Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 62

Chapter 62: The Starry Skies of the Past, Xiao Qinghan’s Resolution

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A simple breakfast was laid on the table, Xia Ruoming and Xiao Qinghan kept their heads down, eating on their own, neither looking at the other.

Xiao Qinghan would occasionally rub her fingers together, as if still feeling the lingering warmth.

This action made Xia Ruoming’s heart even more unsettled.

“Um… Sister Qinghan… about last night…” Xia Ruoming finally spoke first, but didn’t know how to continue.

“Ruoming, do you like me?” When she saw Chu Suhe and Xia Ruoming come in arm in arm, Xiao Qinghan knew this was a question that would inevitably not have a good ending, but she wanted to know Xia Ruoming’s feelings no matter what.

“Sister Qinghan… I don’t know…” Xia Ruoming answered honestly, without using any roundabout way.

She truly didn’t know. Even though in this life she only liked Chu Suhe, but because she arbitrarily changed Xiao Qinghan’s life, Xiao Qinghan had different intersections with her life.

Whether it was the previous date when she took her first kiss, or when they had true joy together.

Xiao Qinghan kept stirring Xia Ruoming’s heartstrings time and time again.

“You like Suhe, right?” Xiao Qinghan smiled brilliantly, as if full of charm, seemingly not hurt at all.

Looking at the silent Xia Ruoming, Xiao Qinghan already had her answer in her heart.

“Ruoming, can you help me get my bag?” Pointing at the shoulder bag on the sofa, Xiao Qinghan said softly.

“Okay.”

After responding gently, Xia Ruoming got up to get Xiao Qinghan’s bag, that kind of physical discomfort almost made her stumble.

Xiao Qinghan searched in it for quite a while, then took out a transparent frosted box, several dried flowers lay quietly inside, in the past they seemed full of love, full of vitality. Now they are silent, withered, but still seem to have a trace of warmth from the past, a trace of fragrance, they are still telling Xiao Qinghan’s heart, still waiting. They still want to bloom again, to be loved again.

“Ruoming, these are the flowers you gave me back then. I originally wanted to keep them by my side forever as a memento, but now, I’ll give them to you as a gift,” Xiao Qinghan smiled gently, pushing the box in front of Xia Ruoming, “Ruoming, what’s the flower language of baby’s breath?”

“Pure and flawless love?” Xia Ruoming’s scalp tingled right after answering, she finally understood why Xiao Qinghan changed so much after that day, she originally wanted to use the flower language that meant ‘I want to help you with my humble strength’.

“Bingo! However, that’s not what I want to say.” Xiao Qinghan paused, as if thinking about what to say next, then slowly spoke: “What I want to say is another flower language of baby’s breath, which is also what I want to tell you, Ruoming.”

Xia Ruoming felt like the world was targeting her in some way, previously she had just used sweet pea flowers to gently reject Xu Fengwu, and now, Xiao Qinghan was about to use purple baby’s breath to tell her something.

After leaving Xiao Qinghan’s home, Xia Ruoming opened her phone and searched for the flower language of purple baby’s breath.

Looking at the second flower language besides the one symbolizing pure and flawless love, Xia Ruoming almost dropped her phone.

The flower language of purple baby’s breath: 【Pure and flawless love】,【Willing to be a supporting role】.

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When Xia Ruoming returned home and just lay down on the sofa to calm down for a while, Xia Jingsong came over with his phone, and Liu Ruoxue also sat on one side.

“Just as you thought, daughter, Peking University’s admissions office called, asking if you have any intention towards Peking University.” Xia Jingsong sat down and told Xia Ruoming, who had anticipated this and had already taught them how to answer.

After the call came, the school teacher Yang Xundao also called. Since Xiao Qinghan had resigned, Yang Xundao had become the acting class teacher, and naturally such notifications fell to Yang Xundao.

Although they didn’t think that supposed call was from a scammer, their daughter had said such somewhat arrogant words to reporters that day, showing that she was very confident, and they naturally wouldn’t doubt it.

Xia Ruoming picked up her phone and directly called back the previous phone number.

“Hello, this is Xia Ruoming. My parents took the call earlier. May I ask what this is about?” Although Xia Ruoming spoke so modestly, in her heart she was crystal clear, she could guess what the other side would say next.

“It’s like this, I’m Director Zhang from Peking University’s admissions office. Our school’s teachers have understanding of your test papers, and after our unanimous discussion, we believe that you have a limitless future ahead of you. Our school has additional special admission quotas, and one of these quotas will be allocated to you, what do you think?”

“All of us in the admissions office sincerely invite you to join Peking University.”

“As long as you fill in your preference for Peking University now, we will immediately admit you through internal recruitment. If we wait until after the scores are announced, we won’t have this option anymore. We hope student Xia Ruoming will consider carefully.”

Even though it was words with a slight threatening tone, even though they already knew they would say this through their daughter, Liu Ruoxue and Xia Jingsong still laughed heartily when they heard it.

Indeed it was exactly as she thought, back then, she had already been admitted to Sichuan University, but was almost fooled by the neighboring Chengdu University in this way, would she fall for it this time?

“The neighboring Tsinghua University said the same thing, you all should discuss your script before deciding what to say,” Xia Ruoming said mercilessly to the other end of the phone, “Besides, I prefer to rely on real ability, with my scores, would I not be able to get into Peking University when the scores come out?”

Such arrogant words left Director Zhang unable to refute.

That year there was no high school examination screening, Xia Ruoming’s liberal arts top score of 742 points was already on the desks of various prestigious schools, and subsequent phone calls would surely come one after another.

“Damn it, still trying to fool me, come back when you have some sincerity.” After hanging up the phone, Xia Ruoming cursed a bit, although she had no real intention of going to Tsinghua or Peking University, it was just for negotiation, but Peking University was too shameless, not offering any benefits, purely relying on deception, even if you’re making empty promises, at least make some promises?

She almost laughed from anger, if she hadn’t scored well enough, would they call to fool her? If there were such good things in this world, she would write her name Xia Ruoming backwards, do they think she’s a three-year-old child?

“Damn it, how did she know her score?” Director Zhang on the other end of the phone put down the phone and cursed quietly after hearing the beeping sound.

Wait, what did she say about the neighboring Tsinghua University saying the same thing?

Damn, could it be that this pig teammate Tsinghua had a slip of the tongue and directly revealed the bottom line to Xia Ruoming?

No good, since the pig teammate not only refused to play chess but also smashed the chessboard, then they don’t need to follow any rules either.