Chapter 4: The Sadness of Liking You (16) Please Collect and Recommend

  Summer night didn't move, and Tang sugar also didn't dare to knit wool. She drank the water in one breath, gurgling, and handed the empty cup to Summer Night's arms, then slipped into the quilt like a cute little kitten, pretending to sleep.

  But as an excellent student, Xia Ye's little tricks couldn't deceive Tang Sugar's sharp eyes.

  "Bring it here!" He said seriously to a certain woman.

  Tang Tang opened one eye and looked at him, pretending to be confused: "What?"

  "Hand over all your yarn and scarves!" Xia Ye's tone was not to be trifled with, as if Tangtang had done something wrong and been caught red-handed.

  "What's wrong with that? I bought it with my own money!" Tang Sugar said discontentedly, rolling her eyes.

  "I know, I'll keep it for you and return it to you tomorrow." Xia Ye spoke as if she was talking to a three-year-old who didn't understand the world, sounding especially patient.

  "No!" Tāng gǔ jué duàn de jù jué. Zài bèi zi xià jǐn jǐn bào zhù wéi fú hé máo xiàn, shì yǔ tāmen gòng cún wáng, "Wǒ zì jǐ huì bǎo guǎn!"

  Translation:

  "No!" Tangerine firmly refused. Under the quilt, tightly hugging the wool and yarn, swearing to live or die with them, "I'll take care of it myself!"

  "Isn't that right?" Xia Ye didn't physically rob her, but his words were filled with confidence, which made Tangtang feel uneasy and wonder what kind of sinister plot this genius young man was thinking of.

  It's better to take the initiative than to be passive.

  After a series of intense ideological struggles, Tang sugar finally had no choice but to hand over the wool and scarf. She gave Xia Ye a resentful glance before turning over, her back to him, indicating that she didn't want to see him again.

  With a victorious smile on his face, he walked away with his things.

  The next morning, Tang sugar woke up early and couldn't wait to jump out of bed, not even wearing his outer clothes, dragging a pair of slippers, and rushing into Xia Ye's room in his autumn clothes.

  On a summer night, Xia Ye was zipping up his pants when Tang suddenly burst in with her shirt disheveled. As soon as she saw the situation, she became flustered and couldn't look anywhere else, constantly glancing at the ceiling. Xia Ye's heart was already filled with joy, so he teased: "I know I'm very handsome, but you don't have to take every opportunity to sneak a peek at me. If you like me that much, why not agree to be my girlfriend? There are more benefits than that!"

  Xia Ye was usually eloquent, but Tang Sugar's words made her blush and become tongue-tied. She couldn't think of a retort, so she could only mutter "Cut!" to herself, trying to salvage some dignity. She deliberately put on a stern face, pretending to be annoyed with him, and stretched out her hand, saying in an unpleasant tone: "Return my things to me."

  "What thing?"

  "My yarn! My scarf!"

  "Oh~~, that's right!" Xia Ye patted his forehead, looking like he had just remembered: "I threw it away last night."

  "Thrown away?" Tang Sugar was half-believing and half-doubting: "Why did you throw it away?"

  "Just thinking that it's for that scumbag, can I swallow my pride?" Xia Ye said with conviction, Tang Sugar couldn't tell what was true or false, but what he said was reasonable and in line with Xia Ye's character, who had always been one to do as he pleased.

  Tang sugar refused to give up: "Where was it thrown from?"

  Xia Ye pointed to the window with her chin. Tang Tang immediately looked down from the bottom of the window, but after a long time, she didn't find anything. When she turned back to ask Xia Ye, Xia Ye was already gone. Tang Tang felt extremely regretful and had to plan to buy yarn again.

  When she pushed open the door to her room with a dejected expression, she suddenly found that those balls of yarn and scarves were quietly lying on the bed. She immediately became excited and rushed over, hugging the yarn and scarves tightly with mixed feelings of sadness and joy, fearing they would disappear again.

  Summer night stood outside the door, watching all this, sighed helplessly and left.

  Arriving at school, Tang Sugar saw Gu Xiannian and Tong Hua stuck together as soon as she entered the classroom. Gu Xiannian was sitting on Tong Hua's desk, looking handsome, and must have said something funny because Tong Hua couldn't stop giggling and covering her mouth.

  Although the laughter was pleasant to hear, Sugar found it particularly jarring. However, she couldn't bear to look away and continued to gaze longingly at the intimate couple. Accidentally, she bumped into a classmate who was holding a bowl of red oil noodles. As a result of the collision, half-eaten noodles splattered all over Sugar's body, covering her clothes and pants, making her school uniform appear dirty and stained.

  She hurriedly said sorry to the classmate several times, but the classmate was not friendly and insisted on every detail: "I don't want a sorry, just compensate me for my face."

  "Oh." Tang sugar responded in a low voice, while taking out the only five dollars from his pocket and handing it over to that classmate. That classmate finally let go, huffing and puffing as he took the money to buy breakfast.

  Tang Sugar stole a glance at Gu Xian Nian and Tong Hua, they both stopped talking, staring at her, one with a mocking gaze, the other with an expression of waiting for her to make a fool of herself.

  Their eyes were like dense needles piercing Tang Sugar's heart, and even the pain was dense and numb. A layer of fog had formed in Tang Sugar's eyes, she lowered her head and stopped looking at them, her emotions had sunk down, silently walking to her own seat and sitting down, taking out the homework that needed to be handed in from her backpack.

  She felt as if someone was approaching her, and when she looked up, she saw Gu Xian Nian standing in front of her. Everything happened so unexpectedly that Tang Sugar stood up in surprise, her heart racing wildly: What did he want from her? What did he have to say to her?

  What hurt her was that Gu Xiannian, who had been so approachable and friendly yesterday after school, had transformed into a completely different person, reverting to his usual cold demeanor. He didn't even give her a glance, let alone speak to her; his expression seemed to say she wasn't worthy!

  At that moment, Sugar felt heart-pained and unable to breathe, but she still had to pretend to be calm. Perhaps it was the last bit of self-respect in her heart, or perhaps she didn't want Gu Xiannian to see through her liking for him. What could he do even if he saw through it? Besides looking down on herself even more, she would probably also feel a sense of being insulted - being secretly admired by such an inferior girl!

  She coldly watched as Gu Xian Nian put her rainbow umbrella on the desk and turned to leave, Tang Tang's heart felt not only wronged but also deeply disappointed. At least, he should have said thank you; at least, he should have asked if she got rained on yesterday.

  None of them...

  Watching Gu Xianian walk straight towards Tong Hua like a magnet, Sugar felt her heart turn cold. She lowered her head and let her long bangs cover her entire line of sight, so she could hide in her own world and not come out. It was as if she was venting her emotions when she heavily threw the umbrella into the drawer, but immediately regretted it. If the umbrella had a life of its own, it would probably feel wronged just like her - it hadn't done anything wrong!

  Tang sugar stretched her hand into the drawer to put away the umbrella, and unintentionally touched the yarn and unfinished scarf she had brought to school. In her heart, a faint glimmer of hope emerged again, perhaps when Gu Xianyun received the scarf she had knitted with her own hands, he would be moved to take another look at her.