What Xie Feng didn’t know was that in reality, his thoughts were right in one way, but wrong in another.
When Yao i was little, she lost a very important person to her because of her family. As a consequence, she closed herself in a stone shell without allowing anyone to enter in it. She started to spend most of her free ti training herself; no matter if it was in the real world or in the virtual world training her reflexes and reaction speed, except when she was sleeping, she never stopped training.
Even right now while sitting down she was wearing two strength bracelets. These two strength bracelets were made with peak technology, and their function was to increase the weight of the body dramatically. Currently, Yao i was tempering her physical body with a weight equivalent to nearly 300 kilograms. If it wasn’t for the special properties of the bracelet, the chair she was sitting on would have broken long ago!
However, as a consequence of isolating herself from the rest of the people, Yao i began to have difficulty when she began to speak. After years of silence, where only a dozen words at most ca out of her mouth occasionally, she naturally began to face speech problems. In addition, Yao i also did not want to say sothing wrong that could be misunderstood or hurt others, so she needed a lot of ti to think before speaking.
As a result of all this, people who did not know her thought she was arrogant and extrely proud without being willing to talk to anyone as they were not at her standard. But all this was just a big misunderstanding resulting from selfish people jumping to conclusions without knowing the life and hardships she had experienced.
At first, she naturally felt a little bad. But as ti went by Yao i beca indifferent about the matter and got used to the loneliness.
"Curious about ?" Xie Feng asked after coming out of his own inner thoughts. "Why are you curious about ?"
Xie Yao, Gu Qianxue, and Han Xue Nai also looked at her, wanting to know what made her so curious about Xie Feng as to travel from Beijing to Shanghai; even being willing to change universities.
However, even after more than ten seconds, Yao i still did not answer Xie Feng’s question.
If it were anyone else, he would probably be upset at being ignored; even more so a person as proud and arrogant as Xie Feng was. Fortunately, Xie Feng had already realized that all was not as it seed to be.
"Don’t worry. Take your ti. We’ll be fellow students now anyway, we’ll be able to see each other more often." Xie Feng smiled easily.
Just at that mont, the door opened and several people ca in with dishes and drinks.
Xie Feng thanked them and they all began to eat.
Yao i stared at him as if she wanted to find out sothing. But to her surprise, she realized that no matter whether it was his expression, his tone of voice while talking to the other girls, or his movents; it was absolute calm. He hadn’t really been angry or irritated by her lack of response, which confused Yao i.
So far, only one person didn’t get upset every ti she didn’t respond; Lin Tian. However, although Yao i was young, she knew that the reason Lin Tian controlled his temper was because he wished to court her.
But unlike Lin Tian, the young man in front of her clearly did not have any secondary intentions. He just didn’t get angry, that was all... It was sothing simple and small, but it was enough to make Yao i surprised and her curiosity towards him increase even more.
The group of five continued their lunch in a very friendly atmosphere.
* * *
-On the 1st floor of the Thousand Fragrances restaurant.
As every day, the 1st floor was already full of people. The number of students belonging to Shanghai University was undoubtedly the ruling crowd.
At that mont, a small group of three entered the place.
"Hey, are you really doing it?" one of the young n asked while looking at his roommate.
"My God! Old Luo, who’s going to do it is , what’s with that fear!?" Complained the other young man.
The young man who had not yet said anything laughed out loud and patted the second young man’s shoulder as he said, "Yue Kai, Xiao Luo is just worried about you!"
This trio was precisely Yue Kai, Hu Chen, and Xiao Luo.
Thousand Fragrances restaurant was also known for its excellent service for couples. At least two or three tis a week, a romantic man would confess to the girl he liked in this place. The number of couples among students that had been ford in this Thousand Fragrances restaurant was a few thousand, so the place had beco quite famous.
Today, Yue Kai had decided to make his preparations here to finally ask the girl he had been courting for the past two weeks if she wanted to be his girlfriend.
* * *
-Private room, Imperial Sea Hall.
Although Gu Qianxue was not especially close to Yao i, although Xie Yao had only t her for the second ti in her life, the two beauties seed to notice sothing after seeing Xie Feng’s attitude toward this beautiful red-haired girl, so they occasionally included Yao i in the conversation.
Thanks to Xie Yao and Gu Qianxue, Yao i did not feel left out and at the sa ti did not feel too much pressure because they both only asked her questions that could be answered with one or two words.
Even the mischievous Han Xue Nai would make several jokes in between, making everyone laugh.
"Yao i, your family had no problem with letting you co here?" Xie Yao asked as she helped Yao i to pour herself a glass of natural juice.
As the glass was filled with orange colored liquid and after drinking it, Yao i took that little ti of silence to think and then answered quietly:
"At first. My father wasn’t willing, my older brother wasn’t willing either, but my mother convinced them both. So I ca."
After hearing Yao i’s answer, Xie Feng tapped his forehead and said loudly, "Damn, I had forgotten!"
Yao i and the rest looked at him with perplexed looks.
Xie Feng looked at Yao i and with a forced smile slowly said, "Before I go back to Shanghai you went to Gu Qianxue’s house... At that ti you had told that you were going to change colleges... In fact, I had completely forgotten about it."
Xie Yao looked at him dumbfounded... That mory really wasn’t comndable. And to think that he forgot sothing that had happened two or three days ago!
Han Xue Nai looked at Xie Feng as if he was a monster and she couldn’t help but mutter, "Handso big brother, you’d better stop using skin creams. Apparently they’re damaging your brain."
"Han Xue Nai, you!" This brat! She was clearly teasing him about his skin that had beco even softer than a woman’s! Xie Feng clenched his teeth and looked at Han Xue Nai as if he wanted to eat her alive.
But Han Xue Nai looked back at him. She looked like a pig that wasn’t afraid of boiling water.
"Hehe..."
The sound of soone trying to hold back giggles echoed throughout the room.
Xie Feng slowly raised his head and his mouth opened slightly as he looked with surprise at the person who had clearly laughed.
Xie Yao and the rest also looked towards the source of the sound with wide eyes.
"You..." Xie Feng looked at Yao i and couldn’t help but ask a stupid question, "Did you just laugh?"
Yao i’s face was indifferent. She picked up a glass of juice, drank it, and after that casually replied, "I didn’t laugh."
"Nonono... You definitely laughed." Xie Yao said while shaking her head.
"I didn’t laugh." Yao i said indifferently.
"Hehehe... Yao i, you don’t need to be shy." Gu Qianxue followed after her.
"I didn’t laugh" Yao i repeated the sa words again as if she was a machine that had broken.
Now, Xie Feng was genuinely surprised. Even he knew very well that Yao i never smiled no matter what. Gu Qianxue’s father, Gu Pojun, had told him several months ago that once while chatting with Yao Xiyu, patriarch of the Yao Family and Yao i’s father, that she had not smiled since she was 4 or 5 years old.
How could Xie Feng not be surprised then?
However, seeing Yao i acting as if nothing had happened, Xie Feng suddenly did not want this girl to forget the feeling of smiling.
"You have a very beautiful smile though... Although you are young now, you are already this beautiful. I’m sure when you’re older and finish maturing completely your smile would make you look much prettier."
Xie Feng’s first words did not cause any reaction from Yao i. Pretty or not, she honestly wasn’t worried about it; let alone a man’s praise.
However, Xie Feng’s next words really tugged at a heartstrings.
"To this day I don’t know who my parents are. For so reason, I was abandoned when I was little. However, I don’t hate them. If it weren’t for them leaving behind, I wouldn’t have t the most important people in my life." Xie Feng smiled softly and said with weighty freedom. "Although the past may be a little hard to rember sotis, we can’t forget the present either. Just as we regret not being able to do sothing in the past, we will surely regret in the future for not enjoying the present."
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