Whispering To You

chapter 35
The 31st Whisper

On the weekend, Xie Ying went to Cheng Yin’s house to accompany her to do her homework as promised.

Cheng Yin has long prepared fruit and drinks, and a large pile of snacks. It seems like a make-up lesson, but it is simply a party.

The only thing she forgot to do was to prepare a stool for Xie Ying.

“I only have one stool in my room. Wait for me. I’ll go to my brother’s study and get you one.”

Cheng Yin said while running, turning right out of the door is Cheng Sheng’s study.

Xie Ying followed, stood at the door and looked inside.
There’s a bookshelf on the wall from the floor to the ceiling, with barely any space, filled with books, and even several piles of books on the floor.

In the middle of the desk, there are two microscopes.

There were also many diagrams hanging on the walls on all sides. Xie Ying looked at them. She only recognized some microbial pictures.

Soon, Cheng Yin carried a stool out and closed the door.

She found Xie Ying looking at the study and said with disgust: “I’m not saying it wrong, my brother is really perverted, his room is full of books, it can be eaten as a meal.”

Xie Ying said nothing, followed Cheng Yin back to the room.

“I’m really afraid that he has become a nerd, twenty-something years old, but I have not seen him make a girlfriend. Oh no, the book is his girlfriend. I think he will live with the book for life.”
Xie Ying laughed. “How can you say that about your own brother?”

As she was talking, someone knocked on Cheng Yin’s room door.

“Speak of the devil.” Cheng Yin turned around and shouted, “Come in!”

Cheng Sheng pushed open the door, saw Xie Ying, and said, “You have friends here?”

Cheng Yin proudly said, “Yes, she is Xie Ying. I have told you many times, she is the number one in our class. Oh no, our entire class.”

Cheng Sheng nodded at Xie Ying as a greeting and then put the baked sweet potato in his hand on the table.

“I didn’t know you had friends here. I only bought one. You guys share it.”

“Okay.”
Cheng Sheng walked by, and the air in that area was filled with his scent.

It is the faint smell of laundry detergent.

Perhaps the person is too handsome. Xie Ying is difficult to imagine him appearing in the underground boxing gym.

How could someone like him appear there?

“Here, you half and I half.” Cheng Yin’s voice suddenly interrupted Xie Ying’s thoughts, “What topic do we do first today?”

“Biology.” Xie Ying bit into a baked sweet potato, “Your last monthly exam biology drop behind.”

“Okay.”
Cheng Yin took out the biology book and exercise book, and organized this month’s review content.

Next week there will be another exam, not a normal monthly exam, is the city’s unified model test. Teachers are paying close attention to this exam. It is said that most people’s college entrance exam scores are like this exam.

Cheng Yin quietly sorted out the wrong questions, but the phone on the side rang incessantly.

That guy Zhang Sikai is up again.

“My cute little yin yin! Take me to see Chen Yan again, okay?”

“Please, in the future I call you big sister. Please make arrangements again, please.”

“Just once. I’ll take a picture with him and ask for an autograph and then chat, okay?”

“Not chatting is fine, I’m satisfied to take a picture!”
“You have such a good relationship with him, you can’t keep it private, share the blessings!”

Cheng Yin didn’t know how to reply to Zhang Sikai.

If she agreed, wouldn’t she be explicitly telling Chen Yan that she knew who he was?

That wouldn’t do.

Cheng Yin found a reason to put off Zhang Sikai.

“He seems to be very busy lately. Let’s do it after a while. I’ll help you by then.”

When he got this answer, Zhang Sikai could only say yes.

Cheng Yin put down her phone. Her heart was depressed again.

Zhang Sikai is her senior brother, and the coach is proud of him.
Since junior high school, he has been the champion of the junior group and the face of their club. The flyers have always printed him and also used his results to recruit.

Before he met Chen Yan, Zhang Sikai was the most powerful person Cheng Yin knew.

And now, the most powerful people Cheng Yin knew all worshipped Chen Yan so much. Chen Yan was really too good.

“Ugh.”

Cheng Yin couldn’t help but sigh.

“What’s wrong with you? Which question can’t you do?”

“Ugh.” Cheng Yin looked at Xie Ying and sighed again, “If only I were number one in my grade, like you.”

“What are you thinking about?” Xie Ying knocked Cheng Yin’s head with a pen. “I’m giving you extra lessons, but you want to take my place.”
“No, no, how can I get the first place in the grade? It’s not bad if I can get into university ……”

Ugh, yes, whether she can even get into university is now a problem, while Chen Yan is already standing at the top of the world.

This gap is really too big.

Cheng Yin kept Xie Ying to eat dinner, the nanny specially made a few more dishes.

Cheng Sheng hurriedly ate a few bites and then put down his chopsticks.

“You’re not eating?”

Cheng Yin asked.

Cheng Sheng “hmm” sound, went back to the room to get a backpack out, walked to the door and change shoes.
“No need to leave the light on for me at night. I might be back late.”

“Are you going to school to do experiments?”

Cheng Sheng froze, nodded and said yes.

After dinner, Xie Ying and Cheng Yin did some more homework.

By nine o’clock, it was almost time for her to go back.

Her grandparents are all going to bed at this time, so if they didn’t find her, they would be anxious.

After leaving Cheng Yin’s house, and crossing a road is where Xie Ying lives now.

Xie Ying took a shower, came out and talked to her grandparents for a while, then went back to her room.

Not long after, Xie Ying saw from the balcony that the light in the next room was out.
She sat at her desk for a while, staring at the desk lamp.

Ten minutes passed, she suddenly decided, grabbed her keys and school bag and sneaked out of the house.

At 10:30, Riverside Road was a perfect example of the word “sex and beauty”, so unreal that it didn’t look like earth.

Xie Ying found the boxing gym last time, stood at the door for a while, then turned around and went to the twenty-four-hour convenience store across the street.

She bought a packet of noodles and sat on a high stool, facing the opposite door, and could see the boxing gym across the street through the glass window.

People were coming and going from the convenience store, from sexy women who were swaying, and men who were drunk and floating on their feet.

The air was filled with the distinctive smell of the convenience store and the smell of alcohol.
Xie Ying took out the exercise book and finished answering three chapters with no distractions.

When she looked up again, it was already 12:00 am.

She rubbed her eyes and saw Cheng Sheng coming out.

The surrounding area is full of men and women, and Cheng Sheng does not fit in with them. He carries his bag on one shoulder, his head is down, and he is alone.

Xie Ying stood up to look for him, but saw that he had already walked to the sidewalk and was coming over here.

Xie Ying sat down again and packed her school bag.

The welcome message at the door sounded. Cheng Sheng entered, did not see Xie Ying, went straight to the shelf and took a pack of band-aids and a mask.
He tore the band-aid while paying the bill.

After scanning, he walked over to the glass window and looked up to apply the band-aid.

His cheek was swollen and the corner of his mouth was broken, so the band-aid barely worked.

After putting it on, he looked down and realized that a little girl was standing around looking at him.

There were no words for a while, the two were silent.

Thinking about it, Cheng Sheng opened his mouth and his first sentence was: “Do not tell Cheng Yin.”

Xie Ying said nothing, turned to the freezer and took out an ice-cream, paid the money and handed it to Cheng Sheng.

Cheng Sheng looked at her confusedly.

“Put it on.”
Xie Ying said.

“No need.” Cheng Sheng ripped open the wrapper of the mask, cupped it in his hand, and added, “Hear that? Do not tell Cheng Yin.”

Xie Ying lowered her eyes for a long time, and hid her hands in the sleeves, curling them into fists.

She said, “Then you also promise me one thing.”

“What?”

“I haven’t thought about it yet. I’ll tell you when I do.”

Cheng Sheng gave her a look, calmly put on the mask and walked away.

Xie Ying put on her school bag and when she walked out of the convenience store, she had already lost Cheng Sheng’s figure.

She took a taxi and go home.
When the elevator door was about to close, a hand grasped the door.

The elevator door slowly opened again.

“Mom? Why are you back suddenly?”

Xie Ruxu asked instead of answering, “Why did you come home so late?”

“I was playing at a friend’s house.” Xie Ying lowered her head and said, “I forgot the time when I watched the movie.”

Although Xie Ruxu was surprised, she did not suspect, but said coldly, “In the future, you are not allowed to play until this late. Do Grandma and Grandpa know?”

“They should have gone to bed.”

As they spoke, they had already arrived at the door of the house.

When opening the door, Xie Ying asked again, “Mom, why you’re back so late?”
Xie Ying’s mother opened a factory in the suburbs, where she usually lives and rarely returns to her home.

“I lost my ID card, I have to go on a business trip tomorrow morning and come back to get my account book  ……” Halfway through, Xie Ruxu felt she didn’t need to explain so much to Xie Ying and said impatiently, “Go to bed early, you have to go to class on Monday tomorrow. Next time I know you play this late, don’t think about pocket money.”

Xie Ying said okay.

She went back to her room and changed into her pajamas, but she couldn’t sleep.

The last time she saw her mom was last summer.

Xie Ying walked out of her room and went to the next room, wanting to talk to Xie Ruxu for a while.
When they moved in last week, the grandparents said to use this room as a storage room, since Xie Ruxu basically doesn’t come back, anyway.

But Xie Ying insisted on making the bed, in case her mother came back but had no place to sleep. What should she do?

She held the door handle, pushed open and was about to call Xie Ruxu, but she heard Xie Ruxu’s voice coming from inside.

She squatted in front of the cabinet and rummaged for something while calling.

“You’re sending your son abroad, huh? What school?”

“That school is not very good. Since he is going abroad, he must go to an Ivy League university.”

“Oh, right, me ah, my daughter does not go abroad, her grades are so good, the country’s top universities rushed to take her.”
“My daughter is number one since she was a child.”

“Oh, what do you mean by teaching or not teaching? Do you see me worrying about it? I don’t even have to go to parent-teacher conferences. She’s just like that. She doesn’t let anyone worry at all.”

“Summer vacation or something like that, just send to summer camp. There are teachers in charge. Once she go is for a couple of months, and every time she even gets a prize back.”

“I don’t know if she’s following her father or whoever, but she knows what she’s doing since she was a child, so I will not lie to you. What kind of education method do I have? She takes care of herself. I never worry about her. “
Xie Ying’s voice “mother” stuck in her throat, gently closed the door, as if she had never come.

On Monday morning, when Cheng Yin arrived in the classroom, Chen Yan was already there.

She waved her hand in a small way. “Good morning.”
Chen Yan lifted his eyes and said nothing.

Cheng Yin found a mousse cake on her table.

She immediately quietly glanced at Chen Yan.

“Thanks.”

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows and said without smiling, “Thank me for what?”

Cheng Yin picked up the cake and shook it. “This ah.”

Chen Yan gave her a sullen look. “I didn’t buy it.”

“Huh?”
“It’s from Zhao Weilin.” Nie Nan walked over carrying a mop and said while mopping the floor, “He heard you had a stomachache from eating expired cakes, so he said he would send you fresh cakes when he had time.”

Cheng Yin said ‘oh’, and skimmed Chen Yan, “I thought you were buying it.”

When Nie Nan heard Cheng Yin’s words, he reached out and tried to grab it. “You don’t want to eat it? Then give it to me. Zhao Weilin looks dumb, but I didn’t expect him to be quite virtuous. I, who don’t like to eat cake, think he did a good job.”

“Get your stinking hands off!” Cheng Yin protects the cake and walks to Xie Ying, “Come on, let’s have each half …… Why are your eyes swollen?”

Xie Ying turned away her face and said, “I didn’t sleep well last night.”

Although Cheng Yin is usually muddled, but after being friends with Xie Ying for so long, Cheng Yin can still keenly perceive her emotions.
“Oh …… So, do you want to eat some cake?”

“I’m not hungry.”

“Okay.”

Cheng Yin took the cake and made back to her seat, but didn’t move.

“Aren’t you eating?”

Chen Yan asked.

Cheng Yin shoved the cake into the drawer and said, “I’m not hungry.”

Chen Yan “oh,” sound, “He’s got a good intention, if you don’t eat it, you’ll be sorry.”

“I know.” Cheng Yin said, “But I just ate this morning. I can’t eat yet. I’ll eat later when I’m hungry.”
Chen Yan crossed his legs, took out his phone and looked at it, and stopped talking.

The class started, the English teacher came in and led everyone to read in the morning.

Cheng Yin saw Xie Ying read for a while and fell down, and did not get until the end of the first class.

Cheng Yin thought about it and ran to the store to buy a bottle of nutrition drink and a packet of beef jerky.

She entered with the ring of the bell, running out of breath, and put the things on Xie Ying’s desk.

“Bought it for you.”

These are Xie Ying’s favorite snacks, but today she just took them and stuffed them into the drawer, said “thank you” and went back down.

Cheng Yin stood next to her and asked, “Are you sick?”
Xie Ying shook her head.

Cheng Yin silently sat back in her seat and stared at Xie Ying’s back.

She suddenly thought of something and said, “I saw the theater’s advertisement last night, and this week there is a show by Happy Flower. Let’s go see it after the exam?”

Xie Ying ignored her.

The teacher walked in, and Cheng Yin stopped talking.