Chapter 169 Recognition (1/3)

"Where were you during the spring cleaning?"

In the cafeteria, Lin Yuehua asked calmly, not caring about the looks from others, and just sat with Li Zhuangsheng to eat.

"Something happened, so I had to skip the class..." said Li Zhuangsheng.

"Don't be so righteous!" Lin Yuehua frowned.

Li Zhuangsheng lowered his head and fiddled with the plate with his chopsticks: "Well, actually I went to reject Hu Mengdie. Can you accept this?"

Lin Yuehua showed surprise on her face: "You rejected her?"

"Why are you so surprised? Is this hard to accept?"

"Why? Is it because of Zhu..." Lin Yuehua asked subconsciously.

"It has nothing to do with others. I just... don't have any feelings for her." Li Zhuangsheng hesitated for a moment and explained vaguely.

"You're lying again." Lin Yuehua lowered her eyes and snorted softly.

Li Zhuangsheng looked up at her and asked, "Which point do you mean?"

Lin Yuehua said affirmatively: "You like her."

"Wow, you're slandering me!"

"Didn't you see your face? You can't even smile."

Li Zhuangsheng immediately forced a fake smile: "Look, how brightly I smile!"

Lin Yuehua glanced at him: "So ugly."

"She's ugly, nothing like you, the beautiful lady." Li Zhuangsheng put away his smile.

"I'm not a great beauty either. Hu Mengdie and your sister are." Lin Yuehua has become accustomed to Li Zhuangsheng's flattery. When Li Zhuangsheng compliments her appearance, she no longer blushes like she did at the beginning. She calmly replies, "And Zhu Zhixue too."

Li Zhuangsheng patted Lin Yuehua on the shoulder and affirmed again: "You must be confident, you are also a great beauty!"

Lin Yuehua ignored this and asked indifferently, "Hu Mengdie is so beautiful, but you didn't agree. Do you have someone else you like?"

"No, absolutely not!" Li Zhuangsheng immediately patted his chest, "I want to study hard and fulfill my duty as a student. Why don't you believe me? As a student, isn't it natural for me to study hard?"

Lin Yuehua was slightly startled, and the corners of her mouth could not help but curl up. She picked up the chicken leg and put it into Li Zhuangsheng's bowl: "Well said, I'll give you a chicken leg as a reward!"

"I bought this originally, okay..." Li Zhuangsheng whispered, but still took it.

As the two were talking, countless eyes were cast on them, and Li Zhuangsheng was still feeling uneasy.

"Should we sit separately these days?" Li Zhuangsheng said in a low voice.

"Why do we have to separate?" Lin Yuehua said.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to adapt."

Li Zhuangsheng is now at the center of campus public opinion. If he eats with other girls in public at this time, the other girl will be discussed as well.

"I don't care. There's nothing to be uncomfortable with."

Lin Yuehua naturally felt the gazes of others, but she didn't care.

In this case, Li Zhuangsheng could not say anything more. After finishing their dinner, they quickly left the cafeteria.

"Zhu Zhixue, I noticed that she wasn't in a good mental state this afternoon. She even seemed to have cried." Lin Yuehua suddenly said on the way back to the classroom.

"You seem to care about her a lot!" Li Zhuangsheng teased deliberately.

"I just care about my classmates."

"There shouldn't be any reason. It's okay."

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"Zhu Zhixue, come out for a moment!" After returning to the classroom, Li Zhuangsheng quickly walked to Zhu Zhixue and knocked on the other's desk.

Zhu Zhixue raised her head unhappily and stood up silently.

"Hey, hey, what's going on? Why didn't you go find Hu Mengdie?" Zhu Zhixue's deskmate was a slightly plump girl. When she saw Li Zhuangsheng, she teased him in a sarcastic tone.

Li Zhuangsheng smiled and walked to the corridor outside the classroom with Zhu Zhixue.

"Hey, Zhu Zhixue, I've been wondering, could you be Wang Shuangmei?" Li Zhuangsheng went straight to the point.

Zhu Zhixue looked at Li Zhuangsheng in astonishment, with a touching blush on her face. She hoped many times that he would recognize her.

When they were assigned to the same class again, Zhu Zhixue could hardly contain her excitement when she saw the familiar face. She wanted to walk to Li Zhuangsheng and confess her identity to him.

But she finally suppressed her inner impulse and pretended to talk to Li Zhuangsheng as if nothing had happened.

She had been feeling a lot of resentment in her heart. She had known that Li Zhuangsheng was in this school since she entered high school, but Li Zhuangsheng never knew her. Although she knew that she had changed her name and even her appearance had changed a lot,

But if you look carefully, you can clearly see that she has similarities with before!
Why can't you recognize me? That's so bad.

Ever since she received her first love letter in high school, she has been imagining how she would respond if Li Zhuangsheng also came to pursue her.
It would be nice to just date him, but before that, I had to give him a hard time, unless he recognized me.

It was just that Li Zhuangsheng did not come after her, but she could not help but hang around the door of Li Zhuangsheng's class several times to see if she could bump into him. She even found excuses to talk to Li Zhuangsheng several times, but he just hesitated and still did not recognize that the person in front of him was her junior high school classmate.

Zhu Zhixue was sulking in her heart, but she was not too anxious because there was still a lot of time and she and Li Zhuangsheng were assigned to the same class again.

This must be fate's arrangement. She and Li Zhuangsheng must be destined to be together!

At least before October, she had always naively thought that Li Zhuangsheng would be able to recognize her now. If Li Zhuangsheng could recognize her, she would definitely confess to him and then be together... She was no longer the same person she was before!
Will Li Zhuangsheng like her now? Will Li Zhuangsheng accept her... They will definitely be together forever because they are destined to be together.

Yes, it was destined.

All the past emotions burst out at this moment, and Zhu Zhixue looked at the calm face in front of her excitedly. But this was clearly a long-awaited moment, but there was no joy that she had long dreamed of.

If only it could be earlier. If only it could be earlier, before he and Hu Mengdie started dating... When did they get together, in the first year of high school?

How much better it would have been if I had confessed to him as soon as I entered high school instead of being angry for no reason!
Zhu Zhixue trembled when she heard the three words "Wang Shuangmei" from Li Zhuangsheng again. She had countless things to say in her heart, but at this moment, she could only tremble:

"Yeah." She nodded.

"It's you indeed." Li Zhuangsheng showed a slightly surprised expression, "I just recently felt that you looked like me, but you've changed so much that I didn't even dare to recognize you."

His acting skills were not very good, but fortunately Zhu Zhixue could not tell at the moment. He actually did not understand the girl's turbulent and rich inner world. This was carried out according to the plan he had conceived.

"Later, I grew taller, and also lost weight..."

Zhu Zhixue choked up and nodded in agreement. She seemed to have turned back into her first-grade self.

(End of this chapter)