Chapter 74 Goodbye
Chen Bailing always felt that with Jiang Zhao's personality, if she didn't like someone, she would never give that person the slightest thought.
But if Jiang Zhao likes someone and is sure that the other person likes her too, why wouldn't she say it out loud?
"I like him." Jiang Zhao said naturally.
"What?" Chen Bailing said excitedly: "Then you...then you..."
She really wanted to ask if the two were dating, but then she thought that as Jiang Zhao's best friend, why wouldn't Jiang Zhao tell her if he was in a relationship?
So I turned to ask: "Did he confess to you?"
Jiang Zhao shook her head and laughed at herself: "He was the one who refused."
"Ah? Why?" Chen Bailing didn't know for a moment whether she was more shocked by Jiang Zhao's confession or she found it more difficult to accept that Luo Yan rejected Jiang Zhao.
She sat up from the bed and asked, "Is he sick?"
Chen Bailing immediately regarded Luo Yan as an enemy who had let down her best friend, and she and Jiang Zhao shared the same hatred: "I think he has nothing special besides being smart, but you are almost the same. He didn't even beat you in this monthly exam."
She rambled on and on, "Besides, my wife's personality is much better than his. He has a bad temper. My wife is also beautiful. He has no taste. If she doesn't agree, let's find another one. The next one will be more obedient."
Jiang Zhao was amused by her: "Am I so good?"
Chen Bailing is simply a fan of Jiang Zhao: "Of course."
"Okay." Jiang Zhao pursed his lips: "Actually, I didn't confess. I was just kidding."
"Um?"
Jiang Zhao pulled up the quilt and said in a muffled voice, "Wouldn't it be embarrassing for me to confess my feelings?"
Chen Bailing thought about it and felt that what Jiang Zhao said was right: "That's right, how can you let a girl confess her love?"
She began to share her love experience: "The easier it is to get something, the less you will cherish it, so you should ignore him."
"Love Master?"
"I'm serious..."
At night, Jiang Zhao dreamed of his previous life for the first time in a long time.
It was the summer of 2014.
In the final exam, Jiang Zhao ranked among the top 50 in the grade for the first time.
When the application form for the arts or science major was sent out, she chose science without hesitation.
There will be two science-focused classes in the second year of high school. Based on the current classes one and two, personnel adjustments will be made according to the choices and rankings in the science and liberal arts divisions.
After the final exams, the school had a short summer vacation.
Jiang Zhao mustered up his courage and asked Luo Yan to go out together.
She secured a seat in the key class and wanted to find Luo Yan to continue sitting at the same table with him for the next two years.
That day, Jiang Zhao got up early and spent a long time choosing clothes at home.
I found a jewelry store outside the community and spent two hundred yuan to buy a crudely made hairpin, and changed my braid and makeup.
She arrived at the agreed location half an hour early.
It's summer now and the sun outside is so hot that it makes people dizzy.
She found a milk tea shop, sent the name of the shop to Luo Yan, and ordered two cups of strawberry smoothies.
She was wearing a rose-red dress, with her hair tied up and full makeup, looking as serious as if she was going to a graduation ball.
Even after so many years, she still remembers that it was a hot and sunny day.
And the strawberry smoothie in that shop is really awful.
It's like saccharin and coloring mixed together, so sweet that it's cloying, and they have the nerve to sell it for thirty yuan a cup.
She sat in the store, feeling both happy and nervous, and imagined countless scenarios of their meeting.
It’s time to meet your appointment.
He didn't come.
Maybe something urgent happened.
She thought about it and sent a message to Luo Yan:
Where have you been?
The waiter had been looking at her seat for a long time, perhaps curious why the girl in front of him was alone but ordered two drinks.
Who is she waiting for, and why hasn't the other person arrived yet?
The clerk's unconcealed gaze made Jiang Zhao feel embarrassed.
She took the half-melted strawberry smoothie from the other side and sent another message:
I'm late, the smoothie has melted.
She felt a little embarrassed because she had been sitting in the store for too long.
So she stood up and went to the counter to order another cup, thinking that she must let Luo Yan drink it, so that he would know how bad it tasted and how tired she was waiting, so that her waiting would not be in vain.
It was a long time before she received Luo Yan's reply.
Sorry, I can't go.
Forty minutes have passed since the agreed time.
He didn't even bother to come up with a reason.
Jiang Zhao thought, maybe she should ask what it was.
But he didn't say it.
She has never been one to make things difficult for others.
She sat in the shop and drank three strawberry smoothies.
By the end of the drink, I couldn't taste the sweetness anymore, my mouth just felt like it was frozen.
The air conditioning in the store is also very cold.
Maybe the money earned from selling drinks was used to pay the electricity bill.
Oh, there's also her ninety dollars in there.
That's so stupid.
Jiang Zhao walked out of the milk tea shop.
What should she do?
School will start tomorrow and she should go back to school.
Don't want to go.
How should she face Luo Yan tomorrow?
Will he laugh at himself or pretend nothing happened?
She returned home.
The girl in the mirror was dressed and made up in a ridiculously gorgeous way.
She forced a smile, felt a severe headache, and fell on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
When Jiang Zhao woke up again, all he saw was a blinding white.
The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant.
She is in the hospital.
Her first reaction was to look for her cell phone.
Put the phone on the bedside and turn it on.
No messages received.
Liu Xiaoping and Jiang Wei came in and saw Jiang Zhao had woken up: "Zhao Zhao, you scared us to death."
Liu Xiaoping said that her fever was almost 40 degrees yesterday. If Jiang Wei had not been worried about her because he couldn't contact her, and had not sent someone to check on her, she doesn't know what would have happened.
She slept in the hospital for a day and a night. Jiang Wei had already asked for leave from school so that she could have a good rest.
Jiang Zhao's tears fell unexpectedly.
She said, “I don’t want to go.”
Jiang Wei thought she had been wronged at school: "You don't want to go... If you don't want to go, then don't go. Change schools. If that doesn't work, go abroad and don't take the college entrance exam."
Seeing Jiang Zhao still crying, Jiang Wei became even more flustered: "I don't want to study anymore, not anywhere else, I'll support you."
Jiang Zhao forgot how long he had been crying.
But she managed to calm herself down.
She lost all her courage and sent a text message to Luo Yan.
"My dad wants to send me abroad to study. Do you think I should go?"
She thought about it, deleted the second half of the sentence, and pressed send.
The next day, there was still no reply from the other party.
"That's enough, Jiang Zhao," she said to herself.
Don't throw your dignity away anymore.
After a while, she and Jiang Wei went to school together and applied for leave of absence.
When returning from Wang Guoxiong's office, Jiang Zhao took a detour and took Jiang Wei past the door of Class 1 of the Science and Technology Department.
Due to personnel adjustments, Wang Guoxiong rearranged the seats.
Luo Yan still sat in the same position.
But the seat next to him was already piled with books.
He has a new deskmate.
Ah, so this was his reply.
She didn't even have the courage to rush up and question him.
In the car, she deleted all his contact information.
In July, the height of summer, flowers are in full bloom.
She said to herself, Goodbye, Luo Yan.
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