"I’d rather not have dinner," Jiang Yibai shook his head.
He had never had the precedent of dining with a girl he was not familiar with.
Seeing this, Cheng Suisui immediately felt a bit disappointed and muttered, "But I still have some things I want, want to tell you."
The quieter her voice got toward the end.
Nevertheless, Jiang Yibai still heard her clearly. He thought she had something else to say, so he gestured, "Whatever you want to say, just say it now. There’s no need to wait until dinner."
Cheng Suisui bit her lip, struggling and hesitating, "Then, if I say it..."
Under the camphor tree, the tall male student in his graduation gown was staring at the girl, a head shorter than himself, waiting for her to speak.
Cheng Suisui took a deep breath.
Then she took another deep breath.
After that, she finally said, "Jiang Yibai, I like you!"
She shouted while closing her eyes, not daring to meet his gaze.
"What!?" Upon hearing her, Jiang Yibai was stunned for a moment, then looked at her with a look of surprise, "You like me?"
"Yes! I like you!" Cheng Suisui decided to go all out, now opening her eyes to meet his, affirming, "I’ve liked you since middle school, it’s just that back then you didn’t even know who I was..."
This, he truly did not know.
"I actually wanted to confess to you back then, but then you transferred schools," Cheng Suisui continued with momentum.
Jiang Yibai twitched the corners of his mouth, at a loss for what to say at the moment.
If it weren’t for her bringing it up today, he might have never learned that they were formerly schoolmates.
"Now I have to tell you I like you. Jiang Yibai, do you like me?"
After asking, the hand holding her dress hem tightened even more, her face filled with trepidation and nervousness.
Jiang Yibai frowned, looking at the girl before him, and sighed, "Sorry, I already have someone I like."
"You... you already have someone you like?" Cheng Suisui’s eyes widened in disbelief.
She had braced herself to be rejected, but she hadn’t expected him to say something so surprising.
"Yes." Jiang Yibai nodded, then proceeded to leave.
But Cheng Suisui still wouldn’t give up, "Who is the person you like?"
In four years of college, how had she never seen a girl appear beside him?
"She..." Jiang Yibai stopped in his tracks, about to say it was Mengmeng, but then he thought about her friendship with Mengmeng and worried about complicating their relationship, so he stopped speaking abruptly.
"There’s no need for you to know."
After saying those words, Cheng Suisui saw him leave without looking back.
She just stood there under the camphor tree, staring blankly at his receding figure.
Suddenly, her nose tingled, and tears began flowing down her clean cheeks.
"Mengmeng..." Cheng Suisui cried while dialing Mengmeng’s number.
"Why are you crying? What happened?" Hearing her crying, Mengmeng immediately asked with concern.
Cheng Suisui cried even harder, "I just confessed to Jiang Yibai."
"That’s good, isn’t it? Why are you crying..." Mengmeng was speaking when she suddenly thought of a possibility and quickly asked, "Did he reject you?"
"Not... exactly," Cheng Suisui sobbed out.
Mengmeng immediately sighed with relief, "If he didn’t, then why the tears?"