It seemed Gou Yu had guessed right.
That night, Xia Yao looked at Fang Ran, someone she had been too embarrassed to meet eyes with since the day before. Her tall, beautiful figure was enough to stir anyone's heart, yet she seemed not to care about that "accident" at all.
Her pretty face, the kind that could make younger boys flustered, still wore the same soft, gentle smile as usual.
"What's wrong, junior?"
Then, at the breakfast table the next morning,
Fang Ran saw a girl who normally would never appear here. With her fairy-tale-like delicate beauty and a newfound girlish air, she looked increasingly like she had on the rooftop that night.
Sitting naturally and intimately beside Xia Yao, Shui Lianxin blinked her glass-like eyes and smiled sweetly.
"Fang Ran, are you going to class later?"
It left Fang Ran slightly stunned.
Then he smiled helplessly in inward relief, realizing that he really was the only one overthinking things, troubled by the belated adolescent restlessness brought on by the past.
He had been agonizing over how to respond to feelings he could not even properly distinguish.
That was right. Since there were things he wanted to do more, he could think about all this after he had finished them.
By then, he should be able to figure it out.
Once he understood that, his worries quietly drifted away.
As he looked at Shui Lianxin with the same embarrassed expression as always—Don't you have work to do?—
the little splash love had made left its ripples behind, while daily life returned to calm.
Heading out,
"Once some of the shorter courses end next month, they might start arranging exams early. Have you been keeping up with your classes lately?"
Fang Xiaoran walked beside him as she had long ago, chatting