The living room was empty, and Xu Qianqian had already gone back to her room.
Song Xiyun escorted him to the door and was about to close it. But then he turned around and asked in a low voice.
"Can I touch your leg?"
Upon hearing this, Song Xiyun seed to have heard sothing terrifying. Her face turned pale instantly, and she hurriedly replied.
"No."
With a bang, the door slamd shut!
Jiang Nian: "???"
This shy?
....
The next day.
Sure enough, Li Hua took the day off and went to an internet cafe.
As for picking up the bike, Jiang Nian rode it to the West Gate ahead of ti and then went to the classroom to wait for Li Hua to co and get it.
He always paid attention to details, lest Chen Yunyun and the others attract gossip.
"So, the team leader really took the day off?" Zhang Ningzhi was shocked, then turned to Jiang Nian and said, "You can't emulate him."
Jiang Nian: "..."
Seeing Jiang Nian's speechless expression, she couldn't help but frown.
"What's with your expression?"
"Nothing." Jiang Nian raised both hands in surrender, "You're right, today I'll cut ties with Li Hua."
"There's no need for that," Zhang Ningzhi pursed her lips, "The team leader is actually a good person, just has a lot of bad habits."
"Hmph, besides, I'm not a villain or anything."
"Yes, yes, yes." Jiang Nian nodded helplessly, picked up his pen again, and continued solving problems, focused and undistracted.
The day before Qingming Festival, it didn't rain.
Cloudy weather.
The lighting in the classroom wasn't very good. Zhang Ningzhi secretly observed him and couldn't help but feel happy, her joy evident.
Jiang Nian looks good and has a good temper.
She daydread for a while, blushing slightly. Thankfully, dreaming wasn't against the law, and no one could control it.
"What are you smiling about?"
Upon hearing this, she was taken aback for a mont, imdiately retracting her expression and tightening her face, "Nothing, quack."
"Yes, quack quack quack." Jiang Nian imitated her tone, imdiately earning a flurry of playful punches from Zhizhi.
Jiang Nian chuckled and continued solving problems.
Zhang Ningzhi then sat up straight and cald her emotions. Her reaction seed a bit excessive.
However, Jiang Nian's interactions with her had increased recently, making the dull and tedious daily study sweet like cookies.
It required a lot of self-control not to squeal with joy.
She increasingly enjoyed sitting next to Jiang Nian.
The first two periods on Wednesday morning were Qianbao's classes. Almost everyone in the class was dozing off, half-asleep.
The damned Ma Guojun also went to the internet cafe with Li Hua.
Those two fools.
There were two empty seats to Jiang Nian's left, making it particularly conspicuous in the class, and Qianbao imdiately noticed.
She looked at the bored Jiang Nian, with a faint smile on her lips.
"Jiang Nian, co up and explain this problem."
"Sure!"
He reluctantly got up, thinking he hadn't even taken out his test paper, so he had to borrow Zhang Ningzhi's.
"Good luck!" The girl secretly made a fist-pumping gesture.
"Uh..."
In the back row, Li Qingrong watched their interaction. Her gaze calmly shifted from Jiang Nian to her test paper, then stuck out her lip.
"Ha."
Jiang Nian didn't look back, all his focus was on the problem. As he walked to the podium, he organized his thoughts.
"The sentence ans....."
Ti slowly passed, and soon it was ti for the big break.
The class went out for exercises, but Jiang Nian found himself with nothing to do. He went downstairs and bought so food at the cafeteria.
He looped around to the lab building, an old building.
It's in a remote location, with no one around, behind the small woods parking lot, its foundation about two ters above the parking lot.
He sat at the edge of the concrete platform, his feet dangling in the air.
"Why are you here?"
A voice ca from below. It was Yu Zhiyi erging from the road, holding a vocabulary book.
She was wearing a fitted outfit, perhaps feeling it was a bit sheer, so she added a school uniform over it.
At this mont, she was looking up at Jiang Nian.
Jiang Nian glanced at her chest before raising his head again, looking toward the copse, squinting.
"Eating."
"Oh, well, that's a bit weird." Yu Zhiyi wanted to climb up, but it was clearly difficult, "Give a hand."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Nian glanced down at her.
Yu Zhiyi's neckline wasn't very loose, but from below, he could always see so indistinct gaps.
"Nope, climb up yourself."
"You!!" Yu Zhiyi was exasperated, tried a bit further, then gave up, "You're so stingy!"
Jiang Nian was noncommittal, "Oh."
However, after a while.
Yu Zhiyi actually took a detour and ca around from the other side of the lab building. She angrily gave him a punch, finally feeling satisfied.
Then she simply sat down beside him.
"So.... have you been feeling down lately?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Nian turned his head and glanced at her.
"How so?"
"Just..... asking." Yu Zhiyi didn't quite know how to put it, "When I saw you yesterday, you didn't seem very happy."
"Yeah."
Jiang Nian simply admitted, "Indeed a bit, tell sothing unhappy so I can be happy."
Yu Zhiyi: "....."
This guy! Still as cheeky as ever!
Yu Zhiyi smiled, and spoke.
"I don't have any unhappy things. My grades went up too. My pocket money didn't go over budget, I'm super happy!"
Jiang Nian said, "Your ex-boyfriend's grades went up too."
Yu Zhiyi was taken aback, as if hit in a sore spot. She couldn't catch her breath, this guy really knew how to sting with words.
He just had to bring up the sore topics.
"How would I know!"
Jiang Nian didn't respond, nor did he intend to continue talking. He had a bad personality, but he knew when to stop.
Jabbing at Yu Zhiyi a bit was enough.
Silence enveloped the surroundings.
He thought Yu Zhiyi would get angry and, like usual, stomp and leave while cursing.
Unexpectedly, Yu Zhiyi didn't leave.
She looked at the nearby copse, as a fresh breeze blew by. The cloudy sky cast a dull light, her mood turned gloomy.
"You've been to my house, right?"
"Hmm?"
Jiang Nian hadn't thought Yu Zhiyi would suddenly ask this, "Why? Should I give you a red envelope in return?"
Yu Zhiyi shook her head and was silent for half a minute.
"My parents are nice to guests, but actually have a bad temper. When I was little, they often yelled at over small things."
"Once I had a fever, my dad got really angry. Kept scolding and yelling at ."
Jiang Nian glanced at her, thinking her childhood was quite rough.
"Having parents with bad tempers isn't uncommon. But yelling doesn't really serve any purpose."
"Hmm." She nodded, pulling up her legs and encircling them with her arms, gently resting her chin on her knees.
"Since I started high school, they couldn't control anymore. But I couldn't get along with girls, constantly arguing with them."
"Whenever they yelled at , I just couldn't handle it."
"But boys didn't do that, so I preferred being around them. By senior year, I got close to Wu Jungu."
"He never yelled at , never raised his voice. Even if I deliberately made him angry, he spoke very softly."
"So, I started dating him."
Hearing this, Jiang Nian was a bit speechless. What the hell, are you using Brother Wu like he's so sort of Japanese service personnel?
"Oh."
"Actually, we weren't together for long. It didn't even feel like a relationship, because I always had unresolved problems."
"He was either helping fix problems, or on the way to fixing them."
"I know it was wrong, but I couldn't let go. Besides, I felt he didn't really like ."
"It felt like he saw as a stray cat on the roadside, taking pity on ."
Yu Zhiyi's mood turned somber, her voice growing quieter, "I knew, but pretended not to know."
"Eventually, it just got too much."
"Then we broke up."
Jiang Nian: "... You really are sothing else."
He actually didn't want to hear Yu Zhiyi's complicated story, but breaking off Yu Zhiyi's narrative was even harder.
This was more awkward than rejecting her.
However, he still had to grumble a bit.
"Hmm." Yu Zhiyi nodded, "I know he's a good person, and I regret it, but what's done is done."
"And then?"
"Nothing else," Yu Zhiyi said, "After that, you know everything, nothing else to tell."
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