Campus Ace Girl

Chu Yan was very nervous, motionless... but she also didn’t push him away.

If she were to push him away now, she would feel sorry for Bai Xun, and also feel... it’s unnecessary.

It’s just, an old acquaintance.

Bai Xun didn’t kiss for long, but after kissing, he didn’t let go of her, and quietly asked, "Do you still dare to say I haven’t tasted meat now?"

Chu Yan wrapped her arms around his neck, pursed her lips and asked, "Have you?"

He nodded, "I have."

He was already 24 years old, naturally he had.

Chu Yan smiled slightly and didn’t ask further. She wanted to move away but he wouldn’t let her, burying his face in her neck, "Hold me a bit longer, it’s rare to see you so obedient."

Chu Yan punched him lightly, "Hey, is it my fault?"

Clearly it was him... always protecting himself as if she were a pervert, ready to do anything to him at any moment.

Chu Yan couldn’t figure him out; sometimes he seemed like a big boy, sometimes mature and enigmatic.

Bai Xun held her, letting her face rest on his shoulder, yet he was looking at the car opposite.

He saw Chu Ci.

At this moment, Chu Ci was staring intently at this side, his face restrained and painful.

Bai Xun chuckled softly: Surely Chu Yan also saw him, she didn’t reject his kiss.

Suddenly he felt happy in his heart, held her face, and kissed her: "Let’s go for a walk."

She nodded, finally returning to her seat, taking a mirror to touch up her makeup. Bai Xun opened the door on her side to let her out, she jumped out and her hand was immediately caught by him, pulled into his pocket.

His hand was slightly cool, but the pocket was very warm, Chu Yan couldn’t help but feel his waist, slim, covered with a thin layer of muscle, just imagining it felt like a pretty good body.

Bai Xun pulled her along, smiling: "Don’t act like you haven’t seen the world."

Chu Yan just smiled at him.

They laughed like this, passing by Chu Ci’s car, ignoring the person they both knew well.

Chu Ci sat in the car, quiet and calm, for a while he took out a cigarette and lit it on his lips.

In the smoke, he slightly closed his eyes.

What Bai Xun said was true, he had a girlfriend, and his girlfriend was Chu Yan.

This bastard!

What was he trying to do?

He couldn’t believe Bai Xun didn’t know about his and Chu Yan’s past. Yet he still found a girl who nearly became sister-in-law as his girlfriend, does Chu Yan know?

Chu Ci hit the steering wheel hard, causing the car horn to blare abruptly in the quiet night, making it particularly jarring.

Chu Yan in front also heard it, she didn’t say anything, just held Bai Xun’s arm as they got into the elevator...

Chu Ci still sat in the car smoking, after about four or five cigarettes, his phone rang.

He didn’t answer, didn’t feel like answering.

Yet, the phone kept ringing incessantly, he held a cigarette in one hand and reached for the phone with the other.

It was his mother calling.

Chu Ci answered casually, his voice muted and hoarse: "Mom, what’s up?"

Madam Chu’s voice was weak: "Chu Ci, didn’t you say you were coming back? Why haven’t you yet?"

Only then did Chu Ci remember, his gaze lowered: "I’ll be back soon."

Madam Chu nodded: "Your father and I are waiting for you."

Chu Ci hung up, leaned back in his seat quietly finishing the cigarette in his hand, then looked at that car once more.

His Adam’s apple moved slightly, remembering when she was sitting in Bai Xun’s lap, head tilted to receive Bai Xun’s kiss, she wasn’t pretending, Bai Xun wasn’t acting, as a man he could tell that guy was genuinely moved.

Just short of rolling around.

Chu Ci closed his eyes slightly, tossed the cigarette butt away, and started the car.

By the time he reached the Chu Family mansion, it was already deep in the night. He crossed the silent courtyard and entered the brightly lit hall. Inside, Chu Changhe and his wife, along with several senior family members were present, seemingly waiting for him alone.

Chu Ci greeted them and sat down, immediately reaching for a cigarette to smoke.

Madam Chu, heart aching for her son, frowned: "Chu Ci, you’re addicted to smoking?"

She remembered her son rarely smoked before, even occasionally it was very restrained, because Chu Yan was around... Thinking of that girl, Madam Chu felt uneasy, so she said: "You should pick yourself up and make plans for yourself. Staying like this is only wasting your own time."

She added: "She doesn’t return, probably wanting our Chu Family to suffer. I know she feels you owe her, the Chu Family owes her... But what do we owe her? Her life was saved by the Chu Family, everything she’s used was provided by the Chu Family..."

As she spoke, she became increasingly agitated, so Chu Changhe said: "Enough, there’s no point talking about it, the child has been abroad for years and we’re no longer in touch."

He didn’t lack feelings for Chu Yan, but... it was his incompetence that let her down, he had no face to confront her.

Every New Year, he’d hold his phone for hours, merely wanting to call her, say Happy New Year to Yan Yan, if possible, he also wanted to give her lucky money, celebrate her growing another year older.

That child, now 26 years old, it’s been 6 years, 6 years without spending New Year at home. Who knows how she’s been these years, back then her family looked after everything, she went wherever Chu Ci went...

Chu Changhe knew well that it was his son’s fault, the girl they raised barely grown was dismissed by his son... Saying don’t want, then don’t want. Telling her to leave, and she left.

Chu Changhe sighed softly, about to speak again when Chu Ci murmured: "She’s back."

In the hall, there was suddenly no sound at all.

Madam Chu even more sternly said: "She’s back? Did you see her, is she looking for you wanting to be together again?"

Chu Ci had no anger left in him, he laughed bitterly: "No, it was a pure coincidence."

He leaned back on the sofa, softly saying: "She has a boyfriend now."

Madam Chu didn’t believe it, she still thought Chu Yan returning was to entice her son, to make the Chu Family unsettled.

After a while, Chu Ci finally spoke hoarsely: "Her boyfriend is Bai Xun. He’s our distant cousin."

In the hall, there was another silence.

After some time, Chu Changhe spoke, voice trembling: "Really?"

If true, then his son... wouldn’t he be terribly heartbroken? He could see, despite his son not rejecting blind dates, he’d been waiting for Yan Yan to come back, that place was always left empty.

He waited for her, endured, perhaps gambled.

Gambled that one day his mother wouldn’t be there, and both of them would still be single.

But now, Yan Yan had someone, and it’s Chu Family’s distant relative.

Not just him, even the other elders were quietly silent, after a while, someone finally spoke: "Bai Xun that kid I remember looks pretty good, fair-skinned. Now his career is doing well, he’s quite popular."

Almost as popular as Chu Ci back then.

Chu Ci sat there smoking, not saying a word.

He didn’t want to say anything.

After a while, he spoke softly: "The day after tomorrow is Dad’s birthday, Bai Xun will bring her over."

Madam Chu muttered softly: "Is she trying to get back at us? Chu Ci, is she trying to make you suffer?"

Chu Ci had already stood up, quietly standing there, after a long time faintly saying: "Mom, why don’t you consider maybe she really just wants somebody to marry, it just happens to be Bai Xun, she doesn’t know the relationship between Bai Family and us."

He paused, using a tone almost like a murmur: "Mom, she doesn’t necessarily need me, she can like someone else."

Madam Chu was stunned.

After a while, she softly said: "How could she like someone else, wasn’t she most fond of you?"

Chu Ci was bitter to the extreme, said nothing, slowly walked upstairs.

He didn’t enter his own bedroom, rather going to the room where Chu Yan lived as a child. The room remained perhaps due to his father’s insistence, he... likely also missed Yan Yan, keeping it as a way to remember.

Chu Ci slowly walked to the edge of the round princess bed, his fingers gently stroking the white gauzy bed curtain, finally lying down and closing his eyes, it was all scenes of young Chu Yan chasing him.

Little Chu Yan, soft and tender, calling him brother.

Climbing onto his knee, wanting brother to hold her, wanting brother to feed her, wanting brother to tell her princess stories...