Are you crazy? The cool school girl is actually your online love partner?

Chapter 19 Don't Be Afraid, I'm Here

Gong Liu walked over, put the drink on the checkout counter, and said to the cashier, "How much is it? I'll pay for her."

The cashier glanced at Gong Yoo and was visibly stunned.

Gu Chenxi also turned his head and looked behind him, and found that the person coming was Gong Yoo.

Gong Yoo smiled at her and said to the cashier, "We are classmates."

"Oh." The cashier suddenly realized and immediately replied, "Fifty."

Gong Yoo brought the payment code over to her and asked her to scan it, then he paid for several of his own drinks.

When he picked up the bag, he realized that Gu Chenxi had already left - he paid the bill for her, but she didn't even say thank you. What an rude girl!

"I forgot to bring my phone. I'll give you the money when I get back to the dormitory."

As soon as Kong Liu walked out of the supermarket, he heard Gu Chenxi's voice.

When he turned around, he saw that it was Gu Chenxi. Her face, which had turned red due to embarrassment, gradually calmed down. She was holding a black bag in her hand and standing at the door of the supermarket waiting for him - it turned out that she had not left.

Gong Liu smiled and waved his hand, saying, "No need to pay it back."

Gong Liu said, handing her a bottle of drink that he had just taken out of the refrigerator and asked, "Would you like some?"

"No." Gu Chenxi rejected Kong Liu's kindness with a cold face without even thinking about it.

"Ok."

Seeing that she rejected him so coldly, Gong Liu didn't care. He was used to it anyway.

Gong Yoo unscrewed the bottle of drink and started drinking it himself. The iced drink tasted so refreshing.

After finishing his drink, Gong Yoo glanced at her black plastic bag and asked, "What did you buy?"

This was just a casual question he asked, but when he saw Gu Chenxi's face turn red again, Kong Liu immediately realized that something was wrong.

Although I don't understand why she suddenly blushed and got angry, I can guess that it must be what I said just now that made her unhappy.

"..."

Gu Chenxi quickly put the black plastic bag into her pocket, lowered her head, her little face flushed, and she stuttered: "Thank you... today."

After saying this, she left quickly without giving Kong Liu a chance to react.

"He came out to buy things in the middle of the night without a cell phone. He's really a weirdo..."

Gong Liu looked at Gu Chenxi's departing back, and suddenly, he seemed to understand something - the black plastic bag probably contained menstrual products.

After realizing this, Kong Liu immediately understood why the clerk said, "The store closes at 11:30, there's still time." He also finally understood why the clerk looked at him with that expression when he was helping him with the checkout just now.

Gong Liu slapped his head and thought, "No wonder, when I offered Gu Chenxi an iced drink, she refused without even a second thought!"

I thought she was aloof...

If you think about it this way, her expression just now wasn't anger, but... shyness? !

After thinking this through, Kong Liu suddenly felt that Gu Chenxi's attitude tonight was not very cold, but rather a little...

Contrast cuteness?

Gong Liu suddenly recalled what Gu Chenxuan had said to him tonight: "She is actually a socially anxious person, which is why she has such a cold expression in front of outsiders!"

Thinking of this, Gong Liu looked in the direction where Gu Chenxi left again and said to himself: "The aloof school beauty, the clingy female netizen, or the socially anxious sister... in the end... which one is the real you?"

After just a few days of contact with Gu Chenxi, Kong Liu discovered that this rumored cold and aloof school beauty was refreshing his perception of her again and again with practical actions.

He really...

Some of them are hard to tell.

Carrying his handbag, Gong Liu returned to the dormitory. Not long after, he received a message from [Xixi].

Xixi told him that she had a stomachache today and even acted like a spoiled child and asked for comfort.

After seeing the message she sent, Kong Liu became even more certain that what Gu Chenxi bought tonight were menstrual products.

Gong Liu patiently coaxed Xixi, asking her to soak her feet in hot water and cover herself with a thicker quilt when sleeping at night.

Gu Chenxi, who had already curled up in the quilt, hugged Lingna Belle's doll, looked at the message sent by her boyfriend, and replied "OK" obediently. His thoughtfulness made Gu Chenxi feel warm in her heart.

As they were chatting, somehow, looking at the long string of chat messages, Gu Chenxi's mind suddenly popped up Gong Yoo's face.

Tonight she left in a hurry and only remembered that she forgot to bring her phone when she was shopping. In such an embarrassing situation, Gong Liu happened to appear and help her out...

Recalling that Qin Zizhuo wanted to hit him yesterday, Kong Liu blocked her in time.

"Why does he always show up when I need help?"

Gu Chenxi thought to himself, his eyes fell on the phone again.

The name of the game her online boyfriend played was "Don't Be Afraid, I'm Here". It was during the freshman welcome party, and she randomly invited people nearby to play the game with her.

When playing games with him, Gu Chenxi felt an extremely familiar sense of security. Every time when he was targeted by the enemy, he would appear in time to save him, just like his game name.

So Gu Chenxi became attached to this gaming tycoon. Later, as they chatted, Gu Chenxi discovered that this netizen always gave her a sense of familiarity that only existed in her memory. For some reason, Gu Chenxi actually confessed to him.

That’s right, it was Gu Chenxi who took the initiative to confess.

He agreed, and the two began an online romance that lasted for a year - in fact, most of the time, it was Gu Chenxi who took the initiative to chat with this online boyfriend.

Just as Gu Chenxuan said to Kong Liu, Gu Chenxi was indeed a lively and outgoing girl when she was young.

Later, she was kidnapped, but fortunately she escaped safely.

But after this incident, Gu Chenxi's personality changed. After she came back, she became much more withdrawn. She didn't like to talk or laugh when she went out, and she always had a cold face.

The memories of being in the kidnappers' lair were still clearly imprinted in Gu Chenxi's mind, even though a full ten years had passed.

At that time, there was a little boy who was kidnapped together with her. The little boy managed to break free from the restraints at night and helped her untie the rope, wanting to take her away with him. However, she was too nervous at the time, and her legs became weak due to nervousness. She could not run at all and almost dragged the boy down.

The boy did not abandon her, but patiently comforted her and told her not to be afraid.

With the boy's encouragement, they actually escaped.

The two poor children ran desperately in the dark night. They didn’t know how long they ran. Until the sky turned pale, they finally ran to a populated area and ran into the police station.

Tonight, Gu Chenxi had this dream again. In the dream, she tried hard to see the boy's face clearly, but everything in front of her was blurry.

Only the boy’s warm words: “Don’t be afraid, I’m here, we can definitely get out.”

These words kept echoing in her dreams, making this bitter dream a little sweeter.

(End of this chapter)