Perhaps because Ai Xiaoya had taken too long to reply, Shen Qiao sent a second message.
[It's okay. I can wait for your reply.]
Seeing this message, Ai Xiaoya told him what had just happened.
Shen Qiao: Did the pressure from third year of high school suddenly lift, so you got too excited?
Ai Xiaoya: Maybe...
After all that, the feelings Ai Xiaoya had just worked up had completely vanished.
But Shen Qiao was not ready to give up just like that. He still wanted to find another chance to confess to her a second time.
Shen Qiao: Xiaoxiao, are you free the day after tomorrow?
Ai Xiaoya: What is it?
Shen Qiao: I wanted to ask you out... on a date the day after tomorrow?
Ai Xiaoya: Huh?
Seeing the words "on a date," Ai Xiaoya's emotions, which had only just calmed down, stirred up once more.
She was just about to agree when she suddenly remembered that her parents wanted to take her on a trip the day after tomorrow.
Now that she had graduated from high school, her parents wanted to take her to Jiangcheng, a place she had always wanted to visit.
Ningcheng was not far from Jiangcheng, and her family had a car, so they could simply drive there.
Because of that, seeing this message left Ai Xiaoya conflicted.
She wanted to travel to Jiangcheng, but she also did not want to miss Shen Qiao's date.
She knew Shen Qiao might be planning to confess that day, and she... also wanted to take this opportunity to reveal her feelings.
The reason she wanted to visit Jiangcheng was that she had always wanted to get into a university there. In her fantasies, she and Shen Qiao would both attend college in Jiangcheng in the future.
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