My Crush Also Has a Crush on Me!
Chapter 49: One Person’s Warmth Is Limited—Love Needs Mutual Comfort

Chapter 49: Chapter 49: One Person’s Warmth Is Limited—Love Needs Mutual Comfort

As noon approached, Fu Ying felt her stomach growl with hunger, so she bid farewell to Wen Tian at the library.

How awkward it was to have someone tutor her, she really should have offered to grab a meal together, but... recently, Fu Yan had been particularly hard on her, leaving her financially embarrassed and with little money on her.

Just as Fu Ying decided to go into a noodle shop nearby, someone patted her.

"What a coincidence, what brings you here?"

Xia Jinyun was holding a stack of flyers, wearing a mascot costume, sweating profusely, yet there was a smile on her face.

Fu Ying stared at her for a moment, realizing that this wasn’t the first time she saw Xia Jinyun working at different places.

Xia Jinyun smiled kindly, "It’s a short-term gig, it’s not stable but the daily wage is higher."

Fu Ying nodded, "Jinyun, have you eaten?"

Xia Jinyun shook her head, pointing at the noodle shop, "This place is good, I saw you just as I was coming over."

"Let’s eat together."

"Sure."

Xia Jinyun must frequent this place often as she seemed very familiar with it. She took off the mascot head, ordered a pickled vegetable and shredded pork noodle dish, then asked what Fu Ying wanted.

Fu Ying ordered the same.

"By the way, what brings you here?"

"I was at the library, got hungry, so I came here to eat."

Xia Jinyun nodded, "When I was in my first year of high school, I wasn’t a good student, always ranked somewhere in the middle or lower. But your brother was an excellent student, which made me want to study hard too. I thought maybe I could get into his university, but for me, getting into B University like your brother was as tough as reaching the sky."

As she spoke, Xia Jinyun sighed, "Later, I went to an ordinary university and never saw your brother again, until my mother’s incident pushed me to despair and I sought to end my life."

"Didn’t your parents know my dad?"

"Yes, my dad was just your dad’s driver. After he passed away, our families didn’t really keep in touch."

Fu Ying understood the pain of unrequited love.

But she felt Xia Jinyun’s pain was even deeper.

She had been secretly in love with her brother for many years, always thinking she was too ordinary to confess.

Fu Ying didn’t know if she could hold on for someone for so long.

"Jinyun, do you think it’s painful to have an unrequited love?"

"It hurts," Xia Jinyun replied without hesitation, nodding, "But unrequited love doesn’t lead to a breakup, right? And if one day it ends, it will be because I decided to leave him."

Fu Ying laughed at that remark, "That seems true."

"But... sometimes you can’t help but want to confess. One person’s warmth is limited; after all, love requires mutual warmth. I don’t know how much longer I can keep feeling like this about him."

Fu Ying blinked, ripples appearing in her tea-colored eyes.

She was no different.

Secretly liking him, not daring to speak out.

Feeling like she had lost him several times without his knowledge.

Yet, the ridiculous thing was, he was never hers to begin with.

After the meal, Fu Ying didn’t go home but decided to help Xia Jinyun distribute flyers, just wandering around aimlessly.

She rarely went out normally.

At the entrance of a mall where there were particularly many people, Xia Jinyun said it was a good spot to distribute flyers.

So, on a warm afternoon, the two girls stood at the mall entrance, handing out flyers to passersby.

Not everyone received them kindly, some impatiently brushed them off.

Fu Ying had never experienced such life, only today realizing the hardship of making a living.

Xia Jinyun took off her mascot head and handed Fu Ying a bottle of water, "Tired? Take a break."

Fu Ying nodded, "Do you do this every day?"

"Yeah, to make money, you get used to it."

They were about to move to another location when suddenly the entrance of the mall became noisy, and a few firefighters rushed in.

Fu Ying saw her brother among them.

Xia Jinyun saw it too, her fingers tightly clutching the water bottle, not wanting her bedraggled self to be seen, she quickly turned her back.

Three or four firefighters ran towards the second floor.

Fu Ying pulled Xia Jinyun’s hand and followed.

Xia Jinyun panicked, her eyes red: "I, I won’t go."

"We’ll just take a quick look from afar."

Xia Jinyun hesitated.

Just a quick look from afar, then.

After all, with so many people in the mall, he wouldn’t notice her.

It was only upon reaching the second floor that they discovered a child had been trapped inside an elevator.

The maintenance crew came over, realized there was a risk of the elevator plummeting, and called firefighters to forcibly open it and rescue the child.

There were many onlookers at the scene of the accident, but they all kept their distance, giving the firefighters room to work. After all, there was still a child inside, and the child’s mother was on the verge of collapse outside.

Fu Yi’s gaze was steady, his expression focused, as he carefully pried open the elevator door.

The child had been inside for a while, already unconscious due to the lack of oxygen.

The child’s mother tried to rush over several times but was stopped by the firefighters.

"Lady, please stay calm. Rest assured, we will save the child, he’s fine, it’s just that he passed out from a lack of oxygen. Now that the air is flowing, he won’t be in any danger."

The woman was sobbing and making a scene while the firefighter comforted her and rescued the person.

Fu Yi, undisturbed by the turmoil outside, painstakingly pried open the elevator door, then crawled in and carried the child out.

The child’s mother quickly rushed over and took the child.

Fu Yi moved his hand, saying, "It’s not serious, he will wake up after being unconscious for a while."

The woman was overwhelmingly grateful, repeatedly trying to kneel.

"Thank you, thank you for saving my son."

"It’s our duty."

Fu Yi prepared to lead his team back, but upon turning around, he saw his sister staring at him with admiration.

Fu Yi smiled: "How did you end up here?"

"I came with a friend."

"A friend?"

Fu Ying nodded and pushed Xia Jinyun in front of Fu Yi: "My friend."

Fu Ying’s action was unexpected and sudden.

Xia Jinyun, unprepared and in her mascot suit, holding her headgear, timidly stood in front of Fu Yi.

Fu Yi glanced at Xia Jinyun, his expression indifferent: "Isn’t this your little brother’s girlfriend?"

He, indeed, did not remember her.

Xia Jinyun opened her mouth to explain but was too nervous to speak.

"My little brother has plenty of ’girlfriends’; he thinks any girl he finds pretty is his girlfriend," said Fu Ying, looking at Xia Jinyun and earnestly adding, "She is my friend, her name is Xia Jinyun."

Fu Yi reached out and ruffled Fu Ying’s hair: "Hmm, big brother knows now, hurry back home, big brother has to work."

Fu Yi led his team away, and Fu Ying sat with Xia Jinyun on the chairs outside the mall.

Fu Ying whispered an apology: "Jinyun, I’m sorry for earlier, you’ve liked my big brother for so many years, I thought he should remember your name."

Xia Jinyun shook her head: "It’s okay, thanks for just now. I never dared to look at him before, but I did just now."

Fu Ying bit her lip: "Jinyun, actually my big brother is a very nice person."

"But I don’t have the courage right now."

...

That evening, Fu Ying was strolling along the street, pondering over Xia Jinyun’s words.

It turned out that her delay in confessing wasn’t due to her family background and her own conditions, but rather a lack of courage.

Those were just excuses to persuade herself.

The neon lights of this city flickered, yet in everyone’s heart, only one light was lit.