyes are always affectionate. He is a recognized handsome man in the dormitory and a main striker of the school football team. Many girls like him when they were in school.

However, although he has good external conditions, his personality is a little hesitant and passive. He needs to help him with most things. The roles of other people are usually played by Helian Ki, so when the two were in school, they almost looked like "Meng is not out of focus, Jiao is not out of focus," they said.

After graduation, the two still maintained the friendship they formed when they were at school. Helianji worked as a project manager in a provincial state-owned construction enterprise, and Cheng Zhi worked as a sales representative in a trading company in Qizhou.

Lin Lisong is a person who looks quiet and dull. He is from Houguan City, Minhai Province. He is close to Ren Pingsheng's hometown. In addition, since his freshman year, they have had a relationship with him on the upper and lower bunks, so during his school days, he was the one with the best relationship with Ren Pingsheng in the entire dormitory.

Lin Lisong got married very late. Ren Pingsheng's children were all in kindergarten before receiving his invitation. Ren Pingsheng only met the bride at his wedding banquet. He had a big waist, a round waist, a bride with a pale and thin limbs and a slender limbs, standing together, as if the standard fit for Hollywood comedy.

Unfortunately, although the bride smiled so hard that night, the groom looked absent-minded and listless, and I don’t know if they lived happily after marriage.

Chang Yuan, the most active in the dormitory, recommended himself to become the class monitor after Gao Yuanyuan stepped down. This took him three years, and he was still the class monitor until he graduated from his senior year.

Maybe he was very skilled in this position, maybe the whole class needed someone to be the class monitor, so after graduation, everyone always respected him as the class monitor, and he had no choice but to accept this title and the obligations attached to the title.

From alumni to QQ groups to WeChat groups, with the ever-changing social media, the contact information of the students in Class 3 of Economics and Management 02 has changed again and again, but the only thing that remains unchanged are these QQ groups, the creators of WeChat groups, and the organizers of previous class reunions - Chang Yuan.

This party was no exception. Although the main sponsor was Ling Feng, Chang Yuan was still busy organizing and coordinating.

Although Chang Yuan looked very happy in society, he was just working for his father. The father and son operated the fish pond that he had been contracted for for many years, and their income was basically based on the weather. If there was no epidemic, it would be fine, otherwise there would be no grain harvest throughout the year.

Overall, the boys in dormitory 107 did not do well after graduation. Ren Pingsheng was the one who lived the best in the dormitory. At least his work was stable and decent enough.

Chang Yuan walked around the room, greeting his classmates with his signature enthusiasm, just rightly and not too much time to greet each classmate, making the other party feel that he is not neglected and not too close.

Although Chang Yuan has tried his best to get evenly affected by rain and dew, his main range of activities is obviously still locked in the first and second circles. Obviously, the third circle is not worth his time.

Ren Pingsheng didn't care which circle he was in, and he was not interested in chatting with these classmates. He just wanted to sit on the sofa for a while and leave after the alcohol came back.
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