"fool……"
Shen Ying lowered her head to smell the fragrance of roses, her hair falling down, obscuring her expression.
Wang Ming kept swallowing, and Shen Ying took the flowers but didn't say whether she agreed or not. He couldn't help but feel anxious.
"Shen Ying, will you... will you agree?"
"Weren't you just calling me Ying so affectionately? How come you're calling me Shen Ying now?" She suppressed her emotions, looked up, and said with a smile.
Wang Ming's breath hitched, and he said awkwardly, "The atmosphere is gone. If I just use one word now, I'm afraid you'll find it cheesy."
"Who said I was being mushy? I like you saying just one word, hmph, from now on you'll call me Ying, understand?"
"Huh?"
Wang Ming blinked, then his face lit up with joy: "So... you've agreed to be my girlfriend?"
"Hmm..." Shen Ying nodded, her face flushed.
"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!"
Wang Ming jumped up with joy, his eyes filled with disbelief. He instinctively wanted to lift Shen Ying up and spin her around, but he was afraid that his actions would upset her.
The key question is, did he actually succeed in confessing his feelings?!
"What are you doing, you idiot?"
"I...I'm so excited and happy," Wang Ming stammered, his teeth chattering with nervousness.
"Aaaaaaah!"
He shouted, his voice briefly drowning out the fireworks exploding in the square, and many people immediately turned to look in their direction.
"Stop yelling!"
Being watched by so many people at the same time, Shen Ying's ears burned. Although they were in a corner of the square and no one could see them, she still felt inexplicably ashamed.
"Run!"
She grabbed Wang Ming's hand and, right under everyone's noses, switched places.
Old Wang stared blankly as Shen Ying held his hand. This wasn't the first time he'd held a girl's hand; he'd held Zhang Yuanyuan's hand before, and although both were soft and tender, the feeling was different.
Just like Lao Jiang told him, when holding the hand of a girl he likes, his palms would sweat with nervousness.
The thought that Shen Ying was now his girlfriend, and that they could hold hands all the time like Jiang Xia and Lin Yanwan, filled him with excitement.
"...Ying, I'm sorry."
"Why are you apologizing to me?" Shen Ying looked at him in confusion.
“I’m sure many people are thinking we’re crazy because I was yelling and shouting just now,” Wang Ming said seriously.
Shen Ying chuckled: "Silly, let them curse. They don't know it was us, and it's not like we'll lose a piece of our flesh."
Wang Ming was deeply moved. Compared to Zhang Yuanyuan, Shen Ying's personality was so much better.
"Don't apologize to me so easily in the future, okay? Saying 'I'm sorry' all the time makes it seem like we're strangers." She shook their hands, which had been clasped together since the beginning of the session.
“Unless you’ve made a mistake,” she said with a smile.
Wang Ming scratched his neck sheepishly: "I'll try my best not to make you angry."
What if you make me angry?
"Ugh, kneel on durians, kneel on a washboard, and as punishment, I won't hold your hand for a week, but you're not allowed to not talk to me."
Hearing his extremely serious tone, Shen Ying couldn't help but chuckle softly. This idiot was so amusing.
"What an idiot," she whispered.
The two found a bench and sat down. Their bottoms felt a little cold, but it was still bearable.
"When did you start liking me?" she asked with a smile.
“Back in high school, when Lao Jiang and Yan Wan were dating, we were forced to meet. To be honest, my attention was initially on Yan Wan, but later I was gradually attracted to you,” Wang Ming replied after thinking for a moment.
"Oh, you actually secretly liked Yan Wan? Did you feel that your goddess was stolen away, so you turned around and liked me instead?" Shen Ying tried to pinch his waist with her other hand, but the trench coat and sweater were too thick, so she couldn't pinch him at all.
"Believe it or not, I'll tell Jiang Xia right now?" she wrinkled her cute nose and threatened.
"No, no, no, I never liked her. I just thought she was pretty and stunning at first glance, but they only had eyes for each other. Later, I realized that I only had eyes for you."
Wang Ming bit his lip and continued, "Back then, I would tease you every day just to get your attention. When I was alone, all I could think about was you beating me up."
Shen Ying chuckled softly: "You're such a pervert, you like getting beaten up."
"I like being hit by you," Wang Ming whispered.
"I'm not a violent maniac, why would I hit you every day?" she snorted softly.
She suddenly realized that this guy had really changed a lot in the past six months. She used to think he was boring, but now he would say sweet words to make her happy. Shen Ying could feel how important she was to him.
It's like holding her in your mouth and cradling her in your hands at all times, and you'll cherish her with everything you have.
"Actually, I've known for a long time that you like me." Shen Ying looked at their intertwined hands, gently exhaled, and let out a breath that turned into white mist in the cold night.
"When it comes to relationships, girls are much more emotional and sensitive than boys. Many romance novels say: 'If a boy is always trying to get a girl's attention, it means he likes her, unless he's being shameless.'"
She looked up into Wang Ming's eyes and said with a smile, "It seems like you were pretty cheeky back then, always saying something really pointless that made me want to hit someone."
"Hehehe..." Wang Ming chuckled foolishly, it seemed that he had left a rather deep impression on her back then.
"Wang Ming."
"ah?"
"I didn't mean to reject you back then," Shen Ying suddenly said, watching the dazzling fireworks exploding in the sky.
Wang Ming lowered his head, his palms clenching unconsciously: "Why are you telling me this?"
"Because you are my boyfriend now, I have to make this clear to you. I don't want you to have any lingering resentment."
Shen Ying exhaled softly: "Maybe I was more rational back then. If I were to date a boy, I would definitely be aiming for marriage. But at that time, we had just graduated from high school. You were in Beijing, and I was in Chongqing. We were thousands of miles apart."
"I don't want to delay your studies, nor do I want you to always focus your energy on me and affect our careers." She turned her head to look at Wang Ming, her eyes becoming increasingly gentle.
“Many people say that long-distance relationships are unreliable because there are too many outstanding people in college, and you never know when your heart will wander to someone else. I’m worried that we don’t have a future, so it’s better to give up this idea as soon as possible.”
She smiled, her tone full of emotion: "Back then, I even thought that if you hadn't dated anyone after four years of university, and I didn't have anyone I liked either, I would take the initiative to confess to you. I was even worried that you would have higher standards in Beijing and wouldn't want me anymore."
"Ying... I like you, and I will always, always like you," Wang Ming said, his voice choked with emotion.
"You idiot, I like you too."
She turned around, gently hugged Wang Ming, and her soft voice, filled with love, echoed in his ears.
End of this chapter
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