Chapter 14
When Lin Dang saw this scene, her feelings were very complicated. In the end, she said nothing and only silently took a packet of tissues out of her pocket, pulled one out, and handed it over.
What kind of feeling was it to watch a good friend who had grown up with you secretly cry beside you?
Huo Wan did not suspect anything. She had no idea that Lin Dang’s thoughts had already run off in all sorts of messy directions.
A boring movie quickly came to an end. Because neither of them had watched very seriously, there was also no mutual discussion of the plot after they came out.
When they were about to part, Lin Dang finally could not help opening her mouth.
Although she had already reminded herself countless times in her heart not to meddle, but… there was another voice telling her that Huo Wan was not someone else!
“Xiao Wan…”
She felt it was still necessary to say something.
“You can… date, but don’t get too invested.”
Lin Dang also did not know what nonsense she was saying. If one did not get invested in love, could that still be called love? The people she saw on television all seemed quite invested.
In any case, she just did not like seeing Huo Wan shed tears for someone else.
She wanted to beat Zhao Yangyang up!
“I also won’t tell Auntie.”
At the end, she even added this sentence in an extremely understanding manner.
Huo Wan was dumbfounded.
She looked at Lin Dang’s solemn expression, as if the matter was very serious, and she was both angry and amused. She could not help holding her forehead and saying loudly,
“I’m not dating Zhao Yangyang!”
“I’m not dating anyone else. What are you even thinking!”
After this sentence was spoken, the two of them looked at each other for quite a while. Lin Dang felt as if a huge stone had been lifted from her heart, and she instantly let out a breath of relief.
Her mood suddenly became very happy and light. Even the air seemed to have turned fragrant. She could not help laughing.
Seeing Lin Dang like this, Huo Wan could not help muttering something. The little expression on her face was somewhat resentful. Then, as if she suddenly remembered something, her eyes flickered slightly.
“You don’t object to me early dating?”
“As long as you feel happy, it’s fine. In any case, it’s also a kind of life experience. If the person you like can make you happy, I won’t object.”
Lin Dang was still very open-minded about this point.
But secretly wiping tears after dating was not okay!
“Then what if I like someone I shouldn’t like?”
What if I like… you?
Am I not supposed to like you?
Huo Wan had originally thought she would receive a proper, rule-abiding answer to this question, but Lin Dang’s reply was beyond her expectations…
“In life, there is no should or shouldn’t. There is only whether you want to or don’t want to, whether you’re willing or unwilling, whether it’s worth it or not worth it.”
Although she did not really understand what exactly Huo Wan meant by those words, Lin Dang still said what she thought in her heart.
This was the educational principle Ms. Zhao Xiangmei practiced with them.
At home, they were never told what they should do. Instead, they were allowed to think for themselves.
There was no one thing in life that a person was born supposed to do.
“Then…”
Huo Wan suddenly hugged the girl in front of her.
Lin Dang was caught completely off guard by the hug. Before she had time to react, the other girl’s murmur sounded beside her ear.
“I know what I should do now.”
“I want to be with you forever!”
Since you’re letting me choose for myself, then I’ll be a little selfish, because only when I’m close to you and together with you can I be happy.
Huo Wan quietly said this in her heart.
This hug was not a hug that belonged between friends.
It was also a tiny beginning to her feelings for Lin Dang.
Lin Dang pulled open the distance between the two of them. She had been hugged into a bit of a daze.
But she did not hear the deeper meaning in Huo Wan’s words. Instead, she echoed her with a gentle smile.
“What’s so hard about that?”
“We definitely will always be together.”
….
Huo Wan carefully hid her feelings, like a piece of candy wrapped up tightly, kept hidden and covered. Although she knew perfectly well that this piece of candy was very sweet, she could not eat it in one bite.
She might even have to personally hand this carefully treasured piece of candy over to someone else one day in the future.
However, as they slowly grew up, this feeling also became stronger and stronger.
The more she suppressed it, the more uncomfortable it became.
Because she had a clear goal to follow, even Huo Wan, who did not like studying, seriously followed Lin Dang’s footsteps and studied properly. In the years that followed, they got into the same high school as they wished.
But unfortunately, in the end, they failed to attend the same university.
Because of her major, Huo Wan chose Zhongda, a university nationally famous for medicine. As for Lin Dang, because of the family business, she chose Fengda, which was relatively famous for related majors. Fortunately, the two cities were not very far apart. It only took two hours by high-speed train.
Even so, not seeing each other for ten days or half a month was still common. Missing her was like poison, swallowing what little reason Huo Wan had left on every late night.
Many times, at a certain moment, she wanted to blurt everything out and tell the person beside her that the person she liked was her. But every time it reached the crucial moment, reason would make her forcefully swallow back the words that had reached her lips.
Her reason told her that recklessly laying everything bare like this would only destroy their friendship.
And what she would receive in exchange might not necessarily be getting what she wished for. More likely, it would be going their separate ways.
The number of times the two of them met sharply decreased, and each of them became busy with her own affairs.
Lin Dang’s efficient ability to execute and her halo as a top student made her very popular in university. Very quickly, she was thriving in the student union.
Huo Wan was not inferior either.
After Lin Dang was no longer by her side, she no longer deliberately hid the light on her own body. The two of them were like two bright stars slowly rising in the night sky, each in her own corner of the heavens, each blooming with her own brilliance, each becoming outstanding in her own way.
Huo Wan did not know whether Lin Dang really was just that straight, or whether she truly knew nothing about her feelings.
Even Lin Ran could see it.
The little thing from back then had also slowly grown into a graceful young girl. Compared with when she was little and always had no power to fight back when bullied by Lin Dang, now, if she was bullied again, she would jump up, bare her teeth and claws, and fight Lin Dang back.
The year Lin Ran turned eighteen, she received her sister’s deep, overflowing care.
A thick package was delivered to her school. Lin Ran carried it into the classroom and opened it, only to see a full set of 5·3 workbooks! What a luxurious and envy-inducing advanced study package! The students around her cast “envious” gazes at her.
After returning home, Lin Ran immediately exploded.
“Lin Dang! You’ve gone too far! One mountain cannot contain two tigers. In this house, either you stay or I stay!”
She somewhat violently flung off the schoolbag on her back and nimbly jumped onto the sofa.
With her hands on her hips, she looked down from above at her demon sister, who was sitting calmly on the sofa drinking tea. The places her feet stepped on sank down deeply from her weight.
Yet her sister did not even lift an eyelid. Truly, a newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger.
“One mountain cannot contain two tigers? Roll away, little calf.”
….
At that time, Huo Wan was still in university, and she sensitively smelled a little bit of a similar kind of aura from Lin Ran.
At first, she was not very sure.
Until one day, Lin Ran hesitantly opened her mouth.
“Sister Huo Wan, do you like my sister?”
Author’s Note:
They’ve grown up.
By the way, niu baobao, or baby cow, means duzi, calf.
Lin Dang: Gun duzi. Roll away, calf.
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