As living on campus saves the time of travelling back and forth, most students take a nap during the lunch break at noon so that they can have enough energy to study in the afternoon and evening.
Ji Mingxia and the others would have had one too, but the entrance exams were coming up. The senior students had basically given up their nap time and were working hard to get good grades. And if they couldn’t resist taking a nap, they would just lie down in the classroom.
Ji Mingxia was thinking that it would be too conspicuous if he came back at night to get his card, so he sneaked back during the break to ask the house manager for it while everyone was in the classroom at noon.
It never occurred to him that Yu Ning, who should have been in the classroom, also came back at this time, and coincidentally came when he was asking the managing auntie for his card.
He didn’t even believe it was a coincidence!
If he had known, he wouldn’t have come back to get his campus card. He would just have given it up and gotten a new one.
Unfortunately, there were no ifs. Yu Ning was now in front of him, and it was too late for Ji Mingxia to think about anything else.
The air seemed to solidify in this moment.
The auntie vaguely sensed that something was wrong and immediately slipped inside with the fruit in her hand, leaving Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning, one standing at the window and the other at the door, staring at each other.
Ji Mingxia stiffened for a moment before quickly coming back to his senses.
The managing auntie’s move had inspired him.
If he ran fast enough, embarrassment would not catch up with him.
He would follow his roommates back in the evening. That way, there would be a group of people in the dormitory, and given Yu Ning’s character, he definitely wouldn’t come to him in front of everyone.
He’d stick to his roommates for the next few days. After the college entrance exams, he and Yu Ning would be separated from each other from then on. Whether it was the plot or the ghosts, they would have nothing to do with each other in the short term.
The next time he would see Yu Ning would be two years later.
By then, everyone would have their own business to attend to, so who would remember such trivial matters?
The more Ji Mingxia thought about it, the more he thought it would work. He nodded and smiled at Yu Ning as naturally as possible, then passed by him as if nothing had happened, intending to brush past him and leave the dormitory building.
Just as Ji Mingxia was about to step outside, a campus card appeared in front of his eyes.
Yu Ning handed the campus card to Ji Mingxia and said, in a low voice, “Thank you.”
Ji Mingxia: “.…”
‘This is not in line with your style, Yu Ning! You shouldn’t open your mouth easily. Your first words should be to Pei Yuan after going to university!’
But he had to say, Yu Ning’s voice is very pleasant.
In all the time that Ji Mingxia had been here, he had never heard the other party speak.
Yu Ning was standing so close to Ji Mingxia at this moment, and the exchange was so close that it was as if he was whispering into his ear.
Although Yu Ning’s voice was not very loud, it had a good tone and the pronunciation was clear. It is said that a handsome man has a male duck voice and a fat man has a divine voice, but Yu Ning’s voice fit him perfectly. It was cold and clear. One could imagine what he looked like just by hearing it.
Although Ji Mingxia was so embarrassed that he wanted to burrow into the ground, he could only pretend to be calm. He calmly extended his hand and accepted the campus card: “It’s a small thing; you’re welcome.”
After Ji Mingxia finished, he couldn’t help but admonish, “Don’t take it to heart.”
‘Don’t add drama to me!’
Ji Mingxia’s mind was worrying about added drama, and he didn’t notice that Yu Ning, who was looking at him with downcast eyes, lit up all of a sudden after hearing his words.
Ji Mingxia had admitted it!
Ji Mingxia had secretly given the managing auntie the campus card and instructed her to give it to him!
Then, according to what Zhao Zhuoye and Chen Zhen said, Ji Mingxia had clearly taken a shower when he went downstairs to boil water.
So …… that bucket of water was also boiled for him, only for Zhu Ming to intercept it halfway?
Yu Ning looked at Ji Mingxia, his eyes shining brightly.
If all of the above were valid, then could he assume that during the time in the classroom, Ji Mingxia had fallen in order to chase away the ghost?
When he was in the dormitory, Ji Mingxia had also deliberately broken the cups and glasses in order to save him?
Because of his special upbringing, Yu Ning had seen all kinds of people over the years.
There were those who feared him, those who loathed him, and those who despised him.
He had also been teased many times without exception. At first, they all pretended to approach him with the intention of being friends with him.
After gaining his trust, they would start deliberately teasing him and watching him make a fool of himself. They would take pleasure in tormenting him and then show off to others that they had tamed Yu Ning, the monster.
However, this is his first encounter with someone like Ji Mingxia. He was clearly helping him but never said anything and did things secretly.
If he hadn’t been keen and actively tried to find out, wouldn’t Ji Mingxia have just kept quiet and never let him know. Would he have gone on unaware that there was someone willing to help him?
Yu Ning felt some faint embarrassment when he recalled how suspicious he’d been towards Ji Mingxia, but that feeling was soon overshadowed by joy.
This was the first time that Yu Ning felt such explicit goodwill from someone else.
Yu Ning perfectly understood why Ji Mingxia was unwilling to express himself directly and instead helped him in various roundabout ways.
Everyone disliked and feared him. He didn’t know what their classmates would say if they found out that Ji Mingxia was willing to help him and even lent him his campus card.
Yu Ning had grown up in such an environment, so it didn’t matter.
But Ji Mingxia was different. He had a good relationship with everyone and had recently improved his academic performance. It was normal that he wouldn’t get close to him.
So when he saw Ji Mingxia walking toward the school dormitory during the afternoon break, he followed him after making sure there was no one else around.
Unexpectedly, he overheard Ji Mingxia’s conversation with the auntie, which confirmed the truth of everything.
Yu Ning pursed his lips nervously and looked at Ji Mingxia with some apprehension. “Aren’t you afraid of me?”
Ji Mingxia heard this, and he turned his head in surprise. Yu Ning was staring at him seriously, and Ji Mingxia’s heart involuntarily jumped. He quickly had a premonition that something was wrong!
This line was so familiar!
Wasn’t this the first question Yu Ning asked Pei Yuan?
What did Pei Yuan answer at that time?
I’m so disappointed! Wtf is he even thinking that he can just be friends with him two years later after trampling his trust??? He’s so mid why is he even the MC wtf
I am really disappointed. After breaking his trust so badly can mc even expect ml to trust that Pei guy. Just because you want to stay away from him doesn’t give a right to break others. Even though You Ning was so badly hurt in past. He still tried to trust ml because of some meager kindness.
never understood ppl who faced with someone’s sincerity chooses to trample it down into a mud. he could’ve answered in million different ways so that YY wouldn’t get wrong ideas but chose the most hurtful way…
Ji Mingxia’s prolly a stoplight
our family’s ji mingxia, please be a little cooler…..😭 im gonna perish from second hand embarrassment omg
Ji Mingxia out here sending mixed signals