A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 091 - Ice Arrows

“Don’t Bother Checking.”

The house that was White Horse Alley had been transformed into a barrel of gunpowder, ready to explode at any moment. When Sheng Wang was packing up his luggage, he accidentally overheard Jiang Ou and Sheng Mingyang’s conversation. To be fair, it wasn’t quite a conversation — it was Jiang Ou apologising one-sidedly. She had been high strung and temperamental as of late, what she did the most every day was apologising. Nobody could withstand that, and nobody could really criticise her for that too.

She felt that her current state was very problematic, and that was unfair towards Sheng Mingyang. She wanted to separate for a while. All Sheng Mingyang did was to comfort her, saying, “It’s fine, don’t think too much. Healing first is more important.” And then he went to the balcony, smoking for a very long time.

Sheng Wang instinctively felt that the two might not end up getting married after all.
He thought that he would feel glad or regretful when this happened, but in actuality he did not feel a single thing at all. He and Jiang Tian were standing on a tightrope, shoulder to shoulder — trying to keep their balance alone was sapping all their energy, they had no time to care about anything else at all.

Fuzhong would be holding a level parent-teacher meeting when school reopens. For one, they wanted to chat about the results for the finals last semester, and secondly, they wanted to prepare them for the minor gaokao at the start of March.

The meeting will be more formal than the previous others, the school was deathly afraid that some people wouldn’t bring it up to their parents, so they went straight to sending everyone a message via the contact list.
Funnily enough, this period of time was probably the longest Sheng Mingyang had ever stayed at home. He received the notice from Big Mouth Xu, and immediately agreed to go without any doubt.
He initially wanted to go by himself, wanting to let Jiang Ou stay home and rest, and get Auntie Sun to take care of her. After much pondering however, he also figured that having the chance to go out and take her mind off things, having a change in environment, would help Jiang Ou escape the things that haunted her, to stop burrowing deeper into it.

Sheng Wang wanted to make use of the opportunity of school reopening to breathe, but ended up back at square one because of this parent. As such, he was down and spiritless on his way to school.

Sheng Mingyang was the one driving. He eyed his son from the rearview mirror quite a few times, and finally asked, laughingly, “What is it, you still can’t bear for holidays to end even when you’re this big now?”
The moment he heard this, Sheng Wang felt that this line coming from Sheng Mingyang of all people was way too absurd. He honestly couldn’t resist anymore, and a corner of his lips jerked; a casual act of self-mockery. Jiang Tian’s hand dangled on the seat, and in a spot where Sheng Mingyang and Jiang Ou couldn’t see them, he picked at his little finger gently.

The irritation in Sheng Wang’s heart dwindled by a little. His eyes were outside, but his finger hooked onto Jiang Tian tightly. When Sheng Mingyang looked at him once more, he half-heartedly grunted a reply, saying, “‘M a little sleepy from getting up too early, Imma nap a bit.”
He grabbed a cushion off-handedly, placed it against the window, and shut his eyes.

There are 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year. Setting aside school and sleep, the remaining time was small change. After putting it that way, they weren’t too far from graduating either.
He flipped through many books and did many questions over the break. Sometimes, he’d have the illusion that as long as they tried with all their might to keep running — faster than anyone else — the days would shorten a little more.

Sheng Mingyang had a lot of friends. Before he even entered Fuzhong, his phone — his WeChat, buzzed non-stop. It was as though he wasn’t there for a parent-teacher meeting, but for a gathering.
He had been troubled by Jiang Ou’s issues for the entire winter break, and it was only at this time then he realised that it had been a long while since he paid any attention to his son’s academics. He absorbed information vigorously like a student studying for a test at the last minute, he took in anything and everything.