Chapter 245 - Falling in Love
They didn’t know what they had discussed, but they saw Tang Chengdong smiling with joy and heartfelt admiration.
“Brother Long, I will arrive on time tomorrow.”
Tang Chengdong promised solemnly.
“See you tomorrow!”
Ding Ning waved his hands handsomely and left with his friends without turning back.
“Brother Long, do you need us to drive you home?”
After finding that they had not arrived by car and had been drunk, Tang Chengdong said earnestly.
“Not necessary, I want to take a stroll and become sober by the way.”
Taking a looking at his watch, he found it was not 10 p.m. yet, and waved his hand to refuse his sincere offer.
Zhang Haifeng and Wu Xian looked happy, knowing Ding Ning did it for their good: creating an opportunity to stay with these ladies.
The three ladies agreed too, and Liu Wenjing had already officially approved Zhang Haifeng as her boyfriend.
Song Xiaoyu had not officially approved their relationship, but she did not refuse Wu Xian to take her hand. It seemed that she had silently approved him as her boyfriend.
As a result, Ding Ning became embarrassed and had to walk with Zhao Jingjing shoulder to shoulder silently, bearing the hot look she shot at him from time to time.
Ding Ning’s heart beat rapidly. To tell the truth, he liked to stay with Zhao Jingjing very much, but this feeling made him feel a little inexplicably panic.
He had never thought of having an experience of bedding a “flat-breast prince”, not to mention a little delicate, cute Lolita.
“Is this love?” Ding Ning was confused. He also loved Ling Yun, but he fell in love with her after being with her for a long time. That feeling was more of family affection than romantic love.
Xiao Nuo was different. After going through deadly experiences, they formed an unbreakable but ambiguous romantic relationship.
Shen Muqing was the one whom he fell in love with at first sight. Although they already had no contacts temporarily, he believed that they would not end their relationship like this.
He had no feeling about Zhao Jingjing at first sight and they didn’t get along well with each other, but why did he fall in love with her without reason at second sight?
Ding Ning was puzzled and gloomy about it. At the same time, he also vaguely felt guilty. He firmly believed that he preferred mature young women, but how could he become interested in a Lolita who had not fully grown although she looked delicate and perfect like a little princess walking out of a cartoon?
“You don’t talk, and what you are thinking about?”
Zhao Jingjing put her hands behind her back, turned, and skewed her head to look at Ding Ning. She was scampering like a little child.
“Uh, nothing, how old are you?”
After hesitating for a while, he suddenly wanted to know if she came of age. If she was, that was okay; if not, it would be a big problem.
“What do you want? Want to date me?”
Zhao Jingjing skewed her head and looked at him with a smile, her eyes having mischievousness and scrutiny.
“Humph, you are a little girl without a slender figure or temperament. Why should I date you?”
Ding Ning pursed his lips against his will. He felt inexplicably panic, trying to avoid her eyes.
“Humph, but why did you...”
Zhao Jingjing bit her lips, blushed, and said.
“That... uh, uh, was impulsive.”
Ding Ning was embarrassed and felt quite regret about the stupid thing he did, which had turned into his weakness for the girl to accuse him.
He could not blame anyone but his own hand. Why did he touch her naively? His style was really terrible and seemed notoriously influential?
“I am not slender, but you still touched me. It proves that you wish to bed me. The more it is like this, the more it proves you have fallen in love with me. Haha, Ding Ning, you are finished.”
Zhao Jingjing spoke in a high spirit with a gloating expression. Ding Ning was angered and gritted his teeth, wishing to catch her and slap her little buttocks hard.
“You love me, fall in love with me, like a mouse loves rice...”
Wearing a white princess dress, Zhao Jingjing danced happily like an intoxicating elf in the dark night. She looked so beautiful that the passers-by turned their kind eyes to her.
But that beautiful dance and atmosphere were destroyed by her unsuitable song completely, and Ding Ning truly felt tired of it.
It was not that Zhao Jingjing’s song was not nice to hear, but that the song was not in accordance with her beautiful dance, as if when the waltz was on, the music accompanying the devil Nihon invaders processioning into a village was played. It was much too inharmonious.
“Gee, who has fallen in love with my dear Jingjing?”
Liu Wenjing’s name meant grace, but she was not graceful at all. When she was chatting romantically with Zhang Haifeng, she did not forget to turn back to blink and make fun of Zhao Jingjing. It was her retribution for having been teased by Miss Zhao all the time, so that she even thought she had been harassed by a lesbian.
“The one who loves me knows it!”
Zhao Jingjing raised her delicate little face to a 45 degree angle, proud like a green peahen.
Her words aimed at Ding Ning made him smile shyly and feel speechless. Now he was only hoping to return to his school earlier to get rid of the little Lolita.
Fortunately, Zhao Jingjing became quiet soon, put her hands behind her back, and walked with Ding Ning shoulder to shoulder silently, as if she were a virtuous lady.
Facing such a changeable Lolita, Ding Ning didn’t know what to say but to keep silent wisely, but he also enjoyed the carefree time inexplicably.
He thought about the time since he saved Shen Muqing. Things that happened during this period could be written into a book, and they were even more wonderful than his five-year university life.
In his heart, he really liked living a simple life, but his meeting with Shen Muqing seemed to have opened the Pandora’s box. His course of life had changed since then.
So, walking in the misty dark night brought him the rare quietness and peace. The feeling made him comfortable, somewhat like the romantic style of poems and paintings.
His words sounded unfriendly, but he did not resist the synchronized silence between them while walking shoulder to shoulder.
Yes, it was this silence, as if they understood the minds of each other. They paced miraculously the same, taking their steps simultaneously... landing, raising their feet... walking...
The rustle of their steps reverberated in the night and surprisingly formed a kind of special rhythm, making them seemingly approach each other limitlessly... close.... even closer...
Then, he generated the feeling that it was not bad either even when they walked like this forever.
At the same time, two of them generated this idea and smiled at each other. Without words or communication, they understood the ideas of each other inexplicably.
It was not that who took action first or who seduced who, but a big hand and a small hand held each other naturally, and two hearts moved closer as two hands held tight.
Ding Ning knew that he had fallen in love shamelessly, feeling excited and anxious. He felt he was a terrible guy and was very guilty to Ling Yun.
This was a betrayal of the soul and cheat on love, but he didn’t want to resist it or had the strength to do so, and he even didn’t want to resist the longing and excitement from the most bottom of his heart.
Zhao Jingjing felt it was strange. “Is it that one should blush, one’s heart should beat quickly, and one should breathe rapidly when love comes? But why didn’t I have this feeling? What I only have is peace and quietness of the soul.” She felt comfortable and satisfied because of the feeling.
“Is it that a genius’s love differs from the love of an ordinary person?” she thought silently, and a few words flashed across her mind without reason, “Hold your hand and grow old together with you!”
That year, he was 22, and she was 18!
Only because of the excitement at that moment, she stupidly decided to love for a lifetime and would never feel regret!
No matter how long the road was, it had an end; no matter how far the path stretched, it appeared so short in the eyes of lovers.
However they did not want to part, they finally arrived at Ninghai University. There were no excessive emotional words of love, there was no strong desire that they did not want to part, and what they had was a pure emotional stare at each other.
The three men responsibly took the three ladies to the ladies’ dormitory. No, it was unnecessary because all of them lodged in the same dormitory. The only two obstacles were the iron fence at the stair entrance of the fourth floor and a horrific creature called dormitory management aunt.
Taking these ladies to their dormitory was equal to returning to their own dormitory. Ding Ning found two of his dormitory members were silent, they only held their mobile phones tight, and they looked their own phones time and often. Then, he realized that the two guys were waiting for the calls of their girlfriends. He could not help feeling regret and had a wry smile inwardly because he even forgot to ask about Zhao Jingjing’s phone number.
Looking at the expecting expressions of the two single men who had just fallen in love, Ding Ning felt it was funny, but he was also moved by them slightly.
His two roommates’ moral standards and personalities were really good. Even though they had so many questions to ask him, they chose not to ask without prior consultation. So, he felt relaxed and also gratified.
This was a way of respecting each other. They would not change their way of living no matter how their social statuses or other factors changed, and he liked the tacit agreement feeling for gentlemen’s communication.
Everyone had curiosity and would keep asking questions because they felt they had good relationships with you. They might think, “You should tell me everything because we are very good friends.” In fact, that would damage their friendships.
When true friends handled their relationships, they would not overly care about the private life of each other, and they would leave enough space for the privacies of each other. When their friends needed them, they would support and accompany them wholeheartedly without reason, without telling right from wrong, and without conditions. Such friends were real friends.
Zhao Xin was a smart friend like that, and he never stubbornly asked him about anything. When Ding Ning wanted to tell him his stories, he would listen carefully; when Ding Ning did not want to speak, he would not ask about anything no matter how curious he was.
Ding Ning only had one friend like that before, but now he had three, and so he cherished their friendships very much.
If they didn’t ask, Ding Ning would not volunteer to speak. After all, that was associated with the underworld business, and he could not drag them into it.
Just as he was ready to climb to his bed to conduct practice, he suddenly had a phone call, and his face turned dark immediately.
In the Blessing Gathering Club, Yang Kaishan was sitting in an old-fashioned wooden armchair with a dark face, staring with a killing look at the two members of the Axe Gang kneeling before him.
“Say it, how could Liu Qiuying have been rescued? How useless you are!”
The two trembling gang members said sadly, “Hall Chief, we have no idea, either. We passed over without knowing why, but when we woke up, Liu Qiuying was gone.”
Yang Kaishan stood up suddenly and kicked the two members hard, who fell on the floor. Then, he roared angrily, “Useless, you are all useless! You could not even keep an unarmed woman imprisoned and have ruined my plan. Guards, take them away and kill them.”
“Mercy, Hall Chief, mercy...”
The two members were extremely scared and kowtowed repetitively as they saw the two disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall who came with the roar.
Unfortunately, Yang Kaishan had been merciless and ignored their sad calling for mercy.
“Hall Chief, the one who came into our Blessing Gathering Club to rescue the woman without our knowledge must be an excellent guy. Do you think if it was done by that Guo Jianglong?
The thin, old goatee man wearing glasses and dressed in a Tang suit frowned and spoke behind Yang Kaishan.
“Even though it were not him, it must be his accomplice. Our secret informer has sent back the news. That Guo Jianglong had been in Jazz KTV and also fought with Tang Chengdong, and they ceased fighting after his accomplice took Liu Qiuying back to them.”
Yang Kaishan was still angry, but he regarded the old man as an extremely important person and spoke a little gently, “Advisor Ma, what should we do now? Shall we go to negotiate tomorrow?”
“Obviously, both Guo Jianglong and his accomplice are outstanding martial artists.”
Advisor Ma tugged at his goatee, shook his head, and said, “As the saying goes, if you know yourself and also your enemies, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles. Hall Chief, I already sent someone to learn about the information of that Master Yun yesterday. There were only several punks guarding that place. I only spent a few bucks, and they told me everything. They said their bosses’ boss is Master Yun, but they had never seen the master before. Just now I sent our men and brought these punks’ bosses. One is named Gangzi, one is named Xiaoyu, and another Yuanyang. Now they are being imprisoned in our club’s basement.”