33 Chapter 32 – Floured Beef Steamed in a Cup 2 (1/2)
”Next stop…”
Inside the train, a female voice announced the name of the next station in standard Mandarin.
Some people exited and others entered. This station was a hub and was notorious for being busy and crowded. In only a moment, the train was packed with people. Fortunately, she was standing in a corner and with Mo Qingcheng on the outside protecting her, she did not need to worry about being bumped and crammed by people.
But poor him…
Seeing the mass of people behind him, she tugged apologetically at the hem of his shirt and looked up at him. ”Step in a little closer…” After saying this, she tried her best to shrink into the corner a little bit more.
Mo Qingcheng seemed as if he still wanted to give her some space, but the people behind him really were shoving up tight against him so he moved in slightly closer to her again.
The voice of Gin was still echoing in her ears…
And his real-live person was so close to her…
Gu Sheng breathed out lightly. ”Four more stops…”
”Mm.”
T.T...
Nothing else to say…
She suddenly remembered the late night girl talk she and her dormmates had had in second-year university when the other two girls in their dorm room had each started dating. One of them had said she had started liking her guy because she saw him biting his straw while he was drinking a soft drink, biting the end of his pen when he was doing homework problems, and even biting the mouth of a beverage bottle when he was having a drink, and for some unexplainable reason, she had found this very cute and it had made her heart flutter… The remaining three could only sigh over what a silly start this was to a relationship.
But now…
She had always been a voice lover and had always believed that one of the prerequisites of her future boyfriend was a nice-sounding voice with proper Mandarin pronunciation, but… was she really… for this reason… for this reason alone going to start a relationship?
So … incredible.
It had been more than two hours since he asked her to be his girlfriend.
Girlfriend… Qiang Qing Ci's girlfriend…
Gu Sheng's lips unconsciously turned up in a smile. Her eyes were still focused straight ahead, her gaze crossing under his arm and fixing itself on the backpack zipper of the person behind him… just so she did not have to look at him, and he did not feel as if she was looking at him.
As for peripheral vision, that was something she honestly could not control, you know? T.T…
Station after station… More and more people entered the train car. Mo Qingcheng was getting squeezed more and more as well and had switched to using his elbows on either side of her to support himself against the wall. Of course… that meant he was a little closer to her yet again.
His skin… was honestly really nice…
T.T... Even if she did not want to look, she would not be able to avoid it.
”In a moment, when we arrive at the stop, get off the train and head straight up. Your school is just a five minute walk from exit number two.”
”Mm.” She actually was very clear already on all of this. After all, she had been at this university for more than three years…
”If any strangers talk to you along the way, just ignore them.”
”Mm.” T.T … Are you treating me like a child? …
”I won't be accompanying you back. I need to head over to the other side right away and take the opposite train back.”
”Mm…”
”Will you be mad?”
”Huh?” She raised her head and narrowly missed slamming into his nose. She could not move backwards at all and had no choice but to look wide-eyed up at his eyes that were right in front of her — those eyes that were so gorgeous they caused jealousy, envy, and hatred in people — and answer his question. ”I won't be mad. Why would I be mad? … You're going to an official, public event. It won't be good if you're late. You really didn't need to take me back. I could have come back myself.”
When the train was nearly at the station, they finally squeezed their way to the door while he half-shielded her from the crowd.
The two of them were practically in battle mode as they stepped out of the car. When the train pulled away, the surroundings instantly grew much quieter. Gu Sheng hugged her down jacket in her arms, said goodbye to him, and then quickly hurried onto the up escalator.
The escalator rose up slowly as Toupai stepped into the metro train heading in the return direction.
Phew…
At last… she was headed back to school.
She cast a final glance at the train and pulled out her transit card from her bag. She still felt like she was floating along and did not know what she was thinking. Actually, she was not thinking anything at all.
Back in her dormitory room, she was the only one there.
She glanced at the time. There should be another half an hour before the competition started. She opened up her own YY and first entered the competition's channel, where she heard the pre-event host playing some pre-recorded music. Still another half an hour, but there were already 15,000 people online. So amazing… From her bookshelf, she randomly chose a book in her field of study and began flipping through.
Mo Qingcheng's voice and facial expressions constantly flitted into her mind.
I like you a lot.
Will you be my girlfriend?
What if we are suitable?
If we don't even start, we won't know the ending, right?
...
...
No good. She could not focus at all to read T.T...
Luckily, the competition was about to begin.
Just as she was about to search for Qiang Qing Ci, her private chat window popped up.
Qiang Qing Ci: Got home with no problems.
Gu Sheng: (⊙v⊙) Mm.
Qiang Qing Ci: You'll have to have fun yourself. I need to start now.
Gu Sheng: Mm.
She discovered she had completely inherited Toupai's practice and had made ”mm” a habit… But for him, it was because he had just woken up and very naturally used ”mm” to answer questions. As for her… it was entirely because she did not know what to say.
”Alright, folks, let's start with introducing tonight's four judges.” The hostess's voice came through her headset. ”They are, the video game's designer, Teacher Shen Ming; sound designer, Teacher Zhao Tianyi; voice actor, Teacher Zhang Xiao'ou; and voice actor, Teacher Qiang Qing Ci.[1]”
When Qiang Qing Ci's name was announced, there were many people who immediately got excited…
However, his own home-raised fans were in a totally cool and composed state. Gu Sheng decided to check out these fans of his fan club and opened up the online name list on the left side. Rough estimate… more than a thousand. The ten top-level administrators of the club were all present and were very strictly keeping order and control of their fan group.
*rest face in palms*…
That was part of his appeal. In public, his fans absolutely would not embarrass him or themselves by doing things like spamming the screen and bringing criticism ...