All of a sudden, Xuan Yuan Mo felt a chill.
He turned around and met the gaze of a young man.
The young man was expressionless, his dark eyes filled with gloom.
Su Ning happily trotted over.
“Shen Ji!”
His expression changed instantly.
A bright smile blossomed across his face.
He grabbed the girl’s hand and laughed cheerfully.
“Ning Ning!”
They really were a couple, weren’t they?
These two only had to greet each other and call each other’s names, yet they acted as though they had just discovered a new continent.
Xuan Yuan Mo and Shen Ji were classmates, but they weren’t close.
In all their years as classmates, they had barely spoken a few words to each other.
Xuan Yuan Mo only knew that Shen Ji seemed to have often been bullied in the past.
But ever since he started dating Su Ning, no one had bullied him anymore.
Jia Renlu and several others who had bullied him in the past had also disappeared from the school because of various accidents.
Holding Su Ning’s soft hand, Shen Ji smiled and asked Xuan Yuan Mo, “Did you need something from Ning Ning?”
Xuan Yuan Mo wasn’t so tactless that he couldn’t read the situation.
“I just came to ask her about something.
I have something else to do, so I’ll be going.”
Before leaving, he glanced at Su Ning once more.
That strange feeling in his heart grew even stronger.
After Shen Ji got together with Su Ning, the people who bullied him disappeared.
And the last time they encountered Zhao Yuan, Su Ning was the only one who didn’t have any nightmares.
Could the breakthrough to all these strange incidents lie with Su Ning?
Once the eyesore was gone, Shen Ji took something out of his pocket and placed it in Su Ning’s hand.
“Ning Ning, I made this for you.
It’s a gift.”
It was a small white skull-shaped hair clip.
There were obvious signs that it had been handmade, but its surface had been polished very smoothly.
Tiny letters, “YY,” were engraved on it.
They stood for “Ning Ning.”
Su Ning couldn’t tell what material the hair clip was made from.
It felt cold and hard to the touch, inexplicably reminding her of the skeleton she had touched not long ago.
But she liked the hair clip.
She immediately removed the diamond hair clip from her hair and said, “Put it on for me.”
Shen Ji had never put a hair clip in a girl’s hair before.
He was afraid that using too much force would hurt her, but if he didn’t use enough force, it might not hold her hair.
Su Ning took his hand and placed it against the hair beside her ear, guiding him herself.
“Clip it here.”
Shen Ji fussed with it for a while before finally getting the hair clip in place.
He imitated the way Su Ning used to do it and smoothed the loose strands of hair beside her ear.
Then he naturally took out his phone and held it up for Su Ning to use as a mirror.
Su Ning turned her face slightly.
The little white skull nestled in her black hair looked strangely cute.
She had never tried accessories in this style before, but seeing it like this, she thought it actually looked pretty good.
She was delighted.
“Shen Ji, thank you.
I really like it.
I’ll wear it every day.
Even when I sleep, I’ll keep it beside my pillow!”
The tips of Shen Ji’s ears turned red.
He lowered his head shyly and mumbled, “Sleeping in the same bed as Ning Ning…”
Su Ning poked his burning cheek.
“What are you thinking about?
I was talking about the hair clip, not asking you to sleep in the same bed as me.”
Shen Ji pressed his lips together and smiled softly. Get faster updates on g.com.
He looked a little silly.
Su Ning had no idea what he was so happy about.
She asked, “You must have spent a long time making this, right?”
Shen Ji held her hand against his face and rubbed his cheek against it, a hint of smugness in his eyes.
“I finished it in one night.”
Su Ning was worried.
“Every night, you’re either drawing or making little things.
How can you not get any rest?”
Shen Ji said, “I don’t draw or make things every day.”
Most of the time, he was crouched outside the fourth-floor window of the girls’ dormitory, resting his chin on his hand as he stared inside.
Watching Su Ning sleep made the whole night pass quickly.
Su Ning simply thought he was being stubborn.
“My next class is PE.
What do you have next?”
Shen Ji thought for a moment.
“Music.”
Su Ning said, “I’ll ask for leave for you.
I’ll take you to get some sleep.”
At this school, it was no secret that Su Ning and Shen Ji were a couple.
The teacher of Class Two knew that Shen Ji was already showing signs of becoming henpecked at such a young age.
But seeing that Shen Ji’s grades had improved recently, the teacher was happy to see Su Ning keeping him in line.
It wasn’t time for class yet.
Su Ning first asked Lu Xiaoran to request leave from the PE teacher for her.
Then she went to Class Two and asked the class monitor to request leave for Shen Ji.
Su Ning hadn’t been to the Class Two classroom for a while.
This time, she was surprised to see so many empty seats.
“Why are so many people missing from your class?”
Shen Ji obediently answered, “The teacher said they transferred to other schools.”
There was only one year left before graduation, yet so many people had transferred?
Bu Zhongyao saw Su Ning and quickly walked over.
“Su Ning, didn’t you say that even if Zhao Yuan became a ghost, he would come looking for you first?
Why am I dreaming about him every day while you don’t even dream about him?”
Su Ning glanced at Bu Zhongyao.
“Next time you have a nightmare, just tell him to come find me if he has something to say.”
With that one sentence, Bu Zhongyao was left speechless.
Su Ning took Shen Ji to the medical room.
There was a bed where he could lie down and sleep.
The medical-room teacher already knew them, so the teacher told them to leave once they had rested enough.
He still had a meeting to attend.
Recently, the school’s frightening rumors had been growing more and more widespread.
Whether they were true or not, the instruction from above was that neither teachers nor students could let the situation escalate.
Shen Ji lay on the bed.
The weather was hot, and he didn’t want a blanket, but Su Ning insisted on covering his stomach with one.
“Ning Ning, I’m not cold.”
Su Ning sat on the chair beside the bed.
“You’ll catch a cold before you even realize you’re cold.”
Shen Ji thought about it and decided he couldn’t argue with her, so he gave up resisting.
Instead, he held Su Ning’s hand against his face.
He closed his eyes.
After a while, he opened them again.
“Ning Ning, I can’t sleep.”
Su Ning thought he was really troublesome.
She stroked the top of his head and coaxed him, “Then I’ll tell you a story.
What do you want to hear?
A story about a princess and a prince?”
Shen Ji shook his head.
“A princess and…
a sea monster?”
Shen Ji said, “A beautiful princess was stranded on a deserted island and found a little octopus.
When the octopus grew up, it became a huge monster with tentacles.
While the princess was sleeping, its tentacles secretly slipped inside the princess’s clothes.
The princess woke up and shouted, ‘No, no…'”
“Wait!”
The more Su Ning listened, the more something seemed wrong.
“Where did you see this story?”
“On a male classmate’s phone.”
Shen Ji thought for a moment, then blinked and innocently added, “Xuan Yuan Mo invited me to watch it with him.”
Su Ning’s expression darkened.
Shen Ji asked nervously, “Ning Ning, was I wrong to watch it with them?”
Su Ning pinched his cheek.
“Of course!
From now on, you’re not allowed to hang around Xuan Yuan Mo and the others!”
Su Ning thought about it.
It was normal for boys to be curious about this kind of thing during adolescence.
She leaned down and kissed the corner of his lips, then quietly told him, “If you want to watch something like that in the future, you can only watch it with me.”
Shen Ji’s eyes curved into a smile.
“Mm.
I’ll listen to you.”
He held out his hand.
“Ning Ning, kiss me again.”
Su Ning leaned down and let him pull her into his arms.
The next second, he pulled her onto the bed, and the blanket instantly covered them both.
Before long, the young man’s laughter came from beneath the blanket.
“Don’t tickle me, Ning Ning!
I’m ticklish!”
Su Ning threw back the blanket and sat on top of him.
Her lips were flushed, and her breathing was slightly uneven.
Her hands continued mercilessly tickling his waist as she gave him a completely harmless warning.
“Try ambushing me like that again!”
He laughed so hard he could barely catch his breath.
He didn’t dare struggle too hard and even held her around the waist to keep her from falling to the floor.
Su Ning couldn’t explain why.
He didn’t have the stunning looks that Xuan Yuan Mo had, the kind that could amaze people at first glance.
But she liked him anyway.
She especially liked the way he smiled.
She only had to buy him some snacks or occasionally give him an ordinary little gift, and he would be happy for a long time.
It was as though no one had ever done these little things for him before.
Su Ning was infected by his smile, and her heart softened.
Slowly, she could no longer keep a straight face either.
She bent down and lowered her head, covering the young man’s mouth with hers.
The kiss was incredibly gentle.
Shen Ji had the strange feeling that he had become some fragile treasure.
He comfortably half-closed his eyes and gently wrapped his arms around the person on top of him.
She no longer needed to ask him every day as part of their usual routine.
Whenever their lips met, he now took the initiative to whisper,
“Ning Ning, I love you.”
Su Ning wanted to ask how much he loved her if his love were measured out of one hundred.
But when she looked at his satisfied smile, she suddenly didn’t want to ask anymore.
She stroked the top of his head the way she would pet a dog and smiled.
“Mm.
I know.”