Chapter 337: Different

The current situation was somewhat awkward for Ye Qingchang.

Xiao Yi’an was indeed beside her, helping her carry the extra books, restoring her backpack to normal and even allowing her good roommate’s books to be transported back to the dormitory.

But the problem was, her hands were completely free now, so how was she supposed to play on her phone?

Xiao Yi’an was helping her carry books beside her, even walking her all the way to the bottom of the dormitory building, and then he would just stand there watching her play on her phone?

Ye Qingchang couldn’t bring herself to do something like that, it was a bit too inhuman.

She even began to suspect Xiao Yi’an was doing this on purpose, knowing in this situation that her conscience wouldn’t allow it, and knowing that based on her personality she wouldn’t be looking around on the way, the only remaining option was chatting with Xiao Yi’an.

So he had calculated things down to this level? What a sinister scheme.

But it seemed like this was how Xiao Yi’an always interacted with her.

This guy seemed to have a very strange trait, when he was with Ye Qingchang, normal classmate interactions were just normal classmate interactions, but the moment he made a move to pursue her, he would very clearly let Ye Qingchang know.

It was like before pursuing her he would announce to Ye Qingchang: I am now going to start courting you.

Very strange.

If it weren’t for this behavior, Ye Qingchang might have forgotten in their daily interactions that this guy was pursuing her.

He was very restrained, like a hero from a wuxia novel who stops at the right point, preserving his own grace while also leaving Ye Qingchang with a good impression.

At the very least, Ye Qingchang currently felt very comfortable with how Xiao Yi’an interacted with her.

He wouldn’t use all sorts of strange relationships to pressure her, it was somewhat like a medieval knight’s duel, very honorably telling Ye Qingchang that he was going to start pursuing her.

And during this process, Xiao Yi’an didn’t care about gains or losses, even if he didn’t get much positive feedback like usual, he wouldn’t be too discouraged.

He was somewhat like a cockroach that just won’t die.

Her gaze shifted to Xiao Yi’an’s profile.

Xiao Yi’an was looking ahead, his eyes still the same as before, carrying an indescribable maturity and world-weariness.

It was just that previously when Ye Qingchang saw these eyes, she would feel somewhat uncomfortable, because Xiao Yi’an’s behavior didn’t match the weight in those eyes.

But now it seemed to match, and she found that she couldn’t quite see through Xiao Yi’an.

Xiao Yi’an’s current behavior always carried a faint, seemingly purposeless feeling, yet also carried a strong sense of gain and loss.

It was like playing a big game of chess.

Ye Qingchang’s own life plans and behavioral planning extended at most one year into the future, but it seemed like the time Xiao Yi’an saw in his eyes was much longer.

His gaze seemed to be cast all at once to the other end of the river of time, what he hoped for was the result that hadn’t been decided yet.

Or perhaps the result was just a multiple-choice question, and he was just enjoying the process.

Ye Qingchang usually didn’t like to use such complicated thoughts to speculate about the people around her, but the current Xiao Yi’an always carried an indescribable oddness.

“Ye, my classmate.”

Xiao Yi’an didn’t turn his head, his gaze still looking forward, but the words that came out of his mouth were clearly directed at Ye Qingchang.

“Hm? What is it?” Ye Qingchang withdrew her gaze and also looked forward.

She had actually wanted to take out her phone and take a look earlier, but on second thought it was a bit impolite.

“I was thinking, when you finish class and head back to the dormitory like this, have you ever observed the things around you.”

Xiao Yi’an said, pointing to the gap between the lawn and the bushes beside them.

“There’s a small nest there, it’s empty right now, but at night many stray cats come to eat the cat food someone specially puts there, those cats are all very well-behaved, they all let you pet them, and they’re very soft.”

Then, Xiao Yi’an pointed to the pond: “This pond originally had fish, but because it’s too close to the male dormitory building, people always bring fishing rods to fish here, although they always release them every time, but it’s said that when the school leaders came here to fish they never caught anything, they got upset and changed it to growing lotus flowers.”

It was a somewhat withered-looking pond, with dry yellow lotus stalks everywhere.

“And over there, that small bamboo grove, at night couples often take walks in there, but this spring when someone came out in the middle of the night to steal bamboo shoots, they scared a couple taking a walk so badly they fainted, that’s why the sign prohibiting bamboo shoot theft was put up.”

Xiao Yi’an said, sharing, as if talking about his own daily life.

Perhaps these were things that students who spent half their time at school would know a thing or two about, but unfortunately Ye Qingchang was someone who buried her head in books.

Xiao Yi’an had originally been the same as Ye Qingchang.

But perhaps he should also be more grateful to Ye Qingchang, for allowing him to break away from it, to break away from the life that was never his to begin with.

“You seem like the kind of guy who knows all the gossip, someone like you would definitely be very popular during self-study classes in high school.”

Ye Qingchang had experienced this before, in high school when she was doing problems in the back, the two girls in front of her spent an entire self-study class mentioning every single classmate and most of the teachers.

She didn’t even go to the bathroom during break at the time, afraid that after she left they would start talking about her.

Xiao Yi’an listened to Ye Qingchang’s answer, and seemed about to reply when he looked up and seemed to see something, the smile at the corner of his mouth deepened.

It was a guy carrying a basketball.

Ye Qingchang had some impression of him, he seemed to be an opponent from the previous basketball game.

She watched the other person come up smiling, tilting his chin at Xiao Yi’an:

“Oi!”

Xiao Yi’an returned one too: “Oi!”

“What are you doing? Playing ball later?”

“I have some things to do later, next time.” Xiao Yi’an replied.

“Alright, alright.” The guy waved his hand, looking at Ye Qingchang beside Xiao Yi’an, “Your classmate?”

“More or less.” Xiao Yi’an nodded.

Then the guy rather smugly smoothed his hair: “This beauty…”

“But I’m pursuing her right now.”

“This beauty, please do be patient with this brat, although this guy always causes some kind of trouble for no reason, his heart is still good.”

He hurriedly changed his words, deeply upholding the principle of not coveting a friend’s girl.

Ye Qingchang’s expression was somewhat blank.

Then the guy with the basketball tucked at his waist seemed a bit embarrassed, and left first.

“Old Xiao, this time I’ll count it as me running my mouth, next time I’ll buy you a drink.”

“Wait until next time when you beat me one-on-one on the court before you buy me a drink.”