Snowy Night Kiss

Chapter 57 What would happen if I stopped for you?
Jian Yi said, "It's okay," and then asked, "What did the teacher say?"

"I told the counselor, and she said she would call your parents, but you didn't write your parents' phone number in the information you filled out at the beginning of the semester."

Lin Yuan spoke quickly: "The counselor asked you to send your parents' phone number, how about I be your parent?"

“You think the counselor can’t hear you?”

Jian Yi took a breath, kicked the stones under his feet and answered weakly, "It's okay, I'll think of a way myself."

During her school years, Jian Yi had always been the least worry-free child in the eyes of her elders. Jian Chengfeng and Bai Hongmei were both busy with their own things and had never attended her parent-teacher meetings, let alone called her if she got into trouble.

She thought for a while, and then she suddenly had an idea and sent a number to the counselor.

Who would have thought that there would be a sequel to this incident? When the bell for the last evening class rang at seven o'clock, Jian Yi walked out of the school gate excitedly.

Lin Yuan grabbed two badminton rackets in his hand and asked her if she wanted to play after class.

Jian Yi refused without even thinking: "I don't have time today. I have to pick someone up at the airport."

Lin Yuan was skeptical: "Meet your mysterious boyfriend? Do you really have a boyfriend? Why have I never seen him?"

Jian Yi didn't know how to make Lin Yuan believe that she had a boyfriend. School and society seemed to be two unconnected worlds. She couldn't just point to a TV interview column one day and say that this entrepreneur who was ranked high on the national rankings was her boyfriend.

Maybe this day was just a coincidence, or maybe they deliberately took a step closer to each other.

At the bustling school gate, Jin Yanchen stood tall, the afterglow of midsummer leaking out from the gaps between his raised arms. Jian Yi's expression shook slightly, and the moment he walked over, she felt as if she had grasped the entire midsummer.

Jin Yanchen held her arm, nodded slightly to Lin Yuan, and spoke in a steady and powerful voice.

"Hello, I'm Jin Yanchen."
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At 5:15 in the afternoon, Jin Yanchen got off the plane.

As usual, he went to the flower shop to pick up the flowers he had ordered today. The owner of the flower shop said that the irises were blooming well recently. Jin Yanchen prepared the flowers and waited for payment.

The cell phone he seldom used started to ring. He subconsciously rejected the unfamiliar call, but then he seemed to remember something and pressed the call button.

"Hello, are you Jian Yi's parent?"

Jin Yanchen paused: "I guess so."

"May I ask who you are to her?"

The call ended with Jin Yanchen's extremely polite thanks. On the way, he threw the phone into Jian Yi's arms, called up the call records and looked at her leisurely.

Jian Yi hissed, "Don't you say you don't answer calls from strangers?"

"I changed it because I'm afraid you might have an emergency." Jin Yanchen glanced at her calmly, and asked in a playful tone, "What bad things have you done behind my back these days?"

“Is skipping class a bad thing?”

"Calculate."

Jian Yi's eyes widened: "Have you never skipped class?"

"No." Jin Yanchen snorted and laughed, "I was studying at a university in Hong Kong at that time. The professor who taught me was very familiar with my family and would call me whenever there was any movement."

"That means there is no freedom at all."

Jin Yanchen continued, "Later, I received a scholarship and my GPA rose to the top of the school. Those professors never cared about me again. Freedom must be exchanged for absolute strength. This is the truth my father wanted to teach me that year."

"Your father is right. The moment I was able to earn enough money to support myself, I felt the freedom of leaving home."

Jian Yi looked out the window quietly. Every inch of the scenery of Kyoto was almost engraved in her heart, but she still felt that she had no home here.

"Maybe in a few years, I'll be completely free and free from them."

Jin Yanchen tilted his head and looked at her with a faint smile. He naturally knew what she wanted to get rid of, the oppressive family of origin, the stereotype of favoring boys over girls, and perhaps him. "I will get rid of it."

"You'll live the life you want."

"What about you?" Jian Yi asked him, "What kind of life do you want?"

Jin Yanchen did not answer this question.

He silently looked past her at the ever-changing scenery outside the window and said softly, "I don't have the life I want."

How can a person have nothing to ask for?

Jian Yi pursed her lips, unwilling to stop there, still looking up at him and said, "Actually, I think we are quite similar."

"Correct."

The entrance of the busy alley changed several times and seemed to have turned into the night with the first snow.

Jin Yanchen pointed from a distance and said, "You were standing there at that time and only glanced at me. I could see your despair, but you didn't place your hopes on anyone. At that time, I was thinking, what would happen if I stopped for you?"

"The result is that I fell in love with you." Jian Yi looked up at him with a firm gaze.

"And, want to be you."

The car stopped in the eastern suburbs. The courtyard was decorated like Monet's garden with sparse shadows. The best sunshine of the day poured down. The beautiful girl was completely enveloped in the golden sun, with a gentle smile and hot love.

Jin Yanchen would feel confused about his love for her for a brief moment, as if she was not the type to talk about love all the time, but because the object of her love was him, she was not stingy.

Looking at her through the light, Jin Yanchen himself was safely hidden in the shadows of half the world.

His long eyelashes cast a shadow under his eyes, and he continued to speak along with her words -
“You don’t have to be me.”

He chuckled, his eyes showing a tender look that was hard to discern. "I will be your shadow, and I hope you will always be in the light."

The light and darkness are clearly distinguished, with an invisible river flowing between them.

The time gap that could not be crossed, the true feelings that had never been fully revealed, drew an extremely clear line at this moment. Jian Yi suddenly remembered a very popular emotional chicken soup on the Internet in recent years.

It is said that people who are too similar cannot stay together for life even if they love each other.

It is like two people who are both in the abyss. Even if they look up at the stars, they cannot struggle out of the predicament at the same time.

Even if she tried her best to show her sincerity and true love, for Jin Yanchen, it would not be an eternal companionship.

Jian Yi quietly looked into his eyes in the darkness, and at that moment she understood all his unspoken love and sincerity.

"I see."

Her eyes calmed down: "Let's just keep going on like this. I'm willing to stop at any time."

Jin Yanchen opened the car door and walked to the light and shadow on her side. There was a warm and gentle look in his eyes, and his voice was as gentle as jade. "So I hope you can be happy every day you are by my side."

He was such an honest man that he was unwilling to deceive her in the slightest.

Jian Yi closed her eyes deeply and held his hand obediently. Their warm body temperatures blended together, and her heart strangely calmed down at this moment.

She and Jin Yanchen were really similar people. They had the same obscure past, so they often raised their glasses to talk about the present in the lonely late night. They were also equally objective and rational. If there was only one thing that was slightly inferior, it was that she lost control in this relationship and indulged in greed without hesitation, while Jin Yanchen always looked at the overall situation from a high position like a bystander.

He would tell her at the most tender moment: "Xiaoyi, you still have your own life."

(End of this chapter)