Chapter 27: His Heart

Go home…

Cen Ning was stunned. “I have classes tomorrow.”

“Let Uncle Zhong take you back to school tomorrow.” He added, “I get up too early. You can’t get up that early.”

Cen Ning: “…”

Yan Xingzhi: “Come on, get in the car.”

Without giving her the slightest chance to refuse, Yan Xingzhi nodded toward the remaining two and dragged Cen Ning away.

The car soon sped out of sight, and Xia Yi was stunned. “Are they… brothers and sisters?”

Song Ci smiled silently. “I used to think so, too.”

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“…”

There was a sudden silence. Cen Ning grasped her fingers and was speechless for a moment.

Her feelings for Song Ci and Xia Yi were completely different.

The first person was a good friend and classmate who had been with her for several years. He has helped her so much, and her emotional positioning for him was too clear that she can no longer regard him as an object of liking.

As for the latter, she had thought about it… At least; she attempted to make herself fall in love with the person.

But she hadn’t been successful yet.

Yan Xingzhi glanced at her secretly and saw her nervousness.

There was a red light. Yan Xingzhi withdrew his eyes and stepped on the brakes.

In just over ten seconds, the red turned green.

The moment the car started, Cen Ning slowly said in a cautious and uncertain tone, “I don’t know.”

Not as certain when talking about Song Ci, but hesitantly said ‘don’t know’.

**

When they got home, they met Yan Xingyao who came downstairs.

“Brother, Cen Ning, why did you guys come back together at this time?”

Yan Xingzhi merely said that it was convenient with a stony face and walked upstairs.

Yan Xingyao’s face, filled with enthusiasm, suddenly froze. He turned to Cen Ning suspiciously. “What’s wrong with my brother?”

Cen Ning: “What’s wrong?”

Yan Xingyao: “He looks so fierce.”

Cen Ning paused for a moment. “… When does he not look fierce?”

Yan Xingyao: “That’s true.”

“…”

“…”

After returning to the small building, Cen Ning took a comfortable bath and lay on the bed to watch the news.

Just then, the phone rang.

“Song Ci, what’s wrong?”

The receiver was silent for a while, and just when Cen Ning thought that Song Ci had called her by accident, he suddenly spoke. “Ningning, this is not fair at all.”

Cen Ning was stupefied for a moment. “What?”

Song Ci’s voice was a little tipsy. “I said it’s not fair at all! You gave Xia Yi a chance to pursue you, but you didn’t even give me one chance…”

Song Ci’s voice was weird. Cen Ning sat up from the bed. “Song Ci, are you drinking too much?”

“You don’t have to worry about that. I just want to ask you why…” Song Ci choked. “Zhang Ziyi said that someone in your school is pursuing you… It’s a coincidence that I saw him today. I originally thought that I had to find a chance later to see him. But I don’t understand, where can’t I compare to him? Why can you try to accept him, but you can’t — hiccup — accept me?”

Cen Ning couldn’t bear to hear him speak in such a tone. It was during a summer break in high school when she rejected him. And even during that period, he didn’t show this kind of pitiful appearance.

Cen Ning felt guilty in her heart, but she knew that guilt could not be used to solve this. “I don’t know how to tell you…”

“I couldn’t do it before because of Yan Xingzhi. You made me lose to Yan Xingzhi. I admit it! Who told me I couldn’t be close to the water tower (TLN: To be available), and we couldn’t be together morning and night under the same roof, but you can’t let me lose to a newcomer!”

Close to the water tower, be together morning and night, to talk about these two words, Song Ci was more suitable than Yan Xingzhi. After all, Yan Xingzhi had left for so many years…

But Cen Ning didn’t say this out loud because she liked Yan Xingzhi. And it had nothing to do with being together morning and night.

Hearing that Cen Ning didn’t respond, Song Ci asked in a low voice, “Or is it, in fact, we both still lost to Yan Xingzhi… both I and Xia Yi lost to him?”

Cen Ning: “Song Ci…”

“You haven’t given up on him, have you?”

Cen Ning’s heart skipped a beat. She kept forcing herself to give up and forced herself to forget.

She also thought that she could forget him. However, now that Song Ci opened up the question directly in front of her, she realized that her heart could not deny her true feelings. No matter how much she told herself to forget, her heart couldn’t.

“I see…” Song Ci smiled in a low voice, but it was better not to laugh, “I knew your eyes were different when you saw him appear today. Sure enough, what Zhang Ziyi said was wrong. You are one-track-minded…”

“Then don’t learn from me,” Cen Ning whispered into the phone, “Song Ci, don’t learn from me.”

Song Ci chuckled lightly. “Look at you, you are over, always asking others to do things you can’t do yourself.”

…

Cen Ning forgot what time she went to bed last night. She only remembered that her phone was dead when she woke up.

But thinking of Song Ci from last night, Cen Ning was still sad. There were only a few people in this world that she didn’t want to hurt, and Song Ci was one of them.

If only it was the same as before.

**

In the following days, Cen Ning worked part-time in Tianying while studying at school. During this time, she rarely saw Yan Xingzhi. On one hand, she did not go home often, and Yan Xingzhi was also very busy.

Summer break came, and Cen Ning went out to Tianying every day under the pretext of being a tutor.

She had learned a lot from Hao Jie during this period. She also found that although Hao Jie had a bad temper, if he wanted to teach anything, what he taught would be beneficial.

One day, the photographer from the next team rushed to their side. “Hao Jie, it should be quite free here recently.”

Hao Jie nodded. “It’s alright, it’s mainly in the later stages of processing and editing, and I haven’t been out shooting much.”

“Oh, that’s just right. We are short of people recently. You lend me your two assistants for a few days.”

Borrowing people for emergencies between teams in the same company was also a common occurrence. Hao Jie complained after hearing this. “You entertainment photographers have so many matters. Always short of people every day. Will you die if you just recruited two more people?”

“That’s nice to listen to, but do you think recruiting is that easy? Those who can take excellent pictures are not willing to be assistants, but I need someone who knows photography to be an assistant. Isn’t this a contradiction?”

“Come on, it’s not that you have high expectations.”

“Alright, alright, don’t you often brag about your little assistant, Cen Ning, is she?” The person pointed at Cen Ning, “Come, come, little girl. Come with me.”

Cen Ning glanced at Hao Jie. Hao Jie waved to her and said helplessly, “Go.”

“There’s still one missing, Liu Xin, come with me too.”

“Oh, okay.”

Speaking of which, Tianying was the best and the most profitable company in the entertainment sector. Every day there would be different star actors here to take photos, and shoot magazines, clothing brand promotions, etc…

On this day, Cen Ning and the others were taking a photo of a little fresh meat that was very popular recently. The little fresh meat was famous and had a big temper. Cen Ning and the others were little assistants. The actual work, like the shooting, was good, but they were directed around to do little miscellaneous things like going to buy coffee.

But after all, they were popular; they were influential, and no one dared to cause trouble.

During the intermission, photographer Xue Bing asked Cen Ning and Liu Xin to go downstairs to buy coffee for the staff and celebrities present.

The two of them took the order and ran downstairs, each of them carrying eight cups.

“You say our job is not running errands. Why do they keep asking us to go shopping?” Liu Xin said, dissatisfied as they walked.

Cen Ning: “Then do you dare not go?”

Liu Xin: “…”

Cen Ning: “Let’s go. If we don’t hurry, we’ll be scolded again.”

Liu Xin: “Really, that little fresh meat has many other assistants for them to run errands. Why don’t they let them go, eh—”

Turning back while walking, Liu Xin bumped into someone who had just come out of the office next door.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” This office was President Yang’s office area, and anyone who bumped into him or other big shots would be in trouble.

“Are you alright?” The person who was hit was calm. Liu Xin raised her head and was stunned when she saw a young and handsome man. “Yes, I’m alright.”

“Go if you are alright, don’t delay things.” The man smiled.

Liu Xin had a frightened expression on her face. “Okay, okay… Thank you.”

Liu Xin walked away with her back straight. Cen Ning, who was at the back, looked at the man in front of her in surprise and wanted to say something. But she felt that President Yang was standing beside him, and it was inappropriate for a small person like her to speak here.

“Little girl, why are you dumbfounded? Why don’t you head over?”

The person standing in front of her with a smile in his eyes was the familiar Xin Zechuan. At this time, he was dressed in formal clothing. It seemed he was in a business meeting.

Cen Ning nodded at him without saying much and followed Liu Xin to the studio.

“Just this girl.” President Yang patted Xin Zechuan on the shoulder. “For you to specially come, it seems that she is your—”

“Hey, stop, you can eat randomly, but you can’t talk nonsense.” Xin Zechuan put a hand on President Yang’s shoulder. “She is not mine, but she is absolutely immovable. I’m also entrusted to someone else. Oh, you must take good care of her. You are the one I will blame if something goes wrong.”

“Haha, you’ve already said so. I wouldn’t take care of her? No problem, I’ll call Xue Bing over here later to remind him.”

“Okay, sorry to trouble you.”

“Hey, Young Master Xin has already made a trip here in person. How could I refuse?”

…

The shooting went on for a whole day, and in the evening, the photography team ordered takeout.

“Liu Xin, go downstairs and get the food delivery.”

Liu Xin responded and patted Cen Ning. “Let’s go, get food delivery.”

Cen Ning stopped what she was doing and wanted to follow.

“Hey! Cen Ning, stop!”

Cen Ning: “Huh?”

“Just take care of what you are doing right now! You don’t have to go.”

Liu Xin stared. “Mr Xue, there are so many food deliveries, I’m alone—”

“Then have someone else go with you. What a simple matter.” Xue Bing looked impatient.

Before, these trivial things were all done by Liu Xin and Cen Ning together. Liu Xin didn’t understand why she was now the only unlucky one!

Just as she was so wrong, she saw Xue Bing suddenly change his face. He said to Cen Ning with a very gentle smile: “Cen Ning, just sit down obediently. You have such strong skills, you must study hard and you will definitely do something big in the future.”

Liu Xin: “???”

Cen Ning: “…”