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Xia Xi usually wouldn't disobey her elders. Having said that, she knew it was wishful thinking for her to stay in Nancheng during the holidays, so she obediently bought tickets from Zhou Du and Liang Yuan back to Ganlin.

On the day of returning home, Xu Yanfeng offered to take her home.

Xia Xi was checking her suitcase, her head tilted, her phone between her ear and shoulder. "No thanks, I'm going with a friend. They took a taxi and happened to be passing by the gate of Nanjing University, so they picked me up."

Xu Yanfeng was silent for three or four seconds before he said, "Okay, I'll contact you when I get there."

Xia Xi closed the lid of the suitcase, zipped it up, and stood up holding the handle: "I won't talk to you anymore, I have to go downstairs."

After saying goodbye to his roommate, Xia Xi went down to the fifth floor carrying his suitcase and backpack. The wheels slid quietly on the tiled floor. When he walked out of the dormitory building, the green-painted door rubbed against the bluestone bricks, making a gurgling noise.

Xia Xi looked up. Beneath a tall, lush camphor tree stood a tall figure, its shadows swaying, dappled light dancing around him. Xia Xi's breath paused for a second, and the noise from the wheels faded away.

She let go of the suitcase and rushed over to hug him: "Didn't you say you didn't need to send me off? Why are you here?"

When she called her, he was already waiting downstairs. He put an arm around her shoulders, his expression as calm and composed as ever: "I was worried you couldn't carry the suitcase."

Xia Xi: "Then you should go upstairs and help me. After all, I have carried it down the five floors, and I just need to pull it the rest of the way."

Xu Yanfeng: "You're right, I didn't think it through."

The girls coming in and out stared at them, unsurprised by the sight. Xu Yanfeng and Xia Xi, a pair of handsome men, had been dating for a long time. Once aloof and unattainable, Xu Yanfeng, ever since he got a girlfriend, has been constantly caught on camera falling off the altar. I thought he had no preferences, but it turns out he just hadn't met the right person.

Some people say that a man as aloof as Xu Yanfeng, once he falls in love with a girl, is like a volcano erupting, unstoppable. Now it seems that there is some truth to this.

Xu Yanfeng turned back, grabbed the handle of the suitcase that Xia Xi had left behind, and walked towards the school gate with her side by side.

Xia Xi took his arm with a bright smile on her face. Thinking of the next two months of summer vacation, she felt a little depressed. Then she thought that he would be a senior after school started and would basically not come to school, which made her even more depressed.

With her mouth pouting, Xu Yanfeng glanced at her and asked, "Why are you unhappy?"

Xia Xi pressed down the corners of her mouth. It would be too hypocritical to say what was in her heart. She didn't want to say it, so she just said the simplest thing to him: "I won't be able to see you during the holidays. Isn't that enough to make me unhappy?"

Xu Yanfeng smiled, his previously affected mood improving because of her words: "I'll call you every day."

"You said it." Xia Xi narrowed his eyes and looked at him.

"Yeah, I said that." Xu Yanfeng rubbed the top of her head.

Walking under the shade of the tree, with nothing in front of them, their shadows were cast on the ground, overlapping inextricably. Xu Yanfeng stared at the twin shadows and suddenly felt that the hot summer sun was not so unpleasant.