When Will My Childhood Sweetheart Marry Me?-Chapter 213: He Did It on Purpose

Afterward, Jiang Shuyao asked Tang Xing how it went, but that girl hemmed and hawed without giving a clear explanation, instead she started to obsess over some past events from their time in Yunzhong.

She would occasionally send WeChat messages to inquire about the name of the physics class representative from the class next door, and also ask about some tall and skinny boy who looked like a skeleton. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Jiang Shuyao found it headache-inducing.

In reality, she was just a mid-term transfer student.

It wasn’t hard to guess, Tang Xing’s sudden absent-mindedness must be related to her previous confession.

After the Lantern Festival, the start of school was approaching.

Jiang Shuyao had been thinking about the mid-year technical innovation competition, so she took the morning to visit a bookstore.

When she left, Pei Yan was still sleeping.

Last night, the guy was up to something, coding all night long, and she caught a glimpse but couldn’t understand it at all.

Forget it, she had long accepted his head-in-the-clouds pace, she’d slowly catch up.

The bookstore was on the second floor of a shopping mall near Yunzhong.

She had bought quite a bit of material there in high school; the owner seemed to have a special fondness for competitive topics. From her observations, she noticed that the competition section was refreshed with new content almost every fortnight.

After entering, Jiang Shuyao headed straight for her target area and, because she was looking down replying to Tang Xing’s message, accidentally bumped into a passerby’s shoulder.

"Sorry."

"My apologies."

Their voices sounded at the same time, and then both fell silent.

Memory is a strange thing; some people appear before your eyes unexpectedly. It had been more than half a year, yet many things felt like they happened just yesterday.

Lu Chen.

This man had played an extremely important role in the path of her and Pei Yan’s relationship.

To see him again was not quite awkward, but it still felt a little tense.

Since graduating from high school, everyone had changed a little more or less.

The mature and steady aura of Lu Chen was still evident from his demeanor, but his eyes behind the glasses contained more depth than they did in his school days.

She felt a sudden sense of relief that Young Master Pei was still at home sleeping in at this moment.

Old classmates meeting, they exchanged a few words of small talk, and she noticed the programming books in Lu Chen’s hands, feeling slightly surprised.

If she remembered correctly, Lu Captain’s first choice had been architecture.

Was it an elective course, perhaps?

During a pause, Lu Chen suddenly asked, "How have you guys been?"

You guys...

Jiang Shuyao was stunned for two seconds, then realized what he meant.

"We’re good, at the same school."

She didn’t know why, but she felt the need to add that last part.

She always felt like she was subtly showing off.

But she wasn’t that kind of person.

Sure enough, Lu Chen smiled.

"It’s quite fortunate for him to get into Rong University with his grades, but for you, it seems a bit of a pity."

After the choice of university was announced, almost everyone around her had said this.

Even Lu Chen seemed to think that she had sacrificed too much for Pei Yan.

Times had changed, perhaps they didn’t know that the guy who used to be the one at the bottom of the grade, had long since entered a different realm.

Their conversation didn’t last long; Lu Chen was studying in the Capital and had school starting in a couple of days; he was catching a flight tomorrow morning.

Regarding the upcoming National College Student Technology Innovation Competition, she thoroughly confirmed from his casual mention that he indeed had given up architecture for computer science.

Before leaving, Lu Chen lifted the material in his hand, "I look forward to seeing you on the field of competition, Student Jiang. Don’t let me down."

Jiang Shuyao just smiled.

"Rest assured, that won’t happen."

At least, someone will make you see what it means to look at someone in a new light.

The day before school started, everyone began to return to campus one after another.

Jiang Shuyao had just put her luggage back in the dormitory when she received a WeChat message from Jiang Xubai.

It was a long message with exceptionally clear logic.

She was carefully studying it when He Shumiao came in from outside, "Yaoyao, Teacher Jiang is asking you to come to the office."

"Me?"

"Yeah, it seems urgent." He Shumiao recalled, "I just went to the office to submit some documents, and it looked like your boyfriend was there too."

Jiang Shuyao’s eyelid twitched.

She could probably guess what it was about.

She quickly tidied up, grabbed her backpack, and hurried towards the administrative building.

As she turned the corner at the stairs, she heard Old Man Jiang’s voice, indignant from a distance—

"You, you youngster, if you refuse then refuse, but saying those things in front of Teacher Chen, you’ve made an old face like mine awkward, sigh, what are you thinking!"

Jiang Shuyao paused in her steps... Teacher Chen?

She slowly approached, the door was ajar, and she peeked through the crack.

That languid figure completely blocked the fuming old man, and it wasn’t hard to tell that the air was a bit tense.

She had thought it was about the midyear competition, but now it seemed to be tied to something at the graduate school.

Jiang Shuyao knocked on the door, interrupting the silent standoff between teacher and student.

The old man turned his head to see her and quickly waved her in, "Come in, come in."

She entered and greeted them, sneakily glancing at the person beside her.

The old man had a sip of water to calm himself, then said, "The deadline for the competition registration is in five days, you guys discuss and come up with some topics as soon as possible, the quicker the better, aim to let me have a look by tomorrow night."

"Sure, no problem." After Jiang Shuyao nodded, she smiled and asked, "Teacher Jiang, did Pei Yan make you angry?"

As soon as she mentioned it, the old man got worked up again, rolling up his sleeves to point at Pei Yan, "Let me tell you, this brat—"

The lecturing stance rose again, as Pei Yan was clearly already impatient to a certain extent, but due to the respect for teachers, his irritation could only be vented in a sigh.

"Just listen to me, you’re old, don’t agitate yourself."

"..."

Jiang Shuyao’s eyes widened as she stared at him.

Are you out of your mind, talking to a teacher like that?

Still rattled, a bout of severe coughing followed close by.

She ran to pat on the old man’s back, "Teacher don’t be angry, he didn’t mean it."

"I think he did it on purpose."

After some confusion, Jiang Shuyao finally understood the situation.

Before the holiday, the graduate school had taken on a software project, and just as Pei Yan had predicted, there were now issues with the project. The lead from the mentor group, Teacher Chen, had just come to seek Old Man Jiang’s help.

On the surface, they only said they were short on hands, wanting the senior professor to dispatch a few people over to assist, but Pei Yan saw through the real situation.

That guy’s temper she all too well knew.

He probably couldn’t stand the mentor’s false pretense, hence said some unpleasant words.

Old Man Jiang couldn’t step down, and that ticked him off.

"That project of theirs is going to lead to legal disputes eventually, why won’t you just believe..." Pei Yan looked helpless, his hand reaching into his pocket, Jiang Shuyao knew from his gesture that he was about to take out a cigarette, and she kicked him.

At least it’s a teacher’s office, don’t be too brazen!

Pei Yan rubbed his temples and reluctantly pulled his hand out of his pocket.

This subtle movement was caught by the old man, "Forget it, forget it, I can’t manage you, let her take care of you."

?!

Jiang Shuyao’s expression turned awkwardly embarrassed.