Chapter 33

Once outside, just as he had said, Jiang Yi lingered there, reluctant to leave. The snowflakes falling from the sky were enormous, each one so crystalline, but they melted quickly upon landing on her hand.

The snow was slippery, and she walked slowly, but she still almost slipped and fell. The boy reached out and pulled her up, then helped her move forward slowly.

Jiang Yi felt that walking like this was too slow. Besides, she had only almost slipped. She wasn't some little kid who couldn't walk, so she quickly broke free from his hand and indicated that she didn't need his support.

He didn't help her up, but simply took her schoolbag and continued to follow behind, watching her steps.

Upon reaching the grassy area covered with layers of snow, Jiang Yi walked over, scooped up the snow with her hands, bent down, and started building a snowman.

Xu Wangli stood behind her, wearing a blue jacket with a white velvet lining. He held a schoolbag in his hand and didn't play with her; he just watched quietly.

"What kind of snowman should I be?" Jiang Yi lowered her head, lost in thought, and murmured to herself.

Xu Wang, standing behind her, offered advice, saying, "Anything is fine as long as you like it."

Jiang Yi rolled her eyes at him, thinking of having him help her pile the bags, but then she noticed he was carrying a schoolbag, so she said, "Um, how about we go back and put our schoolbags away first?"

Xu Wang said, "There's no need for that trouble."

He made a phone call, and soon someone came and took the two boys' backpacks back to their homes.

Jiang Yi laughed as she built a snowman, "Why are you still so good at ordering people around?"

Xu Wang walked to her side, squatted down, and helped her build a snowman. He smiled slightly and said, "Being able to order people around is a kind of power."

Jiang Yi felt that there was some truth to that.

No wonder he's the future male protagonist in the novel; he speaks with such authority.

Thinking of this, she suddenly remembered something. Xu Wang was the male protagonist in the novel, but the female protagonist hadn't appeared yet. If she were to be with him, would it affect the female protagonist?

Seeing her lost in thought, Xu Wang waved his hand in front of her eyes and then asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Jiang Yi quickly came to her senses and explained, "I was thinking about a novel I was reading before."

Xu Wang: "Hmm?"

After a moment's hesitation, she voiced her concerns, saying, "It's a time-travel novel where a girl transmigrates into the body of a supporting female character and ends up with the male lead. I'm wondering, what about the female lead?"

Xu Wang doesn't read romance novels much, but he'd seen girls in his class passing them around before. He hadn't expected that a girl like Jiang Yi would be confused by the plot of a romance novel. Based on his understanding, he said, "This is how I see it: since she's with the male lead, it means that the male lead and the original female lead in the novel weren't actually a good match. That was just the original world setting. When the female supporting character transmigrates in, the world setting and everything else have to be rewritten. The female supporting character and the male lead have their own lives, and the original female lead might meet someone even better than the male lead."

Jiang Yi was convinced by his theory, but she still couldn't help but argue a few points, saying, "You said that the new guy the female lead meets is better than the male lead, does that mean that the male lead the female supporting character meets is actually not very good?"

Xu Wang was a little confused by her, but he still tried his best to analyze her meaning. After understanding what she meant, he slowly smiled and said, "Good is relative. For example, some people think that a mild-mannered person is indecisive, while others just happen to like that type."

Jiang Yi nodded, then showed him the snowman she had made and asked, "Isn't it a little ugly?"

Xu Wang nodded: "That's true to some extent."

Jiang Yi looked somewhat disappointed and said, "Tch, I thought you'd say it looks good."

Would you believe me if I said it looks good?

I don't believe it.

"If you don't believe me when I say it looks good, then I'm lying to myself."

Jiang Yi's voice carried a hint of dissatisfaction: "Can't you just lie to me?"

Xu Wang laughed and said, "No, I don't lie. If I lied to you, you wouldn't believe me next time I said you were beautiful."

Jiang Yi: "...Okay."

After bickering for a while, Xu Wang helped her make two more snowmen.

Xu Wang's snowman was even better, and Jiang Yi followed his example. Soon, she sculpted a very beautiful snowman.

The two of them sculpted a female version of the snowman and a male version of the snowman, and then put them together.

Jiang Yi wanted to take a picture, so she handed her phone to Xu Wang and said, "Take a picture for me."

"good."

Xu Wang then took a picture of Jiang Yi. She was wearing a red coat with a beige scarf with tassels hanging down, and a beret. She looked sweet and cute.

Xu Wang smiled slightly, held up his phone, focused, and pressed the shutter.

One, two, three, eggplant.

The girl's lovely face was captured in the lens, exuding a youthful and vibrant energy.

While I was taking the photos, the snow was still falling from the sky, like individual flowers drifting down.

Snowflakes are like fairies, but in his eyes, she is the real fairy.

After the final exams, the students gradually went on holiday. The two agreed to go home together after all their classes were over.

When Jiang Yi returned home, she had a lot of things in her suitcase. When she went downstairs, she was dragging a large suitcase, which made her look a bit clumsy.

In contrast, Xu Wang next to him was dragging a small gray suitcase, looking quite relaxed.

Xu Wang was slightly surprised to see her dragging such a large suitcase, but then he smiled and said, "Why are you carrying so much stuff?"

She had already gone over there, so I took her suitcase from her.

Jiang Yi was a little embarrassed and explained in a low voice, "Well, it's just that we girls have a lot of makeup and clothes, so that's how it is."

Xu Wang understood and said, "Then I'll help you take it. I'll take this one."

Jiang Yi took the suitcase from his hand, feeling its lightness, and was a little surprised. She asked in return, "Why did you bring so little stuff?"

Xu Wang said with a smile, "We have everything at home, so there's no need to take anything."

Jiang Yi nodded.

She glanced at her suitcase again and said with annoyance, "Actually, I wanted to take less stuff, but without realizing it, I ended up taking so much. I don't know why, but I just kept taking more and more."

Xu Wang watched her bite her lip as she spoke and found it rather cute, so he smiled gently and said, "I understand. After all, you're a girl, and girls definitely have a lot of equipment."

Jiang Yi: Hehe.