It was almost ten o'clock when Cheng Jinyan got home. He saw a figure standing at his door in the distance and paused slightly.
Qin Zijun paused for a moment when she saw Cheng Jinyan approaching home.
The two stood facing each other for two minutes, about five or six hundred meters apart.
Qin Zijun looked at Cheng Jinyan in the distance, put aside her pride, and walked towards the person opposite her.
"I've been waiting for you for ages, why are you only just getting back?"
"Something came up and I was delayed. It's so cold, why aren't you going home?"
"Your office didn't have any overtime work today? When I went to find you, Li Ge said you had already left."
Cheng Jinyan stopped and looked at her. "I have some personal matters to attend to. Ziju, did you need to see me?"
Qin Zijun looked up at the man in front of her. He had strong features and wasn't particularly handsome, but with Cheng Jinyan's refined and dignified demeanor, he would stand out even in the talent-rich Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
If it weren't for her own sake, she wouldn't be almost thirty and still not settled down.
"Jin Yan, we're not that unfamiliar with each other, are we? Can't I even ask you a couple of questions?"
Cheng Jinyan looked at her with a rather unpleasant expression. "I didn't say no, it's just that I have my own things to do, and I don't need to report everything to you. We're just ordinary friends."
He wasn't the type to procrastinate; from the very beginning, he rejected Qin Zijun, saying the two weren't a good match and that she should find someone else.
But Qin Zijun seemed not to hear him. Every time she rejected him, she acted as if nothing had happened the next day and continued to fuss over him.
"Did you go to the teacher's?"
"That's right, take some things over there."
"Li Ge said you took a lot of information and went to see Lin Wanwan?"
Cheng Jinyan looked at him silently, his dark eyes seeming to see right through people's hearts.
"She's already married. Even if you like her a lot, you shouldn't..."
Cheng Jinyan interrupted her before she could finish, saying, "Qin Zijun, you're overthinking things and meddling too much."
“Cheng Jinyan, I’ve known you since I was seventeen. I know your personality best. I’ve known you for twelve years, and you only smile when you’re with me.”
Qin Zijun looked a little dejected. "Do you know what people at work are saying about you? They say Director Cheng is like a thousand-year-old iceberg, and no one can melt her."
"You've only seen her a few times, yet you're already taking her matter to heart. I've never seen you act like this before."
Cheng Jinyan looked at the woman in front of him with slightly red eyes and sighed inwardly. Could this inexplicable emotion be liking? He was happy chatting with her, and the desire to see her was liking.
"You're overthinking it. I only treat her as my junior sister. I'm teaching her out of respect for my teacher."
Qin Zijun chuckled self-deprecatingly, "I knew you'd say that. You, Cheng Jinyan, are so noble that you've never looked down on anyone else. You'd better think this through. Lin Wanwan is married. No matter how much you like her, she's someone else's wife and can never be with you."
Cheng Jinyan said with a stern face, "I told you you're overthinking it. There's no inappropriate relationship between us."
Qin Zijun screamed hysterically, "She didn't, but what about you?! Do you even have feelings for her? Ask yourself that!!"
Cheng Jinyan turned and walked towards his home, saying, "I said no, and I mean no. Go ahead and act crazy."
As if remembering something, he turned to Qin Zijun and said, "But you'd better not talk nonsense outside. You know what I'm capable of."
Qin Zijun, who had been holding back her tears for so long, suddenly burst into tears. "Are you threatening me?"
"I'm not threatening you, I'm just telling you not to go around spreading rumors."
"I've known you for twelve years, and you're threatening me? You're threatening me for someone I've only met twice?"
"This is unreasonable. I've told you from the beginning that there's no possibility between us, and I haven't given you any unnecessary hope. If there's anything that makes you feel that I have even the slightest affection for you, then I apologize."
"You apologize to me? Hahaha, I've liked you for twelve years, and now you're apologizing to me?"
Cheng Jinyan sighed and turned to face her. "Zijun, I'll only say this once, and it will be the last time. We're not right for each other. Our relationship has never gone beyond friendship. Love isn't something I can reciprocate just because you like me. You're excellent, and you deserve someone better. Don't waste your time on me."
After Cheng Jinyan finished speaking, he gave her a deep look, turned around and left. No matter how Qin Zijun called after him, Cheng Jinyan did not turn around.
Lying on the sofa at home, Cheng Jinyan thought about how he had been acting strangely lately. Ever since he visited his teacher's house for the New Year, he had been thinking about the address Lin Wanwan had given him.
He wanted to deliver the book to her sometime, but he was unwilling to admit that he really wanted to see her again.
I talked with her for a long time at Xu's house tonight, not just about academics, but also other things, such as life and values. They talked about a lot of things.
The sudden flutter in his heart during their conversation terrified Cheng Jinyan, like someone throwing in a bunch of beautiful flowers that had been floating on a calm lake for a long time.
Cheng Jinyan clutched his pounding heart, repeatedly telling himself that Qin Zijun was talking nonsense, that he didn't like Lin Wanwan, but only regarded her as a younger sister.
Qin Zijun stood in the cold wind for half an hour before leaving.
Lin Wanwan knew nothing about what had happened between Cheng Jinyan and Qin Zijun. After Cheng Jinyan left, Lin Wanwan held a book and read for a long time.
She turned to Lu Feng and said, "It's so hard, I don't want to learn anymore."
Lu Feng mocked her, "Heroine, weren't you eager for knowledge? Are you giving up now?"
Lin Wanwan pouted and said, "Nothing in the world is difficult if you're willing to give up."
"Hahaha, I'll go and complain to the authorities about you tomorrow."
"Very well, Lu Feng, now you are my and Yuan Yuan's enemy."
He turned around, hugged Tuanzi, and kissed her, saying, "She's also Tuanzi's and my enemy."
Tuanzi lay on the bed giggling, "Mommy~ kiss me."
Lin Wanwan couldn't stop laughing, "Sweetie, my son is so cute. He'll be sleeping with Mommy tonight, aren't you happy?"
"Happy, Mommy hug me."
"You can talk so much now? Lu Feng is only one year old, how can he talk so much?"
Lu Feng thought for a moment and said, "Mom said that some children just start talking and developing earlier."
"Oh, I see. It's good that Mom helps us take care of the kids. We won't bother Mom anymore."
Lu Fengjian was so angry that he laughed. "Say that to yourself. Who was it that made Mom suffer and forced her to hide at Grandpa's place?"
Lin Wanwan pretended not to hear, stretched, hugged Tuanzi and said, "Go to sleep, you're sleepy. Come and hug your darling wife."
Lu Feng shook his head, got into bed, hugged her, and laughed, "Are you sure you don't need to write an application for a delayed registration?"
"No need, I'm only two months pregnant now. Summer vacation will start in July at the latest, and my belly will be a little bigger then. I'll probably give birth around National Day."
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