Lin Chaoxi couldn't help but think of a sentence that Lao Lin had said. The parentheses were a question.

——Will you ever fall in love?

She really wanted to say "yes" with confidence, but in fact she felt guilty.

In the days that followed, she would of course occasionally meet Pei Zhi. But the number of times was not that high, because she had to prepare for the exam seriously, and because the semester was over and Pei Zhi rarely showed up at school.

Thanks to Hanajuan.

Lin Chaoxi sometimes would have meals or play board games with them.

Pei Zhi is always very gentlemanly and conscientious, but they never seem to have any ambiguous relationship beyond friendship.

As the filming of the TV series was coming to an end, Huajuan had to move with the crew and left Yongchuan a few days earlier than Pei Zhi.

Before Huajuan left, they got together again.

Mr. Ji finally showed his rich nature as a popular idol and treated them to a standard Michelin meal.

“The environment is good, and the taste is acceptable, but it’s not filling enough.” Comrade Lao Lu concluded after tasting all the dishes.

"It has nothing to do with you?" Hua Juan looked at him and said, "It's mainly to send Pei off to go abroad, to show off. There won't be many opportunities in the future."

Lin Chaoxi held his forehead and poked the dessert in the bowl with a fork.

"Why do you make it sound like we'll never meet again?" Lu Zhihao asked.

"That's about right."

"You think that traveling abroad now is the same as it was 20 or 30 years ago, that once you leave, you'll never come back, and air tickets are not expensive."

"Of course, Pei Zhi will definitely come back when you get married, but it's not certain when you have a baby. I guess he will transfer the money to you directly via WeChat."

Lu Zhihao blushed a little: "It will take a few years for me to get married. Maybe Pei Zhi will come back after finishing his studies." Lu Zhihao said this and suddenly looked at Pei Zhi, "Will you come back after going abroad?"

Pei Zhi wiped his mouth with a napkin and followed Hua Juan's words, "If you get married, I will definitely come back."

"I'm asking you if you plan to go back to work after you finish your studies." Lu Zhihao was very straightforward.

Pei Zhi's eyebrows and eyes looked delicate and handsome under the restaurant's moody spotlights. He had very long eyelashes. He lowered his eyelashes slightly and thought seriously for a while before raising his eyes and answering, "I haven't made any plans yet."

Lin Chaoxi licked the fork and roughly understood what was going on.

After Huajuan left, she, Lao Wang and A Guang received a notice for the national paper defense of the modeling competition. The time was the day Pei Zhi left, but in the morning.

She was a person who had traveled through parallel time and space, and was no longer surprised by these fateful coincidences. She calculated the time and thought that she should still have time to see him off, so she made an appointment with Lu Zhihao to go to the airport together.

The next schedule is very clear.

We went camping on the 27th and 28th, and discussed thesis defense with Lao Wang and A Guang on the 29th. They would go to the old campus of Yongchuan University on the morning of the 30th to complete thesis defense, and there would be a graduation ceremony at 1 pm on the 30th. They would go to the airport to see Pei Zhi off on the evening of the 30th.

Lin Chaoxi drew a cheering pig on the evening of the 30th in his diary, and then simply packed his luggage for camping.

Breakfast was placed on the living room table, and Lao Lin was peeling eggs.

Lin Chaoxi walked to the kitchen and posted the memo he had just written on the refrigerator: "Dad, when I go out camping, don't forget to read the memo on the refrigerator and remember to take your medicine."

"Comrade Lin Zhaoxi, it is useless for you to just write this note A. You should also write note B to remind me to look at note A, and then write another note C to remind me to look at b... and so on and so forth, endlessly."

"No need." Lin Zhaoxi sat down and cracked an egg. "I will call you from the mountain and confirm again in 10 minutes."

"How can I remember whether I ate or not!"

"I've divided the medicine in the medicine box for you, by day, three meals a day..."

"You put a lot of pressure on me!"

"If you don't want to, then I can only not go camping and stay at home with you to supervise you taking medicine." Lin Chaoxi said seriously.

Two days ago, she discovered that Lao Lin did not take the medicine as prescribed by the doctor.

Maybe she forgot, or maybe it was for some other reason, but after that, she paid more attention to this matter.

Old Lin blew his beard and glared, looking quite guilty: "Are you threatening your old father?"

"Yeah."

"Hurry up, hurry up, and talk about your love." Lao Lin waved his hand to chase her away.

"Dad." Lin Chaoxi peeled off the last eggshell, not being led by Old Lin. "You have to take your medicine well. I will accompany you well, but my life will not be changed because of your illness."

She handed the eggs to Lao Lin.

Lao Lin took two bites of the egg, savored it, and then said, "I was a little moved..."

"What do you mean by originally?"

"But after thinking about it carefully, I always feel that you are warning your old father that you have grown up and become independent, so I don't need to care about you, but you can care about me instead."

"That's what I mean."

"This is not fair." Lao Lin protested.

Lin Zhaoxi laughed: "Protest is ineffective!"

——

Nanshan Dongming Lake is located in the southwest of Yongchuan, with mountains and lakes and beautiful scenery.

But Nanshan is very high, and apart from the famous Nanshan Temple on the top of the mountain, there are no famous attractions. In addition, due to the underdevelopment, family tourists do not like to go there. However, young people like outdoor adventures and most of them like to go to Nanshan.

It was midsummer, and many of their classmates who had participated in the modeling competition had gone back home for summer vacation, so not many people actually got together to go camping in Nanshan.

Because there were so few people, they did not charter a car, and everyone agreed to meet at the bus station.

It's rare for Lao Wang and A Guang to participate together.

Everyone also knew the results of the modeling competition. When Lin Chaoxi arrived, he saw that the classmates were surrounding Lao Wang and A Guang and asking them all kinds of questions.

"My disciple, you are finally here, please rescue me!" Lao Wang asked for help.

"What's wrong, Master?" Lin Zhaoxi smiled.

"These Muggles are asking me how to write a thesis to win the first prize in the country, brackets."

"I wrote it seriously." Lin Zhaoxi said.

Lao Wang slapped his thigh and said, "Did you hear that?"

The classmates around him all laughed, but some sighed: "Student Lin is so lucky."

"When we saw you raise your hand and say you wanted to team up with the two of them, we thought you were done."

“Choice is sometimes more important than hard work.”

"Of course." Lao Wang patted his chest, "It is extremely wise for my disciple to choose to lead us to win easily. After all, we are smart and strong enough!"

"And handsome." A Guang added.

"Who is more handsome?"

Jie Ran's sudden voice came.

They all turned around and saw Jie Ran, Pei Zhi and two other girls who were in charge of organizing the barbecue event. They were carrying eight large bags of barbecue ingredients, showing their sincerity.

Lin Chaoxi hadn't seen Pei Zhi since the dinner organized by Huajuan. The boy was still wearing simple sportswear today, looking very refreshing and pleasing to the eye.

Lin Zhaoxi smiled and nodded at him.

The bus runs every hour.

Before getting in the car, Lin Chaoxi helped to sort the barbecue ingredients. The ones that were not easily spoiled were stuffed in the luggage compartment below the car, while the fresh ingredients that were easily spoiled were taken into the car.

Pei Zhi was stuffing things downstairs. She got on the bus with a bag of things and found that Lao Wang and A Guang were sitting together, Jie Ran was sitting with a boy and chatting, and the other classmates seemed to have companions as well.

She found an empty seat by the window by herself.

Pei Zhi got on the bus last. He looked around the car and sat down next to her.

Lin Zhaoxi was stunned.