Chapter 438 Illusion

The birthday party happened to be Saturday. The first day, in order to pick up Liu Lingmei, Xia Qiu asked for a half-day off. The thought of sleeping in tomorrow made her feel very happy.

She was woken up by Xiaohei. On weekday mornings, she usually gets up early to walk Xiaohei, but on weekends, Xia Xuesong wants her to sleep a little longer. It's just that after Xiaohei and Xia Xuesong go home, as soon as they wash their claws, they will run to Xia Qiu's room and catch her with their cold claws.

The same is true this morning. It smelled it with its nose, bypassed the other side where Liu Lingmei was sleeping, and went to Xia Qiu to wake her up.

"Are you back?" Xia Qiu half squinted and touched Xiao Hei asked.

"Wow!" Xiaohei responded happily in response to Xia Qiu.

This sound also woke Liu Lingmei up. She pouted and sat up with her hair messy. She picked up the quilt from the bedside table next to her and took a sip of water, and then lay down again.

"Get up. Didn't you say you wanted to go around during the day?" Xia Qiu shook Liu Lingmei's shoulder and said.

Seeing that she had no reaction, she had to go down from ** by herself. She has long been used to Liu Lingmei's problem of sleeping late. For her, she is quite happy to get up after nine o'clock, but for Liu Lingmei, she must sleep at twelve o'clock to be considered lazy. In addition, the two sisters lie in ** last night and talked happily, so I guess she can't get up.

After breakfast, Xia Qiu planned to go to the small library near his home and return the book he borrowed two weeks ago. There is a shortcut from the community that leads to the library. The road is not accessible to motor vehicles, and there is a flower bed on one side. Every time she walks there, she can't help but slow down.

Today, walking on this path again gives her an indescribable feeling, as if this road is a path to the demon world. If she takes a step forward, she will enter another world, the world that belongs to him.

She returned the books she had borrowed, planned to borrow a few new ones, wandered between the bookshelves of several rows of novels, and took the simple reading she was interested in. Before that, she had read two novels of Jingji Xiayan, and happened to go to the place where several of his works were placed in a row, intending to borrow back the Dream of Crazy Bones that she had not read.

Just as soon as he stretched out his hand to the bookshelf and was ready to take down the book, Xia Qiu intuitively felt that there was someone opposite. When she took the book away, the man opposite also took a book in the same position. Only in an instant, through the gap between the book and the book, she saw the eyes of the person opposite in a trance.

The rare gray-blue pupils are like the quiet deep sea at night, and like the canopy behind the bright starry sky. Xia Qiu only felt that his heart suddenly stopped at the moment he saw the pupils, and the book in his hand fell to the ground. She quickly walked around the bookshelf and thought of the other end to find out. Although it was only a few steps away, she couldn't say how complicated her mood was.

Will it be him?!! She asked herself in her heart.

But when she went around to the other side of the bookshelf, no one was there. Only a book lay quietly on the ground, as if to prove that everything just now was not just her hallucination. She looked around the whole library like crazy, but she didn't find the person she was looking for. I only felt that I had lost the strength to borrow books, so I simply walked out of the library empty-handed.

Her brain was empty and she lost the ability to think for a while. When he came to his senses, he was already standing in the seventy-one not far from home, holding a bottle of coke in his hand.

The young man in charge of the cashier behind the counter shouted at her, "Miss! Miss! Are you going to pay?"

She just realized that there were still a few people waiting to pay the bill behind her. She quickly handed over the Coke and said, "I'm sorry! I was distracted just now!"

I came out of seventy-one with a filled coke, remembering that when I was 16 years old, I was sitting on the steps in front of my grandfather's house and drinking coke with Ouyang Xiao Leng, as if it had just happened yesterday. She sat on the bench in the yard of the community. When she went out, the clear sky began to become cloudy. The children who were playing on the open space also began to go home one after another, and suddenly the surroundings became quiet.

Xia Qiu felt that it was almost time to go back, but she was still a little reluctant to give up. She couldn't say what she was waiting for. Reason told her that the pupils that happened to be seen in the library just now may be her hallucination, or it may be another person with similar eyes, but it was emotionally unacceptable.

In the three years of high school and four years of college, and then two or three years of working here, there are many suitors around her, but she has never felt moved. People who know her will not persuade her. They know who she is waiting for, and how irreplaceable the person she is waiting for her is. But year after a year, she still closed her heart tightly, even to the point of being airtight, which made those who cared for her worried about her. But it is precisely because she knows the worries about the people around her that she feels contradictions and pressure.

She took a deep breath, hoping that the evening party could take away these unpleasant moods. She plans to indulge herself on her birthday. After all, a long period of self-repression makes her live a hard life.

Before going to X Bar, she spent more makeup than usual with the help of Liu Lingmei, and then put on the white dress and silver-gray sequined high heels tailored for her by Liu Lingmei. Looking at herself in the mirror, she was really refreshed. Liu Lingmei is wearing a small green dress. In her words, she is here to be a green leaf tonight.

Xia Xuesong insisted on driving them to the door of the bar. In fact, Xia Qiu was a little worried that her father would not be used to seeing her makeup, but Xia Xuesong was very satisfied with her image.

He almost couldn't take his eyes off her, and then squeezed his eyes at Liu Lingmei and said, "GoodJob!"

"Uncle is so foreign, hahaha!" After getting the affirmation, Liu Lingmei couldn't close her mouth with a smile.

The bar is located on the top floor of a building, where foreign bands perform every night. After Xia Qiu reported her name at the door, a special waiter introduced her and Liu Lingmei to what she had booked. Several colleagues and friends have arrived early and began to wave when they saw Xia Qiu from afar.

A medium-sized girl stood up and said, "The protagonist is really late!"

The reserved position of Xia Qiu is surrounded by three long sofas, which can make about a dozen people. The glass table in the middle is pink Moyue champagne in the ice bucket, and five bottles of red wine are placed around it. It's just past nine o'clock, the band's performance hasn't started yet, and there are not many people in the bar.

The girl who stood up first just now is called Zhao Xiaoyue, a colleague of Xiaqiu Company. Although she was a few years older than Xia Qiu, she was already the deputy director of the personnel department. When Xia Qiu entered this company, the first person to interview her was Zhao Xiaoyue. Later, the relationship between the two has always been good.

The other two male colleagues met when they were preparing for the program together at the annual meeting. They always acted together because of the shared rent relationship, and because they were full of tacit understanding, they often caused a group of corrupt women in the company to scream.

There is also a girl who has arrived wearing glasses, who is Xia Qiu's college classmate. Because both of them like reading, they have more common topics. After graduation, the two people don't meet many times. Most of them exchange the books and feelings they read through WeChat. After such a long time, they feel very friendly.

Later, several people came one after another, basically either colleagues or college classmates. Xia Qiu saw that the people were almost here, so he was ready to ask the waiter to open the champagne.

"Hey, hey, wait! The hero hasn't appeared yet. How can he open champagne so quickly!" Zhao Xiaoyue waved her hand to stop it.

"That's it!"

"I have to wait for Zhang Ke!"

The two male colleagues who are like one-body babies also coaxed.

"Who is Zhang Ke?" Liu Lingmei suddenly grabbed Xia Qiu, and her big eyes kept blinking. She asked seriously, "What's going on with you? Don't tell me!"

"Don't listen to their nonsense. Zhang Ke is the head of my department." Xia Qiu answered with some embarrassment.

"Zhang Ke said that it was because he wanted to have dinner with the client. I guess he would go back to take a shower and change his clothes after dinner. He was so particular about it every time he appeared, let alone celebrate the birthday of his princess!" Zhao Xiaoyue said with a bad smile.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I'm late!"

At this time, a thin and tall figure suddenly appeared, and people began to apologize repeatedly before they arrived. Everyone focused on the person who came late. He held a bunch of lilies in his left hand and a bag of gifts in his right hand.

"It's true that Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive!" A joke in the one-in-one baby boy said.

"Zhang Ke, it's too late to play! I have to punish you for drinking!" Zhao Xiaoyue pointed to the three red wine glasses in front of him and waved, " Pour these three cups for him!"

Although the lights in the bar were relatively dim, Liu Lingmei still saw that the man with glasses named Zhang Ke was quite handsome. She couldn't help patted Xia Qiu and said, "Handsome guy!"

"No problem! No problem! I'll drink it when I send the gift first!" Zhang Ke smiled at Zhao Xiaoyue, and then turned to Xia Qiu and said, "Xia Qiu, happy birthday to you!"

"Thank you!"

Xia Qiu took over the flowers and gifts handed over by Zhang Ke, and also ushered in a hustling sound on the seat.

The performance of the bar also started at the same time, and the sound engineer on the stage helped the musician debug the instruments and equipment and then walked off the stage. The lights on the stage changed. The petite and sexy female singer first walked to the center of the stage and said to the vertical microphone, "Welcome to X on weekend nights. X means unknown. I hope you can encounter unknown surprises here this night. Before the singing starts, I also want to wish a happy birthday to a lady named Xia Qiu! I know you're sitting under the stage, HappyBirthday!"

There was a cheer under the stage, and the band's drummer started the rhythm in the cheers. At the beginning of the performance, it was unexpected that the petite singer had a very shocking voice as soon as he opened his voice.