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The seats of the two were far apart, and after walking through the long covered bridge, they separated.

After finding her seat, Qiao Beixin sat down in a daze. It wasn't until the flight was about to take off and the flight attendant came to check the seat belts that she was reminded to put the backpack on the upper luggage rack and fasten the seat belts again.

The plane arrived half an hour earlier than expected.

Cheng Wang should have set a reminder on the flight software, and sent a message to Qiao Beixin when he landed.

Cheng Jing's seat was in the front, and he was the first passenger to go out after opening the hatch.He was going to a certain county, and he had to catch the high-speed train after getting off the plane, and left in a hurry after the plane landed.

As expected, he did what he said, neither told Cheng Wang that he was coming, nor planned to see the younger brother.

The cabin was dry, and I didn't feel it when I was flying. When I got off the plane and took the shuttle bus, Qiao Beixin really felt the humidity of Xiangshi.

The temperature here should not be as low as Qinshi, but the overcast and cold weather has caused the body temperature to drop a lot. Even Qiao Beixin, who is extremely insensitive to temperature, shivered after getting out of the car.

He rubbed his arms and felt goosebumps.

October is also the rainy season in Xiang City, and the thin and dense rain seems to occupy the city for nearly half of the year.

It probably rained in the morning, but it has stopped now, only the ground is still wet.

Cheng Wang brought a long-handled umbrella this time, hung his hands on his bag with a curved hand, and waited for Qiao Beixin to come to him with a smile on his face.

When Qiao Beixin really approached, Cheng Wang tilted his head and looked at it for a while, then frowned again.

After all, they were still outside, and it wasn't easy for them to be too intimate. He could only touch Qiao Beixin with the back of his hand, and said in a distressed tone, "Why do you look so bad?"

Qiao Beixin held his hand behind her back, her voice a little hoarse: "I didn't sleep well last night."

Cheng Wang pursed his lips and smiled, bumping him with his shoulder.

The handle of the umbrella hit the zipper of the backpack and it clicked.

Qiao Beixin heard it, and helped him take it off, and asked, "Did it rain this morning? I think the ground is wet."

"Yes, but it doesn't rain too much. It's also strange. It was sunny for the past few days, but it was cloudy when you came here."

On the way back to school from the airport, Cheng Wang answered a phone call from his roommate, asking him for the key to the dormitory.

In order to avoid losing the key and being unable to open the door, each dormitory will be equipped with a spare key and put it with the dormitory uncle downstairs, but this spare key was also lost by Lu Yi one day before, and since then their dormitory has no extra keys .

The other roommates had no choice but to ask Cheng Wang to go back and open the door.

Cheng Wang sighed and said, "Okay, okay. Let's get a spare one, it's too inconvenient."

After going to the hotel to put down his things, Cheng Wang said, "I'm going back to the dormitory now, will you go with me?"

Qiao Beixin nodded.

"Then let's go to the cafeteria to have lunch, shall we? The cafeteria recently opened a new window, and it's delicious!" Cheng Wang jumped over and hugged his arm, smiling with crooked eyebrows.

On the way to school, Cheng Wang asked about Liang Yilan's body: "How is Auntie doing?"

Qiao Beixin: "It's okay. I prepared medicine for her last night, and I've been supervising her recently."

Cheng Wang was amused by the old father's tone.He was happy that Liang Yilan's condition was stable, and he was immersed in the joy of seeing Qiao Beixin, so his steps became much easier.

"That's good, that's good." Cheng Wang muttered, "You really should have a good rest, your face is too ugly."

They met an acquaintance at the school gate.

"Cheng Wang?" The girl called him with a crunchy voice, uncertain.

"Hey, little pineapple?" Cheng Wang greeted, and introduced to Qiao Beixin, "It's our professional senior, named Bai Luo."

Qiao Beixin nodded at her.

Cheng Wang pointed to Qiao Beixin again, and said, "Qiao Beixin, I...a high school classmate."

"Oh." Little Pineapple's eyes flickered between the two of them, and he nodded accordingly.

The two exchanged some pleasantries, and then Little Pineapple said, "Let's go first, I'm going to the music festival this afternoon."

After saying goodbye to Little Pineapple, the two walked on the way to the dormitory.

"You came here at the right time," Cheng Wang trotted two steps, and stood still under a ginkgo tree. "It happened to be when the leaves of the ginkgo were turning yellow. At this time last year, I was busy participating in various freshman activities, so I didn't have time." Take a picture for you to see."

Tall trees are planted on both sides of this ginkgo avenue, and when the wind blows, golden ginkgo leaves rustle to the ground.

"Ginkgo leaves turn yellow overnight, and fall off after another night." He bent down to pick up a leaf, and put it in Qiao Beixin's hand, "Does it look good?"

Qiao Beixin lowered her head and fiddled with the leaf, saying, "It's pretty."

I don't know if Cheng Wang did it on purpose, but the leaf he picked up casually looks like a crooked peach heart.

After going to the cafeteria for lunch, the two returned to the hotel.

The hotel was outside the east gate of the school, and the cafeteria they went to was at the west gate of the school—Cheng Wang crossed the entire school just to take Qiao Beixin to eat at the newly opened stall.

Qiao Beixin ruthlessly exposed him: "I think it's just you who want to eat."

Cheng Wang leaned on his shoulder and hummed.

With enough food and drink, and having a reliable boyfriend by his side, Cheng Wang inevitably felt drowsy.He still didn't like taking a nap, so he just rubbed his eyes and hugged Qiao Beixin tightly.

He stretched out two fingers to pinch his chin, and adjusted the position to make him lean more comfortably. Then he heard Qiao Beixin ask, "Xiao Wang, are you tired?"

Qiao Beixin asked such a question in a very steady and calm tone.

Cheng Wang heard this and opened his eyes, most of the sleepiness dissipated.

He lowered his head and thought for a few seconds, then said with a little distress: "To be honest, I'm a little tired...but I'm not tired after seeing you!"

Qiao Beixin likes to see him acting like a baby, and likes him to cuddle and hug him, and Cheng Wang is also willing to be cute to make him happy.This habit made Cheng Wang slow to realize that Qiao Beixin's mood was wrong.

Qiao Beixin didn't come over and rub him well as usual, but kept staring at him with tired and sad eyes.

"Staying with me... Are you tired?"

Cheng Wang didn't understand why he would ask such a question: "How do you ask this?"

Qiao Beixin didn't know how long he hadn't slept well, and there were large bloodshot eyes in his eyes, covering his reddish eye sockets.

He didn't answer directly, but asked another question: "I heard that you had other arrangements for this October?"

Cheng Wang was taken aback for a moment: "...how do you know?"

"You should have told me..."

Cheng Wang immediately understood that he had misunderstood.

Regardless of continuing to ask him how he knew, Cheng Wang hastily explained: "No - no, yes, I originally had other arrangements, but I didn't agree to it! It was the teacher who wanted to take me to Beijing to participate in a An academic exchange forum for the insurance industry, but this thing, places like Beijing, you know, this kind of event can be held several times a year, I don’t have to rush this trip. And I don’t study insurance, I will participate in this , at most it is to broaden the horizons, there is no other meaning!"

He didn't know if Qiao Beixin listened to this long explanation, but he only knew that the man had been looking at him, wondering what he was thinking.

After a while, Qiao Beixin asked again: "Has this happened before?"

As soon as Cheng Wang heard it, he knew that Qiao Beixin didn't listen to his explanation at all, so he quickly said, "Little Qiao, don't be foolish! This communication is not important to me, it's optional."

Qiao Beixin asked back: "Then if I don't come this holiday, will you go?"

Cheng Wang was momentarily at a loss for words.

Qiao Beixin closed her eyes, clenched her knuckles, and said bitterly, "...So, you really didn't go because you wanted to be with me, right?"

No, it's not like this, Cheng Wang thought weakly, but he couldn't think of words to convince him for a while.

He didn't know how to tell Qiao Beixin. Indeed, if it weren't for the appointment to meet this holiday in advance, he might indeed be in Beijing now.But for such an event, if you don’t go, you don’t go, and if you turn it down, you turn it down. Apart from making Cheng Wang feel a little guilty about the teacher, this incident didn’t make him have any other negative emotions—just like his Just said, this activity is not important, there is no need to go, and he didn't think much about it.

But Qiao Beixin obviously didn't think so: "I...I don't want you to pay too much for me."

Cheng Wang was going crazy: "What kind of sacrifice is this?"

He sat up from the bed, sat in front of Qiao Beixin, put his hands on his knees, and repeated again: "It's not important at all, it's not important!"

Qiao Beixin said wearily: "Since I found out about my mother, I am really afraid that people around me will pay a lot for me without my knowledge. This is an important thing to me."

He shook his head again and again, with a painful expression: "I don't want to do this, don't do this."

Cheng Wang knew that Liang Yilan's illness had hit him hard, so he comforted him: "I understand how you feel, but I won't do this, trust me, I really won't."

He moved closer, getting closer to Qiao Beixin, and grabbed his hand tightly.

"Little Joe, you should cheer up."

Qiao Beixin picked him up and let him sit on his lap as before.

Cheng Wang immediately wrapped his arms around his shoulders, and continued: "Little Qiao, I know you may not understand, but I actually——I can understand Aunt Liang's feelings very well, and she definitely doesn't want to tell you. You see, we are When studying outside, if you get sick or have unhappy things, you are actually not willing to tell your parents, you don’t want them to worry, right?”

Qiao Beixin closed her eyes, clenched her teeth where Cheng Wang couldn't see, and squeezed the sour tears from her nose.

"But I don't want her like this. I don't want...she has paid so much for me."

Cheng Wang wanted to sit up, but was held tightly in his arms.

Qiao Bei's heart trembled: "For me, there's no need to do this... It's not worth paying so much for me."

"Whether it's worth it or not is up to you!" Cheng Wang broke free from his embrace and said anxiously, "Don't take everything on yourself!"

"But isn't that the truth?" Qiao Beixin asked in a low voice.

Cheng Wang didn't know how to answer, so he could only repeat "no, no" over and over again.

Qiao Beixin moved his gaze to his face, "You too, you don't have to work so hard."

Cheng Wang was stunned: "I didn't..."

Probably hearing the lack of confidence in his words, Qiao Beixin squeezed out a bleak smile and asked, "Then are you happy with me now?"

Cheng Wang slumped his shoulders, and said weakly, "Little Qiao, don't try to be too horny, it's not your fault."

Qiao Beixin was silent for a while.He leaned against the head of the bed, covered his face with his right hand, and after taking a few heavy breaths, he said hoarsely, "I'm sorry, I... I just did... I've been under too much pressure recently."

Cheng Wang stretched out his hand, and his fingers burrowed into his palm.He didn't know how else to comfort Qiao Beixin, such a conversation really made him exhausted.

He cheered up and said, "I know, Xiao Qiao, don't think so much."

Qiao Beixin shook his head: "I can't think about it so much. When I think of it all because of me, I just..."

But Cheng Wang interrupted him at this moment: "...Xiao Qiao, actually, your thinking makes me more..."

He couldn't bear to say such cruel things to the person he liked.But looking at Qiao Beixin's expression, Cheng Wang knew that he already understood what he wanted to say.

The facts are exactly as he said.During this period of time, Qiao Beixin is not the only one who feels tired and stressed?Cheng Wang also felt hard and tired.

Liang Yilan's words have always been pressed in his heart, and Qiao Beixin's emotions will inevitably affect him, and his confusion and uncertainty about the future also give him a lot of headaches.

And this time, it was originally a vacation for the two of them to relax, but no one expected that their emotions would be so complicated as soon as they met.

The first day of the holiday was spent in such a silent and suffocating atmosphere.

Cheng Wang hardly fell asleep that night, and he knew that Qiao Beixin didn't sleep much either.He thought over Liang Yilan's words in his heart.

"If you think your choice is right, can you stick to it?"

Cheng Wang thought, he should be fine, as long as they both think it's right, as long as both of them think it's right, why can't they stick to it?

But have they really chosen the right path?

If so, why, why are they so tired just because they are in love?

Cheng Wang knew that it wasn't just because of Liang Yilan's illness.In fact, since the beginning of college, all the small conflicts between him and Qiao Beixin that have been suppressed have gradually snowballed with Liang Yilan's illness.