Ding Yebai, Do You Have a Girl You Like

The two of them hurried to study after returning home.

Yang Zhi patiently explained to Ding Yebai, and there was no five-minute break this time.

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

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

Yang Zhi looked at him with a puzzled expression: "What's wrong?"

Ding Yebai: "My deskmate gave some origami paper to people around me today. I thought it was useless, so I decided to give it to you."

Yang Zhi: "I didn't expect high school students nowadays to exchange origami paper?"

Ding Yebai: "My female deskmate likes those girly little things. Maybe she bought too much and couldn't use it all, so she gave me some. In my opinion, it's a waste to use it as scratch paper, so it's better to give it to someone else."

Yang Zhi took the paper and turned it over to look: "Then why do you want to give it to me?"

Ding Yebai: "Didn't you teach children? Children should like this kind of paper, right? For making crafts or something."

"Oh, so that's why. Then I'll accept it." Yang Zhi put her bag on the table, sat back in her original chair, and actually started folding the origami paper.

Ding Yebai propped his head on the table, watching her quietly, wondering if she could fold it into a flower.

A moment later

Yang Zhi actually folded a flower.

It's really...

The key was that she not only folded a flower but also a phoenix?!! And a machine gun, a little frog, and so on.

Her hands are so skillful.

Ding Yebai looked at her slender, fair, and tender fingers, sighing in his heart over and over again.

Yang Zhi pushed all the folded little things towards Ding Yebai, and with her usual gentle smile, she said: "Those children are very far away from me, so I'll give them to the children who are closer to me first."

Ding Yebai: "Huh??? I'm 18!"

Who's a child!!!

Yang Zhi: "Haha, yes, yes~ An 18-year-old child. These papers aren't so useless after all. Right?"

Ding Yebai picked up the paper phoenix, no longer caring about the question, and looked at the artwork with admiration: "Through your hands, it seems to have become a little bit useful."

He said one thing but meant another. He actually super wanted this paper phoenix.

Yang Zhi's hands rested naturally on her thighs, her back straight, her posture always elegant and demure: "Do you like it?"

Ding Yebai was startled: "Ah?! What?"

Is this woman so direct? Asking straight away.

Yang Zhi was startled by his strong reaction: "You like this little phoenix?"

"Oh, you mean this." Ding Yebai nodded, relieved: "It's okay. I'm just so-so. Girls would probably like it."

Seeing his expression, Yang Zhi couldn't help but smile slyly. The expression only lasted for a second, but it was still endlessly memorable.

"Do you have a girl you like?"

"...No."

"I wonder if Senior Sister knows?"

"Even if she knew, she couldn't do anything to me." Ding Yebai frowned and placed the paper phoenix at the corner of the table: "I'm an adult now, she can't control me anymore."

"Ahaha... So that's how it is." Yang Zhi slung her bag over her shoulder and stood up to leave. Before leaving, she turned around and looked at Ding Yebai: "I didn't have a crush on anyone in high school, and I didn't experience that kind of youth. So, I don't understand your feelings."

Ding Yebai: "..."

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

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

Yang Zhi smiled gently, her lips curving into a slight arc, her smile as light as clouds and as graceful and moving as a dance. Her eyes, full of smiles, held a scholarly air, a pure beauty far from the mundane world.

"Do you have someone you like? Do you have someone you secretly admire? If so, and she is excellent, so excellent that she is out of reach, then study hard for the Gaokao and go to her future."

Ding Yebai heard it very clearly. He heard every word of this sentence clearly, wishing he could engrave it on his heart.

His pure and kind eyes stared intently at Yang Zhi. After a long time, he turned his head away.

Yang Zhi smiled faintly, as gentle as ever, like an older sister, her tone calm: "So Ding Yebai, try a little harder. For you to have a good future."

Ding Yebai: "Sister Yang Zhi, you misunderstood. I don't have any female classmates I like."

Yang Zhi chuckled, thinking he was too shy to say. So she said cheerfully and proactively: "It's okay, it's normal to like a female classmate at this age. How can you control a fluttering heart? I'm not someone with feudal ideas. Alright, I have to go. Bye."

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

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

"Go to her future... Is she telling me to study hard, get into a good university, and then find a partner?"

Ding Yebai frowned, troubled. He knew very well he had a vague fondness for Yang Zhi. This was a feeling he'd never experienced before.

Although this feeling made him restless, it didn't affect his studies at all. A voice in his heart constantly urged him to always strive upwards, to improve his English, and to become a top student with no weak subjects!

Ding Yebai: "This... could it be... the so-called... love..."

He didn't say it out loud, finding it hard to believe. How could this peculiar feeling appear in him?

He was someone who had upheld the principle of "The wise do not fall in love" for 18 years.

"Love my ass!"

"This is just admiration! Appreciating excellent people, that's all."

As Ding Yebai spoke, he put the paper phoenix and other small handmade trinkets into his drawer. "Nothing more. That's all."

So sad, his flight home tomorrow was canceled today. ╯▂╰

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