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Twenty-Seventh Period (2)
T/N: Translated by Jen on Broken Jinsei! Please do not repost my translations! All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
Actually, it wasn’t all of them. Through her explanation just now, he’d understood a lot of it.
Compared to the teacher, having ample patience was her greatest advantage. She could break down a single problem into countless steps, not finding it troublesome at all.
But…..he wanted to spend a bit more time with her, even if just sitting there and not saying anything. This was his selfish desire.
Jiang Huihui gently lowered her eyes, having a somewhat helpless look.
But she still didn’t say anything, explaining it again to him from the beginning.
He tried to chat with her for a while in between, “Have you decided which university you want to get into?”
“En.” She nodded, having the problem-solving process written out on the scratch paper.
He curiously asked, “Where?”
Jiang Huihui fell silent for a while, “University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.”
“To become a flight attendant?”
“No.” Jiang Huihui actually didn’t want to talk to him about these things, but her personality didn’t allow her to ignore other people’s questions, “Aerospace Design and Engineering.”
“Wow.” He had an astonished look, but in reality, he didn’t really understand.
He thought that based on her personality, she would probably chose to attend a Normal University[1]. He didn’t expect that it was actually aerospace design? This was quite the contrast to her appearance.
This conversation came to an abrupt end. Jiang Huihui wasn’t affected, continuing to explain the problem to him.
She was very serious. This kind of seriousness would reflect on any small matter. As long as it was something she agreed on, she will definitely do her best.
Ye Shuting’s attention was entirely on her face. From this angle, her nose bridge wasn’t particularly prominent, having a perfect curve. Her lips were plump and rosy, her eyelashes very long, dense, and curled.
Her light brown eyes were like the glass marbles they would play with in their childhood, clear and translucent.
TN: All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
When she spoke, her lips would open and close, her voice very light.
Occasionally, she would tuck the loose hair behind her ear, “…….So the result from the calculations is 23, therefore we should pick C for this problem.”
Ye Shuting endured with all his might to hold back his restless right hand, so as to not let it touch her hair.
Jiang Huihui could sense his gaze. She somewhat uncomfortably shifted to the side.
Realizing that his gaze was a bit too obvious, he hurriedly lowered his head, going to grab the milk tea on the table.
He pretended to have a look of sudden realization, “So it’s C for this problem, no wonder.”
No wonder my ass. He’d spent the entire time staring at her.
Jiang Huihui glanced at the time on her phone. It was already three-thirty, “Then….we’ll stop here for today? I have to go home.”
She bent down to pack her bag, while he hurriedly got up, “I’ll send you.”
Jiang Huihui was just about to turn him down. She had just put on her backpack when she saw the figure outside the glass window and froze in place.
Seeing her frozen in place, Ye Shuting also looked over along her line of sight.
Standing outside the window was a tall young man exuding a strong presence.
He currently had a dark expression in his eyes, viciously staring at him through the glass window, like a wild beast lurking in the jungle, waiting for the right opportunity to pounce and snap the neck of its prey at any moment.
Ye Shuting got chills down his back from his stare.
Zhou Yanli tossed the basketball and angrily stormed in.
Damn it, he completely didn’t expect that it was a guy called Ye Shuting.
He walked between the two of them, having Jiang Huihui blocked behind him, shielding her figure entirely. His brows were tightly furrowed, his eyes full of hostility, “What are you looking at? Is she someone you can look at?”
Ye Shuting was bashful when facing Jiang Huihui, but with others, he was different.
He slightly lifted his chin, retorting back with a similarly hostile tone, “Who the hell are you?”
Zhou Yanli coldly sneered and took off his coat that hindered his movement.
Seeing this stance, Jiang Huihui hurriedly tried to stop him, “Didn’t you promise me that you won’t get into a fight anymore?”
Zhou Yanli pointed at Ye Shuting, “This bastard deserves a beating.”
Hearing these words, Ye Shuting was also furious, “F@#$, come at me!”
Jiang Huihui felt that mediating a fight was even more tiring than tutoring someone.
She forcibly had Zhou Yanli dragged out of the library.
“He didn’t do anything. Don’t always be so unreasonable.”
“He didn’t do anything? He’s a guy. I’m also a guy. The way he was looking at you just now…..” Zhou Yanli made out the latter half of her words, his expression suddenly calming down, “You say I’m unreasonable?”
That line was also said in the heat of the moment. She opened her mouth, wanting to explain, “I….”
Zhou Yanli smiled, then started nodding on his own, “Right, I’m unreasonable, I’m meddlesome. My bad, I’ll apologize to you, sorry.”
He then turned and left.
He seemingly was determined to shake her off, walking quickly and hastily.
His legs were very long. Jiang Huihui had to jog the whole way in order to not lose him.
Jiang Huihui saw the building ahead——it was Zhou Jinwei’s home.
She didn’t know why he came here, but he didn’t go in, just going around to the backyard and sitting down on the lawn that was planted full of unfamiliar plants.
The weather tomorrow should be pretty good, even the moon was visible.
Jiang Huihui stood there, not knowing whether she should go over or not.
Because of what she’d said earlier, he clearly was upset.
“Are you going to keep standing there in the wind?” After being silent the whole way, his voice finally sounded, heavy and stiff.
He was willing to talk to her. Jiang Huihui slightly relaxed a breath.
She walked over, carefully apologizing to him, “I wasn’t trying to criticize you just now, I was just……”
“I know, you’re scared of me getting in fights.” He had his head down pulling up the weeds in front of him.
“Do you know what I was thinking just now?”
Jiang Huihui asked him, “What?”
He chuckled.
He had a bitter smile, also carrying complicated emotions that Jiang Huihui couldn’t understand.
His voice even carried a hoarseness that Jiang Huihui had never heard before, “I was thinking, if even you don’t love me, then what is the meaning of me coming here?”
From a pampered and spoiled wealthy young master to a penniless bum in an unfamiliar environment.
No one here knew him, all having his words treated as crazy ramblings.
But he still desperately wanted to stay here. In fact, in the first few days, he didn’t even dare to sleep, fearing that this was all just a dream of his.
And after waking up, he’ll still be on the beach of Pucao Island, looking at the moon, lost in thought, thinking of his mom.
Jiang Huihui’s heart strangely pierced with pain, the kind where it was hard to breathe.
She could feel what he was feelings at this time, his dejection, his sorrow, and his grievances.
His knees were slightly bent, with one hand propped behind his back and one hand resting on his knee. His head was lowered, unknown as to where he was looking. He seemed to be pondering, thinking about the reasons why he should stay here.
The wind in the surrounding was a bit heavy, rolling continuously, making the plants here sway like waves.
Jiang Huihui’s voice broke the silence, “Sorry.”
She apologized to him, her eyes a bit red.
Hearing the tearful tone in her voice, Zhou Yanli was stunned. His dejection and sorrow just now seemingly instantly got replaced by other emotions, “How come you’re crying?”
He didn’t bring tissues, so could only use the back of his hand to wipe her tears.
Clearly, he was the one who was angry, but once she cried, he was just helpless and could only apologize to her.
Jiang Huihui shook her head, her tears uncontrollably streaming down, “I also don’t know why, but thinking about how you’re sad, I will also…..feel very sad.”
Zhou Yanli froze there, “What?”
She used her sleeves to randomly wipe her face, “Isn’t there the saying….that….the mother and child are connected at the heart?”
She seemingly was a bit embarrassed. After saying this, she just lowered her head, wishing that she could bury herself.
Zhou Yanli was still dumbstruck, “What….mother and child connected at the heart?”
“It’s….you know…..”
The two of them were like having gotten infected, each stammering more than the last.
In the end, it was Zhou Yanli that straightened out his tongue out first, “Didn’t you not believe me?”
Jiang Huihui still couldn’t lift her head, her ears slightly red. For a young girl who was still underaged and hasn’t even been in a relationship before, voluntarily admitting that she was the mother of a boy the same age as her was indeed a very awkward thing.
“I didn’t not believe you.” Her voice was a bit weak.
Actually, she’d already believed him a long time ago, else based on her timid and meek personality, she would’ve long drawn a clear line between them.
But if to let her give a specific reason, she herself was also unclear.
Seeing him hurt, she would panic. Seeing him getting punished, she would feel anxious.
Seeing him happy, she would also be happy.
Jiang Huihui didn’t quite understand the romantic feelings between men and women, but she was very clear that this was another kind of feeling, one that was beyond romantic love.
It transcended beyond all, a feeling that extended out from the heart.
Zhou Yanli was momentarily in a daze. He stuffily put on an aloof, stubborn air, “Don’t think about coaxing me.”
Want to use a few pretty words to trick him? Not a chance.
“Not coaxing you, I can feel it.” She put her hand to her chest. Although her words were very strange, she indeed had these feelings, “My heartbeat and Xiao Li’s heartbeat seems to be connected.”
Zhou Yanli looked up in disbelief. His eyes had widened from shock, his breathing also stopping.
Jiang Huihui’s words, if said to anyone else, seemingly would all sound riddled with holes and can only be used to coax a child.
But these words, in Zhou Yanli’s ears, had a completely different feeling.
Because he was her child to begin with.
[1] This is actually a historical term for a teacher-training college, basically for to become a teacher. It’s derived from the French école normale (model school), designed to set the “norm” or standard for teaching practices and pedagogy. Examples: Beijing Normal University, East China Normal University, etc.
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