Chapter 225 - : Former classmates (1/2)

Anyone’s life would be filled with countless potholes that they would trip over. They would have to crawl back up again and continue proceeding forward regardless. Nobody would be able to have it good for every single day of their whole life. People would need to adamantly persist onward and continuously mature through hardship.

Now that the flu epidemic in Chasu City was over, more people started returning. Plenty of former classmates, friends, and relatives would see each other again after one year.

Not many of Shao Hua’s former classmates had remained behind in Chasu City. Jia Suyue was the person that Shao Hua was the closest to. After that, due to Zhang Fan’s connection, Shao Hua also started interacting more with her former classmate Wang Yanan. As time passed, Shao Hua gradually drifted apart from her other former classmates.

Friendship over a lifetime could often be described as a strange curved graph. As a teenager, it would be common to have many friends—your classmates would be friends. As time slowly passed, a person in their 20s would usually only be close to around four, five people. A person in their 30s would usually be close to even fewer as family and work pressure made friend relationships ever more complex. After entering their 60s and retirement, the number of friends would slowly increase again.

Previous childhood friends would slowly gather together again. Meanwhile, people in their 20s were still youthful and energetic. They still weren’t socially experienced enough. They would often be the type to want to let everyone around them know about even the slightest accomplishment so that all their friends could clap and cheer. This was simply a normal mentality.

There would be far too many gatherings around New Year’s. This was especially more so for Shao Hua, Jia Suyue, and Wang Yanan, three women from their class who had remained here in Chasu City. They were relatively beautiful to begin with, so several of their former classmates who were interested in them back in the day but had gone to other cities kept summoning them over for class reunions.

“I refuse to go anymore! Who does he think he is? What’s so incredible about working for a foreign company?” Jia Suyue, Wang Yanan, Shao Hua, and Jingshu were currently eating hot pot together at a restaurant.

Women typically weren’t big eaters. However, they really loved to eat hot pot. They could chat together while eating, which they really enjoyed. However, the atmosphere was a bit awkward today because Jia Suyue had become really angry over all of the class reunion meetings over the past few days.

So many of their former classmates, no matter how well or poorly they were doing, especially other women, looked down on the three of them who had stayed behind in their hometown. Plus, all three women were relatively beautiful, which made other women ostracize them even more.

“No need to mind such things. Why mind it so much? If you like them, you can chat a bit more, and if you don’t feel anything, then just nod your head. Why compare with others?” Shao Hua kept putting meat on Jingshu’s plate. Since this was a meeting for the four women, Zhang Fan didn’t go. Instead, he stayed at home and ate with Shao Hua’s parents.

“Just look, Wang Hongmei used to be such a normal person. But now? Look at how arrogant she is! Isn’t she just working in Beijing? What’s incredible about that? Oh, her boyfriend purchased a home that cost 3,000,000 yuan in Beijing! Oh, they’re planning on getting married in the Maldives next year, and we must come and participate? Heavens! I can’t listen to any more of this.” Jia Suyue exaggerated her classmate Wang Hongmei’s expression at the time.

“Haha, Yueyue, it’s such a pity that you didn’t become an actress. Just look at what a good imitation you’re doing!” Wang Yanan laughed so much that she almost spat out her drink.

Jia Suyue pointed at herself while exclaiming, “I’m so angry! Jingshu, study properly and stay in Shanghai. If anyone tries to show off in front of me in the future, I’ll just say, is that so! I have a sister who’s in Shanghai. Her house isn’t very big. She can just shower in her own swimming pool, something like that. I’ll make them really angry!”

“Haha! Oh, you!”

Jingshu had a sweet mouth and really knew what to say. The three older women all really liked her. Jia Suyue and Wang Yanan treated Jingshu quite well also because of giving face to Zhang Fan and Shao Hua. Jingshu didn’t have much to say about the main topic of conversation between the other three women who were already in the workforce, since she was only in her first year of college.

“By the way, Wang Hongmei is inviting us to a meal tomorrow. Are you all going?” Jia Suyue inquired.