Chapter Sixty
Shen Yue obediently made way for the homeroom teacher who had come from the classroom.
"Behave yourselves." Tang Miaosong glanced at the two of them and warned them.
Watching her push open the door and go inside, Shen Yue turned to say something to You Congxi.
My phone rang in my pocket.
He took it out and glanced at it; it was a message from He Qizheng.
Some were from ten minutes ago, and some are from now.
[JDB: What's going on with you two?]
[JDB: Er Gou broke up with his girlfriend. He was crying to me in the cafeteria just now. It was Da Hai who broke them up.]
[JDB: I came back from the restroom and heard that you two were called away by the sea. How did it go?]
[JDB: Will the ocean really break you two up? But this relationship isn't even close to being official yet; it's just unrequited love at best. Do you think he'd take your brain out and wash it clean?]
[JDB: Hey, don't forget to let us know you're safe in the group chat after you go out. Qu Qi is also worried about you swimming in Congxi.]
Shen Yue was not happy after reading it. What kind of brother is this? Unrequited love? Didn't You Xiaoyu say "mutual affection"?
He replied with a curt "Oh" and unilaterally ended the conversation.
"What's wrong?" You Congxi asked, seeing him staring at his phone with his brows furrowed so tightly they could trap a fly.
“It’s nothing,” Shen Yue turned off his phone and put it back in his pocket, then turned to look at her. “He Qi is asking if we’re okay, since Da Hai is cracking down on early relationships.”
"Oh," You Congxi nodded. She subconsciously touched her pocket, which was empty. She remembered that she had stuffed her phone tightly in the drawer and didn't have it with her. "My phone... Who said we're dating too early?"
If Shen Yue hadn't rushed ahead to grab her in the enemy's water dungeon as if to show his loyalty, she wouldn't have had to admit to a non-existent relationship in front of several people just to help him out.
"Didn't you say we were mutually in love?" Shen Yue's eyebrows drooped, and his cold face made him seem even more distant.
If You Congxi had seen his current expression when she first met him, she would have thought he was expressing dissatisfaction with a sullen face, and then inexplicably distanced herself from him.
But now, seeing his expression again, You Congxi realized that he only thought he was being affectionate, just like the golden retriever next door upstairs... no, it's a husky. You could always see it having too much fun outside and not wanting to go home. Its owner would struggle to pick it up like a big pig, and it would show this disappointed and angry expression.
A little...cute.
She looked away from Shen Yue's cold face, feeling that she must have gone mad.
"Why aren't you saying anything?" Shen Yue looked at the silent girl with some dissatisfaction.
The hallway outside the corner was even noisier, and most of the teachers in the office on this side of the corner had left. Only two students stood on either side of the door to the director's office, neither of them speaking to the other.
You Congxi wanted to say something, but she glanced at the boy who was deliberately keeping his distance from her, hesitated for a few seconds, and sighed silently.
He tried to scratch at the wall plaster with his hands behind his back, but the wall was too smooth, and he couldn't even get a speck of plaster off, let alone any.
Her mind was a jumbled mess, like being entangled in seaweed. Scattered thoughts lay scattered everywhere, unable to find a starting point or string them together.
She turned to look at him. The boy's profile revealed no emotion; his brow bone was high, and his eyes were quietly hidden in the shadows. Only his thick, dark eyelashes could be seen trembling slightly with his breath.
Swimming in the stream, I felt a sudden suffocation.
Huskies have a bad temper, but they are really beautiful...
"You..." She wanted to say don't be angry, but she was too embarrassed to say it. In her haste, she reached out and touched the back of the boy's hand hanging by his side. "Hey."
Shen Yue did not react.
So you're ignoring me?
“Hey,” You Congxi poked his hand again, “Chen Yue.”
Shen Yue stood there as if he had been deaf for a hundred years, his hands hanging down, without reacting at all.
Oh my!
Blinded by his competitive spirit, You Congxi grabbed his wrist and shook it: "Chen Yue!"
If you still can't hear it, you should really go to the Municipal Disabled Persons' Federation to report it...
The hand gripping her wrist was pried open one by one. You Congxi was stunned, watching as Shen Yue turned his head away expressionlessly and pulled his wrist away.
Then my whole hand was gripped tightly.
Noticing the girl's gaze, Shen Yue raised an eyebrow, squeezed his five fingers between hers, held her firmly, then raised them high and waved them in front of her: "This is how you hold hands."
You Congxi was unable to speak.
She thought... but Shen Yue didn't leave; instead, he gripped her hand even tighter.
Something inside my chest is about to jump out.
"Chen Yue," she suddenly felt a real urge to say something, "I..."
Bang.
The office door opens inwards.
Both of them paused for a moment.
Jing Ling was walking in front. She immediately saw the two of them holding hands, and opened her mouth but couldn't say anything.
Shen Yue also noticed You Congxi's mother's gaze. He glanced at the girl, and fearing she would be scolded by her mother, he slowly loosened his grip...
The girl tightened her grip, looked up at Jing Ling, and said calmly, "Mom."
Jing Ling stood there for two seconds before walking out the door.
So the three people who came out afterward witnessed the two of them standing at the door with their fingers intertwined.
"Oh," Tang Miaosong, the last to come out, couldn't help but chuckle upon seeing this, "What's going on here, a protest?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Botao, whose face was frozen, let out a heavy breath through his nose.
Shen Yue felt the tight touch on his hand, paused for a moment, then gripped it firmly and greeted Zhao Xinli, who was staring straight at him, "Dad."
Zhao Xinli thought he was attending his eldest son's wedding.
In the end, Lu Botao announced the outcome of the case against the two people, and then, to avoid further trouble, chased the group of people away.
This outcome was practically unbelievable given Lu Botao's past handling of puppy love.
You Congxi was pulling a suitcase with one hand and holding a mobile phone with the other.
The team finally received news from the two.
[Drink Jia Duo Bao when you're sleepy: Has the ocean been possessed? ???]
[Rat Poison Cookies: Holy crap, is this still the ocean I know...?]
Feeling sleepy? Drink Jia Duo Bao: No need to go home.
[Dai Y: Hmm]
[Rat Poison Cookies: No Need to Write a Self-Criticism]
[Dai Y: Hmm]
[The only requirement is that you don't fall out of the top two in the grade in the next exam.]
[I am a fish: Hmm]
[Dai Y: Xiaoyu's mom and my dad signed an informed consent form, indicating that they are aware of our situation and agree to it, haha]
[JDB: What are you pretending for? Ugh.]
[Biscuit: What are you pretending for? Ugh.]
【。：Ugh.】
【fish:......】
"Xiaoxi," Jing Ling said, tightening his shoulder bag as he saw You Congxi look up. He forced a smile at her. "Mom, you can pull the suitcase yourself."
"No need," You Congxi said, pulling the suitcase closer to herself. "We're almost there. Watch your step."
After saying that, she looked down at her phone again.
Jing Ling's smile slowly turned somewhat bitter.
She recalled the look in You Congxi's eyes as she entered the office, her heart feeling as if it had been crushed and then released, aching and suffocating.
Before marrying David, they agreed not to have children; she only wanted one daughter, You Congxi. But last year, on their fourth wedding anniversary, David suddenly told her that he wanted a child of his own.
She definitely disagreed, and argued with David for a long time. Until last summer vacation, when she took some time to come back to China to be with her child, You Congxi suddenly told her that wanting a child was her freedom, and she had no objection.
Jingling didn't know why You Congxi knew at first, but later she found out that David had called her.
Jingling's first reaction was anger. It wasn't until a few days later, when she attended her friend's second child's 100-day celebration, that she realized that deep down, she also wanted to have another child.
I want a child whose life I can witness from birth to age eighteen or twenty-eight.
This idea was selfish, but Jingling still made a choice. Before, it was between her career and You Congxi; now, it was between her newborn child and You Congxi.
Each time, she gave up swimming in the Congxi River and chose the option that was most advantageous to her.
The IVF was successful, and she began to hesitate about when and how to tell her daughter that she was pregnant again, that she was about to have a new child, and that she would begin a new life.
It wasn't until he accidentally sent the report to You Congxi and received that emotionless message that Jing Ling truly panicked.
She knew she was a bad mother. She didn't expect You Congxi to forgive her without any resentment. She only hoped that her child could have a happy and healthy life.
"The elevator has arrived," You Congxi reminded him from the side.
Jing Ling hurriedly went inside, and You Congxi closed the elevator door. In the enclosed space, she stared at the two blurry, side-by-side shadows reflected on the closed elevator door, then lowered her eyes.
"Xiaoxi," Jingling called tentatively, "that boy from earlier..."
"The person I like," You Congxi said.
Jing Ling was speechless for a moment, and the elevator fell silent again.
"Xiaoxi..." Jing Ling took a few seconds to process it before calling out again.
Before she could speak, the elevator doors opened.
Shen Yue's face was revealed.
The boy instinctively took the suitcase from You Congxi's hand, greeting Jing Ling as he did so: "Auntie."
"Hey, hello," Jing Ling said, feeling a little awkward as the person who had just been chatting with her was now standing in front of her. "Your name is Shen Yue, right? You look quite handsome."
“Yes, Shen Yue, Auntie, you can just call me Xiao Shen,” Shen Yue said with a bright smile as she waited in front of You Congxi’s house with her suitcase. “Auntie, you are the one in your prime. If you hadn’t told me, I would have thought you were You Congxi’s older sister.”
"Ahem," Zhao Xinli, who had come specifically to check on his son's newly rented apartment, listened to the whole story. While inwardly cursing the brat for being so obsequious and forgetting his father now that he had a wife, he put on a polite smile, nodded to You Congxi, and then greeted Jing Ling, "I didn't get to chat much in the office earlier. Are you Congxi's mother? I didn't expect the two kids to be so destined to be neighbors across the hall."
In fact, he knew the moment he saw You Congxi that Shen Yue had deliberately moved here.
You little brat!
“Hello, Xiaoyue’s father,” Jing Ling also put on a polite smile and shook hands with Zhao Xinli. “Yes, I’ve been abroad for many years and didn’t even know that Xiaoxi had a new neighbor. What a coincidence.”
As he spoke, Jing Ling smiled and glanced at You Congxi, who awkwardly looked away.
Her wrist was lightly touched. You Congxi turned her head and saw that the culprit had somehow moved behind her and was mouthing something to her.
You Congxi gave him a questioning look and gestured for him to stay away from her.
As a result, that bastard Shen Yue leaned close to her ear and repeated it in a low voice.
This time she heard it clearly.
That bastard said, "Little Fish, let's elope."
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