"So, you confessed to Zhuang Fize?" Yang Cong opened his eyes wide, unable to believe that this only student majoring in mechanical engineering made his first confession so easily.
Tian Xin nodded, looking embarrassed and regretful.
"So what did he say? Did he promise you, or..." Yang Cong slapped his thigh anxiously.
"I don't know. I, I ran away after I said that." Tian Xin rested her head on the desk. Even after a night, her face was still as red as a cooked hairy crab.
Why did you confess so impulsively?
Tian Xin now wanted to kick herself to death yesterday. After Zhuang Fize knew her thoughts, she must have been too late to hide from her! And she was too cowardly last night. Since she had confessed her feelings, she should have listened to the result before leaving. It would be too embarrassing to run away directly!
“Ah…ran away?” Yang Cong rolled his eyes subconsciously, “Tianxin, Tianxin, I think you are usually very brave, why are you so useless at the critical moment!”
"Stop talking. I regret it so much." Tian Xin raised her head and rearranged her books.
After the make-up exam, school officially started. Yang Cong just came back yesterday. Now they are sitting in the classroom obediently, waiting for the first class of the new semester to start.
After the make-up exam, Tian Xin was determined to study hard, so she came to the classroom much earlier than usual, just to grab a seat in the front row. Just as she was sitting upright and preparing to preview the textbook, a tall boy wearing a brown workwear cotton coat, a white shirt, gray trousers, and black Oxford shoes, holding a book in his hand, walked in with his classmates dressed like science and engineering men who didn't fit in with him.
There is no harm without comparison. The other person's handsome appearance immediately attracted Tian Xin's attention. She was about to sigh when there was a boy with such a high appearance in the class, but the next second, after seeing the other person's face clearly, she was so scared that she almost crawled under the table.
Yang Cong and many of her classmates were also frightened like her.
"I'm just here to listen to the class." Zhuang Fei Ze stopped in front of Tian Xin's seat and said calmly. Then he grabbed the person hiding under the table.
"Are you a groundhog?" Zhuang Fize looked at her with amusement. Tian Xin looked back at him, her cheeks flushed.
"You, you, why are you here!" Tian Xin's heart was beating non-stop, and her other hand pinched Yang Cong's thigh fiercely. Yang Cong was in pain but couldn't say anything, and his face turned red.
"I'm here to accompany you to class." Zhuang Feize said seriously, then sat down next to her, opened the book naturally, leaned back in the chair leisurely, looking like he was really here to attend the class.
"Accompany me to class?" Tian Xin repeated this sentence with an exaggerated expression, but she didn't dare to say the last sentence "Are you crazy?" She looked around at the classmates who were looking at her with ambiguous eyes, and could only keep silent and pretend that nothing had happened.
Tian Xin found that the person she couldn't understand the most in this world was Zhuang Feize. He was so cold to her yesterday, and now he was talking about accompanying her to class. Didn't he remember that he hadn't replied to her messages for two months?
She was angry and embarrassed and didn't talk to him for the whole class.
Zhuang Feize folded his arms and kept watching her out of the corner of his eye, thinking that she looked so cute and funny.
How could there be such a cute girl in this world?
“Ding Ling Ling…”
The pleasant bell for the end of get out of class finally rang. Tian Xin, who had been "tortured", packed her books faster than anyone else, and pretended not to see Zhuang Feize, dragging Yang Cong to eat. But Zhuang Feize got there first. Before she could even say "Yang Cong, let's go eat," Zhuang Feize grabbed her slender arm and said in an unquestionable tone, "Where are we going to eat at noon?"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter all around.
Who said boys don’t like gossip?
Tian Xin glared at the boys who were making a fuss, then turned around and looked at Zhuang Feize cowardly in an instant.
"You want to take me out for dinner?" She tried her best to suppress the joy in her heart. Calm down, calm down, this big idiot must be looking for you because he has no one to eat with.
"What else?" Zhuang Feize looked at his phone, then looked up and said, "There's a great barbecue restaurant that has just opened nearby. Let's go." Without waiting for Tian Xin to react, he pulled her out of the classroom.
The two of them left the teaching building under everyone's ambiguous gazes. It was the end of school time, and the campus was full of students leaving get out of class. Seeing the school hunk Zhuang Feize pulling Su Tianxin, the "outstanding" student in the mechanical major, everyone looked at them in shock. All kinds of eyes were cast on Tianxin along the way, and Tianxin felt like she was about to explode.
After Zhang Qilin's trouble, Tian Xin thought she didn't mind the gossip anymore, but it turned out that she was still too weak. She couldn't stand it when she and Zhuang Feize walked from the teaching building to the school gate. What if the whole school knew that she had confessed to Zhuang Feize? Add to that the rumor of "a third party", will she never see the sun tomorrow?
The more she thought about it, the more scared she became. The more she thought about it, the more stressed she felt. She didn't even know that Zhuang Fize had brought her to his car. Zhuang Fize opened the car door for her and snapped his fingers in front of her eyes: "Why, do you want me to carry you up?"
"Ah?" Tian Xin, who was pulled back to reality, glanced at the passenger seat, then glanced at the slightly playful smile on Zhuang Feize's face, and stepped into the car in one step, sitting steadily. She had a tense face, looking serious.
Zhuang Feize was amused by her expression. This little girl was clearly the one who confessed to her yesterday, why does she act like it’s none of her business now?
He sighed, shook his head helplessly, and thought, women are so fickle.
This newly opened barbecue restaurant is not far from the campus. Because the food is so delicious, it has attracted a lot of customers since it opened. Most of them are students from Nanyin University. Zhuang Fei Ze and Tian Xin walked in one after another, and as expected, they attracted the attention of the alumni.
"Hey, isn't that Zhuang Fize? When did he come back?"
"I heard that he just came back. He has a girlfriend?"
“I haven’t heard of it!”
"Who is that girl ?"
"Ah, I remember that girl. I heard that she had a quarrel with Zhang Qilin in the cafeteria."
…
Tian Xin's ears were very sensitive since she was young, so she naturally heard every word of what she said. After Zhuang Fei Ze found a seat and sat down, he noticed that something was wrong with her and said directly: "Others can say whatever they want. Those who listen to it are fools."
"Yeah, I know." Tian Xin nodded obediently.
"When did you become so quiet?" Zhuang Feize joked while ordering food with the waiter. Tian Xin looked at him for a long time, and finally suppressed the words in her heart. On the one hand, she didn't know how to say those aggrieved words, and on the other hand, she felt that her confession yesterday was already a bad idea, and she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of Zhuang Feize.
In order to relieve her nervousness and embarrassment, Tian Xin turned on the "awkward chat mode" and laughed with Zhuang Feize about the interesting things that happened at the beginning of the school year. Zhuang Feize listened and laughed without interrupting her.
It was not until Tian Xin looked like she had nothing interesting to say that he spoke: "Don't you want to know what I have been doing for the past two months?" Zhuang Feize asked as he grilled meat for her.
Of course I do! This sentence screamed in Tian Xin's heart. But for the sake of face, she pretended to be calm and asked: "Then why did you go?"
"My dad has an archaeological project, and because it's confidential and urgent, he called me over to help. Although it sounds incredible, it's true." Zhuang Fize put the roasted, tender and juicy pork belly on her plate.
Zhuang Fize’s father?
Tian Xin's brain was spinning rapidly. After a few seconds, she remembered that Yang Cong seemed to have said that Zhuang Feize's father was a professor in the Archaeology Department of Nanyin University?
"No wonder." Tian Xin looked enlightened. "So you were...doing archaeology at that time?"
"Yes. I was really busy at that time. The deadline was very short. I was basically working day and night on the appraisal, so I rarely replied to your messages and was very slow." Zhuang Fei Ze explained patiently, "Later, I couldn't even use my mobile phone. When I was at the archaeological base, the communication signal was terrible, and I couldn't get in touch at all."
“I see…”
After listening to his explanation, Tian Xin's stubbornness in the past two months finally subsided. So the old saying still makes sense, the one who tied the bell must be the one to untie it. As soon as Zhuang Fei Ze came back, Tian Xin's originally suppressed mood improved a lot. Now that he was so patient in explaining to her, Tian Xin suddenly felt warm in her chest.
"So, you're not angry anymore?" Zhuang Feize was relieved when he saw Tian Xin's relaxed expression.
"Although it's understandable, your sudden disappearance and reappearance really makes me angry." Tian Xin ate the meat in big mouthfuls, gesturing and saying, "I failed a test and wanted to ask you for help. Zhang Qilin even mocked me and said that you were lying when you said you could help me review, so I called you to prove that I was not lying, but——"
"I've heard everything about you and her. Zhang Qilin was targeting you so much, why didn't you resist?"
"It's all because of Brother Siming." Tian Xin curled her lips.
"Do you still like him?" Zhuang Feize took a sip of water and asked as if nothing had happened.
"How is that possible! In my eyes, he is just a brother who grew up with me. So no matter how Zhang Qilin troubles me, she can't destroy the friendship between me and Brother Siming. After all, my father and Uncle Li are very good friends."
So that's how it is?
Zhuang Fei Ze raised his eyebrows, and his lips curved into a beautiful arc. He put another piece of roasted beef into Tian Xin's bowl.
"Eat it quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold." His tone was full of doting.
Tian Xin stuck out her tongue and pointed at the meat on the baking tray in an exaggerated manner: "All of this is mine!"
"Okay, okay, all of them are yours." Zhuang Feize said with a smile.
After coming out of the barbecue restaurant, Tian Xin touched her bulging belly. She hadn't had a good meal for a long time, and this time she finally made up for it. Zhuang Feize wanted to take her back to the dormitory, but she met Yang Cong on the way. Tian Xin immediately found an excuse and followed Yang Cong away.
Tian Xin didn’t know what she was doing, she just felt that she couldn’t stay with Zhuang Feize any longer, otherwise the heat on her face would never go away.
"It's obvious that he is dating you." Yang Cong revealed the secret, but Tian Xin couldn't believe it.
"You're overthinking it. He just felt guilty for not replying to my message before, so he came to me today to explain to me. After all, he and I are friends!" Tianxin explained carelessly.
“Tianxin, Tianxin, you really don’t understand boys.” Yang Cong shook his head, wishing he could wake up this disappointing man in front of him. “I’m telling you, he’ll ask you out next time, so just wait!”
"How is this possible!" Tian Xin looked at the person next to her in disbelief, but the other person still looked very confident.
Is it really like what Yang Cong said? Will Zhuang Fize still date her?
No, no, Zhuang Feize is not an ordinary boy, so she can't reason with the ordinary boy's thinking. Forget it, let him do whatever he wants, she doesn't want to be sentimental anymore. As for the confession that day, words spoken are like spilled water, although they cannot be undone, but as long as she doesn't mention it again, it should pass quietly, right?
Facts have proven that the way boys look at other boys is 10,000 times more accurate than the way girls look at other boys.
The next day, Zhuang Fei Ze came to Tian Xin's dormitory early to wait for her. Tian Xin was still sleeping, but the shouting next door was so loud that it woke her up.
"Zhuang Feize, is that really Zhuang Feize?"
"He's even more handsome in person than in his photos!"
"Who is he waiting for? Do you know?"
…
The girls' chatter was like the chirping of early birds, drilling into Tianxin's ears. She woke up from her hazy sleep, lifted the quilt, walked to the window, and wanted to see what was going on.
Tian Xin stood at the window looking down with sleepy eyes. When Zhuang Feize saw Tian Xin, he waved at her, and Tian Xin then opened her eyes wide.
Zhuang Fize shouted at her, "Come down."
Come down.
oh.
ah?
Are you here to find me?
Tian Xin woke up completely and suddenly thought of what Yang Cong said, "He is dating you." Then she realized that she was disheveled and wearing pajamas. She felt extremely ashamed. She immediately rushed to the bathroom to wash up.
Tian Xin, who had just finished washing up, picked up her phone and saw a message from Zhuang Feize: Come down and have breakfast together, hurry up.
She quickly found a pink dress, put on some light makeup, and rushed downstairs.
"Why are you looking for me so early?" Tian Xin was so tired that she couldn't breathe.
"We said we'd have breakfast together." Zhuang Feize ignored the looks from the girls' dormitory and simply took Tian Xin's wrist and walked towards the direction where he parked his car.
Zhuang Fei Ze was not joking. He really took Tian Xin to a very famous porridge shop near the school and ordered a large table of breakfast. Tian Xin stared at the food on the table in astonishment: "Are you going to stuff me to death?"
"You've lost a lot of weight compared to last semester. I want to help you gain some weight," said Zhuang Feize.
Tian Xin was really surprised and curious about his behavior, but she didn't dare to ask him what he was thinking, so she chose not to ask anything and ate the things silently. After coming back, Zhuang Feize seemed to talk more than before. He took the initiative to tell Tian Xin a lot of interesting things he saw during the archaeological period. Tian Xin then realized that Zhuang Feize was not really an ice cube, and he also had a funny and humorous side.
After dinner, Zhuang Feize sent Tianxin back to the classroom. As expected, the whole class started to make a noise when they saw the Nanyin school hunk sending Tianxin to class. Tianxin blushed kept urging Zhuang Feize to go back, but Zhuang Feize just smiled and nodded, watching her go back to her seat. He didn't leave until the bell rang.
That night, Tian Xin couldn't sleep. She tossed and turned in her bed in her bear pajamas, thinking back to the scene of Zhuang Fize and her together in the morning. Her heart was as sweet as a marshmallow. She wanted to ask Yang Cong if Zhuang Fize liked her because he treated her like this. But she didn't have the courage, because she was afraid that the higher her expectations, the greater her disappointment.