Chapter 90: When there is a choice, there is no need to get involved in society too early
At night, Li Yansheng went to the study to deal with work and had not returned yet. It was still early, and Lin Shutang took a shower and lay in bed to watch a movie.
This controversial film has been pulled from shelves due to its content. But Lin Shutang loves it, and even after watching it multiple times, she still loves it. Whether at home or among her classmates and comrades, the heroine is always the one abandoned and sacrificed. Lin Shutang has always wondered if the heroine's ultimate betrayal of her original self is because the hero is the only one who chose her, even though she knows he's completely evil.
Watching the last shot of the heroine on the rickshaw, Lin Shutang suddenly felt that if one ignored the historical background and only looked at the emotions, she and Li Yansheng were somewhat similar to the male and female protagonists in the movie.
It was all because of their impure proximity that they had crossed paths. The difference was that in the movie, the heroine was killed by the hero, but Li Yansheng wouldn't kill her. But then, Lin Shutang thought, it was only a matter of time before she and Li Yansheng would separate.
When Li Yansheng entered, she saw the person on the bed, staring blankly at a tablet. Glancing at the screen in front of her, she saw a movie showing several college students kneeling in the night and being executed.
"Aren't you going to sleep yet?"
Hearing the familiar male voice, Lin Shutang came back to her senses and returned to the tablet's homepage. She didn't answer Li Yansheng's question, but simply smoothed her hair and asked, "Are you done?"
Li Yansheng said "Hmm." He stroked her hair according to her previous movements and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Lin Shutang pressed the power button and put the tablet aside: "You."
Li Yansheng chuckled at her answer: "What do you miss about me?"
Lin Shutang looked up at him, his eyebrows curved: "Thinking about our future."
A future without a future is still a future, isn't it? She wasn't lying.
Li Yansheng didn't know what Lin Shutang was thinking. He leaned over and kissed her on the lips: "I'm going to take a shower and go to bed early."
"Um."
After watching him go in, Lin Shutang lay down, but did not fall asleep.
About twenty minutes later, Li Yansheng came out wearing a bathrobe. His hair was not blow-dried, but just wiped casually with a towel, and it was still a little damp.
Seeing that Lin Shutang was still awake, he casually put a towel on the chair and asked, "Why aren't you sleeping yet?"
Lin Shutang: "I want to find a job."
"You're not sleeping just thinking about this?"
Lin Shutang nodded: "What do you think?"
Li Yansheng laughed: "You're not going to graduate school anymore?"
"Study. But the two don't conflict. Before I met you, I was also working part-time while studying."
Li Yansheng raised his hand and stroked the spot under her eyes. After a long while, he spoke: "When you have a choice, there is no need to be exposed to society too early. At your age, what you should do is study hard and experience school. When you have free time, you can go out with friends more often."
He spoke with great sincerity, and the way he looked at Lin Shutang was like an elder who had experienced it all looking at someone older.
Lin Shutang listened and tightened her grip on the quilt. No one had ever said such words to her before.
After a while, seeing that Lin Shutang was silent and seemed to be thinking about something, Li Yansheng did not bother him anymore and went to the bathroom to blow dry his hair.
After coming out, I heard the girl say: "I thought about it and decided to find a job."
"Did you just listen to what I said in vain?" Li Yansheng spoke in a sermon, but his tone was not serious. He looked at her patiently, as if waiting for her reasons and explanations.
Looking at him like this, Lin Shutang couldn't bring himself to say the words he had prepared. In the end, he just smiled and said, "I need to accumulate experience and improve my abilities. That way, after I graduate from school, I'll be more competitive than others."
She said those words against her will, but what she wanted to say in her heart was - work hard to make money now, so that if Li Yansheng doesn't want her anymore one day, she can still live well.
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