Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 436 Why did they all sign up?

Compared to the long, hot and bright days in summer, the days in winter seem very short. It is only four o'clock in the afternoon when the sun has already begun to move to the west and the temperature begins to drop.

It’s time to buy a down jacket...Han Zhou thought.

Even though he is now very unlikely to catch a cold, he still feels cold, so it is necessary for him to buy a few down jackets before New Year's Day.

If nothing unexpected happens, there should be heavy snow this year as many people expect.

In fact, this was exactly what Han Zhou was expecting. Since he traveled through time, he hadn't seen a decent snow for a long time.

It's strange to say, Lincheng, which has never snowed in the past, may have heavy snow this year. As the saying goes, auspicious snow means a good harvest. Han Zhou feels that his luck this year is indeed very good. It is a bit cold when it snows, but it is good to see snow after all.

He just didn't know why, but when he thought of the two terms "snow" and "down jacket", he always had a sense of déjà vu, as if he had heard someone talk about these topics somewhere.

However, there were too many things he couldn't remember, so this one wouldn't make a difference. So he quickly put his thoughts aside and thought about how to comfort Guzheng.

Guzheng pushed the wheelchair forward on the tree-lined avenue with few leaves left. This was a campus path, commonly known as the "small woods". Not many people came and went on weekdays - at least not during the day. Han Zhou had never been here at night, so he was not very sure.

Except for Han Zhou and Gu Zheng, everyone else had left, including Wang Runxue, who didn't want to leave but was forcibly dragged away just to create some time for the two of them to be alone.

Han Zhou was just wondering why Gu Zheng brought him to such a place when he heard the girl behind him suddenly mutter, "You must be hiding something from me, otherwise everyone else wouldn't have left and left me alone to accompany you."

Han Zhou was stunned at first, then he smiled and said, "Can't you just leave me alone to accompany you?"

He explained, "Besides, didn't I tell you that everyone else has gone to help Sister Yin? Sister Yin will be solely responsible for taking care of me tomorrow. She won't be able to stay in the store all day, so there are many things that need to be prepared in advance."

"Stop talking nonsense. I know that Sister Yin will be responsible for taking care of you tomorrow, but her store can't accommodate so many people. Don't think I don't know. In fact, everyone is worried about me, so they asked you to comfort me, right?"

Guzheng rolled her eyes, with an expression that said, "Stop pretending to be stupid."

"To say 'instruct' is a bit harsh."

Han Zhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he didn't plan to keep it secret any longer. He half-jokingly said, "But since you already know what my mission is, why don't you take the initiative and tell me what you're thinking right now?"

"I do not want it."

Gu Zheng snorted coldly and pouted, "You know I'm unhappy but you still put on a frivolous smile. Be careful or I'll tell everyone about you and say you don't know how to comfort others at all."

Han Zhou laughed: "I don't know how to comfort people."

"You can't even comfort someone, so what are you doing here?"

"At least I can take a beating better than others." Han Zhou said with a smile, "If punching me twice can make you happier, then my trip won't be in vain."

"Stop talking nonsense." Gu Zheng frowned. "If you think this will make me happy, why don't you find me a sandbag?"

"Didn't I come here in person?"

Han Zhou's tone was gentle. He had completely expected Gu Zheng to lose her temper. Although it happened earlier than expected, it was actually a good thing. What he was most worried about was that Gu Zheng refused to communicate, kept everything in her heart, and pretended that she didn't care about the failure.

If the other person loses his temper, it means that he wants to talk to others. All he needs to do next is to listen patiently. He doesn’t even need to give them any special guidance.

Gu Zheng had no way to deal with Han Zhou's shamelessness. After a long while, she curled her lips and said, "If you weren't injured now, I would really treat you as a sandbag."

This guy still can’t change his stubborn habit... Han Zhou smiled and didn’t respond.

Guzheng also fell silent and pushed the wheelchair deeper into the path without saying a word.

"Have you been here before?" Han Zhou suddenly asked.

"No." Gu Zheng shook her head.

"Then you still dare to go in, aren't you afraid of encountering wolves?"

"This is a school, not the wilderness. Where did the wolves come from?"

Guzheng raised her hand, but she couldn't bear to continue hitting it. She just pulled Han Zhou's ear to express her dissatisfaction, and said after a while, "I just think this place is a bit like the bamboo forest behind my hometown." Han Zhou suppressed his smile and said, "Thank goodness it's winter now, otherwise I might not be able to see any similarities between this place and the bamboo forest."

"What's so funny!" Gu Zheng blushed, "I only say that because it's winter, okay?"

Han Zhou lowered his head and observed the expression on the girl's face through the reflection of the wheelchair armrest. The smile in his tone faded a little: "And then?"

"What then?" Gu Zheng was stunned.

"You rarely talk to me about your hometown. Don't you plan to talk more about it this time?"

"I……"

"Let's talk more. I can also tell you more about my childhood. You can hear anything you want."

"Really?"

Gu Zheng was somewhat tempted. Although she was the girl who had spent the longest time with Han Zhou among all the girls around him, she was not his childhood sweetheart after all. Especially when she learned that Wang Lengqiu was suspected to be Han Zhou's true childhood sweetheart, she inexplicably developed a sense of crisis in her heart.

It’s not a sense of crisis about Wang Lengqiu, but a sense of crisis about his own “identity”.

She actually quite likes the identity of childhood sweetheart.

After all, in a sense, this is a kind of "uniqueness".

If I knew everything about Han Zhou's childhood, wouldn't I be able to be his real childhood sweetheart?
While Gu Zheng was considering this, Han Zhou suddenly turned around and asked with a smile, "How are you thinking about this?"

"make a deal!"

"..."

Solemn music sounded in the distance. It should be the beginning of the closing ceremony and award ceremony, but Han Zhou was not in a hurry at all. Even if he could not attend the closing ceremony in time, Teacher Ouyang would help them.

In the sound of loud and long music, he silently listened to the zither and recalled his childhood, from climbing trees to take bird eggs to catching loaches in the water, from running all over the mountains and fields to the extremely boring school -

Han Zhou realized that his guess was correct. Guzheng was not born with a strong desire to win in everything.

Guzheng even found school boring in the past. Her biggest childhood wish was to one day use stones to accurately hit the harmful birds that always stole crops.

He finally understood where Gu Zheng's "throwing proficiency" skill came from.

In a sense, the other person's dream has already come true in him.

Guzheng started to be obsessed with the first place in junior high school, so Han Zhou knew long ago that something must have happened before junior high school that caused Guzheng to become like this.

The reason why he never took the initiative to ask was, firstly, because Guzheng seemed to be very shy about talking about her childhood and was unwilling to talk more every time, and secondly, and most importantly, he really didn't care why Guzheng was so obsessed with being the first. Since this was the other party's wish, he just needed to support her with all his strength.

There is no need for so many whys in this world. If one insists on getting the answer, Guzheng might regard it as a wavering of support, which is something he does not want to see.

There are also two reasons why I chose to ask the question again today.

Firstly, because Guzheng was the first to bring up her childhood, he thought this might be a signal of actively revealing her true feelings; secondly, he was not sure how big of an impact today's failure would have on Guzheng, and whether it would fundamentally shake the other party's beliefs that she had held for many years. Therefore, it was necessary to understand what the other party's heart knot was in order to solve the problem from the root.

It was obvious that her childhood hometown had left a very deep impression in Guzheng's memory. Han Zhou listened patiently without interrupting her.

In the middle of the conversation, his cell phone rang once. It was Xia Qing calling. He quickly hung up the phone and replied that he was doing something very important and if there was nothing important, they could talk later.

On the other hand, looking at the application forms that had been submitted and were about to be confirmed by the Student Union, Xia Qing was a little embarrassed, hesitating whether to tell Han Zhou the names on these application forms -

Zhong Ling, Wang Lengqiu, Xiao Xiaoxiao, and even Ouyang Lianyu...

She really wanted to figure out one thing.

Han Zhou had just signed up for a fun project not long ago...

Why did they all sign up?
(End of this chapter)