First day of the new year.

The small county town still had a lively and bustling atmosphere.

Lin Xian was in the courtyard replying to Chu Anqing's New Year greetings—

"Good brother!"

Gao Yang, laughing boisterously, charged in like a human cannonball, his stomach delivering a critical hit to Lin Xian.

"Just finished up?"

Lin Xian looked at Gao Yang, whom he hadn't seen in a long time.

He had no idea what Gao Yang had been busy with these past few days. They lived in the same residential compound and weren't far from each other, but this was the first time Lin Xian had seen Gao Yang since returning two days ago.

"Ah, my family has a lot of relatives and a lot of things to do. There are also a lot of New Year's customs, so I just finished up."

Lin Xian's mother invited the two of them into the house to sit, brought out some snacks, and looked at Gao Yang.

"After not seeing you for a year, Lin Xian has kept his figure in good shape. Gao Yang, you've gained a lot of weight."

"Oh, Auntie, why do you have to bring up my sore spot!"

Gao Yang put his arm around Lin Xian's neck.

"Lin Xian is the company's top male model, favored by the female boss. Of course, he has to pay attention to his image!"

"Get lost! Don't talk nonsense!"

Lin Xian knocked Gao Yang's hand away.

If others heard this, they would think he was a kept man.

Fortunately, Lin Xian's mother had watched Gao Yang grow up and knew that he had a big mouth and couldn't keep secrets, so she said with a smile,

"But you two are really at the age to find partners. You don't necessarily have to find someone in Donghai. Finding someone local to Hang City is fine too. Now the high-speed rail is convenient, and finding someone from the same hometown is also good."

"Hey, don't worry, Auntie!"

Gao Yang grabbed a handful of melon seeds and started counting on his fingers.

"Lin Xian has a lot of options. Let's not even talk about how many there are in Donghai. Just at this high school reunion, there are several girls who specifically asked me about Lin Xian's relationship status! Tang Xin, Wen Jing, Li Ling..."

"Alright, alright, stop talking nonsense."

Lin Xian interrupted him directly.

"Isn't the class reunion on the evening of the fifth day? How are the arrangements going? How many people are coming?"

"It's hard to say right now. People are adding and subtracting. Some say they're coming, and some say they're not. Anyway, there are currently more than thirty people confirmed to be coming. Our homeroom teacher is coming too."

More than thirty...

That's not a small number.

Lin Xian remembered that there were a total of fifty or sixty people in his high school class back then. It's already pretty good if more than half of them can come.

These four years of college have passed, and he has no impression of many of his high school classmates. He probably only remembers their names.

As for the names of the three girls he just mentioned, he didn't really have much of an impression, especially that Tang Xin... he really had no impression at all.

She was only a classmate with everyone for a few days before going abroad to study. Lin Xian really couldn't understand why a classmate for just a few days would come to the reunion... Wouldn't she feel awkward?

"Do you have any impression of Tang Xin?"

Lin Xian looked at Gao Yang and asked,

"Do you know what she looks like?"

"I don't know." Gao Yang shook his head as expected.

"I have no impression at all. I just know she's a girl."

"Didn't you ask around?"

"Who am I going to ask... No one is familiar with her." Gao Yang spat out the melon seed shells in his mouth, turned his head, and looked at Lin Xian.

"Hey, wait, why are you so curious? You'll know when you see her, right?"

"Alright."

...

The past few days of the New Year.

Were even busier than when he was working.

During the day, there were all sorts of things to do, visiting relatives and friends... In the evening, he would be dragged out to drink and play cards, and he basically didn't sleep until after midnight. He didn't have much time to dream.

Only on the third day of the New Year did he go to bed a little earlier, falling asleep at 11:30. After arriving in that poor little village, the streets were quiet and empty. Lin Xian stole Da Lian Mao's (Big Cat) motorcycle and rode around a few times, taking a distant look at the night view of New Donghai City.

When he rode to the 221 garbage disposal plant, there was no movement or trace outside the walls, and there was no van on the small dirt hill where everyone was supposed to gather.

This made Lin Xian very puzzled.

Could it be that if he didn't join the evening's operation, Da Lian Mao and the others would cancel their plan for tonight? Could something have happened along the way?

"It's not impossible that they really got into a fight with CC..."

But this had nothing to do with the subsequent plan.

According to his own plot design, CC would also join the Lian Gang (Face Gang) and become the sixth Saint Seiya of the gang. The rabble from the first dream would be reunited again.

...

The fifth day of the New Year.

In the evening, Guihe Hotel.

"Yo! Xia Lin, Xia Yuan! You two twins are getting fat together!"

Gao Yang laughed and slapped the twins' beer bellies, then checked off both their names on the list in his hand.

"You're too late! No sense of time, just like when you were in school!"

The fat twins, Xia Lin and Xia Yuan, laughed heartily, but in fact, you could tell who was who without carefully distinguishing them. Lin Xian had never mistaken them in high school, let alone now, five years later. The differences in their appearances were still quite significant.

This was also why Lin Xian believed that there must be some connection between Chu Anqing and CC...

Identical twins cannot look completely identical due to acquired growth and other factors. The way they were copied and pasted was really excessive.

"Are there more people coming?" Xia Yuan asked in his honest voice.

"There are a few more. You two go inside and talk to the classmates first. Lin Xian and I will greet them here."

The twin brothers went upstairs.

Lin Xian and Gao Yang greeted a few female classmates who arrived together and told them to sit anywhere at the four large dining tables in the largest private room upstairs.

Watching these beauties go upstairs, Gao Yang leaned over and chuckled,

"Have you noticed? These four years of college have really made a difference. The female classmates in our class have all become prettier!"

"They know how to put on makeup and dress up. That's normal."

"You can take your time to choose, Lin Xian. None of the girls in our class are married yet."

"You're talking nonsense... We just graduated from college. Who's getting married?"

"That's true."

Gao Yang nodded, looking at the list full of checkmarks.

"It seems like everyone in our class got into college. Whether they went to good colleges or not... at least they're all college students. That's something to be proud of. Many other classes didn't continue after high school, and some of them are already married and have kids."

"There are only two people left who haven't arrived... Tang Xin, Zhou Duanyun. Why are they so slow?"

"Do you want to call Tang Xin?" Lin Xian suddenly thought of something and instructed Gao Yang.

"After all, Tang Xin was only our classmate for a few days, and she doesn't know what you or I look like... There are a lot of people eating and gathering here today. She might go to the wrong place."

"What you said makes sense."

Gao Yang nodded, took out his phone, and was about to find Tang Xin's WeChat to make a voice call—

"Hi, Lin Xian."

A delicate greeting, the voice extremely sweet.

Lin Xian and Gao Yang couldn't help but look up...

Standing in front of Lin Xian was a tall, short-haired girl wearing a brown coat.

The main point was, she was very beautiful.

The kind of beauty with a lot of temperament, just like a TV host.

Gao Yang squinted at Lin Xian, with a look of watching a good show.

"Do you remember me?"

The girl's voice was clear and sweet, she smoothed her short hair behind her ear and smiled shyly.

"I'm Tang Xin."

"Oh—oh oh oh oh oh!!!" Gao Yang reacted like a goose call, pretending to be surprised and laughing.

"Hey! Look what you're saying! How could we not remember you! A big beauty like you, how could we not remember! Right, Lin Xian?"

Lin Xian nodded with a smile.

Whether he remembered or not... he had to say he remembered at this time, otherwise, it would be too embarrassing for the girl.

"Long time no see. I really didn't recognize you for a moment. After all, you went abroad to study not long after school started. When did you come back?"

Lin Xian threw out the only two pieces of relevant information he knew, pretending to be familiar.

"Oh, you really remember me."

Tang Xin was a little surprised, but more than surprised, there was joy on her face. She looked at Lin Xian and smiled slightly.

"I thought you had forgotten about me."

"How could that be? We were classmates. It's not that easy to forget." Lin Xian and Gao Yang laughed awkwardly.

"I only came back a few days ago." Tang Xin smoothed her short hair behind her ear with her right hand, her eyes never leaving Lin Xian.

"I heard from Gao Yang that you work in Donghai now? I heard you're already the vice president of a big company. That's amazing."

"It's nothing, just good luck."

"I should be going to work in Donghai after the New Year." Tang Xin lowered her head and smiled, her knees holding her handbag.

"Please take care of me then. I've never been to Donghai before."

"Of course, you're welcome."

Lin Xian patted Gao Yang's shoulder.

"Gao Yang is also in Donghai. You can find us if you need anything. We're all classmates, don't be a stranger."

"Then thank you in advance."

Tang Xin smiled sweetly.

"You're still the same, Lin Xian, you haven't changed at all. I recognized you from a long way away."

"Your memory is really good..."

Lin Xian felt a little overwhelmed by Tang Xin's unexpectedly enthusiastic attitude towards him.

He really had forgotten her completely and had no impression at all, but he didn't expect that Tang Xin would remember his appearance so clearly after only a few days of being classmates... Even after five years, she could still recognize him at a glance.

"Of course, because it was a deep impression!" Tang Xin smiled playfully, her pearly teeth and red lips looking at Lin Xian.

"Do you still remember..." "Holy crap!! Lin Xian, look quickly!! Rolls-Royce!! Holy crap!!"

Gao Yang's yelling interrupted the two of them. Lin Xian followed Gao Yang's gesturing hand and looked towards the hotel entrance.

A black-purple Rolls-Royce Phantom was parked diagonally and aggressively in front of the hotel!

The doorman immediately greeted him. The rear door of the Rolls-Royce opened directly, and a man in a smart suit and with a sophisticated slicked-back hairstyle stepped out of the car with a smile.

He briefly straightened his collar and walked straight towards them in his shiny leather shoes.

"Lin Xian... Dragon King Shura Chen Beixuan is here," Gao Yang whispered in Lin Xian's ear.

"Who is this? Is he from our class?" Lin Xian also whispered.

"Yes! Didn't you recognize him? It's Zhou Duanyun!"

Lin Xian blinked.

He really didn't recognize him.

The Zhou Duanyun in his memory... was a very poor child, his clothes were very old, he had long hair, and he sat in the last row of the classroom... always with his head down, and he didn't like to talk, he looked very inferior.

Lin Xian didn't remember saying anything to Zhou Duanyun, so he didn't have much of an impression.

But he still had the impression of the pufferfish hairstyle and keeping his head down and not talking. But this shiny business elite in front of him looked like a successful person who had just finished a billion-dollar deal.

He really couldn't match him with the inferior and unsophisticated little boy in his memory.

Does money nourish people so much?

"Class Monitor Gao."

Every smile of the glittering Zhou Duanyun was perfectly measured. He walked up to Gao Yang, held out his hand, and shook hands with Gao Yang.

"Not bad, Zhou Duanyun! You've made a fortune!"

"You're joking... I was busy talking business and didn't have time to change clothes, otherwise, I wouldn't have dressed like this for a classmate reunion and made everyone laugh."

With that, Zhou Duanyun turned his head to look at Lin Xian, and also held out his hand with the same smile.

"Lin Xian, long time no see, you're still so handsome."

"You're also very handsome, really, you're much more mature than us." Lin Xian also smiled and shook hands with Zhou Duanyun.

He found that there were really a lot of memory geniuses at this class reunion. How could everyone have such good memories?

Or was it that he really had such a fleeting and unforgettable impression?

"Lin Xian, where are you working now?"

"In Donghai, just trying to make a living."

"Oh, what a coincidence?" Zhou Duanyun looked at Lin Xian with a smile.

"After the New Year... I'm also planning to develop in Donghai!"