Bo Jiangxin heard Xiang Di politely say to the clerk, “Hello, I’d like a Peach Four Seasons Spring tea.”
It was her.
Bo Jiangxin was certain.
Just like silent reading, everyone’s inner voice and the timbre of the sound they produce through vocal cord vibrations are the same. Xiang Di’s inner voice was still sweet and gentle, but what she said in her mind was much more uninhibited than what she said out loud.
[Four Seasons Spring~ Four Seasons Spring~ Drinking Four Seasons Spring with my husband~ That’s like drinking a couple’s milk tea~]
Xiang Di hummed a song in her mind. She didn’t know the tune, but it definitely wasn’t the melody of “Gongyang.” It was most likely her own original creation.
To be honest, her composing talent wasn’t great.
Bo Jiangxin didn’t move for a long time. Ye Minjia urged, “Are you coming or not?”
Bo Jiangxin snapped back, “Coming.”
Finally squeezing out of the crowd, Ye Minjia adjusted his school uniform and complained, “I can’t believe it, do these people really need to be like this just to buy milk tea? They almost squeezed me into a wife cake.”
Hearing Ye Minjia say “wife cake,” Bo Jiangxin’s Adam’s apple suddenly trembled, and he let out a scoff.
Ye Minjia was puzzled, “What are you laughing at?”
Bo Jiangxin looked at him and inexplicably said, “You’re quite suited to be a prophet.”
What a grand silent drama of unrequited love, playing out only in his mind, making his ears almost deaf.
Ye Minjia was even more confused, “What do you mean?”
“Nothing.” Bo Jiangxin said blandly, “I’m only coming with you to buy it this one time. Next time, you buy it yourself.”
Ye Minjia was helpless, “Do you hate drinking milk tea that much?”
“I don’t hate it,” Bo Jiangxin said, “but I don’t like it either.”
“So sweet.”
Just after getting the milk tea, on the way back to the classroom, Ye Minjia couldn’t wait to take a sip.
This wasn’t just full sugar; it was like all the sugar in the world had been added to his milk tea.
Girls were really amazing; they could drink something so sweet without batting an eyelid. No wonder Xiang Di made such great progress in the joint exam this time. With such sugar tolerance, she would succeed at anything she did.
He glanced at Bo Jiangxin beside him and asked, “Isn’t yours sweet?”
Bo Jiangxin: “It’s alright.”
Ye Minjia pulled out a straw, wanting to take a sip of his, “Let me have a sip.”
Bo Jiangxin quickly moved to the side.
“You’re too stingy.” Ye Minjia’s expression was displeased, “I’m paying for your cup, okay? I shouldn’t have treated you.”
Who knew Bo Jiangxin didn’t fall for that moral blackmail at all? He said blandly, “I’ll transfer the money to you later.”
“…You really have no sense of humor.”
His own cup was too sweet, and Ye Minjia really didn’t want to drink it, so he said, “How about we swap and drink?”
After saying that, he held his cup out to Bo Jiangxin, who immediately frowned in disgust.
“Get it away from me, I don’t want what you’ve drunk.”
Ye Minjia knew he had mysophobia, didn’t like going to crowded places, disliked any physical contact with people, and even when it came to eating and drinking.
Every time he went to the cafeteria, he insisted on bringing his own utensils.
Even when going out to a restaurant, as long as Bo Jiangxin was there, everyone else had to use communal chopsticks.
If anyone dared to use their own chopsticks to pick up food, that person would immediately stop eating.
It was as if he was so disgusted with others, which was why Bo Jiangxin hardly participated in any class gatherings.
He always had a cold expression.
Girls regarded him as an unattainable high-mountain flower, only daring to admire him from afar.
As for boys, most were casual acquaintances.
They would gather to play games, and only Ye Minjia could tolerate him and be his friend, preventing this school idol, whose talent points were all allocated to intelligence and looks, from being alone at school.
Mainly, Ye Minjia was thick-skinned.
The more Bo Jiangxin refused to let him drink, the more he wanted to be annoying.
He simply put his arm around Bo Jiangxin and tried to snatch the cup from his hand.
Bo Jiangxin’s expression was one of disgust, but Ye Minjia was too persistent and even tried to force him to drink his sickly sweet milk tea.
Bo Jiangxin warned him, “Ye Minjia, don’t be annoying.”
His lowered voice carried anger.
Ye Minjia clung to him, startled by his good friend’s serious anger.
It was just a joke.
He knew he had mysophobia and wouldn’t share a cup of milk tea with anyone, but did he have to be so fierce?
Ye Minjia truly considered Bo Jiangxin a brother, but Bo Jiangxin always gave him a hard time, and sometimes he couldn’t help but feel annoyed.
[Does this kid dislike me that much?]
[Three years of brotherhood, nothing more than this.]
[Forget it. Anyway, after the college entrance exam, we’ll go our separate ways. I won’t have to be so warm to this cold block of ice anymore.]
Ye Minjia mumbled and acted petty in his mind.
With an almost imperceptible sigh, Bo Jiangxin said, “You know I have mysophobia; I can’t share a drink with others.” He paused, then added, “Next time, I’ll treat you.”
He wasn’t good at comforting, nor was he good at giving in. This was already his biggest concession to a friend.
Fortunately, Ye Minjia was carefree and easily coaxed, and he scoffed.
“Fine, I won’t hold it against you this time.”
[I knew you were still afraid of losing me.]
Bo Jiangxin had long been accustomed to Ye Minjia’s emotional flip-flopping, which was faster than turning a page.
Ye Minjia’s inner thoughts didn’t make Bo Jiangxin feel annoyed.
He always refused any physical contact with others and disdained eavesdropping on others’ inner thoughts, but Ye Minjia was an exception.
Although this person was often annoying, he truly treated him as a friend.
Of course, even the best of friends couldn’t share a cup of milk tea.
With the college entrance exam approaching, the occasional physical contact already made Bo Jiangxin’s ears noisy enough.
He didn’t want to hear Ye Minjia’s meaningless inner thoughts all day long, endlessly.
Moreover, eavesdropping on others’ inner thoughts was, after all, an infringement on their privacy.
If Ye Minjia knew he had this ability, let alone sharing a cup of milk tea with him.
He would probably flee from him as fast as he could.
No matter how good the relationship, no one would want all their secrets stripped bare and stand before the other person, with even their inner thoughts known clearly by the other.
Having bought the same milk tea as Bo Jiangxin, Xiang Di drank it very happily.
Although many people ordered the same milk tea every day, which wasn’t particularly special, someone in unrequited love always had a million ways to brainwash themselves.
Xiang Di was reluctant to finish it so quickly. She planned to bring the milk tea to the classroom and place it on her desk, even though no one might notice that she and Bo Jiangxin ordered the same milk tea.
Ah.
Problem solved.
But what if just one person noticed? And then jokingly said, “Oh, you and Bo Jiangxin ordered the same milk tea, you two have such great chemistry!”
It was just a tiny little secret crush’s trick. Thinking of this, Xiang Di couldn’t help but laugh.
Taking a big gulp of her milk tea, Liang Qianqian suddenly felt the need to use the restroom. She asked Xiang Di to take her milk tea back to the classroom while she went to the bathroom first.
It was lunchtime, so there weren’t many people in the classroom. The senior year classrooms were stacked high with books, and Xiang Di instinctively looked towards a certain desk.
He wasn’t there, but the milk tea he had just bought was on his desk.
Seizing the opportunity when no one was looking, Xiang Di quietly walked over to his desk.
Their class was a top class, so the stacks of books were already relatively low, but compared to the other desks, which had piles of books stacked higher than illegal structures, Bo Jiangxin’s desk was more concise and clean.
This was a strange phenomenon: the better a student was, the fewer books they had on their desk.
On his desk lay a scratch paper with the solution process for a math problem.
abcdxy, every letter was written beautifully. How could even the auxiliary lines for geometry problems be drawn so straight and so nicely?
Xiang Di found herself lost in admiration.
“Is something wrong?”
A voice suddenly broke her trance. Xiang Di looked up. Bo Jiangxin had returned, but she didn’t know when.
She slightly parted her lips, caught red-handed by her crush, drooling over his scratch paper right at his desk. Nothing could be more mortifying.
Bo Jiangxin calmly looked at Xiang Di.
Judging solely from the girl’s appearance, with her well-behaved and quiet demeanor, it was indeed impossible to see any hint of what was going on in her mind.
Bo Jiangxin hadn’t taken the milk tea shop incident to heart, nor did he intend to expose Xiang Di’s secret.
How Xiang Di thought of him or addressed him in her mind was her business. Whom she liked, disliked, or even had a crush on was her freedom. Even if he was the object of her affection, as long as it didn’t bother him, he couldn’t interfere.
The premise was that she could only think it in her mind, not stand in front of him and disturb his lunch break.
He had only been in the same class as her for one semester, and they hadn’t even spoken. He had no idea how she had developed a crush.
What did she understand about him? What did she know about him?
Perhaps, like everyone else, it was just a superficial fondness. After graduation, they would go their separate ways, and she would forget.
Bo Jiangxin watched as her face quickly turned red, not intending to help her out of her predicament.
“What are you standing next to my seat for?” he asked unceremoniously.
For the first time, confronting her crush in such an awkward situation, Xiang Di could only save herself by fabricating an excuse.
“Uh, there’s a problem I don’t know how to do, and I wanted to ask you for help.”
“What problem?”
Xiang Di cautiously asked, “Are you willing to teach me?”
Bo Jiangxin: “Let me see it.”
Fortunately, Xiang Di genuinely had a problem she couldn’t solve.
To avoid being exposed, she specifically chose a relatively difficult problem that she had originally intended to ask the teacher about.
Now, she could conveniently ask Bo Jiangxin.
Seeing that she had genuinely brought a problem to ask, Bo Jiangxin didn’t refuse.
Having been classmates for a semester, this was the first time Xiang Di had asked Bo Jiangxin for help with a question.
So, even unfamiliar classmates, he would be willing to help.
Who said he was an unapproachable high-mountain flower? He was clearly a very good person.
Those who said he had a cold personality really didn’t understand him.
Xiang Di silently defended Bo Jiangxin in her mind.
She had wanted to ask him for help with problems before, but unfortunately, she was too timid. No matter how much she thought about it in her mind, she still didn’t dare to act physically.
Now that she thought about it, she herself was also afraid of being rejected by him. She actually had some prejudice against him too.
Sorry. Xiang Di quietly apologized to him in her mind.
Out of a little cleverness, Xiang Di temporarily placed her milk tea on his desk, creating a feeling of “I’m just casually borrowing your desk to put this down.”
Looking at the two cups of milk tea placed together, even the stickers were identical, so much so that it was hard to tell whose was whose.
Xiang Di secretly rejoiced, feeling as if she and Bo Jiangxin were using “couple cups.”
She regretted not secretly bringing her phone to school; otherwise, she would have taken a picture of the two milk teas, applied a nice filter, and used it as her screen saver.
Bo Jiangxin completely failed to notice the subtle trick of the girl in front of him.
Moreover, the problem Xiang Di asked was indeed quite difficult and required some time. As he lowered his head to calculate, he casually picked up the milk tea on the desk and took a small sip.
“Ah.”
A soft gasp.
Bo Jiangxin looked up, his expression slightly impatient.
What now?
Xiang Di’s round eyes widened, and she carefully pointed to the milk tea in his hand.
“That, you drank the wrong milk tea. This one, this is my milk tea…”
Bo Jiangxin froze, looking at the cup in his hand.
It was too late; he had already drunk it.
Bo Jiangxin’s expression changed.
Normally, when someone accidentally drinks another person’s drink, the first reaction is usually embarrassment, discomfort, and the realization that the milk tea is now ruined.
But Xiang Di’s reaction was entirely different.
A biological connection formed through microorganisms in saliva, and soon, Bo Jiangxin’s brain received a scream, even more excited than the one at noon.
[Help.]
[This is an indirect kiss, this is definitely an indirect kiss!]
[I did good deeds in my past life, and in this life, I get an indirect kiss with my husband. Heavens, you’re too good to me.]
[ABAJ! ABAJ! ABAJ!]
Bo Jiangxin’s face was speechless.
Was she a marmot?
Then, he heard the marmot let out a triumphant hum.
Xiang Di’s thought process was indeed extraordinary. When such an accident occurred, besides the excitement of an indirect kiss with her crush, she even felt a little schadenfreude.
[Let you be so aloof usually. We’ve been classmates for a semester, and you don’t even know I’m your classmate. Now look what happened, you drank my saliva, let’s see how you deal with this~]
[Na-na-na-na-boo-boo~]
Bo Jiangxin: “…”
This schadenfreude, this petty little tone hoping he’d make a fool of himself—was this person really crushing on him?