Chapter 92: Xiao Yan's Elaborate Plan

  "Oh?" An Yiran smiled and looked at Jiang Fengchen, then turned back to stare curiously at Tan Ziyao, "What kind of girl is she?"

  "It's you!" Tan Zi Yao triumphantly announced her great discovery.

  Upon hearing this, An Yiran and Jiang Fengchen both felt somewhat embarrassed. The former coughed dryly and smiled, saying: "Little girl, don't talk nonsense."

  Tan Ziyao was deeply dissatisfied with An Yiran's disapproval, shouting: "I didn't talk nonsense - Ah, I'm not a little girl, I'm already 18 years old!"

  An Yi Ran still just smiled.

  "An Yiran!" Just then, someone suddenly called out to An Yiran from behind. An Yiran hastily responded and turned to Jiang Fengchen and Tan Ziyao: "You two chat slowly, I'll go busy myself first."

  Looking at An Yiran's hastily departing figure, Tan Ziyao smiled slyly, cleared her throat, and put away the playful smile on her face, replacing it with a gentle and warm smile as she looked at Jiang Fengchen: "Jiang Fengchen, actually I'm quite elegant too."

  Jiang Fengchen looked at her silently, "What do you want to say?"

  Tan Ziyao smiled slightly and her red lips parted, "I want to compete fairly with An Yiran!"

  Jiang Fengchen couldn't help but shiver, "What nonsense! The college entrance exam is approaching, don't you have time to hurry back and review?"

  Tan Ziyao shot him a resentful glance and sighed: "People are the same but their fates are different!"

  Jiang Fengchen shook his head with a wry smile, not taking the words of this little girl in front of him seriously at all. Yet, unbeknownst to him, it was precisely this little girl who would frequently appear in his world from now on and influence his entire life.

  Tan Ziyao reluctantly returned to school under Jiang Fengchen's repeated urging. Before leaving, she gave Jiang Fengchen a resentful glance, but he pretended not to see it. An Yiran, who was standing aside, couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle, teasing: "Fengchen, looks like you're a lady killer!"

  Jiang Fengchen raised his head and looked at An Yiran with a complex expression, saying: "Yiran, don't mock me anymore."

  As for An Yiran, Jiang Fengchen no longer knew how to treat her or what attitude to take. It seemed that he always felt she was too intimate with him, but when he suddenly came back to his senses, she was still the same elegant and reserved woman. There seemed to be some subtle ambiguity, but if you wanted to talk about it in detail, there was nothing to say.

  In the end, he could only attribute all of this to his own hallucination.

  An Yiran took in his changing expression with a calm gaze, but only smiled lightly and said, "Alright, let's just wait for time to prove it then."

  Jiang Fengchen sighed helplessly. It seemed like they all loved making fun of themselves?

  The starlight of this evening has disappeared under the dazzling neon lights of the city. Another day has quietly passed. When Jiang Fengchen opened his eyes again, the sun was already high in the sky.

  Su Yisu woke up early again today, and she seemed to have insomnia these days. Her biological clock had been completely disrupted. The closer the college entrance examination was, the stronger this feeling became. Countless pressures were invisibly pressing on her, and she could no longer distinguish what caused her insomnia.

  Everyone in the dormitory had gone to class, but she was still lying in bed and didn't want to get up. When life has too much pressure, it's also forgivable to be lazy sometimes, right? Su Yisuo thought so and excused herself.

  When the temperature in the room was getting higher and higher, Su Yisu received a call from Jiang Fengchen.

  She stared at the incoming call display on the screen, hesitated for a long time, then pretended to have just woken up and pressed the answer button, "Hello?"

  "What's wrong? Didn't get up?"

  "Hmm." Su replied with a straight face and no expression.

  "As soon as he heard the tone, Jiang Fengchen knew she was still angry with him and couldn't help but furrow his brow. 'Perhaps you're calm enough to listen to my explanation now?'"

  Upon hearing this, Su Yisu's eyes instantly turned red, and she spoke in a hoarse voice: "I saw it all with my own eyes, what else is there to explain? The day before yesterday I ran to Yin City to find you, did you know that? Ha ha, I hadn't even reached the door when I saw you and that so-called An Yiran laughing and chatting, arm in arm, walking out of the house. Jiang Fengchen, tell me, is this also a misunderstanding?"

  "Y... " Jiang Fengchen was so surprised that he couldn't speak, "You came to Yin City the day before yesterday? Why didn't you tell me?"

  "Are you going to be caught red-handed in your illicit affair again?!"

  "Ah, Su," hearing Su Yisu's increasingly excited voice, Jiang Fengchen sighed helplessly. "You really misunderstood. Sometimes what the eyes see isn't necessarily true. An Yiran's arm was injured before, and a few days ago she tried to move a heavy box down from the cabinet at home, but halfway through, her arm injury relapsed and she suddenly let go of her hand, causing the box to fall and hit her foot. Her foot still hasn't fully recovered, and when she walks, it's with a limp. But she's too proud and doesn't want others to see her in a sorry state, so that's why she leaned on me that day."

  After listening to Jiang Fengchen's explanation, Su Yisuo knew that she had really misunderstood Jiang Fengchen, but still felt a lingering sense of discontent. "Then you two shouldn't be so intimate!" She said, her voice trembling as she spoke of the painful memory. Su Yisuo couldn't help but choke back tears, biting her lip to prevent herself from making any sound. For whatever reason, she just didn't want Jiang Fengchen to hear her crying.

  Jiang Fengchen didn't understand Su Yisu's emotions at this moment, and hurriedly comforted her: "Yisu, my heart only has you. Believe me, I will definitely give you a very beautiful future. We will be together forever, through thick and thin, until we grow old together."

  Any girl in love can't resist the entwining sweet words, and Su Yisu is no exception. Hearing Jiang Fengchen's firm voice, her last bit of resentment disappeared, and she smiled sweetly, saying: "I believe you."

  The quarrel between the two of them came to an end quietly. From the beginning until now, they have gone through countless quarrels, some of which were forgotten in the passage of time, some were resolved automatically as they grew up, and some, like this one, were eliminated by frankness. The more bumps and bruises they experienced, the stronger their feelings would become.

  Since Jiang Fengchen and Su Yisuo talked on the phone, his attitude towards An Yiran has become clearer. He intentionally or unintentionally kept a certain distance from her, and was polite to her. He clearly realized that even if he wasn't careful with his actions, it could hurt Su Yisuo who didn't feel safe in Jiang City. This is what he least wanted to see. He hoped that no matter where he was, he could give the people he loved a deep sense of security, just like when he walked out of campus with his luggage on the day Su Yisuo tearfully told him, "No matter where you are, I love you."

  However, there are always people who don't want them to be on good terms.

  An Yiran finally felt the obvious change in Jiang Fengchen, and suddenly became disheartened. It turned out that after doing so much, she still couldn't get into his heart. Although she never thought that love had a distinction of first or last, Su Yisuo appeared in Jiang Fengchen's world before her, and walked into his heart before her, this fact she could not deny, nor change.

  It was a long time after the Qingming Festival that a late spring rain finally arrived. An Yiran sat on the windowsill at home, gazing out at the pouring rain and sighing to herself. Outside the window, a slightly yellowed song floated in from somewhere: "Standing on top of a skyscraper, separated by tightly closed glass windows, it's raining outside but there's no sound. After going through so much loneliness, don't you ever want someone to accompany you? Who would believe that I'm also so brave... The rain seems to be quietly knocking on everyone's heart, but all I hear is the silent rain. The rain wants to tell me that you're already different, but all I hear is the silent rain..."

  The mournful song pierced An Yiran's eardrums, she lifted her head with a melancholy expression, gazing at the raindrops flowing down the window, dripping and dropping, all the way into her heart.

  "Ah, sister." Just then, a knock at the door suddenly rang out. An Yiran came back to her senses and hastily got up to open the door. When she saw Xiao Yuan standing outside, she couldn't help but feel some surprise. "Xiao Yuan? How did you get here? It's still raining!"

  Xiao Yan walked in calmly, looking at the open window and said: "Ran sister, are you indulging in nostalgia?"

  An Yiran was stunned for a moment, walked over to close the window while saying lightly: "It's just that I feel the air has been too stifling these days, and since it finally rained, I didn't close it."

  Xiao Yan shook her head, "Sister, don't try to deceive me, I already know. Do you really like Jiang Fengchen that much?"

  At the words, An Yiran's movements suddenly stopped, and after a while, she gently closed the window, turned around and stared at Xiao Yuan, saying: "Xiao Yuan, you're still young, you don't understand."

  "You always get used to treating me like a kid, but you don't know that the helpless little girl from back then has grown up. So sister, if you want something, you have to fight for it yourself, or else what could have been yours will become someone else's."

  An Yiran shook her head slightly and sat quietly on the sofa, not saying a word.

  Xiao Yan saw An Yiran like this, her hands subconsciously clenched into fists, a thread of heartache flashed at the bottom of her eyes, and in an instant, a thread of gloom spread, the corner of her mouth lightly raised, saying: "Yiran sister, Jiang Fengchen is yours, no one can take him away."

  An Yiran suddenly raised his head and looked at her in confusion, "Xiao Yan, what's wrong?"

  "But if it's what you like, sis, how could I not support you? As long as you like it, I'll help you get it."

  Looking at Xiao Yan's gloomy face, An Yiran suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart. "Xiao Yan, what are you going to do? Don't harm innocent people."

  Looking out the window at the rain that was still pouring down, Xiao Yan smiled coldly. "How could I harm innocent people? I'm just helping Ransis. Don't worry, sis, everything will be fine with me here."

  An Yiran was getting more and more uneasy, the hatred in her heart made Xiao Yuan's heart more and more distorted, she found that she had completely lost understanding of the girl in front of her.