After finishing a friendly match, it was ti for the club activities. Fang Ziqing, who had been cheering on the sidelines, ca over with her and Zhu Qianyu’s bags and belongings.
"Little Bamboo, you were aweso just now!"
Zhu Qianyu smiled at her, took her own bag, and pulled out a towel to wipe her sweat.
"Ziqing, do you want to go out for dinner together?" Ji Huan suddenly asked Fang Ziqing.
Before Fang Ziqing could answer, Zhu Qianyu’s phone in her bag rang. She picked it up, glanced at it, and her eyebrows furrowed tightly.
"Mom!" she answered the call and ran towards the less crowded stands with her phone.
Ji Huan stood still, watching her back, while Fang Ziqing looked at the retreating figure and then at Ji Huan. Finally, she stuffed Zhu Qianyu’s bag into Ji Huan’s arms.
"Mr. Ji, I need to hurry ho and help out. Please let Little Bamboo know that I’m leaving now."
She wasn’t sure if this Mr. Ji was interested in pursuing her friend, but there was surely so good impression.
By the ti Zhu Qianyu finished her call and returned, Fang Ziqing, not wanting to be the third wheel, had slipped away without a trace.
"Fang Ziqing said her family needed her back to help, so she left first."
Tasked with keeping Zhu Qianyu’s belongings, Ji Huan dutifully handed over the bag and shoe bag to her.
"Oh..." Zhu Qianyu lowered her eyes and took her belongings.
Ji Huan looked at her intently, noticing that she wasn’t looking too well and seed to be in low spirits.
Without asking her anything, Ji Huan accompanied her in silence, leaving the field and walking to the nearby path.
Both sides of the path were lined with many Bauhinia trees, in full bloom at this ti, covering the small road with purple-red petals and winding through the greenery like a small purple-red path.
The scene was beautiful and romantic.
However, the mood of the silent Ji Huan and Zhu Qianyu was completely detached from the beauty and romance around.
Walking side by side, their footsteps softly landing on the petals, both remained silent for a while until Ji Huan finally broke the silence.
"Want to have dinner together?"
Zhu Qianyu glanced at him and silently shook her head.
"What’s wrong? Did sothing happen?"
Ji Huan didn’t need to think to know that the phone call had surely upset her.
"My sister..." Zhu Qianyu hesitated for a while before finally summarizing the situation.
"My sister passed the selection by Young Master Yan, and a few days later, people from the Yan Family visited our ho. I think they wanted to discuss the marriage between my sister and Young Master Yan."
Ji Huan was a bit surprised because he had been inquiring a lot and hadn’t found out the final results of the selection, but it turns out her sister was the one who was successful.
"This should be a good thing for your sister, right?"
Regarding the Zhu Family and the Yan Family’s matters, Ji Huan felt it was not his place to comnt recklessly.
Zhu Qianyu shook her head, "I don’t think it’s a good thing, but my sister insists. However, when the people from the Yan Family ca, my sister wasn’t ho; actually, she had been gone for over ten days with no word from her."
Ji Huan didn’t understand what she was trying to convey, "Do you think your sister regrets it? And that’s why she fled the wedding?"
"No, my sister never regrets anything she does. Since she participated in the selection at that ti, it ans she was ntally prepared for marriage. She just had sothing to do and left for a while."
As for why her sister left this ti, Zhu Qianyu wasn’t sure, probably for work or maybe to travel.
"Since you think your sister has already prepared herself ntally, why are you still feeling down now?"
Ji Huan didn’t want to give Zhu Qianyu a chance to evade. He had been busy lately, and it had greatly reduced their eting and phone ti. Today, he had planned to ask her for dinner and a movie.
But now, the plans for dinner and a movie seed to be spoiled.
However, he was glad that he happened to be by her side when she was unhappy, so at least he could personally comfort her emotions instead of having soone else do it.
Zhu Qianyu suddenly stopped, turned, and walked to the grass on the side of the path to sit cross-legged.
Ji Huan followed without a word, sitting down beside her.
"I’m just mad at my mom! My sister has been gone for over ten days, and every now and then she calls and asks if I’ve heard from her."
"Doesn’t that just show that your mom cares about your sister?" Ji Huan was a bit puzzled by this family’s dynamics.
"Bullshit! If she cared about my sister, she wouldn’t even know my sister had left. Actually, my sister has a job overseas and needs to go abroad every now and then, but my mom knows nothing about it. She never even asked where the money my sister used to support my schooling ca from. I guess she’s anxious this ti because the Yan Family ca to demand soone, right?"
Chen Jing frequently calling her, Zhu Qianyu guessed, was mostly about what was going on.
Of course, on the surface, the situation was a bit more serious than she thought. Because, in fact, the Yan Family, a family of three, had been avoiding the Zhu Family these days, seemingly unwilling even to accept an apology.
"Xiao Yu, after all, this is a matter between your sister and the Yan Family. Even if you feel down, it can’t help her. From what I see, Young Master Yan isn’t soone easy to reason with, but your sister has been gone for so many days, and there’s no news of them wanting to break off the engagent with your sister. It’s likely that she might have inford him before leaving."
Zhu Qianyu remained silent for a while, her brow finally relaxing a little as if she was convinced by Ji Huan’s words.
"Hmm, the way you analyze it does seem to make sense."
Ji Huan stood up, patting the petals off his pants, "Let’s go, I’ll take you back to your dormitory first. You can take a shower, and I’ll co pick you up for dinner later."
Zhu Qianyu passively stood up, brushing off petals while glancing at his sports gear.
"Weren’t you also sweating profusely from the run just now?"
Ji Huan understood what she ant, "Don’t worry, the club gives special treatnt as a consultant and has arranged a single apartnt for , right near the graduate building not far from your dormitory."
It was only then that Zhu Qianyu rembered her warning to stay away from him, but since the words were already out, refusing further seed unkind and pretentious.
Fine, she’ll clear things up when they have dinner.
She and he can’t continue being ambiguous like this.
Ji Huan had no idea what she was planning, happily driving her to the dormitory entrance, and then drove towards the graduate building.
Half an hour later, dressed in casual clothes, Ji Huan stood downstairs of the girls’ dormitory waiting for Zhu Qianyu. After making a call for just a few minutes, Zhu Qianyu, wearing a sleeveless knit top and cropped pants, walked out from the hallway.
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