🍓 CHAPTER 121 🍓
The movie they watched was set in high school all the way to college.
After graduation, the emotional drama eventually came to scene at the end when the male lead and the female lead finally got together.
But along their relationship, the young couple did not take long and started arguing. After the fight the male lead stood in the heavy rain downstairs in the girl’s dormitory waiting for the female lead to come down.
Seeing the male lead in the rain, the female lead ran down then two once again quarreled. The female throws the umbrella on the ground and started hitting the male lead’s chest as the female lead started to cry.
The male lead let the girl hit him, after the two fought they then hugged each other and then followed by the male lead kissing the female lead.
Shi Ning almost choked on the mouthful of milk tea she was drinking.
Aren’t they fighting?
How come they kiss after?
Also they kissed each other fiercely, isn’t this too intense?
She remembered the baby next to her, Lin Suno. This kind of intense and passionate scene should not be seen by the god of learning.
Once this thought came up, Shi Ning put down her milk tea and turned sideways. Using her hand, intending to cover Lim Suno’s eyes.
At the same time, she saw that Lin Suno also turned his head and the next second, his palm blocked her view.
Both of them, who covered each other’s eyes froze.
Shi Ning broke the silence first.
“I think we are still young to look at these.”
Lin Suno agreed.
“That’s what I think too.”
So they each covered their each other’s eyes for a few minutes like that. After a while Shi Ning asked.
“Is the that scene over?”
“My eyes are covered by you, so I can’t see anything….”
A young lady next to them laughed hearing their conversation.
“It’s finished, hahaha why are you two so cute.”
Another girl sitting next to them also commented with her.
“Ah, youngster in love is really pure and cute. Being young is so envious!”
The two children quickly withdrew their hands and took a big sip of milk in sync.
The movie as a whole was still very exciting, there were laughs and tears especially at the end when the second male lead died of illness. It earned a lot of people’s tears.
Shi Ning also cried and as she cried, Lin Suno who was sitting next to her was at loss for words.
He looked around and notice that the girl next to him, had come to the cinema prepared as she had brought a pack of tissue paper.
He hesitated for a moment before he spoke to the girl.
“Hello can I ask for some tissue paper from you?”
The girl was crying too much and didn’t hear him, so Lin Suno called her again.
The other person turned her head and froze for a moment when he saw him, then sniffled as she handed over the tissue.
“Thanks.”
He said.
After girl gave him the tissue, she couldn’t care less about crying again and turned to her companion and said.
“My mother, the boy who just asked me tissue paper is too handsome. The young brother is too good, when his girlfriend cried he asked tissue for her. I’m so envious.”
Lin Suno who asked for the tissue handed it to Shi Ning.
Shi Ning took it to wipe her tears and since she already had a cold her nose now was completely blocked.
She sniffled and her voice sounded like she had cried a lot for a long time.
“If I have known, we wouldn’t be watching this.”
“Why? Do you think it’s not good? I think it’s good ah!”
“But you look so sad.”
“I’m sad because the second male lead is so miserable, obviously he likes the female lead but he couldn’t say it all the time.”
“From high school to university and finally to the time the female lead got married, he could only say it on one sentence—I wish you happy marriage for a hundred years. Wu wu wu wu and then he died.”
Before he died the male lead and the female lead came together to visit him in the ward and this was the heartfelt lines of the second male lead were.
“At the last moment of my life, thank you for coming to see me as a friend. I really want to tell you I like you, I always like you since a long time ago. But even at the end of my life I can’t say this because you are already someone else’s bride.”
On this romance movie, all the sweetness belong to the male lead and the female lead while regret and sadness were given to the second male lead.
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🍓 CHAPTER 122 🍓
At the end the audience cried to death.
The second male lead couldn’t say that he liked the female lead even until he dies. After so many years of protecting her in silence.
He wanted to say the words that he had been holding for a long time but he was afraid to bring trouble to the female lead so in the end he chose to bury the secret with him.
Lin Suno watched the movie quietly.
On the big screen, the male lead and the female stand in front of the tombstone of the second male lead visiting him.
The screen then slowly transition to their high school years—three people walking, the male lead’s blazing and brave love while the second male lead could only look at the back of the female lead.
“Ning Ning do you think the second male lead is pathetic that’s why you are crying?”
Lin Suno asked suddenly.
Shi Ning sniffed.
“It’s not pathetic, it’s just sad. Why do you think he’s holding it in! What’s the use of being good to the female lead if she doesn’t know?”
“If he had said it earlier maybe the person who married her was him and even if it wasn’t him at least he had no regrets before he died ah.”
When Lin Suno heard her words, he was silent for a long time.
“You’re right.”
“But I think he doesn’t like her enough.”
When Shi Ning heard him say that, she remembered the scenes especially how the second male lead protected the female lead.
“How can you say that? The second male lead gave so much for the female lead, he didn’t even dare to say he like her and just died at the end.”
“He is so miserable, and you still want to say that he does not like the female lead enough! That’s too much!”
Lin Suno seriously said.
“If you really like someone a lot, you can’t hide that feelings.”
Just like my fondness for you now, it seems to be so full that it is about to overflow.
He’s the type of person that was slow to warm up with anybody and the only thing he was interested in since he was a kid was learning.
The only friends around him were Nan Xiao, Jin Sihan and Shi Ning.
By the time he reaches puberty, he naturally assumed that the opposite sex he likes was Shi Ning.
But it was strange, when there was only Nan Xiao in your eyes before, I don’t feel jealous or sad. I just wanted you to be happy.
But now..
Obviously she don’t seem to like anyone anymore.
Instead, I would be secretly happy because you said more than one word to me saddened because you looked at other boys more than once.
I want to get close to you but I need to think carefully all because I have a possessive desire for you.
My feelings for you have changed from wanting you to be happy to wanting you to be happy because of me.
This kind of like, if I hide it for a lifetime I will really die.
His fingers then fell at the corner of her eyes.
“Don’t cry, it’s all fake in the movies.”
In the darkness, those hidden emotions and impulses were revealed instantly.
Shi Ning felt his fingers wipe her tears, she inclined her head to look at him and looking at his line of sight at this time she was stunned by the emotions reflected in his eyes.
Such recklessly focused eyes lingered on her face for a few seconds.
He picked up the popcorn and handed it to her.
“Have something sweet.”
Shi Ning took it, put it in her mouth, nip and bite it a few times then hugged the bucket of popcorn before she began to eat furiously.
All those sadness because of the movie was turned into an appetite.
Lin Suno on the other hand just watched her quietly from the side and couldn’t help but smile.
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🍓 CHAPTER 123 🍓
It gets dark early in winter, when they came out of the cinema it was almost six o’clock but it was already dark outside.
But the night was even much livelier, everywhere was decorated with lights from inside to outside.
Large and small Christmas trees were also decorated and were brightly lit up, there was even Santa Claus walking around handling out apples to the children passing by.
“It’s Christmas Eve tonight.”
Shi Ning said, she then pointed Santa Claus who was handing apples.
“Suno, I want to go over there and take a picture with him. You can help me take a picture.”
“En.”
Lin Suno took the phone she handed to him.
Shi Ning and grandpa Santa Claus pose for a photo in front of the giant Christmas tree piled with gift boxes.
“Thank you, Merry Christmas.”
After the picture was taken, Shi Ning said to the Santa Claus.
Santa Claus nodded at her and handed her an apple, which Shi Ning received with a smile and a few more thanks you to the grandpa Santa Claus.
Shi Ning took the apple, and walked out of the mall with Lin Suno.
The wind was particularly strong at night, making Shi Ning sneeze several times after they went out.
“Are you cold?”
Shi Ning sniffed as she answered.
“It’s okay, it’s just that I had a cold.”
“You still have a cold.”
This was the same exact tone of speech as her brother that made Shi Ning want to hit someone after hearing it.
“I made an appointment with you! Do you want me to stand you up!”
“Don’t do that in the future, your health is more important.”
He said this while removing the scarf from his neck.
Shi Ning smiled.
“You already have this around you, I haven’t started wearing one yet.”
Lin Suno sighed.
“I met with my mother before I went out. She said it would be snowing today so she forces me to wear one.”
Then he wrapped this thick scarf around her neck in circle.
This scarf should be knitted by Lin Suno’s mother for him.
Since it was too big for Shi Ning, her face was so small circled down by the scarf only revealing the pair of black grape watery eyes that looks particularly lovely.
Seeing this Lin Suno felt something was missing.
It just so happened that someone next to him was selling Christmas hat, so he bought one and put it on her.
After all of this was done, he looked at Shi Ning who was almost wrapped like a dumpling by him, and with a satisfied smile he said.
“There you go.”
Seeing him smiled, something wavered inside Shi Ning.
“Suno, you really should smile more often.”
You look so good smiling.
“Should I?”
He answered but Lin Suno’s attention was on her head, he reached out and smoothed her Christmas hat into what he thought looked best.
“Wow!!! Suno look!!!”
Shi Ning suddenly pointed ahead excitedly.
“Aunite didn’t lie to you eh, it’s really snowing!”
“En it’s snowing.”
Snowflakes slowly falls one after another.
On this Christmas Eve, the city received its first snowfall.
“Suno, Merry Christmas.”
Shi Ning held in with both hands the apple that Grandpa Santa had just given to her and gave it to him.
Lin Suno took it, the little girl’s eyes were full of sincerity, as those a pile of wool revealed pair of grape like eyes.
It’s too cute to resist.
And couldn’t help himself to reach out and touched her head.
“Thank you little red riding hood.”
“Merry Chirstmas and may all these years be safe.”
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🍓 CHAPTER 124 🍓
The result of being too willful was that her cold didn’t get better until she went to school.
Everyone was having a happy Christmas while she was sitting in her seat coughing, her nose was also red, and her eyes were extra moist.
Nan Xiao seeing her like this, asked.
“What’s wrong with you?”
“The day I was locked up, I got a cold.”
“Two days of rest at home and you’re still not well?”
“How can I get over a cold so quickly, and I also have a fever.”
Nan Xiao listened, and reached out his hand towards her forehead but Shi Ning dodged him.
“What are doing?”
“Checking if you still have a fever.”
“I’ll just go home early.”
“That won’t work either, you look very sick. Let’s go I’ll take you to ask for leave of absence with Lao Yang.”
With that he was about to pull her up and drag her to the office, but Shi Ning refused to badge.
The two of them were pulling and tugging resulting to many students in the class looking at them.
Shi Ning felt strange and broke away from his hand.
“I’m not going, you’re the one who’s sick.”
“Also, can we keep some distance, people will misunderstand.”
Nan Xiao had a teasing look in his eyes.
“What misunderstanding?”
Shi Ning did not bother to pay attention to him, this person recently has become more and more unreadable recently.
“It’s okay if you don’t want to go home, it’s so happen that I’m taking you somewhere at noon.”
He whispered, the volume was so low that Shi Ning didn’t hear him.
Nan Xiao said to her again, this time his volume was loud enough for her to hear him.
“You always have your medicine with you right?”
“Yes.”
“Hold on.”
He said as he stood up from his seat, he then personally took Shi Ning’s water glass and went to the water fountain to get a warm water and then returned to his seat.
“I already took my medicine this morning.”
Nan Xiao put his arms on the table and looked at her sideways, his all attention was on her.
“Then drink more water, the doctor said that you should drink more hot water when you are sick.”
Shi Ning could only take a few sips under his direct and unmoving gaze.
And all of these interactions drew whispers from their classmates.
“Eh, do you guys ever feel that there is something different between Nan Xiao and Shi Ning?”
“Yes, just now Nan Xiao poured water for her. I was in the same class with Nan Xiao since junior high, every time someone else poured his water for him.”
“This is the first time that we saw the young master take the initiative to pour water for a girl.”
“Also the look on Nan Xiao’s eyes, tut no one would believe if he say he didn’t like her.”
“Hey it looks like our class is going to have a new pair of CC.”
“Quiet!”
A cold, serious male voice sounded in the classroom.
The originally noisy morning class, whether they were reading or gossiping it all stopped and uniformly turned their heads to see the source of the sound.
It was no other than their own treasure, the god of learning.
“Read and study properly during morning class. What’s the point of making a lot of noise? It’s better to count the number of days left until the final exam.”
Lin Suno copied and pasted the standard phrase of Lao Yang.
“Suno, you’re still in charge of discipline today?”
Jin Sihan said in surprise.
Lin Suno said lightly.
“I’m not on duty today.”
Usually when you’re on duty I don’t see you taking care of these things— so what’s so special about today?
But he did not dare to speak, since as soon as he speaks everyone in the class listens to him as if his words were the class creed.
The sound of gossiping in the classroom was much less and the students started to read in earnest.
When the class ended, Jin Sihan walked over to Shi Ning’s desk and sat in front of her.
“Ningning, today is Christmas!”
Shi Ning was still memorizing some words with her head down as she answered.
“Hmm.”
“Let’s go out for Christmas tonight, I heard there is a very good movie recently. What is it called again..? Oh seems to be called growing up, let’s go and see it.”
He enthusiastically proposed.
“I only go out on weekends, I’m busy with my studies during weekdays besides I’ve already seen the movie you mentioned. It is indeed quite good, you can invite others to accompany you.”
Jin Sihan remembered that for a long time there was nothing in Shi Ning’s eyes but study, he never even heard her say anything about entertainment from her mouth.
But she actually watched such popular film earlier than he did?
“Why are you so fast, who did you watch with?”
Jin Sihan asked in passing.
Shi Ning flipped the book in her hand as she answered.
“Suno ah, after he came back from the competition we both went together.”
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🍓 CHAPTER 125 🍓
Shi Ning flipped the book in her hand as she answered.
“Suno ah, after he came back from the competition we both went together.”
“What! You and Suno? Just the two of you?”
Jin Sihan’s face was shocked and his mouth turned into an O-shape.
Nan Xiao who has been sleeping on the table after the class was now wide awake with a solemn and serious face as he asked again.
“Just you and Lin Suno who both went to see the movie?”
Shi Ning’s thoughts were finally interrupted by these two.
Are they some kind of echo? Can’t a question be asked by one person? Does one person had to repeat it in my left and right ear?
“Yeah, my voice shouldn’t be too small right? You too have heard and yet you still ask me why.”
“When?”
Nan Xiao asked, ignoring Shi Ning’s comment.
“On Christmas Eve.”
“Crap, you two are spending Christmas Eve together! Then why don’t you spend Christmas with me! Ning you’re too biased!!!”
Jin Sihan blew up in accusation.
“The reason I went was because Suno won the finals of the mathematics competition. If you guys also take a national competition let’s go and watch any movie, you can even plan about holiday. I’m all for it.”
After saying that she nudged Jin Sihan.
“Get out of the way, I have to copy something on the blackboard you’re in the way. It’s not so good to be too tall.”
He’s only 15 years old but he was almost one meter eight high, did this boy eat some growth hormone?
Jin Sihan felt that he had been aggrieved like never before on the day of Christmas.
Lin Suno was on his sit still working on the problem when suddenly he felt that this vision was much darker, and the light around him was blocked.
He looked up and it was Nan Xiao and Jin Sihan.
“What are you doing?”
Nan Xiao’s hand was on his shoulder.
“Looking for you to talk.”
Jin Sihan’s hand rested on his other shoulder.
“Let’s have a man to man talk.”
Lin Suno: “…”
His shoulder were about to be crushed by these two douchebags.
They went to the same place where Nan Xiao dragged Jin Sihan to spill his heart. He was afraid that they would fight so he came up to have a talk and was ready to persuade them not to start a fight.
So today was his turn, and with Nan Xiao and Jin Sihan’s posture they look like they were ready to harass him.
The two boys were straightforward, neither of them was fond to beat around the bush, the two stared at Lin Suno with scrutiny eyes.
Nan Xiao spoke first.
“On Christmas Eve, you asked Shi Ning out to watch a movie?”
Lin Suno nodded.
The two men’s face sank at the same time.
Jin Sihan couldn’t help but say.
“Suno you’re not fair, brother Xiao and I had a confrontation here. And we both said we like Ningning but failed to come to an agreement.”
“You seems to have no desire to date, but what is this now? It’s hard to believe you also like Shi Ning!”
He said this with same anger as if he had suffered a betrayal.
Nan Xiao patted Jin Sihan’s shoulder and did not know whether it was to comfort him or himself.
“Calm down, things may not be what we think they are. Who else would this kid know besides a few of us? He probably just suddenly wanted to watch movie so he asked Shi Ning.”
Jin Sihan nodded.
“Brother Xiao you have a point, but for this kind of thing in the future I suggest you look for us.”
Lin Suno looked at the two men for a long time, and a faint smile finally emerged on his expressionless face.
It was light and faint, similar to a mocking smile.
“Why should I look for you two?”
He doesn’t like them.
Nan Xiao’s face went cold.
He asked in a serious face.
“What do you mean?”
“I like girls, I like her.”
After hearing him say this Nan Xiao’s fierce temper rushed to his head and just like how he sized Jin Sihan’s collar, he sized Lin Suno’s.
“Say it again, who do you like?”
This time, he didn’t back down again and looked straight into Nan Xiao’s gaze.
“Shi—Ning, I like Shi—Ning.”
“Shi Ning, I like Shi Ning.”
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TL: AHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!