Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 453 Silent
Han Zhou only guessed one thing correctly——

Zhong Yin really didn't want to tell him the real reason because he felt embarrassed.

Other than that, he was wrong.

Zhong Yin wanted to treat him as gently as possible. In fact, she had decided this a long time ago, but she was just too embarrassed to say it out loud. The reason why she suddenly told him this decision was not because she liked him, but because she saw that scene with her own eyes.

That’s right, Jong-eun saw it.

At that time, she was standing on the lawn, not far from the track where Wang Lengqiu was, so she was keeping an eye on the other party's situation. She also noticed that the boy who stopped her was whispering something.

The boy's mouth shape changed very little, as if he was not speaking, but for Zhong Yin, who had lost her hearing for a period of time, such changes in mouth shape could not be hidden from her. She was very sensitive to such small movements of deliberately controlling the mouth shape.

Although she didn't understand lip reading, she could roughly guess that what the boy said was definitely not nice.

And just then...

Hearing this, Han Zhou could no longer hold back and interrupted with a complicated look: "Um... Sister Yin, you didn't think it was cool when I drifted past people in a wheelchair, so you decided to change your attitude towards me..."

He finally realized one thing - he seemed to be overly sentimental.

Zhong Yin frowned slightly, seeming a little unhappy about being interrupted: "I just felt that you were quite reassuring at that time."

Well, that's even more self-indulgent... Han Zhou smiled awkwardly: "Just because of this?"

"if not?"

"That's good..." He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter what, it’s good that Sister Yin didn’t fall in love with him, which means that everyone can still get along normally in the future and there is no need to deliberately keep a distance.

But how did the strategy mission come about... Since Sister Yin, who is a non-unlockable character, can be conquered, what about Teacher Ouyang?
Is it too late to take back what I said now?
I don’t want to be treated coldly, I want to see a gentle Sister Yin!

"What do you mean that's good?"

Zhong Yin didn't know what Han Zhou was thinking. Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why do you seem disappointed?"

"Of course not. What I mean is that I am honored to make you feel at ease, Sister Yin." Han Zhou quickly explained.

"Is this how you usually talk to Guzheng and the others?"

Zhong Yin's tone turned a little colder, "You're not going to be so smooth-talking to Xiao Ling as well, are you?"

"how come……"

Han Zhou broke out in a cold sweat. "Even if I often say nice things, they are all from the heart, like Sister Yin, you look very beautiful today."

Zhong Yin said coldly: "It is because you have too many emotions that you do things that are annoying."

In her opinion, Han Zhou is good in every way except his attitude towards feelings, which makes her unacceptable. A scumbag will never have a good ending. Why doesn't this guy understand this?

Han Zhou smiled awkwardly and changed the subject, "Speaking of which, Sister Yin, your hearing aid seemed to have been hit pretty hard during the competition. Shouldn't it be okay?"

"Can I still talk to you properly now that something's wrong?" Jong Yin replied unhappily.

"makes sense."

Han Zhou smiled, turned around and looked at Mo Yixia and others not far away, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Just say what you want to say." Zhong Yin noticed his expression.

"It's nothing, actually. I just wanted to ask you when you plan to get your ears treated... You don't have to answer."

Zhong Yin was silent for a moment: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"Isn't this just caring about you?"

"You should pay more attention to yourself...Tell me the truth, why are you asking this suddenly?"

Seeing that Han Zhou was slow to speak, she unconsciously clenched her fists and asked in a cold tone, "Do you think it's pitiful that I panicked after my hearing aid fell to the ground?"

"No."

Han Zhou quickly denied it. He knew that Sister Yin definitely didn't need anyone's sympathy.

"what is that?"

"I, I just..."

Han Zhou tried hard to think of the right words, and finally said hesitantly, "...I just feel a little distressed."

He knew that this word was not appropriate, but he couldn't think of a better word to fit his mood at the time, and this was indeed his truest feeling at the time.

Without his hearing aid, Jong Yin was like a knight without his armor. Even though it was only a brief moment, he still caught the hint of panic in the other's eyes and the fragility hidden beneath the armor.

Han Zhou has never been deaf, but he has suffered from a terminal illness. If the status bar suddenly disappeared one day, he couldn't imagine how desperate he would be, so he could understand Zhong Yin's feelings at that time.

Perhaps it was because Sister Yin usually appeared too strong that he almost forgot about her hearing loss until today.

Distressed.

Faced with this word that was not much better than "pitiful", Zhong Yin was surprisingly not angry. After a long while, he spoke: "I've said that you have too many emotions. I'm not as fragile as you think."

Her tone was still cold, but with a little more warmth than before, and her clenched fists loosened quietly.

It was the first time for her to be "loved" by a boy who was much younger than her. Although it was embarrassing, it felt pretty good.

"As for when to start treatment... I've already asked the doctor, who said my surgery success rate is less than 30%, and the cost is very high, so I've decided to give up on the surgery. Xiaoling is about to graduate, and she'll need money to get married in the future, and I can't spend all the money on myself... You're not allowed to tell Xiaoling these things, okay?"

Zhong Yin was a little dazed. By the time he realized that he had spoken his true thoughts, it was too late. He quickly gave a warning and looked back at the people not far behind him. He found that no one was looking in this direction, so he felt relieved.

She had always promised Xiaoling that she would have the surgery in two years at the latest, and told her not to worry and to live her own life well. If Xiaoling knew she had been deceived, she would be sad for a long time.

"I promise not to tell."

Han Zhou shook his head and smiled bitterly, "But why do you want to give up the surgery? If you need money, we will all help."

Zhong Yin didn't really want to talk about this with him, but since he had already said it, there was nothing to hide, so he replied, "I told you to take care of yourself and stop worrying about me."

"Anyway, I'm used to living with hearing aids. It's no different from before. Besides, the success rate of the operation is too low. There's no need to waste the money. Remember, if Xiaoling hears these words one day, I will never let you go."

She warned again.

"Are you really used to it?" Han Zhou suddenly asked.

Zhong Yin was stunned and subconsciously wanted to touch the hearing aid in his ear, but he held back.

"Although I have never worn a hearing aid, I have worn headphones. I think wearing them for a long time will hurt your ears."

Han Zhou didn't look back at her, and said in a joking tone, "If it were me, even if the success rate of the operation was less than 10%, I would definitely try it - it's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death."

"I won't die if I don't have the surgery." Zhong Yin said coldly.

Han Zhou was noncommittal: "What I mean is, since hope is there, even if it is so small that it is almost impossible to grasp, we should try our best to reach out, right?"

Zhong Yin wanted to say "It's easy for you to say that", but suddenly he saw the wheelchair he was pushing, and remembered the reason why Han Zhou was sitting in a wheelchair -

"When Han Zhou came ashore, the fishing lines on your bodies were tied in a knot."

She still can't forget how she felt when she first heard these words.

To this day, this sentence still rings clearly in her ears, especially when she takes off her hearing aids to go to sleep every night, she always thinks of this sentence and remembers that Han Zhou once risked his life to save her.

The knot in the fishing line meant that Han Zhou no longer had the chance to regret and escape. He would either survive with everyone, or sink to the bottom of the lake with everyone.

The latter possibility is obviously much higher.

So...what kind of awareness did Han Zhou have at that time that he was willing to risk his life to tie a knot on his fishing line?

Even if there is only a tiny bit of hope, we must try our best to reach out and grab it... Was that the determination that made the other party drag everyone ashore?

Thinking of this, Zhong Yin looked at Han Zhou in the wheelchair with complicated eyes and stopped talking.

In fact, she lied at first.

The moment she saw Han Zhou drifting past the boy in his wheelchair, she did have the thought "so handsome" and her heartbeat accelerated briefly.

The reason why she asked Zhong Ling whether her attitude towards Han Zhou was too bad before was not because she was amazed by Han Zhou's amazing arm strength, but because the scene in which he easily got rid of the boy and casually said "trash" was deeply engraved in her heart.

The rustling clothes, the hair blowing in the wind, the profile illuminated by the sun, and the confident and carefree smile...

Even now when I think back on it, I still think it was very handsome.

Zhong Yin has always regretted that she fell into a coma when Han Zhou rescued her to the shore, and she was unable to see that scene with her own eyes. But today, the sight of Han Zhou biting the table tennis racket and moving forward seemed to coincide with her imagination of him struggling to swim in the cold lake water.

But she naturally couldn't say these words. Although Han Zhou was indeed good-looking, it would be too embarrassing to say that she thought a boy who was so much younger than her was handsome.

But there was one thing she didn't lie about - this guy really gave people a sense of security.

The sun gradually disappeared into the horizon and the sky was filled with red clouds.

At this time, the two happened to pass by the basketball court. A young boy was shooting under the basket. His strength was too weak, and the basketball could not even be level with the basket every time. However, he kept jumping up and shooting, and soon he was sweating profusely.

The boys who were playing basketball nearby had already stopped playing and ran over to help pick up the balls, offering encouragement and kind guidance.

Suddenly, a basketball rolled all the way and landed at Han Zhou's feet.

"Dude, throw the ball over here!" someone shouted from a distance.

Before Han Zhou could make any move, he saw Zhong Yin behind him had already bent down to pick up the basketball and threw the ball back with force.

The boys in the distance were stunned.

Zhong Yin clapped his hands and said coldly, "Who would ask a disabled person to help pick up the ball?"

Han Zhou smiled and said, "That's nothing. There are people who let disabled people guard the gate. Besides, I'm not disabled."

"Who is so sad..."

Zhong Yin was about to speak when he suddenly frowned, "What are those people looking at?"

Well, probably watching the game...

Han Zhou muttered to himself, but didn't dare say it out loud for fear of getting beaten.

Zhong Yin seemed to realize something as well, and a look of disgust appeared on his face. He suddenly lowered his head to check Han Zhou's expression, and saw that the other party looked normal, and even said "hmm" in confusion. His expression then looked better.

She nodded secretly. Although Han Zhou was a scumbag, his advantage was that he was not lustful and was still a gentleman. Every time they met, he was different from other men. The first thing he looked at was not her chest, but her legs. This was considered very restrained.

It is precisely because of this that she believes that Han Zhou really has deep feelings for Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia, and is not just coveting their beauty.

Han Zhou didn't know that his habit of checking the wrench was actually seen as a sign of not being lustful in Zhong Yin's eyes, and it was even a commendable plus point, otherwise he would have been ashamed for two minutes.

In fact, although he is not really lustful, he cannot violate the laws of nature. As we all know, the larger the mass of an object, the stronger its gravity. He is no exception. Every time he checks whether Zhong Yin has a wrench, it is actually to confirm in advance whether he needs to overcome the laws of nature.

The reason why he rarely did anything intimate with Guzheng and Mo Yixia was not because he had to pretend to be a gentleman, but so that Guzheng would not be too angry when they had a showdown in the future. This guy took the first place so seriously, and he must have cared a lot about the first kiss. But now that the first kiss had been taken away by Mo Yixia, wouldn't the only thing left for Guzheng be...

No, no, Yixia won't be satisfied with this. Could it be that we can only keep things even for one night...

But even if they agree to let me have two relationships at the same time, they won’t agree to something like this... unless it arouses Guzheng’s competitive spirit... Does she have a competitive spirit in this matter?

Jong-eun didn't know that the gentleman in his heart was thinking about something very obscene. He stared at the little boy shooting on the basketball court for a long time, and suddenly asked, "What if he fails?"

"What failure?"

Han Zhou was shocked, thinking that his shameful thoughts had been seen through, but he quickly remembered that the person standing behind him was Zhong Yin, not Mo Yixia, and he calmed down.

"Why are you panicking?" Zhong Yin frowned slightly. "I mean, what if I can't grasp hope even if I try my best to reach out my hand?"

This is what I was talking about...

Han Zhou secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "If you can't catch it, then you can't catch it. At least you won't regret it in the future if you have tried your best, right?"

"I won't regret it..."

Zhong Yin was stunned, and the stormy night suddenly flashed through his mind.

Flames and explosions, the collapse like the destruction of the world, cries and wails poured down with the heavy rain.

Her mood suddenly became heavy, as if she was back in that cold and dark night. She could see the fire and the heavy rain, but gradually she could no longer hear the crying and wailing, until she could hear nothing at all.

The whole world was silent.

What if I keep regretting it... she thought.

"But you don't need to worry too much."

She didn't know how long it had been, but suddenly a smiling voice sounded in her ears.

"If you really can't catch it...don't I still have me?"

"Oh!"

There seems to be thunder.

No, not the Thunder.

Instead, the basketball hit the rim.

After spinning for who knows how many times, the basketball trembled and finally went into the net narrowly.

The boys on the basketball court cheered excitedly. The boy who was held in the arms of one of them also showed a satisfied smile and clapped his hands excitedly.

"Thank you!" he shouted.

Zhong Yin stared at the scene in a daze, then looked down at Han Zhou who was sitting in a wheelchair and looking at the basketball court with a smile on his face.

His smile was confident and free and easy, just like the way he had been walking on the track not long ago, holding a racket in his mouth.

It's hard to take your eyes away.

She finally looked away and tried to lighten the mood with a joke: "Like when they picked up that little boy?"

As if he found it funny, or as if he noticed her gaze, Han Zhou turned around and smiled.

"I'm serious, I'm not kidding."

A gust of wind blew from afar, and the boy's hair fluttered in the wind, and his clothes rustled.

Zhong Yin was stunned.

The cold wind brushed across her cheeks, and she found herself still in that cold and dark night.

The flames were still blazing into the sky.

The heavy rain is still falling.

But the silent world suddenly had sound, and there were no more screams and wails.

"Thank you," she said softly.

(End of this chapter)