Rebirth: At the beginning, the cool school beauty was caught stealing in the supermarket

Chapter 515 This lake is called Lovers' Lake

"Just chatting with you since you seem bored."

Bai Qingxia silently cooked noodles.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Lu Yuanqiu idly twirled the scissors on the table with his finger. Bai Qingxia looked up, took the scissors away, and put them aside.

Lu Yuanqiu pressed the spoon on the table with his fingers, making a series of "snap" sounds. Bai Qingxia picked up the spoon and deliberately placed it a little further away so that Lu Yuanqiu wouldn't touch it.

Lu Yuanqiu reached for the kitchen knife, but Bai Qingxia simply picked up a chopstick and tapped it on the back of his hand. She looked up at him, and Lu Yuanqiu pulled his hand back.

"...How stingy."

"What on earth do you want to do?"

"It's okay, it's okay~"

Lu Yuanqiu smiled and shrugged, then put his hands in his pockets: "I'm going back to my dorm first."

"Well, go back."

He walked to the restaurant entrance and looked back at Bai Qingxia inside the shop. Seeing her cooking noodles with a normal expression, he thought that everything should be fine.

This is the first time I've been so honest with a woman.

Lu Yuanqiu shook his head and chuckled, but also breathed a sigh of relief. He turned and walked towards the dormitory building. Just as he turned, Bai Qingxia raised her head and looked towards the door. Her clear eyes reflected Lu Yuanqiu's departing figure.

Just then, the middle-aged shop owner across the street, seeing Lu Yuanqiu leave, suddenly leaned forward and whispered to her, "Xia, that kid just said the same thing you did last semester!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Qingxia smiled shyly, her lips twitching slightly.

She couldn't help but look at Lu Yuanqiu's back again, but he was already out of sight.

She didn't know if Lu Yuanqiu was joking... but when she heard the intro to Maple's Song, she was thinking about their story from the beginning to the present.

……

February 22nd, Wednesday evening.

The lake in Wanfeng Campus doesn't have a name, but Zhong Jincheng likes to call it Lovers' Lake. Every time he walks to the lake with Lu Yuanqiu and Zheng Yifeng, Zhong Jincheng will deliberately stop to peek at the couples on the lakeside being affectionate.

These couples didn't shy away from being affectionate at all. Kissing was considered acceptable, but some men went straight for the hands. If he was lucky, Zhong Jincheng could even take the opportunity to hide behind Lu Yuanqiu and Zheng Yifeng and feast his eyes.

But now he doesn't need to look at other couples anymore.

Holding hands feels wonderful; it's the best experience Zhong Jincheng has had in 18 years.

He turned to look at Luo Wei beside him. The wind by the lake blew her hair against her cheeks. Luo Wei didn't look at Zhong Jincheng; instead, she looked at the couples sitting on the benches by the lake.

It wasn't just Zhong Jincheng who would stop and look around when he passed by; Luo Wei did too.

At least Zhong Jincheng had friends, but she was all alone.

She never imagined that she would one day sit on a bench by the lake with her boyfriend; she had only ever sat there with her electric boyfriend.

Watching other couples being affectionate, Luo Wei felt envious on the surface, comfortable on the inside, but guilty on the inside.

She felt that other girls were so lucky from childhood to adulthood, facing new people and doing new things without any pollution. Perhaps they would also have a handsome childhood sweetheart who loved them and accompanied them as they grew up. They could date normally, hold hands, kiss, and do everything normal.

For any girl who is reasonably good-looking, these things seem to fall into place naturally, but Luo Wei felt that it was as difficult as climbing to the sky for her, not because she was not good-looking, but because she had closed herself off in a dark way.

Lu Douqing once asked her why she didn't confess to the boy she had a crush on. Luo Wei didn't answer because she felt she wasn't good enough for him. The boy was fair-skinned and sunny, and many beautiful girls, like princesses, liked him. But Luo Wei felt inferior, thinking that her hands would dirty the boy, and that she smelled strange on her.

She remained constantly on edge until Lu Douqing's roommate took a picture of her dark side and sent it to that boy. At that point, Luo Wei completely huddled up and retreated into a dark corner.

From that day on, she felt like she was living like a female ghost.

When she realized this, she laughed at herself and decided to vent her anger like a female ghost.

"Senior, I still prefer to call you senior."

As Zhong Jincheng began to speak, the two of them found themselves sitting on a bench by the lake.

Luo Wei smiled gently: "It's okay, it's fine. Anyway, I'll call you Jincheng."

Their hands were clasped tightly. Zhong Jincheng looked at the other couples and said, "Do you know what I'm thinking right now?"

"what?"

"I was wondering if my mom would be happy for me if she knew I had a girlfriend, and if she would call me to ask about me, like where I'm from, what I look like, and what my personality is like..."

Luo Wei didn't speak. She knew that Zhong Jincheng came from a divorced family. Zhong Jincheng's mother had started a new family outside, and her heart was already with her new home and her new son.

Luo Wei comforted her, "Of course it will."

Zhong Jincheng laughed heartily, then looked at the calm lake surface and nodded gently.

"Oh, right, senior, let me smell your scent." Zhong Jincheng suddenly remembered the class a few days ago.

Luo Wei shrugged awkwardly: "What...smells on me?"

She recalled what Zhong Jincheng had said when they first met, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Actually, she also felt that she had a strange smell on her body, which was the smell from that place, so she used to dress very conservatively most of the time.

Zhong Jincheng moved closer and sniffed Luo Wei. Seeing Luo Wei's embarrassed expression, he quickly explained, "Our medical biology teacher said that to determine whether you like someone, you should smell whether they have a particular scent that attracts you."

Luo Wei forced a smile: "...Seafood flavor?"

Zhong Jincheng was taken aback, then quickly shook his head earnestly and said, "Of course not, I... I didn't like you back then. Why don't you smell me! What do I smell like now?"

Luo Wei leaned forward and sniffed, suddenly feeling slightly surprised. She could indeed smell the scent of photinia when she first met Zhong Jincheng, but she couldn't smell it now. Instead, she felt that Zhong Jincheng had a familiar and pleasant scent that made her feel very safe, and even the temperature of the scent seemed warm.

Thinking about it carefully, Zhong Jincheng hadn't had that photinia scent on him for a long time, but she just hadn't realized it.

“Isn’t it different? Our original scent has disappeared…” Zhong Jincheng looked into her eyes.

Luo Wei nodded with a smile.

Zhong Jincheng smiled and said, "This is the flavor I like now."

Luo Wei's throat bobbed as she saw Zhong Jincheng's face getting closer and closer to her. Her heart raced, and she slowly moved closer to him as well.

The two of them opened their mouths slightly and kissed, feeling a warm, wet sensation between their lips, like a dream.

This lake is called Lovers' Lake.

　There were some urgent matters at home these past two days, so updates won't be possible. I was even planning to take the day off today, but since it's been so hard for everyone to keep up with the updates, I managed to squeeze in some time to write a few words. So, there will still be two updates today. But once things are settled, there will be three updates tomorrow as usual.

　　
　
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