Lin Zhengran was startled awake by the movement. He opened his eyes and slowly turned his head.
He saw the Fox Spirit leaning against the corner, her brain completely crashed. Lin Zhengran studied her expression and movements closely, afraid she would be the same as yesterday.
Luckily, what he imagined did not happen.
Han Wenwen's seductive Fox Eyes trembled. Those memories were not connected, but they were still fairly clear. Last night, she had been acting spoiled with him completely on instinct. "Lin—Lin Zhengran, good morning?" Han Wenwen waved her hand and smiled with her lips pressed together.
Her expression was mixed with an indescribable awkwardness.
Lin Zhengran let out a breath of relief and slowly sat up too. Yesterday, in the first half of the night, because she had been so unbearably annoying, Lin Zhengran had still ended up sleeping while she held his hand. It was not until the latter half of the night that he quietly pulled his hand back, his palm slick with sweat from her grip. "You've finally returned to normal? How do you feel today?"
Han Wenwen checked herself. "Much better than yesterday. After waking up, my body feels pretty comfortable. I'm just a little sweaty."
Lin Zhengran glanced at the air conditioner set to a comfortable temperature. "Sweating a bit is fine, but don't shower yet. Wait until you're better."
"Mm."
Lin Zhengran instinctively reached out and touched Han Wenwen's forehead. A blush instantly rose on Han Wenwen's cheeks, but thanks to her clear consciousness, she quickly forced it down and stared at him blankly.
He gave a sound of acknowledgment. "Seems like you're still a little hot. Fevers in summer really don't go away that quickly. Let's take your temperature again."
He got out of bed, found the thermometer, tossed it in front of her, then went to the Restroom and turned on the water.
Han Wenwen watched him enter the Restroom with such natural movements. Once he was gone, Han Wenwen's expression finally collapsed completely.
She covered her face shyly with one hand, recalling all those spoiled words as she pitied and resented herself. "What on earth did I do yesterday? I really hope Lin Zhengran doesn't remember any of it."
She placed the thermometer under her armpit, and Lin Zhengran also came out of the Restroom.
He said he was going to buy breakfast. Seeing that he was about to leave, Han Wenwen called him back. "Yesterday... thank you for staying here with me, Lin Zhengran, and for buying me medicine and food and all that. Otherwise, I might really have had to go to the hospital today."
Lin Zhengran turned back to look at her. She had that smiling, narrowed-eyed look again.
"I really want to say you're welcome, but the things you did yesterday..."
Han Wenwen knew he definitely had not forgotten. Extremely awkward, she held up one finger and pretended to be cute and innocent.
"I had a fever yesterday, okay? When people have fevers, they do things they normally can't understand. Just count it as me owing Lin Zhengran a favor. I'll find a way to repay you in the future!"
"That's more like it. When you have money, just treat me to a few meals. What do you want to eat this morning? I'll go downstairs and buy it."
Han Wenwen thought for a moment, then said in unison with Lin Zhengran, "Buns?"
Both of them froze for a moment. This was not the first time they had been this in sync.
Lin Zhengran said, "Got it."
When Han Wenwen saw him twist open the doorknob, she asked the question she most wanted to ask. "Lin Zhengran, yesterday, aside from acting spoiled with you for no reason, did I say anything else to you... you know, the kind of thing that would shock you after you heard it?"
She stared tightly at Lin Zhengran, terrified that yesterday she had said everything she should not have said.
The main issue was that yesterday her head had been caught between reality and dreams the entire time. She really could not tell whether some things had been dreams or reality. It was a complete mess.
Lin Zhengran recalled the things she had said to him yesterday afternoon.
Things like liking him, and the Lianxin Festival.
"You said quite a lot, but nothing particularly special. I wouldn't call any of it shocking."
Han Wenwen relaxed, but immediately afterward, a trace of regret actually appeared in her heart. Although she did not want to break up Lin Zhengran and Little Qing Qing.
If yesterday, in that state, she had told him how she felt, she wondered what Lin Zhengran's answer would have been.
"Oh, I have to remind Lin Zhengran of something. Although I was a little out of line yesterday, even when I got sick before, I never acted spoiled with any other boy. Lin Zhengran is the first!"
Lin Zhengran gave an "oh" and went downstairs to buy food.
Han Wenwen listened foolishly to the sound of the door closing, then complained, "He really doesn't get shy no matter what I say. He has no interest in me at all."
Her brain short-circuited for a long time. Then she hurriedly found a mirror on the table and checked her face.
An oval face, Fox Eyes, a small mouth—there was no flaw visible in her features at all. Han Wenwen was still very aware that her looks were extremely outstanding. Otherwise, so many boys would not have liked her. So, unable to understand, she held her cheek with one hand.
"Am I not pretty enough? That can't be, right? Then why do other boys blush when they talk to me, but Lin Zhengran is the only one who doesn't?"
She stared unhappily at the face in the mirror. "So this is what it feels like when the person you like doesn't like you back. How annoying. So what type does he like, exactly?"
Before long, Lin Zhengran bought the buns and returned to the Rental House, where he saw Han Wenwen on the phone with Little He Qing.
Little He Qing's voice through the phone was sweet and soft. "Wenwen, when are you coming back? It's already been over a week."
Han Wenwen waved at Lin Zhengran as he came back inside, trying her best to speak to her Bestie in a normal tone. "I don't know when my Uncle will be done with things over here either. It'll probably still take a long time. When I'm about to go back, I'll tell Little Qing Qing in advance."
Little He Qing gave a helpless hum. "All right then. Oh, right..." Her voice turned anxious. "Wenwen, I'm telling you, yesterday I called Aunt Lin! Aunt Lin said Lin Zhengran wasn't home. Last night, he went to stay overnight at a classmate's house."
Han Wenwen let out an "ah," looking at Lin Zhengran, who was sitting by the bed unwrapping breakfast. Leaning against the bed, she broke out in a cold sweat. "Really? Where could he have gone to spend the night?"
Lin Zhengran, sitting beside Han Wenwen, could naturally hear the contents of the call too, but he simply pretended not to hear it.
Little He Qing sounded a little scared. "I don't know either. Aunt Lin said he went to spend the night at a male classmate's house? The reason was to take care of some... injured little animal?"
Han Wenwen was sweating buckets.
Little He Qing could not figure it out. "Wenwen, you're in the same class as him. Do you know if he's usually close to any boys? How come I've never heard of it at all? I think this is really strange. I'm worried..."
Han Wenwen smoothed her hair with her hand and secretly glanced at Lin Zhengran.
Little He Qing said, "I'm worried he—he couldn't have gone to spend the night at a female classmate's house, right?! No way, right?! Did he go to Jiang Xueli's house last night?!" As she spoke, Little He Qing's voice turned hoarse, as if she was about to burst into tears.
Han Wenwen hurriedly comforted her. "What are you thinking, Little Qing Qing? Impossible, absolutely impossible! You know Lin Zhengran, don't you? There's no way he'd do something like that!"
Little Fox's mind spun rapidly. "As for close male friends, he probably doesn't have any. Maybe that was just an excuse. Who knows what he went off to do? Have you forgotten that last time, when he took a bus to come find you, he must have made up an excuse to trick Uncle and Aunt too, right?"
Little He Qing said pitifully, "Wenwen, are you saying he still went to find some other girl? Otherwise, why would he make up an excuse?"
Han Wenwen turned her head and looked at Lin Zhengran eating breakfast, slowly biting her lower lip.
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