You hidden in my heart - Chapter 10

Chapter 10

There was a major appearance check the next Monday, and when school was over on Saturday afternoon, Li Xining specifically told Lu Yuling to cut his hair. But his attitude was not very positive. “Okay, I’ll go if I have time,” he said while looking at Li Xining.

Hearing Lu Yuling’s words, Li Xining became anxious. “What do you mean by that? Didn’t you have time tomorrow? You said yesterday that you would fix your hair this Sunday. “

Lu Yuling frowned as he recalled. “Did I say that? Oh, why don’t I remember? I’m quite busy tomorrow.”

Li Xining could see through this liar and said with a frown, “What are you busy with tomorrow?”

Lu Yuling: “Busy studying. Didn’t you still ask me to study physics by myself?”

“You… Why can’t you cut off your yellow hair first, hah?” glaring at him, Li Xining asked angrily.

“I’ll die…” Lu Yuling said this without blinking an eye.

Lu Yuling’s yellow hair violated the school rules and regulations, and every time the appearance check happened, he would be criticised. Li Xining was particularly dissatisfied with his hairstyle and didn’t understand why he was so obsessed with such an ugly hairstyle.

But he was a rebellious adolescent. So, like any adolescent of this age, he also had his own thoughts. Therefore, every time Lu Yuling was informed to change his hairstyle, the answer he gave was, “I’ll die if I change my hair.” And it was his bottom line.

Li Xining was so angry that she couldn’t speak, didn’t bother to talk to him anymore, turned around, and left.

Lu Yuling sighed and followed her unhurriedly with long legs.

Yu Wenyin didn’t have time to take Li Xining to buy a new bicycle, so these days Lu Yuling has been sending her to and from school for the same reason: on the way.

After the two walked out of the classroom one after the other, Li Xining walked towards the school gate without looking back. Lu Yuling shouted at her back, saying, “Wait for me at the intersection.”

Li Xining still ignored him, just pretending not to hear.

For one week in a row, except when she asked him to take her to the school gate on the first morning when she went to school, she got off the bicycle at the intersection not far from the school gate for the rest of the days, and she was the first to leave school at night, waiting for him at the intersection.

Xu Dongruo made a brief comment on the behaviour of the two of them after learning about the incident—they were sneaky, just like those who were in puppy love.

[TL Notes: “Puppy love”: Young people often experience romantic affection for others, which typically fades as they get older.]

Li Xining also retorted at the time. “Look at your thoughts; we are just classmates who care and help each other!”

Xu Dongruo: “What’s so shameful about caring and helping each other? Do you have to meet secretly at the intersection?”

Li Xining had nothing to say. Although they didn’t have a shameful relationship, she was afraid that others would know because practical status was different from theory.

She also proposed to meet at the intersection, and Lu Yuling did not object. This kind of behaviour resembled puppy love, but she still couldn’t figure out what kind of feelings she had for him. So she had been struggling with this problem for the past few days. He saved her life without thinking about his life, so it was impossible for her not to be grateful to him, and she even felt that she owed him a life. As for whether she liked him or not, she didn’t know.

She also understood what he meant by giving her candy. But before that, she had never liked anyone else, and she had never been in a relationship, and she was very afraid that she would take gratitude as liking. If so, she would definitely hurt Lu Yuling.

Last night, she discussed this with her mother and asked her for advice. Her mother’s response was, “Do you know why girls fall in love more frequently than boys? Because girls often have irrational thoughts, the school forbids early love.

Li Xining retorted, “I’m not thinking wildly, I just don’t know what I think in my heart or how to get along with Lu Yuling in the future.”

Yu Wenyin sighed and replied, “Do whatever you want. And there’s no need to think so hard. If you like him, you won’t reject him. If you don’t like him, you will start to reject him after your gratitude has passed. At that time, you will understand in your heart, and there is no need to say so much now.”

She retorted again, “Then if I don’t like him, don’t I just rely on gratitude to get along with him? Will he misunderstand that I like him? It’s such scum, and I’m especially afraid that the head teacher will find out that Lu Yuling is picking me up every day, and will he think that we two have puppy love?”

Yu Wenyin: “Then you have to get along with him like a puppy love? Are you a scumbag? You two can get along normally, and you don’t need to cross boundaries or overstep the rules. Let time decide everything, and help each other improve each other, just like he picks you up from school and you help him with homework. Ok?” After speaking, Yu Wenyin sighed. “There are so many puppy lovers who are not afraid of being caught and scolded, but you are not in such a relationship, but you are worried about being caught every day. You will be eighteen in two months, and you will soon be too old for puppy love. Don’t worry, no one will suspect you.”

Li Xining: “…” ‘Is this what a mother says?’

Although her mother didn’t help her find the answer and even despised her, she provided her with a way to find the answer—let nature take its course.

………………………

The school was over early on Saturday. At half past five, the sunset in early autumn had just begun to set.

After leaving the school gate, Li Xining crossed the road first, then walked east along the sidewalk, walking against the light. The red twilight stretched her shadow very long. When she was about to reach the intersection, she saw a temporary stall built with a tricycle. The stall owner was an old lady. The rectangular wooden shelves were filled with all kinds of doll key chains. Girls couldn’t resist the temptation of exquisite dolls. In front of the booth, there were several female students wearing the school uniform of No. 1 Middle School, and Li Xining finally became one of them. She immediately fell in love with a pair of doll rabbits, one pink and one white, cute in shape and exquisite in workmanship, only the size of the palm of your hand.

‘That pink one is really suitable for Princess Lu’s tsundere girl’s heart. If you don’t cut your hair, I will buy you a pink bunny!’

Li Xining liked this pair of rabbits very much, so he pointed to them and asked the stall owner politely, “Grandma, how much is this pair of rabbits?”

With a kind face, the old lady replied with a smile, “Eight yuan each, fifteen pairs.”

“I want…” However, before Li Xining finished speaking, the pair of rabbits were taken away by another girl, who said confidently, “Sorry, I came first, I want this rabbit.”

In fact, she didn’t see this pair of rabbits at all just now. Although they came early, they still didn’t see it until Li Xining pointed out the rabbits. Coincidentally, she also caught sight of the pair of rabbits, so she snatched the rabbits before Li Xining.

Li Xining was unexpectedly cut off by someone, and she was surprised and angry. She looked at the girl and remembered who she was. It was Han Qiaowei from Class 13.

This young girl was well-known among her peers. She had fair skin that was milky white and a nice physique. Although she struggled with studying and consistently received the lowest mark possible on exams, she had talented dancing abilities. Profound, trained in dance since infancy, highly erratic, and endowed with a very attractive swan neck and collarbone.

Li Xining was 1.66 meters tall, and Han Qiaowei was unquestionably 1.7 meters taller than her. She also had a very slender build.

A talented and beautiful girl like Han Qiaowei has a good relationship with the opposite sex. There were not a few people who pursued her, and her reputation was not very good. She was arrogant and always looked down on people, especially students from ordinary families. To put it bluntly, she disliked the poor and loved the rich. The boys who flirted with her were also from relatively superior families, and her personality was very strong and domineering, but only strong and domineering in front of the same sex; she became a good little white rabbit in front of the opposite sex. Without any doubt, she was typical green tea.

Li Xining had never liked her, and after this incident, her dislike turned into disgust.

Starting this semester, Han Qiaowei would occasionally visit Lu Yuling and bring him breakfast, snacks, and water after his run between classes. She surely wanted Lu Yuling’s attention.

Li Xining observed it and felt irritated, but she was unsure of her feelings. Han Qiaowei had never provoked her, after all. But today she stole her pair of rabbits, and it was enough to cause Li Xining’s disgust towards Han Qiaowei.

‘You shouldn’t touch my rabbit, especially the pink one!’ “But I was the first to ask for the price of this rabbit.” Li Xining stared at Han Qiaowei, and asked confidently, “Aren’t you jumping in the queue?

Han Qiaowel raised her eyebrows, glared at Li Xining, and questioned angrily, “Again, who jumped in line?”

Although Li Xining normally didn’t like to have conflicts with others, she was not a softie who could be trampled by others. “I said I would buy it, but you snatched it away. Who do you think jumped in the line?” she asked in an angry tone.

Han Qiao smiled slightly. “If you want to buy it, you get the money. Where’s the money? If you don’t pay, why should you get it!”

Li Xining said “Ah”, “I’m different from you. I don’t touch other people’s things without paying for them.”

She was interrupted by a cold voice. “Who are you scolding?”

Looking back, it was Lu Yuling with an extremely angry face.

Han Qiaowei’s expression froze in an instant; shame and fear appeared alternately in her eyes, and her face turned red and pale.

Li Xining also saw Lu Yuling, and at this moment she yelled, “She robbed my rabbits! Two!”

Hearing this, Lu Yuling stared at Han Qiaowei with a sullen face, slightly opened his lips, and said in a cold tone with threats, “Give her back.”

Han Qiaowei’s expression changed again. First, she was surprised, followed by astonishment, and finally resentment and unwillingness. She had known for a long time that this person was Li Xining. Li Xining was beautiful, good at studying, and recognised as a goddess in the eyes of boys. She didn’t like Li Xining from the very first sight, she thought she was just a posturing, scheming girl. But she didn’t expect that Lu Yuling would protect this shameless one.

Although Han Qiaowei was unbalanced, she even felt that she had lost her face. After all, she was chasing Lu Yuling, and now she was treated like this by her sweetheart. A woman would resent her, but she didn’t dare provoke Lu Yuling, and she couldn’t afford it, so she threw the pair of rabbits to the original place, and she left without looking back, but she swore in her heart that she would never let this matter pass.

After Han Qiaowei left, Li Xining quickly took the two rabbits into her hands and, at the same time, quickly took out fifteen yuan from her pocket and handed it to the stall owner’s grandmother. “I want this pair of rabbits!”

After paying the money, she quickly put the rabbit into the pocket of the school uniform, as if afraid that others would snatch it away.

Lu Yuling wanted to laugh at seeing her like this.

On the way home, sitting behind Lu Yuling’s bicycle, Li Xining was still angry. “Han Qiaowei is not a good person, you are not allowed to talk to her in the future!” In fact, these words were mixed with selfishness and possessiveness, but she didn’t realise it.

Lu Yuling couldn’t hear the sourness in these words, because he didn’t think about that at all. He didn’t like Han Qiaowei at all. Instead, he thought it was cute for Li Xining to lose her temper. He asked with a smile, “It’s just two rabbits. Why are you so angry?”

Li Xining became even angrier. “What do you know? This is a matter of dignity and sovereignty! She shouldn’t have robbed me!”

Lu Yuling said helplessly, “Then if you weren’t here, would you two still be able to fight?”

Li Xining: “Oh, just fight; do you think I’m afraid of her?”

Lu Yuling sighed. “She is taller than you, and she is still practicing dancing. She is flexible, and her speed and reaction are definitely better than yours. Can you beat her? And there are so many people around her that if you really fight, you will be at a disadvantage.”

What he said was to teach her not to be blindly confident before fighting, but to measure the gap between the enemy and her and then decide whether to fight or not, otherwise, she would definitely be the one who was beaten in the end.

However, Li Xining didn’t listen to the next few words at all, only heard the first few words: “She is taller than you, and he still practiced dancing, so his flexibility and responsiveness must be better than yours.”

‘OK. Lu Yuling. You are dead.’

Li Xining stared at his back with cold eyes, and shouted without any emotion, “Lu Yuling.”

Lu Yuling suddenly had a bad feeling, and his back felt cold. “Ah…?”

Li Xining: “You… If you don’t cut your hair tomorrow, don’t come to school on Monday.”

Lu Yuling: “…” ‘I wasn’t the one who snatched your rabbit, why are you angry with me?’

End of chapter 10
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