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"What a big bouquet of roses!" Wei Jiayin exclaimed as she looked at the large bouquet of red and blue roses coming towards her.
Lin Sitian had a bad feeling and grabbed Wei Jiayin's wrist: "Jiayin, let's run."
"Huh? Why?"
"Don't ask. If you ask, it's the desire to survive." Lin Sitian looked at the figure getting closer and closer, thought for a while, "Forget it, I'll run away. He's not here to find you anyway. Please help me check the name tomorrow. I won't be back tonight!" At the end of speaking, she didn't even wait for her friend's response, and hurriedly lowered her head and walked away.
"Ah, what are you talking about, Tiantian?" Wei Jiayin stared at her back in confusion, and saw that her route was getting more and more slanted, trying to bypass the figure holding a large bouquet of roses.
But just when the two were about to pass each other, the man reached out his hand to stop her. Lin Sitian was prepared. The moment he stretched out his hand, she dodged the outstretched arm and her walking speed had increased to that of running.
Unfortunately, the man had long legs, so he turned around and followed her quickly. The big bunch of roses also moved, swaying back and forth beside her.
"Tiantian, where are you going?"
"You recognized the wrong person." Lin Sitian deliberately lowered her voice by eight degrees.
The man chuckled, "You are still so cute."
Lin Sitian frowned and pretended not to hear. She had already been discovered. It was useless for her to run, and it would easily attract attention on campus. So she simply ignored him.
"These flowers are for you, please accept them first. Today is Christmas, shall I treat you to dinner tonight?"
“No.”
"I've reserved a table at Hanaden Minoyoshi. I'm sure you'll like it. No one else can reserve a table on this date."
Lin Sitian suddenly stopped, and the man didn't brake in time and rushed in front of her.
"Dai Jingyun, I'm telling you one last time, I! Have! a! Boyfriend!" Lin Sitian's face, which usually had a bright smile on it, was now red with anger. She clenched her fists and explained to the other party word by word.
The bouquet of roses was put down, revealing a face that was not particularly outstanding, but overall still attractive. Especially since the man was wearing a branded outfit and it was obvious that his styling had been specially curated. If he hadn't behaved too frivolously, he wouldn't have been so annoying.
"I know you have," Dai Jingyun shrugged and curled his lips, "It's just a meal. If you really care about him, I can invite him to join us."
"You're fucking sick." Lin Sitian was forced to swear and walked past him and continued walking.
Dai Jingyun followed with a playful smile and said, "Really, Tiantian, if you don't let me meet him, I'll throw a million in his face. A man who can't stand the test will definitely run away with the money. No, I don't want a million, I can even give him half of it."
"You've watched too many idol dramas, can you please stop clinging to me?" Lin Sitian gritted her teeth, "First of all, don't call me Tiantian, I'm not that familiar with you; secondly, my boyfriend is not that kind of person; finally, even if he really ran away for money, I wouldn't choose you, I have no interest in you even if I choose a woman for lesbian sex!"
Really... How much more does she need to explain? I don't know what's wrong with this guy. He just met her once at a classmate's dinner party and he has been completely obsessed with her. He comes to harass her every few days. Are all the rich second-generations in Beijing so idle?
Dai Jingyun followed her relentlessly, and the two of them quarreled all the way to the school gate. Lin Sitian saw from afar a dazed figure standing on the side of the road with his hands in his pockets.
Oh no, she didn't want Dai Jingyun to see Zhou Sheng.
It's not that she has no confidence in Zhou Sheng, but she really doesn't want Dai Jingyun, the troublemaker, to use the same tactics on Zhou Sheng that he used on her. This guy is not worthy of Zhou Sheng wasting his time and energy.
But before she could think of a solution, Zhou Sheng had already spotted her and waved at her.
"Lin Sitian."
Dai Jingyun looked in the direction of the voice and his expression paused.
The love rival radar sounded at this moment. Through his secret investigations around Lin Sitian during this period, Dai Jingyun had met many male classmates who were interested in Lin Sitian, but none of them he considered to be his rival, and none of them could get special treatment from Lin Sitian, so he did not feel any sense of crisis.
But the boy in front of her, who even called her by her full name, seemed different.
"Zhou Sheng——"
Now that everyone had been discovered, Lin Sitian simply threw herself into Zhou Sheng's arms, carrying her backpack and ponytail.
Zhou Sheng staggered when she pounced on him, and caught her with a smile.
This kind of enthusiasm is a daily routine for both of them, but neither of them gets tired of it.
"You're not wearing enough." Zhou Sheng happened to hold her arm, feeling her slenderness under his palm, "Where's the sweater?"
"I have thermal underwear, a sweater, and this down jacket is also very warm."
"Is this also a down jacket? I can pinch your wrist bone directly. Your lower body is still in a short skirt, and you are only wearing stockings." Zhou Sheng frowned slightly and slid his hands into her palms.
My fingertips are cold, you liar.
"This is a magic weapon for bare legs! You straight man." Lin Sitian frowned at him. Who would wear such bulky clothes during the holidays? She has gained several pounds recently, and she doesn't want him to find out.
The two men completely ignored the man behind Lin Sitian.
"Is this your boyfriend?" Dai Jingyun walked up.
Lin Sitian turned around quickly and Zhou Sheng protected her behind her, the three of them were in a strange position like an eagle catching chicken.
It's a pity that with Zhou Sheng's current height, Lin Sitian only reached his chin, so she was seen whether she should have been seen or not.
"Yes, I'm her boyfriend." Somehow, the usually reserved Zhou Sheng spoke before Lin Sitian could, "Who are you?"
"Her friend." Dai Jingyun stared at Zhou Sheng.
"I didn't admit it." Lin Sitian interrupted without giving any face.
Dai Jingyun raised his eyebrows and asked, "You don't look like a local."
Zhou Sheng: "It's definitely not."
As if he had the upper hand, Dai Jingyun showed the confidence of a local.
"She and I are from the same hometown." Zhou Sheng added very calmly.
"..." Dai Jingyun certainly didn't know that Lin Sitian and her family had moved out of the city where Zhou Sheng lived, but this didn't stop him from regarding Zhou Sheng as a strong rival. With her current boyfriend and fellow villager bond, and double buffs stacked up, it would be quite difficult to steal his girl away.
"It's not easy to live here. If you need help, you can ask me. I have some connections in Beijing. If you really need something, even if it's money, it doesn't matter. Just ask. I can protect you."
"He just said he would take a million and throw it in your face." Lin Sitian added fuel to the fire.
Dai Jingyun started coughing violently.
Zhou Sheng paused for a moment, "Why?"
"He said you would trade me to him for a million."
This time Zhou Sheng finally confirmed Dai Jingyun's sinister intentions, and his eyes suddenly became serious when he looked at him.
"Let's go." Zhou Sheng took Lin Sitian's hand and had no intention of continuing to entangle with her.
Dai Jingyun smiled, "That's it? You don't even refute it? What if I really give you one million?"
"First of all, I don't understand why you would put people and money on the same scale. In my opinion, these two are not comparable items at all. Secondly, even if you are at a disadvantage in the ability to find a partner, you should not be obsessed with other people's girlfriends. I think this is the most basic moral bottom line for being a human being. Finally, and most importantly -"
Zhou Sheng pulled Lin Sitian back behind him and said, "I won't give her to anyone else."
Dai Jingyun was speechless. How long have these two people been in love? How come even their speaking patterns are exactly the same?
And what does it mean to be at a disadvantage in the ability to woo a mate? When has Dai Jingyun ever been at a disadvantage in the ability to woo a mate?
"Did you hear that?" Lin Sitian hid behind Zhou Sheng and acted like a bully. "I won't give it to you. Give up! Tsk!"
Zhou Sheng tilted his head and glanced at her, "Why are you still provoking him?"
"He couldn't possibly beat us up at the school gate, right? How embarrassing for a rich man to do that?"
"One million is not considered very rich." Zhou Sheng corrected.
“That’s free.”
"Why is it free? Aren't we going to exchange you for it?"
"So you think the money is too little, right?"
Dai Jingyun, who was being discussed by the two men in front of him, took a deep breath and said, "You two didn't do anything that people do."
Lin Sitian was not convinced when she heard this, "Nonsense, we clearly fed it to the dogs."
The eldest son of the Dai family, who was used to be pampered, didn't understand the various meanings, "What do you mean?"
"She didn't mean any harm, she just said..." Zhou Sheng coughed lightly, "She stuffed you with dog food."
"...Okay, I understand."
I understand.
"Then let's go." Zhou Sheng pulled Lin Sitian up and turned around to leave, when he suddenly heard another sentence from behind -
"Five million?"
Zhou Sheng turned sideways and said, "Forget it, let's just have a fight."
Of course, there was no possibility of a real fight in the end, but on such a beautiful Christmas day, Zhou Sheng's mood was a little gloomy because of Dai Jingyun.
"I should have told you earlier, so that you would at least be prepared." Lin Sitian pulled at the corner of his clothes, "I'm sorry."
Zhou Sheng stopped walking, looked down at her eyes and said, "Why do you want to apologize to me?"
"Does it make you feel a little guilty about being in a bad mood?"
"It's not you who makes me feel bad, it's him." Zhou Sheng reached out and brushed the hair away from her eyes. "But if you have been entangled with him for so many days, you really should have told me earlier."
"What can you do if I tell you? I can't really pick a fight with him." Lin Sitian held Zhou Sheng's arm and leaned her head against him. "Besides, you have an exam in the next few days. It's more important to prepare for it seriously. I'm not a person who doesn't know my limits. There's no need to distract you because of such a small matter."
"This is not a small matter, Tiantian. What if he really goes too far? If you are kidnapped by him one day, at least I know who to look for."
"Oh my top student, this is not the Golden Triangle, don't think too much about it. Didn't I make it clear to him today? He just likes to use money to get rid of people. You just need to be determined and don't be bribed by him..." When Lin Sitian said this, she noticed a sharp gaze from the corner of her eye. She quickly glanced at Zhou Sheng and smiled embarrassedly, "No, no, my baby won't be bribed that easily."
"Take out 'so easy'." Zhou Sheng sighed.
"Yes, sir!" Lin Sitian quickly changed the subject, "Baby, I'm hungry."
"We're already downstairs in the restaurant, come on up."
"ah?"
"Haven't you always wanted to eat here?"
Lin Sitian looked up at the sign. This restaurant had just opened a month ago and had already become a popular online celebrity restaurant in Wangfujing. Of course, Lin Sitian wanted to join in the fun, but the Internet said that it was basically impossible to book a seat. She could only queue up for a few hours in person and try her luck. The most important thing was...
She shook her head. "Forget it, it's too expensive. Let's go have hotpot? I remember the hotpot restaurant we ate at last month is right in front, and it was delicious too."
"I've reserved a table, no need to wait." Zhou Sheng pulled his hand out of his coat pocket, grabbed her body and pulled her back, "Besides, your boyfriend is treating us, how can you not give him face?"
"It's because you invited me that I wanted to help you save money."
Zhou Sheng raised the corner of his lips, "Money should be spent wisely. Don't save when it's worth spending."
Lin Sitian was stunned when she heard this. Zhou Sheng was the type who was very careful with his living expenses on weekdays, so how could he have such a consumption concept? But when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that Zhou Sheng had never been stingy with her since they started dating.
"Then...I help Mr. Zhou save money?"
"It's the money I earned as a tutor. What does it have to do with my dad?"
“…”
"Okay." Zhou Sheng pulled her in his arms and whispered:
“Merry Christmas.”
Woo woo woo, she gave in.
It was past eight o'clock in the evening when they left the restaurant. They strolled along the pedestrian street, which was bustling with people. Department stores on both sides were decorated with lights. Small golden lights and colorful lights spread to the other end of the long street. From time to time, they could hear Christmas songs coming from somewhere, creating a festive atmosphere.
"That flame-roasted meat tower is too scary. The flames shot up so high once it was lit. I almost thought my eyebrows were going to be burned off by it." Lin Sitian raised one hand high to her brow, compared the height, and exclaimed exaggeratedly, "And there's also 'clouds and smoke'. What a pitfall, it's all dry ice. I searched for a long time and only found a few slices of salmon in the middle..."
Maybe it was the heating in the restaurant that made Zhou Sheng’s face turn slightly red. He listened to her quietly, with the corners of his mouth slightly curved from time to time.
"Having said that, it seems like you didn't touch the oysters in the last dish at all." He was left to clean up everything by himself.
Lin Sitian's expression flashed a hint of embarrassment, and she snorted unnaturally: "Then I won't eat it raw."
Zhou Sheng frowned suspiciously, "Salmon is not cooked food either."
"3. The salmon looks cooked!"
After thinking for a while, Zhou Sheng suddenly said to himself, "You haven't even touched the 'Three Rams Bring Good Luck' dish you ordered."
We've already finished eating, why are you bringing up the past? Lin Sitian turned her head away and didn't dare to look at him.
The menu was so long that Zhou Sheng didn't finish reading it. When ordering, he asked Lin Sitian to order whatever she liked, but she ordered at least two dishes she didn't touch, which was a bit strange.
Fortunately, the portions of dishes in this restaurant are small, otherwise he would have to come out sideways tonight.
"So, what is that?" At that time, she kept urging him to eat, and smiled sweetly and obediently, but he always felt that something was wrong. Now, combined with the excuse she just made, Zhou Sheng, who was missing half his brain when it came to love, came to his senses a little.
"I didn't look closely, it's basically mutton..."
Zhou Sheng pursed his lips, "That doesn't taste like lamb."
"Different places do it differently." She looked at the shopping street on one side leisurely, "Look, there's Santa Claus handing out candy over there, should we…"
"Lin Sitian."
"Go, go, go and get it."
"Lin Sitian," Zhou Sheng held his hands in his pockets and remained motionless no matter how she pulled him, "Look at me."
The girl raised her head and blinked at him pretentiously, "I saw it." She still felt aggrieved.
"Forget it," Zhou Sheng had no choice but to say, "I'll check the restaurant menu myself." He then took out his phone from his pocket and was about to open the review app -
"Oh, you've eaten it all. It's just lamb kidneys and something else..." She spoke in a lower and lower voice.
Zhou Sheng unconsciously raised his hand and touched his hot cheek with the back of his hand, asking in detail: "Lamb kidney?"
"Hmm." She shut up and responded with a snort.
"Anything else?" Zhou Sheng was no fool. That dish must have more than just the taste of lamb kidneys.
"Yang...Yangbao." The last word was swallowed half into his throat.
Zhou Sheng was a little unfamiliar with this word, but he seemed to have heard it somewhere before.
"What about the other one?"
"Little teacher..."
"Even if you murder my husband, you have to let me die with my eyes closed, right?"
"What do you mean by 'murdering your own husband'? What's wrong with eating lamb kidneys, lamb treasures, and lamb penises?" Lin Sitian got angry when she heard this, "I'm not--"
Ah? Husband?
Why is she suddenly a little excited?
Hehe, Zhou Sheng calls himself “husband”.
—Although the one who was murdered.
But when Lin Sitian looked at him carefully again, she found that Zhou Sheng in front of her was as stiff as a stone. His rosy face was now even redder, and his earlobes seemed to be dripping with blood.
"…Sheep whip?"
"ah."
"Lamb kidney, lamb penis..." Zhou Sheng counted the words that had just appeared in her mouth, and thought of those oysters, "So lamb treasure is what I thought it was?"
The tacit understanding of three years of love made Lin Sitian silent for a while, and then she nodded.
"Lin Sitian!" Zhou Sheng felt nauseous and covered his mouth fiercely, then rushed to the trash can on the side of the road in two steps.
Lin Sitian hurriedly followed him, feeling a little panicked. "No, I confirmed with you that you don't have any allergies. Where do you feel uncomfortable? Should we go to the hospital?"
Zhou Sheng paused for a full half minute before turning his head to look at her.
This time she really knew she was wrong. Her eyes were full of anxiety, and her bright pupils were filled with Zhou Sheng's reflection.
Zhou Sheng covered his forehead in frustration and let out a long sigh.
"You really know how to give me 'surprises'." He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. After being with Lin Sitian, he often felt that his previous life was too dull. She could always find some strange little things to make him find the special things in his dull life. At least on this point, he was really touched.
After all, no one is born just to live, and keeping a sense of freshness about life is the true meaning of life.
"...Are you okay?" Lin Sitian looked at him nervously. In just a short minute, a layer of moisture appeared in her eyes. She was afraid that something might have happened to Zhou Sheng.
Zhou Sheng tilted his head to look at her. After a few glances, he finally asked shyly, "Do you have any opinion about me?"
Lin Sitian shook her head quickly.
Zhou Sheng is very good, super good, invincible.
She has been dating him for three years. From a young and ignorant academic master to a caring boyfriend who has gotten along well with her, she chose the person herself, so how could she have any objections?
"I mean...that aspect." Zhou Sheng was a little annoyed.
Lin Sitian didn't quite understand at first, but after thinking for a few seconds, her eyes widened and she said, "I don't think you're incompetent!"
A hand suddenly covered her mouth.
"Hush," Zhou Sheng glanced at the passers-by, "If you keep yelling like that, I won't be able to stop you."
Lin Sitian had her mouth covered and nodded.
"Besides, what do you mean you don't think I'm 'not good enough'? What's wrong with me?" His face got redder and redder as he spoke, but he still tried to defend himself.
Joking is a matter of man's dignity.
Lin Sitian pushed his hand away, opened her arms and hugged him tightly.
"Don't get me wrong. I just... I just want you to have a little bit of that kind of feeling towards me."
Zhou Sheng was stunned for a second, "Why am I gone?"
"The last time was more than a month ago!" she accused with facts.
Zhou Sheng blushed and said, "Didn't you have an exam last month? And then the next week you said you were in a bad mood so I took you out to relax..."
"And then that week? You didn't say anything."
"You're 'inconvenienced' that week aren't you?"
Lin Sitian was stunned. She didn't even tell him, but he remembered it better than she did.
"And I have exams in the next two weeks, so..." Zhou Sheng cleared his throat, "It's not that I don't want to, Tiantian."
Lin Sitian bit her lip awkwardly.
In fact, she wasn't really thinking about that kind of thing, she just felt that Zhou Sheng no longer had that kind of feeling for her.
It was all because Jiayin had been telling her recently that sexual harmony was a necessary condition for a harmonious relationship between men and women...
So embarrassing.
In fact, although she and Zhou Sheng don't do it very often, they are still quite harmonious.
She has been enjoying it too.
Zhou Sheng was about to say something when suddenly a few white spots fell from the sky and landed in her hair.
Both of them seemed to sense something and raised their heads at the same time.
Illuminated by the night lights, the magnificent buildings on both sides of the pedestrian street set off the dark blue sky in the middle of the road. Under the dome, countless fluttering snowflakes fell from the sky, landing on the treetops, shoulders, and road surface, gradually spreading out like a galaxy.
A snowflake rested on the tip of Lin Sitian's eyelashes as she looked up, and she couldn't help but smile.
“It’s snowing.”
The first snow in Beijing this year.
It was also the first snow in her life.
The huge golden Christmas tree on the roadside was shining with lights, which was the perfect backdrop for the two people hugging each other at this moment. Lin Sitian pulled the cashmere scarf around Zhou Sheng's neck, and he naturally lowered his head and kissed her lips.
The winter in Beijing is very cold.
But his kiss was always warm.
two
The first snow in Beijing came quickly. It took only ten minutes from the scattered snowflakes to the heavy snow. On the way back, Lin Sitian held Zhou Sheng's arm. Neither of them asked to see him off nor to keep him. The tacit understanding between the two of them who had been in love for three years reached a high level of resonance at this moment.
Zhou Sheng hailed a taxi and told it an address near their university. However, if he planned to walk Lin Sitian back to the dormitory, it was a bit far.
As soon as Lin Sitian got in the car, she opened the map and secretly checked nearby hotels. Apart from a few chains, there didn't seem to be anything special.
Zhou Sheng took a sneak peek and, as if they had a telepathic connection, squeezed her palm.
"What?" Lin Sitian hurriedly put away her phone.
Zhou Sheng came over and whispered in her ear. He wanted to laugh but didn't dare to, so he could only hold back his laughter and tease her: "You are so anxious."
Lin Sitian's face instantly turned red with embarrassment and anger, as red as the apple hanging high on the Christmas tree. The transparent and rosy redness was all due to the passion that he had roused in her head, and she shook off his hand.
"I want to see where you're going to take me. What if there's a heavy snowfall and I can't get a taxi? How am I going to get back to school?"
Her hands were suddenly empty, and even the car's heater couldn't warm up the coldness on her fingertips. Zhou Sheng pulled her hand back, rubbed it with both hands, and asked a little slowly, "Do you want to go back?"
He asked quietly, not wanting the driver on the other side of the fender to hear.
Of course she had no plans to go back. She had even arranged for Wei Jiayin to take roll call for her at tomorrow's morning class. But she certainly couldn't tell Zhou Sheng this. He had just complained about her being anxious, so Lin Sitian decided to save her dignity.
"Of course I'm going back. Do you have any other plans?" Lin Sitian pretended to be calm.
The two have been dating for three years, and Zhou Sheng has evolved from a young man to someone who can occasionally chat with her about dirty things without changing his expression, not to mention that Lin Sitian, who is good at logical thinking and eloquent, is occasionally speechless. However, as the saying goes, the higher the virtue, the higher the evil. Zhou Sheng has grown in love over the years, and Lin Sitian has not stood still, especially in the skills of teasing Zhou Sheng. The most simple and unpretentious trick to tease Zhou Sheng is to throw embarrassing questions to him.
Sure enough, her words made Zhou Sheng very upset.
“No… either.”
We went shopping and had a meal together on Christmas Day, and after dinner we looked at the Christmas tree and enjoyed the first snow together. It seemed that sending her back to school safely at this time would be the most gentlemanly development.
But he never thought about it carefully. As her boyfriend, why did he still care about being a gentleman?
Seeing him hesitate several times and carefully considering his words in his mind, if Lin Sitian's laughter could be released, the driver would probably stop the car tremblingly on the side of the road the next second.
The place where they got off the bus was at the entrance of a residential community. The community was not new, and the Roman columns at the entrance were stained and mottled, and it looked like they had been there for a few years. However, there was a security booth at the entrance, and the green landscape inside was also nice. Lin Sitian couldn't help but tug at Zhou Sheng's woolen coat, "What are we doing here?"
"Help my brother look at the documents." Zhou Sheng said.
Look at the documents? Must they choose a date?
After Zhou Sheng used the key to open the door and turned on the light, Lin Sitian realized that the room was empty.
"Where's the second brother?"
The brother Zhou Sheng was entrusted to help must be his second brother Zhou Yan who works in Beijing, but Lin Sitian hasn't seen him for a long time.
"He's on a business trip and will be gone for a few months. This is the house he rented." Zhou Sheng invited Lin Sitian in, "Please sit for a while. If you want some water, there's some in the refrigerator."
Seeing how Zhou Sheng found the switches skillfully, it must be not his first time here.
"My second brother drives a Porsche and rents a house on the North Third Ring Road." Lin Sitian sat on the sofa and looked around the house curiously.
Although it is not a modern apartment in the city center, the decoration in the house is quite modern, mainly in gray and white wood style, simple and elegant. The living room faces the balcony. At the height of the 23rd floor, you can overlook the bright lights nearby.
"Why not buy it? With the current housing prices in Beijing, he doesn't intend to be taken advantage of," Zhou Sheng's voice came from the master bedroom. "Besides, he's not sure if he'll settle down here in the future. He may go to other cities in two years, or even go abroad. He's not the kind of person who can settle down."
This sentence suddenly seemed to hit a soft spot in Lin Sitian's heart. She casually asked, "What about you?"
Zhou Sheng in the room asked: "What?"
"Where will you go then?"
There is a reason why Lin Sitian asked this question. Most of those gifted people who graduated from famous universities, especially those from Tsinghua University and Peking University, have gone abroad in recent years. Not to mention work and life, even if it is to pursue a more ideal academic environment, many people will choose to study abroad. This is the current situation.
Wei Jiayin once asked her: Are you going to be living apart again after graduation?
Lin Sitian was a little panicked.
But this time she was not like herself in high school. She was still young then and was afraid of many things. Her relationship with Zhou Sheng had just started and she was not very mature in considering things. She decided to break up out of her own smartness.
If Zhou Sheng hadn't chased after her later, perhaps the two of them would have slowly faded out of each other's sight.
Things are different now. Time has proved to her how determined Zhou Sheng is, and her feelings for him have only grown. If Zhou Sheng chooses to go abroad, she doesn't want to just wait passively.
While she was still deep in thought, the room was silent. Lin Sitian looked up and saw Zhou Sheng leaning against the door frame, looking at her with his arms folded across his chest.
"I won't go anywhere then," Zhou Sheng said seriously, "It doesn't matter where I study or work, but it will be different with or without you."
Just the last half sentence was better than all the love words she had ever heard.
Lin Sitian nervously lifted the hair beside her ear and said, "Then you can't let me affect your future plans."
One says one thing and means another.
Zhou Sheng seemed to have seen through her at first sight. He smiled and asked calmly, "Lin Sitian, do you want to think about it and say it again?"
Lin Sitian stood up, walked to him, and banged her head into his arms in annoyance.
"Zhou Sheng, you're so annoying." He muttered.
Zhou Sheng smiled and pulled her into his arms, "I've never been annoyed by anyone."
"It'll annoy me."
"Yeah," Zhou Sheng held her head and kissed the hair on top of her head naturally, "I just like to bother you."
Her heart was pounding violently.
Three years have passed, but she still blushes and her heart beats fast because of Zhou Sheng. His words and a kiss can easily stir up the spring tide in her heart. The spring water overflows, sways, and makes her heart sour, just like the evening breeze that passed through the dusk in her second year of high school, and just like the kiss that imprinted her lips at that moment. The mark of first love engraved by this man can never be washed away by time.
"But if you really decide to..." Lin Sitian originally wanted to explain to Zhou Sheng that she had never thought of stopping him before, but now she could keep up with him and do better, so she had no intention of giving up.
"If I really decide to go to a higher place, I won't hesitate," Zhou Sheng curled his lips slightly, "I said that, didn't I?"
When they broke up, he did say that he would not look back because of her, but he could wait for her.
"When I was in high school, Tsinghua University and Peking University were my goals, but after that, it was me who really decided my life. I don't think there is much difference between domestic and foreign countries that affects me. Everything I want is already here. I don't need to force myself to keep climbing up. After all, I'm not here to enjoy the sense of accomplishment of standing at the top."
Zhou Sheng is not a competitor, nor does he have an insatiable vanity. He just wants to enjoy the life he wants, and what he wants has always been simple. In the past, he wanted to enter Tsinghua University and Peking University to meet more outstanding people, acquire knowledge, and broaden his horizons. Now, he has reached the balance he wants in the balance of trade-offs.
He is always like this, he can talk about his plans for the future without thinking, as if he has thought about it thousands of times before mentioning the topic.
“Sweet.”
He took a small step back so that he could look her in the face and speak.
"——You are the most important part of my future."
Future: the journey ahead, the bright future, and achievements.
Yes, it's all about her.
From the day he willingly became her slave, he never thought of changing people. Although Zhou Sheng was absolutely rational, he also had an idealist side, and Lin Sitian was his exception.
What's the harm in just going all the way?
Lin Sitian suddenly pursed her lips and tears flashed in her eyes.
Zhou Sheng was disturbed by the wetness in her eyes and quickly raised his hand to wipe away her tears that had not yet fallen. "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"
"What are you doing on a holiday like this?" Lin Sitian pushed him. "Do you know that being touched can be very painful? What if you lie to me——"
"I'm not lying to you." Zhou Sheng interrupted her, not even giving her a chance to imagine the consequences. "I've never lied to you. You know this best."
"...Hmm." She lowered her head and hummed muffledly.
The room fell silent again. Zhou Sheng looked up at the clock on the wall and coughed lightly, "It seems a little late."
"What's late?"
"——If I send you back to school." Zhou Sheng pretended to take out his phone, opened the taxi app and swiped it. "It's snowing heavily and there are not many cars nearby. I don't know if it's safe to go back. You won't have time to take a shower when you get to school today..."
The more he spoke, the more vague he became, because from the corner of his eye he could feel Lin Sitian staring at him.
At a glance, I saw that she was smiling.
She pursed her lips, and the tears in her eyes, which had not yet completely disappeared, were filled with a smile, soft and sweet, like two grapes dripping with morning dew.
She was so beautiful that he couldn't help but want to kiss her.
So Zhou Sheng raised his hand to touch the corner of her eyes, then lowered his head and kissed the ends of her eyelashes.
There was a faint trace of embarrassment on her face, and she tried to beg for mercy softly, "...Don't laugh."
Don't expose his excuses.
Lin Sitian went forward. Whenever Zhou Sheng was shy, the reserved part of her body seemed to be taken away by him. She became bold and impulsive, and her lips fell softly on his, kissing him again and again.
"Speak out." The heat shifted from her to him and then from him to her repeatedly, rising little by little, "otherwise I don't understand."
Of course she knew. How could she not know after being in a relationship with Zhou Sheng for so long?
Zhou Sheng's breath trembled due to her teasing, and his hands involuntarily hooked around her waist. His voice was suppressed in his throat, rolling along with his Adam's apple.
“…Stay.”
"What are you staying for?" She smiled and stepped back a little.
"Stay with me." Zhou Sheng followed with a kiss, wrapping around her neck, "...I missed you."
His straightforwardness at times is really touching.
Lin Sitian's heartbeat was so fast that she could hardly speak clearly, but she was still able to think, "Wait, wait a minute...then can you at least book a hotel first?"
Can't be here...
"My brother gave me the spare key." Zhou Sheng suddenly stopped.
"We can't take this opportunity to live in his house, right?"
"It's not an opportunity, it's a condition of exchange."
"?"
"He asked me to help him. The exchange condition I proposed is that the second bedroom in this house will be my room from now on. You can come here whenever you are not back in the dormitory."
Lin Sitian didn't expect that these two brothers would settle the accounts clearly.
"But that doesn't mean you can bring anyone..."
"As long as it's 'Lin Sitian'."
"ah?"
"My brother said that. How could he not know why I occasionally live off campus? He only made one request, that if my girlfriend changes, you should get out with your luggage."
Zhou Sheng agreed without hesitation. After all, the possibility of this hypothesis happening did not exist in the first place.
Lin Sitian burst out laughing, feeling the relationship between the two brothers, if the second brother got ruthless, he could really kick Zhou Sheng out with his luggage.
It didn't go in vain that she had worked hard to "win over" Zhou Sheng's family over the past few years.
Thank you, second brother, for your strong support, which she will always remember.
"So, what you said about looking at the documents was a lie, but what you said about wanting to trick me into staying overnight was true."
Zhou Sheng felt a little guilty, "It's true from the documents, and I don't deny the other one either."
"Have you finished reading it?"
"I've taken a photo and sent it to him. Actually, he just wanted a few messages in it."
“So simple?”
"His house is empty anyway."
Zhou Sheng was really not polite at all when facing his second brother. I really don't understand whether their relationship is good or bad.
It was snowing heavily outside the window, and water droplets were dripping on the high window of the bathroom. Lin Sitian finished taking a bath and changed her clothes before coming out. There was no one in the living room.
"Zhou Sheng?"
"——I'm in my room."
The door of the second bedroom was ajar, and dim light was shining from inside. Lin Sitian walked over and heard faint melodious music coming from inside.
She leaned against the door frame and stuck her head inside. Suddenly, she froze and blinked, a look of disbelief on her face.
There was no light in the bedroom. All the light came from the Christmas tree by the window, which was slightly shorter than Zhou Sheng. It was wrapped with circles of twinkling golden lights, and the branches were dotted with a variety of small ornaments. There were also a few gifts placed at the bottom.
She opened her mouth, but no sound came out for a long time.
Zhou Sheng was standing next to the Christmas tree wearing the simplest outfit, a white shirt and black trousers, his short hair slightly messy, as if he had completed this arrangement in a hurry. Seeing that she was motionless, the expression on his face looked a little embarrassed.
"How is it?" Zhou Sheng was very nervous and licked his upper lip subconsciously, "Do you like it?"
"Which one are you asking?"
"ah?"
Lin Sitian withdrew her mind from being bewitched by him. Damn it, he remembered it so clearly. He even remembered that she liked him to dress elegantly in a shirt and trousers.
"No big deal, it doesn't matter if you ask, I like them all," she looked up and down at the layout of the room -
Not only was there a Christmas tree in the room, but there was also very low-key jazz music playing. Zhou Sheng was holding a large bouquet of white dream tulips. Against the backdrop of golden light and shadow, the water droplets on the petals were gorgeous.
No wonder Zhou Sheng sent her to take a shower and didn't let her enter the room.
It was snowing heavily outside the window, and the dim room made the flying snowflakes outside clearly visible.
First snow, Christmas tree, jazz, tulips...
Also, Zhou Sheng.
For a moment, Lin Sitian was lost in the scene before her. She didn't know how to respond and just stared blankly.
He really put a lot of thought into it, and although this Christmas surprise had a bit of his weird hodgepodge style, she couldn't describe how much she liked it.
One of the most romantic changes in the world is that someone who doesn't understand romance is willing to learn to create romance for you.
"If you like it, why don't you come in?" Zhou Sheng looked at her puzzledly.
Until this moment, she still tilted her head with only her head sticking out, while most of her body was hidden behind the door.
"Ah, I, I'm going to the bathroom again."
"Sweet?"
"Ah, don't come over here yet—"
Zhou Sheng always felt something was wrong, so he chased her to the bedroom door, grabbed her wrist and pulled her back.
Their eyes met, and this time it was Zhou Sheng's turn to be stunned.
three
"No more watching."
Lin Sitian stood in front of Zhou Sheng, wearing a bright red Christmas outfit, a shoulder-baring miniskirt with a white velvet hem, and a reindeer headband in her hand, but she didn't put it on. Because her wrist was held by Zhou Sheng's palm, she couldn't move forward or backward. She only felt Zhou Sheng's eyes burning on her, and the blood flowing in her body was heating up.
Zhou Sheng came back to his senses, his voice a little hoarse, "Why, didn't you put it on just for me to see?"
Lin Sitian didn't answer. She struggled for a few times but still couldn't pull her hand away from him.
"Tiantian," Zhou Sheng murmured to her, and with a little effort he pulled her into his arms, "I like it."
Lin Sitian simply buried her whole face in his chest, "I originally..."
"originally?"
"I wanted to give you a surprise, but I didn't expect you to get there first. And with your arrangement, I look ridiculous dressed like this."
"No way," Zhou Sheng laughed happily, obviously in a very good mood, "It's very suitable for the occasion, a Christmas tree with a little elk."
"It's just Christmas cosplay!"
"COS elk?"
"It's not an elk!"
"What's that in your hand?" He kept laughing.
"I'm not wearing it!" Lin Sitian raised her head in dissatisfaction and said, "Look carefully, I'm not wearing it!"
Lin Sitian has always been an incredible existence for him. She always has endless enthusiasm and can bring this free and easy positive energy to everyone around her. To Zhou Sheng, she is like a little sun, who can warm him without doing anything.
Bright and full of vitality.
So red suits her very well.
He raised his hand, took off his glasses from his nose and placed them on the bedside.
The glasses were a birthday gift from Lin Sitian last year. They were black half-frames. As soon as he put them on, she excitedly circled around him three times. After that, he rarely wore contact lenses when he went out with her, and only took off his glasses when they were alone.
In a daze, Lin Sitian thought of the morning light in the classroom during her sophomore year of high school.
Warm golden.
That year, Zhou Sheng also lowered his head with his bangs covering his eyes, but he was busy wiping his glasses. The boy had a high nose bridge, red lips and white teeth, and the only things in his mind were the questions he had done last night and the exercise book he had to do that day.
So cute, her Zhou Sheng is so cute.
Immersed in memories, Lin Sitian's slender fingers rubbed his hair. She thought that the highlight of her vision in this life must be that second, when she discovered such an undiscovered treasure.
"Zhou Sheng."
"Hmm?" He buried his head in her ear and responded faintly.
"Love you."
There was no cause and effect, I just wanted to tell him. Especially as time went by, things changed, high school and college, yesterday and today, three years ago and three years later, they changed countless prefixes, but their feelings were still the same, even stronger and more stable, which was a rare thing.
Zhou Sheng in front of him paused for a long time, took a deep breath, as if he had absorbed the aftereffects of her words deeply into his lungs, until his heartbeat became so agitated that he could no longer hide it. He stood up, stared into her eyes, and said gently -
"I love you."
As rigorous as he is, every confession is formal, and his "I love you" is never a casual remark. But Zhou Sheng doesn't mind Lin Sitian saying she loves him whenever she thinks of it, and he enjoys this little romance all the time - everyone has their own way of expressing love.
“Sweet.”
"Um?"
"Shall we get married after we graduate from college?"
Lin Sitian's heart skipped a beat.
She opened her eyes and saw a dark night.
"Are you...proposing?"
He leaned in, put his lips on her ear, and took a deep breath, "No."
"you--"
"It's so informal, how can it be considered a proposal?" Zhou Sheng said, "I'm just asking for your wishes in advance and preparing for that day. When I really propose, I will make sure to make arrangements."
Lin Sitian suddenly felt a sour feeling in her heart.
My nose also feels sore.
"…Just marrying me won't affect your future plans. Whether it's work or having children, it's up to you. If you don't want to get married so soon, that's fine. I can wait."
Lin Sitian slowly turned around and looked at Zhou Sheng's face.
There was heavy snow outside the window, but there was still enough light to see his eyes.
"I want to tie you to me sooner."
"I'm afraid I'm not good enough, or if I don't do well enough, I'll lose you."
--Fool.
She thought.
Between the two of them, he was obviously the outstanding one, but he was still thinking about trivial things and felt uneasy.
Yes, this is what love is, worrying about the other person.
She is the same as him.
"Sweet?"
"Let me think about it."
"Um?"
"I promise you now, so there won't be any suspension when you propose to me, right?"
“…”
"So, you still have to behave well in the future, little teacher."
“You are really…”
He suddenly laughed and kissed her on the lips.
"Little fox."
Zhou Sheng, I really like you.
If you can, if possible.
From now on, we will spend every snow in our lives together.
Okay?
"The Extra Story of My Deskmate: First Snow" is finished.
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