Chapter 240: An Unexpected Confession
Here’s how it happened. Yesterday afternoon, after they chose the two leaders for the morning exercise, Wang Wenxin came up with an idea. She said she wanted to hear Lin Muqing’s opinion about it.
At first, only a few people knew and supported it. But when they saw that the class monitor, Zhang Xiaoling, and the homeroom teacher supported it, they also signed their names.
Later, many people signed without even knowing what it was about, since the homeroom teacher had only called a few girls to talk about it. By pure coincidence, even the starter of this idea, Wang Wenxin, didn’t expect they would actually collect the signatures of the whole class!
“You’re just joining in for no reason!”
Seeing her good buddy’s name on the list, Lin Muqing looked at him angrily and complained.
“I wasn’t just joining in. I’m serious,” Ye Ziming replied, pretending to be innocent.
“You…”
Lin Muqing was so angry that she wanted to punch him, then tear or burn the paper.
But just as she was about to do it, her buddy quickly grabbed the paper away, not giving her the chance to destroy it. She wasn’t as tall, her arms weren’t as long, and she wasn’t as strong, which made her frustrated but helpless.
When it came to physical ability, she was completely outmatched by her good buddy.
Well… except in chest size, she could totally win there.
Break time ended quickly, and class started again.
Lin Muqing thought things had already gone too far and that rejecting it would end everything, but something even more unexpected happened. It all started with one sentence from Lin Wenbin.
During one class break, while chatting with a friend from the next class, he casually said, “Our whole class signed a request for Lin Muqing to wear girl’s clothes and lead the dance.”
It was just a normal joke, at most something to laugh at, and Lin Wenbin also said they were just playing around.
But when the story spread, it turned into:
“Lin Muqing from the next class is going to wear girl’s clothes!”
Then it became:
“The school’s most handsome guy’s good friend will wear girl’s clothes for him.”
“Lin Muqing is wearing girl’s clothes just to win over the handsome guy!”
And so on… Within just one day, there were more than ten different versions of the story.
By the time Lin Muqing found out about it, and realized how bad it had gotten, it was already Friday, two days later.
In the meantime, she had clearly said that she would not wear girl’s clothes just because of this so-called “signature request.” With that answer, plus the homeroom teacher helping to explain, no one in her own class mentioned it again.
After all, classmates know each other a bit, even if they sometimes think the two of them seem a little “too close,” they wouldn’t believe all the crazy rumors.
But people from other classes didn’t know them well, and they didn’t care if it was true or not, as long as the gossip was fun, they were happy to spread it.
So… things turned out like this.
“Oh, so you’ve done so much for me,” Ye Ziming said with a meaningful smile after hearing the whole story, speaking in a serious tone.
“Come on! You actually believe that?” Lin Muqing groaned, lying facedown on her desk, hiding her head in her arms.
She didn’t even have the energy to complain anymore. There were just too many ridiculous parts to this.
Just now, the “news guy” Lin Wenbin had also told her that now, in the entire school, anyone who had heard a bit about Ye Ziming and Lin Muqing thought they were a couple.
Ye Ziming: There’s such a good thing?
“By the way, aren’t you going to react at all, Big Bro?”
During the break before PE class, Lin Muqing poked her buddy’s arm and asked curiously.
About what had happened, she knew she couldn’t change anything, so she decided to just lie low and pretend she knew nothing. But thinking about it more, she found it strange, her buddy had never seemed to care about his “reputation” at all.
It didn’t matter if people spread rumors that he was gay, or if they misunderstood and thought the two of them were a couple, he didn’t react at all.
But Lin Muqing clearly remembered that back in her first year of high school, a girl had caused trouble. She used some tricks to make many people believe that Lin Muqing and Ye Ziming had a romantic relationship. Yet before even a day had passed, Ye Ziming had already cleared things up and told everyone he wasn’t interested in dating.
Comparing that to now, Lin Muqing thought, ‘Hmm… this is strange.’
“What kind of reaction do you mean?”
Hearing Lin Muqing’s question, Ye Ziming raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion.
“I mean about your ‘reputation.’ Back in our first year, you, um…”
Lin Muqing stopped speaking halfway, not sure how to continue. She looked down, her lips moving slightly and then pressing together as she thought about it.
“You’re wondering why I stopped rumors before, but now I don’t, right?”
Looking at Lin Muqing, who was lost in thought, Ye Ziming smiled softly, reached out, and patted her head as he asked.
“Yeah, that’s right.”
Lifting her head quickly, Lin Muqing looked at her good buddy and nodded seriously. That was exactly what she wanted to ask.
After she nodded, Ye Ziming stopped walking, turned to face her, and looked straight into her eyes. Then he said softly, “Because you’re not like them.”
“Uh?”
Stopping along with him, Lin Muqing looked confused.
“Because you’re the only one I’ve chosen.”
With a faint smile on his face, Ye Ziming continued to pat her head while saying it seriously. Hearing those words, Lin Muqing suddenly felt her face heat up, and her heart seemed to beat faster.
She just stared blankly into his eyes for a while, unable to snap out of it.
“Let’s go. Class is about to start.”
When the bell rang for the next class, Ye Ziming lightly patted her shoulder and then started walking with her toward the track field. He had already said what he wanted to say, if she didn’t believe him, he didn’t feel the need to explain more.
After all, in his mind, she was his, and nothing could change that.
“Hmm…”
Finally coming back to her senses, Lin Muqing glanced at her good buddy beside her. Her feelings were suddenly complicated. What he had just said… it felt strange, almost like a confession.
Was he confessing to her? No way, she was obviously a guy, and her good buddy wouldn’t do that. He had even said before that he was straight and would never have feelings for another boy.
She thought about asking him directly to get an answer, but just as she was about to do it, she gave up. She didn’t know how to say it.
Besides, when she thought about it, her heart beat faster for no reason.
And when she imagined that he might actually like her, her heartbeat sped up the most, and she felt the most shy and embarrassed.