Chapter 37 Extra Chapter 3: Goodbye to University
"Song Wan?"
A clear, melodious male voice suddenly came from above, like the clanging sound of a spring hitting a wall, making one's ears tingle.
Song Wan raised her head in a daze, and happened to meet the person's deep and captivating phoenix eyes.
"I am Chen Jianjin."
After many years, Chen Jianjin finally said those words.
Unfortunately, Song Wan didn't remember him and her reaction was lukewarm.
She nodded slightly to him, as if to say hello.
Chen Jianjin moved closer and sat down next to her. Just as he was thinking about how to start a conversation, Song Wan suddenly turned her head and asked, "How do you know my name?"
"I……"
Chen Jianjin had just opened his mouth when he was interrupted—
"Song Wan, let me introduce you. This is our club president."
It's Jiao Qian.
Chen Jianjin saw that after hearing this, the girl's beautiful almond-shaped eyes widened slightly, and then she awkwardly greeted, "Hello, club president."
When she first joined the company, Jiao Qian collected information about the new members.
Song Wan subconsciously assumed that Chen Jianjin knew about her in this way.
"Don't be so formal, you can call me by my name—Mitsu."
Song Wan's expression became indescribable. Jiao Qian was still standing next to her, and she couldn't bring herself to do something as scheming as calling someone's girlfriend affectionately in front of her.
No, you can't do it behind someone's back.
So she gave an awkward smile and remained silent.
"You like shooting?"
Chen Jianjin suddenly asked again.
Song Wan thought this person was really strange. His girlfriend was right next to him, so why was he talking to her about these random things?
However, Jiao Qian quickly answered her question, "Your joining clubs to earn credits also has an assessment. If you don't pass the assessment, you won't get the credits. Jian Jin is quite responsible and will occasionally come over to give pointers to students who are not very good. Oh, by the way, you didn't know that Jian Jin used to play professionally and won a championship..."
Jiao Qian kept mentioning "Jianjin" and said a lot, but Song Wan only took in one sentence: "assessment."
She really didn't know that.
With a slight frown, Chen Jianjin interrupted Jiao Qian, displeased, "Call me by my full name."
Jiao Qian choked slightly, her expression becoming unnatural.
For a moment, the air seemed to freeze.
Song Wan felt incredibly awkward after accidentally stumbling upon a couple arguing. She looked around furtively, trying to slip away, but Chen Jianjin caught her red-handed.
"Not practicing anymore?" he asked.
Song Wan didn't dare turn her head at all, and vaguely lied, "Uh... I suddenly remembered that I have other things to do this afternoon, so... club president, senior... I, I'll go first."
The girl's back was turned in a hurry.
Before Chen Jianjin could finish speaking, he got up to chase after her, but Jiao Qian tripped him up.
She stepped aside in front of the boy, looked up and stared into his eyes, and asked bluntly, "Chen Jianjin, what do you mean?"
"What do you mean?"
Chen Jianjin gave him a cold, sweeping look. "I'm pursuing someone, can't you tell?"
As he spoke, he warned, "Jiao Qian, don't try any underhanded tricks on me."
He deliberately acted intimately to make Song Wan misunderstand, but don't think he couldn't see through it.
"Chen Jianjin!" Jiao Qian gritted her teeth indignantly, reminding him word by word, "Don't forget, your aunt will not agree to you being with anyone other than me!"
Chen Jianjin clicked his tongue lightly, raised an eyebrow, and asked, "So?"
"so……"
Jiao Qian parted her lips slightly, but Chen Jianjin cut her off before she could finish speaking. "Jiao Qian, I remember I made it clear to you from the beginning that Feng Jing does not represent me. I do not like you. This answer will never change, whether in the past, present, or future. If you still have any self-respect as a girl, you should stay far away from me."
After saying that, Chen Jianjin chased after him.
Jiao Qian bit her lip tightly, staring tearfully at the boy's receding figure.
Song, Wan!
How could someone who appeared out of nowhere be worth four years of her companionship?!
Chen Jianjin still couldn't catch up with Song Wan.
So it turns out that clubs also need to be evaluated.
Song Wan told her roommates about this new discovery.
Zhou Zhou shrugged, unfazed. "Otherwise what? You think academic credits are something you can just get anytime, anywhere?"
Song Wan was worried. She didn't know how to shoot at all and wanted to find someone to teach her, but all the other members of the club seemed very busy. Moreover, she wasn't very familiar with the others, and being introverted and slow to warm up, she didn't dare to take the initiative.
During their conversation, she complained to Lian Huaiyang about it.
Lian Huaiyang quickly took it all on: 【Wanwan, how about I teach you?】
Song Wan's eyes lit up, and she quickly typed: "Can you shoot?"
【Won't. 】
Lian Huaiyang is very honest.
His honesty completely extinguished the budding flame of hope that Song Wan had just begun to have.
I should have waited until my sophomore year to work on those two credits.
Is it too late for her to leave the company now?
Before she could fully decide whether to give up, Lian Huaiyang sent the second half of the message: "...but you can learn."
Song Wan hesitated for a moment, but when she thought of how Lian Huaiyang was the best at shooting slingshots in her class when she was in elementary school, she decided to give it a try.
She had no other choice but to try anything, even if it seemed hopeless.
So, after asking Jiao Qian and getting her permission, Song Wan took him into the training ground.
Even Huaiyang had never done shooting before, but he had searched for a few guides before coming, so he imitated their movements and actually hit the target with his first shot.
Song Wan was pleasantly surprised because she had been missing the target for so long.
"You stand here."
Lian Huaiyang stepped aside and handed the air rifle back to Song Wan.
Song Wan did as instructed and set up the gun.
When Chen Jianjin arrived, he happened to witness this scene—
The boy had one hand on the girl's back and the other supporting her arm. The two were very close, and from a distance, it looked like they were embracing.
Lian Huaiyang.
Chen Jianjin knew him, but he also loathed this person.
So he walked up to them with his hands in his pockets and interrupted them with a curt look, "Unauthorized personnel, who gave you permission to enter the training ground?"
Song Wan and Lian Huaiyang were both taken aback upon hearing this and turned to look at the person who had come.
Song Wan put down the gun in her hand and hurriedly explained, "I... I asked Senior Jiao Qian for permission, and she said it was okay."
At the same time, Jiao Qian rushed over from a distance.
"Jin, what brings you here? Aren't you busy at work?"
She smiled broadly, like a joyful fawn.
"You let him in?"
Chen Jianjin slightly raised his phoenix eyes. His height advantage made his lowered gaze appear particularly arrogant and unapproachable.
Jiao Qian's expression went blank for a moment, then she apologized softly, "I'm sorry."
"No." Feeling guilty for letting someone else take the blame for nothing, Song Wan took the initiative to admit her mistake, saying, "Yes, it's because I couldn't keep up with the schedule, so I wanted to ask a friend for help. It has nothing to do with Senior Jiao Qian. I'm sorry."
"If you can't learn it, come find me?" Chen Jianjin looked at her leisurely. "Have I told you before that I can teach you?"
The boy was angry, and his tone of voice was slightly harsh.
Song Wan felt wronged, and tears welled up in her eyes.
She sniffed lightly, bowed, and apologized, "I'm sorry."
After saying that, she pulled Lian Huaiyang away.
Seeing Song Wan take the initiative to hold the hand of another man, Chen Jianjin became even more irritated.
For two weeks straight, Song Wan didn't go to the training ground. During those two weeks, she secretly asked several clubs if they had any extra recruitment spots, but unfortunately, she received a negative answer from every single one of them.
In the third week, Song Wan went to the shooting range dejectedly again.
Chen Jianjin wasn't here today, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.
After practicing for a while, Song Wan felt tired and went to the viewing platform to rest.
Members of the same company were gossiping nearby.
The sound waves drifted into my ears on the wind.
They were talking about Chen Jianjin.
Are Senior Jiao Qian and Senior Chen really boyfriend and girlfriend?
The person who asked this question, like Song Wan, was a freshman who had only recently joined the club.
In the center of the group, a senior student blew away the tea stems floating on top of the hot water in his thermos and laughed, "Don't believe the rumors, don't spread them."
He was the most senior member of the club, apart from Jiao Qian and Chen Jianjin.
It is said that he is very fond of shooting sports, but he has a fear of assessment, so he has failed every time and has remained in his position until now.
"Huh?" The people around were also surprised. "Really? Judging from Senior Jiao Qian's state, it really seems like they're dating."
She, who is usually so serious and unsmiling, always smiles and acts all shy whenever she sees a boy.
The senior student was speechless: "Dating isn't a one-person affair."
This sentence served as a reminder, and everyone realized that... the boy's attitude was indeed always distant and indifferent.
Unable to uncover the gossip they wanted to hear, the group quickly changed the subject.
On the contrary, Song Wan, who had wandered in by mistake, looked somewhat disheveled.
So... Chen Jianjin and Jiao Qian weren't in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship as she thought?
However, it doesn't seem to concern her.
Song Wan was scrolling through her phone out of boredom when, perhaps due to big data monitoring, she overheard the conversation and her app inexplicably pushed a marketing video from two years ago to her.
It's a congratulatory video for a famous director's comeback film after many years, which won multiple international awards.
The familiar face of the male protagonist in the picture made Song Wan pause as she turned the page.
It is Chen Jianjin.
A very different Chen Jianjin.
This was the first time Song Wan realized what it felt like to see someone she knew in real life appear on screen.
That night, Song Wan changed her usual bedtime reading to watching a movie.
This is a story about growing up in adversity. The protagonist is a once-proud man who has fallen from grace. He is unwilling to succumb to fate and fights against reality time and time again. However... he still fails.
At the end of the movie, the boy sits alone on the beach, with the vast sea stretching out before him, the sun rising in the east, and fiery clouds covering the sky.
Song Wan cried.
Just then, my phone buzzed, and a message notification popped up at the top.
Song Wan clicked to take a look.
It's Chen Jianjin again.
Ever since that unpleasant parting, he has been making every effort to add her as a friend.
Initially, Song Wan was wary of the fact that he was Jiao Qian's boyfriend and deliberately ignored the apologies he sent.
This time, perhaps due to the lingering sadness from the movie, Song Wan almost passed the audition.
However, she soon began to regret it.
Because Chen Jianjin used the excuse of apologizing to invite her to dinner.
His words were sincere.
Song Wan, however, was not so keen.
It's obvious to anyone with eyes that Jiao Qian likes him. She's a decent person and doesn't want to get involved in a love triangle for no reason.
Therefore, Song Wan declined, saying, "I was also in the wrong that day; I shouldn't have brought unrelated people into the training ground. We don't need to eat together, thank you for your kindness, President."
Chen Jianjin wanted to say something more, but the other end quickly sent another message: "[Sorry, senior, it's too late, I need to sleep.]"
Unable to arrange a private meeting, Chen Jianjin resorted to a roundabout approach.
He sent a notification for the shooting club's group chat to announce the dinner gathering on Wednesday.
Song Wan saw it too, but the moment she saw it, she asked Jiao Qian for leave.
When Jiao Qian first joined the company, she also organized a welcome dinner for new employees.
Song Wan went there that time and regretted it.
Eating with a group of strangers is already awkward enough, but the food was not only unpalatable, it was also expensive.
Chen Jianjin only learned about Song Wan's leave of absence on the day of the meal.
There was a roommate of Lian Huaiyang in the club. Before they sat down, someone gossiped and asked why the pretty freshman girl wasn't there. He chimed in and said that she probably didn't have time because his roommate was going to confess to Song Wan tonight.
After going back and forth, everyone realized that the roommate the boy was talking about was the same person who had been scolded by Chen Jianjin on the cheek that day at the training ground.
Aside from the topic at hand, Jiao Qian noticed that Chen Jianjin left in a hurry.
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