She Can Also Be Gentle

Perhaps after this incident, Chi Nuan was too nervous, and had her periods in advance the next morning. She lay down on the table with a pale face, clutching her belly and said weakly to Xu Dan: “Help me collect the Chinese homework.” Xu Dan was happy to help. When she received Zhao Jingjing, Zhao Jingjing asked Xu Dan, “What’s up with Chi Nuan?” Xu Dan made a lip shape : “periods”[2].

“Oh.” Zhao Jingjing also took her and Du Min’s homework and handed it over to Xu Dan. Xu Dan went back and knocked on Zhou Damao’s table.

Zhou Damao smiled: “Dan Dan jie[1], you always look down on me, see I told you, I have finished my homework today!”

Xu Dan condescendingly: ” You are done copying, right?”

“Tsk!” Zhou Damo was caught. Threw the homework book to Xu Dan. Xu Dan asked Gu Ningzi: “Hey, new classmate, what about yours?”

Gu Ningzi: “One more thing, wait a moment.” Zhou Damao looked at her suspiciously. Xu Dan gathered around in the classroom, remembered the names of a few people who hadn’t handed in, and put them in the corner of the table together with the workbook. Chi Nuan was cold with pain. In a daze, someone stopped by her desk.

“Homework.” Gu Ningzi put her homework on the pile. At the same time, a chubby hot water bottle was placed on Chi Nuan’s knee. Gu Ningzi walked away casually. (T/n- oooh our Tsundere lover  )

Later in the afternoon, Chi Nuan finally eased up, and she removed the hot water bottle from her belly. Xu Dan: “I wanted to ask, where did this come from?” Seeing her pointing to the hot water bottle, Chi Nuan said, “Gu Ningzi’s.”

Xu Dan smirked: “Oh, the new classmate understands it well.”

Chi Nuan: “…what?”

“You can just change your name to ”Slow’!” Xu Dan grinned and fluffed her hair, “Zhien Tubao chanted. You helped her out yesterday, and she will give you charcoal in the snow today[3]. It’s very good.” There’s nothing wrong with this logic.

When Chi Nuan went to return the hot water bottle, Gu Ningzi was leaning against the wall and playing with her mobile phone.

“Thank you.” Chi Nuan handed her the hot water bottle. Gu Ningzi stood up straight and asked, “How are you?”

Chi Nuan: “It’s much better.”

Gu Ningzi took the hot water bottle and threw it under the table. When she leaned, a strand of hair slipped through the end of Chi Nuan’s nose. Very special perfume smell, cold and sweet, Chi Nuan couldn’t help sniffing.

…

After school, Chi Nuan and Xu Dan went to the snack street outside the school for dinner. Chi Nuan had no appetite, so she ordered a bowl of red bean porridge to drink. After bowing her head and drinking a few sips, the shop owner put a cup of warm milk tea by her hand. Chi Nuan looked up suspiciously. The shop owner pointed to the outside of the shop: “That classmate gave it to you.” Chi Nuan looked in the direction he was pointing. The sky outside gradually dimmed, but the street lights haven’t turned on for the time being. A girl in a light gray coat waved to Chi Nuan and turned to join the crowd. Xu Dan, Zhao Jingjing, and Du Min at the same table stopped the chopsticks in unison.

Silence.

“That’s Xue Wen!? Why does she invite you to drink milk tea?” Xu Dan was the most uncomfortable, and the first one asked. (T/n- I almost thought it was Gu Ningzi  )

Chi Nuan also felt inexplicable: “I don’t know…” Du Min stared at the milk tea: “Did she know that Cao Pinhui had moved away from love, so she gave you a cup of milk tea with ingredients, so as to kill you?”

Xu Dan: “…” Xu Dan asked Du Min: “What are you looking at recently? Brain damage novel? Your brain is too exaggerated, right? Cao Pinhui has a crush on Gu Ningzi. It’s nothing to do with our squad leader. Our squad leader and Gu Ningzi don’t have any friendship. She can’t kill her, right? ” Speaking, Xu Dan turned to Chi Nuan: “Didn’t you talk to Xue Wen in the music classroom last time, what are you talking about?” Chi Nuan recalled: “Nothing special…The final exam was about to come, she asked How is my review?”

There was another silence.

Xu Dan: “Have you known each other for a long time?”

Xue Wen is a celebrity in Yuncheng No. 1 High School, and there is almost no one who does not know her. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that she and Xue Wen have not met each other. She took the initiative to speak, and she answered smoothly.

Chi Nuan told the truth: “No,… I also said that time in my impression.” The whole room felt weird. The next day, something even more unthinkable happened. ——Cao Pinhui found the second and sixth class of senior high school. Just after the noon break, and the first class in the afternoon had not started, Cao Pinhui swaggeredly placed a large bouquet of red roses on Gu Ningzi’s desk. His high-profile deeds caused the whole class to whisper and talk.

“Fortunately, Gu Ningzi hasn’t come yet.” Xu Dan said, holding the small mirror. Chi Nuan agreed. Soon after Cao Pinhui left, Gu Ningzi with headphones plugged into the classroom lowered her head. The atmosphere in the class was very strange, and the students all paid attention to her at the same time. Gu Ningzi walked to her seat, facing the dozens of gorgeous red roses, she pulled down the earphone cable and asked, “Whose?” Everyone looked at her, but no one said anything. Gu Ningzi understood, she picked up the bouquet and threw it directly out the window.

The whole class: “…”

Just a few seconds after Gu Ningzi sat down, the teaching director Guo Dezhi’s very recognizable voice sounded downstairs: “Whose flower!? Where did the rose come from!? Who lost it! Be conscious of it. Get out of here!”

The whole class said again: “…”

The next morning, the fat and white Guo Dezhi was holding an oversized bouquet of red roses, standing under the national flag, and carrying out an ideological education class for the whole school. His appearance was too funny, the classmates grinned and winked. Chi Nuan turned around, and Gu Ningzi stood in the queue with no expression on her face, as if it had nothing to do with her.

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The first monthly exam for the second semester of high school came in such a mess. The last history exam is scheduled for Friday afternoon. After the exam, it will be the weekend. Chi Nuan plans to go home to see Chi Qingchuan and Yue Yun. Chi Nuan’s home was in the small town near Yuncheng. It was almost 7 o’clock when she arrived home, and it was completely dark outside. The sensor light in the stairwell, didn’t know when it broke. Chi Nuan used her mobile phone to illuminate, climbed up to the sixth floor in one breath, and took out the key to open the door. The room was quiet, no one was at home. Chi Nuan was hungry and ordered a bowl of noodles for herself. After eating and tidying up, took a shower and went into the room to read. By this time it was almost 9 o’clock in the evening. Where did your brother and sister-in-law go? Chi Nuan hesitated whether to call Chi Qingchuan, and the sound of the door opening and closing sounded outside the room. Yue Yun walked in with a stern face, Chi Qingchuan pulled her arm: “Yunyun.”

“Don’t touch me!” Yue Yun threw him away and sat on the sofa with enthusiasm . Chi Qingchuan said: “Okay Yunyun, don’t be angry, didn’t you agree, I will accompany you to buy that bag tomorrow, okay? You still have a baby in your stomach, don’t get angry with yourself.”

Yue Yun said “I’m so ashamed tonight! In front of so many little sisters, you put on such a poor face, who can you show it? I’m your wife, will give you children, let you buy me a few, What’s wrong with the thousand yuan package? It’s not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands!”

Chi Qingchuan said: “I know and I will buy it tomorrow.” Yue Yun was still not happy, turning her back to him: ” You lose all your face!” Chi Qingchuan fetched the slippers, bent over to help Yue Yun change them, and put the changed shoes on the shoe rack. Chi Nuan gently closed the door of the room and quietly turned off the light.

On Saturday, Chi Nuan got up very early, and went downstairs to buy breakfast with a pinch, and also bought Yue Yun’s favorite mushroom meat buns.

    Chi Qingchuan was about to go to work. When he got up, he was surprised to see Chi Nuan in the living room: “Nuan Nuan? When did you come back?”

    Chi Qingchuan’s eyes flickered: “Just now.”

    Chi Nuan usually goes home on Saturdays. Chi Qingchuan did not doubt, brushing his teeth quickly, sitting at the table and eating his breakfast with Chi Nuan, and then asked: “Did you take the morning bus?”

    Chi Nuan: “I took the monthly exam yesterday. I may be under a bit of pressure, and I woke up before dawn.”

    Chi Qingchuan encouraged: “Don’t put too much pressure on yourself, you are only in the second year of high school. Even if the college entrance examination failed, you still have your brother, so don’t panic. “

    Chi Nuan said: “Brother, I will pack a few of my thin clothes and go to school later. My classmate asked me to go shopping with me. I will go back in the afternoon.”

    Chi Qingchuan: “Then you have enough money? Brother will give it to you.”

    Chi Qingchuan said as he went to take money out of his clothes pocket, Chi Nuan said, “I have it. Keep it… Brother, eat quickly, it’s getting late.”

    Chi Qingchuan looked at the clock on the wall, it was really late.

    Chi Nuan said again: “Don’t rush back to cook for sister-in-law at noon, let me cook.”

    Chi Qingchuan sighed when he heard her mention Yue Yun.

    After Chi Qingchuan went to work, Chi Nuan went to a nearby vegetable market to buy vegetables. Yue Yun likes to eat fish, so she bought a crucian carp, fished two pieces of tofu, and stewed her crucian tofu soup for her.

    After buying some vegetables to go home, Yue Yun also got up, gnawing on the buns for a while.

    Chi Nuan yelled “Sister-in-law”, and Yue Yun ignored her as before, she was still angry.

    Chi Nuan knows how to cook, and the dishes are quite delicious, just lingering. She can do at least one and a half hours for the work others can do in one hour.

Listening to her playing in the kitchen, Yue Yun came in with a bun and turned around. She saw the washed crucian carp and tofu. She said, “Noon fish soup?”

    Chi Nuan said, “Do you want to drink it? If not— —”

    Yue Yun: “Whatever.”

    After the meal, Yue Yun watched the TV for a while, then yawned and went to the room for a nap. Chi Nuan didn’t say goodbye to her, but only sent a message to Chi Qingchuan that she had returned to school, and left with the clothes she sorted out.

    After the monthly exam, the Yuncheng No. 1 High School on Saturday was empty.

    The people in the same dormitory also went home. Chi Nuan lay down and slept for a while. Who knew that she couldn’t get up when she fell asleep. When she opened her eyes, it was more than 6 o’clock in the evening.

    The cafeteria was closed a long time ago. Chi Nuan took a look at the toothpaste that she was about to squeeze out. It’s better to go to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities and eat anything outside.

    She took a few bus stops and went to the supermarket to buy everything she wanted. After the checkout, she picked a rice noodle shop on the first floor of the mall, and went in and ordered a bowl of rice noodles.

    Chi Nuan was sitting next to the window, slurping the rice noodles. Halfway through the meal, someone sat down opposite.

    There is sufficient heating in the mall. The person was wearing a white shirt with cuffs, and her down jacket was placed on a stool by her casually.

    A long and thin silver chain is attached to the metal spectacle frame, which swayed slightly in the air as she sat down.

    Chi Nuan blinked slowly, it was Gu Ningzi.

    Gu Ningzi’s eyes fell into the Chi Nuan’s bowl through the lens, and asked her, “Is it delicious?”

    Chi Nuan said, “It’s delicious.”

After a while, the waiter brought up the rice noodles that Gu Ningzi had ordered. Gu Ningzi stopped her chopsticks after taking a few bites.

    Chi Nuan seriously ate up the rice noodles.

    Gu Ningzi looked in her eyes softly.

    “Aren’t you going to eat it?” Chi Nuan almost didn’t move the bowl in front of Gu Ningzi.

    “Not hungry.” Gu Ningzi said.

    “…” Then why do you want to order.

…

The two sat in silence for a few minutes before Chi Nuan mentioned the daily necessities she had just bought: “I’m going back to school. Gu Ningzi, do you live near here?”

There is also a shopping bag beside Ningzi’s feet, and some bottled drinks can be seen from the mouth of the bag.

“I live near the school.” Gu Ningzi said, “Would you like me to see you off?” Chi Nuan thought, anyway: “Okay.”

She thought Gu Ningzi would ride a bicycle or a battery car, but she followed Gu Ningzi down to the second floor of the mall and saw, parked in front of her was a white sports car… Gu Ningzi put the shopping bag in the car and went to pick up the warm one.

Chi Nuan: “…Are you an adult?”

Gu Ningzi: “What’s wrong?”

Chi Nuan: “Do you have a driver’s license?”

Gu Ningzi: “…”

Chi Nuan sat up in fear and fastened her seat belt. At the same time, she kept holding on to the back of the seat and refused to let go. Gu Ningzi lowered her head and smiled. When she waited for the red light, she asked Chi Nuan: “Isn’t it a weekend break, you didn’t go home?” Chi Nuan looked ahead nervously, and said “Um” with her nasal sound. The red light jumped to the green light. The moment Gu Ningzi stepped on the accelerator and the car rushed out, Chi Nuan seemed to want to scream, and gritted her teeth desperately to hold back.

Gu Ningzi coughed lightly as if the cold had not healed.

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The author has something to say: To tell the truth, this is an overbearing president in a campus coat. (LOL)

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[1] – jie short for jiejie means elder sister(blood related or not). Here its used as a fun and casual remark among friends.

[2] – in raws it was ‘Big-Aunt’ which is basically a slang for menstruation.

[3] – Zhien Tubao must be a philosopher. The saying basically means you helped her so she helped you back when in need like helping someone giving charcoal in snowy weather to keep yourself warm.