She Is Brighter Than the Stars

Cheng Nian smiled while pointing at the sign beside her, “Zhuangyuan* pool, makes it auspicious.”

[top scorer or the most brilliantly talented person in a field]

Li Shubai couldn’t help but slightly smile.

It is still snowing.

The fluffy snowflakes melted before they hit the water, but a thick layer had already fallen on the lush pines and cypresses nearby.

Between the snow and trees, the handsome young man with his head down and a slight smile seemed to be the third most beautiful in the world.

Cheng Nian blushed after just one glance, and immediately turned her body to one side, carefully picking up the withered grass by the pool, as if she had found the best toy in the world.

After laughing, Li Shubai said with a hint of worry: “Why didn’t you tell me if you didn’t understand the teacher’s lecture?”

Cheng Nian curled up her legs, reached out to catch the snowflakes in the sky, and said in a muffled voice, “It’s not like I don’t understand at all.”

Besides, so what can she say.

Li Shubai sighed silently, “Write down the things you don’t understand in time, you know?”

Cheng Nian nodded repeatedly.

After eating at the hot spring at noon, Lao Chengtou directly opened two rooms, intending to spend the night here.

Li Ying refused in every possible way at first, but finally couldn’t stand Su Huiyu’s invitation and agreed.

In the afternoon, Su Huiyu took Li Ying to have a beauty treatment, while Lao Chengtou fell asleep, and Cheng Nian and Li Shubai stared again.

After watching TV for a while, Cheng Nian lay on the bed and wailed.

“It would be nice if you brought homework too.”

Li Shubai glanced out the window, pursed his thin lips lightly, “Let’s go for a walk.”

Cheng Nian has been here many times, and has no desire to go out at all.

Considering that this is the first time for Li Shubai to come here, she managed to pull herself together, “Okay.”

The outside of the hot spring hall is very large, but most of it is in an undeveloped state. It is not recommended for tourists to go there, but there are no roadblocks.

Walk 200 meters behind the built forest pool, and it will look like a untouched forest.

The snow had already stopped, and there were a few restless snowflakes here and there, only now slowly falling down from the branches of the trees.

Cheng Nian couldn’t bear to step on the thick layer of snow on the ground like cream, and after printing the first footprint, she couldn’t help but print more.

Li Shubai had a whim and asked Cheng Nian, “What poems can such heavy snow remind you of?”

Cheng Nian pouted, her mind was as blank as this scene, she frowned and thought for a long time before she could say a word.

“Snowflakes in Yanshan Mountain like a large banquet tablecloth and shards of ice fall down on the Xuanyuan Tower.*”

[North Wind Travels, Li Bai]

Li Shubai raised his eyebrows, “What’s more, the snow has stopped.”

Cheng Nian was dazed again, her small face was wrinkled like a steamed bun, she squatted on the ground with her chin in her hands, and after a while she said, “The ground is white and the wind is cold, and the snowflakes are as big as hands.*”

[Mocking Wang Liyang for refusing to drink, Li Bai]

Li Shubai chuckled, “You like Li Bai so much?”

Cheng Nian touched the snow and stood up, making a round ball in the palm of her hand, “Mi Le likes him, and I’ve been fascinated by him, so I memorized a few poems by the way.”

“Who do you like?”

Cheng Nian shook her head resolutely, “I hate all books, and I hate everything that needs to be memorized.”

Li Shubai looked at the serious expression on Cheng Nian’s face, and asked bluntly, “Then why are you studying?”

Cheng Nian lowered her eyes halfway, her body stiffened for a moment.

She pinched her earlobe, threw the snowball out vigorously, and said lightly, “To make my family happy.”

With the disappearance of snowball, Cheng Nian’s gaze was far away, and her eyes, which contained thousands of complicated emotions, seemed to be calm and breezy.

Li Shubai breathed a sigh of relief, and picked up a ball from the ground and threw it out.

“For a long time, I didn’t know what the purpose of studying was. Maybe it was because my mother worked so hard. I didn’t know how to repay her. I had to study hard to make her proud. But now…”

Li Shubai paused, and looked at Cheng Nian with clear black and white eyes, “I have a new idea.”

Cheng Nian touched her nose that was red from the cold, and asked softly, “What?”

“Studying is to make yourself a better person. No matter what you face, you don’t have to feel afraid.”

Hearing the young man’s sincere words, Cheng Nian turned her face and found that Li Shubai was looking at her steadfastly, his eyes were as bright as stones in the mountains that had been washed by rain for thousands of years.

When the four eyes met, Cheng Nian’s heart beat inexplicably, and her fingers curled up unconsciously.

She smiled awkwardly, said something irrelevant, and pointed to the depths of the forest, “Let’s go for a walk over there.”

Li Shubai did not speak, and followed Cheng Nian into the woods following her footsteps.

Cheng Nian’s face and ears were red, she didn’t know if it was from the cold or something.

She didn’t dare to look at Li Shubai behind her, her mind was full of his pitch-black eyes.

The two of them were speechless all the way, and turned around in the depths of the forest.

On the way back, Cheng Nian was also absent-minded, stepped on the previously compacted snow, and the soles of her feet slipped out as if oiled.

Cheng Nian subconsciously wanted to maintain her balance, so she grabbed a tree next to her with her hands fluttering. She didn’t stand up, but all the snow on the tree fell, almost burying her.

Li Shubai didn’t have time to help her, and watched her fall into the snowdrift.

Struggling to sit up from the snow in embarrassment, Cheng Nian gave Li Shubai a wronged and ashamed look, and blamed him.

“Pull me up quickly.”

The angry look is exactly the same as the child who is sitting on the ground and wants to hug.

Li Shubai smiled lightly, and reached out his hand to Cheng Nian.

Due to inertia, Cheng Nian uncontrollably fell into Li Shubai’s arms when she stood up.

The moment they raised their heads, the breaths of the two of them almost came together.

Smelling the similar smell from the two of them, Cheng Nian subconsciously pushed Li Shubai away.

Li Shubai staggered and almost sat on the ground.

Realizing that her behavior was a bit extreme, Cheng Nian hurriedly reached out to support him, muttering.

“Oh, this place is really slippery.”

Li Shubai didn’t care. He stood up straight and patted the snow off Cheng Nian’s body, and said softly, “Be careful.”

Cheng Nian responded dully, lowered her head and walked quickly towards the room.

In the room, Su Huiyu and Li Ying haven’t come back yet.

Cheng Nian washed her face several times with cold water, and the lingering burning sensation on her cheeks subsided a little.

Thinking of what happened in the woods just now, she opened the ice water beside her and took a few sips.

How did things become like this?

She clearly wants to stay away from Li Shubai, why is the distance between the two of them is getting closer?

Cheng Nian even felt that in less than a year, she knew Li Shubai better than ever.

This is an extremely dangerous signal.

She splashed the water on her face again, and Cheng Nian shook off the water droplets from her hair.

Looking at the girl in the mirror with picturesque eyebrows but with a hint of sadness, her hands slowly clenched into fists, and a clear voice came from her mind.

Never fall in love with Li Shubai again.

Cheng Nian was silent for the whole night afterwards.

She still talked and laughed when she faced with Lao Chengtou, but when she talked to Li Shubai, she seemed to be completely different person.

Su Huiyu noticed that something was wrong with Cheng Nian, so she snuck up to her and whispered in Cheng Nian’s ear while watching the light show.

“Did you quarrel with Li Shubai?”