Chapter 21

The weather was getting colder and colder. It wasn’t until I saw Song Qingqing draped in a black down jacket that I realized something seemed off with the plot.

I poked Xie Yang, who was walking in front of me wearing only a white turtleneck sweater, and asked, “Where’s your jacket?”

“Oh, I lent it to someone.”

“Song Qingqing?”

When he heard those three words, he fell silent, but his face gradually turned red. In the end, he mumbled a denial: “Not really.”

Seeing his reaction, my heart skipped a beat.

I went to ask Lu Yici, and he said he ran into Song Qingqing on the school path-her clothes had gotten wet, and Xie Yang, worried she might catch a cold, took off his own jacket and gave it to her.

Thinking about it, I felt there was nothing wrong with that.

Xie Yang was always the warm and sunny type of boy; it was normal for him to care about his classmates.

He even indirectly prevented the male and female leads from interacting.

If it had been Lu Yici who gave his jacket to Song Qingqing, the situation would have been even worse.

But what happened next gradually went beyond what I had imagined.

If it had only been Xie Yang being nice to Song Qingqing, I wouldn’t have minded.

After all, there were always boys who liked the female lead, but she would never fall for any of them, no matter what they did for her.

So when I saw Xie Yang fetching hot water for her, cleaning the blackboard for her, and buying her hand warmers, I just turned a blind eye.

Until, one day, I saw two familiar figures on the rooftop.

The tall boy was holding the girl in his arms, bending down slightly.

They-

were kissing.

Xie Yang and Song Qingqing, they were kissing.

My mind went blank. Countless thoughts raced through my head.

Rationally, I knew I should appear immediately and sternly stop them.

But in reality, I just left the scene in a daze.