choose
Xu Feifei paused, her hand still holding the snacks. "What do you mean?"
"I rejected Zhang Jiayi for my sake." This time, her tone was different; it became much firmer.
"Why is it for you? Is it because you don't like Zhang Jiayi?"
"Or is it me you like?" Xu Feifei didn't say these words aloud; she didn't dare. She was panicking; her right hand trembled uncontrollably, and her heart was pounding fiercely.
Lin Yuan didn't speak, staring into her eyes. Xu Feifei felt flustered by her gaze and stiffly turned her head away to avoid her gaze.
My right hand trembled more and more violently, so I pressed it down with my left hand, trying my best to control it, and hid it under the table.
"Feifei, I..."
"bell--"
The bell rang, and the area outside the classroom suddenly became lively, with footsteps, voices, and playful noises coming from all directions.
At the same time, Xu Feifei suddenly heard a long and piercing electric shock. Lin Yuan's mouth opened and closed, but she couldn't hear anything.
Xu Feifei pinched her earlobe and pressed her tragus. After the discomfort in her ear disappeared and returned to normal, Lin Yuan had finished speaking.
"Lin Yuan, what did you just say? It's too noisy outside, I can't hear you."
Lin Yuan sighed softly, and after a while said, "I say you're right, I really don't like Zhang Jiayi, and I want you to reject him."
Upon hearing this answer, Xu Feifei felt a sense of relief mixed with a feeling of emptiness. She couldn't quite describe the feeling; it was strange.
"I'll tell you when I get back tonight."
"Why wait until tonight? Can't you say it now?"
"Feifei—" came the call from the doorway.
Xu Feifei turned her head and saw Su Huan waving at the door, calling her to come out.
"You can come in, it's okay."
Su Huan shook her head, but still waved for her to come over.
"Because I want to leave you in suspense," Xu Feifei said with a mischievous smile.
After saying that, he turned and left. He had just walked to Su Huan's side when he was pulled to a secluded corner.
"So, are we going over now?"
Xu Feifei glanced at her watch. "Not yet. I'll leave at 5:10. There are too many people after school, so it's better to leave at different times."
"That's true. Let's wait here and go when it's time."
Xu Feifei suggested, "Why don't we go inside the classroom to wait? There are snacks we can eat."
Su Huan shook her head and said, "No, I can't have too much contact with NPCs. I'm afraid my memory will be formatted and I'll miss the time to go back, which would be terrible."
When Xu Feifei heard her mention NPC, she subconsciously frowned. Lin Yuan was a very important person to her, and NPC was a non-existent person, but she couldn't refute it.
"Then wait here for a while, I'll go back and tell Lin Yuan."
"good."
When Xu Feifei returned to the classroom, she saw Lin Yuan standing by the window looking at the scenery. She went back to her seat, grabbed two bags of snacks, and asked, "Lin Yuan, aren't you going to eat?"
Lin Yuan didn't speak, just quietly looked out the window. Xu Feifei walked to her side and curiously asked, following the direction Lin Yuan was looking, "What are you looking at?"
School had just let out, and there were many students downstairs, walking in groups toward the school gates.
After a moment, Lin Yuan shook her head and said, "No."
"Alright. Aren't you leaving now?"
"Wait a while before leaving, I still have a few competition problems to finish."
Xu Feifei gave her a thumbs up and praised her, "No wonder you're number one in the whole school, smart and hardworking! Don't stay up too late, eat breakfast early and take care of yourself."
Lin Yuan raised her lowered eyelids at this moment and looked at her. The emotions in her eyes were complicated but well hidden. She smiled and said, "Okay."
Time was tight, and Xu Feifei was in a hurry to leave, completely unaware of her emotions. After saying a few words, she hurriedly left the classroom.
As Lin Yuan watched her departing figure, she clenched the test paper in her hand.
Seeing that Xu Feifei hadn't come out for a long time, Su Huan was anxiously pacing outside, worried that she had missed the appointed time. When she saw Xu Feifei emerge, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Why did it take so long?"
"Here you go." Xu Feifei handed over the snacks in her hand, glanced at her watch, and saw that the time was just right.
"It's time, let's go."
"OK, whether we can go back or not depends on tonight," Su Huan said excitedly to herself.
The two bypassed the crowd, weaved through the teaching building, turned a corner, and arrived at the East Lake.
Looking into the distance, one can see a small figure standing in a pavilion in East Lake; that figure must be Zhang Jiayi.
It's Friday after school, and since Donghu is a relatively remote area, there aren't many students here.
"You go first, I'll follow you quietly from behind." Su Huan was afraid of being discovered, so she told Xu Feifei to go first and walk along a side path to avoid being seen.
Xu Feifei nodded, and immediately became nervous after Su Huan left. She took a deep breath to calm herself down, suppressing her nervousness, and walked towards Zhang Jiayi.
As they got closer, the scenery ahead magnified, and Zhang Jiayi's figure grew larger and larger.
Halfway there, the person under the pavilion was no longer in the shape of a tiny figure, and Zhang Jiayi's figure became clear. He turned around and looked this way, stood up, glanced at himself a few more times, and then ran towards Xu Feifei.
In less than half a minute, he ran up to her, smiled at Xu Feifei with his perfect eight teeth, and said softly, "You're here."
"Mm." Xu Feifei nodded.
"Shall we walk forward and sit down?"
Xu Feifei nodded again without saying anything, because she didn't know what to say.
“Feifei, you…” Zhang Jia hesitated, unable to finish her sentence.
She raised her head and asked, "Hmm? What?"
After a long pause, Zhang Jiayi stammered for a while before finally saying, "Weren't there many people on the way here?"
He wanted to get straight to the point, but he was afraid that if he did, the conversation would end there.
"Uh...we avoided the peak hours, thankfully. How about you? Have you been waiting long?"
"No, no. I ran away as soon as get out of class ended. Gao Feng doesn't exist." After saying this, Zhang Jiayi smiled foolishly.
The atmosphere became more lively and much better.
The two then walked to a small pavilion, where Xu Feifei found a place to sit down and looked at the clear lake behind her, where the lotus flowers were still in full bloom.
Looking at the lotus flowers in the distance, Xu Feifei recalled the scene when she came here to take pictures of lotus flowers before, and said, "You saved me here the week before last, thank you so much."
When Zhang Jiayi heard her speak, he happily said, "You thanked me before, and besides, I would save anyone who falls."
She turned to look at him and asked, "But I'm a little curious, how come you were at school that Saturday?"
"Huh?" Zhang Jiayi avoided her gaze and paused for a while before saying, "I heard that Zeng Hao borrowed the key to the small ferry from the photography department. I know you'll be here to take photos on Saturday. I was thinking of creating a chance encounter on Saturday."
After he finished speaking, he glanced at her cautiously. "If you don't like it, I won't do it again next time."
Xu Feifei hadn't even asked him anything, and he confessed everything, even kneeling and sliding. Staging a chance encounter was nothing to her, as long as it wasn't stalking her.
Therefore, Xu Feifei did not express whether she liked or disliked his behavior, but simply smiled and said lightly, "So that's how it is. He saved my life by accident."
Zhang Jiayi was trying to find other topics, but found that she couldn't think of anything to say. After thinking for a long time, she finally said, "Feifei, how have you been these past few days?"
Xu Feifei frowned slightly, looked down at the tips of her shoes, and kicked the air a few times, saying, "It's no different from usual, but... it seems different."
Zhang Jiayi listened to this answer but didn't know how to tell the difference.
He didn't understand these roundabout answers, but at this crucial moment, he was afraid that being direct would shorten the precious time they had alone together. This left him unsure of what to say or do.
"And you?"
Me?
Xu Feifei nodded: "Mhm."
Zhang Jiayi kept clenching her hands together, unconsciously pinching them hard, and said nervously, "These past few days have been the same as usual, but it also feels different."
He used her words to simply express his feelings, but this simple sentence contained extremely complex emotions, emotions that could not be expressed directly.
Upon hearing this, Xu Feifei smiled gently, and most of the lingering embarrassment and nervousness disappeared.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Jia looked over and saw that she was smiling, so he smiled as well.
“I’ve been waiting for you to ask me.”
Zhang Jiayi froze, staring at her in surprise. Xu Feifei was looking at him with her head slightly raised and a gentle smile on her lips.
Does this mean there's potential?
He couldn't contain his excitement and asked, "So, what's your decision?"
Xu Feifei didn't rush to answer, but instead looked towards Su Huan, searching for her. Their eyes met, and Su Huan gave her a thumbs-up from a distance. Then she glanced at Zhang Jiayi's expression; her expectant gaze remained fixed on her.
She looked away, took a deep breath, and looked up at the sky.
The sky was normal, just like always, a clear blue. It was another beautiful day, with no extra clouds.
"I..." Xu Feifei had just uttered the first word when she was drawn by a familiar laugh. It was the male and female leads!
What are those two doing here? And why are they laughing so happily? Has something new happened?
"Feifei?" Zhang Jiayi followed her gaze and saw Nangong Ye. He instinctively shielded her from his view.
Xu Feifei glanced at the male and female leads, then looked up at the sky, lost in thought.
When she looked towards Su Huan again, she didn't see Su Huan but instead saw Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan was looking at her from there, and although they were dozens of meters apart, Lin Yuan's gaze was direct and penetrating to her heart.
After staring at each other for a while, Xu Feifei hurriedly looked away to search for Su Huan, but found nothing.
"Feifei, what's wrong?"
"Hmm?" Xu Feifei snapped out of her daze, regaining her composure. She couldn't delay any longer; she needed to get to the bottom of this quickly.
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