Pei Ke has been feeling strange lately, often irritable and at a loss.

Especially when she sees Su Xun, this feeling is amplified, and she often feels a surge of anger. Her intuition tells her that she must have something to say to her, but every time she tries to speak, she becomes speechless and doesn't know where to begin.

Pei Ke: "Um, Su Xun, I have something I'd like to talk to you about."

He pursed his lips and spaced out for the entire class, only turning around as soon as the bell rang.

"Su Xun, someone's looking for you outside." A familiar voice rang out from the classmate sitting by the window, barely suppressing a laugh. Jiang Ce has been coming over quite frequently this past month; it's no wonder the two of them are having an affair.

"Wait a moment, I'll go out and take a look." After saying this, Su Xun got up and left.

She knew without a doubt that Jiang Ce had come again. She planned to make things clear with him and tell him not to come looking for her again.

It's Jiang Ce again.

Heh~

Do you like him that much? Every time he comes over, you can't wait to run out and talk to him. Why don't you just transfer to his class? It would be best if you sat together so he wouldn't be wandering around and getting in the way.

Pei Ke thought angrily to himself, but his face remained expressionless as he crumpled the pages of the book in his hand, making them no longer smooth.

After explaining the situation, Su Xun came in directly. She had just told the person not to come to her class anymore, as it had caused her trouble.

Jiang Ce was taken aback at first, but after seeing Su Xun's indifferent expression, he said nothing and left directly.

It seemed that he knew she didn't like him coming to the classroom to find her. Su Xun breathed a sigh of relief and sat back down in her seat.

"By the way, what did you want to say to me just now?" Su Xun remembered what he hadn't finished earlier.

"So soon this time? Why don't you chat a little longer? There's still plenty of time before class." His tone was as cold as ice, utterly devoid of warmth.

"You've been acting strange lately." If she didn't know who this person was, she would have almost thought he was jealous.

"I'm being strange. If you don't like it, just stay away." This time, even his eyes were covered in ice. Looking into his eyes felt like falling into an ice cellar, making one feel cold all around.

After a long silence, Su Xun spoke.

"Don't you like it when Jiang Ce comes to see me?" Mixed with anticipation and nervousness that only she could understand, she finally asked cautiously after thinking for a long time, her fingers starting to fidget with the hem of her clothes again.

The figure next to him froze for a moment, but quickly recovered, as if he hadn't heard anything, and took out his textbook from his seat and opened it.

Seeing that her words, which she had just managed to say, had been ignored, Su Xun lowered her eyes, gathered all her thoughts, and turned away.

Did I overestimate myself after all?

The surroundings were completely dark, and the entire room was filled with a sense of oppression.

After returning home, Pei Ke went straight to his room, didn't turn on the lights, and sat quietly in the darkness with his brows furrowed.

From childhood to adulthood, he has always had everything under his control. He dislikes variables, and in fact, he has indeed made everything around him proceed as he envisioned.

He had his own ideas from a young age. Even though his parents had prepared everything for him and were just waiting for him to grow up and take over, he still wanted to do something on his own. Later, he discovered what he was really interested in, so while other peers were still struggling with math problems, he was already teaching himself another foreign language.

In fact, he never found those subjects difficult.

He handled everything very well; everything was within his expectations.

However, lately, he has a feeling that something is out of control.

He began to panic, feel uneasy, and become anxious.

What is it? He never understood.

But today it seems something has been revealed.

"Don't you like Jiang Ce coming to see me?"

A single sentence stirred up a thousand waves, directly triggering a devastating tsunami in the heart, exposing secrets buried deep in the seabed, so directly and so intensely.

The intense heat almost melted me into a pool of lava. After the fire, only fragmented memories remained in my mind.

"You're amazing! You can even solve such a difficult problem."

Thank you.

"Pei Ke, you're such a nuisance."

Before my eyes were girls' adoring expressions, grateful voices, faces flushed red in the sunset, and angry scoldings from the foot of the mountain.

Then the scene shifts to her interactions with other boys; she smiles at him, accepts the candy he gives her, and leaves herself to see him.

All the images pieced together to form one name—Su Xun.

Watching her grow from a timid and naive little girl into a young woman whose every smile and gesture is captivating.

When did these images become so deeply ingrained in my mind, so profoundly and passionately?

I don't know when it started, but this girl named Su Xun has taken root in my heart and I can never move her away.

He knew that a certain name was etched in his heart, becoming a kind of obsession.

That's not good.