Chapter 45 - Thank you for being willing to be my friend!

Feng Ya was Zhou Dabai’s classmate, with a delicate appearance and a petite figure, standing a whole head shorter, and then some, next to Zhou Dabai.

Fang Bai really couldn’t understand how a man and a woman with such a big height difference could see eye to eye.

However, Feng Ya was a kind-hearted girl with a good reputation in the medical school, so her relationship with Zhou Dabai wasn’t such a bad thing.

“Feng Ya and I have a purely platonic relationship,” Zhou Dabai argued.

“No one believes you!”

After Fang Bai said this, he walked towards Xia Chenyu with great strides, under Zhou Dabai’s resentful gaze.

As Xia Chenyu saw Fang Bai approaching, her smile slowly spread from the corners of her mouth to her entire pretty face, blossoming like a flower, radiant and dazzling.

“Fang Bai, hello, my name is Xia Chenyu.

Xia as in summer, Chenyu as in the beauty that sinks fish.”

Xia Chenyu took a few steps forward and extended her right hand in greeting.

Fang Bai smiled and shook hands with Xia Chenyu, his gaze fixed on her face, and he exclaimed, “Xia Chenyu…

what a nice name, and you certainly live up to it!”

The small hand he held was warm and tender, soft and boneless, as if it were a piece of exquisite jade, irresistible to let go.

“You’re different from other men,” Xia Chenyu said after Fang Bai released her hand, looking at him with interest.

“How so?”

“Most men who meet me either look nervous and flushed; or they leer with greed, drooling; or they pretend to be gentlemen on the surface when they are actually full of larceny and debauchery…”

Looking into Fang Bai’s eyes, Xia Chenyu continued, “But when you saw me, you weren’t flustered or greedy, and you didn’t put on a false front.

You simply appreciate and admire beauty for what it is.”

Fang Bai said with a smile, “It’s said that you can know a person’s face but not their heart.

Maybe I’m just good at hiding it?”

“The eyes are the window to the soul.

No matter how well a person hides, their eyes can reveal everything.

Your eyes are very clear, like those of a newborn baby; and when you look at people, your gaze is honest, indicating you’re upright and magnanimous,” she said, looking into Fang Bai’s eyes seriously.

“If you were a bad person, I’d gouge out my own eyes!”

Fang Bai said with a wry smile, “A woman as beautiful as you, if she gouged out her eyes because of me, even the heavens wouldn’t forgive me!

It seems I can only be a good man.”

“If it wasn’t for you, last night my body would have been violated by a beast; if it wasn’t for you, I might have drowned…

These are great favors, so even if you really were a bad person, I would still accept you.”

“Any man with a sense of justice should have done the same.”

“But it was you who saved me twice, so I must thank you properly.”

Xia Chenyu opened the car door and said to Fang Bai, “Get in, let’s go to ‘Four Seasons Spring’ for a bite to eat first.”

“Four Seasons Spring?

Isn’t that a bit excessive?”

After fastening his seatbelt in the sports car, Fang Bai remembered that “Four Seasons Spring” was one of the most luxurious hotels in Zhongzhou City, where the cheapest meal cost eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight yuan.

Therefore, the customers who dined at “Four Seasons Spring” were either rich or noble, and many people thought that having a meal there was a very prestigious affair.

“If I don’t spend a bit, wouldn’t I be neglecting my savior?” Xia Chenyu said with a playful smile and then started the sports car; with the engine’s powerful roar, the vehicle shot out like an arrow released from the bow.

Xia Chenyu drove wildly, and the red sports car under her control was like a beast let out from its cage, roaring and racing ahead.

The first time someone sits in Xia Chenyu’s sports car, probably nine out of ten will turn pale with fright.

But Fang Bai wasn’t scared at all; instead, his eyes went wide as he watched the rolling traffic they left behind on both sides, his face full of excitement.

“Have you been in a sports car before?”

Xia Chenyu glanced at Fang Bai and asked curiously.

“No,” Fang Bai shook his head, “it’s my first time.”

“Then why aren’t you afraid?”

“Why should I be afraid?”

“I drive very fast.

What if there’s an accident?”

“If you dare to drive this fast, it proves you’re very confident in your driving skills; otherwise, it’s just a pure death wish.

I believe that any normal person wouldn’t joke about their life so easily.”

“Actually, sometimes I feel like it might be better to be dead than alive…”

Xia Chenyu’s tone suddenly became somber.

She gripped the steering wheel tightly, her eyes fixed forward, and a deep, undissipating sadness and hatred flickered in the depths of her eyes.

Fang Bai said with a smile, “You’re young, you shouldn’t think like that.”

Xia Chenyu gave a light sigh, “If a person carries too much burden, they will live a very tiring life.

Death, on the other hand, can be a relief, an end to all troubles…”

As she spoke, her tone became incredibly resolute: “But I promised my mom that I would live well…

At least until I’ve shed the burdens I carry, I will do everything in my power to keep on living!”

Fang Bai fell silent; he felt that Xia Chenyu had many untold stories hidden in her heart.

Of course, that was Xia Chenyu’s privacy.

If she wished to share, he didn’t mind being a listener; if she didn’t want to, he wouldn’t ask.

“Are you thinking in your mind, ‘This woman speaks so erratically, she must be a bit neurotic’?”

Xia Chenyu raised her hand to wipe away a tear that had appeared at the corner of her eye, and suddenly she laughed with a “giggle,” reverting to her former enchanting and charming demeanor.

“No.”

Fang Bai shook his head and said, “Actually, what I’m thinking right now is: This woman appears to be very happy and carefree on the surface, but her heart must be filled with sadness and pain.

She’s a woman with a story.”

Xia Chenyu was taken aback, then she pulled the car over to the side of the road, turned her head, and gazed unblinkingly at Fang Bai for a long while before saying, “Are you human or a ghost?”

Without waiting for Fang Bai to speak, she continued, “You are human…

a very clever human.

Otherwise, you couldn’t have seen through my disguise and mask to reach into my heart!”

“You said before that eyes are the windows to the soul.”

Fang Bai looked into Xia Chenyu’s captivating beautiful eyes and said with a smile, “You’ve hid it well, but your eyes have betrayed your heart.”

Xia Chenyu silently observed Fang Bai for a while, then said, “Do you know, Fang Bai, ever since I began to understand the world, my intuition has always been very sharp.

From the first moment I saw you last night, I felt you were a good person…

someone trustworthy and sincere.

To tell you the truth, I might seem successful on the outside, but I don’t have a single true friend to confide in.

So…”

With a sincere expression, Xia Chenyu said, “Fang Bai, can we be friends?”

Fang Bai seriously said, “Aren’t we friends already?”

“Thank you!”

Xia Chenyu’s eyes shimmered with tears as she spoke gratefully, “Thank you for willing to be my friend!” Follow current novᴇls on NovᴇlFɪre.ɴet