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That day, Ye Wenyu was in class when she heard a student shout at the classroom door, "Ye Wenyu, someone is looking for you outside."
Ye Wenyu had no choice but to hurriedly ask the teacher for leave. She ran out happily, thinking, "Could it be Lin Tingfeng?" However, when she ran out of the classroom, she saw a white figure standing at the end of the corridor. He was tall and thin. Ye Wenyu stood there, feeling a wave of disappointment followed by confusion. She stopped in her tracks.
It's not Lin Tingfeng, it's Lin Tingxuan, Lin Tingfeng's younger brother!
Seeing Ye Wenyu stop and stare at him blankly from a distance, Lin Tingxuan smiled slightly, stretched out his hand, and waved to Ye Wenyu.
They acted as if they knew each other well, but in fact, they had only met once, and it was a very awkward meeting.
Left with no other choice, Ye Wenyu confirmed that the person looking for her was indeed Lin Tingxuan. She had no choice but to bite the bullet and go over. Although she didn't know what Lin Tingxuan's purpose was in coming to see her, and although she didn't want to see him, it wouldn't be right for her not to see him since he was already there. After all, he was Lin Tingfeng's younger brother, and they would be seeing each other often in the future.
When Ye Wenyu walked up to Lin Tingxuan, he glanced at her, smiled gently, and said, "You really are a student at Q University?"
The tone remained one of disbelief.
Ye Wenyu didn't know why, but suddenly she felt uncomfortable, a dull ache in her heart, and her face flushed uncontrollably. She raised her head and looked directly at Lin Tingxuan's pale face. He was always lazy and sickly, but that gave him a unique charm. She calmly said, "What did you originally think I was?" Her whole body was like a hedgehog with its quills raised, uncontrollably sharp.
Lin Tingxuan stared at the air for a moment, then slowly lowered his voice and said, "My brother is married, with a wife and children. I originally thought you were one of those desperate women in society who needed a long-term meal ticket, the kind who didn't care about status or position, the lower class—"
Ye Wenyu felt as if she were being slapped repeatedly across the face, and the humiliation overwhelmed her. She could no longer stand calmly in front of Lin Tingxuan, so she turned and left.
Lin Tingxuan quickly grabbed her hand and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I apologize to you."
Ye Wenyu finally gave up. She glanced at him and thought that this person must have always been arrogant, which was why he spoke so recklessly.
She still asked angrily, "Speak, what do you want from me?"
Lin Tingxuan smiled slightly and said slowly to her, "Let's go for a walk outside. To be honest, I'm very curious about you, and now that I know you're really a student at Q University, I'm even more curious." He then gave a meaningful smile.
Ye Wenyu's ears turned red as she listened. She wondered, was he curious about her? Curious that she had become his older brother's mistress? Curious that she, a female student from a prestigious university, had no morals or moral boundaries, had become a slave to money, living a life without dignity, in the darkness? Like a rat that everyone wanted to kill? Like a hateful cockroach in the dark?
Especially after Lin Tingxuan finished speaking, he gave a meaningful smile, which made Ye Wenyu's shoulders burn. She felt as if that smile was a slap in the face, making her feel humiliated.
However, Lin Tingxuan was curious about her, so he took the initiative to come to her school to find her. She was also curious about him, or rather, she was curious about Lin Tingfeng and the Lin family. However, it was inconvenient for her to ask Lin Tingfeng directly. Lin Tingfeng was a man who believed in the saying "A gentleman is like a bell, which will not ring unless struck," and he was always a man of few words. Therefore, if she wanted to know more about Lin Tingfeng and the Lin family, asking Lin Tingxuan would be a good starting point.
Therefore, Ye Wenyu nodded, and the two left the teaching building one after the other, each harboring their own ulterior motives, and headed towards a place suitable for conversation.
Ye Wenyu and Lin Tingxuan walked along the tree-lined avenue near the School of Information and Control Engineering at Q University. The trees were nearly fifty years old plane trees. It was summer now, and Lin Tingxuan, dressed in loose white clothes with long hair, walked leisurely as the breeze blew, exuding an artistic air.
Ye Wenyu was wearing a pair of blue ripped denim overalls and a light blue short-sleeved T-shirt. As the two walked under the shade of trees, students passing by would always turn around and glance at them.
Ye Wenyu felt a little uncomfortable. Later, she realized that the girls, in particular, almost always turned around to look at them, or rather, to look at Lin Tingxuan.
Is Lin Ting-hsuan really that charming?
She stole a glance at him beside her. He was tall and thin, with a pale face and a depressed expression. His hands were slowly behind his back as he walked slowly. She thought to herself that he and his older brother, Lin Tingfeng, were completely different types. Lin Tingfeng was tall and strong, like a fierce beast, but Lin Tingxuan seemed to be very weak. His skin was pale, and his body was so thin that he was skin and bones. He would pant for breath after walking a long distance, and his forehead was covered in sweat. He seemed to be suffering from some terrible disease. If it weren't for his nearly 1.8-meter height and his delicate features, he would probably be very ugly. He was like a sickly stag, but he had his own charming temperament.
She thought to herself, "This must be why the female students at Q University are peeping at Lin Tingxuan. There are already few boys like Lin Tingxuan at Q University, and with his relaxed, carefree, and self-absorbed demeanor, there are even fewer."
Things are valued for their rarity.
While Ye Wenyu was lost in thought, Lin Tingxuan pointed to the towering sycamore tree overhead and said to her, "Have you heard the love story about the sycamore tree?" He smiled at her, gazed at her tenderly, and leaned closer to her. Ye Wenyu blushed for a moment, unable to meet his eyes, and turned her face away.
She thought for a moment, wondering about love stories related to plane trees? She couldn't recall any, and frowned, saying, "I don't know. I only know that plane trees shed caterpillars a lot, and the girls at our school are afraid of bugs, so they always have to use umbrellas when walking this road."
"Hahaha, hahaha," Lin Tingxuan laughed, and said to her, "How come you're not romantic at all? I talk to you about love, and you reply with 'caterpillar'?"
Ye Wenyu couldn't help but laugh. She thought to herself that the reason he was so clueless about romance was because it wasn't Lin Tingfeng who told her the love story of the paulownia tree.
Lin Tingxuan put his hands behind his back and said to her, "Have you been to Nanjing?"
Ye Wenyu shook her head, but she already knew what kind of story he was going to tell.
Sure enough, Lin Tingxuan said, "When Chiang Kai-shek was in Nanjing, Soong Mei-ling said she liked plane trees, so Chiang Kai-shek planted plane trees all over Nanjing for her. If you love someone, you give her a whole city. Isn't that romantic?"
Ye Wenyu smiled but didn't say anything.
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