Chapter 36.2: Classmate Shen, do you have a girlfriend?

The sports committee representative looked stunned.

Lin Yujing also turned her head and looked at Wen Zihui.

Wen Zihui blushed, frowned, and tried to hide her discomfort. “I’m asking, what events?!”

Only then did the sports committee representative react, “Ah, shot put and javelin.”

“…”

Wen Zihui probably never imagined that Lin Yujing’s events would be shot put and javelin. She looked as stunned as the sports committee representative did a moment ago. The two of them stared at each other awhile before the sports committee representative scratched his head. “Can you do it? If you really can’t…”

What Wen Zihui hated the most in her life was when people said she wasn’t capable, talented, or beautiful. She snatched the list from the sports committee representative’s hand, found the two events, and signed her name after Lin Yujing’s. “Why can’t I? Isn’t it just a shot put? Throw it and it’s over, I’ll compete!”

Lin Yujing, watching in amazement, raised her hands and applauded. “Alright, well said!”

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In the stadium that time, she wasn’t really just passing by. She heard almost the entire exchange from beginning to end. When she heard Shen Juan say the words “I’ll consider it closed [1],” she suddenly felt a little at sea.

It’s not that no one ever helped her out. When she’d been bullied before, Cheng Yi and Lu Jiaheng would take her along and the three of them would beat up those who bullied her, but it felt different. They were friends, advancing together, retreating together, and carrying everything together. If she lost a fight, she would still be mocked by Lu Jiaheng.

For the first time, Lin Yujing got a taste of what it felt like to be silently protected.

It was a strange, sour, soft feeling, and after feeling such softness she wanted reflexively to pick up and run.

It was like when she first came to this city and Uncle Li said, “You’re a little girl, it’s not safe to be out alone at such a late hour.” For this kind of never-before-seen, unfamiliar kindness, Lin Yujing was at a loss. She felt a little helpless, and didn’t know quite what to say.

Thank you, Classmate Shen, I am so touched. I am so f*cking touched that my heartbeat seems a little irregular. This heart is hammering so fast I can feel it beat over a hundred times a minute. Excuse me, can someone give me a report?

Lin Yujing thought again about the question Cheng Yi had asked her just a little while ago.

If Shen Juan dates a girl one day, and you have to keep your distance from the only friend you have in this place, will you feel unhappy?

Lin Yujing didn’t even think about it at the time, she just automatically denied it.

She really never asked Shen Juan that question.

She had been to his tattoo parlor, stayed there overnight, and met several of his good friends, but she’d never seen any women around him. When he was in school, Lin Yujing almost always saw him with He Songnan and the others. All signs pointed to this person being single.

Outside of school, however, the number of times the two of them had met were very few.

He knew a lot of people, was good at a lot of things, knew where to go, and had many other sides of him that she didn’t know yet.

He said he lived in the tattoo parlor, but Lin Yujing didn’t know why he lived there alone, or his family situation, or if he had other social circles, and she didn’t know the story behind his mysterious, almost-beat-his-deskmate-to-death incident.

Before, Lin Yujing thought that they were already so familiar with each other, but after doing the math she felt it was too little.

She was suddenly a little unsure whether he had a girlfriend or not.

Maybe she’d just never seen her before?

Without knowing why, Lin Yujing suddenly felt a little panicked. She stood at the inspection desk, pulled out her phone, and sent a message to Shen Juan.

She deliberated for a while, thinking about the best way to ask.

This question is too personal, right?

Do I want to ask?

Would it be bad?

But I f*cking treat you as a friend! Can’t I ask you if you have a girlfriend?

Lin Yujing stomped her foot and carefully typed: [Student Shen, do you have a girlfriend?]

She didn’t realize it herself, but she was a little nervous.

While Wen Zihui was in line in the registration office for the shot put roll-call, Lin Yujing squatted in the open space next to her and waited. When she left Shen Juan was still staring at his phone, so she figured he would see it soon.

She waited for ten minutes.

Shen Juan didn’t reply.

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[1] “在我这儿就算过了” vs “在我这儿算过了”  –  In Chapter 34 when talking to Wen Zihui, Shen Juan says the former, and in this chapter she recalls him saying the latter. They are a bit different literally, but the underlying meaning is the same: When Lin Yujing considers the matter settled, he will also consider it settled. 

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