Xia's crush

Chapter 3

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United States Washington

The luxurious hall, with the tone of brown and black, is full of people's vision.Although calm, it is also cold.

Just like Lin Ranfeng, the owner of this family, he is cold and ruthless. Even when facing his own family members, he seldom smiles. In his mind, all he thinks about is how to make his career Take it to the next level.

"You...you really plan to let Xiaoxun live there alone?" His wife Jian Qing, who was sitting on the sofa, rubbed her hands together nervously, and pursed her dry lips again and again.

What would happen to that fragile child left alone in strange surroundings?How to live on?Without the protection of the family, according to Xiaoxun's personality, it is likely that he will be bullied by others.

"So what? It's just to let him transfer to China to study, not to mention, wouldn't he still pay living expenses into his bank card every month? The money is enough for him to live well." Lin Ranfeng looked at the newspaper in his hand and said indifferently.

"But..." Jian Qing bit her lip.Her husband, clearly aware of his son's personality, still persisted, "Xiao Xun...is not suitable for living alone." He needs someone to take care of him too much, and needs someone to accompany him to face it.

Lin Ranfeng frowned unhappily, "If he is not capable of living alone, then he is not worthy to be my son of Lin Ranfeng." The child he wants should be a strong man, not one who is extremely weak people.

"Then... you also remit some more money to Xiaoxun every month. There is only 3000 RMB, how can it be enough for his expenses?" What's more, the husband doesn't allow other people to send money to Xiaoxun.Just to witness whether his son can survive in adversity.She even doubted that even if Xiao Xun died outside, her husband would not shed a single tear.

Because his tears have long been...

"3000, that's enough!" Lin Ranfeng raised his head and looked at his wife, "It's you who have been spoiling him all this time, that's why you developed that useless personality!"

"I..." teeth, almost biting the blood from the lower lip, Jian Qing begged in a low profile, "I beg you, let Xiaoxun go back to the United States, his personality can be changed slowly, I promise, he will not won't be so weak anymore."

"According to your method, you can't change it for the rest of your life." Lin Ranfeng snorted coldly.

Indifferent voice, without a trace of warmth.They have slept together in the same bed for so many years, but in exchange for this kind of treatment.

As if she couldn't stand the coldness, Jian Qing suddenly stood up, stared at Lin Ranfeng and said loudly, "I know, but you actually hate Xiao Xun, right!" Without the elegance of a noble lady, her expression, Only urgency and heartache.

"I hate him?" He glanced at her impatiently, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Isn't it? Back then, if it wasn't for saving Xiaoxun, Qiu..."

"Shut up!" With a shout, Lin Ranfeng's indifferent expression finally changed, "I've said it before, no one is allowed to mention that matter in the future."

"Actually, you obviously want to divorce me." Jian Qing smiled miserably, "If it wasn't for..."

"Shut up, shut up!" Lin Ranfeng stepped in front of his wife and stared at her fiercely, "Jian Qing, I warn you, if you say one more word, I will definitely make you regret it." and!"

warn? !Her husband actually wants to warn her!
The heart seems to be empty.Jian Qing stared blankly at the face she had loved for 20 years.

In fact, she should have regretted it a long time ago, in the accident more than 10 years ago, she regretted it...

A quiet lunch break can be anywhere, but it definitely does not include a literary hobby club.

"Wow, how can you take away the photobook I'm looking at." The screaming voice came from the mouth of President Ferran Shuang.

"Hmph!" With two cold snorts, the handsome boy casually put the photobook in his hand on the table beside him, "Because your expression is too exaggerated." Zhong Kaide snapped at his son and girlfriend angrily. forehead.The drooling look made him feel uncomfortable for a while.

exaggerate? !
"No way." Fei Lanshuang firmly denied.He stretched out his right hand, wanting to take back the photobook on the table.

"No." His hand easily blocked hers.

"I haven't seen enough. Give it back to me. You don't even know how much effort Xiaoxia spent to snatch this photobook." She acted more intensely, vowing to snatch back the photobook.

"Oh? Xiaoxia?" The beautiful phoenix eyes turned slightly, and Zhong Kaide turned to Zhu Xiaoxia who was watching the show.

"Hehe." With dry laughs, Zhu Xiaoxia avoided Zhong Kaide's slashing eyes.It wasn't her fault that she got the photobook, but she didn't expect Zhong Kaide to come to the club office just when Fei Sanba looked at the photobook with an idiot look on his face.If I had known earlier, she would not have handed over this photobook even if she was killed.After all, the other party is a key figure in the student union, and power alone is enough to crush her to death.

Looking away, Zhong Kaide pursed his thin lips, leaned down suddenly, and brought his head closer to Fei Lanshuang, "Do you think the people in the photo album are prettier than me?" The low-key voice was full of seduction.

This... Staring blankly at the suddenly approaching face, Ferran blushed and licked his lips, "Of course - you are more handsome, you don't even know how much I love you." She said in an extremely doggy manner.Alas, shame, she has already seen his handsome face is about to die, but as soon as he gets close, she can't help but blush.Fortunately, this situation will only face him alone, and it is estimated that she will be chained to him alone in her life.

"If this is the case, then you are not allowed to look at the poster photo album with that expression in the future." He is a man who is easily jealous, but is it lucky or unlucky to fall in love with her like this?
"This... is more difficult." How can it be so easy to change a habit that has been cultivated since childhood.

"Really?" The slender fingers flicked gracefully, and the corners of Zhong Kaide's mouth slowly curled up, "Aren't you afraid that I will let the student union abolish your club?" He said it was a literature club, but he didn't see it. She did anything to love literature.

Ah?The beauty stared at her eyes, "Zhong Kaide, how could you do this? I gave up a large forest for a rotten tree like you, and you still want to deprive me of my only pleasure?" What's the reason?

Because your fun is so... over the top.Zhong Kaide sighed softly, raised his wrist and rubbed his forehead.Since hooking up with her, he has a tendency to have more frequent headaches.

So one yelled hard, while the other patiently let the other party roar, and handed a cup of tea from time to time to supplement the saliva consumed by the other party.

Is Gong Zhen's photo album really worth reading with Lan Shuang's expression?Lazily looking at the pair in front of her who are dating...uh, men and women, Zhu Xiaoxia raised her eyebrows, and glanced sideways at the person on the cover of the photo album.With a slender figure and elegant and beautiful appearance, Gong Zhen is too neutral by male standards.

A pair of beautiful and clear eyes stared straight at the camera, as if they were empty, without any emotional ups and downs.His eyes made her feel a little familiar, but she couldn't remember where she saw them.

mechanical feel.Zhu Xiaoxia made a conclusion secretly in her heart.Gong Zhen in the photobook gave her a feeling like a robot.Wearing a human appearance, but inside there is nothing.Like a beautiful puppet, people can't help but want to explore his true expression.

And she—doesn't like this empty expression.

"Lin Xunyin, please help us move these sports equipment to the small warehouse." In the classroom after school, all the students had almost left.The two girls jumped in front of Lin Xunyin. Although the wording was a request, the tone of the words was firm.

"Me?" He raised his head awkwardly.

"Yeah, you're free anyway, unlike us, who have to go to the gift shop to buy friends' birthday gifts." After finishing speaking, the girl picked up her schoolbag and walked out of the classroom without waiting for Lin Xunyin's answer.

Is it... him again?And he never seemed to know how to say no.This kind of weak personality must be hated by my father.

With dark eyes narrowed slightly, Lin Xunyin picked up her satchel, walked to the prop box at the back of the classroom, and pulled out two cardboard boxes containing sports props...

Heavy, two heavy cardboard boxes, because there are a lot of dumbbells in it.But it's still within the range he can move.Carrying the cardboard box with his thin arms, he walked down the stairs step by step.

From the third floor to the second floor, and from the second floor to the first floor...

"Ah!" One of his feet slipped, and his whole body tilted to the right, holding two cardboard boxes in his hands, which made him unable to do basic self-protection actions, and he was about to roll down the stairs with the boxes ...An arm wrapped around his waist from mid-air, and then he heard the voice he longed to hear.

"God, what are you carrying, it's so heavy!"

Lin Xunyin stood still, her clear eyes fixed on the person in front of her: she was wearing a blue and white school uniform, her pretty short hair rose slightly due to the flow of air, her oval face, and her eyes full of vitality, With her like this, he couldn't bear to look away.

"It's just... just some sports equipment. I borrowed them from the school for the last activity in the class. Now the date is up, and I have to return them." Tongue couldn't help licking his dry lips, he explained.

"Is there no one to help you carry it?" Zhu Xiaoxia glanced at the cardboard box in the opponent's hand.When she held him just now, she clearly felt the heavy weight.Looking at his bamboo pole-shaped figure, he should be laughing if he can weigh 60KG. Thinking about it, the things in the two cardboard boxes should be quite heavy.

"They all have things to do, so they let me..."

"Wait, them?" She quickly interrupted him and asked, "Is that your classmate?"

"Hmm." He nodded.

"Then what are they doing?"

"Say I went to the gift shop to buy a friend's birthday present." Lin Xunyin thought for a while.

"That's why you let you do what you should have done together?" Zhu Xiaoxia concluded.

"No." He shook his head, "I was not assigned to return the utensils, but because they told me to go..."

"You—" Before he finished speaking, she had already started to point at his forehead with one hand on her hip and shouted, "Do you know what rejection is?" This idiot, why buy a birthday present.The persimmon was soft and soft, and it was obvious that he was easy to bully.

"Huh?" He was taken aback for a moment, unable to understand why her anger came from.

"Others tell you to do it, do you have to do it?! If it's not what you want to do, then you have to say no."

"But it's... troublesome to refuse others." As long as it doesn't touch his bottom line, he usually won't refuse.

Please, what is his state of mind.Zhu Xiaoxia rolled her eyes violently.Won't you refuse?Still don't know how to say no?

He carefully observed her expression for a long while——

"Are you angry?" Lin Xunyin asked cautiously.

"Yeah, I'm angry." She curled her lips and said bluntly.

His eyes dimmed leisurely, and his teeth clenched his lower lip.Was she blaming him for being weak?Like everyone else, I don't like him like this.But—"You...do you hate me?" A slender voice came out from the depths of his throat, and his expression seemed to be about to cry.

Hate?Zhu Xiaoxia was taken aback, where did he think of these two words? "I don't hate you anymore." His expression was as if she had bullied him, "I just hope you can be a little stronger." She scratched her short hair and said.

Does she want him to be strong too?Lin Xunyin looked at Zhu Xiaoxia, if she wished, then he would try hard.

"In short, alas..." Zhu Xiaoxia almost didn't know what to say.A boy like Lin Xunyin was something she had never met before.Although cowardly, she won't be disgusted by it, at most it's just... a feeling of hating iron but not steel.

"Let me help you move the cardboard boxes first." She picked up one of the cardboard boxes in his hand and walked ahead alone, "Where are you going to move it?" She asked.The cardboard boxes in his hand are so heavy, he can lift two at once, obviously stronger than she imagined.

"Sports Warehouse," he replied, following her.

The two walked one after the other, and when they reached the warehouse, Zhu Xiaoxia turned her head and glanced at Lin Xunyin who had been following her, "Where's the key?"

"Oh, it's...here." He stammered, and at the same time put down the cardboard box in his hand, took out the key of the warehouse from his trouser pocket, and opened the warehouse.

"Wow, I'm so tired!" Zhu Xiaoxia took the lead to carry the cardboard box into the warehouse and put it away. Zhu Xiaoxia sat down on the army green cushion for sit-ups, and used her hands as a fan to fan the heat from her forehead.

"Are you tired?" He asked in a low voice, put his fingers into the pockets of his clothes, and squeezed the handkerchief in the pockets.He has always had the habit of carrying a handkerchief with him, but...

He pursed his lips, he hesitated, wondering if he should take out the handkerchief and hand it to her.

Her head is sweating profusely, it would be better to wipe it with a handkerchief, but... Will she accept his kindness?Or will it refuse?
"Of course I'm tired, and I'm not Wonder Woman." She gasped and said, "It's a good thing I helped you move it today, otherwise you might die if you don't die by yourself to move these things to the warehouse. "For a kind-hearted person like her, it would be a pity not to give her some awards.

"Then...then..." He faltered, the words were on his lips, but he couldn't speak them out.

"what?"

"I... I... I want to..."

"What on earth are you trying to say?" Zhu Xiaoxia rolled her eyes unbearably, what she couldn't stand the most was his twitchy personality, he didn't look like a boy at all, "Just say what you have to say! People who are too condescending are not likable!"

Tweak?yes!He already knew that he was not likable!
Under the lights, the real him is always unlikable.

"I...I have a handkerchief, you...you can wipe sweat!" He closed his eyes, took out a gray-blue checkered handkerchief from his pocket, and handed it to her.

The breath of silence began to spread in the warehouse.

Hands—raised in mid-air, but did not receive any response.She... doesn't she want to use his handkerchief?Still... full of doubts in his heart, he slowly... slowly... opened his eyes.

A pretty face was magnified and appeared in front of his eyes: bright eyes, slightly furrowed eyebrows, and the corners of the lips that raised half an arc... She leaned against him... so close!
"Ah!" With an exclamation, he took several steps back.

"Please, don't be so exaggerated!" Zhu Xiaoxia frowned. Is she scary?Is it worth making him show such a frightened expression?Although she is not as beautiful as Fei Lanshuang's three-eighth daughter, she is not too ugly.

"No...not!" Lin Xunyin waved his hands again and again.

"Also, just pass a handkerchief, do you need to close your eyes?" she continued to ask.At the same time, he stepped forward, took the handkerchief from his hand, and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "If you have a handkerchief, tell me!" He just handed over a handkerchief, but he was as nervous as a love letter.

"That's because..." His head drooped unconsciously again.

"Didn't you say that when you talk to me, I prefer the other person's eyes to look at me!" She sighed, holding his face with both hands, forcing him to face her.

When speaking, the head will be lowered, which represents the inner anxiety of the speaker.It seems... this boy is really not an ordinary coward!
"I... I remember." He said hard, his face was as red as if it was about to bleed.The warm sunshine on her body spread from her palm to his face.

Warm, yet scalding hot.His face was burning red.

"Are you okay?" She couldn't help asking, seeing his blushing face.

"fine."

"But you..." She looked at him suspiciously, and then yelled, "I see, you are not shy!" Because of his behavior every time, she always only regarded him as someone who needed protection race, not boys.

Thinking about it carefully, he and she are also different between men and women.

His face was blushed again because of her words.

Well... so innocent!Zhu Xiaoxia stared at the boy in front of her in a daze, then couldn't bear it anymore, covered her stomach, squatted down and laughed wildly.Can't bear it, it's the first time she met this type of person, "You...you are so interesting." She laughed out of breath.

Lin Xunyin, on the other hand, looked at the man who laughed so hard that tears flowed from his eyes in a daze.

As if laughing enough, Zhu Xiaoxia finally stood up and patted him on the shoulder proudly, "Actually, you can just treat me as a boy, so... maybe it will be more natural for everyone to get along with each other in the future." Big, mom and dad always say she doesn't look like a girl.

But...he didn't regard her as a boy at all!Lin Xunyin said secretly in her heart: "I... regard you as a girl." He licked his lips slightly, and he said.

"Thank you!" She shrugged nonchalantly, "By the way, I almost forgot, thank you for the photobook you gave me last time." However, giving the photobook to Fei Lanshuang was something worth regretting. As a result, whenever the woman surnamed Fei is looking at the photo album, Zhong Kaide's sharp eyes sweep her up and down.

Obviously, he was accusing silently, and she, Zhu Xiaoxia, was the culprit.

"Have you read that photo book?" His eyes lit up and he smiled shyly.

"I've seen a few." She nodded.

"Then..." He bit his lips and said, "What do you think of Gong Zhen? Is it good-looking?" The expectant expression seemed to be waiting for the appreciation of an important person.

"It's not bad." Zhu Xiaoxia thought for a while and replied, "Gong Zhen's appearance is relatively popular and neutral nowadays, and it seems that he belongs to the type that is more photogenic and easy to attract people's attention."

"Then do you like it?" His voice was full of urgency, he wanted to know, just wanted to know how Gongzhen was in her mind.

"I don't like it." She curled her lips and said truthfully.

"You—don't like it?" His eyes widened instantly, and then slowly lowered.It turns out that she... doesn't like Gong Zhen!It turned out that even his most beautiful side could not be liked by her.

Heart, some slight tingling, this feeling, what is it?

"I, I always feel that the expression of Gong Zhen is too... er, empty." Without noticing the change in the expression of the person in front of him, Zhu Xiaoxia continued, "Empty as if there is no human emotion, as if very beautiful like a puppet, but the photographer who took the photo is pulling the string of the puppet, and the puppet will only move once you pull it. It has a beautiful appearance, but it is empty and dark inside. But it may be because of this that he can Red. After all, few people can achieve his hollow effect."

Hollow and pitch black?Is this how she feels?Lin Xunyin was stunned, "Is that why you don't like him?"

"It can only be said that I'm not interested in puppets." She shrugged, "In comparison, I think you are better."

"Me?" A surprised expression appeared on his face.How could she feel so?Everyone would think that Gong is really nice, but she said, Lin Xunyin is better? "Of course, although you have no masculinity, you are timid and cowardly, and you are always bullied. But ah, you always have a clear and vivid expression on your face. Compared with the expressionless Gong Zhen, I prefer to see Lin Xunyin with an expression." It's just his personality, which really needs to be changed, or he might be sold one day, and he will help count the money!
He stared at her blankly, and her words echoed in his mind - "I prefer to look at the expressionless Gong Zhen, and I prefer to look at the expressive Lin Xunyin."

It turns out that Lin Xunyin is easier for her to like...

The tingling feeling in his heart disappeared unknowingly, replaced by a deep warmth that nourished his entire heart.

Joy, it turned out to be such a beautiful feeling.

The heart is beating and flying.Even walking into the apartment where he lives alone makes him feel very happy.

This was the first time he felt such joy since living alone.

It turned out that even Lin Xunyin would be liked by others!Holding the pillow in his arms, he leaned his whole body on the sofa, quietly enjoying the peaceful feeling.

bell!
The ear-piercing ringtone of the phone rang in the silent room, breaking the short silence.

Raising his hand, Lin Xunyin answered the phone.

"Is it Xiaoxun?" Jian Qing's voice came from the other end of the phone, full of anxiety and concern.That is the heart of a mother for her son.

"En." The joyful mood faded away as if it had been cooled down.Lin Xunyin lowered her head and responded in a low voice.

"How have you been during this time? Have you taken good care of your body?" Jian Qing asked.

"Yes." He pronounced monosyllabic words.

"When it's cold, you need to wear more clothes, don't stay out too late at night, and go back to the apartment earlier." Jian Qing continued to advise.

"it is good."

"Even if you live alone and there are no bodyguards around to protect you, you have to take care of yourself! As long as you save a little, the money your father remits to you every month is still enough for you to spend."

"Oh."

"and also……"

"Mother." Lin Xunyin gently interrupted his mother's words, "Are you and father... don't want me?" He asked the doubts in his heart all the time.

"Don't talk nonsense." Jian Qing was stunned, and then said, "Your father sent you to a strange place, just hoping to cultivate your self-reliance." That's it, it's just that, at least, she has been using it all the time. This reason convinced myself.

"It's because my character is too cowardly. I'm not like my father or my sister at all, is it?"

"Xiao Xun, you..." Jian Qing's inhalation could be clearly heard on the phone.

The husband pursues perfection in everything.It must be his misfortune for a child like Xunyin to be born in this family. Even though he is talented enough, his personality is not suitable for competing with others.Such a child is naturally a failure in the eyes of her husband.

"If possible, Mom hopes you can be stronger."

Are you strong?Lin Xunyin's eyes dimmed.But—what exactly is strength?

Does he really need to be strong so much?

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