Summer Green Apples

"You're quite observant." Xu Jiyang put his arm around Li Junyu's shoulder and clicked his tongue. "It's a pity, I was hoping to meet him."

Chi pushed his shoulder, "What's so interesting? Didn't you want to play video games? Let's go."

Xu Jiyang's attention was quickly diverted.

Li Junyu followed.

……

Happy times always seem to pass too quickly.

After seeing Li Junyu and Xu Jiyang off, Chi Sui went back to his room and lay down for half an hour. After watching the movie he hadn't finished watching last time, he went downstairs again.

At this time, Aunt Chen was still preparing breakfast for the next day.

He pretended not to care, glanced at the shoe cabinet, then frowned, "Aunt Chen, hasn't Ji Xiwen come back yet?"

Mrs. Chen was taken aback for a moment. "I didn't see her. She probably hasn't come back yet."

Chi Sui didn't even bother to change his shoes, "I'm going out for a bit."

"Huh?" said Aunt Chen, "You should at least change your shoes."

Chi Sui had already pushed open the door and gone out.

Pingcheng was still humid and hot in the evening, and the streetlights in the residential area were turned on.

Chi Sui walked out of the residential area with his phone in his hand. There was a bus stop right at the entrance of the residential area.

He stood on the platform for a while, stunned, before realizing that he had no idea where to look for Ji Xiwen.

The most outrageous thing is that they didn't even exchange contact information.

Ji Xiwen's hometown is in the north, and he's unfamiliar with Pingcheng, plus it's so late...

Chi clicked his tongue, took out his phone, and was just about to call Ji Rong when a voice suddenly rang out in the distance.

"Chi Sui?"

Her voice was sweet, but her tone was somewhat uncertain.

Chi Sui looked away from his phone and focused his gaze on the person under the streetlight.

She carried a schoolbag, her ponytail was a little messy, especially the stray hairs by her ears, she wore a school uniform several sizes too big, her legs were long and slender, her face was bare, her skin was fair, and soft light shone on her shoulders.

Her eyebrows and eyes were curved, like a screenshot from a movie.

Chi Sui did not react at all.

He simply stood there, maintaining the same eye contact with Ji Xiwen.

Ji Xiwen walked up to him with a puzzled look, and quickly noticed that he was only wearing slippers. She was confused and asked, "Is there something urgent?"

It took Chi Sui a long time to find his voice, "...No."

"Okay." Ji Xiwen nodded. "Then I'll go back."

Chi paused for two seconds, then followed after him. "Where did you go?"

"library."

Ji Xiwen yawned.

"Where are you going and what are you going to do?"

"I was doing homework," Ji Xiwen said naturally. "Didn't you say before that you didn't want people at school to know about our relationship? Your friends were coming over to your house, and I didn't know where to go, so I went to the library."

Chi opened his mouth as if to say something, but after racking his brains, he couldn't utter a single word.

After all, those were indeed words he said.

He turned his head slightly to look at Ji Xiwen.

She carried her schoolbag and occasionally bounced around, as if she was enjoying the peaceful night.

"Ji Xiwen".

"Um?"

"Have you always been like this?"

Ji Xiwen paused for a moment. "What does it look like?"

"Well..." Chi Sui originally wanted to say "accepting whatever comes his way," but when he met her clear eyes, he changed his question, "What usually makes you angry?"

Ji Xiwen thought for a moment, "Is there anything wrong?"

Chi Sui was surprised, "Such a good temper?"

"It's probably not that bad." Ji Xiwen looked ahead; the cicadas were chirping loudly in the night. "I just don't think getting angry is any use."

No matter how angry she gets, her parents won't come back, nor will they stand up for her when she's wronged.

Anger is the most useless thing.

No matter how difficult things are, or how bad your mood is, you can get through it on your own.

……

Ji Xiwen had eaten out. When she returned to her room and took off the ill-fitting coat, she realized it belonged to Chi Sui.

She knocked on Chi Sui's bedroom door, clutching her coat.

Half a minute later, Chi Sui came to open the door.

The moment the door opened, a blast of cold air rushed out. Chi Sui seemed to be playing a video game, with a headset hanging around his neck.

His door was almost completely open.

One entire wall was transformed into a transparent cabinet, filled with various models, exuding an astonishing extravagance.

"What's wrong?"

His voice was a little hoarse.

Ji Xiwen handed over the neatly folded school uniform jacket, saying, "Thank you for the jacket."

Chi took it, and a few seconds later, as if remembering something, asked, "Do you have WeChat?"

"Yes." Ji Xiwen nodded.

Chi then fell silent.

He has always been the one who asks others to add him on WeChat; there's never any reason for him to ask others for their WeChat.

This person has an extremely serious case of spoiled brat syndrome; it's as if adding someone on WeChat would cost him a piece of his flesh.

Ji Xiwen met his gaze for a moment, then asked somewhat blankly, "What's wrong?"

Chi Sui said with a sour face, "I'll add you on WeChat so we can contact each other if needed."

"Oh well."

Ji Xiwen said, "I'll go back and get my phone."

Ji Xiwen quickly pulled out her phone. "Will you scan me or should I scan you?"

Chi Sui didn't speak, but just looked at Ji Xiwen with an inscrutable expression.

Upon hearing this, Ji Xi felt a surge of joy and proactively opened the "Scan" function, her tone unconsciously becoming respectful as she said, "I'll add you."

Chi Sui's expression didn't change much, but he was ultimately satisfied.

After exchanging WeChat contacts, Ji Xiwen left.

After returning to their respective bedrooms, neither of them was in the mood to do anything else and began scrutinizing each other's profile pictures, nicknames, and social media posts.

Ji Xiwen's Moments are always visible to all, but she has only posted three posts in total.

All three of her WeChat Moments posts featured the same little stray dog.

Chi Sui stared at it for a long time, wondering what was so ugly about this little mongrel that made Ji Xiwen want to keep taking pictures of it.

One post on WeChat Moments even praised the little mongrel dog as cute.

He couldn't help but take a screenshot and send it to Ji Xiwen.

CS: [What's so cute about him?]

Ji Xiwen hadn't had time to add a nickname to his contacts yet. She was currently engrossed in the young master's colorful and vibrant social media posts when she suddenly received the message and was startled by the nickname.

Xi Wu Bu Wen Zhong: [Don't you think your nickname is a bit strange?]

CS: [Without you, my aesthetic sense is weird.]

Xi Wu Bu Wen Zhong: [The director is very cute.]

CS: [Who came up with this name?]

Xi Wu Bu Wen Zhong: [My grandmother.]

CS: [。]

CS retracted the previous statement.

No bell tolls at noon by the stream: [(smiling face) (sun)]

In the next room, Chi Sui rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on.

His grandmother often sends him these two emojis whenever she messages him, as if she wants to include them in every single message.

He logged out, scrolled through videos for a while, and when he received a group message, he opened WeChat.

I noticed many red dots at the bottom of my WeChat Moments post.

He didn't bother to check the messages in the group chat; he opened his WeChat Moments.

Xi Wu Bu Wen Zhong liked all of his posts on WeChat Moments.

And there is a continuing upward trend.

Chi Sui: "???"