As soon as he entered the room, he heard the girls jeering from the dimly lit profound entrance.
"When the Director Gao sings, if he doesn't sing, we will drink!"
"Right, Brother-in-law, sing a song for us!"
"Our Sister An often praises you for your singing. Tonight, you must sing us a song."
Brother-in-law, I remember hearing you sing that song a few years ago at Yi Shanshan's song club that was especially pleasing to the ears, saying that I absolutely cannot lose you. Wow, after listening to you finish singing, I became infatuated with that song, and even now I can still remember the situation at that time.
"That's right, I was there too. Brother-in-law's singing was really touching."
"You have to sing to our Sister An Xin as well, or we'll be jealous!"
When the three of us pushed open the door and entered, the shouts of this group of young girls abruptly stopped. Following after, a clear and unconcerned female voice said with a smile: "Alright, Director Gao is busy, if he had the time to sing for you, it would be great if he could lower himself to accompany you all to drink a cup of wine."
"Sister Sister An Xin, my sister-in-law is here."
Guo Ting shouted loudly, attracting everyone's attention. I was forcefully pulled inside by her, and when we entered the main hall of the private box, I immediately saw Gao Kan.
He was sitting next to An Xin in his formal attire, wrapped up in a body thinner than he had been with me before, but he was leaning against the arm of the sofa next to him. His cell phone was tucked between his shoulder and his left ear, and his lips moved from time to time as if he were on the phone.
A few young ladies were dancing on the side of the dance floor, but the music was played very quietly, but the colorful lights were quickly changing to the rhythm of the music. The flowing lights and colorful lights, like ripples being blown by the wind, jumped over and was pushed back, rippling across Gao Kan's face that I felt to be a little unfamiliar with.
These past two years, Gao Kan had a beard on his chin, he no longer has the air of a teenager, he had matured, just like most men who were close to thirty years old. He was no longer as handsome, and no longer as wild and untamed as before.
He would occasionally see Gao Kan's current face in the news photos, and even if he suddenly saw it, he wouldn't be surprised. However, when he looked at it at such a close distance, he felt that it was unfamiliar.
After all, he no longer belonged to me.
I let Guo Ting drag me forward as if nothing had happened, and from time to time, I would absentmindedly say something to Guo Yunyan. However, my eyes still pierced through the long lashes of his eyes, secretly sizing up Gao Kan with curiosity, cowardice, and unwillingness.
After so many years of wandering around, each of us had a different person around us, but I couldn't get rid of the habit of peeking at him.
Just like all those years ago, when Su Jiawang asked me to marry him, I suddenly barged in. I sized him up with an uneasy and complicated feeling.
But this time, it was me who suddenly appeared in front of him.
For when he looked up at me, there was a flash of astonishment in his dull, indifferent eyes.
So it turned out that he didn't know I was coming, and he was probably being toyed with by An Xin.
Guo Ting and the other girls probably planned this situation for fun.
So that we, the old lovers, could show our loyalty in front of our new lovers.
At that time, Gao Kan was talking on the phone absentmindedly, his gaze was focused on the fruit knife. When he walked closer, he saw that he was holding an apple, but it was not peeling an apple.
From the looks of it, it looked like a rose.
I suddenly remembered that it was Christmas Eve.
Guo Ting, who was beaming with joy, pulled me in front of An Xin and introduced us.
However, as if Gao Kan was in another dimension, he remained indifferent to the surrounding noise, and continued to concentrate on the "rose" in his hands.
It wasn't until I was done with An Xin and she hit him on the knee that he jerked his gaze away from the apple. He was still holding the phone in his shoulder, and he looked at An Xin with a frown on his face. She leaned over and whispered to him.
I had already prepared my mind, so I put on a natural polite smile and said, "Director Gao, what a coincidence, you are here too."
He also raised the corner of his lips and laughed. He glanced at me, but then looked at Guo Yunyan and said: "Miss Eyre, Boss Guo, you guys came as well."
After that, he tilted his head, pointed at his phone, stood up, said "I'll be done soon" and walked towards the side.
"Miss Eyre, sit over here." An Xin affectionately held my arm and asked me to sit in the place where Gao Kan had just left. She smiled helplessly and said: "He's always busy like this, I finally managed to get him to accompany me for dinner, but he keeps on calling … Seeing that I have been so long-winded and you all of you have been together in Miss Eyre, you must know of his character and character, you can't do anything to him, can you? "
"Of course," I answered vaguely.
The girls who were making Gao Kan sing just now all gathered around, they all took out their eyebrow lipstick and rolled up their sleeves, asking me to sign their names on their arms and back. I agreed to all of them, not refusing anything.
In the light, after he saw that Gao Kan's phone call had ended, Guo Yunyan walked over to his side. It was unknown what the two of them were talking about, but they both smoked their cigarettes, as if they were happily chatting. He did not even look in this direction, nor did he show any signs of coming over to talk to me.
An Xin and I had a good chat. There wasn't the slightest bit of awkwardness that we expected.
After signing the girls and letting them cause a ruckus, I planned to tell Guo Yunyan to leave first. However, when I finished, the moving disco music in the room suddenly stopped and cut into a long and distant song.
"In That Remote", as soon as the prelude started, I could hear that Zhou Jin always played this song on his car.
A rather old-fashioned song.
I laughed at him once, and he just smiled and said nothing.
I didn't expect that among this group of young ladies, there would be someone who would choose this song. What's more, I didn't expect that the person who picked up the microphone to sing would actually be Gao Kan.
"Wow, Brother-in-law is going to sing for us ~"
"Applause! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!"
"So it's meant to be the finale!"
"As expected of the Sister An Xin, only you can invite the Director Gao to sing!" Guo Ting purposely said loudly in front of me.
An Xin also smiled and said, "Of course. We're about to get married. Does he dare disobey me?"
She suddenly turned her head and asked me, "Miss Eyre, there's something I'm curious about. That Christmas, on the day of your birthday, when you released your new album, Director Gao went to sing that 'I Can't lose You'. Was it true or false?"
"Huh?" All he could hear were Gao Kan's songs.
"... Her pink smiling face is like the red sun, her beautiful eyes are like the bright moon at night … "
I don't know if it was my imagination, but I always felt that there was a tinge of sadness in his singing.
But he was too far away for me to see his face in the dazzling light.
An Xin fiddled with the roses that Gao Kan had carved and said seriously: "Once, I specifically asked you guys to watch that video of him singing and felt that his first song was really good. After that, I asked him to sing it for me a few times, but it didn't taste like what you guys sang at that time.
I retracted my mind and smiled. "Naturally, it's a fake. His singing is really unpleasant to listen to."
"Shh — —" An Xin suddenly signaled me to stop talking and didn't reply. Instead, she turned her gaze towards Gao Kan, who was standing in front of the big screen and singing.
Those noisy young ladies from before, who were attracted by Gao Kan's singing stopped what they were doing and acted in a manner similar to An Xin.
I closed my eyes.
Gao Kan's low voice, which was singing in a low voice, came out from the extremely high quality microphone, piercing through my ear drums and straight to my heart.
"... In that distant place, there is a good girl, people walk past her tent and look back wistfully … "
"I want to be a lamb, to follow by her side, to look into her moving eyes every day, and to dress with those beautiful golden edges …"
"I'm willing to abandon my property and go with her to rear my sheep. I'm willing to have her constantly hit me with a thin whip …"
I suddenly thought of the time when Zhou Jin was mocked by such an old-fashioned song. He inexplicably turned his face and said to me, "In the past, when we were at that place in Kanagol, I still listened to him sing and learned from him. He always sang again and again, and only now do I understand that he was singing for you at that time.