I Might Have Fallen in Love With My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 41 - 38: Shaking Hands with God Ji

Chapter 41: Chapter 38: Shaking Hands with God Ji

On Wednesday, just as Li Qingran was enthusiastically conducting her experiment, Tan Xiaobing from Class 7 ran over to her.

Li Qingran actually did not know Tan Xiaobing, but Ruan Ruan did.

Ruan Ruan accused loudly: "Tan Xiaobing, you still have the face to come to Class 1."

The post on the school forum that details how Tan Xiaobing spread rumors about Li Qingran is still prominently pinned at the top.

Tan Xiaobing, who had skipped a day of class, cried miserably in front of Li Qingran’s desk. Sobbing, she apologized to Li Qingran: "Li, Li Qingran, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t, shouldn’t have..."

She choked up and couldn’t continue speaking, covering her face and bursting into tears, the sobbing sound appeared extremely pitiful.

Zhang Li was still there fanning the flames, "Wow, she specifically came to Class 1 to apologize, this student’s apology is so sincere."

Li Qingran furrowed her brows, looking at Tan Xiaobing who cried even louder, and asked: "Are you apologizing to me?"

Tan Xiaobing nodded frantically amidst her sobs.

It was early afternoon, and not many students were in the classroom at this time. Most of them were either still eating lunch or walking on the sports field after finishing.

It has to be said, Tan Xiaobing really knew how to pick the right moment.

Li Qingran spoke in an even tone, "Then why are you crying like a victim?"

Tan Xiaobing’s crying paused, and her hiccupping finally slowed down a lot.

Li Qingran was no shrinking violet; she couldn’t just forgive those who talked about her behind her back and maligned her with a calm and collected demeanor.

Li Qingran: "Does it feel good to talk about others behind their backs, Tan?"

Tan Xiaobing became flustered: "I, I..."

Li Qingran still appeared calm and unhurried, sitting at her seat: "Tan, if you can withstand rumors and gossip, you should bear it too. Everyone must pay a proper price for the words they’ve said and the actions they’ve taken."

Tan Xiaobing cried out in despair, covering her face and lowering her head. Her broken voice seeped through her fingers: "Li Qingran, I’m sorry, I’m truly sorry, I had no malicious intent, I really didn’t think that much..."

Indeed, she was only showing off her wit for a moment. She never considered how the words she said could trouble and impact someone else’s life.

And then, when the same was done to her, she cried as if she had suffered the greatest injustice.

Ha, how laughable!

Huang Qianyu was sitting backward on the desk, looking over with her arms crossed, clearly enjoying the spectacle and not minding escalating the situation, even interjecting: "Li Qingran, she has come to apologize and you’ve retaliated. Isn’t it enough to just forgive her? What more do you want?"

Ruan Ruan countered her: "Huang Qianyu, you wouldn’t understand the pain if it’s not about you!"

Li Qingran also looked at Huang Qianyu with a cold smile, "How about this, Huang Qianyu, I’ll expose your dirty secrets on the school forum, spread rumors about you, and then come and apologize to you. Surely you’ll be magnanimous and forgive me, right?"

Huang Qianyu’s smiling face darkened. She stopped looking at Li Qingran and instead focused on her fingertips, "As if I have any dirty secrets."

She didn’t utter another sarcastic remark after that.

More and more people were arriving in the classroom, and Li Qingran didn’t want to entangle with Tan Xiaobing any longer, "Let’s forgive each other. You can go back now."

Tan Xiaobing didn’t leave. She bit her lip, hesitating to speak.

Li Qingran was puzzled: "Is there something else?"

"School forum..." Tan Xiaobing again let down a few tears, her voice half-choked: "Can the post in the school forum be deleted?"

Li Qingran: "?"

These past few days, Li Qingran hadn’t looked at the school forum. She wasn’t interested in opening it, whether it was posts about her or about Tan Xiaobing, as all this would upset her.

Tan Xiaobing’s voice was already hoarse from crying, "Li Qingran, the posts about you on the school forum haven’t lasted half an hour the past few days, but the ones about me haven’t been deleted and have even been pinned... sob..."

This must have been Li Qingmo’s doing. Li Qingran resigned herself to mention it to her brother later.

Only then did Tan Xiaobing leave.

Xie Ying’an returned to the classroom with Wen Shiyi and a few others. The physics competition was approaching, and their physics teacher was now seizing even the lunch break for teaching.

Before class started, Li Qingran asked Xie Ying’an if he knew why the posts on the school forum hadn’t been deleted.

Xie Ying’an was well acquainted with Fang Jin, another admin of the school forum, but not so much with Senior Ji He from the senior class.

Sophomore Class 1 was a certain distance away from Sophomore Class 4. With his long legs, Xie Ying’an quickly returned.

He said to Qingran, "It’s Senior Ji He from Senior Class 3-2 who set the permissions. Even Fang Jin can’t delete it. Do you know Ji He?"

Qingran frowned and shook her head, "I don’t know him."

Xie Ying’an also furrowed his brows, lost in thought. He had indeed seen Ji He from Senior Class 3-2 a few times. Since Qingran didn’t know him, could it be that Li Qingmo did?

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The fact that students who didn’t participate in the physics competition didn’t have to stay for extra classes after school was absolutely celebrated.

Even though it was already their second year of high school, some students who disliked studying still loathed it.

It was different for the seniors; nearly all senior students had additional study sessions and evening self-study.

Xie Ying’an said he would go to find Ji He after class and told her not to worry about it.

But Qingran didn’t want to trouble him anymore. Xie Ying’an was highly regarded by the physics teacher. This physics competition had the school counting on both the second-year Xie Ying’an and the senior Ji Yanchen to win awards. It seemed quite unethical to waste his time at such a critical moment.

Qingran walked with Ruan Ruan to the entrance of Senior Class 3-2. Ruan Ruan peeked into the classroom, then quickly drew her head back at the sight of the overwhelming number of students.

"Is the senior year that intimidating?" Ruan Ruan made a sour face. "Almost no one from the class has left."

Qingran smiled, "Isn’t that more convenient for us to find Senior Ji He?"

Ruan Ruan’s eyes lit up, "That’s true, Senior Ji He probably hasn’t left either, saving us the trouble of searching everywhere."

Ruan Ruan suffered from a severe case of social media awesomeness syndrome. She whispered to Qingran, "Let’s wait here for a bit. If someone comes out, we can ask them to call for Senior Brother Ji."

While they were talking, Ruan Ruan caught a glimpse of someone exiting the classroom from the corner of her eye, a tall and lean silhouette that seemed vaguely familiar.

Ruan Ruan’s face lit up with a smile, but when she saw the person, she froze.

Qingran tugged at her, "What’s wrong?"

She also looked up, and there was God Ji emerging from the classroom, his half-covered face obscured by the stray hairs that he was tucking under a baseball cap, revealing his exceptionally handsome face once again.

Standing inside the classroom of Senior Class 3-2, the audible gasps were clear. After a moment of silence, a chaotic chorus of surprise erupted.

"OMG, is that God Ji???"

"Sisters, pinch me, wake me up, quick, quick, quick—"

"I don’t have time to pinch you, where, where is my phone? Shit!"

"Damn it, who the hell said when God closes a door, he definitely opens a window; is God Ji an illegitimate child of God or what???"

...

Ruan Ruan, staring closely at God Ji’s face, was spellbound for quite a while.

Qingran offered Ji Yanchen an awkward smile. Unaccustomed to being gazed at by so many people, Ji Yanchen passed by Ruan Ruan, both managing not to even graze the other’s clothes in the narrow classroom doorway.

"Shall we go?" he said to Qingran.

Qingran felt somewhat embarrassed, "Senior Brother Ji, I’m actually here to find Senior Ji He."

When Ji He saw Ji Yanchen wearing the cap, he guessed that Junior Sister might have come looking for God Ji, so he didn’t hurry out.

When Ji He finally appeared, he just heard Junior Sister’s ’I’m here to find Senior Ji He’, which made him twitch the corner of his mouth, quickly looking for God Ji’s reaction.

As expected, God Ji looked over at him, his indifferent and serene eyes dark and devoid of a hint of light.

Ji He cursed inwardly and approached with a stiff smile, "Junior Sister, looking for me? What’s up?"

At the same time, Ruan Ruan had already quickly recovered and extracted her phone. She sneakily aimed the camera at God Ji’s profile and took several pictures.

Qingran responded with a polite smile, reaching out to Ji He, "Hello, Senior Ji He."

Her hand in midair was suddenly taken in a cold grasp, smooth as water.

Ji He stepped back, speechless at the sight of his hand being intercepted by God Ji.

Holy shit, God Ji actually initiating a handshake? That’s unheard of.

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