Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 9
Most of the double-degree courses are scheduled on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Luo Zhi got up late because she watched American TV series late at night on Friday night.Panting all the way, she trotted towards the teaching building, with her schoolbag bouncing behind her buttocks, making her feel like an old horse that couldn't run without a whip.

Luo Zhi slipped in through the back door, closing the door very carefully, for fear of making any noise.

Fortunately, it is a large lecture theater.Although the current teacher has long been used to seeing students coming in late and leaving early, and even announcing the roll call and leaving a gap, so that students have enough time to send text messages and call their friends quickly, she still feels embarrassed.

Luo Zhi quietly pressed down the folding chair and sat in the last row. When she looked up, she saw Sheng Huainan, who was sitting directly in front of her.

Before she had time to think about anything else, she smelled the very fragrant Ariel washing powder slowly wafting over.Luo Zhi laughed dumbfoundedly.

When she was in high school, she passed by Sheng Huainan and smelled this smell.Later, she stood in front of Carrefour's washing powder aisle, picked up every fragrance of every brand, and sniffed it sneakily under her nose, like a mentally ill police dog just shaped into a human.

Later, she only used this smell of laundry detergent to wash clothes.But people can't smell the fragrance on their own clothes. Those fragrances can only have one place of origin, and they can only be contaminated by chance encounters. It is meaningless for her to soak it deliberately by herself.

Like this moment.

Luo Zhi petrifiedly stared at the back of his slightly drooping head.It turns out that the story is not over yet.A pure joy rose from his heart.

No one does not want God to be on their side, and she is the same.Since high school, all coincidences can be given a special meaning by her.

But this time, the big persimmon that fell from the sky was like the sound of the gong in "Symphony of Destiny", heralding the beginning of everything.

Now she has met him again, and in this class, she will meet him many more times.

This introductory law class suddenly became extremely meaningful.

The boy next to Sheng Huainan seemed to be the one who fled at the door of the coffee shop that day.The side face is clean and three-dimensional, dark, and the smile is very warm.

"Why are the textbooks for this course so fucking thick? I didn't think it was right when I went to the textbook center to buy them yesterday—the final exam is actually a closed book. I can't help but spit out a pot of blood!" The boy screamed strangely for two The sound was not very clear in the noisy classroom.

Sheng Huainan did not speak.

The boy complained a few more times, then suddenly reached out and strangled Sheng Huainan's neck, and said, "Can you fucking stop playing! What is this?"

Sheng Huainan's voice was nice, and his tone was more casual and rough than when talking to girls.

""Ace Attorney 4", I only played the first three in high school. Get nostalgic."

"Nostalgic fart, did you listen to me!" The boy still grabbed his neck and shook it, his elbow turned back, and he knocked over Luo Zhi's water glass behind him—fortunately there was no book on the table, It's just a few pieces of calculation paper, which I just took out of my schoolbag.However, she herself was in a miserable situation. The hot water just received before entering the door made coffee, splashing all over her body.

The clothes don't matter, the point is, it's very hot.

She gasped, and the girl sitting next to her yelled, which attracted most of the eyes of the people around her.

The boy was obviously so frightened that he couldn't even say "I'm sorry", but just turned around and stared at Luo Zhi with his mouth wide open.She was flipping through her schoolbag in a hurry, and suddenly a hand was stretched out from the front row, offering a stack of tissues.

Looking up, it was Sheng Huainan who was sighing and saying, "I'm sorry."

Luo Zhi smiled tolerantly, took the paper towel as a thank you, and while wiping the clothes, used the paper to absorb the "Wang Yang" on the table.

It was almost done, she looked at her light blue shirt with a lot of confetti in it, dumbfounded, and the world map was in a mess.Luo Zhi looked up at the "petrified" boy, raised a finger and waved it in front of his eyes, and said, "It's time to return to your soul, don't be afraid, I won't cry and make you pay for it."

The boy finally regained his senses and hurriedly said, "Yes, I'm sorry."

Maybe he was still stuck in the psychological shadow she left him last time, but this time he was so scared that he stuttered.

She was a little helpless, so she kept waving her hands and said, "It's all right, really."

Sheng Huainan frowned slightly, with a complicated expression, and it took him a long time before he said slowly, "Don't you hurt? The water is so hot."

"Ah, a little bit." She still smiled, "It's okay, I have a thick skin, let's go to class."

When she sat back in her seat, Luo Zhi gently rubbed her lower abdomen and thighs, which really hurt a little, but when she realized it, the neighbor sitting next to her had already screamed for her.

That's fine, you don't have to worry about how to greet him.

The old man on the podium was still rambling about the course structure of the introduction to law and the necessity of learning, but all the single sentences came in one ear and popped in the other, meaningless.

She stared intently at the projection screen above the blackboard, a smile slowly appeared on the corner of her mouth, sly and gentle, her face turned honey-colored.

Out of the corner of the eye, he felt someone else's gaze.It turned out that Sheng Huainan, who rested his chin on one hand and frowned, was leaning on the table and looking back at her.

Luo Zhi was a little embarrassed, tilted her head, and wanted to open her mouth to ask him what's wrong, but saw him smile a little embarrassedly, and quickly turned away.

Seeing Sheng Huainan in a daze, Zhang Mingrui also looked back.

"Hey, you're back!" He leaned over to Sheng Huainan's ear and said.

Sheng Huainan glanced at him lazily, then lowered his head and opened the textbook to look at the contents.

"Did you like it? I think it's good. It's both internal and external, easy to approach, and the price/performance ratio must be particularly good."

"Fuck off. You've seen too many advertisements in the past two days, and you think you're helping the boss save up his computer." Sheng Huainan grinned with a smile on his face.

"Stop pretending to be a buddy. Otherwise, what are you looking at?"

Sheng Huainan froze for a moment, but did not speak.

Luo Zhi soon knew the reason why Sheng Huainan hesitated to speak.

As soon as the teacher announced a 10-minute break, he turned around and asked, "Are you really not in pain?"

Luo Zhi laughed angrily at him: "You seem to really want me to cry out for pain."

The perpetrator, on the contrary, came to see the fun without his own business, and said with a smile: "Beauty, don't pay attention to him, he has a hot water complex. If I remember correctly, when he met his first love girlfriend, it was because he accidentally spilled a cup of hot water. On that girl, she burned her teeth until she grinned, and he was scolded. Our young master is unfortunately a masochist. Weak water is three thousand, just waiting for a spoonful to be poured."

Sheng Huainan didn't react as clearly as he did in the coffee shop this time, but he seemed to be accustomed to bringing up old things again, as if he had expected that the other party would reveal his faults, and smiled softly, neither denying nor getting angry.

Luo Zhi was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned her head to look at the boy, and said, "Are you trying to imply something to me? You also poured hot water all over me, should I scold you like hell now? Is there a fate?!"

The boy was embarrassed and blushed, while Sheng Huainan was already laughing so hard that he could not stand up straight on the table.

"You really didn't like her?" The old man continued to give lectures, Zhang Mingrui pretended to ask casually, but didn't smile.

"Why do you keep asking this?" Sheng Huainan lowered his head and copied the notes seriously.

The nib of Zhang Mingrui paused for a moment, raised his head to look at the podium, put on the cap of the pen, and asked casually, "Are you classmates in high school? What's your name?"

Sheng Huainan glanced at him quickly.

"Do you want me to introduce the configuration, model, and budget?" He smiled and looked at Zhang Mingrui, who was blushing.

Few people could see Zhang Mingrui blushing because he was too dark.

"Department of International Trade, School of Economics, Luo Zhi, Luo Zhi in the ancient city of Luoyang, uh..."The orange grows in Huaibei, and it is the Zhi." Sheng Huainan explained Luo Zhi's name with a fuss, and said jerkyly. After a pause, "And it's our high school beauty—at least the school beauty in the comprehensive ranking, talented and virtuous, and I heard that she's still single. In terms of feasibility, you have a lot of fun."

Zhang Mingrui forced a smile and didn't make any noise.

"Hey, why don't you talk, and plan in your mind?" Sheng Huainan laughed.

He still didn't answer.It was the first time that Sheng Huainan babbled so much in front of him and kept joking, but no matter what, he could only smile reluctantly.

Sheng Huainan stopped talking, and the two quietly copied their notes.

Zhang Mingrui is not a boy who is too rough and careless.He could clearly hear something slowly dying in their silence.

After class, Luo Zhi was arranging her schoolbag when she saw the boy splashing water turn to face her.

"I invite you to eat ice cream and apologize."

Luo Zhi was very surprised. She saw that Sheng Huainan's face was also full of surprises, but it was only for a short moment. Then he swung his schoolbag on his shoulder, winked at her, and smiled in Zhang Mingrui's ear. He said in a big voice, "Don't embarrass your buddy," and left quickly.

"My name is Zhang Mingrui." The boy's cheeks were still flushed.He looks dark, his facial features are stretched, and he is quite pleasing to look at.

Luo Zhi took a few seconds to digest the situation, then sighed and said, "If it's because of this dress and that cup of coffee, then I don't think there's any need to make amends, and I don't mind. If it's because of the fate of splashing water..."

His face turned redder.

"Then it's even more unnecessary." She said in a joking tone, "I'm not familiar with Sheng Huainan High School, but I've heard some rumors. The relationship between him and that girl started out very interesting and unconventional, but in the end it just ended. It's one shot and two parts. The same opening routine, it's unlucky, I think the two of us should forget it."

She smiled, the sense of distance was in her eyes, she believed he could see it.

"Ha, it's okay, it's okay, don't get me wrong." The boy was embarrassed, and Luo Zhi couldn't bear it, but she didn't want the matter to go too far, so it's better to make it clear from the beginning.

Moreover, Sheng Huainan walked away like a matchmaker, which made her a little upset.

"You're the girl I met that day. You still have such a sharp mouth. Sheng Huainan told me just now that you are the school girl of their high school, with both talent and appearance. Sure enough, you really deserve your reputation."

Luo Zhi knew that this was just Sheng Huainan's rhetoric in front of Zhang Mingrui.

"You got tricked. Not me."

He was taken aback: "Huh?"

"The school beauty was splashed with hot water by him back then." She didn't want to continue, picked up her schoolbag and said "See you later" to him, and walked towards the back door.

After walking a few steps, I suddenly heard a low voice calling from behind.

"Luo Zhi, right?"

She looked back at him: "Yes, Sheng Huainan told you?"

"You like Sheng Huainan, right?" Zhang Mingrui stared at the table, not her.

Has she run into a ghost recently? Why did one or two come to ask her if she likes Sheng Huainan, or are they all strangers who are out of reach.

"You'd better have enough." She neither denied nor admitted.

Seeing that he was blushing from being choked by her, she slowed down and said softly: "Don't get me wrong, not all girls who talk to handsome guys are trying to get close."

Although she is.

"You must also like Sheng Huainan." Zhang Mingrui was bewitched.

"Really?" Luo Zhi was startled when she heard the words, vaguely saw something from his expression, and smiled, "Zhang Mingrui, did you like a certain girl, but she liked Sheng Huainan ?”

Zhang Mingrui's expression changed slightly, he opened his mouth but didn't say anything, he just lowered his head and turned his face away.

Luo Zhi was speechless, he couldn't even tell a lie to cover it up, it really made people wonder what to say.

Everyone around had left, and only the two of them stood there stupidly.Luo Zhi thought for a while, then walked over, and said apologetically, "Please buy me ice cream. Pretend I didn't say anything. I'm sorry."

He came back to his senses and immediately smiled silly: "Okay."

Luo Zhi admits that he is indeed a very cute person for changing his thinking mode so easily.

Not far from the school gate, DQ and Haagen-Dazs stand side by side.Zhang Mingrui hesitated at the door for a long time, and Luo Zhi took the lead to enter DQ's door.

"I knew you weren't that special kind of girl!" He followed behind and shouted with a smile.

They both called the "Matcha Almond Blizzard".The clerk seems to be a newcomer. When he demonstrated "pour the cup without spilling" to every customer who ordered Blizzard, his expressions and movements were cautious, as if he didn't believe what he said at all.

She took a big bite.

"It was too presumptuous to invite you just now, I'm sorry." Zhang Mingrui said.

"But I'm still here." She smiled.

The two chatted about the introductory law class just now, Luo Zhi pondered for a while, and asked him: "Why did you choose a double degree in law?... Aren't many of you students who study biology choose a double degree in mathematics?"

"We don't want to study double degrees at all. The important thing is GPA and GRE. We will choose French double degree. In fact, when we passed by and saw the promotional board that day, Sheng Huainan suddenly said that he wanted to see what kind of life a liberal arts student lives. So I pulled me to choose together. Anyway, if you can’t finish the course and want to give up, you can transfer the existing credits to elective courses, and there is no loss.”

Want to know what kind of life a liberal arts student lives?Luo Zhi smiled and said, "Oh, that's right."

All of a sudden the two of them had nothing to say.After being silent for a while, Zhang Mingrui said slowly, "You guessed it right. The girl I like approached me because of Sheng Huainan. I was so happy, so stupid."

"You don't have to tell me," she said with a gentle smile.

"Just pretend I'm complaining, I haven't told anyone about it." Zhang Mingrui's expression was a bit embarrassed.

"Then why did you tell me?"

"Does it matter?"

Luo Zhi smiled, didn't bother anymore, and scooped up the ice cream vigorously with a small spoon.

"It's not his fault, so I don't want to tell others, and I don't want him to be embarrassed. Sheng Huainan's refusal is very clear, not ambiguous, and it is indeed that girl... who is passionate," Zhang Mingrui said a little unbearably in the last sentence, " It is true that she is using me, it has nothing to do with Sheng Huainan."

When Luo Zhi heard this, her heart moved, and then she looked at him seriously.

"Zhang Mingrui, I think...you are a very nice person."

"Ok?"

"You didn't blame him, and you are still good friends with Sheng Huainan. It's really rare. Although it seems that Sheng Huainan has no responsibility on the surface, but if it were someone else, you might alienate him from now on. After all, it's not wrong, isn't it? The point is, it’s the first thing to face. You can continue to be friends with him, and you don’t tell others about it, so I say you are really sensible and generous.” She sincerely said explain.

"Really? It's not that good." Zhang Mingrui patted the back of his head uncomfortably.

"Just for this," Luo Zhi pointed to the snowstorm in her hand, "You are considered a good person." She smiled sweetly.

"Actually, it's not as good as you said." Zhang Mingrui smiled wryly. "I asked you out in front of him, but I didn't discuss it with him before. Maybe I was afraid."

Luo Zhi was stunned, then why did you ask me out to protest with him?She didn't speak.

"There are quite a lot of girls chasing him, but he still hasn't agreed to any of them. The brothers in our dormitory think that he may still miss his ex-girlfriend. Although it doesn't appear on the surface, he should study, play games, clubs, The student union is still thriving, but well, I always feel..." Zhang Mingrui hesitated for a long time, with an expression on his face that he was afraid that Luo Zhi would scold him for talking about others.

"It'll be fine. As long as it lasts long enough. It's better for the rest of us not to worry about it." She interrupted him immediately.

Zhang Mingrui was surprised for a long time when he heard her tone that it had nothing to do with him.

"Well, I hope." He wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He sent Luo Zhi to the door of the dormitory, and when he was parting, he suddenly said something.

"I'm sorry, I said a lot of things today without thinking."

Luo Zhi just smiled, noncommittal.

"Actually...don't mind, I think you two are quite a match." Zhang Mingrui gave Luo Zhi a tentative look.

Luo Zhi blinked and smiled: "Are you complimenting me?"

Zhang Mingrui stared blankly at Luo Zhi's delicate back disappearing around the corner.

Why did he invite Luo Zhi to eat ice cream?What does he want to do?
Suddenly received a text message: "I wish you a triumphant return."

Zhang Mingrui was a little surprised.Sheng Huainan has a good relationship with everyone, and when discussing girls in the dormitory, he would make a concluding remark, making everyone admire his thorough understanding.However, when a few of their buddies went out to help the sixth boy chase girls, Sheng Huainan just lazily leaned on the window sill and ate potato chips, and never participated.

Especially after that awkward love triangle, Sheng Huainan seldom cared about other people's scandals.

It is really rare to see a warm heart today.

Zhang Mingrui remembered Sheng Huainan's contrived warm introduction to Luo Zhi in the introductory law class, as well as the nagging when he kept teasing himself—was it because of the lessons learned, so this time he was eager to push Luo Zhi to himself, and then get rid of it?Or is there another reason?
In class, after the two of them returned to silence, Zhang Mingrui suddenly hoped that it would be better for Sheng Huainan to continue talking.

It was as if the moment it stopped, the silence would swallow up the emotion.

Do friendships die too?
(End of this chapter)