Chapter 166: Date with Chen Mengyan
Having heard what his mom said, a drop of cold sweat trickled down. Did I look that awful in my outfit? However, recalling how Sun Jie treated him like a little brother, Yang Ming felt that his fas.h.i.+on sense could really be outdated.
It was probably the reason why Guo Jianchao looked down on him. For a street gangster who looked like a student, no matter how much more effort he put in, there was a limit to how bada** he could be.
But why would my mother suddenly speak of Chen Mengyan? Yang Ming already had a date with Lan Ling tomorrow!
âMom, tomorrow Chen Mengyan wonât be free. Letâs see if we can make it another day!â Yang Ming said perfunctorily.
âFree? Why wouldnât she be free? I have already gotten her agreement.â Mother Yang said while laughing.
âAh? Gotten her agreement? What does that mean?â Yang Ming was confused.
âJust now, Chen Mengyan called our home to look for you. Then I asked her if she would be free tomorrow. She said she was.â Mother Yang said.
Oh my G.o.d! Yang Ming didnât know whether to laugh or cry. It seemed like mom surely wanted to s.h.i.+p me with Chen Mengyan! But I still have another thing to do tomorrow!
Yang Ming didnât know what to do, so he had to make another call to Chen Mengyan. It wasnât because of his unwillingness to go out with her. On the contrary, he was very happy with it. However, it would be challenging to handle his situation with Lan Ling.
However, life is like a dream [1]. A few months ago, he was still fantasizing about the campus belle, Chen Mengyan, from afar. However, now, he was swarmed by beauties left and right. He was having trouble sorting his relations.h.i.+ps with pretty girls.
âHey!â He heard Chen Mengyanâs voice on the other end of the phone. At this moment, Chen Mengyan was watching television in her living room, and the phone was beside her. When she saw that the phone number displayed was Yang Mingâs, she picked it up quickly.
âMengyan, itâs me, Yang Ming.â Yang Ming said after collecting his thoughts.
âYup, I know.â Chen Mengyan, of course, would have known that it was Yang Ming, Or else she wouldnât have greeted him with a simple âHey!â She was still a very polite girl. Every time she answered othersâ phone calls, she would have added a greeting.
âThat⌠tomorrowâŚâ Yang Ming really didnât know what kind of excuse he could use to reject Chen Mengyan.
âHehe, I donât have any issues. Letâs just meet at the school gate?â Chen Mengyan thought that Yang Ming was embarra.s.sed to ask her out on a date, so she said it first.
âAh?â Yang Ming didnât think that his hesitation would have turned into such a situation. Nevermind. Tomorrow I would accompany Chen Mengyan in the morning and then go and meet up with Lan Ling at night! There was nothing else that I could do. âAlright, tomorrow 8 a.m., letâs meet at the Song Jiang No. 4 High School entrance!â
Since they had already decided, Yang Ming wanted it to be as early as possible so that he could visit Lan Ling earlier too.
âOk, be there or be square.â Chen Mengyan hung up the phone in a sweet mood, feeling excited about her date tomorrow.
After he hung up the phone, Yang Ming went back to his room. He first copied the video recording of Guo Jianchao onto his computer. Next, he applied the similar compression and file splitting before he stored it into multiple email addresses.
Yang Ming felt a bit amused looking at his email. In just over a month, he had already secured the shortcomings of three people! After everything, Yang Ming kept the letter of guarantee at the bottom of his drawer. The chances of using this item would be slim since there was little chance for Guo Jianchao to go against him.
After he settled everything, he sent an SMS to Lan Ling, telling her that he could only visit her a little bit later tomorrow.
After a while, Lan Ling replied to the SMS. She told Yang Ming that if he had anything to do then to go and settle those things first. She was not in a hurry anyway. This made Yang Ming feel very guilty. He was going on a date with Chen Mengyan behind Lan Lingâs back.
He didnât want to lie to Lan Ling, but he couldnât imagine what kind of bad things would happen after she found out about this. He didnât want to hurt Lan Ling. his girl was truly pitiful. In this world, he would be her only support! Yang Ming didnât want her to feel any more depressed!
After he played Landlords for a while with Wild Female Teacher, Zhang Bing sent a message over telling him that he had already gotten his driverâs license and asked Yang Ming to get it tomorrow. Yang Ming felt a headache coming. How did everything fall into tomorrow? He was glad he could find a replacement to pick it up for him. After finding out that Yang Ming was going on a date with Chen Mengyan tomorrow, Zhang Bing volunteered himself to take up this responsibility.
Thereâs no True Love in this World: Letâs stop here today. I still have other things to do tomorrow, I will play with you again some other time.
Wild Female Teacher: Isnât tomorrow the weekend? What are you doing?
Thereâs no True Love in this World: Canât I do something on the weekend? Walk the street, accompany my relatives or even date a girlfriend [3]. Why not?
Wild Female Teacher: Sure! But definitely not to date a girlfriend.
Thereâs no True Love in this World: Why not?
Wild Female Teacher: You are named âThereâs no True Love in this World,â which means you donât believe in love.
Thereâs no True Love in this World: Sweat. That was just a nickname. So you are saying you are truly a wild female teacher? Letâs stop bullsh*ting. Iâm going offline!
Wild Female Teacher: 8888 [4]âŚ.
The next morning, Yang Ming was on time at the entrance of Song Jiang No. 4 High School. Chen Mengyan wasnât there yet. After about three minutes, Chen Mengyan jumped out of a taxi and walked quickly to Yang Ming. She said, feeling slightly embarra.s.sed, âI have been sleeping a bit late these past few days. I almost didnât wake up.â As she said this, she stuck out her tongue adorably.
âHehe, itâs fine. I have just arrived here. Itâs quite nice. There were still a few more minutes until 8 a.m. We have both come early.â Yang Ming smiled.
âYou really know what to say!â Chen Mengyan happily held onto Yang Mingâs elbow. Even though the two of them were in front of the school entrance, they didnât need to be cautious about anything now since they had already reached the âlegalâ age to be in a relations.h.i.+p.
It was like this in China. Between high school and university was a big borderline. If you were to be in a relations.h.i.+p in high school, you would be criticized as being irresponsible and having an early relations.h.i.+p. Even if you were already in your 12th grade and was already 18 years old, you were not exempt. However, the moment you enter into university, even if you were just a prospective student, if you were to go into a relations.h.i.+p right now, it would be reasonable in the eyes of the parents and teachers.
This is the present situation with education and relations.h.i.+ps. Even though a lot of people know that it was unreasonable, no one dared to stand up to criticize this logic!
It was also because of this reason, that before the short relations.h.i.+p that Yang Ming and Su Ya even blossomed, they were shunned by their teachers and parents. When the people from that age looked back at it, they would realize that even if it was an early relations.h.i.+p in junior high school, as long as they had a certain restraint, then it wouldnât have affected their studies much. Of course, this restraint meant a psychological restraint, not restraint in their relations.h.i.+p. The two of them could hug, cuddle or even do something that they liked to do. Those were not the main issues. The most important issue was whether the two of them had a goal that they worked toward together, and it was not just pure enjoyment and relaxation. Therefore, people should encourage positive early relations.h.i.+ps and only discourage those negative early relations.h.i.+ps instead.
Yang Ming and Su Ya obviously belonged to a positive relations.h.i.+p, because the two of them mostly discussed topics in their studies. Some of the more open-minded teachers would have opened one eye and shut the other [5]. However, there would be people like Wu Chiren, who would dig to the root.
However, the relations.h.i.+p between Chen Mengyan and Yang Ming was also a borderline early relations.h.i.+p. Cla.s.s teacher Li wasnât an idiot either. She would be able to notice a few cues from it. However, because Yang Mingâs exam result had improved significantly and quickly, Teacher Li didnât bother with all of these extra things. Teacher Li belonged to the teachers who were much more open-minded.
Up to this point, Yang Ming was only grateful to two teachers. The first was Teacher Li. The scene where she was in the headmasterâs office arguing with discipline teacher Jin for his case was still very much in his memories. Yang Ming was someone who never forgot a generous act. He decided that he would visit Teacher Li every year. The other one would be Zhao Ying who was like his teacher or a friend. Yang Ming was not only grateful to her, but there was also a complicated relations.h.i.+p with her.
Even Yang Ming himself wasnât clear about his overall feeling toward Zhao Ying. However, if an objective question was in front of him, such as: If Zhao Ying and Chen Mengyan both fell into the water together, who would he rescue first? Yang Ming found it very difficult to answer. He didnât know! If he needed to give an answer, he would rescue the closest one.
He hadnât met Zhao Ying in a long while, so he didnât know if she was still fine. Was that Jin Gang still disturbing her? When he thought about Jin Gang, he felt a need to find an opportunity to warn this brat to stop. Oh yeah, as well as that Jin Xisen. Since Yang Ming had graduated, he couldnât care less about this discipline teacher now.
Song Jiang No. 4 High School was near the business street. That was also the reason the two of them had picked to meet at this location. It was only about a ten-minute walk, and they had arrived.
âMengyan, itâs time for you to buy a cell phone.â Yang Ming looked at the IT mall in front of him and thought of a very important question. He wouldnât want to be interrogated by her parents every time he wanted to talk to her.
âBuy a cell phone? Why? I wonât be using it at the moment.â Chen Mengyan asked curiously.
Yang Ming, of course, didnât say that he was afraid of being interrogated by her parents when he called her. Therefore he explained, âYou would be starting our university soon. If you donât have a cell phone at university, it could be very inconvenient. Moreover, we could text each other.â
âThen⌠letâs buy one. Since a cell phone isnât that expensive nowadays.â Chen Mengyan initially felt that this thing wasnât a necessity, but as soon as she heard what Yang Ming said, she felt like she should buy one. If not for any particular reason, then the ability to SMS one another.