The world treats me like a blade of grass, only you see me as verdant mountains!
Her lonely helplessness, only he felt pity for her; his confusion and hesitation, only she understood him. Eve...
(101)
Ye Wenyu was both amused and exasperated. At this moment, even if a big star came to Q University's student cafeteria, the sensation it would cause would probably not be as great as that of Brother Wen.
Because Q University students are all highly intelligent, they appreciate talented people who are both smart and good-looking, rather than celebrities who are only good-looking.
Previously, when Cai Wenchuan ate in the teachers' cafeteria, some female students would shamelessly go there to eat in hopes of bumping into him. However, fearing being questioned about their homework by other teachers, many girls kept their distance. Unexpectedly, the campus heartthrob professor actually came to the students' cafeteria on his own initiative!
Ye Wenyu felt the crowd surging, like a pot of boiling porridge. At the same time, many girls heard the news and rushed to the cafeteria with their lunchboxes. Soon, they would arrive like a tide.
She's under so much pressure!
Cai Wenchuan was still waving at Ye Wenyu. Ye Wenyu was determined to tell her brother Wen about the serious consequences of their meal together, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk over to Cai Wenchuan.
"Professor Cai—" Ye Wenyu walked up to Cai Wenchuan and spoke in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz. In front of so many students from Q University, she couldn't possibly call him Brother Wen affectionately. Let alone call him Brother Wen, just being so close to Cai Wenchuan right now made her feel like she had thorns in her back! She didn't even need to turn around to know that countless female students from Q University had turned into lemons, casting jealous and hostile glances at her, all because her Brother Wen was too handsome.
This really is a world that judges people by their appearance.
"Xiaoyu—" Cai Wenchuan lowered his head, gazed at Ye Wenyu, smiled at her, and said softly, "Just stand behind me and don't move around. There are quite a few students eating." After saying that, he turned around and faced the cafeteria window to get his food.
Ye Wenyu's face turned bright red, and her heart was pounding. He had spoken to her so gently and affectionately just now, just like when they were little, sitting in the dark stairwell of the tenement building. But because he was by her side, she felt incredibly happy.
But now, in a university student cafeteria under the watchful eyes of everyone, if he speaks like he did just now, others will misunderstand their relationship, which would have a very bad impact on him.
As Ye Wenyu pondered, she stood behind Cai Wenchuan like a little tail, slowly moving forward with his steps. The little knives flying from the girls' eyes had already pierced her back countless times. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to hold on for long before she was defeated!
She thought to herself, this is only the second day that Brother Wen has been having dinner with her, and things have already gotten this bad. If he had been having dinner with her every day, she probably wouldn't have made it out of Q University alive!
well--
Ye Wenyu lowered her head, her fingers pawing at each other, her heart burning with anxiety. What to do, what to do? Her brother Wen's willingness to eat with her every day was naturally a warm and sweet thing for her, but this was also incredibly devastating—
As she was lost in thought, she heard Cai Wenchuan's warm voice above her head: "Xiaoyu, what would you like to eat?" He was about to get the food, so he turned around to ask for her opinion.
Ye Wenyu suddenly looked up and realized that he had already asked the cafeteria lady to get two meals and was now getting the dishes. Ye Wenyu recalled the time when he only ordered one vegetarian dish for a meal, and felt a pang of sadness and emotion.
Although it is late autumn, she felt as if she were in the warm spring of April.
As clever as Cai Wenchuan was, he knew perfectly well that coming to the student cafeteria to eat would cause quite a stir. He also knew that eating with her would have a negative impact on him. However, in order to make sure she ate well and healthily, he ignored all the negative effects.
What a wonderful man! He may not have had the most, but he gave her everything he had, the whole world.
Ye Wenyu was so moved she wanted to cry. Her nose tingled, and she thought, "If only Brother Wen wasn't a teacher at Q University, if only I had graduated by now." But all of that was just a hypothetical. Their identities meant they couldn't be too intimate in public right now.
Cai Wenchuan was still waiting for Ye Wenyu's answer. The girls behind Ye Wenyu were already very dissatisfied. One of them even reached out to Ye Wenyu and pretended to accidentally push her. They didn't understand what Ye Wenyu was capable of to deserve the love of the school's most handsome professor!
Why her of all people? Why not them? She was clearly a poor and ugly girl.
Ye Wenyu felt immense pressure, so she could only say haphazardly, "Whatever."
Cai Wenchuan laughed and said, "Auntie, do you have a dish called 'casual'?"
The aunt laughed and said humorously, "I'll ask the chef to make one for me tomorrow!" Because Cai Wenchuan is handsome, even the aunt, who is nearly fifty years old, can't help but feel happy when she sees him.
Ye Wenyu had no choice but to say, "Hurry up and order, the students at the back of the line will complain."
Cai Wenchuan then took it upon himself to order a bunch of dishes, and then walked out of the queue carrying two trays. Ye Wenyu followed beside him and glanced at the dishes, discovering that he had ordered at least eight dishes: braised pork, poached chicken, steamed fish, stir-fried clams, and several side dishes.
She whispered, "There's too much. The two of us can't possibly finish it. Don't waste it."
Cai Wenchuan smiled but didn't say anything.
Seeing that he was struggling to carry the two plates, Ye Wenyu walked up to him and said, "Let me carry one." Cai Wenchuan gave her the plate with the most abundant dishes. When Ye Wenyu took the plate, she seemed to hear a "whoosh." She didn't need to look to know that the shocked exclamation came from the female students who had been watching them.
Professor Cai actually served her dishes and got her food?
Amidst a tsunami of chatter, the two of them calmly carried their trays and searched for seats. However, Ye Wenyu felt as if he were walking in the center of a stage, not in a cafeteria. The girls' gazes were like searchlights, shining on the two of them and leaving them nowhere to hide.
Cai Wenchuan finally found a seat and sat down. Ye Wenyu sat down opposite him, and she was sweating profusely from nervousness and embarrassment.
Even after they sat down, they remained the center of attention. The girls' eyes never left the two of them. They looked at Cai Wenchuan with adoration and at Ye Wenyu with hostility and incomprehension. They couldn't understand how this ugly girl, Ye Wenyu, could let Professor Cai get so close to her.
Ye Wenyu helplessly endured the girls' stares and said weakly to Cai Wenchuan, "Don't come to dinner with me tomorrow."
She came to him to tell him this.