I Fell In Love With Qing Leng Xue Shen Chapter 7
byChapter 7 Confessed
The ringing of the bell pierced the tranquility of the teaching building, and the noise instantly filled the corridors.
Xie Shuhan was lowering his head to clear away the legal books on the table. As soon as his fingertips touched the cover of the notebook, a shy female voice sounded beside him.
“Classmate Xie Shuhan…”
When he raised his eyes, what caught his eye was a girl wearing a goose-yellow dress. The skirt was decorated with tiny pearls, which made her skin white.
The girl nervously twisted her skirt with her hands, her cheeks were flushed, her eyelashes were trembling slightly, and her eyes were filled with unabashed admiration and anxiety.
Seeing this, the surrounding classmates who were originally packing their things subconsciously slowed down their movements and turned their gazes here.
Everyone knows that Xie Shuhan is recognized as the cool school sweetheart of Qingdao University. He has a superior family background and top grades, but he always avoids strangers. There are many girls who have confessed to him, but no one has ever succeeded.
“Can I add you on WeChat?” The girl took a deep breath, as if she had summoned up her whole life’s courage, and her voice trembled slightly, “I have been following you for a long time and I really like you.”
Xie Shuhan’s eyes fell on her face, his dark eyes as deep as a cold pool, without any waves.
The gaze was too calm, even a little distant. The moment the girl met her, her brain seemed to have been pressed on the pause button, and all the prepared words were stuck in her throat, shutting down instantly.
The surrounding air was so quiet that you could hear the sound of the pen tip falling. Everyone held their breath, waiting for Xie Shuhan’s response.
“Sorry, I don’t like you.”
His voice was still clear and cold, without any sloppiness, neither comfort nor euphemism. It was as straightforward as a sharp ice blade, instantly shattering all the girls’ expectations.
The refusal without any leeway made the already nervous girl’s face instantly turn pale.
She obviously didn’t expect to be rejected so mercilessly, her eyes instantly turned red, and crystal tears rolled in her eyes, but she resisted falling.
The gazes of the classmates around her were like fine needles, pricking her to the point of embarrassment.
Finally, she couldn’t bear it any longer, covered her face with her hands, turned around and ran towards the classroom door, her skirt rising as she ran, leaving behind a string of suppressed sobs.
Xie Shuhan looked at her hastily escaping back. There was no emotion on his face, neither guilt nor impatience, as if he had just rejected an insignificant thing.
He lowered his head and continued to pack his things, his fingertips still steady without any trembling.
“Alas, I was rejected after all.”
“Xie Shuhan is too heartless, so let’s be more tactful.”
“What do you know? This is Xie Shuhan. He will never give people any misunderstanding.”
“A person as outstanding and noble as him probably won’t like anyone. He only wants to study and his laws.”
The students around him shook their heads and started talking, with a tone of regret, understanding, and a bit accustomed to it.
Xie Shuhan seemed not to hear these comments at all. After packing up his books, he held the thick book with his uninjured left hand and turned around and walked out of the classroom.
The hem of his white shirt swayed slightly behind him, and he still looked cold and aloof, incompatible with the noisy crowd around him.
At the same time, Lu Jin was wandering slowly on the plastic track of the playground with his hands in his sweatpants pockets.
There was a strawberry-flavored lollipop in his mouth, and the sweet taste filled the tip of his tongue, but it couldn’t dispel the inexplicable dullness in his heart.
The sun was dazzling, and he squinted his eyes slightly. His silver hair shone dazzlingly in the sun, but he couldn’t hide the trace of annoyance in his eyes.
Ever since he saw that sentence in Xie Shuhan’s notebook in the classroom, he had been feeling panicked.
He didn’t understand why he felt uneasy because of an inexplicable sentence, and he didn’t understand that when he thought of Xie Shuhan’s expression when he wrote that sentence, he felt as if something was blocked in his heart, making him feel stuffy and breathless.
“Lu Jin!”
A clear and sweet female voice came, breaking his thoughts.
Lu Jin turned around and saw Yun Chuchu walking quickly towards him.
She wore a white fishtail skirt, long hair shawl, exquisite makeup, and a graceful figure. As the campus beauty of Tsinghua University, her appearance was indeed impeccable.
The Yun family and the Lu family were family friends, and Lu Jin had met Yun Chuchu several times at various business banquets.
She had always been proud and confident, and was the center of attention wherever she went. She was looking at him with a smile, and her eyes were filled with determination to win.
“Is something wrong?” Lu Jin stopped and took off the lollipop from his mouth, his voice was slightly hoarse.
Yun Chuchu walked up to him, stopped, raised her face and looked at him, her eyes bold and direct: “Lu Jin, I like you, let’s date.”
She is full of confidence in herself. In terms of family background, the Yun family is the same as the Lu family; in terms of appearance, she is recognized as the school beauty; in terms of ability, she is also a good student with both good conduct and academic performance.
In her opinion, no man could reject herself like this, especially Lu Jin. Although he was the heir to a wealthy family, he had never had an open relationship. She was absolutely sure that she could win him over.
By capturing him, not only would he have the capital to show off, but Yunshi would also have more benefits.
Lu Jin was silent for a while.
The sun fell on his face, outlining his handsome features.
“No, thank you for your liking.”
Lu Jin’s tone was calm, and he couldn’t hear much emotion.
Yun Chuchu obviously didn’t expect that he would refuse so simply, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly.
She had prepared a lot of words to persuade him, but now she couldn’t even say them out.
“Why?” she asked in disbelief.
“Sorry.” Lu Jin replied and took the lollipop back into his mouth. The sweet taste filled the air again, but it still couldn’t dispel the depression in his heart, and then left.
The news quickly spread throughout the campus like it had wings.
But it is different from reality. This is how the so-called rumors came about. Someone took a photo of the two of them and posted it on the forum.
That afternoon, the homepage of the campus forum was flooded with posts about “Lu Jin and Yun Chuchu are in love”.
The post attached a photo of the two talking in the playground. Although there was no too intimate action, it was interesting to see.
“I’ll go! What kind of divine love is this! Young Master Lu and the school beauty are so perfect for each other!”
“What a match made in heaven! They have similar family backgrounds and great looks. It’s like something out of a novel!”
“It’s a hit! No wonder so many girls failed to pursue Mr. Lu before. It turns out they are waiting for the school beauty Yun!”
“Blessings and blessings! It must be long!”
There were a lot of blessings in the comment area. Everyone was lamenting the perfect match of this couple, and almost no one raised any objections.
In the boys’ dormitory, Yu Yifan was leaning in front of the computer and browsing the forum. When he saw the pinned post, he turned his head suddenly and looked at Lu Jin, who was playing games next to him, in shock.”Brother Jin! Did you really win the school beauty?”
Lu Jin’s fingertips were tapping the keyboard quickly, and the words “Five Kills” flashed across the screen. Then he slowly took off his headphones and looked at Yu Yifan with raised eyebrows: “She confessed to me, but I didn’t agree…”
“Tsk, let me tell you, when did you become so easy to chase?”
Lu Jin didn’t answer the call and put on the headphones again.
On the other side, after Xie Shuhan returned to the dormitory, as soon as he put down the book in his arms, his phone vibrated and a push notification from the campus forum popped up.
He didn’t intend to pay attention to it at first, but the words “Lu Jin” and “love” were so dazzling that he couldn’t help but click on the post.
The screen lit up, and a photo of Lu Jin and Yun Chuchu standing on the playground came into view.
In the photo, Lu Jin still looked that flamboyant and dazzling, with a faint smile on his lips, while Yun Chuchu stood beside him with a sweet smile on his face.
Xie Shuhan looked at the two people in the photo, and his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible hand, which hurt so much that he could hardly breathe.
He swiped the screen expressionlessly and read all the comments.
All blessings, all “made in heaven”, every word was like a needle, piercing into his heart.
His fingers were trembling slightly, his fingertips were cold, and even the screen seemed to be infected with cold.
After watching for an unknown amount of time, Xie Shuhan finally closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then pressed the power off button.
He walked to the desk and sat down, opened the drawer, and took out a stack of star notes and a black pen.
The tip of the pen landed on the note, the ink slowly spread out, and he wrote stroke by stroke:
“On the 2555th day, he fell in love with someone else. I was very sad.”
The handwriting was more scrawled than usual, with an imperceptible tremor.
After he finished writing, he carefully folded the note into a star, held the star with his fingertips, and remained silent for a long time before slowly throwing it into a glass jar next to the desk.
The glass jar is very big, and it is already filled with densely packed stars, colorful and piled to the brim.
Every star represents a day of waiting, and every piece of paper contains thoughts that only he knows.
Ever since he first met Lu Jin when he was a boy, he had begun this long and secret wait, and it was now the 2555th day.
He thought that as long as he was patient enough and waited for the right time, he could let Lu Jin see his heart.
But he didn’t expect that before he could muster up the courage, Lu Jin would already have someone else by his side.
Xie Shuhan looked at the stars in the glass jar, with complex emotions surging in his eyes, including loss, sadness, and a hint of unwillingness.
But in the end, these emotions were deeply hidden by him, leaving only a calm expression on his face, as if the person who was upset just now was not him.
The dormitory was very quiet, with only the occasional sound of wind coming from the window.
Xie Shuhan just sat quietly, his eyes falling on the glass jar. It wasn’t until the night got darker that he slowly stood up and walked to the bed to lie down.
But this night, he stayed up all night, with the words echoing repeatedly in his mind: As long as you are willing to wait, as long as you are willing to love deeply.
[This chapter has been completely revised. Later I saw that the babies were merciful.】