Lin Zhexia typed back: As your respected old father, of course, I need to see you off.
The reply came quickly-
Don’t need a limping old father with a cane seeing me off
Lin Zhexia: ……
Unable to argue, she decided to skip this issue: Your jacket is with me, I forgot to return it.
The other side replied with a “.” to indicate acknowledgment.
Lin Zhexia thought of how he had acted like he was ordering her to hold his jacket in the afternoon, and typed: There’s a storage fee for keeping your jacket with me. How would you like to pay the storage fee?
After sending, she prepared for Chi Yao to respond with something annoying.
However, this time Chi Yao said something decent-
In the pocket, take it yourself.
Lin Zhexia:?
Lin Zhexia: What-
Storage fee.
Lin Zhexia put down her phone and reached for the jacket pocket.
Through the thin layer of sun-protection fabric, she felt something hard.
Lin Zhexia hesitantly reached in and then pulled out… an unopened piece of candy-
Where did this candy come from?
Why do you have candy in your pocket?
Chi Yao didn’t reply immediately.
While waiting for a response, Lin Zhexia unwrapped a piece of candy and found it was lemon flavored.
She bit into the candy in her mouth, tasting the unique tartness of lemon mixed with an unmistakable sweetness.
Without reason, she suddenly thought of the can of soda from last summer.
—That ice-cold can of lemon soda, fizzing with cool air.
After a while, her phone vibrated, receiving two new messages:-
Bought at the school store-
Didn’t expect someone not to notice it for half a day
Her relationship with Chi Yao seemed to have started from that can of soda, from that “pop” sound, creating an extremely subtle chemical reaction.