Chapter 074

He Ye was not touched; she cried for Lu Jin’s sake.

At that time, she knew he liked her and happily accompanied her in many activities. When she proposed breaking up, this usually confident top student sent her several messages saying, “Don’t be like this.”

He Ye guessed he would feel sad for a while, but she never thought Lu Jin would continue to like her for six years.

When she had moved on from her first love and focused on her studies that summer, Lu Jin secretly came to the school to find her.

While she was walking and chatting with her roommates on campus, Lu Jin might have been standing in an unfamiliar corner, wondering where she was.

Even people who seem irrelevant would be touched by Lu Jin’s persistence, let alone He Ye, who already liked him very much.

“You should have told me. If you had told me, I might have gotten back together with you a long time ago.”

He Ye was still crying after Lu Jin carried her to bed, confused about why he was so foolish.

Lu Jin wiped her tears with a towel: “I didn’t want you to get back together with me just out of pity. I didn’t want you to see me as someone obsessed with you. If you don’t like me, my actions would only burden you.”

He understood this well, so he never planned to let her find out about his feelings. Even Zhou Xiangming didn’t know.

He Ye was moved by his words and gradually stopped crying.

If she had seen Lu Jin secretly visiting her in college, what would she think?

Since he was her high school classmate and an ex-boyfriend she once liked, He Ye didn’t see Lu Jin as creepy.

She would more likely feel pressured by his time and money spent on her, soften her heart because of his unwavering feelings, and then blindly agree to get back together.

This was very possible. After all, in addition to these feelings, Lu Jin was also handsome, making it hard for girls to refuse him.

If they had not gone to different cities right after breaking up, if he had not respected her choice and kept his distance, and if he hadn’t silently supported her during their first cold war, it would have been just a matter of time before He Ye would have been swayed back to him.

“You’ve been there so many times, and you saw him every time?”

The towel Lu Jin washed was now used by He Ye to wipe her face. She leaned on his shoulder and asked.

Lu Jin held her with one arm and clenched the folded towel in the other: “Almost every time: dormitory, cafeteria, library—you’ve basically been in those places.”

He Ye asked, “How do you know where my dorm is?”

Lu Jin replied, “Zhou Xiangming.”

He Ye: “…”

When college just started, Zhou Xiangming often contacted her. During those conversations, he might have asked her which building and floor she lived on, and she answered without thinking much.

“Does he know you came to see me?”

“He knew I wanted to go, so he asked me about it. I didn’t tell him.”

He Ye couldn’t help but tease, “He’s so good to you; he’s just like a brother.”

Lu Jin smiled: “We really need to thank him. We’ll invite him to the main table at the wedding.”

He Ye: “…You’re thinking too far ahead.”

Lu Jin: “How far is too far? Give me a time frame.”

He Ye stopped talking and poked his shoulder with her finger.

After a few pokes, Lu Jin poked her back.

He Ye: “…”

She wanted to move away, but Lu Jin held her tight.

He Ye whispered, “Are you tired?”

Lu Jin: “If you’re tired in your twenties, you’ll probably cheat in your forties.”

He Ye: “…Men care only about this, while women seek spiritual satisfaction.”

Lu Jin kissed her ear: “I’ll give you double.”

He Ye’s ears turned completely red from what he said.

Lu Jin carried her to the bed and pulled out the first drawer of the bedside table.

He Ye watched him take out a box and said, “Use half of it today. How will you divide the rest over the next four days?”

Lu Jin: “…What half?”

Just as He Ye was about to hit him, she saw him turn the box upside down, and four or five pills fell out, with obviously more hidden inside the box.

He Ye: “…”

The Shanghai subway suddenly came to mind.

No matter what the standard passenger capacity is, as long as the door is not closed, one more person can always squeeze in.

Even though she was complaining inside, He Ye was particularly soft-hearted tonight and willing to obey her boyfriend in any way.

When everything calmed down, it was already past midnight.

Lu Jin still held his girlfriend tightly in his arms.

He Ye pressed her whole body against him, sweating a lot, but she didn’t seem disgusted at all.

“If Le Yan didn’t find out, when were you going to tell me?” she asked, looking at her boyfriend’s jawline.

His Adam’s apple moved, and his voice became hoarse: “I didn’t want to tell you because I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to accept it.”

In the first few years, he still had to use paper tickets ^[1]are small pieces of paper used for entry or travel. that he would throw in the trash when leaving the station.

He Ye: “So when I joined the company, you pretended to be similar?”

Lu Jin agreed and asked her, “You really won’t resist?”

He Ye: “Like you said, knowing this right after we met again would probably be very stressful. Now that it’s like this, why resist?”

Lu Jin pressed down his girlfriend’s shoulders and then leaned in, looking into her eyes and asked, “What’s going on?”

He Ye turned her face away.

Lu Jin turned back: “He Ye, I want to hear you say it.”

He Ye wasn’t as good at expressing herself as he was and stammered: “That’s it.”

Lu Jin: “You did? Don’t worry, I don’t need you to be responsible for me. If you really can’t accept my behavior in the past six years, you can break up with me again.”

He Ye hit his shoulder and said with drooping eyelashes: “No.”

Lu Jin: “What is that?”

He Ye: “…Go take a shower first, I’m sleepy.”

Lu Jin: “Tell me when you’re done.”

He Ye nodded randomly.

Lu Jin carried her to the bathroom.

Returning to the bed, He Ye placed two extra pillows in the middle of the bed and lay down with her back to him: “No one is allowed to cross the line again until 8 o’clock tomorrow morning.”

Lu Jin: “Okay, did you forget something?”

He Ye didn’t forget.

She turned off the lights first, then turned on her phone and sent a message to her boyfriend.

Lu Jin leaned against the head of the bed, guessing that his girlfriend was going to send a text message, and had already opened the chat box in advance.

The screen scrolled, and a red envelope popped up with the words “Congratulations on your prosperity and good luck.”

Lu Jin clicked on the red envelope, then clicked “Open,” and found that “Xiao Ye Zi” had sent him a red envelope with an amount of “52.69.”

It was the red envelope that eighteen-year-old Lu Jin had once asked for from classmate He Ye, but she didn’t give it to him back then.

Now, at 24 years old, Lu Jin had finally received it.

“He Ye.”

“Um.”

“I want to cross the line.” 

He Ye said nothing.

Lu Jin tossed the two pillows away and hugged his soft girlfriend tightly.

On the evening of the last day of the May Day holiday, He Ye and her boyfriend boarded a plane back to Ancheng.

Traveling during the day and working double shifts at night, He Ye fell asleep on Lu Jin’s shoulder shortly after the plane took off and slept until they landed.

It was windy that night, and the temperature was just right.

Lu Jin dragged the suitcase in one hand and held his girlfriend’s hand in the other as they walked towards the taxi stand: “Where are we going tonight?”

He Ye: “…Everyone goes back to their own home.”

Lu Jin: “I can sleep in the second bedroom over there and help you with the laundry.”

He Ye agreed.

There were a lot of clothes to wash, taken out of the suitcase and taken off after the shower.

He Ye dried her hair and stood at the door of the master bedroom. She heard the sound of clothes being rubbed in the public bathroom.

She walked over curiously.

The light in the bathroom seemed brighter than outside. He Ye saw her boyfriend, who was 1.9 meters tall, bending over slightly, helping her wash her underwear by hand with a serious expression.

He Ye: “…”

Lu Jin gave his girlfriend a faint look and continued rubbing.

He Ye: “…I already washed it at the hotel, just rub it twice.”

After saying that, she slipped away.

Lu Jin continued washing and hanging clothes for more than twenty minutes.

After turning off the lights in the living room, he went to the second bedroom.

It was already half past ten.

Just as Lu Jin was about to put down his phone, his girlfriend sent him a message: [Come over here.]

A few dozen seconds later, Lu Jin sat down next to his girlfriend’s bed.

The room was dark, and he felt her soft hand: “What do you want me to do?”

He Ye: “…Come up, hold me for a while, and go back after I fall asleep.”

She was too clingy during the holidays. She couldn’t even get used to him not hugging her for a night.

Lu Jin cooperated and lay down next to his girlfriend, hugging her from behind.

He Ye: “I’m really sleepy, don’t mess around.”

Lu Jin: “I know, go to sleep.”

He Ye still guarded against him for a while, and after making sure that her boyfriend was really honest, she fell asleep quickly.

Lu Jin listened to her long breathing, kissed her on the top of her head, and slept with his girlfriend in his arms all night.