On a cloudy Sunday afternoon, Zhou Mo was sitting in the coffee shop where she and Lu Xiao had agreed to meet. She looked at the building opposite and was bored looking for the floor where Lu Xiao took French class. Suddenly, her left eyelid twitched, and then her right eyelid twitched. As the saying goes, the left eye twitches for good fortune and the right eye twitches for disaster, but her two eyelids twitched at the same time, what did this mean?
After a long while, her eyelids finally closed. Seeing that the classroom in the building opposite was still bright and clear, she couldn't help but sigh and took out her phone to play a game of match-3. She was so absorbed in the game that she could kill time. She could even mute the conversations and the sounds of knives and forks in the cafe. She didn't even notice someone passing by her or behind her.
When she encountered a problem, Weekend frowned slightly and subconsciously put her finger on her lips. Just as she was thinking about how to proceed, suddenly an arm went around her shoulders and a slender white index finger swiped across her mobile phone screen.
"here."
Weekend's body suddenly stiffened and the phone almost fell from his hands.
Normally, she would have admired this carefully, first the plump and white hands with distinct joints, and then the deep and pleasant voice like a bell. The man did not smell of cigarettes, but instead had the faint fragrance of lavender laundry detergent. But now, her mind was blank, let alone observing these small details.
She saw that the man who had just held her in his arms had sat down opposite her, looking at her with a smile in his eyes. The corners of his mouth were also curved upwards, and coupled with his handsome face, his smile had a bit more charm.
"weekend."
Han Shao called her, and his voice was like a gentle breeze in March mixed with the scent of peach blossoms.
"What?"
"Be my girlfriend."
Just a few days ago, Weekend told Lu Xiao that the fancy confessions made by men nowadays are all tricks, and this time she met a man who had no tricks at all.
But……
"Why?" They had only known each other for a week.
Han Shao turned his head and looked out the window. The light instantly fell into his eyes, creating ripples on the dark surface of a deep pool. He propped up his chin and smiled at her, like a spirited teenager still on campus, with a bit of childishness and fearless certainty: "Because I really like you."
She almost fled back to the dormitory on the weekend. After calming down for a night, she rejected Han Shao's confession via text message. After hesitating for a long time, she deleted his phone number.
However, even though she tried every means to avoid Han Shao, she soon met him again, thanks to her roommate, who was also someone's cousin, Lu Xiao!
Last night, Weekend, who was sent by the club's director to attend a lecture at H University, was studying the route. Lu Xiao slapped his thigh when he heard it and said generously, "This is not difficult. I have a way. You go to sleep first. I'll go with you tomorrow."
During the weekend, she thought that since Lu Xiao was a local, it would be fine for her to take him with her, so she climbed onto the bed and fell asleep without any worries. Who would have thought that today... At this moment, Han Shao was sitting in his Land Rover, rolled down the window, and said to them, "Get in the car."
Lu Xiao jumped to the side of the car and opened the passenger door. Weekend could feel the gaze in the car on her for a long time, so she had to bite the bullet and take a step forward.
"Lu Xiao, go sit in the back."
Lu Xiao's butt almost touched the passenger seat. Hearing this, she immediately reacted and asked fiercely: "Why?"
"I'm not happy because you're sitting in the front."
Han Shao had a smile on his lips when he said this, his slender fingers occasionally fell on the steering wheel, and he looked very happy.
"Humph, I'm not happy to sit down yet!"
Although Lu Xiao was angry, he could only swallow his anger, because he was the driver. Weekend was also amused by the bickering between the two. Just as he was about to follow Lu Xiao to sit in the back, he heard Han Shao say, "Weekend, you sit in the front."
"Ah? Why?"
Weekend was stunned and quickly refused: "It's okay, Lu Xiao and I will sit in the back together."
"Your school is far from H University, and Lu Xiao will lie on the back seat and sleep later." Han Shao said.
"Cousin, I went to bed early last night!" Lu Xiao retorted excitedly.
The implication is: She is not sleepy at all now, don't use her as an excuse!
"You said the same thing the last time we went out to play, what was the result?"
"And then..." Well, she fell asleep.
Weekend didn't know whether what the two said was true or not, but after hesitating for a while, she still sat in the passenger seat. She took a deep breath. She didn't expect that even sitting in a car would be so difficult.
"weekend."
"Huh?" Weekend turned around and saw the other person staring into his eyes, and his heart skipped a beat.
Han Shao narrowed his eyes and smiled, and said softly: "Fasten your seat belts."
"Oh!" Weekend's face turned red and he hurriedly fastened his seat belt.
It was already an hour and a half later when the car arrived at H University. Lu Xiao was sleeping soundly as Han Shao said before. After being woken up, Lu Xiao no longer had the interest to go to H University to attend the lecture. In addition, looking at her cousin's expression, he seemed to think she was a burden, so she wisely found an excuse to slip away.
Looking at Lu Xiao’s “slipping away” back, Weekend shouted in his heart: This unreliable person!
As a result, when they entered the venue, the lecture had already started for nearly ten minutes. The seats were full. Fortunately, Han Shao had sharp eyes and saw two seats in a small corner in the distance, so he took Weekend over to sit down. Weekend was shy. Because he was late and blocked other people's sight when he passed by them, his cheeks were slightly red, and he kept saying sorry.
It wasn't until she sat down that she heard the two girls behind her say in a voice loud enough for everyone around them to hear clearly: "A handsome guy just walked by!"
weekend:"……"
She couldn't help but glance sideways at Han Shao. So the commotion caused by their walking just now was actually because he was handsome? Weekend looked at that angular profile and had to say that it was indeed pleasing to the eye, especially among this group of young college students. Han Shao had an indescribable masculine charm.
"weekend."
Weekend was startled, thinking that he had discovered that he was secretly looking at him, so he blurted out: "I was just thinking that this professor is so popular, and his lectures must be very interesting."
Phew, that was close...
"Yeah?"
After hearing this, Han Shao leaned towards her and lowered his voice, saying, "Do you need me to take you through the 'back door'?"
"back door?"
"I heard from Lu Xiao that you are going to write an article for this lecture."
"Yes."
"This professor happens to be my former advisor. I can take you to meet him."
I spent the weekend in silence, trying to digest every word the other person said. If I could communicate with the professor face to face, it would definitely help me write the article, but...
"Isn't this bad?" In fact, she was still very conflicted. Of course, it would be great to meet this professor, but poverty and humbleness cannot change him, and might and power cannot bend him...
"What's wrong with that?" Han Shao looked at her with amusement.
Weekend pursed her lips and thought of a reason. If she agreed, wouldn't she be jumping into his trap and owing him a favor? It would be difficult to clear herself from it in the future.
"Forget it, let's not do it."
"Why?"
“It’s hard to say.”
"Who is the relationship between you and me?"
"Yeah!" Weekend nodded firmly.
"Are that handsome guy and that girl a couple?"
"That should be the case. Didn't you notice that the two of them were so close?"
weekend:"……"
She didn't expect that their every move had been "monitored" for a while. She wanted to go back and explain that they were really not a couple! Also, next time when you discuss others, can you turn down the volume?
Han Shao seemed not to have heard the person behind him talking. He suddenly chuckled, then sat up straight, leaning back on the chair. He said meaningfully, "What's so difficult about this?"
Weekend looked at him, thinking he hadn't finished talking yet, but he looked as if he had finished talking. At this time, warm applause broke out in the venue, and the applause brought this conversation to an end. Of course, in Weekend's eyes, this period was not perfect.
After the lecture, the two of them followed the crowd out. There was an obvious temperature difference between indoors and outdoors. Weekend couldn't help rubbing her hands. This small action was naturally noticed by Han Shao. He walked to her calmly and blocked the wind direction.
"Are you hungry? The restaurant is not far from here. H's sweet and sour pork tastes pretty good." He said to the weekend.
Weekend thought that today's lunch should be solved here, so he said: "Then I will call Lu Xiao."
As soon as she took out her cell phone, her shoulders were suddenly lifted up by a force and she was pulled into the arms of the person next to her. It was not until she heard the girl behind her apologize that Weekend realized what was going on - the girl was running so fast that she almost bumped into her.
Han Shao lowered his head and looked at her carefully, as if to confirm whether she was injured: "Weekend, are you okay?"
Weekend quickly left his arms and replied softly, "It's okay."
She touched her hot cheeks. Without anyone telling her, she could clearly feel her ears getting red. She even felt that her current condition was not suitable for going to the crowded cafeteria to keep warm, otherwise it would be no different from taking a sauna.
Han Shao thought that her hesitation was because she was worried about Lu Xiao, so he said, "Don't worry about Lu Xiao. If she is hungry, no one will be hungry."
weekend:"……"
Han Shao really didn't lie to her. The sweet and sour pork tenderloin at H University was really delicious, and it was totally different from the ones at their school. Just now, when they were eating , he might have seen her excessive love for the sweet and sour pork tenderloin, so he gave her all the food on his plate. Although Weekend felt that this was not a good idea, with a persistent character like Han Shao, it was hard for her to refuse him.
After the two of them had finished their meal, they walked side by side in silence in H University to digest their food. Seeing that Han Shao was familiar with H University, Weekend was about to use this as an excuse to ease the awkward atmosphere, but unexpectedly someone called his name first.
"Han Shao."
Weekend saw the professor who had been giving a speech at the conference just a few hours ago striding towards them. She blinked and looked at Han Shao again, and found that he had a slight smile on his face. He bowed slightly to the professor and said politely, "Hello, teacher, long time no see."
The professor smiled and said, "You are a very busy man now. It is rare to see you."
Han Shao said: "Teacher, you are the one."
The professor raised his eyebrows and asked unhappily, "Why, have you come back to see me?"
Seeing the old professor and Han Shao talking happily at the weekend, she naturally had no right to interrupt. Listening to their conversation, it turned out that Han Shao was once the professor's favorite student. The small details that she had not noticed before now turned into sticks, hitting her head again and again, making her recall that it was no wonder that Han Shao took the initiative to take her through the back door, and he was very familiar with H University and even the taste of the canteen.
"Is this your girlfriend?" She didn't know when the conversation turned to her.
Weekend suddenly raised his head and called out subconsciously: "Hello, professor."
"Haha, hello."
No! She shouldn't have said hello first. She should have denied the relationship between them.
The professor here was teasing, "Han Shao, where did you kidnap this beautiful girl?"
Weekend wanted to rush to speak, but Han Shao didn't seem to want to give her the chance and said first: "She came here to listen to your lecture and write a manuscript by the way."
The professor understood what she meant, turned his gaze towards her, and said generously, "Han Shao has my contact information, please let me know if you need any help."
Weekend glanced at Han Shao, and it turned out that this was what he meant by going through the "back door".
"By the way, bring her here to eat sweet and sour pork."
"Are you sending the little girl away with a portion of sweet and sour pork?"
There was another round of communication. In the end, the professor left first because of something else, and Weekend didn't have time to explain the relationship between the two of them.
"Weekend, gone."
Watching Han Shao take a few steps forward with his long legs, Weekend did not follow him, but chose to stay where she was. It was really useless to escape, and it would only cause misunderstandings. It would be better to solve it all at once. She took a deep breath, raised her eyes and looked straight at the person in front of her, her eyes were more serious than ever before.
She mustered up the courage to say, "Han Shao, I'm not your girlfriend. And I won't agree to be your girlfriend."
She guessed that a man like Han Shao must have lived a life of being the center of attention since birth, and it was probably the first time he was rejected. She observed him anxiously, but couldn't see his expression clearly. He lowered his eyes and was silent for a while, not knowing what he was thinking. Finally, he raised his eyes to see her anxious look, suddenly smiled, raised his eyebrows and whispered: "I thought you were so serious, and you were going to talk about something."
"Sorry. I feel like the relationship is changing too fast. I can't accept it." Weekend didn't have the courage to look at him again and lowered her head.
"But, it was obviously me who suffered the loss, why is it you who is wronged?"
Han Shao's helpless tone made Weekend look up at him in confusion. Suffer a loss? What loss did he suffer?
He added: "You were the one who gave me the title of 'girlfriend'. I didn't say anything."
Weekend: “This…”
Isn't this the first time she's nervous about seeing the professor? Her brain's first reaction is to ask first. Besides, she also wants to explain later. Isn't it that he has been obstructing her intentionally or unintentionally?
"That..." Weekend was a little incoherent, her cheeks turned red, "I am, I am not..." Help, how should she explain it!
Just as she was trying to wrap her head around the words, the man in front of her rubbed her hair. She heard him say softly, "It's okay. It's not too late to take off the title after you've gone through the 'back door'. Of course, I'll give it to you whenever you want."