Chapter 735: Be My Girlfriend

"Let go." She was furious.

"If you agree to be my girlfriend, I'll let go."

Lao Qi regretted it the moment the words left his mouth; wasn't this just coercion?

A gentleman does not take advantage of others' precarious situations; that remark was far too thoughtless.

He wanted to explain, but Nianyin didn't give him the chance!

"Pah! Shameless."

She stomped hard on Lao Qi's foot, and Lao Qi let go in pain.

Actually, it wasn't because he was stepped on that he let go, but because he sensed that Nianyin was truly angry.

He wanted to apologize, but what came out of his mouth was: "Can I have your phone number?"

After saying it, he wished he could slap himself twice.

Brainless.

And not just the ordinary kind of brainless.

"Hmph! Get lost."

Nianyin walked into the school without even looking back.

People all around were jeering.

"Give it up, buddy. She's our school's School Beauty, famous for being hard to chase. You won't be able to win her over."

"Big brother, I'm quite pretty too. How about you be my boyfriend? What do you think of me?"

The girl speaking was indeed very pretty, but she wasn't the type Lao Qi liked.

This girl was too enthusiastic and outgoing; he liked the cold and aloof ones.

"Stay away from me."

Away from Nianyin, Lao Qi reverted to his usual icy face, scaring the girl into leaving quickly.

"That's a bit rude, isn't it? You won't even glance at such a pretty girl?"

"Wanna bet? I bet he won't be able to chase her."

"I also bet he won't be able to chase her."

There was no need to bet; no one thought Lao Qi could win.

Classroom.

Nianyin sat in the last row, taking notes while listening.

"Nianyin, I love you!"

"Nianyin, marry me!"

The classroom was suddenly in an uproar; students were whispering and murmuring to each other.

"Did you hear that sound?"

"Someone is calling for her."

Since Nianyin started school, there had been plenty of boys chasing her, but she never responded.

It wasn't strange that someone was shouting downstairs now; the students were just jeering.

The professor was an old man with graying hair; although he wasn't young, his thinking wasn't outdated.

"The person outside is calling for you, right? While I'm in a good mood, I might approve if you ask for leave. Want to try?" the old professor said with a smile.

He had a good impression of this diligent student; she was especially hardworking, and there weren't many students in the academy who studied hard these days.

The hint was too obvious; he might as well have just said, "Go on out, dating is more important than studying!"

"Professor, I won't take leave. Please continue the lecture."

Nianyin remained unmoved.

"Good."

The professor smiled and continued lecturing.

If it were an ordinary person, they might have retreated in the face of difficulty after calling a few times without a response.

But Lao Qi wouldn't.

He was stubborn; once he set his sights on something, he would never look back!

"Nianyin, I love you."

"Nianyin, come down..."

His throat was hoarse from shouting, yet the person hadn't come down.

Let alone come down, she hadn't even shown her face.

However, many windows of the teaching building opened, and countless young heads poked out to watch the excitement.

Including the classroom where Nianyin was.

The professor stopped once more and said to her with a smile: "Student Ji Nianyin, you should go out and explain things to the student outside. Even if you don't agree, go and explain it clearly to the boy. He keeps shouting, and I'm being affected."

"Sorry, Professor. I will clarify things with him immediately."

Nianyin didn't walk out of the classroom, but instead headed toward the water dispenser.

The full water jug was lifted off the dispenser, and she opened the window...

Lao Qi had finally waited bitterly for Nianyin to appear, but before he could be happy, a bucket of water crashed down—"Splash!"

He didn't dodge or avoid it, instantly becoming a drowned rat.

"Get lost!"

This was the first word Nianyin had said to him of her own accord.

Lao Qi was rejected without mercy, yet he did not retreat in the face of difficulty.

He came almost every day.

Or he would pretend to "run into" her by chance at the school entrance.

Or he would go downstairs to her classroom building to play the guitar and light candles.

Nianyin was annoyed beyond measure, and she decided to have a clear talk with Lao Qi.

She stood in front of Lao Qi, still wearing her usual icy expression, and said to him, "Stop wasting time on me; I have a husband."

"You don't."

Lao Qi shook his head with certainty.

In an instant, he betrayed Shi Youxuan: "Madam told me; you have no husband and no boyfriend, and the one who died doesn't count."

Nianyin:...

Why does Big Sister tell him everything?

But since Big Sister would tell him these things, he is not an outsider, and it wouldn't be good to make things too awkward.

Her attitude softened a little, and she said patiently, "Since Big Sister has already told you, you should be able to understand; my man only passed away recently, and I won't be taking a boyfriend so soon."

"I can wait."

"Fine, if you are willing to wait, then wait."

Reasoning didn't work, and Nianyin didn't want to say more, so she turned and left.

From this day on, Lao Qi seemed to have become obsessed; he made a countdown clock and placed it in the courtyard, calculating every day—how many days until the third anniversary of Feiying?

Because Lao Qi was there, Nianyin did not easily come to the Sheng Family, and when she missed Big Sister, she would call her to arrange a meeting outside.

The three sisters arranged to drink tea at a teahouse in the suburbs.

Jin Wan'er had moved out of the Jian Family, and without her mother-in-law tormenting her, her mood improved, and her figure had actually become plump as if blown up by air.

Shi Youxuan suggested: "Wan'er, you need to lose weight; you can't get any fatter."

Wan'er also knew that she was not at all healthy being this fat now, but there was really no other way; if she couldn't control her mouth, she couldn't control her weight.

The weight-loss center that Shi Youxuan went to when she gave birth to Sheng Zichen was quite good, so she introduced it to her younger sister.

Both sisters were now mothers, so naturally, they couldn't help but talk about their children when they met.

Nianyin didn't say much and was still a bit distracted.

"Sorry, Nianyin, you must not like the topic we're talking about, right?" Wan'er considerately prepared to change the subject.

"Ah? What did you say, Second Sister?"

Wan'er:...

So she hadn't heard a word of what she said at all.

She repeated what she had just said: "I was saying we are talking about children; you don't like this topic, let's talk about something else."

Nianyin: "I like it, I like it very much."

"Second Sister, I bought a few pairs of Spring Shoes for the three little ones at Baobao Jiayuan yesterday; do you want to see if they are suitable?"

She opened her bag, then her expression froze, and she looked embarrassed: "Sorry, I forgot to bring them."

"It's okay, it's okay."

Nianyin's scatterbrained appearance, as if she had lost her soul, was all seen by Shi Youxuan.

Shi Youxuan was someone who had been through it all.

She could roughly guess why she was like this.

"Lao Qi has been practicing martial arts in the backyard and counting the countdown clock every day besides going to work; he doesn't go anywhere else."

Nianyin blushed: "Oh my, why bring him up for no reason? It's a mood killer."

Although she said that, her body leaned forward involuntarily, clearly still wanting to listen.

Her words did not match her heart.

Shi Youxuan teased her, deliberately drawing out her voice: "Oh—you don't want to hear it? Fine, then I won't say anything."

Nianyin:...

Her expressions were very rich.

Conflict, hesitation, and a rosy flush appeared on her face.

Wan'er couldn't stand it anymore and nudged her sister: "Hurry up and tell me, I want to hear it."

Shi Youxuan took the opportunity to go along with it and told her everything about Lao Qi's performance these past few days and why he wanted to make a countdown clock in the courtyard.

Nianyin looked left and right, pretending to be distracted.

In reality, she had listened, and it had gone straight to her heart.

Nianyin was not moved, but she had other thoughts.

The frequency of phone calls from the Clan Leader these past two days had been a bit high, and the content was only one thing—find a man!

Find a man to carry on the family line.

The position of Clan Leader could not end with Nianyin's generation.