My Crush Also Has a Crush on Me!
Chapter 64: Wanting to Hold the Girl in My Arms

Chapter 64: Chapter 64: Wanting to Hold the Girl in My Arms

Due to the severe disaster and the large number of affected people, there was a shortage of medical personnel. On a stormy night, Xia Jinyun received a call from her teacher at the medical college, asking if she would go to the disaster relief site.

Xia Jinyun glanced at her mother, hesitating.

"Go, you studied medicine after all. You’ve given up everything for me. Jinyun, I’m recovering well now. When you come back, get a job in a hospital. A girl shouldn’t be running around all the time, you need to find a stable job."

Encouraged by her mother, Xia Jinyun braved the rain that night and followed her teacher to the flood relief site.

After graduating from medical college, she had been juggling part-time jobs to support her mother’s illness, almost forgetting what she had studied.

In the car, her teacher Chen Wan looked at her with regret: "You really should have continued your internship at the hospital."

There were too many inevitable circumstances. Xia Jinyun bowed her head, not knowing how to respond.

As an intern, there was simply no way to make a living.

Originally, after her father’s sudden death and her mother’s illness, the burden of the household fell on her. The huge medical expenses quickly depleted all their savings, forcing her to leave the medical college and work in society.

Such bitterness, she never dared to speak about to anyone.

Chen Wan raised her hand and gently touched her head: "It’s all in the past now."

After a night’s journey, they arrived at the rescue team’s station.

Due to the disaster, the area seemed to be in dire straits, with sickness and poverty everywhere, the air filled with sorrow.

People moaned in unbearable pain, sighing.

Everything was so gloomy.

Xia Jinyun picked up the medical box and quickly moved into the crowd.

"Captain Fu, some medical staff and volunteers have arrived."

Fu Yi, covered in mud, upon hearing this, quickly approached Chen Wan: "Dr. Chen, please arrange a doctor for me, preferably a female."

Chen Wan turned to look for Xia Jinyun but found her kneeling in the crowd, bandaging wounds, so she had to assign someone else: "Liu Man, you go follow Captain Fu."

Fu Yi led the people away, his eyes briefly catching a silhouette.

Xia Jinyun knelt on the ground, eye-level with a little girl who was crying terribly. Xia Jinyun, not minding the dirty clothes, held the child in her arms, comforting her while pulling out a lollipop from her pocket.

Such a beautiful scene.

Fu Yi shifted his gaze away, disappearing into the crowd.

...

With ten days left until the final exams, Fu Ying was furiously revising.

Wen Tian patiently explained the material to her, for which Fu Ying was extremely grateful.

As evening approached, Wen Tian went home first.

Fu Ying lay on the library table, solving math problems.

Out of the corner of her eye, someone passed her a piece of bread.

Fu Yan sat down across from her.

Fu Ying glanced at the bread, then at him, and then hugged her textbooks and moved to another spot.

Fu Yan followed her.

Fu Ying frowned, "I’m not lending you money, forget it."

Fu Yan: "..."

"Who said I came to borrow money? I just saw you studying hard and came to check on you."

Fu Ying looked at him with doubtful eyes: "I don’t believe it."

"Fine, you don’t believe the truth. I just came to care about you," Fu Yan eyed her draft paper where the outlines of the characters for "Shen Liguang" were visible but covered by doodles. He raised an eyebrow and smiled, asking, "Exams coming up soon?"

"There are ten days left..."

And ten days until the vacation.

This month, Fu Ying, a poor student, concentrated on studying.

She suddenly realized, he had been gone for a month.

Fu Ying’s eyes dimmed, her gaze dropping to her pen tip.

Fu Yan teased her: "You’re not going to score just 80 points again, are you?"

Fu Ying, frustrated: "Of course not."

Fu Yan sighed silently, stretching his hand to ruffle her hair: "Then work hard, I won’t distract you anymore."

On the day of the final exams, the rescue personnel returned.

The skies were clear that day, the men returning in triumph.

The girl, focused in the examination hall, filled out her answer sheet with full concentration.

The last day of exams ended, and Lin Lishan asked her if she wanted to come over to play, Fu Ying immediately agreed without any hesitation and happily followed her.

She stayed at Lin Lishan’s house until it got dark and then prepared to go home.

She lingered at the entrance of the neighborhood for a while, feeling there was no hope of seeing him today.

As she turned to leave, that person was just entering the neighborhood gate.

Their eyes met.

Her heart ached.

Shen Liguang’s body tensed, unsure of what to do.

Fu Ying’s heart raced, and her eyes turned slightly red.

She came just to see him.

Originally, she wanted to see him, even a glance would do, but upon seeing him, she wanted to exchange a few words.

Every night, Fu Ying felt like saying everything through the screen, yet when meeting in person, she couldn’t speak, eyes reddened first, then teary.

After a while, Fu Ying blushed and stuttered as they looked at each other, finally mumbling, "Um, good evening, brother."

Shen Liguang stared at her for a while, and for some reason, he wanted to pull her into his embrace.

That impulse almost drove him into confinement.

It had been too long since their last encounter, a month, and the girl seemed to have grown a bit taller and lost some baby fat.

At her age, she was transforming from a girl to a young woman.

She would grow to be elegant and graceful.

Shen Liguang always felt she had the gentleness of an ancient well-bred young lady.

"Good evening," Shen Liguang shifted his gaze and nodded.

Suddenly, Fu Ying didn’t know what to say, her fingers slowly tightening on her clothes.

"You finished your exams, right?"

Fu Ying nodded, "Mhm."

"Going to hang out with classmates during the summer vacation?"

"No, my dad signed me up for tutoring classes."

"Studying hard is good."

Fu Ying nodded again, "Mhm."

Shen Liguang wanted to say something else, but he opened his mouth and again found he didn’t know what to say.

"I’ll walk you home."

Fu Ying nodded, "Okay."

The girl was well-behaved, sitting quietly in the back.

Only when he dropped her off at her home did she politely thank him and tell him to be careful on his way home, then she went upstairs.

Shen Liguang’s gaze firmly followed her until she disappeared from sight.

Suddenly, he felt a turbulent unease, almost unbearable.

He lowered his eyes and lit a cigarette.

That night, the man smoked for a long time.

...

Final exam results came out, and Fu Mingchuan cried tears of joy upon seeing his daughter’s scores.

For the first time, she passed two subjects and her total score had improved by fifty to sixty points compared to the previous practice exams. His daughter had made noticeable progress this term and had even taken the initiative to register for tutoring classes, which had Fu Mingchuan humming a little tune all day.

During the summer, Fu Ying went to the tutoring classes every day.

Then every day after class, she followed Lin Lishan to her house to play.

In the evening, she lingered at the entrance of the neighborhood without encountering Shen Liguang.

She left with a sense of loneliness.

Leaning against the car window, watching the bustling lights and the passing vehicles, Fu Ying put on her headphones.

Inside, a song about unrequited love played.

She looped it several times, listening repeatedly all the way home.

She wished the road was long; it was nice to think of him quietly like this.

But, after pining in unrequited love for so long, she also longed for a response.

At night, Fu Ying posted many ancient poems in her social circle, interspersed with a line, "You were not born when I was; when I was, you were already old"...