Xia Yuan looked at the girl in front of him. Ning Qing Yin was sweating from her nervousness and embarrassment. She lowered her head, afraid to look at him.
Seeing her like that, Xia Yuan wanted to tease her a little. “You want to put nothing in my drawer?”
Upon hearing that, Ning Qing Yin lowered her head even more.
Xia Yuan stopped teasing her and said, “You… were you going to send me a love letter?” He was afraid that continuing to tease Ning Qing Yin would scare her away.
The 2 words “love letter” made Ning Qing Yin suddenly raise her head and look at him with disbelief on her face. Her eyes were filled with questions on how Xia Yuan knew about the love letter.
Xia Yuan smiled faintly and said, “If you have a love letter, then give it to me. If you don’t have one, then just pretend that I didn’t say anything.” Xia Yuan wanted to read the letter that Ning Qing Yin had written to him.
Hearing his words, Ning Qing Yin felt as if she had found her escape path. She immediately took out the love letter she had hidden behind her and put it in Xia Yuan’s hands. After a quick “Thank you!”, Ning Qing Yin turned around and ran away.
“Thank you?” Xia Yuan held the love letter and muttered the words. Who says thank you when giving someone a love letter?
……
Ning Qing Yin who had escaped went down the stairs and returned to her classroom.
Xia Yuan was in class 10, on the third floor, and Ning Qing Yin was in class 1, on the first floor. Ning Qing Yin kept running and only stopped when she got to the door of her classroom.
Lin Miao Miao saw Ning Qing Yin returning to the classroom and asked excitedly, “Lil Yin, did you do it?”
Ning Qing Yin didn’t say anything, but her face became redder and redder. When she thought about what had happened, she wanted to hide inside a hole.
Seeing Ning Qing Yin’s reaction, Lin Miao Miao thought that something must have happened. So she became more curious. “What’s wrong? Did something amazing happen?”
It was as if Ning Qing Yin was stimulated when Lin Miao Miao asked her, and she suddenly stretched her hand to cover her face.
“Ah… too humiliating…Wu… I was so unlucky… My first time sending a love letter and I actually got caught…”
“And then? Then what happened?” Lin Miao Miao became more and more excited as she listened. To be able to make our little princess so humiliated, Xia Yuan must have done or said something.
Ning Qing Yin told Lin Miao Miao what just happened. After Lin Miao Miao finished listening, she burst into laughter instead of comforting her.
“Ha ha ha ha ha, Yin ah, you’re going to make me laugh to death, you’re so cute. It’s fine if you get caught the first time you send a love letter, but even the love letter was asked for by the person, ha ha ha ha.”
Ning Qing Yin’s face became redder with embarrassment when Lin Miao Miao said this. “I really didn’t know what to do at the time… I got found out, was I supposed to just turn around and leave?”
“The thing is, you even said thank you! Ha ha ha!” Lin Miao Miao couldn’t help but burst into laughter again when she said the last 2 words.
“Wu wu… I did such a stupid thing, will Xia Yuan dislike me?” Ning Qing Yin asked worriedly.
“Possibly.” Lin Miao Miao stopped laughing and replied with a serious face.
“Really? Wu wu… too humiliating… My love is already over before I even started chasing…”
Seeing the stupid girl taking it seriously, Lin Miao Miao stopped teasing her. “It’s fine, this is good. Because of that, you can openly chase him now.”
“Really?” Hearing this, light filled Ning Qing Yin’s eyes, and she instantly found hope.
“Yes. Before, it was a secret crush, and now it has become an open love,¹ so now you can openly and bravely chase after him!”
“Okay!” Affirmed by Lin Miao Miao, Ning Qing Yin’s whole body was filled with energy. Her mind was filled with 3 words: chase Xia Yuan!
……
On Xia Yuan’s side, Xie Wen Qi appeared after Ning Qing Yin had left.
“Oh my god, Brother Yuan, I’ve been looking for you for a long time. Why did you run here? You were just behind me and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Seeing Xie Wen Qi come here, Xia Yuan put the love letter in his hand in the desk. But Xie Wen Qi had really good eyesight and immediately saw what he put in.
“Brother Yuan, you came back just to read a love letter? Before, didn’t you just immediately throw them away without even reading them?”
Seeing that Xia Yuan was silent, Xie Wen Qi seemed to have found a clue. “Wait a minute, might there be something special about this love letter? He he, tell me, who sent it to you?”
Xie Wen Qi’s gossip heart was ignited. To be able to make our brother Yuan pay so much attention to them, she must be a special person.
Xia Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly. “Why do you talk so much, are we going to play ball or not?”
“Don’t change the subject, is it the Ru Hua of the class next door? Previously I saw her looking at you with her eyes flirtingly.”²
You’re fucking Ru Hua. My wife is beautiful like flower and jade,³ can sink fish and fall goose,⁴ and collapse kingdom and city.⁵
Xia Yuan looked at Xie Wen Qi like he was looking at a fool, and he said, “You’re a better match with Ru Hua.”
“He he… really? She looks quite pretty… maybe I should try?” Xie Wen Qi couldn’t understand the hidden meaning and just continued Xia Yuan’s words.
“Whatever you want, I’ll go play ball.” Xia Yuan shrugged, and turned and left, leaving Xie Wen Qi alone in the classroom in a daze.
Translator’s Notes:
¹ 暗恋，明恋. First one is secret crush, where no one else knows it except you and maybe a few extremely close friends (not likely). Second one is open love, where basically the love is known by many others.
² 眉来眼去. Literally, brow come eye go. Means that a girl is giving someone glances with her eyes to “seduce”/flirt with the boy with her eyes. That’s the gist of it… I think.
³ 如花似玉.Literally, like flower like jade. Basically means that a girl is very beautiful. Originated from a poem in ancient(?) China. The lines were: 美如英 and 美如玉, which meant “beautiful like flower” and beautiful like jade”.
⁴ 沉鱼落雁.Literally, sink fish fall goose. Also saying that a girl is extremely beautiful. Apparently it refers to the two most beautiful girls in the history of China. The story that goes with one was that a fish was so amazed by the girl’s beauty that it forgot to swim and sank down. The story that goes with the other girl is similar. The story says that a goose forgot to fly because of the beauty of the girl.
⁵ 倾国倾城. Literally, collapse kingdom collapse city. It means, you guessed it, a girl is extremely beautiful. It also originated from a poem in ancient(?) China. The lines were: 一顾倾人城，再顾倾人国, which meant, one look topples human city, another look topples human kingdom.