Chapter 118: Meeting You Used Up All My Luck

Meng Baihan lowered her head slightly and suddenly saw the message Zhang Yang had sent, saying he had already arrived downstairs.

“Zhang Yang is downstairs!” she looked up and said.

“Then that means everyone’s here. We can finally start the meal.” Class monitor Zou Jun smacked his lips and didn’t say anything else.

Anyway, if he were the one organizing this gathering, he definitely wouldn’t have invited those who used to be marginal figures in the class.

Meng Baihan gently stood up, preparing to go to the door to greet him.

Behind her, the classmates who had arrived were either sitting or standing, chatting among themselves. Hardly anyone paid attention to the classmate who was about to arrive.

Several appearance-obsessed girls were still immersed in their own topic.

“Your boyfriend looks pretty handsome. With a bit of styling, he kind of has that someone’s vibe.”

“Haha, really? Your boyfriend isn’t bad either.”

“What a pity. Honestly speaking, our class never really had anyone particularly handsome, except that Song Shaoqiang who changed the most.”

They giggled and even glanced at the class monitor Zou Jun.

Zou Jun also looked tall with fairly defined facial features, barely counting as a bit handsome.

“Class monitor, you don’t mind us saying that, right?”

“Doesn’t matter. If I’m not handsome, then I’m not handsome. I call it having masculine charm.” Zou Jun smiled helplessly, pretending not to hear the girls’ casual chatter.

The private room door was pushed open.

“Sorry, I’m a bit late.”

A figure walked in.

Those sitting, standing, chatting, cracking sunflower seeds, drinking tea, or playing cards all looked over, staring blankly at the tall figure standing at the doorway.

Several prettily dressed girls who had been whispering to each other suddenly stood up.

Who was this tall and handsome guy with thin lips and a straight nose, looking like a male protagonist from a novel?

Is this someone you can actually encounter in everyday life?

“Zhang Yang, you finally made it.” Meng Baihan walked over with a smile, then noticed a mature, elegant beauty following closely behind Zhang Yang.

“And this is?”

“Oh, this is a friend of mine,” Zhang Yang casually introduced. “Hope you don’t mind adding another set of chopsticks?”

Since they were already here, he had simply invited Li Xiaoxuan along. He couldn’t just let her make the trip for nothing.

“Hello, I’m President Zhang’s friend. Sorry for the disturbance.” Li Xiaoxuan smiled and extended her hand to greet Meng Baihan.

Meng Baihan looked at the bright and graceful smile, froze for a second, then reacted.

“Not at all, not at all. We’re all friends. Please come in,” she said softly.

The private room became somewhat quiet. People leaned toward each other whispering, occasionally exchanging surprised looks.

Zhang Yang found a seat and sat down. Li Xiaoxuan obediently sat beside him.

A beautiful girl in her early twenties would naturally attract attention, but a woman in her early thirties, radiating mature feminine charm from head to toe, was even more deadly.

Several boys lowered their heads but kept sneaking glances over.

“Damn, what’s going on?”

“Did Zhang Yang completely transform himself?”

“That beauty next to him-what’s their relationship? It can’t be that kind of relationship, right?”

Class monitor Zou Jun stared at Zhang Yang, suddenly stood up, and walked over with a big smile.

“Come on, old classmate, have some water. It’s been many years since we last met.”

Zhang Yang looked at Zou Jun walking toward him.

This class monitor wasn’t the best academically in the class, but he was definitely the most socially skilled. Of course, even someone socially skilled still treated classmates differently.

Subtly marginalizing a classmate-most people wouldn’t do that, but Zou Jun was exactly the kind who would.

“So it’s the class monitor.” Zhang Yang nodded, casually tossed his car keys onto the table, and took the stainless steel kettle to pour some water.

Zou Jun’s eyes focused as he glanced at the Porsche car keys on the table, then smiled.

“Zhang Yang, you’re doing pretty well now, huh? Driving a Porsche already.”

The others at the table immediately looked over and began whispering.

“Damn, he drives a Porsche.”

“That’s a bit intentionally high-profile. This classmate isn’t humble at all.”

Zhang Yang heard every word clearly but didn’t bother explaining.

He had never treated a class reunion as some kind of face-slapping event. With his current strength, he had no interest in showing off or flaunting anything to these former classmates.

If a Porsche was considered high-profile, then where would that leave his Cullinan and Bentley?

But in the eyes of these classmates, a Porsche was already considered high-profile. His completely unintentional action was interpreted as showing off.

Summer insects cannot speak of ice; frogs in a well cannot speak of the sea.

“By the way, Zhang Yang, aren’t you going to introduce this beauty? She’s not your girlfriend, is she?” Zou Jun looked at Li Xiaoxuan beside him and asked with a smile.

Before Zhang Yang could answer, Li Xiaoxuan suddenly hugged Zhang Yang’s arm.

“You’re joking. If I were President Zhang’s girlfriend, I’d probably wake up from laughing in my dreams. I’m not qualified for that, right President Zhang?”

Zou Jun stood there, stunned.

Such a charming and mature woman actually said something so close to throwing herself at him. Any man would probably be overjoyed hearing that, yet Zhang Yang remained unmoved?

Zhang Yang felt the softness against his arm and subconsciously tried to pull away.

He moved twice, then turned his face toward Li Xiaoxuan beside him, only to see her cheeks looking even more delicate and flushed, with a faint trace of charming shyness.

“President Zhang, be gentle with the movement,” she reminded softly before gently letting go of his arm.

It was getting late, and the former classmates began taking their seats.

“Zhang Yang, can I take a photo with you?”

Several appearance-focused girls from the class looked at Zhang Yang and could barely suppress their restless hearts. They all pulled Zhang Yang over to take selfies.

“Sure,” Zhang Yang casually agreed.

Before he could react, someone else suddenly hooked their arm around his other arm.

Girls really do change after eighteen. The girls from the class, after going through university and society, all knew how to do makeup and dress up. Each of them could pass as a small beauty when walking outside.

At this moment, they took turns standing beside Zhang Yang.

Together with Li Xiaoxuan on his right, it almost looked like he was surrounded by women on both sides.

“Wait, you’re taking photos like this and posting them on Moments. Won’t your boyfriends have a problem when they see them?” Zhang Yang couldn’t help asking.

“They dare to have a problem?” the former female classmates laughed playfully, no longer showing the reserve they once had. “If it really comes to that, Zhang Yang, if you become my boyfriend, I could even break up right now.”

A joke was just a joke.

Each girl happily got her photo with him and went back to post it on Moments.

Shortly afterward, Zhang Yang personally witnessed several of the girls’ phones ringing nonstop. Once they answered, they were all worried boyfriends calling.

Boyfriend one: “What time will it end? I’ll come pick you up.”

Boyfriend two: “So you’re just eating tonight, right? Please, please don’t drink alcohol.”

Just one photo was enough to give their normally carefree boyfriends a sense of crisis.

“Zhang Yang, if you ask me, you’re the one getting special treatment today. You arrived last and even brought a beauty with you. Look at us-we all came alone,” a male classmate said sourly after seeing how popular Zhang Yang was.

“You’ll definitely have to drink three penalty glasses later.”

As soon as he said that, the other boys started cheering.

“Yeah, three penalty glasses!”

“Zhang Yang, if you don’t drink, that’s not very brotherly of you!”

Zhang Yang smiled. These days, someone still tried to pull that routine with him at a dinner table? Not brotherly? They really couldn’t tell who held the power here. If he didn’t want to drink, could anyone actually force him?

“Let’s skip the alcohol. How about this-today let’s not split the bill. I’ll treat everyone,” he said casually.

Several boys immediately fell silent.

“Zhang Yang, so generous!” several female classmates exclaimed excitedly.

“Handsome and kind-hearted!”

Soon everyone took their seats and notified the hotel to start serving the dishes.

“Zhang Yang, I’ll sit here, okay?” Meng Baihan gently sat down beside him.

Several girls had been eyeing the seat next to him, but none had the nerve to sit there first.

In the end, it had remained empty.

“Sure, old classmate.” Zhang Yang glanced at Meng Baihan beside him and only then noticed that today she had her black hair draped over her shoulders, light natural makeup, and a floral dress.

It was obvious she had put a lot of thought into her appearance.

“What are you looking at?” Meng Baihan pursed her lips slightly, a bit shy. “You really aren’t drinking tonight?”

“Don’t really feel like it.” Zhang Yang withdrew his gaze and shook his head.

Getting drunk and waking up dizzy the next day-what was the point? More importantly, he didn’t have the kind of relationship with these high school classmates that required drinking themselves senseless.

No relationship meant no relationship. There was no need to pretend they shared some deep bond as classmates.

If today’s gathering were all female classmates, he might actually order some red wine and enjoy a proper drink.

“Alright then… how about some drinks?” Meng Baihan was just about to grab some beverages.

At that moment, Li Xiaoxuan beside them immediately stood up with great awareness, picked up the bottle, and attentively poured a drink for Zhang Yang.

Meng Baihan watched Li Xiaoxuan bustling around attentively. Although she felt puzzled, she didn’t ask anything.

“That’s enough, I’ll do it myself.” Zhang Yang felt slightly uncomfortable with Li Xiaoxuan’s excessive attentiveness. Mainly because he couldn’t truly enjoy it with peace of mind.

“If you have something to say, just say it. No need to hide it.”

Zhang Yang asked Li Xiaoxuan again.

This time, to get a clear answer all at once, Zhang Yang quietly placed his hand under the table.

He clearly felt the thigh beneath it tremble slightly, yet Li Xiaoxuan showed no reaction at all, as if she hadn’t noticed his action.

“Tsk.” Zhang Yang withdrew his hand.

This time, he was certain that this Li Xiaoxuan definitely had something she wanted to ask of him.

But what exactly was it?

“President Zhang, how about… we talk about it tonight?” Li Xiaoxuan suddenly said hesitantly.

“This tonight sounds a bit meaningful.” Zhang Yang nodded, already making some guesses in his mind.

A moment later, the dishes were served one after another.

Everyone ate, chatted, some drank alcohol, some drank beverages. Amid the clinking of glasses, the atmosphere gradually became lively.

The dishes had been ordered in advance by Meng Baihan and the others, and they were quite plentiful.

However, the standard was what it was. This entire table cost less than two thousand yuan, and with drinks and beverages added, it came to just a little over two thousand.

Zhang Yang replaced alcohol with beverages and politely toasted everyone.

“Teacher Meng, let me toast you separately.” Zhang Yang raised his glass and looked at Meng Baihan beside him.

“Why are you calling me Teacher Meng too?” Meng Baihan raised her glass to clink with his, looking a bit embarrassed.

“Oh right, why didn’t your girlfriend come back with you this time? After all, buying a house is such a big deal…”

“Is it really that big of a deal?” Zhang Yang asked in confusion. Buying a villa worth ten million or so-how was that a big deal? “I bought her an apartment in Shanghai. The house here is mainly for my parents to live in.”

“You bought her a house?” Meng Baihan stared with her mouth slightly open, her heart filled with shock and complicated emotions. “You treat your girlfriend really well. That’s a house in Shanghai!”

So many people struggled their entire lives just to buy a house in Shanghai, yet Zhang Yang casually bought one for his girlfriend.

“It’s fine. You’re so outstanding-maybe in the future you’ll also find a boyfriend willing to buy you a house and a car, who knows?” Zhang Yang looked at Meng Baihan and joked.

“Find someone like you?” Meng Baihan gently shook her head. “I wouldn’t dare hope for that.”

“So little confidence?” Zhang Yang looked at her. This didn’t seem like the mindset of the former high school class beauty.

“Meeting you already used up almost all my luck. And you expect me to meet another one like you? How could something that good happen again?” Meng Baihan pursed her lips and smiled softly, taking a light breath as she looked into Zhang Yang’s eyes.

There seemed to be a hint of expectation.

“That sentence of yours sounds a bit ambiguous. It makes it seem like we once missed our chance.” Zhang Yang smiled casually, his expression showing no ripples.

“We were completely innocent. Nothing even started between us-what did we miss?”

Meng Baihan quietly withdrew her gaze, a trace of disappointment and dimness appearing in her eyes.

After dinner, this class reunion didn’t arrange any other activities.

Mainly because several of the girls’ boyfriends present were quite nervous. Before dinner had even ended, phone calls had already started coming in one after another.

Late at night, downstairs of the restaurant.

“Buddy, next time keep some sense of boundaries with other people’s girlfriends.” One female classmate’s boyfriend was clearly unhappy seeing how intimate his girlfriend looked with another man in the photo.

So he came up pretending to be tough, trying to give a warning.

Zhang Yang leaned against the Cayenne, smoking under the streetlight. He glanced at the boy briefly, his expression calm and unmoved.

“Zhao Lu, your boyfriend is quite assertive, huh?” Zhang Yang looked at his high school classmate and casually reminded her.

The last boy who spoke to him like that had lost both the girl and everything else.

The boy’s expression changed. Realizing he was completely being ignored, he grew anxious and was about to speak when someone suddenly grabbed his ear.

“Liu Yong, you’ve got some nerve! The pure friendship between classmates in your eyes has become what exactly? I’ll deal with you when we get back.” Zhao Lu directly stepped in.

“Hiss, that hurts-be gentler, be gentler.” Zhao Lu’s boyfriend showed a painful expression and immediately began begging for mercy.

Zhang Yang watched the pair walking away and found it somewhat amusing.

“President Zhang, I’ll go wait in the car first.” Li Xiaoxuan smiled as she looked at Meng Baihan standing outside the car, then got into the vehicle.

“How did you get here? Want me to give you a ride?” Zhang Yang looked at Meng Baihan.

“No need.” Meng Baihan smiled lightly and shook her head, taking out a BMW car key and gently shaking it. “I drove here today as well.”

“Alright then.” Zhang Yang nodded. There wasn’t really anything else to say. “Then I’ll get going?”

Meng Baihan brushed a strand of her black hair behind her ear and nodded without speaking.

Zhang Yang walked toward the passenger side and was about to get in the car.

“Hey… Zhang Yang!” Meng Baihan suddenly called out to him.

“What is it?” Zhang Yang turned back in confusion.

Under the night lights, Meng Baihan stood there with her arms folded. When she saw him look over, she gently waved her hand.

“When you get home tonight, send me a message… if you don’t mind.”