“But when the club president invited you out, you said it was too cold to go out, so I didn’t plan to call you out at night,” Ma Jiaojiao said.
Zhao Sun: ...
Is that true?
He thought about it carefully and realized that there might be such a thing.
But that was for Don Quixote… never mind.
You can tell anyone you want.
Zhao Xun thought to himself, he still kept his hands in the large pockets of his windbreaker:
"Then why did you call me?"
Ma Jiaojiao hummed in agreement, as if deep in thought, and finally gave her reason with a smile:
"But the gift has to be given today... a sense of 'ritual'... right?"
After Ma Jiaojiao finished speaking, she added a sentence in her mind.
—That's not the reason.
Zhao Xun's guess also coincidentally matched Ma Jiaojiao's guess.
What made the big girl change her mind was the "1" that Zhao Xun sent her.
In Ma Jiaojiao's eyes, Zhao Xun is a senior with a very unique personality... It is precisely because of this unique personality that Ma Jiaojiao feels that he is different from others.
But for the same reason, this senior was more... awkward than the average male student.
Everyone has a threshold in their heart, even the strongest person.
This value decreases every time someone is rejected, and when it drops to a certain level, it can easily affect a person's mood.
Senior Zhao Xun is the challenger to Ma Jiaojiao's threshold.
She would always greet him cheerfully and chat with him about anything and everything with a smile.
Even if you get scolded, ridiculed, or the two of you argue and insult each other, it doesn't matter.
but.
If she were to ask him out on this special holiday under the pretext of giving him a gift, but he refused, it would be a different story.
Ma Jiaojiao couldn't imagine how she would face Senior Zhao Sun in the future. Should she continue to be shameless, or should she learn to be more sensible and keep her distance?
The first option is to accept it.
The second option is: I don't want to.
So when she saw her senior reject Tang Jike's words, a vulnerable spot in Ma Jiaojiao's heart told her that she would end up like the latter.
I'll give it to you tomorrow.
I'll give it to him during the day tomorrow—it's Christmas anyway, and my senior is afraid of the cold, so it's really not appropriate to call him out so late.
However, Zhao Xun's "1" sent out of the blue made Ma Jiaojiao feel—wow, my senior took the initiative to contact me, maybe there's a chance.
So, we pressed on with our momentum!
…is in the north of the prison.
Zhao Xun sighed, thinking. That guy, after hearing that he had rejected Tang Jike, immediately steered the conversation towards Ma Jiaojiao…
I didn't think much of it at the time, but judging from the big girl's reaction now.
This guy probably realized that his junior, Xiao Ma, was affected by his rejection of Lao Tang.
“…Oh,” Zhao Xun said casually.
Ma Jiaojiao handed the bag she was holding to Zhao Xun, then looked at the scarf Zhao Xun was wearing around his neck, and scratched her soft cheek with her fingers, feeling a little embarrassed.
"Oh dear, so my senior already bought it..."
Zhao Sun: ...?
He didn't pay much attention to Ma Jiaojiao's gaze, but simply took the paper bag she gave him: "Thanks."
"Aren't you going to take a look?" Ma Jiaojiao asked.
Zhao Sun: ...
He had no desire to see the gift.
The main problem was that he didn't know what kind of expression he should make the person giving the gift feel respected.
If you're dismantling it privately, you can just say "I really like it" on WeChat afterwards. Even if you don't like it and show a disgusted expression, you can just toss it aside and no one will see it.
Moreover, in this country, opening a red envelope in front of someone is considered "rude," and the same goes for gifts.
Conversely, if the gift-giver asks you to open it and you refuse, it will seem very rude.
Zhao Xun's verbal skills are always separate from her daily behavior; she still needs to maintain proper etiquette.
When Zhao Xun untied the paper bag, Ma Jiaojiao felt inexplicably uneasy:
"I didn't prepare a gift box; I felt it was too formal, and I doubt you'd like it..."
Zhao Xun summed it up in one sentence: "Lazy?"
"...Even if it's true, you shouldn't say it!" Ma Jiaojiao said anxiously.
"But you're right, I really don't like it."
Zhao Xun pulled a snow-white scarf out of the bag. He could tell at a touch that it was hand-crocheted stitch by stitch.
Ma Jiaojiao scratched her cheek awkwardly; she was actually a little embarrassed.
She had always thought that giving a scarf as a gift was a brilliant idea.
Senior student Zhao Sun is afraid of the cold, and he often hunches his neck.
But I never expected—you're crazy! Do you think they really expect you to give them to them? Can't you just buy them yourself?!
Ma Jiaojiao thought her knitting was pretty good, but it was clearly the one that Zhao Xun bought himself that was more high-end…
There was a conflict.
There's a feeling that it's not scary to wear the same outfit as someone else, but it's embarrassing if you look worse.
"Sorry, senior... I didn't expect you to have such good taste." Ma Jiaojiao was referring to the scarf Zhao Xun was wearing.
"Huh? What?" Zhao Sun didn't understand.
Ma Jiaojiao pointed to the back of his neck, and Zhao Xun suddenly exclaimed "Oh!" before saying rather ruthlessly, "Isn't this just normal aesthetics?"
Ma Jiaojiao immediately let out a soft "uh-huh," clearly taken aback.
She hadn't met this senior student in person very often; they mostly communicated online... so she didn't know he had bought a scarf...
Just now, when she saw this person wearing a scarf coming over, she almost fainted and was too afraid to see him off... But fortunately, the fact that the senior was willing to come to the girls' dormitory to find her gave her the courage to do so.
If someone gets even a little closer, Ma Jiaojiao dares to take a big step forward.
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