Chapter 30. [First Update] He should embrace her in the next second...
After saying this, He Yan put away his phone and stared intently at Wen Xue, who was a dozen meters away. Fortunately, they weren't too close, so he didn't need to hide the complex emotions on his face. She had a certain stubbornness about her, just like that night when he was drunk. She would follow him anxiously like a tail, but if he didn't ask her to come over, she would stand quietly.
He suppressed any emotions that might trigger her sadness and strode towards her with a calm expression.
Only when I got closer did I notice that the corners of her eyes were slightly red, as if they had been blown by the wind.
"Are you done cleaning up?" he asked.
Neither of them mentioned why they were there. Her gaze wandered and settled on the phone he was holding in his right hand. She said softly, "I'm done packing. It's just... I didn't see you when I went downstairs. I called you, but you didn't answer."
"Um."
He raised his hand and turned on his phone screen. "I didn't hear anything, I must have accidentally muted it," he said, then changed the subject. "Your roommates are here?"
"There are two more on the bullet train."
Ye Manni is a local from Xicheng. She is always the first one to arrive during holidays. She is a warm-hearted person and always prepares surprise gifts for them.
"So that means someone's here?" He Yan pondered. "Why don't you ask her if she's free so you can have lunch together?"
"What?"
Wen Xue looked at him in confusion. His words were strange, and his act of inviting Manny to dinner was even stranger.
What does it resemble?
She vaguely remembered that when she first registered for university, Manny's parents came over and insisted on treating the other three girls in her dorm to a meal at a restaurant outside the south gate.
She also remembered that at the dinner table, Manny's mother told the four of them to get along well, and said that Manny had been spoiled by her elders since she was a child, and might be a little willful, but she was not a bad person. If she did or said anything wrong in life, the three of them could tell Manny directly.
Based on her current understanding of He Yan, he probably meant the same thing and wanted her roommates to take good care of her.
She suddenly wanted to laugh, but shook her head. "No need to ask, she won't agree, because she doesn't know anyone at the table except me, and she'll feel very uncomfortable."
He Yan hadn't considered this point. After a moment's thought, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll treat your roommates to a meal when we find a suitable opportunity next time."
He occasionally heard her mention her roommates. He wasn't sure if she thought everyone in the world was a good person, or if they were genuinely kind. In any case, in her gentle descriptions, each of them was very kind to her.
Therefore, both morally and logically, he should treat her roommate, with whom she spends every day, to a meal.
Wen Xue hid half her face under her scarf, her eyes crinkling with laughter, and nodded gently, "Okay, I'll ask them later."
Let's go.
"good."
The campus was bustling with activity as students from various colleges returned to school one after another. Li Jingru and Nana struggled to squeeze through the crowd carrying four cups of milk tea. Across the zebra crossing, I saw the two of them waiting for the traffic light in the crowd.
Nana had been craving it for a long time, and couldn't wait to poke the bubble tea with the straw she bought, take a few big sips, and be completely absorbed in it.
Li Jingru glanced at the man and woman casually.
The man was tall and mature, while the young woman was gentle and graceful. The woman said something, but perhaps her voice was a little soft, so the man didn't hear her clearly. He leaned closer to her, his brows furrowed, but he didn't seem impatient at all. Instead, he listened very attentively.
Especially when they were mixed in with pedestrians, the scene was so harmonious that... he should be wrapping his arms around her waist and kissing her cheek the next second.
Li Jingru narrowed her eyes, glancing at He Yan for a moment, then at Wen Xue beside him, her expression thoughtful.
"Sister Jing, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
Wen Xue walked over with light steps and called out.
It was this sound that brought Li Jingru back to her senses. She smiled and returned the wallet to her, but her gaze lingered on He Yan's face, looking at him again and again. If He Yan wasn't blind, he wouldn't have missed this inexplicable scrutiny. He asked suspiciously, "Is something the matter?"
Li Jingru shook her head sheepishly, "Oh, it's nothing."
She thought she was probably carsick, otherwise how could she have the twisted illusion that the two of them were actually quite well-matched? If Inspector Yan knew what kind of garbage was going on in her head, he wouldn't have overturned the card table this time, but rather the top of her head.
…
Wenxue really wanted to treat them to a nice meal, so based on a recommendation from a classmate, she took them to a barbecue restaurant near the North Gate for lunch.
After taking her seat, Li Jingru ate her meat while curiously looking around at the other young customers in the store, and came to a conclusion: "Little sister, you've suffered. I've discovered that your school is full of beautiful girls, but not many handsome guys. Maybe someone like Wang Yuan could become the most handsome guy in the department."
Nana burst into laughter, pointing to He Yan sitting next to Wen Xue, who was looking down at his phone, "Then isn't Brother Yan the school heartthrob?"
Hearing them mention him, He Yan raised his eyes and turned to look at Wen Xue.
I don't know what they were talking about, but one or two of them were laughing with ill intent.
“Our school doesn’t have a school heartthrob.” Wen Xue thought for a moment. “Maybe there is, but I don’t know who it is.”
After Nana finished laughing, she recalled some reference books she had found while helping Wenxue tidy her desk earlier that day, and still couldn't hide her shock. "But Wenxue, you actually study mathematics? That's unbelievable!"
"Then what do you think I should read?" Wen Xue smiled and handed them the grilled snowflake beef cubes.
"I don't know either..." Nana rested her chin on her hand, her eyes full of admiration, "But math, I feel it's so hard. I rarely pass my tests, it's a nightmare. Were you the math class representative before?"
Wen Xue paused, then casually grilled the pork belly. "No, the math class representative is someone else."
Seemingly thinking of something very happy, she smiled slightly, "So for a while, he and I would always compare scores. In the college entrance examination, I scored four points higher than him in math, which was quite fun."
"Fun?" Nana exclaimed dramatically. "Are you devils?"
Li Jingru also joined the discussion.
He Yan glanced at Wen Xue silently, then leaned over and took the tongs from her hand. "I'll do it."
"Aren't you going to eat?" Wen Xue's attention quickly shifted to him, and she hurriedly asked, "Are you full?"
He glanced at her, and she ordered him a plate of bibimbap separately. Putting aside the taste, the portion size alone was impressive. "I'm already full."
As lunch was drawing to a close, He Yan's phone rang. It was a call from a client, and he got up and left the barbecue restaurant to answer it. Wen Xue seized the opportunity, using the excuse of going to the restroom to quietly leave her seat. She took her wallet to pay the bill, but before she could even take it and check it, an arm was faster and snatched it away without any hesitation.
She turned her head in surprise, and He Yan was standing behind her. He glanced casually at the total amount, opened his wallet, and took out a few hundred-yuan bills to hand over.
"I'll pay!"
Wen Xue hurriedly grabbed his arm and pulled him back, refusing to let him pay the bill.
The receptionist decisively withdrew her hand from taking the money, as if she was already used to this kind of thing, and waited calmly. But she felt that it wouldn't be long before the winner was decided. It would be best if it wasn't like the table of guests she served last night, who called each other "brother" and "older brother" and rushed to pay the bill with red faces and thick necks, but in the end, they just made a lot of noise and none of them took out their wallets.
With her discerning eye, she could tell that the man in front of her was a generous person.
But he listened to the girl very much. So, no matter how strong the girl was, she pulled him and he, a tall and strong man, were obediently frozen in place.
He Yan glanced at Wen Xue and said, "Isn't it the same who pays?"
“Fine, you said it doesn’t matter who pays,” Wen Xue retorted, looking up at him and “questioning” him, “then why, why can’t I pay?”
He Yan was stumped by the question and was speechless for a moment.
How come people who study mathematics have so many fallacies?
And he couldn't refute this fallacy.
Taking advantage of his momentary daze, Wen Xue stepped forward, getting closer to the counter, and quickly paid. The moment the cashier took her money and verified it, a victorious smile appeared on her face. Fortunately, she won this time, at least she won against him this time.
The receptionist smiled and rounded down the price for her.
He Yan: "..."
In fact, it wasn't her questioning that made him give up paying the bill. He inappropriately thought of the time he bought clothes at the mall. If she was still angry, she would be staying in the dormitory tonight, and his room upstairs would be dark. Who would he make milk for?
We had no choice but to give up.
Wen Xue's good mood, which lasted for nearly two hours, came to an abrupt end. Two hours later, she stood by the car, unable to control the stinging in her nose, and reluctantly watched them leave. She even stood on tiptoe and craned her neck to follow the car that was so familiar to her.
On the bus.
Li Jingru put on her headphones, listened to music, and closed her eyes to rest. Nana chatted enthusiastically with Wan Nian, her pretty manicured nails tapping on her phone screen, making a tapping sound. He Yan always drove very slowly on the school road, so slowly that when he glanced at the rearview mirror, he was surprised to find Wen Xue still standing there blankly, all alone.
He gripped the steering wheel tightly; the blisters from the burns had long since healed thanks to her daily, tireless reminders.
After driving for a while, he turned the steering wheel and made a U-turn. He lightly pressed the accelerator, but the original parking space was already occupied. With a sullen face, he drove a few hundred meters more and parked a little further away.
"I'm going downstairs to take care of something." He unbuckled his seatbelt, turned to the two people in the back seat, and said, "Wait for me in the car, it won't be long."
He received no reply.
Li Jingru's head swayed to the rock music in her headphones, without even lifting her eyelids, and Nana also blocked out the surrounding noise.
He Yan got out of the car, walked two meters past the roasted sweet potato stall, turned back, asked the owner to pick out a soft-fleshed sweet potato, and walked briskly forward with the plastic bag in his hand.
The pedestrian crossing was bustling with people. He walked hurriedly with a stern expression, making pedestrians think he was rushing to save someone's life. Fearing being hit, they unconsciously gave way to him.
When the car was no longer in sight, Wenxue sullenly withdrew her gaze, straightened her scarf, and sighed as she stared at the withered leaves crushed by the wheels on the ground. No wonder her friends didn't like going back to school; she didn't like it either.
Even though she spent more time in the dormitory, she still regarded that room of less than 20 square meters as her haven.
It was an old building, but the stairwell with its mottled walls had been fitted with the brightest light bulbs, so no matter how late it was, she wouldn't slip and fall.
It was noisy and bustling there, and everyone would greet her with a smile and call her "little sister."
"What are you spacing out for?"
A deep voice, mixed with the shouts of vendors from the surrounding stalls, reached her ears. She froze for a moment, then her body reacted faster than her mind, and she turned around abruptly. She looked at the person in disbelief, completely dumbfounded. Hadn't he driven away? How did he end up in front of her again?
"you--"
"Come on, follow me, I'll take you back to your dorm."
Before Wen Xue could recover from her daze, and after confirming that she wasn't hallucinating, she could barely contain her excitement and burst into laughter, "Mmm!!"
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