Chapter 68 - Awkward (1/2)

Chapter 68: Awkward

The spring trip just happened to fall on a Friday so after the teachers and students returned to the school, they disbanded, and each returned to their own homes.

However, Qin Xu felt that it was still early and naturally didn’t want to be separated from Jiang Yang so soon, so he moved over to make a proposal for them to continue hanging around and not return home yet.

Without even thinking, Jiang Yang rejected it.

Qin Xu pouted with dissatisfaction and continued holding onto Jiang Yang with no indication to let go, “Then I’ll go to your place to play and just stay for the night?”

Jiang Yang: “No!”

This time he had refused very quickly and there was even a hint of urgency within.

Qin Xu felt wronged: “Why? Aunty said that I am welcome to go and find you to go out a play.”

Jiang Yang slammed his foot onto his bike pedal and sped up so that he had created a large distance between himself and Qin Xu. Without even looking back he said: “That’s just out of politeness. I’m going home to wash up and sleep. Don’t you feel tired after playing for a whole day?”

With just ice skating, the skates were hard, and he had skated until his feet hurt. Let alone, they had spent the whole day going on various rides and even experienced utter physical and mental exhaustion from the haunted house. This was the excuse Jiang Yang had given but what he didn’t want was for Qin Xu to go to his place.

Qin Xu was very reluctant. He looked at Jiang Yang with an aggrieved look, but he knew his limit of shamelessness. Seeing Jiang Yang’s firm attitude, he didn’t continue pushing for it and just used his pair of dark, shiny eyes to look at Jiang Yang making him appear all the more pitiful.

After Jiang Yang returned home and had dinner, the first thing he did was to take a shower. After washing up, he felt instantly refreshed.

He sat on the edge of his bed and randomly dried his hair with a towel as small beads of water flowed down from the ends of his hair onto his neck. With the other hand he picked up his phone and started playing games. However, he found it hard for him to become immersed in the game and quickly gave up.

Jiang Yang sat lazily with his back slouched and his head lowered. Under the lights, two small shadows from his eyelids formed on his face and he appeared to be thinking about something.

For a while, the room was quiet.

Jiang Yang didn’t know why but internally he called out for the system.

That’s right. The system had not appeared for a while. At the very least, it was like this on Jiang Yang’s side. Qin Xu’s side appeared to get more frequent tasks but it had also reduced in frequently recently.

After a while, the familiar mechanical sound was heard in his mind:  “What’s the matter?”

Looks like it’s still here.

Jiang Yang asked: “It’s nothing. I just felt that it has been a long time since you’ve given me a task and found it strange. Is it already completed?”

Completion. That would be when the system acknowledges the fact that he and Qin Xu had become friends.

But the system sounded somewhat conflicted. It was as if it didn’t know what to say and was a little troubled, “Based on the data, it should be considered completed but after analysis, it looks like it was a failure…..”

Jiang Yang was a little surprised: “Failure? What do you base your analysis on?”

Although he and Qin Xu’s relationship weren’t great before, he had to admit that in fact their relationship had improved significantly. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that they had become good friends so why did they report that it was a failure?

The system explained seriously: “We base it on the degree of affection by assessing the interactions, attitudes and emotions you both experience. From this, we establish a data analysis table and judge your friendship progression based on that. Before, the data revealed that your relationship was developing quite well so we didn’t intervene but the current data…………”

Jiang Yang heard it pause and asked with a hint of urgency: “What’s wrong with the current data?”

The system hesitated for a moment before finally answering: “The degree of affection is good but compared to our database, it looks like it has exceeded the standard, too high……..”

“This is my first time doing this and it looks like I have failed.” The system sighed grimly with both some doubt and some grievance. He was clearly doing the right things but how did things develop this way? Based on what he had heard from his senior’s experiences, it shouldn’t have developed this way.

The system wasn’t in a good mood but when Jiang Yang heard that the degree of affection had exceeded the standard, he no longer paid attention to the rest of the system’s words. His mind was filled with those words repeated again and again. For a moment everything before him had turned white and all he could hear was white noise.

After an unknown amount of time passed, he stood up with an indifferent expression and went to the bathroom. When he was done, he pushed the flush button and watched the water flow away before moving to pick up his toothbrush to brush his teeth. Finally, he bent down to wash his face.

He stood before the mirror. His face was still wet and dripping with water, but his movements had stopped. Using both hands he supported himself at the basin and stared at his own reflection in daze. Finally, he came back to his senses and used his towel to roughly dry his face while uttering out in irritation: “What the hell is with this situation.”

He said this to himself in a very small voice.

After he moved the towel down, a pair of dark eyes was exposed

He is now quite certain that Qin Xu that guy felt something different towards him. The moment he realised this, he was a little surprised and all the more confused. What was even more frustrating was, what did he himself feel?

Jiang Yang looked at himself in the mirror and took a deep breath.

Speaking honestly, he really didn’t know.

He just thought that, after hearing Wu Tong and the systems words, he could no longer face Qin Xu normally. A strong resistance to the idea of going back to school on Monday formed within him.

When he didn’t know about it, he could still joke around and get along with him like a good friend but the moment he came into realisation, every scene that came to his mind appeared particularly ambiguous. If you asked him to act the same as before and be clingy and touchy with Qin Xu, he probably could no longer remain indifferent.

Jiang Yang was unwilling to think about the reason for this and just immersed himself in games for the entire weekend. Killing and slashing through his enemies, it allowed him to vent without the need to think about anything else.

However, he deliberately chose a game that Qin Xu didn’t play much of so that he could avoid running into him.

As for WeChat, Jiang Yang would not respond to any of the messages that Qin Xu had sent. When Qin Xu had sent over more than a dozen messages along with a bunch of crying and upset emoticons before finally resorted to making a video call, Jiang Yang opened the chat window and typed out a line, “Playing a game”.

Qin Xu quickly said, “Together.”

Jiang Yang responded as usual with the name of the game before saying in disdain that he sucks at it, so he didn’t want to play with him.

Qin Xu didn’t notice anything wrong with his words and just acted pitiful as usual.