Give Me Heartthrobs 70

Chapter 70: Wish

As expected, Ye Qizhen didn’t feel very comfortable staying at home. Chen Yin still wanted to persuade her to change her major for the postgraduate entrance exam, and arguments inevitably led to unpleasantness.

Tang Tang probably wasn’t having an easy time at home either. This afternoon, she rushed over to find Ye Qizhen and dragged her out shopping to relieve boredom.

“Little Zhen’er, how about this one? Does it look good?” Tang Tang picked out a sweater and held it against herself, admiring narcissistically in the mirror. “Seems pretty good.”

Ye Qizhen was busy replying to WeChat messages and only looked up slightly. “Good.”

“Can you be any more perfunctory?” Tang Tang rolled her eyes and hung the sweater back.

“Aren’t you going to try it on?”

“Hungry.” Tang Tang walked to Ye Qizhen’s side. “Let’s eat out tonight? Take me to eat something delicious.”

Ye Qizhen looked at Tang Tang and didn’t answer immediately. After a pause, she explained slowly, “Wen Yu is back.”

Tang Tang understood instantly, giving her a resentful look. “Valuing romance over friendship, so you’re abandoning me?”

Ye Qizhen: “Let’s go together.”

“Forget it then.” Tang Tang was tactful and didn’t want to be a third wheel. She urged Ye Qizhen instead, with hidden meaning in her words, “If you’re in such a hurry, go find her quickly. Haven’t seen each other for half a month, I understand, totally understand.”

“Can you be serious?”

“How am I not serious?” Tang Tang’s ability to play dumb was first-class. “Ye Qizhen, am I as improper as you?”

Thinking of the time Wen Yu’s hickey was exposed, Ye Qizhen was speechless. Yet Tang Tang had bad taste and reminded her about it from time to time.

Chatting and laughing with Tang Tang, not long after, she received a WeChat message from Wen Yu: I’m home.

Arrived home past four in the afternoon. Wen Yu messaged Ye Qizhen immediately. Just back, she couldn’t wait to see her…

Just then, she saw Ye Qizhen send: Student Wen, dinner together tonight?

She smiled suddenly and quickly replied “Okay.”

Arriving home, Wen Qiuxian threw her bags aside, not intending to unpack. Leaning against the sofa, she sighed to herself, “Going out to play isn’t as comfortable as playing cards at home.”

Just saying it; who knows how happy she was traveling and shopping these past few days.

After resting for a while, Wen Qiuxian glanced from the corner of her eye and saw Wen Yu looking down and smiling, obviously chatting with someone.

Been like this these past few days.

After observing for a moment, she picked a cigarette from the box, putting on a casual tone, “Who are you chatting with all day long?”

Wen Yu looked up at the sound.

Wen Qiuxian immediately asked with a sneer, “Found a man?”

Wen Yu denied it lightly and added, “I’m going out later, meeting a friend for dinner tonight.”

“Still denying it, can you fool me?” Wen Qiuxian had been there and had plenty of experience in this area; Wen Yu couldn’t hide it from her no matter how she covered it up. “Rushing out as soon as you get back, with whom?”

She didn’t need to think to know there were plenty of people chasing her daughter. Dating at this age was normal, no need to be surprised. But sensing a situation, she felt vaguely uneasy.

Probably an aftereffect; having been deceived emotionally by too many men, she always worried her daughter would follow her path.

“Ye Qizhen, you’ve met her.” Wen Yu threw out a clever answer.

Intuition wrong?

Wen Qiuxian was half-believing. “You’re not dating?”

Wen Yu was silent and didn’t answer.

Wen Qiuxian didn’t quite believe it, but couldn’t get anything out of her. She lit the cigarette in her hand, took a puff, and looked at Wen Yu standing nearby. She was silent for a while, wondering which boy got lucky.

“I can’t control if you want to date. Keep your eyes open regarding men. Don’t be completely devoted just because of a few sweet words, and don’t get pregnant before marriage.” Wen Qiuxian exhaled a stream of smoke as she spoke. She didn’t know how to educate people; if she did, the mother-daughter relationship wouldn’t be like this. She only spoke crudely, but it was all from her own experience.

Wen Qiuxian had let her do whatever she wanted since childhood, but regarding dating, Wen Qiuxian had asked several times. Wen Yu could guess the reason and wasn’t impatient. “I know, don’t worry.”

“Good that you know.” Wen Qiuxian said no more, lowering her head to smoke. Her daughter was much better than her; except for facial features, nothing else resembled her.

Not resembling her was a good thing.

Only ten minutes later, Wen Yu received another WeChat message from Ye Qizhen saying she was downstairs.

The cold wind was biting. Ye Qizhen put her hands in her pockets, shrinking her body. Although wearing a thick down jacket, she still shivered several times.

As soon as Wen Yu went downstairs, she saw Ye Qizhen’s slightly clumsy figure, wrapped up like a zongzi (sticky rice dumpling).

Ye Qizhen smiled broadly.

Wen Yu approached. Seeing Ye Qizhen empty-handed, she deliberately asked, “Where’s the New Year gift?”

Ye Qizhen paused. Dragged out by Tang Tang in the afternoon, she didn’t have time to get it. So she cleverly pulled Wen Yu’s hands around herself, actively offering herself for Wen Yu to hug. “Like it?”

Wen Yu laughed, knowing Ye Qizhen would come to find her today, just didn’t expect it to be so soon. She stared at Ye Qizhen’s flushed cheeks and nose tip. “Couldn’t wait to see me?”

Hearing Wen Yu’s smug tone, Ye Qizhen pretended to be relaxed: “I just happened to be out.”

Wen Yu: “Is that so?”

Ye Qizhen: “Yes.”

Wen Yu went along with her words: “Mn, if you say so.”

Ye Qizhen pouted. Every time Wen Yu used this accommodating tone, it made her lose face.

Wen Qiuxian stood by the window looking downstairs. Seeing Wen Yu walking out with a girl—not someone else, but really that little girl who accompanied her to the hospital before…

Night fell bit by bit.

Ye Qizhen asked Wen Yu if there was anything she wanted to eat. Wen Yu thought for a moment and said she wanted to eat wontons next to No. 1 High School.

So they took a taxi directly there.

Fortunately, the snack shop opened on the seventh day of the New Year, so they didn’t make a wasted trip. Drinking a mouthful of warm wonton soup after being blown by the winter wind had a flavor not tasted in summer.

Wen Yu was probably thoroughly influenced by Ye Qizhen, eating mouthful after mouthful with exceptional relish.

Ye Qizhen wiped Wen Yu’s mouth, pursing her lips in a smile, not knowing what she was smiling about.

Walking out of the snack shop, it was completely dark.

Ye Qizhen pulled Wen Yu’s hand into her pocket, fingers interlaced, wandering aimlessly on the old street.

Just being together made them relaxed and comfortable, not even needing to say much.

Fine snow began to drift in the sky.

Ye Qizhen turned her head excitedly to look at Wen Yu, only to find Wen Yu looking at her. In a trance, she had a strong feeling that romance was nothing more than this. “Snowing again.”

Wen Yu caught a snowflake in her palm too. “Mn.”

The streetlights emitted warm yellow light, paving the old alley. Ye Qizhen saw snowflakes falling silently on the tips of Wen Yu’s hair, appearing cold yet warm. Watching entranced, she secretly hooked Wen Yu’s finger in her pocket. “Wen Yu.”

Wen Yu’s gaze was gentle.

“Can you…” Ye Qizhen said slowly, “fulfill a New Year wish for me?”

Mysterious.

Wen Yu didn’t hesitate. “Yes.”

Ye Qizhen: “You didn’t even ask what wish?”

Wen Yu indulged her, asking, “What New Year wish?”

Ye Qizhen leaned close to Wen Yu’s ear, whispering quietly, then looked into Wen Yu’s eyes with full expectation. “Okay?”

Wen Yu smiled, kissing her on the lips. “Okay.”