Gold Medal Sweetheart

The green shadows and laughter of the past slowly withered and faded in the coldness of reality. The memories were too glaring, and her heart inevitably felt uncomfortable. Retracting her thoughts, Tang Xin walked towards the school gate.

As soon as I walked out of the school gate, Cheng Ran came to meet me, "I asked Sister Chen about your school."

It was still the voice she was familiar with, but time had faded the immaturity and made it more mature.

Cheng Ran still remembered her home address, so it seemed that he had been there. He could even accurately say Sister Chen's last name, whom he had only met a few times that year. Tang Xin felt an unbearable lump in her chest and nodded woodenly.

"Can you give me some time?" Cheng Ran asked carefully, really afraid that she would refuse him.

Since Cheng Ran came to the school, Tang Xin knew clearly that many things were unavoidable, and she really wanted to know the answers to the things that had troubled her for several years.

"Ok."

Hearing her affirmative answer, Cheng Ran was overjoyed and quickly went to open the car door for her.

Seeing his movements, Tang Xin couldn't help but pause for a moment. Back when they were students, none of them had much money in their pockets. Although Cheng Ran's family was better off, their most common means of transportation was the bicycle. Back then, Cheng Ran would ride the bike, and she would sit behind him, as he drove her through the streets and paths of the campus.

The car that appeared before her now did not look cheap, but it was so abrupt, as if it had jumped back a few years, and just like him now, it broke into her life abruptly and awkwardly.

Time will not disappear, but they no longer have each other as they walk through time.

Seeing her standing there hesitantly, Cheng Ran called out softly, "Tang Xin."

Tang Xin suppressed her inner emotions, pursed her lips and got into the car.

Sitting in the car, Tang Xin sent a message to Jin Taize, "I'll be home a little late, don't wait for me to eat."

Unexpectedly, within half a second of sending the text, the phone had already been called. Cheng Ran naturally heard the ringtone and glanced over. Although Tang Xin answered quickly, he still saw the caller's identity and his fingers gripping the steering wheel tightened a little.

The man's deep and rich voice was faintly heard in the car. Although it was not clear, Tang Xin could still tell from her tone that he was probably asking about her whereabouts.

"I'm going to the supermarket and want to buy some fruit."

The other end probably said something else, but all I could hear was Tang Xin's "hmm, yes" response, and then she hung up.

The car returned to silence, and Cheng Ran quietly played the radio.

Tang Xin pointed to the beverage store not far from the intersection ahead and said, "Let's go here. We don't have to go too far."

Just now, Jin Taize said on the phone that he still had to wait for her to eat, so she didn't want to delay too long.

The two walked into the store and Cheng Ran asked her what she wanted to drink. Tang Xin chose lemon tea, which was the simplest and quickest to make.

Sitting down at the back, Cheng Ran handed Tang Xin a glass of lemon tea. "We only met briefly at the mall last time, and there were other people around, so there wasn't much we could say."

He emphasized the word "others" and carefully observed Tang Xin's reaction.

Tang Xin smiled slightly, "After not seeing you for so many years, I finally realized that you actually have a lot to say to me."

The calm sarcasm made Cheng Ran's face turn pale instantly. He knew that Tang Xin was resentful, but the last time he saw her, from her calm expression, he thought she had let go of the past.

"You have reason to be angry with me," Cheng Ran sighed heavily, "but I was also unaware of the arrangements at that time."

Tang Xin looked up at him. Cheng Ran grew up in a single-parent family and had depended on his mother since childhood. When the two were together, she could vaguely feel from Cheng Ran's conversation that Cheng's mother did not quite approve of their relationship.