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Their families had lived in the same building since forever, so Li Ming had known Yu Tu for far too many years to bother counting, and in all those years, he had seen girls fall like mayflies in love with Yu Tu but he had never seen Yu Tu truly fall for anyone before; even when Yu Tu was together with Xia Qing when they were all in university in Beijing, sometimes Li Ming felt they were more like a study group than boyfriend and girlfriend. In any case, because of this, Li Ming did not immediately pick up on how strange it was that Yu Tu suddenly became rather interested in the fact that Qiao Jing Jing was joining their impromptu class reunion, until Yu Tu had arrived in the room, his eyes zeroing in on their local celebrity and even as he accepted the offered beers, he barely took a perfunctory sip before he was making his way forward to actually kneel in front of Qiao Jing Jing.
Li Ming had known Yu Tu for far too long, long enough to know how pretentious Yu Tu really could be, and nothing could have proved that better than the fact that, here he was, chasing this girl he had apparently rejected all those years ago in high school to their class reunion over ten years later, to kiss her in front of all their classmates, like some male lead in an idol drama, and somehow, that actually worked - or at least, Li Ming exasperatedly assumed it worked, going by the obscure rumours of Qiao Jing Jing’s lovelife being passed around online that could be easily deciphered by people who knew the two people in question; in any case, it wasn’t as if Yu Tu had the decency to keep Li Ming updated on what was going on in his life.