The canned Coke stood beside the dinner plate, defiantly proclaiming that its ownership now belonged to Jiang Yuan.
Jiang Yuan was stunned. Looking at the Coke, there was a bit of confusion and some bewilderment in her clear and bright eyes.
She turned her head and looked at Chi Xu again. She slightly parted her lips, but the words got stuck in her throat.
The cool autumn sunlight slanted in through the window and quietly landed on the boy's eyebrows. His eyebrows were deep and three - dimensional, as if they were glowing.
Chi Xu hooked the corner of his lips. Under his long eyelashes, his star - like eyes sparkled. He said, "Even if I'm good - looking enough to feast your eyes on, you don't have to stare at me while eating sweets."
Jiang Yuan: "..."
Jiang Yuan glared at him angrily, rolled her eyes, and said crossly, "Narcissist."
The heart - boat that had been swaying in the middle of the lake just now slowly steadied, and the momentary palpitation faded because of his words.
The canned Coke stood in front of her like a mighty soldier, its red color overly eye - catching.
Jiang Yuan placed it in the middle of Jia Fang and He Suyan's seats. "This Coke is for you two. I won't take what others like."
Jia Fang and He Suyan were startled instead. They immediately jumped up and shook their heads desperately, refusing, "We were just joking. We don't want to drink it."
"Yes, yes. You should finish it for us," He Suyan chimed in.
If they really took this drink, they would be the ones taking what others liked.
It was just a can of Coke. How could it be more important than Brother Chi's lifelong happiness?
Jia Fang carefully pushed the Coke back.
"Are you really not going to take it?" Jiang Yuan was skeptical and double - checked. "You're just going to let me have it for free?"
"Good things don't come c..." cheap. Chi Xu was about to say it unconsciously but paused slightly. He smiled silently and then casually changed his words. "Just take it. They don't mind at all."
"If I take it and they mind later, I'll go to your Chi Jiaojiao. He'll take care of it for me," Jiang Yuan said with a smile, looking at Chi Xu. The three words "Chi Jiaojiao" seemed to have been said many times, so they just rolled off her tongue naturally.
Sure enough, Chi Xu's face turned green then black, then blue. It was a riot of colors, as colorful and wonderful as could be.
Before he could say anything, Jiang Yuan grabbed the Coke and pulled Lin Suye away faster than a rabbit.
It was better to save her own skin than to mention Chi Jiaojiao in front of his friends.
"Chi Jiaojiao?" Jia Fang stroked his chin and chuckled, stealing glances at Chi Xu's face while laughing.
The other two didn't hold back at all and burst out laughing.
It was not until those dark eyes stared at them that the three of them reluctantly held back their laughter.
"I knew it. That's why you asked us three to go to the cafeteria with you. So there's Jiang Yuan here," Jiang Kuo suddenly realized. "Don't worry. I'll definitely keep it a secret for you, just like Chi Jiaojiao. I won't let it out."
*
In the afternoon, the class monitor sent a notice in the group that the elective courses were about to start. It was seriously emphasized that a certain number of credits must be earned to get the graduation certificate.
"Handicraft Making, Astronomy and Life, Computer Professional English..." Lin Suye flipped through the available elective courses. "There are both online and offline courses. For the online ones, you can just watch the courses on your phone. You don't have to go to the classroom, and the exams are also taken on the phone. Yuan Yuan, what do you want to choose? Online?"
The teaching teacher was swearing passionately on the podium, demonstrating while typing code. The students below stared intently at the screen projected on their computer desktops and quickly typed along.
Jiang Yuan was also looking at the computer. However, she had taken a photo in advance and was typing slowly, which gave her time to talk to Lin Suye.
Absent - mindedly, she said, "Offline. I remember Chi Xu also has a class on the floor above at this time. I'll go and have a chat with him to find out what elective courses he's choosing. It would be even better if it's an offline course."
All those years of reading campus romance novels were not for nothing.
How many deskmates fell in love over time and finally got together.
It was so annoying. She met Chi Xu in college, and they weren't in the same class. There was no fixed time to meet, so they had so little time to spend together.
The bell rang on time at the end of class. Jiang Yuan packed her books, said hello to Lin Suye, and rushed upstairs in a flash.
The class on the floor above had just finished too, and most of the students were walking towards the stairs.
Jiang Yuan was like a slippery fish, squeezing through the crowd and successfully making her way into Chi Xu's class.
His class had just ended, and not many students had left yet.
Jiang Yuan took a deep breath, checked her appearance on her phone. Okay, it was fine. She carefully stood on the side of the door. Taking advantage of the gaps when the students in his class were leaving, she secretly looked for Chi Xu.
"You guys go later. I still have something to do and need to go back to the dormitory..." The familiar voice drawled, getting closer and closer to the door.
Jiang Yuan stared intently at the door, planning to pretend to be just passing by later.
A corner of a coat showed up. It was the color of the clothes Chi Xu was wearing today.
Jiang Yuan's heart instantly rose to her throat. She was just waiting for him to appear so that she could say hello and claim it was a coincidence.
Then, Chi Xu's tall and straight figure appeared at the door. He had his hands in his pockets, and there was the usual look of nonchalance between his eyebrows.
He had actually seen her a long time ago.
It was hard not to see such a big person. He wasn't blind.
"What a coincidence. Are you here to find someone?" Chi Xu raised his eyebrows and said slowly, stealing Jiang Yuan's line.
Damn it!
Jiang Yuan couldn't help swearing in her heart. He must have noticed me too, and he still came out so slowly.
What was even more annoying was that he stole my line. The annoying Chi Jiaojiao!
"Yes, I... I'm here to find someone, but there are too many people and I can't find them. I'm going back to the dormitory. What about you?" Jiang Yuan stammered, unconsciously tugging at the corner of her clothes.
She felt guilty.
"Let's go back together then. It's on the way anyway," Chi Xu didn't continue to tease Jiang Yuan. He said a few words to his friends and then left the building with her.
The sunlight was gently blinding, shining directly through the gaps in the branches and green leaves. The girl's skin was so white that it glowed. Her slender and graceful neck was exposed. Under the white shirt, her collarbone was faintly visible.
Chi Xu stared at it for a while casually and then slowly shifted his gaze.
Jiang Yuan was struggling with how to start the topic and lead it to the elective courses smoothly without letting Chi Xu see her ulterior motives.
So she didn't notice the boy's hot and somewhat burning gaze.
She felt a piece of candy in her pocket, a White Rabbit milk candy, which she always liked.
An idea suddenly popped into her head.
Jiang Yuan opened her hand. The White Rabbit milk candy lay in her palm, bathed in the sunlight. She curved her beautiful eyes and gave him a gentle smile. The sunlight shone on her porcelain - like skin, and her smile made people dazed.
"Do you want this candy?" Jiang Yuan asked.
Chi Xu glanced at the White Rabbit milk candy, unconsciously licked his lips, but said arrogantly, "No. This is too childish. You still eat this kind of candy after all these years."
Jiang Yuan glared at him angrily, tore open the candy wrapper, and popped it into her mouth.
Chi Xu was slightly stunned and stopped walking.
Hey, wait. Yuan Yuan, why did you just eat it? Didn't you want to ask one more time to make sure?