Chapter 46: You Don’t Have to Eat Candy When You’re Sad

Liang Zhirou was a bit confused after hearing Chen Lu’s words. She began to seriously recall if she had ever smiled at Chen Lu.

In her heart, she knew she had smiled. For example, when Chen Lu first messaged her, when he first drank the porridge she cooked, when he first played the guitar for her, and when he first said “I’m here for you.”

Even just now, when she put on the dress Chen Lu bought for her.

She had smiled.

But whether she had shown it, she wasn’t sure.

She had suppressed her emotions for too long, habitually hiding them in her heart, so much so that she was truly confused.

Looking at Chen Lu who was slowly walking towards her, Liang Zhirou asked nervously, “I, didn’t I?”

Chen Lu held his phone up to her. Although the girl in the picture was a bit shy, it was clear that she was in a good mood. She was wearing a light green dress with a waist belt, her hair falling straight down, giving off a sense of peaceful time.

But it seemed like something was missing.

Soon, she figured it out. She hadn’t smiled.

“Since I met you, I’ve never seen you smile,” Chen Lu said with a serious expression. This question had been in his mind for a long time.

Not to mention Lin Miaomiao, even Chen Mo, who rarely showed his true self in front of outsiders, would laugh happily countless times a day.

Even Mo Yuqing was no exception.

But Liang Zhirou didn’t. Not once.

Chen Lu put his phone back in his pocket. Looking at the girl in front of him who was blinking blankly, he hesitated for a moment before using his thumbs to poke her cheeks, forcibly lifting the corners of her mouth, and softly asked, “Are you unhappy these days?”

“Happy,” Liang Zhirou said seriously, her speech a bit unclear because of Chen Lu’s poking. “Really happy.”

Every day since I met you has been like a dream.

“Then it’s your own problem,” Chen Lu withdrew his hand, letting out a sigh of relief.

“I don’t know, I never thought about holding back my smile,” Liang Zhirou was a bit confused herself, “I just don’t want to cry.”

Chen Lu couldn’t help but humph softly, “As a result, you didn’t even manage to hold back your tears, but instead, you made yourself unable to smile, right?”

As he spoke, he slightly furrowed his brow.

Thinking about it carefully, although Liang Zhirou often had tears welling up in her eyes, she hadn’t really cried much.

At least, based on her growth experience, she was practically no different from someone who couldn’t cry.

“Take your time,” Chen Lu looked at the girl who was lowering her head, and said softly.

At this moment, he seemed to see again the girl in the hotpot restaurant, who, even though she was constantly being scolded, had tears constantly welling up in her eyes but didn’t dare to cry.

“Don’t suppress your emotions anymore, laugh when you want to laugh, cry when you want to cry.”

As he spoke, he gently poked the girl’s cheek, “Anyway, I’ll laugh with you when you laugh, and I’ll wipe your tears when you cry. What’s the point of holding back your tears?”

“It’s different now than before, you know? Maybe before, you only had a mom who was afraid of you getting bullied, and you didn’t dare to cry.”

“Now you have me, I can share your sadness.”

“You don’t have to eat candy just because you’re sad.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, Chen Lu suddenly felt a warm liquid slide across his finger and fall from his sight.

When his attention returned to the girl’s face, she was already in tears.

Chen Lu didn’t say anything, he just gently wiped away Liang Zhirou’s tears, his movements very gentle.

Although he appeared calm on the surface.

His heart was actually panicking.

Damn it! Why?!

How come she just started crying out of nowhere, I wasn’t prepared at all.

Will people think I’m bullying an innocent girl?

Forget it, let them think what they want, as long as I’m not embarrassed, the embarrassment is theirs.

Unfortunately, the two seconds Chen Lu spent looking at the passersby were exactly the time the girl, unknowingly, slightly raised the corners of her mouth as she cried.

Perhaps she was tired of standing and crying, so the girl rested her forehead against Chen Lu’s shoulder and continued to wipe away her tears.

After a long time, seeing that the extremely pitiful girl finally wiped away her tears.

Chen Lu chuckled softly, thinking that girls are truly made of water, they can cry for so long.

As for why she cried, he had no idea, and he didn’t need to ask.

Maybe it was because she was touched, maybe she wanted to cry out all the grievances she had endured, who knows.

The important thing is that she was able to vent it out.

The two of them walked towards the parking lot under the night sky.

“You leaned on my shoulder for a long time, you owe me a favor,” Chen Lu looked up at the moon that had just emerged from the clouds, joking.

“Then… next time you can cry on my shoulder?”

“……No need.”

When the car stopped at the entrance of the alley, Liang Zhirou didn’t hurry to get out because her eyes were still a bit swollen.

Chen Lu even went to the pharmacy to buy an ice pack for her to cold compress.

After all, this could cause Liang Zhirou’s mother to worry, or even worse, it could affect his reputation.

“Remember to send me the photos you took,” Liang Zhirou said with her eyes closed.

Chen Lu shook his head slowly, “The ones I took this time aren’t good.”

“I think they’re pretty good,” Liang Zhirou took off the ice pack and looked at him curiously.

Then she saw Chen Lu’s solemn expression.

For some reason, he chuckled, “My phone is just like this, it would be better if I had a good DSLR.”

His own DSLR was broken, and he didn’t want to use the one Mo Yuqing gave him, so he was thinking about when to buy a new one.

Liang Zhirou looked at Chen Lu’s gloomy expression, blinked, and thought for a moment.

……

The entrance to the girls’ dormitory area.

Mo Yuqing looked at the boy kneeling on one knee with flowers in his hands, a look of helplessness on her face.

This must be a freshman who didn’t do his research on her family background, otherwise, he wouldn’t have “unintentionally” parked his sports car nearby.

He probably fell in love with her after watching her performance at the evening party…

“Thank you for liking me, but I’m sorry, I have someone I like.” She said seriously.

Mo Yuqing would always say “thank you for liking me” when she rejected someone’s confession.

It’s just that the person she wanted to thank the most was the one she had driven away with her own hands.

The boy’s expression was full of confusion, as if he had heard a fairy tale.

“You have someone you like? Then why aren’t you together? No one would be able to refuse you, right?”

Mo Yuqing raised the corners of her lips with a bitter smile, but didn’t say anything.

She wouldn’t have refused…

If I hadn’t made one mistake after another.

The boy seemed unwilling to give up, slowly getting up and staring at the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

He had never been rejected before, so when he saw Mo Yuqing’s performance, he immediately dumped his girlfriend without even considering the possibility of being rejected.

“Is there really no chance for me?” He asked, unwilling and confused.

Mo Yuqing’s expression was very calm, as indifferent as ever, “Why don’t you put your energy into someone who loves you, don’t waste your time on me.”

There will be no one else who has a chance.

Mo Yuqing, who never considered other boys in the first place, would definitely not be able to tolerate other boys in her eyes now.

After saying that, she turned around and walked towards her dormitory.

On the way, the voices of a man and a woman suddenly reached her ears.

“It’s so late! Why did you come here specially!” The girl’s tone was a bit reproachful, but more than that, it was filled with gratitude.

“I… I was afraid you would have a stomachache, you have such bad dysmenorrhea.” The boy kept scratching his head, obviously not figuring out whether his girlfriend was angry or touched.

“Dysmenorrhea can actually be cured,” the girl whispered.

When her boyfriend heard this, he was very excited, so excited that he would do anything, even if it meant gathering the seven dragon balls. He immediately asked, “How to cure it?”

The girl put her hands behind her back and leaned towards the boy, her eyes curved like crescent moons, “Just have a child in the future.”

Mo Yuqing stopped in her tracks, quietly watching them.

Perhaps, no matter who it was, whether they had feelings for her or not, they wouldn’t imagine that Mo Yuqing would actually envy couples.

This cold-looking beauty, who was extremely outstanding in appearance, looked at the beautiful scene in front of her, her eyes filled with envy, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously curved up, happy for the happiness of others.

As for herself, tears glistened in the corners of her eyes.

She took out her phone and looked at the last message she had sent to Chen Lu.

As she expected, there was still no reply.

Mo Yuqing bit her lip hard.

If it weren’t for our parents being so close, you would have deleted me long ago…

She knew very well that if she posted a moment on her Moments, there would definitely be a line of people lining up to send her gifts.

But, that’s not what she wanted.

She raised her head and looked at the streetlight beside her, the bright light becoming increasingly blurred in her eyes, as if it was covered in a layer of water mist.

Two full moons hung in the night sky, one white and one yellow, for a moment she couldn’t tell which one was actually the moon.

“I really miss you, Chen Lu…”