096: Old Classmates and Old Friends

Jinding Hotel specially provided venues or boxes for hosting banquets. Because the group of seniors in their third-year class had less than 60 people attending, they chose to have their party in a small box. If the box in this hotel was not reserved two or three months in advance, they would be unable to reserve it at all.

As soon as Wang Cheng entered the hotel, the waiter walked up to him. Under the guidance of the waiter, he came to the third-floor box 801. The waiter also thoughtfully helped him open the door of the box. Wang Cheng smiled and thanked her, and the waiter blushed slightly and left after saying a couple of words.

Because it was almost six o'clock, most of the classmates had arrived, and a few were people who only came to see specific classmates, including Wang Cheng. So as soon as someone entered the door, everyone's eyes couldn’t help but watch them.

"Wang Cheng!"

Wei Dandan had been watching the time, and talked to her friends absent-mindedly. Although Wang Cheng promised that he would come to participate, there was still no figure in sight when the time was up so she was anxious. She would immediately look up every time the door moved. After all, she had already assured the others that Wang Cheng would come to the class reunion. Wang Cheng could be considered a man of great character at Shanhai High School. Wei Dandan just called his name, so the box got quiet at once, and everyone's attention was focused on him. His familiar yet unfamiliar face really put them in a trance. After the past seven years, the childlike faces in their impression had now been replaced with real and fake masks.

Wang Cheng nodded his head towards her. At this moment, a man one or two centimeters shorter than him came towards him without saying a word, and punched him in the chest.

"Wang Cheng, you are a good boy. When you graduated from high school, you ran away without even contacting your brother. How dare you show up now? If I hadn’t heard that you would come this time, I wouldn’t be here.”

"I was afraid that you would blame me, so I hurried and rushed over. You’ve changed since we were 18 years old, I wouldn't recognize you if you didn't speak." Wang Cheng opened his arms and smiled at him; they hugged for a moment. The man was his classmate in high school, Tong Yangyang. At that time, Tong Yangyang was a big fat man. Together with a fat female classmate in the class, they were called ‘double fat’. After seven years, the big fat man became a thin man. He was tall and thin, looking much better than before.

"Look at you. I haven't seen you for seven years. You haven't changed at all, and you are even more handsome.” He just looked at him with admiration and envy. Wang Cheng was always very popular with girls during high school. Of course, because of his arrogance, he was also mixed up with the male classmates.

"I was born to be this beautiful."

"I’m vomiting."

"Haha ..."

"Your face hasn't changed at all, you can still say such a sentence." Even with mental preparation, he was still speechless when it came to his words.

"What's so bad about having thick skin? It makes life happier." Wang Cheng didn't care, "Well, how about Huang Tong’an, he didn’t come?"

"No, you are ignorant. This guy has never been on time, but I am more worried that he may not come to attend. At first, he still came, but later he didn’t come over very often to attend class reunions anymore. I haven't contacted him in two years." There was some emotion in Tong Yangyang’s words. It had been seven years, after all, and things were different.

"If you have fate, you will meet him." Wang Cheng said.

"Come, I will introduce you to other students. You might not recognize them. I remembered them just now when I got to know them, but they have all changed a lot. "

After Tong Yangyang lost weight, his personality became a lot more cheerful. Among the group of men, he was like how Wang Cheng used to be, his mouth was like a spring. No one expected that the big fat man would have changed to be like this now. Wang Cheng later learned that he worked for a good big company and was a sales manager.

If it wasn't for Tong Yangyang's introduction, Wang Cheng could only guess a few of their faces at most, and he would have gotten the rest of the people's names and faces mismatched for a long time.

"Wang Cheng, do you remember him?" Tong Yangyang asked about a man who was a little thinner than Wang Cheng, and a little more trendy and stylish.

Wang Cheng looked at him carefully and shook his head. He was completely unfamiliar. In his impression, there was absolutely no such figure in the third-year high school class.

"Haha, he was the four-eyed boy back then. You said you can’t recognize him? He is now a star, so if you want a signature, you should take advantage of it now." Tong Yangyang laughed, as if proud. As the name suggested, four-eyes was a male student who wore glasses. In Wang Cheng’s third year of high school, he was the only one that was called this nickname. The male student had sat in front of Wang Cheng at that time, often wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, with a watermelon head [T/N: like an extreme bowl cut?], with a weak character. He looked like a bullied person at first glance. Like Tong Yangyang, he had last met him when they were 18 years old. However, with Tong Yangyang, he could at least still see a few similar points from before, but with Gao Zhikai in front of him, he couldn’t see any at all.

"Wang Cheng, it's been a long time since I last saw you. Don't listen to Tong Yangyang’s nonsense, I'm just a little celebrity." Gao Zhikai said hello to Wang Cheng generously. He took off his glasses, and his facial features were clear; not too handsome, but a bit cute. This kind of celebrity was really popular with women.

"Everyone has changed so much, it seems like only I haven’t changed." Wang Cheng said with a smile.

"Some people have not changed, or their behavior has become more exaggerated. You will know after seeing." Yangyang's voice was mysterious, but no one picked up this topic, because this was something that only needed to be said once. This was a secret that everyone above knew.

In the camp of the girls opposite, Wei Dandan attracted attention because she yelled Wang Cheng’s name. They heard that she was in contact with Wang Cheng before, but everyone still didn’t believe it. Everyone knew that Wang Cheng hadn’t been heard of for seven years. At that time, Wei Dandan and Wang Cheng did not have much contact at all. However, Wei Dandan did not leave the impression of someone who would talk nonsense to attract attention, so everyone was still looking forward to seeing the big handsome guy of their year. There were classmates who he had never met before, and some people were curious about how he had changed now from before.

Although Wang Cheng didn't come over, which made Wei Dandan a little disappointed, he greeted her, so Wei Dandan was a little happy again.

"Dandan, let's talk about how you met Wang Cheng again. I feel that he has changed a lot, and he is getting more and more handsome." Lin Qi, who was at the same table as her, remembered the scene when Wang Cheng just came in. He was really more mature than before, a lot more handsome, and more and more exciting.

Before, they also asked, but Wei Dandan had been reluctant to say it across the Internet and everyone had nothing to do with her. Now she couldn’t stand her questions face to face.

"There's nothing to say, it was just a chance encounter. I called out to him once when I thought he looked familiar. I didn't expect it to be Wang Cheng. I also remembered that everyone would mention him in the previous class reunions, so I asked him for his contact number." Wei Dandan avoided the importance and lightly said the process of their chance encounter.

"That’s good, I want to run across Handsome Wang as well." Lin Qi cupped her face. Wei Dandan just wanted to remind her ‘You are already a child's mother. Pay attention to your image.’ Suddenly, a feminine voice spoke up nearby.

"The handsome can't be eaten for food. Just because the surface is bright, doesn’t mean no one is washing the dishes behind."

The two looked and saw that the speaker was a beautifully dressed up woman. However, it meant that after wearing makeup, the face without makeup was not as good-looking. Because they saw her at the last class reunion, they both knew who she was. It was worth mentioning that this woman was one of the attendants of the school flower Song Yuanyuan in high school. Until their third year, she helped Song Yuanyuan a lot when she crowded out Wang Cheng. Wei Dandan and Lin Qi did not like her.

"Ah, some people really have a sense of self-awareness. The makeup is so thick, it may have a disgustingly ugly foundation. At least this is natural." Lin Qi touched her face, full of irony.

"You!" The woman was so angry that she stood up and was held back by those around her.

"What do you care about that yellow-faced lady? She just envies us and you." It was another classmate who attended to Song Yuanyuan. The two of them usually offended other classmates to please Song Yuanyuan, and they had almost no popularity in the class.

Lin Qi laughed angrily, "The flowers are rotten, and I'm jealous of you?"

The other two did not hear this clearly, because someone came in again. He was the Huang Tong’an that Wang Cheng spoke of. He was friends and dormmates with Wang Cheng, but he was not in the same class as them, but this time, when he heard that Wang Cheng would also come to the classmate party, he cheekily came again. Huang Tong’an was a handsome guy, but was a little worse than Wang Cheng. He was also very popular in high school. The two often went to the basketball court to play. When they were there, the basketball court was usually lively. Among the crowd, girls were the most popular. Following them, others could not be considered.

"Wang Cheng, you finally let me catch you."

Huang Tong'an saw Wang Cheng in the boys’ group at a glance. Before, Wang Cheng was always the most outstanding because of his bald head, now, he had longer hair and was still handsome.

"I don't know who caught who." Wang Cheng stood up and punched his chest, and Huang Tong'an immediately hugged his arm.

"Brother, you don't know how much I missed you. I didn’t want to drink tea or eat rice, and the moon that hangs in the night sky is like how my heart was waiting for you."

"Disgusting." Wang Cheng drew his arm back in a hurry, and goosebumps came out. Others laughed, especially Tong Yangyang. He was fortunate to be friends with these two in high school. He always wanted to cherish these two friends, but one or the other was always hidden. This scene of the two competing to be cheeky had been seen many times before, and seeing it again, the past was vividly remembered. Time really passed by inadvertently, and in the blink of an eye, they were all grown up.

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