Chapter 26: “I Have All The Time In The World To Spend With You”

“I have something to do after evening self-study…”

Qin Yingxia’s tea-colored eyes looked at him, a smile playing on her lips.

Jin Zhuo lifted his eyelids to look at her, his voice low and indifferent, with a hint of displeasure, “Still want to watch the fireworks show prepared by Gu Jin?”

He said, his fingertips pressing against her wrist with some force, pulling her hand towards him.

The man’s actions were full of possessiveness, even he himself didn’t realize it, but he was still smiling on the surface, looking good-natured, “Didn’t learn your lesson just now?”

Qin Yingxia said good-naturedly, “I learned my lesson… It’s not a meeting with Gu Jin, it’s something between us girls.”

She didn’t elaborate, but Jin Zhuo understood.

He slowly released her hand, and as he left, he still brushed against the girl’s wristbone unintentionally.

It was a little itchy.

Qin Yingxia’s fingertips twitched, she pursed her lips, and deliberately brushed against Jin Zhuo’s palm.

His breath quickened, and he retracted his hand as if he had been electrocuted.

They were evenly matched, but she still pressed her advantage.

Qin Yingxia took a step closer to him, her eyes filled with sparkling spring light, with a touch of lingering affection, “Jin Zhuo, I like watching fireworks, do you have time to take me to see them?”

The wind was light, making the beating of her heart even more deafening.

Jin Zhuo stared at her excessively beautiful eyes, unable to suppress his joy.

His thin lips curled up, “Accompany you, I have all the time in the world.”

“Jin Zhuo,” Qin Yingxia stood on tiptoe, whispering in his ear, “You really spoil me~”

“Don’t be silly,” he laughed, reaching out to pinch the back of her neck and pull her away.

The good atmosphere was ruined by Qin Yingxia…

Although it was a joke, it was also what she really wanted to say.

Jin Zhuo really did pamper her.

…

Qin Yingxia returned to the classroom and found that Yu Zhizhi was also not in her seat.

She just lowered her head to send her a message, and when she looked up, she met Gu Jin’s gaze.

He looked very embarrassed, making eight hundred awkward gestures in a minute.

The classmates around him stared at him for a long time, unable to help but ask, “What’s wrong? Is your body itchy? Go to the bathhouse and scrub it later?”

Gu Jin was even more embarrassed, “Go, go, go, don’t bother me.”

Qin Yingxia withdrew her gaze and returned to her seat.

Her phone vibrated, it was a WeChat message from Gu Jin, [Forget everything that happened tonight, I was so embarrassing.]

[I was reckless tonight, I shouldn’t have…]

[I saw Senior Jin sending you back just now, can you ask Senior Jin to let me off the hook?]

[I still want to be commended for my outstanding performance, I still want to get scholarships, I don’t want to be targeted by the student union…]

Qin Yingxia was a little helpless, [Class monitor, our matter is easy to solve, we can just keep our distance from each other in the future. As for Senior Jin’s matter, I can’t control him either, you should talk to President Xie about the student union.]

Speaking of the devil.

Xie Chi, accompanied by people from the Academic Department, happened to be in Qin Yingxia’s class for attendance.

Yu Zhizhi slipped into the classroom from the back door, returning to her seat and finally letting out a sigh of relief, “Yingying, you’re back! I was worried that Gu Jin had tricked you into going somewhere…”

“You went out to look for me?”

“Yes! I ran into Xie Chi and Jin Zhuo… They were checking attendance. They saw me in a hurry and asked me what I was doing, I said you were taken away by Gu Jin, and I wanted to find you…”

It turned out that Yu Zhizhi had told Jin Zhuo.

“Zhizhi, you really saved me.” Qin Yingxia said.

Yu Zhizhi was puzzled, “What’s going on? What did I miss?”

As the two of them chatted excitedly, they noticed Xie Chi’s gaze falling on them.

Yu Zhizhi looked back fearlessly and asked him with her mouth, “What are you looking at?”

Xie Chi flicked the attendance sheet in his hand, a playful smile curving his lips, “Any students who are late, don’t let me catch you again… I’m not a very easy person to talk to.”

Yu Zhizhi: “…Why don’t you just ask for my ID number?”

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After evening self-study, the three of them took a taxi to the hospital.

During the ride, they talked about Gu Jin. Yu Zhizhi couldn’t help but sigh, “This class monitor is quite brave. But how is he so confident that you’ll accept his confession?”

Qin Yingxia also felt that his actions were too sudden. It had been almost a month since school started, and Gu Jin had chosen this moment to approach her.

She frowned, suddenly remembering the photos that appeared in the comment section.

Xu Siwan, sitting in the passenger seat, clearly thought of the same thing.

Gu Jin had joined the student council and, coincidentally, was assigned to Xu Siwan’s department.

So when Qin Yingxia and Yu Zhizhi talked about this person, she didn’t find him unfamiliar at all.

Xu Siwan and Qin Yingxia exchanged a look, and neither of them spoke again.

It was those photos that Yang Dai had secretly taken that gave Gu Jin confidence.

After fifteen minutes, they arrived at the hospital. Only Xu Siwan knew Yang Dai’s room number.

Yu Zhizhi carried a fruit basket, still a little worried, “Will it be awkward for us to go in like this? What if she has friends there?”

Qin Yingxia wasn’t worried about Yang Dai’s friends being there, but she didn’t know how to face Yang Dai now.

To be honest, what Yang Dai had done hadn’t had a particularly serious impact on her.

But as Jin Zhuo said, it was thanks to them discovering the problem in time.

If Jin Zhuo’s words hadn’t made Yang Dai realize that her actions had been exposed, would she have continued to secretly take those photos?

Qin Yingxia sighed softly, her heart heavy.

…

The elevator doors opened, the smell of disinfectant hitting them, and the hallway was filled with busy medical staff.

Xu Siwan led them to Yang Dai’s ward door, just as she was about to push it open, a sound came from inside the ward.

“Baby, take another sip…”

A brightly dressed middle-aged woman coaxed Yang Dai to drink soup, her voice kind, her hand trembling as she brought the soup spoon to her lips.

“I don’t want to drink.”

The middle-aged woman didn’t get angry, her voice becoming even softer, she pointed to the man standing beside her, “Your dad heard you sprained your ankle, so he rushed to the early market this morning to buy fresh ribs, and he simmered them for two hours…”

Yang Dai still didn’t budge, “I’m so annoyed, I don’t want to drink this stuff.”

“Baby, you know our home is far from the Imperial City, it takes four or five hours just to get there, we’re afraid the soup will get cold and you won’t like it, so we held it in our arms all the way here, take a few sips…”

Yang Dai heard this, her lips moved, she seemed to have softened.

The middle-aged man sat down by the bed and joined in, “They say you eat what you need to replenish, your bones are injured, you have to eat well to make them strong! Besides, my daughter has only been in college for a year, and she has lost a few pounds, eat some nourishing food.”

“Alright, alright, Dad and Mom, stop it, you always do this, I’ll drink, I’ll drink!” Yang Dai smiled happily, taking the rib soup from the middle-aged woman and drinking it.

“Look at you, your glasses are fogged up from the heat, Dad will take them off for you.”

“…”

The TV in the ward was still on, emitting a few bursts of laughter, the scene under the light was full of warmth.

“It looks like it’s Yang Dai’s parents who came to see her, let’s not go in for now.” Xu Siwan turned back and said to the two of them.

Yu Zhizhi nodded, “Okay, okay, should we wait here or go back to school directly?”

The two of them looked at Qin Yingxia, wanting to hear what she had to say.