Half-baked

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Nostalgia retorted: "How could I——"
Before he could finish his words, a cup of warm milk tea was suddenly stuffed into his arms. Duan Huai'an put down the milk tea, immediately stepped forward, and walked away, leaving Huai Nian with a cold and arrogant back that looked particularly annoying.

"..."
I miss breathing more slowly, for milk tea's sake.
She endured.
Resist the urge to scold him.

I missed returning to my seat with my milk tea in my hand, feeling unhappy.
She opened the book and studied seriously.

Duan Huai'an beside him was also typing on the keyboard without distraction. The two of them looked like a very common and ordinary campus couple.

I miss the time when I was too sleepy from studying and I would drink milk tea from the cup in small sips.
The sound of Duan Huai'an typing on the keyboard came one after another beside her. She sighed in her heart that he really loved studying more than kissing. He looked so focused and serious that she wished he could stick his eyes into the computer.

The seat she chose was next to the window, and the sunlight coming in at the end of March had a hypnotic effect.
Huai Nian realized that he had almost finished reading the book, so he thought for a while, sent a WeChat message to Duan Huaian, and then lay down on the table to sleep.
Nostalgia: [I'm going to take a nap first, remember to call me when you have lunch later. ]

Duan Huaian’s computer was logged into WeChat, and her message popped up in the upper right corner.

He stopped typing on the keyboard and looked to the side, fixating on her lowered head.
He curled his lips and chuckled, then looked at the computer.

Two more messages popped up on the computer, sent by Chi Jingting.

Chi Jingting: [I asked someone to repair the sensor.]
Chi Jingting: [Where are you? ]
Chi Jingting: [I'll send it over.]

Duan Huai'an: [Library.]

Chi Jingting: [Why are you going to the library? ]
Chi Jingting: [It’s for remembrance again. 】
Chi Jingting: [I really admire you. ]
Chi Jingting: [Should I go to the library or to your studio? ]

I’m catching up on some sleep because I miss it, and I don’t know when I’ll be able to wake up.
Let Chi Jingting go to the studio, and he didn't know how long he would have to wait. Duan Huai'an thought for a while and said, "Come to the library. We'll go to the studio after lunch."

Chi Jingting: [I have the same idea, but let’s make it clear that we will not eat in your school cafeteria.]
Duan Huai'an had no plans to eat in the school cafeteria. From 11:00 to 12:30, the school cafeteria was crowded, and he didn't like to join the crowd.

Duan Huai'an: [Eat outside.]
Chi Jingting stated: [I want to eat foie gras recently. ]
Duan Huai'an: [When Huai Nian wakes up, ask her for her opinion.]

Chi Jingting was speechless: [If Huai Nian and I fell into the water at the same time, Huai Nian can swim but I can't, would you rather watch me die or step on my head to make me die faster? ]

"..."
Duan Huaian ignored it directly, sent him the location of the study room, and closed the chat box without any reluctance.

……

This was the scene Chi Jingting saw when he arrived at the study room.
Duan Huaian and Huai Nian sat at the same table.
A very familiar picture.
It looks exactly like the scene when they were desk mates in high school.

But before Huai Nian appeared, Duan Huaian had always been Chi Jingting's deskmate from elementary school to the first year of high school.
Every year, the school divides the classes in the second year of high school and creates a key class. Chi Jingting's grades are average, but he managed to get into the key class by relying on the huge sponsorship fees his family gave to the school every year.

A few days before school started, Chi Jingting received the class division list.
"Is this Huai Nian your babysitter?" he asked Duan Huai'an. "The babysitter is not only pretty, but also has a nice name. Hey, have you asked her if she has a boyfriend?"

Duan Huaian sat on the sofa in the living room, holding the remote control in one hand, constantly changing TV channels, too lazy to pay attention to him.
Seeing his indifferent look, Chi Jingting asked himself and answered: "You definitely didn't ask, you don't care about the beauties in our school. Hey, I thought my sharp eyes didn't let go of any beauty in our school, but I never expected that there would be some that slipped through the net. Your little nanny is really pure and beautiful."

Duan Huaian remained indifferent.

Chi Jingting simply got up, ran to Hua Nian's door in a flash, and knocked on her door.
He cleared his throat and said, "Miss you, can you open the door? I'm not a bad person. I'm Duan Huai'an's good friend and also your classmate."

After a few seconds, the door opened.
There is a sense of embarrassment in her nostalgic eyes, and her lips are slightly pursed, revealing her signature dimples. She has a perfect sweet and pure appearance.
Chi Jingting thought to himself how low-key this girl was at school. He had no impression of her at all.

Chi Jingting leaned against the door, dressed like a playboy: "Hi."
Miss returned the same greeting: "Hi."
Chi Jingting did not hide his intention and asked directly: "Do you have a boyfriend?"
"..." Huai Nian was stunned and shook his head, "No."

"Do you have an ex-boyfriend?"
"……nor."

Chi Jingting turned his head and made an exaggerated shocked face towards Duan Huaian.
Then he turned back to face Huai Nian and smiled friendly: "Do you have a favorite type of boy?"

Huai Nian felt a little embarrassed and had a hard time maintaining an expression on her face.

Silence.
A hand grabbed Chi Jingting's collar from behind.
He looked blankly at Duan Huaian who had come over without him noticing when.

Duan Huaian's eyes were filled with impatience. Without even looking at her, he pulled Chi Jingting's collar with a big movement, forcing Chi Jingting to follow the movements of his hands and walk out.
Chi Jingting yelled: "Don't pull my clothes, they are new and limited edition!"

Duan Huaian pulled the door handle of Huaian's room with his other hand and slammed the door shut.
The nostalgia behind the door was shaken by the sound of the door closing, but then he breathed a sigh of relief.

And outside the door, in the living room.
Duan Huai'an threw Chi Jingting onto the sofa and asked, "Can you be quiet?"
Chi Jingting adjusted his collar, which had been pulled wide by him, and said confidently, "No."
"Then go back to your home." Duan Huaian picked up the remote control on the coffee table and started changing the channel.

"Okay," Chi Jingting said, "I'll leave after dinner."
"She's really pretty though, don't you think?"
"If I didn't dislike this style, I really couldn't help but say a few flirty words to tease her. With my charm, I might be able to win her over in less than a month."

Duan Huaian glanced at him sideways, his eyes without any emotion, but it made the person being looked at feel a chill down his spine for some reason.
"Can you shut up?"

"Don't tell me to shut up all the time. You know, I've never been quiet since I was born. We grew up in a confinement center. Remember, your mother said that she was woken up by my crying every day." Chi Jingting touched his chin. "My charm has attracted beautiful girls since I was a child. Even beauties like your mother have to frown for me!"

"..." Duan Huai'an pulled the corner of his mouth, "You are quite proud."

"Of course not." Chi Jingting glanced at Duan Huai'an, with a meaningful smile on his face. "I flirted with a girl before, and you ever intervened? Why are you being a nice guy today?"

Chi Jingting raised his eyebrows: "Why, you want to get the moon first by being close to the water?"

Duan Huai'an was fed up with listening and threw the remote control onto the coffee table: "Get lost if you can't shut up."

In fact, Chi Jingting noticed it that day.
This pure-hearted buddy of his seems to have taken a liking to nostalgia.

But what happened next made Chi Jingting feel that he was overthinking it.

Because after school started, although they were in the same class, Duan Huai'an and Huai Nian talked less than Chi Jingting and Huai Nian.

During the first month after school starts, seats are randomly assigned.
The head teacher said that the seats would be rearranged after the first monthly exam.

At that time, Huai Nian sat in the second row, while Duan Huaian and Chi Jingting sat in the last row.

Chi Jingting observed Huai Nian for a few days and found that this girl was not low-key, but she was slow to understand and slow to react to relationships between men and women. She loved to laugh, had a good temper, and was popular with people. Students from other classes often came to play with her.
She seldom stays alone. There are always people around her, including students from her class and other classes.
His grades were good too. One time, Chi Jingting went to Duan Huaian's house to copy homework. Duan Huaian hadn't finished it yet, so Chi Jingting shamelessly asked Huainian for the homework book, and the girl gave it to him.

Chi Jingting copied all of it without changing a single word. But when the homework books were handed out, the head teacher wrote a sentence on them.
"You should use your brain when copying homework. I miss the full marks in math since I entered school."

"..."
Chi Jingting was also really impressed.

Chi Jingting threw the homework book to Duan Huai'an: "Your babysitter has such good grades, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Duan Huai'an glanced at the teacher's slogan and said indifferently: "What does it have to do with me?"
Chi Jingting: "Is her performance so good?"
Duan Huai'an: "Not sure."
Chi Jingting: "I went to check out the top 100 list when get out of class was over. The list on the bulletin board still had the rankings of the third monthly exam last semester. Miss this girl. She's really awesome. She ranked first."
Duan Huai'an gave him a look that said "what does it have to do with me?" Chi Jingting was surprised: "Haven't you seen the top 100 list?"
"No."
Chi Jingting's throat choked, and then he remembered that Duan Huaian did not appear on the top 100 list. Even if he appeared on the list, he probably would not be interested in taking a look at the list.

Duan Huaian was busy participating in various domestic and international competitions in his first year of high school, and coincidentally, he missed all the major exams.
Chi Jingting scratched his head and suddenly asked him, "Are you going to take the monthly exam this time?"
Duan Huai'an thought for a while and shook his head: "I'm going to New Zealand at the end of the month."

Chi Jingting: "When will you be back?"
Duan Huai'an: "I don't know."
Chi Jingting: "Regarding the change of seats after the monthly exam, I will tell the teacher about it."
He meant that they continued to sit at the same table.

Duan Huai'an lowered his eyes and said lightly, "I've already said hello."

Chi Jingting, who calls himself a romantic playboy, suffered his first setback in life when he misjudged his best friend's feelings. Chi Jingting thought he could generously give his deskmate's seat to Huai Nian, and he was willing to sacrifice himself to fulfill his best friend's innocent campus romance.
However, nearly a month after school started, Duan Huaian really seemed...uninterested in no one caring about nostalgia.

Chi Jingting gave up and was too lazy to even mention the name Huai Nian, calling her just "little nanny".

The monthly exam is coming soon, and after the exam will be the seven-day National Day holiday.
In order to let everyone have a peaceful holiday, the school will announce the results after the holiday.

The last class in the afternoon was a self-study class. The head teacher had a black USB flash drive in his hand. When he plugged the USB flash drive into the computer, a person appeared at the front door of the classroom.
When he saw Duan Huaian, Chi Jingting was shocked.
When Duan Huai'an returned to his seat, Chi Jingting asked him, "Didn't you land at the airport at 3 pm? Why did you go back to school instead of going home to sleep?"

"The school is closer than home," Duan Huai'an said in a calm tone, "It's on the way."
"..."

Chi Jingting muttered, "Even if it's convenient for me, I won't sit on a plane for dozens of hours and come to school right after getting off the plane."

His attention was quickly diverted.
Because the projector at the front of the classroom released the ranking of the exam.
The ranking is from high to low.
The first one is nostalgia.
The last one was Duan Huaian who did not take the exam.

Chi Jingting was so proud: "Luckily you didn't take the exam, otherwise I would have been ranked last."

After the rankings are announced, the position arrangements will be announced.
Chi Jingting's smug face froze when he saw that his deskmate was not Duan Huaian.
Then he looked for Duan Huaian's name everywhere, and what he saw was Duan Huaian and his deskmate Huai Nian.

"..." Chi Jingting's face turned pale. "Didn't you say you had already greeted me? So this is your greeting?"

Duan Huai'an glanced at him sideways: "Or else?"

Afraid of being heard by others, Chi Jingting lowered his voice: "Don't you dislike her? When I told you that you liked her, you didn't admit it——"
"——I didn't deny it either." Duan Huaian suddenly interrupted.

"..."
Chi Jingting was stunned for a moment.

Duan Huaian's eyes were frivolous, and the direction he was looking in was the direction of his nostalgia.
After a few seconds, he retracted his gaze and chuckled: "You are not wrong, I just like her."

As he said this, his eyes and eyebrows were full of the youthful vigor and arrogance.

He never denied his feelings of nostalgia, and the antonym of denial is direct admission.

In Chi Jingting's inherent cognition, Duan Huaian was a cold-hearted person, but when he admitted his love for Huaian, his eyes, which used to be like a dead pool, began to ripple for a long time.

Later, Chi Jingting still sat in the last row, and Huai Nian and Duan Huaian sat in front of him.
Whenever he looked up, he saw their backs. He thought there would be some sparks between them, but in the end, they lived in peace until they graduated from the college entrance examination.

……

When Chi Jingting was staring at the two people in the study room, Duan Huaian noticed his presence.
Seeing that he had been standing there motionless, Duan Huaian sent him a message.
The vibration of the cell phone brought Chi Jingting back to his senses.

There was an empty seat at the table occupied by Duan Huaian and Huai Nian, so Chi Jingting sat down.

Chi Jingting: [How long will she sleep? ]
Duan Huai'an: [I don't know.]
Chi Jingting: [I’m hungry.]
Duan Huai'an: [She is sleepy.]
Chi Jingting: [You really don't consider your buddy's feelings. ]

As soon as this message was sent, the nostalgia came back.
Huai Nian woke up and looked up, only to see Chi Jingting sitting opposite her. She was stunned and blinked blankly.
Chi Jingting also winked at her, then raised his hand, waved it towards her, and greeted her in a whisper: "Hi."

Miss: "Why are you here?"
Chi Jingting raised his chin slightly and pointed at Duan Huai'an: "Come find him."

Just at this moment, the bell for the end of get out of class from the distant teaching building floated into the library. The sound was so faint, and it fell into the quiet study room, and was easily caught by everyone.

Huai Nian asked Duan Huai'an: "Want to go for lunch?"
Duan Huaian said "hmm".
So the three of them took their things and left the library.

Chi Jingting asked Huai Nian: "What do you want to eat for lunch?"
Before Huai Nian answered "canteen", Chi Jingting quickly said, "I won't go to your school canteen to eat. I hate having to serve the dishes and put them on the plates myself."

After all, he is the eldest master of the Chi family.

Nostalgia was tangled: "But I have to go to the student union meeting at 12:30."
"Meeting?" Duan Huai'an tilted his head. "At the academy?"
"Well, I have to go to the lab building for a meeting."

Chi Jingting's face fell instantly: "I came all the way to your college, and I also spent a lot of effort to find someone to repair the sensor for you. Duan Huaian, you are not going to treat me to food from the school cafeteria, right?"
"I'll order takeout and eat it in the lab." Duan Huai'an said as he took out his cell phone. "It will be delivered in about half an hour."
"Okay then." Chi Jingting agreed reluctantly.

The engineering building is very close to the library, just a five-minute walk away.
During this time, Duan Huai'an received a call. When he called, Chi Jingting was very talkative and couldn't help but chat with Huai Nian. They were high school classmates, and Chi Jingting was very good at livening up the atmosphere, so Huai Nian was amused by him and kept laughing.

When they arrived at the engineering building, Duan Huaian was stopped by the dean of their college, so Chi Jingting and Huai Nian simply went upstairs to wait for her.

There was no one in the laboratory, probably everyone had gone to eat.

Chi Jingting was wearing a denim jacket and carrying a cross-body bag, giving off a Hong Kong-style hipster vibe.
He fished something out of his messenger bag and put it on the desk in Duan Huaian's office.
The thing was very small. Huai Nian leaned over and asked, "What is this?"
"Bending sensor." Seeing her curiosity, Chi Jingting patiently explained to her the function of the bending sensor.

As they were talking, the sound of conversations broke out in the laboratory. It was probably people who had finished lunch and came over.

I saw that the office door was open and someone was looking in.
Huai Nian and Chi Jingting looked at the person outside the door.

The people in the team were not unfamiliar with Chi Jingting. As for the girl next to Chi Jingting, only He Junhui had seen her in the entire team. The others had only heard He Junhui's description. Duan Huaian's girlfriend was indeed very beautiful, and the two of them were a perfect match.
However, at that moment, they looked at Chi Jingting and Huai Nian standing together, without thinking much, they just thought: "Master Chi, is this your girlfriend? She is so pretty."

"..."

The words fell.
next second.

Duan Huai'an appeared in the crowd, with a cold face and a cold tone: "They look like a couple?"

A voice emerged from the crowd, saying that he was not tactful, but also quite tactful, praising the "young couple" in front of them without hesitation, "They look so well-matched, they are simply a match made in heaven!"
"Yes, yes." Someone even echoed him stupidly, "Master Chi, why did you bring your girlfriend here today? You know that everyone here is single except Duan Huai'an, so you came here on purpose to attract hatred, right?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)