Chapter 35: Avoidant Type Because 0713 is the day I met you...
September 29, 2018, light rain
Will secret love really pay off after suffering?
——Excerpt from Tao Shuran’s Diary
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Later, Tao Shuran really met a cat at school.
It was the day before the upcoming National Day holiday. She met a cute little orange cat downstairs of the dormitory building. It didn’t look very big and could barely be considered a kitten.
After Liang Yuanjing finished training, he came over to see her and saw a small person squatting in the corner of the dormitory building.
When I got closer, I saw that this was his girlfriend.
The weather was getting cooler in October, and Tao Shuran was afraid of the cold, so she put on a knee-length windbreaker. She squatted down, holding the hem of the clothes with difficulty, and turned her head from time to time to worry that the clothes would fall off and get dirty.
Liang Yuanjing walked over and stood beside her, holding up the hem of her skirt.
I casually asked, "What's the cat's name?"
I just saw a cat, but it doesn't have a name.
Tao Shuran thought for a moment and said seriously, "Its name is Liang Yuanjing."
Liang Yuanjing smiled.
"You have a strong desire for revenge, sister."
Tao Shuran puffed up his face and said nothing. He took out the cat strips he had just bought at the supermarket entrance from his pocket, tore open an opening and immersed himself in feeding the cat.
When she was almost done feeding the baby, she stood up and said to Liang Yuanjing, "Why don't you give it a name?"
"No need to take it."
Liang Yuanjing took out a wet wipe from his pocket and wiped her hands. Her eyelashes drooped naturally and her voice was faint.
"Having a name means having an emotional connection. If you can't raise it, why bother interacting with it?"
"But I feel sorry for it. Even though I can't keep it, I feed it whenever I see it."
Tao Shuran looked down at his hands. There were calluses on his palms from training, which rubbed roughly against her delicate palms.
She suddenly asked, "Liang Yuanjing, why are you so afraid of forming an emotional connection with others?"
"Could it be that you have the avoidant attachment personality type that people talk about online?"
"What?" Liang Yuanjing rolled up the tissue and threw it into the trash can. He reached out and flicked her forehead. "What are you looking at online all day long?"
"You know I'm in the 3+1 training program, right? I heard the training plan has been moved up this year, so I might have to go to the military academy for closed-door management after my sophomore year."
"I developed a connection with someone, then we were apart for a long time. Two years later, I waved goodbye and told them I was going to Beijing North. I couldn't contact you by text or phone anymore. Even if you were willing to travel all the way to Beijing North, you wouldn't be able to see me."
Liang Yuanjing sneered: "Don't you think this is a bastard?"
Tao Shuran was silent for a while, and the satisfied little cat wagged its tail and rubbed against her feet.
The price of connecting with someone is half the sweetness of ambiguity and half the sadness of separation. This is inevitable.
She thought about her future, her eyelashes trembling, and said with a vague and evasive attitude, "Let's talk about the future later."
Liang Yuanjing nodded, and felt that it was unnecessary to think about it for so long since it was just the beginning of the freshman year.
He fiddled with his lighter and played with it intermittently.
After a while, I heard Tao Shuran say, "Call 0713."
Liang Yuanjing raised his eyebrows: "It's even numbered."
"It's the date!" Tao Shuran retorted, although she also thought it was a bit strange to have a kitten named that.
But it is a special kitten with yellow color and a hint of black, so it’s okay to give it a special name.
Liang Yuanjing tilted his head to look at her and asked, "Date? Does it have any special meaning?"
Tao Shuran met his eyes. For a second, she quickly looked away and stammered, "It doesn't mean anything."
"Just thought it was a cool name for a kitten."
Liang Yuanjing sneered, grabbed the belt of her windbreaker and brought her forward.
Those deep, dark eyes locked onto her tightly, and he said with unquestionable certainty, "Tao Shuran, you are lying."
Tao Shuran pursed her lips and did not continue to answer the question.
Because 0713 is the day I met you.
People were coming and going in the school, and music was playing non-stop in the auditorium next to the dormitory building. They were preparing for the freshman welcome party after National Day.
The school plans to have one final rehearsal before the holidays.
As an excellent student at the neighboring art academy, Fang Shiyue was invited by the student union to be a dance instructor. She arrived at an unfortunate moment and happened to see a couple in love whispering to each other.
The senior student who brought her here smiled and asked with concern: "What's wrong, Shiyue, you look a little unhappy."
"Nothing, just meeting two old friends."
Fang Shiyue said: "I'll go over there by myself later and say hello to them."
Tao Shuran saw her.
0713 at my feet saw a stranger, arched his back, and quickly dived into the grass.
"Can we talk alone?" Fang Shiyue stood outside the bushes with his arms folded, in a defensive posture, but his lips trembled slightly as he spoke.
Tao Shuran vaguely understood why. He turned his head to glance at Liang Yuanjing beside him and slowly walked out of the lush bushes.
The grass was growing lushly, and some unknown plants had sharp edges. She tilted her body as she walked over. Liang Yuanjing was quick to help her subconsciously.
Tao Shuran glanced at Fang Shiyue, walked out quickly, and avoided any intimacy with him.
"Tao Shuran, congratulations, your secret love has come true and you have gotten what you wished for."
Fang Shiyue smiled bitterly, tears welling up in her eyes. Although the blessing was clearly directed at her, her gaze unconsciously lingered on Liang Yuanjing who was waiting not far away.
At this moment, Tao Shuran did not feel any joy of getting what he wanted. Instead, he felt deeply sympathetic with Fang Shiyue, who had failed in his secret love.
She whispered, "It hasn't happened yet."
"But I think I will always like him."
Before he found someone he liked.
"Really? But why do I feel like he likes you a little bit?"
Fang Shiyue wiped the corners of his eyes sadly and said in a nonchalant manner, "But it's good this way. I'm finally free."
"I'm giving up. From now on, I must wait for others to like me before falling in love."
Secret love is so painful. Guarding a relationship that has no result, Fang Shiyue suddenly realized that she didn't like Liang Yuanjing that much.
It was just that the long-lasting relationship moved her so much that she was unable to extricate herself from it for a long time. Now that he was in love, she actually felt deeply relieved.
Tao Shuran thought for a moment and said, "But I still hope you meet someone you like and can bravely pursue love."
Fang Shiyue smiled and this time wished her well from the bottom of her heart.
"Tao Shuran, then I wish your secret love will finally come true and your wish will be fulfilled."
*
After feeding the cat, Tao Shuran returned to the dormitory. Because they had a class in the afternoon, they had to wait until the evening to leave.
Several of her roommates were not locals. They were leaning against the bed packing their luggage. When they saw her come back, they rushed over and looked at Tao Shuran with a mysterious smile.
Tao Shuran was confused by their gazes and asked what was wrong.
Luo Qiuya's keyboard was clacking loudly, and her mouth was also talking.
"Of course, you're still asking us what happened. What were you and the school hunk Liang doing downstairs just now?"
"Hug, hug, hug, we can see it clearly."
Tao Shuran pointed at herself innocently: "Me?"
“We didn’t hug at all.”
"Anyway, we're tired of each other." Luo Qiuya pulled the others over and asked, "Shuang'er, what do you think of those two just now?"
Lin Shuang, who is always mature, couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "The atmosphere is comparable to a winter Korean drama."
Tan Yueyi immediately raised her phone: "I took a secret photo, I can add the background music of a Korean drama for you."
"Is there?"
Tao Shuran leaned over to watch with half belief and half doubt. In the shaky video screen, she could vaguely see Liang Yuanjing and her back.
At that time, she was squatting on the ground, feeding the kitten with great concentration, while Liang Yuanjing stood lazily beside her. The sun's rays were scorching, and he lazily raised his hand to shield her from the light falling from above her head.
The hem of her windbreaker fell down, and he sighed helplessly, as if accepting his fate, and half bent down to hold it for her.
A boy who is nearly 1.9 meters tall is bending over with difficulty to cooperate with her in feeding the cat. The action looks quite funny.
Tao Shuran had no idea that from another perspective, the situation between her and Liang Yuanjing would be like this.
“Can you send me this video?”
"I'll keep it as a souvenir."
"Isn't the person right in front of you? Why are you commemorating him?"
Tan Yueyi pushed the frame of her glasses and said as she sent the video to her, "Honestly, Ranran, I think you and Liang Yuanjing are very suitable for a couple blogger's self-media account."
Lin Shuang: "That's not a good idea. It will end in a breakup, which is unlucky."
"At the beginning it was true love, but later on it all became a script. I wrote whatever the audience wanted to see."
Tao Shuran leaned against the balcony with her chin propped up to enjoy the breeze, thinking melancholy in her heart that the beginning of her and Liang Yuanjing's relationship was all a script.
At 3:30 in the afternoon, they went to the teaching building to attend the Marx class.
Because it was the last class before the holiday, the class discipline was much looser and there were fewer people coming.
During the ten minutes between classes, Luo Qiuya sighed and said that she was too timid to skip class, otherwise she wouldn't have to wait until tomorrow to go home.
Tao Shuran blinked, he seemed to have forgotten to ask Liang Yuanjing about his plans for the National Day holiday.
Then as a girlfriend, she should be qualified to ask a little bit, right?
"Why are you still watching this video?" Luo Qiuya leaned over to look at her phone and said in a helpless tone, "Of course, I've seen you open this video three or five times during class alone."
"You're too love-sick, aren't you? It feels like a long time since we last met."
Tao Shuran put away his phone guiltily, opened the book a little embarrassedly, and forced himself to divert his attention.
Luo Qiuya, on the other hand, began to miss him.
"But you and Liang Yuanjing are so sweet. It makes me want to fall in love. Oh my god, if I had known earlier, I would not study accounting in this life. The ratio of male students in a college is even smaller than the ratio of male students in the liberal arts department in my high school."
"Before I took the college entrance exam, I promised my parents that I would never fall in love too early. Now, I guess I can't even have a twilight romance."
Thinking of this, Luo Qiuya gave him an admiring look.
"I'll have to call you sis from now on. You've won over the man who's known as the coolest and most difficult to pursue in the whole school within just a few months of school. That's awesome."
"Of course, you are the one who really keeps a low profile."
Tao Shuran smiled, not knowing what to say.
In fact, it was just a coincidence.
Luo Qiuya's eyes lit up: "I'm a fan of uniforms. Can you ask Liang Yuanjing to introduce me to some handsome guys in their class?"
Tao Shuran: "Does it have to be a flying major?"
"Yeah, you know how qualified their professional screening is? Not to mention their physical fitness, not a single male is under 180cm tall. If I don't date a single one in the same school, I'm going to lose out."
"I have some photos here, do you want to see them?"
As she spoke, Luo Qiuya actually took out a small portable photo album from her bag and pulled out the photos one by one.
Tao Shuran's mouth twitched: "How come this photo of yours looks like a stalker fan?"
Luo Qiuya defended herself, "I just love recording handsome guys. I'm discovering the world and finding beauty, understand?"
"If nothing else, we'd love to see it."
Lin Shuang and Tan Yueyi came up from the left and right, and pulled Tao Shuran, who was sitting in the middle, into their group. So the four of them suddenly began to concentrate on admiring the handsome guy in the flight class.
Tan Yueyi has watched Korean dramas for ten years and is particularly professional in appreciating various handsome men.
As soon as she saw the handsome guy, she stopped being reserved and started expressing herself.
"This one looks good, with high brow bones and a deep nose bridge. He looks a bit mixed-race. He's perfect for playing the forced, sickly male second role."
"This one is also pretty, a cool and cool academic type, with long eyelashes."
"Ran Ran, which type do you like best?"
When Liang Yuanjing walked into the classroom, he heard the excited and heated discussions of the girls in the last row.
If it weren't for the familiar name, he wouldn't have stopped at all.
The moment he paused, he heard Tao Shuran ask with some embarrassment, "Do I have to choose one?"
"Choose, Liang Yuanjing is not here, what are you afraid of?"
All right.
Tao Shuran supported her chin and looked carefully for a while. After hesitation, she chose a boy with a small mole under the corner of his eye.
Because she remembered that Liang Yuanjing also had a small brown mole at the same location.
The moment he finished choosing, Tao Shuran felt a surge of heat on his back.
Liang Yuanjing leaned over, supported his arms on both sides of her body, squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at the pile of photos pressed by her fingers.
A thin, warm breath touched her ear, and the voice was low and ambiguous.
"Which kid did I catch doing something bad?"
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