She Can Also Be Gentle

This is not the first time Chi Nuan has come to Gu Ningzi's house, but it is the first time he has been on the second floor.

Gu Ningzi turned on the light at the top of the stairs, and Chi Nuan realized that the second floor was completely different from what she had imagined. The entire space has been opened up and turned into an extremely empty studio.

Gu Ningzi can paint?

Chi Nuan watched as Gu Ningzi walked to the east wall, picked up a corner of the white covering cloth, and tore it off.

The white cloth slowly fell to the ground.

A huge oil painting was presented in front of them.

The painting shows a graceful lady, leaning against the window, wearing a dark green velvet cheongsam, embellished with emerald earrings, her lips are plump, the corners of her lips are slightly raised, her eyes are long and charming, she is not beautiful.

Chi Nuan was shocked: "...Gu Ningzi, did you paint it?"

Gu Ningzi: "Yeah."

Although Chi Nuan didn't understand oil painting, he also knew that such a vivid work could not seem to be painted casually. Gu Ningzi must have studied deeply.

—But who is she painting?

Gu Ningzi stood quietly in front of the painting, looking at the person in the painting: "I said I would introduce my mother to you."

Chi Nuan was surprised: "You mean..."

"My mother is gone." Gu Ningzi turned to Chi Nuan and asked, "Do I look like her?"

Chi Nuan suppressed the shock in her heart and looked at the person in the painting intently: "You are not like her."

Whether it's facial features or Shen, Yun, Gu Ningzi has nothing to do with her mother. She probably looks like her father.

Gu Ningzi was silent.

Chi Nuan: "Gu Ningzi..."

Gu Ningzi: "Well, they say I don't look like her."

Chinuan approached Gu Ningzi. They stood side by side. For a long time, no one spoke.

Later, Chi Nuan went to find Gu Ningzi's hand, the two touched their fingertips, and Gu Ningzi held her.

For a moment, Chi Nuan thought Gu Ningzi would say something, but Gu Ningzi still didn't say anything, leading Chi Nuan to the stairs and turned off the light.

The darkness is restored in the studio, and the mother's oil painting is painted, so I can't see it.

…

The evening breeze is hot, the green plants on both sides of the road have just been trimmed by the sanitation during the day, and the air is floating with the fragrance of vegetation.

Gu Ningzi walked Chi Nuan back to school. She didn't mention her mother again, so Chi Nuan was considerate not to ask. The two bid farewell at the school gate, Chi Nuan took the initiative to give Gu Ningzi a comforting hug.

"Gu Ningzi, I'm glad you're back...and also glad to meet your mother. Let's see you tomorrow."

Gu Ningzi: "...Well, see you tomorrow."

…

In the morning reading the next morning, Chi Nuan was absent-mindedly memorizing the words, and frequently paid attention to the direction of the classroom door, but Gu Ningzi did not come until the bell rang in the fourth class.

This is He Liwen's Chinese class. After a quarter of an hour, He Liwen did not appear.

The classroom was fairly quiet at first, but then somebody who was sitting by the window shouted "Gu Ningzi". The whole class was boiled, leaving the bench and squeezing to the window to look down.

"Where is it!"

"Let me see, don't squeeze, let me see that I am at the same table! No...that's me at the same table, why are you squeezing too much!"

"Rely...I haven't seen Gu Ningzi for more than a month, is Gu Ningzi more attractive?"

"Who is the one who came with Gu Ningzi? Is her parent? This parent is young enough, how do you think it is only about 30?"

"Have you finished reading it? Just leave it sloppily and let me take a look."

"Fuck Awen found us and withdrew."

"..."

Chi Nuan, who was sitting by the window, also looked out. The sun was very big. Gu Ningzi stood in the shadow cast by the teaching building. Her hair was dyed back to black, **** casually, wearing school uniforms and pockets, listening absently to Principal Hu and Secretary Su spoke.

Chi Nuan said, when did she dye it?

Xu Dan: "Ahhhhhhhhhh, the boss is back to school!"

Chi Nuan was blown up by Xu Dan's screams and her ears hurt. He turned to remind her: "It's in class, you can speak softly."

Xu Dan was puzzled: "Isn't your relationship with Gu Ningzi going well? Why are you not excited when she comes back?"

As he spoke, his eyes lit up: "Ha! Tell me honestly, did you know that she is coming back!?"

Chi Nuan didn't say anything after returning to the dormitory last night. When asked where he had come from so late, he just passed it vaguely. Now Xu Dan hit the nail on the head, Chi Nuan said with a guilty heart: "I didn't know it earlier..."

It’s not a lie. Yesterday afternoon, it was indeed not much earlier than them...

Xu Dan does not doubt that he has him: "Then you have a strong sense of discipline, you deserve to be the monitor."

Chi Nuan: "..."

This compliment was not worthy of the truth, Chi Nuan smiled awkwardly, pretending to read a book.

Gu Ningzi's message came over at this time, and she said, "It's hot outside."

"It's summer." Chi Nuan raised her lips and asked her, "When did your hair dye back?"

Downstairs, Gu Ningzi lowered her head and pressed her phone, Lao Hu smiled, still talking to Secretary Su.

"Last night."

Chi Nuan: "It's also pretty."

Gu Ningzi raised her eyes to look in the direction of the window of the second and sixth high school. After sending these words, Chi Nuan lay on the desk and covered her face with the language book.

…

Gu Ningzi was led back to the classroom by He Liwen. Everyone was restrained in class. After class, all the turbulent heads rushed to Gu Ningzi, blocking her surroundings.

Xu Dan shouted loudly: "Big brother, you can count as coming back! We think you are about to think about collective lovesickness! Look at you, you have to be responsible for us!"

Chi Nuan smiled and shook his head.

"Especially our squad leader! In the first few days, she even called your name when she had a fever, and you said you were touched but not touched!"

Gu Ningzi asked, "Really?"

Du Min and Zhao Jingjing testified one after another, and added: "I have also ran to your house and looked for you many times!"

"..." Chi Nuan couldn't laugh.

…

The air conditioner was turned on, and the ceiling fan overhead was slowly turning in circles.

In the first class in the afternoon, Chi Nuan propped his head and looked at the blackboard. The history teacher is writing on the blackboard, and the blackboard is connected into a piece of cursive script full of white flowers. Chi Nuan became sleepy as he watched, and his eyelids were so heavy that they were about to close.

When Gu Ningzi went back to school, Xu Dan and the others were excited for noon in the dormitory, and she was so disturbed that she did not take a nap.

Energetic and not drowsy, Xu Dan frowned: "I have good news."

Chi Nuan struggled to look at her.

Xu Dan gloated and said, "Chen Wan has not been to school for a few days because of Cai Miao."

Chi Nuan: "...Huh?"

Xu Dan shook his phone: "There is a high school girl who lives in the same community as Chen Wan. She said that Chen Wan has been tossed by Cai Miao recently."

Most of her sleepiness was driven away, Chi Nuan whispered: "Did she offend Cai Miao?"

Xu Dan curled his lips in disdain: "It's not surprising that she offends anyone with her temperament, let alone the eldest ladies in the art class."

This is not without reason.

Chi Nuan yawned and caught a glimpse of Xu Dan's alteration on the pink letterhead sandwiched in the history book. He curiously asked, "What are you writing?"

Xu Dan, who has always been careless, squeezed for two seconds and confessed: "Love letter."

"..." Chi Nuan quickly glanced at the podium. The history teacher was still writing on the blackboard. She couldn't help repeating: "Love letter?"

Xu Dan covered his face: "A schoolboy! I met the school girl in the same community when we went to the library to do homework on the weekend, and she introduced me to him."

Chi Nuan: "..."

Xu Dan: "I've been thinking about it for a few days, and I still keep obsessing over him, isn't it just like it!"

After school, everyone in the dormitory surrounded Xu Dan and asked her to explain things clearly.

"I just ran into it in the library. I heard from a school girl that he was a student, and his grades are super good. He is one of the best in the whole year... Give me an 8 for his humble appearance. The key voice sounds like my voice control. You know... Let me ask him questions, his patience—"

"Are you asking him questions?" Zhao Jingjing interrupted Xu Dan's admiration, and said in astonishment: "Isn't he a freshman?"

Xu Dan held his chest proudly: "That's why it's a high school! He finished his high school content a long time ago."

Du Min: "So what? People are still a senior high school student, Xu Dan, you are a second-year high school sister."

Xu Dan became anxious when he heard it: "What's the matter with the first year of high school? He is much taller than me!"

Du Min: "But you are older than him!"

Xu Dan: "Sister and brother are in love nowadays, why am I older than him!?"

Seeing that the two were about to argue, Chi Nuan turned away from the subject and asked Xu Dan, "You wrote a love letter, and then what are you going to do?"

Xu Dan: "Then let him decide whether to be together or not-but my love letter hasn't been written yet, and I am not fluent in reading sentences. The monitor is good in Chinese, or you can change it for me?"

Chi Nuan: "..."

Du Min said something very philosophical at this time. She said: "Xu Dan, the key is not whether the love is beautiful or not, but whether the other party likes you or not!"

Xu Dan was so angry that he didn't want to care about her, and squeezed under the table lamp with Chi Nuan to study how to write a love letter to move his heart and soul.

Chi Nuan didn't have any clues, so she sorted out the part written by Xu Dan first, and corrected the wrong sentence and typo. Xu Dan looked at her gentle and serious profile, and said with feeling: "Nuan Nuan, you look so good-looking, you must have received a lot of love letters?"

Chi Nuan: "...It's okay too."

Xu Dan smiled narrowly, Chi Nuan said, "It's okay," that must be a humble statement.

"Eh", Xu Dan slapped Chi Nuan's arm lightly, "Then what kind of boy do you like?"

The pen tip stopped on the letterhead, Chi Nuan followed Xu Dan's words to think, Cao Pinhui's evil face and rough movements emerged, and she hurriedly shifted her thoughts.

Xu Dan: "Say it, you say it."

Chi Nuan: "...I don't know."

Xu Dan: "I don't know? No... Everyone has an ideal type or something, whether they should be tall or short, and whether their eyes should be large or small... Wide range..."

Chi Nuan avoided: "I really don't know."

Xu Dan's eyes widened: "Don't say you grow up so old, you have never had a good impression of anyone?"

Du Min couldn't listen to this question anymore, and intervened in their conversation: "What's so fuss about, some people are too late, because the heart of reading is not distracted, and not everyone is born for love."

Xu Dan said unconvinced: "I don't believe it. No matter how good you study, you will still be excited when you meet someone who can attract you! It's not hard-hearted."

Du Min: "No, Xu Dan, the squad leader is so good, why do you have to let her like someone? Are you responsible for affecting your studies?"

Xu Dan: "Which ear did you hear me saying who made the monitor like someone? I just asked her, what's the matter? Can't you ask?"

Zhao Jingjing patted her head on the edge of the bed and said, "What's going on with you two tonight? Can this bother you?"

Du Min: "Blam me?"

Xu Dan: "Don't blame you, can you blame me?"

Chi Nuan: "Blam me, blame me, if I meet someone I like, I must tell you as soon as possible, okay?"

Du Min and Xu Dan stopped talking.

The phone screen under the lamp turned on. Chi Nuan picked it up and looked at it. Gu Ningzi sent a photo of a blank paper over.

Chi Nuan got up and went back to her desk. Before she finished writing her love letter, Xu Dan asked her, "Why are you going?"

Chi Nuan turned over the homework paper on the table and answered her: "Gu Ningzi can't do homework. Let me take the answer to her."

Chi Nuan took a photo of the answer and passed it over, and then typed into the dialog box, asking Gu Ningzi to ask questions that he couldn't understand.

Xu Dan endured it, and couldn't hold it back: "What do you think Gu Ningzi would like?"

Zhao Jingjing: "..."

Du Min's eyes rolled directly to the sky.

Xu Dan is eloquent: "She doesn't like Cao Pinhui. Although Cao Pinhui is a bit bad, but the conditions are really good, it can be seen that Gu Ningzi's vision must be super high, unimaginable!"

The deep eyes of Gu Ningzi appeared in Chi Nuan's mind, and the bottom of her heart seemed to be scratched slightly and itchy.

…

Before going to bed, Chi Nuan received a ten-second short video from Gu Ningzi. In the video, her white porcelain fingers scratched the kitten's belly. The kitten snored and slept soundly.

Chi Nuan watched it back and forth several times, remembering that he still didn't know the name of the cat.

"Have you named it?" she asked Gu Ningzi.

Gu Ningzi: "Xiao Nuan."

Chi Nuan buried his face in the quilt and stared at the screen with a pair of eyes: "Why..."

Gu Ningzi seldom even said her name, but suddenly a "Little Nuan" appeared. Chi Nuan really felt like his heartbeat missed a beat.

Gu Ningzi: "I call it'Xiao Nuan'."

Chi Nuan: "..."

Chi Nuan: "???"

Gu Ningzi: "Just kidding, I haven't named it yet."

Chi Nuan: "..."