Gold Medal Sweetheart

It was as if Tang Xin had both expected and unexpected things. Ever since she'd rejected Jin Taize's call, he hadn't called again. Her world seemed to have returned to a peaceful state, save for the fact that her good classmate Guan Yushan remained unreachable. Just as she'd hoped, the blind date seemed to be over. But it had ended so quietly, leaving her feeling a bit uneasy.

She continued as usual, doing insignificant tasks at school during the day and setting up shop at the night market at night. Ever since she'd asked for Wei Qing's phone number, Tang Xin realized the drama was far from over. When Lin Lin learned Wei Qing's name, her infatuation was exposed, praising it endlessly, saying it was just like his aura, transcendent and otherworldly. However, she was acting out a different tune. Tang Xin had assumed they were just going to contact her on WeChat, so she could just send a push and call it a day. Unexpectedly, Lin Lin said it was too abrupt to add Wei Qing on WeChat, and strongly suggested that Tang Xin invite him over so they could gradually build a relationship.

In the past, Tang Xin would have been too embarrassed to rashly send Wei Qing a WeChat message. However, the last time she saw him at the club, Wei Qing had deliberately avoided the issue by helping her hide it from the guy surnamed Jin. She hadn't formally thanked him yet, so she figured she really needed to contact him.

I dialed Wei Qing's WeChat number. After the melodious piano music sounded, a pleasant male voice flowed into my ears like flowing water. "Hello?"

"Hello, Wei Qing, I am——"

"Miss Ma Hu!" Wei Qing called her before Tang Xin could finish her words, which surprised her a little.

"Haha, it's me. I saw you the other day, but I didn't talk to you properly in the end. I wanted to thank you."

After replaying the scene of that day, Tang Xin still felt a little embarrassed.

"It's nothing. We are friends, aren't we?" Wei Qing said naturally.

Tang Xin was a little surprised by Wei Qing's answer, but also relieved. Was it because they were friends that he was letting her continue to play the role of her good classmate in front of Jin, like she was wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak? Was it because they were friends that he was helping her hide from his other friend? Was it because they were friends that he wouldn't abandon her that day?

It was not until Lin Lin, who was standing beside her, blinked her eyes and looked at her with pitiful eyes that Tang Xin was brought back from her trance.

"Are you busy? Do you have time to come to the night market?" Wei Qing gave people a sense of unrestrained intimacy, which made Tang Xin relax a lot.

"You and I thought the same thing." It was not difficult to hear Wei Qing's happy mood from the phone.

Twenty minutes later, the white car arrived as promised.

In the bustling night, under the clear moon, he, a man of pure elegance, came slowly, amidst the clear light from the sky.

"He shouldn't be here." Lin Lin said with a resentful look.

"Didn't you strongly ask him to come?" Tang Xin looked at Lin Lin beside her and asked in confusion.

"Don't you think that he should appear in some secluded paradise in some mythological story?" Lin Lin was immersed in her infatuated imagination.

"Male god?" She didn't have the literary talent as good as Lin Lin, but intuitively, she felt that the cave should produce a male god.

Lin Lin nodded vigorously, expressing her approval of Tang Xin's summary evaluation.

"You are really seriously ill?" Tang Xin glanced at the woman next to him and said with disdain.

Lin Lin was not to be outdone and directly disdained her friend's dullness. "It's you who don't understand romance, okay?"

"It would be your tragedy if you were really born in a paradise. There would be no chance for you to meet a vulgar and lecherous girl like you." Tang Xin said with a smile.

Lin Lin was about to retort, but Tang Xin's words, "Your male god is here," instantly diverted her attention.

Tang Xin and Lin Lin stood up from their small stools and waved to Wei Qing. Wei Qing, as always, smiled warmly.

"It's great that you can come!" Tang Xin said sincerely.

"I don't think Miss Ma Hu will always let me call her that." Wei Qing said half-jokingly. Although Jin Taize introduced her as Guan Yushan when they met last time, since her identity was fake, it was not difficult for him to infer that the name should be fake as well.

Tang Xin smiled shyly and introduced herself, "My name is Tang Xin." Although she was not the "Guan Yushan" mentioned by the boy surnamed Jin, she had no need to worry about it in front of Wei Qing and did not feel unnatural.

"Hello, my name is Wei Qing." Wei Qing introduced himself again, as if hoping to get to know each other again.

Tang Xin smiled and said, "Thank you so much for that day. I didn't expect that the friend I was going to meet would be you."

"I didn't expect it to be you." He stared at her intently. He spoke these words with great seriousness.

Recalling their meeting that day, Tang Xin explained, "Actually, I didn't mean to lie to your friend. I had no choice. Guan Yushan is my classmate. She has a boyfriend, and they're in a very good relationship. But her parents have always disapproved of her boyfriend, so they kept arranging blind dates for her. What happened later is what you saw."

Wei Qing smiled. "Then you suddenly appeared out of nowhere," he said, seemingly unfazed by her and Guan Yushan's scheme to replace the prince with a cat. "But, what are you going to do next?"

"Get out of here. I'm not the real Guan Yushan, and this isn't going to work." Tang Xin remained restrained, never revealing the real reason for her abandonment. After all, Wei Qing's friendship with the prostitute surnamed Jin was much closer than his own, and not revealing her true colors at the crucial moment was already a stroke of mercy from Wei Qing. He couldn't be so tactless as to expose his friend's misdeeds to his face.

Wei Qing curled his lips slightly, but said nothing more, seemingly not taking Tang Xin's answer too seriously.

After explaining for a while, she still remembered the other purpose of Wei Qing's visit. "To express my gratitude, I think I should give you a small gift."

"Don't be so polite, I didn't do anything." Wei Qing replied politely.

"Not doing anything is the best help!" Tang Xin insisted. Wei Qing couldn't refuse, or else how could the plan to connect Lin Lin with him go smoothly?

Seeing that Wei Qing hadn't yet agreed, Tang Xin clasped her hands together, looked at him eagerly, pouted her lips, and said in an almost pleading tone, "Oh, benefactor, please give me a chance to bribe you."

Wei Qing looked at Tang Xin, who was acting pitiful in front of him, and couldn't help but laugh softly.

"Well then, I can only be corrupt for a bit." Wei Qing was in a good mood.

Hearing this answer, Tang Xin felt that today's mission was mostly accomplished, and she felt relieved. "I think that food is gone after it's eaten. It's better to keep it fresh for a long time." As she spoke, she pulled Lin Lin, who had been waiting for a long time, over and said, "I'll give you a potted plant from Lin Lin's house."