Half-baked

6.
Regarding the fact that Duan Huaian "forgot" Huai Nian's name, everyone present just felt embarrassed for Huai Nian.
They did not have any emotions such as so-called surprise or astonishment.

After all, the school has 40 colleges, and each college has 40 student union presidents. At the beginning of the school year, when the student union held a party, Duan Huai'an only showed up symbolically before the party, and left in a hurry after negotiating the payment method with the front desk.
Before he became the president of the student union, he rarely participated in dinner parties. In most cases, he was the one who paid the bill.

In addition, Duan Huaian acted too calm, and the look in his eyes that reflected his nostalgia was the same as the look he gave to an unknown classmate.

No one suspected anything.

As soon as Duan Huaian sat down, the meeting began immediately.
The meeting was just as Nostalgia had imagined, discussing the national intelligent robot fighting and competition next month. They were responsible for a lot of things, including hanging banners in the school, designing and selling tickets for the competition, and promoting various online accounts...

The detailed work arrangements were sent to the group, and everyone looked down at their phones.

Huai Nian also lowered his head and unlocked the phone screen.

What caught my eye was the message from the pinned contact.

She had canceled the pinning of the post, but every time, Duan Huaian would find it within a few days and then pin it again.
She canceled again.
He pinned it again.

After repeating it several times, she was tired of missing him and thought that no one except him would look at her phone anyway.
Just pin it to the top.

Fortunately, Duan Huaian did not change the note she gave him, which was concise and contained the first letter of his name in pinyin.

She didn't click into the chat box, but his latest message was under the note.
Small light grey text.
[What are you busy with recently? ]

I miss my eyelids twitching.

She didn't want to reply to him, and she noticed from the corner of her eye that Duan Huaian suddenly put his hand on the table.
The knuckles of the hand tapped the tabletop, again and again, silently yet loudly.

silence.

After a while, Duan Huaian withdrew his hand.
He was tall, with long arms and legs, his hands and feet bent between the desk and chair in a very restrained manner, his elbows resting on the armrests of the chair, his cold and delicate profile facing the glowing mobile phone screen, he looked at the chat box, missing his message.

She said: [Learning.]

Duan Huai'an lowered his eyes and complained: [Your answer is not even as long as my question. ]
Huai Nian also complained about him: [You talk too much. ]
Miss: [Can't you treat me the same way you treat others? ]

Duan Huai'an replied calmly: [No.]
He said: [You are not someone else.]

Nostalgia: [Can't you treat me the same way you treated Chi Jingting? ]

Duan Huai'an: [No.]
Duan Huai'an: [I don't kiss him.]

Miss: "..."
Missing closing my eyes is like a punch on cotton.
I suddenly felt powerless.
-
After the student union meeting, a voice emerged from the crowd: "There's a new barbecue restaurant opened at the north gate. It's a perfect time for a midnight snack."
Someone immediately chimed in: "Shall we go for a midnight snack?"
"Okay."
"..."
"..."

Then everyone pushed their chairs away and stood up.
There were chaotic footsteps. Liu Zongran, the vice president of the school student union who had just presided over the meeting, asked Duan Huai'an: "Would you like to go for a midnight snack together?"

Liu Zongran and Duan Huaian are classmates.
Duan Huai'an was in between being gregarious and being unsociable. He did not participate in class activities, and it was difficult to see him except during class time. He spent most of his time in the laboratory. At the beginning of his freshman year, he set up a robot R&D team. He did not actively invite anyone, but there were many people who wanted to join his team. The top scorers in various provinces and cities were just the threshold to join his team, and the threshold was there to be stepped on.

Some people are born with the ability to be looked up to.

Duan Huaian cares a lot about the lab and has a lot of interactions with team members, but even so, he rarely attends team dinners. He only pops up to make his presence felt when it's time to pay the bill.

At the beginning of the school year, the student union held a meeting, and Duan Huaian only showed up briefly for five minutes before leaving.
Liu Zongran asked Duan Huaian, both as an invitation and as an expectation, but he knew in his heart that Duan Huaian would not go.

"——Okay." Duan Huaian said.

"..."
Thinking he had heard wrongly, Liu Zongran was stunned, "Huh?"

Duan Huai'an said calmly: "Let's have a midnight snack together."

Liu Zongran still had a stunned expression.

Be quiet for a moment.
Still, it was a bit unbearable to watch this scene with nostalgia as a bystander.
She whispered, "Everyone has left, let's go too."

Liu Zong nodded belatedly, then shook his head, as if the conversation just now was all his imagination. He confirmed with Duan Huai'an again: "You want to have supper with us, right? You don't want to pay and leave, right?"
"If you just want to pay, then you'd better not come," said Liu Zongran.

"..." Duan Huai'an curled his lips slightly, "No, I'm going to have a midnight snack."

Liu Zongran finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Someone outside noticed that Liu Zongran was missing and started yelling at him.
Liu Zongran responded and hurried out of the meeting room. He turned back and reminded them, "Don't fall behind."

Eating is probably what college students are most passionate about.
During the meeting, everyone was lazier and listless than the other. But when they heard about going for a barbecue, they became full of energy and ran very fast.

As Liu Zongran left the meeting room, Huai Nian and Duan Huaian were left alone in the room.

Nostalgia pursed her lips and said softly, "Let's go."
Duan Huaian raised his chin slightly, motioning her to go out.

At nine o'clock in the evening, there were still many students on the road to school, and the library in the distance was still brightly lit.

The only way to the north gate is a tree-lined avenue.
Tall and lush evergreen trees block out the sky and the moon, and the warm yellow street lights cast an ambiguous light.

There was a huge group of people in front of them. Huai Nian and Duan Huaian walked a few steps side by side. She was afraid that people would notice something was wrong, so when she was about to catch up with the main group, her elbow suddenly tightened.

Duan Huaian held her back.

Her heart, filled with nostalgia, felt like it was being held by someone's hand, and her breathing almost stopped: "What are you doing? We are still in school! Let go!" "Let me ask you a question. If your answer satisfies me, I will let go." Duan Huaian was leisurely, without any sense of urgency about others discovering their relationship.
"What's the problem?" Huai Nian's ears turned red when she was nervous. The street light shone under her ears, revealing a layer of light.

Duan Huai'an's Adam's apple rolled, "Have you missed me these days?"

Missing you: "I miss you, I miss you, I miss you so much."
The response was quick, but the perfunctory tone was obvious.
Duan Huaian knew it all, but he still smiled and let go of her hand as he said.

Almost the next second after he let go, Huai Nian ran away without any reluctance.
-
Dozens of people suddenly poured into the barbecue restaurant, and the private rooms were full of people.
Fortunately, it was cool outside tonight, so everyone put the tables outside the barbecue restaurant together and sat outside to have their midnight snack.

Huai Nian was invited by an acquaintance to sit down. Five tables were put together and she sat in the middle. She glanced out and saw Duan Huai'an, who was far away from her, sitting at the table on the far right. But he was not sitting side by side with her, but opposite her.

The barbecue was served very slowly and everyone was chatting away.

There was beer on the table. Huai Nian stood up silently and took a few bottles of drinks from the freezer.

When she returned to her seat, the topic had changed, and the protagonist was the Duan Huaian she knew.

"Do you think Duan Huai'an will take first place in this competition?"

"Nonsense, he will definitely take first place."
"You may have forgotten that he won the championship twice in a row."
"You're still participating in the competition after winning two consecutive championships?"

"There's nothing we can do," the man shrugged, looking like he knew the situation. "If the school could find someone, they wouldn't force him to participate. I heard that the school leader is his uncle, so Duan Huaian gave his uncle some face."

"real or fake?"
"I don't know. I just heard it from others."
"..."

I miss not participating in the conversation, just drinking the strawberry milk in my hand with my head down.
He did not correct the "uncle" in the words, who was actually Duan Huaian's cousin.

Huai Nian didn't like this feeling. Duan Huaian was not by her side, but his voice was always around her. Although she seemed absent-minded, she actually heard every word he said.
Fortunately, she put down the drink in her hand and found an excuse to go to the bathroom to escape.

As she stood up, she glanced at her bag that had been placed on her seat and picked it up.

This is the busiest time outside the school. Students who are busy staying up all night, students who are busy rushing back to school, and students who are still relaxing outside make up the most prosperous scene in the snack street.

Huai Nian quickly slipped into the crowd, lowered her head and walked into the school, sending messages to the person who had just sat next to her as she walked.

[I suddenly remembered that I still have some homework to do, and the teacher needs it urgently, so I'll go back first.]

The other party didn't reply, probably because they were having a good chat.
When they think of her, they will contact her on their cell phone, and then they will be able to see her message.

After sending the message, Huai Nian breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, her cell phone dinged and she received a new message.

Huai Nian felt that it was a little too early for him to relax.

DHA: [Come to me.]

Miss: [? ]
Nostalgia stops unconsciously: [Aren’t you having a midnight snack? ]

DHA: [No.]
DHA: [Go home. 】

Nostalgia tried to use the same excuse to get away with it: [I haven’t finished my homework yet, and the teacher needs it urgently, so I have to hand it in before 10 o’clock.]

DHA: [There are two computers in the study room, you can use them as you like.]

Homework that must be submitted before 10pm must be in electronic format.
I couldn’t argue with him about missing him, so I turned around.
There were snack and barbecue stalls all around, hazy smoke, and shadows of people. Duan Huai'an stood tall outside a milk tea shop, very eye-catching. Nostalgia looked very indifferent, passing him by as if he were air.

Duan Huaian’s house is one subway stop away from the school.

Huai Nian sent a message to Duan Huaian, telling him that she would take the subway.
After sending the message, without waiting for his reply, she locked the screen and swiped her card to enter the station.

The subway station was crowded on the weekend. When the door of the elevator opened, Huai Nian followed the crowd into the car. The car was crowded, but fortunately she was quick to find the steel column handrail and used it to stand firmly.

In front of her was the subway door, and through the glass barrier she could see the layers of people around her.
The subway stopped briefly, and soon the sound of the door closing was heard in the car.

The crowds surged, and the nostalgia was stunned.

Duan Huai'an's figure appeared in the windshield glass, gradually becoming clearer as he got closer. He was tall, his head touching the railing in the subway, his eyes were downcast, and his expressionless face looked a bit sharp.
Then, Duan Huaian and Huai Nian appeared in the same baffle glass.

There are students everywhere, most likely students from Nanjing University.

Missing you said nothing and just stood there quietly.

Duan Huaian reached out and grabbed the handrail from behind her, a gesture that showed his strong protective and possessive desire.
This is also a common posture in the subway, holding the handrail to stand firmly.

He blocked a lot of sight.

At this moment, he said above her head: "Reach out your hand."
I miss you and do it in a daze.

The next second, she saw Duan Huaian take out a cup of milk tea from his jacket and put it into her hand.

He moved quickly and put his hands back in his pockets immediately after releasing them.
Through the glass of the subway door, he still looked indifferent and indifferent to everything.

(End of this chapter)