After saying this, he nervously looked into her eyes. Not seeing disgust or fear, he breathed a sigh of relief, and his love deepened.
“Ran-jie, it was you.”
Chen Jing asked him: “If you liked me so much, why didn’t you confess back then?”
Xu Chengan’s expression changed slightly. After a long silence, he finally spoke: “At the time, a roommate who was close to you told me that you had already declared you wouldn’t find a boyfriend during all four years of college.”
“Was that roommate Song Na?”
Xu Chengan nodded. The woman’s words had left him devastated for an entire month, so he remembered clearly.
“Tsk.”
Chen Jing looked utterly speechless: “Whatever you told her, she always looked down on me. Of course she’d stop you if you said you wanted to pursue me.”
Xu Chengan’s breath caught, his heartbeat suddenly accelerating: “What if, without that woman, I had confessed to you – would you have agreed?
“Depends on the situation,” Chen Jing gave an answer with plenty of room for imagination. She laughed: “No wonder I always thought you were a bit strange back then, constantly staring at me with such intense, hungry eyes. I thought I’d done something wrong to offend you. So it was because you had a crush on me.”
Xu Chengan nodded: “I did indeed want to devour you.”
Chen Jing: “Hm?”
Engrossed in their conversation, they had walked quite far. The surroundings were now deserted, with dense tree shadows. After speaking, Xu Chengan pushed her, and Chen Jing stepped back two paces, her back against a tree trunk, which was slightly uncomfortable.
Xu Chengan’s arm wedged in, perfectly blocking her back, his entire body pressing close, aggressively biting her lips. Whispering intimately, he sniffed and spoke in a slightly tearful voice: “What should I do, Shen Ran? I’m so miserable.”
Chen Jing, who was bleeding from her lip for the first time due to his intensity: “…”
“Why aren’t you saying anything?” Xu Chengan said sadly: “Do you think I’m stupid?”
“Not stupid,” to prevent him from overthinking and causing counterproductive effects, Chen Jing quickly touched his face, softly comforting: “In my heart, you’re the smartest.”
