Chapter 31
On the first day of school, at the entrance of Beiyi University.
Students passing by glanced at the rare sight of the luxury car, and more or less looked in its direction.
Then a girl with a cool and aloof appearance got out of the back seat, and a murmur of discussion arose from the crowd.
"Is this a freshman? He looks good enough to be a star!"
"You don't even look at how much this car costs. It's obviously from some rich girl."
"And the dress she was wearing couldn't be found online, so it must have been custom-made."
"The quality of this year's freshmen is just too good."
As soon as Xiang Wan got out of the car, Uncle Zhang had already taken her luggage off the back seat.
Wang Yidong followed beside her, dragging two suitcases, and looked at the college students around him with a hint of envy.
Her family was poor when she was a child, and they often didn't have enough to eat, so there was no extra money to send her to school. As a result, she was not highly educated and always felt very envious when she saw college students.
Xiang Wan saw through her emotions and said calmly, "If you want, I can have Li Xia arrange for you to study abroad."
Upon hearing this, Wang Yidong shook her head rapidly. She was just envious. She was 30 years old this year. Making her start her studies from scratch was worse than making her bang her head against a bread roll: "I prefer cooking to studying."
"..."
Xiang Wan glanced at her, her eyes filled with helplessness. Wang Yidong's cooking skills were very high. If he studied for a few years, he would be no worse than a Michelin chef.
She was sometimes too self-deprecating, but since Wang Yidong resisted, she didn't say anything.
Xiang Wan didn't want to be too conspicuous, so she only brought five suitcases with her. But when she saw the student dormitory, she remained silent for a while.
The dormitories for undergraduate students at Beiyi University are standard four-person rooms. However, as it is a century-old prestigious university, the dormitory environment is not particularly dilapidated, but it was still beyond Xiang Guan's expectations.
Wang Yidong looked at the bed, which consisted of only a wooden plank, and turned to his young mistress: "Young mistress, why don't you apply to live at home?"
"..."
After packing his luggage, Wang Yidong went back with the driver. On the way back, the car window on Wang Yidong's side was never rolled down.
Xiang Wan waved towards the car window, and seeing Wang Yidong, who was not showing his face but only reaching out to her, she sighed inwardly, knowing that her maid must have been crying again.
In her previous life, Wang Yidong also cried when he sent her to study abroad.
In this second life, this one thing remains unchanged.
She pursed her lips and walked towards the teaching building, intending to meet up with the group of four after registration. However, when she reached the corner on the second floor, she bumped into a girl coming from the opposite direction.
"Excuse me."
"Excuse me."
They spoke in unison, looked at each other, and then both laughed.
Xiang Wan helped her pick up the scattered books and handed them to her, and the other woman thanked her in return.
Without asking each other's names, the two walked in opposite directions.
Of the four, only Che Nanbei majored in animation; the other three were finance majors. Therefore, after the report, the four went out for lunch.
Che Nanbei finished eating first. She looked at her three friends with a slightly hesitant expression, but then dropped a bombshell: "I have a crush on someone."
Three people: "..."
Unlike her usual carefree self, Che Nanbei's expression was somewhat girlishly shy: "There's a super handsome guy with long hair in our major, and he'll be my idol from now on."
"..."
If I remember correctly, this should be the first day of school.
Xiang Wan was the first to put down her chopsticks, followed closely by Shen Feiyang. The two exchanged a glance before turning their gazes to Jiang Zhuochun across from them.
Although Jiang Zhuochun has always said that he likes Xiang Wan and even confessed to her in the third year of junior high school, those involved are often blinded by their own feelings while bystanders see things clearly. Both Xiang Wan and Shen Feiyang can see that the person he truly likes is actually Che Nanbei, who is always bickering with him.
But the person involved seems unable to see their own heart clearly.
Jiang Zhuochun paused for a moment, then proceeded to tease her as usual: "A male god, my foot! How tacky! He might not even be as handsome as me."
"He's way more handsome than you, okay?"
…
Watching the two elementary school kids bickering, the other two members of the group were clearly a bit of a headache. Xiang Wan rubbed her forehead, while Shen Feiyang, as usual, acted as the mediator.
Although the three are in the same major, they are not in the same dormitory because Beiyi University reorganized its dormitories last year.
As soon as Xiang Guan returned to Building 6 in Zone 2, he saw a familiar profile.
The girl in front of me had long, curly hair and strikingly beautiful features—the kind of face you wouldn't forget after just one glance. She was the same girl I bumped into in the teaching building this morning.
The other person clearly recognized her and smiled at her. They both paused for a moment when they saw the other person enter the same dormitory room.
The other person smiled and asked, "Are you also a freshman this year?"
Xiang Wan also felt it was a bit of a coincidence: "I'm in finance, what's your major?"
The other person's voice, like her, was very distinctive: "I'm from the textile industry, and my name is Xia Ruirui."
"My name is Xiang Wan."
The two climbed the stairs together, only to discover that their dorm rooms were actually opposite each other on the same floor.
When Xiang Wan entered the dormitory with the key, her three roommates arrived as well. The four greeted each other and then went about their own business.
While Xiang Wan was still getting acquainted with the school, Chen Yan wasn't so lucky...
*
The wall surrounding the back gate of Nanyang High School.
Today was the first day of school for Xiang Guan, and Chen Yan originally planned to climb over the wall to catch a glimpse of her entering the university before returning.
But to his surprise, he was discovered as soon as he climbed over the wall.
However, what was worse was that the person who discovered him was Zhao Luyu, the scoundrel who had been at Beiyi High School.
Zhao Luyu didn't do well on his college entrance exam and didn't want to go abroad, so his family sent him to Nanyang High School to repeat his studies. Little did he know that on his first day in Nanyang, he would see the goddess who had once 'gone abroad'.
Excuse me?
Chen Yan looked at Zhao Luyu, who was staring at him with wide eyes, ignored him, and jumped down from the wall.
Behind the wall in Nanyang was a residential area, so few people saw him. He walked to the street corner, hailed a taxi, and was about to leave when someone held the car door open.
He pursed his lips, sensing something was wrong, and when he looked up, it was indeed an old acquaintance.
"..."
Zhao Luyu followed him into the back seat, closed the car door, and handed a 100-yuan bill to the driver in front: "Let's go."
Beiyi University is less than ten kilometers away from here, so we don't need that much. It would be even more troublesome to give change for the rest.
The driver told the truth, but Zhao Luyu in the back seat generously said, "Keep the change, keep the rest as a tip."
"Alright, please be seated."
In the car, Chen Yan ignored him, but Zhao Luyu persisted, asking, "Is it you? Sister?"
"..."
Chen Yan had already tolerated him for a long time. When he saw that Zhao Luyu was still calling her "sister", her temples throbbed, but she still held back and said, "Zhao Luyu, my name is Chen Yan."
"I know."
you do not know.
After a long silence, Zhao Luyu finally couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "I liked you so much back then, why did you lie to me?"
"..."
When the driver first saw the two boys, he thought they were good friends. But when he suddenly heard Zhao Luyu's words, he was so surprised that he looked at them several times in the rearview mirror.
Chen Yan, unable to bear it any longer, said to the driver, "Stop at the alleyway ahead."
After parking at the alley entrance, Chen Yanli got out of the car, and Zhao Luyu followed closely behind. As he closed the door, he told the driver, "Consider this a tip."
"Okay."
As the driver restarted the car and drove away, he watched the two figures walk into the alley and sighed after a long while, "Boys these days are pretty trendy."
On the other side, in the alley.
The two stood facing each other, both around 180 cm tall, and even their builds were somewhat similar.
“Zhao Luyu, I’m a man,” Chen Yan said patiently. “And don’t bother me anymore.”
Looking at the person who suddenly appeared in front of him, the emotions from his heartbreak overwhelmed him, and Zhao Luyu blurted out, "I can accept it even if you're a man, little sister."
But he regretted it as soon as he said it; he still couldn't accept that the person he liked was a boy.
Chen Yan was already barely suppressing his irritation, but when Zhao Luyu called him "sister" again and confessed his feelings to him, he couldn't help but punch him.
On the other side, Zhao Luyu was initially stunned by the blow, but when he came to his senses, he was also enraged and punched him in the nose.
"You deceived my feelings, and I didn't hold it against you, but you still have the nerve to hit me, your young master?"
"..." Chen Yan remained silent, veins bulging on his forehead, and he tightened his grip even more.
Did he ever say he wanted this clingy person's affection?!
The two exchanged blows, fighting fiercely until they were both exhausted and sat down facing each other against the wall.
Zhao Luyu broke the silence first: "I take back what I just said. I still prefer girls."
Chen Yan calmed down and said, "I shouldn't have hit you." He then got up and walked out of the alley. He hailed a taxi and said, "Driver, to Beiyi University."
He sat in the back seat and tried to close the door, but it was blocked from the outside again.
When he saw Zhao Luyu get in on his own, he hesitated for a moment but chose to ignore him and handed the money in his pocket to the driver.
The driver in front saw the two people in the back seat with bruises and swelling on their faces and instantly regretted it, but still gritted his teeth and drove forward.
When they arrived at the gate of Beiyi University, the two got out of the car one after the other, and then walked from the back gate to a spot not far from the girls' dormitory.
Just then, Xiang Wan came out to pick up a package. Seeing Xiang Wan wearing a white linen suit, Chen Yan's expression softened a little, until it aggravated the wound on the corner of his mouth, at which point he returned to his original expressionless face.
Zhao Luyu, who was standing next to him, saw through his little actions clearly. He had regained his senses after the fight and said to him in an annoyed tone, "You like Xiang Wan."
Since things had already come to this, Chen Yan didn't intend to hide it any longer, but he also chose to acquiesce without admitting it.
Zhao Luyu had initially been somewhat worried that he might actually like men, but seeing that Chen Yan liked Xiang Wan without feeling sad at all, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and became interested in analyzing the situation with him:
"The Xiang family is powerful and wealthy; there's no future for you and Xiang Wan."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yan merely gave him a cold look and didn't respond. If Zhao Luyu knew this, how could he not know it?
In his heart, he was already content to be able to watch over her silently as her younger brother.
Chen Yan learned this from a very young age: things you like must be kept in your heart.
When he was a child in Lijia Village, he didn't understand what it meant to be an unwanted bastard, nor did he know why no one in Lijia Village, except his grandmother, liked him.
At that time, he had no one to talk to. Sometimes he would talk to the cows in the village, and very occasionally, the village keeper would talk to him.
Later, after the two became acquainted, the villager wove a grasshopper out of straw and gave it to him.
That was the first gift Chen Yan received, and he liked it very much and cherished it, pinning it to his waist.
However, the next day, the village bully Li Yaozu saw it and destroyed the grasshopper in front of him.
Chen Yan cried for a long time at that time. After that, he would only look at anything he liked a few more times and never dared to show it again.
Xiang Wan was his savior, a person as perfect as the moon. He dared not covet the moon, which hung high in the sky, and only dared to glance at its reflection.
Chen Yan only turned and left after Xiang Wan had finished picking up the package and gone, and he could no longer see her. Zhao Luyu, seeing him about to leave, followed behind him, limping.
The two climbed over the wall back to school one after the other, but stopped in their tracks when they saw their homeroom teacher waiting at the gate...
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