Chapter 36

The next morning, An Ning woke up with his phone vibrating by his pillow. Last night, he slept until midnight, then he realized that he hadn’t taken off his glasses. He didn’t think much about it, so he just took them off and went back to sleep. Now that he had woken up and saw his book opened near the headboard, he remembered that he forgot to turn off the light last night. Qin Weihang was most likely the one who turned off the light for him…

He did not wake up Qin Weihang this time. Before leaving the room after washing, he glanced at Qin Weihang’s bed. Qin Weihang still slept in the same way; his arms always lying on the pillow. Occasionally, they would hang off on the side of the bed. Fortunately today, he was just hugging the pillow and his arms were on the side of the bed, but most of his shoulders were not covered by the quilt. Won’t he feel cold?

Third and fourth period was English. An Ning had never hoped that Qin Weihang would come to class, but unexpectedly, Qin Weihang actually came. When he walked into the lecture hall, the focus of the entire class was visibly directed towards him. These days, An Ning already knows without needing to look at Qin Weihang’s face that this was Qin Weihang’s skill. Qin Weihang was still outside, coming from the direction of the stairs. An Ning vaguely caught a glimpse of a tall boy with a thin white hoodie outside, and along with the blue denim jacket, he was 99% sure that it was Qin Weihang.

Qin Weihang walked into the lecture hall with a backpack on. He slowed down and raised his head to look at the people in the classroom. An Ning raised his hand to him. Both of their eyes immediately met, and Qin Weihang walked in his direction.

This time, An Ning sat in the middle of the classroom. Because the power of the projector lens was a bit weak, it was more convenient to sit in the middle to see the projection screen. When Qin Weihang came up, the buddy who was sitting near the aisle got up and let him through. An Ning watched Qin Weihang walk all the way to sit next to him, and they suddenly became the focus of attention. He thought that Qin Weihang might be used to it, but sitting with him really gives him a lot of pressure.

Later, the classroom gradually filled up. The teacher seemed to be in a good mood today, so she said: “The attendance rate today is pretty good, so I won’t do roll call.”

Qin Weihang leaned over and asked him: “Does she often do roll call?”

An Ning listened to the low-pitch sound close to his ear and nodded: “Sometimes.”

Qin Weihang curled the corner of his mouth slightly, giving a look of resignation. An Ning said with a shameful attitude of trying to get credit: “I have answered twice for you, so you should be fine.”

Qin Weihang looked at him, raised his eyebrows, and said: “Thanks.”

An Ning was embarrassed: “It’s okay, it’s nothing much, but…”

“But what?”

“But you are here now, it might be inconvenient for me to answer for you in the future. The teacher will definitely remember you.”

“Why?”

An Ning opened his mouth and looked at Qin Weihang, who had an innocent expression when asking the question. Qin Weihang also looked at him, and only after two seconds he said “Oh” and nodded to himself. He then said: “It’s fine, don’t answer for me in the future.” He glanced at him again, “Our voices are also quite different.”

An Ning smiled and rubbed his nose: “That’s true.” Well, hopefully you keep your words.

Normally, he was quite attentive in class, but today, he couldn’t help but look at Qin Weihang. He watched Qin Weihang tilt his head, resting his chin with one hand, and his eyes on the textbook. Although his face was expressionless, sometimes his eyelids would droop listlessly, which made An Ning suspect he was going to fall asleep. However, Qin Weihang would still take his pen to write a few sentences when the teacher talked about the key points. He was indeed listening. Maybe it was because it was almost the end of the semester, so he was afraid of failing the course.

While in the middle of his own thoughts, he saw Qin Weihang lazily flipping through the pages of his textbook, silently mouthing a sentence. An Ning suddenly looked away, feeling that he had been watching him for too long, and was even watching the movements of his lips. It was so strange! What was so interesting about a guy’s lips? No matter how sexy they looked, they were still a guy’s lips!

Qin Weihang did not leave when class was over. He leaned directly on the back of his chair, scrolling on his phone. An Ning wanted to go to the bathroom, so he looked around and planned to leave from the right side. When he stood up to go, Qin Weihang asked him: “Why are you going from that side?”

An Ning paused and said: “Ah, I saw that you were…looking at your phone.”

Qin Weihang sat up a bit, looked past him and looked over on that side. Then he looked up and asked him: “Aren’t others on their phones, too?”

Others were indeed looking at their phones…

While speaking, Qin Weihang stood up and folded the seat back. An Ning passed by him, unable to explain his actions. It was clear that Qin Weihang was closer to the aisle and there were fewer people.

Although Qin Weihang had already stood up to let him pass, he kept feeling that it was somehow weird when he closely walked past Qin Weihang. Because, at this moment, Qin Weihang would definitely look at the top of his head. Would he notice anything? But what would he even notice? Would he notice that his hair was not combed somewhere? Or maybe notice that his hair was oily, or has dandruff and the likes?

He looked closely at his hair in front of the bathroom mirror. It seemed that there were no dandruff. Moreover, he had never had oily hair. He didn’t understand why; all he did was walked past under Qin Weihang’s gaze, but it was like he had OCD.

When he came back, he sat down and opened his notebook, preparing to write notes. He heard Qin Weihang ask: “Is that the review notes for me?”

An Ning turned around. Qin Weihang was asking this while leaning back on his chair, with his body lowered, with a phone in his hand, and looking at the notebook on An Ning’s desk from afar.

“Yes.” An Ning nodded. This time he really wasn’t trying to claim credit. He did not take notes normally, but only did so to lend it for Qin Weihang to review.

Qin Weihang looked at him and said, “Thanks.”

An Ning smiled and said, “You’re welcome.” He didn’t know why, all Qin Weihang did was thank him in a very ordinary way, and it was in a slightly deep and slow tone, which matched those pair of very deep and bright eyes. Along with that very indifferent and apathetic expression, anything that comes out of his mouth was like a line from a movie with Dolby audio—revealing a hint of ambiguity and intrigue, but he must’ve never thought that others would mull over it at all.

Now that he asked about the notes, An Ning remembered one thing: “By the way, are you doing anything tonight?”

Qin Weihang lowered his head to play with his phone, and said without thinking, “Probably going to the climbing gym.”

An Ning went silent.

Qin Weihang raised his eyes and asked, “Why?”

An Ning had a bit of a hard time saying it, but he felt that since Qin Weihang wanted supplementary lessons, they should follow through with what they planned, so he said: “Didn’t we say that we will have lessons on Monday, Wednesday and Friday? However, yesterday we installed the fingerboard, and Liang Shenghan and Xiao Pang were playing with it for a while, so it didn’t happen. Would you like to make up yesterday’s share today?”

Qin Weihang raised his eyebrows and looked at him in a daze. After a while, he straightened up and said, “Right, I forgot.”

An Ning was a bit dumbfounded, and said: “Then let’s start tonight. Advanced math is tested earlier. There is still time for the major courses, so let’s start with advanced math.”

Qin Weihang said, “You can arrange it.”

His voice was a little dull.

Walking with Qin Weihang made it easy to become the focus of the crowd, so Liang Shenghan and Xiao Pang were also in the same predicament. The four of them went to No. 1 cafeteria to eat together. On the way there, many girls would look back at Qin Weihang. Liang Shenghan sighed: “It’s just like when we look at Huang Qinzhen.”

Xiao Pang said: “I didn’t look at Huang Qinzhen.”

When they arrived at the cafeteria and was getting food, Liang Shenghan asked Xiao Pang: “Don’t you feel that No. 1 cafeteria is more crowded today? Having A University’s school flower and school grass together makes a perfect scene!”

If it weren’t for Liang Shenghan mentioning it, An Ning wouldn’t have even noticed Huang Qinzhen was here. She was in the line next to them. When he turned his head, he could see her standing in line with Qin Weihang, although the middle was empty enough that a big fat man can pass through.

Huang Qinzhen usually talked and laughed with her classmates, but she felt too awkward to say anything today. However, the two of them standing in the same line was really eye-catching, An Ning thought enviously.

“Tsk tsk, Huang Qinzhen’s boyfriend is on the way here!” Liang Shenghan muttered.

Xiao Pang was also secretly observing, and said: “Geez, why must it be like this? It’s better to not hold grudges.”

“In fact, it’s not good for Qin Weihang’s reputation. Others will think that he is narrow-minded for a school grass.” Liang Shenghan said.

Xiao Pang disagrees: “Huang Qinzhen’s boyfriend was the one who troubled Qin-ge, so why should Qin-ge speak first!”

It was unclear if she had heard Xiao Pang’s words, but Huang Qinzhen took the initiative to speak, asking Qin Weihang: “Are you coming here to eat too?”

Qin Weihang nodded at her, probably because he felt that his attitude was too perfunctory, so he added: “It’s close.”

If this was a Japanese drama, the whole cafeteria would’ve given a big round of applause.

When they sat down to eat, Xiao Pang asked Qin Weihang: “Ge, are you still angry with Huang Qinzhen?”

Qin Weihang was surprised: “Why would I be angry at her?”

“Didn’t her boyfriend pick a fight with you before?”

Qin Weihang picked up his chopsticks and smiled: “Then I have to thank him.”

Xiao Pang was stunned: “Thank him for what?”

Qin Weihang had already lowered his head to eat.

“… An Ning-ge, why do you eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes every time?”

The topic suddenly jumped to him, so An Ning was taken aback. He said: “The scrambled eggs with tomatoes are very authentic here.”

“No matter how authentic it is, you can’t eat it every day……”

An Ning grinned reluctantly, knowing that Xiao Pang said it out of concern. In fact, he ordered scrambled eggs with tomatoes every time because this dish was cost-effective. It was the vegetable dish with the highest protein content among the vegetable dishes. Moreover, among the non-vegetarian dishes, this was the cheapest dish.

Several people ate and chatted for a while, then Qin Weihang put down his chopsticks halfway through the meal, got up and said: “I’m a little thirsty, I’m going to buy a drink.”

Xiao Pang turned around and shouted, “Ge, over there has free soup…” He only said half of what he wanted to say, because Qin Weihang had already gone far away.

An Ning was eating while thinking about the math tutoring tonight. Suddenly, a carton of milk was placed next to his hand. He raised his head in confusion and saw that Qin Weihang had already sat down opposite of him. He bought four cartons of milk and gave each of them one.

Liang Shenghan took the milk: “Thank you, Da-ge!”

Xiao Pang swiftly poked the straw in, took a sip, and said: “Da-ge is indeed the big bro. We can live comfortably by following him!”

An Ning looked up at Qin Weihang: “Thank you.”

Qin Weihang glanced at him and said, “It was just while I was at it,” then lowered his head and continued to eat.