Tenant's Secret Love

Chapter 38: A restaurant encounter

The night came as expected, and the tired body was finally released. In this huge city, the night gives us endless loneliness, but also allows us to indulge recklessly. Perhaps only at night can we release the truest version of ourselves. We suffer in reality, we enjoy ourselves in reality, and we helplessly watch our youth slowly drown in the rushing flow of time...

Because of Violetta, Mark's A4 has become my personal car these past few days. After finishing my phone call with Robben, I drove to the hotel to pick up Violetta, and then drove non-stop to CC's "Empty City"

music theme restaurant.

After we arrived, Robben also appeared at the entrance of the alley with my guitar on his back and his modified racing motorcycle.

After parking the car, Violetta and I got out of the car one after the other. Violetta was very happy to see Robben and greeted him from afar.

As the two of them approached, Robben put his hand on Violetta's shoulder and jokingly said, "Big shot, long time no see!"

Violetta didn't mind Robben's behavior of leaning on her shoulder, and looked at the guitar behind him and asked, "Big shot, are you going to sing tonight?"

"This is Lucas's guitar."

Violetta looked at me again and asked, "Are you going to improvise a few songs later?"

I nodded and said, 'Well, I haven't sung in CC's restaurant in a long time, and I miss the days when I used to sing here."

"Why does it make me feel sad when I hear the word nostalgic?' Robben said.

Violetta agreed, "Because nostalgia is shameful. We are both people who look up and move forward, aren't we, Robben?"

Robben nodded: "You're right. It's just that Lucas still sometimes willingly looks back, even though he knows it's shameful."

I laughed. At the moment, Robben and Violetta were teasing me in unison, but it was more like a kind of cover-up and avoidance. But I wouldn't expose it. No matter how perfectly he disguised himself in front of others, when the night was quiet, all the disguises he put on to cover up would still be torn apart, because the night didn't like pretentious people.

The three of us laughed as we walked through the dark alley towards CC's restaurant.

When we opened the door to the restaurant, the first sound we heard was CC's familiar singing voice. This time she was singing Xu Wei's "Time". She was so absorbed in her singing that she didn't even notice our arrival.

We didn't disturb CC, we just found a corner to sit down and listen to this song that made us feel so many emotions.

When CC sang the line "You are the most beautiful spring in my memory, the yesterday I can no longer return to," Robben and I almost simultaneously took a cigarette out of our packs and lit up. I don't know what Robben was feeling at that moment, but my heart was filled with those feelings of nostalgia for the past, the hatred of not being able to return to that spring, to jump into her river and swim to the end of love...

The applause came and went intermittently, and I realized that the song "Time" had already finished as time passed quietly. I looked up at CC on the small stage. She had put down her guitar and almost at the same time noticed our arrival. Her eyes were full of surprise, but of course her surprise came from Robben, not from me or Violetta.

CC came towards us with a smile, while also asking the waiter to bring us drinks and menus.

Robben didn't react in any special way to CC's arrival, and he was still smoking and tuning his guitar.