"Four years ago, was it you who saved me?"
"yes."
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry..." Su Peile looked at him with tearful eyes, sobbing.
Her mind was in a mess at this moment. He saved her life four years ago, and then there was a series of coincidences four years later. Besides feeling sorry, how should she face him?
The room was so quiet that only the sound of the clock hands on the wall could be heard, which made people feel even more desolate.
"Le Le, just pretend...that you haven't heard what Zheng Yu said to you." After a long time, Li Sheng Yu spoke in a low voice, with imperceptible pain in his voice.
Su Peile's back suddenly stiffened and he looked at him in surprise.
Li Shengyu said calmly, "I'm sorry, my grandfather and I came back a long time ago. I went upstairs to bring you some fruit, but I happened to hear what Zhengyu said to you at the door."
It turned out that he was already standing outside the door at that time.
"Le Le, you don't have to blame yourself. Although I am like this now because of the fire, I don't regret it. When I saw you at the Youth Palace four years ago, I was so happy. I still remember the scene. You were fanning yourself with a small fan with Hello Kitty printed on it. I recognized you at first sight. Unfortunately, you didn't recognize me."
Su Peile asked doubtfully: "Have we met before?" Wasn't the first time they met at the Youth Palace?
Li Shengyu stared at her face, with an unconscious smile in his tone: "Before that, one day it was raining, at the No. 56 bus stop, you were holding a purple umbrella, and I was standing next to you. I didn't have an umbrella, so you shared the same umbrella with the students next to you and gave me your umbrella."
The memory was brought back to four years ago, and Su Peile suddenly realized that, yes, it was raining too hard that day, and the boy looked so thin, so she gave him the umbrella, and was teased by her classmates for being a fangirl. But at that time, she was always shy and embarrassed to look up at him, and the boy only said "thank you" and never spoke again.
"I wanted to ask your name, but when I mustered up the courage to ask, the car you were in had already left. Unexpectedly, not long after, I saw you again at the Youth Palace. When you went on stage to receive the certificate of honor, I deliberately looked at your name. I thought I would not miss it the second time since I missed it the first time. When I was thinking about how to talk to you after I got off the stage, a fire broke out." Having said this, Li Shengyu stopped and closed his eyes slightly, as if he had returned to the terrible scene at that time.
Hearing this, Su Peile felt so sad that he felt like he was suffocating.
Li Shengyu's deep eyes flashed with complex light in the dark night. He sighed and continued, "When I woke up, it was already several days later. No one knew where the girl I rescued was. I saw myself in the mirror and I didn't have the courage to look for you again, so I went to the United States... But for so many years, what I prayed in my heart was that you would be safe and not injured. In this way, everything I have endured is worth it."
Hearing him say this, Su Peile felt even more sad and guilty: "Shengyu, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry!"
Li Shengyu smiled bitterly and said, "I thought I would never meet you again in this life, but I didn't expect that fate would arrange for us to meet in that way. When I first saw you, I wanted to hug you tightly and tell you who I was, but I don't have the same face as before, and you like Zhengyu."
Obviously, he was the one who knew her first and fell in love with her first, but he had to hide these feelings deep inside. He felt heartbroken.
"I..." As soon as Su Peile said this word, Li Shengyu sealed his lips with his fingers.
"You did so much for Jung Woo because you mistakenly believed that he was the one who saved you four years ago?"
Su Peile didn't know how to answer him. The scene of her first meeting with Li Zhengyu in Jiangyuan flashed through her mind. Then she was surprised when she saw him in the classroom after transferring to Mingxin Middle School. Later, she refuted Xia Ying, saying that Li Zhengyu was a good boy with a pure heart, and she wanted to be his girlfriend. Later, she confessed to him for the first time...
Yes, that’s because when she first met Jung Woo, she thought he was the one who saved her.
But falling in love with him came later.
Although she didn't answer, Li Shengyu already had the answer in his heart. He took a deep breath and said, "I just didn't want to cause trouble to you, so I didn't say it. Lele, I don't want you to be unhappy, and I don't want you to have any troubles, so just pretend that what happened today didn't happen."
"We already know about it, how can we pretend it didn't happen?"
"So what? Can anything be changed?" he asked.
When he met her again, even though he found out that she had mistaken Zhengyu for himself four years ago, he still controlled his emotions. After all, she was the person Zhengyu liked, so he could only stand aside silently, watching her and blessing her.
Sometimes he would resent the unfairness of fate. If fate had chosen to let them meet, why did the fire happen? And why did he lose his appearance after the fire, and why did he not even have the chance to recognize her?
Facing Li Shengyu's question, Su Peile was speechless. If Zhengyu knew that she was the girl who was saved by Shengyu four years ago, how would he react? She couldn't imagine this. Shengyu's accident was a taboo topic that the Li family avoided. If she was the source of such great harm to Shengyu, then what would happen to Zhengyu and Grandpa Li?
"LeLe, can I ask you a question?"
"Um."
"Do you know the truth... and like me a little bit?" Li Shengyu suddenly asked.
"Shengyu, I..."
"Forget it, don't answer." He raised his fingers and gently placed them on her forehead, smoothing them for her and comforting her. "It's getting late. I'll take you home. When you turn around and leave later, forget everything."
"Shengyu..."
"Le Le, as long as you still consider me a friend, everything that happened four years ago is no longer important."
Su Peile looked at him sadly. Would he really just brush it off as easily as he said?
Li Shengyu looked into her eyes. In her clear eyes, he could not see a trace of love, only guilt and sympathy towards him.
He endured the mixed feelings of pain in his heart, suddenly took her hand, pulled her arm in, and brought her into his arms. Without saying a word, he just rested his chin on her shoulder.
This time Su Peile did not push him away. She knew that she owed him more than just a hug.
At this moment, Li Shengyu hugged the girl in his arms, closed his eyes, and sadness flooded his heart like a surging tide.
If there hadn't been that unexpected fire four years ago, then the person she'd be thinking about so happily and keeping in her heart would have been him...
Although he was far away in the United States during these four years, her lovely face always appeared in his mind. He would never forget the feeling of her relying on him tightly in the chaos. He just wanted to take her away at that time. That was his only belief. However, after they escaped, he lost contact with her.
Now, she has become her cousin's girlfriend.
She is very happy now, but her happiness has nothing to do with him.
Did you miss it?
Is the love between them really going to be missed like this?
Su Peile heard his sigh, she pursed her lips tightly, her heart felt like it was being stabbed by needles. Shengyu, Shengyu who had suffered so much for her, how could she repay him and return his kindness?
Can we really turn around and pretend that those things never happened?
Su Peile simply couldn't do it. Whenever Zhengyu pulled her hand as usual, or talked and played with her intimately, she would feel a little guilty, and her eyes would always catch Li Shengyu's expression intentionally or unintentionally.
And every time she saw him forcing a smile despite looking obviously sad, she felt very sad.
There was no teacher present during the self-study class that afternoon, and the atmosphere in the class became relaxed.
Su Peile was sorting out her notes, and Li Zhengyu approached her with a smile and said, "Lele, your birthday is at the beginning of next month, what do you want me to give you?"
This was the first time they celebrated each other's birthday since they started dating, and Li Zhengyu felt that they must celebrate it properly and make it a very memorable birthday for them.
I thought she would chirp excitedly like a little swallow when she heard the news, just like she used to. But after he finished speaking, I found that the person next to him didn't react at all. He just held the pen and wrote neatly in the notebook.
Li Zhengyu moved closer to her, then stretched out his hands to pinch her face and asked, "What's wrong? You look so sad. Tell me, how do you want to celebrate your birthday?"
"I haven't thought about it yet." Su Peile replied indifferently.
"Hey, think about it carefully. This is your first birthday since we've been dating. As your boyfriend, I want to give you the gift you long for and love most. Tell me, what do you want?" Li Zhengyu said with exaggerated movements.
His loud voice attracted the attention of his classmates, and Li Shengyu also turned his gaze over here.
Su Peile was looking forward to this birthday. If Zhengyu had told her earlier, she would have been very happy. But she was upset by recent events and she really didn't have the energy to think about how to celebrate her birthday.
"From your tone, you should have an idea. I'll follow your instructions." She looked at him and smiled.
Li Zhengyu put his right hand on her shoulder, held his chin with his left hand and said thoughtfully: "Are you really going to listen to my arrangements? Then, let me think about what gift I can give you that will be meaningful to us."
He began to think seriously.
Su Peile's gaze involuntarily moved to the right, just in time to see Li Shengyu's eyes that were as gentle and clear as water. She quickly pulled her gaze back and did not dare to look up at him again.
The night market in late autumn was much quieter than in summer. After Xia Ying and her friends had a party, they walked along the night market towards home. Her parents were not at home these days, and it was boring to go home too early. It was rare that there were few people in the night market at night, so she walked and strolled.
When she arrived at the night market snack street, she couldn't help but stop and smell the aroma of various stir-fried and barbecued seafood. It would be nice to buy some delicious food to take home. She was looking at each store to see if there was anything she wanted to eat. In a food stall in front of her, a boy in the Mingxin Middle School uniform caught her attention.
She stopped and watched curiously, and found that the boy with stunning appearance was actually Li Shengyu. There were two empty beer bottles in front of him, and he was holding the third bottle and pouring beer into the glass.
"Li Shengyu!" she shouted, took a few steps over, and snatched the wine glass from his hand.
Under the dim light, Li Shengyu's face was flushed and his eyes were a little blurred. He squinted and looked at her: "It's you? What a coincidence." This drunken state added to his charming temperament. Xia Ying's heart had never been so flustered.
He reached for his own wine glass, but Xia Ying refused to give it to him: "Why don't you go home after school for so long? What are you doing here drinking?"
"I just suddenly feel like drinking." Li Shengyu looked up at her, "How about having a drink with me?"
"I didn't expect that a young man from a wealthy family like you would come to a place like this to drink."
"Because it's lively here. And I don't like places like bars."
Seeing his abnormal behavior, Xia Ying's heart was full of doubts. She returned the wine glass to him, sat next to him, and took an empty glass to pour herself some wine.
Li Shengyu took the glass of wine in front of him and drank it all in one gulp without waiting for her to finish pouring it. He didn't look like the gentle, humble and elegant prince he usually was. Instead, he was clearly a melancholy young man with a lot of knots in his heart.
Xia Ying recalled the way he looked at Su Peile and couldn't help but ask him curiously: "Li Shengyu, do you like Lele?"
Hearing the name, Li Shengyu's confused eyes seemed to come into focus. He looked at Xia Ying and smiled. Instead of answering, he poured another glass of wine. That expression seemed like he agreed.
She felt a fire burning in her chest, and slammed the table and said to him, "Hey, there has to be a first come first served order for this kind of thing. When Zhengyu and Lele started dating, you were still in the United States. How come you fell in love with her so soon after you came back?"
"Hehe..." Li Shengyu chuckled and put the wine glass to his mouth.
This guy usually speaks very tightly when he's not drinking, but I didn't expect him to keep his mouth shut even tighter after drinking. It seems that speaking the truth after drinking is really not suitable for him.
"Hey, stop drinking. You've had a little too much."
Unexpectedly, the more she feared something, the more it would come to pass. Less than five minutes after she finished saying this, Li Shengyu fell headfirst on the table and passed out drunk.
He dares to drink when his alcohol tolerance is so low. Xia Ying was in no mood to despise him anymore. She picked up her phone to call Li Zhengyu, but his phone was turned off. She had no choice but to find Li Shengyu's phone and prepare to call other people in his family, but when she took it in her hand, it was also turned off. When she pressed the power button, it said that the battery was low.
She called Su Peile again, but was told that she had overdue payments.
"What day is today? What a coincidence!"
Xia Ying complained, stretched out her hand and pushed Li Shengyu and said, "Hey, Li Shengyu, wake up, wake up!"
But Li Shengyu closed his eyes and fell asleep .
She sighed and fiddled with her short hair, then glanced at her watch. It was already past 10 o'clock. Although she knew the neighborhood where he lived, she didn't know where his home was. If she took him to look for it, it would probably be very troublesome, so she decided to take him back to her home for the time being. It happened that her parents were traveling and were not at home these days.
She stood up and pulled Li Shengyu up with all her strength. Although Xia Ying was tall among the girls, it was still difficult for her to support a boy who was nearly 1.8 meters tall.
When she returned to her house, she was already exhausted and sweating. Li Shengyu, who had lost his support, fell headfirst on the sofa in her house and continued to sleep without vomiting or making a fuss.
He is an excellent person and has a good drinking habit. Xia Ying sat on the ground and panted for a long time. She ignored him and turned on the computer and logged into QQ. Li Zhengyu's QQ was indeed online.
"Why is your phone turned off?"
"I put it downstairs to charge. I'm too lazy to take it out. If you have anything to say, just tell me."
"Your brother is drunk and fell asleep at my house. Come and pick him up."
"My brother? Who?"
"Why are you pretending to be stupid, Li Shengyu?"
"Why is he drunk?"
"How would I know? Take it home and ask."
"Didn't you say he fell asleep? Then let him sleep at your house and bring him back. My grandfather will not be able to bear the stimulation of seeing his good grandson drinking. What if he says that I have led him astray?"
"Li Zhengyu, are you relieved to leave him at my house?"
"We are all brothers, there is no need to worry. It's getting late, I need to rest." Without waiting for Xia Ying to reply, Li Zhengyu's avatar turned gray.
Xia Ying stared at the computer angrily, then turned to look at Li Shengyu lying on the sofa, who was still sleeping soundly.
She walked into the bathroom and took out a wet towel, wiped Li Shengyu's face and hands, then gently took off his school uniform jacket. When she lifted his upper body, Li Shengyu stretched out his arms and put them around her waist, murmuring, "Le Le."
Xia Ying's hand paused for a moment, feeling sad. She pulled off his school uniform and said, "I'm not Lele."
He lay back on the sofa, closed his eyes, mumbled a few words and went back to sleep. Xia Ying looked at his sleeping face angrily, then slowly knelt in front of the sofa, looked at his face, and carefully outlined his outline with her fingers.
"Li Shengyu, Li Shengyu?" She called his name softly.
He suddenly grabbed her hand, placed it on his chest and did not let go.
Xia Ying looked at him and said softly, "What secrets are you hiding in your heart? Shengyu, can I call you that? Do you know? When I first saw you, I had a heart-pounding feeling. I once said that I hated all people with the last name Li, but how nice it would have been if I had met you earlier."
She carefully looked at his facial features and his eyes. He was as quiet as a sleeping angel, or like a prince under a spell deep in the forest.
Her eyes rested on his beautiful lips, which had a jelly-pink sheen. She gently leaned in and placed a kiss on his lips.
Li Shengyu, I like you. I am so close to you, can't you see my heart?
She slowly put her head on his chest and gradually fell asleep.
When the first rays of sunlight in the morning fell on his eyelids, Li Shengyu woke up, his head aching slightly. He opened his eyes, and the unfamiliar scenery around him made him sit up quickly. As he moved, the thin blanket covering him fell off. The unfamiliar living room, the home furnishings were very warm, and he could hear the sound of pot lids colliding. He turned his head to look at the kitchen next to the living room.
Xia Ying was stirring the pot with chopsticks. She turned her head and found that he had woken up. She pointed across and said, "That's my bathroom. I've put your new toiletries there. Breakfast will be ready soon. You can eat after you wash up."
"Why am I in your house?" Li Shengyu asked curiously.
"You were drunk last night, so I brought you back. But don't drink outside in the future. It's not every time you meet someone as nice as me who will bring you back." Xia Ying glanced at him with a faint smile on her brows, "Go wash up quickly."
Li Shengyu vaguely recalled what happened at the night market last night and walked into the bathroom.
When he came out of the bathroom, Xia Ying had already served two bowls of instant noodles. She asked him to sit down at the dining table in front of the balcony, handed him a pair of chopsticks and said, "I'm not very good at cooking, so make do with what you have."
He smiled and said, "Did I cause you trouble yesterday?"
"I'm not causing any trouble, you just became more verbose. By the way, do you remember what you said yesterday?" Xia Ying wanted to trick him deliberately to see if he would tell her.
Li Shengyu picked up the noodles with chopsticks and said, "I didn't say anything yesterday. Don't take drunken words seriously. Besides, I never talk when I'm drunk."
Xia Ying felt that she had met her match. She smiled and approached him and said, "Do you remember what you did to me last night?"
Sure enough, his expression tightened and he stared at her blankly.
She was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Just kidding, you just stole a kiss from me."
"Did I kiss you?" Li Shengyu's thick brows frowned even tighter.
"Yeah, why do you look so bad? Wasn't it your first kiss?" Xia Ying smiled mischievously, "It's okay, we're even, it was also my first kiss."
"I'm sorry." Li Shengyu apologized awkwardly.
Xia Ying was stunned for a moment, then said, "I don't think it's serious at all, eat quickly."
After saying that, she started eating.
Li Shengyu looked at her with a complicated expression, said nothing more, and lowered his head to continue eating noodles.
After they finished eating, they took the bus to school together. Li Shengyu didn't say anything along the way, sitting quietly in the window seat. Because they left early, there were not many people on the bus. Li Shengyu, who was sitting by the window, tilted his head to look at the scenery outside the window. The morning sun shone through the glass and enveloped him. Sometimes the sun was blocked by the tall buildings outside. The flickering light and shadow made him look like a person in a beautifully painted picture.
He kept looking at the scenery outside the window, while Xia Ying beside him kept staring at him blankly.
She withdrew her gaze when they arrived at the Mingxin Middle School stop. She and Li Shengyu got off the bus one after another. Just in time, she saw the exit of the subway station next to her. Li Zhengyu walked over with a schoolbag on one shoulder and Su Peile's hand in his left hand.
When Li Zhengyu saw them, he smiled and said loudly, "What a coincidence, brother, how did you sleep at Xia Ying's house last night?"
"Li Zhengyu, if you speak more quietly, you'll suffocate to death!" Xia Ying yelled at him.
Su Peile looked at them in surprise. When his eyes fell on Li Shengyu's face, he had already started to explain: "I was drunk last night. Thanks to Xia Ying for taking me in for the night."
"I don't want to take you in either, but this guy knew you were drunk and didn't come to my house to pick you up. He still calls us brothers, but he has no loyalty." Xia Ying said to Li Zhengyu.
"Hey, if I bring this drunkard home in the middle of the night, grandpa will scold him to death. Do you know that my brother is a good boy in my grandpa's mind ?" Li Zhengyu let go of Su Peile and walked forward side by side with Xia Ying, arguing as they walked.
Su Peile's steps were a little slow. Li Shengyu approached her just in time. The two kept a distance of one step. She asked worriedly, "Why did you go out to drink? You're not feeling well. Why are you so careless?"
"It's okay. If I don't drink some wine, that feeling will be more terrible than being sick." Li Shengyu said in a low voice.
She looked up at him and saw the sadness in his eyes, and she knew what he meant by feeling bad without him saying anything more.
She silently repeated "I'm sorry" in her heart again. She didn't know what she should do to make him feel better.
"For your health, don't drink anymore. No matter what happens, there is always a solution." She said softly, speaking to him and to herself .
"Okay, I'll listen to you." He said softly, and the bad mood of the past few days suddenly disappeared because of the happiness of walking side by side at this moment.
Su Peile also noticed the smile on his lips. It seemed like it was the first time he saw him smile in these days.
"Thank you." The smile on Li Shengyu's face became even more intense. Looking at Su Peile beside him, he said, "Thank you for not excluding me from your world."
Su Peile also smiled, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was as beautiful and warm as the rising sun above his head.
Sure enough, Li Shengyu was in a good mood throughout the day.
Time flies, and a week has passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Zhengyu has been acting strangely recently. He has left in a hurry after school for several days in a row. When Su Peile asked him about it, he just said he had something to do and told her to go home with Shengyu after school.
"Are you hiding something from me?" As soon as school was over that day, Su Peile quickly blocked his way and asked.
"I can't tell you about this for now." Li Zhengyu smiled mysteriously and pinched her face. "Okay, I'm in a hurry to leave, so I won't talk to you anymore." After he said that, he picked up his schoolbag and left the classroom anxiously.
Su Peile's eyes followed him out of the classroom, and then he put on his schoolbag reluctantly.
Han Jingjing, Xia Ying, and Li Shengyu walked up to her. Xia Ying said thoughtfully, "Li Zhengyu seems to have been so active in leaving school for several days in a row. What did he do?"
"I don't know." Su Peile shook his head.
Xia Ying looked at Li Shengyu beside her inquiringly. He shook his head with a flickering look in his eyes: "I don't know either."
"Could it be that Li Zhengyu has met another girl?" Han Jingjing interrupted.
When Su Peile heard this, the first person he thought of was Xiaoci, the clever little girl who could always come up with some tricks to find Li Zhengyu.
Xia Ying glared at Han Jingjing and scolded her: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"I'm leaving first." Su Peile didn't want to think about that, so he walked quickly forward, away from them.
At this time, Li Shengyu, who was originally standing next to Xia Ying, suddenly raised his foot and ran quickly towards Su Peile.
Han Jingjing looked at his back in astonishment and asked Xia Ying: "Why is Li Shengyu running so fast? He looks so nervous about Playdoh."
"They live in the same neighborhood, so of course they will walk together. Stop gossiping!" Xia Ying lectured her, but she looked at Li Shengyu's figure intentionally or unintentionally.
During the rush hour after school, there were many people in the subway car. Su Peile was standing by the railing, while Li Shengyu was standing a few steps away from her.
After the subway arrived at the station, she walked out with the crowd. Li Shengyu was still following not far from her, and the two of them walked towards the stairs at almost a constant speed.
Someone bumped into someone in the crowd, and Su Peile only felt herself being pushed by the person in front of her, and her body fell backwards. In panic, she tried to grab the handrail beside her, but before she could touch it, her waist was lifted up by a strong arm.
"Don't be nervous when walking up the stairs." Li Shengyu said softly, and only withdrew his hand after she stood firmly.
"Thank you." Su Peile said with lingering fear. She was really scared just now.
"There are too many people. Just follow me." Worried that she would be squeezed again in front, Li Shengyu walked in front and helped her separate the crowd.
"Yeah." Su Peile nodded and followed him up the stairs. Occasionally, he would reach out and pull Su Peile. Li Shengyu was particularly eye-catching in the crowd. A beautiful boy holding a cute girl would always attract everyone's envy or speculation.
"LeLe, it's because of me that you've been upset lately, right?"
"no."
Li Shengyu stopped and stood in front of her. Su Peile stopped and looked up at him. He looked into her eyes and said, "You are a person who will not lie."
"Shengyu, I will treat you as a relative and a friend in the future. Maybe I can't give you the same feelings as Zhengyu, but I will treat you like Zhengyu."
Hearing what she said, Li Shengyu's expression froze for a moment, and he said with some disappointment: "Well, as long as you feel happy, I can do anything." He didn't care whether she treated him as a friend or a relative. In his heart, she would never change.
"Thank you, Shengyu." Su Peile raised his hand, grabbed his arm and smiled.
Because Li Zhengyu has been missing after school every day recently, Li Shengyu and Su Peile have been spending more time together.
But on this day, Su Peile couldn't hold back her curiosity any longer, and ran out of the school before Li Zhengyu. After seeing him appear, she took out a hat from her schoolbag and put it on, and then put on a pair of framed glasses, and then followed him all the way.
Arriving at the center of the commercial street, Li Zhengyu walked into a Taiwanese-style fast food restaurant on the pedestrian street. At this time, many customers entered the brightly lit store.
Su Peile took advantage of the cover of the big tree outside and looked inside. Li Zhengyu walked in and did not choose an empty table to sit down. Instead, he turned around and disappeared.
What's going on? Su Peile was suspicious.
Just as she was about to go in to see what was going on, she suddenly saw Lee Jung-woo, wearing a red and white store uniform, walking to the window and tidying up a table where a customer had just left, putting the dishes on a tray and then wiping the table with a rag.
Su Peile rubbed his eyes, unable to believe his eyes. Li Zhengyu was the kind of person who was too lazy to take his plate to the sink after eating in the cafeteria, and yet he was working as a waiter here?
His handsome appearance attracted the diners around him. The beautiful white-collar lady at the next table said something to him. He nodded respectfully and left to get something. The beautiful women at that table all laughed happily.
She couldn't help but widen her eyes. No way! With Li Zhengyu's hot temper, he might blow up the house if he didn't agree with a few words. Would he be here to please others and do what they ordered?
The more she thought about it, the more puzzled she found it. She stood outside and watched for a while, then walked straight into the store.
"welcome!"
When she pushed open the glass door of the fast food restaurant, the service staff around her shouted reflexively.
Li Zhengyu turned around with the tray in his hand, and when he saw Su Peile "airdropping" in front of him, his hands trembled and he almost dropped the plate on the tray to the ground.
"You, why are you here?" he shouted in shock, attracting the attention of the guests around him.
"Zhengyu, why are you here?" Su Peile questioned him.
Li Zhengyu handed the tray in his hand to a waitress next to him, took her hand and walked out of the store.
Standing outside the bright window of the shop next to him, Su Peile looked up at Li Zhengyu's face, waiting for his explanation.
The light shone on his face, making him look a little haggard. It was obvious that he had not rested well in recent days. Su Peile felt very distressed.
"I didn't realize you would follow me?" Li Zhengyu smiled and reached out to scratch her nose.
Su Peile dodged angrily and pointed at the fast food restaurant: "You mysteriously disappear after school every day and don't answer the phone. So this is what you do? Are you short of money? Or did you get into trouble outside?"
Li Zhengyu stretched out his arms and held her in his arms and said, "How could I cause any trouble? I have been so well behaved in the past six months. I just came here to work for 20 days. The boss is Xiaowei's relative, and we are all acquaintances. What can happen?"
"Since you don't need money, why do you want to work? This will delay your studies. The final exams are less than two months away."
"It's okay. Just work hard in the last month. Don't worry about my intelligence."
"Li Zhengyu, if you don't listen to me, I will tell grandpa."
"Hey, Su Peile, can you please stop being so excited?" Li Zhengyu concealed the secret in his heart, but was dissatisfied with her stubborn questioning, so he growled in annoyance.
It was clearly his fault, but he still acted like he was right. Su Peile pushed him away angrily and left.
Li Zhengyu knew that if he continued to hide it, the misunderstanding would deepen, so he hurriedly caught up with her, hugged her in his arms again, patted her like a baby and said, "Be good, Lele, don't tell grandpa, I did this to give you a surprise."
"What surprise?" It's really irritating.
He thought for a moment and said, "I want to give you a meaningful birthday gift with what I have earned through my own hard work."
She stopped pushing his hand away and looked up at his focused eyes. It turned out to be for her birthday. She was immediately touched. She gently smoothed the collar of his uniform and said softly, "It's great that you have this thought. I don't want any gifts."
"Silly boy, I must give it to you. It represents my love for you." He said the word "love" with deep affection.
Su Peile looked at him in shock. It was the first time she heard the word "love" from his mouth. She hesitated and asked, "What did you say?"
"Yes, in the past six months, I really appreciate your loyalty and selfless tolerance. Lele, I have asked myself many times, how could I meet a girl like you with such a bad temper and such a bad character. If it weren't for you, there would be no Li Zhengyu today."
Hearing his heartfelt words, Su Peile's heart was in turmoil. It was the first time she heard his true thoughts. Her loyalty and tolerance were because she always believed that he was the one who saved her. If one day, Zhengyu knew that her feelings for him were initially based on a misunderstanding, what would he think?
Li Zhengyu thought she was moved by him, so he gently pushed her away, looked at her face and said, "If you don't want to leave, wait for me to get off work today."
"Um……"
Li Zhengyu looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to this side, so he lowered his head and kissed her on the lips. Su Peile blushed and hid in his arms. Her mood, which had been gloomy for many days, finally improved.
Since she already knew about Li Zhengyu's actions, Su Peile stopped bothering him. As the student union had a lot of things to do recently, she and Li Shengyu spent more time together. Although she couldn't give Shengyu emotional support, Su Peile still wanted to be his best classmate, friend, and maybe even a relative in the future.
However, no one else knew her true thoughts, so in the eyes of some busybodies, Su Peile's closeness and concern for Li Shengyu were inevitably exaggerated and discussed privately in the school. However, they were busy recently and did not pay attention to these rumors.
"Hey, what do you think Su Peile is thinking? She's already dating Li Zhengyu, but she's still pestering Li Shengyu. Look how close they are when Li Zhengyu is not around. Others can't get a word in when they want to talk to Li Shengyu." In the corridor on the first floor of the teaching building, several girls from other classes were talking at the bathroom door.
"Just now I saw her and Li Shengyu talking and laughing on their way to the student union meeting. Didn't you notice? Recently, they walk together after school, and Li Zhengyu is nowhere to be seen. Did she break up with Li Zhengyu? When Su Peile pursued Li Zhengyu, it was a sensation in the whole school."
"You don't understand this. Wasn't there Li Shengyu at the beginning? I heard that Li Shengyu was also an outstanding student in Songchuan. By the way, isn't our school going to select exchange students for next semester? I guess they have a chance." A girl with straight hair said confidently.
"You mean, the two of them are dating, and then they dump Li Zhengyu and go abroad together?" another girl asked in surprise.
"That must be the case. Otherwise, how could Su Peile have the best of both worlds?"
"I didn't expect she was so scheming." The other girls were convinced by the straight-haired girl's idea and nodded.
"boom……"
The girls were startled by the sudden sound of kicking the door.
Xia Ying came out with a dark face. They looked at each other. They didn't expect Xia Ying to come to the first floor to use the toilet. They fell silent when they saw her come out.
Xia Ying glanced at them angrily and scolded them coldly: "Su Peile and Li Zhengyu are getting along well, and you are just making up stories and saying bad things behind their backs. Are you jealous of Su Peile's good relationship with the Li brothers? If I catch you talking nonsense behind their backs again, don't blame me for being rude!"
They all knew how powerful Xia Ying was, so they quickly walked away from her with their necks shrunk and went quickly into the bathroom.
Xia Ying suppressed her anger and walked towards the stairs. There had been a lot of rumors in the school recently, and she had vaguely heard some of them. Although the rumors were offensive, Su Peile and Li Shengyu had been on good terms recently. It seemed that something had happened between the two of them in private that she didn't know about. In short, Li Shengyu had changed recently.
When she reached the stairs, she was almost in deep thought when she saw a figure standing on the steps.
Li Zhengyu stood there with his hands in his trouser pockets, frowning.
The toilet on their classroom floor was under maintenance, so it seemed like everyone had to come down to the first floor to use the toilet.
Judging from his appearance, he had been standing there for a while and must have heard what the girls said.
"Have you been standing here?" Xia Ying asked carefully.
Li Zhengyu looked at her, his mouth curled up, and he smiled and said, "You yelled so loudly just now that I was so scared that I didn't dare to go over."
"I am angry. I hate talking about other people behind their backs."
"Oh, what does it matter? Don't we know Lele and my brother better than them? I believe in Lele, and they can talk if they want." Li Zhengyu said disapprovingly, turned around and walked upstairs again.
Xia Ying was about to say something but stopped herself. She followed him and walked up to the corridor outside their classroom. She happened to see Su Peile running out in a hurry, holding her pink wallet in her hand.
"Le Le? Didn't you go to the Student Union? Why are you back?" Li Zhengyu stopped and asked puzzledly.
Su Peile's fair cheeks were still flushed because she ran so fast just now. She smiled and said, "Shengyu led a few students from the student union to clean up the old warehouse behind the campus. He was so busy today that he didn't even have lunch. I came back to get my wallet to buy him something to eat. Okay, I won't talk to you for now. I'm going to buy food."
Li Zhengyu frowned slightly and said to her, "Hey, I'm going to take a leave of absence today and leave one class early. Can you help me make up my notes? I can ask Xia Ying to buy some water for you."
"Forget it, I'll go. Shengyu is waiting for me." Su Peile waved to him, smiled at Xia Ying, and then hurried down the stairs.
Xia Ying couldn't help but look at Li Zhengyu. His brows were still furrowed, and his face was vaguely gloomy. She smiled and stretched out her hand to pull his arm, then walked towards the classroom: "Go and ask for leave from your class teacher. Don't you have to go to work tonight? Lele won't bother you, so you can work with peace of mind."
Li Zhengyu smiled and said nothing. Why did he have such bad thoughts just now? Was he influenced by the words of those girls? He believed in Lele, so how could he be swayed by other people's nonsense?