Chapter 15 I Can't Say It

How did things turn out like this?

Yin Jiu sat leaning on a bench on the campus, crossing his legs and resting his left hand on the back of the chair, looking relaxed.

A few meters away from the green belt, Ning Changyue was squatting there feeding stray cats.

People say cats are aloof, but in order to get food, these stray cats in school are good at acting cute, showing their bellies and rubbing their legs against others.

Instead, the person who was feeding the cat kept coldly pushing away the cat that was rubbing against him.

People look much cooler than cats.

Ning Changyue tore open the cat food bag and spread it on the ground, then poured the bottled water into the disposable bowl given by the boss.

After doing all this, he stood up and walked to the bench and sat down to the left of Yin Jiu.

Yin Jiu's hands were placed behind him, and from a distance, it looked like Yin Jiu was holding him in his arms.

Feeling a little uncomfortable, Yin Jiu sat up a little straighter and properly put his left hand back on his knees.

Just ten minutes ago, Yin Jiu answered the question of whether anyone had a cat and asked Ning Changyue why she bought cat food since she didn't have a cat either.

Ning Changyue said: "Feed the cat."

Then he brought Yin Jiu here as if he knew the place well.

Yin Jiu didn't know what he was thinking. It was such a long way and he could leave at any time, but in the end he followed here without saying a word.

Through a layer of cloth, Yin Jiu touched the twenty yuan in his pocket but did not take it out immediately. Before that, he should say something.

After a light cough, Yin Jiu got to the point: "I heard that you were paid 80 yuan for handing out flyers tonight, but you only got 60?"

Ning Changyue blinked and nodded slightly.

Yin Jiu asked: "Why is there 20 yuan missing?"

"Not all of them have been sent out yet." Ning Changyue answered briefly.

Yin Jiu repeated his answer, "Because they haven't been distributed yet, so there's 20 yuan short?"

Ning Changyue nodded again, with a puzzled look in her eyes, as if she didn't understand why Yin Jiu kept asking such a simple question.

Yin Jiu carefully studied his expression, trying to see any dissatisfaction or grievance on it, but there was none.

Ning Changyue didn't feel the slightest bit dissatisfied or aggrieved, as if in his opinion, this was not a wrong thing.

Is there anything wrong with getting paid less because I didn't do my job well?

No problem, of course no problem.

Yin Jiu wanted to say that people deliberately gave you less money because they thought you were easy to bully.

Yin Jiu wanted to say, don’t be so stupid, learn from others, if you haven’t distributed all the flyers, just throw them away somewhere, or collect them and sell them as waste, why bother to be so honest and take the remaining flyers back.

But...Yin Jiu suddenly found that he couldn't say it.

What to say?

Let Ning Changyue realize that she has been bullied and then add to her troubles?

Or should we teach him to be sneaky and deceitful, and start learning to be a cunning social person in the future?

It seems like no matter what you say, it's wrong.

Ning Changyue was still staring at him, her eyes clear and filled with pure confusion.

Yin Jiu turned his head and avoided his sight.

Just to make conversation, I asked him, "Have you eaten yet?"

Ning Chang nodded, then quickly changed his mind and shook his head again.

He shook his head, then realized that Yin Jiu hadn't looked at him, so he added hastily, "No."

Just like a kid who has already eaten but is still greedy.

It's not like you don't have any ulterior motives, right?

Yin Jiu wanted to laugh but held it back. In fact, he saw it out of the corner of his eye.

He stood up and said, "Come on, I'll treat you to dinner."

It was too late, and Yin Jiu didn't take him out for a proper meal, so they went to a wonton shop behind the school. Their shrimp wontons were very famous.

After entering the store, Yin Jiu didn't feel like eating, so he only ordered one bowl, not more, not less, exactly twenty yuan.

He touched the twenty yuan in cash in his trouser pocket again, and the cashier urged: "Hello, do you want to pay by cash or by mobile phone?"

“Mobile payment.”

In the end, Yin Jiu did not use the cash.

Watching Ning Changyue eat is actually quite an enjoyable thing. He always eats seriously, chewing slowly and seems to cherish every bite of food.

Of course, the premise is that he likes to eat this food.

When we first met, there was a table full of breakfast and he was only interested in the shrimp dumplings.

Yin Jiu reflected on it and realized that every time he met Ning Changyue, it seemed that they were all related to food.

By the time Ning Changyue blew the wontons to cool down and ate them slowly, twenty minutes had passed in a flash.

Seeing that he had almost finished eating, Yin Jiu glanced at the time and said, "I have to go back to the dormitory. What about you? Are you going home?"

Ning Changyue was a little slow before replying, "Well, let's go home."

He doesn't seem to like talking and always tries to be as concise as possible.

But compared to his silence when we first met, he seemed to have changed a little.

I don’t know if it’s because Yin Jiu ordered him to speak and respond several times, so now in front of Yin Jiu, whenever he is asked a question, he must answer it.

Yin Jiu asked again: "Which bus should we take back home?"

Ning Changyue replied: "The subway."

There was a subway station nearby, so Yin Jiu didn't see him off. He just waved to him casually at the entrance of the wonton shop and said, "Let's go."

The attitude was casual, not even a farewell.

This wasn't a relationship that required a proper farewell.

Until the end of the day, Yin Jiu did not take out the twenty-dollar bill.

…

After starting classes two days late, Yin Jiu quickly caught up and began to go back and forth between the classroom and the dormitory.

Sophomore year has the most classes, and the difficulty is much higher than freshman year.

Yin Jiu attends classes during the day, handles work in his spare time, and has to work overtime at night. He goes to bed late and gets up early every day, and even the system doesn't feel comfortable urging him to complete tasks.

Fortunately, having learned from previous lessons, the system deliberately let the main system open up permissions for him. Now he is no longer restricted to the host and can jump to another protagonist at any time to obtain progress in real time.

During the days when Yin Jiu was ill, as he had predicted, Li Xinzhu searched every corner of the house and asked every friend around him to look for any trace of Yin Jiu's presence.

But I couldn’t find any of the gifts that Yin Jiu had given me before and after we started dating.

There was no private album containing photos of couples.

No, nothing. There was not even a trace of Yin Jiu left in his life.

And friends who are familiar with each other speak in the same way, as if their words were cast in the same mold.

"What do you think your relationship with Yin Jiu was like in high school? Not very good. I never saw you two talk to each other."

"Yin Jiu, he can get along with everyone, but he also doesn't get close to anyone."

"Ah? A high school classmate who often comes to see you? Who is that person? Is there such a person?"

It's a punishment!

It's definitely a punishment!

Obviously, that person loved him all his life and waited for him all his life.

Why is fate so cruel?

It gave him a chance to start over, but it also wiped out the feelings he cherished most.

In this world, there will never be another Yin Jiu who loves him so deeply.

After realizing this fact, Li Hsin-chu was depressed for several days.

However, as a future superstar who has experienced many ups and downs, he quickly picked himself up.

If losing Yin Jiu was the price he had to pay for rebirth, then he would accept it.

But if fate thought that he would give in, it would be underestimating him.

It's just a more thorough fresh start. Li Xinzhu firmly believes that if Yin Jiu falls in love with him once, he will definitely fall in love with him a second time!

How could he not love him!

Li Hsin-chu decided to take the initiative, but encountered a Waterloo before the action even started.

When the system jumped to the previous day, Li Xinzhu was checking the information he had asked someone to collect.

The first page of information is a news page.

The first thing that caught my eye was a photo of Yin Jiu and a young man having a candlelight dinner in a luxurious restaurant.

The entire report expounds on one point of view: the two people are suspected of being in a sponsorship relationship.

It was published two years ago.

Not to mention how interesting Li Hsinchu's expression was, the system was also completely confused.

Then he was so shocked that his eyes trembled even though he had no pupils.

He quickly jumped back to Yin Jiu's side and shouted, "Oh no, host, your reputation has been ruined!"