Chapter 367 Chapter 365 If You Like Her, Give Her A Little More Trust
Chapter 365 If You Like Her, Give Her A Little More Trust
Su Tao's acting talent is indeed strong, but she only displays it in front of Chi Xiaocheng. She doesn't have that kind of guardedness with her friends in daily life.
Her anxious, fidgeting appearance was too obvious in Jiang Nan's eyes.
The latter's gaze unconsciously turned strange. "When you get down to it, you've received a ton of gifts too, right? Xiaocheng receiving gifts and being pursued—isn't it the same?"
"It's not!" Su Tao replied. "Although there are quite a few people who want to pursue me, I reject them directly. But with Xiaocheng's personality, she definitely feels bad about rejecting people. Like this time, she told me someone sent her a gift."
"And then she sent me a picture of the gift box, which proves she already accepted it!"
"She might even have accepted someone's invitation."
Thinking of this, Su Tao saw that Chi Xiaocheng still hadn't replied, and she really couldn't sit still any longer. "No, I have to go check it out."
Jiang Nan yawned. "She's still in class."
"I can just make up an excuse. The teacher will understand."
Su Tao had just started to get up when Jiang Nan immediately held her down, casting a sharp look her way. "Su Tao, tell me the truth."
"You wouldn't... happen to like Xiaocheng, would you?"
Those words struck Su Tao's heart, freezing her movement.
Her "don't let outsiders see" acting skills came online. She immediately turned to Jiang Nan and smiled. "No way. I'm Xiaocheng's sister, after all. She's so innocent, and I'm just worried she'll be tricked by someone."
"Hmm," Jiang Nan hummed, resting her cheek in her hand and casually looking at the teacher who was still lecturing. A strand of hair fell across the girl's delicate face as she said in a flat voice, "In that case, should I go pursue Xiaocheng?"
"Wait! You're a girl! Why would you pursue Xiaocheng!"
"Does me being a girl have anything to do with me liking girls?"
That counter-question silenced Su Tao completely.
She could tell Jiang Nan was teasing her, so she wasn't really angry, but she still had a bit of a knee-jerk reaction. She lowered her head and decisively lowered her voice. "Fine, I like Xiaocheng."
"It would have been easier if you'd just said so," Jiang Nan said helplessly. "Although your acting just now was pretty good, it was too abrupt. And this anxious performance doesn't seem like you're caring from a sister's perspective at all."
Su Tao forcefully suppressed her inner anxiety. "It's just that Xiaocheng hasn't replied to my message. I'm afraid something really happened."
"What could happen?" Jiang Nan retorted. "Get caught by the teacher during class? Or go running around at this time?"
"Since you like Xiaocheng, if you think she likes you too, then give her a little more trust."
"Or do you think that after all this time you've known each other, she'd be stolen away by someone she just met?"
Those words filled Su Tao with shame.
She felt like the boomerang she'd thrown had come back to hit her.
After all, back then, she had argued with Chi Xiaocheng because of Ye Liang.
Looking back now, she felt like she was being a bit inexplicable then, but the fact remained.
Su Tao glanced at the very classic study-hard student in the class and hesitantly asked, "Is it really that obvious?"
"Well, a lot of people do think it's sisterly affection," Jiang Nan said, lowering her head to take notes, her voice unchanged. "But I was just trying to trick you just now. I really didn't expect it to be true."
"..."
Su Tao was silent for a long time, then scratched her hair again. But now she had completely lost the mood to listen to the lecture.
Chi Xiaocheng's continued lack of a reply made her feel restless.
It wasn't until the teacher, while lecturing, started talking about an experience he'd had that Jiang Nan, uninterested in such pointless things, glanced at Su Tao. "When did this happen?"
"When did what happen?"
"You liking Xiaocheng."
"Uh..."
Jiang Nan: "Wasn't it just after the start of last semester that you argued with Xiaocheng? Because of Ye Liang and them? Your business was a big deal. I didn't realize you'd liked her a long time ago. You only felt this recently, right?"
"I used to think you'd fall for Ye Liang. Turns out that young master inexplicably dropped out of school."
Su Tao looked at Jiang Nan with a complicated expression. She had to admit that this studious classmate who always sat in front of her had very sharp powers of observation.
Perhaps because she needed an outlet for the things she was holding in, Su Tao still said, "I'm telling you this, but don't tell anyone else, okay?"
"I've never liked gossip. Just stop talking when the teacher continues lecturing."
Right now, she was just purely bored.
Su Tao had no intention of listening to the lecture, and she told the story of herself and Chi Xiaocheng.
Of course, she hid the details about the yandere thing, just broadly encompassing it as—once, she gave Chi Xiaocheng a bath and realized that she was no longer the skinny little kid she used to be, and she inexplicably felt a flutter of emotion for her. After learning more, she realized that she actually liked this sister who had always been her support.
The simpler version was:
She accidentally gave her sister a bath, and she found her light, supple, and super cute, and she was unable to overcome her no matter how hard she tried.
Her story with Chi Xiaocheng was summarized as Su Tao suddenly awakening to her feminine powers.
Naturally, the topic went on to her confessing to Chi Xiaocheng, and Chi Xiaocheng only thought of her as a sister.
After listening to this distorted version, Jiang Nan hit the nail on the head. "So you're afraid Xiaocheng will be snatched away by someone else, but you don't know how to make her like girls?"
Temporarily unable to deal with the memory, Su Tao nodded in agreement.
"Then your anxiety is understandable," Jiang Nan said. "But you can give her that trust too. Being too controlling will only backfire. You need to learn to control yourself."
If she didn't keep an eye on her, all kinds of accidents would happen to her.
It was because she hadn't kept an eye on Xiaocheng that she had almost left her again and again.
Looking down again, she saw a new message from Chi Xiaocheng: "I definitely didn't accept that guy's invitation. He threw the gift at me and ran away. I don't even know what to do with it. I feel like you might misunderstand, so I'm telling you in advance."
Looking at the new message, Su Tao was stunned for a moment.
"Afraid I'd misunderstand..."
Su Tao knew why Chi Xiaocheng said that.
That confession, that expression of her feelings for her.
It turned out that she had always kept it in her heart.
Even though she said she only thought of her as a sister.
Jiang Nan leaned over and raised the corners of her lips after seeing the message. "See? I told you to give her a little more trust. If she cares about you, then she won't want to leave you more than anyone."
Su Tao suddenly felt that the classmate beside her had become dazzling. "Jiang Nan, if I remember correctly, you've been single up until now, right? How do you know so much?"
Jiang Nan: "I write romance novels. Does that count?"
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