Extra: Xie Qingtang①
As the eldest grandson of the Xie family, Xie Qingtang has been strict with himself since childhood. His ultimate goal is to be like his grandfather and one day uphold the honor of the Xie family.
While other children his age were playing and fooling around, he was studying. While other classmates were comparing themselves to each other, he was studying. While other boys were skipping school and dating, he was studying. While other colleagues were getting married and having children, he was still immersed in the ocean of knowledge.
From kindergarten to entering the workforce, Xie Qingtang rejected countless women's advances, always giving the same reason: he had no plans to date at the moment.
Among the women who were rejected, some asked him when he planned to date, while others said they could wait for him.
Only one person was different.
She said, "It's okay. I just want to sleep with you. I'll leave when I'm done, and I won't bother you."
This person is Zhang Qin.
His academic knowledge is a complete mess; he can't even memorize the periodic table, yet he has such beautiful ideas.
Xie Qingtang has an excellent memory. He can still clearly remember several arguments he had with other children when he was in kindergarten. However, he can't remember when he stopped rejecting Zhang Qin's advances, nor can he remember when he started accepting her invitations under various strange pretexts.
For a long period of time, I accompanied her to the snack street and street food stalls, accompanied her to the movie theater to watch Boonie Bears, accompanied her to the zoo to laugh at the molting monkeys, accompanied her to the library to fool around intimately, and let her stay overnight in my dormitory while indulging her in touching me.
I even heard her say that after buying a house near University A, she inexplicably asked someone to pull strings and spent twice as much to buy the house across the street from her.
These were things he had never experienced in his previous twenty-plus years of life.
Boring, absurd, yet also interesting.
His friend asked him, "That girl has been pursuing you for so long, aren't you tempted?"
Xie Qingtang was a slow-to-warm-up person and didn't quite understand what it felt like to like someone, so she simply threw the question back at him: "What do you think?"
My friend said he likes Zhang Qin and wants to pursue her.
"Her smile is especially beautiful. Really. It's that confident and smug look that really touches your heart."
It's true that she looks good when she smiles.
Especially when they're thinking of doing bad things.
Looking at her friend's serious expression, Xie Qingtang realized just how likable she was.
He felt inexplicably displeased, and a sudden surge of anger welled up inside him, a feeling that his things were being coveted by others. This anger urged him to punch his friend in the face.
But the next second, reason returned.
Zhang Qin is not his.
He can't control who other people want to pursue.
He said, "Whatever you say."
After saying that, he thought again, what isn't his can become his.
He can't control who others want to pursue, but he can't control who pursues him.
After Xie Qingtang figured things out, she felt much better and smiled as she said ruthlessly to her friend, "If you want to die, go ahead and chase after me."
He didn't like other men getting close to her.
Pursuing her is even less likely.
His friend seemed angry and glared at him, saying, "Why are you hogging the toilet without doing your business!"
Xie Qingtang frowned. "Who are you calling the latrine?"
Friend: "...Me".
Hsieh Ching-tang: "I'm not interested in you."
"..." My friend looked defeated. "If you don't want her to pursue you, why don't you say yes? It's so tiring for a girl to be chasing after you all the time! Aren't you afraid she'll get tired of chasing you and leave you?"
Xie Qingtang thought about it and decided to go see her after he finished writing the paper he was working on.
His teacher is about to retire and settle abroad, and he can't let his teacher down.
As for Zhang, who works hard, if she gets tired, it's not impossible for him to pursue her instead.
However, he has never pursued anyone.
It's okay, he can learn it.
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