"I’ve got something tonight, so I might not be able to have dinner, and you’ve been quite tired lately, too. Go home first, take a bath, get some good rest, and then we’ll reschedule the dinner for the evening of the day after tomorrow, is that okay?"
While speaking, Li Qingshen turned his head to look at Ling Momo, a faint glimmer of expectation shimmering in his eyes....
Ling Momo thought about it and realized she had no plans the day after tomorrow either, so she nodded without hesitation and readily agreed, "Sure!"
Li Qingshen’s body, which had been tense, instantly relaxed. He gave her a shallow smile, a moment’s youth bursting with splendor, "Great, let’s meet at the Imperial Palace at 8:30 pm."
After Li Qingshen finished speaking, he felt that his tone was a bit too declarative and came off somewhat authoritarian, not sufficiently respectful of Ling Momo’s wishes. He quickly added, "Any problems with that?"
Ling Momo shook her head, "No."
Li Qingshen curled the corners of his lips into a half-smile and uttered a single word, "Good."
The car fell into silence again.
Ling Momo didn’t know whom Li Qingshen had just been on the phone with, but the mention of "Xi Jianjin" piqued her interest. She held back for a while before finally asking, "Teacher, you know Xi Jianjin?"
Li Qingshen hadn’t expected Ling Momo to suddenly ask about Xi Jianjin. He furrowed his brow, nodded, but his expression harbored a trace of displeasure, "You know him too?"
"No!" Ling Momo shook her head. How could she know Xi Jianjin? He was the crown prince of the Xi Family, "We went to the same school before, so I know of him."
So that was it.... Li Qingshen sighed in relief inwardly and uttered an "Oh" as a response.
"Actually, I don’t even know what he looks like!" Ling Momo stuck out her tongue, as if recalling some old memories, and continued, "Before I started high school at City X No. 1 Middle School, I’d heard there was a couple there, Xi Jianjin and Bao Chongchong, a match made in heaven, the perfect golden boy and jade girl. I really wanted to see if they were as perfect as the legends said, but by the time I finally got to high school, on my very first day, I saw a big crowd on the sports field. A particularly beautiful girl slapped a boy and said, ’Little Liangxi, I don’t want you anymore,’ then walked away. Later, I learned that they were Xi Jianjin and Bao Chongchong. After that, I found out Xi Jianjin had dropped out of school, and Bao Chongchong never attended classes again. And just like that, the couple everyone envied had no further story."
Maybe it was youthful naivety, but we all had a bit of a fantasy about love, and those central figures of our time were like idols from a drama with a limited series.
So, even after all these years, I am still genuinely curious about what happened to them.
Now, hearing that Xi Jianjin, who had left City X, had come back, Ling Momo couldn’t help but ask with curiosity, "Teacher, are they... together now?"
Li Qingshen shook his head, "Not yet."
"But I believe they will end up together!" Ling Momo said with conviction.
"Why are you so sure?" Li Qingshen asked with some curiosity.
A bright gleam flashed in Ling Momo’s eyes, "Because they’re like the prince and princess from a fairy tale, plus they were the most beautiful love story I encountered in my youth. So, I think they’re definitely going to have a happy ending!" This content belongs to novel·fire·net