You're dumping me, huh? Fine, then I'll just pick up the school beauty and make her my wif

"Yes, he was quite polite and took the initiative to come over and shake hands with me."

Su Qinghe pressed on somewhat anxiously, "Did he make things difficult for you?"

"No." Jiang Che shook his head. "My first impression of this person was that he was very shrewd and skilled at disguise. He's a master."

"This kind of person would never do something as low as publicly humiliating me. Even if they were to humiliate me, it would only be in some other way."

Su Qinghe was silent for a few seconds, then casually tossed the sycamore leaf to the side of the road and grabbed Jiang Che's hand again.

"Then be careful."

"Okay." Jiang Che smiled, then asked Su Qinghe, "How about you? How was your day? Did you go to the music club this morning?"

"Mm." Su Qinghe nodded. "After finishing my morning class at 8 am, I went to the club and practiced the piano with a few club members."

She paused, a hint of embarrassment appearing on her face.

"Actually, I'm not very good at communicating with others in the club, and I always feel like I can't join in the conversation."

"But I don't think it really makes a difference, because we don't chat much; most of the time we're fiddling with our instruments."

Su Qinghe carefully recalled the events in the music club over the past few days and described them to Jiang Che word by word: "When they were chatting, I would say a few words if I could join in, and if I couldn't, I would just continue playing the piano on the side."

At this point, the girl suddenly sighed with some worry.

"The performance is just around the corner, and I haven't chosen my song yet."

Jiang Che turned to look at her and suggested, "If all else fails, why not play 'That Summer'? It's your signature song, so it'll definitely be fine for a small performance."

"I already played it at the welcome party, so I wanted to try a new one."

Su Qinghe shook her head. "Besides, our club president said that since it's an exchange, it's best to play a more difficult piece to showcase our skills."

"So, do you have any options in mind right now?"

"Yes, I do. I'd like to play Liszt's 'The Bell'."

Jiang Che was quite surprised when he heard this.

"I remember 'The Bell' must be very difficult, right?"

"Well, the range of your hands is quite large, and the speed requirement is also very high." Su Qinghe stuck out her tongue a little shyly. "I haven't practiced this piece completely yet. If I'm going to perform it at the exchange meeting, I guess it will take a lot of time to practice."

"I was saying the same thing. It would be hard to fully understand this stuff without spending ten days to half a month on it," Jiang Che nodded in agreement.

Su Qinghe gently bit her lip. "But the club president said—"

"Su Qinghe." Jiang Che stopped and turned to face her. "You joined the music club because you love playing the piano, not to please anyone at the exchange meeting."

Su Qinghe was slightly taken aback.

Jiang Che reached out and tucked her wind-blown bangs behind her ear, softening his voice as he said, "You play the piano for your own enjoyment, not because others want to see you play difficult pieces, understand?"

Su Qinghe stared at him blankly for a while.

"A-Che," she said softly.

"Um?"

Do you enjoy watching me play the piano?

"I like it." Jiang Che answered without hesitation. "Whether you're playing a masterpiece or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, I like it."

Su Qinghe's eyes reddened slightly, but she quickly rubbed them back down.

"Let's go." She took Jiang Che's hand again, her tone slightly coquettish, "Let's go home."

"Didn't you say you weren't going back yet?"

"I want to go home now." Su Qinghe buried her face in his arm, her voice muffled. "I want to go back and play the piano for you."

Jiang Che smiled, not exposing her little mood, but simply holding her hand and walking towards the school gate.

The setting sun cast long shadows of the two people, overlapping each other so that it was impossible to tell whose shadow belonged to whom.

Walking along the road, Su Qinghe's mood was clearly much better than before, and she began to chatter to Jiang Che about the interesting things that happened in class today.

"Did you know that in linear algebra class today, a boy approached me to be his group assignment partner?"

Jiang Che paused slightly, his grip on the girl's hand tightening slightly, but he quickly regained his composure. "And then?"

"Then I refused." Su Qinghe shook their clasped hands, her expression smug and self-satisfied. "I said I already have a regular partner, and it's inconvenient to add anyone else."

"You have a regular partner? How come I didn't know that?"

"Of course it's you."

Su Qinghe winked playfully and said matter-of-factly, "Even though we take different classes, we're a couple, so aren't you my regular partner?"

"You know how to talk." Jiang Che felt relieved.

"What does 'count' mean?"

Su Qinghe tugged at his hand in dissatisfaction.

The young couple walked towards the school gate, laughing and joking.

On the way, Jiang Che also told Su Qinghe about Xu Wenbin's latest progress in pursuing Lin tide, which he had reported in the dormitory.

"Lin tide?" Su Qinghe's gossip instincts were instantly ignited. "How far have things progressed between her and Xu Wenbin? She told me just a couple of days ago that there wasn't much progress."

"Just like you, you're hypocritical."

"No, I didn't," Su Qinghe retorted stubbornly. "What else did Xu Wenbin say?"

Jiang Che recounted Xu Wenbin's "glorious battle reports" from the dormitory at noon.

Su Qinghe listened with great interest, her eyes growing brighter and brighter as she listened.

"So that means they're going on a date at the library next week?"

According to Lao Xu himself, the two of them went there to study.

"That's dating."

Su Qinghe made her conclusion with great certainty, then looked up at Jiang Che, her eyes gleaming with gossip, "Did Xu Wenbin tell you who initiated the contact?"

"Yes, they said Lin tide brought it up herself."

Su Qinghe gave a soft "humph," and a meaningful smile appeared on her lips.

"really."

"As expected what?"

"I won't tell you, it's a little secret between girls."

Jiang Che sighed helplessly.

Women are truly difficult creatures to understand.

……

After returning home, Su Qinghe was noticeably more excited than before.

When she changed into slippers, she even hummed an unknown tune.

Jiang Che followed behind her, watching her skip and hop as she walked toward the living room.

This girl was just worrying about choosing a song at school, but now she's happy again.

Sure enough, a woman's emotions are just like the weather in June—they can change in an instant.

But Su Qinghe is quite good like this.

At least he's much better than when we first met, when he was always sullen and didn't dare to speak loudly.

"Ah Che, what do you think I should wear tomorrow?"

Su Qinghe suddenly turned around, tilted her head, and asked him.

Jiang Che was taken aback: "Why are you suddenly asking this?"

"Because... I also want to go to the library to study with A-Che."