Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 54 The Balance Beam

Luo Zhi could no longer tell whether the tears were due to pain or something else.In the next second, she was pulled into his arms by him, and her cheek was pressed against the tie. The silky touch was not warm, even colder than her own tears.He wrapped her back with the arm holding the coat, and pressed the other hand on the back of her head, gently hugging her, as if smoothing the fur of a small animal.

"I'm sorry."

His voice came from above, and Luo Zhi woke up suddenly, tried to break free a few times but couldn't break free.

"I used to think that your sense of right and wrong was very special, and you always apologized for strange things. Unexpectedly, your way of apologizing is even more special."

He didn't answer her cynicism, he let her go gently, but grabbed her wrist.

"Don't freeze, go in and talk about it." He couldn't help her to resist, and forcefully led her into the door.

Luo Zhi has been walking behind silently with her head bowed, receiving countless "Oh my God! You..." along the way.She didn't want to know what expression Sheng Huainan used to face his surprised and gossiping classmates, but she just lowered her head, trying to make her long hair cover her face more.

However, the scene at the venue made her temporarily forget her situation.

The table was overturned.Most of the people were huddled in the buffet area and whispering, only the girl in red stood by the messy table.Sheng Huainan turned to ask a small officer at the door what happened.

"Senior, you don't know, I was really scared to death just now. We were playing jelly puzzles here, when we suddenly heard a loud noise, plates and bowls shattered all over the floor. Everyone was stunned, and then..." the girl hand Rubbing on his chest, he kept panting, and was suddenly interrupted by the boy beside him: "Minister Gobi's girlfriend quarreled with Senior Sister Liu Jing. Senior Sister Liu Jing flipped the table over."

Luo Zhi glanced at the boy gratefully.

Sheng Huainan squeezed her hand hard and said, "You are not allowed to run, wait for me."

After he finished speaking, he quickly walked into the crowd, still tightly clutching Luo Zhi's coat, like a key hostage.

Luo Zhi resigned herself to her fate and leaned against the wall to wait for the show, her attention was gradually drawn to the whispers of the people around her.The nagging girl whispered to the people next to her, "Hey, is it because the teachers of the Youth League Committee have left that no one came out to fight?"

Luo Zhi saw Sheng Huainan, three boys and two girls walking to the "storm area".The girls ran over to appease the girl in red named Liu Jing, while the other boys set up Gobi who was drunk on the chair.Sheng Huainan patted Chen Mohan on the shoulder, signaling her to leave here.Luo Zhi just noticed that there was a clear brown-red stain on Chen Mohan's small dress, maybe it was splashed with red wine.

Chen Mohan suddenly burst into tears, jumped up aggrieved and threw himself into Sheng Huainan's arms.Shocked, Sheng Huainan took a step back, then quickly glanced sideways at Luo Zhi, his eyes filled with bewilderment for the first time.

Luo Zhi opened her mouth in surprise, but when she saw him looking in her direction in a panic, she burst into laughter.She widened her smile and arrogantly looked directly at the embarrassed Sheng Huainan.

Hahaha - Here's her take on everything tonight.

Sheng Huainan spread out and raised his hands, as if he was trying to prove to the referee in a basketball game that he had no tricks, Luo Zhi's coat slowly slipped into his arms.When Chen Mohan just threw himself into his arms, his hand accidentally touched the bare skin on her back, which made his scalp numb, and he froze in place, passively smelling the scent of the perfume she brought. Luo Zhi was smiling gleefully.

Sheng Huainan frowned, and said softly, "Well, classmate, calm down. There are so many people here, you definitely don't want to embarrass yourself and Gobi."

Chen Mohan cried so much that his shrugged shoulders froze, and then he slowly withdrew from his arms.She gently covered her eyes with her hands, pretending to wipe away tears.However, Sheng Huainan clearly saw through her mascara that she wasn't crying at all.

At this time, he heard a chuckle, and it turned out that the president of the student union had been standing aside with his mouth crooked and grinning.

Sheng Huainan finally couldn't see it, walked into the crowd and said to the chairman: "What do you think? No matter what, it's not good to spread the word." The chairman lazily said to him as if waking up from sleepwalking: "Find some people Hurry up and get Liu Jing, Gobi, and his fairy girlfriend away!"

The other officers around also moved up to clean up the mess as if they had just woken up from a dream.The chairman suppressed his smile and said loudly: "It's not too early, let's come here first for today's New Year's Eve. All the people in the Department of Literature and Art stay here, collect your things and settle the bill. Other students go back to rest early, everyone New Year's Eve Happy."

The crowd who had just built an embankment and kept a distance from the scene of the incident disintegrated instantly, and Luo Zhi's sight was blocked by chaotic figures.She wondered if it was time for her to go too, pinched her thin shirt, frowned, and found a seat nearby to sit down, so as not to get in the way of others.

From the moment she was pulled into his arms until now, her beating heart has never calmed down.Luo Zhi lightly pressed her wrist on her chest, and gently closed her eyes.

But the pounding heartbeat did not drown out reason.

You see, here we go again, and we're going to do it all over again.She took a deep breath and tried to tell herself, Luo Zhi, if you have a brain...you know you should...you know...

If you have a brain, Luo Zhi.

No one can play tricks on you unless you like it.Don't let this vicious cycle repeat itself.

She was thinking about something in her mind with slack eyes, but her eyes were covered by shadows.Sheng Huainan actually got away from cleaning the battlefield within a few minutes, smiled and said to her, "Let's go."

"Don't you need to stay and help?"

"Help me?!" Sheng Huainan complained in a low voice, Luo Zhi suddenly saw the face that complained with his back to the little officer two hours ago, appearing openly in front of his eyes.

Luo Zhi finally took back her coat and quickly put it on, while Sheng Huainan on the side also put on a down jacket.The snow outside has stopped, and since the temperature is not very low, only a small thick layer has accumulated.Luo Zhi earnestly branded her footprints where no one had stepped on.

"I think you definitely have a virginity complex. Look at you, even reading books must be new books, and you like to step on snow that no one has stepped on."

Luo Zhi smiled: "That's right, just now..."

In fact, she didn't know what to ask, after all, she didn't know anything about the student union.Sheng Huainan shrugged his shoulders and comforted her: "It's nothing serious, it's just fighting among the factions. Petty, it's boring."

"Will it affect you?"

He raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, he didn't know what he realized, and immediately smiled happily.

"Don't worry, it won't, I can balance it, it's just for fun anyway."

There was a bit of pride and arrogance unconsciously in the words.Luo Zhi felt itchy in her heart when she heard that, Sheng Huainan like this is probably rare, and people who are tight-fisted rarely show their true conceited side.

Does this prove that she is still special to him?

Luo Zhi couldn't help thinking like this, and even more couldn't help laughing at herself fiercely—it's all over, and she's still guessing about her status.

Secret love has become a habit, humbleness has been rooted in the bones, even scraping the bones to cure the poison can't be wiped clean.

"Actually," he said after being quiet for a while, "I was a little annoyed a while ago... because of the student union."

She didn't speak, just waiting for him to continue.

"But the most annoying thing is that other people think I should be bothered." He looked at the front and laughed at himself. "Although the relationship between me and the seniors who followed Gobi is not good, we are still good. After the accident, He offered to drink with me several times to relieve my worries, but I didn't have any worries, so I couldn't laugh or cry and had to avoid him."

From Sheng Huainan's calm narration, Luo Zhi roughly grasped the situation.The student union is having an uneventful New Year.The sponsorship of the New Year's party had already been arranged by Sheng Huainan's external relations department, but at a critical moment in mid-December, the electronic export company suddenly backed out.The company's explanation to the student union is that the supervisor who signed the agreement resigned, and the agreement has not passed the company's process review and cannot take effect.

If it does not take effect, naturally no payment will be made.

Everyone knew that the real reason was the student union president.In name, the sponsorships were drawn in by Sheng Huainan's External Relations Department in accordance with the established procedures, but in fact, the chairman personally approached and arranged them.Now that he withdraws all of a sudden, Sheng Huainan has become the accusation of everyone - as a scapegoat, he can't report these things that can't be put on the table to the teacher of the Youth League Committee, not to mention that the other party may know the situation better than himself.

The blame can only continue to be carried.

The position of the president of the student union of P University is a lucrative post, with a high reputation and great benefits.Whether it is to go out to find a job or to recommend a graduate student, having this title is basically at your fingertips. At the same time, taking advantage of his power, the chairman will hold the lifeblood of some important campus projects, and the extra money and kickbacks are very generous. The battles are undercurrents.

Every year, nearly one-third of the freshmen rush into the student union to be a small secretary, running errands, moving things, and distributing leaflets—although there are very few sophomores who can make it into a minister.If you want to survive in the student union, ability and perseverance are important, but what is more important is the support and appointment of the former minister or a higher level.After half a semester, most of the 3-minute hot-blooded small officers quit the department, and those who skipped shifts; among the few who remained, only one could become a minister, and the others could only be named deputy ministers by friendship—this title Naturally, there is no meaning, so they often just leave.However, the student union is not short of manpower. Every year, a large number of small officers flock in. They are much more obedient than the "deputy ministers", and they are also much easier to deceive.The sophomore ministers will run for the presidium in the next semester, and four or five lucky ones will become vice-chairmen in the junior year, and the president of the student union in the fourth year will be selected from these four or five vice-chairmen.

Pyramid-like levels.

In this world, climbing up is never an easy task unless someone lifts you up.For example, the current president of the student union, whose grades are a mess, is studying in an unpopular major, but his family background allows him to maintain a good relationship with some teachers of the youth league committee. Before the election, he spent money on many voters and invited the most dinners.However, just before the new year, the chairman's father in the admissions office of a certain southern province was caught under double regulation. During the investigation, the financial entanglements of several companies that provided sponsorship funds were incidentally brought up, making these sponsors avoid them.

Seeing that all the activities planned for the New Year were left there, several teachers from the Youth League Committee rushed to the room in a hurry, neither daring to continue to use him, nor dare to move him rashly.The current chairman has been frozen like a puppet emperor.

But at this time, Gobi recruited the sponsor of the family business to be on the top—the small group of vice-chairmen that Gobi followed had been fighting openly and secretly with the current chairman, and this move severely slapped the puppet emperor.As a result of the chaotic situation today, the chairman just stood aside to watch the excitement, and didn't come out to control the scene.Gobi is the leading figure today, and the teachers above him are coincidentally absent, and the longer this embarrassing situation lasts, the happier the chairman will be.

Sheng Huainan let out a long breath of white air.

"It's annoying. There are a lot of shit, and each of them seems to be serious. After the election next semester, I will drop the pick."

His childish tone made Luo Zhi smile, but she really didn't know how to give feedback to this long, faint complaint.She naturally believed that he said that she could settle things down. She also knew that Sheng Huainan had no intention of doing so.

So, I can only smile.

Suddenly it snowed again.Sheng Huainan and her walked away from the brightly lit communication center, and walked on the small gravel road that Luo Zhi came to.For a long time, the two of them did not speak, and the only sound left in the world was the rustling snow and the creaking footsteps.

"Do you still like me?"

Just as Luo Zhi stepped heavily into the snow, when she heard his words, she immediately stopped in her tracks, as if being pinned in place by a cat that pinched the back of her neck.The only thing moving in the whole world was the white air produced by the two of them breathing, which came fiercely, and then quickly faded and dissipated.

Suddenly jumping to this point from the topic of the student union, she was suddenly a little dazed. She felt Sheng Huainan approaching behind her, and she took a step forward, but he held her hand.

"Am I being a hooligan?" He raised her hand to his lips and kissed it lightly, then clenched it tightly against his chest.Luo Zhi glared at him like a Martian, and he finally couldn't help laughing out loud.

"If I want to marry you, it's not a hooligan, is it?"

Sheng Huainan looked at Luo Zhi who was still petrified and her frighteningly bright eyes, and decided not to beat around the bush anymore.

"Luo Zhi," he smiled confidently, "I..."

"do not!"

Luo Zhi's shout shocked the fresh snow on the branches.

(End of this chapter)