Chapter 50: You have a crush on me...
Having sat at the same desk for one year and attended the same school for two years, Tao Siyun and Xu Ji had known each other for more than eight years, although they had no contact for nearly six years.
But...six years shouldn't have changed him so much, right?
Xu Ji was very dazzling in high school. On the surface, he looked like a cool and arrogant, sometimes even a little cold, academic master.
Anyway, at that time, everyone thought he was a very arrogant person.
To use the words that Jiang Zhen often used to tease him: he has a face that is pure and harmless, but attracts the public's attention anytime and anywhere, "pretending without knowing it."
This comment is not made out of nothing, but is actually based on a story.
Jiang Zhen still remembers that during a self-study class in his second year of high school, the math teacher took over the class and asked Xu Ji to explain the midterm exam paper that he had not finished in class. There was still half a class period left before school was over, and nearly two-thirds of the students were starting to feel sleepy. When he finished writing the formula and turned around, he saw that those people had all collapsed on the table exhausted.
Xu Ji glanced up and was too lazy to continue. Without saying anything, he wrote down the steps to solve several big questions in detail on the blackboard. Finally, he threw away the chalk and snapped his fingers to indicate the end when he walked down the podium as if he had completed a task.
This little habitual action of his seemed unintentional, but it caused the sleepy girls in the class to exclaim "Wow" repeatedly, and they all stopped being sleepy.
Just snapping your fingers casually can make you look just the right amount of handsome, leaving people with endless aftertaste.
It also gives a signal to boys who want to look cool.
All of a sudden everyone became alert, and the whistles in the classroom rose and fell one after another.
He was so arrogant that Jiang Zhen was completely convinced.
Later, Jiang Zhen would always bring it up and tease him, "Tsk, if Cao Wenzheng were a woman, he'd probably fall in love with you that instant. He has a quirky habit of liking loud noises, and you're the only one who can satisfy him with that kind of noise, don't you agree, Fatty?"
Cao Wenzheng had a look on his face that said, "You pervert, don't even think about tarnishing us!" He said, "Go away, get out of here! My relationship with Lao Xu is purer than your cross-gender friendship with Ji Yao, okay?"
Jiang Zhen touched his nose and immediately felt guilty.
That shouldn't be pure at all...
Although they grew up together naked, they naturally had no concept of gender at an age when they were too young to remember anything.
It was not until he was four years old that Ji Yao, who was visiting downstairs with his mother, discovered that Jiang Zhen was wearing open-crotch pants at home. In order to keep this secret, he became a little follower who unconditionally obeyed Ji Yao's orders.
However, after being a "bodyguard" for more than ten years, the "nude photo" taken by the parents with a camera is still in Ji Yao's photo album and cannot be retrieved.
Whenever Ji Yao and Cao Wen Zheng had a fight, Jiang Zhen would always stand on Ji Yao's side, which made Cao Wen Zheng feel very aggrieved: "Although a good man doesn't fight with a woman, why is it that I am always the one who gets bullied? It's obvious that she always provokes me first..."
"I don't know who will dare to marry her in the future. I will observe a three-second silence for that unknown brother to show my sympathy."
"I will marry."
“…”
Hearing this, Xu Ji glanced at Jiang Zhen indifferently and rarely spoke a word.
Over the years, protecting Ji Yao has become Jiang Zhen's habit. Even when Ji Yao later went to a nearby city to attend high school with her father who was transferred for work, and was not around, Jiang Zhen would still subconsciously protect her.
Cao Wenzheng was already used to it, thinking he was just joking like usual, "Marry me, marry me, and I'll beat you three times a day when you get home, hahahaha..."
Xu Ji finally couldn't help but ask: "Does she have any leverage over you?"
Jiang Zhen: “…”
No, man, how did you know?
…
Tao Siyun is a slow-warm person and has never been the proactive type since she was a child. In addition, she is very beautiful, so when she first entered junior high school, the girls in her class were reluctant to talk to her at first, but their eyes always inadvertently revealed that they wanted to make friends with her.
Just like people can never resist the attraction of the word "beautiful", little girls will subconsciously develop an inexplicable liking for good-looking girls, but at the same time, they will also worry about "being difficult to get along with".
There's actually a weird reason for this...
The sense of distance between ordinary people and beautiful girls.
During the break, several girls gathered in the classroom and whispered to each other.
"Hey, did you talk to her just now?"
"Yeah, I just went downstairs to hand out homework, and she said 'thank you' to me in a very gentle voice. She seemed very good-tempered." The little girl was lying on her desk when she suddenly thought of something and poked the desk in front of her. "By the way, Zhang Tiantian, yesterday during physical education class, you and that pretty girl in our class both asked for leave. I saw you two sitting on the playground chatting. What's she like? Is she easy to get along with?"
The person at the table in front of me turned around and said, "She's pretty good, very easy to get along with, but a little slow to warm up. Her best friend's name is 'Bian Chengzi', not the 'Cheng' like in orange, but the 'Cheng' like in yellow."
"Wow, what a unique name."
"I added them all on QQ yesterday."
"Then during the next break, when we go to the bathroom, ask them if they want to come with us."
"Okay~"
…
Socializing as a teenager starts with a little bit of exploration.
It takes a long time for Tao Siyun to "get to know" a person and "establish a friendship of mutual trust" with that person.
When she first arrived at No. 1 Middle School, let alone making friends, there were not many people in the class who even talked to her. As for Xu Ji, she still had the first impression that he was "difficult to get along with."
After all, when Jiang Zhen asked him to get up and let him in that day, he seemed quite impatient.
So during the first few days when they sat at the same table, they basically didn't talk to each other except when she had to go out during class and said to him "move aside".
Fortunately, Jiang Zhen is a very outgoing person. After class, as long as he doesn't go out, he will pull Xu Ji to chat about all kinds of things. Sometimes when he tells a joke, he will pat Tao Siyun who sits in front of him and force him to "share his happiness."
In this case, Tao Siyun did not speak to Xu Ji directly, but started the chat mode in the order of "you say a sentence, I say a sentence, he says a sentence".
Jiang Zhen would usually ask her a question, she would answer it, and then Jiang Zhen would ask Xu Ji. After Xu Ji finished answering, Jiang Zhen would extract the key points from her words and then combine their two sentences together in a sentence pattern starting with "you guys".
"Tao Siyun, how did you learn English so well?" Jiang Zhen clasped his hands together and asked her sincerely, "Do you have any secrets?"
Jiang Zhen is different from Xu Ji, an all-round player. His grades have always been at a poor level: "he can get 130 or 140 in math, but not even half of that in English."
The overall score ranking is particularly disadvantageous.
Tao Siyun has an aunt who is an English professor at a university. She started learning the pronunciation of English letters when she was just learning to speak. Qin Ru also read her bedtime stories since she was a child. Tao Siyun basically received bilingual education before she was twelve years old.
But if I say it directly, it will sound a bit boastful...
She thought about it and gave him some serious advice: "Watch more American TV series and listen to English news to practice your listening skills. It will help after a while."
Jiang Zhen covered his forehead, feeling that the girl didn't understand what he meant. "No, what's the difference between this and listening to the heavenly book? Is there a technique like 'three long and one short, choose the shortest; three short and one long, choose the longest? If you can't write an essay, you can copy the reading comprehension'? Xu Ji?"
“…”
Tao Siyun was silent for a moment, thinking, haven't you already told me all the 'techniques'?
“Practice more questions.”
Tao Siyun quite agreed with this and thought that this was also a way to quickly improve scores and was sufficient for test taking.
However, Xu Ji's next words left her speechless...
"If you don't have a good sense of language, I suggest you give up and write more ABCD to practice your sense of language."
Tao Siyun secretly glanced at Xu Ji, who was leaning on the chair and spinning a pen without turning her body around, and suddenly felt that her deskmate seemed to have a bit of a dry sense of humor.
"I'm talking about 'techniques' that can quickly improve your scores," Jiang Zhen felt that he had not only asked the wrong person, but also asked two wrong people at once. "One of your suggestions is too professional, and the other is too unprofessional. Do they make any sense?"
…
Jiang Zhen is just like a conversion plug connecting Tao Siyun and Xu Ji. If he weren't there, Tao Siyun felt that she would probably never be able to connect with Xu Ji.
After a while, the two were finally able to talk to each other without going through Jiang Zhen.
Tao Siyun felt that Xu Ji was not as unsociable as he seemed. At least he talked more than she imagined. Although he was quite arrogant and spoiled, he was not cold at all. He would patiently explain math problems to her when she asked him about them.
To be honest, he does have the capital to "pretend", although he exudes a kind of arrogant temperament from the inside out, as if saying "I don't bother to pretend".
***
When Tao Siyun was in high school, she would never have imagined that eight years later, her cool deskmate would have an ascetic face like a Chinese cartoon model, and would say to her narcissistic little words like "I thought you were completely addicted to my beauty and couldn't extricate yourself" without blushing or beating your heart.
Xu Ji took in her expression and asked, "Do you still want the photo?"
“…”
Tao Siyun was so embarrassed that he shrank all ten of his fingers.
I wondered why this person is like this!
It never ends.
If she wasn't so shy, she really wanted to look up and ask back: Did you take the wrong medicine?
After staring at him for a while, Tao Siyun suddenly had a brain twitch. He didn't know what he was thinking, but he accidentally said everything in his heart: "If I say yes...will you be so narcissistic as to think that I have a crush on you?"
"Won't."
Tao Siyun breathed a sigh of relief.
"I've known for more than two months that you've had a crush on me for eight years."
Tao Siyun: “……?”
Xu Ji glanced at her, then said calmly, "Didn't you tell me last time that you confessed your feelings to me in the grove?"
“…”
Tao Siyun was too lazy to pay attention to him.
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