Chapter 86: Suspicion
“Xia Qian Ge, are you alone?”
The boy quietly approached. He looked at the girl’s gentle and frail appearance, feeling that such a fragile girl would be blown over by the wind, and was in dire need of a knight to protect this delicate gardenia.
He straightened his slightly crooked collar, a handsome smile on his face. He had an armband on his arm, a sign of being a volunteer. He wasn’t interested in meddling in other people’s business, nor did he need the volunteer subsidy from the school. But chasing a girl always came at a price. He had eagerly signed up.
The girl’s beautiful appearance was ranked very high on some private lists. To have such a girl in his own class, it would be a waste not to make a move. He had roughly inquired about her situation. It seemed she didn’t have a boyfriend, and she even had very few male friends, almost none. Perhaps there was no better opportunity than this.
“Is there something you need?”
Xia Qian Ge glanced at the boy, her tone indifferent, her gaze returning to its original direction. She always maintained a suitable distance with everyone. No one was very familiar with her, but they were definitely not too distant. It wasn’t because she was trying to be friends with everyone.
It was just that she didn’t have much emotion for anyone other than the boy, like the invisible microorganisms that filled the air. But you would never care about their emotions, neither liking nor disliking them too much.
The boy didn’t perceive Xia Qian Ge’s emotions. Instead, he was a little happy because of her non-distant attitude. As long as she didn’t dislike him… there was always a chance. He thought naively and then said, “They said we need to move some things over there. Um… have you found anyone? I’m free now. Do you want to go together?”
Xia Qian Ge’s attention was completely focused on the slender figure in the crowd. He stood in the center, like a tall and beautiful green bamboo. His handsome and gentle appearance was like a small brush, sweeping across her heart, making her absent-minded.
It really made her fall in love and obsessed!
She didn’t hear what the boy was saying, nor was she interested, even annoyed. She was unwilling to look at the boy, her tone indifferent. “I’ve already arranged to go with someone. I’m sorry.”
“Huh?” The boy was stunned. He couldn’t accept the girl’s rejection so easily. Disappointment filled his heart, and his expression was a little dejected. “Oh, okay then. I’ll go see if they need help anywhere else.”
The boy left regretfully. He probably knew that the girl was not interested in him. But then he thought again, it seemed that the girl kept a distance from everyone… and he felt a little comforted.
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Xia Qian Ge’s gaze was as if glued to that figure. She and the boy didn’t see each other often at school. Qingchuan University was very large, which infinitely reduced the chance of a chance encounter. Some annoying guys began to appear around the boy, which made her feel a little crisis.
She could still see the deliberately hidden love in the boy’s eyes, carved in his starry pupils. But the boy never expressed it. This feeling was like she was guarding a precious treasure but didn’t have the key to open it. Although the treasure belonged to her, she had to bear the pain that others might find that key and open the treasure before she did.
This feeling made her feel painful. The boy should have confessed his love to her on a certain night in his third year of high school. She would have refused, and then agreed when the boy was at his wits’ end. This would have given her an absolute position in their relationship. But the trajectory seemed to have gone astray, gradually heading towards an end she couldn’t control.
If the boy confessed to her now, she would definitely agree without hesitation, Xia Qian Ge thought to herself. She didn’t want to continue the pain of tossing and turning at night. She had experienced enough pain, but she still wanted to live.
But if she woke up one morning and the boy had completely disappeared from her life, she would probably find an easier way to die, to put a gentle end to her battered life, as a forgiveness to herself.
Xia Qian Ge walked towards the boy, but then she suddenly stopped.
The girl who had just sprinted past the finish line was running towards him. They both had smiles on their faces, their hands meeting in mid-air. To the onlookers, they were a perfect match. What was the difference between them and the couples who were waiting for each other at the finish line?
She really didn’t understand why the girl was always smiling. That foolish and innocent face always had a smile that she found ugly.
The girl’s life seemed to have been soaked in honey. She probably thought that this world should be so beautiful. Pretending to be innocent and romantic, like a pretentious bitch, made her want to vomit. She wanted to tear the girl’s face off, so that she would never smile again.
The negative emotions in her heart grew like wild grass, turning into a lifeless wasteland. As far as her eyes could see, it was a desolate and bleak scene. Even though it was a sunny day, it felt like a cold and meaningless autumn wind in Xia Qian Ge’s heart. Countless emotions… disgust, anger, helplessness, grew into a tangled clump of wild grass on the wasteland, completely corrupt.
Stay away from him!
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Xia Qian Ge teased An Zhi for a long time, her lips always curved into a comfortable smile. Their girlish demeanor was very eye-catching, attracting a lot of attention. Su Yu, being the closest to them, felt inexplicably uncomfortable.
It wasn’t until Xia Qian Ge’s phone rang that the two of them stopped their antics. Xia Qian Ge answered the phone and seemed to be talking to someone from the student union. When she hung up, her face was a little troubled.
“What’s wrong?” Su Yu asked.
“An Zhi has a competition and might not be free. There’s a batch of scoreboards that need to be moved this afternoon. Can you help?”
Xia Qian Ge looked at Su Yu. She made the most sincere request with the most sincere tone, simply asking the boy for help as a classmate. It didn’t matter if he was rejected. There were no ulterior motives. She looked at the boy silently, waiting for his answer.
“Sure, I’m not busy anyway.”
Su Yu didn’t hesitate much. The girl rarely asked him for help. She almost never showed her soft side to him, but she would occasionally show a need for him, which refreshed his gradually weakening presence, and then he would happily throw himself into the relationship, like a… little fish being lured by bait?
No… this thought made Su Yu suddenly wake up. He felt as if he had grasped something, but he couldn’t grasp its concrete form. He desperately denied it in his heart, shaking off those baseless suspicions. Conspiracy theories would only consume his mind. Even if it was an indisputable fact that he had died by her knife, he still didn’t want to tarnish her image.
Su Yu looked up. Xia Qian Ge was standing in front of him. The girl’s eyebrows and eyes were picturesque, as fragile as a half-opened gardenia. She had a gentle smile on her lips, seeking his necessary help.
He left Xia Qian Ge. The girl was really changing.
He was not wrong… definitely. His long fingers were unconsciously clenched, a little white.
