After I Kept Calling My Cold-Faced Desk Mate Baby

[Gentle, Down-to-Earth Girl x Cold, Sharp-Tongued Young Master]

Ming Ran got into the city's key high school. She excelled academically and got along well with her classmates. She thought she would spend her high school years in peace.

That was until her senior year, when an intimidating transfer student joined her class: Jiang Zhuoxue, a teenage genius with a world-weary face. Not long ago, he had beaten several people badly enough to send them to the hospital. He was exactly the kind of person Ming Ran disliked most.

As luck would have it, he was assigned to sit beside Ming Ran.

Fortunately, Ming Ran soon learned that Jiang Zhuoxue hated three things most: poverty, alluring eyes, and clingy people.

Ming Ran had come from a poor county to attend the city's key high school, so she was obviously poor.

The most striking feature of Ming Ran's face was her pair of alluring eyes, gentle and shimmering whenever she smiled.

When Ming Ran was a child, her nickname had been Clingy Pest.

It wasn't that they had nothing in common. They matched perfectly. They were practically destined to be enemies.

Someone with such a bad temper would get annoyed after just a few words. It wouldn't take any effort at all.

Ming Ran went straight to the class group chat and added Jiang Zhuoxue on WeChat.

She had heard that Jiang Zhuoxue never added female classmates. Ming Ran hadn't expected anything and had only tried on a whim, but when she checked after finishing her homework, he had already accepted her request.

Ming Ran stared at his profile picture and was suddenly struck by inspiration. She typed a few words and sent them.

Ming Ran: Hi, baby. Finished your homework yet? ^^

Jiang Zhuoxue: ?

Jiang Zhuoxue: I have your failing English test paper.

His words carried a double meaning, leaving much to the imagination.

He had hit a sore spot: English was her weakest subject, and the contrast with his high-scoring test paper was stark.

He had also pointed out that she couldn't turn in her English homework. As a student her English teacher kept a close eye on, she was going to get scolded again tomorrow.

Ming Ran slowly typed a question mark, but before she could send it, a red exclamation mark appeared.

Jiang Zhuoxue had deleted her.

Ming Ran: !!!

A little flame suddenly sprang to life in Ming Ran's heart.

From that day on, she secretly vowed not only to get on his nerves and make him deal with every little thing, but also to surpass him!

-

Later, Ming Ran gradually discovered how much fun it was to get under Jiang Zhuoxue's skin. Her grades improved by leaps and bounds, and graduation season arrived.

Everyone thought Ming Ran and Jiang Zhuoxue were worlds apart in background and personality, and that their time as desk mates was the only connection between them.

Someone said they had once seen a boy with the aura of a male lead in a romance novel walking with Ming Ran downstairs from her apartment building. He was even driving a Maybach. Unfortunately, they had only seen him from behind. Teasingly, they asked Ming Ran, "You didn't get into a relationship ages ago, did you?"

Ming Ran gave a vague explanation: "No, we're just... ordinary friends."

Jiang Zhuoxue heard her. He didn't smile. His dark eyes gazed at her calmly, while the veins running along his arm stood taut.

That night, the usually cold and restrained young man pinned Ming Ran against the wall in a dark stairwell, his voice cool and clear. "Kiss me."

In the end, it was the girl whose eyes grew misty with tears as he kissed her, the air filled with the scent of lime.

After countless kisses, the young man's eyes were red, yet he still wasn't satisfied. He cupped her cheeks. "Why didn't you call me baby tonight?"

"Why don't we tell them right now that we're lovers, not ordinary friends? Okay?"

Reading Guide:

1. Both leads are each other's only partners, body and soul. The male lead falls first.

2. A bittersweet romance, focused on the relationship.

-- Upcoming novel: Why Did He Lose It After We Broke Up? A bittersweet story --

Jiang Yi and Ji Qingyan got together in their first year of university. They were in love for seven years, with a sweet and stable relationship. Their friends envied her for finding such a perfect partner.

Ji Qingyan, the young master of Haicheng, was the heir to a top-tier wealthy family: refined, upright, and gentle as jade.

Aside from being a little uninhibited at night, he really was a perfect boyfriend.

Jiang Yi knew that a man like him cared most about being well matched in status.

After graduating, she planned to take the civil service exam and return to her hometown. Her world had little overlap with his social circle. Although she sometimes lost herself in their love, she had always remained clearheaded.

After graduation, sooner or later, they would part ways.

But as graduation drew closer, she became more and more reluctant to let him go, and more and more clingy.

-

Ji Qingyan brought up breaking up on an utterly ordinary day.

Jiang Yi's heart clenched when she heard him. It was far earlier than she had imagined.

Ji Qingyan: "Since we're going to break up sooner or later, we might as well get used to it now."

The usually gentle man spoke in a cold, detached voice, showing no mercy at all.

Jiang Yi was heartbroken, but she still agreed. Reluctant to let go, she made one request: "Baby, I'm going to miss you so much... Can we at least not delete each other on WeChat yet?"

Ji Qingyan: "No."

So even a gentle person could be this merciless when breaking up.

She wasn't the type to cling to someone, so she didn't make any more pointless attempts to get him to stay.

Two gentle people had been in love, and they parted with dignity, too.

She just couldn't bring herself to delete their sweet memories or chat history, so she left him in her contacts.

After Jiang Yi left, the man's eyes darkened as he watched her walk away from upstairs without once looking back, until she disappeared from sight.

-

Jiang Yi thought she would be sad for a long time, but then she suddenly lost her old phone.

She could no longer see those memories... or relive them ever again...

On her way to buy a new phone, she met an older student, who learned she had just gone through a breakup and encouraged her to move on.

It took only a month.

She began to get used to life without him, and finally told her friends, "He's a good person. We just weren't meant to stay together. I'm going to start a new life."

She needed to make plans for her own future and stop losing herself in love.

That day, the older student walked her back to her dorm. Ji Qingyan happened to see them when he suddenly appeared.

Ever since they broke up, she had acted as if he were dead. She never replied to his messages again.

The person who had once loved him desperately had been able to leave the past behind and find someone new in just a month.

-

Later, whenever Jiang Yi mentioned anyone else in front of Ji Qingyan, he would be consumed with jealousy. The gentle, restrained man he had once been was long gone.

He kept her locked by his side, softly kissing her calf. Tears rolled down one by one, burning at her heart.

"Why do you keep bringing up other people in front of me?"

"You were the one who kept wanting to break up, and you were the one who couldn't wait to leave."

"Did you ever love me, even just a little?..."

[Upcoming Novel Reading Guide] A story about someone trying to change his wife, only to lose it himself.

Theme: Knowledge changes one's destiny