Let's Do Some Questions - Chapter 68

“Probably when my heart rate goes erratic the moment I see you.”

Chu Fengqiu’s rational mind told her that she shouldn’t confess at this moment because it likely wouldn’t succeed, which didn’t fit her style of hitting the mark with one strike. But her intuition urged her that there was no better time than now. To tell Song Man her answer when Song Man’s defenses were most vulnerable and she needed an answer the most.

“Wow, how can you be so cheesy!”

What’s with “heart rate erratic”? How can you talk like that! Ugh!!!

Song Man stepped back a little, her face flushed with heat. She felt it must be the heating in the room that was too strong, making her feel so hot right now.

“I was just afraid it would be too late if I didn’t say it. I want you to be something I can encounter and also hope to attain.”

Song Man lowered her head and didn’t say anything, not wanting Chu Fengqiu to see her burning face.

“Manman.”

Chu Fengqiu called her name.

“What is it?”

Song Man replied while keeping her head down, staring at the ground, refusing to look at Chu Fengqiu.

“I’m not forcing you to give me an answer right now, nor do I need you to make a statement. I can wait until you’re ready to say it.”

Chu Fengqiu had a good grasp of Song Man’s temper and knew that she hated being pushed for an answer step by step. The best strategy was to use gentleness as a trap, to net her and watch her fall step by step, unwilling to pull away.

“Let me think about it.”

Song Man’s mind was a mess. Even the most complex math problem wasn’t this difficult to solve.

She had said she would let things happen naturally. She had even thought that if she really fell for Chu Fengqiu one day, she would pursue her. But now Chu Fengqiu had confessed to her first. Hahahahaha, thinking about it made her a little happy.

Even so, Song Man couldn’t possibly agree right now. After all, this kind of thing definitely needed to be taken seriously. She wasn’t ready to go from being friends with Chu Fengqiu to being lovers, she wasn’t ready to be in a relationship yet. In short, she wasn’t ready for anything, and she couldn’t just start things so haphazardly.

“You go out first, let me think by myself.”

Song Man felt like if she put a slice of fatty beef on her face right now, it would cook. She urged Chu Fengqiu to leave while keeping her head down.

“Okay.”

Chu Fengqiu opened the door and left Song Man’s room with a smile.

After leaving Song Man’s room, the smile on her face faded slightly, and a hint of worry appeared in her eyes. She actually wasn’t as confident as she appeared.

She was afraid Song Man would reject her on the spot. Although she knew the other person wasn’t completely without feeling, she didn’t dare to gamble on this kind of thing.

Song Man didn’t know about the tension beneath her calm exterior. Chu Fengqiu spread her palm, which was covered in sweat from nervousness.

She took a deep breath, stood by Song Man’s door for a while, and then returned to her own room.

The moment Song Man closed the door, she let out a silent scream in her mind, then collapsed onto the bed to calm herself down.

What, what, what, ahhhhhh!!!

Chu Fengqiu likes her!

Chu Fengqiu, who is good-looking, has a good figure, and a good personality, likes her!

Wow.

As expected, someone as outstanding as her is just that likable.

Song Man calmed down for a while, then got up, turned off the air conditioning, and opened the window.

The cold wind from outside blew in, calming her somewhat uncontrollable, chaotic emotions.

She didn’t want to agree so lightly, because she knew she had a good impression of Chu Fengqiu right now, but it was just a good impression, not yet at the level of being particularly in love. If she just agreed to Chu Fengqiu like this, making Chu Fengqiu happy, she might feel guilty for not being able to give the same amount of love in return.

Song Man seemed like a very carefree and casual person, but she had always been very serious about relationships. She had to be very much in love with Chu Fengqiu to agree, and once she agreed, she had to work hard to spend a lifetime together.

The wind dispersed the indoor warmth. Song Man stood for a while, then picked up her phone.

Her phone screen was still on the interface for sending messages to Lingnan. Seeing this, the smile on Song Man’s face slowly faded.

She hoped she could find the happiness she wanted in her next life.

Some things are really hard to force. The more you push, the harder it is to get.

One wrong step leads to many wrong steps, and then the final chapter abruptly ends at the crossroads of fate.

Missing these thirty seconds means missing the future.

This immense malice from fate made one’s teeth feel cold. Song Man felt that as an observer, the pain she could feel from the words was probably less than a tenth of what the person involved experienced.

Her thoughts, which had been hard to control due to Chu Fengqiu’s confession, had completely calmed down. She held her phone and walked around the room a couple of times.

What could she do?

She seemed unable to do anything.

Just like she could only watch Lingnan wither away little by little, she could only feel distressed about the situation.

That feeling was like being submerged in icy lake water, the bone-chilling cold slowly creeping over her entire body, making even breathing seem to require immense effort.

She heard the sound of a message notification, but it wasn’t from her phone. She looked towards the source and saw Chu Fengqiu’s phone, which she had left there.

【Ke Lingyu】: Sorry for talking about myself just now

【Chu Fengqiu】: It’s okay, are you alright?

【Ke Lingyu】: I’m okay, thank you.

【Ke Lingyu】: I contacted you because I have a spot for a winter camp here. I can’t go, do you want to? I can recommend you.

Ke Lingyu wiped away her tears, trying to make herself feel better. She knew that if she were here, she definitely wouldn’t want her to be like this right now.

She looked at the person on the bed. She had already planned to decline that winter camp, wanting to come back and stay with her. Now that something had happened, she had even less inclination to go.

The people from over there came to talk to her again just now, and she thought of her junior.

Because she knew Chu Fengqiu’s personality, that she could keep a secret, she felt comfortable confiding in her. It was also because she had someone to confide in that she wasn’t so suppressed. In this regard, Ke Lingyu was quite grateful to Chu Fengqiu.

Moreover, she was very optimistic about Chu Fengqiu’s abilities. Although she didn’t know why she was still diligently attending classes and doing problems according to the schedule, not exceeding the curriculum at all, and didn’t seem to participate in competitions very often, just as Ke Lingyu said, Chu Fengqiu’s abilities were clearly more than this. Why didn’t she go see a wider world?

Song Man didn’t reply to Ke Lingyu quickly. After all, this was Chu Fengqiu’s own important matter, and she couldn’t make the decision for Chu Fengqiu. Furthermore, this kind of thing couldn’t be delayed. This meant that Song Man had to go return the phone to Chu Fengqiu now and let her make her own decision.

Song Man thought of Chu Fengqiu’s confession just now and lightly coughed.

She wasn’t someone who dwelled on things either; she liked to do things quickly and decisively. With so much hesitation, she held Chu Fengqiu’s phone and knocked on Chu Fengqiu’s door.

Chu Fengqiu had been waiting in her room. Her door was slightly ajar, so she could know the movements next door by standing near the door.

After hearing the knock, she opened the door and was startled when she saw Song Man, as she hadn’t expected Song Man to knock on her door so quickly.

Just as she was about to pull the door open to let Song Man in, the doorknob was held from the outside.

Chu Fengqiu wouldn’t contend with Song Man, so she yielded to Song Man’s strength, letting her open the door just a crack.

“Here’s your phone, Ke Lingyu is looking for you.”

Song Man’s arm reached through the crack in the door. Her voice sounded muffled because it was transmitted through the door.

She absolutely didn’t want to see Chu Fengqiu right now!

Now that she had seen Chu Fengqiu’s eyes, Chu Fengqiu’s face, she just wanted to run away.

“Okay, I’ll take a look.”

Of course, Chu Fengqiu wouldn’t forget to take her phone because she was too excited. She had deliberately left the phone there, so that tomorrow, she would have an excuse to go find Song Man.

Chu Fengqiu took the phone and saw the winter camp Ke Lingyu mentioned. She subconsciously wanted to refuse.

She couldn’t possibly go to that winter camp. She didn’t know where it was, and she would have to be separated from Song Man.

How could she leave at this point?

“That… winter camp, do you want to go?”

Song Man looked at the door panel, asking while staring at her feet.

“Do you want to go?”

Chu Fengqiu raised an eyebrow, seemingly seeing another possibility.

If she could go out and attend the winter camp with Song Man, then no one else or anything else would disturb them. That would be absolutely perfect.

“I… when is it?”

Song Man pondered for a moment, then asked about the time.

Song Man was thinking, Chu Fengqiu’s ability was clearly on par with hers, so why did she still attend classes, do problems, and follow the schedule obediently every day, not exceeding the curriculum at all, and didn’t seem to participate in competitions very often? Just as Ke Lingyu said, Chu Fengqiu’s abilities were clearly more than this. Why didn’t she go see a wider world?

Song Man yearned to go to a bigger, wider world. If it weren’t for Song Qinglan, Song Man would have long since participated in competitions everywhere like Ke Lingyu.

She could feel the strength of Ke Lingyu’s ability, and she also wanted to make herself even better.

“I’ll ask.”

Chu Fengqiu’s fingers slid across the screen, sending a message to Ke Lingyu.

【Chu Fengqiu】: Roughly when?

【Ke Lingyu】: It’s about half a month from now, and it lasts about a month. If you participate, you might miss the final exams, but given your level, it probably doesn’t matter even if you don’t take them, right?

【Chu Fengqiu】: How can I get the qualification to participate?

【Ke Lingyu】: You can have mine. Since you’re my recommendation, there’s definitely no problem.

【Chu Fengqiu】: I want to bring A Man with me.

Ke Lingyu thought for a moment before remembering who that person was, the junior who had narrowly beaten her once.

【Ke Lingyu】: No problem, leave it to me, but I hope you are sure.

【Chu Fengqiu】: Of course, you know I always keep my promises.

Ke Lingyu subconsciously closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

She couldn’t bear to see words like ‘keep promises’ or ‘break promises’ right now. As soon as she saw them, her aunt’s words seemed to echo in her mind.

—When she was falling, she held my hand and kept saying sorry, saying she was going to break her promise…

Ke Lingyu put her phone aside and carefully held the cold, thin hand of the girl on the bed.

She had never been late in her life; she had always waited right there.

The phone next to her vibrated. Ke Lingyu picked it up and saw the message on it.

【Chu Fengqiu】: We know Lingnan, so… can we go?

Chu Fengqiu was waiting for Ke Lingyu’s response, and also telling Ke Lingyu something. As a friend they had only met once, she wanted to go pay their respects to Lingnan. She also knew that Song Man definitely wanted to go too.

There was silence on the other end for a moment, then she said “see you then.”

Chu Fengqiu then knew that she would give them the address.

“Manman.”

“Don’t open the door!”

Just talk properly, don’t open the door!

“We can go pay our respects to Lingnan.”

It was quiet outside for a moment too.

“Chu Fengqiu.”

“Hmm?”

“Move aside a bit.”

Chu Fengqiu moved back as told, and the door was pushed open from the outside.

Song Man wrapped her arms around her neck and buried her head on her shoulder.

Then, as if very embarrassed, she ran away from her embrace like a gust of wind.

Chu Fengqiu looked at the corridor where no one was visible anymore and chuckled softly.