Chapter 43: The Girl with Endless Worries and Resentment

  Su Yisuo helplessly glanced at her and said: "Is it that in your eyes, any somewhat abrupt boy is ill-intentioned?"

  Lin Wan's face turned serious, "I'm telling you, it's true! Look at him, he really looks like a slacker!"

  Su Yi still shook her head in disagreement, turned around and walked into the backyard, "I think, even if he's really a bad boy, he's still an optimistic bad boy."

  "Can't such adjectives be used on a slacker like him?! Lin Wan went crazy and chased after him."

  "Not good!"

  "You're going to be sold out sooner or later!" Lin Wan said with a look of frustration, "Where did all these good people come from in this world?"

  "I'm telling you, Lin Wan, can't you just not learn from Li Shuiyan's bitter and cynical attitude?" Su Yisu stopped in her tracks, turned around and gazed at Lin Wan with a hint of helplessness, "This world is still a beautiful place..."

  "Alright," Lin Wan waved her hand to interrupt Su Yisu's words, "Anyway, in your eyes, black is white and stinky is fragrant."

  Su Yisu raised an eyebrow and didn't respond.

  Not long after returning to the dormitory, I received a call from Jiang Fengchen.

  "Susu, it's just the right weekend, with a beautiful view, do you have plans for tonight?"

  Listening to Jiang Fengchen's somewhat sarcastic tone, Su Yisuo couldn't help but laugh lightly and say: "Young Master Jiang, this young lady doesn't have an appointment tonight..."

  "Will Late Born have the good fortune of inviting Su Niang to take a stroll around Tingxin Lake tonight?"

  "Hmph..." Su Yisu finally couldn't hold it in, and burst out laughing, saying: "Jiang Fengchen, should I pretend to be reserved and reject you?"

  "Oh no!" Jiang Fengchen also smiled and replied, "If you don't come, you'll miss out on something good."

  "Huh?" Jiang Fengchen's words suddenly piqued Su Yisou's curious heart, and she hastily asked: "What good thing?"

  Jiang Fengchen smiled mysteriously, "You'll know by tonight. If I tell you now, it won't be interesting, right?"

  "Hmph!" Su Yisuo pretended to be angry and let out a "hmmph" sound, saying: "Do you want to say it or not?"

  But after all, I'm looking forward to it now. This afternoon's class was because I had a good rest, Su Yisu finally didn't feel so weak and listless, but still looked like he was sitting on pins and needles. How can such a dry and difficult subject as English be taught in the afternoon? It's clearly designed to make students who are already reluctant to wake up even sleepier...

  Su Yisuo very openly and honestly found excuses for her own frequent distraction.

  Li Shuoyan, however, really liked her English class. In fact, she had always been very good at English. Was it because she was good at it that she liked it? Or was it because she liked it that she was good at it?

  She glanced at Li Shuiyan, who was focused, and Su Yisu couldn't help but entangle this issue in her mind, finally having to hastily end it. Anyway, I don't like it! Su Yisu glanced at Li Shuiyan again, propping up her chin with her right hand, listlessly gazing at the scenery outside the window. The triangular plum blossoms on the balcony were still sparsely blooming, weakly drooping their branches in the scorching heat.

  "Ah..." Su Yisuo sighed inexplicably.

  Li Shuixian finally spared a glance at her, looking at her worried face and couldn't help but say in a low voice: "I'm saying, people like Li Yu, Li Qingzhao and so on, after experiencing great ups and downs, they have that many worries. You're just an underage girl, what are you sighing about all day?"

  "I've told you countless times! I'm an adult!"

  Li Shuiyan shrugged nonchalantly, "Anyway, in my heart, you're still a little girl who never grew up."

  "Chrysanthemum... " Su Yisu's eyes were filled with longing again, Li Shuiyan couldn't bear to look at her and turned his head away, "Unbearable, flower idiot!"

  Su Yisu also disdainfully made a face at her and continued to look at her own scenery.

  A wonderful Saturday night has finally arrived.

  "Lin Wan! Stay in the dorm obediently!" Before leaving, Su Yisu ran to say goodbye to Lin Wan with a mischievous look.

  Lin Lan rolled her eyes and said, "Show off your love, die faster!"

  Su Yisu burst out laughing, "Haha", "Lin Wan, are you envious or jealous?"

  Lin Lan let out a cold hum, lazily stretched and yawned, picked up the book that was thrown aside, "I'm ignoring you, I'm going to the classroom to read."

  Su Yisu followed behind him, also walking out of the dormitory with a "heh heh".

  The sky gradually darkened, and the flow of people in Liu Jing Park also gradually increased. As soon as the park entered the evening, it had a different flavor from daytime. Couples living nearby, old couples liked to come here for a walk after dinner, relax and exercise.

  Su Yisu still had a lingering fear of this park, and the fright she experienced in the haunted house last time involuntarily flooded her mind again. Seeing Jiang Fengchen bring her here, she couldn't help but pull him back repeatedly, saying: "Jiang Fengchen, you want to go into the haunted house again? I won't go, even if you kill me!"

  Jiang Fengchen smiled lightly and said, "Don't worry, there are many fun places in the park! You usually stay at school, you don't know how many beautiful scenes you've missed."

  Su Yisu looked around and saw nothing but ordinary flowers and grass, she couldn't help but pout: "It's just a few more big trees than school, what good scenery can there be?"

  "A beautiful scenery is something you need to carefully explore with your own eyes."

  Upon hearing this, Su Yisu's expression changed instantly, and she pretended to be angry, saying: "Jiang Fengchen! Who are you calling confused?"

  Jiang Fengchen didn't take her angry face to heart, after such a long time of getting along, he had already figured out her temper, she was someone who would never truly get angry. He smiled and pulled her hand, saying: "Let's start our journey of exploration now!"

  Su Yisu's eyes were filled with expectation, and she couldn't care less about their earlier "daze" dispute.

  Through a long, shaded path, a clear and calm lake comes into view. In the center of the lake stands a tiny island, with winding corridors that traverse the lake, leading to the small island, extending all the way to the lakeshore on the other side. On the shore is built an exquisite pavilion, connected by a small bridge, intersecting with the corridor at one point, forming a serene and elegant Jiangnan landscape painting.

  "How beautiful! Su couldn't help but sigh in admiration. The last time she came here, this lake was still dry."

  Jiang Fengchen smiled and replied: "Have you seen the plants grown on the island? Guess what kind of flower that is?"

  Upon hearing this, Su Yisou gazed out at the island again. The sky was dark and gloomy, with the dim yellow lights along the shore shining faintly, making the scenery on that side even more hazy. All she could see was a patch of greenery on the island where purple flowers were blooming vaguely.

  Su Yisu shook her head in distress, "It's dark, can't recognize."

  "Let's go and take a look!" Jiang Fengchen said, pulling Su Yisuo towards the center of the lake.

  It's unclear whether it was intentional on the part of the construction workers, but in several places along the corridor, there was only one long, slightly raised concrete slab above the surface of the lake. Looking down at the ripples gently lapping at the water's surface, Su Yisuo couldn't help but feel a shiver run through her heart, as if she were about to merge with the lake itself.

  Through the corridor, the two finally arrived at the middle of the small island. As soon as they stepped onto the island, Su Yisuo smelled a faint fragrance in the air, and the scent became stronger as they approached the shore plants. Su Yisuo couldn't help but wonder, what kind of flower was it?

  She subconsciously reached out for Jiang Fengchen's hand and hastily leaned in to take a closer look.

  "Ah! Lilac flowers!" As soon as she took a closer look, Su Yisu suddenly exclaimed with joy. Tang Wei's "Lilac Flowers" was famous all over the country, but she had never seen real lilac flowers before! Now they actually appeared in this newly built park! The planner of Dà ài Park is amazing!

  Jiang Fengchen smiled faintly as he watched Su Yisuo's joyful jumping, legend has it that girls who love flowers are very kind? Suddenly, a sentence popped into his mind out of nowhere, and he couldn't help but shake his head in self-mockery. No matter what others said, the girl in front of him was indeed very innocent and kind.

  Su Yisu turned around and looked at him, "Chen, I suddenly remembered a poem.

  "What poem?" Jiang Fengchen asked softly.

  "With an oil-paper umbrella, alone and wandering in the long, desolate and quiet rain alley, I hope to meet a girl like jasmine, with the color of jasmine, the fragrance of jasmine, and the sorrow of jasmine, lamenting and wandering in the rain."

  Nai Zhixing listened as Su Yisuo slowly read the poem, and Jiang Fengchen smiled softly again. "Dai Wangshu's 'Rain Alley'. But you're not a maiden with worries and grievances, you're carefree."

  Su Yi couldn't help but think of last night's nightmare, thinking of Su Yixin and Shen Beiqiu who had already graduated, thinking of Lin Wan who was about to move house. She shook her head slightly, not saying anything. But soon she smiled sweetly again, "What is the flower language of lilac?"

  "Shouldn't you be clearer than me?" Jiang Fengchen didn't answer, but instead asked back.

  Su Yisu smiled slyly, "I really don't know, since you planned to bring me here to see the flowers, you must have done your homework beforehand, right?"

  Jiang Fengchen could only smile and reply, "The language of the lilac flower is quite rich. It's said that in the West, it symbolizes 'youthful purity and innocence, first love and humility'. However, others say its language is 'brilliance'."

  Su Yisuo tilted her head and asked: "Then what do you hope for?"

  "First love." Jiang Fengchen didn't hide his thoughts at all.

  Seeing Jiang Fengchen being so sincere and direct, Su Yisuo's face turned red, and she hurriedly pretended to look up at the flowers, covering up the heat on her face.

  Gazing at the clusters of purple lilacs above her head, Su Yisou's thoughts drifted away.

  No matter how beautiful the legend of cloves is, no matter how entwined and lingering the love story is, in the eyes of poets and writers, it is always tied to sorrow and resentment, whether in the East or in the West. It seems that the fragrance of cloves is actually used to cover up the anxiety in one's heart.

  Seems like I've been thinking too much. Su Yisu shook her head in self-mockery, saying she wanted to be a daisy-like girl with parents, friends, and a lover, young and carefree, not a lilac entwined with worries.

  En. Su Yisu nodded heavily, secretly making up her mind, turned around and smiled brightly at Jiang Fengchen, with a smile as beautiful as a flower.