Urban Divine Doctor Descends the Mountain

Chapter 585: Chapter 585: Former Classmate

Lin Dong and Li Yanran entered and found that many people had already arrived in the banquet hall.

He looked around and was surprised to see quite a few familiar faces.

He, Huang Tao, and Chen Jing were high school classmates, and naturally, they would invite other classmates to their wedding.

The familiar faces Lin Dong now saw were indeed their former classmates.

Thinking of what Huang Tao had said earlier, Lin Dong felt that since he was attending the wedding, he should naturally sit at the table with people he knew.

He walked over and approached the classmates’ table.

”Wow, isn’t that Lin Dong? My goodness, I thought you had died. I can’t believe you’ve actually reappeared!”

A very exaggerated voice rang out.

This was a man in his twenties, over 1.8 meters tall, dressed in a suit, looking quite dapper.

Lin Dong recognized him immediately — it was their high school class monitor Zhang Zhihao.

Zhang Zhihao had had some conflicts with Lin Dong in the past and they had even fought; Lin Dong had once smashed a stool on his head.

He was the type to hold a grudge, and even though he had entered society, he still harbored resentment from back then.

Seeing Lin Dong now, he started with some unpleasant words, asking if Lin Dong had died.

Lin Dong frowned slightly and replied, ”If you died, I certainly wouldn’t have died either.”

Hearing Lin Dong’s response, Zhang Zhihao sneered, ”Lin Dong, so many years have passed, and your mouth is still as foul as ever. Where have you achieved such great success?”

”With your eloquence, you must have a good job, right? Where are you leading?”

Lin Dong couldn’t be bothered with him, ”Is it any of your business?”

Seeing the two of them bickering on sight, another voice piped up from the side.

”Lin Dong, Zhang Zhihao, we’ve all graduated; speak to each other nicely. Today is Huang Tao and Chen Jing’s wedding, are you really going to start a fight at someone else’s wedding?”

The speaker was also a former classmate, known for being a mediator.

Hearing his words, both Lin Dong and Zhang Zhihao shut their mouths and didn’t say anything more.

”Lin Dong, take a seat. Is this your girlfriend? She is really beautiful!” The other classmates were quite amiable toward Lin Dong.

They not only asked Lin Dong to sit down but also asked if he had gotten rich since he had such a beautiful girlfriend.

Even Zhang Zhihao looked puzzled, wondering if Lin Dong had really struck it rich over the years to bring such an attractive woman as his date.

Li Yanran, who came with Lin Dong, had looks that even surpassed those of A-list female stars. Moreover, she wore subtle makeup and dressed tastefully today, with an outstanding aura.

Therefore, Zhang Zhihao and the others were guessing whether Lin Dong had really gotten rich and that’s how he found such a girlfriend.

However, Lin Dong shook his head and said, ”She’s just a regular friend of mine, not a girlfriend.”

Hearing this, Zhang Zhihao couldn’t help but laugh, ”So she’s just a regular friend.”

”This beauty, my name is Zhang Zhihao, a teacher at our County’s Number One Middle School. I won the honor of an outstanding youth teacher in my first year after graduation and became a key figure in our school...”

”Why are you telling me all this?” Li Yanran asked with a puzzled face.

”Cough cough, I wanted to get to know you,” said Zhang Zhihao.

Li Yanran completely ignored him, replying indifferently, ”Not interested!”

Zhang Zhihao’s face stiffened, instantly feeling awkward. He didn’t expect the woman Lin Dong brought to be so dismissive of him.

Who was Li Yanran to give him face, and why should she? Who did he think he was?

”Lin Dong, where are you fooling around these days? How come there’s been no word from you since high school graduation?”

”You wouldn’t be making a fortune in silence, would you?”

”If you’ve gotten rich, remember to include us in your fortune!”

”...”

Many classmates started chatting with Lin Dong, inquiring about his recent life.

Lin Dong casually mentioned, ”After high school graduation, I went back to the mountains and stayed there for four years.”

”It’s only in the last half year that I came down from the mountains, and now I’m in Jianghai, just trying to making a living...”

The things he said, upon reaching the ears of these classmates, immediately enlightened them.

”So you’ve been off the radar for so many years because you went back to the mountains to farm,” Zhang Zhihao couldn’t help but laugh, ”Lin Dong, you must be the only ’farmer’ in our class.”

”Being a farmer in the mountains isn’t as good as coming out to work as a security guard. Lin Dong, for old times’ sake as classmates, I can arrange a security job for you at County No.1 Middle School...”

The words of Zhang Zhihao, of course, were filled with mockery.

Where did he have any real camaraderie with Lin Dong?

This so-called job offer to Lin Dong as a security guard was just his way of ridiculing Lin Dong.

The other classmates who were initially quite enthusiastic about Lin Dong also grew colder.

After that, hardly anyone spoke to Lin Dong again.

They were all very pragmatic; a ’peasant classmate’ who farmed for a living wasn’t worth associating with in their eyes.

They even thought it unnecessary to speak to him.

At this moment, everyone was talking about those classmates who had done well for themselves.

”Class monitor, it’s you who’s really made it. Just one year after graduation, you’ve already become a key player at the school. Becoming the principal in the future will be no question.”

At this moment, everyone was flattering Zhang Zhihao.

Zhang Zhihao, though flattered, put on a pompous act, saying, ”Hey, what’s my little achievement worth.”

”When it comes to our class, the one who’s really made it has to be our former class beauty, Tang Mu,” he continued.

”She’s the real deal, not only did she get into the best school in the Capital City, but now she’s become a music goddess. She’s quite famous in the Capital City, has won many awards, and lives in a completely different world than us...”

When Tang Mu’s name was mentioned, even Li Yanran seemed a bit surprised.

She even knew of Tang Mu.

With a bit of curiosity, she looked at Lin Dong and asked,

”Lin Dong, Tang Mu is actually your classmate?”

”Not just classmates, Tang Mu used to have a crush on Lin Dong. I saw her secretly drawing portraits of Lin Dong in her textbooks,” a female classmate suddenly said.

But then she immediately laughingly added:

”But that was then, now Tang Mu surely wouldn’t spare Lin Dong a glance. They’re just not in the same world!”

”A million Lin Dongs wouldn’t be worthy of a single hair on Tang Mu’s head,” Zhang Zhihao scoffed, voicing his opinion.

Others nodded in agreement.

Li Yanran looked at Lin Dong with a hint of mockery and whispered,

”Lin Dong, I had no idea about you and Tang Mu’s past. You really have quite the romantic fortune, don’t you?”

At this moment, Lin Dong’s mind couldn’t help but be filled with the image of a girl.

She wore the school uniform, was innocent beyond measure, and loved music.

He remembered the last Christmas during their third year of high school.

During evening self-study, she passed him a note, asking him to go to the rooftop of the teaching building after self-study was over, saying she had something to tell him.

Lin Dong went, and that night, she played ’Für Elise’ for him on a harmonica, her face reddening.

He still remembered, the night sky was filled with snowflakes. That girl in a school uniform had eyes only for him...

That night, he asked her what she needed him for.

She said nothing, only that she wanted to play ’Für Elise’ for him.

After finishing the piece, she told him, ”See you again.”

After that night, Lin Dong never saw her again.

She transferred to a school in the Capital City, apparently specially recruited by the city’s top school.

”Tang Mu, it’s been so many years, are you well?”

Hearing these classmates mention her now, Lin Dong couldn’t help but recall that innocently clad schoolgirl from those years ago.

And he remembered that ’Für Elise’ in the snow...