Jin Hanshuang became quieter.
She sat alone at the bar, replacing her juice with alcohol, clutching the earrings given to her by Lu Yunshu, but not wearing them anymore.
Qin Miaolin has not been in City A for many years and is unaware of the relationship between the Shen and Lu families. She only takes money to design and works according to the client's requirements.
After confirming the earrings, they exchanged contact information, and Qin Miaolin left.
Qin Miaolin said that the client had approached her a long time ago to customize the earrings.
Qin Miaolin also mentioned that these earrings were meant to be given to someone very important to the client.
It wasn't a casual choice; it was precious, a gift prepared for a long, long time, always waiting to be given to her.
She was very important to Lu Yunshu.
Another glass of wine was emptied.
Every suspicion that had ever arisen now climbed back into her mind, displaying itself before her eyes, this time with unprecedented clarity.
She remained silent.
The earrings in her hand seemed to be burning, almost too hot to hold.
The phone on the table vibrated.
Jin Hanshuang glanced downâit was Lu Yunshu.
What a coincidence, it was Lu Yunshu again.
[Lu Yunshu]: Are you busy?
Jin Hanshuang replied: [What's up?]
[Lu Yunshu]: Nothing
[Lu Yunshu]: Just wanted to ask if you want to go out for a drink
Jin Hanshuang took a photo of the empty glass in her hand and sent it over.
Lu Yunshu replied quickly, as if she had been waiting: [With friends?]
[Oh.]
[Another beauty?]
Jin Hanshuang couldn't help but smile at these four words.
How did she only realize now that Lu Yunshu always cared so much about this?
What exactly does Lu Yunshu want to do?
[Jin Hanshuang]: Yes, many
Lu Yunshu didn't reply immediately.
[Jin Hanshuang]: Why aren't you saying anything?
[Lu Yunshu]: I don't know what to say
[Jin Hanshuang]: Why
[Lu Yunshu]: You said you wouldn't forget me, I'm trusting you
Lu Yunshu actually didn't know whether she should believe in such things, after all, the trust they talked about was never the same thing.
Jin Hanshuang considered her a friend.
But she never saw Jin Hanshuang as just a friend.
When will she finally be able to openly say to her: Don't go see them, look at me instead?
Jin Hanshuang didn't reply.
Lu Yunshu quietly waited, scrolling down with her fingertips, silently browsing through their chat history.
She opened that photo of the empty glass again.
A hand rested on the black bar counter, holding a white frosted glass.
Under the light, the five fingers were long and delicate, with a faint pink hue at the fingertips, looking very beautiful.
The glass was also empty, making it impossible to tell if it had once held juice or alcohol.
She couldn't tell what Jin Hanshuang was thinking at that moment either.
The next second, Jin Hanshuang replied:
[Do you want to meet up?]
......
Jin Hanshuang took the car keys from the driver, paid the fare, and turned to walk towards the park, then continued along the stone path.
It was a small park with a musical fountain, quite beautiful.
She didn't know where to meet Lu Yunshu.
Every place seemed inappropriate, so she just chose a place where they could sit and chat, and breathe some fresh air.
Before long, she saw Lu Yunshu.
Lu Yunshu stood under the light, dressed casually and comfortably, with a low ponytail, a strand of long hair falling beside her cheek, and the same pair of glasses.
Her outfit was simple, but her posture was tall and elegant, still the focus of the crowd.
But her expression was cold and indifferent, as if rejecting anyone from getting close.
The next second, this coldness vanished, replaced by a bright, blossoming smileâshe saw her.
"Hanshuang."
Jin Hanshuang stood still, watching her walk towards her.
She saw her suddenly lean in, lightly sniffing, just like a little puppy.
"Had a drink?"
"Yes."
"How did you get here?"
"Designated driver."
"Good. How much did you drink?"
"Two glasses."
"Why didn't you ask me to pick you up?"
Jin Hanshuang inexplicably smiled again: "It's far, I don't dare to trouble our President Lu."
"It's not troublesome," Lu Yunshu retorted seriously, "Your matters are my responsibility."
Jin Hanshuang was speechless.
It was so obvious, so clear... yet she never dared to think about it before, always treating her like a child, never daring to think deeply.
"Why did you suddenly want to go out with me, not with the person you like?"
"She... is busy."
"Busy with what?"
"Work."
"Is that so."
The two words were devoid of any emotion.
Jin Hanshuang continued walking.
Lu Yunshu followed her steps.
They walked side by side in silence.
The silence was soon broken, as Lu Yunshu took the initiative to speak: "What's wrong with you?"
"Hmm?"
"You seem to have something on your mind."
"Is it that obvious?" Jin Hanshuang's voice carried a smile.
"Did something happen?" Lu Yunshu's face was full of concern.
Jin Hanshuang smiled at her again and continued walking.
Jin Hanshuang didn't know what she was doing anymore.
She had changed a lot.
The first time she realized that Lu Yunshu might like her, she was flustered, incredulous, but also decisive.
Today, when she realized again that Lu Yunshu might like her, she was no longer flustered, but rather confusedâshe seemed unsure of how to handle it.
Forget it, let's take it one step at a time.
Starting with confirmation.
Lu Yunshu quietly accompanied her, walking slowly along the stone path.
She was very worried about her, but also understood the importance of not prying into others' thoughts.
So she just quietly stayed by her side, ready to listen whenever she spoke.
Then she saw Jin Hanshuang suddenly stop and turn to look at her.
"At today's gathering, I met someone and learned something that makes me unsure how to face you."
Jin Hanshuang looked into Lu Yunshu's eyes.
"Do you want to know who this person is?"
Jin Hanshuang's rare serious expression affected Lu Yunshu, making her brows furrow with a mix of tension and curiosity.
The wind blew, carrying the scent of grass in the air, as if it were about to rain.
She couldn't care about that now and asked, "Who is it?"
"Qin Miaolin."
Jin Hanshuang's voice fell, without hesitation.
"A custom jewelry designer."
Lu Yunshu's beautiful eyes widened slightly, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Jin Hanshuang understood.
"You do know her."
She unconsciously took a step closer: "If I ask you now, who is the person you like, how would you answer me?"
Silence lingered between them.
She saw Lu Yunshu open her mouth, but before she could hear her voice, a drop of water suddenly fell on her face.
Her hand was suddenly held, and Lu Yunshu's voice fell by her ear: "Let's take shelter from the rain first."
It wasn't the answer she wanted.
This damn weather had started raining again.
They ran to a hallway entrance, with the rain blocked outside.
There was no one else here, just the two of them.
Both of them were somewhat wet from the rain.
Jin Hanshuang remembered that while running towards the hallway entrance, Lu Yunshu briefly let go of her hand, raised her hand to shield her head, and almost protected her all the way.
When she saw the empty hallway entrance that provided shelter from the rain, Lu Yunshu held her hand again, leading her to run over.
So, their hands were still holding each other.
Holding tightly.
Jin Hanshuang tried to pull her hand back.
Lu Yunshu held on even tighter.
Amidst the noisy rain, Jin Hanshuang heard Lu Yunshu's voice by her ear: "...It's you."
Their gazes collided under the white light.
Jin Hanshuang saw the light in Lu Yunshu's eyes, bright like stars that should be in the sky.
"The person I like is you, Jin Hanshuang."
Jin Hanshuang was astonished.
Even though she had anticipated this answer, hearing it from Lu Yunshu's mouth still felt unbelievable.
How could it be... how could it be her?
Jin Hanshuang fixed her gaze on Lu Yunshu, full of scrutiny: "So you were lying to me from the beginning... why did you do this?"
"Because you treated me like a child, taking my words as jokes. Because I really don't know how to make you happy."
Lu Yunshu didn't avoid her sharp gaze.
"And also because I was afraid, afraid that if I confessed at the beginning, you would reject me, and I wouldn't even have the chance to stay by your side, afraid that I would have to watch you be with someone else again. Hanshuang, it took me so long to get close to you, I don't want to endure it any longer..."
When Shen Minghai was alive, she didn't dare to act rashly.
It wasn't that she didn't dare, but she was afraid that Shen Minghai would take out his anger on Jin Hanshuang.
With Shen Minghai around, Jin Hanshuang wouldn't have much interaction with her, unless they were out of Shen Minghai's sight, like when they were in school.
But she couldn't guarantee that she could hide her feelings forever.
Maybe one day she wouldn't be able to hold back.
Maybe one day she would bravely and fearlessly appear in front of Jin Hanshuang, confess her feelings, and ask if she would be willing to go with her.
She would treat her better than the Shen family.
She would love her more.
If she was willing to love her, if she was willing to share a bit of her love, it would be even better.
But unexpectedly, before she couldn't hold back any longer, Shen Minghai passed away due to illness.
Just like her father.
The two people from the Lu family and the Shen family who disliked each other the most were both gone.
Life is truly unpredictable...
And now, she stood in front of Jin Hanshuang.
No more hiding, all her thoughts were clear, even bolder.
She could finally express her love openly, without any excuses to hide.
She held Jin Hanshuang's hand again.
She wanted her to see her, the clear and honest her, the one who loved her, no longer a child.
"Hanshuang, I've grown up. I'm not a child anymore, and I know what I'm doing. I like you, more than anyone else, and I want your affection more than anyone."
"Could you... consider me?"
She didn't hear Jin Hanshuang's reply.
Jin Hanshuang just looked at her, speechless and silent.
The drizzling rain pattered on everything, the drops hitting the helpless branches with a series of dull thuds, as if knocking on Lu Yunshu's heart.
Drenched by the rain, swayed by the wind, her heart wavered helplessly, waiting for judgment.
They stood in the rainy night, at an impasse because of her affection.
Finally, Jin Hanshuang moved.
She resolutely pulled her hand back.
"ââIt shouldn't be me."
After saying this, she walked away.
She wanted to leave, to get away from here, at least not to stay with Lu Yunshu any longerâshe no longer knew how to face her.
But Lu Yunshu's hand reached out and grabbed her: "Hanshuang, it's still raining!"
Jin Hanshuang shook off her hand: "Don't worry about me, don't follow."
She turned and rushed into the rain, getting soaked, leaving without any hesitation.
Yet, in a moment of impulse, she turned back to look.
Lu Yunshu stood there, in the rain.
She really didn't follow.
She had always listened to her.
......
Jin Hanshuang went home.
After changing out of her wet clothes, she sat in a daze for a while before taking a hot shower, which made her feel much more awake.
Then she poured herself a glass of wine and sat on the sofa, lost in thought.
Her mind was filled with the events of the night.
Lu Yunshu likes her...
But how could Lu Yunshu like her??
She couldn't understand.
She couldn't understand herself either.
Images of Lu Yunshu asking her to consider her flashed through her mind.
At that moment, she was clearly going to refuse.
She was clearly going to say "No," "It's impossible," "We have no chance," but somehow it came out as "It shouldn't be me"?
She should have decisively rejected her...
Then, she remembered the scene when she looked back.
Lu Yunshu stood in the rain, looking at her, lonely and pitiful.
There was a part of Jin Hanshuang's heart that softened unknowingly because of this scene.
She leaned back in her chair, tilted her head up, let out a heavy sigh, and closed her eyes.
Still a bit annoyed.
The more she thought about that scene, the more annoyed she became.
It wasn't Lu Yunshu that annoyed her, but herself.
She shook off Lu Yunshu's hand.
Her tone was so cold.
She didn't understand why she lost her temper with Lu Yunshu at that momentâit was inexplicable and unreasonable.
No, that's not right, she was a bit angry with her.
How could she make up such an excuse to deceive her?
How could she... oh, she said she was afraid of being rejected.
"Tsk..."
Jin Hanshuang couldn't refute this reason at all.
If Lu Yunshu had confessed her feelings from the beginning, she would indeed have rejected her without hesitation.
She shouldn't have taken Lu Yunshu's words at the party as a joke from the start, and Lu Yunshu should have confessed her feelings from the beginning. That would have made things simpler, and there wouldn't be the current situation.
There wouldn't be any pitiful Lu Yunshu, little Lu puppy...
Jin Hanshuang opened her eyes.
She thought again of the scene where Lu Yunshu stood alone in the rain, looking at her.
Damn it, her mind was now filled with this scene.
So annoying, Lu Yunshu looked so pitiful!
How could she be so pitiful in front of her!!
"Buzz."
The phone on the coffee table rang.
Jin Hanshuang moved her head, glanced at it indifferently, then slowly got up, put down her wine glass, and picked up the phone.
Unlock the screen.
ââIt's Lu Yunshu again.
Too late, the message had already popped up.
[Lu Yunshu]: Why shouldn't it be you?
Too late, her finger had already tapped into it.
[Lu Yunshu]: Can't I like you?
[Lu Yunshu]: Just because my last name is Lu?
[Lu Yunshu]: This isn't fair.
[Lu Yunshu]: Hanshuang, this isn't fair.
After a minute of silenceâ
[Lu Yunshu]: But I still like you, and I still want to keep liking you.
A series of messages, just like her feelings for her, one-sided, without a response.
[Lu Yunshu]: Can we talk, please?
[Lu Yunshu]: Sister, pay attention to me.
Seeing the last sentence, Jin Hanshuang frowned slightly, a hint of reluctance in her expression, and the image of Lu Yunshu standing in the rain became even more vivid in her mind.
She fell silent.
Her fingers moved on the screen, but in the end, she turned off the screen and tossed the phone aside.
She still didn't know how to face her.
.......
Lu Yunshu waited for a long time but didn't receive a message from Jin Hanshuang.
It seemed like she was being given the cold shoulder.
See, as soon as she knew her feelings, she would immediately avoid her.
But why did it have to be this way?
Why could other girls, but not Lu Yunshu?
Was she really that hard to accept...
Lu Yunshu sat in the car, looking at her phone, her eyes dull and lifeless.
She was soaked from head to toe, just like her feelings in front of Jin Hanshuang, utterly miserable.
Messages kept coming in from the small group chat.
Le You and the others were comforting her.
[Fan Jia]: It's okay, you still have us.
[Le You]: Yes, yes, you still have us! We'll catch a flight back tonight to be with you!
[Little Fanfan]: Where are you? I'll come to keep you company.
[Lu Yunshu]: It's okay.
[Lu Yunshu]: I want to be alone for a while.
[Le You]: Alright, if anything comes up, just call us directly.
[Fan Jia]: The volume is turned up to the max, we definitely won't miss it!
[Little Fanfan]: If you need someone to keep you company, just call me. I'm always here.
Lu Yunshu looked at their comforting messages, and her low spirits were slightly soothed.
She wasn't discouraged, at least she hadn't given up.
Because Jin Hanshuang hadn't deleted her or blocked her.
That was already good enough.
At least the things she said, Jin Hanshuang could still see... she just didn't want to reply.
Being able to see it was already good enough.
Being able to openly say "I like you" was already good enough.
She wouldn't give up.
"Achoo."
Before anything else, she had to go home and change out of her wet clothes.
......
The next day, Jin Hanshuang picked up her phone.
Her chat with Lu Yunshu was frozen at the last message from the previous night.
Lu Yunshu hadn't sent her any more messages. She didn't know if she had given up or was just afraid to disturb her.
In any case, it was very quiet.
It was as if nothing had happened, as if there had been no rain yesterday, and as if Lu Yunshu had never liked her.
Jin Hanshuang put down her phone, her expression calm.
She turned to do her own things, tidying up yesterday's clothes and bags.
After coming back yesterday, she wasn't in the mood, and things were thrown messily in the cloakroom, still not tidied up.
As a result, she found the earrings that Lu Yunshu had given her in her bag.
Specially customized, unique earrings.
"......"
She forgot to return them to Lu Yunshu yesterday.
She rummaged further.
Lu Yunshu's hair tie that she gave her.
"......"
Truly impressed.
Why are there traces of Lu Yunshu everywhere in her life?
Jin Hanshuang silently put the earrings back into the box and carefully placed them.
She has to return this.
Later, she will find someone to maintain it so that it looks as good as new when she returns it.
She had almost finished packing her things and had explained most of the situation to Du Mengying.
While she was packing, Du Mengying suddenly sent a message asking why she left so quickly yesterday and didn't respond to her messages afterward.
She simply called her and explained everything that happened yesterday in detail while continuing to pack.
Du Mengying slapped her thigh on the other end of the phone and exclaimed, "I knew it, she really likes you!"
"Tsk, is this the main point now?"
"Haha, isn't it?"
"No, the main point now is that I don't know how to face her."
"Do you still need to think about it? Didn't you have the answer last time?"
"What?"
"Reject her."
"......"
"You said it yourself."
Jin Hanshuang's hands paused, and she fell silent.
She did say that, but now... Ah, no, Lu Yunshu's pitiful look appeared in her mind again!
Du Mengying noticed the silence on the other end of the phone and teased, "No way, our Mrs. Shen can't bear to part with her, right..."
"Don't talk nonsense."
Jin Hanshuang immediately denied it.
"I'm really afraid of your mouth now."
"Hahahahaâ"
Du Mengying laughed heartily.
"So what do you mean?"
"Just..."
Jin Hanshuang sat down and scratched her head irritably.
"SighâI think she's pitiful."
Du Mengying nodded, "Yes, she is pitiful. She just confessed to you and was left in the rain, tsk, so pitiful."
"......"
Thinking about this, Jin Hanshuang suddenly felt annoyed.
"Is she a pig? Can't she avoid the rain herself?"
Jin Hanshuang: "I'm hanging up, let's not talk about it."
She really hung up.
The more she talked, the more she felt that Lu Yunshu was pitiful, like a poor little puppy in her mind. This wouldn't do, it wouldn't help her reject Lu Yunshu.
She finished packing and had nothing to do.
Jin Hanshuang sat and scrolled through her Moments.
As she scrolled, she saw Lu Yunshu again.
"......"
Lu Yunshu just posted a picture.
The picture showed a fair hand with a needle in the back, covered with an infusion sticker, and connected to an infusion tube...
Jin Hanshuang was stunned for a moment.
Is she sick?
......
Lu Yunshu caught a cold and fever.
She got drenched in the rain last night, caught a chill when she got back, and woke up like this.
Now, her aunt has her obediently getting an injection at the hospital.
Even so, Lu Yunshu is still thinking about Jin Hanshuang.
For the first time, she posted a photo of her getting an injection on her Moments.
Then, for the umpteenth time, she stared at Jin Hanshuang's chat window, hoping for a reply.
Will she see it?
Will she, out of a bit of sympathy, be willing to talk to her?
She has no other extravagant hopes now, just wants to talk to her.
Hanshuang, please pay attention to me...
"Cough, cough..."
Just after coughing, a hand gently touched her forehead.
She looked up and saw a middle-aged woman with short hair in professional attire standing in front of her.
The woman's face was full of concernâher aunt, Lu Fangru.
After checking her niece's forehead temperature, Lu Fangru gently patted her head, "How are you feeling? Still uncomfortable? Sleepy? Want to take a nap?"
Lu Yunshu shook her head, her voice sounding more nasal, "I'm fine, feeling much better now... Aunt, you can go back to the company, I'll be okay on my own."
Lu Fangru sighed, "How can I be at ease and go back when you're like this?"
She glanced at her phone, "Alright, I'll go back after your uncle comes to take care of you. He went to buy porridge for you, from your favorite place. Eat some when it arrives, don't go hungry, okay"
"Anything else you want to eat? I'll have your uncle buy it for you."
Lu Yunshu weakly smiled and shook her head, "Porridge is enough."
Lu Fangru tidied her hair, "Be good and get your injection. I'll go get your medicine. Call me if you need anything."
Lu Yunshu nodded gently.
Lu Fangru left.
Lu Yunshu turned her phone over gently.
No messages.
Jin Hanshuang still hadn't sent her a message.
Not even a punctuation mark.
Lu Yunshu lowered her eyebrows and sighed softly.
She took the initiative again.
[Hanshuang, I'm sick, feeling very uncomfortable]
Jin Hanshuang still didn't reply.
...
Jin Hanshuang tossed her phone aside.
She typed and deleted in the input box, unable to come up with a satisfactory message.
She didn't know what to say.
Nothing seemed appropriate.
She had no standing.
Lu Yunshu wasn't lacking in people who cared about her, so let it be, don't make the relationship worse.
Jin Hanshuang stood up, but couldn't help glancing at the phone left on the sofa.
A wave of irritation surged.
So annoying.
If only they hadn't spent time together recently.
If only Lu Yunshu had confessed her feelings from the beginning, she could have decisively rejected her, instead of now feeling too sorry for her to even block her.
If only, Lu Yunshu wasn't Lu Yunshu.
......
Lu Yunshu has been posting on Moments more frequently these days while she's sick.
Every time Jin Hanshuang opens Moments, she's forced to catch up.
She saw her say that she woke up coughing in the middle of the night.
She saw her say that she's feeling much better.
She saw her say that her nose is so stuffy that she can't smell anything.
She also saw her say that the medicine is a bit bitter and she doesn't like taking it.
When Jin Hanshuang saw this post, she inexplicably laughed.
How can someone so grown up still be afraid of taking medicine?
Jin Hanshuang laughed once, and then immediately stopped laughing.
She realized.
What's so funny? Why laugh?
Who posts a series of updates on Moments about being sick and getting injections?
This kid must be doing it on purpose.
Stop laughing, Jin Hanshuang.
Then she seriously scrolled through the rest of the Moments.
After finishing, she found herself quite amusing.
She no longer understood what she was doing recently.
On one hand, she didn't know how to deal with Lu Yunshu's affection and wanted to reject her. On the other hand, she kept thinking of her pitiful look and struggled with herself.
What do I really want to do...
Jin Hanshuang put down her phone with a complicated mood and started staring out the window.
A few days later, Lu Yunshu's series of sick updates on Moments disappeared.
She didn't post anything else either.
It was as if she had suddenly vanished.
When Jin Hanshuang didn't see Lu Yunshu's updates while scrolling through Moments, her heart inexplicably sank for a moment, but quickly recovered.
Maybe she's recovered.
If she's recovered, there's no need to post on Moments anymore. Perhaps those posts weren't meant for her alone.
They were for her family, friends, and everyone who cared about her.
That's good. If she's recovered, there's no need to fuss over these things.
[Qin Xiaoliu]: Oh? Have you figured it out?
[Qin Xiaoliu]: Didn't you say yesterday that you weren't in the mood to make friends?
[Jin Hanshuang]: After a good night's sleep, I'm in the mood now.
Once she has a girlfriend, she definitely won't pay attention to Lu Yunshu's matters anymore.
In the evening, just as she was about to go for a walk in the nearby park, she met Lu Yunshu at the entrance of her residential complex.
Lu Yunshu was still wearing casual clothes, with a low ponytail and gold-rimmed glasses, just like that night.
If she wasn't wearing a white mask on her face, she would look even more like herself.
The unexpected encounter left both of them stunned for a moment.
Lu Yunshu was the first to react.
She put away her phone, happily walked up to Jin Hanshuang, and sweetly called out, "Sister."
Her voice still had a bit of a nasal tone.
"You haven't fully recovered from your cold, have you?"
Jin Hanshuang blurted out.
Then she was stunned and pressed her lips together.
Lu Yunshu heard this, and a smile instantly spread across her eyes. She remained very well-behaved and said, "Much better now, I can already work."
"You care about me, I'm very happy."
Jin Hanshuang frowned at her and didn't speak.
Lu Yunshu continued, "I came to see you as soon as I felt better."
"I was just about to send you a message, but you came down first. What a coincidence, I'm so happy."
When she said she was happy, her eyes curved into crescents.
Every ripple of emotion she felt because of her was genuine and heartfelt.
"......"
Jin Hanshuang looked at her in this state and couldn't help but feel pity.
Why come to her like this?
Why let her see her in this state...
"What do you want from me?"
She finally spoke.
"Hanshuang, I miss you very much."
"......"
Jin Hanshuang didn't know what to say.
She had heard such words beforeâcoquettish, pitiful, joyful, complaining... She had heard them countless times.
She had seen this look on others before.
But it was different.
Because it was Lu Yunshu, everything was different.
She sighed helplessly and turned around, "We need to have a good talk. Come upstairs and sit for a while, lest it rains again and you get sick. I can't bear that responsibility."
......
This was the first time Jin Hanshuang brought Lu Yunshu home.
She poured a cup of warm water for Lu Yunshu to warm her hands and sat down on another sofa.
She glanced at Lu Yunshu, who had already taken off her mask, and noticed that her energy and spirit were not as good as before.
She suddenly remembered Shen Wenxin.
Shen Wenxin just recovered from a cold and fever, and now this one is sick again.
Do they have a relay button for colds and fevers or something?
She couldn't help but want to say something.
If it's not appropriate, don't say it.
"What brings you here so late at night?"
Such a knowingly rhetorical question.
Lu Yunshu said, "I want to see you, Hanshuang."
"I should have waited until I recovered to come find you, but I couldn't help it."
Jin Hanshuang's reply was indifferent: "You shouldn't have thought about it."
The same rejection as that night.
"I can't do it."
She looked into Jin Hanshuang's eyes, her tone unwaveringly firm.
"Hanshuang, I can't do it."
"I don't understand," Jin Hanshuang said, "How could you like me?"
"I don't understand either."
"?"
"By the time I realized it, I already liked you."
Love is always like this, always catching people by surprise.
Jin Hanshuang frowned, "When did you start liking me?"
Lu Yunshu shook her head again, "I don't know."
She couldn't pinpoint the exact moment she started liking Jin Hanshuang.
Maybe it was one day in college, or even earlier.
During those times, she always looked forward to seeing Jin Hanshuang, hoping to spend time alone with her, even if it was just quietly sitting together and watching the stars.
Later, Le You and the others told her, "This is what you call liking someone."
Because she not only wanted to see Jin Hanshuang, not only wanted to watch the stars with her, but she would also mention her in front of them.
Intentionally or unintentionally, many times.
The conflict with Shen Wenxin did not affect her attention to Jin Hanshuang at all.
They said, this is what you call liking someone.
Lu Yunshu, you like Jin Hanshuang, you're doomed!
Doomed, for liking your arch-enemy's stepmother, for liking a married woman.
Doomed, but she still liked her.
She still really, really wanted to see her.
Today, she sat in front of the one she liked, finally able to honestly express her love.
Jin Hanshuang looked slightly surprised.
She didn't know how to respond.
How could this be?
She really had someone she liked for many years, and that person was her.
Why does love always come so unexpectedly?
"I never realized you liked me before."
"Because you always treated me like a child."
Because they are children, it's okay for them to get a little closer.
When a child says they want to pursue you, it's just a joke.
Everything can be blocked by the boundary of age.
"......"
Jin Hanshuang was speechless.
Indeed, that was the case.
Wasn't it because of this that she didn't take Lu Yunshu's words seriously?
She was also certain that Lu Yunshu wouldn't like her because of the relationship between their families, so no matter how many strange feelings she had, she was unwilling to think about it in terms of love.
Until Qin Miaolin appeared.
Until Lu Yunshu admitted: I like you.
Love... really likes to play tricks on people.
"It doesn't matter if you couldn't see it before," Lu Yunshu said, "What about now? My love for you, my appearance, my personality, everything about me, have you seen it all?"
The passionate and overwhelming love was exposed in front of Jin Hanshuang, eagerly hoping and longing for her.
Jin Hanshuang frowned.
She saw it once again, her genuine feelings for her.
But, but...
Jin Hanshuang slowly opened her lips.
Lu Yunshu, as if anticipating what she was going to say, quickly said, "Don't reject me so quickly, Hanshuang. You clearly care about me too, I've seen it."
The words stuck in Jin Hanshuang's throat, and she frowned even more: "?"
"The other party is typing."
Lu Yunshu thought of this and felt much better, with a faint smile on her lips.
"I've seen this status several times."
Jin Hanshuang didn't reply, not a single word.
But Jin Hanshuang's status showed "The other party is typing" many times.
Even though there was no reply, she still saw it.
Jin Hanshuang didn't completely ignore her; it seemed she didn't know what to say or how to face her.
A bit awkward.
Jin Hanshuang: "......"
"So you posted those things on your Moments on purpose?"
"Have you seen it?"
"Didn't you post it for people to see?"
Lu Yunshu laughed and said, "Yes, I show you alone."
Jin Hanshuang: "...?"
Lu Yunshu's tone was very gentle, with a hint of grievance: "I was afraid you wouldn't read my messages, so I posted on Moments."
"I am a bit despicable, I don't want to worry others, and I especially want you to worry, even if I just sympathize with me."
Jin Hanshuang couldn't say anything at all.
The moves she learned here was all used on her.
And yet, you used it so pitifully... so heart-wrenchingly.
Lu Yunshu put down the water cup, approached Jin Hanshuang, and bravely held her hand.
Then she leaned down, placed her face in her palm, and looked at her with bright eyes, just like when she used to admit her mistakes.
"Hanshuang, I like you, I really, really like you, so could you please not reject me so quickly? Could you also give me a chance to pursue you and win your heart?"
"Please, sister ..."
A gentle and pitiful tone, a beautiful and delicate appearance.
These are only shown to her alone.
Jin Hanshuang became speechless for a moment.
Lu Yunshu probably felt that this was not enough, so she gently rubbed the palm of her hand again, furrowing her brows, and said pitifully, "I'm still sick, Hanshuang, I feel so uncomfortable..."
Jin Hanshuang: "..."
It's over.
She even had the courage to take back her hand.
"Lu Yunshu, are you using the tricks I taught you to deal with me now?"
Lu Yunshu laughed and held her hand tighter.
"Teacher Jin taught well."
Jin Hanshuang: "..."
Feels like lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot.