"What are you so focused on?"
Lin Ziqi"s voice reached Qian Lin"s ears as she focused on listening. After seeing the smiling Lin Ziqi, bittersweetness showed on Qian Lin"s face. After so many days of deliberation, she had to admit that she somehow had a crush on Lin Ziqi. Nevertheless, she saw Lin Zifeng in Lin Ziqi sometimes. And that was why she had been conflicted and wondered whether she liked Lin Ziqi or just the Lin Zifeng-like face.
After hearing the talk at the corner, the girls who whispered nearby all aligned and found that it was the one they had talked about, so they screamed and ran away.
Lin Ziqi smiled at the girls, who looked at him while running, and he was very satisfied to see that some of them blushed like cherry trees.
“Hha. . .” Lin Ziqi"s crisp laughter made Qian Lin squint her eyes as she thought that the boy was too fond of the limelight and was no match for the modest Zifeng.
Qian Lin lightly coughed, which stopped Lin Ziqi from looking away. She firmly looked at his eyes and asked him in with a serious look, "Ziqi, do you mind that I am older than you?"
She took a deep breath then and finally asked about the question in the depths of her heart. She could only ask in this way rather than asking if he minded that she used to be the girlfriend of his big brother. Since he was so smart, he would totally know the deeper meaning of her words.
Lin Ziqi stared at Qian Lin in shock and he wondered why she proposed this question. Did it have anything to do with him? He had never thought about it except for wanting to know her.
Lin Ziqi kept silent. He lowered his eyes and focused on asking himself internally if age had anything to do with love. Did it count that she was only two months older than him? Why on earth did he never think about it? What did she mean by asking this question? Had she had a crush on him, too? Then he was not wishful thinking.
Seeing Lin Ziqi lower his eyes without saying anything, Qian Lin could not help but feel depressed. She finally asked him, but what waited for her was . . . She should have known that Lin Ziqi just looked for his big brother"s footprint and found somebody to rely on. There was an imperceptible smile showing on the corners of Qian Lin"s mouth. She told herself that Lin Ziqi was just a little brother who looked for his brother"s footsteps and needed her protection! A little brother! But why on earth did the words "little brother" hurt her so much in the depths of her heart? The pain like the punch of a steel needle punch once again hurting her inside.
"Xiaoqi, let"s go. It"s time for cla.s.s."
There was a usual, faint smile on Qian Lin"s face. However, Lin Ziqi did not see the happiness and calmness of it at all.
Qian Lin, if I say I really have a crush on you and I have not thought about that question for once, will you love me like others? Then Lin Ziqi shook his head and smiled with bittersweetness. How? How could Qian Lin love him? She was not nice to him, and even when she was, she did not smile at him, but at another guy. Although Lin Zifeng had been dead for such a long time, she had never forgotten him for a moment; she was still deep in love with him and she always missed him when she saw Lin Ziqi. What can I do to make her completely forget about that person and leave everything behind to love me only? Lin Zifeng, I will definitely surpa.s.s you, and I will totally make me be the one inside her, not you.
Although encouraging himself so much in his heart, Lin Ziqi was deeply hurt by the deep knowledge of his soul because he used to make up his mind to not love anyone.
In this cla.s.s, Qian Lin had no idea what the teacher was talking about, and she didn"t know when the ringing of the cla.s.s began. Not until she felt herself being stared at did she come back to her senses and found Lin Ziqi was staring at her with a smile. She saw a gentle expression she had never seen before. Although Lin Ziqi used to gently smile, the smile always made her feel sadness and resentment. But now, this smile was so pure, like a newborn in the spring. Qian Lin stared at Lin Ziqi with shock, and her hand unconsciously stretched out toward him.
Lin Ziqi took advantage of Qian Lin"s little hand, and his eyes curved narrowly. He was very curious why Qian Lin reached out to him after losing her mind for a whole cla.s.s! Was she going to pinch him or hit him? Anyway, he would not let her easily succeed, because any touch of her would make him chok up with emotions.