“This villa was just built last year. At the time, the construction company had quite a bit of investment from the four big families in Hai City. They were quite rich, so they booked this piece of land and built this villa. The original owner of the villa you chose was one of the developers. It’s just that there were too many properties under his name, so he sold it. The renovation is really quite good. No one has lived here before. The air humidity is good in all aspects. You can move in with ease.”
After Uncle Qin finished speaking, he drove the car to the villa.
Shi Niange didn’t mind sleeping on the foldable bed in the laboratory with her grandfather. She had never been picky about these external things. However, Uncle Qin had a mission to take care of her and was always careful and serious. She didn’t say much. She just nodded and glanced at the villa inside. “Not bad. It’s not as extravagant as the one in the Shi family. The small villa is quite exquisite.”
“Miss, you have good taste. After all, you chose it yourself.”
Shi Niange smiled. “All right, I’ll go down and take a look.”
She only went in to take a look before placing her bag down. “Let’s do it here. There’s no need to waste time. It’s not too far from the school.”
“Then Auntie Xiang and I will come here often to take care of you.”
“There’s no need. Let Auntie Xiang come once a week. I’ll take a taxi to school.”
“How can that be?”
“Why not? Can you still treat me like a child for the rest of my life? In a year, I’ll be an adult. I should learn to be independent,” Shi Niange said as she looked around.
It was already evening and the sky was much darker. There didn’t seem to be many people living in the surrounding villas. It was dark and quiet.
“Are there very few people living here?”
“It’s not bad. Almost half of the residents live here. However, the two buildings across the street seem to be empty. Or perhaps, no one has moved in after selling them.”
Shi Niange nodded and looked away to continue visiting her new house. Then, she began her third-year student’s sad homework and revision career. On the first day on her new house, she spent her time in the sea of books.
…
On Monday, Auntie Xiang went to Lishui Villa and personally made her a lot of walnuts cakes. She said she should bring them to school for her classmates.
When Shi Niange came to school with a large, delicate bag, she attracted the attention of many people. They were all curious about what good things this legendary jump student, the eldest daughter of the Shi family, had brought. Why was it such an exaggerated big bag?
Auntie Xiang had made too much, and the small bag could not fit in, so she had to put in the big bag. Shi Niange did not expect it to be so big. On the way, she hurried to the class. After entering, she began to distribute the things without a word. Fortunately, things like walnut cakes were distributed separately. There were more than fifty students in this class, and each of them could get around three on average. She did not wait for everyone to arrive and directly placed some on each table.
“Nian Nian.” Zhao Xiaoqing waved at her.
Shi Niange smiled at her and continued to divide the items. As she did so, she asked, “Why are you here so early?”
“I’m on duty today,” Zhao Xiaoqing said, and came over to help her. Although she had just transferred here, she soon became familiar with her classmates. She said that she was too shy and that she would blush when she talked to others.
Shi Niange smiled and chatted with her for a while, then accompanied Zhao Xiaoqing to clean the floor. After cleaning up, almost everyone came, and the two returned to their seats.
Shi Niange casually explained the matter of the walnut cakes to everyone. She only said that it was made by her relatives and was very delicious. She couldn’t finish it herself and shared it with everyone. Everyone was quite happy.
However, Shi Niange was unhappy today.
She stared at the three untouched pieces of walnut cake on her desk the whole morning.
Behind her, Zhao Xiaoqing gently poked her back with a pen and whispered, “Come back to your senses, stop staring blankly. Why are you looking at the side?”
Shi Niange sat up straight again. She raised her head to look at the teacher and the blackboard, but her heart felt empty.
Previously, she did not know that Qin Siting would not be coming today. She had thought that after the weekend, she would be able to sit with her male god on Monday, but he was actually not here today.
There was a physics competition in the province today. Almighty Qin represented the entire province in Hai City to participate in the competition. His competitors were all famous top students from various universities in the country. The competition would take at least three to four days. He definitely wouldn’t be around for the next few days.
These three to four days had been tough on Shi Niange.
The reason why she, a happy third-year student, had to go through so much hardship in her third year was because of Qin Siting. Whenever she thought of a tall, handsome, and smart boy sitting by her side, she was filled with motivation. No matter how difficult the class was, she was willing to make up for it.
But these days, he was actually not around…
Even Zhao Xiaoqing and Hao Xiushe found that in the days when Qin Siting was not around, Shi Niange was especially listless. Even when the teacher asked her to go to the office for tutoring, she was listless and not as motivated as usual.
It wasn’t easy for her to make it to the afternoon gym class on Tuesday. For two whole days, Shi Niange, who didn’t have her male idol sitting by her side, was like a person who had just been sucked away by a demoness. She sat there without much energy to write notes.
As the name suggested, the physical education class was a free activity class. Only a small number of people really went out for classes. Most of them looked for opportunities to stroll around the classroom or the field.
Shi Niange was called out by Zhao Xiaoqing to go to the toilet. On the way out of the toilet, she turned her head and saw that the Grade 12, Class 2 next door was also having physical education class. Xu Yiqi was walking over with another girl. When she saw Shi Niange, Shi Niange only glanced at her casually, but Xu Yiqi turned her head away and pulled the girl beside her to walk around her quickly.
Shi Niange raised her brows, not understanding why they had to take a detour.
She was not interested in the relationship between Xu Yiqi and Tang Shao, nor did she care about Tang Shao’s explanation. However, Xu Yiqi looked as though she minded something. It was impossible for her to say that she did not have any other thoughts. Only she knew if there was a ghost in her heart.
Shi Niange couldn’t be bothered with her and continued to wait for Zhao Xiaoqing.
When she came out, the two of them left the bathroom and walked along the lush path. The two girls chatted as they walked. Although Zhao Xiaoqing was shy, she was actually very gentle and concerned about her friends. She was also very observant. She asked, “Do you like Almighty Qin?”
“Yes.”
Initially, the two girls were discussing whether she liked him or not. However, Shi Niange’s answer was too straightforward, leaving Zhao Xiaoqing dumbfounded.
