Chapter 100 Chapter Eighty-Four: Eleven O'Clock at Night
Zheng Yanyan hadn't replied yet.
Zhou Yuwen hadn't come back either.
Chang Hao was getting a bit restless and asked the person next to him, Li Qiang, "Do you really not know where Zhou has gone?"
"Why don't you just ask Zheng Yanyan?" Li Qiang said without even turning his head.
"Why should I ask Yanyan where Zhou has gone?" Chang Hao was a bit annoyed.
At that moment, Zhou Yuwen and Zheng Yanyan were strolling on the sports field.
To be precise, it was Zheng Yanyan who had been clinging to Zhou Yuwen, not letting him leave.
It was past eleven o'clock, and the sports field was almost deserted.
Zhou Yuwen asked Zheng Yanyan how long she intended to keep up the antics.
But Zheng Yanyan, holding Zhou Yuwen's hand, said, "I don't care, you have to keep me company."
"And you can go all night without returning to your dorm?"
"That's indeed what I was thinking."
It seemed Zheng Yanyan wasn't foolish. She'd taken things too far earlier, and now, when it was time to go back to the dorm, she realized, damn, returning to the dorm at this hour could be like entering a battlefield.
Suddenly, Zheng Yanyan didn't dare to face it.
Zhou Yuwen, on the other hand, was not afraid. Seeing that the time was getting late, he said, "Alright, I'm not going to waste time with you anymore. I'm going back to the dorm."
"Ah, don't go. Aren't you afraid of Chang Hao if you go back now?"
"Why would I be afraid of him? Was it you who kissed me, okay? It wasn't me who harassed you, was it?"
"But you also touched me, didn't you!"
"..." Zhou Yuwen was speechless.
"Soft, isn't it?"
Zheng Yanyan asked again.
Zhou Yuwen continued to be speechless.
"Are you planning to use those two words to hold me down for the rest of my life?"
"Hehe, not really, just to tease you a bit when we're dating."
Zhou Yuwen said, "I haven't planned on dating you yet, have I?"
"That won't do, Zhou Yuwen. I've already bragged about it. If you don't date me now, won't I just socially die at school?"
"You even know what social death is?"
Zhou Yuwen rolled his eyes.
Because of this, Zhou Yuwen and Zheng Yanyan stayed out until eleven o'clock at night.
After eleven, the number of people on the sports field dwindled, and eventually, aside from a few couples hidden in dark corners, the vast rubber track was nearly empty.
Zhou Yuwen and Zheng Yanyan had no idea how many laps they had walked on the rubber track.
After a while, Zheng Yanyan felt a bit tired and started to cling to Zhou Yuwen, coaxing him to go sit for a while in the middle of the field where a group of students had formed a circle.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Hey, there's someone playing guitar over there, shall we go sit there for a bit?" Zheng Yanyan said, pulling on Zhou Yuwen's hand.
Zhou Yuwen gave her a look, neither agreeing nor refusing.
But with a little tug from Zheng Yanyan, Zhou Yuwen followed her there, and Zheng Yanyan giggled, feeling like Zhou Yuwen was spoiling her.
When she and Zhou Yuwen first interacted, they maintained a certain distance, but as the sports field emptied, Zheng Yanyan gradually closed in on Zhou Yuwen, like draping her arm over his or pressing her body against his.
Zhou Yuwen didn't object.
Zheng Yanyan smugly asked Zhou Yuwen if, deep down, he actually liked her quite a bit, even though he wouldn't say it.
Zhou Yuwen turned to glance back at Zheng Yanyan.
Zheng Yanyan winked at Zhou Yuwen.
Zhou Yuwen still didn't answer the question.
Zheng Yanyan was a bit unhappy and said, "Then I'll change the question. Between me, Su Qing, and Shen Yu, who do you really have feelings for?"
"Shen Yu."
"I don't believe it. You're lying to me. If it was really Shen Yu, then why didn't you say so just now!?" Zheng Yanyan pouted, sometimes she was quite stubborn.
Zhou Yuwen looked back at her again and said, "Are you truly foolish or just pretending to be?"
"Huh?"
"In such a situation, what could I have said? That this woman is crazy and there's absolutely nothing between us?" Zhou Yuwen pointed at Zheng Yanyan.
Zheng Yanyan paused for a moment, then burst out laughing: "That means you still care about me."
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"You're utterly hopeless," Zhou Yuwen said.
Zheng Yanyan conceded, saying there was no point in discussing it now.
"Sigh, to tell you the truth, I never planned to kiss you originally. I only intended to give you a hug to declare my territory, but I got carried away," Zheng Yanyan explained.
"So, you mean that you don't like me that much either?" Zhou Yuwen looked at Zheng Yanyan.
"Um..." Faced with Zhou Yuwen's gaze, Zheng Yanyan didn't hide anything.
Zhou Yuwen was unhappy upon hearing this, "Then, bye?"
"Hey, don't go, I didn't mean that!"
The two of them chatted, walking toward the group of students who were gathered around the bushes. Zheng Yanyan didn't know how to explain herself; she felt rather low in front of Zhou Yuwen.
In fact, this was not her usual character.
The main issue was just that she had been too impulsive tonight.
Actually, when she went on stage, Zheng Yanyan thought that, under the public eye, embracing Zhou Yuwen would be akin to declaring her territory.
But when she actually got on stage, she ended up kissing him impulsively.
As for what she said or did afterward?
It really wasn't under Zheng Yanyan's rational control.
"So, you mean everything that happened tonight was an accident?" Zhou Yuwen asked.
Zheng Yanyan sighed, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Accident or not, it had already happened.
That's why she didn't dare to go back to the dormitory. Your adventure continues at empire
Not to mention Shen Yu, even thinking about Su Qing's face made Zheng Yanyan unsure how to confront her.
Zhou Yuwen also spoke the truth.
"You really know how to cause trouble for me!"
Zhou Yuwen wasn't afraid of Chang Hao; how Chang Hao felt was not a consideration for Zhou Yuwen. What he was concerned about was sharing a daily life where if Chang Hao had an impulsive moment in the middle of the night, he might strike him with a hammer.
Wouldn't that mean he would have to start over?
Over the National Day long weekend, he definitely needed to find a new place to move out to.
He couldn't stay a moment longer.
He would see how he would deal with this little sprite then!
Zhou Yuwen thought, looking at Zheng Yanyan sticking close to him.
To be honest, Zhou Yuwen really did want to test Zheng Yanyan now. After all, she had been sticking to him all night, and he wasn't sure if Zheng Yanyan did it on purpose or by accident, constantly leaning her side against his arm.
Maybe Zheng Yanyan thought that since she had already been close once, it didn't matter anymore.
Then there were her legs beneath the pleated skirt, so tantalizingly close.
It would be a lie to say he wasn't moved.
The two arrived at the group of people on the sports field that had formed a circle, finding an instructor in the middle playing the guitar.
It was already past eleven at night. The people in the circle didn't all belong to the same class; they were mostly those who didn't want to leave just yet and wished to spend some more time on the sports field, so they naturally joined the circle.
There wasn't just one instructor but three or four, wearing instructor uniforms and looking slightly older than the students.
At this moment, the moon was high, and the sky cloudless.
On the artificial turf, a cool breeze blew as the students kept time with their hands, while the instructors in the middle held the guitars and sang songs.
The singers were not fixed; sometimes instructors sang, other times students took the turn. There were certainly students who could play the guitar. In such a beautiful environment, they didn't hold back and took turns performing.
Even those who didn't know how to play the guitar wanted to sing a song, like a girl who went up and sang Yang Peiyi's "Left Hand Right Hand".
Then, a guitar-playing boy volunteered to provide her with accompaniment.
The girl wasn't particularly pretty, but her voice was very clean. Following the rhythm of the guitar, she sang softly:
When difficulties come your way ♪
Please raise your left hand ♪
The song was quite pleasant to the ears; Zhou Yuwen and Zheng Yanyan reduced their speaking volume as they approached.
Beyond "Left Hand Right Hand", they also heard someone play the guitar and sing "Those Flowers" and Pu Shu's "Farewell".
The campus after eleven at night was a paradise for artistic youth.
Zhou Yuwen and Zheng Yanyan wandered around the sports field with nothing else to do, so they simply joined in to listen to the music.
However, when sitting down, Zheng Yanyan, who was wearing a pleated skirt, was at risk of exposing herself, which made her a bit embarrassed.
Fortunately, being a thirty-year-old uncle who wasn't with a girl for the first time, he thought of this when deciding to sit down to listen to music, and handed over his military training jacket to Zheng Yanyan.
He even helped her wrap it around her waist.
This gesture made the corners of Zheng Yanyan's mouth curve up involuntarily.
Zhou Yuwen asked her what she was smiling about.
She said, "Zhou Yuwen, I've found that being with you for a while really makes it easy to get emotionally stirred."
"So, the emotional stirring before was fake?"
"You guess!"