Chapter 2277 Who Doesn’t Understand Love
Ah Fei's almost ruthless calmness made Ling Ying dazed for a moment.
This feels familiar.
And that sentence "I'm not in love with you"...it's so familiar.
Just like a stone falling into a calm lake, causing countless ripples, memories flooded towards Ling Ying layer by layer.
She stared blankly ahead, remembering how she felt the last time she heard these words.
She was so angry and sad that day that her heart was broken.
It was the summer vacation of her first year in high school. Qiao Qingze came to her house to help her with her homework. He charged her 500 yuan per hour, which she set because her father was rich and Qiao Qingze's family was not well off.
Qiao Qingze has been tutoring her since she was in junior high school, as a way to earn money for her studies.
When she was in the first year of high school, Qiao Qingze had already gone to college, and she raised the tuition fee from 200 yuan to 500 yuan.
Originally, she wanted to pay more for tutoring, but Qiao Qingze did not accept the sky-high hourly wage. After some bargaining, the two settled on five hundred per hour.
That was also the last period of luxury for her family, because not long after, her father was imprisoned and his assets were liquidated, and the "Three Years of Hardship" for her and her mother began...
Of course, during that summer vacation, she didn't know her future destiny and had no plans for the future. At that time, she felt sleepy as soon as she started studying, and her academic performance always hovered around the bottom ten.
And every time she handed out the report card, Qiao Qingze couldn't help but press his eyebrows after reading it and said, "If you don't want your parents to fire me, just get a few more points and at least get out of the bottom ten."
But she said indifferently that it didn't matter, her father was busy with work and her mother was busy shopping and partying, and they had no time to take care of her. As long as she went to school on time every day and didn't cause any trouble, they would be very happy.
In such a free-range family environment, she was only interested in three things most of the time: showing off, reading romance novels, and thinking about Qiao Qingze.
She has had a crush on Qiao Qingze since junior high school.
At that time, she was in the junior high school and he was in the high school. Qiao Qingze had good grades and always ranked first in the grade in exams. Moreover, he was not the type who only studied hard. He was very active in various activities and was a celebrity in the whole school.
In a sports meet, he could win championships in several events by himself. He also participated in various parties, debates, physics competitions, and math competitions. The trophies and certificates of all sizes could fill an entire bookcase.
The key is that he is handsome, and many girls have written love letters to him.
Ling Ying also wrote that he wanted to put it in the mailbox, but ended up throwing it into the trash can.
Qiao Qingze is too outstanding, and she is extremely bad. It is impossible for him to like her, a poor student. She is afraid that once she confesses her feelings, Qiao Qingze will stop tutoring her.
That day, after Qiao Qingze finished explaining the questions to her, she did her test paper while he leaned on the headboard of her single bed and read his professional books.
However, after Ling Ying finished a few questions, she could not open her eyelids and fell asleep on the table. When she opened her eyes again, she found that Qiao Qingze was looking at her with deep eyes. She didn't know how long he had been looking at her.
Her heart was pounding, and then Qiao Qingze shifted his gaze and continued to read as if nothing had happened.
But she held on to the look in his eyes just now and refused to let go. She came up to him and asked him with a smile: "Brother Qingze, why are you looking at me like that? Are you in love with me?"
He blushed, glanced at her sideways, and pushed her forehead with his finger, pushing her away.
"How dare you, little brat, know what love is."
"I'm not a brat, I know what love is!"
The look she caught unintentionally also gave her great courage.
She firmly believed that Qiao Qingze must like her.
Only when you like someone will you look at him/her so affectionately.
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and he had to force Qiao Qingze to admit it.
So she bravely got on the bed and sat on Qiao Qingze's legs. "Then why are you blushing and dare not look at me?"
He didn't answer her question directly, but just said to her coldly: "Go back and sit down."
"No, I won't leave unless you admit it."
Her mother's voice came from outside the door, asking them if they wanted some fruit.
Ling Ying didn't answer, but hugged Qiao Qingze's neck instead.
Mother's footsteps approached the study door.
Qiao Qingze wanted to push her away, but she refused. "If you don't answer me, I won't let go. Do you want my mother to see us like this?"
"I'm not in love with you."
Ling Ying's eyes were red. "You're lying! You were clearly peeking at me when I was sleeping. I'm sitting on your lap now, and you clearly... clearly want me..."
"Lingying." He interrupted her harshly.
Her tears fell. She knew she had gone too far and that as a girl, she shouldn't do such things, let alone say such things, but she just wanted to force him to tell the truth.
She asked, "You're already like this, and you still don't admit it?"
Qiao Qingze's tone softened a bit, and he said helplessly, "It's just physical instinct. All men are like this. It has nothing to do with love or not. Can you sit back now?"
Before her mother pushed the door open, she finally returned to her chair and laid down on the test paper. However, her vision was blurred by tears, which dripped onto the paper.
She realized that Qiao Qingze was already a grown man, while she was still a child who didn't even know the basics of physiology.
She also thought that Qiao Qingze might have had such a reaction to other women.
As for that look just now, maybe it was just her wishful thinking.
She felt humiliated and heartbroken.
After her mother handed the fruit to Qiao Qingze and closed the door again, Ling Ying said to Qiao Qingze, "I'm glad you didn't fall in love with me. I don't love you anyway."
In this way, she hid her true feelings and never did anything out of line to Qiao Qingze again. After he finished tutoring her, she would let him leave.
She firmly believed that Qiao Qingze didn't love her because she was not good enough.
So from then on, she seemed like a different person. She burned all the idle books and started to study hard. She wanted to become a girl worthy of him and then confess to him.
Even when her family encountered misfortune, she did not give up her studies, but worked even harder.
Later, she finally got admitted to his university and started working part-time to make a living. She almost turned herself into another Qiao Qingze, but he was always better and more hardworking.
After she went to college, he went straight to a master's and doctoral program...
It seems like I can never catch up with him.
She realized that if she continued like this, she would never have the chance to confess her love.
So Ling Ying set a goal for herself: she would confess her love once she was admitted to graduate school.
On the day when the postgraduate entrance examination results were announced, she knew she should be able to pass the exam, but she was still very nervous when checking the results.
After checking the results, she breathed a sigh of relief and immediately called Qiao Qingze.
That was their last phone call...
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