"in vain."
Qin Yubai lowered his eyes and met her gaze: "Hmm?"
Jian Zhizhen felt she had laid enough groundwork, so she decided to make things clear.
She spoke first, asking directly, "Why did you reject me when I confessed my feelings to you back then?"
Qin Yubai knew that she was referring to what happened during the summer vacation when she was twelve years old.
He was also in Yancun at the time, and spent the entire summer studying and playing in the mountains and countryside with Jian Zhizhen.
Later, when school started, he had to go back to his own home.
On the day he left Yan Village, Jian Zhizhen held his hand and mustered up her courage to say, "Bai Bai, I like you."
Qin Yubai stared at her silently for a long time without giving any response before leaving.
Now that she brings this up, Qin Yubai recalls the redness around Jian Zhizhen's eyes back then.
Just like her now.
Qin Yubai felt the same heartache for her as before.
But it's not that he doesn't want to respond.
He felt guilty and helpless: "That day, your dad was right behind you, watching me from afar. His gaze could kill... so I didn't dare. After you left, he messaged me privately, saying that liking 12-year-old girls is pedophilia and that I should be executed."
"..." Jian Zhizhen was stunned.
After a long pause, she finally spoke: "That's it? Pedophilia means adults like children, right? We were both kids back then, it was just a normal puppy love!"
Qin Yubai knew this, of course.
But he was afraid of Jian Zhizhen's father. He always felt that if he had been with Jian Zhizhen when he was really that young, her father would have put him on a rocket and launched him into space.
Chien Chih-chen was truly wronged this time.
After being rejected, she felt embarrassed and scared, afraid that Qin Yubai would think that their relationship was not good and that they would not even be able to be friends.
So she made up a cliché and clumsy excuse, saying, "I lost a game of Truth or Dare with my friends," and got away with it.
Only then could she and Qin Yubai act as if nothing had ever happened.
Now that everything has been explained, she really feels that all the suffering she went through back then was not worth it!
Even if Qin Yubai had told her privately that it was because of her father, she wouldn't have felt inferior for a long time when she was with him later!
She immediately got off Qin Yubai's bed, too angry to talk to him.
Qin Yubai grabbed her and pulled her back.
Now it was his turn to ask: "I know your dad was just bluffing, so after your parents went to the moon, I confessed my feelings to you. Why didn't you respond? Is it because your parents don't allow you to date so young?"
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