Ding Yebai, Is There a Girl You Like?

After the two of them returned home, they immediately started studying.

Yang Zhi patiently explained everything to Ding Yebai. During the lesson, there was no five-minute break.

Once the lesson ended, they prepared to pack up and go home.

Seeing that Yang Zhi was about to leave, Ding Yebai took four sheets of colored craft paper out of his bag and placed them on the table.

Yang Zhi looked at him in confusion. "What's up?"

Ding Yebai said, "My deskmate gave several sheets of craft paper to the people around her today. I thought they were useless, so I figured I'd give them to you."

Yang Zhi said, "I didn't expect high school students these days to exchange craft paper."

Ding Yebai said, "My female deskmate likes those little things girls use. Maybe she bought too much at once and couldn't finish using it, so she gave me a few sheets. In my opinion, wasting them as scrap paper would be worse than giving them to someone else."

Yang Zhi took the paper and turned it over to look at it. "Then why did you want to give it to me?"

Ding Yebai said, "Didn't you teach children before? Children should like this kind of paper, right? They can use it to make crafts and stuff."

"Oh, so that's why. Then I'll accept them." Yang Zhi placed her bag on the table and sat back down in her original chair. To his surprise, she began folding the craft paper.

Ding Yebai lay on the table and quietly watched her, wondering if she could actually fold flowers out of it.

A while later

Yang Zhi really did fold a flower.

Seriously...

The key was that she hadn't just folded a flower. She had also folded a phoenix?!! There was even a machine gun, little frogs, and so on.

Her hands were way too skillful.

As Ding Yebai watched her slender, fair fingers, he sighed inwardly again and again.

Yang Zhi pushed all the little things she had folded toward Ding Yebai and raised her usual warm smile. "Those children are very far away from me, so I'll give them to the child who's closest to me first."

Ding Yebai said, "Huh??? I'm already eighteen!"

Who are you calling a child?!

Yang Zhi said, "Haha, yes, yes~ An eighteen-year-old child. This paper isn't completely useless, after all. Right?"

Ding Yebai picked up the paper phoenix. He no longer cared about that question and instead gazed at the work of art with admiration. "After going through your hands, it does seem a tiny bit useful."

He was being completely dishonest. In truth, he desperately wanted that paper phoenix.

Yang Zhi naturally rested her hands on her thighs. Her back was straight, and her posture remained elegant and reserved. "You like it?"

Ding Yebai jumped. "Huh?! Like what?"

Was this woman really so direct? She just came right out and asked.

Yang Zhi was the one startled by his intense reaction. "You like this little phoenix?"

"Oh, you mean this?" Ding Yebai nodded and sighed in relief. "It's all right. I'm only so-so about it. I guess girls would like it."

Seeing his expression, Yang Zhi couldn't help giving him a sly smile. The expression only lasted a second, but it still left an unforgettable impression.

"Do you have a girl you like?"

"...No."

"I wonder if your senior sister knows."

"Even if she knew, what could she do to me?" Ding Yebai frowned slightly and placed the paper phoenix at the corner of the table. "I'm already an adult. She can't control me anymore."

"Ah, haha... So that's how it is." Yang Zhi slung her bag over her shoulder and stood up to leave. Before going, she turned around and looked at Ding Yebai. "I never liked anyone when I was in high school. I never experienced that kind of youth, either. So I don't understand what's going through your minds."

Ding Yebai: "..."

Did Sister Yang Zhi misunderstand something...? I don't have anyone I like at school at all.

"But even now, I still remember what our high school teacher told us."

Yang Zhi smiled gently, the corners of her lips lifting slightly. Her smile was calm and unhurried, yet graceful and captivating. The brows and eyes brimming with amusement carried an unmistakable scholarly air, along with a pure beauty that seemed far removed from the dust of the world.

"Have you found someone you like? Is there someone you have a secret crush on? If there is, and she's outstanding—so outstanding that she seems impossible to reach—then study hard for the Gaokao and walk into her future."

Ding Yebai heard her perfectly clearly. He heard every single word, wishing he could carve them into his heart.

His pure and kind eyes stared intently at Yang Zhi. Only after a long while did he turn his head away.

Yang Zhi smiled faintly, as gentle as ever, like an older sister. Her tone was calm and even. "So, Ding Yebai, work a little harder. For the sake of giving yourselves a good future."

Ding Yebai said, "Sister Yang Zhi, you've misunderstood. I don't have a female classmate I like."

Yang Zhi laughed awkwardly, thinking he was shy and embarrassed to admit it. She took the initiative to say cheerfully, "It's fine, it's fine. Having a female classmate you like at this age is perfectly normal. How could you possibly control a heart that's starting to flutter? I'm not some old-fashioned person, either. All right, I'm leaving. Bye-bye."

With that, she waved to Ding Yebai and turned to leave.

Ding Yebai sat in the chair and thought for a long time. He turned around, picked up the paper phoenix Yang Zhi had folded, and gently rubbed it with his fingers.

"Walk into her future... Does that mean I should study hard, get into a good university, and then find a partner?"

Ding Yebai frowned in confusion. He knew very clearly that he had a vague, hazy fondness for Yang Zhi. As for this kind of feeling, he had never experienced it before.

Although this feeling made him restless, it hadn't affected his studies in the slightest. There was always a voice in the depths of his heart urging him to keep striving upward, improve his English, and become an academic prodigy with no weak subjects!!!

Ding Yebai said, "This... Could this be... what they call... love..."

He didn't say it aloud. It just seemed too unbelievable. How could such a strange feeling possibly appear in him?

He had upheld the principle that the wise do not fall in love for eighteen years.

"Love my ass!"

"This is just admiration! Appreciation! I'm merely appreciating an outstanding person."

As he spoke, Ding Yebai put the paper phoenix and the other little crafts into his drawer. "That's all."

How sad. I was supposed to go home tomorrow, but I canceled today's plane ticket. ╯▂╰

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