Chapter 51 Happiness

  Qin Di and An Xin walked together in perfect harmony, the timing was just right, it was a little past 7 pm. Qin Di held the hand of the beautiful guzheng girl, strolling through the Foreign Language Department, attracting countless sideways glances along the way, more than enough to make people's eyes widen in shock. Those who didn't know An Xin sighed that a good flower had been inserted into a pile of dung, while those who had heard or witnessed An Xin's charm were even more stunned, looking up at the sky and crying out in despair, shouting that a pig had ruined a good cabbage. So from this point alone, it can be seen how fiery An Xin's popularity was in the Foreign Language Department, mainly because of her enchanting performance on the guzheng at the welcoming party, where she conquered too many people with her rendition of "Smoke and Flowers". Her every frown and smile became the focal point of discussion among male students during their leisure time, also the most touching scenery in the Foreign Language Department.

  And some people who knew An Xin or had known her in the past were all stunned and shocked!

  Because it's too unbelievable, is this still the same An Xin who views men as ants and remains unmoved by those crazy pursuits, not even batting an eyelid when they offer to carry her home in a grand procession with eight sedan chairs and ten BMWs?

  "What do you think they're talking about now?" An Xin tilted her head and asked Qin Di.

  "It's definitely a match made in heaven, a perfect pair." Qin Di swaggered along with the dream girl of many men, not one bit flustered, and completely ignoring the murderous glares from nearby.

  "They definitely wouldn't say that." An Xin shook her head firmly and said with great certainty.

  Qin Di smiled and said, "Then guess what they are talking about?"

  "Fresh flowers are inserted into cow dung, toads eat swan meat, and all the good Chinese cabbage is given to pigs." An Xin said softly with a bright smile.

  "Then you still let a toad hold your hand?" Qin Di sneered, suddenly raised his head, puffed out his chest, and gave a provocative glance around him, with an air of "I'm a pig, and I'll eat the white cabbage without any mistakes" - what's wrong?

  Covering her mouth to stifle a smile, she was surprisingly cooperative with Qin Di. Her other hand quietly wrapped around someone's arm, and she leaned in close, like a little bird relying on someone. The envious glances from the crowd shattered many hearts.

  "Don't you think we're being too cruel?" Qin Di smiled, guessing that this girl had received too many love letters, confessions, flowers and countless inexplicable phone calls, so she seized the opportunity to take revenge on those guys who had added endless troubles for her.

  "There's something, but I'm glad!" An Xin revealed a row of white and neat teeth, her mood wasn't bad. She walked with light steps, her eyes fixed on Qin Di, sizing up this young man who had descended from the sky to help her time and again when she was in distress. He was very young, yet not immature, giving her a sense of maturity, as well as a sense of wildness that was hard to imagine. This was the same boy she had rescued from the lake, and then she naturally thought of how she had risked her life to save him, and Qin Di's desperate struggle on her body. She also remembered how he stood in front of her when she needed someone to rely on, facing everything for her.

  That scene really moved her.

  It wasn't love at first sight, but it was something that could move her for a lifetime.

  So today when she faced Huang Qingdi, the first person she thought of was not Wang Shengyu who had been pursuing her for a whole month, nor those boys who wrote love letters and made phone calls most fiercely, but this guy who shed blood for her and fought with others.

  She used to dislike boys who liked to fight, because she thought that boys who loved to fight were very childish. So every time she saw those boys fighting for her, she felt extremely bored and sentenced them to death at the first moment.

  However, the most important thing is that her family and growth environment decided that she would not fall in love early, and also decided that she would not be a girl who loves for the sake of love. Everything must be premised on marriage... But this premise seems to have been destined to be broken from the beginning.

  Now she is willing to be led by a cow, holding hands, without thinking about the future, just for this moment of "willingness".

  Qin Di is a person who doesn't know how to recite poetry, doesn't know how to be smooth-tongued, and doesn't know how to create a romantic atmosphere. So after he took the beautiful woman's hand and made a group of people jealous, he finally said something human-like: "Let's go, if we keep this up, I'm guessing those guys will probably vomit blood."

  "Let's go by the lake!" An said with a thoughtful expression.

  "I thought you'd ask me to open a room." Qin Di made a lukewarm joke.

  "This seems like a bad idea that you guys would come up with." An Xin miraculously didn't get angry.

  "Every couple will get to that point, it's just a matter of time." Qin Di smiled and stopped there, he wasn't stupid enough to give him some color, he would have opened the dye house. A pure girl who hadn't been messed with by boys hated these kinds of questions the most.

  So he cleverly shifted the topic: "We first met by the lake, didn't we?"

  "Yes, so I saved a drowning dog in the lake." An Xin smiled and suddenly asked: "But I'm a bit curious, what were you doing jumping into the lake at midnight? Did you lose your love? Were you dumped by someone? Or are you filled with despair about life?"

  "I was just testing how deep the lake is, who knew I'd jump in and then realize I don't know how to swim. Look at this tragedy, don't you think I'm a fool, so childish?!" Qin Di was stunned, being caught off guard by An Xin's words, he made up some excuse to brush it off, but in his heart, he was cursing the salesperson from the Yin Yang supermarket for eighteen generations, is this how you scam people?! If not for meeting this beauty, wouldn't I have drowned to death?!"

  "I don't think so, I just think your reason is too fake, too dishonest!" An Xin had a look that only a ghost would believe.

  "No way, honest men are already extinct in this era!" Qin Di randomly rambled on, this topic was too sensitive for him, it's impossible to reveal to anyone.

  She stopped in her tracks, tilted her head and looked at Qin Di with curiosity rather than scrutiny. After a while, she laughed and said: "Why didn't you tell me that you fell in love with me at first sight, secretly followed me, and when you were discovered, you panicked and wanted to jump into the lake to escape? If you had said so, I would have been really touched!"

  "I'd rather be a chicken, I wouldn't do such a stupid thing, and I won't do it again for the rest of my life." Qin Di still had lingering fears when he thought about this matter.

  "Don't you want to leave a good impression on me?" An Xin suddenly ignored Qin Di's crude words, not only was she not angry, but she was also delighted, thinking that this guy was indeed not an ordinary person, and didn't pretend to be a gentleman like those other boys in front of her.

  "We're all going to spend our lives together, so if there are any shortcomings, it's better to expose them early on. Otherwise, you'll be deceived in the future and then scold me for being a hypocrite." Qin Di said with a smile.

  "For life!"

  She felt that this phrase was not so unattainable, blinked her eyes, and felt that she had missed a question: "Are you always using this trick to deceive other girls?"

  "No, you are the first and possibly the last." Qin Di said honestly, also feeling a sense of regret that he had spent the past eighteen years living as a dog, missing out on the best time for romance.

  Can finally smile with ease, eyebrows curved and corners of the mouth lifted, feeling very happy, really very happy, yet slowly sinking in.

  Under the shining neon lights of the tree lamp, the two held hands, chatting while walking to the edge of a small lake.

  The lake breeze blew up her long hair, and if she gently tilted her neck at this time, proudly, she must have looked like a swan.

  The ugly toad spoiled the scenery by pulling out a cigarette and smoking it without any courtesy, blowing one smoke ring after another.

  Gazing calmly at the starry sky, she seemed less lonely and desolate. Then, she quietly took out the key worth hundreds of millions and the bank card, gently placing them in Qin Di's hand, saying seriously: "When one day you really want to give these to me, I think I'll accept, but not today."

  "I was just joking." Qin Di said with a chuckle.

  Staring at him calmly.

  Qin Di hastily added: "Of course, if you really accept it, I'd be even more delighted! Spending a few million to buy a wife as beautiful as a flower, I've made a huge profit. The only thing I'm not sure about is whether you can still cook?"

  "No way!" An Xin glared at him, her answer firm and resolute. Then she climbed onto the railing by the lake, tiptoeing on her heels, which made her devilish figure even more striking and incongruous with her age.

  Qin Di stared at him bluntly and fiercely.

  "I have an ideal." He muttered with a distant and peaceful gaze.

  "Want to marry a good husband?" Qin Di withdrew his gaze and also climbed onto the railing.

  "No!" An Xin tilted her head to look at Qin Di, saying softly: "My ideal is to make my mother happy. Because I grew up in a single-parent family, my father died in a car accident when I was 10 years old. Although he left behind a large sum of money, it was all divided among my uncles by my grandmother... My mom and I didn't have a penny, and we were kicked out of the house, living in a rented room of less than 30 square meters... The house was small, dark, and damp, and most importantly, my mom had rheumatism in her legs. On rainy days, she would be in so much pain that she could barely get out of bed, but she still had to go to work for our livelihood... All these years, I know how hard it's been for her, but she always smiled and told me she wasn't suffering at all. So I have to study hard. From elementary school to middle school, high school, my grades were always the best in the whole school. I never got second place, always received scholarships, and was always a three-good student. To learn well, you can't be distracted, so I never dated, never contacted boys, no matter how crazy they pursued me. I remained calm and treated everyone equally, pretending to be invincible... Over time, the boys scolded me for being pretentious, saying I was arrogant and cold-blooded. The girls scolded me for being a fox spirit, saying I was a weirdo... But I could just laugh it off, because someone who can't even see happiness has no right to talk about love. For me, love is a luxury... Do you think I'm very silly?"

  "It's not stupid, they're just jealous of you!" Qin Di said lightly.

  She smiled calmly and said, "Finally, I got into Fudan University as the top scorer in the city. I plan to focus on my studies for the next four years, find a good job after graduation, and then take two or three years to slowly find a man who is satisfied with me. Whether I love him or not, he must love me, not only for a lifetime but also be good to my mother for a lifetime. So, I have to save my first kiss for him, even the first hand-holding, the first hug, because only then can I qualify to make men cherish me more and ask them to be more filial to my mother. Tell me, does my life seem like a math problem, too formulaic?"

  "There's something wrong with this question, it seems like there's a mistake now." Qin Di took a drag on his cigarette, and the hand holding the cigarette was slightly trembling.

  "Yes, I made a mistake!" She whispered softly: "Because I'm ultimately a girl, not a machine, I'm also afraid of losing my looks, youth passing away, and having an impatient heart. I yearn to proudly show off my whole self to the boy I like, yearn for someone to care about me, love me, protect me... And more importantly, I found that I seem to have irreparably fallen in love with you, even if it means that math problem of mine will be wrong all the way..."

  "Then let it be wrong!" Qin Di threw away the cigarette butt, turned around, and gently hugged her.

  This hug is not only the beginning of a feeling but also a man's promise to a woman.

  And this promise may have to be borne for a lifetime.

  Many years later, An Xin still clearly remembered this scene, she was very grateful and happy.