182 Handsome Junior (1/2)
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Everyone looked at us with astonished eyes as we were the center of attention, I couldn't return to reality for a long time.
”I saw that you were cute, hope you don't mind the joke” The handsome guy reluctantly parted and once again gave a charming smile then turned around to greet everyone ”Hello senior brothers and sisters, I am Xiao Mao, a freshman in the History department, please take care of me”
”It's fine” Hugging is quite common overseas so I casually laughed it off and did not blame him.
Xiao Mao turned around with a cheerful smile and introduced himself to everybody, closing the distance between them, his speech eloquent and smooth comparable to the finest pearls, even the guys lost their prior jealousy and very quickly became familiar with him.
**(In the raws it says, 口中妙語如珠高帽戴得比天高博得陣陣笑聲 which roughly translates to his speech eloquent, enough to have the beaded/pearl hat reach the sky/heaven, however, that doesn't really make sense in English so I improvised.)**
”How come your name is so ancient...not cute?” Cheng FanFan the gossip queen eagerly asked.
”My mother didn't read many books.” Xiao Mao wistfully scratched his head with a face of helplessness ”She said that my eyes were like a cat's so she named me Xiao Mao, but I grew up in China so it's fine to just call me Xiao Mao”
**(It said that in the raws but it basically means uneducated)**
”The girl you just hugged is called Lin XiaoMiao, her name really makes it sound like as if she's your sister” A girl said ”Xiao Miao and Xiao Mao, both are cats.”
**(Miao is the the chinese version of Meow and Mao means cat in chinese)**
”That's such a coincidence, we must have some chemistry” Xiao Mao looked towards me and once again joked but I couldn't feel any joking tone in that.
Cheng FanFan also joined in and joked ”You only hugged her but didn't hug us, how unfair is that, is it because we aren't pretty enough”
”How could that be it!” Xiao Mao raised his hands in surrender ”It's just that she looks just like someone important to me, that's all”
”Who? Your girlfriend?” The gossiping soul of everyone there passionately ignited.
”No, you all guessed incorrectly, it's my mother” Xiao Mao cheekily looked around at everyone's expression after being tricked.
All the girls observed my face and shamelessly said ”Your father must be handsome, you take after him”
”No, I took after my mother” Xiao Mao's voice became gentle as he said that.
I looked at the face which held no similarities to mine, stunned and involuntarily asked ”Your mother?”
”Yeah, she was a beautiful and gentle person” Xiao Mao softly said ”But when I was still small, she left with my father, leaving me”
Looking at the pitiful Xiao Mao who had lost his parents at a young age, the girls with a motherly spirit exploded into tears. They didn't dare to continue with their gossip and only wanted to carefully comfort and love him in their embrace. Even my heart was moved, I suddenly got an inexplicable feeling of sadness choke in my throat. Wanting to speak but not being able to say it aloud, only able to watch him leave. In the end, I said with a rare gentleness ”I'll take you to the university”
”Then I'll trouble Senior to do so then” Xiao Mao ignored the other girls' dispute on who will lead. I picked up my backpack that was on the ground and placed in on my shoulder then went into a taxi, heading towards the university. After the admission procedures were complete, I was about to bid farewell when Xiao Mao, when he grabbed my hand and lowered his head to gently caress the red birthmark. Looking up towards me, he pleaded ”Senior sister, do you know where there are houses to rent? I heard that the school dorms aren't very nice so I want to live somewhere else”