Instead, he enquired enthusiastically, "Still, I didn't expect to meet you here after all this time."
Ji Qingying nodded.
Zhu Mingjie stared at her and suddenly remembered something.
"This is your girlfriend?"
He pointed at Ye Zhenzhen.
Ji Qingying continued nodding, "Yeah."
Zhu Mingjie smiled and said, "How about having a meal together?"
He said, "He Yuan and others, they are all here too."
"..."
Ji Qingying paused and said lightly, "It's okay, no need."
She looked up at Zhu Mingjie, "Let's do it next time."
Hearing her decline the invitation, he didn't insist any further.
"Okay, next time then."
After he left, Ji Qingying and Ye Zhenzhen also got their milk tea.
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Ye Zhenzhen secretly glanced at Ji Qingying's expression, biting her milk tea and sucking her straw, "Sister Ji, was that your classmate?"
Ji Qingying said "Yes"
She smiled faintly, "Let's go, it should be our turn already."
"Okay."
Ye Zhenzhen didn't ask any more questions.
Ji Qingying didn't expect that she would meet a fellow alumni when she came to school.
After graduation, she basically broke off all contact with her classmates.
Except for Chen Xinyu and a few others who were added to her WeChat by chance, she had basically disappeared from other people's world.
She hadn't even joined the class group that Chen Xinyu was talking about yesterday.
When Ji Qingying was in college, something unpleasant had happened to her.
As a result, she was somewhat repulsed by things related to college students.
But then she remembered what Fu Yanzhi had said—–
There was no need to think about unhappy things.
After all, she had already reduced any contact with the person who had a problem with her, from back then.
But this time there seemed to be a thread dangling in front of her.
In the dark, she pulled out the things she tried to forget, so she had to face it.
Even when they had joined Fu Yanzhi at the grilled fish shop, Ji Qingying was still absent-minded.
Ye Zhenzhen took the initiative to liven up the mood at the dining table, but Fu Yanzhi kept being quiet, Ji Qingying said something here and there but her replies were quite dull.
Gradually, even her excitement dimmed down.
After eating, the pair sent Ye Zhenzhen back to the school gate, got into the car, and left.
Because of the school festival, the lanes were congested and there was a lot of traffic.
When the car came to a stop, Ji Qingying looked at the man seated on the other side and asked, "Are you tired?"
"I'm still fine."
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Fu Yanzhi once again asked in a concise manner, "Sleepy?"
Ji Qingying shook her head and looked at the congested road ahead, "Are you going to work tomorrow?"
"Yes."
Ji Qingying said "Oh", and became silent.
Fortunately, after leaving the campus surroundings, the ride was much smoother as the traffic lessened.
Neither of them said anything. Ji Qingying opened the window and stared up at the neon lights in the distance.
The wind blew in fast from the opened window, and she could feel the cold.
Yet, at the same time, she seemed unaware of it.
"You're not cold?"
She suddenly a pleasant voice speak out
Ji Qingying returned to her senses, "Huh?"
Fu Yanzhi raised his gaze to look at her.
Ji Qingying blinked, and then realized, "Cold."
She closed the car window.
Fu Yanzhi didn't say anything and it was quiet again.
However, Ji Qingying seemed to be unable to get something off from her chest, and in a lowered voice said, "Fu Yanzhi."
Fu Yanzhi responded lightly, "What do you want to say?"
Ji Qingying turned to look at him.
There was a rare blank feel in those beautiful eyes.
"I don't know how to say what I want to say."
Fu Yanzhi: "..."
As he turned the steering wheel, he responded faintly, "Think about it later."
Ji Qingying choked.
She couldn't help but stare at him as she whispered to herself, "Doctor Fu, why are you so cruel?"
Fu Yanzhi was silent.
The inside of the car became quiet again, and inexplicably, Ji Qingying's troubles seemed to disappear as well.
She stared at Fu Yanzhi for a while, with a slightly curious expression on her face, "Fu Yanzhi."
Fu Yanzhi looked at her.
Ji Qingying smiled and asked softly, "Have you ever encountered something that can't be fixed?"
"I have."
Ji Qingying was startled.
She was stunned, "You too?"
Fu Yanzhi nodded.
"What was it?"
Fu Yanzhi was silent.
Just when Ji Qingying thought he wouldn't answer her, he spoke up, "A patient passing away."
She was stunned.
Fu Yanzhi said, "It's never something I can control."
Even as a doctor, he couldn't completely control a patient's condition.
The department where Fu Yanzhi was located could be said to be the most dangerous department in the hospital, in both terms of illnesses and a physician's mental health.
Even in cases where the patient is able to go home, they may pass away after two or three days.
It's not something that's within their power to control.
It is also impossible to not feel anything in such cases where one exhausts all their strength.
Even in Fu Yanzhi's case, there was the one thing he couldn't handle or control.