Chapter 253
September in Phoenix City, it was the beginning of the school season again.
Phoenix University opening day, the sky is not beautiful, pattering rain, the air is filled with the smell of soil, in such a hot summer, let a person upset and irritable.
Huang Xiling held an umbrella in one hand, dragged the suitcase with one hand, and walked towards the direction of the girls’ dormitory with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Just now in front of the check-in, some seniors said they wanted to send her there, she looked at her small suitcase and refused their good intentions.
Phoenix University campus is very large, from the entrance to the women’s dormitory about twenty minutes to walk.
Halfway, the rain is getting bigger, Huang Xiling decided to go to the front of the rain and wind pavilion to avoid the rain, wait for the rain to stop and then go.
Just walked into the pavilion, there are a few wearing basketball jerseys of boys holding basketballs rushed in the rain, while running and complaining.
“Hey, this ghost weather, only half a game and it’s raining, I haven’t even gotten my arms and legs going yet.”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s raining, it’s just that my body is sticky right now, I have to go back and take a shower, later on, I’ll go to the front of the student union to take a look, I heard that this year’s schoolgirls are all of very high quality, hey, Cheng Nian, are you going to go later on?”
A group of boys poured into the small pavilion, the large location instantly became a small space.
Huang Xiling pulled her own suitcase backward, violently looking toward the direction of those boys, her eyes circled among them, and when she searched for a certain familiar figure, she paused.
Cheng Nian’s cold and clear voice rang out, “Not going.”
Someone said, “Cheng Nian, aren’t you from Fengcheng First Middle School? I heard that several schoolmates from your school got in this year, aren’t you going to take a look?”
Still a cold voice, “No, don’t go, don’t know, not interested.”
Huang Xiling’s fingers gripping the suitcase picked at it, biting her lower lip, the umbrella in her hand was wrinkled beyond recognition by her grip.
The boy in the center was tall, with sharp short hair, sword brows, starry eyes, and rigid facial lines, his voice was as clear and cold as his entire person.
She slightly tilted her head sideways and averted her eyes, not long after, her gaze uncontrollably fell on him again.
Cheng Nian seemed to have sensed that someone was looking at him and looked over absently, his eyes met a pair of clear and bright almond eyes and he froze.
Huang Xiling didn’t expect him to look over, her breath stalled, her heart suddenly beating wildly, her fingers gripping the umbrella whitening, not knowing if she should go forward to say hello.
Cheng Nian walked in front of her when she blinked, lowered his eyes, and said, “What a coincidence.”
Huang Xiling quickly lowered her head, her palms began to sweat, and naively responded, “What a coincidence.”
In fact, there was no coincidence.
One of the reasons she chose this school was because he was here, of course, Feng University is one of the top colleges in the country, and getting in here was also because she herself was good enough.
Huang Xiling knew Cheng Nian a long time ago, their families used to live in the west side of the city, her mother and Cheng Nian’s mother is a bosom friend, when they got married, bought the house also bought in the same neighborhood.
Huang Xiling has known this brother since she was a little girl. He was naughty and mischievous, but he would take her to play in the mud, and would help her to chase away the fat kids who bullied her.
But then Cheng Nian’s father made a fortune, and they moved out of the west side of the city to a nicer, more beautiful neighborhood.
After they moved out, Huang Xiling never saw him again.
Later, I heard her mother occasionally sadly said that Cheng Nian’s mother died due to illness, leaving Cheng Nian a poor child.
Later, Cheng Nian’s father married a new wife, their family and the Cheng family no longer have contact.
Once again, we met at Fengcheng First Middle School.
That day, also like this day, it was raining, but that day’s rain is much bigger than today’s, is a sharp rain, Huang Xiling backpack from the classroom to walk to the school gate, the rain poured, she was soon drenched all over.
Even more unlucky is that when she got on the bus, everyone swarmed, she was hit hard, fell to the ground, her foot was broken, so painful that she couldn’t get up half a day.
That place, was the driver’s blind spot, just as the driver restarted the car, someone ripped her from the ground with a hand, avoiding a blood splattering on the spot.
Huang Xiling recognized this person as Cheng Nian almost the instant she looked up.
This was because he looked a lot like her mother, only with a harder facial profile.
She wanted to recognize him, but after pulling her up, the boy patted the rainwater on his hands and walked away with an umbrella in one hand and a pocket in the other.
Huang Xiling often searched for him on campus later, she knew he was a sophomore in high school, a year ahead of her, and found out that he liked to play ball, but also liked to stand in the corridor and look in a certain direction.
But what she heard more was that he often fought with people outside, went to Internet cafes, and hung out with people who didn’t study.
She knew that he was not like that before, the Cheng Nian she knew had good grades and was a school bully, she didn’t know what had happened to him that there would be such a big transformation, she wanted to go to persuade him, but she had no position at all, what’s more, in his eyes, she was just a stranger now.
However, at some point, Huang Xiling probably remembers that it was before she went to participate in the Olympiad, she suddenly realized that Cheng Nian had become in love with studying, and would even walk with a book in his hand and memorize it.
No matter what, seeing him have such a change, she was happy for him.
Each grade has a dragon and tiger list within fifty, and next to it, the rankings after fifty, every time the results of the exams in the second year of high school came out, Huang Xiling would stand there and look for Cheng Nian’s name.
Every time she saw his grades improve over the previous one, she secretly applauded for him, “Cheng Nian, go for it!”
Knowing that he liked Ji Yu was something Huang Xiling discovered without realizing it, and by that time, she had already been secretly in love with him for two years.
On that day, about a month before Cheng Nian’s college entrance exam, she saw Cheng Nian stop Chi Yu on campus and said to her, “Chi Yu, I’m on the Dragon Tiger List.”
Ji Yu was a very pretty and gentle girl, when they went to the Olympiad training together, they were in the same dormitory, and her sister had taken care of her.
She heard Ms. Chi Yu say, “Then congratulations to you, Cheng Nian.”
Cheng Nian added, “I’m here to thank you.”
When he said this, his deep eyes were all filled with brightly glittering stars and a hint of unknown timidity, exactly the same as the way she looked at him.
She suddenly realized who Cheng Nian’s such a big transformation two years ago was for, it turned out to be for Ji Yu senior sister ah!
How bitter is a crush, she knew.
However, she would rather not know.
Ji Yu is very good, very good, if Cheng Nian can be with her, she lost her heart, but sister Ji Yu already has a senior Ling Yuan who is very good to her, so this crush of Cheng Nian’s is doomed to be fruitless.
Cheng Nian’s college entrance examination results are very good, but compared with the provincial top science student Ji Yu, there is still some distance.
Perhaps he also knows that his crush is not destined to blossom, so even though he scored well enough to qualify for Q University, he chose Feng University.
The last time Huang Xiling saw him was a year ago, when he went back to school to get his acceptance letter.
And she, holding a pile of study materials and he passed by.
At that time, she did not think that she could still see him in the first middle school, and for a while her heartbeat sounded like thunder.
His careless eyes passed over her, perhaps even without seeing who she was, and the person passed by in a gust of wind.
Huang Xiling was left there alone to soldier on.
After greeting Cheng Nian, Huang Xiling retracted her anxious gaze.
Cheng Nian also did not say anything, a few of his golf buddies have a conversation with each other.
As the rain subsided, Huang Xiling opened her umbrella and prepared to leave.
Cheng Nian looked at her suitcase and suddenly asked, “No one will take you to the dormitory?”
Huang Xiling froze for a moment and shook her head, “I can do it myself.”
Cheng Nian took the trolley in her hand, “Let’s go, I’ll send you there.”
He greeted a few other boys and dragged Huang Xiling’s suitcase away.
Huang Xiling had to follow him step by step.
Cheng Nian helped her carry her suitcase up to the dormitory and watched her make her bed before turning to go out.
Huang Xiling called out to him, but when he stopped, she didn’t know what to say, and only said, “Thank you, Senior.”
Cheng Nian softly hmmmed, turned around and walked out, but didn’t take two steps before turning back, “Little bell.”
Little bell was her childhood nickname.
She had absolutely no idea when Cheng Nian recognized her.
After many years, hearing him call out her name again, her head was confused for a moment, her reaction was half a beat slower, and it took a while before she said, “What?”
Cheng Nian swept her a glance and said, “If you have any difficulties in the future, you can come to me.”
His voice was still clear and cold, but, Huang Xiling actually heard a bit of concern in it.
She nodded her head obediently, “Good.”
After he left, Huang Xiling leaned back on her bed, thinking, perhaps, she could quietly take a small step forward.