CH 24

Sun Yuhe was worthy of being Xu Hui’s best friend of many years. His explanation of Xu Hui’s nature of being ‘insecure’ and ‘clingy’ was very reasonable. Even Bai Lu herself was moved by his message. But when she realized Jiang Ru and her retched ending, she quickly forced her heart to harden.

“He used to study better than me.”

The word ‘used to’ felt like a faraway dream, because now they were both heading down a completely different path.

Bai Lu lowered her head and looked at the screen, as if looking at him. No one could understand what was in her mind.

She looked at the teenager under the sun, all the complex emotions and the painful resentment slowly faded away.

All her senses become straightforward and simple. In the silent afternoon, two lonely teenagers were thinking of each other.

For the first time for that day, Bai Lu replied to his message while sitting in the classroom.

[Bai Lu: What are you doing?]

Xu Hui probably didn’t expect Bai Lu to reply to his message at all and sent a series of question marks in quick succession.

Bai Lu: “……”

Then, another text message was sent.

[Xu Hui: Oh, you saw it?]

Bai Lu wanted to laugh but held herself.

[Bai Lu: Yeah, I did.]

Everything became quite again.

The class bell was about to rang, Bai Lu was about to put away her phone when Xu Hui sent her another message.

[Xu Hui: Are you free on Sunday, can you come to meet me?]

The bell rang, and the English teacher entered the classroom with her usual short heels stepping on the corridor with the usual thump, thump, thump.

Bai Lu’s fingers quickly flew on the keypad. She replied his message as soon as possible and quickly turned off the phone.

Wu Hanwen turned his head at that moment, just in time to see her put the phone back into her school bag. His lips parted but he didn’t say anything in the end.