Even after feeding her again, Jiang Sui could see Su Qing had no appetite.
She only ate a tiny bit of each dish, yet she felt a bit apprehensive about wasting it. Finally, Jiang Sui cleaned up the mess.
Su Qing pursed her lips, watching the young man eat. His every gesture carried a touch of elegance.
He was truly handsome.
His brow bones were sharp and defined, his nose was straight, and his skin was remarkably fair. Heaven had blessed this young man so well.
Knowing Su Qing was watching him, Jiang Sui curled his lips into a breathtaking smile. That moment made Su Qing's heart pound. He didn't smile often, and she suddenly felt curious.
"Haven't you ever liked other girls?"
A boy like him would probably have many admirers. It wasn't that Su Qing had any negative opinions of wealthy kids, but whether it was experience, money, or social circles, wealthy kids tended to have more exposure, making them inevitably more mature.
Furthermore, with his alluring looks, he certainly had plenty of admirers.
The boy's brow furrowed slightly, and he put down his chopsticks and shook his head. He didn't mind the question, but he didn't like the distrust in Su Qing's eyes.
Despite her curiosity.
Like most ordinary people, Su Qing was a little curious. Why did he like her?
"Jiang Sui, why do you like me?"
She was so ordinary. Her only real strength was her grades, and even those pale in comparison to a rare talent like Jiang Sui.
As for her looks, she knew she wasn't ugly, but she wasn't particularly good-looking either. Among ordinary people, she was only slightly better-looking, but that didn't change her ordinary nature.
As for her personality, Su Qing was very cold and aloof. She didn't like socializing, her mind completely focused on her studies.
Su Qing couldn't understand why Jiang Sui liked her.
Jiang Sui leaned back on his chair, wiped the corner of Su Qing's mouth with his fingers, his eyes uncharacteristically gentle. "There's no reason, Qing Qing. I don't know. May be it's because the girl under the streetlight is memorizing English words in the morning? Or may be it's because you're standing there in the office, so brave, saying things you can't oppose."
"I think this little girl is so cool. She's so little, but the stubborn glint in her eyes stung me. I don't know, Qing Qing. I just keep thinking of you. When we met again in Wuzhen, I realized how easily little kittens can get mad."
Jiang Sui's mind flashed through many fragments, all of which were bits and pieces of memories that Su Qing had kept.
Su Qing looked at Jiang Sui in surprise. Memorizing words under the streetlight? That seemed to be back in Jiangcheng, when she was just starting high school. She felt very tired, so she woke up early everyday, much earlier than others, because she also had a morning run. The run was at 6:30 a.m., and normally, Su Qing would secretly get up at 5:00 a.m..
At five o'clock, it was still dark, the streetlights still on, and the largely deserted campus made Su Qing feel reassured. At that time, she hadn't met Li Xu yet, and she hadn't encountered so many things.
However, Su Qing hadn't expected Jiang Sui to have seen her before.
Su Qing did remember the incident at the office called the police. She thought that was their first meeting, and she also thought he'd noticed her then. Unexpectedly, it had been even earlier.
She carefully recalled, or rather, searched, for Jiang Sui's presence in her mind, but she couldn't find him during the time she was memorizing words.
That shouldn't be the case; there's no place to hide at the field.
But she was indeed memorizing words under the morning streetlights, which Su Qing found incredible.
At the time, Jiang Sui had never imagined that a girl with such poor English speaking and a slight tongue bite could actually cure his insomnia and irritability.
Too surprised, but not wanting to scare her, Jiang Sui would always lean against the wall, slightly closing his eyes, listening to her voice brush against his ears.
That voice was so damn sweet.
As a teenager, he didn't understand love, nor did he know why it sparked. Jiang Sui, always a self-disciplined person, hadn't anticipated the complex connections he'd become with her.
He even felt a flicker of regret. If he'd kept her close to him back then, no one would have bullied her, and she wouldn't have suffered what she'd endured.
But then he thought: if he'd pursued her so suddenly back then, she'd have no doubt seen him as Li Xu.
Su Qing, caught in the boy's intense gaze, felt a little embarrassed. The warmth of his fingertips still lingered on the corner of her lips.
"You, you actually saw me that time..." Su Qing found it unbelievable when she couldn't find the boy's figure.
Jiang Sui nodded. "Yes, there was a little girl back then who couldn't even pronounce the word 'abandon' correctly."
The first word in the English textbook, surprisingly, so early in the morning, Jiang Sui had heard it when Su Qing was first memorizing it.
Not standard. Su Qing's face flushed and she felt a little embarrassed. Although her English was very good now, which could be considered a good impression, it was not just that one word that she couldn't pronounce correctly at that time, but most of them.
He had actually heard it all.
Su Qing knew that while the boy's English test scores weren't as good as hers, his spoken English wasn't necessarily any worse than hers. She'd heard his pronunciation before, when she'd sat in front of him. It was a perfect British accent, what was it called on the radio? It sounded like a London aristocratic accent.
The boy suddenly raised an eyebrow, looked at Su Qing, and brought her closer. Su Qing suddenly looked at his handsome face and he said, "Qing Qing, you recognized me, didn't you?"
So the girl was talking about having seen her before.
This proved that she remembered him, and that must have been the time in the office.
Su Qing's eyes froze, knowing full well that her words had slipped through. Seeing the boy's relentless expression, Su Qing nodded, "Hmm..."
She had indeed seen him before and remembered him.
"Good ah, you've seen me before, and you're still pretending not to know me?"
He reached out and pinched Su Qing's cheek as if to punish her. But as he withdrew, he saw a slight blush on her young face, and a touch of pity.
Su Qing lowered her eyes, feeling somewhat bewildered. "I'm not pretending not to know you... It's you who don't recognize me. If I'm saying hello to you, and it seems like..."
After a long pause, Su Qing hesitated.
"Like what?"
"Like clinging to you...?"
Su Qing tilted her head, feeling horrified by the words she'd spoken. "Clinging to you..." the words certainly seemed a bit inappropriate.