Chapter 63

  "Chen Yi, aren't you afraid of the dark?"

  "What's wrong, Xiao Fei is scared?" He smiled warmly and turned his head to look at me thoughtfully. "It's okay, I'm here, Xiao Fei doesn't need to be afraid." He wrapped his hand around mine, but when he touched the icy chill, I reflexively pulled my hand back. He forced a smile: "Sorry, my hands are too cold."

  I hastily wanted to explain to him: "No, Chen Yi, I just... I just didn't expect it!" I hadn't thought he would still be willing to hold my hand.

  "Let's go." He didn't respond.

  I also dodged this question.

  It's just that I forgot, and when I asked him, he didn't answer.

  ……

  "Really, where are the rare animals?" All the way here, although we haven't arrived at the cave yet, shouldn't there be some clues around? Could it be that I misunderstood?

  "Xiao Fei, it's precisely because you didn't know the real situation that you came here to verify it." He smiled helplessly and patted my head.

  I took a glance at his hand, it's grown quite tall, damn it, I hate it the most when others show off their height in front of me!

  "Hmph, anyway you know more than me! What's the point of being a top student? Grades can't be eaten as food, and it's not like I wanted to get such bad grades myself!"

  "Does Xiao Fei not want to?" He smiled mischievously, as if he was teasing a cat. I quietly made a face at him and then took big strides forward. Ye Chenyi was caught off guard and was pulled along by me, his handsome face flashing with a moment of panic: "Xiao Fei, slow down!" Hmph, who told you to be so careless?

  I'm in a great mood and even have the enthusiasm to appreciate the flowers and grass along the way.

  After walking past several large trees, I unexpectedly saw a large open space with no tree shade or shrubs. In the distance in front of me stood a green mountain range.

  On the empty ground, the starry shadows shine brightly, I quicken my pace, wanting to embrace a piece of radiance. Indeed, compared to the dark night, I prefer this gentle light.

  "Chen Yi, come quick and see, tonight's starry sky is so beautiful!"

  "Yes."

  I see Ye Chenyi, who looks like he's leaning back, with skin as white as jade that seems almost translucent. Why do I always feel like he'll leave at any moment? Why is it only Cheng Xiaofei here who's worried?

  "Ah!" Something suddenly jumped out and darted right in front of me. I was so lost in thought that I didn't notice it beforehand.

  "Xiao Fei, are you okay?" Ye Chenyi hastily caught my body as I fell backwards. I stared at him in a daze, my breathing a bit rapid - our current posture was quite ambiguous.

  He supported my waist with one hand and wrapped the other around my shoulder, I instinctively grabbed onto the closest thing to me - Ye Chenyi's clothes on his chest. My face suddenly turned red, and my hands didn't know whether to let go or what to do.

  He seemed to have noticed something too, but unlike me, he didn't blush or get excited. Instead, he was stunned for a moment, then looked at me and slightly exerted his hand to lift me up before releasing it as if nothing had happened: "It was just a rabbit." I stared blankly at him, my hands that were originally holding onto his awkwardly lingering in mid-air, unsure of what to do.

  Ye Chenyi, are you doing it on purpose or unintentionally? Why do you always make me think about this question?

  I forced a wry smile, and after the laughter passed, I threw this question far away. What's most important now is to create good memories with Chen Yi in front of me!

  I can use a smile to reminisce about memories, cheer up!

  But being scared by a rabbit like that, you're really not brave at all, Cheng Xiaofei. Thinking about my previous actions, I feel uneasy all over, shameful, shameful, shameful!

  "Xiao Fei, look at this!" I walked straight forward thinking about my problem, and didn't notice what Ye Chenyi did in the process. By the time I realized it, he had already put a willow-branch hat on my head. I carefully looked at it, and a bright red flower was swaying radiantly on top of it. Although it could no longer bloom, why couldn't it still be fragrant?

  "Vibrant red, very suitable for Xiao Fei, such a positive and uplifting color." That's what he said at the time.

  I saw a dark grey self in his dark grey pupils, but I don't know why only that flower, the one Ye Chenyi personally plucked and personally put on me, still maintained its bright colors.

  Vibrant red, I was optimistic after all.