CH 30

In the classroom, Ruan Mengmeng was frantic to catch up on her homework. It had been seven days since He Yiyang left, and she missed him.

Especially when she couldn’t do her Maths and Chemistry homework and had to copy someone else the next day.

The longing was particularly acute.

“Mengmeng, look at ……” Chen Linjia came over with her mobile phone.

“Eh?” When the paper was finished, Ruan Mengmeng breathed a sigh of relief and poked her head over to see it.

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The school’s forum was full of handsome pictures of the members of the varsity basketball team, with the most snaps of Qin Tian and Lu Zhengyuan.

“Lu Zhengyuan is getting a lot of momentum right now. Look at the way he’s shooting three-pointers, isn’t he handsome?” Chen Linjia asked.

Ruan Mengmeng nodded her head. He Yiyang was also very handsome that day. Whenever he scored, the stands would shake like an earthquake.

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“You’re the older brother!” Chen Linjia was shocked by her sudden loudness and annoyed by her. “Lu Zhengyuan is younger than He Yiyang. He charmed the junior high school sisters with his smile. If you don’t believe me feel free to ask. What’s so good about a cold face that you deserve to blow up and defend it?”

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“Besides,” Chen Linjia’s eyes rolled and he laughed strangely, “your brother and your male …… friend are both school grasses. Isn’t it cooler?”

“Blindly dragging long what sound,” Ruan Mengmeng said seriously, “you can not misunderstand, I ……”

Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by the student who was on duty today to clean the blackboard.

“Ruan Mengmeng, someone is looking for you.”

When she looked up, Lu Zhengyuan was standing at the door with a sunny smile.

The students in the class saw it and also started to coax, “Oh~~ our class’s piggy girl is very popular!”

Ruan Mengmeng subconsciously looked at Chen Linjia and nervously tried to explain. Before she could open her mouth, Chen Linjia pulled on her mouth. Her finger then pointed to the classroom door, “Go!”

Outside the classroom door, Lu Zhengyuan looked at Ruan Mengmeng who wrinkled her little eyebrows and asked with a smile, “What’s wrong? You don’t like me coming to you, huh?”

“No.” Ruan Mengmeng glanced at him, not knowing what to say.

Turning back to the classroom with a wary look, there were indeed a few gossiping students peeking out the window.

“You’re the talk of the school now. Let’s go over there, go over there.” She nudged Lu Zhengyuan’s arm sharply away from the classroom.

All the way to the stairway, there wasn’t much on this side.

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Ruan Mengmeng opened her mouth and said, “Zhengyuan, you can actually contact Jiajia directly. Boys should not be so passive. Jiajia is very popular. If you still dilly-dally, she might be chased by someone else.”

Lu Zhengyuan was speechless for a moment. Looking at Ruan Mengmeng’s serious apricot eyes, he didn’t know if to laugh or cry, “I’m here to find you. Tomorrow night’s New Year’s Eve fireworks party, I want to go with you to see it.”

“With me?!” Ruan Mengmeng said in surprise, “Isn’t it Jia Jia?”

“Really not!” Lu Zhengyuan’s tone was aggravated; his heart was bursting with powerlessness.

He placed his hands on Ruan Mengmeng’s shoulders and stared eye to eye, “It’s you. The person I want to ask out has always been you!”

The seriousness in Lu Zhengyuan’s eyes and the reflection of his face was no joke.

How could things have turned out like this? Wasn’t it Chen Linjia that Lu Zhengyuan liked?

Where did it go off the rails? What did he want to ask me out for?

All these questions and anxieties plagued Ruan Mengmeng until the end of the school day, but she was still not clear.

Especially when she saw Chen Linjia with her mobile phone sending out WeChat messages during the evening study session, and the WeChat avatar of the person she was talking to looked like Lu Zhengyuan.

Her brain was about to explode!

Chen Linjia liked Lu Zhengyuan! My God, what the hell was Lu Zhengyuan doing asking her out? It was annoying!

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She went home at night and flung herself into bed, not having finished her homework and she was not in the mood to do it. After rolling around twice under the blanket, Ruan Mengmeng picked up her phone and dialed He Yiyang’s number.

After waiting for a long time, no one answered. Ruan Mengmeng let out a long sigh and stirred her legs in the air in annoyance and helplessness.

The next day, Chen Linjia greeted Ruan Mengmeng without raising her head while she was doing her homework, “Good morning, Mengmeng.”

“Good morning.”

Ruan Mengmeng put down her school bag and slumped on the table like a slump, breathless.

“What’s wrong with you? Your black eyes are a national treasure, huh?” Chen Linjia skimmed her head and looked at her, surprised.

“I didn’t sleep; I had a bad dream.” Ruan Mengmeng propped up her head to look at Chen Linjia, wanting to say something.

“What about? Are you seeking comfort to touch your head?” Chen Linjia said, releasing one hand to rest on Ruan Mengmeng’s head and rub it, while the other hand continued to furiously catch up on homework.

“Hey~ Forget it.” Ruan Mengmeng sighed and buried her head between her hands again, taking advantage of the fact that class was not yet in session to catch up on her sleep.

She had a dream last night. Lu Zhengyuan chased her, she chased Chen Linjia, and the three of them ran in a deadly cycle, chasing each other until dawn, with gold stars appearing in front of her eyes.

She had never had anything so big on her mind, or a love triangle that would probably explode at 8 o’clock!

After a day of muddled classes, she didn’t know what the teacher was talking about. When the bell rang, the spiritual platform was instantly clear again.

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Ruan Mengmeng grabbed Chen Linjia’s hand, “Jiajia, it was agreed that we would be BFFs for life. Do you remember that!”

Chen Linjia was dumbfounded. Seeing Ruan Mengmeng’s serious and pale face, she realized afterwards the heavy psychological pressure her best friend had been under this whole day.

“I know,” Chen Linjia hugged Ruan Mengmeng, feeling warm and amused, “Silly Mengmeng, I’ll say it again. I don’t like Lu Zhengyuan.”

“Sh, what?!” Ruan Mengmeng thought she had hallucinated, how could that be!

Chen Linjia laughed helplessly and rubbed Ruan Mengmeng’s fleshy face, “Lu Zhengyuan likes you, is he going to watch the fireworks with you tonight? Take advantage of it.”

Ruan Mengmeng half-opened her mouth. Her heart relaxed and then tightened, “Don’t talk nonsense, Zhengyuan he may just ……”

The idea of those eyes of Lu Zhengyuan in the stairwell, Ruan Mengmeng could not continue to say.

“Just what? Just that you’re too stupid to believe you have charms,” Chen Linjia shook her head and got up to prepare to leave, “First date, go home and dress up properly. I’ll go first ah.”

*

The Fujiang fireworks was a tourist attraction in C city. Every New Year’s Day Festival and New Year’s Eve would be in full bloom. At the same time, the splendid and colorful romantic fireworks attract tourists from all over the country.

Ruan Mengmeng pulled her scarf to cover her mouth and nose as the riverside viewing area was filled with people.

She saw the Fujiang Yinfeng Pavilion not far away and sighed, “How can I get there?

She was thinking of not squeezing in when someone tapped her on the shoulder. When she turned her head, a bouquet of bright red roses appeared in front of her.

Blinking, she slowly looked upwards along the roses, and it was Lu Zhengyuan who had asked her out.

“It’s for you.” He said.

Lu Zhengyuan was wearing a long dark brown cotton coat jacket tonight, and inside the open jacket was a coarse-knit white turtleneck jumper with a ring of pure white fluffy fur on the coat’s attached hood.

His gentle smile was too affectionate, especially with the roses in his hand, looking at the surprised girl who was at a loss for words in front of him.

The young couples around him all laughed in good faith, clapping and whistling, coaxing “accept him” and “stay together”.

Lu Zhengyuan’s heart was racing and his hands holding the roses were trembling uncontrollably as he said, “Mengmeng ……”

“Ah!” Ruan Mengmeng let out a small cry of surprise and blinked furiously as if she had just come back to her senses.

She bit the corner of her lip and hesitated for a moment before finally accepting the first bouquet of red roses in her life.

When she quietly raised her eyes, she met Lu Zhengyuan’s smiling gaze, and for a moment, her face was so red that it could drip blood.

Lu Zhengyuan tentatively lifted an arm and put it on Ruan Mengmeng’s shoulder, but she didn’t move.

“Let’s go to the riverside, there’s a viewing platform there.” Lu Zhengyuan’s voice trembled with excitement.

At eight o’clock, the night sky over the Fu River was lit up with rosy fireworks.

The flower-like enchanting magnificence, the grandeur of the Milky Way pouring out, the innocence and sentimentality of the stars …… After twenty minutes of fireworks, people on the riverside cheering and feeling, hugging and kissing.

Lu Zhengyuan and Ruan Mengmeng raised their heads to watch, and they occasionally touched each other and quickly separated from the corner of their eyes. The smile on the corners of their lips was more beautiful than the fireworks in the night sky.

A gust of river breeze blew in, and Lu Zhengyuan turned sideways to block it, “I’ll take you back.”

Holding the roses, Ruan Mengmeng gently nodded her head.

Lu Zhengyuan was delighted and walked slowly with her towards the exit with the crowd, giving her a tug when he saw someone crowding over.

As he tugged, Lu Zhengyuan’s hand was placed on Ruan Mengmeng’s back.

It was not until the crowd had dispersed outside the exit that Ruan Mengmeng noticed.

She was embarrassed and took the initiative to step back. She looked at Lu Zhengyuan and didn’t know what to say, but when she saw that he was staring at her and didn’t have anything to say, she was even more at a loss.

Uneasy, her head lowered. Just when she was ready to run away, her arm was abruptly pulled from the side with such force that her body tilted.

The next second, the red roses in her hand were flung far out of reach!

The graceful and brief arc in the air resembled a hazy love affair that had ended before it had even begun.

The imprisoning arm around her waist forced her to look up, and with one glance, the dark currents of youth instantly froze into ice.

He Yiyang was back.