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Chapter 91: ters and Deliberations
TL: Etude
Just past one iernoon, everyone from Room 208 had already left, leaving behind a cluttered desk strewn with tangled wires and a pile of stripped sockets.
Jiang Qin was holding Feng Nanshu’s delicate and adorable pale jade feet, helping her put on her socks. He pyfully tickled the sole of her foot, provoking the little rich dy tle involuntarily, almost kig him in the face.
“Don’t randomly reward a gentleman,” Jiang Qin said with feigned anger.
“?,” came the puzzled response.
After putting on her shoes, Jiang Qi her bad then took his luggage to Lin train station.
It was the National Day holiday period, and the train station was swarming with people, enough to give anyone a headache. Though not as extreme as the Spriival travel rush, the level of crowding was nearly parable.
Guo Zihang arrived ter, appearing a bit plumper. His already round faow cked any disible tours.
“The auh the baby voice must really pamper you, fattening you up like this?” Jiang Qin said with a toothy grin.
Guo Zihang’s breath hitched: “Don’t… don’t mention it.”
“What happened? Did her husband find out?” Jiang Qin’s heart skipped a beat, w if Guo Zihang’s swollen face was due to beien.
“No, I added her on QQ and chatted for a couple of days. I felt our social circles were too different, with little on ground. I didn’t uand what she talked about, and she was clueless about the busiopics she discussed. We soon lost tact.”
Guo Zihang looked disheartened, apparently having his first brush with romance quickly dashed by reality.
Jiang Qin patted his shoulder reassuringly: “Don’t worry, there’s all kinds of weirdos in this world, and I definitely don’t discriminate against you.”
“Jiang, I think I just felt a void after suddenly leaving home, looking for some sense of security.”
“Enough, o justify your quirks. Let’s get orain.”
Jiang Qin pushed Guo Zihang onto the train, making their way through the crowded aisle to their seats. In front of them, a man carrying a white snake-skin bag, bulging and blog Jiang Qin’s view, finally sat down.
Only then did Jiang Qin realize he had reached seat 41 and awkwardly took his pce.
As he sat down, his gaze froze, and he involuntarily furrowed his brow.
“Jiang Qin, long time no see.”
Wang Huiru greeted him, while Chu Siqi sat beside her, her face a mix of emotions.
“Long time no see.”
After responding, Jiang Qin turo Guo Zihang, only to find him equally surprised, clearly not expeg the two women to be there.
“Let’s go, o use the restroom.”
“Huh? I don’t o,” Guo Zihang replied, fused.
Jiang Qin didn’t care, pulling him towards the front of the train: “Even if you don’t, yoing to try.”
They reached the eg area of the carriage, leaning in the smokiion, staring at each other.
“You told them?”
Guo Zihang coughed: “Wang Huiru asked me which train I was taking the day before yesterday. I didn’t think much of it and told her.”
“Damn, you ’t specify which carriage for train tickets, right? How could we end up together?” Jiang Qin thought, w if he had ed to sult the almanac before leaving home.
“Actually, it’s normal. People heading to simir destinations are usually arranged in the same carriage. You don’t like Chu Siqi, and she doesn’t bite. Just treat her like a stranger.”
“…”
After p, Jiang Qin realized Guo Zihang was right. He was indifferent towards Chu Siqi, so there was o avoid her like a mouse evading a cat, letting others think she had deeply hurt him. How embarrassing that would be.
Thus, they returo their seats, sitting in silenot uttering a word until the train started moving, the sery outside rapidly passing by.
Jiang Qin’s suspi wasn’t unfounded, as Chu Siqi had indeed deliberately engihis enter.
Having been blocked on her mobile and QQ by Jiang Qin, and even Wang Huiru’s number was bcklisted, creating this ter through Guo Zihang seemed the only way to see Jiang Qin again.
Of course, she hadn’t anticipated this enter would be so thh, with fate pg them face to face.
Chu Siqi was thrilled because she really wao see Jiang Qin and talk to him.
She wao say, “I won’t test you anymore. I accept your fession. we fet the unpleasantness of this period and start anew, from a fresh retionship? I may be a bit willful, but I just be willful with you from now on? As long as you don’t like Hong Yan and prevent her from gloating in front of me, I definitely be yirlfriend. I didn’t appreciate yoodness before, thinking it was a given. But when someone else wanted you, I realized how great you are. Being with you is not a loss for me.”
But seeing Jiang Qin’s vat eyes and his expressionless face, Chu Siqi swallowed her words.
She couldn’t uand why she became timid in front of Jiang Qin.
She, who used to lose her temper easily, had bee cautious in front of someone who let her be temperamental.
“Are you all uy students? I’m from the Uy of Sd Teology. What about you?”
The traiing was generally three on the right and two on the left. Jiang Qin was by the window, Guo Zihang in the middle, and a young man sat on the aisle seat, seemingly another uy student from Lin.
He had been staring at Chu Siqi since b and, twenty minutes into the journey, finally couldn’t resist striking up a versation.
“Lin Uy.”
“Uy of Sd Teology.”
“Lin Uy.”
“…”
The group responded listlessly, but it didn’t deter the enthusiastic student: “I’m Sun Yanbin. And you?”
“Guo Zihang, we’re sates.”
“And the two dies?”
Wang Huiru just smiled without speaking, while Chu Siqi ignored him, her gaze fixed on Jiang Qin, who preteo be asleep. Her lips were pale and bloodless from biting them.
Just then, the train jolted slightly, and Chu Siqi’s phone slid out of her hand. The jolt was minor, and her grip on the phone was firm, but somehow it precisely fell near Jiang Qin’s feet.
Jiang Qin ged his position, tinuing his feigned blindness, but then he heard a voice.
“My phone fell. you pick it up for me?”
“…”
Chu Siqi and Hong Yan’s ongoing battle had indeed caused her to grow a lot. She was now using such deliberate tactics. However, the well-meaning Sun Yanbin, too eager to help, swiftly picked up the phone, his as brisk and decisive.
‘Thank you. That’s very kind of you.’ Jiang Qin silently thanked him in his mind and shifted his position again.
“Here’s your phone, miss.”
Chu Siqi, speechless, replied, “Thank you.”
“No problem. How about we add each other on QQ?” Sun Yanbin took out his phone.
Chu Siqi, frustrated, responded, “I don’t use QQ. I use Fetion.”
The good-natured Sun Yanbin ughed awkwardly but quickly ged the subject: “Are you all together?”
As he spoke, everyouro Jiang Qin, expeg him to say something. He simply shook his head: “I don’t know them. It’s a ce.”
“Oh, I see. Let’s create a group for those of us who travel home together. It’s more ve and safer to have pany on the road.”
Sun Yanbin was quite adept; he knew Chu Siqi was deliberately avoiding him, so he proposed this idea. It was a on practice for uy students traveling home to band together, a legitimate reason.
To disguise his real iion, he added Guo Zihang first, appearing very proper.
Uedly, wheried to add Jiang Qin, he was once agaied.
“I don’t use QQ.”
“Do you use Fetion too? Is it that popur now?” Sun Yanbin was slightly taken aback.
Jiang Qin half-opened his eyes: “I use carrier pigeons.”
At that moment, Wang Huiru’s phone vibrated. She ope to find a message from Chu Siqi, askio help Sun Yanbie the group and add Jiang Qin.
She had lost all tact with Jiang Qin and, having engihis ter, was now hesitant to speak. Her only hope now was Sun Yanbin’s “Travel Home Together” group proposal.
Without pre-settings, adding someoo a group doesn’t require their approval, a feature Chu Siqi was aware of.
Jiang Qin, who didn’t even know how to delete friends, probably hadn’t set this feature.
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