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Did she know what she was saying?
Bian Xun froze completely.
The beautiful, clear features before him were pure and flawless. Her eyes shimmered, and her voice seemed to carry a soft hook that, without any warning, bit right into the softest part of his heart.
He actually found it hard to resist.
The young woman's blushing face and her candid confession of desire wove together into an intense allure.
Bian Xun was practically rooted to the spot.
Only after a long moment did his thin lips slowly and with great difficulty draw in a breath.
He looked down at the suit he was wearing. It was the first time she had shown such a passionate gaze, her almond eyes looking at him as if rippling with water.
Did she really like it that much?
Bian Xun looked away and closed his eyes, his scalp tingling as he thought:
Fuck.
I can't take this.
She's always rewarding me.
After Ning Ye made her request, her own face flushed completely red.
Although this sentence couldn't compare to Bian Xun's crude and flirtatious remarks, it had still broken past her limits.
But she really loved how Bian Xun looked in a suit; just thinking about it almost made her knees weak.
The tightly-buttoned sense of asceticism, the glimpse of frost-white wrist bone revealed by the exquisite cuffs, the long and powerful look of his fingertips, the collar tightening around his Adam's apple, restricting its movement...
Ning Ye unconsciously licked the corners of her lips.
At her age, she was simply too easily corrupted by unhealthy temptations!
It was all because Bian Xun usually spoke so flirtatiously; she had already been led astray. And she couldn't resist it.
Vigorous hormones lingered between the young parents, refusing to dissipate.
On the way out of the kindergarten gate, the two clearly had no physical contact, but both felt as if they were floating as they walked.
On the surface, they very calmly blended into the passing crowd of parents, as if they were also two mature and steady adults.
Inside, however, was wildly beating youthful desire.
Their hearts were racing with boundless fantasies, their minds filled with all sorts of crazy, intense images. If their fingertips brushed, it would feel like an electric shock, sparking an itchy numbness.
In the end, they didn't even dare to hold hands.
Bian Xun was still taking deep breaths even after getting into the car.
The storm of fantasies she brought was simply too intense.
Ning Ye also blushed, pressing down the hem of her skirt as she got into the car.
Bian Xun leaned back in the driver's seat, looking up at the starlight headliner of the car, not even daring to look at her in the passenger seat.
She was wearing a skirt suit today. When she sat down, the hem slid up her thighs. Now that the weather was warming up, her slender, fair legs were only clad in sheer stockings.
The man in the suit sat up straight and closed his eyes.
He was terrified he might just do it right there in the car.
The seats could recline flat to lie down, and the cramped space inside the car would instead bring a suffocatingly intense experience. Once the movement started, the entire car body would rock on its suspension. His car had a top-tier engine, and he would be exactly the same.
...He couldn't think about this anymore.
She still had to go back to school.
She couldn't go back... clenching like that. Yue & Ge
...Fuck. Bian Xun turned his head away again and took a deep breath.
Besides.
The first time couldn't be here.
Bian Xun finally raised his hand and tugged at his tie, his Adam's apple bobbing as he forcefully restrained himself.
Ning Ye was also quietly calming her emotions, but catching a glimpse of him from the corner of her eye, she simply pressed her forehead against the cold car window, wailing softly in her heart.
Help.
Stop seducing her!
Right now, she completely lacked the ability to withstand that tension caught between maturity and boyishness.
His body was vigorous and full of strength, carrying the perpetual motion of a newly risen sun in youth. But his attire, his demeanor, his unintentional movements...
To nineteen-year-old Ning Ye, it was simply foul play.
Ning Ye's face burned red. The faint scent of jasmine turned into a warm, rich fragrance, melting his cool, deep sandalwood scent. Their scents blended in the enclosed car, like a union of streams of consciousness.
It was just a parent-teacher meeting, yet it left the young parents completely spellbound.
The silently flowing atmosphere spread. In the end, they sat quietly in the car for a long time. Even though they hadn't done anything, it felt as if they had just engaged in an earth-shattering, intense session.
Blushing, Ning Ye quietly opened the car window a crack.
Bian Xun also seemed to catch his breath, looking away toward the distance.
The two of them looked in different directions, their gazes never crossing. Yet, by coincidence, one took out a phone to check the calendar, while the other casually glanced at the date on the car's navigation screen.
How much longer until next Friday?
Ning Ye's fingertips and heart were burning hot.
So looking forward to it. So looking forward to it.
...
The fantasy was rich, stirring, and wonderfully dirty.
However, both young parents underestimated the difficulty of college students raising a child after the semester began.
The pace of the new semester caught them both completely off guard.
In the second half of her freshman year, Ning Ye's famously top-tier science major at Jinghua University scheduled her with a full week of classes. She also had to balance her work-study position and an off-campus part-time job, keeping her as busy as a spinning top.
Bian Xun's family company also had a lot going on, and Professor Lin frequently pulled him in for discussions. At the same time, the complex affairs of his second semester senior year, like his thesis defense and career planning, all surged forward at once.
Usually at times like this, couples facing different stages of life easily develop disagreements, leading to various conflicts and ultimately resulting in a breakup when one graduates. However, Ning Ye and Bian Xun simply had no time to even consider any conflicts between them.
Just raising a child well was already hard enough!
Outside of their busy academic and work lives, they had to coordinate their schedules to take care of the little one.
When he was busy, she would go pick up Ning Zhitao; when she couldn't, Bian Xun would step in. In order to keep Taotao from feeling lonely, they had to use whatever shared time they could squeeze out to play with the little girl.
Furthermore, there was another problem: since the new semester started, Ning Ye hadn't stayed over for several weeks in a row, because her roommates were back.
Being gone from the dorm all night on a Friday was simply too obvious. Although everyone was an adult and didn't need to report their whereabouts, someone's public one-knee proposal at the end of last semester had been too shocking. Therefore, not only in her dorm room but across the entire dorm floor, people were watching Ning Ye. If she stayed out overnight, there was no telling how much wild speculation it would trigger.
For the time being, she didn't dare sleep over at Bian Xun's place.
But as the saying goes, the more you suppress it, the more the wildfire burns unextinguished.
Bian Xun's gaze was already on the verge of a misfire.
Ning Ye pursed her lips.
...So, so anxious.
But no matter how they seized every spare moment in private to kiss and crazily devour each other in the gaps of their schedules, once at school, Ning Ye tried hard to maintain a distant, stranger-like attitude toward Bian Xun.
This was a firmer conviction she held after the last parent-teacher meeting, because many parents at the kindergarten were also Jinghua alumni. The parents of students who could attend school in this district mostly had excellent educational backgrounds. Their own children, or the children of their relatives, could very well be classmates of Ning Ye and Bian Xun.
His residence, the child's kindergarten, and Jinghua University were all too close geographically, which posed a high risk. Moreover, Bian Xun was simply too eye-catching.
If Bian Xun's attendance at the parent-teacher meeting that day was accidentally connected by someone, Taotao's existence would be exposed.
This was a consequence the current Ning Ye could not bear.
So the simplest method was just to pretend she didn't know Bian Xun well whenever they bumped into each other at school.
After a while, Liu Mi couldn't help but quietly come ask Ning Ye, "Did you and Bian Xun break up?"
Ning Ye smiled and shook her head.
Liu Mi breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and then realized something was off.
So you two are really together?! The person involved has confirmed it! Those rumors outside really need to hear this!
The other two roommates in their dorm were also Bian Xun's fangirls, so they had badmouthed Ning Ye several times in their private group chat, and Liu Mi had forwarded the screenshots to her.
To this, Ning Ye preferred to interpret it as malice stemming from their failure to compete against her last semester.
After all, she really took first place in the overall rankings in her first semester^^
She wasn't entirely oblivious to the whispers around the school. Faint giggles would occasionally reach her ears, and when she worked part-time at the cafeteria, there would be malicious glances.
"I told you Bian Xun wouldn't last long with her."
"Look, after just one break, they're like strangers."
"Wealthy families in the Beijing circle aren't that easy to marry into."
Having a child had matured Ning Ye's mindset. She actually thought this was quite nice. If the outside world thought she had no relationship with Bian Xun, even if they accidentally bumped into Bian Xun taking Taotao nearby, no one would associate it with her and cause more trouble.
A massive number of anonymous essays appeared on the university's confession wall, erupting in a surge just before Bian Xun's impending graduation.
[You are the cold, solitary moon, the pure white snow. I know your light does not shine on me alone; you will always be the aloof youth.]
[Four years, I have watched you for four years. As we part ways, I wish you will forever remain an unreachable memory of my youth.]
[How could the solitary and lofty you linger among mortals? Meeting you at Jinghua, is enough for me to reminisce about for countless years.]
[Searching for him hundreds and thousands of times in the crowd, wishing you a smooth thesis defense]...
A slew of cringeworthy quotes began to emerge endlessly.
Even though Ning Ye was usually indifferent, she couldn't help but show the "old man looking at his phone on the subway" meme expression.
Liu Mi quietly told Ning Ye that one of the essays was actually written by their roommate. Because that account had also posted a thread claiming from a dorm-mate's perspective that Ning Ye had never gone out with Bian Xun and that they were definitely not together, Liu Mi had dug it up.
Actually, the rest was fine, but Ning Ye really couldn't agree with describing Bian Xun as "bright as the moon."
He was clearly as shamelessly flirtatious as an erupting volcano...
However, Bian Xun never looked at these things, and Ning Ye wouldn't tease him with them either. Her life was already packed full of various things.
The weather was gradually getting hotter. After her evening class, she took Taotao to buy a few spring and summer children's clothes. Bian Xun had slipped her a bank card, which Ning Ye quietly returned.
Bian Xun seemed to hesitate, a faint undercurrent surging in his dark eyes, but she didn't have time to ask more.
She knew they both had time next Friday...
She was participating in the sports meet in the morning, and he had his thesis defense. The little one would be at kindergarten, and then they would both be free.
Ning Ye blushed, thinking he was implying this matter, so they had a tacit understanding.
By the time she returned to campus, the library was already closed, so she had to bring the books she hadn't finished reading during the day back to the dorm, continuing to read under the lamp.
The roommate Liu Mi mentioned earlier walked past her and let out a very clear scoff.
"Working so hard."
Rumors were flying outside, saying she had been abandoned by Bian Xun, her dreams were shattered, and now she could only study twice as hard?
A porcelain-delicate face lifted from the pile of books. Ning Ye saw the other party's somewhat gloating expression, nodded, and said in a clear, gentle voice:
"If you work as hard as I do, you might have a chance to be first next semester."
The roommate's face stiffened. The students in this college were all former top students in high school, and being re-ranked in university meant no one didn't care about their standing.
Being ranked first overall meant you could speak with such confidence.
The roommate walked out of the dorm with an ugly expression, holding her phone. A few seconds later, two screams suddenly echoed from the hallway.
"Holy shit, did he really post this?!"
"Ahhh really? Is it really him?!"
"I don't believe it ahhh?!"
"It's true, my classmate has his WeChat, this really is his Moments."
Ning Ye heard the commotion in the hallway, but she didn't pay attention. She was already immersed in her revision again, the tip of her pen scratching as she calculated on the scratch paper.
However, a few seconds later, the person in the opposite bed suddenly did a kip-up. Liu Mi sat up, clutching her phone.
"Ningning, did Bian Xun post this?!"
Only then did Ning Ye's pen stop, and she looked up blankly.
What did Bian Xun post?
...
One day, amidst the cringeworthy literature flooding Jinghua University's confession wall, a short essay like this suddenly appeared.
"Love is a hand reaching out but afraid to touch; it is wanting to get close but being unable to. Moonlight spills before my bed, and all the vanity in the world cannot compare to a single fleeting glimpse of you. Perhaps I am too stubborn, and you never really cared. Your footsteps will not pause for me, NY, but I can never stop my heart from beating for you..."
Simp literature suddenly broke out from the siege of cringeworthy literature.
At first, people didn't know who posted this on the confession wall.
But a few minutes later, Bian Xun's main account took a screenshot of the essay and posted it to his WeChat Moments, with the caption: [It's me, my hand slipped and I accidentally sent it out, sorry.]
The whole school exploded^^
Ning Ye was completely dazed.
Bian Xun indeed maintained their plan to protect Taotao, making people think there was no relationship between them.
But no one told her beforehand that "no relationship" meant this kind of simp relationship??
The whole school fell into frantic discussions, completely igniting the night.
So it wasn't about being abandoned at all, but the young master loving someone he couldn't have?? Bian Xun loved her terribly, but the other party wasn't giving him a chance?? Who else could NY be but the person he knelt on one knee for??
Holy! Shit!
That night, Ning Ye lay in the dead silent dorm, staring wide-eyed at the ceiling. She was angry yet wanted to laugh, which eventually turned into a longing for his burning embrace.
Crazy.
Bian Xun was really a crazy person!
...
Before Friday arrived, as Ning Ye walked around the school, all she felt were looks of profound respect.
This was the woman who reduced even Bian Xun to a simp.
Not only beautiful, but with a top-tier mind, taking first place in the college.
Who else would dare to pursue her?
Mr. Top Scorer hadn't been discouraged before, but after Bian Xun's public declaration of love this time, he truly gave up.
If even Bian Xun couldn't win her over, who else could?
Unsurprisingly, for the next four years of university, no boys would probably dare to pursue Ning Ye.
A certain someone's devious trick had clearly taken effect in secret.
Willing to suffer ten thousand points of damage just to inflict a thousand on the enemy.
In the end, Ning Ye was completely helpless.
Because Bian Xun's maneuver—something no normal person could come up with—had truly dealt with all the malicious rumors against her in the most direct and efficient way.
Sigh, this guy...
An inexplicable softness welled up in her heart again.
Bian Xun.
He really was the most wondrous person in the world.
For Friday's sports meet, Ning Ye had only signed up for one sprinting event. After it ended, she could go find him.
Bian Xun had his thesis defense this morning. Professor Lin was very satisfied with him, so it should conclude smoothly.
Next up was dating time.
Then.
The time he promised to wear a suit...
While standing on the track, Ning Ye forced certain images out of her head to avoid her legs going weak and being unable to run.
As she prepared at the starting line, countless gazes filled with awe were still fixed upon her.
"So pretty... no wonder she's the woman who made you-know-who act like a total simp..."
"That's Bian Xun we're talking about! The ultimate heir of the Beijing elite!"
"I'm so jealous. I wonder what it feels like to be pursued by Bian Xun. I'd love to live out that fantasy just once."
Ning Ye gently closed her eyes, truly not daring to listen to any more.
The moment the starting gun fired, she sprinted forward with all her might.
The tips of the girl's high ponytail bounced in the air. A natural, faint flush from the exertion colored her youthful, fair cheeks. Her delicate features were filled with determination for the finish line, her silhouette cutting a slender yet resilient figure in the wind.
She looked like the most moving image straight out of a poem about youth.
Pushing hard to the finish line, she placed third, resting her hands on her knees as she panted softly.
When she looked up again, a tsunami of screams suddenly erupted from the entire grandstand.
Ning Ye was startled. Coming in third in her heat hardly seemed worthy of such a massive cheer.
However, as she lifted her gaze, she saw a figure slowly walking past the campus sports field.
A tall, impeccably straight physique with perfectly taut lines. From his long legs to his waistline, he was wrapped in a flawlessly tailored black suit. Very few guys their age could pull off formal wear like this.
The base color of his shirt and the pattern of his tie were exquisite and aristocratic. The white dress shirt did not have a single wrinkle, the collar pressing against his Adam's apple, cinched by a dark red tie. An aloof, forbidden aura and a hidden, seductive swagger were perfectly fused in this one man.
And most importantly, that face.
Beneath his black hair lay high brow bones. In the natural light and shadow, his dark eyes were sharp yet indolent. His handsome features, cold and harsh like a glacier sculpture, radiated a sexual tension that completely transcended his age. No one knew why he was dressed so formally today.
But when Bian Xun's gaze swept lightly over the audience and toward the track, the entire stadium roared with screams.
"Ahhhhh holy shit!"
"Bian Xun looks way too handsome in a suit!!"
Ning Ye stood dazed, her heart pounding wildly.
And this incredibly handsome man in a suit was, a little later, going to with her...
It felt a little shameful, yet absolutely irresistible.
Bian Xun walked toward her step by step. He was holding a bouquet of flowers in his hands—the flowers from his graduation defense.
He stopped in front of Ning Ye and handed his graduation bouquet to her.
It was like another confession of love.
He did not even care how many new versions of the simp rumors would spread.
Blankly breathing in the fresh scent of jasmine amidst the boiling crowd, Ning Ye saw his lips curl into a smirk. He spoke at a volume only the two of them could hear.
"Do you still have enough stamina?"
Ning Ye froze, realizing that beneath the man's suited, forbidden exterior, a wicked heart was beating wildly.
"You better have enough."
"Because I'm really going to fuck you so many times."
...
Half an hour later.
Bian Xun's house, bedroom.
All the curtains were pulled wide open. Broad daylight poured in, flooding the entire house.
Trembling, Ning Ye raised a hand to shield her eyes. She watched as he methodically untied his tie, leaning over to gaze down at her with a half-smile.
In the bright light, every single detail of her was fully exposed, visible in crystal clarity.
While he had merely unzipped his pants.
Ahhhh here it comes! The word count is over the limit so we will stop here for now! Come back tomorrow night and get ready to feast!!!
