Chapter 232 I Only Like You
As soon as Li Pengfei put down his phone, a suggestive smile crept onto his face.
When Chen Siqi turned around and saw the smile on Li Pengfei's face, she immediately frowned and said, "Why are you smiling so ambiguously?"
Li Pengfei didn't expect Chen Siqi to suddenly turn around. He immediately wiped the smile off his face and said, "I wasn't smiling. You must have mistaken me for someone else."
Chen Siqi took a deep breath and rolled her eyes.
But Chen Siqi wasn't curious about what Li Pengfei was up to, and couldn't be bothered to care.
After finally choosing the paper, Chen Siqi communicated with the staff from Jiangyin Publishing House and finalized the deal. She glanced at the time and realized it was almost 12:30.
Chen Siqi said, "Want to have a meal together?"
A staff member from Jiangyin Publishing House shook his head and said, "I have an appointment with someone else in an hour."
Chen Siqi nodded and said, "Then I'll trouble you to come with us to choose paper."
After everyone left, Chen Siqi turned to Li Pengfei and said, "Let's go eat."
Li Pengfei put his hands behind his head and said, "What's the rush? I need to use the restroom first. Wait for me."
After saying that, Li Pengfei went to the restroom.
Chen Siqi had no choice but to stand there and wait for him.
As soon as Li Pengfei entered the restroom, he quickly called Lu Yanhe.
“Hey, where are you? We’re done here. Chen Siqi said she’s going to find a place to eat,” Li Pengfei said.
Lu Yanhe, also panting, said, "I've arrived."
Li Pengfei immediately clenched his fist, squeezed it hard, and silently let out a "Yay!"
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Chen Siqi looked down at her phone. Because she didn't have many friends, most of the time no one would contact her. Several hours had passed, and there were still zero unread messages.
Chen Siqi had always felt that she didn't care much about this kind of superficial social interaction, and even without friends to chat with regularly, she didn't feel lonely. She later wondered if she had just been convincing herself of this idea for too long. But regardless of whether she was convincing herself or not, she genuinely believed this for a long time, and still does now.
But she doesn't know when it started, but she developed the habit of checking her phone from time to time.
It's mainly to see if someone has sent her a message.
When Chen Siqi saw the news online this morning, she subconsciously felt that it was nothing.
Lu Yanhe and Lin Miaomiao knew each other, and she already knew that.
Lu Yanhe did not hide anything from her.
But after a while, a bittersweet feeling, which I couldn't quite put my finger on, still welled up in my heart.
She knew that emotion was called jealousy, but she didn't want to admit it.
Chen Siqi dislikes emotional people. Because of this emotional nature, she's suffered far too much at Liu Wei'an's hands. Now, with another emotion surfacing, she rationally knows she can't let it continue, but she's finding it hard to control.
Lu Yanhe hasn't sent her any messages yet.
Chen Siqi couldn't quite explain what she was thinking either.
Does she hope Lu Yanhe can come and explain this to her?
Do you still hope that Lu Yanhe will deny this?
Chen Siqi's face was expressionless, but her heart was filled with all sorts of emotions, like something that had been soaking and fermenting in a jar for a long time, and the resulting problem was something she herself couldn't stand.
—Why did Li Pengfei take so long to use the toilet?
When Chen Siqi was feeling irritable and restless, she thought of Li Pengfei, who had left some time ago.
"Chen Siqi." Suddenly, Lu Yanhe's voice rang out from behind her. It was like a wind chime that had been silent for a long time being suddenly plucked. Chen Siqi heard her heart skip a beat. She turned around in surprise. Was she hallucinating? Then, Lu Yanhe really appeared in front of her.
Chen Siqi was at a loss for words at this moment, and didn't even have a pretense of reaction.
"Why...did you come?"
Lu Yanhe said, "You guys are picking out paper here, and I just happened to have nothing to do, so I came over to take a look."
He looked intently into Chen Siqi's eyes and said, "I also want to make sure you're not really angry."
Chen Siqi instinctively wanted to say that of course she wasn't angry.
However, when she looked up and saw Lu Yanhe's eyes, Chen Siqi suddenly couldn't speak.
The main reason was that Lu Yanhe's eyes were too sincere and earnest.
Chen Siqi felt that anyone who saw Lu Yanhe's eyes would definitely be unable to continue defending.
"I'm not angry," Chen Siqi said. "Do you think I'd be jealous?"
“Yes.” Lu Yanhe nodded honestly.
Chen Siqi immediately rolled her eyes at Lu Yanhe and said, "I wouldn't. I know you and Lin Miaomiao are just friends."
"Um."
"Then why did you two come back together so late?" Chen Siqi asked. "Did you bump into each other at the airport?"
“She went to Baichuan to visit a friend and happened to run into me, so we spent a day together in Jiangzhi,” Lu Yanhe answered honestly.
Chen Siqi stared in shock, her eyes wide, and asked, "You spent a whole day with her in Jiangzhi?"
Seeing this, Lu Yanhe's tone became somewhat cautious.
"Hmm." His "hmm" sounded less confident.
Chen Siqi glanced at him dismissively and said, "Wow, that's impressive. You even get pretty girls to accompany you when you go to record a show."
Chen Siqi thought to herself that no matter how sincere or earnest Lu Yanhe's gaze was, it wouldn't make a difference.
In truth, Chen Siqi knew rationally that there was nothing between Lu Yanhe and Lin Miaomiao, but at this moment, she still felt uncomfortable.
Feeling as if a jar of vinegar had been spilled in her heart—Chen Siqi truly hadn't expected that this metaphor wasn't an exaggeration, but rather a realistic depiction.
You can't understand it without experiencing it yourself.
Lu Yanhe said helplessly, "I..."
"What?" Chen Siqi's eyes widened as she looked at Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe scratched his head, gritted his teeth, and said as if he was going to take a gamble, "I only like you." After saying that, he immediately turned his head to the side, not daring to look Chen Siqi in the eye.
Chen Siqi was completely stunned.
At this moment, Chen Siqi suddenly realized something very important.
Before this, the two of them had never truly confessed their feelings to each other.
This is the first time.
Realizing this, Chen Siqi looked at Lu Yanhe at a loss. At this moment, Chen Siqi felt like a robot that had crashed, unable to react at all.
Petrochemicals.
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If Li Pengfei hadn't come running over, Chen Siqi didn't know how much longer she would have remained petrified.
After saying those words, Lu Yanhe didn't dare to look at her anymore, and his ears turned red.
Chen Siqi wasn't much better off.
Li Pengfei looked at Lu Yanhe, then at Chen Siqi, and asked, "You two didn't have a fight, did you?"
Chen Siqi was also surprised to see that she and Lu Yanhe looked like they had just had a fight.
Li Pengfei's eyes seemed to see something.
Fortunately, Li Pengfei arrived.
Chen Siqi said, "Let's go have lunch."
Lu Yanhe immediately nodded, "Okay, let's go."
Li Pengfei always felt that the atmosphere between the two was a bit strange.
He looked at the two of them, puzzled, his eyes becoming increasingly suspicious.
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As soon as he finished lunch, Li Pengfei said he had to leave.
"I got up too early today, I need to go back and take a nap. I still need to pick up Ziju later," Li Pengfei said. "I'm leaving now."
Lu Yanhe nodded, and after Li Pengfei left, he looked at Chen Siqi.
Chen Siqi noticed his gaze was directed at her and suddenly looked away.
Lu Yanhe said, "I'm going to record a show again tomorrow. This time I'll be recording for five days straight, and I won't be back until then."
Chen Siqi nodded and said, "The first draft of 'Jump Up' is already out. It's definitely too late to finish by the end of August, so there's no rush."
Lu Yanhe said, "Hmm."
Chen Siqi asked, "When does Zhenhua School start?"
"September 2nd, what about you? When are you planning to register at Jiangguang University?"
"Our reporting date is September 4th, but I plan to go a few days earlier, probably either the 30th or the 1st," Chen Siqi said. "Then I'll have to handle these things online."
"Mm." Lu Yanhe nodded.
Chen Siqi: "We made this book in one go, and we don't know what it will become in the future. Now we suddenly feel that it is really whimsical of us to want to make it into a series. Right now, we both have so many troubles to deal with in Yuming, let alone in the future when one of us is in Yuming and the other is in Jiangguang."
“As long as we’re willing to keep going, there’s definitely a way,” Lu Yanhe said. “This is a book that the two of us made together, so we’ll definitely work hard to keep it going.”
Chen Siqi: "Yeah, that's true. What am I doing? My first book hasn't even been officially published yet, and I'm already saying discouraging things here."
"Are you under too much pressure?" Lu Yanhe said apologetically. "Almost everything has been pushed onto you lately."
Chen Siqi: "It's okay that I'm busy, since I don't have anything else to do right now, but the pressure... I'm a little anxious. I'm worried that if this book doesn't turn out well, it will affect your evaluation. The reason I didn't want your real name to appear in the editor's column was because I was worried about these things. Now, if this book is a disaster, you'll be the first one to take the blame."
“It’s okay, we’ll take the blame,” Lu Yanhe said. “If we really didn’t do well, we won’t do it again. It’s just one failure. We have to bear failures, and we always have to bear them. Why can’t we bear it this time?”
Chen Siqi looked at Lu Yanhe suspiciously, "Are you really that magnanimous?"
Lu Yanhe silently thought to himself, "That's not true, but aren't I here to comfort you?"
He said, "It's not about being open-minded, it's about always finding a reason to make myself feel better. Before I go on stage, I worry that no one will welcome me or applaud me, so I always have to do this kind of mental preparation."
Chen Siqi nodded, somewhat empathizing with the situation, and said, "Now I can understand a little bit of the psychological pressure you're under."
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In fact, they both knew that they had already found a very good partner.
Neither Yemai.com nor Jiangyin Publishing House put any other pressure on them.
Both parties completely entrusted the task to them, neither interfering with the future sales nor the content of the book.
However, for them now, any problems and difficulties they encounter are problems and difficulties they have never encountered before, so even the smallest thing is a big challenge.
Lacking experience, and facing the harsh realities of society with the naivety of a recent high school graduate, even with the help of many benefactors, one still feels like walking on thin ice.
This is their current situation.
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Lu Yanhe was in an exceptionally good mood when he returned to his dormitory.
When he said those words to Chen Siqi today, he never expected that he would suddenly say them.
This wasn't something he had planned in advance; it just happened at that moment. He suddenly spoke, and after he finished speaking, he was completely stunned.
It was purely an instinctive impulse.
However, after he finished speaking, he suddenly felt relieved.
Because he had never said this to Chen Siqi in person.
Now, I've finally said it.
Lu Yanhe didn't need Chen Siqi's answer; her expression at that moment was already an answer.
For many things, language is one form of expression, but not speaking is also a form of expression.
Lu Yanhe could sense Chen Siqi's attitude from her, and that was the most important thing.
Upon seeing him return, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang both looked at him with serious expressions, as if they were about to give him a joint trial.
"Why are you all looking at me like that?" Lu Yanhe asked.
Li Zhibai snorted coldly and said, "What were you doing rushing out at noon?"
Lu Yanhe said, "Chen Siqi was choosing paper for 'Jump Up,' so I went over and chose some with her."
To lie through one's teeth.
Lu Yanhe was increasingly impressed with his own ability.
Li Zhibai looked puzzled, as if he'd just heard something. "Choosing paper?"
"We need to choose the paper for that book," Lu Yanhe explained helplessly. He could clearly feel that he was putting on an act at this moment, with a kind of affected ease and speechlessness. He didn't know if Li Zhibai and Yan Liang had noticed.
Li Zhi looked at him with a mixture of belief and doubt.
Lu Yanhe asked, "Have you had dinner yet? If not, shall we go out to eat together?"
"We didn't finish the roast duck and pizza at noon, so we have to finish them tonight." Li Zhibai said speechlessly, "And you're telling me, I ordered your portion, but you suddenly ran away."
Lu Yanhe looked apologetic and asked, "Is that enough to eat? If not, I'll go buy some more?"
"I'll cook dumplings later," Yan Liang said. "It's so hot, let's not go out to buy any more. We already bought some frozen dumplings."
“Oh, right.” Lu Yanhe nodded. “Okay then.”
He wiped his sweat, washed his hands, and together with Yan Liang, heated up the roast duck and pizza, and boiled water to cook dumplings.
Yan Liang whispered, "Li Zhibai is probably in a bad mood."
"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was taken aback. "What's wrong?"
Yan Liang said, "In the afternoon, Zhou Ping'an gave the role that he originally wanted to cast for Li Zhibai to Cheng Hai."
"Huh?" Lu Yanhe looked puzzled. "Why? Why would Zhou Ping'an do this?"
Yan Liang shook his head. "I don't know. I only found out this afternoon when I heard him answer Zhou Ping'an's call. He got very angry with Zhou Ping'an on the phone."
(End of this chapter)
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