Chapter 46.1: Moonlight

After returning home, Yan Xingzhi opened the door, and Cen Ning followed him in.

“Go take a shower, by the way, your injury—” Before Yan Xingzhi could finish, someone grabbed the hem of his clothes.

Yan Xingzhi paused, turned around, and stared. “Huh?”

Cen Ning hesitated for a long time before questioning, “Just now, why did you tell my roommates that I was your girlfriend?”

Yan Xingzhi raised his eyebrows. “Then I’ll say fiancee next time?”

Cen Ning: “…”

Yan Xingzhi: “I’m afraid that’ll frighten them too much.”

Cen Ning let out a low sigh.

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The person in his arms trembled.

Yan Xingzhi released his grip on her a little and examined her expression closely. Sure enough, he saw that Cen Ning’s expression changed easily.

Yan Xingzhi sighed slightly in his heart. How could she be so easy to tease?

**

The next day, Cen Ning came back directly after class without going to the library. Because there were many people in the library and the house was very quiet, it was better to go home and study.

Cen Ning listened to him and came back with her textbooks.

This semester, Cen Ning took a course in British and American Culture. There were a lot of complex and cumbersome words involved in this course, such as the government system and the cabinet. It was easy to apply the wrong words when discussing the differences between Britain and the United States.

In the living room, Yan Xingzhi sat on the sofa casually flipping through military-themed books, while Cen Ning sat directly on the carpet, and recited vocabulary at the coffee table.

One hour passed.

Yan Xingzhi suddenly put down his book and leaned forward. “Let me see.”

Cen Ning turned her head in horror. “I’m not done yet…”

“You’re still not done after an hour?”

 “There are a lot of terms. I’m afraid of making mistakes.”

Yan Xingzhi couldn’t help laughing. “I’m just checking, not giving you an exam. Why are you panicking? The ones you can’t recite, study them more.” 

Cen Ning: “…Oh.”

Why did she feel that making mistakes with Yan Xingzhi was more terrible than making mistakes in the exams?

Yan Xingzhi took her book and started spot-checking.

He occasionally said the word in Chinese and asked her to write it in English. Then he would occasionally read English and ask her to translate the meaning. His posture reminded Cen Ning of when her high school teacher asked everyone to write words silently in class. It was very scary.

Later, when Yan Xingzhi mentioned a relatively uncommon word, Cen Ning’s hand holding the pen paused for a moment, and she fell into deep thought.

Yan Xingzhi looked up at her from behind the book. “You don’t know?”

Cen Ning blinked. “I think… I know.”

Yan Xingzhi raised his eyebrows, waiting for her answer.

Cen Ning hesitated for a moment and wrote a word on the paper, but it didn’t look like it. She had memorized a lot of similar words just now, and she got confused as soon as her brain pumped.

After struggling for a while, Cen Ning directly scribbled on the words on the paper, and murmured dejectedly, “I don’t seem to remember clearly…”

Yan Xingzhi said “Oh” and read out the correct answer.

Cen Ning: “Ah this… I know how to write it…”

“It’s useless to think about it now. There won’t be a second exam.”

Cen Ning looked at his stern face and felt dejected again. “Mhm…”

“I’ll punish you once for every mistake.”

Cen Ning: “Huh?”

As soon as she made a sound of dissatisfaction, she saw Yan Xingzhi get up from the back of the sofa, bend down, put his hand on the back of her head, and kiss her lips without even changing his expression.

Cen Ning was dumbfounded: “…”

Yan Xingzhi was very calm, even a little reticent. “One kiss for each mistake.”

Cen Ning: “…”

Seeing that she was silent, Yan Xingzhi glanced at her. “Why shouldn’t I do it?”

Cen Ning froze for a long time and then whispered after a while. “Xingzhi Gege, can this even be called a punishment? Why do I feel… It’s more like a reward?”

Yan Xingzhi’s hand that was flipping the book froze, and the frightening seriousness on his face collapsed a bit.

Cen Ning’s follow-up review progressed smoothly under Yan Xingzhi’s “terrible” punishment.

Soon, the final exam passed. Cen Ning got good grades and received a scholarship.

Then, winter break came.

Yan Xingzhi’s wounds had healed, and it was unreasonable to not go home. So on the first day of Cen Ning’s break, Yan Xingzhi also moved out of the apartment and returned to Yan house.

“Xingzhi, why haven’t you come back for so long? There are so many things in this army.” Aunt Chen couldn’t help but chatter when she saw Yan Xingzhi, “You see, you are not at home, Ningning is not at home, and Xingyao is also at school, the house is deserted.”

Yan Xingzhi’s injury was hidden from everyone, so at this moment, he could only say. “Indeed, I have been very busy recently.”

“Hey, no matter how busy you are, you have to come back and have a look. Your grandpa misses you.”

Yan Xingzhi smiled. “Yes, Aunt Chen.”

The two were talking in front, and Cen Ning silently walked by with her suitcase. “Aunt Chen, I’ll take the luggage back first.”

“Okay, put your luggage away and then come over for dinner.”

“Mhm.”

After dinner, the whole family sat together and watched TV. Later, when Yan Guofeng went back to his room to rest, everyone dispersed slowly.

“Hey brother, I happen to have a very difficult test paper, can you take a look at it.” Yan Xingyao’s college entrance examination was coming soon, and he had been working very hard recently.

Yan Xingzhi glanced at him. “Shouldn’t you ask Cen Ning?”

Cen Ning almost swallowed a grape down her throat. “Huh? Me? No, no, my high school knowledge is almost all lost.”