I'm afraid I'm not interested in love

Chapter 496 Chen Jin's Extra: Young and Beautiful (Part )

Putting aside the inexplicable palpitations, the first thing Chen Jinzhi smelled from Su Chengyi was a scent that belonged to the same kind.

Perhaps it was because they were transfer students from the same country, and in an unfamiliar environment they would inevitably want to "huddle together for warmth";
Or perhaps it was his taciturn and expressionless attitude, and the faint sense of world-weariness that emanated from his entire body, that made Chen Jinzhi, who usually pretended to be gentle, tolerant and kind-hearted, seem to see herself without the mask.

But there are still some differences, Chen Jinzhi thought.

The expressionless Buddha sitting next to him is not targeting anyone. He just has no interest in anything in the world. It's good to be alive, and it's also okay to die.

As for Chen Jinzhi, it was because her life was too boring. She could not see the future and had no time to imagine it.

Every time the clock turned a circle, she would start to worry about what to eat next, the tuition money had not yet been settled, and whether she would be kicked out by the landlord tonight.
And one way to escape these thoughts is to learn.

Chen Jinzhi studied very well, partly because he wanted to try his best to get into a good university and get a good job after graduation;

Another reason sounds more realistic: students with good grades can get more attention from teachers, so she can avoid many bad pranks among classmates.

When you first arrive in a foreign country, it is not easy to adapt to the teaching progress.

Chen Jinzhi certainly understood this well. When she first transferred to this school, she couldn't even speak Korean.

It was like listening to a foreign language during class, and the teacher would not slow down the teaching progress for any special person.

In order not to affect other people in the family, Chen Jinzhi, who was only seven or eight years old at the time, chose to sneak out of the house every night and learn the language by himself under the dim emergency lights in the corridor.

One time, I forgot to fasten the door bolt in a daze, and the door closed automatically when the wind blew.

If you knock on the door and wake up the person inside, you will definitely be scolded or even beaten.

After trying to weigh the pros and cons, Chen Jinzhi decisively chose to stay at the door all night.

In late autumn, she finished learning the entire book "Yonsei Korean" while shivering.

Based on these not-so-good memories, Chen Jinzhi felt that Su Chengyi might encounter the same troubles as her.

After all, when introducing myself, even a simple "Hello everyone" was said so stiffly.

"If you have any questions, feel free to ask me anytime."

Chen Jinzhi thought for a moment and spoke in the polite and distant tone that she was best at.

Su Chengyi supported his chin and said "hmm" nonchalantly.

This is a person who is very good at killing conversation.

Thinking this way, Chen Jinzhi simply gave up the idea of ​​taking the initiative to establish diplomatic relations.

The days of the two sitting at the same table did not last long.

The school seemed to have undergone some institutional reforms and suddenly began to focus on grades.

In the past, the seats in the class were randomly arranged, and students could sit wherever they wanted. Now, in accordance with the school's call, the seats are strictly arranged according to grades.

After the teacher announced the news, there was noise and protest in the classroom.

Park Zhenyan was originally surrounded by her confidants and younger brothers, and she relied on these connections to pass the small tests in class. Now that cheating is hopeless, of course they are the ones who protest the most vigorously.

But the matter was settled, and the teacher waved his hand:
"Start changing seats."

Chen Jinzhi, who won first place, received the "Teacher's Pet" seat in front of the podium.

Of course, she herself didn't really want to receive such an honor.

Su Chengyi, who had no ranking because he was a transfer student, inherited Chen Jinzhi's original last position.

Neither of them showed any significant emotional fluctuations regarding the seat-changing incident.

Su Chengyi's face was expressionless as always, and Chen Jinzhi's smile was official and polite as always.

"You can always ask me if you have any questions in the future."

After the official farewell, Chen Jinzhi packed his schoolbag and stood up, but his attention was suddenly attracted by the graffiti on the table.

She had been accustomed to ignoring these things, and for the first time in a long time, she felt embarrassed by the insulting words on it.

"It does not matter."

Su Chengyi didn't even raise his eyelids, but threw out such a sentence.

He placed his black shoulder bag on the table and calmly accepted the somewhat uncomfortable new seat.

Chen Jinzhi looked at him steadily, took the schoolbag he handed over, turned around and walked towards the front row.

The next day, when Su Chengyi came to school, he found that the table had been wiped clean.

He raised his head and glanced at the front row. Chen Jinzhi had tied her hair into a ponytail today.

The ends of her hair swayed gently in the morning breeze, and the exposed white neck was cleverly hidden in the collar of her school uniform.

Although the physical distance had been widened, Chen Jinzhi's attention was always inexplicably drawn to Su Chengyi more and more.

He always stares out the window during class.

He only buys strawberry-flavored milk when he goes to the convenience store.

On his wrist he had an old-fashioned quartz watch with a stainless steel case.

He hasn't made any friends yet.

He always handed in full marks on his math papers.

His elective language course was German, and he seemed to be doing well in it.

Every time Chen Jinzhi passed by the elective class classroom, he would hear his name being called to lead the reading of the text.

"Du bist mein, ich bin dein."

Despite this, they remained silent to each other and did not say another word.

Chen Jinzhi occasionally thought that perhaps other people also couldn't help but want to pay attention to him, so there were fewer pranks against her, and most people were more interested in this mysterious transfer student.

Perhaps as part of good luck, Chen Jinzhi unexpectedly had a relatively peaceful high school life, which was almost her biggest wish before.

But as the days went by, she felt a subtle uneasiness in this calmness.

There were no more red graffiti on the desk, but when she lowered her head, she could always see those words, and this time they were even indelible.

Human beings may be such creatures. After being oppressed for a long time, when they suddenly regain their freedom, they will not feel relieved, but will force themselves to become the new culprit of their own torture.

Chen Jinzhi occasionally thought about the comments made by the group led by Park Zhenyan.

That is, apart from this face, he is useless, like a dummy without emotions and sense of pain. When he graduates from high school, he will roll back to the class he belongs to. When he gets old, his looks will fade and he will be abandoned by everyone.

Obviously, having this face really brought her a lot of trouble.

Chen Jinzhi has experienced this since she was a child. Her stepmother once wanted her to rely on this face to enter South Korea's hottest entertainment industry, but on the first day of the interview, Chen Jinzhi was dissuaded by the greasy eyes and words of the male director.

Naturally, he was not in a good mood when he returned home. From then on, every expense of Chen Jinzhi was recorded as a debt to be repaid in the future.

Of course, interest is also included.

Ever since Chen Jinzhi entered middle school, there has been an endless stream of people confessing their love to her, many of whom she had no impression of.

Of course, there are also people who don't even know how to pronounce her name correctly, but can still stop her with a grin and ask her if she wants to date him or her.

The reason why Chen Jinzhi ended up being completely alone in her last year of high school had a lot to do with the fact that she had rejected and offended too many people.

To this day, she can't help but doubt, is there really anyone in this world who loves her?
It has nothing to do with appearance, disguise, or anything else. I just love her as a person and pity her heart.

With such confusion and a feeling of inferiority, Chen Jinzhi's eyes always fell on someone inconspicuously.

Even though the two still had no communication, Chen Jinzhi always seemed to be able to draw some sense of security from him.

She thought she hid it well.

Before that day.

Chen Jinzhi doesn't like rainy days.

Sometimes she would sigh in her heart that it was very likely that no matter which parallel universe Chen Jinzhi was in, he didn't like rainy days. The damp smell would come with bad memories, making it difficult to breathe and making people feel depressed.

Coupled with the fact that she had been worried these days, she made a mistake that she would never have made before.

"Hahaha! Goodbye~~ No teachers will come to patrol the building today, so don't try to ask for help anymore. Just stay calm and stay put! Good night~"

Park Zhenyan's arrogant voice came from outside the door, and she was shaking the key chain in her hand. She had specially asked someone from the Sports Department for this.

She sounded as excited as if she had finally succeeded in her uprising after decades of hardship.

Chen Jinzhi paused, bent down, put the basketball basket in his hand on the ground, turned around and looked around.

This is the equipment room.

To prevent theft, there is only one iron door.

It was closed on all sides and the windows were high up, so there was no way an adult could get in or out—even someone as thin as Chen Jinzhi.

The people outside the door laughed shrilly for a long time, but they didn't hear her humble plea for mercy as they wished. Finally, they felt bored and left in a noisy manner.

Chen Jinzhi listened to their receding footsteps, sighed softly, and squatted down against the wall.

If there was no teacher patrolling the building tonight, she would have to wait until someone passed by during the morning class the next day before she could go out.

Under normal circumstances, this would not be something that is difficult to bear.

It just so happens that it is raining today.

There was an unpleasant smell of rust in the equipment room. Raindrops hit the awning outside with a crackling sound. Occasionally, lightning flashed across the room, illuminating the dim equipment room into daylight.

It's like the plot that often appears in campus horror movies. Generally, when the next round of lightning strikes, a female ghost with disheveled hair and sticking out her tongue will suddenly appear in the air.

Chen Jinzhi calmly opened her eyes in the darkness. She was not afraid, nor did she believe that there were creatures like ghosts in the world.

The premise is that there is no sound of footsteps that are sometimes far away, sometimes near, sometimes light, and sometimes heavy coming from the corridor.

Chen Jinzhi's heart was in suspense when he heard the strange noise.

Because even if it's not a ghost or something, it could be a perverted murderer hiding in the campus?

Chen Jinzhi thought of the wanted criminal who appeared in the newspaper some time ago.

After a brief hesitation, she stood up and calmly pulled out a baseball bat from the corner.

The footsteps originally passed by the equipment room, but when Chen Jinzhi breathed a sigh of relief, they suddenly turned back and stopped at the door.

"Boom."

There was a knock on the iron door.

This means that the person coming knows that someone is inside.

Chen Jinzhi nervously gripped the baseball bat in his hand, mentally wondering if he would have a chance of winning if he broke into the room.

"Chen Jinzhi?"

The person outside the door suddenly spoke.

A familiar, cold voice, speaking standard Chinese.

Chen Jinzhi's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and she threw the baseball bat in her hand back to the shelf with a clang.

"Su Chengyi, you want to die."

This was the first conversation between the two after they changed seats.

"Are you afraid?"

The voice outside the door was accompanied by a hint of an undisguised smile.

It sounds quite gloating.

"No."

Chen Jinzhi let out a light breath and squatted down again against the iron gate.

"How did you know I was here?"

After she recovered, she couldn't help but ask again.

"Guess."

Su Chengyi heard her voice lower a few notches, guessed that she was probably sitting down now, and sat down next to the door.

The two of them stood back to back, separated by the heavy iron door.

"Ah."

Of course Chen Jinzhi knew that he was fooling people, so he just responded to what he said.

She was thinking about something else now.

Mingming and Su Chengyi hadn't spoken to each other for a long time - in fact, they didn't say a few words from beginning to end.

But now when I speak, there is no feeling of strangeness or unfamiliarity at all.

He didn't seem to care about the current situation. He just found her inexplicably and sat with her across the wall inexplicably on this rainy night.

"I was reading in the library. When I was leaving school, I ran into some people and heard them discussing something about you."

Su Chengyi changed into a comfortable sitting position and put his schoolbag aside. There was a book tucked between his elbows, proving that what he said was indeed true.

"When I heard someone talking about the equipment room, I walked back. I didn't know where the equipment room was, so I walked around several floors, which wasted some time."

After listening to his explanation, Chen Jinzhi finally understood why the footsteps just now sounded so strange, sometimes close and sometimes far away.

It's really scary.

But after Su Chengyi answered her question, he quickly closed his golden mouth, which seemed to be coated with 502 glue.

Then the atmosphere fell into silence again.

The rain outside the window showed no sign of abating, and muffled thunder rumbled, but the dim equipment room no longer reminded people of sinister associations with ghosts.

Chen Jinzhi curled up as usual and hugged his knees.

She lowered her eyelashes in the darkness, as if she could feel the warmth of someone else from the other side of the iron gate.

This atmosphere cannot be described as very charming, but it is not bad either, and it is even somewhat memorable.

Chen Jinzhi has heard many people describe youth as a heavy rain. She didn't understand it before, but now she understands it a little.

She should find another topic to talk about, Chen Jinzhi thought. She had never been the type to remain silent when she was at a loss for words.

It’s just that I haven’t talked to anyone like this for a long time, so I’m a little uncomfortable with it.

What should I say?

: Why did you come to see me?
: How long do you plan to stay here?

: Will you leave when the rain stops?
Of course, these awkward questions that sounded a little fragile were all rejected by her in the end.

Hearing the faint sound of flipping pages outside the door, Chen Jinzhi's last words were:

"What book are you reading? Can you read it to me?"

There was silence outside the door for a while, and Su Chengyi's eyes fell on the title on the cover page.

For no reason, he recalled the day when he first met Chen Jinzhi.

Yes, she seemed to think she was hiding it well.

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(Help me! I wanted to finish writing two chapters but I miscalculated the progress. It took me three days to write a sequel and I collapsed!!!)
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