【44.】

  If you rely on someone in your heart, it's really addictive. After Shendong left, I was very unspirited every day. My mother always asked me if I had heatstroke, and I shook my head silently with a smile. In fact, I knew clearly that this is a heart disease.

  When I just arrived in Beijing, he didn't call me. A week later on a certain afternoon, the phone call I had been expecting finally came.

  After all, it was a week late, and I still had a bit of a grudge in my heart, which made me speak with a bit of sarcasm. He probably also sensed that I wasn't in a good mood, so he stopped talking after a while.

  Two people maintained an awkward silence, the atmosphere wasn't very good...

  Fine... who made me the older sister anyway?

  "Why didn't you call me sooner?"

  He sighed: "I just got back, visiting relatives and friends, busy for a week."

  "You have so many relatives!"

  "This isn't over yet."

  I'm speechless...

  "I went to the school this morning," he said quietly, with a tone that was neither sad nor happy, but could be heard as not being indifferent. "The environment around the school is okay, but there are fewer parking lots, which makes it inconvenient for me to park. There are many restaurants, but most of them are small shops, no big deal... you just like eating those messy things."

  "Hey! What's with the way you're talking?!"

  He smiled: "Anyway, I'll go with you to eat. Regardless of the size of the restaurant, as long as you're willing to eat. And there's a barber shop here that my friend runs, if you want to get a haircut, don't worry about it. Just find him and he'll take care of it. Hmm... tomorrow I'll go check out the supermarket and stores again."

  "Goodbye, you're so tired..."

  "I'm in good physical condition."

  Alright...the arrogant little brat.

  His enthusiasm was high, and he kept talking about what's around the school, what suits me and what doesn't, where I should go and where I definitely won't like. As he spoke, his tone suddenly dropped: "You still have a year before you can come..."

  "Uh-huh." I nodded unconsciously, feeling a bit uncomfortable inside "Yeah..."

  "Haven't you heard of 'a short farewell is better than a long goodbye'?"

  As soon as he finished speaking, he burst out laughing. I rarely saw him laugh like that, like a little kid, completely carefree and genuinely happy.

  "Liujia......" He spoke with a smile, his words disjointed. "You're really something! What kind of dirty talk can you come up with!"

  "Hey!" I shouted "Getting rid of the impure person between us two doesn't seem like me!"

  "Hey, I just turned eighteen... isn't it a bit too much to say something like that to me?"

  "Get out!"

  He burst out laughing loudly, his voice was so infectious that I could almost imagine the relaxed look on his face, it must have been really good-looking.

  He told me some things about Beijing, and specifically asked me about my diet and daily life for the past week. Of course, I didn't say that I had been so distracted thinking of him that I couldn't eat or sleep. I just muddled through, and amazingly, the phone call lasted over an hour, even though we clearly hadn't discussed anything serious.

  When I finally hung up the phone, I felt a little reluctant to part with him. But as a person who doesn't like being overly affectionate in relationships, I pretended to be casual: "Well, talking for so long has made me starving. I'm going to grab something to eat and we can text later."

  "Okay, eat some more."

  "You're the same... Ah, anyway, once you arrive in Beijing, you'll definitely be taken care of and won't need me to worry about you, right?"

  "He couldn't help but laugh: 'Keep pretending, keep pretending!'"

  "Cut off"

  "After a while, he said: 'Take good care of yourself, eat whatever you want, don't learn from others to lose weight, if you become thinner and run away with someone else I'll die from crying. You see... when I'm eating, if it's delicious, I think about bringing you here to eat in the future. If it's not delicious, I remember it and won't let you come here tomorrow. Later on, I realized that when we're eating together, nothing is fragrant without you."

  My nose is sour, I almost said "I'll go find you"

  "Uh... I'm not around, eat a bit more, so you'll have the energy to be tormented by me later. I remember everything you said, and after going to Beijing, I'll take care of it one by one. And..."

  "Don't flirt with little girls."

  He indeed has self-awareness, I smiled and said: "It's good that you know."

  In the end, when I couldn't persuade him, I had no choice but to hang up first.

  The long-standing lovesickness was cured by his phone call, and I ate two big bowls of rice for dinner, scaring my mom into thinking what happened to me.

  Haha, actually nothing much, just a case of the medicine working as expected.

  After the start of school, it's already senior year, and every day is just like a fairy tale. Looking at the new freshmen, on one hand, I despise some girls who don't know how to dress up, and on the other hand, I lament that time has passed so quickly. The deepest impression was when a girl wore her high school uniform during registration, with a clean and elegant face, instantly outshining a group of made-up senior sisters.

  "Hey, look at you. You're so young and beautiful! Even without makeup, you have a fresh and elegant feel to you."

  I sighed: "Yes, it's only been three years, but I feel like it's been a long time."

  She shrugged: "So, university is a sub-society. Every day, you have to learn to adapt. Whoever becomes the president or minister, ability is one aspect, but without money piled up, how can I not believe that it's really possible to rise to power?"

  This is reality... truly cruel.

  "You're really lucky!" She patted me on the shoulder. "Marrying a high-ranking official's son, you'll have no worries for the rest of your life."

  "Don't worry, I won't forget you. In the future, what's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine."

  "Get out!"

  I've been messing around with Taozi for three years, and time really flies.

  Jin Tongtong seems to be in a slump this semester, and we concluded that it's because Du Bin graduated. With Du Bin, the guardian of flowers, gone from her side, Jin Tongtong's suitors multiplied overnight, who knows what they were thinking about for the past three years? Must talk about an old love affair?

  Jin Tongtong was spinning around everyone, with a clever and wonderful approach that made many people infatuated with her. Romantic things happened one after another, I won't count them one by one. But sometimes I'm a little curious, I used to think Jin Tongtong had deep feelings for Du Bin, but it turns out she's so promiscuous.

  Tao Hao despised this kind of subtle flirtation: "You're all grown up and still playing games like you're in high school!"

  "Others look good."

  "Cut it out!" Tao Hao couldn't help but laugh. "Even if she's really good-looking, I've never seen her have a pursuer like you in her first year of university. I've never seen her find someone as great as you!"

  "Oh, all right!" I waved my hand "Don't drag me into this with her."

  Let's stop here on this topic.

  But it doesn't matter, there are many topics about Jin Tongtong every day. Tao Hao and I have been gossiping tirelessly since then.