Chapter 18 A Lifetime Best Friend

Ji Ran didn't expect that her single mother and child would overtake the car one day, and even if she had a girlfriend, she had already hit a home run. Lying on the bed and biting the sheet silently, Ji Ran felt sour in her heart when she thought of the back of the two of them leaving sweetly holding hands after their meal.

At this moment, Ji Ran's cell phone rang. Ji Ran picked up the phone and looked at Yan Qing's name displayed on the screen. His heart was exceptionally calm, without a trace of turbulence. She answered, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, greeting like an old friend, "Hey, Qingqing, what's the matter?"

The other side of the phone didn't seem to expect Ji Ran to speak to him so kindly. After a moment of silence, he heard Yan Qing's soft voice coming from the other side of the phone, "Of course, aren't you angry?"

Ji Ran touched her nose and remembered what she said to Yan Qing that day, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. From Yan Qing's standpoint, she just regarded herself as her best friend, and it seemed that she did nothing wrong. , It's because I have thoughts that I shouldn't have. Now that I have completely cut off the thoughts, I can be a good friend again.

"Cough, Qingqing, don't think too much about what I said the other day, I just see that everyone around me has a target, it's just unbalanced, nothing else." Ji Ran racked his brains and thought about it. A lame reason to try to explain the past.

Unexpectedly, Yan Qing laughed softly over there, "Of course, you don't need to explain it to me, as long as you don't get angry with me."

Yan Qing's tone was as soft as ever, and Ji Ran couldn't help but relax his brows and eyes, no longer holding on to the day's affairs, and asked Yan Qing with a smile: "It's so late, you're calling to ask me if I'm still angry, right? ?"

Ji Ran was joking, but Yan Qing actually replied softly, "Yeah."

Ji Ran didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'm not angry, you should rest early."

Yan Qing on the other side of the phone seemed to hesitate for a while, but finally asked Ji Ran cautiously, "Of course, can you come to my house for dinner tomorrow?"

After a pause, Yan Qing added, "Just the two of us."

Ji Ran couldn't help but feel helpless. It seemed that he had shown too much hostility towards Lu Jiang before, so Yan Qing finally added this sentence. In fact, even if he had dinner with Lu Jiang for three, Ji Ran would be fine.

Ji Ran pondered for a moment, let's eat together this time. After all, it's easier to talk. I'll invite the two of them when have time in the future.

"Okay, I'll go after work tomorrow night, do you need me to bring some food?" Ji Ran happily agreed and asked Yan Qing.

"No, it's fine if you can come." Yan Qing smiled and said softly.

After chatting for a while, Ji Ran yawned and the two hung up.

In Yan Qing's house, four dishes and one soup were already placed on the dining table. If Ji Ran saw it, he would find that all of them were what he liked.

There was a knock on the door, Yan Qing with a light smile, walked quickly to the door, opened the door, and Ji Ran's familiar face came into view.

"Why did it take so long to arrive, I thought you would regret not coming." Yan Qing said with a smile, although he was joking, his voice was a little lower.

Ji Ran raised the bag in his hand, smiled and said, "I bought some fruit on the way, so I was delayed."

"Come in." Yan Qing turned sideways, Ji Ran went in and changed his shoes, then walked towards the sofa.

Ji Ran put the bag on the coffee table, sat down on the sofa, beat his arm, and complained, "I'm so tired today, I wrote a summary for the whole day."

It has been a long time since Yan Qing saw Ji Ran so casually in front of him, and his eyes filled with a gentle smile, "Is it so hard? If you want something to drink, I'll get it for you."

"No, it's time to eat, what are you making delicious?" Ji Ran looked at Yan Qing with bright eyes, the greedy worms in his stomach couldn't wait any longer.

"It's all set on the table, just waiting for you to come and eat." Yan Qing looked at Ji Ran softly, her gentle voice was so refreshing.

"That's great, I'm going to be hungry, let's eat first." Ji Ran was very clever and sat down at the dining table in the blink of an eye. Looking at the table full of his favorite dishes, he even frowned.

It turned out that as long as you let it go, you can get along with Yan Qing so happily. After all, apart from liking it, everyone is still such a good friend. They know each other well and understand each other's every preference.

At the dining table, the two laughed and talked to Yan Yan. Ji Ran, who had put down the past, casually told Yan Qing about interesting things around them. Yan Qing listened with great interest. After a meal, the atmosphere was indescribably harmonious.

When everyone was almost full, Yan Qing suddenly looked at Ji Ran, her beautiful eyes twitched, it seemed to be covered with a layer of white mist, making it unreal, she said softly, like a murmur and a sigh "Of course, you haven't talked to me like that for a long time."

Ji Ran was slightly startled, she quietly looked at the girl she once loved in front of her, and slowly traced her gentle outline with her eyes, the past events flashed through her mind one by one like a revolving lantern.

Indeed, since graduating from university, she has been avoiding Yan Qing, and even if they meet, she is always alienated from her.

Thinking about it like this, she also made Yan Qing suffer a lot of grievances. It was obviously her own wishful thinking, but she was tired of following her.

"Of course, what are you thinking about?" Yan Qing originally let Ji Ran stare at her without saying a word. Deep down, she liked Ji Ran to look at her so intently, but when Ji Ran came back to his senses, he lowered his head and lowered his head. She frowned, her heart panicked for no reason.

"It's nothing, I just remembered some things from the past." Ji Ran's lips curled slightly, and a warm smile slowly faded away on his face.

"Qingqing, do you remember? We were like one person when we were in school. At that time, we did everything together. Even the teacher said that we were like a pair of conjoined babies." Ji Ran chuckled softly. Gentle and soothing like babbling in a dream, when telling the past, there is no more difficult to talk about, unwilling to face it, and my heart is extraordinarily safe, as if talking about other people's affairs, "It's just that later, I was immersed in a dream weaved by myself. It is hard to get out of the struggle, it is difficult to save oneself, and there is no time to take care of others.”

After a pause, Ji Ran looked directly at Yan Qing's eyes, and the gentle eyes were extremely clear, "But now, I finally woke up. Destiny comes and goes, each has his destiny, and everything in the world should be like this."

"Of course, I don't understand what you're talking about." Yan Qing felt a strong unease in her heart. Her fair face seemed to turn whiter, her fingertips trembled slightly but she hid it under the table. Staring at Ji Ran's eyes, he seemed to want to see something, but in the end he saw that there was no trace of waves in the clear eyes of the other party.

Ji Ran looked at her so gently, but she could only feel a bone-chilling coldness all over her body.

"Huh? Don't you understand?" Ji Ran raised his eyebrows, took a chopstick and put it in his mouth, and said casually, "It's okay if you don't understand, you don't need to care."

Ji Ran's expression was gentle and calm, no longer the appearance of being cold and alienated to him over the past few years, but looking at Ji Ran like this, the strangeness in Yan Qing's heart became stronger and stronger. Over the years, although Ji Ran has been trying to avoid herself, she can clearly perceive her uniqueness in Ji Ran's heart, but now, even though Ji Ran smiles so brightly and kindly to herself, she can no longer feel herself He was very special to Ji Ran, as if he could never touch Ji Ran's heart again.

"Ran Ran..." Yan Qing looked at Ji Ran with a trace of sadness in his watery eyes.

"Huh?" Ji Ran hummed casually, unaware of Yan Qing's strangeness.

"We..." Yan Qing bit his lip and asked after a while, "Will we be together forever?"

"Yes." Ji Ran replied briskly without thinking, and then said with emotion, "We will be good friends for life."

Yan Qing silently looked at Ji Ran in front of him, and felt that his heart was desolate. A lifelong good friend, isn't this what I have always expected, but why is Ji Ran willing to treat me like this, and I feel so sad in my heart? The tears in her heart were getting stronger and stronger, so she couldn't help closing her eyes, letting the tears spin in her eyes, and finally disappeared silently.

Yan Qing was a little dazed. She didn't know what she was chasing, what she was avoiding, what she was afraid of, and what she expected. She didn't know what she really wanted over the years.

After the meal, Ji Ran got up to say goodbye, Yan Qing wanted to keep her, but she refused with a smile.

Seeing Ji Ran waving goodbye to him with a smile, then turning away without hesitation, slowly walking into the dark night and never looking back, Yan Qing had a feeling in his heart that Ji Ran really left him this time.

When Yan Qing returned home, he locked himself in the bedroom, curled up in the soft velvet quilt, and the tears that he had been holding back so unknowingly flowed down, and it didn't take a moment to moisten a piece.

Walking on the road, Ji Ran was humming the little tune he used to hum as a child, and he felt something he had never felt in all these years.

easy

, Just say it, I really let it go this time, those persistent years are finally the past, from now on she and Yan Qing are just friends when they were young, that's all, there will be no more Feelings that shouldn't be.

In a trance, Ji Ran has a feeling of being in a different world. The young love has withered before it blooms. Before she can pay homage to it, it has turned to ashes and died with the wind. In the past time, she is about to start her new life, and she will also wish Yan Qing to be happy forever.

Ji Ran suddenly wanted to see Su Mei, she took out her mobile phone, looked at Su Mei's name in the address book, and locked the screen after several hesitations.

It's too late, let's do it next time. There is no rush between them. She hopes to have a long-term relationship with her. Although she admires the quick battle between Cheng Cheng and Lu Taotao, it is not suitable for them after all. Su Mei is like a glass of mellow red wine, she hopes to spend her whole life to savor it carefully.