Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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4.
Tang Shiyu dared to say that because she was sure that she would never let such an embarrassing thing as being caught lying happen again.
That summer she stayed away from the affiliated high school and didn’t get any closer.
Summer was halfway over and H University had started school.
The bulletin board was posted with the top scorer list written in black and red on red paper. Tang Shiyu never cared about such nonsense and walked past it with her friends.
Amidst the laughter, she casually glanced to the side.
The wind lifted up a corner of the red paper.
The name of the top student who entered the school with almost full marks was written at the top, with three very beautiful small characters:
Lan Jingqian.
Tang Shiyu paused.
Besides being nice to the ear, the name also sounded familiar.
She was not prepared to worry. Just as she looked away and was about to continue walking forward, she ran into the fair and handsome face of a young man.
He looked at her calmly and indifferently.
“……!”
The little witch of the Tang family then twisted her ankle on the stairs and fell to the ground in a very embarrassing way, without any preparation.
5.
All her bad friends laughed together.
“Tang Shiyu, do your legs go weak when you see a handsome guy?”
“I didn’t recognize him because he’s so handsome. I know he is a freshman this year. You are even thinking about your junior. Tang Shiyu, you are a beast.”
“You fell too early, too early. If you moved a little further, you would have fallen into someone’s arms.”
“…”
Tang Shiyu, who had never lost in a war of words, was no longer in the mood to argue with them.
She just supported herself on the ground, and sat up, feeling depressed and puzzled. As it was summer, her dress was thin, and the fall hit her the hardest – so her knees were burning with pain and bleeding red.
Tang Shiyu sighed inwardly: It turns out that there really is such a thing as retribution in this world?
As she was muttering, a well-washed, starched handkerchief was handed to her by a slender, strong hand.
Tang Shiyu was stunned.
She didn’t respond, just kept sitting on the ground and looking up.
With the light behind him, the young man had just been teased by a group of people together with her, but his expression still remained calm and composed.
The same went for sound.
“Wipe it off.” He lowered his eyes, “Senior.”
“…”
The little witch of the Tang family who tortured people to death without any remorse, felt her heart beating like a drum for the first time.
6.
Lan Jingqian was not the type of person who liked to meddle in other people’s affairs.
But when he recognized the girl who fell in front of him at a speed that surprised even himself, even after hearing those words that made him want to frown, he hesitated for a second or two and then took out his handkerchief.
However, the senior student who fell to the ground did not seem to be grateful.
Lan Jingqian thus withdrew his hand.
Perhaps after two such embarrassing incidents, the other party did not want to have any contact with us, which was normal.
Just as he fell back halfway, the handkerchief in his hand was pinched.
Lan Jingqian raised his eyes and then looked back again.
This time, it was that brilliant smile that flashed across his eyes again: “Do you really want to give it to me?”
Lan Jingqian came back to his senses and nodded slightly: “Yeah.”
After he said that, he was about to let go and prepare to turn around and go to the new student registration office.
But before the handkerchief was pulled by two centimeters, a soft hand suddenly reached forward, clenched the handkerchief and held his hand.
Lan Jingqian was startled and lowered his eyes.
Using the strength of his hand, Tang Shiyu slowly stood up: “You are so kind. But what can I do, junior? I like to repay kindness with enmity the most.”
Lan Jingqian raised his eyebrows but said nothing, his dark eyes looking at her calmly.
Tang Shiyu curled her red lips, pulled the hand that didn’t struggle, and stood on tiptoe to gain the force.
Just like when they first met, she leaned against his ear.
“You’re in trouble, junior.”
Lan Jingqian’s eyes flickered slightly, then fixed again.
Then he turned his head to look at her: “What’s the trouble?”
The girl didn’t say anything.
She just tilted her head and gave a playful and unrestrained smile.
Then she pointed at herself.
“I.”
You got me.
[End]
Even many years later, whenever Tang Shiyu talked about their first and second meeting, she couldn’t help laughing.
“He was like an idiot,” she said to Tang Ran, pointing at Lan Jingqian. “Both times, he just stood there like an idiot.”
At that time, Luo Zhan was already very familiar with his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and he didn’t shy away from joking. Hearing this, he raised his eyelids and defended his “father-in-law brother”:
“This must have been the first time Matthew encountered a demon. He is not Tang Sanzhang[1], so of course he can’t resist it.”
Tang Ran tugged at his clothes, stopping him from describing Tang Shiyu like that.
Tang Shiyu naturally didn’t mind this kind of address. She just curled her lips and took her precious daughter away: “Let these two stinky men play together. Let’s go make afternoon tea. I just learned a new one recently…”
The mother and daughter’s backs disappeared into the distance, and Luo Zhan then withdrew his gaze.
He leaned on the armrest of the solid wood sofa and looked at Lan Jingqian lazily: “I still can’t figure it out.”
“What can’t you figure out?” Lan Jingqian asked.
“You didn’t know that her marriage was fake all those years, did you?”
“Um.”
“Then why did you keep waiting and didn’t get married for so many years when there was obviously no hope?”
Lan Jingqian’s eyelids moved and he raised his eyes: “Not waiting.”
“Um?”
“….”
Lan Jingqian didn’t explain any further.
He only looked at the vague figure behind the crystal glass door in the dining room diagonally opposite.
Lan Jingqian smiled faintly and lowered his eyes.
Not waiting.
He just didn’t care about others.
Tang Shiyu was once annoyed and said that he was like an ink painting, bland and tasteless.
She was right.
She was the only highlight in his life.
After her, all the colors on paper were nothing but black and white.
[Postscript]
I love you.
As the beginning and the end, time does not pass easily.
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[1] A monk character from Journey of the West.