"We're family. There's no need to say thank you! Right?"
Fan Lili's words were loaded with meaning. Ji Siyue blushed again, but this time the smile on her face truly radiated happiness.
After dinner, Qin Chengyao walked Ji Siyue back to her room.
"Thank your mom today!"
Ji Siyue had just looked up when Qin Chengyao wrapped his arms around her waist and planted a gentle kiss on her lips.
"She'll be your mom in the future too. Do you want to try changing your address now?"
Ji Siyue suddenly covered her mouth, frowned and glared at him. "Can you stop kissing me all the time!"
Several times a day... They'd only been together for a short while! It seemed like he couldn't get enough of kissing her!
Qin Chengyao held Ji Siyue in one arm and skillfully opened the door by touch. He pushed Ji Siyue inside and pinned her against the wall.
"I can't get enough! You gave me your first kiss in high school. I missed out on two years. Don't you have to make up for those two years?"
Ji Siyue couldn't help but laugh.
"Your way of putting it sounds a bit perverted! Can a single kiss make you think about it for two years?"
"Yeah, it can."
"By the way, what exactly happened back then?" Ji Siyue suddenly became very curious. She still couldn't remember the circumstances of their first kiss.
"Do you really want to know?"
"Yeah..."
Qin Chengyao smiled, and his thoughts involuntarily drifted back to that hot afternoon in senior year of high school.
The setting sun hung lazily in the sky. The windows of the classroom were all open, and the curtains fluttered in the wind. There were only two people standing in the empty classroom.
One was Ji Siyue, and the other was the nervous Qin Chengyao.
Ji Siyue was packing up her things and asked, "Qin Chengyao, what's wrong with you? You look so strange."
"I..." Qin Chengyao took a deep breath and finally summoned the courage to say, "I have something to tell you, Siyue."
"Go ahead. I'm listening."
Qin Chengyao walked up to Ji Siyue, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her in front of the blackboard. He picked up a pink chalk and wrote a few words on the blackboard.
"Ji Siyue, I like you."
Ji Siyue stupidly repeated the words on the blackboard. After reacting, she couldn't help but feel a bit flustered.
"What... what do you mean?"
"Ji Siyue, I like you." Qin Chengyao pointed to the words on the blackboard and said it himself.
Ji Siyue panicked and took two steps back.
"What do you mean by saying this all of a sudden!"
What was even more flustering was why her heart was beating so fast right now? Could it be that his words were poisonous...
Seeing Ji Siyue's reaction, the expectant light in Qin Chengyao's eyes gradually faded and then turned into almost despair.
"I... I said I like you. I want to be with you. Siyue, do you like me?"
"I don't know!"
At eighteen, Ji Siyue was just starting to have feelings. She didn't know what love was at all.
All she knew was that this guy who had been playing with her every day for two years suddenly said he liked her. She was a bit confused.
"... I understand. You don't like me!"
"No! I don't hate you!"
"But you didn't agree. I'll never say such things again. Siyue, forget about me!"
Qin Chengyao didn't know why, but he just burst into tears and looked extremely helpless.
Ji Siyue panicked too. She remembered that in the class, when one of the young couples got angry, the other would pull them aside and kiss them, and then they would stop crying.
So, she stepped forward, grabbed Qin Chengyao's arm, and pulled him to another corner of the classroom. She stood on tiptoe and planted a gentle kiss on his face.
Qin Chengyao was stunned.
Ji Siyue thought - maybe it didn't work?
So, she got even closer and kissed his lips.
...
"Oh my god! I was so bold!"
Ji Siyue stared at him in disbelief. She couldn't believe that she, at eighteen, could do such things.
"Yeah, you kissed me forcefully back then, so you have to be responsible for me." Qin Chengyao said seriously.
Ji Siyue laughed. "I seemed like a fool back then! Maybe I didn't even know what I was doing!"
"Maybe you didn't like me at all back then. You just subconsciously didn't want to let me go."
When talking about the past, Qin Chengyao seemed to open the floodgates. He told Ji Siyue some of her past little things, including the time she was punished to stand outside the classroom for buying milk one afternoon and played rock - paper - scissors with him there.
Or the time she tried to copy his homework and fought wits with him. After all, Qin Chengyao was a top student back then, and he was naturally very strict with Ji Siyue.
The two nestled on the sofa, tightly snuggled together.
Ji Siyue listened with a mix of laughter and tears, feeling quite emotional.
She hugged Qin Chengyao. "Senior, I'm really happy."
"Happy about what?"
"Thank you for not giving up on me."
Qin Chengyao always said that Ji Siyue saved him, but wasn't it also true that he saved her?
Two years later, she was self - abased, introverted, and afraid of strangers. Under Qin Chengyao's influence, she gradually became more outgoing.
Including what she had been through recently, if it weren't for Qin Chengyao being by her side, she couldn't even imagine how she would have gotten through it!
"I should thank you for being willing to like me again."
Ji Siyue slowly fell into a deep sleep in Qin Chengyao's soft whispers.
Qin Chengyao carried her in his arms and walked upstairs step by step. He tucked her into the quilt and finally planted a gentle kiss on her forehead.
"Have a good dream tonight."
Ji Siyue groaned in her dream. Qin Chengyao smiled softly and left.
When he got back to his room, Fan Lili was already asleep in his bed. There was also a note on the table.
[Either go to Siyue or sleep on the floor. I'll use your bed for one night. Mom is really tired.]
Qin Chengyao looked at the childish handwriting that didn't match her age at all, smiled, put the note back, went downstairs, turned on the computer, and logged into the game.
In the QQ group, the guys in the dormitory were still awake and online.
[Golden Yuanbao]: Guys, since you're still awake, help me think. Have we seen this girl before? I always feel like she looks familiar.
[Princess Yaoyao]: No way? Do you really have a past with her?
[Golden Yuanbao]: Get out of here!
[Bai Yu]: I also feel like she's familiar. Could it be that we've met her before?
[Princess Yaoyao]: Among us, there are so many strange people who come up to us to join the dungeon. There are quite a few like her, but she's the most annoying!
[Golden Yuanbao]: Wait! The dungeon! Could it be that we played a dungeon with her?
[Bai Yu]: It's possible. I'll go check the previous dungeon records.
[Princess Yaoyao]: We can only see the dungeon records from the past three months now. I think...