"So, Meng Qiaoyu is pursuing Lin Sitian?"

At the dinner, Li Hailiang asked the question belatedly.

After the rafting, a group of people took a car to a hotel on the top of Danqing Mountain to check in, and then went to a farm house near the hotel for dinner.

Dusk was falling, but the sky was not completely dark yet. There was a fiery cloud spreading over the other side of the mountain. The large patches of cloud looked like gold foil rolling overhead, then burned into a blood-red color, and finally fell into the gray-blue of the evening.

The rising smoke from the cooking fires aroused the appetite of the young men and women. They had ordered their meals early and were now sitting under the half-open bamboo shed for dinner. The farmhouse business in the scenic area was very good during the May Day holiday. Even though they came so early, they could only grab two tables with ten seats. There were more people in the eighth shift, and there were only six people in Lin Sitian's group, so they simply gathered a few people to share the table.

Meng Qiaoyu came over to say hello in advance, and when he went back to recruit people, Li Hailiang asked Yang Xuelin the above question out of gossip. This boy was very smart, knowing that he would be scolded if he asked Lin Sitian, so he found the one who knew the most. Even if Yang Xuelin didn't answer directly, he could tell the reason from Lin Sitian and her reactions.

But Yang Xuelin didn't intend to hide it, "Isn't it obvious? Are you a little stupid?"

It’s no wonder that Yang Xuelin is so honest. Meng Qiaoyu’s attitude can’t deceive people. It would be weird if he was being secretive.

"Sure, my Tiantian has boundless magical powers, and she has even taught Class 8 magic." Li Hailiang smiled exaggeratedly and gave Lin Sitian a thumbs up, "I remember Meng Qiaoyu is quite popular in our school--"

Wang Yue interrupted, "It's a pity that you have poor eyesight at such a young age."

"Does he have poor eyesight?" Li Hailiang took it seriously.

"It's better than Wang going blind." Lin Sitian snorted coldly.

"Hahahaha" everyone at the table burst into laughter. Only Zhou Sheng hadn't come back to his senses for a while and was drinking tea silently.

Li Hailiang then asked, "Should we help to bring them together?"

Lin Sitian quickly said, "Don't make trouble. This has nothing to do with you."

It was not easy for her to say publicly that she had rejected Meng Qiaoyu, as that would be a bit disrespectful.

As they were talking, Meng Qiaoyu came over. Seeing Lin Sitian on the left and Zhou Sheng on the right, Yang Xuelin, he took the other two classmates to sit in the empty seats. That's how it is at that age. Once they have a little idea, they like to make up stories. If someone takes the lead, they will follow suit. Knowing that Meng Qiaoyu is interested in Lin Sitian, the topic of teasing the two of them at the dinner table never stops.

Zhou Sheng had no right to speak, and it was impossible for him to join in the fun, so he could only eat quietly. Others couldn't eat in this situation, but he just drank a big bowl of rice.

A person who eats, a soul that eats, a wise man does not fall in love, a straight man just eats.

"Zhou Sheng?"

Zhou Sheng responded and looked at Lin Sitian.

"Are you okay?" He didn't say anything.

Zhou Sheng shrugged: "I don't understand what they are talking about."

"Their conversation is really meaningless." Lin Sitian felt guilty saying this, "I feel the same way."

"That's not what I meant. I'm just boring and don't know how to respond." Zhou Sheng said.

Communicating with people is not like doing homework. There are many tricks that Zhou Sheng doesn't know, and he knows it himself, so he simply doesn't spoil the fun.

A group of people were eating and chatting animatedly at the dinner table, while on this side of the table, two people were whispering with their heads down.

"I asked you to come here. If you're bored, why don't we go out and stay?"

——Lin Sitian invited him. She wanted to spend more time with Zhou Sheng.

"No, you don't have to worry about me. I'm fine."

——But the straight man Zhou Sheng didn’t understand and thought that Lin Sitian was forcing herself to take care of the feelings of him, an “outsider”.

What a blockhead! Lin Sitian cursed in her heart.

I don't know what they were talking about over there. Li Hailiang started to joke with Meng Qiaoyu and Lin Sitian again. In fact, Lin Sitian didn't listen at all, but Zhou Sheng was tired of listening to it. He glanced at Lin Sitian and put down his chopsticks and was about to speak, but Meng Qiaoyu spoke first: "I've been dumped, and you keep stabbing me with a knife. How cruel."

The people who didn't know the truth were stunned. Li Hailiang stretched out his chin and said, "Ah? You? Dumped?"

"Yeah," Meng Qiaoyu raised an eyebrow at him, "You didn't expect that someone as outstanding as me could be dumped."

The farce was gradually resolved amidst laughter and scolding. After eating and drinking, there was nothing to do. No one had any plans for the evening, and no one was in a hurry to leave. Someone suggested playing a game.

The most popular game at the dinner table that does not require any paper or pen is probably finger-guessing, but everyone present is high school students, there are not many people who can play finger-guessing, and it is not convenient for everyone at the table to participate, so truth or dare was put on the table.

This kind of game is actually played a lot in daily life. It is just a pastime after dinner. It mainly depends on the participants. Each game of truth or dare will be given different meanings due to the different participants. For example, today, with Zhou Sheng here, Lin Sitian is very enthusiastic to participate.

The wine bottle turned around in the middle of the dining table. Lin Sitian watched it slow down little by little with great anticipation, and finally stopped in front of Li Hailiang. She looked disappointed.

She really hoped that the class would turn to her, because if it did, it would be her turn to ask questions in the next section.

Li Hailiang chose the big dare, went to the door and said thank you to a departing guest for coming, and after coming back amid laughter, he passed the bottle of wine to Meng Qiaoyu.

"Then I will, Meng Qiaoyu——"

Meng Qiaoyu looked up when he heard the voice, "Huh?"

"What do you like about Lin Sitian?"

This was a very direct question, and the crowd applauded and cheered.

Zhou Sheng held the wine glass in both hands, his eyes falling on Meng Qiaoyu. For some reason, when he looked at Meng Qiaoyu at this moment, he suddenly had the illusion of looking at someone in the mirror.

Meng Qiaoyu subconsciously glanced at Lin Sitian and cleared his throat, "...cute?"

Wang Yue: "Meng Qiaoyu, you are really blind."

"The first time she came to my clinic with her grandmother, she was very fussy and even coaxed her grandmother to get acupuncture. She was really cute, so I couldn't help but pay attention to her later..." After failing to confess, Meng Qiaoyu said calmly, "The more I look at her, the more I think she is cute. Not only her speech and behavior, but also her personality is cute. She is cute in every way."

A few consecutive "cute"s turned Lin Sitian's already drunken face into a rosy red spring peach. The boy did not add any embellishments, and every word he said came from the heart.

All girls like to be praised. Lin Sitian is an adolescent girl after all. She certainly couldn't remain indifferent to what Meng Qiaoyu said. She rarely showed a shy smile in front of the group of people, which caused everyone to make another round of noise.

Zhou Sheng seemed to be thinking about something.

Wang Yue didn’t understand what Meng Qiaoyu said, but Zhou Sheng did.

Zhou Sheng understood Meng Qiaoyu's feeling.

She looks cute, cute in every way. It's not impossible for him to enumerate Lin Sitian's good points, but the first time he mentioned her, his mind was filled with these two words: bright and shining, and even his heart became lively.

[If there are no accidents... Tiantian will probably change her mind soon, right?]

At that moment, Zhou Sheng felt empty, sour and swollen in his heart. Lin Sitian had asked him before why he drank, and he said he didn't know. In fact, it was because Zhou Sheng was a little dazed at that time. He didn't know what he was thinking, and didn't know what to do with her, so he unconsciously answered that he didn't know.

While Zhou Sheng was lost in thought, Meng Qiaoyu turned the bottle of wine towards Lin Sitian.

"Truth be told." Lin Sitian was afraid of making a fool of herself in public by taking a risk, so she chose truth. She was thick-skinned anyway, so she would answer as long as anyone dared to ask.

"What are your criteria for choosing a boyfriend?" Meng Qiaoyu looked at her and asked.

"No way, sir, such a conservative question?" Meng Qiaoyu's classmates teased him.

Since he had already asked, Lin Sitian would naturally not let him take it back. She thought about it -

"I think I prefer to go with my intuition... If I have to say a standard, I have always felt that I would like a boy who is sunny, athletic, humorous, romantic, and can take care of me, and who has the same hobbies as me."

Zhou Sheng's eyes dimmed.

"Wow, isn't that our Xiaoyu?" Meng Qiaoyu's classmates started to make a noise. "Why don't you reconsider this? Our Meng Qiaoyu is one of the top ten good men. He will change anything that doesn't suit your taste!" Meng Qiaoyu's back was slapped with a few loud slaps.

A group of people laughed, and Lin Sitian also made a few jokes.

It was Lin Sitian's turn.

She had some skills in spinning the bottle, and tried hard to measure the strength. The bottle spun on the glass plate several times and finally stopped just between Zhou Sheng and her.

Seeing this, Yang Xuelin quickly chimed in, "Then it's Zhou Sheng, Zhou Sheng, Zhou Sheng!"

Zhou Sheng had never expected that the bottle could turn to him, and he raised his eyes when he heard the voice.

Lin Sitian's fingertips moved unconsciously along the edge of the table, and she seemed to want to say something but stopped herself several times.

It was a good idea at first, but when it came to actual operation, it didn’t seem that easy at all.

There are some questions that cannot be asked, some questions that may lead to public execution, and some questions that are meaningless to ask.

My heart felt like it was wrapped in wool, numb and itchy, and it felt painful and sore when I squeezed it.

Maybe because she drank too much beer, Lin Sitian was so nervous that she wanted to go to the bathroom.

"Since it's Zhou Sheng, I'll be more restrained in asking questions—"

"Zhou Sheng...you are only focused on studying," she said, before turning her head to look at him. "So, for an excellent student like you, would you refuse to date in high school?"

Very good, the question was asked, and it wasn't too abrupt. Everyone was curious, and it was just a simple gossip question between classmates.

Zhou Sheng's eyelids drooped, and the light from the bamboo shed's ceiling swayed gently in the mountain breeze. The shadow covered by his eyelashes also flickered, making the whole place dark.

"No." He answered as if after careful consideration.

Lin Sitian's fingers that were moving on the table stopped.

Boom boom boom. Boom boom boom.

Countless rapidly beating heartbeats indicated that her joy had reached its peak at this moment.

"So... you can accept dating in high school?" she asked again uncertainly.

Zhou Sheng was quiet for a moment, "Yeah."

It seemed as if everyone on the field was watching the show with bated breath. After Zhou Sheng finished speaking, Li Hailiang couldn't hold back and asked, "What's going on? Why does the atmosphere feel so tense over such a simple question?"

Yang Xuelin stepped on him.

"I'm going to the bathroom first." Lin Sitian said.

Zhou Sheng couldn't help but glance at her leaving back and was urged by his classmates to start the next round of the game.

Lin Sitian patted her chest as she walked and finally calmed down. Her entire face was as hot as an iron, and when she placed her slightly cool fingertips on it, she could feel the huge difference in temperature.

Just right, help her calm down.

Maybe to others, Zhou Sheng’s answer is just “know how to fall in love”, but to her, it means something different.

She knew who turned on Zhou Sheng's switch; it was her.

So the explanation of that sentence in her opinion is——

Will fall in love with her.

Will fall in love with her Lin Sitian.

People who are secretly in love can best understand what kind of feeling this is. It is a revenge and a redress. No, it is a dream come true after all the hard work. Lin Sitian stood at the wind vent on the side of the mountain and took several deep breaths. When the mountain breeze blew and she closed her eyes, the air was filled with sweetness. She couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.

She took shortcuts in the beginning of her relationship. She knew it was wrong, but it didn't matter because it turned out well.

Now she really needs to go to the bathroom first, she was really nervous just now.

When Lin Sitian came back from the bathroom, the bottle of wine was handed to Yang Xuelin.

Seeing her best friend return, Yang Xuelin's mind became active, and she turned her gaze to Zhou Sheng with a smile——

"Zhou Sheng, you chose truth, right?"

Zhou Sheng nodded. The others were having too much fun in the big dare, and he couldn't do things like asking for the phone number of the person sitting next to him.

"Then let me ask you, if a girl like Lin Sitian pursues you now, will you agree to her?"

Lin Sitian's footsteps suddenly stopped.

The scene became heated in an instant, with the boys banging their heads on the tables and howling like monkeys. Meng Qiaoyu also frowned, straightened his expression and looked at Zhou Sheng.

The two or three seconds of waiting for the answer seemed infinitely long, and Lin Sitian felt like her heart was about to break.

She heard the sound of the wind on the top of the mountain, the clinking of glasses, and her own breathing.

Hear him say -

"Won't."

My heart is really broken.