Chapter 20: Too many coincidences could be true. You could be cuter...

It has been cloudy almost all the time recently, and today was especially cold and windy. She was standing alone on the roadside, talking on a cell phone, and her voice kept coming into his ears.

"I'm going to go back now. You go ahead and do your work. Just remember to pick up your things. Last year's is over anyway, whether it's an award or a birthday. This is this year's. It's only January, so it shouldn't have happened."

Qin Yi's breathing became a little rapid at this moment, as he was afraid that the call would be hung up in the next second.

His eyes were fixed on the little figure he hadn't seen for ten months, and his voice was extremely stiff: "I wasn't busy during the holiday. I was just playing games."

"Then go ahead and hit me." She looked up at the gray sky, smiling brightly. "It's a rare holiday. You were in class when I went out to play. That Chen Ze, when he didn't have a holiday, he said he envied me every day. Since you guys had your winter break, he disappeared." She laughed.

"You..." Qin Yi couldn't believe she would suddenly appear in Lan City without any warning. "So, when will you have your next vacation, Hanhan?"

"It's almost March. You'll be back in school by then," she teased. "Chen Ze will show up and cry again."

Qin Yi: "Then... without vacation, you won't come back."

"I didn't reply during the holidays. You didn't let me reply, huh." She joked, "I'll be obedient this year."

"If I don't let you go back, you won't go back?" His voice was hoarse.

I have never made a phone call that was so short and yet so far away.

She said coquettishly on the phone: "No reply, no reply, be a good and obedient child, you always say I'm disobedient."

"Hanhan, we can meet too." Qin Yi looked at the person under the lamppost in the distance, his breathing rising and falling, and he chose his words carefully. "If you come back to China during my vacation, we can definitely meet. Just tell me and we can meet right away. Just don't come back later."

"I can't do it," she almost blurted out.

Qin Yi lowered his eyes to look at the sparse shadows on the ground, breathing deeply.

"So, forget it. One call a day isn't enough for me these days." She said vaguely, shrouded in shyness, "I only have a year left before graduation anyway."

Qin Yi didn't say anything else. The only sound on the line was the wind blowing between them.

It is extremely cold in the south of the Yangtze River this year. The city in broad daylight feels as desolate as a snowy night.

"What's wrong with you? Why aren't you talking? Why don't you go and get busy?" Yu Han asked.

He still didn't say anything.

Yu Han was curious: "Qin Yi?"

Qin Yi really liked her calling his name, it felt like a special intimacy.

She often uses names when she is angry or frustrated. She likes to say "classmate Qin" or "netizen" when she is naughty. When she is angry with him, she will call him Qin Yi. If she types, she will add a few exclamation marks to make him feel that the little princess is really angry.

"Nothing..." He said with difficulty, "I'm fine, not busy."

Yu Han thought for a moment and suddenly asked him, "Oh right, I've sent you the gifts. Can you tell me when your birthday is?"

"March 10th."

"Oh!" She was very happy. "That's good. I didn't pass."

Qin Yi had no time to care about his birthday at the moment. He really didn't understand why she suddenly came back this weekend. She brought the gift to him personally but didn't tell him, and said it was sent by mail. She was clearly at the gate of Lanzhong School at the moment, but didn't tell him.

"Hanhan."

"Go play games, bye."

Qin Yi said reluctantly, "Okay. Are you...going home? Be careful."

"Hmmmm."

"Call you again tonight?"

"Okay~" She responded happily as always.

After hanging up the phone, she did not leave immediately, but stood against the lamppost for a while, then took a photo of the back door of Lanzhong with her mobile phone.

After taking the photos, Yu Han did not move. She was considering whether to ask Chen Man or Bao Tong to go out and play. It was only three o'clock in the afternoon.

She sent messages to both of them, and finally Chen Man said that she was free today, but only in the evening. Bao Tong said that she was traveling out of town and was not in Lan City.

But it’s still so early, how can I spend the two hours waiting for Chen Man to finish her piano lesson and come to see her?

In fact, it would be best to call Qin Yi, but she didn't dare to call him all the time, as she would not be able to control her desire to see him.

This place was so close to him, almost within reach. Just as he said, he could see him immediately with just one word.

As long as she says "I want to see you", she will get what she wants the next second.

So she didn't dare to talk anymore.

Moreover, if she let it slip that she was in Lan City at the moment, he would definitely come out to see her at all costs.

She didn't want to see him, so she could only send him to play games. She would rather wander around aimlessly alone.

Why don't we go watch a movie? Two hours is just the right amount of time.

Yu Han opened the navigation to search for nearby shopping malls. She had forgotten how to get to the cinema she had visited before.

There was an alleyway next to it, and the draft was really cold. Although Yu Han didn't feel uncomfortable, her cloak and hair were constantly blowing, and she knew that the weather was cold, so she looked up and wanted to find a place to hide in the wind to avoid catching a cold without realizing it.

The moment I turned around, I seemed to see a familiar figure in the corner of my eye...

She looked intently.

Qin Yi had been standing across the street, more than ten meters away, and she didn't know.

So when he turned around at this moment, he happened to meet a pair of deep and passionate peach blossom eyes.

The young man, dressed in a black windbreaker, black shirt, and black pants, stood tall and slender. He was incredibly tall, standing motionless beneath a row of ginkgo trees. A few withered yellow leaves clung to the nearly bare trunks. The overcast sky made the winter air seem even colder, but his gaze seemed blazing.

It was obvious that he recognized her, so he looked like that.

But if that face wasn't so stunning, it would be impossible to recognize it. His face was half hidden in the collar of his jacket, revealing only the smooth and sharp features of his face. He was handsome and eye-catching, so handsome that it was hard to describe. At first sight, people would forget the biting cold wind at the moment.

Yu Han couldn't believe that she would see such a face here.

Suddenly, the speculations we had when we separated at the airport came back to my mind without warning.

How could it be such a coincidence?

Thinking of the phone call she had just made, she felt a surge of anxiety in her heart.

But despite her doubts, she couldn't help but smile a little as she looked into his eyes.

Qin Yi's heart sank deeply in the midst of her smile, feeling an endless sense of powerlessness, and the desire to "meet" her was surging in his heart.

Yu Han stepped off the curb and walked slowly and straight towards him.

He didn't leave, which meant he really recognized her.

I still recognize her after not seeing her for ten months.

Walking up to him, Yu Han's smile became even brighter: "Hi, what a coincidence."

"Why are you in China again?" Qin Yi asked, pretending to be surprised.

Their voices, it seems, are all similar.

She explained hesitantly: "Yes, I came back for something. You see, aren't I surprised?" she teased.

A gust of wind blew through the empty street, and the faint fragrance of her body wafted towards me, like a touch of spring in this cold winter.

Qin Yi looked up at the sky, took a deep breath, then turned back and met the little girl's curved eyes.

"It's a surprise, but what's the difference between immigrating and not immigrating?" he said.

“…” She stamped her feet, tilted her head back and said coquettishly, “Immigration doesn’t prevent me from being Chinese.”

“…” He couldn’t help laughing.

"I came back to see my grandma. She is in the hospital." Yu Han said.

Qin Yi was slightly stunned: "How is that person?"

"It's okay, it's just too cold. But my parents are planning to bring the elderly to Singapore, where it's warmer. So I'll have fewer opportunities to come back in the future."

Qin Yi's breathing suddenly stopped, and the light in his eyes faded away.

"Yeah. That's good."

"Why are you here?"

“Just passing by.”

"What a coincidence."

“I pass by it every day.”

"Oh. Do you know me then?"

“…”

When their eyes met, Qin Yi's heart was as clear as a mirror, but he pretended to be stupid, "Are you stupid because of the wind?"

Yu Han puffed out her cheeks: "Do you know Qin Yi?"

"How foolish."

“…”

Yu Han realized that this was the wrong question, scratched her hair, and turned away awkwardly. But she really didn't know how to ask. She couldn't just ask him to give her his phone for no reason.

When she turned around again, he was still looking at her.

That face really makes people lose their minds for a second...

How could he be so good-looking? He is so good-looking that people can’t even look at him directly. Their school is so authoritative, there are so many handsome guys.

Thinking of this, Yu Han couldn't help but feel strange. Their school was really so authoritative that it had a so-called No. 1 student, Qin, and then there was someone so handsome here?

Qin Yi looked away and pretended to pull the collar of his clothes.

Seeing this, Yu Han said, "Where are you going? Go quickly. You seem a little underdressed."

Qin Yi turned around and glanced at her clothes that seemed to be completely unwarm: "You should wear more clothes, it's too cold today."

"It's okay, I'm not cold."

"So, when will you go back?"

"I'll be back tomorrow. I'll leave first."

"You're going back by yourself?"

"Yeah, my grandma hasn't been discharged from the hospital yet, and I have classes the day after tomorrow, so I'm leaving first."

Qin Yi nodded, then he asked knowingly: "Then what are you doing here?"

"I, I came to find my classmates." She said naturally.

"Don't you know it's vacation?" Qin Yi raised his eyebrows more naturally than her.

Yu Han: "I know, I made an appointment to meet her here."

“…” What a lie!

Yu Han felt a faint inquiry about her. She felt a little guilty and thought it was strange to lie to someone, especially to him... She always felt that she shouldn't lie to him. He was super, super... good to her.

She doubted he could see through her lies.

Yu Han awkwardly changed the subject: "If I had known I'd run into you when I returned home, I would have brought your school uniform back. I've only been back for one day, and you guys are on vacation. I never thought I'd run into you at school by chance."

"No, there are plenty of clothes."

"Where are you going then? Is your home nearby? You'll be around the school during the holidays."

"Yeah, nearby. Come out to play."

"Oh, that's what I thought. If it were me, I would definitely go three miles around and not show up near the school during the holidays."

"..." Qin Yi couldn't help laughing, and then he thought about how she didn't leave after hanging up the phone, but looked at the gate for a long time, and finally took a picture.

The little princess was reluctant to leave today. It was the most annoying school she had only recently come to, so she simply couldn't bear to leave.

Of course he knew what she was reluctant to give up.

She finally came back after nearly a year, and even though she knew he was at home and so close to her, she couldn't bear to see him.

He didn't know how she could be so well behaved.

He chose not to contact her after seeing the letter because he was afraid that she would always come back. Now that she has done it, Qin Yi feels very distressed.

Another gust of strong wind blew through the intersection, and the little princess's hair was blown straight into the air.

She was not wearing a scarf, and her cloak was loose, exposing her neck, and it seemed that the wind was blowing in through her collar.

Qin Yi reached out and pulled the person to his side, then turned around and blocked the wind.

Yu Han stood in his shadow, holding her arms to hold down her clothes. Then, she saw the young man raise his hand to his collar, grab the zipper, and pull it down.

There was only a thin black T-shirt underneath.

Yu Han subconsciously covered his hand.

He lowered his eyes. Her palms were cold, not much warmer than the wind.

The girl raised her eyelids and shook her head firmly: "I'm not cold."

Qin Yi nodded his chin.

Yu Han slowly lowered his hands and put them into the pockets of his cloak. The next second, he slid the zipper open, took off his clothes, and spread them over her.

Yu Han: “…”

She rebelled, twisting her body to hide because she couldn't get her hands out, "No, no, no."

Qin Yi grasped the collars on both sides, wrapped her around him, and trapped her in the clothes.

She was forced to look up pathetically.

The boy's peach blossom eyes flashed with threats: "Don't move."

"Woo woo woo."

Qin Yi really thought she was adorable, like a little squirrel that was kidnapped on the roadside, so cute that it was deadly.

He cruelly zipped up her clothes and tied her up completely.

Yu Han slipped her small hand out from under the wide hem of his clothes and stroked his arm: "You're wearing too little, too little, don't. You'll catch a cold."

"Don't touch me."

“…” She retracted her little hand and leaned against the trunk of the ginkgo tree shyly, weakly, helplessly and pitifully.

Qin Yi rested his hands on the tree trunk above her head, still blocking the wind.

He was much taller than her, and he had to lower his head to meet her pitiful eyes. "It looks like it's going to snow today, so I didn't know to wear more clothes before going out."

"I'm really not cold, but you're done." She snorted.

"Have you ever seen snow?"

"It's so rare in Lan City. I can't even remember if there are any left." She tilted her head back to look at the bare ginkgo tree above her. "It's been a few years, I guess."

“Singapore has even less.”

"Hmmmm." She nodded miserably.

“Maybe we can see it today.”

She nodded expectantly, and finally pointed at her clothes with her chin: "Go and play, are you playing ball with your classmates?"

"Well, playing billiards." Qin Yi said casually and took out his mobile phone at the end.

The people in the tea restaurant had sent him many messages, asking him where he was going.

Lu Yuxing said: "@Qin Yi, Sister Yi was called away by her teacher. Where did you go? Why did you suddenly disappear?"

He replied: "Meeting a friend. Going to play billiards. You guys go ahead and wait for me."

There was an immediate enthusiastic response from the group.

"Billiards." Yu Han murmured, remembering that Chen Ze said he liked playing billiards with Qin Yi.

She subconsciously looked at the boy in front of her again, "You, playing billiards."

"Hmm. What's wrong?" he asked knowingly.

Yu Han was in a state of confusion. He happened to be here, his voice was very similar to his, and he could play billiards...

Is this a coincidence? She knows that people's voices are similar, and there's nothing particularly strange about that. But if there are many coincidences added together...

However, it seemed that it was not too coincidental that he passed by here, because Qin Yi didn't know that she had returned to China, and it was even more impossible for him to appear here.

Then, the fact that he can play billiards doesn’t actually mean anything. She is a girl who can play, and Qin Yi’s entire dormitory can play. It is impossible that only boys in their dormitory can play billiards in the whole school.

"No." She couldn't say anything, so she could only nod, "Then go ahead."

"What about you?" Qin Yi's purpose of showing up was not to play ball, but to accompany her. He wanted to take her with him.

"I have an appointment with my classmates." She shook her phone.

Qin Yi was surprised. Is it really an appointment?

Miscalculated.

He asked, "So you're waiting for your classmates here? It's too cold."

"No, I'm going to see a movie. We have dinner tonight."

Qin Yi suddenly realized and was glad that she had asked, otherwise she would have to wander around alone for several hours.

"Is there a movie starring your idol recently?" He asked knowingly, because he knew better than anyone whether there was one.

Yu Han said as expected: "No, my idol doesn't shoot many movies. Just take a look. It's still early, but I'm too lazy to go home and come out again."

"So, will you come play ball with me?" Qin Yi asked.

Yu Han was surprised: "Huh?" Two seconds later, seeing his serious expression, she asked with genuine interest, "Where are you going?"

Qin Yi casually pointed to a store in front, "It's very close, behind the Starbucks, the billiard hall."

"Okay." She smiled sweetly, "I can fight."

Qin Yi pretended to be ignorant again and raised his eyebrows: "Can you fight?"

"Yes! I'm a good fighter!" She said excitedly, "You can play with me if you don't mind."

He curled his lips slightly and nodded: "Let's go."

Yu Han immediately followed closely.

Qin Yi walked fast, but after a while he noticed that the little princess was following him with big strides every time, so he immediately slowed down his pace by at least half.

Yu Han began to walk without any effort, side by side with him.

There was a boy passing by on the sidewalk across the street, and he raised his hand to greet Qin Yi.

Qin Yi looked over and saw that the other person had stopped himself from calling out the name he was about to say. He then asked, "Why are you still at school during the holidays?"

"Yeah, something."

Yu Han crossed the street and looked at the boy.

The other party also looked at her curiously.

"A date, I see." The other party laughed.

Yu Han: “…”

She tilted her head to look at the boy next to her.

He narrowed his eyes and hesitated, "Stop talking nonsense, my cousin."

"Oh, hahaha." The classmate walked away embarrassedly.

Yu Han smiled but didn't say anything.

In a blink of an eye, we arrived at the billiard hall.

The billiard hall was very lively on weekend afternoons, only the front desk was a little quiet.

The girl at the front desk was sitting in front of the computer watching a movie. She had a high ponytail and was very pretty.

Hearing the sound, I thought someone was going to start the show. When I looked up, I saw a familiar figure and a girl following closely behind him.

Surprise showed on her face.

Qin Yi stood there for a while but she didn't move, so he bent his knuckles and tapped the table to signal her.

The girl quickly came back to her senses, glanced at him, and said while typing a few words on the computer, "You brought your girlfriend with you, I can't tell."

She glanced from the computer desktop to the girl behind him, staring intently at the black jacket wrapped around her. "My girlfriend is so beautiful."

Yu Han: “…” Why does everyone say that?

I thought I would hear the explanation from the boy next to me, but he just walked forward quietly.

Yu Han was very curious. She walked a few steps away from the front desk and asked, "Why don't you explain?"

"lazy."

"Then why did you explain to that male classmate just now?"

"I've said it once, so I'm too lazy to say it a second time."

"Oh~" she asked subconsciously, "Do you have a girlfriend?"

"..." He wanted to nod, but he felt that if he nodded, the little princess would feel uncomfortable playing with him, and might run away in a while, so he could only shake his head.

"Surprisingly, no." She muttered curiously.

"Why, you have? Have you confirmed your relationship with your online crush?"

"..." She glanced at him shyly, "Why do you always think of my, um, friend?"

“…”

"But I think you sound a bit like him."

"..." Qin Yi just wanted to be mute at this moment. He glanced at her with feigned indifference, "Hmm?"

"Really, I don't know what he sounds like in real life, but he sounds really like you on the phone."

"Really?"

"Yeah." Yu Han was also confused and just said it casually, not taking it too seriously.

She looked at a table not far away where a game was in full swing, and the man over there was also looking at her.

Qin Yi moved sideways to block her body, put his arm around her, and led her to the innermost part.

Yu Han looked everywhere and found everything new and interesting.

"Can you really fight? You look so unfamiliar." Qin Yi asked as they walked.

"I've never been to a pool hall." Yu Han said weakly, "I have a pool table at home, and I learned to play when I was three years old."

"..." Qin Yi choked for a long time before he stopped talking about the poor man's curiosity.

Turn a corner, open a door and let people in.

Yu Han's eyes widened: "There's also a private room, how luxurious."

"..." Qin Yi smiled inexplicably, thinking about what she had just said about having a pool table at home, he didn't know how to respond for a moment.

He asked her to sit down, and went to get his own pole, then came back with two bottles of mineral water.

Yu Han was taking off her jacket. The heater was on in the pool hall. When she looked up and saw the two bottles of water, she immediately said, "You drink it yourself. I want milk tea."

"Drink too much and you'll get diabetes. Drink this."

“…”

He threw the mineral water on the table, and finally, seeing the little princess's bitter expression, he bent down and approached her.

Yu Han's face was completely frozen, she held her breath, and she didn't dare to blink.

That extremely authoritative face was infinitely enlarged until it was only twenty centimeters away from her face.

His eyes are so beautiful, long and narrow, like a cartoon, with very long eyelashes and skin that looks like it was polished.

"Order it. Drink some water before you get there, silly."

“…”

She curled her eyes and puffed out her cheeks happily.

That little face is so round that it feels like you can touch him when it puffs up. It looks like a kitten with a round head and round face, and you can almost hear the kitten's humming and chirping.

Qin Yi straightened up suddenly, reminding himself that they had not yet recognized each other, and anything he did now would be illegal.

Yu Han took out her cell phone and clicked on the food delivery app.

She poked at the screen for a few seconds, then looked up again: "Where is this? How do I write the address?"

Qin Yi sat down next to her and tilted his head to look at her phone.

"Turn on the positioning first."

Yu Han slid down the control center at the top of the phone and clicked on the location information.

Back to the page where I wrote the address, it automatically located Lanshi No. 1 Middle School.

Qin Yi raised his hand and swiped the screen to select several addresses that popped up below. He saw the "Starry Sky Billiard Hall" behind Starbucks and clicked it.

Finally he realized that what she ordered was not milk tea from a few kilometers away, but Starbucks.

Qin Yi turned his head and looked at her: "Buy Starbucks."

"Yeah, yeah." She nodded very seriously.

"..." He asked leisurely, "Then you can just go out and buy it. It's less than ten meters away. What kind of takeout should you order?"

"I don't want to go out." She blinked her big eyes a few times, her eyes full of pity, "I just saw a few tables of boys inside, I don't dare to go in."

“…”

Qin Yi looked down at her phone: "Have you placed the order? I'll go buy it for you, wait for me here."

"Get off."

“…”

Qin Yi was at his wit's end and said helplessly, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Are you stupid?"

She lowered her head: "I told you you wouldn't go."

"What?" Qin Yi's eyes were filled with confusion, as if his reputation had been damaged. "I'm not going? Then what did I say last time?"

"I bought two cups because of me."

“…”

Qin Yi took a deep breath, and then another deep breath. He found that he knew less about this little ancestor than she knew about "him", a stranger.

"Do you want to piss me off to death? What's your purpose in returning to China? To ruin me?" Qin Yi couldn't help but raise his hands to pinch her cheeks.

"Ahhh, no." She shrank back into the sofa to avoid his revenge. "I didn't come back to China just to make you angry. You know why I came back."

Qin Yi stepped forward to chase him: "I don't know, I just know that you little thing want to send me away."

"Woo woo woo."

"that……"

A hesitant female voice came, breaking the fighting scene.

Qin Yi stopped and turned around.

Yu Han also poked her head out to look behind him. It was the girl at the front desk, holding a tray with a pot of tea and some snacks and fruits on it.

The man was now standing by the pool table, watching them both calmly.

Qin Yi adjusted his T-shirt slowly and stood up: "Just put it anywhere."

"I have something to do," she said, "otherwise I wouldn't come."

Yu Han thought her tone was strange, and felt that business people shouldn't talk to God like that. Even though she was just a receptionist, but...

"What's the matter?" Qin Yi asked.

"I forgot to tell you that some classmates just went to the second floor, but I guess you're here to look for them." Her eyes wandered between him and the girl on the sofa. "Do you want to go upstairs or call them down?"

Before he could speak, she added, "Or, are you only playing with your girlfriend today? Then don't shout."

After saying that, she turned and left without waiting for Qin Yi to say anything.

"Hey, hey, that... isn't it." Yu Han waved.

The other party stopped at the door and turned around: "By the way," she glanced at the two of them with a cold look, "This is a public place, don't do what you shouldn't do, and be aware of the impact."

Yu Han: ???

With a snap, the door closed.

Yu Han shook Qin Yi's hand: "Why did she leave without waiting for you to say anything? And what did she mean? What impact should we pay attention to? Did we disturb others by ordering coffee just now?"

“…”

Qin Yi sat down, rested his hands on his knees, and smiled for a long time with his head down.

Yu Han had a thousand questions in her mind: "What are you laughing at?"

Qin Yi looked up: "You don't know?"

Yu Han frowned: "I don't know. The singing is so loud in this place, it shouldn't be disturbing."

Qin Yi smiled and asked, "Can you be any cuter?"