Chapter 68: How About Me? Am I Good?
If you looked carefully, you could notice Xu Si’s fingers pause briefly while playing the mobile game. He made a sound of acknowledgment, turned off his phone screen, and put it in his pocket.
Jiang Qiao smiled shyly at his response.
Yang Shikun asked Jiang Qiao: “Top student Jiang, that guy wasn’t from our school, right? Was he hitting on you?”
“No,” Jiang Qiao replied, then asked: “Hitting on me?”
“Yeah, yeah, hitting on you.”
“No, just someone I met at the bookstore before.”
“Top student Jiang, you’re too innocent. It was clearly someone hitting on you.”
Jiang Qiao paused: “Really?”
“Yes.”
Yang Shikun continued: “But you probably got a lot of people asking for your contact info today, right?”
“Not really.”
Luo Xing got excited hearing this: “Were there any handsome guys? As handsome as that one just now?”
Jiang Qiao thought seriously, then shook her head: “I don’t know.”
She hadn’t really paid attention to their looks.
Xu Si thought about Jiang Qiao being stopped by people asking for her contact info. Would she obediently give them her number?
Luo Xing asked more curiously: “So, Qiao Qiao, did you give it to them?”
Jiang Qiao shook her head: “No, Shen Mo asked them if they didn’t have WeChat themselves.”
Her serious delivery made Luo Xing and Yang Shikun laugh.
“Qiao Qiao, Shen Mo is quite nice to you.”
“I remember Shen Mo looking for you on the first day, haha, who knew you two would get along so well now.”
Xu Si’s expression remained neutral, saying nothing.
Jiang Qiao said seriously: “She’s quite nice.”
Xu Si thought it would probably be hard for her to say anyone wasn’t nice.
“Little bookworm, then who do you think isn’t nice?”
Sure enough, after he asked, Jiang Qiao put on a serious thinking expression.
Xu Si was about to say he was joking when Jiang Qiao spoke: “The previous English teacher wasn’t nice.”
“Why?”
“Because the way they spoke about you and Teacher Fang was disrespectful.”
This caught Xu Si off guard. It was for this reason – he himself didn’t care about it. Even during the discussion about Fang Zixin and Chen Song’s argument, he hadn’t seen her look up, but she had kept all these things in her heart.
Jiang Qiao quickly added: “And that boy from before, he wasn’t nice either.”
Xu Si knew who she meant. He felt strangely favored, his eyes crinkling with a smile: “Then how about me? Am I good or not?”
Their voices weren’t very loud, but to Yang Shikun’s ears, the world seemed wonderful – Si-ge actually asking such a question.
“Good.” Jiang Qiao added: “Very good.”
Xu Si smiled again, his eyes filled with amusement: “Why?”
“That’s just what I think.”
Xu Si found her answer amusing and wanted to tease her: “Maybe what you think isn’t right.”
Jiang Qiao stared at him blankly, remembering how he had deliberately scared her before, and said firmly: “I think I’m quite right.”
Xu Si found her blank expression overwhelmingly cute. She was simply too well-behaved.
Yang Shikun noticed that Si-ge, who was usually cold and indifferent to everyone and rarely smiled even at them, often smiled at top student Jiang. He remembered Xu Si’s nickname for her and couldn’t help asking: “Si-ge, why do you call top student Jiang ‘little bookworm’? She’s not old-fashioned.”
They heard Xu Si say: “You’ll have to ask her that.”
“Top student Jiang, why?”
Before Jiang Qiao could speak, her ears turned red. She saw Xu Si’s teasing gaze: “He said because I urged him to study, so he called me a little bookworm who encourages people to study.”
Yang Shikun had an expression of sudden understanding.
But Luo Xing felt the nickname had a strangely affectionate quality, even the way he said it seemed to have that flavor. But since it was Xu Si, she thought she might be overthinking it.
The sports meet performances proceeded smoothly. When the girl from Class 17 who was performing with the ukulele went on stage, students from Class 17 cheered. She wore a black hoodie, holding her ukulele, her fingers gently plucking the strings. As soon as she started singing, everyone was amazed.
She was singing Chen Li’s “Walking Horse.”
“The rain outside has stopped but the lights inside are still dark…”
Her voice was low, easily stirring emotions.
“…laugh at me for letting you go, go, go, go…”
Hearing this, Jiang Qiao felt an inexplicable sadness.
Luo Xing smiled: “I’ve never heard this song before, it’s really nice, Qiao Qiao.”
Jiang Qiao nodded: “Yes, it’s beautiful.”
The sports meet suddenly felt like a concert. Next up were two boys from No. 6 School performing street dance. Their dance was energetic.
Luo Xing grabbed Jiang Qiao’s arm, extremely excited: “I can’t take it, in one sports meet, this is the eighth time my heart has fluttered.”
Jiang Qiao’s eyes curved with laughter at her words.
Class 17’s skit was also very successful. The audience laughed heartily.
The last performance was from No. 6 School. The young man who went on stage had clean-cut features, with phoenix eyes that seemed to look at everyone lovingly. He held a guitar and wore a white shirt, looking very gentle. Like summer sunshine, very bright.
As soon as he appeared, screams erupted from below.
Xia Chen An showed no stage fright. He lowered his head to strum the guitar, wearing a smile as gentle as the spring breeze.
Luo Xing felt he wasn’t just playing guitar strings, but the strings of her heart.
Xia Chen An sang a love song. His low voice made the love song quite enchanting.
Near the end, he glanced towards Class 17’s direction before leaving the stage.
Luo Xing felt her heart might stop: “Qiao Qiao, this is my ninth heart flutter today. God, he’s so youthful, I’m dying.”
Jiang Qiao laughed at her words.
You Li said to Xia Chen An: “Brother, you’re really not cool, going over to talk to her alone today.”
Xia Chen An didn’t speak.
Usually, he was gentle with everyone. No matter who he talked to, he never showed any nervousness or awkwardness. But today his mind went blank, completely unsure what to say to her.
After a while, he finally spoke: “Today she asked if we’d met before.”
You Li got excited hearing this: “How did you answer?”
“I said what a coincidence to meet again.”
“That’s it? Didn’t you say more? You should’ve asked for her contact info first.”
Xia Chen An seemed disappointed: “My mind went blank. When she said she had to go, I just said okay.”
You Li was frustrated: “I’ve never seen you like this before. How come you couldn’t say anything today?”
Xia Chen An fell silent.
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