Chapter 89: Am I Expecting Him to Like Me?

He not only kept the bottle of milk she gave him in the fridge, but he also bought the factory.

Jian Yao’s slender white fingers clenched the hem of her skirt.

Such strange behavior was really hard to ignore.

Taking advantage of Gu Zhiyan’s slight intoxication, she looked directly at Gu Zhiyan’s black and white eyes with a somewhat unrestrained gaze.

Gu Zhiyan didn’t dodge or avoid, his clear eyes met hers. After hearing her question clearly, he seemed to smile.

Why?

Of course, it’s because he likes her!

At that time, Jian Yao’s beautiful appearance and figure had already begun to appear.

Her clumsy student hairstyle and dull bangs couldn’t hide her natural beauty.

Before that, he knew Jian Yao because of her dramatic identity.

The real daughter of the Jian family who had been lost.

Even after she returned, the Jian family didn’t send the fake daughter away.

A typical cliché web novel brought to life.

However, the first time they met.

He just thought it was funny that she was so scared but still mustered up the courage to give him medicine, so he remembered her.

That bottle of soy milk was just because he forgot to drink it and left it in his room.

Later, in the school bathroom, he overheard two boys in the next cubicle talking about her.

“That Jian Yao from the next class, she’s so hot, big boobs, small waist, long legs, hotter than the ones in the movies.”

“Yeah, but she looks like a good girl, and she’s the Jian family’s daughter, probably hard to get, and even if you do get her, it’s hard to get rid of her. Otherwise, I really want to taste her.”

The speakers were notorious hooligans in their school, relying on their family’s money, they had a bad reputation in school.

Gu Zhiyan didn’t know what came over him at the time, but hearing those two bastards talking dirty, he got hot-headed and beat them up.

He actually beat them pretty badly.

But his identity was there, the two of them didn’t dare to say anything after being beaten, and they just ran away in shame.

She was really attractive!

Gu Zhiyan himself couldn’t count how many fights he got into during that time.

Because of this, he was punished a lot at the old house, his grandmother and mother thought he was going through a rebellious phase.

He didn’t know when it started, but his attention unconsciously fell on Jian Yao.

The name Jian Yao, like wild grass growing wildly, spread wildly in his life.

Everywhere.

The car went over a speed bump, jolting, pulling Gu Zhiyan back to his senses.

He looked at Jian Yao lazily, his eyes serious.

“Why do you want me to keep that bottle of soy milk?”

Jian Yao’s heart had been hanging for a long time, just waiting for Gu Zhiyan’s answer, but she didn’t expect this guy to be so difficult to get a straight answer from even after drinking, he just threw the question back at her.

Jian Yao gritted her teeth, sat up straight, and looked away.

She almost forgot, Gu Zhiyan after drinking was much more difficult than usual.

Gu Zhiyan looked at her angry expression, and chuckled as he rubbed her head.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t willing to tell the truth, but he didn’t dare.

He kept in mind Xu Si’s reminder, the time wasn’t right, he couldn’t confess his feelings.

Instead of telling her directly, it was better to let her guess, think, and find the answer from him.

And Jian Yao, as Gu Zhiyan guessed, thought about it all the way.

In the end, she attributed her inability to figure out the reason to being too close to the situation.

So, while Gu Zhiyan went to the bathroom to wash up, she finally couldn’t help but take out her phone and tell Xu Si about tonight’s truth or dare, Gu Zhiyan’s evasiveness in the car, and the soy milk incident, in detail.

“Tell me, what does he mean?”

Xu’s house.

Xu Si was lounging on the sofa, wearing a face mask and scrolling through Weibo, enjoying the gossip.

These days, it had become her daily routine to relax and de-stress by checking Weibo for news about Lu Chengze and the misfortunes of Lu Corporation.

She didn’t even need to click on the links, just reading the headlines brought her immense satisfaction.

Especially today, Yao Guang’s trending topics and Lu Corporation’s were neck and neck, the level of mockery reaching new heights!

She picked up the sugary soda on the table and took a big gulp through the straw, her feet practically kicking up in glee!

Suddenly, her WeChat started buzzing with a flurry of messages.

Xu Si thought she was experiencing a cruel twist of fate, that her phone had caught a virus. She almost choked on the soda.

She coughed lightly, cleared her throat, and grumbled as she picked up her phone to check WeChat.

When she saw the messages from Jian Yao, she realized that sometimes she really wanted to pry open Jian Yao’s head and see if it was filled with mush.

A bottle of high school soy milk, kept until now, had become a symbol of pure love. This simpleton was asking her what Gu Zhiyan meant?

What could she say?

Gu Zhiyan’s brain had gone haywire?

He had a collection fetish?

He was a psychopath?

Xu Si took a deep breath and typed a flurry of words, “What do you think it means? Besides liking you to the point of obsession, what else could it mean…”

She finished typing, then thought for a moment and deleted everything.

No, no, what if this girl, Jian Yao, hadn’t fallen for him yet? If she knew that Gu Zhiyan had liked her for so many years, she would definitely feel pressured.

She knew Jian Yao’s personality too well.

A master at beating a hasty retreat.

It could backfire.

She thought for a while and retyped.

“Tell me, how are you feeling right now?”

After sending the message, Jian Yao kept staring at her phone screen.

When she saw Xu Si’s message, she frowned and thought for a moment.

“I can’t explain it. Curious, conflicted, and maybe a little hopeful? I just want to figure it out.”

Jian Yao was a little confused.

“Why are you asking?”

When Xu Si saw Jian Yao’s reply, she already had a pretty good idea.

These two were really something.

One had been harboring a secret crush for years without confessing, while the other had already fallen for him without realizing it.

Xu Si was both annoyed and amused.

“When someone asks a question, they usually already have an answer in their mind. Even if they don’t, they have an expected answer.”

“Like when I asked you how you were feeling, you said you were a little hopeful. Figure out what that hope is, what you’re hoping for.”

“What are you trying to confirm?”

Jian Yao looked at Xu Si’s message and fell into deep thought.

She wasn’t sure what she was hoping for, but she clearly remembered that moment in the bar when Gu Zhiyan gave his answer. The first thought that popped into her head was: Does he like me?

Jian Yao bit her lip, her grip on her phone tightening.

Could it be that she was hoping Gu Zhiyan liked her?

Jian Yao’s clear eyes widened for a moment.

“I think I’m hoping he likes me!”

When Jian Yao sent that message, her mind was filled with the thought: This is ridiculous!

“How could I possibly hope that a gay guy likes me?”

Xu Si thought Jian Yao had finally figured it out and was about to send a message praising her, but before she could finish typing, she was choked by Jian Yao’s next message!