WSIDIILMBOCIR Chapter 72
by VolareYesterday, Qin Yuanging finally managed to break through the crowd, but he didn’t even catch a glimpse of Li Chongge. He called him, but he didn’t answer, leaving Qin Yuanging worried all night.
“I… wasn’t feeling well, so I went back earlier. Sorry, I didn’t tell you.”
Li Chongge shifted his gaze, avoiding looking at Qin Yuanging’s face.
He wasn’t good at lying.
But the next second, a hand reached out to Li Chongge’s forehead.
“Where are you feeling unwell? Are you feeling better today?”
Qin Yuanging was sitting down, and at this moment, he looked up at him, his clear eyes showing concern, reflecting half of Li Chongge’s figure.
It was clearly the most normal physical contact, but Li Chongge felt a tingling and heat where Qin Yuanging’s hand covered his forehead.
Li Chongge raised his hand to remove Qin Yuanging’s hand, trying to keep his expression normal.
“No, I just felt better after a night’s sleep.”
Because his seat was occupied by Qin Yuanging, Li Chongge remained standing and didn’t tell him to leave.
“That’s good. You don’t know how worried I was about you yesterday!”
Something lightly tapped at Li Chongge’s heart, and he apologized again.
“Don’t do that again. Remember to tell me everything.” Qin Yuanging gave up his seat to Li Chongge. Seeing that he still didn’t seem to be in good spirits, he added, “Sit down, I’ll get you some hot water.”
Li Chongge stood still, watching Qin Yuanging naturally take out his thermos from his desk and walk away.
When Qin Yuanging returned, there was a small red mark on the back of his hand. Li Chongge still couldn’t pretend not to see it.
“Did you burn yourself?”
“Someone called me when I was getting water, and my hand slipped when I turned around. I only lightly touched the hot water, it’s nothing.”
Li Chongge sighed and still led him to the faucet, watching Qin Yuanging rinse his hand with cold water for a while.
Li Chongge was still considering whether to directly tell Qin Yuanging that they needed to keep a little distance in the future, but then he heard Qin Yuanging say, “By the way, I told my dad last night that I’m not going abroad to study.”
“Why?”
Qin Yuanging shook the water off his hand and replied in a very matter-of-fact tone, “Because you’re not going. I want to be with you. You’re planning to go to Jing University, right? I’ll go there too.”
Li Chongge’s heart skipped a beat.
He was done for. He really couldn’t shake him off now.
Not getting a response from Li Chongge, Qin Yuanging wiped the remaining moisture on his hands onto Li Chongge’s sleeve, somewhat displeased.
“Are you thinking I can’t get into Jing University? I’m telling you, there’s still almost three years left, anything is possible! I’ll study hard with you from now on. With my intelligence, I definitely can!”
Li Chongge looked at the water stains Qin Yuanging had left on his dark school uniform and didn’t really care. He just advised him, “With your personality, the teaching methods abroad would be more suitable for you.”
“Li Chongge, what’s wrong with you? Shouldn’t you be happy that I’m with you?”
Happy, but…
Meeting Qin Yuanging’s accusing and puzzled gaze, Li Chongge could only remain silent.
So Qin Yuanging pouted and started to get angry, his fair cheeks flushed with anger.
“Li Chongge, do you think I’m annoying and can’t wait to get away from me?”
“No.” Li Chongge answered almost subconsciously. “I just think it’s unnecessary, it’ll be more difficult.”
“No, I’m very smart!”
Li Chongge didn’t want to correct Qin Yuanging’s overconfidence in himself, but thinking of Qin Yuanging’s playful and mischievous nature, he felt that he probably wouldn’t be able to persevere for long, so he simply stopped arguing with him about this matter.
“Then do whatever you want.”
Qin Yuanging’s emotions came and went quickly. Just now, he was glaring at Li Chongge angrily, like a puffed-up pufferfish, but now he was happily following behind Li Chongge again.
“Are you coming to dinner with me tonight? We won the game yesterday and are going out to eat.”
Li Chongge stopped and asked him, “If the game was yesterday, why are you eating today?”
“You left without a word yesterday. I was worried, so I didn’t want to go out to eat. I postponed it to tonight.”
Li Chongge sighed silently again and refused him, “I’m not going. I have something to do tonight. Go home early after you eat.”
Qin Yuanging already knew that Li Chongge would probably reject him, but he was still a little disappointed.
The two walked towards the classroom, and Qin Yuanging was stopped again by a gentle female voice.
Li Chongge recognized her at a glance as the girl who had given him a love letter yesterday.
Qin Yuanging glanced at Li Chongge and walked to the side with the girl.
Li Chongge really wanted to leave, but he knew that Qin Yuanging’s look just now meant that he wanted him to wait for him.
Qin Yuanging didn’t give him time to refuse at all.
Because they weren’t too far away, Li Chongge vaguely kept hearing the girl say thank you.
Li Chongge had a moment of confusion. Why did you have to keep thanking someone when you were in a relationship?
Before long, Qin Yuanging quickly walked to Li Chongge’s side.
“Let’s go, class is about to start in ten minutes.”
Li Chongge walked silently for a few steps. At the classroom door, he finally said, “Qin Yuanging, early love probably affects studying.”
Li Chongge regretted it the moment he said this, but Qin Yuanging was walking next to him, and he had excellent hearing, so he heard it word for word, giving Li Chongge no chance to take it back.
“Early love what?” Qin Yuanging looked at Li Chongge strangely, and then suddenly said, “Oh.”
“Are you talking about Cheng Yian? There were so many people yesterday. If I didn’t accept her love letter, she would have been very embarrassed, so I accepted it temporarily, but I secretly told her that I’m still young and don’t have any thoughts about being in a relationship.”
Even though he knew he shouldn’t, Li Chongge couldn’t help but feel better.
“So she was thanking you for that?”
“Li Chongge, eavesdropping on other people’s conversations isn’t a good habit.”
Li Chongge realized that he had said the wrong thing and was momentarily embarrassed.
“I was close, I accidentally heard it, sorry.”
“Alright, alright, you’ve apologized to me three times today.”
Li Chongge sat in his seat, but Qin Yuanging still hadn’t left.
“There are three minutes left before class, go sit down in your own seat.”
Qin Yuanging stood there without moving. After a long while, he said with some reluctance, “Li Chongge, we’re best friends, you… you’re not allowed to secretly leave alone in the future, and you’re not allowed to think about leaving me alone to study at Jing University!”
Li Chongge’s brain went blank for a moment. Being looked at like this by Qin Yuanging, he swallowed back all his words and could only nod blankly.
What to do? Qin Yuanging really had no intention of letting Li Chongge go.
Oh well, this is fine too. Then he would just stay by his side.
It was Qin Yuanging himself who said that good friends should be together for a lifetime.