Chapter 43: The Young Couple at the Train Station

When Xu Heng woke up first the next morning, he saw that Cheng Huaiyu's bed was empty. He knew that history was still following its normal trajectory; the influence brought about by him, this butterfly, had not yet reached an outrageous degree.

After getting up and washing, he went to the sports field to run a few laps, did some warm-up exercises, and then went to the canteen for breakfast.

The school was still in its opening week, with freshmen arriving one after another, and classes for upperclassmen had not yet begun, though books and the like were to be distributed today.

Compared to science majors, liberal arts majors with fewer male students were the most miserable at this time, because heavy labor like moving books definitely had to be left to the boys.

Some exaggerated women would even demand that the boys help them move their books back to the dormitory. If you didn't do it, you would be labeled with "not even willing to help girls with this little favor, not a shred of manliness."

Fortunately, the overall quality of the girls at Jin Da was quite good, so the aforementioned outrageous situation did not occur.

Xu Heng and the others basically just helped move the books from the classroom to the outside, and the girls consciously sorted the books and left. Those with boyfriends would let their boyfriends do the manual labor; they wouldn't inexplicably ask boys in the class they weren't familiar with to help them move books back to the dormitory.

During this time, the class committee members helped sort the books, and the few sets left at the end were theirs.

Seeing Fan Xi sweating profusely while carrying a bag and holding a few books on ancient literature history in her hands, Zhao Gaoyang said with heartache, "Class Monitor, let me carry your bag; I have a lot of strength."

To this, Fan Xi just smiled: "It's okay, I can do it myself."

Hearing this, Zhao Gaoyang could only give up.

At this moment, a class committee member surnamed Lu came over and asked, "Did Cheng Huaiyu not come? What about his books? Are you guys taking them back for him?"

Xu Heng said to just leave them in the counselor's office; they didn't have extra bags or shoulders, so they would wait for Cheng Huaiyu to come and get them himself.

Fan Xi asked curiously, "Didn't Cheng Huaiyu go back with you guys last night?"

"Uh..." Zhao Gaoyang panicked when asked this by her. He knew Fan Xi's personality; if she found out Cheng Huaiyu stayed out all night, she would definitely tell Dan Yuyue. After all, everyone in Dan Yuyue's dormitory except Ying Ziyun had added each other on QQ last night.

"Cheng Huaiyu helped Dan Yuyue block Wine yesterday and drank too much, so he's still sleeping in the dormitory now," Xu Heng replied quickly and sharply.

"Then why didn't you wake him up when you came?"

"We called him, but he's sleeping like a dead pig; he couldn't be woken up at all." Xu Heng's speaking speed was calm, without the slightest appearance of lying.

Fan Xi nodded with an "oh" and said that Cheng Huaiyu was really good to Dan Yuyue, helping her block two or three glasses of white Wine last night; it was estimated he had drunk nearly a jin, so it was normal that he couldn't wake up.

To this, Zhao Gaoyang could only smile awkwardly.

Could he possibly retort that Cheng Huaiyu wasn't actually unable to wake up from drinking too much, but rather unable to wake up from a woman's belly?

After handling Cheng Huaiyu's books, Fan Xi turned to ask Xu Heng, "After the make-up exams the week after next, the counselor said to let us class committee members come up with a plan in advance. Do you have any ideas?"

"No." Xu Heng answered quite bluntly. In his previous life, the thing he hated most was collective team-building activities like this; they wasted weekend time and also wasted money.

Fan Xi said, "Then it's perfect that we class committee members are all here today. Shall we find an empty classroom to discuss it?"

"I have something to do today. You guys discuss it first; no need to ask for my opinion." Xu Heng checked his watch; it was already past ten in the morning. Liu Yiyan was on the train last night and would arrive around eleven o'clock today, so he still had to go to the train station to pick someone up.

Fan Xi pursed her lips; Xu Heng seemed to have returned to his previous attitude of not caring much about class affairs.

Compared to this kind of Xu Heng, she still preferred the Xu Heng who had a sense of responsibility.

"Then for this year's Welcome Gala, every class in our sophomore year has to put on a program. You are our class's Arts Committee Member, so you have to be responsible for this matter."

"What does the freshman Welcome Gala have to do with us sophomores?"

"To show the style of the upperclassmen and set an excellent campus image for the freshmen," Fan Xi said with a straight face, very "officially."

After saying this, the two looked at each other for two seconds, and in the end, neither could hold it back and burst out laughing.

"Oh, it's the decision of the college leaders, not my fault. Besides, aren't you quite good at playing the guitar? It's just right to perform in front of everyone; maybe you can trick a few freshman girls."

"But I don't want to trick freshman girls; I only want to trick you. What should I do?"

After Xu Heng teased her with a cheesy pickup line from the future, Fan Xi smiled faintly and said that his little tricks could only fool ignorant freshman girls, but couldn't fool her.

Before, when she wasn't familiar with Xu Heng, every time he said a cheesy pickup line, Fan Xi would shyly lower her head and say nothing, but later, as their communication deepened, Fan Xi formed an immunity to Xu Heng's cheesy pickup lines.

There is a saying that is correct: a woman's endurance will continue to become stronger with the number of times she endures.

After chatting with Fan Xi for a bit, Xu Heng didn't continue to stay here. After sending the books back to the dormitory and grabbing his laptop, he hailed a taxi to Nan Zhan.

When the taxi arrived at Nan Zhan, Liu Yiyan was already standing at the train station exit waiting for him.

Today, Liu Yiyan was wearing a thin pink shirt and denim hot pants, revealing a pair of long, white legs. She stood gracefully, becoming a beautiful landscape at the entrance of Nan Zhan.

Seeing that she hadn't discovered him yet, Xu Heng walked behind her and tapped her shoulder lightly.

"Little girl, who are you waiting for? Do you want to accompany your uncle to a hotel to play some little games?"

Liu Yiyan was startled. When she turned around and saw that familiar, slightly punchable face of Xu Heng wearing sunglasses, she felt relieved. She took his arm and muttered, "You only know how to tease me."

"Isn't that to help you recall the wonderful time of that night?" Xu Heng casually put his arm around her waist, picked up her suitcase with his other hand, and smiled, "Let's go, I've already booked the place."

At this moment, Liu Yiyan suddenly broke free from his arm and said somewhat coyly, "Can we not do that thing as soon as we meet? It makes me feel like I'm just your tool."

Xu Heng was stunned, then reacted and amusingly patted her butt: "What are you thinking! I was talking about the place to eat."

"Ah? You... you didn't mean that?" Liu Yiyan said weakly.

"It's really not wrong to call you a little pervert; how is your head filled with colorful things all day long? It's settled that I'm taking you to play in Jinling today; could I possibly lie to you?"

"Don't say it, don't say it."

Liu Yiyan shyly and angrily covered his mouth, but Xu Heng took the opportunity to hug her and pulled her little hands away. The two of them kissed openly right there at the train station.

Passersby who saw this scene exclaimed: "Damn! Which school are these young lovers from? They're so damn bold."

In the summer of 2007, it wasn't as open as it would be ten years later.

The gaze of strangers made Liu Yiyan's cheeks burn red. She closed her eyes and enjoyed Xu Heng's kiss as if resigned to her fate.