Young Again

Chapter 54 Don't Cry Don't Cry
After Li Xintong apologized, Chen Wang did not feel the satisfying feeling of having won the argument.

Instead, it was so sudden that my heart sank.

Because he knew that she didn't mean what she said.

The reason is,
Girls, they don't know how to apologize.

There may be other responses and actions that express the same meaning as an apology, but the form it presents will not be the three words "I'm sorry."

Understand the applause.

"I don't mean to blame you..."

As soon as Chen Wang opened his mouth, the green light came on. Li Xintong poked him with her finger and whispered, "Let's go."

Not allowing people to speak.

Chen Wang started riding his bike and crossed the road.

On the edge of the auxiliary road, riding along the road.

Two people, no communication.

Chen Wang thought deeply about the apology just now.

If she was a normal Li Xintong, and the two of them were normal friends, she might not have argued about that topic, but she would not have ended it with a bowed apology either.

She said "I'm sorry" because she lived in her own home and was a dependent, Li Xintong.

It's like being thrown into someone else's house, and your parents left first. The owner of that house will say, "Don't be polite, just treat it as your own home." But you won't really adapt to it and treat it as your home.

This means that she will remain like this until she truly becomes a family-like character.

If she was just an ordinary tenant, she wouldn't have such a mentality.

But if he were just an ordinary tenant, there shouldn't be such warmth in this home.

"I don't think it's necessary to offend Zhao Tingting to death." After a long time, Li Xintong, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly said, "After all, you and she are deskmates. It would be awkward if the two of you didn't talk to each other all day..."

Before Li Xintong finished speaking, Chen Wang suddenly stepped on the brakes.

Then, Li Xintong leaned forward by inertia.

The head hit lightly on the schoolbag.

His hands also changed from grabbing Chen Wang's side to a half-hug.

But since it didn't hurt much, I didn't say anything.

His head seemed to be stuck to his schoolbag and did not move.

After parking the car, Chen Wang said, "Get out, I..."

"No."

Hearing this, Li Xintong didn't wait for him to finish. Finally, she couldn't help it and raised her head, saying emotionally: "I've already apologized, you still want to..."

"I'll treat you to an ice cream..."

After Chen Wang finished speaking in a gradually lowered voice, he was stunned for a while, and after he and the stunned Li Xintong fell silent at the same time, he slowly covered his face with his hands, and couldn't help but sobbed, "Fuck, I'm done with the grievances."

"..."

After Li Xintong realized that she was really wrongly accusing someone, she quickly comforted him with a guilty conscience: "No, I didn't hear the whole thing just now. Isn't this a misunderstanding? I take it back, I take back what I said just now, don't cry, don't cry..."

Putting down his hands and stopping his boring performance, Chen Wang sighed deeply and then asked, "Do you want to eat?"

"Eat, eat, eat."

Li Xintong agreed repeatedly.

Then she got out of the car.

Chen Wang put down the bicycle kickstand and parked the bicycle. Then the two of them arrived at the entrance of the Mixue Ice City store and ordered two original flavor ice cream cones, which cost four yuan in total.

What’s incredible is that ten years later, Mixue ice cream cones are still priced the same.

Soon, the waiter prepared the ice cream cones and handed them to the two people respectively.

The two of them just stood on the roadside in front of the store, eating ice cream cones.

It was quite calm, or rather a rare dull moment.

If it weren't for this incident, the relationship between the two people would be the type that automatically triggers conversation.

Only at this moment, there was a little more tension and unnaturalness.

Among them, Li Xintong wanted to take the initiative to break the ice, because she knew that Chen Wang offered to treat her to ice cream in an attempt to ease the atmosphere between the two.

It was just that her indiscriminate excitement just now made her look like the woman with a deep resentment.

In fact, she didn't hold a deep grudge.

She just thought that this matter was originally instigated by Zhao Tingting. She was the one who confused right and wrong and instigated others to spread rumors. Why couldn't she muster up the courage to fight for a win or a loss...

And Chen Wang did not stop himself from fighting.

It was just her, hiding.

"Then listen to me." Chen Wang said.

"Yeah." Li Xintong nodded like a well-behaved top student, then looked at the other person, "You go ahead."

Holding the ice cream cone in his hand, Chen Wang also looked at Li Xintong and said, "My way of life is to be kind to others. It's not because I'm kind, but in this class, most of the boys and girls are not good people. Some are gossipers, some are super domineering. Most of their behaviors are violations that are not allowed by the school. Many times, I will be involved. At this time, I will deliberately get involved in it and blend in with the world without losing anything or degrading myself." Chen Wang remembered that when he was in junior high school, several students in his class had a fight with students from other classes. The reason had nothing to do with justice.

Then the teacher in his class was also a jerk, and because he saw it, he forced him to tell the class who were involved in the fight.

That time, even though Chen Wang was hit on the palm with a ruler, he did not say a single name.

After that, he became the most courageous and loyal boy in the class, and those boys took the initiative to contact him and treated him as a good friend.

But Chen Wang looked down on those people.

If he was the one involved in the fight, when he saw his classmates being punished because of him, he would definitely have the guts to come out and admit it.

Instead of just standing there like a turtle.

That time, he was bullied by his stupid teacher and at the same time took the blame for his cowardly classmates and became part of the evildoers.

But if it happened again, he would still choose to do so.

It’s nothing, because he wants to save face.

After Chen Wang finished speaking, Li Xintong lowered her head and agreed, "You are right..."

"Right? That's not right."

Chen Wang directly denied it.

"What do you want to say?"

Li Xintong raised her head, a little confused about him.

"I mean."

When Chen Wang said this, he found that the ice cream had melted a little. So he took a sip and looked at her again.

"..." Li Xintong was a little overwhelmed by the fact that someone was slurping ice cream while he was speaking seriously.

"If Chen Wang wants to be Chen Wang, then he will be Chen Wang." Chen Wang continued, "If you want to maintain a good relationship with everyone, then do this."

Li Xintong knew that there was a second half to Chen Wang’s plain and simple words.

And because of the second half of the sentence that was about to come, her focused eyes were covered with a layer of grateful light.

"If Li Xintong wants to be Li Xintong, then she should be Li Xintong."

heard it.

This is a completely biased statement.

Li Xintong felt that at this moment, the world was opened up.

"Yes! I just don't like those bitches who are always jealous and say nonsense. I just don't want to put on a smiling face with those who scold me for being pretentious behind my back and are sarcastic when I'm studying."

After getting Chen Wang's help, Li Xintong did not hide her feelings and said earnestly, "I don't need a lot of friends. I just want to have a good relationship with people who want to have a good relationship with me."

"can."

Chen Wang made an OK gesture to show his support.

Are there so many big truths in life that we have to convince others of?
If you want to be yourself, then be yourself.

"That……"

After venting her feelings, Li Xintong looked at Chen Wang and found a paradox: "What if Li Xintong being Li Xintong affects Chen Wang being Chen Wang?"

I made you, who didn't want to offend anyone, offend Zhao Tingting to death.

"I'm just a high-EQ person, not a pushover."

Chen Wang said nonchalantly, "You and Zhao Tingting are arguing with each other, and you both want me to take sides. Then I will take the side of the one I have a better relationship with, that's it."

"..."Such simple and crude words taught Li Xintong a severe lesson.

She was indeed narcissistic and thought that Chen Wang would choose her as a beautiful one.

But isn’t friendship about being together with friends you have a better relationship with?

If Zhao Tingting was the pretty one, and I was not so pretty, and we had experienced so much together with Chen Wang, who was also living under the same roof, would he betray me?

The superficial person is yourself.

Friendship?

For the sake of 'friendship', Li Xintong decided: "Then I'll sit with you."

"When?"

"what?"

Li Xintong didn't quite understand and explained, "I'll talk to the head teacher tomorrow and ask him to change the seat so I can sit with you."

"Yes, that's what I asked."

"Oh, really."

"Oh, yes."

In 2013, after school on a normal day, Chen Wang and Li Xintong ate an ice cream cone each at the entrance of Mixue Ice City in the small town of Jiangchuan. But there was no need to remember it, because it was a meaningless little thing.

(End of this chapter)