Shocking! The school heartthrob who was adopted by a wealthy family is actually a heiress!

Chapter 127 Are you planning to ignore me from now on?

Logically, Qin Zhao should have breathed a sigh of relief, but she felt a great emptiness in her heart.

She hesitated for a moment, holding her phone, before texting Shen Yanci: "Are you home yet?"

About a minute later, they replied with an "Mm".

Qin Zhao typed and deleted, deleted and typed again, and finally replied with an "Mm".

Jiang Yu probably won't cause any more trouble.

A while later, another message popped up—

Shen Yanci: "Is something the matter?"

Qin Zhao: "No."

There were no further messages from the other end, and Qin Zhao got into the car with his backpack on.

Lin Shi wasn't there either; it was quiet the whole way.

The journey seemed to have gone by very quickly today; before she could even think about anything, the car stopped.

For the next week, Qin Zhao did not encounter Shen Yanci.

He never messaged her again.

Jiang Man asked her, "Zhao Zhao, have you been in a bad mood lately?"

Qin Zhao denied it: "No."

"No?" Jiang Man held up a small mirror in front of her. "Do you know how furrowed your brows are? And you sigh all the time."

"Have it?"

"Yes," Jiang Man said casually, adjusting her makeup in front of the mirror. "Anyone who didn't know better would think you'd just broken up with your boyfriend."

"..."

You haven't even been in a relationship yet, so what's the point of heartbreak?

Qin Zhao absentmindedly poked at the draft paper with his pen; Shen Yanci was no good either.

He vaguely said some ambiguous things, and she hadn't done anything, yet he drew such a clear line between them.

I never see him at school, never see him after school, and he doesn't even text me on WeChat. Such a grown man, just vanished so completely.

"You bastard," she cursed, finally speaking her mind.

Jiang Man: "Huh?"

Qin Zhao snapped out of his daze and found that he had written more than half a page of Shen Yanci, that bastard, on his draft paper.

She scribbled it out haphazardly, then crumpled the draft paper into a ball: "It's nothing."

After crumpling it into a ball, she unfolded the page with her back to it, tore the draft paper into pieces, and then threw it into the trash can.

On his way home from school that evening, Qin Zhao suddenly spoke up: "Uncle Li, can we stop for a moment? I want to walk for a while."

She got off the bus, slung her schoolbag over her shoulder, and walked towards home.

A sudden bark startled Qin Zhao, who jumped back two steps, clutching his backpack strap.

She looked up and saw Shen Yanci, the bastard she had just cursed, whom she hadn't seen for a week, walking a large dog on a leash.

The black dog was large, with glossy black fur. It wagged its tail excitedly and barked at her in a deep voice: "Woof woof—woof woof—"

It cried out and tried to pounce towards Qin Zhao.

An overwhelming sense of oppression.

Qin Zhao clutched his schoolbag and hid by the roadside, his face deathly pale.

Shen Yanci pulled back the leash and commanded, "Max!"

Max stuck out his tongue and circled in place, then barked at Qin Zhao, "Woof woof—woof woof—"

Shen Yanci lowered his eyelids to stop him: "She doesn't like you. You scared her."

After Max finished speaking, he stuck out his tongue and panted, then looked at Qin Zhao and wagged his tail incessantly.

Shen Yanci led Max back the way they came: "Let's go, she doesn't want to see you."

There was a small door outside the villa. Qin Zhao watched him close the door, lead Max inside, and toss a rugby toy for it to bite back.

The deep barking of dogs echoed through the air, startling everyone.

Qin Zhao moved to the other side of the road before quickening his pace to head home.

Once she was out of Shen Yanci's sight, Shen Yanci's gaze fell on her back.

Max, carrying the ball, couldn't bark, so she kept wagging her tail to attract her owner's attention. Only when the path was deserted did Shen Yanci finally turn her gaze away, squat down, and stroke Max's head: "See, she doesn't want to see you, does she?"

Max just kept sticking out his tongue.

Qin Zhao went home and changed his shoes. Lin Shi casually picked up a can of Coke and chugged it down, saying, "You're back."

She hummed in agreement, her gaze falling on the Coke in his hand: "Why do you drink Coke every day?"

Lin Shi exhaled: "That's how we single-minded people are."

"..."

Qin Zhao walked towards his room with his schoolbag on his back, but stopped as he went upstairs. He turned back and asked, "Don't you guys have classes?"

"Why bother with classes when you've already got the offer?" Lin Shi said matter-of-factly. "What, are you envious of those who get up at 8 every day?"

He said smugly, with the experience of someone who'd been there before, "You can do that next year too."

Qin Zhao pursed his lips and walked up the stairs.

Lin Shi: "If you want me to accompany you to school, that's not impossible."

"No need," Qin Zhao refused decisively.

Shen Yanci still didn't go to school.

Qin Zhao was very annoyed; she had a strange feeling of anger about her.

Shen Yanci is a complete bastard.

But when she got close to Shen Yanci's house, that energy deflated like a balloon released from its grip.

What right does she have to make demands of Shen Yanci?

She kept her head down, her toes shuffling along the ground intermittently.

I'm also worried about encountering Max again.

She raised her head dejectedly, paused when she saw the familiar figure, her brows unconsciously relaxed, and stared at him in a daze.

Shen Yanci stood in front of the courtyard gate, dressed in sportswear, with a headband on his forehead. He had broad shoulders, a dashing and upright appearance, and looked like he was about to go for a run.

He saw Qin Zhao, slightly lifted his eyelids, and nodded to her.

I jogged past her, stirring up a gust of wind.

Qin Zhao pursed his lips and clenched his fist: "Shen Yanci."

Shen Yanci blinked, and finally stopped, but he didn't turn around.

Qin Zhao's lips moved slightly, and his voice was very low: "Are you not going to class anymore?"

The environment here was very quiet; during the few seconds of silence between the two, the only sound was the rustling of leaves in the wind.

Shen Yanci finally spoke: "It depends on the situation."

Qin Zhao: "What's the situation that makes you go?"

"When I'm needed."

Is it when the school needs him to go, or when she needs him to go?
Qin Zhao didn't understand, but she was also torn by an emotion. It would be foolish to be presumptuous or to act rashly.

She made a foolish mistake again, her eyelashes drooping slightly: "Are you planning to ignore me from now on?"

Her voice was very soft, with pauses between words, and her tone was low.

Shen Yanci turned around and stared straight at her: "And you, what do you want me to do?"

"Pretend nothing happened and continue being your Yanci-ge."

"I'm still afraid you'll feel disgusted, so I'll stay away from you."

Qin Zhao shook his head, instinctively wanting to refute.

Shen Yanci shifted his gaze and sighed, "Can you do the former?"

Qin Zhao fidgeted with his fingers and remained silent.

Shen Yanci gave a knowing, self-deprecating laugh: "I'm sorry I scared you. I was too presumptuous and misjudged your attitude towards me."

"Seeing your evasive and helpless eyes, I am actually the one who is most frightened."

Shen Yanci never knew that love contained so much anxiety, unease, fear, worry, loss, heartbreak... so many negative emotions.

It feels like there's a balloon in my chest, making my heart swell.

The next chapter will be a little later, but not that late...

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