“Oh, him,” Shen Yawei smiled, tears in her smile. “It seems like he’s developed an interest in someone again. It must be someone from your school. Isn’t it strange? Every time he develops an interest in someone, I always know before him. He used to never care about the cafeteria, always going to the window with the shortest queue. But many times now, he goes to buy sauce chicken. When I asked him, he said he heard it’s delicious. You don’t know, when he said that sentence, that smile… it made me anxious.”
Ning Zhiyu simply listened quietly.
Shen Yawei continued, “He now brings his cellphone to school, isn’t it strange? There were a few times when I went to find him, and it seemed like he was always chatting with someone, very engaged. When I asked him who he was talking to, he would resume his usual expression.
“A while ago, every day after class until late self-study, he would take leave and go out. One time, I secretly followed him and discovered that he went to a boutique shop and picked a crystal ball, as if he wanted to give it to someone.”
Shen Yawei lowered her head and said, “I saw him come to Fifth High, I thought he was looking for you. I’m sorry.”
“It’s not me,” Ning Zhiyu said coldly.
“That’s good then.” Shen Yawei regained her smile. “Actually, I’m conflicted. I hope it’s you, but I also hope it’s not you. If it’s not you, I would feel like a joke. It turns out that every person he has feelings for is not me.”
The car was moving slowly.
They soon arrived at Linjiang Road. Before Ning Zhiyu got off the car, Shen Yawei suddenly choked and said, “I’m going to give up on him. Zhiyu, I really regret it, deeply regret it. I gave up our friendship for someone who will never like me. If, if I could start over, I would never, never give up on you.”
Ning Zhiyu just replied indifferently, “Is that so?”
Then she pushed open the car door, got off without looking back.
The scene of Ning Zhiyu getting into the car with Shen Yawei was witnessed by other students at Fifth High. Zhou Ji was worried about her safety and his first reaction was to remember the license plate number. Ningcheng is a small city, and other students at Fifth High saw Shen Yawei and recognized her. Naturally, they recalled the long-forgotten past, and Zhou Ji also learned from others’ accounts that the person Ning Zhiyu had once liked was actually Ye Wenxu.
Now thinking back, there were actually a lot of details.
For example, when he found her at the playground, those two bottles of drinks.
For example, it seemed like Ye Wenxu was also drinking the same brand of drink during halftime, if he didn’t remember it wrongly.
For a moment, Zhou Ji felt extremely upset.
He asked Uncle Zhong to drive to Linjiang Road, but he couldn’t hold it and got off the car early. He braved the cold wind and walked for twenty minutes before reaching Ning Zhiyu’s doorstep.
He wasn’t wearing much, and his hands had already frozen stiff. He squatted at her doorstep for nearly half an hour. He was almost losing consciousness when he finally used his stiff fingers to knock on her door.
Ning Zhiyu had just finished washing up. When she heard the knocking sound, she became extremely cautious. She came out from the kitchen holding a rolling pin, carefully peeked through the door crack, and saw Zhou Ji. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief, but immediately felt a headache: Why did he come to find her? And on such a cold day!
She opened the door with a somewhat irritated tone, “Aren’t you cold!”
It’s so late, yet he doesn’t go back to sleep.
Zhou Ji just stood at the doorway, looking at her. If it were in the past, he would have already entered with a playful and smiling face.
Ning Zhiyu suddenly realized that something was wrong and asked, “What’s wrong with you?”
Zhou Ji slowly lifted his head, and his fine hair seemed to be covered in frost. He asked, “The person you used to like… is it Ye Wenxu?”
Ning Zhiyu was already in a bad mood today.
She was worried about Jiang Yumo’s art examination and was reminded of something she didn’t want to recall when Shen Yawei arrived. Now, hearing Zhou Ji’s question like this, she was annoyed. She also had a temper and replied, “What’s it to you?”
Zhou Ji took a step back, feeling disappointed. He said, “Seems like it’s none of my business.”
He rarely acted like this and said, “I’m going back.”
Ning Zhiyu stood at the doorway, watching him leave with his head down, looking dejected. Her heart skipped a beat, wanting to call him back, but then she thought that maybe it’s better this way… It’s better if he doesn’t bother her anymore.
It’s better.
Zhou Ji felt sad and wronged.
It was even more painful than being ignored by his parents.
He didn’t know where he could go, so he ended up at Duan Ye’s house. Under Uncle Zhong’s concerned gaze, he went upstairs and knocked on the door of Duan Ye’s house.
After Duan Ye finished washing up, he was preparing to check the weather in the provincial capital when he heard a knocking sound.
He felt somewhat impatient.
At this hour, he didn’t need to look to know who was outside the door.
Thinking that he still needed to accumulate some good karma, even though Duan Ye was annoyed, he still got up and opened the door. As expected, Zhou Ji stood outside, looking as if he had been cheated out of billions of dollars.
Duan Ye : “…”
Zhou Ji squeezed in as if he were about to die.
He casually sat down on the sofa in the living room and wrapped himself in a blanket on one side.
Duan Ye was speechless. “What’s up?”
If he hadn’t asked, it would have been fine. But as soon as Duan Ye asked, Zhou Ji couldn’t hold back any longer. He had never felt so aggrieved before. “I’ve never felt this miserable. Really…”
Duan Ye was obviously not a good confidant or a wise older brother who would listen to others’ troubles and give advice. After hearing these words, he only responded with a “Hmm” and didn’t say anything more.
Zhou Ji endured and endured, but if he didn’t speak out about this today, he would go crazy.
“Ning Zhiyu. She has someone she likes, and the person she likes is Ye Wenxu!” Zhou Ji’s voice was choked up, and his expression looked unpleasant. “If I had known it was Ye Wenxu, I wouldn’t have spared that scumbag when I beat him up last time!”
Duan Ye couldn’t be bothered to respond and sat on the side, playing with his phone.
He checked the weather forecast.
He didn’t know whether it would rain or be sunny in the provincial capital tomorrow.
He hoped it would be sunny so that her mood would be good. She didn’t like rainy days in winter.
Zhou Ji kept venting his frustrations.
After a while, he noticed that Duan Ye didn’t react at all, so he asked sulkily, “Can’t you comfort me a little?”
Duan Ye seemed to have just heard him and snapped out of his thoughts. “Comfort? Oh, don’t be so childish.”
“?” Zhou Ji stood up in frustration. “I’m childish? Where am I childish?? This didn’t happen to you. If Jiang Yumo liked…”
Duan Ye glanced at him, warning him with his eyes.
Zhou Ji immediately changed his tone. “If that Ye Wenxu likes Jiang Yumo, I guess you would want to kill him, right? Would you still call me childish then?”
Duan Ye interrupted him unhappily. “That kind of thing won’t happen. If you mention her again, just get lost.”
Oooof, that ogML’s foretelling is good 🤭
Zhou Ji got good mouth hahhaha…his fortune telling about Ye WenXu to Jiang Yumo might come true in future LMAO