Chapter 31: Late Visitors "Stop having a crush on me and talk to me."...
September 14, 2018: Heavy rain turns to cloudy weather
I fell into a beautiful dream.
——Excerpt from Tao Shuran’s Diary
*
Tao Shuran's emotions suddenly broke down, and she shed tears silently while receiving the IV drip.
It took Liang Yuanjing a while to realize that she was crying.
He had no experience being alone with girls, and was just thinking about whether he should wait until dawn to call Fang Qingyi over to accompany her when he heard the faint sound of tissue paper being pulled out.
Turning around, Tao Shuran wiped her tears silently.
She is such a patient person that she can even cry without making any sound.
Seeing his gaze, Tao Shurang looked at him with red eyes and whispered, "I'm sorry."
Liang Yuanjing suddenly felt no more anger.
He thought, what's wrong with liking someone? He should blame those who are unfaithful to love.
She is just too pure in her feelings, what's wrong with that?
Thinking of this, Liang Yuanjing felt a little embarrassed.
He sighed helplessly, half-knelt down, and looked at her at eye level.
He coaxed her softly, "Please stop crying, okay?"
"You know I can't tease girls."
"I'm sorry." Tao Shuran apologized again in a low voice, looking at him pitifully, "but I couldn't help it."
Liang Yuanjing raised his eyes, pulled his lower lip, and said with an unbearable sigh:
"Forget it, I'll give it to you for the first time."
"What do you see on the wall?"
Tao Shuran followed his gaze and saw the reflection of Liang Yuanjing's finger on the white wall.
She whispered, "Like a puppy."
"Well, a man turned into a puppy because he said something wrong, and now the puppy knows he was wrong." Liang Yuanjing moved his fingers flexibly, and with a jump, a vivid puppy really appeared on the wall.
He lowered his voice, his tone was gentle, and he looked at her intently.
"Will you forgive the puppy?"
Tao Shuran's eyes fell on the reflection on the wall. In fact, she was looking at the reflection of Liang Yuanjing's profile on the wall.
Her eyes were greedily lingering on his full gaze at this moment. She hummed softly and said sensibly, "You're right."
From a friend's perspective, she did something wrong.
"I'm not angry, nor do I blame you. I'm just... a little sad." Tao Shuran said softly, "I feel inexplicably sad."
Liang Yuanjing stood up and looked at her deeply: "Secret love is very bitter. I hope you will be happy in the end."
“Even if you’re not happy, if you look back, everyone is there.”
Tao Shuran nodded heavily, and at this moment he looked at him with infinite satisfaction.
Because she fell in love with a good enough person, as long as she kept looking at him, she would be happy.
*
It was getting dark, the teaching building was closed, and the hot water supply equipment had been cut off.
Fu Changpei took the water cup and went downstairs to the dormitory to find the aunt to boil a pot of hot water. When he poured the water into the thermos cup, he was afraid that it would be too hot for Tao Shuran to drink, so he kept it in the air vent to cool down.
The dorm manager smiled and joked, "Young man, you're so thoughtful. Did you get hot water for your girlfriend?"
Fu Changpei smiled a little embarrassedly and shook his head.
Auntie pressed the issue, "So that's the person you like?"
"What kind of person is she?"
Speaking of the person he likes, Fu Changpei pursed his lips, and after a while, he said with a smile, "In my eyes, she is a sparkling girl, and her way of dealing with people is as gentle and silent as the spring rain."
"I think we are very similar, so she can often read my emotions and understand all my choices."
As he was speaking, the dormitory door was pushed open by someone.
The dorm auntie exclaimed, ignoring the ambiguous relationship, and rushed out with a flashlight, shouting, "Student, what are you doing? Do you know that girls are not allowed in the boys' dormitory?"
"Excuse me, Auntie. I'm here to look for someone."
Fang Qingyi apologized repeatedly, and her eyes lit up when she saw Fu Changpei. The little girl rushed in with brute force and hugged him straight.
"Fu Changpei, where did you go during the summer vacation? Do you know that I've been asking around for your whereabouts?"
"How could you just leave without saying a word? I called you so many times and you didn't answer any of them."
Fu Changpei opened his arms and stood there in a daze.
After a while, he reacted, pushed her away, and lowered his eyes unnaturally.
"After my grandfather passed away, I stayed in my hometown with my grandmother for two months. My phone broke on the day of the emergency. I was so upset afterwards that I never got it repaired."
"It's okay, I know we'll see each other again."
Fang Qingyi raised her face and said cheerfully, "As long as you report to Qing University, I will find you no matter where you are."
Along the way, Fu Changpei was extremely silent.
When he walked back to the playground, the training formation had already disbanded, with only a few students left chatting on the playground.
Fu Changpei found a classmate of Tao Shuran and asked, "Classmate, where is Tao Shuran in your class?"
"Tao Shuran, she's not feeling well, so she asked for leave tonight."
Fu Changpei lowered his head and looked at the thermos in his hand, and suddenly felt uncomfortable.
He always seems to be a step late.
In the ward, I missed the last sight of my grandfather because I arrived a little late.
On the day I officially applied for admission, I missed the final revision time because I had an argument with my mother, so I chose my current major.
On the first day of reporting to Qingda University, he wandered around the school gate countless times and seemed to have missed her.
Until today, they finally reunited.
And he seemed to have taken another step backward.
A feeling of loss lingered in my heart, while Fang Qingyi beside me was like a lively little bird, chirping about everything happening around her.
Fu Changpei suddenly stopped.
He hesitated to speak, his lower eyelashes trembling.
Fang Qingyi understood all his subtle emotions.
At this moment, the moonlight was just right. She stood in front of him, tilting her neck with some effort, and her voice was very loud.
"Yes, you are right."
"I like you, Fu Changpei."
…
The military training led to many couples falling in love. In Liang Yuanjing's class alone, three couples found their partners.
Their class had a gathering as usual that day, and somehow the topic turned to this.
Naturally, some people became concerned about Xu Yanyang's progress.
When mentioning this, Xu Yanyang's face was full of impatience. "People are still chasing us, but I guess it will be soon."
Someone nearby urged, "Why don't you confess your feelings to her again tonight? Girls are thin-skinned, and if we persuade her a little more, she'll definitely agree."
Xu Yanyang felt a little itchy in his heart.
He has met many well-behaved girls like this. As long as he is willing to put in the effort, they are the easiest to win over when they just start college.
He coughed and said, "Okay, I'll send a voice message then."
"Tao Shuran, are you asleep?"
"I like you, please consider dating me."
Liang Yuanjing, who was sitting next to him, raised his eyelids and looked a little absent-minded.
He thought, Tao Shuran, this time you can get what you want.
But unexpectedly, the next second, Xu Yanyang suddenly blurted out a swear word and stood up from his seat.
"Holy shit, look, is this photo of Tao Shuran?"
Just five minutes ago, a explosive post suddenly appeared on the school forum, and the title of the post clearly pointed to Tao Shuran.
[The true face of the freshman campus beauty of Qinghai University is revealed, with a high-definition photo of her without makeup before high school.]
A series of photos appeared below. The girl in the photos was a bit fat, with baby fat on both sides of her cheeks. No matter how you looked at it, she only had delicate features.
At first everyone thought it was a prank, but after a closer look, they found that the facial features were indeed somewhat similar to Tao Shuran.
Another insider from Xian Yao Middle School came out and revealed more information, saying that Tao Shuran was still a fat boy when he was in the first year of high school, and no one knew what method he used to transform himself in the second year of high school.
"This woman's face must be fake too, why is she acting so noble?"
Xu Yanyang cursed, looking like a victim, and quickly picked up his phone and called Tao Shuran on the spot.
The moment the phone was connected, he asked a barrage of questions, leaving Tao Shuran no room for any rebuttal.
Finally, he left a sentence: "Tao Shuran, I was just joking with you the past two days, don't think too much about it."
"Someone like you is not worthy of me."
After saying this, Xu Yanyang blocked and deleted Yi Tiaolong. After doing this, he smiled proudly, as if he didn't catch up with the person, so this result could also be considered a victory.
Several friends around me also smiled knowingly.
"You are a low person."
A sharp dragging sound was heard, and Liang Yuanjing stood up. Without touching the glass of water beside him, he folded it with one hand and poured it all over Xu Yanyang's face.
His dark eyes were filled with hostility, and his voice was shockingly cold.
"Not worthy of her."
After having his head doused with ice water, Xu Yanyang stood up suddenly, shook his head in embarrassment, and was about to curse, but when he saw that it was Liang Yuanjing, he forced himself to hold it back.
He just said unconvincedly: "Do you want this?"
Liang Yuanjing said without hesitation: "I couldn't ask for more."
"Really? Then go after her if you're capable." Xu Yanyang shrugged and sneered, "I'm not worthy of her, so I'll leave her to you."
Liang Yuanjing had already walked out the door with his coat in hand, but when he heard this he slowly turned around. He was never one to meddle in other people's business, but this time his anger was obvious.
Xu Yanyang was knocked to the ground by his punch.
Relying on the physical advantage gained from years of training, Liang Yuanjing stepped on his ribs without using any strength, just looking down at him from above.
The air around seemed to freeze, everyone held their breath, and an explosive atmosphere filled every corner.
"Xu Yanyang, I worked so hard to get her to the top of her grade in her senior year, not to elevate you here."
Liang Yuanjing put one hand in his pocket, spoke clearly, and his innate pride was naturally revealed.
"You are nothing, you are not worthy of her at all."
*
With a flood of photos pouring in, Tao Shuran once again became the focus of the crowd.
She left the class dinner at the last minute, and she didn't dare to think about the different expressions of her classmates at the table.
On the way back, a comment with the highest likes on the forum kept appearing in her mind over and over again.
[Who would like her with this look? ]
Those embarrassing memories came back to her mind. When she was a sensitive and fragile girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, Tao Shuran always moved forward with these almost vomiting dirty words.
She thought that this time she really had no way to move forward.
Even if she was reborn, even if she came to Linchuan High School, even if she entered Qingda University, she seemed unable to change anything.
The distance between me and the person I like is like the Milky Way, and he is a moon that I can never reach.
In the silence, Tao Shuran squatted down and cried secretly.
The sound of the wind swallowed up all her sobs. Like every moment of isolation, she silently digested the negative emotions alone, then gritted her teeth and took out the photo of Liang Yuanjing participating in the competition.
It doesn’t matter, no one else matters, she still has Liang Yuanjing.
But this time, she extinguished even the last ray of light.
What would Liang Yuanjing think when he saw those photos?
She had been deceiving everyone all along. In fact, every time her classmates praised her sincerely, she would bite her lower lip in embarrassment.
This hidden past is actually a knife of torture hidden in the heart.
Tao Shuran didn't know how long she had been crying, but her head began to ache vaguely. She lowered her eyes, sat down alone in the wind, her expression numb.
After a while, the door was pushed open and light from the corridor leaked out from the narrow gap.
Tao Shuran raised his head, narrowed his dry eyes slightly, and subconsciously blocked the light with his hands.
In the hazy light, she saw Liang Yuanjing pushing the door open. His breathing was still a little unstable, but he breathed a sigh of relief the moment he saw her.
Tao Shuran thought he was dreaming.
But this beautiful dream will never come true. She smiled bitterly and turned her head, her eyes drifting to the dust.
Liang Yuanjing's voice sounded lazily in her ears: "Tao Shuran."
Tao Shuran blinked, making sure he wasn't dreaming.
But soon she was unsure again.
Because Liang Yuanjing put one hand in his pocket, leaning on the railing, under the interweaving light of the stars and the moon, he stood in front of her, and the sound of falling was sonorous and powerful.
"Stop having a crush."
"Talk to me."
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