How come you're also my ex-girlfriend?

She looked inexplicably awkward, but she maintained her posture very well; Xu Yan thought she was performing acrobatics.

"Hmm, no rush."

Ye Shutong looked up at the boy who hadn't sat down yet, but was standing in front of her, as if trying to exert some kind of pressure.

She didn't feel embarrassed or strange, and just looked up at him.

This inexplicably reminded Xu Yan of The Garden of Words. It's a pity, she probably wouldn't want to take off her shoes here.

Xu Yan pointed to the backpack she was sitting on, "Haven't you changed your germaphobia after all this time?"

"Is it necessary to change it?" she asked softly, then, as if remembering something, she turned and asked, "Or rather, do you want to replace the schoolbag?"

Xu Yan: ?

I really want to laugh!

"No, aren't you acting a bit like Tang Sanzang, wanting to bite everyone? It makes me sound like a pervert... This is ridiculous."

Ye Shutong simply watched Xu Yan talk quietly, her amber eyes gleaming slightly, seemingly different from her usual gaze.

"I was just saying, why are you in such a hurry?"

"I'm not in a hurry, really not in a hurry."

"Oh, that's good."

That indifferent tone was really unsettling, so Xu Yan decided to calm himself down and sat down directly next to Ye Shutong.

Leaning against a pillar.

"We've been talking for so long and haven't gotten to the point yet. What are you trying to do?"

Ye Shutong turned her head slightly. "Now that we've covered the main topic, tonight is over."

Xu Yan touched his face. "I have class tomorrow... It's not appropriate to stay up too late, and chatting here is getting a bit dry. It would be better to have a late-night snack."

Hearing the boy's words, Ye Shutong said softly, "I don't have the habit of eating late-night snacks."

No wonder you're so thin.

"Actually, I'm in pretty good shape."

Xu Yan felt that this was not something Ye Shutong would say.

Although Xu Yan had seen Ye Shutong's figure in the swimming pool, he still wanted to look at Ye Shutong and speak at this moment.

"I do not believe."

Ye Shutong reached out and placed her hand on the zipper of her school uniform jacket.

Xu Yan stared at her fingers.

Pinch it tightly, then release it.

Then, a playful look met the boy's disappointed gaze. "Do you take me for Wen Xueyu?"

"..."

Why are you bringing up cod burgers? Isn't this a situation where we're sniping each other from mid-lane?

Xu Yan quickly clarified, "Don't talk nonsense, I don't treat girls like that."

"Am I not a girl?"

This time, he asked with a smile.

The artificial lake behind us is filled with the loud croaking of frogs.

Xu Yan stared at her gleaming eyes, his gaze somewhat unfocused; her face was too close.

She seemed so close, as if the night itself was her, and she was tonight.

Xu Yan slightly withdrew her gaze. "If you don't count as a girl, then the whole world is probably full of men."

"You're quite eloquent."

The two fell silent, as if only their breaths, which were not in sync, could be heard.

Xu Yan looked up at the slightly reduced rain curtain outside the pavilion. Under the dim lights of the park, the glistening rain threads were barely visible.

It's as if reality and illusion are being severed.

Ask whatever you want.

Seemingly sensing Xu Yan's subtle emotional fluctuations, she broke the silence first.

Xu Yan shook his head. "There's nothing to ask."

"Don't you want to ask about what happened before?"

Xu Yan thought about it for a moment. There was a time when he really wanted to ask... but now, he just shook his head. "I don't think it's necessary. After all, it's all in the past."

"Yes, it's been a long, long time."

She even seemed to feel a touch of melancholy.

Xu Yan smiled and looked back, "I always feel like you're trying too hard to be mature when you say things like that. What, can't you be a little more relaxed when you talk to me?"

Ye Shutong looked at Xu Yan quietly. Without much thought, she said almost without hesitation, "Talking to you is when I feel most relaxed."

Instead, Xu Yan felt a little embarrassed. "You don't need to be so polite when you talk to me."

"I've never been polite to you."

"Then why aren't you being polite to me?"

Xu Yan glared angrily, putting on an act.

Ye Shutong wasn't angry at all; instead, her eyes widened slightly, as if she were thoroughly enjoying the boy's performance.

Xu Yan gave up. He stood up and picked up his umbrella.

"Alright, there's nothing to talk about in the past. If you're making a fuss about these things because of what happened before... there's really no need for that."

Illusions are always blissful, but they are ultimately just illusions.

Therefore, Xu Yan would rather be more direct now, that would be better.

After all, the feeling that the two people do not live in the same world is too strong, and the brief time they spend together seems to be the only moment when the two worlds intersect.

Xu Yan is actually someone who easily thinks too pessimistically about things, and that's probably why he used to like giving up?

But as he got up, picked up his umbrella, and prepared to leave...

She stood up too. "It has nothing to do with what you're thinking, and besides, you've forgotten something."

"what?"

Xu Yan turned around.

A fragrant figure approached, and Xu Yan didn't know what she had done, but... the umbrella fell to the ground.

Those fragrances were like a whole spring rushing into my arms.

Xu Yan's body stiffened honestly.

Feeling her embrace, her real warmth.

The two separate worlds seem to have found a more complete connection.

In that instant, he couldn't think of too many things; just feeling the body temperature was enough to exhaust all of a boy's courage and abstract thinking.

Her hand, suspended in mid-air, couldn't grasp the umbrella that had fallen to the ground. She was still hugging him, whispering in his ear, "Your reward."

Xu Yan: ...

He inhaled the scent of the other person's hair, and forced a smile. "That's it... I thought..."

Xu Yan hadn't finished speaking.

The girl pulled her arms away, but not to leave immediately.

"Well."

My cheek was damp and slightly warm.

The boy's pupils dilated.

She straightened up in front of him, gazed at Xu Yan with a faint smile, like the gentle weather of Jiangnan.

"That should be enough."

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Chapter 126 Check tonight's market information!

The summer heat has long since faded, and the autumn evening breeze is mixed with rain.

Accompanied by the faint croaking of frogs by the artificial lake, I must recall countless nights like this.

But the dampness on my face, the lingering warmth on my chest, and the fragrance still seemed to linger around my nose.

Everything was so novel and indescribably dreamlike.

Xu Yan felt that he might have already died in that 4000-meter race, and everything he was doing now was probably just a fantasy before he died.

But is this all there is to fantasy? It seems to overestimate the cost of fantasy.

It's true, it's really true.

The dim light from the streetlamp illuminated the boy's blank face, while the girl had already picked up her umbrella again and put on her schoolbag, which had been flattened earlier.

Xu Yan finally came to his senses, looked at Ye Shutong, and narrowed his eyes.

"you..."

"Isn't that enough? You're so greedy."

She wore a faint smile, seemingly without much shyness. In comparison, Xu Yan felt a little embarrassed by his wildly beating heart.

"I didn't say... no, did you ask for my opinion before doing all this nonsense? What if I don't want to?"