Chapter 12 (1/2)

Chapter 12

The moment Chen Hansheng sat down earlier, he ‘accidentally’ put his arm around Xiao Rongyu’s shoulder and the latter immediately stiffened.

But since the university guys were around, she didn’t dare make a scene so she remained still and silent.

Now that the boys had dispersed, Xiao Rongyu finally told Chen Hansheng to remove his hand – he was being too intimate.

“Hmm, I wonder why I can’t control this hand of mine?” Chen Hansheng smiled, but even a fool could tell that he did that on purpose.

Xiao Rongyu sighed. Ever since she rejected Chen Hansheng’s confession, this person had been taking advantage of her.

Logically, she should be angry, but they were both classmates, friends, and now fellow countrymen in a new environment.

‘At least he liked me for three years. Let’s just forget about it.’

Xiao Rongyu missed the gentlemanly Chen Hansheng as she looked at the currently frivolous one.

Chen Hansheng, on the other hand, had his mind on something else. He looked out the window at the familiar yet unfamiliar city.

‘How many years has it been? Never thought that I’d return. How has everyone been?’

…

The journey from the station to the university town took about an hour. Many of the prospective university students had never taken such a long bus ride before as they started to get motion sickness along the way.

Xiao Rongyu didn’t look too good as she got off the bus. Chen Hansheng could not believe the bus journey hadn’t changed one bit.

Donghai University and the School of Finance and Economics were only 30 meters away from each other, so they were basically neighbors.

‘I don’t know how to tell her that I will take good care of her and make her happy…”

Xiao Rongyu’s phone suddenly rang and Chen Hansheng heard her ringtone – ‘Find It Hard to Tell You’ by Jay Chou. He sighed sentimentally. Such music truly made him nostalgic for the first decade of the 2000s. Those were the birth years of the legendary classics of Chinese music, the kind one could never get sick off or forget.

Unfortunately, Chen Hansheng was tone-deaf and could not sing along.

The phone call was from Gao Jialiang. It seemed that Romeo had not forgotten his Juliet.

Xiao Rongyu politely said a few sentences, hoping to hang up already. But Gao Jialiang kept repeating ‘Take good care of yourself, I’ll come to meet up with you after I’ve made the necessary arrangements. Be careful not to get tanned’.

Chen Hansheng was starting to get annoyed. He snatched the phone from Xiao Rongyu and shouted into the speaker. “You’re so annoying! Don’t worry, I’ll take good care of Xiao Rongyu.”

He hung up immediately after. Though Xiao Rongyu had also been getting annoyed by Gao Jialang, she did not like that Chen Hansheng took matters into his hands.

“What’s your problem?” Xiao Rongyu still hoped to reason with Chen Hansheng.

Chen Hansheng glanced at the bag on the ground. “Are you coming or not? Otherwise, I’m heading to my university.”

Xiao Rongyu had so much luggage that a girl like her would not be able to handle all by herself. She gave in in the end.

“Hansheng, let’s make up.” Chen Hansheng was stunned for a moment. “What do you mean?”

“I just want us to get along like we used to,” said Xiao Rongyu.

Chen Hansheng chuckled to himself. When he was madly in love with her, she rejected him. And now that he was no longer interested in her, she wanted to go back to how it was?

“Sure, I accept you as my girlfriend.”

“Hansheng, I don’t want to do that before I graduate from university.”

Xiao Rongyu gave the same rejection again. Chen Hansheng immediately interrupted, “Let’s save this conversation for later. I’ll help you get your bags to your dorm then head over to my university.”

Chen Hansheng carried all the big and small bags on his back and walked into Donghai University. He was acting so distant that Xiao Rongyu wanted to cry.

Chen Hansheng was very familiar with Donghai University. He helped Xiao Rongyu complete the admission procedures along the way and the latter simply followed behind him silently. They finally stopped at the female dormitory building.

“I’ll help you carry your luggage up and fulfill my promise to your dad. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t be able to stand the nagging from your dad and mine.”

Xiao Rongyu wanted to say something but when she saw how heartless and distant Chen Hansheng was, she simply pouted.

“You’re still acting like a child.” Chen Hansheng teased her.

Since it was registration day, the dorms had not enforced the rule of no-males in female dorms and vice versa yet. So, Chen Hansheng was allowed to enter and help Xiao Rongyu as promised.

Chen Hansheng noticed how slowly Xiao Rongyu was walking.