Ying Qian looked at him with wet eyes, her face full of grievance.
Chen Wenzhi brushed the stray hairs from her forehead and asked, "Don't want to talk about it?" He frowned slightly, but quickly added understanding, "If you don't want to talk about it, then you don't have to."
He looked around at the dazzling array of ornaments and said, "Would you like to do some crafts? Let's do it together."
Ying Qian beamed with joy, hugged him, and laughed out loud.
"Okay, okay." Chen Wenzhi was breathless from her hug. "Why are you so clingy..."
"You dislike me?" She immediately let go of my hand and pulled the stool away a considerable distance.
Chen Wenzhi looked at her chubby cheeks, his smile widening. He stared thoughtfully at her profile, then got up and walked to her side. He leaned down and breathed into her ear, asking in a soft voice, "Where is it?"
"What are you doing?!"
Ying Qian quickly covered her ears, glared at his smiling eyes with reproach, and said angrily, "You're so annoying! Chen Wenzhi!"
He shrugged, looking indifferent, and said, "So what if I hate it?"
Under Ying Qian's speechless gaze.
Chen Wenzhi added, "As long as I like it, that's fine."
After everyone finished their dinners, they met at the entrance and then dispersed.
As they were leaving, some of them started discussing their grades.
However……
Xu Tiantian looked utterly dejected: "No chance, no chance. He has a girlfriend. I was hanging out with him and his girlfriend today, and it was so awkward! I wanted to crawl into a hole!"
Hahahaha.
"By the way, why didn't we see you at the mall today?"
Chen Wenzhi glanced at Ying Qian, whose face was flushed, leaned forward to block Xu Tiantian's view, and awkwardly explained, "We felt there wasn't much to see in the mall, so we went to the commercial street outside to do some handicrafts."
As he spoke, Chen Wenzhi reluctantly took out a DIY hair clip. It was dark-colored, with a black butterfly attached to it by black cream glue, and a plastic pearl adorning the gap.
"A gift for me?" Xu Tiantian's eyes widened.
"Hmm!" Ying Qian smiled broadly and peeked out from his body.
"I love you to death, Ying Qian!" Xu Tiantian, being small, jumped right onto Ying Qian.
Ying Qian staggered back a few steps, just one step away from falling, when Chen Wenzhi stepped back to support her shoulder, turning around to scold, "Xu Tiantian, how old are you? Why are you still acting like this?"
"Yo!"
Xu Tiantian stuck out her tongue and looked directly at Chen Wenzhi: "When did you start lecturing me? Chen Wenzhi, I thought you hadn't even remembered my name in over a year!"
She looked sharply at Ying Qian: "Why do you think that is?"
Ying Qian glanced at Chen Wenzhi's now calm expression and uttered a meaningful hum: "Because of love~"
"Ugh~ I hate the stench of love!"
Xu Tiantian got off Ying Qian and clipped the hair clip into her hair.
After saying goodbye.
Ying Qian and Chen Wenzhi went home together. It wasn't a long journey, so they treated it as a post-dinner walk to digest their food.
Ying Qian wrapped the scarf tighter, rubbed her hands together, and breathed warm air into them. In January, the weather was getting colder and colder, but spring was not far away.
She doesn't really like spring.
"Staring blankly again?" The boy shook his head helplessly. "Why are you always spacing out lately? Tell me what's on your mind."
"Not long after, my father will remarry, and I will be attending the wedding..." Ying Qian lowered her eyes, her cold, stiff hand resting on her chin, her tone indifferent.
Chen Wenzhi couldn't detect any significant emotional fluctuation in her, but she must be feeling unwell.
"Is Meng Beiyan going with you, or alone?"
"It was probably my brother who went with me, I'm not sure." Ying Qian continued rubbing her hands. "It doesn't matter who went with me anymore. We just had a meal, gave a gift, and that was it."
Chen Wenzhi's eyes held an inscrutable expression.
Ying Qian raised her hand and took Chen Wenzhi's hand, which was hanging properly by his trouser seam. It was warm and cozy, just like a heater. The warmth from her palm gradually spread throughout her body.
Chen Wenzhi tightened his grip. "Your hands are so cold. Are you cold?"
"It's cold," she said bluntly.
The dress she was wearing caught Chen Wenzhi's eye. He turned his face away as if in a huff, but his hand did not let go mercilessly.
"Hey, don't be angry. Even though I'm dressed nicely, it's not like I'm only showing it to you..."
His mood didn't improve because of that short sentence; instead, it became even more depressed. He stubbornly muttered, "I won't listen, I won't listen, I won't listen..."
"Why?" Her round eyes stared intently at Chen Wenzhi.
"Because... how should I put it?" Chen Wenzhi couldn't figure out what factors were causing his mood to worsen.
Fear?
What's there to be afraid of?
Ying Qian's phone rang. She took it out and saw that the message was from Gu Xinan.
Chen Wenzhi's eyes darkened. He understood; he was afraid that Gu Xinan would snatch the person away.
He turned his head away, not wanting to look.
Ying Qian was slightly taken aback when she saw the content.
[I already have a girlfriend, and she minds if there are other men on my phone.]
She stopped in her tracks.
Chen Wenzhi had no choice but to look over.
"What? Are you still upset about this?"
He was happy, though, because now the final crisis was over.
"No." Ying Qian laughed at herself. "I just think he's really amazing, finding a girlfriend so quickly."
She jokingly added, "Unlike you, it's always just me coming and going."
"Aren't you happy yet!" Chen Wenzhi took her hand and placed it on his chest. Even through the thick cotton coat, he said, "You're the only one in my heart, aren't you happy?"
"Happy!" Ying Qian's smile was as bright as a flower.
The lights were on in every house in the neighborhood. Under the streetlights, the puddles on the cement ground were of varying depths, and the snowflakes that had piled up like small mountains had been trampled, leaving behind dark shoe prints.
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