When we are happy, we are always kind;
When we are kind, we may not be happy.
Cao Aiqing used to be the first type, but now she belongs to the second type.
Behind the seemingly calm situation, she just chose to pretend to be happy.
The subconscious action of lifting her hair that she couldn't change, the evasive look in her eyes when looking at He Tianran, and the deliberate search for topics all showed that she was now in a very unconfident state.
She could pretend to be nonchalant in front of everyone, but facing the boy in this way, her rare inferiority complex became even stronger.
But fortunately, the boy opposite was focused on the food in the cafeteria in front of him, as if he were treating a rare delicacy.
Not paying too much attention to herself made Cao Aiqing relieved, and then for the same reason, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"The food in the cafeteria has become so unpalatable."
He Tianran cleared away the leftovers on the dinner plate and wiped his mouth.
Cao Aiqing put a piece of chicken into his mouth, tasted it carefully, and whispered: "No, it's the same as before, no change."
"Really? Maybe my sense of taste disappeared at a certain moment, but everyone is attracted to their own eyes. Maybe this chicken nugget is too disgusting for me to eat it in full. Maybe it likes people like you who chew slowly. "
Cao Aiqing glared at him and then lowered his eyes, fiddling with the dishes on the dinner plate with his chopsticks.
This simple implication hardly requires too much understanding.
"Do you know everything?"
He Tianran nodded: "I understand."
She curled her lips and said, "The way you comfort people is a bit pretentious."
He shrugged: "There's nothing you can do about it. Liberal arts students are infected with some artistic bacteria. You have to understand and you'll get used to it."
After He Tianran finished speaking, he looked at Cao Aiqing seriously and continued: "Why don't you tell me?"
The girl said silently: "I...I'm afraid you will take revenge."
He Tianran opened his eyes wide: "Are you not afraid that they will continue to bully you, but are you afraid that I will help you to take revenge after I find out?"
"It's better to do less than to do more..."
"This is somewhat inconsistent with the scene when you spoke up for me in the Thai restaurant."
"I won't be friends with them." Cao Aiqing bit her lip.
He Tianran sighed after hearing this. Not being friends with them was the biggest punishment the girl in front of him could think of.
When she sees others in trouble, she can stand up; but when she herself is in trouble, she thinks about how not to cause trouble to others.
Whether it is turning a blind eye or resisting vigorously, it is a way to solve this problem, but...
"If a dog bites you, people will never bite you back. Can I understand that?"
Cao Aiqing thought for a moment, and finally said with a smile: "The words are rough but the reasoning is not rough."
He Tianran said helplessly: "As a friend, how should I help you?"
The girl fell silent, and finally murmured a method:
"Just stay with me...just stay with me..."
"..."
He Tianran thought a lot in that moment. Of course he wanted to agree to prevent Cao Aiqing from being hurt like this again, but this was not the optimal solution to the problem.
Just like a math question, you can only get two points just by writing the formula.
It is impossible for him to be with Cao Aiqing all the time, and according to the girl's temperament, even if she accepts it at first, over time, when various things find her and she can't get away, she will only feel more guilty for what she said now .
Finally he shook his head and refused.
"...Is it...too much trouble for you?"
Cao Aiqing also realized his impulsiveness, but his tone couldn't be controlled and he became disappointed.
He Tianran looked at her and couldn't bear it, and finally asked seriously:
"Do you know that boys you have rejected say that you are hypocritical behind your back?"
Cao Aiqing's eyes suddenly trembled, and her eyes were visibly covered with a moist mist. She had thought that the boy opposite might be affected by the rumors...
In fact, in her heart, her friend's distrust...or He Tianran's distrust was a more serious blow than cutting off her hair.
"You...do you think so too?"
She said this while trembling. It was very warm in the cafeteria, but it felt like she had ice cubes in her mouth.
He Tianran found that this ambiguous question irritated the sensitive Cao Aiqing. He quickly shook his head and said with a smile:
"Me? Of course not! On the contrary, you know that I liked you, but during that time, I was a very silent person and unwilling to express myself, right?"
Cao Aiqing nodded doubtfully and heard the young man continue his self-analysis:
"Don't look at me like that at that time. In fact, my inner activities can be staged in a movie every minute! What I thought about most at that time was to fall in love with someone, which is really great..."
Speaking of this, He Tianran raised his eyebrows specially and added: "I am talking about liking someone here, and I am specifically referring to you."
Cao Aiqing's ears turned red and she asked curiously: "You... why are you talking about this all of a sudden?"
"Because it's beautiful!" He Tianran said with a fearless smile.
"But at that time... I didn't know you liked me..." Cao Aiqing's face was delicate and charming.
"That's wonderful!" He came to a conclusion forcefully, and revealed the past events in his heart one by one:
"I've had a crush on you for two years. Do you know when is the moment I look forward to most every day?"
"……have no idea."
The girl was actually thinking about whether it would be the time to see herself, but she couldn't speak.
"It was when you became the study committee member and you came to collect my homework every day! I always thought that I was only one time away from not turning in my homework. If you could be kind and stay with me in class to write, we could be better. There’s a love story, and I thought of countless opening lines for it.”
He Tianran's mood gradually got worse, and Cao Aiqing was speechless.
"I ask you again, do you remember that once in the second year of high school, I wrote my name in my math homework as 'He Chaoqing' and my Chinese homework as 'He Chu'an'. Later, my senior classmate laughed at me and asked me in class I can change my name overnight, so I might as well just call it 'He Xi Chang', for which the whole class laughs at me."
"Remember……"
"That's my fantasy. If I can marry you in the future, our children's names, both male and female, will be chosen."
"!!!"
Cao Aiqing's face was full of shock and embarrassment. She never expected that such a ridiculous and childish reason was hidden behind this incident.
But somehow, she didn't feel embarrassed or embarrassed, and was even a little...unspeakably happy.
Because the young man's happy look at this moment proved that he really felt that he had done a wonderful thing.
He Tianran himself also made a big blush:
"I didn't want to say it originally. After all, this is considered one of my dark histories. But now I want to tell you that when I liked you, I didn't think you were hypocritical at all. And I also want to thank you."
"Thank me?"
"Yes, thank you."
"Why...why?"
"Think about it, a gloomy abandoned house, living in idleness every day, a meaningless life in the eyes of outsiders. And after falling in love with you, in my boring world, although there is nothing to say about it, Action, but I still have the second-level belief that I want to work hard for you..."
After saying these heart-opening words, He Tianran returned to the conclusion of the question. He raised his chin frankly and said:
"So, you are not hypocritical. To me, you are the collection of all tenderness and throbbing in the world. You are untouchable in my youth, but you are the most unparalleled beauty!"
Cao Aiqing lowered his head, his face was like a ripe apple, and he was completely speechless now.
All the rumors and rumors she had heard before, and all the gloomy sorrow and anger she had heard, seemed to collapse in an instant in front of this sentence.
The girl felt it for the first time,
To be loved so seriously by someone,
What an extremely joyful thing.
