Bai Yanning and Xie Jiashu walked hand in hand towards the girls' dormitory without saying a word. Xie Jiashu was preoccupied with thoughts, but Bai Yanning looked very relaxed.

When passing by the grove, she stopped and let go of his hand, but he held it back.

"Yan Ning," he said, as if afraid that she would regret it, "you just said that I am different from him."

"What do you mean?"

He hasn't been officially hired yet, and he dreams of having a formal status.

"Literally," Bai Yanning scratched his palm, "You paid Qin Yunchuan back for me. When?"

Xie Jiashu was so disturbed by her tickling that he couldn't think straight. He could only say whatever came to mind: "A long time ago, about a week after school started."

Bai Yanning was a little surprised. She didn't expect it to be so early. She asked, "Why?"

"No reason," Xie Jiashu looked at her, "I just did it because I wanted to."

He received a lot of New Year's money and pocket money every year, but he also spent a lot. The 86,000 yuan was almost all his savings. He found out Qin Yunchuan's phone number and directly transferred the money to him through Alipay, with a very short and clear message: "Bai Yanning returns it."

He just thought at the time that this way, he would have no reason to accuse her of being materialistic and slander her everywhere.

"I once said that I would return it to him." Bai Yanning suddenly laughed, "But I lied to him."

"How can I have money?" She smiled nonchalantly, "It's just that I know if I say that, he won't take my money."

She asked him, "I am very different from what you imagined, right?"

"Just now, I said those things to him on purpose. He was right. I'm the best at pretending to be pitiful and showing my wounds to others to make them feel sorry for me."

"If I don't do that, he will most likely side with Gu Yunzhen to deal with me. I have endured for so long and finally have a chance to turn things around. Why should I watch this opportunity slip away?"

She looked into his eyes and said, "They are all right. I am a bad woman, Xie Jiashu."

She waited for him to release her hand.

It was dark around, with only moonlight. They were so close that they could almost hear each other's breathing and heartbeat. Bai Yanning took a deep breath, calmed down, and could hear clearly that it was actually her own breathing and heartbeat.

She had never been loved like this before.

But her first reaction after getting it was to push it away.

Apart from her beautiful appearance, everything else about her is rotten.

A week ago, Bai Wenfeng had no money to pay off his gambling debts and his leg was broken. Lying alone in his dilapidated house, he called her crying and saying his legs hurt and he couldn't sleep all night. He also said it rained every day and the roof was leaking. He lay in bed with no dry spot. He sounded so pitiful and said, "Daughter, please come back and see me. I'm almost dying."

She hung up the phone on him and walked into the dessert shop that she had passed by countless times before, which was emitting a sweet aroma. She used the 80 yuan she earned from tutoring that day to buy the most beautiful one in the window, a cake that was not even as big as her palm.

She sat in the shop and ate it bit by bit with a small spoon. This beautiful, expensive cake was filled with blueberry jam and tasted sour.

Just like her life.

The cake she bought with great difficulty was not sweet.

Xie Jiashu is so good, so good that he is like an illusion. She would feel uncomfortable if she couldn't catch him, but if she did, she was afraid that it was destined to be an illusion.

She waited quietly for the dream to be shattered.

But was taken into a warm embrace.

Xie Jiashu choked up as he spoke, "Why do you say that about yourself?"

He hugged her. She was so thin that even if he tightened his arms, he still couldn't hold her tightly. "How much suffering have you endured to say that about yourself?"

"I like you," he said, almost slurring his words out in frustration. "I like you, do you understand?"

No matter who you are or what kind of person you are, I like you, only you.

Bai Yanning, do you understand?

There was the sound of whistling wind and rustling trees in her ears. She remembered the first day of school when he handed her a bottle of water in front of the Go Club poster. The wind was hot that day. Even earlier, he came to the convenience store every night. At that time, it was usually just the two of them. The night wind in April and May was full of coolness. After he paid the bill, his bicycle passed by the door, just like that gust of wind.

She slowly raised her hand and placed it on his waist. She felt the skin under her hand trembling. He liked her, so any active touch from her would make him tremble with excitement.

She leaned her face against his shoulder, gazing at his silhouette in the night, and said softly, "Thank you."

She asked again, "Can I kiss you?"

He stiffened and didn't answer.

she asked again.

But he held her shoulders and moved away from her slightly, looked at her quietly for a while, then held the back of her head and kissed her.

He ate orange candy, and it was an orange-flavored kiss.

A very gentle, cherished kiss.

At the end of the kiss, Bai Yanning tasted the tears that flowed to the corners of his mouth; they were salty.

Their foreheads touched each other, calming their breathing. Bai Yanning's heart was as light as a swallow flying freely in the air.

She touched his tear-stained face and asked, "Why do you cry so easily?"

Xie Jiashu's voice was still choked with sobs. He held her hand and placed it on his pounding chest. "Thank you."

"no need thank me?"

"Thank you for loving me too, Bai Yanning."

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