CH 46

Chapter 46: It’s not dislike.

After Zhou Jingze left the game room, he went home. When he finished taking a shower, he lay down on the bed with a tired face while 1017 stomped around on his chest. In the end, it pulled on the knot around his waist and yanked it. With a “pa,” the silver bathrobe was half open, and the tight lines ran all the way down. The distinct muscles were still wet with water droplets.

There was another desire in the wild.

“Tsk,” Zhou Jingze’s eyelids were half drooping. He raised his hand to lift the back of 1017 and brought it to him.

“If you were half as good as your mother,” Zhou Jingze looked at it.

As soon as the words came out, Zhou Jingze was stunned for a second, and then he remembered that he hadn’t contacted Xu Sui yet. He put the cat aside and swiped his thumb to the first star in his contacts.

There was a mechanical call sound on the phone, and Zhou Jingze glanced at the time——23:30. At this time, Xu Sui always had a good schedule, so she must have fallen asleep.

Zhou Jingze didn’t doubt it. After hanging up, he continued to sleep. When he woke up the next day, he sent a message to Xu Sui: 【Are you awake? 】

No reply.

At noon, Zhou Jingze finished his training and ate in the cafeteria with a group of people in his gray-green training uniform. The young master put the plate on the table with a bang.

Da Liu was biting a steamed bun and was shocked by this movement: “Yo, who made our Master Zhou unhappy?”

Qin Jing looked like someone who had experienced it before and smiled cheaply: “No way your girlfriend is ignoring you, right?”

Everyone looked over and saw that Zhou Jingze was drinking the soup in a leisurely manner. But this group of brothers could still tell whether he was in a good mood.

“Boss Zhou, you also have today.”

While the group of people was chatting, a unique shout attracted passers-by to turn their heads, and they also looked over,

“Uncle, Husky, Brother Liu!” Hu Qianxi looked excitedly back at them.

Immediately afterward, Da Liu pointed to the seat next to him and said, “Sister, come here, there’s a seat for you.”

Sheng Nanzhou had always hated the name Husky before because he doesn’t look like a Siberian husky at all. But he got used to Hu Qianxi calling him that.

He had serious suspicions that Hu Qianxi was a PUA master.

Sheng Nanzhou didn’t refute her either but took out his meal card and said, “Order what you want.”

“Wow, Eldest Master Sheng’s stinginess is about to fall.”

“That’s right, are we qualified to swipe your meal card once?”

Hu Qianxi didn’t care about these jokes at all. Instead, she shook her head and said, “Although the food in your school cafeteria is notoriously delicious, don’t tempt me. I finally managed to lose some weight this summer.”

Sheng Nanzhou pursed his lips and put the meal card back into his pocket without saying a word. At the same time, he handed her a USB flash drive.

Zhou Jingze took a sip of ice water, kicked Hu Qianxi’s toes, and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“Came here to borrow something from him.” Hu Qianxi shook the things in her hand and stood up at the same time, “I’m leaving first, uncle.”

Zhou Jingze held the spoon with his fingertips and stirred the soup in the bowl. He then suddenly called out to Hu Qianxi: “Wait.”

The cafeteria convenience store was crowded, and Zhou Jingze was carrying a bag of things, scanning the QR code to pay. Then, he handed it to Hu Qianxi: “Give it to her.”

Hu Qianxi had to digest it for three seconds before realizing that the “her” his uncle was referring to was Xu Sui. Zhou Jingze was also really coquettish. If the two of them were having a fight and he personally sent it over, wouldn’t it be a good time to take advantage of the situation and reconcile?

“Okay, uncle, then you owe me a meal.”

“Alright.”

He thought of something again and picked up his phone to send a message, looking up: “When you leave school later, go to Yunyuan Noodle Restaurant to pick up a container of crab roe noodles. I’ve already spoken with the boss.”

“She doesn’t eat green onions and cilantro, and she might like it with more vinegar.” Zhou Jingze added.

Hu Qianxi was originally going to reply to him with “ok ok”, but when she heard this sentence, she opened her eyes wide open. Her tone became agitated when she understood: “Uncle, what are you talking about ah. Sui Sui likes to eat green onions and cilantro. Also, she doesn’t like to eat vinegar at all. If she eats too much, she’ll have a stomachache.”

“I beg you, can you give more attention to this relationship? I secretly heard her crying in the bathroom last night. If you don’t want to seriously date someone, let her go…”

Zhou Jingze froze in place. She likes green onions and cilantro and doesn’t like vinegar. Then, before that was—

He squinted his eyes and tried to recall. Suddenly, he understood something. Hu Qianxi was still nagging “I won’t deliver it for you,” and when she took a breath to talk again, the person had disappeared.

Sheng Nanzhou, who was still standing next to Hu Qianxi, witnessed the entire process and sighed meaningfully, “He fell.”

“What?” Hu Qianxi didn’t hear clearly.

“Nothing,” Sheng Nanzhou took the things in her hand and raised his chin, “Let’s go, I’ll walk you out.”

The two walked out of the cafeteria side by side. The unexpected sweltering heat didn’t hit, but a cool draft wind blew in. Hu Qianxi subconsciously pressed down the hem of her skirt that was fluttering with the wind with her hand.

The dark clouds in the sky suppressed down, and there was a muffled thunder. Sheng Nanzhou glanced at the tree shaking in the wind and said, “It’s going to rain. I’ll go borrow an umbrella.”

“Ai, no need, luckily this miss came out with a sun umbrella,” Hu Qianxi subconsciously grabbed it with her wrist and took out a parasol from the bag.

Sheng Nanzhou stared at the parasol with a little red flower design and twitched the corner of his mouth, and said, “Alright.”

As long as you are happy.

As soon as the two walked down the steps, they turned left on the tennis court. When they walked out of the school gate, Sheng Nanzhou looked at the nearby restaurant, glanced at the tip of Hu Qianxi’s thin chin, and was silent for a while:

“Are you hungry? You choose, and I’ll treat you.”

Hu Qianxi shook her head: “I finally lost four pounds.”

She has been eating boiled vegetables and whole-grain protein for many days in a row. For example, she only ate an egg this morning, and now she is so hungry that her whole body feels weak, and her steps feel light. She hoped the journey would be shorter so that she could go back to the dormitory to eat boiled broccoli.

Sheng Nanzhou stared at her. His handsome brows frowned, and he spoke in an unsympathetic way: “Do you think that when you become thinner, Lu Wenbai will take another look at you?”

With many things, sometimes you already know the answer, but you can’t help but try to cover your ears once.

Hu Qianxi didn’t like such cruel Sheng Nanzhou at all.

She could only retort fiercely: “Of course ah. I have lost weight and will become more beautiful—”

A gust of wind blew up and lifted the fallen leaves on the ground. The leaves on the tall trees beside the road were blown away loudly. The petals were swaying and fell on Hu Qianxi’s head.

Sheng Nanzhou took a step forward. The distance between the two of them uncontrollably narrowed. Hu Qianxi’s voice stopped abruptly, and she looked up at him. The young master picked up the petals from her head, suppressed his usual unscrupulous expression, and said in a half-serious tone:

“Xixi, you don’t need to change anything because you are already beautiful like this.”

…

When Hu Qianxi returned to school, she was still thinking. When did Sheng Nanzhou change? He, who was always known for his bad mouth and took pleasure in attacking her, praised her for being beautiful.

She was distracted thinking about it and suddenly felt dizzy. Her entire body fell to the side uncontrollably. Before falling into a coma, an anxious female voice came: “Classmate, are you alright?”

——

On his way to find Xu Sui, some scenes flashed through Zhou Jingze’s mind like movie scenes.

He never eats onions and cilantro and hates everything with a pungent taste. That day in the cafeteria, Xu Sui invited him to dinner, and she said, “One serving without green onions and cilantro.” It turned out that she ordered it for him.

He doesn’t eat green onions and cilantro.

At that time, Zhou Jingze casually thought that she didn’t like to eat it either, and he didn’t see Xu Sui eat these two things during their later dates.

It’s not dislike, but she has always been accommodating to him.

He came out of that house with a bruise on his face. At that time, he was full of hostility, and his heart was extremely irritable. When he went back to school and bumped into Xu Sui, she handed him a pink band-aid.

He needed someone to accompany him to distract him, so he casually asked Xu Sui if she had eaten, and if she didn’t, then if she would eat with him.

Xu Sui said no at the time, and she added a lot of vinegar when eating the noodles.

It now appears that she lied. She had already had a meal that night, but to make Zhou Jingze feel better, she decided to have another meal with him.

It looked like she was eating with great appetite, but in fact, the effect of vinegar was only to fill her already full stomach with food.

If he hadn’t met Xu Sui that day, Zhou Jingze would have met another girl and asked her to accompany him.

His intervention in Xu Sui’s life was like a sudden thunderstorm, unintentionally but violently.

But she was discreet and treated it as a treasure.

Xu Sui studied in the library till late at night. Firstly, she didn’t want to get winded up with the crowd in the cafeteria at noon. Secondly, because the competition was coming up, she wanted to spend more time reviewing.

A gust of damp wind poured in from the window. Xu Sui glanced at the time and it was already half past one. She hurriedly packed her books and went downstairs.

When going downstairs, she ran into Wei Yu from a distance. He was wearing a white T-shirt with letters, and sweatpants, holding a Golden State Warriors basketball in his arms, full of youthful sunshine.

“Hey, Senior Sister Xu!” Wei Yu looked surprised.

“What a coincidence.” Xu Sui greeted him with a smile.

After she said hello, she was about to walk past Wei Yu, but he stopped her: “Senior Sister, I have something to ask you. Can I talk to you for a moment?”

Behind the school building, the oak trees grow lushly, and the shadow of the tree cuts the position where the two were standing into an umbrella shape. Wei Yu grabbed his collar and asked:

“Senior sister, I want to ask you, why do you answer when I ask you study questions on WeChat, but you ignore me when I send you private messages?”

Xu Sui has met all kinds of suitors, but no one is as straightforward and bold as Wei Yu. She thought for a while and said frankly: “Because I regard you as my junior, and we may be colleagues in the future.”

Wei Yu smiled wryly. He didn’t want to give up. As he was about to speak, the phone in Xu Sui’s pocket rang quickly. She took it out and looked but didn’t move.

Wei Yu glanced at the caller ID ZJZ, which was a strange contact name. He looked at Xu Sui and asked, “How about you answer the phone first?”

Xu Sui shook her head and pressed the red hang-up button. Her tone was calm: “It’s not a very important person.”

“What’s the matter, tell me.”

“Senior sister, I like you. It sounds very presumptuous, but it was from the time at Senior Guan’s psychology clinic. When you came in a hurry and accidentally bumped into an intern, you immediately apologized and helped her pick up the files. After the consultation, you left. I thought it was over just like that, but you came back again, holding a pot of a small succulent as a gift for her and hoping her career will go well.”

“So I fell in love with you at first sight, although—” Wei Yu put his hand on her shoulder.

When Xu Sui wanted to stop him from speaking, a cold and impatient voice came: “Although what?”

The two looked back. Zhou Jingze was standing not far away, wearing a gray-green training uniform, with one hand in his pockets, and the muscle lines of his arms were smooth and tight. He had a cigarette in his mouth and walked over with a cold face and an aura of “if you dare to steal my girlfriend, you will die”.

With a gloomy face, he sneered: “Although she has a boyfriend, you don’t mind being the other man?”

Zhou Jingze was about to laugh angrily at how shameless this man was. He grabbed Wei Yu’s hand on Xu Sui’s shoulder with one hand, and with a “click” sound, he broke it back. Wei Yu was in so much pain that he was yelling, but he continued what he had just said: “But I don’t mind.”

Zhou Jingze’s tone was domineering and arrogant, and he repeated slowly. Every time he said a word, he exerted a bit of force, and Wei Yu broke out in cold sweat from the pain.

“Because she can only belong to me alone.”

Wei Yu begged for mercy in pain, and Zhou Jingze let go unexpectedly. He took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and twisted the butt of the cigarette with his fingertips, and said in a harsh tone: “Scram.”

Wei Yu’s facial features were distorted by the pain, and he ran away in a hurry, not even daring to look at Xu Sui. Zhou Jingze wanted him to remember this pain and teach him a lesson.

His person, no one else can even take a look.

After Wei Yu left, the atmosphere was silent for a while. The rain finally fell, and a few droplets hit his face, inflicting pain. Xu Sui hugged the books without even looking at Zhou Jingze and turned to leave.

But Zhou Jingze was shameless. Wherever she went, he followed her. As Xu Sui was about to go left, Zhou Jingze grabbed her hand and brought her to him. Xu Sui fell into his arms with her hands on his chest.

Xu Sui’s eyes fluttered, and a few strands on her forehead were wet by the rain, “Let go.”

“Won’t let go.” Zhou Jingze lowered his head and looked at her.

“I bought your favorite pineapple buns just out of the oven, and the milk is from your favorite brand. I’ll remember that you like green onions and cilantro, and you don’t like vinegar.” Zhou Jingze spoke slowly as if making a promise, “Keep you close to my heart.”

Xu Sui’s eyes turned red. Wherever she was going, Zhou Jingze blocked in front of her like an iron wall, and she couldn’t escape.

Xu Sui started hitting him with the book in her arms, and the book fell to the ground with a splash. The rain mixed in with the condensed soil, and the words were soaked immediately. Without the book, she started kicking Zhou Jingze.

She wore a pair of pointed-toed leather shoes, and it was very painful to kick. Zhou Jingze grunted and hugged her, enduring it without saying a word. Xu Sui casually hit him with her hands and feet, and tears fell uncontrollably as she hit him.

With a broad palm resting on her waist, Xu Sui bumped into the wall behind him. Zhou Jingze held her chin and licked away the tears on her face little by little.

The lips wanted to stick, heed, and stir together; mixed with the salty tears, his Adam’s apple rolled slowly, swallowing.

After a while of scenery, Zhou Jingze lowered his neck and rubbed the tip of his nose affectionately on her forehead. Xu Sui’s eyes were red, and she breathed hoarsely with grievances: “You compensate me for the book.”

“I’ll compensate.”

“Also, I don’t like to eat Japanese food at all and am allergic to mango. But I like to eat mango smoothies in summer.”

“I’ll keep a note.”