Shen Shanshan looked at the crowd coming out of the elevator and made an affirmative sound: “Mm, I’ll be processing the transfer next week. I guess… by next month at the latest, I won’t be in Cheng’an anymore.”
As Shen Shanshan spoke, she looked at the most eye-catching young man in the crowd.
As if taking one last look at him.
The young man was casually pulling his suitcase at the back, with a piece of clothing draped over it. Today, he had rarely put on earrings, the cool silver color making him seem even more unapproachable.
For a moment, she seemed to see the Chi Yao from the first day of junior high school again.
The person she had secretly liked from junior high until now.
Shen Shanshan quickly withdrew her gaze and followed them with her suitcase to board the car.
Before getting on, she suddenly recalled yesterday at the seaside when she confessed to Chi Yao.
She was so nervous she could barely speak, closing her eyes to say, “I like you.”
Amid the sound of waves, Chi Yao first said, “Thank you.”
Then, after that official rejection, he added three more words: “And also I…”
But this sentence abruptly stopped, so quickly it was as if she had misheard.
Shen Shanshan sensed that this was a sentence hiding many emotions, because Chi Yao’s tone was very different from usual when he said it, and his voice seemed somewhat hoarse.
So she asked: “What?”
But Chi Yao didn’t continue: “Nothing.”
“And also I.”
What did he want to say after that?
Shen Shanshan thought for a while.
The group took a car to the train station, hurriedly checked tickets, and boarded the train. In this rushed journey, she quickly pushed this thought out of her mind.
The return high-speed train would still take over six hours.
Since Lin Zhexia had bought her ticket separately, her seat was far from the others, not even in the same carriage.
She was staring at the constantly moving scenery outside the window when suddenly a voice sounded beside her: “Excuse me, sorry to bother you, could we switch seats?”
She turned her head and saw Chi Yao standing in the aisle with his ticket.
The person he was addressing was the female white-collar worker sitting next to her.
The white-collar woman’s face reddened slightly: “You need to switch seats?”
Chi Yao held his clothes in one hand, and with his other hand extended, two fingers holding the ticket. His fingers holding the ticket waved in the air, pointing at her: “My sister is sitting here alone, I’m a bit worried. If it’s convenient, could I switch seats with you?”
When he said “my sister,” Lin Zhexia widened her eyes.
Lin Zhexia: “Who’s your sister…”
Chi Yao slightly raised the end of his eyebrow: “Who do you think?”
Lin Zhexia turned her head and said to the white-collar woman: “Sister, he’s lying, I don’t know him.”
Chi Yao shut her down with one sentence, saying coolly, “Still throwing tantrums at your brother.”
Lin Zhexia: “……”
This person was truly a dog.
With Chi Yao’s face there, the white-collar woman didn’t even think about it, standing up to switch seats with him: “Sure, I’ll switch with you, so you can be closer to your sister.”
Soon, the two had switched places.
Lin Zhexia turned her head away, wanting to pretend she didn’t know this person.
But at the same time, she was a bit expectant: “Why did you switch over?”
Chi Yao: “Xu Ting is too noisy, affecting my sleep.”
Lin Zhexia suppressed that bit of expectation: “Oh.”
The air conditioning on the high-speed train was quite strong.
After a while, Chi Yao asked: “Are you cold?”
Lin Zhexia’s hands were already cold, unconsciously hugging her arms, but she still stubbornly said: “It’s fine.”
After she spoke, Chi Yao threw the clothes he had been carrying to her.
“…” before closing his eyes to sleep, he said, “…just take it if it’s fine.”
Lin Zhexia held the clothes, and the feelings she had just suppressed suddenly leaped up again.
When Lin Zhexia arrived home, Lin He and Wei Ping had already returned from their trip and were sorting out the specialties they had brought back from the great grasslands in the living room.
Lin He and Wei Ping had processed Lin Zhexia’s unauthorized trip to Haicheng City for a few days and weren’t as angry as before.
So when they saw her, Wei Ping calmly called her over for gifts: “Xia Xia, your mother has prepared a gift for you.”
Lin Zhexia walked over and saw a small glass bottle on the table: “What is it?”
Wei Ping: “Grass.”