Chapter 50

Although the Tieba¹Baidu Tieba, lit. “Baidu Post Bar.” A Chinese online forum hosted by Baidu. forum allows for anonymity, it requires real-name registration.

Li Xiang made a slight move in his social circles and managed to locate the student who had previously slandered Yu Nian.

This person’s name was Tian Shiyin, and Li Xiang didn’t have much of an impression of them.

“Do you know each other?” Li Xiang asked, tilting his head.

Yu Nian shook her head, she didn’t know them at all.

Of course, let alone Tian Shiyin, Yu Nian probably wouldn’t recognize most of the people from her previous class.

This was within Li Xiang’s expectations, and he didn’t find it particularly strange.

“Tian Shiyin? I know them ah.” Zhang Chuanze said during the class break after Li Xiang mentioned the name.

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“Am I really fat?” Yu Nian, her head resting on the desk, raised this question as the class was about to end.

Li Xiang, who was in the middle of taking notes, paused at her words. He turned his head to look at the disheartened Yu Nian, wondering why she was pondering about this after a few classes.

“What do you think?” Li Xiang remained silent for a few seconds before answering in a low voice.

Feeling like Li Xiang was just being perfunctory, Yu Nian huffed, “If you think I’m fat, just say it. No need to beat around the bush.”

Li Xiang chuckled. Noticing the teacher writing on the board with their back turned, he reached out to gently pinch Yu Nian’s chubby cheek. He lowered his voice and said, “Where are you fat? I’ve been carefully feeding you for days, and you’re still not gaining any weight. It must be that the food in the cafeteria is so bad, making you lose weight again.”

Upon hearing this, Yu Nian’s gloomy expression suddenly brightened, and the corners of her lips, which had been suppressing a smile, gradually curved up.

She brushed off Li Xiang’s hand, muttering, “Only you would say that. The cafeteria can really be wronged.”

Nonsense, how can it be wronged?

School just started today ah!

To be frank, Yu Nian only ate a meal there, how was she even thin?

Thin where?

Mindset?

“It’s not wronged, it was never tasty to begin with,” Li Xiang remarked.

Yu Nian was well aware of her current weight. Seeing Li Xiang talk nonsense with a serious face made her feel a bit embarrassed at first. However, she didn’t want to show it too clearly. She intentionally said, “Alright then ah, after school, take me to eat something delicious and help me gain weight.”

Li Xiang readily agreed, saying, “Sure.”

As the evening self-study bell rang, Yu Nian’s stomach was already growling. Perhaps, having enjoyed delicious home-cooked meals during the vacation, she hadn’t eaten much in the evening. Now, three hours into the evening self-study, she was quite hungry, eagerly waiting for Li Xiang to fulfill his promise.

“Hurry up, hurry up, I’m starving,” Yu Nian urged.

“Don’t worry, take it easy,” Li Xiang said, seeing her eager to leave. He chuckled helplessly, packed his bag, and followed her outside.

At the square, just as Yu Nian was about to dash out of the school gate at a hundred meters per second, Liu Manman’s voice suddenly sounded behind her.

“Nian Nian! Wait a minute!” Liu Manman shouted from behind.

Yu Nian halted her steps and turned around to see Liu Manman running towards her.

For some reason, watching Liu Manman rushing towards her without a care in the world, Yu Nian suddenly recalled a passage from the original novel.

“The wind at the end of summer tousled the girl’s long hair, and her keen eyes, amidst the noisy crowd, ran towards him.”

“Countless thoughts are hard to convey; they can only be stranded in the realm of paper and pen.”

If she guessed correctly, it seemed like Liu Manman was about to hand a love letter to the male lead here.

Thinking of this, Yu Nian instinctively took a step back, afraid of disrupting this historical development.

Li Xiang, who had been standing to the side, suddenly noticed Yu Nian continuously retreating. Puzzled, he glanced at her and happened to meet her eyes.

Caught retreating, Yu Nian awkwardly smiled at Li Xiang.

Unexpectedly, the scene Yu Nian had envisioned did not unfold. Liu Manman walked straight up to her, wearing an expression of hesitation and reluctance.

“What… what’s the matter?” Yu Nian hesitated.

Why wasn’t she confessing?

Liu Manman quickly glanced at Li Xiang, her gaze carrying a mix of shyness and nervousness. She softly asked, “Nian Nian, can we talk for a moment?”

Yu Nian turned to Li Xiang and nodded, “Okay ah, Chi Yao, wait for me.”

Li Xiang: “En.”

As the two walked to a nearby corner, Liu Manman lowered her head and hesitantly handed a pink love letter to Yu Nian. Blushing, she said, “Nian Nian, could you please pass this letter to Chi Yao for me?”

“Isn’t he right there?” Yu Nian was puzzled.

This explained why Yu Nian had been single for so long—she completely failed to comprehend the twists and turns of love.

However, in Liu Manman’s eyes, Yu Nian’s hesitation only confirmed her suspicions from the afternoon. She had suspected that while Yu Nian verbally agreed to help, she might destroy the bridge after crossing the river.

So, with the idea of tearing Yu Nian’s hypocritical face, Liu Manman pretended to be shy and said, “I-I’m afraid it would be awkward to give it to him in person, so could you please pass it to him for me?”

Yu Nian thought it was a trivial matter and considered Liu Manman to be quite thin-skinned. Even though things weren’t following the original plot, there was indeed a delivering of love letter.

So, Yu Nian took the letter and smiled, saying, “No problem, consider it done.”

Liu Manman smiled with joy, “Thank you.”

“Then if there’s nothing else, I’ll be going first?” Yu Nian said.

“En, nothing else. Take care on the way,” Liu Manman waved, bidding her farewell.

With thoughts of the Jianbing Guozi ²Fried pancake with egg and various fillings near the school gate lingering in her mind, Yu Nian stuffed the letter into her bag and jogged towards Li Xiang.

“Why are you in such a rush?” Li Xiang couldn’t help but laugh as he saw her hurrying toward him.

“I’m hungry, don’t back out now,” Yu Nian said, giving Li Xiang’s arm a push. “Hurry up, no cheating. You promised to take me to eat something delicious.”

“Alright, alright, alright” Li Xiang half-pushed, half-walked forward.

The night concealed his gentle gaze and also masked the unexpected indulgence Li Xiang felt towards Yu Nian.