A Snow Biscuit

Chapter 19 What Did You Call Me Before?

"The two stars in the sky are also watching you, hoping you are happy."

Xia Xinyu's shoe size is 35. Chen Yuan could hold her shoe in one hand, help her put it on, and then skillfully tie the two shoelaces into bows.

"How… how did you know?" Xia Xinyu asked, rubbing the tears from her eyes, quite puzzled.

Chen Yuan replied, "I called my aunt and found out."

"Aunt… you called my aunt?"

Xia Xinyu hadn't reacted to the "aunt." Shouldn't normal people say 'your aunt'?

However, Chen Yuan always had a habit of swallowing words. He even wrote 'o' instead of 源 because the strokes were too complicated… understandable, I guess.

"The day after you burned charcoal in the room, I asked the old man who exercises downstairs for your aunt's phone number, and then asked about the situation. She also told me what happened in your hometown."

After speaking, Chen Yuan continued honestly, "She doesn't know I'm your neighbor. I called as your classmate."

"Then she will definitely ask later…" Thinking of her aunt, who was a stern person, Xia Xinyu weakly asked, "What should I do? She's very serious."

"Ah, this…" Chen Yuan rubbed his forehead, wanting to hide a little.

After all, he couldn't withstand that strong aura of a senior teacher.

"If you're not afraid… I'll tell her about this. Otherwise, if she finds out you're lying to her, that I'm not really your classmate, she might overthink things," Xia Xinyu said timidly.

"Then how will you tell her?"

"A good friend of my neighbor saved my life…"

"Definitely not," Chen Yuan quickly urged. "Don't mention the suicide attempt. It will worry her."

"Then I'll say…" Xia Xinyu's tears had dried, and her sobs had stopped. She looked at Chen Yuan and said tentatively, "I'll say, 'Aunt, this is Chen Yuan. You can call him Chen Yuan.'"

"She better not be a language teacher…"

What kind of nonsense literature is this?

"So," Xia Xinyu said, staring into Chen Yuan's eyes, trying to capture his gaze, "are you afraid of her?"

"What's there to be afraid of? Although she's a senior teacher and students below 600 points are as lowly as ants in her eyes, she doesn't teach me. I'm not afraid."

"I mean, are you afraid of me introducing you to her?"

"…" Chen Yuan, who hadn't understood earlier, suddenly froze after the other party repeated it a second time, and fell into a struggle where he didn't know where to put his gaze.

Little Chen, do you want a neighbor?

Sure, then just send her over to me.

This progress is too outrageous.

"Okay."

After throwing out this one word, Chen Yuan turned around and sat directly on the shared electric bike that wasn't currently sponsored.

“…What do you mean by ‘okay’?"

Xia Xinyu poked Chen Yuan's damp back and muttered softly.

"Okay is just okay."

Chen Yuan gave the other party an explanation that wasn't really an explanation, and then twisted the throttle of the electric bike.

"Then I'll tell my aunt that I'm not moving to her place, that I'm still staying here in this apartment. And that my neighbor is called Chen Yuan, the one who called you earlier…"

"Okay."

"You only said one word again. You're so aloof," Xia Xinyu complained quietly.

She only knew that he was pretending to be a master by not speaking, but if she looked directly at his face, she would know why he was sputtering out one word at a time.

Because at this moment, a rare look of panic appeared on Chen Yuan's face.

He, a tall guy over 1.8 meters, was actually frightened by a girl who was barely over 1.6 meters.

And the reason he was frightened was—I'm going to tell my parents.

Xia Xinyu, whose parents were dead, only had one aunt. She was introducing him to her only relative, and also saying that she wasn't moving, that she would stay here, and asked her to rest assured, because Mr. Chen Yuan across the hall was a warm-hearted person.

Chen Yuan might have had a bit of an overactive imagination. He even imagined the scene in the future.

"Aunt, he's not some poor boy!"

"I didn't say he was poor, but he only has a bachelor's degree, not even a master's. And his bachelor's degree isn't even from a top university, just a second-tier one…"

Of course, this kind of thing probably wouldn't happen.

Because Chen Yuan had already made up his mind to get into Ji Da Hua Qing!

Using a Hai Dong *hukou* (household registration), to challenge the famous universities of the capital!

Chapter 1 Don't Bully the Young and Impoverished!

Chapter 2 Beat a Suburban County!

Chapter 3 Beat a Suburban County!

Chapter 4 Chen Yuan, ah, Chen Yuan, how can you be so degenerate?

Chapter 5 Beat a Suburban County.

"By the way…" Xia Xinyu suddenly thought of something and said, "Do you remember what you called me when you came up from the river?"

"Wait, let me flip back two chapters."

"Flip back two chapters?"

"I'm referring to my memory."

"Did you find it?"

To be honest, Chen Yuan found it, because the memory of that scene was too deep.

He said, "Xinyu, call the police."

But there was a reason for that. As everyone knows, he was a person who liked to omit words, and he was in a hurry at the time, so he had to make a long story short. Think about it, wouldn't 'Xia Xinyu, call the police' take more time than 'Xinyu, call the police'?

Don't underestimate those 0.1 seconds. For top track and field athletes, 0.01 seconds can even affect the outcome of a competition.

So, calling her Xinyu was very normal. It didn't mean anything special, and it wasn't a nickname…

"My good friends all call me Xinyu. How about you call me Xinyu too?"

Compared to Chen Yuan, who was fighting wits with the air and almost lost it, Xia Xinyu was so straightforward that it didn't match the demure and delicate appearance she should have.

Saying what she thinks is Xia Xinyu's way.

"Then what should I call you? What do your good friends usually call you?"

"Are you talking about Zhou Yu? In theory, he should call me *baba* (dad), and sometimes he would call me 'daddy' a couple of times, but now he's in his rebellious phase, so he just calls me by my name, Chen Yuan."

"…"

Xia Xinyu would never understand the obsession that boys have with seniority battles. But she understood Chen Yuan, so she asked, "Then should I still call you Chen Yuan? Would that make you feel more comfortable?"

"Lao Chen (Old Chen), Chen Zong (President Chen), pick one from Chen Yuan."

"Chen Yuan, then Chen Yuan!" Xia Xinyu quickly decided, to prevent that weird name from becoming a daily thing.

Actually, there was no other way. Calling the last two characters of a three-character name felt more intimate.

And with a two-character name, calling it directly wouldn't be too distant.

As for the single character ‘Yuan’… it still felt too early.

"Shh."

Suddenly, Chen Yuan, who was riding the bike, reminded her not to make a sound, which made Xia Xinyu stunned.

Then, the electric bike approached the bushes under the roadside landscape tree and slowly stopped.

Just as she was wondering and about to stick her head out to look, Chen Yuan suddenly raised his hand and quickly waved it down.

"Ah!"

Xia Xinyu was sitting properly, but Chen Yuan's sudden raise of his hand hit her head, with a "thwack" sound. She immediately shivered and hugged her head, protesting, "Hey, what are you doing…"

"Sorry, collateral damage."

Turning his head from the left, Chen Yuan apologized casually and held out his hand, loosely formed into a fist.

"What is it?"

Xia Xinyu looked at the palm of the other person's hand in confusion. After hearing the sound of something flapping its wings, she immediately panicked and asked nervously, "What did you catch… it's not a bug, is it?"

Slowly, Chen Yuan opened his palm.

A pale green fluorescent light, like a Kongming lantern (sky lantern), slowly rose, and then hovered and fluttered its wings right at the intersection of their gazes.

"This star, is for you."