After a while, perhaps because his neck was sore, Chen Tinghan withdrew his gaze and said, "I'm not old to begin with. It's not me who is aging prematurely."
"You're still implying something." Wang Jinling pretended to be annoyed, then suddenly said with a hint of amusement, "Junior brother, you're really a little different."
Chen Tinghan rubbed his brows, suddenly feeling tired and said, "What's the difference?"
Wang Jinling moved to sit beside him on the steps, watching Chen Tinghan with interest. "Many boys his age can't stand being called 'childish'. If they were called that, they'd probably rush to refute and prove themselves. But you accepted it so readily."
"Sister, please stop testing me." Chen Tinghan said with a bitter face, "I really want to show off in front of the goddess of Haiyi Middle School, and I really can't hide it from your sharp eyes."
Wang Jinling was wearing the distinctive green school pants of Haiyi Middle School. Her legs were round, straight, and slightly raised. She supported her body with her elbows. The short sleeves could not hide her slender and beautiful arms, which were white with a hint of pink. They were rolled up like a crescent moon, supporting her face.
There seemed to be no expression on this face, it was so clean and white that people wanted to take a bite of it. But if you combine it with her eyebrows raised like rapiers and her bright eyes, this pretty face would have a sense of inviolability and insight, and one could see through Chen Tinghan's disguise of joking and playfulness at a glance.
It's really difficult.
Then Chen Tinghan, like a dedicated actor, slowly let his fake smile fade into his skin until there were no wrinkles on his face. He slowed down and said half-truthfully:
"If it were back in junior high, I would have been like the boys you mentioned. What I couldn't stand the most was people calling me childish and saying I wasn't capable."
"Not like that now?"
"Well, because I suddenly felt that other people's gazes were like black holes. No matter how much I stuffed into them, no light could be reflected from them. Since the valley is so difficult to fill, it's better not to fill it."
Wang Jinling paused slightly, chewing over what he said.
Then Chen Tinghan scratched his head embarrassedly: "You talk so literary, but it's actually meaningless. It's just that I don't have the ability, so I admire you."
Wang Jinling rummaged through her bag and pulled out a bottle of Coke. She immediately put it down and replaced it with a bottle of sugar-free tea. She took a sip and said,
"Like you said, it's hard to fill a gap. If you can get 50 points on an exam, the teachers will expect you to get 60 points next time. If you get 60 points the next time, they will still expect you to get a perfect score. If you get a perfect score in this subject, the next goal will be to get a perfect score in every subject, until you can no longer reach it."
Wang Jinling paused and continued, “This is really tiring, and there’s nothing to admire.
"Are there any new knowledge points for you in the senior year courses?" Chen Tinghan asked.
"Probably not." Although her words were a little questionable and conservative, she was very sure that there was no such thing. "Even though it was a weekend tutoring class, the teacher only taught us papers that we had already done."
Chen Tinghan nodded and said, "Why don't you go home this weekend and have a good rest."
Wang Jinling shook her head slightly and said, "School is still better."
Chen Tinghan's heart rippled with emotion as she heard these words. At least in her final year of high school, she would still open up, occasionally show weakness, speak the truth, and express her true self.
In both lives, she was a perfect woman with flawless movements, as if every muscle had been trained, except that she would inadvertently reveal her hidden fear of her family.
Chen Tinghan has always wanted to get to the bottom of things. Deep down, he wanted to find some traces on her to prove that she was forced to take this path under the influence of her family.
Just as she said during their last confrontation in their previous life, Chen Tinghan was just shooting at the target, looking for problems with answers.
Although he himself had to admit that he was indeed a little obsessed with Wang Jinling, Wang Jinling was not as indifferent to her family as she claimed.
If she didn't care, why would she bury all the related matters and keep it secret?
In his previous life, he had made up his mind to send Wang Jinling to prison and wanted to make up a tragic life story for her, but it was just to make himself feel better. In this life, he wanted to dig these out because he didn't want this girl to follow the same path as her previous life.
Having made up his mind, Chen Tinghan suddenly asked, "So, have you ever skipped class?"
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