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Chapter 208 The Rainy Season That Year (First Update~)

Cai Yan thought Gu Huai was a really strange person at times.

He can be frighteningly intelligent, or so considerate and thoughtful that he warms people's hearts beyond repair, and of course, there are also moments as abstract as the one just now.

There is no such person!

I didn't wipe my mouth clean, you saw that, would it kill you to remind me? If I didn't remind you, you could have just taken it off and thrown it away! Why are you stuffing it in your mouth? You're quite frugal with food, so you've learned all those virtues your kindergarten teacher taught you, haven't you!

Gu Huai didn't understand why he made this subconscious move either, but he quickly figured it out.

Countless times at my own dinner table, food would fall beside the bowl, or even occasionally onto the floor, and my parents would urge me to pick it up immediately.

The common lines are: "It's only been a few seconds since it started dripping, it's still edible, don't waste it," or "You have no idea how expensive meat is outside these days! When we were kids, it was rare to have even a little bit of oil in our meals at home!"

That's probably how I developed a long-standing guilt about wasting food. Although I stopped such extreme behavior as I grew up, entered the workforce, and became more mindful of my image in front of colleagues, I still can't help but indulge in some of my little habits.

For example, you're more likely to put things that you feel are clean into your mouth.
As for what the grains of rice stuck to Cai Yan's face tasted like when she ate them.
Thanks for the invitation, but to be honest, I couldn't taste the difference.

What flavor can rice have? It disappears as soon as it's stuffed in your mouth; there's not even a chewing process, just footage of swallowing.

But none of that mattered. The girl before me, with her already delicate and fair skin, now possessed a rosy radiance, her milky complexion now infused with a vibrant glow. It was like a sleepless night desperately trying to fall asleep, only to watch helplessly as the sky turned from black to red.

"Well, some things are hard to explain, but would you believe me if I said it was an accident?"

Gu Huai tried his best to appear as sincere as possible.

Cai Yan simply nodded as if she understood, slightly parted her red lips, but couldn't help clenching her teeth slightly, and only answered after making a sucking sound.

"I understand that it's normal for people to have some strange quirks."

"I don't think you understand. Let me explain."

"I really understand now. Don't come any closer, you're knocking the umbrella askew."

"Don't go so far, it looks like you're hiding from a pervert."

"Really, no, don't overthink it. Oh dear, the water from the edge of your umbrella is all over my neck!"

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Because it was raining outside, there weren't really any other activities or places to go. Gu Huai couldn't possibly use his 28 years of experience to casually suggest, "How about we go to Starbucks for a bit?"

So the two of them quickly returned to school with their umbrellas. It wasn't a waste of time, since the lunch break during winter time is shorter, and many people go back to the classroom to rest after lunch.

The school is currently very quiet and empty.

The sound of raindrops falling on the ground seemed much hollower and crisper, dripping onto the evergreen leaves and shattering under the umbrellas that the boys and girls had folded up.

"It's been so long since it rained this hard, and it's also windy. It's freezing cold."

Once Cai Yan relaxed and stopped trying to maintain a persona due to her tense state, she started her habitual吐槽 (tu cao, a form of online commentary/criticism).

Gu Huai laughed and said, "Then why aren't you wearing more clothes? You're not even wearing thermal underwear, are you?"

That's quite possible. After all, he had heard long ago that even in winter, these girls who were wearing school uniforms would only wear thin school uniform pants to avoid making their legs look thick.

I don't know who they're afraid of seeing.

Cai Yan is already tall and slender, and her straight legs have a beautiful curve under the hem of her clothes, like the hillside where the sun chooses to rise.

There is absolutely no possibility of obesity.

Noticing Gu Huai's almost undisguised gaze, Cai Yan blushed slightly and glared at the boy. Her next move was to awkwardly brush a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Isn't it perverted of me to keep staring at you like that?"

Gu Huai quickly averted his gaze, almost forgetting that he was a gentleman. "Didn't you just say you were cold? I was worried you'd catch a cold."

"You'd better be right. Of course I'm wearing long johns. Do you want to take a look?"

She reached out and grabbed the edge of her pants on the side of her thigh, as if to lift up the pant leg so that Gu Huai could see what was inside.

Gu Huai had always wanted to be an explorer since he was a child, exploring clouds, fog, mountains, rivers, and even flowers and plants.

As for gentlemen, that's not a traditional profession in China.

He looked over and said, "I can help with that."

View it critically, dialectically, through art appreciation, and with personality analysis.

Then Cai Yan suddenly raised her hand.

Gu Huai didn't see the long, white legs.

"Snapped."

She slapped herself on the forehead.

"You really want to see it? Shameless!"

After filming Cai Yan, he ran upstairs.

Ta-ta-ta-ta.

Anyone who didn't know better would think someone was playing with a wind-up frog in the hallway.

Gu Huai touched his forehead; it didn't actually hurt. In the blink of an eye, Cai Yan had run to the corner and was even peeking down.

"Short legs, can you catch me?"

Gu Huai looked up at her with an annoyance, "Your shoelaces are untied, don't step on them."

"You think you can fool me with such a little trick? Catch me and I'll give you a chance to tie my shoelaces! Huh!"

Gu Huai leisurely went upstairs, put his hands in his pockets, and looked at Cai Yan, who was squatting on the ground tying her shoelaces with a pitiful expression.

"I told you not to step on it, don't step on it, why do you always feel like I'm trying to hurt you?" She probably almost fell to the ground, but she braced herself with her hands on the steps, so she didn't fall too badly.

You can tell by the little gesture of her rubbing her hands together and then hiding them after tying her shoelaces.

"Because you always lie."

As she spoke, she slowly stood up. It was clear that she had learned her lesson this time; she walked much slower and stopped running.

Sure enough, people only remember others' well-intentioned reminders after they've actually suffered a loss; otherwise, they always think it's just unnecessary worry, and some subordinates might even think it's just unwarranted kindness.

Gu Huai recalled that when he first arrived in the provincial capital, he was sitting on a bus and kindly reminded a young woman next to him that her wallet was about to fall out. Her first reaction was to cross her arms and look at him very warily.

Gu Huai immediately regretted it, wishing he had stolen her wallet.

"This is pure fabrication. I never lie to anyone."

Is lying from an objective perspective really lying? It's called a misunderstanding.

"Tch." The girl scoffed.

Gu Huai looked over and asked, "Are your hands scratched?"

Cai Yan saw Gu Huai's feigned nonchalance, but his eyes were already fixed on her sleeve. A slight warmth flowed through her chest, and she stretched out her hand to show Gu Huai.

"It's okay, it's just a little dirty. I'll wash it in a bit."

"I have some paper here, you can wipe it."

Gu Huai handed her a tissue from his pocket.

Cai Yan looked at Gu Huai curiously, "You still carry paper with you?"

"Hmm? Is that really surprising?"

"Because boys really rarely carry toilet paper, right? You can always see boys going to the toilet in the classroom and borrowing toilet paper from all over the place."

Gu Huai nodded. "Yes, this is what I didn't finish using when I went to the toilet."

"what!"

As if she had touched a dead rat, she instinctively threw the paper away after wiping it once, and the next moment she saw Gu Huai leaning against the armrest, laughing so hard he could hardly breathe.

That's when he realized he'd been tricked.

"Gu Huai, I'll kill you!!"

A classic quote appeared: Gu Huai didn't choose to run, but suddenly stopped.

"Wait, your hand."

"What happened to my hand?"

Cai Yan thought she had a wound on her hand that she hadn't noticed, so she turned it over to take a look, and then...

"Snapped!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Gu Huai slapped the other person on the head, not on the forehead, and then ran away.

Ta-ta-ta-ta!

Now it's his turn to play with the wind-up frog.

Cai Yan stood at the entrance of the building. Of course, she wouldn't do something childish like chasing after boys to hit them. She had vowed to give up that kind of behavior when she was in junior high school.

After all, I've been pretty since I was little, and I used to have a good temper. But because of that, I found that the boys in my class especially liked to bully me, like pulling my hair or suddenly screaming behind my back to scare me.

She only realized it when someone told her that it was just because those boys wanted to enjoy the pleasure of being chased by her in this way.

She didn't find it funny, and if she really lost her temper, people would say she had a bad temper and couldn't take a joke.

So she simply became a girl with a bad temper, and after entering high school, gradually no boys did such childish things to her anymore.

Apart from Gu Huai.

Thinking about this, the girl was both angry and couldn't help but laugh.

Watching the other person disappear around the corner of the stairs, she sighed and climbed the stairs on her own.

Then I saw that it was still pouring rain outside the corridor.

She suddenly felt that the wind blowing on her face wasn't so cold anymore, and the rain didn't seem so annoying.

How does that song go again?

"The rainy season when I was eighteen. Seventeen? Never mind, that's about right."

Kidding.

With so many people in this school, how could it be that it would make little difference if anyone came?
It's just one level above where the girl was watching the rain.

Theoretically, you should see the layer where the rainwater falls first.

Gu Huai stood in the corridor watching the rain fall, the continuous lines seeming to slice through the world before him.

This is what youth is all about!

How you spend your youth, and with whom you spend it, makes a fundamental difference.

Of all the people in this world, only a few are so special and so different.

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(End of this chapter)