Rejected by the Campus Belle, I Find My True Love-Chapter 116 - 115: It turns out she did so much in places he couldn’t see
Xue Yang slept for a very, very long time.
From 12:00 p.m., he slept straight through until 6:00 a.m. the next morning. Six a.m. was his biological clock; for the past few years, he had woken up promptly at this time almost without fail.
He awoke to find himself alone. Outside, the winter sky was still dark.
For a moment, Xue Yang thought it was only 6:00 p.m., but the date on his phone clearly read: January 2, 2015.
He could deceive himself, but technology deceived no one. You could say he had slept straight through New Year’s Day.
In his slumber, he seemed to have had a long, long dream. In the dream, a beautiful young girl lived with him. She would act coy and affectionate, and he would cook for her.
She would warm his bed, and he would hold her and kiss her without restraint.
He would make her a beautiful Christmas tree, take her skiing and to hot springs, stroll through the streets, and go shopping... they would do so, so many things together.
Xue Yang sat blankly on the bed, his expression as vacant as a walking corpse’s.
A large part of his heart was empty, a void that no amount of sleep could fill.
He looked around the room. Lin Xi’s belongings were still there, untouched. Inhaling her unique scent that lingered in the air, Xue Yang knew he hadn’t been dreaming.
He gently caressed the notebook Lin Xi had written in. Her elegant handwriting was on the pages, just like her.
"Silly girl, promise me you’ll get into Yanbei University. I’ll wait for you here."
Afterward, Xue Yang dressed and went downstairs. The piercing north wind howled. He had never found the northern winters to be particularly cold before, but at this moment, he finally felt it.
It’s so cold. A bone-chilling cold, so intense it made his very soul tremble.
Just as he reached the landing, he ran into the elderly man and woman from next door, who were returning from their morning walk.
"Good morning, young man," the old woman greeted Xue Yang with a smile.
"Good morning, sir. Good morning, ma’am," Xue Yang replied politely.
It seemed he hadn’t seen the elderly couple for the past few days.
"Is your little girlfriend home?"
"She’s not home. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, it’s nothing. My granddaughter really liked the clothes I bought from your little girlfriend last time, and I wanted to ask where she got them so I could buy some more."
"You’re saying... my girlfriend sold you clothes?"
"Ah, yes. Such a pretty and well-behaved little girl. She said she wanted to buy you a Christmas gift but didn’t have enough money, so she was thinking of selling some of her unworn clothes at the nearby market. It just so happened that an old woman like me saw her, so I bought them. It seemed she still didn’t have enough, so I even suggested she could work as a temp at Yonghui Supermarket. I don’t know if she ended up going or not."
Yonghui Supermarket, a temp job?
Xue Yang suddenly remembered. On Christmas Eve, when he was returning from the university, he had passed by Yonghui Supermarket to buy a pair of matching bracelets and had seen a Santa Claus who looked very familiar.
It seemed that Santa Claus had been Lin Xi. The next day, it must have been a different person because Auntie Shen had arrived.
That silly girl. She had done so much for him where he couldn’t see.
"Young man, you’re a lucky one. With a girlfriend who loves you so much, you must be sure to treat her well."
"Thank you, ma’am!" Xue Yang said sincerely.
If she hadn’t told him, Xue Yang might never have known about the things Lin Xi had done. That was just like her, always preferring to give silently.
"Alright, alright. But young man, you still haven’t told me where the clothes were bought?"
"Ma’am, we buy all our clothes from ’Chao Fashion’."
"And where is this store?" the old woman asked humbly.
"It’s on Taobao. You can just search for it. Your granddaughter should know how."
"Hah, I hope you don’t mind me saying this, young man," the old woman said, a little embarrassed. "My granddaughter is all grown up now and doesn’t come back very often. Last time, I told her I bought clothes for her to get her to come pick them up. So I thought, if I buy her a little more, maybe she’ll come to pick them up next time. We’re old and can’t easily go see her, so we have to use this method to get her to come see us."
Xue Yang froze for a second. At that moment, he thought of his own grandparents. It seemed he hadn’t called them in a very long time either.
"Ma’am, I can teach you how to buy it."
Xue Yang was a patient teacher, and he only left to catch the bus after the old woman had learned how.
Because he had spent time teaching the old woman how to shop online, Xue Yang was late to class for the first time since starting university.
Master Miejue’s brow furrowed tightly, but in the end, she let him into the classroom.
After he sat down, Cui Hao nudged his arm. "Xue Yang, what’s with you?"
Xue Yang was confused. "What?"
"I’m asking why you were late today."
"I accidentally overslept, so I was late," Xue Yang said naturally.
This excuse was quite normal for some university students, but it was absolutely not normal for Xue Yang.
"Even though you look the same as usual, I just feel like something’s off about you. Did something happen?"
As expected of his bro, Cui Hao could always tell when something was wrong with him.
Xue Yang dodged the question. "Starting today, I’m moving back into the dorm. Happy?"
Cui Hao immediately seized on the key information. "Did you and your girlfriend break up?"
"How is that possible? We will never break up," Xue Yang stated firmly.
"Then why did you suddenly decide to move back to campus?"
"She went home."
"Huh?" Cui Hao didn’t quite understand what he meant.
Master Miejue’s gaze seemed to drift in their direction, and Cui Hao immediately clamped his mouth shut.
He impatiently waited until class was finally over, then immediately pulled Xue Yang aside to question him.
"Let’s go. Time to eat."
Xue Yang stood up and headed toward the cafeteria.
"Hey, wait for me! And what did you mean by that just now?"
Doesn’t "went home" just mean they broke up? Or am I misunderstanding something?
The two of them horsed around all the way to the cafeteria, just like when the semester first started. The originally bustling cafeteria fell quiet upon their arrival. Or rather, it fell quiet because of Xue Yang. The noise quickly returned, though.
"Xue Yang, do you feel like the cafeteria is a little weird today?"
"Is it?" Xue Yang looked up and glanced around. Everyone was busy eating. "Seems normal to me."
However, he didn’t know that the moment he lowered his head, everyone’s eyes involuntarily drifted back to him, only more discreetly this time.
"Did you get up to something outside these past three days and get caught by the school’s gossip squad? Come on, spill it. Confession earns you leniency, but resistance gets you the maximum penalty."
"I went to Kou City two days ago and slept at home all day yesterday. Where could I have gone?"
"Really? That’s strange then."
After getting his food, Cui Hao started shoveling it into his mouth. Nope, I have to figure out why everyone’s acting so strange today.
