Chapter 39: Don’t Want Him, Want Me

Ji Jinghang frowned slightly, suddenly placing both hands on his sister’s shoulders and bending down slightly to look into her eyes, saying:

“I won’t be like Dad. Dad is just one of thousands of men. He’s just himself and can’t represent any group.”

“So our Shuyi can’t have a grudge against all men because of Dad’s problem. Whether it’s men or women, there are loyal and disloyal ones. Don’t let your heart be distorted because of one person, understand?”

Ji Shuyi listened to her brother seriously, and some long-suppressed knots in her heart seemed to suddenly clear up a lot. She nodded to her brother and said, “Understood.”

Only then did Ji Jinghang breathe a sigh of relief, and then he stood up straight, looking down like a head of the family and asking:

“So, this little girl has fallen in love with someone?”

Suddenly being asked so directly by her brother, Ji Shuyi’s ears turned slightly red, and she immediately avoided the question as if escaping, saying quickly:

“There’s no one. I was just asking casually.”

After saying that, she quickly turned around and returned to her room.

Bang-

She closed the door.

Ji Jinghang: “……”.

Leaning against the door, Ji Shuyi quietly recalled her brother’s words, ‘You might not say you like them, but you should definitely do things that show you like them…’

If Jiang Cheng’s bullying her was real at first, then could the little things now also be real?

Ji Shuyi suddenly felt that she had become sentimental. She didn’t like it at all. It was all Jiang Cheng’s fault, that jerk!

Finally falling asleep, her phone suddenly rang at more than two o’clock in the morning.

Ji Shuyi answered dazedly, her voice sleepy and delicate: “Hello~”

Jiang Cheng, hearing her voice like this for the first time, felt his breathing stop for a moment.

Seeing that he wasn’t speaking, Ji Shuyi grumbled resentfully, “Jiang Cheng, you’re calling in the middle of the night and not saying anything. Are you crazy!”

Only then did Jiang Cheng come back to his senses, and he hastily said, trying to cover up his excitement, “I… I accidentally tapped it. You continue sleeping.”

Ji Shuyi twisted her small face and hung up directly.

And Jiang Cheng was so excited that he couldn’t sleep at all. It wasn’t that he had tapped it accidentally, but he just wanted to confirm that he had really been released from her little black room.

New Year’s Day holiday.

Jiang Cheng, knowing that Ji Shuyi loved escape room games and the like later in the day, took the initiative to call and wanted to take her to play.

But she was rejected, saying, “I have something to do today, maybe tomorrow.”

Because when she got up early in the morning, she saw a friend post a status update on WeChat Moments.

【Truly brothers in misfortune】

The accompanying picture was a picture of two boys’ fingers bleeding.

She recognized that one of the boys was a boy she had secretly liked before.

Had he been injured? She wanted to go see.

The Nightlife Internet cafe where that boy, Cheng Hao, was located was in completely opposite directions from her home in Dijin (帝京 – Another name for Beijing), and completely opposite from her university. Dijin was very, very big, and that side was also a university town.

It was already noon when Ji Shuyi arrived. She hesitated for a long time at the entrance of the Internet cafe, and just as she was about to go in, she happened to see that boy, Cheng Hao, holding hands with his girlfriend, Chen Feifei. Behind them were another couple, Zhou Ye and Sheng Ge. The four of them seemed to have just come back from outside. The two boys’ hands had already been bandaged.

Ji Shuyi heard the girl, Chen Feifei, say:

“I’m really impressed by you two guys. One tile broke and injured both of your hands.”

Cheng Hao said cheekily and casually, “Isn’t that because I was busy looking at you?”

……

Ji Shuyi thought that seeing this scene would make her feel sour and sad, but she found that she was already calm to the extreme, and her heart was no longer fluctuating at all. She even felt like she was passing by a strange couple and accidentally heard their conversation, finding it a little funny and wanting to laugh.

It turned out that time had already healed everything,

Perhaps everything that could be healed by time was just because it wasn’t unforgettable enough.

As for unforgettable…

Ji Shuyi found, strangely, that Jiang Cheng’s appearance emerged in her mind. She panicked and patted her head to dispel that jerk, and then looked at the four people who walked inside for the last time with a relaxed and peaceful mood, curved her lips, smiled, and turned around and left.

At that moment, she was incomparably relaxed, completely letting go of that brief unrequited love.

Ji Shuyi walked happily, twirling her car keys with her fingertips, turned into a corner, and suddenly her eyes darkened, and someone blocked her way.

“Ah!”

Ji Shuyi cried out in surprise, and when she looked up, she saw that it was Jiang Cheng.

“Jiang Cheng!” Ji Shuyi patted her frightened heart and asked sullenly, “What are you doing here? You scared me to death.”

Jiang Cheng looked down at her with a blank expression. His tone couldn’t be heard to convey what he was thinking, but he was very honest: “I followed you here.”

“You followed me?” Ji Shuyi forced a smile: “You didn’t have to be so honest,”

After calming her mind, she asked again, “Then what are you doing here? You scared me.”

“Otherwise, where would I be?”

Jiang Cheng looked down at her, his eyes dark and deep, his eyes full of the undercurrent of frustration:

“I was afraid that if I followed you any closer, I would see the way you looked at that person and wouldn’t be able to help but beat him to death.”

Ji Shuyi’s eyes suddenly widened, and she looked into his dark and frustrated eyes, actually feeling very sorry for him. Only then did she realize that there was a very strong smell of smoke on him. It was the first time she had smelled smoke on him. How many cigarettes had he smoked here?

Her eyes looked down, and sure enough, he was still holding an unlit cigarette between his fingers.

Seeing that she was stunned, Jiang Cheng couldn’t help but ask, “So you rejected me to come see him, right.”

This was also the corner where they first met. At that time, she had run out with milk tea like this and bumped into him. So at that time, she was here to see her sweetheart…

It was really ridiculous. He didn’t expect the scene to be repeated again.

It was just that the difference this time was that the last time, he could look down at her with arrogance and nonchalance, but at this moment, he seemed to have become so humble that he had fallen into the dust.

But he didn’t defame that man, he didn’t defame her former moonlight, but only gently moved closer to her, looking down at her very, very close, his voice very low:

“Ji Shuyi, don’t want him, want me.”

He couldn’t help but reach out to take her hand, but stopped in mid-air without touching her, and only murmured asking, “Okay?”

(Erm… Dog Cheng is a little pitiful, I’ll give him candy soon)