Chapter 51: Admitting to Liking Him

Sitting in the car, Jiang Cheng watched the bashful Crystal Rabbit run away. He chuckled, his breathing heavy, but the fire in his heart burned even hotter. His Adam’s apple bobbed as he quickly grabbed a bottle of mineral water from the car and gulped it down. He watched Ji Shuyi enter the villa gates and waited a long, long time before finally driving away.

Ji Shuyi had just rushed into the living room when she saw her older brother, Ji Jinghang, coming down the stairs.

Ji Jinghang went straight to the point: “You sent the driver away. Who brought you back?”

Instantly, Ji Shuyi looked like a child caught doing something wrong by her parents. She nervously clasped her hands behind her back and unconsciously bit her lips, which were still tingling from the almost-kiss. Her big eyes blinked innocently as she looked at her brother, not lying to him: “Jiang… Jiang Cheng.”

Ji Jinghang studied his younger sister’s expression. He immediately saw through it. He frowned and asked directly, “How far has it gone?”

“Brother!”

Ji Shuyi suddenly raised her voice, sounding like someone whose thoughts had been exposed and was now feeling embarrassed and angry.

Then, she hastily said, “It hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s very pure.”

“It better be,” Ji Jinghang said, frowning with concern. “I don’t intend to stop you from dating anyone, but if it’s Jiang Cheng, you need to be prepared for Dad to object. I’ve warned you, Dad looks down on the Jiang family.”

Ji Shuyi’s heart suddenly felt heavy and stifled. She uneasily clenched her fists and slowly looked up at Ji Jinghang:

“Brother, I don’t want to hide it from you. I like Jiang Cheng now, but I can’t be sure if he’s head-over-heels for me.

Because of Dad, I always feel like men treat relationships too casually.

If one day, I’m sure it’s him, can you help me talk to Dad?

Besides, how could Uncle Jiang, such an open-minded and cheerful person, have a bad family atmosphere? Dad shouldn’t look at them with prejudice.”

It was rare for Ji Jinghang to see his younger sister talking to him like this, especially since her appearance made him feel like the little girl was already deeply involved. He frowned slightly with worry but didn’t say anything. He just patted her head reassuringly and said:

“I’ll try my best, get some rest.”

Hearing her brother’s words, Ji Shuyi smiled in relief: “Thank you, Brother.”

Before going to bed, Ji Shuyi felt a stuffy feeling in her heart and wanted to call Jiang Cheng, but she didn’t know what to say. She couldn’t directly ask him what he would do if her father didn’t agree to them being together, could she?

And what could he do? Her father looked down on his entire family. She couldn’t ask him to choose between his family and her, that would be too melodramatic.

Forget it. It hasn’t reached that point yet.

End of term exams finished.

The night before winter vacation, the Dance Department and the Broadcasting Department of Jingda University jointly held a large outdoor song and dance evening at the basketball court.

Although many students went home after the exams, the basketball court was still packed with people. But the atmosphere still wasn’t energetic enough; it felt like something was missing.

That’s right, it lacked enthusiastic passion.

“Hey? Where’s your Jiang Cheng?” Lu Zhixia was hosting a campus program for the first time. Seeing that the atmosphere was lacking, she poked Ji Shuyi while taking a break backstage and said, “Why don’t you call him over? This is my first time hosting an event, and I feel like the atmosphere isn’t energetic enough.”

“Huh?” Ji Shuyi was stunned for a moment and said, “Wouldn’t calling Jiang Cheng over have the opposite effect? If he stood there with a cold face, wouldn’t the atmosphere freeze instantly?”

“No, it won’t,” Lu Zhixia said with a smile. “If you call him over and he stands next to you, the atmosphere will explode because the way he looks at you has its own explosive point.

You don’t know, after you two left the cafeteria last time, everyone was buzzing about it. Some people even wondered if the Great Demon King had been possessed.”

Ji Shuyi: “……”.

That’s quite outrageous.

“Oh, just call him,” Lu Zhixia urged. “You call Jiang Cheng, and I’ll call Chen Xingyi over too. Otherwise, if my first time hosting an event doesn’t go well, where will I put my face?”

As she spoke, she took out her phone and called Chen Xingyi, urging Ji Shuyi at the same time:

“Hurry up, don’t be shy.”

“Okay, okay, I’ll ask him if he’s busy.”

Ji Shuyi also wanted to ask him what he was doing. After all, five hours ago, he came to her classroom door and told her that he had something to do. He would come to find her when he was done, but she didn’t know if he was finished yet.

Ji Shuyi took out her phone and walked to a slightly quieter place to dial Jiang Cheng’s number.

He answered instantly.

She directly asked, “Jiang Cheng, are you done with your work?”

Jiang Cheng immediately replied: “I’m done, where are you now?”

“I’m at the school basketball court,” Ji Shuyi asked him. “There’s an evening party at school today, are you coming?”

“I’ll be there,” Jiang Cheng said, “Ten minutes.”

“Okay, I’ll wait for you here.”

At that moment, three boys were setting the stage on fire with a street dance to the accompaniment of “Best Friend”.

Street dance is a dance that can ignite the atmosphere. The cool dance moves, coupled with the handsome looks of the boys, successfully brought the stage to a new climax.

Lu Zhixia was extremely satisfied and screamed and cheered along with the students watching.

Amidst the crowd’s noise, Ji Shuyi’s phone rang. It was Jiang Cheng calling.

After Ji Shuyi answered the phone, she squeezed out of the crowd, preparing to meet him.

“Ah? You saw me already?”

Hearing the voice on the phone, Ji Shuyi subconsciously tiptoed and looked around in the crowd, asking, “Then where are you? I don’t see you.”

Jiang Cheng frowned as he watched Ji Shuyi squeezing in the crowd and said, “Don’t squeeze with people, just stand there and don’t move, I’ll go over.”

Ji Shuyi immediately said, “Okay, I’ll wait for you here.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the crowd’s screams suddenly became unusually loud, as if everyone had collectively seen something earth-shattering.

The uproar of voices was not enough to describe the suddenly excited atmosphere.

Cheers, screams, mixed with the students’ discussions.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, what did I see?”

“I swear, as a senior, I can say that I haven’t seen him change his appearance in three years!”

“How can he be so handsome? This is simply a breakthrough in dimensions, defying the heavens.”

“…”

The crowd was noisy. Ji Shuyi was still tiptoeing and looking around for Jiang Cheng’s figure. Suddenly, she felt the crowd behind her disperse. Just as she was about to turn her head, someone patted her shoulder from behind. She hurriedly turned around and was stunned the moment she saw the person in front of her. Her whole body stiffened in place, staring in disbelief at Jiang Cheng, who was standing in front of her with his hands in his pockets and a rebellious smile on his face.

He… he actually changed his hairstyle.

At this moment, Jiang Cheng had changed to a half-tied samurai hairstyle, with two strands of just-right bangs left in front of his forehead. Every strand of hair was supporting his appearance. This hairstyle was very similar to the comic photo she posted in her WeChat moments last year.

At that time, she thought that comic was particularly handsome. She had never seen a real person who could perfectly pull off that hairstyle.

But the boy in front of her made her feel that the comic was ugly.

Jiang Cheng looked at the little girl in front of him who was already stunned. Suddenly, he smiled and bent down in front of her in front of everyone, looking at her at eye level and raising his eyebrows slightly: “Handsome or not?”

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