Chapter 45: Can’t hide it “Tao Shuran, is it fun to play tricks on me?”…
After the summer vacation, Tao Shuran officially entered his sophomore year.
Their college also moved to the new campus in Linchuan.
They suddenly moved to a new dormitory and had to move everything there. The new students had not yet arrived, so Tao Shuran and the other "old students" were reliving the scene from a year ago.
The big and small bags were all in a mess and there was nothing to say.
Tao Shuran is better. She has a very low desire for material things and hasn't bought many things in the past year since she came to Qing University.
What's more, Fang Qingyi, Zhao Zhengnian and a bunch of others came to help her move things.
The bags she had packed were not as many as the people standing at the door.
Even so, Zhao Zhengnian continued, "Ajing said he'll come see you after training."
Tao Shuran: "But I don't think I need so many people to help me move."
"As your boyfriend, Jing will definitely come."
Zhao Zhengnian crossed his arms, speaking in the tone of a love defender. "Sister Tao, how long has it been since you and Ajing appeared at school together?"
"You don't even know that Jing's suitor has been following him to the training hall again recently, and he's been scolded by the instructor several times."
So there are girls looking for him at the training place again?
Tao Shuran's eyelashes trembled. She almost never went to the training ground to find him for fear of disturbing his training.
But liking someone seems to be an act of chasing courage. There is always someone braver than her, who goes forward and interrupts the flight training directly.
I remember one time, the instructor got angry and sternly told Liang Yuanjing, "If you don't deal with these relationships, don't come to training. If you do, you'll only affect other students."
This is probably why Liang Yuanjing asked her to pretend to be his girlfriend.
And it is obvious that she is a negligent girlfriend.
The Linchuan campus is about a forty-minute drive from the main campus. Fu Changpei borrowed a car from a senior student in the college in advance to take her there.
When we were moving the luggage, Liang Yuanjing arrived late.
He came in a hurry and had no time to change out of his pilot training uniform. His white shirt outlined his straight back, and his black trousers perfectly wrapped his long, straight legs. At this moment, he strode over and walked towards Tao Shuran with determination.
Tao Shuran tilted his head, as if he saw what he would look like when he actually became a pilot one day in the future.
She suddenly felt a sense of pride in her heart, as if she admired this young man who was always full of fighting spirit and wanted to share his glory and honor.
From the moment Liang Yuanjing stood beside her, people around him started talking.
Tao Shuran moved his toes and was about to take two steps back.
Liang Yuanjing seemed to have anticipated all of her escape routes, and he lazily stretched out his arm to block her from behind. As she stepped back, her slender waist hit his forearm directly, as if she was throwing herself into his arms.
"Again hiding from me?"
He lowered his head and asked her, "You've been hiding from me for the entire summer. Isn't that enough?"
"Hmm? What's the reason?"
Of course Tao Shuran couldn't tell the reason.
After that camping trip, she followed Fang Qingyi's teachings and pretended to be drunk and forgetful. But she could pretend that nothing had happened, but the emotions of what had happened were always there.
Whenever she saw Liang Yuanjing, she would remember the scene when their lips touched that night.
She shook her head desperately, but still said stubbornly, "I'm not hiding from you."
Liang Yuanjing couldn't help laughing: "Tao Shuran, do you know that you are not good at lying at all?"
Tao Shuran lowered his eyes and said nothing.
She was indeed not good at lying, but because she was not good at hiding her emotions, she hid the fact that she liked Liang Yuanjing year after year.
Liang Yuanjing took the 26-inch suitcase from her hand, and put his other hand across her shoulder to take the messenger bag she was carrying.
In fact, the bag was not very heavy, so Tao Shuran quickly waved his hand to indicate that he could carry it.
Seeing her discomfort, Liang Yuanjing covered her ears with his hands, leaned over and whispered, "Don't pay attention to them. Everyone is looking at you because you are so beautiful today."
Tao Shuran whispered, "They obviously came here to see you."
"Who said that?"
Liang Yuanjing chuckled and looked at her seriously, saying word by word, "Tao Shuran, please don't ignore your own brilliance, okay?"
"I heard that grandma plans to let you join Jingbei's project team?"
Tao Shuran nodded slightly.
Liang Yuanjing exclaimed in admiration: "As far as I know, you are the youngest one in all these years. To be recognized by my grandmother, you must be quite capable."
"There are still interviews and selections."
Tao Shuran lowered his eyes and said softly, "I will work hard. If everything goes well, I can go to Jingbei with you in my junior year."
Liang Yuanjing paused, a slight smile appeared on his face, and he raised his fist and gently touched it with her nervously clenched hand.
The voice was clear: "Then I wish you success."
"See you in Jingbei."
The moment he spoke, Tao Shuran was in a trance and was brought back to the summer vacation of 2018. At that time, it was an incredible thing for her to get admitted to Qinghai University.
But because I like Liang Yuanjing, many incredible things have become scenery.
And she will work harder to reach the destination with him.
Thinking of this, Tao Shuran felt more resolute and his nervousness about the interview dissipated a little.
When I got in the car, I needed to put a box on the back seat because the trunk was full of things.
The originally spacious seat suddenly became narrow, so Tao Shuran climbed into the car first and sat down in the middle seat.
Liang Yuanjing followed him into the car.
Because the space was too crowded, Tao Shuran was forced to take up some of his space.
Liang Yuanjing was already tall and strong, and when she leaned over, the faint fragrance she brought lingered in his nostrils.
He tilted his head in slight surprise, realizing that he had never noticed this detail before.
Naturally, Liang Yuanjing's eyes fell on the girl's face. Her face was as white as jade, with a small and straight nose. She had a pair of very round and beautiful almond-shaped eyes, and her eyelashes trembled. Usually, she had no aggressive power, and was too gentle and soft.
When did he start paying attention to these details?
Liang Yuanjing didn't know.
At this moment, he lowered his head to look at her profile, and finally, for some unknown reason, asked -
"Tao Shuran, do you like me a little bit?"
Sure enough, after she asked this question, her eyelashes trembled even more violently, and a look of panic appeared in her almond-shaped eyes.
Tao Shuran gripped the seat belt nervously, an idea clamoring in his mind.
Did he discover something?
No, she would never let Liang Yuanjing find out that she liked him.
Tao Shuran bit her lower lip and tried to calm down again.
She didn't dare look up at his eyes, for fear that her feelings of love would slip out. Like a coward, she even muffled her voice under her collar.
Liang Yuanjing heard her say "no" in a voice as soft as a mosquito.
He was gloomy for a moment, and his emotions changed so quickly that even he couldn't control himself.
Liang Yuanjing raised his eyebrows and looked away as if nothing had happened.
He said "hmm" coldly.
*
The interview with the Jingbei project team was scheduled for Saturday morning on the 6th floor of the main teaching building.
After the interview, Tao Shuran walked to the school gate to wait for Fang Qingyi to finish class.
In the corridor not far from the gate, students who were out for a trip gathered in groups of three or four. Like most of her, they were waiting for their friends to finish class.
While waiting, Tao Shuran was bored and started browsing Weibo.
She doesn't have any hobbies, but she follows a lot of pet bloggers on Weibo. She likes every kind of animal, from kittens, puppies to pigs.
When she scrolled to the bottom, the system automatically refreshed and pushed her a hot post in the same city.
"Excuse me, is the top post on the Qingda Forum real? Why does it feel like the poster is writing a novel?"
For Tao Shuran, this kind of gossip was just fast food information that he glanced over.
The reason why she didn't dial it this time was because she saw her name in the comment section. The first few floors still had the abbreviation of her name, but her full name was directly listed in the latter part.
It felt bad to have his name suddenly appear in the online world. In an instant, Tao Shuran's heart rate soared to an extremely high level.
She didn't care about anything else and found this post according to the link in the comment section.
It was the same post she had seen last time, but the difference was that the direction of the comments section was completely different.
"I feel like the plot is a bit contrived now... What about the heroine getting into a top 10 university in the country because of the hero's inspiration? Is this a novel?"
"The first person above, I originally read this as a realistic sweet story, but honestly, I'm feeling a bit sick of it now. It's too heavy on the industrial saccharin."
"Yeah, and they say girls always have a crush on boys. How could someone actually like someone for that long?"
"Honestly, this kind of industrial fiction written in such rubbish style shouldn't be labeled as about a Qingda campus couple. It feels like forced co-optation..."
Layer upon layer of high buildings added to the popularity of this post. Tao Shuran kept scrolling and finally saw a response from Luo Qiuya, the poster.
"Everyone says my writing is ugly, I admit it, but they say everything I wrote is false, which is absolutely impossible. I declare that this story happened right next to me. It happened to my roommates. They were in high school and their secret crush came true. It was a beautiful couple's love."
"Most of my inspiration for this piece came from these two people. The story about my secret crush also came from a secret crush diary written by my roommate."
"Really? I'm showing you my roommate's handwritten diary. I'm so moved."
In order to prove herself, Luo Qiuya even posted several pictures below.
When she saw those pictures, Tao Shuran's pupils suddenly shrank. She enlarged the pictures in disbelief. She saw familiar handwriting and wrinkled paper from being flipped through many times.
The secret hidden deep in her heart was revealed to the public.
The blood flowed backwards, Tao Shuran's whole body became cold, and the fingertips holding the screen were trembling.
At this moment, she had lost all thoughts in her mind, and those quarreling words seemed to appear in her ears.
"Fuck, why is this handwriting so similar to the handwriting of the top student in our class, Tao Shuran?"
"Family, I must have checked it, it's exactly the same."
"I figured it out. It turns out the protagonists are the most famous couple. I didn't expect the girl to have a crush on the boy for so many years. She's basically a bootlicker."
Her secret was finally revealed.
Tao Shuran was shaking all over and quickly dialed Luo Qiuya's number. Her tone was more serious than ever and she sounded very angry.
"Luo Qiuya, please delete this post right now."
"Also, please explain to me why my diary appeared in your hands."
Walking back to the teaching building from the school gate, Tao Shuran was trembling all over.
Her head felt like it was being scraped by a blunt knife. She didn't dare to think about how Liang Yuanjing would react when he knew about this.
She wasn't ready to tell him yet.
Luo Qiuya on the phone was silent for a few seconds, obviously not expecting her to react like this.
"You accidentally dropped the diary on the ground. When I picked it up, I flipped through a few pages and thought it was romantic, so I took a photo and saved it as inspiration. I'm sorry, Ranran."
"But I also posted it to clarify things for you and Liang Yuanjing. There are always people in school who suspect you two aren't a real couple."
"That's enough."
Tao Shuran was close to collapse: "Please return the things to me immediately."
"Then meet in Room 302. I'll have someone bring it to you."
When I arrived at Room 302, there was no one in the empty classroom.
Tao Shuran had a severe headache. She squatted down and hugged her knees to relieve the pain for a while, trying to sort out her confused thoughts.
After a while, she heard footsteps in the corridor. She stood up immediately, but did not see Luo Qiuya.
Instead, there was a disgusting face.
Xu Yanyang, who had just returned from the training ground, crossed his arms, followed by two boys from other majors, who approached her with a smile.
Her intuition told her that Xu Yanyang had come with ill intentions.
Tao Shuran had no intention of getting entangled, so he walked to the back door, turned around and prepared to leave.
Who knew that Xu Yanyang would grab her and speak in a cruel tone.
"Are you still being so indifferent to me?"
"Tao Shuran, do you know that I hate this kind of you the most? You're so arrogant just because you're a little pretty, and you're so pretentious just because men like you."
Tao Shuran looked at him calmly: "I have never regarded boys' love as a great asset."
The implication is that he is not worthy.
Xu Yanyang was enraged again.
He quickly calmed down, pulled out a thin diary from his bag, looked at her with a sneer and said, "Do you know what this is?"
Tao Shuran immediately shouted, "Give it back to me."
She missed, and Xu Yanyang took a step back, stretching out his arms and waving them in the air proudly.
He looked at her with mockery in his eyes.
"Do you think you're so noble? Aren't you secretly Liang Yuanjing's bootlicker? Does he know you've been secretly in love with him since your senior year of high school? You're spying on his life like a thief?"
Opening the loose-leaf rings, Xu Yanyang flipped through a few pages and read:
"August 21, 2017, this is the first day I saw you. After three years, we finally met again."
"August 30, 2017, and today happens to be the day I still like you."
"On June 22, 2018, the moment the lights of the amusement park came on and the Ferris wheel reached its highest point, I will always remember your eyes. You are my moon, forever my moon."
…
"Stop reading! Give it back to me, Xu Yanyang!"
Tao Shuran rushed forward desperately. Xu Yanyang winked at the two boys next to him. They stepped forward tacitly, one standing on each side, blocking her way completely.
Xu Yanyang always read her diary with a contemptuous tone, and all the girl's thoughts seemed so absurd and ridiculous in his tone.
After reading each page, he raised his fingers slightly and threw it down. The light paper fell to the ground and was stepped on by his shoes.
All of Tao Shuran's self-esteem and shame were crushed to pieces.
She no longer tried to fight them with her strength, but simply squatted down and picked up the loose-leaf papers one by one.
Xu Yanyang walked behind her, stretched out his hand viciously, and prepared to push her down.
Before he could make a move, a fierce force hit his cheek directly.
Liang Yuanjing opened the window and jumped into the air with one hand. His steps were fast and sharp, and his moves were quick and decisive.
Even when facing three people in the classroom, he did not lose the upper hand alone.
Liang Yuanjing pressed the tip of his tongue against her cheek, his brows lowered and his anger was obvious, and he attacked fiercely again and again.
"Why, my girlfriend likes me, you're jealous, right?"
The moment he saw Liang Yuanjing, Tao Shuran felt that everything was over.
This secret can no longer be kept.
She turned around with difficulty and slowly picked up the paper on the ground.
After a while, the classroom returned to silence.
Liang Yuanjing leaned against a desk not far away, squinting his eyes and looking at her.
Finally, he couldn't help it, half squatted down, lowered his eyes slightly, and helped her pick up the inner pages scattered on the ground one by one.
Just like when he picked up the photo before, he deliberately avoided looking at her. Even though he was the protagonist of the story, the consideration and upbringing engraved in his bones prevented him from prying into any of her secrets.
Tao Shuran felt a lump in her nose and tears were about to fall.
She didn't know how to start, and didn't even dare to look up at Liang Yuanjing's eyes.
She had been deceiving him.
Liang Yuanjing stood up, grabbed a wet wipe in his hand, and wiped the stains left on her leather with his eyes downcast. No emotion could be seen in his eyes.
After a while, he handed it to her, and the veins on the inside of his cold white wrist were clearly visible.
Everything seems to be normal.
But Tao Shuran knew that from today on, everything was different.
She keenly felt that there was some kind of hidden aura in the atmosphere that was so quiet that it was almost frozen, just like Liang Yuanjing's deep, ink-black eyes at this moment.
He finally asked her, like God's final judgment.
"Don't you have anything you want to say?"
Tao Shuran lowered his head and fell into deep silence.
Liang Yuanjing was so angry that he laughed.
All the emotions surged up at once, and he looked at her with a dark and sharp gaze that seemed to want to cut her into two distinct halves.
A girl who said "I don't like him" in the morning, turned into a secret admirer of him until death by the evening.
It's all like a foolish joke
Liang Yuanjing had never experienced such a situation where his emotions were completely manipulated.
Her escape undoubtedly added fuel to the fire. Rather than being angry, he wanted to cut open her heart to see whether it was love or a joke.
"Tao Shuran."
Liang Yuanjing called her name again, and a mocking smile slowly appeared at the corner of his lips.
"Is it fun to play tricks on me?"
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