Ji Qinglan had actually guessed that Xiao Bei was going to confess.
But now that she had truly seen Xiao Bei confess to her,
she had thought she would calmly accept his confession, but she realized she had been wrong.
She still shed tears of emotion like a fool.
She had been listening to the song just fine, but now her eyes had reddened.
Everyone present looked at Ji Qinglan.
With tears in her eyes, Ji Qinglan suddenly burst out laughing, then walked over to Xiao Bei.
She grabbed Xiao Bei's hand.
Then, beneath everyone's astonished gazes, Ji Qinglan directly kissed Xiao Bei on the lips.
Ji Qinglan was indeed Ji Qinglan—different from everyone else.
Most girls, when faced with a confession like this, would definitely answer first.
But Ji Qinglan was different!
Her actions gave him her answer!
When their lips met,
the scene erupted with screams and cheers.
The girls all watched the kissing couple with yearning expressions.
Though the boys were envious too, more than anything, they wished they could take Xiao Bei's place!
After the kiss, Xiao Bei smiled faintly.
"Wow, the Campus Belle is pretty bold too!"
"If it were me, I would've done the same!"
"No helping it—Xiao Bei is just too dazzling!"
"Wow, rich, handsome, and talented. How could any girl not love him?"
"Damn, Fourth Brother got himself a girlfriend just like that?"
Hu Jilong stared at Xiao Bei and Ji Qinglan in shock, then asked Wang Wei and Zhang Zhibo with a hopeless look on his face.
"Didn't we agree to stay single together and get girlfriends together? Fourth Brother still got ahead of us!"
"Tell me, are you two idiots?" Wang Wei looked at them.
"Huh?" Hu Jilong and Zhang Zhibo both looked at Wang Wei.
"Think about it. Fourth Brother's talented. He must've written more than one song, right?"
"Right!"
"Fourth Brother will teach us guitar, won't he?"
"Probably!"
"Then what the hell are you panicking for? Once we learn guitar, we can confess with an original song too. Are you afraid you won't be able to get girlfriends?"
Wang Wei looked seriously at his two foolish sons.
Hu Jilong and Zhang Zhibo exchanged a glance. It actually seemed to make sense!
They couldn't help giving Wang Wei a thumbs-up.
This plan could work!
After their embrace and kiss, Ji Qinglan softly whispered in Xiao Bei's ear, "You have to treat me well, okay?"
Xiao Bei smiled faintly. "Of course!"
"One more!"
"One more!"
"One more!"
Hearing the students around them loudly egging him on, Xiao Bei still looked at Ji Qinglan with tenderness in his eyes.
"Do you want to hear another one?"
"Yes. I want to hear one more too!"
Xiao Bei nodded, then looked at everyone and said, "You can thank my wife properly, then. I'll do one more!"
The moment Xiao Bei finished speaking,
the students from Class 1 began making a fuss.
"Thank you, Sister-in-law!"
"Thank you, Sister-in-law!"
Seeing Class 1 making such a fuss, the remaining classes joined in as well!
Xiao Bei smiled faintly and thought about what other songs there had been in his previous life.
Very quickly, Xiao Bei thought of one!
"A song called 'Qi Li Xiang' for everyone. I hope you can find your youth during your university years!"
After he said that, the scene fell quiet.
Ji Qinglan stood beside Xiao Bei, smiling as she looked at this treasure of a boy before her—no, her boyfriend!
The guitar began to play.
The intro was still as pleasant as ever.
As Xiao Bei played the guitar, he looked at Ji Qinglan, smiled faintly, and began to sing.
Sparrows outside the window chatter on the telephone pole; you said this line really feels like summer.
The pencil in my hand moves back and forth across the paper; in just a few lines, I describe who you are to me.
The biggest reason Xiao Bei had chosen this song was that he was afraid Ji Qinglan would start crying again.
And this song fit the moment perfectly.
Watching Xiao Bei sing to her, Ji Qinglan gave him a soft smile.
She truly had not expected that coming to find Xiao Bei today would bring her so many surprises.
If they had not been on the basketball court right then, Ji Qinglan would have loved to ask him, What other skills do you have?
Bring them all out, damn it!
The song continued to unfold, on this summer day, on this basketball court as the sun was about to set.
As everyone listened to Xiao Bei's song, perhaps many years later, when they looked back on it,
Xiao Bei would forever be a shining point in their youth. Though that shining point had little to do with them,
being able to meet such an extraordinarily talented person in their youth, to be in the same time, the same place, the same basketball court, listening to his song—it would also be a beautiful memory.
Even the cat wants to know the taste of Pacific saury, and with it, we rediscover the scent of first love.
That warm sunlight is like freshly picked, vibrant strawberries; you said you couldn't bear to eat away this feeling.
"Wow, that's so good! Pacific saury, cats, first love—the class monitor is so talented!"
"It's settled. The class monitor is the man I can never have!"
"I'm so lucky to be in the same university class as the class monitor!"
What Xiao Bei did not know was that he had now become the spiritual pillar of Class 1!
"I bet if the class monitor became a celebrity, he'd definitely be a top star!"
"Give me a break. Does the class monitor look like someone who needs money?"
The rain falls all night, and my love overflows like rainwater.
Fallen leaves in the courtyard pile as thick as my longing; a few words of gossip cannot cool my passion.
You appear on every page of my poetry.
All night, my love overflows like rainwater.
When the song ended, Xiao Bei said to everyone, "Thank you all for your love and support!"
As Xiao Bei's singing came to an end, the day's military training ended as well.
Everyone looked at Xiao Bei, still wanting more.
They were looking forward to university more and more now.
They had never expected the very first day of military training to become so unforgettable.
At that moment, the instructor walked over as well.
He gave Xiao Bei a thumbs-up. They had all been through it too.
Seeing Xiao Bei and Ji Qinglan now was like seeing their former selves. They too had once done many foolish things for a girl, many bold things.
But in the end, whether that girl had married her youth or not,
that was everyone's youth.
It was the youth they could never return to. Perhaps that was why youth was so beautiful—because it only came once.
That dusk, that field, those two hazy shadows beneath the setting sun, that love untouched by worldly concerns, that white moonlight in one's heart!
That was youth. But were that girl and that boy still doing well now?
They wanted to ask, but did not know how. All they could do was silently wish them well in their hearts.
On the basketball court, after Xiao Bei returned the guitar to that bespectacled male student,
the moment he returned to Ji Qinglan's side, Xiao Bei grabbed her hand and ran toward the exit.
Because he knew that if he did not leave now, his three Dog Sons would never let him off.
During military training, Xiao Bei had to seize every opportunity to be lovey-dovey with Ji Qinglan!
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