Chapter 48 The Twilight City was enchanting overnight, even the air felt sticky…
In the end, Shen Cen didn't ask. Sometimes she felt she was a very awkward person. For example, right now, she really wanted to know about the girl Jiang Shiyu had a crush on in high school, but she also felt it was very impolite of her to pry into Jiang Shiyu's past.
Besides, who hasn't had a moment of infatuation during high school?
Even she herself had a crush on someone she had never even seen clearly.
That happened during the first year of high school sports meet.
There are few boys in the humanities classes, especially in the top class where Shen Cen is. Everyone is focused on studying, and no one wants to sign up for the sports meet. Therefore, adhering to the principles of fairness and impartiality, the sports committee member, Wang Qiang, decided to allocate the spots by drawing lots.
Shen Cen unfortunately drew the women's 5,000-meter race.
She had never been very healthy since childhood, and she had no athletic ability whatsoever. But she also knew that even if she declined, the task would simply fall to the other girls in her class.
But how many girls are actually willing to run 5,000 meters?
She eventually agreed.
Wang Qiang had initially expected to be rejected, but he didn't expect Shen Cen to agree. After all, everyone knows that the 5,000-meter race is a hot potato that's hard to get rid of.
In addition, their class monitor, who was a top student, seemed aloof and detached from worldly affairs. She didn't talk much to people, at most exchanging a few words with her chattering deskmate, Wen Jie, giving off a very unapproachable vibe.
But to his surprise, after he told Shen Cen about it, Shen Cen simply looked up from the mountain of homework, blinked twice, and said, "Okay, but I might not be good at running, so I might not be able to win a prize."
"Squad leader, you just need to finish the race, we don't need to compete for the rankings." Wang Qiang patted his chest. "Squad leader, from now until the sports meet, I can be your personal training partner!"
"Ah, forget about sparring..." Shen Cen shook his head vigorously.
Wang Qiang insisted, saying he found their class monitor quite interesting. "This is my duty as the sports committee member!"
Shen Cen didn't say anything more. After evening self-study, she originally planned to run two laps around the track by herself so that her performance at the sports meet wouldn't be too bad, but unexpectedly, Wang Qiang followed her.
Even though it was after evening self-study, the playground was still as bright as day, and many boys from the international department were playing ball there.
However, after Wang Qiang followed Shen Cen for four days, he suddenly stopped coming on the fifth day. Shen Cen guessed that he felt that accompanying him to training was a waste of time, so he didn't ask any further questions.
However, during this period, there were more and more people on the playground after evening self-study. Most of them were students doing intensive training for the sports meet, and the playground was quite lively. Even though Shen Cen was training alone, he did not feel scared or lonely.
However, the difficulty of the 5,000 meters far exceeded her expectations. Although she had been running 800 meters every night during this period, it was still incomparable to the 5,000 meters.
In addition, she is quite competitive. Although Wang Qiang said it didn't matter whether she won a prize or not, she still wanted to bring honor to the class. So when she came out, she rushed to the front and left the second place far behind.
She quickly realized her strategy was flawed. The 5,000 meters is a long, drawn-out race; if you use up all your energy at the beginning, you'll feel terrible later on. Sure enough, after three laps, her legs felt like lead, her throat tasted metallic and dry, and the view before her eyes gradually blurred as she swayed and rose.
On the last lap, as Shen Cen watched one person after another overtake her, she wanted to sprint, but her legs felt like they weighed a ton and she couldn't lift them at all.
Suddenly, she tripped over something and fell forward, losing consciousness in an instant, her body feeling as if it had turned into a ball of light cotton.
In a daze, she heard someone running towards her. Among the people speaking were Wen Jie and her homeroom teacher.
Suddenly, someone picked her up around the waist.
Those were a pair of warm and strong hands.
Shen Cen forced himself to lift his eyelids, trying to see who it was, but he could only make out the outline of the person.
He was a tall, big boy with a neat, slightly parted hairstyle. As for his features... she really couldn't see them clearly. She only knew that he was really fair-skinned, especially when the sunlight shone on his profile, making him look even fairer.
The boy seemed to know her; he carried her and ran quickly toward the school hospital while calling her name.
The voice was unfamiliar, yet very pleasant to hear, though I don't know why it was trembling a little.
In that instant, Shen Cen suddenly recalled the plots of many campus novels he had secretly read before.
She suddenly understood why so many novels tirelessly write seemingly clichéd plots.
Perhaps they have long become synonymous with youth.
When these things actually happen to her, she automatically adds a filter from a coming-of-age novel to the scene.
And then, in such a cliché way, I fell in love.
When she woke up, the boy was gone, and Fu Meihua and Wen Jie were sitting by her bedside.
Fu Meihua scolded, "If you can't run 5,000 meters, I don't know what the point of signing up is. You should use that time to do more practice tests."
Wen Jie spoke up for Shen Cen, and Fu Meihua stopped scolding her. She glanced at her phone and went back to the hospital.
Shen Cen asked Wen Jie who had carried him to the school hospital. Wen Jie shook her head, gesturing as she spoke to Shen Cen.
"Shen Xiaocen, you have no idea how fast that person ran. The sports committee member was just about to call a few boys to carry you when that person suddenly rushed over, picked you up, and ran towards the school hospital. It was all over in the blink of an eye; we didn't even have time to see their face clearly."
"Oh, I see..." Shen Cen felt regretful. She couldn't remember the person's features, only the lingering warmth of his body that she could still feel through two school uniforms, and her heart was beating very fast at the time.
The reason she accepted Chen Zhao's pursuit when she was a graduate student was because once when she was feeling unwell, Chen Zhao took her to the school hospital without hesitation.
At that moment, she suddenly recalled what happened in her second year of high school, remembering the heart-fluttering moments of adolescence.
As her thoughts gradually returned to normal, she realized that she had been thinking about things from so far back without even realizing it.
"I'm fine." She threw herself into the man's arms and kissed him. "Jiang Shiyu, you did everything right. I just regret that I didn't meet you sooner."
I wasn't a part of his past.
But at least, she seized the moment.
The man's eyes deepened, like a bottomless pool of water. After a long while, ripples appeared on the surface.
...
This night was much more intense than the previous few, but neither of them felt tired at all. They tacitly began again and again, with neither of them taking the initiative to end it.
She left bite marks on the man's body, and in return, the man left kiss marks on her body.
Both of them seemed to be trying their best to prove that they were participating in each other's present.
And these are the evidence.
The night was enchanting, and even the air became thick and humid.
As dawn broke and the occasional chirping of birds drifted from afar, the two ended their absurd night.
The man pulled her into his arms, and in the dim morning light, he could see her face clearly. "Xiao Cen, shall we go back to Jingnan Town in a few days?"
"Are you going back to see Grandma?"
"No." The man brushed aside the woman's sweat-dampened hair from her neck and began to caress her snow-white collarbone with his lips. The room, which had been quiet, was filled with soft breathing again.
"Xiao Cen, I want to be a part of your past."
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Shen Cen's classes this semester are concentrated from Monday to Wednesday, so the trip to Jingnan Town was scheduled for a Wednesday afternoon at the end of October, and the two planned to stay there for four days.
Shen Cen didn't know whether Jiang Shiyu had planned all this in advance or whether it was just a spur-of-the-moment decision because of her words.
However, being able to go back to the place where she lived as a child was something she had always wanted to do. On her previous visits to her grandmother, the two of them hadn't had a chance to explore Jingnan Town.
When Shen Cen walked out of the school gate on Wednesday after school, he saw the black Maybach across the street.
Jiang Shiyu didn't rush to start it, but instead kept staring at Shen Cen with a smile in his eyes.
Jiang Shiyu has a youthful and roguish charm when he smiles, like a college student who smiles triumphantly with his teammates after scoring a goal on the field.
"What's wrong?"
“I suddenly remembered that the other day when Mom mentioned that I graduated from Peking University, you didn’t seem surprised at all.”
“I…I’ve heard about it,” Shen Cen explained.
"Oh? When?" Jiang Shiyu raised his lips.
"A long time ago, I can't remember exactly."
Jiang Shiyu's smile widened, making no attempt to hide it: "So Teacher Shen had been asking about me for a long time. Could it be that she had already developed feelings for me back then?"
"Jiang Shiyu!" A blush rose to Shen Cen's face, as if she had applied blush, making her look very healthy.
Jiang Shiyu laughed out loud, his voice as pleasant as a wind chime, "Alright, forget that our Teacher Shen is a shy little girl who can't stand being teased."
"No way..."
The journey to Jingnan Town was not short, and Jiang Shiyu was worried that Shen Cen would get hungry on the way, so he specially prepared dinner.
Chen Cen shoveled food into her mouth, not forgetting to ask Jiang Shiyu, "Where are we staying this time? At Grandma's house?"
"Grandma is old and a light sleeper, so we wake her up in the middle of the night."
Shen Cen immediately understood what the man meant, pouted and looked out the window: "You still have the nerve to say that..."
"This proves that our relationship is harmonious."
Seeing that Shen Cen did not answer, Jiang Shiyu looked at her through the mirror and found that her ears were completely red. He deliberately asked, "Isn't that right?"
"Yes, yes, okay?"
Shen Cen had to admit that their married life, in any sense, was harmonious, and very harmonious.
The man's soft laughter echoed in the carriage again. "I bought a house in Jingnan Town a few years ago. I plan to go back to Jingnan Town whenever Siji can't continue operating. We'll stay there this time."
"Okay, is that place close to Grandma's house?" Shen Cen wanted to take some time to visit her grandmother, since her grandmother was very kind to her.
"It's quite close."
The car drove onto Jingnan West Road, and soon Jiang Shiyu's car came to a steady stop in front of a building.
"You get out of the car first, I'll go park it."
"good."
Shen Cen got out of the car.
But when she looked up and saw the house in front of her, she froze on the spot.
She thought she was seeing things, so she rubbed her eyes hard and looked at the house number again before she was sure she wasn't mistaken.
This is such a coincidence...
In an instant, a current surged through her body, and she could clearly feel her body trembling violently.
"Why don't you go in?" Jiang Shiyu walked up behind her.
Shen Cen turned around, and Jiang Shiyu immediately noticed that her eyes were red and tears were welling up.
All that could be heard was her murmuring, her voice clearly trembling with sobs:
"Jiang Shiyu, this used to be my home."
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Author's Note: Guess why President Jiang took Xiao Cen to Jingnan Town [Let me see]
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