"Has Jin Manman been sick? She hasn't been to school for several days," Mi Shen asked after Dong Xueling and her group had left.
"Yeah, she's feeling a bit under the weather."
"Oh..." Mi Shen nodded thoughtfully.
After a while, the dishes were served one by one, and Mi Shen, without probing further, ate cheerfully with her chopsticks.
"Mi Shen," Jin Rumo suddenly called out.
"Hmm?" Mi Shen responded, lifting her head.
Across from her, Jin Rumo's slender hand reached out, and with the tender tip of his finger, he gently wiped away a grain of rice that had stuck to the corner of her mouth.
Blushing slightly around the ears, Mi Shen's shining black eyes stared at him without blinking.
Outside the restaurant, not far under a big tree, a "click" sound crisply captured this scene on a cellphone. Dong Xueling bowed her head, looking at the affectionate and beautiful scene on the phone screen, a trace of jealousy and calculation flashing in her eyes.
——
