Is Ji Yuning a person who speaks softly?
Please hide the hostility in your eyes before you put on a show.
Fang Bai ignored him, a smile playing on his lips as he asked, "You guessed it was me?"
Ji Yuning: "Mm."
Fang Bai crossed his arms. "So, have you guessed why I came?"
Ji Yuning remained silent.
Fang Bai asked, "What did you have for lunch?"
Ji Yuning didn't know why Fang Bai would ask this question, but she still answered truthfully, "Steamed bun."
really.
Fang Bai looked at Ji Yuning, whose face was pale, but much better than last night. The dry skin on her lips was gone, probably because she had drunk more water, but her lips were still a little pale.
Fang Bai subconsciously raised his hand and touched Ji Yuning's forehead.
Fang Bai moved too fast; before Ji Yuning could back away and dodge, Fang Bai's hand had already covered her forehead.
The intense heat traveled through her palms to Ji Yuning's skin, the temperature of her palms even higher than that of her forehead.
Fang Bai withdrew his hand and diagnosed, "The fever has subsided."
Ji Yuning: "..."
She thought Fang Bai was going to slap her.
Knowing that Ji Yuning was alright, Fang Bai remembered her purpose for today.
Fang Bai looked at Ji Yuning and said, "I came here for one thing."
As they spoke, Fang Bai took out a rolled-up bundle of money from his bag. "Since you didn't want the money Sister Wu offered it to you, I had no choice but to come and give it to you myself."
Ji Yuning glanced at it, not understanding why Fang Bai did this.
At the beginning of each month, Fang Bai would have Wu Mei give Ji Yuning six hundred yuan as her living expenses for the month.
And now, there's still a week until the end of the month.
“I remember Miss Fang saying that, except for the beginning of the month, she wouldn’t give me any money even if I gave it to a dog.” Ji Yuning’s voice was clear and cold, her eyes completely calm.
"Really?" Fang Bai didn't want to recall when the original owner had said those words, and casually laughed, "I've said those kinds of things too many times, I've forgotten."
Ji Yuning glanced at her.
“Starting this week, I will give it to you every week. You are a student, so I won’t give you too much, only five hundred.”
Fang Bai added, "It's all deducted from the money your mother gave me, not my money. You don't need to feel like there's any trap. You won't spend a single penny."
Feeling that her true feelings had been spoken, Ji Yuning glanced at Fang Bai without making a sound.
Before Ji Yuning could take the money, Fang Bai stuffed it directly into Ji Yuning's school uniform pocket. Just then, Ji Yuning looked down and didn't notice that Ji Yuning was looking at her.
After handing the money to Ji Yuning, Fang Bai took a step back. "But I still hope you can use this money for food. Eating only steamed buns all the time..."
Fang Bai's gaze swept over Ji Yuning from head to toe, pausing for two seconds before he said seriously, "Malnutrition."
Ji Yuning followed Fang Bai's gaze and lowered her head, knowing what Fang Bai was talking about. Her eyes were full of indifference, and she didn't care about Fang Bai's teasing at all.
You don't even care if people say she has small breasts?
Fang Bai remembered that she cared a lot about these things when she was in high school.
Fang Bai suddenly wondered what could make Ji Yuning's expression change.
Before Fang Bai could come up with anything, Ji Yuning interrupted her, "Miss Fang, is there anything else? I have to go to class."
Fang Bai subconsciously shook his head: "I've said everything I wanted to say."
After saying that, Fang Bai looked at Ji Yuning and asked, "Do you have something to say to me?"
Ji Yuning lowered her eyelids. "No."
Fang Bai thought he would receive a thank you...
Although she took care of Ji Yuning not to hear a thank you.
Fang Bai nodded slightly: "Okay, then go to class."
The same commanding tone as always.
Ji Yuning didn't say much and turned to walk towards the classroom.
The sound of reading aloud echoed through the corridor, and Ji Yuning's figure looked so lonely in Fang Bai's eyes.
"Xiao Ning," Fang Bai called out.
The people walking stopped in their tracks.
Ji Yuning turned to the side and didn't see any teachers or classmates. Who was that woman acting for?
Fang Bai stepped forward and handed the bag he had been carrying to Ji Yuning, saying, "I forgot to give you the things."
Ji Yuning lowered her head.
She wasn't unaware that Fang Bai had put things in his pocket; she assumed they belonged to him.
Perhaps it was the sound of "Xiao Ning" that distracted her, because Ji Yuning took the bag without hesitation.
The bag is heavy.
I don't know what's inside.
Fang Bai was pleased with Ji Yuning's gesture of taking the bag and said softly, "Open it when you get back to the dorm tonight."
Just as Ji Yuning entered the classroom carrying the bag, the bell rang to signal the end of get out of class.
Ji Yuning returned to her seat before Li Jun announced the end of get out of class. After Li Jun left, Mu Xuerou turned to Ji Yuning and asked, "Who came?"
Ji Yuning pursed her lips: "Fang Bai."
Mu Xuerou was the only person she could talk to at school, and Ji Yuning had no intention of hiding it.
However, there was no need to hide it. When she and Fang Bai were talking in the corridor, Ji Yuning saw several students come out of the classroom to go to the toilet. Their eyes were fixed on Fang Bai, so she knew that going to the toilet was just an excuse.
Presumably, before Li Jun even finished class, word had already spread that Fang Bai had come to see her on the note.
"Fang Bai?" Although Mu Xuerou didn't know the specifics of what happened between Fang Bai and Ji Yuning, she had heard the rumors and immediately asked with concern, "Are you alright?"
"It's nothing," Ji Yuning said.
"What is she doing here?" Mu Xuerou asked worriedly. She had heard everyone's discussion and was really afraid that Fang Bai had come to the school to expel Ji Yuning.
Ji Yuning looked at her textbook. "Deliver something."
Mu Xuerou asked in surprise, "Give...give something?"
Mu Xuerou pressed further, "What did she give you?"
Ji Yuning didn't speak, but only glanced at the bag on the ground.
The top of the paper bag was glued shut, obscuring the contents. Mu Xuerou bent down and picked it up. The bag had a small daisy printed on it; it wasn't a shopping bag, but rather something she had bought specifically to carry.
"I opened it."
After Mu Xuerou finished speaking, she waited two seconds. Seeing that Ji Yuning was looking down at her book and did not seem to be stopping her, she pretended to tear off the tape on the bag.
Ji Yuning had just finished writing a problem when she noticed Mu Xuerou's actions out of the corner of her eye and reached out to take the bag back into her hand.
Mu Xuerou kept holding the bag, not expecting Ji Yuning to take it from her.
Because Ji Yuning never refuses anything she does, did she say "I opened it" instead of "I can open it"?
She thought... her relationship with Ji Yuning was already very good.
Just then, the bell rang, and Ji Yuning said calmly, "Class is starting."
Mu Xuerou stammered, trying to hide her embarrassment, "Okay, then I'll watch it after class."
Chapter 7
Evening self-study ended at 9:30. Ji Yuning stayed in the classroom a few minutes longer, and after finishing the last problem, she and Mu Xuerou walked to the dormitory building together.
The two did not live in the same dormitory, and said goodbye before they reached Mu Xuerou's dormitory.
However, as Ji Yuning continued walking forward, Mu Xuerou called out to her. Looking into Ji Yuning's calm, expressionless eyes, Mu Xuerou swallowed her words and softly said goodnight.
Ji Yuning nodded in response, then turned around and walked away alone around the corner.
The dormitory is a typical eight-person dormitory, with bunk beds facing each other in pairs.
Ji Yuning's bed is at the far right end.
She returned a little late; there were only two people in the dormitory, the rest had already gone to wash up. When they saw Ji Yuning return, the two of them just glanced at each other and didn't say anything.
After Ji Yuning walked past the two of them, seeing that she went straight to the balcony, the two stopped being silent and started whispering together. Although they were whispering, they didn't lower their voices, as if they were deliberately talking to Ji Yuning.
"What's with her acting so high and mighty? Who does she think she is, giving me that cold look?"
"Ignore her. Don't you know what's going on with her?"
"Indeed, no matter how arrogant she is, she's still someone else's dog. But looking at her like this, maybe she's a good dog, only wagging her tail for her owner..."
"..."
Ignoring the mocking insults around her, Ji Yuning stood in front of the storage cabinet on the balcony, calmly opened it, and then tore off the tape on the bag.
The bag, sealed for an entire afternoon, was suddenly given a chance to breathe. A sweet scent wafted out first, and finally, something the girl had been pondering for a long time was about to emerge.
Ji Yuning calmly opened the bag, wide enough for her to see what was inside.
Two small bags of milk-flavored candy tablets, two bags of fruit-flavored hard candy, and a bottle of... canned yellow peaches.
They're all just toys for coaxing kids.