Looking at the Moon in the Well to Seek the Phantom (7)

Xu Xing's words were full of hidden meanings. Zhu Ming was silent for a moment, then suddenly changed the subject: "I heard that you and Ah Yue are very close?"

Xu Xing looked into her eyes and smiled, "Ayue has a kind personality. No one doesn't like being with her."

Zhu Ming sneered: "Including you?"

"Yes," Xu Xing looked at her frankly, "I really like being with her, but..."

He suppressed the sudden strange feeling in his heart and continued, "It's not that kind of love."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Ming sneered, not knowing whether to believe it or not.

"Why do you ask this question, Sword Immortal? I really don't have the courage to attack your daughter. Isn't your prejudice against me too deep?" he said.

Zhu Ming did not directly answer the question, but simply said: "Just do what you should do and what you want to do."

Xu Xing looked at her, seeing her eyes full of pity, treating him like a dead object, and he sighed and said with a smile: "Thank you..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Ming seemed to remember something and said, "Perhaps you don't know one thing, Xie Feng and A Yue have been engaged since childhood, that's why they are so close."

Xu Xing's smile froze on his face, but he quickly adjusted his expression and said, "So what if we're engaged?"

"Being engaged means that Ah Yue can't possibly like you. Just based on her feelings for Xie Feng, do you think you can match her?"

Xu Xing said nothing, just staring at Zhu Ming coldly. After a long moment, his eyes curved and he smiled, "If Ah Yue can find someone she loves, I'll support her."

Zhu Ming, however, seemed not to hear his words and muttered to herself, "Some things are not yours, so it's useless to steal them."

Something poked his cheek. Xu Xing came to his senses and found that Li Zhaoyue was looking at him with bright eyes, her finger resting on his left cheek.

Li Zhaoyue, as if caught doing something bad, quickly withdrew his hand and pretended to be calm, "It's time for class. I saw you weren't moving, so I just came to remind you."

After saying that, as if afraid that he would overthink it, she added, "I don't mean anything else."

Xu Xing lowered his eyes to hide the sadness that flashed across his eyes, and said softly, "Thank you."

These words sounded a little strange. Li Zhaoyue looked left, right, up and down, and found that his lips were tight and he seemed very unhappy.

Xu Xing would also smile when he was unhappy, but his smile was cold. This was something she discovered recently.

Li Zhaoyue grabbed the hairband hanging by her ear and secretly observed the movements of the elder who was teaching the class. She took out a piece of paper from the bottom of the table, fiddled with it furtively for a while, and took advantage of the gap between the elder's lessons to throw it to Xu Xing.

Xu Xing was holding up his head in a daze when something suddenly fell into his arms. He picked it up and found that it was a folded rabbit with a line of very small words on it - Don't be unhappy, I'll fold a little rabbit for you.

The smooth handwriting makes it clear that it was written by Li Zhaoyue, and it could only be written by her.

Xu Xing was stunned for a moment, then turned his eyes to look at Li Zhaoyue. She was pretending to be listening attentively to the lecture, and when the elder wasn't paying attention, she made a face at him.

Xu Xing's eyes trembled for a moment, and then his lips tightened.

Seeing that his mood was getting worse and worse, Li Zhaoyue became a little panicked. In desperation, he even wanted to pull Xu Xing out in front of the teacher.

The result, of course, was that the two were severely criticized by the teacher, driven out of the classroom, and made to stand with books on their heads for an hour as punishment.

Two figures, one blue and one yellow, were staring at each other with dejected eyes, holding their textbooks.

Xu Xing looked at Li Zhaoyue and burst out laughing.

"How did you think of pulling me out during class?" He asked with a smile, his eyes sliding from her eyebrows to her lips.

Li Zhaoyue tugged at her hairband and said distressedly, "I didn't think too much about it at the moment."

"Seeing you look so unhappy, even though I'm teasing you, you're still not happy, I'm a little worried. You usually smile all the time, whether you're happy or sad, but when you're sad, your smile is always forced. I'm worried that you have some kind of problem."

"Because you were in a hurry, you forgot about yourself, right?"

When Xu Xing said this, his phoenix eyes narrowed slightly. Although his gaze was gentle, Li Zhaoyue felt as if he was being stared at by a ferocious beast.

She didn't know what Xu Xing's intention was in asking this question, so she nodded honestly.

Snap——

It was the sound of a book falling to the ground. A smile appeared on Xu Xing's eyes and eyebrows, and he pulled Li Zhaoyue into his arms.

This wasn't their first hug, but it felt completely different.

Because this hug has nothing to do with danger, fear, or protection. It's just a pure hug with a gentle tenderness.

Just because Xu Xing wanted to.

Li Zhaoyue suddenly felt like she was facing a formidable enemy. She panicked and tried to push him away, but she heard the boy's aggrieved voice: "Can't you even hug me? Ah Yue, I'm in a really bad mood today."

"Just think of it as comforting me, okay?"

The hot air from his voice swirled around her earlobes, and the vague itchy feeling made her body feel as if a lightning bolt had passed through it, leaving her feeling numb and tingling.

Li Zhaoyue's legs went weak and she almost fell. Xu Xing chuckled and pulled her back.

"Can't you even stand steadily?" He lifted the hair behind her ear, twisted it in a circle, and said with a smile.

Li Zhaoyue forced herself to suppress her pounding heart and uttered an annoyed sigh, "I just accidentally lost my balance."

"Oh~" Xu Xing deliberately stretched out his voice, laughing so hard that his chest was shaking, "It's just because I didn't stand firmly~"

"Xu Xing!" Li Zhaoyue tugged at the hairband at the end of his hair and said angrily.

Xu Xing chuckled softly, and finally patted her head and said soothingly: "I won't say anything more, I won't say anything more. Ah Yue, that pull you just made me hurt."

After saying that, he rubbed her shoulder aggrievedly and whispered, "Hold me for a while longer, okay?"

Li Zhaoyue was already helpless with his attitude, her ears red and she dared not speak.

Xu Xing asked again, and Li Zhaoyue became angry and said, "Since you said so, hug me! What can I say if you ask me about this?"

Xu Xing laughed for a long time, not stopping until he had annoyed the other person. He recalled Zhu Ming's words at that time, his eyes darkened slightly, and he hugged the girl tightly in his arms, as if he wanted to melt her into his bones and blood.

In the distance, Lou Daoye and another woman in medical school uniform were standing together and saw this scene.

"I heard that you are interested in Xu Xing?" Lou Daoye glanced at Lou Yao and asked with his head raised.

Lou Yao looked at Xu Xing, who was smiling in the distance, clenched her sleeves, and nodded silently.

"If you can destroy their relationship, I can take you back to the Lou family."

Because of her introverted personality and her reticence to talk, Lou Yao was always ostracized by the people around her. Yiziyuan was a source of pain for her. She wanted to go back, but she could not disobey her father's orders and was forced to stay in Yiziyuan.

Before Xie Xue appeared, she was the one bullied by Zheng Hai.

Now that Zheng Hai is dead, she can live a peaceful life in Yiziyuan. But...

She looked at the two people hugging each other in the distance with some sadness.

Why does the person I like already have someone they like?

Lou Daoye observed Lou Yao for a long time and discovered that she had feelings for Xu Xing. It just so happened that the task assigned to him was to separate Xu Xing and Li Zhaoyue. He had no choice but to seize this opportunity.

Moreover, Lou Yao seemed to have fallen in love with Xu Xing early on, so... she would definitely agree.

Sure enough, she nodded.

Lou Daoye laughed, not knowing whether it was out of mockery or excitement. Lou Yao blushed, raised her eyes and said, "You must remember what you said."

"Of course, I always keep my word."

*

The days always passed by incredibly quickly. These days, Li Zhaoyue spent her days sleeping and attending classes. Since the beginning of summer, she'd been getting increasingly sleepy, sometimes even sleeping all day and still feeling drowsy. She'd been going to the medical school almost daily to have her pulse checked, and every time, the results were positive.

That day, she had just finished lunch and took advantage of her lunch break to run to the pharmacy of the medical school, hoping to find someone to diagnose her.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw a woman in white stumble and accidentally knock over the shelf where medicinal herbs were drying. There was a loud bang, and a large group of people ran out of the pharmacy in shock.

"Hey, what's going on?" A ferocious-looking man pushed through the crowd and yelled at the woman.

"I...I didn't mean to." Lou Yao clutched her sleeves, looking pitiful. But the man rolled his eyes at her in disgust, saying, "If you're clumsy, don't stand next to my shelf. If it's knocked over, it's my loss. Why are you complaining?"

Hearing this, Lou Yao's expression changed. She stepped aside with a pale face, bowing and apologizing repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it."

Li Zhaoyue couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he walked silently to Lou Yao and stopped her actions.

Lou Yao looked at her with tears in her eyes, and her face turned even paler.

Li Zhaoyue smiled at her: "Since the shelf has been knocked over, can't we just help pick it up? Don't cry, I can help you pick it up, okay?"

Her tone was gentle and her smile sincere. Lou Yao was startled and nodded heavily. The people pouring out of the courtyard dispersed when they saw that nothing was wrong. A few recognized Li Zhaoyue and greeted her with a smile.

"Are you feeling sleepy again today?" a thin woman asked her with a smile.

Li Zhaoyue smiled foolishly while picking up herbs: "Yes, that's why I came to see you again."

"But maybe it's just growing. It will be fine after a few more days of rest." Someone said.

"I just got some fun toys. If Junior Sister Li is bored, you can play with them." As he spoke, someone threw a package over, which landed right at Li Zhaoyue's feet.

Li Zhaoyue smiled at the man and shouted, "Thank you very much, Senior Brother. I'll bring you some sour plums that Senior Brother Xie made some other day!"

"I can't afford that!"

Everyone burst into laughter again.

After everyone had dispersed, the herbs had been packed up. Lou Xue apologized to the disciple again. Although he looked unhappy, he didn't say anything. He just told her not to be so careless next time.

In front of the medical school, Lou Yao looked at Li Zhaoyue gratefully and said softly, "Thank you so much for today."