Chapter 13 (1/2)

Chapter 13

Xiao Rongyu wished that Chen Hansheng would throw away the paper with Zhixi’s number on it. Unfortunately, Chen Hansheng simply put it away in his pocket.

Xiao Rongyu felt as if she was losing Chen Hansheng, even though she never had him in the first place. This weird sense of loss made her feel lonely and lost, especially when she looked at all the things she had to unpack while Xu Zhixi hummed happily and the others minded their own business.

She picked up her phone and was about to call her father, but in the end, she decided to endure things.

Life had just given Xiao Rongyu, a sheltered child from a small city, a good lesson. She might have been the campus belle and everyone’s goddess at The First Port City High School. But here at Donghai University, she wasn’t any more special than her roommates.

Suddenly, Chen Hansheng’s voice came from the other side of the door. “Xiao Rongyu, please come and verify my identity. The dorm matron refuses to let me out.”

Xiao Rongyu sniffed and stood up. She didn’t want the ‘heartless person’, Chen Hansheng, to see her current state.

“Let’s go,” said Xiao Rongyu coldly.

Chen Hansheng brought her to the corner of the second floor and looked at Xiao Rongyu thoughtfully.

“What are you up to?” Xiao Rongyu didn’t want to meet Chen Hansheng’s eyes.

“Roommate dynamics are much more complicated than high school dorms. You have to be careful with your words and actions.”

Xiao Rongyu had just arrived at the dorms and she almost had a small conflict with her roommate. If she kept this up, she was deliberately making her university life more difficult. Of course, it was no thanks to Chen Hansheng.

“Just come look for me if you are having any trouble, alright?”

Chen Hansheng gently told Xiao Rongyu.

There was a slight hint of concern in his voice that moved Xiao Rongyu just a little. However, when she remembered how he had joked with the other girls in high spirits while ignoring her earlier, her heart hardened again.

“Got it. Just hurry up and leave.”

Xiao Rongyu turned around to go back to her room.

She was in a completely new environment so far away from home. It was not surprising that she, deep down in her heart, wanted Chen Hansheng to be around longer.

Chen Hansheng watched Xiao Rongyu’s slender and graceful back and thought to himself, ‘If I add up all the years, I have liked Xiao Rongyu for six years.’

In a way, Xiao Rongyu was his youth.

Even though he had changed after returning to his eighteen-year-old self, Xiao Rongyu still had a special place in his heart. That was why he had come back to advise her.

“We’re from the same hometown, after all, so we should look out for each other. Besides, if my confession was successful that night, you would be my girlfriend by now and I would have taken care of you anyway.”

Chen Hansheng’s words were sincere, which touched Xiao Rongyu. In the end, she could not hold it back anymore. Her tears started to flow down her cheeks.

“Then why do you keep making me sad? I haven’t cried more than twice in three years in Port City, but you’ve made me cry twice in one day in Jianye.”

Xiao Rongyu cried so hard this time as if she wanted to vent out all the emotions she was feeling – the homesickness, the loneliness, and the jealousy. But she daren’t cry out too loudly as she didn’t want others to see or hear her.

Xiao Rongyu still looked beautiful when she cried. Her thick eyelashes looked like a lotus flower that had just bloomed from the pond.

“Why do you still have her number?”

Xiao Rongyu blurted this question out of the blue. Even she was confused. Chen Hansheng actually had nothing to do with her, so she could keep anyone’s phone number.

But Chen Hansheng turned his trouser pocket inside out to prove himself. “Nope, nothing’s in here. I’ve thrown it away.”

Thanks to this, Xiao Rongyu was starting to feel better.

“Try to get along with your roommates.” Chen Hansheng reminded her again.

Xiao Rongyu nodded to show that she understood.

“Alright, I’m leaving now. You can go back to your room now,” said Chen Hansheng.

Xiao Rongyu was stunned for a moment and asked innocently, “Didn’t you ask me to send you out?”

Chen Hansheng smiled. “I just wanted to find a legitimate reason to call you out. Don’t worry. I don’t have any troubles leaving here. It’s like a wet market where anyone can go in and out whenever they pleased.”