Deliberately Approaching
Chapter 37 The Origin of the Name Zishen

Chapter 37: Chapter 37 The Origin of the Name Zishen

At 5 a.m.

"There’s heavy security inside, you can’t get in."

"How do you know if you don’t try?"

"What are you trying to do?"

"Just want to get out for a walk, it’s suffocating in here."

...

Tang Xiaowan suddenly shouted, "Let me go, let me out!" and then she bounced up from the bed, her forehead covered with sweat beads, her eyes filled with tears.

She was already in the bedroom, with Li Zishen sitting beside her.

"Xiao Wan, did you have a nightmare? Don’t be afraid, I’m here, no one will hurt you."

"Zishen, I feel so miserable, why does my heart feel so painful, it’s like..."

She stopped mid-sentence, her head beginning to ache again.

Hearing Tang Xiaowan call his name again, Li Zishen felt especially gratified, but also inexplicably worried, "What were you trying to say just now, Xiao Wan?"

However, Tang Xiaowan’s mind was a blank.

She didn’t know what she wanted to say. Moreover, she didn’t understand why she called him Zishen; shouldn’t it be Brother Li, or Mr. Li?

"I think I had a nightmare."

"Yes, I know, don’t be scared."

"No, I remember it seemed like I was, it seemed like I was... What’s wrong, I can’t remember anymore."

Li Zishen got up, helped Tang Xiaowan to lie down properly, "You fainted last night, luckily I followed you out later, otherwise you would have had to spend the night in the staircase, how pitiful."

To alleviate Tang Xiaowan’s nervousness, Li Zishen said this with an indulgent smile, then pinched her nose.

"Zishen."

"Yes, I’m here."

"Can I call you Zishen?"

"Silly girl, of course you can."

"The name sounds really nice, who chose it, your dad?"

"No." Li Zishen paused and looked softly at Tang Xiaowan, "Many years ago, my dad and a girl went fishing, and the girl joked that if they ever had children, the first child, boy or girl, should be called Zishen. That way, they could be as prosperous as fishes in the water, and have deep blessings."

Tang Xiaowan smiled after hearing this, "That’s so romantic, that girl must have been your mom, right?"

"No, it was a classmate of dad’s from university."

"Didn’t they get married?" Tang Xiaowan was extremely surprised, her eyes wide open.

"Later, there was an accident, and that girl died, so..."

"Oh, I see, that’s unfortunate."

"Yes, it is unfortunate!"

Looking at the shimmering tears in Tang Xiaowan’s eyes, Li Zishen remembered the scene of their fifth meeting.

At that time, she had asked him the same question.

Both conversations were exactly the same.

Yet, it had already been so long!

It turned out her thought process hadn’t changed due to the memory loss. She was still so sensitive and easily grieved.

"Zishen, many children, deep fortune." Tang Xiaowan seemed a bit sleepy, constantly repeating this phrase over and over again.

She fell asleep within a few minutes.

Li Zishen covered her with a thin blanket, then left the bedroom for the study on the fourth floor.

He fiddled with a small wooden carving in his rough, large hand.

He thought of his late father and also of all the memories with Tang Xiaowan, as if everything was vivid before his eyes, yet also blurred and unclear.

His father had died not long after finishing the story.

At that time, Li Zishen, who was only ten years old, felt as if his whole world had collapsed.

From then on, the amusement park became forbidden in Li Garden, no one was allowed to set foot in it, even the heavy task of cleaning was completed by Li Zishen alone.

Sometimes Li Zishen wondered if his father’s departure was a happy one because he could never forget that girl, so he chose to give up his life to find her.

He just hadn’t expected that he himself would encounter the same dilemma as his father.

Uncle Li Wanshan always liked to take advantage of Tang Xiaowan to stir trouble, deliberately disrupting the unity among the shareholders.

While things on Tang Xiaowan’s end weren’t going smoothly,

she was just a 20-year-old university student. What kind of troubles could be plaguing her?

Was it really that Grandma Tang didn’t allow her to go out?

Or was she secretly dating me without her grandma’s knowledge?

I’m not a bad catch, so why the secrecy?

No, that can’t be it!

Li Zishen thought harder and harder, feeling like there was some shocking secret hidden in all this.

He suddenly got up and returned to the second floor,

still holding the small pig wood carving.

...

Jin City University, Foreign Language College.

Chen Yu quickly finished washing up and dashed downstairs.

She needed to save seats, at the very last row.

This was something she had promised Tang Xiaowan yesterday.

At this moment, it was still half an hour before the academic building would open, and she had arrived too early.

It wasn’t long before Chen Nan also arrived.

Seeing Chen Yu there, he seemed unsurprised and took the initiative to ask, "Did you come so early to save seats for Tang Xiaowan?"

Chen Yu awkwardly nodded.

"No need to save them, from now on they are yours."

Chen Yu was both happy and astonished, "Then where will you sit?"

"Aren’t there three seats?"

"Oh, got it, thank you."

In university classes, it is usually okay to sit anywhere as the number of seats often exceeds the number of students.

In their Business English Class A, before Tang Xiaowan joined, there were a total of 30 people.

The first five rows had six students each, two per group. The sixth row had three empty seats, initially reserved for visiting teachers, but Chen Nan, who loved to sleep, had suggested to the counselor to designate that spot for himself, so it wouldn’t disturb others’ learning.

The intention was good, and the counselor agreed.

Later, someone in the class spread a rumor claiming that Chen Nan, believing he was a superior student, had commandeered the best seats.

Being proud, he couldn’t be bothered to explain.

Over time, some male students began to avoid him, while female students almost worshipped him like a god.

Due to extreme tiredness from a competition yesterday, he hadn’t checked the drawer holes and had just laid down to sleep, which led to the misunderstanding that followed.

Time slowly passed.

At seven sharp, the bells rang, and the academic building opened.

Chen Yu and Chen Nan walked one after another.

In the stairwells and corridors, only their footsteps could be heard.

After opening the classroom door, Chen Nan didn’t enter.

Afraid that others might stir up rumors, he purposefully stayed in the corridor playing games.

After all, it wasn’t really appropriate for a man and a woman to be alone together, especially since he was a notably top student.

But Chen Yu didn’t realize Chen Nan’s good intentions, mistakenly thinking her neck’s birthmark disgusted him and that he didn’t want to be alone with her, so he stayed outside.

Ten minutes later, classmates began to arrive.

Some came early to read, while others came from their dorms to chat.

Song Jiaqi and her two friends also arrived.

They weren’t there for the chat but had their own agenda.

Seeing Chen Nan outside playing on his phone, the three girls ran over flutteringly to say hi, but unfortunately, he ignored them and kept playing his game.

This kind of disregard was something they had gotten used to.

After all, who could blame him for being a top student!

Soon after, the three girls walked into the classroom with heads held high, ready to carry out their plan for the day.

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