Chapter 37 Knitting a Scarf "How can I not act like a spoiled child?"
October 4, 2018: Cloudy
Love makes the brave become hesitant and the timid become brave.
——Excerpt from Tao Shuran’s Diary
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After returning home for National Day, Fang Qingyi came to Tao Shuran's house to play. She sat cross-legged on the sofa and ate melon seeds.
I feel so disappointed while knocking on the door.
"Take the initiative, Tao Shuran."
Fang Qingyi tutted. "How can love come from not taking the initiative? Now that you have status, you get to know that those who are close to the water get the moon first."
"But the moon can't be caught," Tao Shuran whispered. "Given the distances in the universe, even the closest towers can't be caught."
“Nothing is difficult in this world if one sets his mind to it.”
Fang Qingyi started typing away on her phone. As she did so, she turned around and asked, "It's Liang Yuanjing's birthday in November. I'll take the initiative to organize a party. Would you like to take the initiative?"
Hesitantly, Tao Shuran said "hmm" softly.
She asked again: "What gift do you think I should give him?"
Fang Qingyi: "What kind do you want?"
Tao Shuran thought for a moment and answered seriously, "A gift that he likes very much, but he won't be able to tell that I like him."
"pen?"
"Suit?"
"How about giving me a model airplane?"
Tao Shuran kept shaking his head at a series of suggestions, always feeling that something was missing. Luxurious gifts meant nothing to him.
Her selfish desire was to have something that could truly stay with him.
Even if they separate in the future, this gift can replace her and continue to stay by his side.
Fang Qingyi thought about it for a while but gave up and lay on the sofa watching TV series. The air was gradually getting chilly like autumn and winter.
She shrank her neck, and suddenly an idea came to her.
"How about giving her a scarf? It would be very meaningful if you knitted one yourself."
"And if you don't tell him, he definitely won't know it was you who knitted it. Scarves are a must-have in winter; they're practical and valuable."
Tao Shuran's mind moved slightly, and she picked up her phone to start searching for scarf knitting tutorials.
She bought a bunch of tools and materials, and even bought the most skin-friendly cashmere yarn, even though the comments below said that cashmere yarn was difficult to knit.
But she always hopes for the best for Liang Yuanjing.
Fang Qingyi watched her series of actions from the side and said with a bit of sourness, "I'm so envious, Ranran, why doesn't anyone knit a scarf for me?"
Tao Shuran understood her hidden meaning and said to her with a chuckle, "Whatever color you like, I'll knit one for you."
Fang Qingyi was so happy that she cheered with her arms raised.
"Yeah, I want a colorful one."
During the seven-day National Day holiday, Tao Shuran hardly went out. He stayed in his room alone to study the scarf knitting tutorial.
Handicrafts are a test of one's patience. After knitting two rounds and getting a rough shape, I found that I missed two steps in the first round, and the rest of the knitting was not done right.
There was no other way, so Tao Shuran took the whole thing apart and re-wove it.
A day passed, her eyes were sore, and the tangled wool balls on the ground were messy. She rubbed her eyes and continued to knit according to the tutorial.
There was a gentle knock on the door.
While she was frantically hiding her scarf, Tao Hongfeng walked in with a plate of cut fruit.
"Of course, what are you doing?"
Tao Hongfeng pinched a piece of unfinished product under the pillow, feeling a little amused.
"What is this, a scarf?"
"When I was in my first year of college and I was dating, your mother seemed to have knitted something like this for me."
Having said this, Tao Hongfeng paused.
He put down the fruit plate and looked at her hesitantly, even choosing his words carefully.
"Ran Ran, do you have a boy you like at school?"
"No, I was just trying it out." Tao Shuran hurriedly took the yarn from his father and explained casually, "The repair practice teacher thinks we are not steady enough and not careful enough."
"So I wanted to see if I could do some manual labor to improve my flexibility."
"Actually, there's nothing wrong with having a relationship." Tao Hongfeng shrugged. "Your mother and I were college classmates. Campus romance is pretty beautiful."
Tao Shuran asked curiously, "How beautiful is it?"
Tao Hongfeng's face showed a nostalgic expression: "After class, I went to pick her up. We would spend the whole afternoon strolling around the snack street near the school. In the evening, we would hold hands and walk on the playground. One time, under the lingering moonlight, I couldn't help but kiss her forehead."
"Who confessed first, you or mom?"
"Of course..." Tao Hongfeng stopped talking, turned his head away embarrassedly, and pretended to scold her, "You kid, you even asked about us."
Tao Shuran stuck out his tongue and secretly felt lucky that he had finally changed the subject.
After working hard for a long time, Tao Shuran finally knitted a decent scarf by November.
As a decoration, on weekends she would drag Fang Qingyi to accompany her to a gold shop in a shopping mall near the school to buy a small accessory.
When paying, Fang Qingyi smacked her lips and said, "What a generous gesture, Tao Shuran."
"You've almost spent all your scholarship money for this semester, haven't you?"
Tao Shuran smiled and said, "As long as he likes it."
She found a cafe and sat down. While waiting for her coffee, Tao Shuran fixed the pendant on her scarf.
She chose a burgundy cashmere scarf. When she first saw this color, she thought it was very suitable for Liang Yuanjing.
The accessory she chose was a planet with falling stars. The clerk said it was Mercury. Tao Shuran tilted her head and looked at it for a long time, but couldn't see any features indicating that it was Mercury, but she accepted this setting.
Watching her threading the needle, Fang Qingyi suggested, "How about you sew your name on the side?"
"How romantic it is, the one you love is wearing a scarf you made yourself, with your name close to his heart."
For a moment, Tao Shuran was aroused by her description.
Soon, she suppressed it again and shook her head.
"This is too obvious."
"What's so obvious about it? Just embroider an R and call it a trademark. Boys won't care so much."
Tao Shuran: "Then let me try?"
After five minutes, she pursed her lips.
He had overestimated his own craftsmanship. Staring at the crooked letter R that was curled into a circle on the scarf, Tao Shuran held his aching forehead.
Turning to ask for help: "What should I do?"
Seeing that the agreed time was approaching, Fang Qingyi made a quick decision and pulled her away.
"That's how brand design is. Anyway, if you don't admit it, Liang Yuanjing will never guess that you embroidered it yourself."
Liang Yuanjing's birthday is on the beginning of winter.
A person who shines as brightly as a flame was born in the bitter early winter.
Tao Shuran still remembers that his birthday was celebrated at the Affiliated High School last year. The conditions were very simple at that time, but she still made great efforts to give him a proper birthday.
At that time, they were not even friends.
A year later, she became his girlfriend in name only.
God's script always seems to be difficult to understand, and Tao Shuran doesn't know how far he and Liang Yuanjing have come.
She was probably very close to the moon, but the moon is the moon, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't pick it up.
The moon doesn't even know it's the moon.
Thinking of this, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of her lips.
I pushed open the door of the box and walked in. Not surprisingly, there were already a lot of people inside.
Liang Yuanjing has a lot of friends, all those he can name are there, and there are also a lot of people he has never met before, filling up the entire private room.
He was surrounded by everyone and stood in the center, as if he was born to be the protagonist.
Tao Shuran was not used to such an atmosphere and was about to hide in the corner like a turtle. But before he could walk over, he was caught by Liang Yuanjing at a glance.
He immediately put down the cards in his hand, pulled out a chair and walked towards her.
"Hey! Why did Jing give up his cards halfway through the game?"
"That's right, I'm about to win..." Zhao Zhengnian said with a lollipop in his mouth and followed the scene with his eyes.
He suddenly shouted in an exaggerated tone: "Oh, it turns out that our sister Tao is here."
"Hello, sister-in-law!"
The deafening "Hello, sister-in-law" scared Tao Shuran so much that she couldn't help but tremble all over and her eyes widened slightly.
I wish I could run away right here.
As a result, he was caught by Liang Yuanjing halfway through his run.
He reached out his long arm and pulled the hat off her head. Seeing her fair and pink face, a slight smile appeared on his face.
He joked, "Student Tao Shuran, didn't you bring your invitation? You're dressed so furtively."
Tao Shuran touched his earlobe, looked up and asked him seriously, "Do you really need an invitation?"
When she came, Fang Qingyi didn't tell her about this part.
Maybe it’s the special rules of their circle.
Tao Shuran's eyelashes drooped and her eyes dimmed.
Liang Yuanjing lowered his head and looked at her expression, then said "yes" in a drawn-out tone, obviously teasing her.
He paused, then reached out and picked up her hat and covered it back on her. Then, he folded his arms, leaned over and whispered in her ear -
"However, girlfriends have the privilege of not being invited."
The pulled-down hat blocked the view, and the deep male voice beside the ear became clearer and clearer.
A thin layer of heat appeared on Tao Shuran's face, her eyelashes brushed against the dry fabric, and her heart beat rapidly.
I feel like he is right next to me.
The air conditioner was on in the room and the air was a bit stuffy. Tao Shuran slowly unzipped his pants and his face felt a bit hot from the wind.
Liang Yuanjing glanced at her, stretched out his fingertips to feel the temperature of her neck, and asked considerately, "Are you hot?"
Tao Shuran said "hmm" and slowly took off his coat.
Liang Yuanjing had been standing by waiting for her. He naturally reached out and took the coat she took off and put it on his arm.
They were so familiar with each other that it seemed as if they had been in love for a long time.
Tao Shuran bit her lower lip tightly, forcing herself not to pay attention to the details anymore.
But the heart that has a crush on someone is like a magnifying glass that can magnify several times. His every move is like a movie, slowly playing in her pupils.
"Sit here."
Liang Yuanjing pushed the man back to his original seat, a smile on his lips, and with a slightly casual tone, he raised his chin and instructed the others at the table -
"Take care of everything, girls."
Unexpectedly, she was pushed onto the main table. Tao Shuran wanted to stand up, but the hands on her shoulders pressed down heavily.
She raised her head nervously and said awkwardly, "Liang Yuanjing, I'm not very good at this."
"Nothing, just a game."
Liang Yuanjing took out a lighter from his pocket and prepared to go out.
"I'm going out for a cigarette."
Tao Shuran grabbed the corner of his clothes as he was about to leave. Liang Yuanjing thought she was not used to being here alone and was trying to comfort her.
But she blinked her watery eyes and looked at him with clear eyes.
Ask softly: "When did you learn to smoke?"
Liang Yuanjing's heart stopped for a second.
His gaze naturally lingered on her face for a moment.
Soon, he smiled softly, looked at her in a joking tone and said, "I'll tell you when you win this one."
Tao Shuran said "hmm".
Her seriousness actually made this somewhat boring game more interesting.
So much so that Liang Yuanjing was always absent-mindedly thinking about her when he was outside.
By the time he came in, the atmosphere had already heated up to another level.
Liang Yuanjing raised his eyebrows, put one hand in his pocket, and walked over slowly. Amid the fierce sound of playing cards, Tao Shuran, who was holding a handful of cards, was obviously a little out of place.
She looked very nervous, staring straight ahead. Because she had lost so many games, her forehead was covered with small punishment notes.
Seeing this scene, Liang Yuanjing couldn't help but laugh softly.
He bent down and flicked the hanging note with his fingertips, smiling mischievously.
"Why is it so pitiful?"
Tao Shuran seemed to have seen a savior, puffed up her cheeks, and spoke to him with a bit of grievance.
"They are all too good. I can't beat them."
"Really?" Liang Yuanjing dragged out his tone and echoed her.
"Didn't you say you were going to take care of her? Is this how you take care of people for me?"
His tone was as if he was coming to call for an explanation, and his excessive favoritism made Tao Shuran feel embarrassed.
She tugged at his sleeve and explained quietly, "Everyone has told me many times, it's just that I don't understand how to play it."
Liang Yuanjing pinched the note between two fingers, half bent down, and looked into her clear eyes.
There was a hint of smile in his eyes, and he was teasing her on purpose.
"You want me to help you?"
"If you make me happy, I'll help you win."
Suddenly, the distance was so close that the hanging note limited the vision, and only the narrow space left was the small space lifted by Liang Yuanjing's fingertips.
Tao Shuran blinked, her pupils completely occupied by his face.
What was even more touching was that at such a close distance, she also saw herself being completely accepted in Liang Yuanjing's eyes.
How to coax him?
I have absolutely no such experience.
Tao Shuran turned his head and looked at Fang Qingyi frantically for help.
After receiving her signal, Fang Qingyi immediately dropped the game console in her hand, leaned on the sofa with her hands, pointed at her mouth and tried hard to mouth the words to her.
Before Tao Shuran could see what she said clearly, her chin was pinched and she was twisted back.
Liang Yuanjing folded his arms across his chest and looked at her with a smile, and the threatening tone in his voice sounded very real.
"Think for yourself."
"Otherwise it doesn't count."
Tao Shuran puffed up her cheeks again and lowered her eyes. For a moment, she had the urge to raise them, but when she met his smiling eyes, she timidly ran away.
Her heart was leaping and shaking with joy at this moment, and the warm touch on her chin lingered for a moment, as if she were dreaming.
Her mind raced through the remedial lessons Fang Qingyi had given her before, and the shameful plot and lines flooded back to her mind, causing Tao Shuran's body temperature to rise sharply.
She felt a fire burning in her heart.
"Liang Yuanjing."
Tao Shuran closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and put on a desperate attitude.
She clasped her hands together, blinked her eyes, made a begging gesture, and said to him in a very sincere voice:
"Please help me."
Looking at her, Liang Yuanjing's mind flashed with the lucky cat statue at the entrance of the supermarket. It had a forced, world-weary expression, and was shaking its head while saying "Welcome".
Tao Shuran's awkward cuteness now is just like this.
Liang Yuanjing couldn't help but burst out laughing.
After laughing, he felt a little embarrassed, put his bent fingers against his lips, and said "hmm" vaguely.
Does this mean you’ve passed the test?
After all, it was the first time. Tao Shuran cleared his cough and looked up at him with a little anticipation.
Receiving her gaze, Liang Yuanjing raised his eyebrows, moved the fingers between his lips forward and bit them, as if he was enduring something.
After a while, his low but obviously smiling voice fell into her ears.
"You're just reading a text. You can't even act like a spoiled child."
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The author has something to say: [Cat's Paw][Cat's Paw] I'm not saying anything, but why does our Ajing have a bit of the feeling of a couple in a nurturing relationship?
Cherish the sweetness of these chapters and shout out our tone! We are a secret love sour novel!!! (Just kidding)
My understanding of secret love is that the heart wants to get closer but dares not, wavering between bravery and cowardice, and even the feelings are intertwined with sweetness and sadness. This feeling of being neither up nor down is very painful, but as long as I think that he might like me too, all the efforts seem to be worth it.
Among them, staying by your side in the name of a friend and secretly loving you, I personally think it is the most bittersweet secret love [burst crying][burst crying]
Don't ask why I know, just because I had a crush on you [burst crying][burst crying]
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