Ying Yunsheng tilted his head back: "There's one more."
"What?"
I like you.
“Uh…” Ji Li slowly lowered his hand.
“I didn’t actually finish what I said at the garbage dump.” Ying Yunsheng paused. “Although saying it in the hospital wasn’t much better than saying it at the garbage dump.” He paused again. “It was even more ominous.”
He looked into the other person's eyes: "I've wanted to tell you this for a long time, but at first I was afraid, and I'm still afraid now. But I don't want to hide it from you anymore. I'm not telling you because I want to pity you for hearing your inner thoughts, nor am I trying to comfort you by telling you not to always think so little of yourself, nor am I trying to argue whether choosing you is good or bad for me in my lifetime, given that I've only lived for a little over ten years. I just want to tell you, so that you know."
A sudden gust of wind arose, and the shadows of the trees tumbled violently in the gale.
"No matter how you see yourself in your heart, no matter what your life, your destiny, your future will be like in your eyes, whether you are outstanding or ordinary, whether you are open or rugged, whether you reach the summit or look up from the foot of the mountain, whether you live a long life or something else, there will always be someone's eyes on you, because they like you."
"I'm not the only one."
"But that includes me."
Ying Yunsheng looked at him and said, "Ji Li, I like you."
A note from the author:
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
Chapter 36
Chapter 36
10,000 hours
Besides the opening ceremony, the end-of-term mobilization meeting is a morning assembly attended by all students from the first to the third year of high school.
When Ying Yunsheng pushed open the dormitory door, he saw a box of egg tarts hanging on the doorknob, with familiar graffiti on the lid.
Meng Xing, who was following behind him, leaned forward and said, "Ying Yunsheng."
"Um?"
"Tell me honestly, have you been up to something lately?"
"What's going on?"
"Was that thing in your hand a gift from Peach Blossom?"
Ying Yunsheng: "No."
Meng Xing looked incredulous: "Otherwise, did the Snail Fairy deliver it?"
Ying Yunsheng closed the box: "Can the Snail Fairy enter the boys' dormitory?"
Meng Xing watched him leave, then blinked.
Right, if you want to send food, you can just send it to the classroom, so why do you always send it to the dormitory?
Ying Yunsheng walked out of the dormitory building carrying the bag, but suddenly became a little absent-minded.
The Snail Maiden?
Of course not.
But peach blossoms don't seem to count either.
Ying Yunsheng also found it difficult to define what his relationship with Ji Li was at this moment.
The second half of that sudden confession in the hospital was interrupted by a commotion.
Ying Yunsheng instinctively raised his hand to block Ji Li behind him. Then he saw about four or five medical staff surrounding a hospital bed in the middle, shouting "Make way, make way" as they hurriedly passed by the hospital's front yard. They were pushed through the curtain and disappeared from their sight.
Ji Li pulled his hand down: "They're gone."
Ying Yunsheng turned his head.
The atmosphere between the two suddenly shifted from the relaxed atmosphere that Ji Li had deliberately created with jokes to a tense one.
Ying Yunsheng suddenly spoke up: "You said you wanted to wait a little longer, how long were you planning to wait?"
Ji Li was interrupted before he could finish his sentence, blinking slightly: "After the college entrance exam."
Ying Yunsheng: "Then answer me after the college entrance examination."
"Uh..." This development is a bit beyond expectations.
Ji Li looked at him: "Don't you want to hear my answer?"
"Well……"
"Don't you want to date me?"
"Well……"
"I don't want to leave anything behind while I'm still young—hmm."
Ying Yunsheng covered his mouth, but released it as if he had been electrocuted after feeling the sensation under his palm: "Don't say anything."
Ji Li wouldn't listen: "There's still more than a year until the college entrance exam. Aren't you impatient? Don't you feel it's a pity to miss a year? No..."
Ying Yunsheng said with a straight face, "It's not good to fall in love too early."
Ji Li followed him out of the hospital, and after a while, he suddenly turned his head and burst out laughing.
Ying Yunsheng walked out of the hospital in silence. As he walked on the sidewalk, he finally couldn't help but reach out and pull the person behind him back: "Stop laughing."
The smile in Ji Li's eyes hadn't faded: "Why?"
Ying Yunsheng fell silent again.
Ji Li could tell that he was the one who wanted to make a decision after the college entrance examination. Ying Yunsheng's current refusal of his answer was ostensibly a rejection, but in reality, it was a concession to him.
The more you cherish something, the more restraint you will exercise.
He shouldn't have laughed, but he just couldn't help finding the other person's "I really want it, but since you're not ready yet, I can keep holding back" attitude particularly attractive.
It attracts people to flirt with it.
Ji Li was used to being gentle and polite to everyone, and had never been so childish before. Unfortunately, when facing him, all the bad traits in her body seemed to resurface, and she softened her voice with a smile: "Really don't want to have a relationship too early?"
The final syllable is slightly raised, like it has a hook attached.
Ying Yunsheng took a deep breath, then another, and finally suddenly reached out and lifted the other person's hand.
Are your hands cold?
"A little." Ji Li was quite curious about what this blank slate, completely out of touch with the internet, could possibly do. "Do you want to put my hand in your pocket?"
Ying Yunsheng didn't speak, but lowered his head and kissed the back of his hand.
It was light; my lips barely touched my skin, soft and cool, like peach blossoms fallen in March rain.
Ji Li could clearly feel his entire hand starting to burn.
Ying Yunsheng looked up: "Are you still cold?"
"Well……"
"If you're still cold, I'll continue kissing you."
"Uh..." For the rest of the journey, Ji Li didn't speak again.
When you tilt your head, you'll notice that the earlobe of the person who just boldly touched you is now completely red.
She's a complete blank slate.
It is precisely because they are so pure that their words of affection are all the more heart-stirring.
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There were too many people outside the hospital and it was difficult to get a taxi, so the two went to a crossroads a little further away.
The sidewalks are lined with green plants, and when the wind blows occasionally, the leaves fall like a torrential rain, creating a scene that is both bustling and desolate.
Ying Yunsheng gazed at the fallen leaves drifting down from the branches and suddenly said, "Ji Li."
"Um?"
Have you thought about the future?
Ji Li thought for a moment: "Study hard and realize your dreams."
Ying Yun moved her lower lip, about to speak.
Ji Li added: "May you live to be a hundred years old."
Ying Yunsheng's brows relaxed.
"You know my goals, but you haven't told me about them yet," Ji Li asked. "Do you have a preferred school?"
"No."
"What about your major?"
He hesitated for a moment this time: "I haven't decided yet."
Ji Li didn't press further: "What about the city?"
"It's up to you." After laying his mind bare, Ying Yunsheng no longer tried to hide anything and spoke frankly, "I want to be closer to you."
Ji Li didn't speak for a moment, just stared at him, watching his eyelashes tremble: "I'm the one being flirted with, why are you so nervous?"
Ying Yunsheng quickly turned his face away, not daring to look at him again.
Ji Li leaned closer: "So shy, what are you going to do in the future?"
"What do you mean, 'later'?"
"If you hadn't met me, who would you have been able to win over?"
Ji Li's words were actually a joke. Although he had never witnessed Ying Yunsheng's daily study life, he could guess that with Ying Yunsheng's conditions, he would definitely be a hot topic of conversation at school and would have no shortage of suitors.
Ying Yunsheng replied, "I will not like anyone else but you."
Ji Li chuckled: "Where did you learn all this from?"
Where did you learn that? That tone of voice completely treats him like a child.