Chapter 40
Great beauty: Lin Jiu.
Beautiful lady: I have good news for you.
BBW: [laughs].
Beautiful girl: Ji Xin and I are together.
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Sunday.
Lin Jiu and Chen Miao had dinner at a hot pot restaurant outside the south gate of the school.
The ingredients in this hot pot restaurant are fresh and the hot pot base is also very flavorful. This is the second time she and Chen Miao have come here.
She had just picked up her chopsticks and thrown the beef roll into the red hot pot to wait for it to cook when a few messages suddenly appeared on the screen of her mobile phone on the table.
I clicked on it casually and was stunned.
She never expected that Wen Min would actually succeed in just a few days.
It's unbelievably fast.
Chen Miao, who was sitting opposite her, looked at her stunned expression and raised an eyebrow and asked, "Whose news is this?"
Hearing this, Lin Jiu regained his composure slightly and looked at him and replied, "News about Wen Min."
Lin Jiu was about to pick up her phone to chat with Wen Min for a while when Chen Miao scooped up a spoonful of beef and put it in her bowl. "The beef is cooked. Eat it first and we'll chat later."
"Okay." She stopped reaching for the phone and picked up the chopsticks on the bowl, finishing the food in the bowl bite by bite.
The hot pot in front of me was still boiling, bubbling with steam. There were only a few empty plates on the table, and there were still a dozen or so untouched ones.
According to preliminary estimates, this dinner will take at least an hour.
Although she wanted to find out what was going on with Wen Min as soon as possible, she had to calm down.
Now wasn't the right time to have a detailed conversation with Wen Min. So, she tapped her fingers a few times and replied, "I'll call you later."
After locking the screen, she put all the beef into the pot and said to Chen Miao as she cooked, "Try harder and eat more."
"Don't worry, I can eat as much as you put in."
"Okay." She also put potatoes and lettuce in the soup, making the combination of meat and vegetables not greasy.
After blanching a small piece of fried dough stick in a few seconds, Lin Jiu blew on it and ate it in one bite. After swallowing it, she asked, "Don't you want to try this? It's really delicious."
The last time they had hotpot, Lin Jiu ordered a plate of fried dough sticks. When she ordered, Chen Miao didn't say anything. But when she offered him some, he refused, saying it looked weird and refused to try.
It was called a plate of fried dough sticks, but in fact it only had six small pieces. So last time she ate the whole thing by herself.
This time Chen Miao still refused: "I don't want to eat."
Honestly, Chen Miao's occasional resistance was quite unusual. He frowned slightly, looking at the cooked dough sticks as if they were a flood or a beast, with a look of disgust on his face.
Lin Jiu thought he was very cute like this, and inexplicably a little childish, and his lips curled up unconsciously when he looked at him.
Seeing that her eyes were curved with laughter, Chen Miao reacted and asked dangerously with narrowed eyes: "Did you do this on purpose?"
Lin Jiu was unfazed and nodded readily, "You seem very different now than usual. To use a popular online term, it's called contrasting cuteness."
"Really? Why do I feel like you're laughing at me?" Chen Miao said, "You were like this in high school. You just liked to watch people laugh, especially Meng Qinyang."
Lin Jiu cried out and quickly defended herself: "I'm not that bad. I just laughed because I thought you were cute. Besides, I didn't mean to watch Meng Qinyang's fun..." After saying that, she pouted, looking innocent.
"Whenever he feels aggrieved, you immediately look over here," Chen Miao said firmly. At first, he almost thought Lin Jiu liked Meng Qinyang, but later realized she was just there to watch the fun and had no other thoughts.
"......" I was just watching the show, but I had to see the reactions of the relevant people! Studying is so hard and boring, I have to find some fun in my busy schedule.
Moreover, Chen Miao was Meng Qinyang's deskmate for thousands of years. She would be easily caught by him if she turned around, which made her eat melons less frequently.
Thinking about the cousin relationship between Chen Miao and Meng Qinyang, Lin Jiu spoke cautiously: "...I just think his personality is very interesting, and he has no other bad intentions."
"Interesting personality?" Chen Miao laughed for a few seconds as if he had heard something funny. Seeing Lin Jiu's serious expression, his smile gradually disappeared, and the corners of his lips pursed into a straight line, "You don't really think he has an interesting personality, do you?"
Lin Jiu looked surprised: "Don't you find it interesting? He shows everything he is thinking on his face, and he seems quite straightforward." Compared with Ji Xin and Chen Miao, Meng Qinyang feels like a younger brother, who is easy to understand.
"..." Chen Miao recalled his impression of Meng Qinyang. He had a lot of flaws. He loved to be in the spotlight, was jealous, willful and unreasonable, occasionally acted like a scoundrel, and acted like a spoiled child when he wanted something.
On closer inspection, Meng Qinyang's personality wasn't exactly interesting. Chen Miao's expression was indescribable. After a long silence, he said, "Perhaps because you haven't had close contact with him, you have a certain misunderstanding of him and find him interesting."
Hearing this, Lin Jiu blinked, "I feel like in your heart, his evaluation is not very good."
"...You two will have many opportunities to get along with each other in the future, and you will know then." Chen Miao said.
It was around 8:30 in the evening when the two of them finished eating.
Lin Jiu was very excited as he watched the South Gate moving away in the rearview mirror.
She couldn't wait to go back to the dormitory and talk to Wen Min on the phone.
Even Chen Miao, who was standing next to her, noticed her joy. He frowned slightly, his tone rather dissatisfied, "We're all going to be separated, and you're so happy?"
"No, I'm happy because I'm about to call Wen Min." Lin Jiu turned to look at Chen Miao and retorted.
After hearing this, Chen Miao felt even worse, as if he was filled with jealousy. "I'm not as important as Wen Min? You're still with me, and you're already thinking about her."
"No, no." Lin Jiu leaned closer to him and said, "Wen Min and Ji Xin are together. I was planning to ask about the situation, so I was a little excited."
"Why are you so happy that they are together?" Chen Miao asked.
"I even served as an assist, so of course I'm happy," said Lin Jiu.
"......" Chen Miao gave her a meaningful look, "Really? You can still assist others, but why are you so dumb when it comes to yourself?"
Lin Jiu pursed his lips and said aggrievedly, "Didn't I just assist myself once? Otherwise, how could we get along like this now?" His voice was very low, just loud enough for Chen Miao to hear.
Chen Miao smiled and apologized: "I'm sorry, I forgot."
Lin Jiu snorted lightly and forgave him generously: "That's more like it."
When he arrived at the dormitory building, Lin Jiu was anxious to get out of the car, but he couldn't open the door.
She turned her head and looked at Chen Miao, "...I'm getting off the bus."
Chen Miao folded his arms across his chest, leaned back in his chair, and looked at her sideways. "You want to get off like this?"
What else?
Lin Jiu lowered his eyes to think, his hands at his side unconsciously clenching the corner of his clothes, feeling inexplicably uneasy.
A few seconds later, she opened her watery eyes, leaned closer to Chen Miao, and softened her voice: "Let me get off the car, please."
Seeing that he was indifferent, she changed her strategy and forcibly pulled his arm down from in front of him, holding his hand with both hands and shaking it, "Is it okay?"
Chen Miao glanced at the hand he was holding, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, "Let's leave it at that this time, next time..." His eyes moved upwards, pausing for a few seconds on the plump lips, and he lowered his voice and spoke word by word, "It won't be that easy."
Feeling his burning gaze, Lin Jiu's lips moved unconsciously and he swallowed nervously.
She didn't know when he had this idea.
When we were eating, everything seemed normal.
Lin Jiu's brain was working at full capacity, and he carefully recalled the entire process of getting along with him.
After racking my brains, I finally noticed some behavior that was a little unusual, but not abnormal.
After Lin Jiu finished eating, Chen Miaozeng propped up his head and stared at her lips for a long time.
At that time, she was shocked, thinking that the oil on her mouth was not wiped clean, and she immediately felt embarrassed.
She frantically tried to pull out a tissue to wipe it again, but before she could reach it, he got there first and handed her a wet tissue.
She gritted her teeth and wiped it carefully under his gaze. She asked, "Is there nothing stuck on your mouth?"
After a few seconds of silence, he said, "It's very clean. Your lips are a little red from rubbing them."
It was a perfectly normal conversation.
She didn't think much about it...
Thoughts return.
Even though the air conditioner was on, the car was getting stuffy.
She couldn't stay there for a second.
As soon as the car door was unlocked, she got out immediately, without saying goodbye, and ran back to the dormitory building without looking back.
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When she arrived at the dormitory, she hurriedly greeted the three people in the dormitory, moved a stool and went to sit on the stuffy balcony.
She called Wen Min directly.
After a dozen seconds, the call was connected.
Wen Min's long complaints came from the speaker: "Why did you call just now? I've been waiting for your call for a long time."
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Jiu quickly explained, "I went to eat hot pot. I just started eating when you messaged me. That environment was really not suitable for chatting with you."
Wen Min snorted softly, "I won't argue with you on this happy day."
"...Our beautiful lady is so generous." Lin Jiu immediately praised her.
Putting the phone call aside, Lin Jiu quickly asked, "Didn't you say yesterday that you hadn't prepared anything yet? What's going on? Are you together today?"
"I really didn't prepare everything yesterday. I changed my mind last minute in the morning and thought about keeping it simple. I would lose face if I was rejected on the spot. So, at 5 p.m., I went to the flower shop with a bouquet of flowers and went to the downstairs of his dormitory. I sent him a message to ask him to come down." Wen Min said.
Lin Jiu held his breath and listened quietly.
"I said to him simply and bluntly: I like you, do you want to be my boyfriend? He seemed to be petrified at the time and pondered for a long time. When I was discouraged and ready to turn around and leave, Ji Xin actually smiled, he actually smiled..." Thinking of the situation at that time, Wen Min's tone suddenly rose and she stamped her feet excitedly, "I have never seen him smile like that, the whole iceberg turned warm. Oh my God, I almost fainted. His smile is so beautiful, you know..."
Seeing that Wen Min was immersed in Ji Xin's smile and gradually became crazy, Lin Jiu interrupted her: "And then?"
Perhaps remembering that Lin Jiu was still waiting for the next words, she calmed herself down and continued, "He took my hand and said, 'What a coincidence, I like you too, and I want you to be my girlfriend.' To be honest, I never thought he could talk to me like that. His tone was so gentle. Then, we officially established our relationship."
Although Lin Jiu knew they liked each other, she didn't expect it to be so smooth, without any bloody twists and turns. She was happy for Wen Min: "Congratulations, congratulations, now you have a boyfriend."
"Haha, that's right. I'm completely in high spirits right now, smiling whenever I see anyone..." Wen Min paused as she was feeling proud and quietly turned to her little sister, "How are you doing now? Have you met any good-looking guys at school? Otherwise, just take my advice and pursue Chen Miao."
Lin Jiu broke out in a cold sweat when she heard this. She really didn't know how to tell Wen Min so that she wouldn't be angry.
"What's wrong? Are you still not willing?" Wen Min asked.
"......no."
"That means you have an idea." Wen Min began to get excited.
After a few seconds of silence, Lin Jiu began to lay the groundwork: "On this happy day, if someone confessed something they had kept secret from you for a long time, would you be angry with her?"
Wen Min simply replied: "No, today I am tolerant of everything."
Lin Jiuxin made up his mind and said directly: "Chen Miao and I are already together."
This sentence probably shocked Wen Min and the phone was immediately turned off.
Lin Jiu counted silently in his mind, 1, 2, 3, 4... When he reached 9, Wen Min came to his senses and asked, "Is it true? Is Chen Miao so easy to pursue?"
"...Actually, strictly speaking, he was the one pursuing me."
Lin Jiu's words were shocking. Wen Min took a deep breath and didn't speak for a long time, as if he was digesting what he said.
Lin Jiu put his ear close to the phone. There was no main sound coming from the speaker, only some faint noisy background noise.
After a few seconds, she asked calmly, "When did you get together?"
"The day I started school."
There was another silence. Wen Min realized something and murmured to himself, "You can't be with someone you don't like."
Then, as if she had discovered the truth, she quickly said, "So, you like him, and he likes you too. He confessed to you and you two got together, right?"
"The idea is absolutely correct."
"Did things start happening when you were in high school?" she asked in a shrill voice. As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately denied it: "That's impossible. I've never seen you two interacting."
"We had a brief private exchange, but it wasn't very deep," Lin Jiu said. "Do you still remember the art performance in our second year of high school?"
"So you knew it a long time ago?" Wen Min said loudly, as if incredulous.
"I guessed a little." Lin Jiu said.
"Okay, so you kept it a secret from me for so long, and I still treated you as a good friend. I'm breaking up with you!" Wen Min was so angry that his head was buzzing. He shouted a few words and hung up the phone directly.
Lin Jiu held his cell phone in his lap, leaned back in his chair, and looked up at the clothes hanging above his head, feeling a little helpless.
She had no experience in this kind of large-scale concealment and then coaxing people, after all, she had almost no friends.
However, she didn't regret it. Today was indeed the best time to speak up. If it were any other time, Wen Min would probably explode as soon as she said it, probably with a nuclear bomb-like intensity.
He seems to have a bad temper now, but he seems easy to coax.
She let out a long sigh, stood up and prepared to carry the chair back to the dormitory, but Wen Min called her.
She said, "I'm in a good mood today. If you tell me what happened between you two, I will forgive you and not hold it against you."
Lin Jiu smiled. She didn't expect Wen Min to forgive her so easily. "Okay, then I'll tell you..."
Wen Min listened quietly for more than ten minutes and exclaimed: "Chen Miao is so proactive? He is so different from the person I remember." In her impression, except Meng Qinyang, Chen Miao was indifferent to everyone, and his emotions were basically not revealed. He always looked at people with a hint of contempt, and he looked down on everyone, not taking anyone seriously.
As a result, falling in love changed her personality. She sighed: "It is true that love makes people lose their minds and lose their original personality."
After hearing this, Lin Jiu smiled and said jokingly, "Yeah, the Ji Xin in our eyes and the Ji Xin in your eyes are probably exactly the same."
Wen Min shyly replied: "The difference is only a little bit."
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