-- "I don't envy her, I want her."
-- "Just like you used to want me."
The air was thin on Wednesday morning, and with the silence of morning study, it was so dull that one could hardly breathe. Outside the classroom, Ken was walking down the long corridor towards her classroom.
He was walking through the students while shaking his thermos bottle, walking from the first tier top class area, from the second tier good class area, and then pacing into the third tier general class area, as the students in the corridor looked at him.
When he walked into Long Qi's classroom, half of the students in the same class looked up, then into an unexpected silence, dozens of pairs of eyes watched him walk towards Dong Xi's seat, and the moment Long Qi noticed him, he stopped right in front of Dong Xi's desk in the first row and put the thermos bottle in his hand on her desk.
Dong Xi was looking at her notes, disturbed by this movement, looking up at him, he leaned down and propped his hands on both sides of her desk, his eyes were in direct contact with hers, and his male breath descended oppressively to the top of her head, the class was silent.
When he opened his mouth, his eyes looked at her alone and told her, "I heard that drinking this works, bring it to you."
Long Qi stared over there, her heart heaving slightly, and pushed the end of her ballpoint pen against the desk.
Dong Xi didn't say anything, she sat in the front row, no one could see her expression when she was face to face with Jin Yiken, but everyone saw the look in Jin Yiken's eyes.
Everyone heard what he said and the unmistakable hint in his tone. No one knew what the relationship between him and Dong Xi was, but his behavior now was like a sudden move after a long time of lurking, from his eyes to his tone of voice, he showed ... an unmistakable intention to pursue.
When he was there, the class was silent, as if there was only the sound of his and Dong Xi's breathing.
When he left, almost all the students were staring at his figure.
The next thing you know, the overwhelming chatter and exclamations started to spread from the last row, row after row, like a sea wave towards Dong Xi. The second Jin Yiken left the classroom and looked towards Long Qi's position, Long Qi stared at him and saw the wariness in his eyes when his face disappeared from the front door, "I want to play with you".
The contrast with yesterday's confession to him, he did not react to form a strong contrast.
The ballpoint pen against the desktop bounced off the hand and onto the desk's school uniform, the desk wanted to speak, she said in a low voice: "Shut up!"
Long Qi then looked at Dong Xi in the front row, she was holding the pen that was not writing in her hand, she was also looking at Jin Yiken's back, but her face had almost no extra expression, she looked at Jin Yiken as if she was looking at a boy who did not remember his name for the time being, except for a little bit of condition, a little bit of feeling inexplicably slightly frowning, her whole person remained as quiet as ever, especially under the surrounding impetuous surroundings especially obvious.
Jin Yiken sent Dong Xi, a date and pepper soup that has a relieving effect on physiological pain.
His pursuit of Dong Xi also seemed to come to the forefront from this day onwards. During the lunch break, a girl brought hot sea rock milk green to her desk, saying that Jin Yiken had given it to her. In the afternoon, a boy brought her chocolates and the little girl's favorite tiramisu and cherry sabayon, saying that Ken had given them to her. At the end of the school day, someone brought her warm honey and grapefruit tea, saying that Jin had given it to her.
These were all things Dong Xi had mentioned in her campus network account. He didn't have her account, but he had apparently gotten through to her circle of friends and learned everything mentioned in her account.
The next morning, before Dong Xi came, her desk was already set up with blueberry cheesecake and authentic Hong Kong-style double-skinned milk, with a new thermos attached, and in the thermos was the same ayurvedic congee that has the same effect of relieving physiological pain.
On the third morning, there was ginger and lamb soup and boiled eggs with Chinese motherwort, next to a limited edition book of paintings that she had mentioned she was sorry she hadn't found.
The Monday morning after the next double holiday was hawthorn and cinnamon brown sugar soup and Japanese matcha muffins, and on that day, students also brought white sugar cookies, mousse cake, caramel pudding and other desserts one after another, each time to different people, sometimes even Dong Xi's best friends in the top class, and the object of the gift was not only her, but all the girls with whom she had a slightly better relationship received "special care".
The thermos bottles on Dong Xi's desk were getting bigger and bigger every day, she never drank those things sent by Jin Yiken, but Jin Yiken didn't slack off, he came every day with a different pattern, and he had the means, he didn't show up for the next few days in a row except for the first day to deliver the things in person, he rubbed his strong love into the gifts he sent her, but he himself lived a leisurely life as usual, as if he deliberately gave distance and space.
Until the second week, then someone put a new thermos on Dong Xi's desk, her face slightly red, this performance with the increase in thermos more and more obvious.
When someone noticed this, it became "evidence" that Dong Xi was becoming attracted to Jin Yiken, and it was exaggerated and spread to the campus.
On the second Friday of the week, Long Qi finally couldn't stand it anymore. During the mid-break, she found Jin Yiken playing basketball in the school gymnasium, and they met at a hidden interval in the bleachers.
He instantly subconsciously turned his face sideways, water wetting the collar of his basketball jersey and his arm, waiting for a moment to regain his focus back on her, laughing, looking at her with bright eyes, as if he had found a new piece of land, or he had successfully developed the violent factor that belonged to her, and simply could not wait to see her next reaction.
"You're sick!" Long Qi scolded.
He said, "It's not me who's sick, Seven, it's you, and I'm curing you."
"She's annoying you."
He took the mineral water bottle she was holding and told her close by, "She's blushing."
"She's not blushing because of you, but you're sending her a constant reminder of her period and you're making her feel embarrassed!"
He put his index finger on her shoulder, "That's not necessarily true."
Long Qi slapped his hand away, "Why are you so rogue?"
Not only did he nod, but he followed up with a stimulus: "It took me a week to fix you, guess how long it took me to fix her, eh?"
The two eyes were close together, only 10cm away from each other, she shook her head: "It's not you who fixed me, it's your money, she's not short of money."
"She lacks love, so she is easier to handle than you."
The voice calling out to him came from the court, it was Zhuo Qing's, Jin Yiken and her looked at the court at the same time, Zhuo Qing was looking for him and didn't notice this, Long Qi looked at Jin Yiken next, their eyes met for a second, then she made a move to rush towards the court, Jin Yiken immediately propped one hand on the wall behind her to stop her.
"You're scared too, Ken," she taunted him as she turned back around, "don't stop me, let me tell Zhuo Qing what his best buddies are doing behind his back."
His expression was as relaxed as it had been earlier, and he returned her, "Who has more to lose after you really tell him, the two of us? Is Dong Xi willing to make friends with a woman who cheated on him with both brothers at the same time?"
She was speechless for a moment as he said, "Seven, you're smart, very smart and clever, but you're too impulsive."
The words that came out immediately afterwards were all Jin Yiken telling her with his forehead against hers, almost whispering, he said, "Last May you got into a spat with the magazine owner and deliberately scratched his car, who took care of that?"
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"In July you used a bottle of wine to open a small open head flower, who pressed down?"
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"At the beginning of the year, you had a conflict with the event organizer and smashed a room full of collectibles, who compensated for you?"
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Long Qi did not say a word, eyes full of heavy stubbornness and fighting spirit, Jin Yiken stroked her face with his thumb: "And before you smashed your brother's computer, not I spent money to buy the host to plug his mouth, he was ready to sell your video to the magazine for money. If my eyes were on you for one second less, you could have been eaten alive by someone else. Now you say you're going to be a virtuous person, how do I count this dirty water you're involved in?"
Her air pressure was in her heart, just as Jin Yiken's first two weeks of gas were pressed, and now he finally released it, while her hands were clenched into fists by her skirt, listening to him close to her ear as he continued, "When I'm with Dong Xi, you'll figure out what you were doing in the first place, and what you push away now is what you'll be chopping your liver for later. "
"And," he continued, "Dong Xi will, too."
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"She will love me to the bone, but I will call on her, make her pine, make her cry, make her into someone you even despise."
Zhuo Qing's shouts came from the stadium once more, and Jin Yiken left Long Qi ready to go, her heart heaving minutely, pressing the rage in her blood with all her strength.
It was only when he walked outside the stands that she looked at him again, "Where's Bai Ai Ting?"
Jin Yiken paused.
"What does Bai Aiting think of you going after Dong Xi?"