65: Chapter 65 The Invisible Man

Lu Siye listened to the sounds outside the door and shook his head helplessly.

"Si Ye, how have you been lately?" After pulling Lu Siye down to sit, Liu Wenxuan asked about his recent life.

"I'm doing alright. I don't have to worry about food or drink, and my work isn't boring; it's actually quite interesting."

Lu Siye thought of those Ghosts that were scared into howling, and it certainly wasn't boring at all.

"How about you?"

"Did you forget that I'm preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam?" Liu Wenxuan asked with a suspicious look.

"Who's asking about that? I'm talking about how things are going between you, the class heartthrob, and the class beauty!" Lu Siye asked with a gossipy expression.

Liu Wenxuan was 1.86 meters tall, a few centimeters taller than Lu Siye. With his sunny, handsome looks, easygoing personality, and good grades, he was the recognized class heartthrob.

"Si Ye, I didn't think you were that kind of person, actually encouraging me to steal the Class Monitor's girl." Liu Wenxuan looked shocked.

"What on earth? Who told you to steal the Class Monitor's girl? I'm asking about how things are with Li Sisi, not with Chen Shiying!" Lu Siye was nearly dumbfounded.

"Who is Li Sisi? Hasn't Chen Shiying always been the class beauty?" Liu Wenxuan looked completely confused.

Although there was no trace of this person in his memory, for some reason, his heart suddenly gave a sharp twinge when he heard the name Li Sisi.

After hearing this, Lu Siye fell silent instantly. His instincts told him that something was wrong.

He clearly remembered that Li Sisi was the class beauty, so how did it become Chen Shiying in Liu Wenxuan's words?

Just as Lu Siye was about to press for an answer, he heard the sound of a dozen footsteps outside the door.

The door to the private room was pushed open, and a dozen people swarmed in; they were all Lu Siye's classmates.

"Si Ye! Wenxuan!"

The male classmates shouted this, immediately giving both of them a bear hug.

"Siye, Brother Wenxuan!"

The female classmates said this, only shaking their hands.

Having not seen them for over a month, they were still just as shy.

As more people gathered, various topics of conversation arose, causing Liu Wenxuan, who had intended to ask Lu Siye who exactly Li Sisi was, to temporarily forget about the matter.

Waiting until 11:30 AM, Class Monitor Tang Wenlin returned to the room from downstairs.

"Three classmates couldn't make it due to last-minute issues, so there are only 14 of us for this gathering."

"Also, Si Ye is paying for this class reunion!" Class Monitor Tang Wenlin announced to everyone.

After Class Monitor Tang Wenlin finished speaking, he walked over to Lu Siye and handed him the menu.

"Si Ye is generous!"

"Si Ye has made it big, don't forget your classmates!"

"..."

Seeing that Lu Siye accepted the menu without refusal, everyone cheered and thanked him.

Lu Siye looked around at everyone and responded with a smile.

There were only 10 male classmates present, most of whom were wearing suits like his own, and the other 4 female classmates were all wearing dresses.

After checking off a fish dish priced at 688 on the menu, Lu Siye passed the menu to the person next to him.

The person who received the menu next each ordered a dish priced no more than 688.

When someone is treating, it is a matter of etiquette that the price of the dishes ordered should not exceed the price of the first dish ordered by the host.

After the fourteen people had finished ordering, the menu returned to Lu Siye's hands.

After taking a quick look at the dishes, Lu Siye ordered some beer and drinks, then handed the menu to the waiter nearby.

The restaurant's service speed was decent; after waiting less than half an hour, all the dishes were served.

After a bite of food and a glass of beer, the sense of estrangement that had built up over the past month completely vanished, and everyone began to liven up.

Amidst the clinking of glasses, everyone was already slightly tipsy.

I don't know who started complaining about their boss never treating employees like human beings, squeezing them like donkeys, but soon everyone joined in on the complaint session.

Some complained about the difficulty of finding a job, unable to find one for over a month.

Some complained about being harassed by superiors while at work.

Some complained about the mental exhaustion of the postgraduate exam and the confusion about their future.

Some complained about being set up on two or three blind dates by their family after graduation, none of which worked out.

Speaking of this, someone looked sourly at Class Monitor Tang Wenlin and said half-jokingly.

"Class Monitor, you're something else, quietly taking down our class beauty just like that. How are we single dogs supposed to handle this!"

"Exactly! I was starving when I first arrived, but you two fed me a whole meal of 'dog food' at the entrance! *Hiccup*~"

"Yingying, you too. You actually hid your relationship from us sisters; that's not fair."

"You two actually betrayed our Single Aristocrat Alliance, you must punish yourselves with three drinks."

"Yes, yes, yes, three drinks as a toast with arms linked."

"A toast with arms linked..."

At this point in the atmosphere, everyone was egging them on, except for the two parties involved, Liu Wenxuan who didn't drink, and Lu Siye who couldn't get drunk.

After being teased for a while, the couple chose to drink the linked-arm toast to appease the "public anger."

Lu Siye watched the whole thing while completely sober, his eyes shifting constantly.

It seems everyone's memories were the same as Liu Wenxuan's, only believing Chen Shiying was the class beauty and seeming to have completely forgotten Li Sisi's existence.

Thinking of this, Lu Siye turned to look at Liu Wenxuan beside him, only to find him looking down, not knowing what he was looking at.

"Hey, kid, what are you doing?" Lu Siye leaned over and discovered that he was actually looking at their old graduation photo.

"Si Ye, is that Li Sisi you mentioned earlier really someone from our class?" Liu Wenxuan asked with a confused expression.

For some reason, when he heard this name, he always felt like a piece of his heart was missing.

"Maybe I remembered it wrong. Hasn't the class beauty always been Shiying?" Lu Siye laughed it off.

He didn't want to drag his brother into this seemingly eerie affair.

"But if you really remembered it wrong, why is there an empty spot in the photo? Why do I have... so many individual photos?" Liu Wenxuan muttered, feeling his brain in a bit of a scramble.

"An empty spot?" Lu Siye felt suspicious. He took Liu Wenxuan's phone and glanced at the photo on it.

This was their class graduation photo. There were only 41 people in the photo. The class beauty in his memory, Li Sisi, was not in the photo at all, but the spot right beside Liu Wenxuan was left empty.

This looked very abnormal no matter how he viewed it.

Covering his eyes with Yang Qi, Lu Siye looked over again.

This time, the space beside Liu Wenxuan was no longer empty; a girl had appeared.

She was a girl with extremely beautiful features, looking well-educated and refined, exuding the aura of a young lady from a prestigious family.

Scrolling through a few more photos, they were all pictures of Li Sisi and Liu Wenxuan together.

Lu Siye turned to look at Liu Wenxuan; it seemed he really could not see Li Sisi.