Chapter 192

The first time Shi Ye heard Jiang Zhinian's name was one evening. The library closed early that day. As he walked out with the crowd, he saw a boy standing at the door with a brick in his hand, shouting someone's name.

"Jiang Zhinian", that's what it sounded like from the pronunciation, but at that time he didn't care which three words it was.

The crowd parted ways, and a girl was washed ashore by the waves, facing the man who confessed his love to her alone.

"I swear to you with my life that my feelings for you are real!" the boy said as he weighed the brick in his hand, as if making the final preparation to hit himself on the head.

The crowd exclaimed in surprise, and some people wanted to persuade him not to do anything stupid, but were stopped by the boys.

"Don't come over here. I'll shoot anyone who comes over here."

Shi Ye was rarely interested in such gossip, but that day he stopped. Out of instinct as a medical student, he wanted to carefully observe the wound when the brick hit his head, if the boy dared to take a picture.

As screams rang out one after another, the boy fell to the ground and the brick fell and broke into pieces.

Shi Ye took two steps forward and found that his face was covered in blood, which looked scary. However, the wound was actually not big, and he probably didn't even have a concussion, so he turned around and wanted to leave.

When I looked up, I saw the girl standing in the crowd. The people around her seemed to quickly fade into the dark colors of old photos. Only she was standing in the dusk, covering her mouth and crying silently, like a little jasmine dripping with dew.

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In the following time, Shi Ye often noticed that the girl named "Jiang Zhinian" appeared in the library, sometimes very close to him, and sometimes very far away from him.

She is always quiet, rarely talking or doing anything else, just reading and copying. She never plays with her cell phone or listens to music. She just sits there like a cloud.

Later, Shi Ye discovered that he would occasionally meet this girl in the cafeteria. She always came alone, got a meal, and sat in the corner to eat it silently.

Sometimes Shi Ye would sit near her and watch her eat every grain of rice on the plate cleanly, leaving nothing behind.

"One time, a girl left after dinner and forgot to take her phone. You sat next to her, staring at it. Later, a cleaning lady saw it and wanted to take it away, but you stopped her. You said your classmate had gone to the bathroom and would be back soon to get the phone."

Sure enough, not long after, the girl who lost her phone found it back. When she saw the phone was still on the dining table, she showed a look of relief, but what she didn't know was that it was Jiang Zhinian who was sitting next to her who was silently guarding the phone for her.

Many years later, Jiang Zhinian was extremely surprised when Shi Ye mentioned this story. To her, it was just a trivial matter in daily life, but she did not expect Shi Ye to notice it and remember it for so many years.

"Do you remember that I went to watch you play basketball, the game against the Mathematics School?"

When Jiang Zhinian brought up this matter, she didn't expect any positive response. She just thought of it and mentioned it, and by the way, she expressed her silent crush during her youth.

Unexpectedly, Shi Ye nodded.

"Remember, I saw you when you came in through the safe passage."

In fact, he was not the only one who saw it. Several boys around him also focused their attention on Jiang Zhinian like him.

The only difference was that he quickly looked away.

At that time, Jiang Zhinian had already shed the youthfulness and immaturity she had when she first entered university. Although she did not perm or dye her hair or wear makeup, nor did she wear any very popular clothes, her eyebrows, lips and loose clothes could not hide her good figure, which still stimulated the nerves of the hormonal college boys.

In that noisy venue, her presence was still a quiet bright spot. Closing his eyes, Shi Ye seemed to be able to see the expression on her face, nervous and shy, like a deer that accidentally strayed into a hunter's camp.

"That blue dress you were wearing was very pretty."

Throughout the game, he didn't steal glances at Jiang Zhinian from time to time like the other players did, but at some point, the blue skirt would always flash through his mind.

Like the sparkling fragments on the summer sea, the fleeting flickering light is unforgettable.

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The third time I heard her name during college was at the "University Town Eight Schools Joint Modeling Competition."

In fact, as early as the first day when he met his third teammate, he saw the girl on his computer screen saver. The photo seemed to be taken secretly, blurry but blended with the hot summer glow.

Shi Ye stared at the screen, frowned slightly and then relaxed, then turned his head and continued to do the task in his hands without saying a word.

Just as the mission was about to be submitted, the third teammate was suddenly taken away for an outrageous reason: he had hacked the LEDs of the Twin Towers to confess his love to a girl.

The screensaver photo appeared in Shi Ye's mind, and it was also the first time he saw how the name "Jiang Zhinian" was written.

Knowing and thinking, two good words.

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The last time he heard her name in college was in the dormitory. Zheng Chengfei came back excitedly and told a shocking piece of gossip. He said that there was a rumor in the school that a wealthy businessman was waiting outside the school every day for a girl in the school. He said that as long as the girl nodded and agreed to be his girlfriend, he would immediately transfer a luxury car worth one million to her.

"Oh my god, one million! We don't know how many years it will take us to earn one million after graduation, but they can easily make it. Tsk tsk."

"Why are you so envious? The girl may not agree."

"Please, one million. Unless your family is already rich, how can you refuse?"

"It's not confirmed whether this is true or not. Maybe it's just a rumor. What kind of beauty would someone be willing to pay a million for a nod? Are all wealthy businessmen stupid these days?"

"Of course the news I brought back is true. Otherwise, let's make a bet.

"Let's bet, I say it's fake."

"I think it's true. Hey, Shi Ye, what do you think?"

Shi Ye was tinkering with his computer with headphones on. He wiggled two fingers slightly, expressing that he felt bored and didn't want to get involved.

Zheng Chengfei clicked his tongue and shook his head. "What the hell is this? It's just dense, dense code. I've seen doctors cross over into other fields, but I've never seen anyone become a programmer. Is our Shi Shen trying to be the best coder?"

"Maybe Shiye will switch to coding after graduation. Then he'll be a programmer who can perform CPR on his colleagues at any time."

But what no one realized was that in the past, when Shi Ye was wearing headphones and typing codes, he wouldn't even bother to use two fingers to respond.