"This I cannot say now, but please, Zhen, don't interfere with this matter, okay?!" Ling Ye Xi looked at Gong Zhen, and humbly requested.

  The sky had already darkened, and the trees in the school garden cast deep shadows, making it look even darker than other places. However, Ling Ye Xi's eyes shone brightly with a pleading gaze, clearly reflected in Gong Chen's eyes.

  This was the first time Ye had asked him like this at night, and he had never done so before, so Gong Chen hesitated for two seconds before nodding.

  "But remember, Cheng Xiaoyou is now mine, you'd better not bully her again!" Gong Chen warned him heavily before finally agreeing to his request.

  "Ling Ye Xi looked at Gong Chen's expression, which was somewhat unclear in the dark night, and hesitated for a moment before asking: "Do you like Xiao You?"

  "Kidding, I'd like that idiot?!" Gong Chen was stimulated by his words and retorted back. Impossible, he must have gotten his brain squeezed by the door, actually saying he likes that Cheng Xiao You.

  "Then why did you say she's your person!" Ling Ye Xi looked at him, seemingly eager to know the answer to this question.

  "Because I hired..." Gong Chen's words reached the tip of his tongue but he swallowed them back, and it seemed that only he knew about Xiao You's exceptional fighting skills in school, apart from those three girls. Suddenly, he didn't want to share this secret with Ling Ye Xing.

  "What's it to you why I'm saying this, do you think I want to protect someone and report back to you?!?" Gong Chen's tone suddenly turned bad, Ling Ye Xi couldn't help but feel that he was too concerned about Cheng Xiao You's affairs: "You're asking me like this, could it be because you yourself like her?!"

  His words fell to the ground, but he didn't hear Ling Ye Xi's rebuttal.

  Gong Chen's eyebrows slowly furrowed, could it be that Ling Ye Xi really liked Cheng Xiao You, that idiot?!

  She and his fiancée are simply incomparable!

  After a long time, Ling Ye Xi finally reacted, with a bitter smile, he said faintly: "What you said... is indeed possible!"

  Gong Chen felt a little uncomfortable in his heart as he listened. He wanted to make an effort to see clearly under the night sky, and look at Ling Ye Xi to see if he was playing some trick again.

  But Ling Ye Xi's next words, filled with a hint of confusion, left him stunned: "Chen, people like us, can we possibly like someone?"

  The night wind blows quietly, sweeping over the branches, blowing the swaying twigs "susu" in response, and the young man's refreshing words are lightly accompanied by music.

  "Alas, for us, the things we want have always been easily obtained without effort, and the people we want don't even need to lift a finger to be delivered to our doorstep... How can we know what it means to truly like something..."

  "Even if it's clear, everything can be done with ease, so there's no existence of anything in her eyes... probably doesn't know what it feels like to like someone either?"

  "So I really don't know if I like that girl Cheng Xiaoyou or not... Moreover, I'm not even qualified to say these things now..."

  Ling Ye Xi's mouth curved up slightly as she spoke, but it wasn't the elegant arc that seemed to be specially designed like before, instead it was accompanied by a seemingly heartfelt smile: "Actually, what she said at our place that night made me very happy...

  "This feeling..." He said, pressing his hand to his chest, with a soft smile in his eyes: "It seems like there's something more... I don't know if this is what it means to like someone..."

  "But can someone like me actually like another person?" The young man said, slightly furrowing his brow: "Not to mention what happened before, just based on what Ceng said earlier, people like us basically have no chance of choosing our own partner. This sentence also makes me not dare to let my heart move easily!"

  "Otherwise, if we really have feelings for each other but can't be together, how miserable would that make us?"

  Ling Ye Xi's words were like self-inquiry, and also like persuading herself. That unfamiliar, thumping heart-pounding feeling was better off being eradicated long ago!

  What's more, he started to have malicious intentions towards Cheng Xiaoyou.

  If this thing is known by Cheng Xiaoyou, that seemingly discerning girl will absolutely dislike herself!!!

  It's better to hurt her heart than to be hurt by herself in the end!

  Ling Ye Xi's words were like a curse, tightly wrapped around Gong Chen's chest, making him feel somewhat heavy.

  He had never seen it before, and Ling Ye Xi still had such an expression.

  It seems that since he can remember, Ling Ye Xi has been like a wooden puppet who only knows how to smile, always following him. Sometimes, elders would say things like, "If you were as considerate as Ling Ye Xi, that would be great."

  But he didn't like a life where everything was calculated and measured out so precisely, a life where one would just smile and accept any arrangement.

  He didn't know that the night which had always been smiling also had its own joys and sorrows. It's just that, its joys and sorrows were hidden deeper than anyone else's.

  It was as if he had made a vow with the night, and no one knew his unwillingness, including himself, who had only just realized it.

  But he would reveal a bewildered expression because of that guy Cheng Xiao You.

  At this moment, it seems like my mood has suddenly turned bad!

  There's a feeling of something originally belonging to him being coveted by others.

  No one has ever dared to take what belongs to him!

  So, Cheng Xiaoyou, that silly girl, is she his?!

  Ling Ye Xi's doubts echoed in her mind once again: "Chen...do you like Xiao You?"

  His first reaction was that Ye was joking, but after hearing his words, the certainty he had before began to waver. People like them might not even know what it means to have a crush.

  That silly girl has been messing around in his mind lately, whether it's disgust or hatred, at least she is the one who can provoke his anger.

  If it were anyone else, he wouldn't care about their lives and deaths, nor would he let them easily stir up his emotions.

  Is this feeling of being different from others when looking at her, liking her?!

  Is it really liking... or... disliking?

  All the knowledge he had learned flashed through his mind, but none of them could explain his current doubts.

  Returning to her room, Gong Chen opened her phone and directly searched online: How to know if you like someone or not?

  A whole page of answers came flooding in, he didn't expect that there would be so many people asking this kind of question online!

  "Idiot!"

  He snorted and threw his phone onto the bed.

  But soon after, he took it back and held it in his hand, looking at it seriously.

  A focused expression as if studying the most difficult subject.

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