Chapter 3: A Family by the Spring, Chapter 3: The Sunny and Handsome Youth

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

Lin Xiyu smiled gratefully, tossed her schoolbag onto the podium, and quickly ran to her seat.

The proctor then came before her to verify her admission ticket.

Lin Xiyu smoothed the messy bangs on her forehead, revealing her clean forehead.

After finishing the check, the proctor nodded in satisfaction and placed the exam paper on her desk.

"Thank you, teacher."

Lin Xiyu obediently said thank you, wanting to write, only to realize she hadn't taken her pen out of her bag.

How unlucky, what should she do?

The exam papers had already been handed out; if she went back to get a pen, would the teacher misunderstand and think she wanted to cheat?!

As she agonized over it, a black fountain pen was thrown over from behind her right side.

She was so startled her heart trembled; without looking back, she could guess who it was.

Guben threw the pen over, then immediately lowered his head to answer the questions, calm as if nothing had happened.

Lin Xiyu tremblingly reached out her hand, grasped the pen, and under the proctor's scrutinizing gaze, awkwardly tugged at the corner of her mouth.

Fortunately, the proctor didn't argue with them and let her off again.

Lin Xiyu patted her frightened little heart, stopped thinking wildly, uncapped the pen, and wrote her name on the exam paper.

The last subject of the college entrance exam was Chinese, which was her strong suit.

The little incident of saving someone didn't affect her state of mind; she quickly got into the zone, focused, and began answering questions.

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Two hours passed in a flash; as the bell rang, the exam ended.

The candidates stood up one after another, handed in their papers, and left the classroom.

Taking advantage of checking her exam paper, Lin Xiyu glanced at the seat behind her right side, saw Guben stand up to hand in his paper, and she quickly capped her pen and followed him.

The two walked out of the classroom side by side with their backpacks.

Guben was 1.85 meters tall, with a slender and perfect figure and a sunny, handsome appearance; among students his age, he was absolutely a dazzling presence.

Lin Xiyu clearly felt that the gazes converging from all directions were filled with fervor and amazement when they fell on him, while those falling on her were—amazement and contempt.

"Your pen, thank you."

Lin Xiyu's ears felt a bit hot; she returned the pen to Guben, wanting to keep some distance from him.

With her current appearance, she couldn't blame others for being amazed; even she felt she was an eyesore.

"What were you doing so early in the morning?"

Guben took the fountain pen and teased jokingly, "Did you fall into the river? Did you make yourself look so disheveled?"

"Something like that."

Lin Xiyu somewhat embarrassedly smoothed her hair.

"You really fell into the river?"

Guben paused in his steps, showing some surprise.

He had just casually teased her with a remark, never expecting to hit the nail on the head and actually guess the truth.

"I encountered a car accident on the way here."

Lin Xiyu didn't want him to look down on her, and self-deprecatingly joked, "I saved two people in the moat, so I guess this counts as a hero saving a beauty, hahahaha..."

"You, saved people?"

Seeing her laugh so carefree, Guben hesitated whether to believe her.

"Is it true?"

Lin Xiyu raised her small face, extremely tsunderely boasting herself, "There's a TV station reporter's video recording as proof; I might become a public figure soon..."

"Keep boasting."

Guben couldn't stand her smug little look, hands in his pockets, cool and aloof as he walked away.

"It's true."

Lin Xiyu was about to catch up when suddenly she shivered back to her senses, remembering her bicycle was parked in a different direction from his.

She let out an "aiyo," annoyed, slapped her forehead, turned around, and ran toward the other side of the bike shed.

Guben glanced at her, the corner of his mouth slightly curved, letting out a pleasant laugh from his throat.