Chapter 231
On the way back to the hotel with the medicine, Zhang Qing was very nervous.
This was the one time she has done something bad.
The feeling in her heart was complicated, a mixture of guilt and excitement, and eventually, jealousy overcame her conscience. She took the medicine and went up the elevator.
When the elevator door opened, Zhang Qing ran into Zhuang Zixue.
After seeing her, Zhuang Zixue walked up.
"Hey, what are you holding so many things in your hand."
Zhang Qing: "Nothing, Lin Suno bought some food and asked me to bring it to Shi Ning."
Zhuang Zixue: "No wonder this guy ran outside in the morning, it turned out he went outside to buy what ah, why don't you give me some to eat."
He said as he came up to go through the food and ended up seeing the medicine held in Zhang Qing's hand.
"Cold medicine? You have a cold too?"
He took the medicine as soon as he could to look at it.
Zhang Qing was weak-minded and quickly grabbed the medicine from his hands.
"What are you doing! I have something to do, I'll leave first."
Zhuang Zixue: "Eh eh eh wait, this medicine, give me some also. I had dinner with Shi Ning yesterday and I feel like I'm having a little cold, let me take some to prevent it."
"Nuts, why would you take medicine if you're not sick."
Zhang Qing scolded him and walked away from him with the medicine, looking flustered.
Zhuang Zixue continued to ask.
"You really have a cold? I told you that Shi Ning had the flu, right? You must have gotten it from living in the same room with her!"
Zhang Qing couldn't stand him and shouted.
"This medicine is not for me, it's for Shi Ning!"
After saying that, Zhang Qing went into the room and closed the door.
She leaned against the back of the door and let out a breath, picked up water in the room, then took the medicine to Shi Ning.
"Shi Ning."
Zhang Qing carried a glass of water and took the medicine to Shi Ning's bed and called her name.
Shi Ning opened her eyes in a daze and saw Zhang Qing's figure.
She propped her hands on the bed and sat up.
"I got too dizzy and fell back asleep."
Zhang Qing: "This is the medicine I bought for you, you should take it."
Shi Ning took the pills and the water she handed over. Her slightly pale lips smiled gratefully at her.
"Thank you."
Zhang Qing saw her take the medicine and throw it into her mouth when she spoke out to stop it.
"Hey, wait a minute."
Shi Ning asked, "What's wrong?"
Anyway, the medicine was expired it shouldn't give her any side effects, right? At most, it could only drag her cold on for two more days, she has been so happy, letting her experience little pain should be okay.
Zhang Qing withdrew her hand stopping her, her eyes dodged and said.
"Nothing, I just want to remind you to be careful of the hot water."
Shi Ning took a sip of water: "It's okay, it's not that hot, thank you."
After saying that she swallowed the pills.
Zhang Qing witnessed Shi Ning swallow the expired pills and felt a panic in her heart, unable to look at Shi Ning directly.
"You, you get some rest, I'll just I'll go first."
After saying that she left the room.
Shi Ning felt that she was a bit strange but remembered that she was sad not a while ago because of yesterday's test and did not think too much.
After taking the medicine she went to sleep again.
On the other hand, after Zhang Qing refused to give him medicine, the more Zhuang Zixue thought, the more he felt sick. So, simply also ran out, and went to the pharmacy to get two boxes of the same medicine Zhang Qing bought.
After taking the medicine and was ready to check out, he saw that the cashier was not around. Zhuang Zixue shouted.
"Is anyone here, I'm here to buy medicine."
The staff in a white coats came out of the warehouse.
"I'm here, wait a minute."
After the pharmacist walked out, Zhuang Zixue took the medicine in his hand and showed it to the pharmacist.
"Boss, can I take this even if I have some mild cold symptoms?"
Pharmacist: "Yes you can, but I see you are quite well, for mild symptoms it's better to have some Banlangen first to prevent a cold. Taking this medicine is useless."
"And ah, this batch is expired, look at this, I just took a new one from the warehouse to replace it."
Said the pharmacist and took the medicine away from him. He then poured it all into a plastic bag, to make up for the medicine taken from the warehouse.
Zhuang Zixue: "It's okay I used to eat this often when I had a cold, there is no harm in being prepared, Banlangen is of little use to me, I'd better buy a box of it."
The thought of staying with Shi Ning the viral body for several days in a row, the more he does not want to get infected.
"Young man, you cherish your life." The pharmacist smiled and took him to check out.
The pharmacist said while scanning the code for him.
"Nowadays, not many young people pay as much attention to their own health as you do, and that is because they think they are in good health and do not take medicine until they have no choice. There are even more exaggerated cases, just a short time ago, a little girl also came in by the looks of it, she about the same as you. She also bought the same drugs in your hand, I told her it was expired, but she was greedy for it because it was cheap, and still took the medicine away. I shouted behind her but she just ignored me."
"Hey, how can she take this expired medicine? I hope she's okay."
"That's right. It's better not to eat expired medicine."
Zhuang Zixue heard and said.
"Eating something just to save a few dollars but instead give you a bigger problem."
Chapter 232
Until it was time for dinner, Shi Ning had never been out of the hotel room.
A day without seeing his person would always make Lin Suno feel uneasy.
He called Shi Ning on his phone, the call went through, but no one answered.
This was already ten o'clock in the evening, usually at this time, according to Shi Ning's strict study plan implementation to the extent of being almost over the top, she would usually read a book to brush the problem and then do the listening training before bed.
It was impossible to think that she sleeps so early.
And the whole day he did not see her come down from her room to eat—could it be that because he bought her too many snacks during the day, she lost her appetite for dinner?
With this thought, Lin Suno was finally relieved. He walked to her room and knock on the door.
The person who opened the door was Zhang Qing, who had just showered and changed into her pajamas, her hair was still a little wet.
A hint of surprise flashed across her face when she saw Lin Suno.
"Why are you here, what's the matter?"
"Where is Shi Ning?"
Sure enough, when he opened his mouth, Shi Ning was always the one he cared about.
Zhang Qing suppressed her heart's frustration and pretended to be unconcerned.
"Shi Ning, she should be uncomfortable with a cold, she stayed in her room all day today and did not come out."
Lin Suno frowned when he heard this.
"She hasn't been out all day? Have you seen her?"
"Yes, of course. I also went to buy her medicine. She went to bed after eating. I thought she was sick and needed a rest, so I didn't bother her anymore."
When he asked him this question, a feeling of guilt came up again. Zhang Qing was a little flustered and his words were full of hesitation.
And this was all seen by Lin Suno.
"I'll go in and see her."
He said and was about to go to the room, but Zhang Qing stopped him.
"This is not good, right, Shi Ning is not yet up, you barging into a girl's room like this will not be good."
"Step aside."
His cold voice was devoid of emotion and inexplicably gives people a sense of suppression.
It was the first time Zhang Qing had seen him so serious and nervous. Before she could react, Lin Suno pushed her away and walked directly into Shi Ning's room.
Shi Ning was still sleeping on the bed not moving, still unaware that Lin Suno had already opened the door and walked in.
As soon as Lin Suno walked in and saw Shi Ning was just sleeping on the bed, his heart was finally relieved.
"Why are you still asleep?"
"Aren't you hungry?"
Shi Ning did not respond to him, her eyes closed, unmoved.
Lin Suno sat by her bedside and watched her quietly.
There were very few times when he can gaze at her feely without hiding his emotions.
"I should have known better than to buy you so much food. Look at you, you are too lazy to go downstairs to eat."
"Little lazy pig, don't you want to get up yet."
After he spoke to her for a while, Shi Ning's eyelashes finally flickered twice.
She opened her eyes and saw the figure in front of her. The whole world spun around, and she vaguely recognized his silhouette in the dazzling and unexplained lines of light and shadow.
"Suno?"
She opened her lips and her throat was obscure.
Lin Suno noticed something was wrong with her. He first notices her face was flushed with red but just thought it was due to sleeping too long. Now it seems that it was not that simple.
He reached out to touch Shi Ning's forehead and felt his palm was hot.
"Why do you have a fever?"
Shi Ning: "I don't know, I feel so uncomfortable."
She slept all the time after taking the medicine and had countless nightmares in her sleep, the pain in her dreams all seemed unbelievably real and happened to her, then she woke up and saw him.
He clenched his fist when he heard her say she was uncomfortable and looked like she was having a hard time.
"You can't do this. I'll take you to the hospital."
Right after he finished saying this, he stood up and took Shi Ning's coat inside the bedroom, helped her put it on, and then without saying a word directly picked her up.
"I, I can walk by myself."
This move was too intimate and even if Shi Ning was not clear-headed, she knows this move seems to be inappropriate. Struggling, she walks down by herself, but even before she could stand up she was already wobbling.
"You are already this sick but you can't be more obedient."
Lin Suno ignored her protests and walked out with the person directly in his arms.
Zhang Qing was surprised to see the scene of Shi Ning being carried out.
"What's wrong with her?"
Lin Suno: "Fever, I'm taking her to the hospital now, you help me call a cab on your phone."
"Okay." Zhang Qing hurriedly used her phone to call for a cab.
After carrying Shi Ning in the cab, Lin Suno reported the hospital address.
"I'll go with you."
"No, I'll go with her, you go and inform the teacher."
After saying this, he immediately closed the car door.
Shortly after Lin Suno arrived at the hospital, his teacher and Zhuang Zixue together with Zhang Qing all rushed over.
The teacher asked, "How is Shi Ning?"
Lin Suno: "Fever is 38.5 degrees, she is now receiving a drip inside."
Zhang Qing: "She only has a fever, there's nothing else going on, right?"
"No."
Zhang Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
Chapter 233
At this time the nurse came over and said to them.
"The patient is currently on a drip, it will take another hour, you can wait here for a while."
The teacher looked at Shi Ning in the room and sighed.
"How can a common cold get to the point of fever? Fortunately, the examination has been completed. Otherwise, it would have delayed the big event."
Lin Suno said to them, "Teacher, I'll go in and stay with Shi Ning."
"Good."
After the teacher agreed, Lin Suno went to Shi Ning's hospital room.
"It's good that it's nothing serious, Zhang Qing, you've scared the teacher."
The teacher remembered that Zhang Qing ran over with a pale face to tell him that Shi Ning was sick and was rushed to the hospital.
Looking at her reaction, he thought that something serious had happened to Shi Ning.
Zhang Qing said with obvious fear in her voice.
"Seeing Lin Suno nervous like that, I thought Shi Ning was poisoned."
Zhuang Zixue: "It's not like she ate anything she shouldn't have, for good reason, how could she be poisoned."
Zhang Qing did not say anything more.
"So are we going to wait here now too?" Zhuang Zixue asks.
Teacher: "Wait for them to go back together."
"But I don't have my phone with me eh, it's so boring to wait here."
Zhuang Zixue thought of something and turned his head to ask Zhang Qing next to him.
"Eh Zhang Qing, lend me your phone for a while."
"What are you doing."
"I heard that the answers to the test questions will come out tonight, and I want to match the answers with mine first."
"Shi Ning is lying inside and yet you still have the mind to look at and match the answers."
Zhang Qing rolled her eyes at him as she handed him the phone.
After Zhuang Zixue got her mobile phone, he opened her Baidu and was about to search for the answers to this year's math contest. However, he saw something interesting in the suggested search history, such as;
Can expired cold medicine be toxic if taken?
And then recall the situation today when he went to the pharmacy to buy medicine.
Zhuang Zixue then seems to understand everything, no wonder Zhang Qing was so flustered when Shi Ning was sick.
It turned out that the medicine she bought for her was the expired cold medicine that the pharmacist said.
Zhuang Zixue took the phone and turned his head incredulously to look at Zhang Qing.
Shi Ning fell asleep again after the injection, and Lin Suno carefully carried her back to her room.
Placing the person peacefully on the bed, Lin Suno sat at the head of her bed for a long time.
Zhang Qing walked in and said to him.
"It's already early in the morning, you go back and rest, I'll take care of Shi Ning."
"It's okay, you go to sleep, I'll watch over her."
"It's not very convenient, I live with Shi Ning so it's better for me to take care of her. Besides, you boys are not as careful and attentive as us girls." Zhang Qing said again.
Lin Suno did turn his head to even looked at her as his gaze firmly locked on Shi Ning.
"You're the one who said you'd take care of her these two days, too, are you taking good care of her like this?"
Zhang Qing took a few steps back and said in surprise.
"Are you blaming me for this?"
Realizing that his words had gotten out of hand, Lin Suno said.
"Sorry, I'm not in a very good mood and my words were a little offensive."
"But it's enough to have me here."
Seeing her sick like this, how could he still feel comfortable leaving her in the hands of others.
In the middle of the night, as he was lying his head on Shi Ning's bed who was fast asleep, he vaguely heard her talking in her sleep.
"Mom and Dad, don't go, don't leave Ning Ning behind."
"Grandma, Grandma, Ning Ning only have you, don't go, don't go!"
She seemed to be having a nightmare, her mouth calling out for her parents one moment and her grandmother the next.
"Ning Ning, it's okay, don't be afraid." He patted her arm gently and soothed her softly.
"I'm here, don't be afraid."
In his soothing voice, the sleeping Shi Ning seemed to have felt more security, her emotions gradually calmed down, her breathing was steady, and she fell into a sound sleep again.
Lin Suno noticed that there were tear marks at the corners of her eyes.
What was it that she dreamed about that made her so sad and upset?
—
Zhang Qing did not sleep this night, after Shi Ning went to the hospital, her heart was apprehensive, and has been in regret and fear.
She doesn't know why she did what she did.
Fortunately, nothing serious happened to Shi Nin, otherwise, she does not know what to do.
Feeling guilty, Zhang Qing thought since she couldn't fall asleep, she could just go and see how Shi Ning was doing now.
She climbed out of bed and went to Shi Ning's room. The door was left open, it was not fully closed when she left.
Zhang Qing had not yet pushed open the door, through the doorway to see such a scene.
Lin Suno propped himself up on the edge of the bed with one hand, stable himself and a kiss fell on the corner of Shi Ning's eyes.
The young man was extremely pious. The soft yellow light in the room hit his side face. His eyes and eyebrows were gentle and focused, like a fragile treasure.
It was a Lin Suno she had never seen before.
He was no longer the undefeated myth that everyone spreads.
At this moment, he lowered his head and gave all his tenderness to the girl on the bed.
Chapter 234
In the middle of the night, Shi Ning woke up.
Her head still feel groggy, but her consciousness was awake. Her lips were bitter and sour at the same time. Shi Ning then remembered that she hadn't drunk water for a long time.
She wanted to get up from the bed to look for water to drink but found that her hand was still holding a person's hand.
Looking sideways, it was the quiet sleeping face of the young man.
Suno, how come he slept next to me?
Flash of memories came back little by little. Shi Ning remembered that she had slept in bed all day yesterday. Her whole body was hot and had no strength to get up.
And it seems that Lin Suno found that she had a fever, and then…
"…this sick but you can't be more obedient."
She vaguely remembered him saying this to her.
Also, the scene of him holding her in his arms and rushing to the hospital.
Shi Ning inclined her head to look at Lin Suno.
She always thought he was the quietest and well-behaved among the four of them, but she didn't expect him to become so reliable after the accident.
Suno, too, has grown up.
In fact, he was a few months older than her, but she had always treated him as a good boy because of her heart's preference for him.
Her hand was still clutching his. When she was sleeping she didn't feel anything but now that she was awake, Shi Ning felt her palm was inexplicably hot.
"You're awake, are you feeling better?"
Lin Suno opened his eyes at this time, saw Shi Ning half sitting up, and asked.
Shi Ning hurriedly retracted her hand quickly back into the quilt.
"Why are you still here, what time is it?"
Lin Suno picked up his phone and looked at the time.
"Five o'clock in the morning."
Shi Ning only knew that she had slept for a long time, and did not expect that it was almost daylight.
She said in shock, "Then haven't you been here all night?"
"I don't know who it was last night, but they wouldn't let anyone sleep."
He stood up and sat down again on the edge of her bed, leaning down to check the temperature of her forehead with his hand.
"You seemed to have been having nightmares and grabbed my hand and called at me not to go."
The distance between the two was extremely close because of this series of actions.
Two pairs of eyes looked at each other, and an ambiguous atmosphere filled the air.
Shi Ning blinked and forgot to move.
Meanwhile, Lin Suno withdrew his hand.
"It doesn't seem to be very hot anymore, the fever should have subsided."
Not hot?
But why does her face feel, even more, hotter now?
Shi Ning: "I'm fine now, it's you who stayed up all night to take care of me, go to bed."
She urged.
"What do you want to eat? The hotel doesn't start serving breakfast until eight o'clock, so I'll go out and get it for you first."
Shi Ning: "I'm not hungry now either, you go to sleep."
People who have stayed up all night were still here thinking about what to buy her for breakfast.
"But your fever just subsided, and you haven't eaten anything since yesterday. I'll go see if there's porridge nearby."
"I said I won't eat."
Why the heck is this kid being stubborn.
"But I heard your stomach growling just now."
….
….
OK, I haven't eaten or drunk anything for a long time, and now that the fever has subsided and recovered a little strength, I really am hungry…
But in a few minutes, the hotel would be serving breakfast, and she had already bothered Lin Suno a lot and didn't want to keep bothering him.
"Okay, wait a little longer, I'll be right back."
Lin Suno insisted as he put on his clothes and headed out.
"Eh, you wait." Shi Ning called out to him, biting her lip.
"You only know how to be obedient, so can't you be a little more obedient? Nono used to be very well behaved, how can he be so domineering now."
"I can order take-out or go down to eat later, it's only two or three hours. I told you to go to sleep. You sent me to the hospital in the middle of the night and took care of me until dawn. Now you have to run out early in the morning to buy me breakfast, even though you don't know if there are any open stores . Are really not tired? Or do you really want me to die in guilt?"
Her voice was a little shaky as she said this and since she had a bad cold her voice sounded more nasal like a crying voice.
"Why guilty."
"Shouldn't that be moving?"
He stopped walking out the door and took a few steps toward her bed.
Shi Ning blinked twice and pulled up the quilt a little enough to cover most of her (burning) face.
"We all know what else you're talking about."
She muttered in a small voice.
Lin Suno curved his lips and smiled lightly. Placed his palm on her head and rubbed it gently.
"Well, get well soon if you're really moved."
Shi Ning hadn't fully recovered, so she fell asleep again after drinking the porridge Lin Suno bought for her.
Chapter 235
During this period Zhang Qing came to see her several times.
Shi Ning was not sleeping deeply and woke up as soon as Zhang Qing came in.
"How are you feeling now, Shi Ning?" Zhang Qing asked.
Shi Ning: "Don't worry I'm fine, I'm just a little weak."
"Oh, that's good. If you don't feel well, make sure to call out to me oh." Zhang Qing instructed again.
"Got it."
Shi Ning doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. How come when she gets sick, one or two people were even more nervous than her.
Because she was too lazy to leave her room, Shi Ning's lunch was sent directly to her room by the hotel attendant.
After the attendant rang the doorbell, Shi Ning wanted to get up and open the door, but Zhang Qing's action was even faster than hers, and when Shi Ning left the room, she had already seen Zhang Qing take her lunch to the living room.
"Just leave this kind of thing to me in the future, you take good care of your body."
Zhang Qing squeezed out a smile and said to her.
She also helped her pour a glass of water and said to Shi Ning.
"This is freshly heated water, your fever has just gone down, you need to drink more hot water."
Shi Ning stood there, a little dazed.
Her and Zhang Qing's relationship was not as good as this, right? How does she seem to be extra enthusiastic about her today, so enthusiastic that she was feeling a little uncomfortable.
After Shi Ning finished her meal, she wanted to clean up the dishes and send them down, but Zhang Qing stopped her from doing so again.
"Don't you move, I'll do it."
Saying that she bent down and put everything away for her and said to her.
"The medicine the doctor prescribed for you is over there I have put it for you, you remember to take it later."
After saying that, Zhang Qing carried the tray and walked out.
Shi Ning looked at her back, still thinking why she was a little strange.
In fact, she was also planning to clean it up and wait for the hotel to come and get it… so Zhang Qing did not need to run this trip.
Meanwhile, Zhang Qing took Shi Ning's tableware downstairs.
Going back the elevator reached the hotel floor where they lived. Not long after she got out of the elevator, she met Zhuang Zixue.
Seeing her just walk in from outside, Zhuang Zixue immediately asked warily.
"What are you doing down here?"
Zhang Qing: "Oh just now Shi Ning ordered lunch, I helped her deliver the tray."
When Zhuang Zixue heard this, his face sank down.
"Does everything Shi Ning eats now have to pass through your hand?"
"I live with her, she's sick, of course I …"
She looked at Zhuang Zixue in panic as she realized something.
"What the hell do you mean?"
Zhuang Zixue looks around, seeing that there was no one around, he simply spread out and told her.
"The day before Shi Ning had a fever, you were the one who bought the cold medicine for her, right?"
"Yeah." Zhang Qing was so nervous that her nails were embedded in her palm.
Zhuang Zixue: "You tell me honestly. Did you not buy her an expired cold medicine?"
Zhang Qing looked up in shock.
The thing she did, as long as Shi Ning was not tested with drug poisoning or something like that, it was impossible for anyone to find out.
So, how did Zhuang Zixue know?
She forced herself to calm down and turned her head and leave.
"I can't understand what you're saying."
Zhuang Zixue pulled her.
"You, just do not deny it, after you I went to the pharmacy, the pharmacist told me that before me there was a girl about my age also bought this box of drugs, only she was greedy for the cheap expired medicines and bought it."
"There are plenty of girls about my age, that's not me. And do you think I am someone who is greedy for something cheap!"
She shrugged off Zhuang Zixuan's hand and tried to continue on her way.
Zhuang Zixue said in a deep voice behind her.
"Then why does your phone have a search history for something like what is the side effects of taking expired drugs would be!"
Zhang Qing's figure instantly froze. Things have come to this point, there was nowhere to argue.
It was her negligence, the day Shi Ning had a fever and was carried away by Lin Suno, she panicked to the point of being lost in thought.
She just wanted Shi Ning's cold to last a little longer. She didn't expect that she would be sent to the hospital. At that moment, she regretted it and was more afraid, so she searched for this content on her phone.
Then the teacher told them to go to the hospital together and forgot to delete the search history.
"Yes, I did." She bowed her head.
Despite having a positive answer in mind, Zhuang Zixue was still shocked to hear her admit it herself.
"For what? You're definitely not short of money, then are you deliberately harming Shi Ning? But aren't the two of you in a good relationship? Sometimes when I say bad things about Shi Ning you will scold me."
"Because I hated her."
Some words were held in the bottom of her heart for far too long and developed sores and pus, and finally corroded her.
She disliked Shi Ning from the beginning, when she was not in their class, she was the best girl in the class and the only girl who could talk to him.
After Shi Ning came, her light was gradually covered by her, Zhang Qing found that she was not as confident and happy as before.
Every time she sees Lin Suno and Shi Ning sitting together chatting and joking, she has a hard time.
Such suppressed emotions reached their highest point after her national competition defeat.
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Every time she sees Lin Suno and Shi Ning sitting together chatting and joking, she has a hard time.
Such suppressed emotions reached their highest point after her national competition defeat.
She couldn't control herself and did something bad.
"Don't you hate her too? Isn't it just what you want when I did this?"
Zhang Qing said to Zhuang Zixue with a gloomy face.
Only then did Zhuang Zixue realize that the quiet and hardworking girl from his memory was actually scary.
"It's one thing for me to hate Shi Ning, but how can you hurt people! This time is okay because nothing happened but if something happened, Lin Suno wouldn't even let you go. Not to mention the Shi family."
Zhang Qing was even more flustered when she heard this. She was on tenterhooks these two days, hoping that Shi Ning would get better soon.
She grabbed Zhuang Zixue's hand.
"Zixuan, we've known each other for so many years, I know I was wrong, and I've been regretting that incident, I couldn't sleep the whole night when Shi Ning had a fever. The feeling of doing something bad turned out to be so unbearable."
She said and burst into tears.
"I was wrong, I was really wrong. Can you help me keep this secret, isn't Shi Ning fine now!"
Zhuang Zixue's expression was very complicated. Zhang Qing and he have known each other since childhood and got closer as they grew up.
Naturally, he has more good feelings toward Zhang Qing but Shi Ning was harmed for no reason, she knew the truth but did not tell her.
How could he feel sorry for her conscience?
"First tell me why you want to harm Shi Ning, hating someone is not enough to harm her ah? Besides, you have nothing against each other, why do you hate her."
Zhang Qing hung her head, biting her lips tightly, unwilling to say the words.
Zhuang Zixue: "If you don't tell me I'll go and tell Shi Ning so that you don't harm her again in the future."
"I'll say it." Zhang Qing pulled him back and wiped the tears from her face.
"Because I, for one, like Lin Suno."
Jealousy was the most terrible demon that destroys a person's heart.
"Dang! Why do you like him too? How can you like an unapproachable person? Even if you stayed with him in the future, he can't be nice to you. He doesn't like people at all. I really don't understand you girls, just basing your like because of the face."
Zhuang Zixue was speechless, it turns out that she harmed Shi Ning because of jealousy between the girls.
Women ah really are terrible creatures.
"Hahahaha." Zhang Qing burst out laughing with tears in her eyes.
She sniffled, her reddened eyes looking at Zhuang Zixue.
"He doesn't like people? Then what is Shi Ning to him."
Zhuang Zixue was speechless in an instant.
Zhang Qing continued: "I used to think he was impersonal and doesn't want to get close to any women, but I just can't help being attracted to him."
"I thought that even if I couldn't be with him, I could at least be a little closer to him. Anyway, he wants to concentrate on his studies, and he doesn't seem to like anyone. I just need to gradually become better and wait for him."
This was Zhang Qing's balance point and the driving force behind her constant struggle.
"It wasn't until she came along that everything changed."
Zhang Qing has never been so jealous of a person, the better and more perfect Shi Ning was, the more hopeless she knows she was.
"Although I don't understand feelings, it's Shi Ning's and Lin Suno's business. What we can do is persuade. How can you use that means! Besides, even without Shi Ning, Lin Suno won't necessarily like you. Why did you make such a fool?"
Zhuang Zixue sighed.
He really was the only one who was clear-headed, they don't think about studying at all!
What was going on in their minds every day, falling in love? What was there to talk about in love, whether it would help them go to Tsinghua University or help them go to Peking University?
Or even help them win the national first prize?
A while ago he also scolded Lin Suno for losing his wits but compared with Zhang Qing Lin Suno was still sensible.
"What I desperately crave, Shi Ning gets with no effort and she never cherishes it. We can all see that Lin Suno is fond of Shi Ning, but what about Shi Ning? Did you see her response!"
Speaking of this, the jealousy that had been suppressed because of guilt these days came up rushing again.
How can she not hate this?
"I don't need her to respond."
Behind the wall, the figure of a man came out.
The young man's clear eyebrows were now more icy cold, he walked step by step towards this side, the bottom of his eyes was cold.
"I like her, and it's my business alone. Even if she doesn't like me, I can still be there for her and die for her."
Chapter 237
He walked out of the shadows, Zhang Qing and Zhuang Zixue did not expect this conversation would be heard by him.
Under the terrified eyes of the two, Lin Suno walked in front of them.
"Jealousy is not an excuse. Greed, anger, and resentment everyone has it but if they can't control their behavior then what's the difference between them and a beast?
He said in a cold voice.
Zhang Qing raised her teary eyes to look at him and said in a trembling voice.
"Beast? How dare you use such a word to scold me, am I that bad in your heart?"
There was no hint of emotion at the bottom of Lin Suno's eyes.
"Otherwise, what you did to Shi Ning, should I praise you?"
Zhang Qing had thought that he would blame her after he found out about the matter, but he might as well scold her frankly than hear these hurtful words from him.
"Do you have to talk to me like that? Yes, I ought to say sorry to Shi Ning, but I didn't really want to hurt her, it was just an expired cold medicine, she won't be poisoned if she eats it, and I didn't expect her to have a serious fever. Now I know what I did is wrong, and I'm trying to make up for it, can't you forgive me?"
Sobs could be in between the words she said as her shoulder shook.
"Criminals have a chance to reform, why can't I? Besides, the reason I'm doing this is not because…."
The watery red eyes were blazing with love.
"It's because I like you."
The girl's tearful confession did not move Lin Suno in the slightest.
"If liking me means you'll the people I like then I can't afford such feelings."
"Behave yourself, and if you do it again, I will not let it go."
After he finished saying this, he gave Zhang Qing a cold look and turned around and walked towards Shi Ning's room.
Zhuang Zixue breathe a sigh of relief.
"Scared the hell out of me, I've never seen such a scary look in his eyes. But luckily he didn't do anything about you in the end, but it's more likely that Shi Ning will know about it soon, so you'd better go and apologize to Shi Ning."
Zhang Qing's heart was bitter.
Lin Suno did nothing to her.
But every word he said was like a sharp knife stabbing into her heart.
"Even if she doesn't like me, I'm willing to die for her, to die for her."
Knowing full well that she likes him, he could still reveal to her so bluntly how he defends another girl, clearly trampling on her heart.
Zhang Qing used to think that although Lin Suno was cold and reticent, he was still gentle and polite.
But she just found out that he wasn't.
If someone touches what he cares the most.
He would raise his knife and only chop where you hurt the most.
Evening came, Shi Ning finished her bath and was preparing to go to sleep.
Zhang Qing knocked on the door in her room.
"Come on in."
Zhang Qing walked in, and she saw Shi Ning in her pajamas.
"You're going to sleep? Am I disturbing you?"
Shi Ning: "It's okay, what can I do for you?"
Zhang Qing looked at Shi Ning, she was not different from usual. Zhang Qing couldn't help but mutter in her heart.
Could it be that Lin Suno didn't tell her about that incident?
Forget it, whatever.
Now that she decided to come, she needs to apologize properly.
The thumb of her left hand was pinched red by her. Zhang Qing summoned up her courage and bowed deeply to Shi Ning.
"Shi Ning, I'm sorry."
She looked up and said to her, "Do you remember, the day you asked me to get your cold medicine?"
She made such a big move that it scared Shi Ning.
"Take it easy, sit down and talk."
Shi Ning walked over and helped her sit down.
Zhang Qing turned her head to look at her and realized she said it all once.
"That day when I went to buy medicine, by mistake I bought expired cold medicine. Later the shopkeeper told me that this medicine is expired but I do not know what I was thinking at that time, evil thoughts just engulf me, and still bought the medicine back for you to eat."
"No wonder you had a strange expression when I took my medicine that day. And you've been extra warm to me the last two days I've been out of the hospital."
That would make sense.
Zhang Qing looked at her with great guilt.
"I'm sorry, I was in such a depressed mood that I did this such thing, and you know I really felt worse seeing you in the hospital than I did myself."
She has never done anything bad except this in her entire life.
"It really doesn't feel good to do bad things." Zhang Qing said with a self-deprecating bitter smile.
Shi Ning: "My fever shouldn't be due to taking that medicine either, I already felt that my fever was getting worst when you went to get the medicine for me."
She thought she would be better after taking the medicine, and she didn't expect to take the expired medicine with little effect.
"No, it's all because of me, if you had taken your medicine then, maybe you wouldn't have burned up. It's all me, it's my fault. I also just realized that I turned out to be so bad."
Zhang Qing lowered her eyes and bit her lip.
Shi Ning was silent for a moment and said.
"I am not a fool, but I'm also not an expert in judging people if they are bad or good. I've known you for more than half a year and I don't think you're someone who hurt others for no reason."
"So I want to ask, did I do something wrong? Why would you do something like that to me?"
"Haven't you noticed that I often run to your side when I have nothing to do?" Zhang Qing asked back.
Shi Ning: "I notice it. Isn't it because you often asked Suno about the topic?"
"If it just discussing the topic, why do I have to find him? I can understand those topics by myself and can find the answers by myself and if I can't, I can just ask the teacher."
"Then you are …"
Shi Ning thought for a moment and asked tentatively.
"Then, are you deliberately coming to Suno not because you have questions? But because you like him?"
"En, I like him."
Zhang Qing admitted.
"I have liked him since a long time ago."
Chapter 238
"Then, are you deliberately coming to Suno not because you have questions? But because you like him?"
"En, I like him."
Zhang Qing admitted.
"I have liked him since a long time ago."
…
…
So it's because of jealousy.
At first, she was wondering why she did such a thing? Even if she was not in a bad mood, she shouldn't be able to do such a thing.
It turned out, it was the source of disaster, Lin Suno.
It was indeed the cause of trouble, being too handsome was attracting bees and butterflies.
"I think you misunderstood something? You retaliate against me because you think Suno likes me, right?"
Shi Ning asked again.
Zhang Qing looked straight at her.
Shi Ning got the affirmative answer in her eyes.
"It's true that I have a good relationship with Suno, but it's not because of the love between men and women. We grew up together when we were young. Like Nan Xiao and Sihan, he is my good friend. He takes care of me because of this. Don't get me wrong."
Zhang Qing looked at her for a long time. At first, she thought Shi Ning was pretending. Later, she found that she really didn't know Lin Suno liked her.
It turns out that the academic genius was an idiot in love.
But even if she was oblivious, Lin Suno was still happy.
She lost. She lost completely.
Zhang Qing sniggered.
Shi Ning: "What are you laughing at?"
A few seconds ago, she was crying and saying sorry and now she was laughing.
"Who exactly misunderstood?"
Zhang Qing asked in return.
"What?"
Shi Ning couldn't fully understand the meaning of her words.
Zhang Qing: "Forget it, it's between you and Lin Suno, I'll stay out of it. Let's wait for him to tell you."
Shi Ning did not say anything more.
Zhang Qing let out a breath.
"Well, I'm done apologizing, and it's time for me to go."
She thought it was difficult and painful to apologize but found that it was much more comfortable to say it than to hide it in her heart.
As she turned away to walk out of the room, Shi Ning called out to her.
"You, wait a minute."
"You just said I must hate you now because you hate yourself too."
"No, I don't hate you."
Zhang Qing turned his back to her.
"Even if I chose to apologize to you only after Lin Suno knew about it, you don't hate me?"
Shi Ning said with a smile.
"I don't hate you. It's tiring to hate someone ah. If I continue to hate you, I still see you in class every day doesn't that affect my own mood?"
Zhang Qing couldn't help laughing again.
Without further ado, she took a step out of the room.
She seemed to understand a bit why Lin Suno liked her. Such a transparent and open-minded girl was indeed rare.
She waited until Zhang Qing leaves.
Shi Ning stayed alone in her room, her mind echoing the words that Zhang Qing had said to her.
"Who exactly misunderstood?"
If it's not Zhang Qing's misunderstanding, was it her who misunderstood?
Suno, like her?
Chapter 239
If it's not Zhang Qing's misunderstanding, was it her who misunderstood?
Suno, like her?
That night, Shi Ning was full of these thoughts and couldn't sleep well.
Finally, she gave up.
If she runs her imagination wild, it would instead make the relationship between the two awkward and bad.
Three days later, the organizers of the national competition called them all and informed the students who had won the awards to come and receive them.
Surprisingly, all four of them won awards on this trip.
Even Zhang Qing, who thought she did not do good in the competition, won the national third prize.
The other three were able to place first.
This was considered a record-breaking for Yangchuan High School.
The teacher's face lit up with joy.
On the way back, they were praised one after another.
"Great, all of them are national awardees and three first place. Your class teacher will be happy to know that this class really has a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger."
Because the result was excellent, several people were in a good mood along the way, even Zhang Qing who was previously gloomy was in a good mood.
Instead, it was Zhuang Zixue who had a downcast face.
"Zhuang, what's wrong with you? You have taken the national one, yet you are still not satisfied ah, that is able to add a full twenty points on your examination paper!" The teacher wondered.
Zhuang Zixue looked at Shi Ning sorrowfully.
"Getting first place in the national competition is what I expected but what I did not expect is getting worst result than her."
Shi Ning didn't take the competition before. It was her first time.
But she was able to beat him in this most difficult and long competition. Was this woman favored by heaven ah!
"It's just two points, you'll pass me next time."
Shi Ning was in a good mood and decided to comfort him anyway.
Zhuang Zixue: "Next time! Didn't you hear that starting this year, our batch will be the last students that are allowed to participate in this competition! You're doing this on purpose."
"Can you keep your voice down at the airport, how can a boy look like a shrew."
Shi Ning spat.
"Who are you calling a shrew? Don't go too far, don't think you're great just because you did better in the competition!"
…..
….
In the midst of Zhuang Zixue's usual shouting, they embarked on the journey back to their hometown.
Her competition career also drew a curtain.
This achievement, which she had fought hard to get back, turned out to be more than she expected.
God was not wrong.
You just need to work hard and leave everything to the heavens.
But some things, it seems that even if you try hard, you may not be able to do.
For example, the one in front.
This time Lin Suno's competition scores were among the top ten in the country, the specific rank, he did not tell them.
In this year's national competition for the national first prize a total of 110 places in the country, she was in the fiftieth place, Zhuang Zixue fifty-eight, they were in the middle of the pack.
Lin Suno, on the other hand, was standing in the top ones, which was unattainable.
Forget it, that's Suno.
He was her first enlightenment teacher for this competition, and before she even decided to compete, she has been studying liberal arts for a year.
She was already a year late, so thinking of surpassing her master seems like a bigger dream she couldn't achieve at this time.
Chapter 240
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's senior year.
And without them noticing, senior year was in the countdown to the college entrance exams.
On the top of the blackboard, there was a list of counting down the days before the college entrance examination. And there were only one hundred days before the most important battle of their lives.
In order to motivate them, the school would hold a 100-day pledge meeting for them, just like what they always do every year for senior students.
Shi Ning and Lin Suno were both excellent representatives of this year's students, a man, and a woman, leading the students to read the oath.
The Pledge of Allegiance was in the last segment of the program.
Before reciting the oath, the school arranges for leaders, teachers, and alumnus for a speech.
It has to be said that their grade director was very good at making chicken blood for students.
Even if there were only a hundred days left before the college entrance examination, the grade director's impassioned and passionate speech still makes the senior students feel that with the remaining days left means racing against time, they could still reverse it and create a miracle.
However, feeding the students with chicken blood after, speech after speech would eventually make the students feel dreary.
The enthusiasm on stage was so high that the students off stage were already drowsy.
Students couldn't help but think that if they have time for this long-same-content speech it's better to go back to school and review more questions.
After waiting for almost eternity, the two outstanding student representatives finished their speeches, and everyone standing on the field had one thought in mind.
Finally, it's time to take the oath!
This was the most inspiring time!
The presiding student came up and said.
"After listening to the teacher's teachings and the encouragement of the best students of the same grade. Next, is a surprise guest for everyone."
"In order to encourage the senior candidates here, the school specially invited a senior to cheer us up. Let's welcome our senior who also took first place in science class of this province, everyone please give a warm welcome and applaud, Senior Shi Chen!"
"Shi Chen? Ah ah ah ah my male god ah!"
"F̲u̲c̲k̲, the school even invited Shi Chen here, we have enough cards for this 100-day pledge!"
"I have to pay my respects to the top student to bless my college entrance exams!"
"Tsinghua senior ah, simply my dream school!"
"My brother is also from Tsinghua. I heard that even in Tsinghua senior Shi Chen is ranked first place in his college. He is really awesome, giving our school a good reputation ah!"
The crowd that had been quiet suddenly boiled, and everyone mentioned Shi Chen with a proud face.
Who doesn't have a dream of being a top scorer.
They witnessed this legend take first place in science class competition for two consecutive years. At that time, his alma mater became famous in the whole province and even the whole country.
And unquestionable, his alma mater was proud of him.
"Shi Ning, your brother is coming eh, how come I didn't mention that."
The student standing next to Shi Ning applauded and clutched her hands in excitement.
Shi Ning was also in a daze.
"My brother didn't tell me he was back, and I didn't know beforehand."
Shi Chen walked up to the lectern amidst thunderous applause.
Because of the back-to-school presentation today.
He also wore his school uniform on purpose.
Wearing a white shirt, and black pants he set off as a bright and handsome student.
In the past two years in college, Shi Chen's temperament has become more noble and polite.
He walked onto the stage, reminding people of a song-poem.
"The accumulated stones are like jade, and the columns of pines are like green."
"Lang Yan is unique, and there is no other in the world."
No wonder the girls in the audience were screaming. This scene of her brother was like a god descending from the sky.
"Greetings, all teachers, all students."
"Today, I came back."
Shi Chen did not bring a written speech with him, and he stood in front of the stage with a relaxed posture. He didn't say any official polite words.
He was talking like he was just like chatting with his classmates, sharing with them his experience of studying and taking the college entrance exams back then.
During the ten minutes or so of his speech, the students listened intently, taking the golden words of the school tyrant to heart.
After Shi Chen's speech, it was time to recite the pledge of allegiance.
Shi Ning and Lin Suno both walked up to the stage and led the pledge on behalf of this senior class.
Shi Ning walked onto the stage just as Shi Chen came down.
He touched Shi Ning's head as he brushed past his sister in front of the entire school.
"The speech just now was for my juniors."
"This cheer is for you."
"Shi Ning, cheer up, brother is waiting for you in Tsinghua."
He did not shy away from saying these words directly with the microphone in his hand.
The stage was full of shrieks, everyone was envious of Shi Ning, for having an immortal brother.
"I will." Shi Ning said firmly.
"I swear—"
The campus echoed with resounding and loud vows, and the determination and will of countless people burst forth at this moment.