Ti passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, it was the day before the planned mountain climb.
5:30 PM.
Alice Apartnt.
Managent office.
Jiang Ran looked at the ti on his phone.
He stood up from his chair.
Since the day Manager Li Chong disappeared, it had been several days with no sign of him.
No trace of him alive, no ghost of him dead.
He didn't respond to ssages either.
Jiang Ran had sought Security Captain Gao's opinion.
Both parties decided to act as if they hadn't noticed and didn't report it to the police.
It was now after work hours.
Jiang Ran returned to his Room 304.
He picked up a backpack that had been prepared in advance, along with a suitcase.
These contained the mountain climbing equipnt he had purchased online throughout the week.
Carrying both pieces of luggage, he walked out of Room 304.
Fatty's plan was for everyone to et up tonight, take a chartered bus to Beicheng City, and stay at a hotel near Qingfeng Mountain.
They would begin climbing the mountain the next day.
"Jiang Ran, where are you going again?"
As Jiang Ran passed by Room 303, the door opened.
Qin Kelian's snow-white, beautiful face appeared, pouting at Jiang Ran.
Jiang Ran smiled and said, "Going mountain climbing."
Qin Kelian made an "oh" sound and then closed the door.
Jiang Ran walked a few steps before suddenly feeling sothing was off.
Why did this Qin Kelian ask where he was going "again"?
Hmm... oh, right, he had just returned from Macedonia Island recently.
Jiang Ran called a rideshare outside Alice Apartnt.
The rideshare arrived at the entrance of a residential complex. This was Fatty's neighborhood, where everyone had decided to et up.
Jiang Ran got out of the car.
He seed to be the last person to arrive.
By the ti he got there, several fully equipped people were already waiting at the complex entrance.
Jiang Ran looked around.
Wang Qingzhao, Fatty, the short guy, the short guy's fiancée who was also Jiang Ran's ordinary female university classmate.
Besides them, there were three other n and two won.
Jiang Ran found these three n and two won sowhat familiar.
But he couldn't quite rember who they were at the mont.
Then Fatty walked over and introduced them to Jiang Ran:
"Jiang Ran, besides our group going mountain climbing, I also invited these old classmates of ours."
Fatty grinned cheerfully, referring to the three n and two won before them.
These five people, along with Jiang Ran and Wang Qingzhao, had all attended the sa university and were alumni.
Jiang Ran was still searching through the original host's mories.
Then one of the three n and two won—an ordinary-looking but tall, well-built young man dressed expensively and radiating confidence—walked toward him.
"Jiang Ran, we haven't seen each other since graduation. Have you missed your old classmate?"
Jiang Ran stared at the young man's insincere smile, initially wanting to say, "Who are you?!"
But he forced a smile and greeted him instead.
The next mont, Jiang Ran rembered who this person was.
Jiang Weixin.
Sa graduating year as him.
They had t in the sa student departnt.
Of course, that wasn't the key point. The key point was...
He had fought with the original host.
During the ti when the original host was dating Shen Xing.
This guy had fallen in love with Shen Xing at first sight.
He pursued Shen Xing with fervent passion.
So, the original host and this third wheel had gotten into a fight.
They were the kind of people with extrely bad relations.
"Brother Jiang, you're really magnanimous. You two actually fought back then, and it was Jiang Ran who threw the first punch at you. Yet now, you're the one greeting Jiang Ran first."
Another young man erged from the group of three n and two won.
This young man was called Wang Haoran.
Coincidentally enough.
Jiang Weixin liked Shen Xing.
While this Wang Haoran liked Wang Qingzhao.
Back in university, he had pursued Wang Qingzhao relentlessly but never succeeded.
Later, when he learned that Wang Qingzhao liked the original host, he also developed resentnt toward the original host—Jiang Ran.
Jiang Weixin waved his hand, putting on a magnanimous air: "Hey, that was so many years ago! It's all in the past! Holding grudges isn't what a real man does."
"Besides, Shen Xing didn't choose in the end, and she also dumped Jiang Ran. It's nothing."
Wang Haoran smiled and teased: "I heard Shen Xing found herself a rich young master. I originally thought she and Jiang Ran would grow old together!"
Wang Haoran suddenly added: "By the way, Jiang Ran, what have you been doing for work recently?"
Jiang Ran replied: "Assistant apartnt manager. How about you guys?"
Wang Haoran made an "oh" sound: "I see!"
Then he deliberately sighed:
"We haven't been doing as well."
"Brother Jiang is really impressive—he started a company right after graduation, and it's about to go public."
", Fatty, and those three other old classmates over there all work at Brother Jiang's company."
He was referring to the other one man and two won.
Jiang Ran now understood why Fatty had invited these people to join the mountain climbing trip.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Fatty called to ask where the chartered bus was.
The group waited for another fifteen minutes.
A brown bus appeared in their view.
"Ladies first."
"Let us n handle the hard work!"
The bus pulled up in front of Jiang Ran and the others.
Jiang Weixin displayed what he called his gentlemanly style.
He let the won board first, while the n handled the luggage and boarded afterward.
Jiang Ran thought to himself what an attention-seeker he was.
But this kind of attention-seeker probably was quite popular among won.
Of course, the main reason for his popularity was his success at a young age, with a company about to go public.
Everything else was just icing on the cake—even his farts would sll sweet.
After everyone finished loading the luggage, they all boarded the bus.
The bus had plenty of space.
So, seating was open.
"Qingzhao, may I sit next to you?"
Wang Haoran asked with a smile.
Wang Qingzhao politely refused him.
Then when Jiang Ran boarded the bus, she directly gestured for him to sit beside her.
Seeing this, Wang Haoran's face instantly darkened.
His teeth were grinding audibly.
Of course, he wouldn't hate Wang Qingzhao—his hatred was reserved solely for Jiang Ran.
"Hey, Zhong Hui, I rember you're nearsighted, right? Why aren't you wearing glasses?"
At the very back of the bus.
The person being questioned was the last man among the three n and two won.
The one asking was the girl with a face full of freckles from the two won.
Of the two won, one was extrely beautiful, not inferior to Wang Qingzhao or Shen Xing at all.
Very fashionable.
The other was quite ordinary, with freckles on her face.
Zhong Hui said indifferently: "I'm wearing contact lenses. Wearing fras all the ti is inconvenient."
A shadow flickered in Zhong Hui's eyes.
But the freckled girl who asked didn't notice.
After everyone was seated, the driver announced their departure, and the bus started moving.
Heading toward Qingfeng Mountain in Beicheng City.
Since everyone on the bus had attended the sa university.
They all chatted about old mories from their university days and what had happened since graduation.
Talking about university mories mostly involved recalling who liked whom, which university teachers were particularly strict, campus heartthrobs and beauties, and such.
After graduation, topics shifted to work, salaries, and such.
Whether they were married or not.
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