Rebirth: Growing Up Together

It was her confidence in their mutual understanding...

Chapter 296 The Beginning of Summer

"Xu Cheng, Xu Cheng, look over there." Lin Wanzhou's exclamation came from the playground.

With the scorching sun overhead, the girl raised one hand to cover her eyebrows and pointed with the other hand in the direction of the podium at the other end of the playground.

Xu Cheng also imitated her movements, shielding the sunlight above his head with his hands and looking towards the podium.

Although the two hid very secretly, they were still seen by Xu Cheng. A man and a woman in casual clothes hid behind a sign. They hugged each other at first, then bumped their heads together, and finally overlapped. It is not difficult to imagine what they were doing.

Lin Wanzhou stared at it intently with his eyes wide open, and the saliva in his mouth inexplicably began to flow faster.

The girl opened her throat slightly and swallowed gently, but the "gulp" and "gulp" sounds of swallowing still made her tremble with fear. She would steal a glance at Xu Cheng from time to time, fearing that the sound would be too loud and disturb him.

"Lin Wanzhou, you..."

"I didn't swallow my saliva!" The girl felt her face burning from the sun.

Xu Cheng looked at her strangely, "I didn't say you were swallowing your saliva. And what's wrong with swallowing your saliva? Is it weird?"

"I, I will..."

The girl then realized that she was too sensitive. After a few words, she couldn't explain herself clearly, so she skipped the topic and said, "Oh, I can't explain it to you clearly. What did you want to tell me just now?"

"Oh, I just want to say, are those two people ranked first and seventh on the list just now?"

Xu Cheng had good eyesight, and Lin Wanzhou's eyesight was not bad either, so they glanced over with a blushing face like a thief, and scanned their faces. They also noticed that the boy's hand was reaching out to a strange place, and the girl shuddered as if she was sitting on pins and needles.

Are boys' hands always so unruly when they kiss?

The girl didn't know, after all, she had never experienced it before, so she timidly withdrew her gaze, as if her eyes would be burned if she looked again.

"Okay, it seems to be them."

"Yeah, I think he looks like him."

"It seems that people with good academic performance are not as serious as they appear. They actually do such things in school..."

Xu Cheng didn't really care. "Maybe they are just trying to make up for the regrets of their youth and taking advantage of this opportunity to go back to school to complete some things on campus that they didn't have the chance to do before."

Seeing that Xu Cheng was still leaning forward to look at him intently, Lin Wanzhou reached out her little hand to his waist and pinched the soft flesh.

Before she could twist it, Xu Cheng reacted with a big shock, twisting his waist to push the girl's hand away.

"What are you doing? What are you doing?"

"Still watching, why, do you want to try it too?"

Hearing this, Xu Cheng swallowed his saliva and looked at Lin Wanzhou expectantly, "Is it okay?"

"No, no way!" The girl rejected him in a cowardly manner.

She said no, but in fact she couldn't help but imagine that if it was her and Xu Cheng hiding in that corner, the collision of lips, the naughty palms...

Just imagining it, the girl felt as if her delicate body was burning, and her mouth was a little dry.

"Why not?" Xu Cheng took advantage of the situation and sat closer to the girl.

In this situation, the two people, both wearing thin T-shirts, would occasionally touch each other with their arms and expose their skin, and then quickly separate as if unconsciously, keeping a close yet distant state.

The girl's arms were so soft, white, delicate and smooth that Xu Cheng wanted to hold them in his hands.

Of course, Lin Wanzhou also coveted Xu Cheng's body. Even in this kind of weather, she felt it would be very comfortable to lean on Xu Cheng's hot arms.

After all, girls are very strange creatures. Even if they wear skirts with very little fabric in the summer, they still like hot things. Even drinking water must be the kind that burns their throats.

"Xu Cheng, we are still students now, so don't think about these messy things. Our current task is to study hard."

Lin Wanzhou spoke hesitantly, avoiding Xu Cheng's gaze and not daring to meet his.

Xu Cheng thought she was very cute and gently wrapped his palm around her clenched fist.

"Why don't you tell me that if we don't study hard now and just think about random things, we can only get into fake universities like Jinghua University and Yanda University in the future."

"Strong words."

"But they've already given us a sample."

"They might just be lucky. What if..."

"But the facts are right in front of us."

"Maybe they started after the college entrance examination..."

"It's possible that it was already like that before the college entrance examination."

Unable to convince him, the girl rolled her eyes at him and said, "I hate talking to you. Now that you've grown up, you like to butt in on other people's mouths more and more."

"Uh...I didn't mean to."

"No, no, I want to go home."

The girl struggled to sit up, put on her schoolbag, and did not forget to take away the manuscript paper under her butt.

On the one hand, it was to clean up the garbage he had created, and on the other hand, he was also worried that Xu Cheng would collect this kind of thing again.

She knew he had strange habits.

Seeing this, Xu Cheng also bent down to pick up the two pieces of paper he was sitting on.

He didn't notice that the girl approached him quietly, and then left a shallow mark on his cheek with quick and sensitive movements.

It's the right cheek.

“It can only be to this extent, I won’t let you touch me randomly…”, the girl muttered, her pupils trembling, and she turned and ran away.

Like a little deer that stole someone else's cabbage.

With the index and middle fingers of both hands clasped behind her back, she jumped lightly, and a few beautiful strands of hair bounced on her shoulders.

This is called controlling your husband...ah, the art of controlling a man.

It was Aning who told her that she could reject him when he wanted to, and attack him when he was least prepared. She only needed to do it to the right extent, and she would be able to gain great shock and satisfaction from the boy.

This was her first time to practice. She had asked Aning before whether she had tried it before. She remembered her answer was, "I would never kiss Li Qiuyang, definitely not even once."

……

The summer was quiet for a few days, and since Xu Cheng finally had some free time, he devoted himself to his work.

This is what it’s like to do business. When you work for others, 996 is mental torture, but when you work for yourself, even 007 complains that there isn’t enough time.

Xu Cheng is similar. Like a workaholic, he often works overtime in the office until late at night, then lies down on a chair with his clothes on to take a nap, and then continues to work the next day.

This brought about some changes in the mentality of the few members of the company.

After all, they hardly saw Xu Cheng in the past first half of the year, and they always thought that their company, Qingzhou, was just a game played by the rich second generation.

But now, they finally gained some confidence and began to realize that their boss was really putting his heart and soul into the business. In addition, Xu Cheng's understanding of technology seemed to be no less than that of a programmer who graduated from a university.

This made the employees begin to have confidence in the job and realize that what they were fighting for every day was not a simple joke.

"The situation this year is indeed not good. The financial crisis is imminent and the financing environment has become unfavorable..."

"But I like the saying, the bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish!"

"Everyone just do the work at hand. I will handle the cash flow issues. Does anyone have anything to add?"

Looking around, it seemed that no one wanted to say anything more, and Xu Cheng did not continue with the nonsense of "I will just add a few words" and gave the order to adjourn the meeting.

The meeting was over and the conference room soon became empty, leaving only Xu Cheng sitting in the chairman's seat and the girl in a small suit sitting next to him.

She has a slim figure and is about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. Her lightly made-up face reveals a bit of the maturity that a girl of her age should have.

Xu Cheng lay on the chair and rubbed his eyes. The girl next to him tidied up the documents on the table and smiled when she saw him.

"Boss Xu, you've been busy for several days in a row. Would you like to take a day off today?"

"Well, I went home today. The main reason was that I had too much work to do. I was very grateful to you, Sister Su Yu, for supporting me during this period."

Qingzhou Company does not have many core executives. Apart from Xu Cheng and Qiao Yiming who is in charge of technology, and Lin Wanzhou who rarely appears, the only one left is Su Yu.

She is Yu Jiajia's college classmate. Compared to Xu Cheng, who is rarely seen, the company members are more familiar with her. After all, when Xu Cheng is not in the company, she takes his place like a boss.

Su Yu just smiled and said nothing.

She had just resigned, and she only came over for Yu Jiajia's sake and then politely declined to leave.

Later, I stayed for a few more months just because of my inexplicable top position, the freedom I had to display my talents, and the seemingly attractive project.

At the same time, she was also curious about the background of her high school student boss. She didn't think that a high school student could have such insight and vision. There must be someone in the family who was instructing him.

It wasn't until I learned from Yu Jiajia that he was the son of Xu Jianghe from Jing'an that I didn't find it so strange.

So for a long time, the boss in her mind was Xu Jianghe, not Xu Cheng, which is why she was willing to stay in Qingzhou.

But it was not until a few days ago, after working with Xu Cheng for a period of time, that Su Yu truly discovered that this young man was extraordinary.

He has a genius theoretical knowledge, is proficient in several computer programming languages, has extremely creative ideas, and doesn't even have the playfulness and laziness of a teenager of his age...

Su Yu was convinced by just observing these traces from his gestures. He couldn't help but say with admiration that he was worthy of being Xu Jianghe's son.

His knowledge and reserves are definitely far beyond those of his peers.

Xu Cheng packed his schoolbag, said goodbye to Su Yu, and took the elevator down like an ordinary high school student, walking out of the office building where he had been for several days.

The setting sun turned half of the sky red, while the other half was already dark. There was a light blue line in the middle, separating the strange colors in the sky.

Not knowing whether Lin Wanzhou had eaten, Xu Cheng saw an egg burger being sold on the roadside for five yuan each, so he ran to buy two, and specifically asked for no ketchup, only cumin sprinkled on top.

He and Lin Wanzhou were both like this. They both felt that the cold ketchup mixed with the hot food had a very pulpy texture. Even if the food was delicious, they would lose the appetite to swallow it.

……

Lin Wanzhou was bored and curled up on the sofa, watching the Return of the Condor Heroes series on TV. It was a regular show every summer along with Journey to the West, Legend of the White Snake and The Lotus Lantern.

The house is empty and she is the only one there. She has been spending the past few days like this. Her mother is abroad and her father is always busy and has no time to visit.

Moreover, girls cannot go out and have fun all day long like boys. After all, they have to wash their hair every time they go out. But even if they spend a lot of effort to wash their hair, if they don’t see the person they like when they go out, they will have no motivation to go out again.

So most of the time she spent alone at home, bored.

How boring is it? Probably as boring as if one has finished an entire book of summer homework.

On TV:

"Please, don't be so miserable, okay?"

"Please, can you stop being so charming?"

While biting an apple, Ziwei Erkang's corny lines made the girl's snow-white soles clench in disgust, and her expression was like that of the uncle looking at his mobile phone in the subway.

The cell phone suddenly rang, and the girl grabbed it and answered it.

"Hey?"

"Open the door, Lin Wanzhou. I'm at your door."

Hearing the knock on the door, the girl who had a look of disgust on her face just now suddenly turned into a joyful bird, dropped the apple in her hand and ran to the door.

At the entrance, he forced himself to stop, took several deep breaths, and regained his world-weary expression, as if everything around him was unimportant, and opened the door casually.

"Why did you suddenly come to my house..." the girl said lightly.

However, those beautiful eyes looked this guy up and down very carefully. After not seeing him for just a few days, he looked like he had been wandering somewhere. His hair had grown longer, and the hair at the corners of his mouth had also grown a lot longer.

The girl couldn't help but raise her hand to touch his fur, but she stopped halfway in the air and leaned on the door frame.

"Is there no one at your home?" Xu Cheng leaned his head over, walked around the girl and looked into her house. With his unkempt appearance, he looked like some bad guy who had intentions towards the girl.

“Someone is there.”

"Is your dad home?"

“No.”

"Who's there?!"

Xu Cheng's voice suddenly became tense, and the girl pouted, "I'm here, am I not considered a human?"

"Oh, I thought..."

Xu Cheng had a strong desire to survive and closed his mouth in time, but this of course could not escape the monkey girl's sensitive nerves.