Chapter 96: Finding the Fruit of Time
Jiang Wei's low chuckle reached Xie Fei's ears. He turned his head to look over, and saw Jiang Wei shaking the small box and looking at him as if he knew some incredible secret, with an extremely smug smile on his face.
Xie Fei's eyes darkened, he stretched out his hand in front of him, and said lightly: "Give it to me."
"No." Jiang Wei put his hands behind his back and shook his head, "Unless you answer a question for me."
"I don't love you. I don't want to say it. Give it to me now." Xie Fei glanced at him with a clear gaze and said slowly.
Jiang Wei was stunned when he heard that. He blinked a few times before he reacted. He rolled his eyes and threw the box in his hand into Xie Fei's arms. He said speechlessly, "I don't love you either, okay? I just want to ask you if you are serious. You should know that your family is not easy to pass, and... before you leave, the little princess of the Lin family asked me to keep a close eye on you and not to mess around with other girls."
The little princess of the Lin family?
Hearing this, Xie Fei, who was originally looking at the ointment in the box, suddenly paused. He recalled it in his mind, then slowly turned his head to look at Jiang Wei's somewhat guilty face. After a while, he frowned and asked softly, "What does my every move have to do with her?"
"You don't know?" Jiang Wei looked at Xie Fei in astonishment. "Her father and your father have already discussed that you will get married after you graduate. In fact, she can almost be said to be your fiancée, so it's normal for her to care about you."
"I don't know." Xie Fei's face suddenly turned a little colder. He lowered his head and continued to look at the ointment on his hand, saying nonchalantly, "Anyway, I didn't agree to it. She has nothing to do with me. Let her take care of the old man. She doesn't need to worry about my affairs."
As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Wei with his cold eyes, and said word by word: "You know what I mean, right? You have to grasp the right balance between what to say and what not to say."
Jiang Wei nodded with a bitter face: "I understand, but looking at you like this, are you planning to do this for real?"
"Can you fake it?" Xie Fei chuckled, his tone full of seriousness, "Don't forget, I was born in a military family, with a strict family tradition and excellent work style. I take feelings very seriously and would never play with them."
Jiang Wei finally believed that he really liked Ye Jing. He nodded obediently: "I understand. I will not interfere in this matter anymore. It's just that her family background is too different from yours. You will definitely face many obstacles when you are together. But no matter what, as brothers, Xiao Yumo and I will definitely support you unconditionally. If you really have difficulties at that time, you can come to us. We will be your strongest backing."
The two smiled at each other, Xie Fei lowered his eyelashes and nodded, with a little warmth flowing in his slightly covered eyes.
"good."
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The class passed like this. When the bell rang, the class representatives of each subject shouted at everyone to hand in their homework to the group leaders. Ye Jing turned around and looked behind him openly under the pretext of collecting homework.
She told the people behind her to pass their homework up, but she kept looking at Xie Fei out of the corner of her eyes.
Ning Yi was lazily leaning on the back of the chair at this time, holding the two ends of the mobile phone with his bony fingers, and it seemed that he was playing a game. His head was slightly lowered, his eyelashes drooped, and his long eyelashes cast a light shadow under his eyelids, which was so pleasing to the eye that people couldn't help but indulge in it.
The surroundings were very noisy. Classmates were walking or running back and forth, trying to find someone to borrow homework from to copy. However, he seemed to be alone in another world, staring at his phone intently, as if no one could disturb him.
Seeing his leisurely demeanor, Ye Jing couldn't help but wonder in her heart: Has Ning Yi seen the ointment I put in his drawer? He looks very good, so the wound shouldn't be serious, right?
He was stunned just like that. Suddenly, he looked up at her. Ye Jing was startled and her heartbeat suddenly started to panic. She pretended to be calm and turned to look at the team members, urging them again: "Hurry up and pass the homework over..."
Before she finished her words, she saw a familiar female figure walking past her and heading straight towards Ning Yi. Ning Yi also put down his phone and looked at the person lazily.
turn out to be……
He wasn't looking at himself at all.
I really am too self-indulgent.
Ye Jing couldn't explain what her mood was like. She wanted to be courageous enough not to look at or listen to them, but her eyes glanced over there uncontrollably.
The two of them had a very pleasant conversation, and Ning Yi seemed to have a smile between his brows and at the corners of his lips.
It's really ugly.
The smile is really ugly.
Ye Jing thought a little angrily, then pursed her lips and turned back. She stared at the textbook but didn't read a single word for a long time.
It's really annoying to be able to observe others secretly like this, to be easily influenced by others' every move, and to be so unlike myself.
But what could she do? She just couldn't help it.
Ye Jing was in a bad mood the whole day. She thought that after the hardships they had shared on Saturday, her relationship with Ning Yi had become special. However, it seemed that apart from the greeting in the morning, he never looked at her again, let alone talked to her.
After a simple dinner, Ye Jing returned to her seat as the bell for evening self-study rang. The evening self-study in the third year of high school was very free, and as long as you didn’t make any noise, the teacher wouldn’t care what you did.
Ye Jing glanced at the homework written by the class representatives on the blackboard, bent down and prepared to take out the necessary exercise books from the drawer one by one. At this moment, she saw a pink iron box in the dark drawer.
She was stunned for a moment, then reached out and took out the box. It was a small and exquisite round box with a cute Hello Kitty pattern on the lid. She opened it and saw that it was full of chocolates.
Who put it in her drawer?
Ye Jing looked up and looked around in confusion. The phone in her pocket suddenly vibrated. She took out her phone and saw a WeChat message requesting to add a friend.
Ning Yi.
When Ye Jing saw these two words, her eyes flashed slightly. She hesitated for a moment after looking at the message, but she finally clicked to accept it.
Almost at the moment I clicked to accept, a message came in: Do you like it?
What do you like?
Ye Jing looked at this sentence with some confusion, and replied with her hand: Ah?
Ning Yi: It’s a gift, do you like it?
When Ye Jing saw this sentence, she realized that Hello Kitty was given by him. But why did he give her a gift?
Moreover, chocolate is such an ambiguous thing.
Ye Jing's heart suddenly began to beat faster, and she began to wonder if this meant what she thought it did.
After holding the phone for a long time and hesitating, Ye Jing calmed down with a red face and replied: Why did you give me this?
Buzz.
The message came soon, and Ye Jing pursed her lips nervously.
Ning Yi: A return gift for the ointment.
Ning Yi: Aren’t you unhappy today because I didn’t return the gift?
Her expectations and strength were like a bloated balloon that was not held firmly, or like a piece of firewood that had just started to spark but was splashed with cold water, disappearing without a trace almost in an instant.
Ye Jing rubbed the phone bit by bit. She felt very aggrieved. She gave Ning Yi the ointment not as a return gift from him, but because she was afraid that he would not go to the hospital. She was worried that he would not take good care of himself.
She wasn't unhappy because he didn't return the gift, she just didn't like how happily he was chatting with others.
Yes, she liked Ning Yi very much, for no reason, but she didn't know that liking someone had such a mixture of sweet and sour feelings.
She will be afraid, panic-stricken, worried, and will involuntarily want to show her best side to him, want his response, and may even feel jealous and become unlike herself.
But no matter what, the essential Ye Jing will never change.
She liked him, but Ye Jing would not bear such a false accusation. She felt that it was time for her to explode.
Thinking of this, she immediately replied: I don't care about your return gift, and I won't be unhappy about such a thing.
As soon as he sent the message, he received a reply immediately, as if he had been waiting for her reply.
Ning Yi: Then why are you unhappy?
When Ye Jing saw his message, she was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and replied: I am not unhappy.
Ning Yi: You do.
His words seemed inexplicably certain, and Ye Jing became even angrier. He didn't even know her, so why was he so sure?
She started typing angrily, and just when she was halfway through, the other party sent another message.
Ning Yi: You are jealous.
Ye Jing paused while typing, and suddenly didn't know how to reply.
At this moment, Ning Yi sent another message: Ye Jing, do you like me?
As soon as the word "Ye Jing" came out, her mind suddenly went blank. It was as if she heard Ning Yi's low voice calling her gently in her ears. Ye Jing's heartbeat suddenly started beating like raindrops hitting the ground, and her fair cheeks turned completely red in an instant.
But she quickly came back to her senses, because the next sentence shocked her even more. Was her performance so obvious?
Ye Jing thought about it for a long time, and finally she sent five words against her will: I don’t like you.
After sending the message, she put her phone in the drawer, picked up a pen and looked at the textbook to prepare for her homework. However, a few minutes passed and she didn't understand a single question. It was as if the words entered her left eye and went out of her right eye without passing through her brain at all.
In the drawer, the phone buzzed a few times. After hesitating for a long time, she took out her phone again and turned it on.
Ning Yi: Oh, really?
Ning Yi: But your jealous expression is really cute [picture].
It was a picture of Ye Jing holding a pile of homework books and leaning on the edge of the desk of her classmate sitting behind her, with her face slightly puffed and her lips pouted. She looked aggrieved. At the bottom of the picture there was a row of black words: Ning Yi is mine!
Ye Jing looked at the picture in shock. After carefully examining it, she found that it was obviously taken this morning when she was secretly observing Ning Yi.
That guy wasn't playing games at all!
Looking at the row of glaring words below, Ye Jing replied angrily: Ning Yi, delete the photos for me. Who allowed you to take pictures of me secretly, and even add unfounded words without permission!
The message was quickly replied: No, who allowed you to spy on me and secretly like me?
Ye Jing was choked, pursed her lips and replied: I said I don’t like you.
Ning Yi: But I like you, little liar.
Ye Jing's heart suddenly tightened, her small ears and neck seemed to be burning, and her cheeks began to feel hot.
I like you.
It was like a powerful spell. The shame and anger in Ye Jing's heart disappeared completely in an instant. She opened her mouth, her throat a little dry, not knowing what to say in response, as if nothing she said would be right.
After hesitating for a long time, she closed her eyes, sent a message, and then threw the phone into the drawer as if it were a hot potato.
Xie Fei watched her every move and looked down at the message.
Ye Jing: My cell phone is out of battery.
Xie Fei was stunned for a moment, then he smiled dumbly after a while: "What a little liar who has the heart but not the courage to steal."
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