Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 172

Chapter 172: A Girl Like This Really Exists?

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But Xu Fengwu was truly very good to her, always being considerate of her feelings in the dormitory, and including her in any good things that came up.

She would always quietly follow behind Xu Fengwu, helping her drive away those mundane insects, and helping run errands like getting meals and such.

But she and Xu Fengwu ultimately weren’t people of the same world, and she deeply understood this point, so she would never directly call each other by name like Ruoming did, but instead chose the more polite “Classmate Xu.”

“Xu… Classmate Xu, I…”

“Susu.” It was the first time Xu Fengwu used this nickname to call her, “Look, I’m already calling you this way, you should also call me something more intimate, calling me Classmate Xu makes it seem like we’re not even friends.”

Xu Fengwu’s tone was somewhat like acting coquettish, making Chu Suhe laugh inadvertently. So even the usually cool and aloof girl had this side to her, no wonder she was Ruoming’s white moonlight.

“If you still call me Classmate Xu, I’ll… ignore you.”

“O-okay. Feng-Fengwu… is this alright…” Chu Suhe softly called Xu Fengwu’s name, seeming still quite unaccustomed to addressing Xu Fengwu this way, even her tone sounding somewhat off.

“Of course~” Xu Fengwu hugged Chu Suhe like a Chinese-style bestie, “From now on Susu has to call me this way~”

“Feng-Fengwu… hot…” Perhaps because of Xu Fengwu’s attitude, Chu Suhe’s tone also relaxed a bit, handling things naturally like in daily life.

“Ah, sorry, Susu.” Xu Fengwu released Chu Suhe, also smiling apologetically, because the weather wasn’t actually too hot anymore, for Chu Suhe to say this could only mean one thing, she was feeling shy.

Thinking carefully, Chinese-style besties could indeed hug and embrace in public, but for a girl like Chu Suhe, this version was still too advanced.

“Speaking of which, since Susu hasn’t seen it, why don’t we find a place to rest for a bit, and I can show it to Susu?” Xu Fengwu took out her phone again, pointing at that video.

“Is… is that okay?” Chu Suhe asked timidly.

“Of course it is, Susu needs to be more confident, for things like this in the future you just need to say whether you want to or not, there’s nothing that’s not okay.” Xu Fengwu patted Chu Suhe’s head, and Chu Suhe instinctively nuzzled Xu Fengwu’s palm like a cat.

“Okay…” Chu Suhe nodded, but her voice was still as quiet as ever, if Xu Fengwu was slightly distracted she wouldn’t be able to hear what Chu Suhe was saying at all.

“Speaking of which, if Susu wants to become more confident, should we first change your image? After all, Susu is actually very pretty, do you want to try brushing up your bangs?” As Xu Fengwu spoke, she actually brushed up Chu Suhe’s bangs, once again witnessing that otherworldly beauty hidden behind the bangs and glasses, and couldn’t help but sigh. Though she had become somewhat more outgoing during the camping trip, now she was back to being like this again.

Having to think of every possible way to communicate with Chu Suhe was quite exhausting…

“Really… pretty? But even so, I don’t want to…” After Chu Suhe finished speaking, she also stepped back two steps, those brushed-up bangs falling back down again, and she returned to being that inconspicuous wallflower Chu Suhe.

“Why?” Xu Fengwu asked curiously.

“Be-because then, it wouldn’t be good for helping Fengwu chase away those little flies around you… after all, Fengwu really hates them…” Chu Suhe said word by word, her tone full of sincerity, without any trace of making up stories.

Xu Fengwu almost cried after hearing Chu Suhe’s words. Did this kind of good girl really exist in the world? After experiencing the incident with Li Jing, Xu Fengwu had maintained doubts about whether besties even existed, but since meeting Chu Suhe, she felt her entire worldview was about to be refreshed. This kind of girl who would only give without asking for anything in return, who would refuse when others were good to her, was she really not someone who walked out of a novel?

She pinched her own cheek, it hurt! This wasn’t a dream at all! And this wasn’t some novel either!

Xia Ruoming had been very good to her in the past, much better than Chu Suhe, this was indeed true. But just as Xu Yihan had said before, the vast majority of the time people give in order to receive something in return. She and Xia Ruoming couldn’t be counted as friends, and Xia Ruoming was also only doing these things because she had a one-sided love for her, even though the path was full of thorns.

Getting the love of the person you care about is itself a kind of return, although this sounds somewhat utilitarian, but love itself is just like this.

If comparing to Chu Suhe, even myths and poems rarely recorded the existence of someone like her…

Xu Fengwu just silently held Chu Suhe’s hand, walking towards a shady spot, and didn’t bring up this matter again. She was no longer the Xu Fengwu of the past who wouldn’t consider others’ feelings. She also understood that now wasn’t the best time to bring this up again. Perhaps when Chu Suhe becomes braver in the future, she will gradually come to accept it.

In the cool shade of the trees, Chu Suhe and Xu Fengwu leaned against each other, Xu Fengwu placed her phone between their legs, and began to play “A Glimpse of Beauty” that was on her Raspberry homepage.

“Turn over your hand to make clouds, turn back your hand to make rain, washing your hands in a golden basin stops the wind and rain…”

After post-production, Xia Ruoming and Ye Han in the video really looked like celestial maidens descending from heaven, performing a piece together.

“Ruoming… really can do anything, every time I see her, I discover she knows things I didn’t know about.” After watching the video and those comments all praising Ruoming, Chu Suhe couldn’t help but sigh.

Perhaps because the topic of conversation was about Xia Ruoming, Chu Suhe was also rarely less reserved.

“Yes, she’s been like this since before.” Xu Fengwu also agreed, her tone equally full of emotion. Xia Ruoming had indeed become different after leaving her.

Breaking through the jade cage, the colorful phoenix flies; suddenly opening the golden lock, the dragon walks free, it probably felt just like this. Only that every time Xu Fengwu thought about it this way, she would feel especially sad.

Every time she could recall what was said in the group chat that night when checking scores, Xia Ruoming became so good because she left her.

Nothing was more devastating than words like these.

“By the way, who is that woman in the video, Susu, do you know?” Xu Fengwu suddenly remembered the question she wanted to ask. That woman seemed very close with Xia Ruoming. Originally she had wanted to ask Chu Suhe about it if she had seen the video, since she was close to Xia Ruoming, maybe she would know.

But she had forgotten about Chu Suhe not having a smartphone, and caused the earlier mess.

“Ah… Fengwu doesn’t know? That’s the second young lady of the Ye family. I heard Xiao Luo mention it at the coffee shop, somehow she went to work at Xia Ruoming’s company.”