Chapter 40 p2: Unrequited Love. She wanted to keep Cheng Yang’s scent.
Cheng Yang’s appearance was relatively mature. Her appearance had been completely set when she was fifteen.
When others were still in their awkward phase, she had already grown into a graceful and elegant young woman, and her face was also called “Nuwa’s graduation project.”
Playing a role in a campus drama was a bit too mature for her age, so the director could only have the makeup artist make her makeup look younger.
Cheng Yang changed into her school uniform, and the bell for the end of class had already rung outside.
Ye Bingying was standing at the door, waiting for her to go to class together. The moment she saw Cheng Yang, her eyes lit up.
“Cheng Yang, I heard that there’s a new ice cream shop in the cafeteria downstairs. I’ll treat you.”
Cheng Yang walked forward with her bag. “I don’t like to eat ice cream.”
Ye Bingying followed behind her and couldn’t help but tilt her head. “I think you’re a very contradictory person. You’re so bad and cute in the drama, but in reality, you’re so indifferent to everyone.”
Cheng Yang went down to the second floor with a blank expression. “Acting is acting, and life is life. The two do not conflict.”
The two of them were surrounded by a group of students.
When Ye Bingying heard someone say, “Are they dating?” her face turned red, and she followed closely behind Cheng Yang.
“Walk a little slower. Wait for me.”
It would have been better if she hadn’t said anything. The moment she did, Cheng Yang quickened her pace.
She was in Class 20, the best class in No. 1 Middle School. Next to it was Class 19, with a corridor in between.
Cheng Yang walked up the stairs on the left, went directly to the third floor, and could turn into the door of Class 20.
But today, she didn’t know what she was thinking. She directly ignored the stairs on the left and went up the stairs on the right.
Ye Bingying followed behind her with a puzzled expression, but she still followed.
“Cheng Yang, are you looking for someone?”
Cheng Yang didn’t speak, just feeling that the other was talking too much.
She went up to the first and second floors and was watched by a group of people who had stuck their heads out the window.
“Huh? I’ve never seen Cheng Yang walk this way before. Is she looking for someone?”
“Maybe her partner is here.”
“Impossible! How could Cheng Yang be in a relationship! She’s mine!”
“She’s clearly mine!”
“…”
A group of people were arguing about whose wife Cheng Yang was. At this moment, the school bell rang, and the onlookers had to retract their heads.
After going up to the third floor and passing by Class 19, Cheng Yang’s peripheral vision glanced at it and then nonchalantly retracted.
At the seat by the window, Xu Xun was lowering her head and diligently doing her homework.
She didn’t see Cheng Yang walk past the window. Only after hearing the gossip of her classmates behind her did she slowly turn her head.
At this time, Cheng Yang had already left. Xu Xun only caught a glimpse of a back.
Xu Xun’s heart pounded in her chest. She reached into her drawer and touched a layer of soft velvet.
In this velvet bag was Cheng Yang’s washed school uniform.
She had never found a chance to return it to the other.
After class would be a good time. She could calmly walk into the classroom of Class 20, return the washed school uniform to Cheng Yang, and say “thank you.”
But now, Xu Xun didn’t want to return the clothes.
She stuffed the velvet bag into her drawer and continued to pretend that nothing had happened, lowering her head to do her math problems.
This class was a study hall, only forty-five minutes long.
Xu Xun did a few big math problems. When she looked up, she found that there were still two minutes before class was over.
Her deskmate whispered in her ear, “Let’s go buy ice cream after class. This damn weather is too hot.”
Xu Xun never went to anything that required money, but today, she agreed for the first time.
“Mmm.”
An ice cream cost three yuan. Xu Xun could still afford it if she gritted her teeth.
The moment the bell for the end of class rang, her deskmate took Xu Xun’s hand and rushed out of the classroom.
“Let’s go, let’s go! I want to eat matcha flavor!”
Xu Xun’s steps faltered, and she turned to walk in the opposite direction.
“Let’s go this way. It’s closer to the cafeteria.”
The “closer” that Xu Xun was talking about was through the corridor of the neighboring Class 20.
In fact, it was the same to go from the right. It was the same distance.
But since Xu Xun was going to the cafeteria with her for the first time, her deskmate didn’t bother to think too much.
Passing by the window of Class 20, Xu Xun’s gaze quickly swept over the classroom, but she didn’t see the person she wanted to see.
Cheng Yang’s seat was in the middle, by the classroom corridor, and could be seen with a light sweep.
But she was not in the classroom now, and her seat was empty.
This was the first time Xu Xun had tasted the feeling of disappointment.
Her throat was sore, and her heart also slowly clenched.
Xu Xun went down the stairs and brushed past Cheng Yang.
Cheng Yang lowered her eyes, looked back, and then turned to enter the classroom.
Cheng Yourong had come. She had called her to the teacher’s office during the study hall just now to discuss the matter of studying abroad.
Cheng Yang was not very interested in going abroad, but Cheng Yourong felt that the resources in the country were not good and had persuaded her for half a class.
In the end, Cheng Yang said that she wanted to finish high school before she left.
Cheng Yourong agreed and had even chosen a school for her.
Cheng Yang sat in her seat, looked at the practice problems on the test paper, and took out a piece of paper and a pen to slowly calculate.
In fact, she didn’t have to learn this anymore.
There was an ice cream stand at the entrance of the cafeteria on the first floor. Xu Xun stood behind her deskmate in line, and there were also many people behind her.
When it was Xu Xun’s turn, she took out her meal card and placed it on the card reader.
“I want a plain ice cream.”
“Beep—”
Xu Xun took the ice cream and carefully bit the cold tip.
At this time, her deskmate took her to the school’s small shop.
It was called a small shop, but it was actually a large supermarket that sold everything.
Her deskmate went around behind the bookshelf and found that the supermarket had a lot of new printed notebooks and also many celebrity stickers.
“Isn’t this Cheng Yang? She’s been printed on a notebook? This printing company has infringed on her portrait rights.”
“What? Is there a Cheng Yang notebook? Quick, quick! Get me two!”
“There are also matching stickers. Don’t forget to get them!”
“Don’t snatch! I got this pink one first!”
In an instant, the place where Xu Xun was standing was crowded with people.
She was pushed to the back, and her back hit the shelf.
Her deskmate squeezed out of the crowded crowd. She held the spoils of war in her hand and handed one of the thick pink notebooks to Xu Xun.
“I got one for you.”
Seeing that Xu Xun had no expression on her face, her deskmate thought she didn’t like Cheng Yang and was about to take the notebook from her hand.
“You don’t like Cheng Yang? Then I’ll put it back.”
Xu Xun quickly said, “I just happen to need a notebook. This one is quite nice.”
Her deskmate said with a smile, “I told you. How could anyone not like Cheng Yang?”
Xu Xun held the notebook and asked in a small voice, “Do you like her very much too?”
Her deskmate patted the notebook in her arms. “Of course. She’s so beautiful. I’m a big fan of her noble and cold beauty. She’s simply a high and unreachable flower, so alluring.”
Xu Xun smiled, her heart a little sour.
Only after a long time did she know.
The moment she saw Cheng Yang, her eyes couldn’t move away.
This was called liking.
She didn’t dare to look her in the eye, and she didn’t dare to talk to her.
This was called an unrequited love.
Seeing so many people like her, buying her postcards and stickers, her heart was sour.
This was called jealousy.
Xu Xun touched the bangs on her forehead. Seeing that her deskmate had snatched a box of Cheng Yang’s postcards from somewhere, she took her hand and quickly left.
“Class is about to start. The next class is the class teacher’s math class. If she sees you buying these things that have nothing to do with studying, she’ll definitely criticize you.”
As she spoke, Xu Xun silently gripped the notebook in her arms.
She had also bought it.
Before they had even gone upstairs, the school bell rang.
Her deskmate held Xu Xun and ran up the stairs on the right. The two of them were panting heavily. They had finally reached the third floor, but they were caught by the dean of discipline.
“Which class are you from?”
The dean of discipline roared with a full voice, and the students in Class 20 who were in class all turned their heads to look.
Cheng Yang also glanced at her, but she happened to meet the flustered eyes of Xu Xun outside the window.
She subconsciously curved her lips, but the moment her lips curved up, Xu Xun lowered her head.
Cheng Yang thought she was afraid of the dean of discipline and didn’t even think that the other was afraid of looking her in the eye.
“Cheng Yang, what are you looking at? Tell everyone the answer to the tenth question!”
Cheng Yang was suddenly called by name. She stood up and was taken aback for a moment, then said casually, “Choose C.”
“Hahahahahahaha—”
The class burst into laughter.
The physics teacher touched his shiny bald head. “Yo ho, you choose C for a fill-in-the-blank question! Don’t think you don’t have to listen to the class just because you’re first in the whole grade!”
Cheng Yang obediently admitted her mistake. “I’m sorry, teacher. I was just zoning out.”
Her attitude of admitting her mistake was positive and good, and her grades were excellent, so the physics teacher let her sit down.
In the classroom, every move of Cheng Yang was seen by Xu Xun.
She and her deskmate were scolded by the dean of discipline.
The dean told them to focus more on their studies, to chase stars less, and to buy less celebrity merchandise. Buying so many postcards couldn’t be eaten as food.
Xu Xun lowered her head and entered the classroom with her deskmate, but she was stared at by the class teacher again.
“Xu Xun, what are you hiding in your arms?”
Xu Xun took out the notebook. “Teacher, it’s a notebook.”
The class teacher waved her hand and let Xu Xun go back to her seat.
The grades of the two of them, one was first in the whole class, and the other was second. She didn’t want to say anything, as long as it didn’t affect their studies.
Back at her seat, Xu Xun quietly took out the notebook.
She opened the first page, her heart racing.
Seeing the color photo of Cheng Yang printed on it, Xu Xun held her breath.
The color printing was a bit rough, and Cheng Yang’s features looked very blurry, but this did not affect the other’s beautiful face at all.
Xu Xun’s breath caught. Her palm was pressed against Cheng Yang’s school uniform through the velvet bag.
She stroked it for a long time but was still not satisfied.
Xu Xun directly took out the school uniform. She held the cuff tightly, her palm slightly sweaty.
She seemed to smell that fresh and sweet peach fragrance again.
But Xu Xun knew that this was all an illusion.
The clothes she had washed with laundry detergent were very clean, and the smell of Cheng Yang’s pheromones had long since disappeared without a trace.
The class teacher was reviewing the key points on the podium, but she didn’t hear a single word.
Xu Xun lowered her head and sat at her desk in a daze.
She thought, if she had used a little less laundry detergent that day, maybe she could have kept Cheng Yang’s scent.