CH 34

Chapter 34: Brushing the corner of her lips.

Xu Sui explained a little embarrassedly: “Because it’s my first time in a relationship.”

So she didn’t understand anything.

The little girl’s serious explanation was quite cute; Zhou Jingze’s thin lips slightly curved, and he walked over and took her hand naturally. His deep voice lingering in her ears:

“My pleasure.”

They walked to the bus stop, and the last bus had already taken off, leaving behind exhaust fumes. In the end, Zhou Jingze called for a taxi. Throughout the entire time, he kept holding onto her hand, and even when they got in the car, he didn’t let go.

The window of the car was half down, and the damp wind blew in. Zhou Jingze answered a phone call with one hand, casually replying “um” and “almost”, while his other hand didn’t let go of hers. Unconsciously, he rubbed the back of her hand with his thumb, an unclear and inadvertent intimacy.

Xu Sui was so nervous that her palms sweated a little. She wanted to withdraw her hands to wipe the sweat, but she was afraid that the tenderness would disappear, so she sat there like a well-behaved porcelain doll and let him hold her.

The road in front of the school was under construction. The taxi driver dropped them off on the side and left. They were still a bit far from the school, so Xu Sui and Zhou Jingze walked side by side on the road.

The food and fruit stalls on the right side of the road in front of the entrance were still very lively even at ten o’clock. There was a fruit stand diagonally ahead that had several baskets of bright, red strawberries piled on the cart. The green leaves on the strawberries were still dripping with water droplets.

The white light bulb on the side of the fruit cart illuminated the sign next to it: fresh strawberries, sweeter than first love, 15 yuan a box.

When they passed by it, Xu Sui glanced at it a few times and wanted to eat it, but a lot of couples from the school surrounded the fruit stand, sweetly feeding each other strawberries.

Never mind, it was a bit awkward. She simply just wanted to eat a strawberry.

A car honked, and Zhou Jingze led her across the road. The two walked into the school gate together. At ten in the nighttime, there were more than a dozen boys playing basketball on the basketball court.

“Tsk, I suddenly have an urge to smoke,” Zhou Jingze stopped and cleared his throat, “I’ll go buy a pack of cigarettes at the entrance, wait for me here.”

“Okay.” Xu Sui nodded.

Xu Sui waited for about ten minutes, and there was only one lamp still lit on the basketball court. Occasionally, a few cheers echoed. From a distance, she caught a glimpse of Zhou Jingze walking over with a cigarette in his mouth, not knowing what he was carrying.

Zhou Jingze handed her a box of strawberries and said in a leisurely tone: “I bought them on the way, the strawberries have been washed.”

“Wow, thank you.” Xu Sui was filled with happiness.

Zhou Jingze walked Xu Sui back to the girls’ dormitory. Xu Sui carried a bag of strawberries and chatted with him while eating, finding the strawberries to be unexpectedly sweet. When she was about to reach the dormitory entrance, she was still eating strawberries, and when she looked down, she found that they were almost gone; she had eaten them all alone.

Xu Sui bit the tip of the strawberry and said a little embarrassedly, “Do you want to eat it? It’s very sweet.”

She opened the white plastic bag and motioned for him to reach for a strawberry. At the same time, she had a strawberry in her hand and was nibbling on the tip, her cheeks bulging like a fish. Her pink tongue rolled the strawberry into her mouth, and the red juice overflowed from the corners of her lips. There was still some strawberry sticking on the side.

Zhou Jingze didn’t move, his throat was itchy for a while. His eyes became darker when he stared at her. Xu Sui shook the plastic bag, puzzled: “You’re not going to eat it?”

“Eat.”

Zhou Jingze gave an affirmative answer. At the same time, he stepped forward, reached out, and wiped the corner of her lips extremely slowly. Xu Sui froze, only feeling the roughness of his fingertips brushing the corners of her lips, a shudder in her heart. Her eyes slightly widened at him, not daring to move.

Zhou Jingze withdrew his hand and licked his fingers in front of the girl, his Adam’s apple rolled up and down slowly. He raised his eyebrows, as if he was still a little unfinished, and showed a mischievous smile:

“It’s quite sweet.”

His entire body was pressed against her, and the atmosphere became heated and itchy. Xu Sui ducked for a while, how could he act so erotically with a serious face.

Xu Sui felt that her face became so heated that she was about to explode, and in the end, she ran away, forgetting to say good night to him.

As a result, that night, Xu Sui dreamed about Zhou Jingze. When she woke up, she was covered in sweat and couldn’t help but cover her face, blaming Zhou Jingze.

The finals were over soon, and the summer vacation was approaching. Xu Sui wanted to stay in Beijing. She called her mother and tentatively told her what she was thinking—she wanted to stay here during the summer vacation and find a part-time job.

It turned out Mother Xu strongly opposed it and asked vigilantly: “Yi Yi, tell your mother the truth, are you short on money or did you fall in love?”

Xu Sui’s eyelids twitched, she didn’t expect her mother to guess it. It was true that she wanted to stay here during the summer vacation because of Zhou Jingze, but she subconsciously didn’t want her mother to know about it.

She straightened her neck and lied to her on the phone: “No, mom, I just want to train myself.”

“Then come back to Li Ying, and I’ll find you an internship in a hospital.” Mother Xu said finally.

Xu Sui had no choice. After her finals, she dragged her suitcase back home and interned at a hospital in Li Ying. She followed the director in making rounds every morning and night and did some chores.

During the summer vacation, the two contacted each other on the phone, and eventually, it was time to return to school. Xu Sui was excited to meet Zhou Jingze, but he seemed to be very busy recently.

Send him a message, and Zhou Jingze’s reply was brief.

Xu Sui would sometimes stare at his reply for a long time, and when she saw messages like “en” and “have eaten”, she couldn’t help but wonder, are they really in a relationship?

It’s been a week since the start of school, and she hasn’t seen Zhou Jingze at all, so she decided to take the initiative.

Xu Sui sat in the dormitory, summoned up the courage, and sent him a text message: 【Get lunch together this afternoon?】

After ten minutes, ZJZ replied:【Okay, go to your school? I haven’t seen you for a long time.】

Xu Sui smiled for a long time after seeing this reply, showing her dimples, and then typed “Ok” in the chat box.

At 11:30 in the afternoon, the sun was shining brightly. Xu Sui stood under the banyan tree and waited, but didn’t see Zhou Jingze. Hu Qianxi just came back and saw Xu Sui under the tree not far in front of the cafeteria.

Hu Qianxi waved her meal card and asked, “Sui Sui, you’re not going to eat?”

Xu Sui shook her head: “Waiting for him.”

Hu Qianxi immediately understood who she was referring to, and it wouldn’t be anyone else other than Zhou Jingze.

She nodded thoughtfully and then said puzzledly: “I just came back from their school trying to find Sheng Nanzhou for something, but their instructors suddenly called for an emergency gathering, so they’re having physical training now. The situation is a bit sudden, why don’t you go on ahead?”

“Hey—where are you going—” Hu Qianxi didn’t finish her words before she saw Xu Sui running away in front of her like a rabbit.

Hu Qianxi looked at Xu Sui’s back and sighed, tsk, the sweet taste of love, she also wanted to try it.

After she finished sighing, she looked at the meal card in her hand and suddenly felt that the meal wasn’t fragrant anymore.

What eating, lose weight instead.

Xu Sui jogged all the way to Beihang University. After going to Beihang a lot of times, she was familiar with where their training field is.

Xu Sui walked to the entrance of the sports field, and at a glance, there was a group of teams in green doing physical training.

Xu Sui pretended to be an ordinary student from the school and calmly walked onto the field, sitting down on a lawn not far from them and watching them train secretly.

To increase the physical fitness of pilots and ensure safety during the flight, it’s common for instructors to conduct surprise training, and students also had their phones confiscated.

The training was divided into weight training and core strength. A group of young college students was doing pre-test training on the rotary ladder and German wheel. The instructor was holding a blue folder and blew the whistle hanging around his neck. The whistle sounded melodious:

“Everyone! 14 full rounds on the rotary ladder within one minute is a pass, 20 rounds is a full score. If you can do it as well as Zhou Jingze, you’ll be considered excellent, he’s the model.”

Everyone followed the instructor’s gaze, including Xu Sui. The autumn wind was cool, and Zhou Jingze was wearing a short-sleeved gray-green training uniform with short boots. His smooth arms grabbed onto the two horizontal bars, rotating rapidly on the rotary ladder, and within the countdown of the crowd, it turned swiftly, his posture up to standard and perfect.

“56, 57, 58… 60!”

“Fuck, 23! God, you’re not letting us live.”

“I surrender, I’ll definitely puke out yesterday’s leftover meal. I practiced for so long, but I’m still so fucking dizzy every time.”

“Fuck, don’t talk about it, after listening to you, I can smell it.”

“…”

At the same time, the instructor turned off the stopwatch. In a serious tone but unconsciously showing praise: “24, you guys counted one less.”

Zhou Jingze’s final test result attracted a lot of mourning. Zhou Jingze jumped off the swivel and even after turning around twenty-so times, he was still able to remain calm and keep a straight face. He walked up to the instructor and asked, “Instructor, for the core training test, can I go first?”

Usually, if it’s not a large-scale rigorous training test, there’s an unwritten rule that students who pass the test can go first. With a “pa”, the instructor closed his folder and stared at him with interest:

“You boy, why are you leaving early?”

Zhou Jingze put his hands in his pockets and lowered his head, hooking the corners of his lips. Just as he was about to say, “Going to see my wife,” he inadvertently looked up and found that the person he was thinking of was sitting not too far away and was actually secretly looking at them with a book covering her face.

“It’s okay, never mind.” Zhou Jingze chuckled lightly.

After a while, the core training began, and the instructor seemed to purposely put Zhou Jingze near the end of the assessment. The eldest young master didn’t care either, leaning on the parallel bars and lazily grabbing a green bristlegrass, chatting and laughing with others.

When it was Zhou Jingze’s turn to do the planks, he attracted a crowd of onlookers. Zhou Jingze’s arms rested on the ground, and every time he pushed down, his firm muscles were very obvious. The sweat on his forehead dripped down his cold jaw, the hormones evident.

“34, 35, 36…” Everyone was counting. The more they shouted, the more excited they became.

Xu Sui quietly took two steps forward, and on a whim, she wanted to take a candid photo of Zhou Jingze with her phone, so she adjusted the focus. In the end, with a “click”, a blinding flash shot at the instructor!

Everyone: “…”

Zhou Jingze: “?”

Instructor: “…”

A group of people looked over and some of the boys had witnessed Xu Sui confessing in the club before. They started making noises, waves of “oh” coming and going, and their tones rose and fell, clearly stirring up trouble.

Xu Sui stood there, her round and fair ears became very red, and she was very embarrassed.

In a serious tone, the instructor pointed at the group of brats and asked, “Who brought her here, what’s going on?”

There was silence, and a lazy voice sounded. Zhou Jingze was still doing planks, and his voice trembled: “Mine’s, family.”

One after another, the unaware boys looked at Xu Sui and sighed, “God, I didn’t know you had such a well-behaved younger sister.”

“Be clear, what family?” The instructor yelled loudly.

Xu Sui lowered her eyes. Does she not look like Zhou Jingze’s girlfriend? It was hard for her to meet him, but now hearing his classmates’ comments, she felt a bit disappointed.

Suddenly, a loud and powerful voice sounded. Xu Sui’s heart trembled, and she raised her eyes to look over. Zhou Jingze was still doing push-ups and spoke up in front of everyone. His voice was very loud and outspoken at the moment:

“Reporting to the instructor! My girlfriend!”