Half-baked

21
As soon as the word "No" came out, everyone looked disappointed.
However, the second half of Duan Huaian's words made everyone ponder.

Changing yourself to suit another person's preferences?

It sounds like, quite stupid.

Huai Nian's action of feeding yogurt into her mouth also slowed down. She quite agreed with Duan Huaian's statement.

However, Chi Jingting objected: "Isn't that funny, brother? Think about it, you treat your girlfriend the same as you treat me, so what girlfriend do you want? Just date me."

"..."

I suddenly felt that what Chi Jingting said made sense.

It seems like a debate topic that has no conclusion.
Both sides are right, but both sides have loopholes.

Soon, people in the basketball court called them, and after that group had finished playing, it was their turn to continue.
Seeing that they were going back to the court, Huai Nian stood up and was about to leave, but she suddenly found an extra piece of clothing in her arms. The thick men's winter school uniform was quite heavy in Huai Nian's arms.

Huai Nian looked up and met Chi Jingting's cynical face. He grinned and said, "Help me take off my clothes, Huai Nian."

"..." Huai Nian was helpless, but she couldn't refuse. She was not good at refusing. "Okay."

Chi Jingting turned around and saw Duan Huai'an bending over to pick up the clothes that had fallen to the ground and brushing off the dust. It seemed like he was the one who was picking up the clothes. He took the initiative to say, "Duan Huai'an, why don't you ask Huai Nian to help you pick up the clothes?"
Hearing this, Duan Huai'an glanced over and realized that he was holding the boys' school uniform in his arms, and his brows furrowed.

Chi Jingting continued with a thick nerve: "Classmates should help each other, right? Do you miss your classmates?"

Without waiting for Huai Nian's response, Duan Huai'an took three or two steps to Huai Nian.
He reached out and easily pulled away the clothes in Huai Nian's arms.
Then, he threw Chi Jingting's clothes, along with his own clothes, into the empty space beside the court.
"You don't have hands? You need someone to help you get your clothes."

"..." Chi Jingting smiled awkwardly and admitted his mistake in an instant, "It's my problem, I shouldn't bother Huai Nian."

When passing by Huai Nian, Duan Huai'an stopped walking, glanced at Huai Nian, and was silent for a few seconds, but couldn't help asking: "What's your relationship with him? Are you helping him get his clothes?"

Huai Nian was particularly confused and wanted to ask him, can't classmates help each other get clothes?
However, Duan Huai'an did not give her a chance to speak. After he finished speaking, he turned around and went into the court to play.

Huai Nian slowly returned to her previous seat. When her friends saw her coming back, they winked at her and asked, "Are you and Chi Jingting in a relationship?"

Miss: “No.”
"But you brought him water."
"Duan Huai'an paid for the water."
"Then why don't you help Chi Jingting get his clothes?"
"..."

Their school was strict, and even Chi Jingting, who was full of tricks and flirtatious with his blonde hair, never had a relationship during high school. He missed the fact that he had never seen people in love, and he didn't know what kind of ambiguous things couples would do that only they knew about.

I missed sitting in my seat, my thoughts surging, and after a long while I finally understood the deep meaning of Duan Huaian's words.

——You are not his girlfriend, why are you helping him get his clothes?
-
In fact, if you think about it carefully, Duan Huaian's possessiveness can be seen as early as high school.
At that time, the relationship between Huai Nian and Duan Huaian was not as good as that between her and Chi Jingting.

and so.
Probably not.

Duan Huaian liked her at that time, right?
But she didn't feel anything at all.

His attitude towards her was just as cold as his attitude towards other classmates.

He said that he would not change himself for others, so who is this Duan Huaian who likes to call her "baby" now?
The more she thought about it, the more confused her mind became. She sighed dejectedly.

Xu Fu smiled: "Why are you so worried?"
Huai Nian looked up lazily, and suddenly thought of something, so she asked her, "Afu, why do you like your boyfriend?"
Xu Fu answered without hesitation, "He has six-pack abs and a high nose bridge."
Miss: "High nose bridge?"

"That's a big deal." Xu Fu touched the back of Huai Nian's head, looked at her with sympathy, and then carefully reminded her, "Next time we have a feast, go to the children's table."
"..."

"But why do you ask this question suddenly?" Xu Fu said, "I think Duan Huai'an's nose bridge is also quite high."
"..." Huai Nian felt her skin tingling, she really didn't want to talk to her about anything that was banned in the 18s. Just at this moment, her cell phone rang and she ordered some music. Huai Nian picked up the phone as if she had found a life-saving straw, and after seeing the name of the caller, she felt awkward and caught in a dilemma.

It was a call from Duan Huai'an.

The music from the cell phone continued to play.

Xu Fu looked at Huai Nian in confusion: "Why didn't you answer the phone?"
Huai Nian felt a little awkward, so he took his phone and left the dormitory: "I'll go outside and answer it."
Behind him, Xu Fu's deliberately teasing voice came: "You're talking to your boyfriend on the phone behind my back? Huai Nian, you're so stingy, is there anything cheesy that I can't stand hearing?"

Huai Nian didn't say much and quickly closed the dormitory door.
There is a spacious platform on the second floor of the dormitory, where students on the lower floors can dry their things.

Huai Nian stopped at the door to the platform and answered Duan Huai'an's call. When the call was connected, Duan Huai'an's first words were: "Are you feeling better?"

Miss: "Much better."
Her body seemed to be deliberately going against her. The next moment after she finished speaking, her throat started to itch and she sneezed unexpectedly.
"Ah-"

She hurriedly made amends: "I checked my temperature with the thermometer when I got up. It's normal. I probably just have a slight cold now."

"Yes." Duan Huai'an said, "I have something else to do here. I'll come to see you when I'm done."
After saying that, the phone hung up.

Huai Nian blinked and stared at the ten-second call record, feeling a little confused.

The wind outside poured into the room through the crack in the door. Huai Nian was shivering in the cold wind and hurried back to the dormitory with the hung up phone.

Seeing her come back, Xu Fu was surprised: "Did you two talk on the phone so quickly?"
Miss: "He seems to be very busy."
"So did he tell you about the forum?"
"No."
"..." Xu Fu was speechless, "So what did you two talk about on the phone?"
"He asked me how I was feeling." Huai Nian answered honestly.

"Gone?"
"Gone."
"Is there no such thing as 'How's the baby?'"

Facing Xu Fu's expectant eyes, Nostalgia cruelly told the truth: "I'm sorry, no."

After staring at each other for a while, Xu Fu's mouth twitched: "You two are really boring in your relationship. I thought Duan Huai'an looked cold and indifferent, but it turns out that love is so boring."
Thinking of how Duan Huai'an always called her "baby", she couldn't help but defend him: "He's not that boring."
Xu Fu: "I know you love him, so stop defending him."

"..."
Miss:?

The two of them were chatting idly in the dormitory. Soon it was lunch time, and they were too lazy to go out, so they ordered takeout.
After eating the takeout, Huai Nian took the medicine prescribed by the doctor. Maybe the medicine was working, she felt a little sleepy, so she went back to bed.

Because there is a morning wake-up call tomorrow, my roommates who were out are coming back one after another.
At around 8pm, everyone in the dormitory arrived. They had already discussed this in the dormitory group, and their emotions changed from surprise and shock to curiosity, and they started to talk about the past.

Jing Yue: "I know why you are not interested in those suitors. It seems that there is a handsome guy hiding at home."
Zhu Yutong: "So why don't you two make it public? Would it be more exciting to have a secret relationship?"

Thinking that we will have to live together for the next five years, if we don’t explain it clearly now, it will only cause more trouble in the future.

Huai Nian was straightforward and concise, saying, "My mother is the nanny of Duan Huai'an's family."

As soon as the words fell, the noisy dormitory fell into silence.
The three of them looked at each other.

At the same time, Nostalgic's cell phone rang.
This is a message from Duan Huai'an.
Two words to sum it up: [Come down.]

Huai Nian felt the need to give her roommates some time and space to digest this matter. She picked up the coat hanging nearby and said as she put on the clothes, "Duan Huai'an is downstairs. I'll go downstairs."
-
Duan Huaian's car was still parked at the same place where he had parked yesterday.
He was standing outside the car. When he saw Huai Nian, he opened the door with his backhand and motioned for Huai Nian to get in.

Huai Nian wanted to refuse, but the snow kept falling. She didn't wear a scarf, and the tiny snowflakes drifted into her neck, making her shiver. But she didn't get on the passenger seat when he opened the door. What happened in the passenger seat last night left a shadow on her.
Duan Huaian seemed to have noticed it as well. He paused with his hand on the door handle but did not say anything to stop her.

However, after Huai Nian got in the car, a few seconds later, she found that Duan Huaian opened the other side of the back door and got into the back seat with her.

Huai Nian's body froze: "You..."

Duan Huai'an seemed to think her voice was too soft and didn't hear clearly, so he suddenly leaned forward and closed the distance between them. Then, he lowered his eyelids and raised them, and asked in a calm voice, "What?"

The closer the distance was, the dark blue on his eyelids, which showed a strong sense of fatigue. There were also red bloodshot in his eyes, which looked very sleepy and tired.
I suddenly forgot what I wanted to say.
She asked, "Didn't you get enough rest?"

Duan Huai'an smiled indifferently: "How can I rest well? After serving my girlfriend, I have to serve her suitor and send him home. On the way home, I have to listen to him muttering - 'Huai Nian, can't you break up with Duan Huai'an?'"

Huai Nian blinked. Logically, she should have sympathized with Duan Huaian, but after listening to his description, Huai Nian couldn't stop laughing.

Duan Huai'an fixed his dark eyes on her and stared at her for a long time. "Have you laughed enough?"

"Why did you send Shang Jingze home?" Huai Nian asked.
"I don't really want to talk to you about him." Duan Huai'an lowered his eyes, "I don't like hearing his name from you either."
"You were the one who talked about him first."
"..."

Huai Nian slowly took out his phone from his pocket, pointed at the video in the dormitory group, and asked him: "Have you seen this?"

Duan Huaian's eyes swept across the screen of his mobile phone, and landed on the name of the dormitory group at the top of the screen.
"Sexy widow naked chatting online?"
When he read the name of the dormitory group chat of Huai Nian's dormitory, his tone was always calm and without a trace of warmth. But when the words fell into Huai Nian's ears, she felt like she was being madly mocked.

Another soft laugh fell beside her ear. He deliberately misinterpreted her question and asked slowly, "Do you want me to see how sexy you are?"

(End of this chapter)