When Love Turns the Tables: The Mysterious Husband's Chase

Helpless, Xi Siyan let out a sigh. "Do you really like me that much?"

Zhou Chengchen lifted her eyes, and they were shining even brighter. She didn’t show the slightest shyness a girl usually would when talking about something like this, and she nodded hard.

As if that still wasn’t enough, she emphasized it several more times: "I like you, I really like you."

She laid her heart bare so bluntly that for a moment even Xi Siyan didn’t know how to respond.

They just stared at each other like that. The determination in Zhou Chengchen’s eyes hadn’t wavered in the least, and in the end it was Xi Siyan who surrendered. He reached out, placing both hands on her shoulders; with just a slight pull he could have drawn her into his arms.

But Xi Siyan didn’t make such an intimate move. Hugging her before had been out of necessity; now that there was no such necessity, he wasn’t ready to do anything that intimate. He simply pressed her shoulders like that and took a step forward.

The two of them were very close. Zhou Chengchen could clearly smell the faint lemon scent on him, mixed with the chill of winter.

Xi Siyan was much taller than she was, and he was standing so close that Zhou Chengchen couldn’t tilt her head back to see his expression. She wasn’t exactly in his arms, but she was completely enveloped by him, and her heartbeat started to stumble a little.

"Stop messing around. If you’re that uneasy, then after we start our second year, we’ll have lunch together."

"Thump, thump, thump"—her heartbeat hit its peak at that moment, and the gloom that had been weighing on Zhou Chengchen all afternoon soared straight to the top.

He understood what she meant. He understood her insecurity.

On the way home, Zhou Chengchen was basically grinning like an idiot the whole way again.

At the root of it, what she was afraid of was just having no overlap in their lives. Since he had taken the initiative to give her that overlap, what was there left to be uneasy about?

——

In the few days leading up to finals, Zhou Chengchen finally did put more of her focus back on studying. It wasn’t that she was cramming at the last minute or anything, it was just that the person she liked was so outstanding, and she’d always been competitive—she didn’t want to fall too far behind.

At the same time, Zhou Chengchen also noticed something off. Ever since that last incident, whenever Chen Youran saw her, she’d practically take a detour, like she was avoiding some kind of plague god.

But Zhou Chengchen didn’t think much of it. She just found it a little strange whenever they happened to run into each other.

In the blink of an eye it was time for finals. Zhou Chengchen performed steadily, without any major mistakes, but she didn’t feel like she’d done especially well either.

When the last exam ended, Xiao Rou rushed over to her the first chance she got. "Cheng Chen, we’re finally on break."

Everyone was cheering. Finishing finals meant winter break was here, and that was exciting news for every student.

But Zhou Chengchen didn’t feel the least bit excited, because right before her last exam today, she finally—belatedly—realized: winter break.

More than a month. She’d be going more than a month without seeing Xi Siyan.

Usually she already thought weekends were too long, let alone a winter break of over a month.

Zhou Chengchen’s face was all gloomy. Faced with her friend’s excitement, she just couldn’t get excited. She pouted. "What’s so great about break?"

Xiao Rou was dumbfounded. "What’s not great about it?"

"There’s nothing great about it at all."

Being her best friend, Xiao Rou immediately caught on to what was going through Zhou Chengchen’s head, and couldn’t help laughing. "Cheng Chen, seriously? Don’t tell me you actually wish we had classes over Spring Festival too?"

"That would be perfect!"

Xiao Rou: "..."

As expected, love makes people crazy.

The exam rooms were randomly assigned, so Zhou Chengchen and Xiao Rou were in the same room, but Xi Siyan wasn’t in this area. When the two of them walked out of the classroom, they saw Xi Siyan standing outside in the hallway, tall and straight.

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