If The Moon Won’t Hold You

Zhang Ziyi raised an eyebrow and smiled, “Hey, you made me feel so refreshed that day.
Don’t even mention how happy I felt watching Xue Xiaoxiao get humiliated.
Well… the enemy’s enemy is a friend, Cen Ning, let’s be friends from now onwards.”

Cen Ning felt puzzled, but her heart jumped: “Friends?”

“Hm, yes, we will be friends on an united front from now onwards.”

Her reason was strange, but Cen Ning still felt a little happy.
She had made a friend on the first day at school, this was something she didn’t even dare to dream of.

“You, don’t like, Xue Xiaoxiao.”

“Of course I don’t like her.” Zhang Ziyi snorted, “Being arrogant and overbearing every day, she is annoying to look at.”

Cen Ning was amused by her exaggerated expression.
Zhang Ziyi looked at her laugh and also laughed, “Hey, did you skip a grade, you look so small.”

Cen Ning shook her head: “…I didn’t.”

Zhang Ziyi glanced at her suspiciously, and then whispered: “Then, do you really have that kind of relationship with Yan Xingzhi.”

Others in the class may still be curious about the relationship between Yan Xingzhi and Cen Ning, but Zhang Ziyi had heard of this matter as she was also a child in the same compound.
Teenage girls were still naive to love and romance, but this was also a period where they would experience their first awakening of love.
As such, girls were always very passionate about these sorts of new and secretive topics.

Cen Ning felt that Yan Xingzhi did not like their strange relationship, so she shook her head subconsciously: “No.”

“Really? But everyone says so, and Yan Xingzhi helped stand up for you yesterday.”

Cen Ning was afraid of Yan Xingzhi, but she was indeed filled with joy when she remembered what happened yesterday.
When someone treated her kindly, she would always engrave it deep within her heart.

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Seeing that Cen Ning didn’t say a word, Zhang Zi didn’t ask too much.
She lowered her voice and said, “Okay, let’s not talk about it in school.
Many people here like Yan Xingzhi.
If this matter is known to others, they’ll hate you so much.”

Cen Ning: “…………”

The news of the new student who was personally delivered to the door by Yan Xingzhi on her first day spread through the whole middle school department. 

Yan Xingzhi, this person, not only was he already so handsome, but he was also the genius-type in his studies, he was a popular person who all the teachers loved.

This kind of good-looking and smart person was naturally regarded as a god-level male figure by all the girls at school.

But this male god was extremely cold, his temperament was so indifferent that ordinary girls dared not to approach him.
So, suddenly seeing a person being sent to the door of the classroom by him, everyone was full of curiosity.

But after seeing Cen Ning herself, those with harbored an unkind curiosity at the beginning became relieved – oh, it turns out she looks like this, she must be Yan Xingzhi’s relative, right?

Everyone thought like this instead of linking Cen Ning with the words “girlfriend” and “lover”.

In fact, Cen Ning did not look ugly, but she reached puberty late, not to mention how small she was paired with her dull complexion, so she was really not worth mentioning when there were so many beautiful girls in school.
Some female classmates even took the initiative to come talk to her as they no longer felt guarded against her, inquiring about Yan Xingzhi both overtly and covertly.

Cen Ning looked young, but her mind was much more mature than that of ordinary children.
She could feel that everyone approached her because of Yan Xingzhi.
Logically speaking, she should get angry, but for someone like her who had always been excluded, the feeling of having people around her made her feel extremely glad.

She couldn’t bear to refuse, and the result of this reluctance was that every few days or so, someone would place a love letter to Yan Xingzhi on her desk…

On this day, class was over in the afternoon.

“Ningning, let’s go out to eat today, how about we go home after having dinner?” Zhang Ziyi packed her schoolbags and stood by her desk.

Cen Ning glanced at her apologetically: “Today, Grandpa Yan told us, to go home, go home for dinner on time.”

Zhang Ziyi looked disappointed: “Well, let’s eat together next time.
I heard that there is a delicious steak restaurant nearby.”

Cen Ning nodded: “I’m sorry.”

“Hey, it’s okay, let’s go home.”

“Yep.”

Cen Ning didn’t expect to see Yan Xingzhi as soon as she walked out of the classroom.
He stood under the steps, dressed in his school uniform, the first button of his shirt was unbuttoned, and he stood upright, looking very eye-catching.

“Tang Zheng, what are you doing? Wait for us.” Zhang Ziyi didn’t dare to act presumptuous before Yan Xingzhi, but she acted much more natural in front of Tang Zheng.
However, Tang Zheng knocked her forehead as soon as she leapt over, “Tsk, showing no respect for your elders.
How many times have I told you to call me brother, Tang Zheng this, Tang Zheng that, so rude.”

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Zhang Ziyi rolled her eyes at him: “Oh, what’s so great about being older than me by a couple of years.

“Hey you brat–” Tang Zheng put one hand on the shoulders of Yan Xingzhi, making a gesture that translated to “being an elder is hard’, while saying “You tell me, why are children these days so disobedient?”

Yan Xingzhi twitched his lips, and his gaze fell on Cen Ning.

How were they disobedient, this child was very obedient, he told her to call him Gege and she did it so obediently, didn’t she?

“What are you doing standing there, come here.” Yan Xingzhi said to Ceng Ning.

Cen Ning went ‘oh’, and went up towards him: “Why, are you here?”

“Waited in the car for a while, saw that you didn’t come out yet.”

Cen Ning: “Our, our class got delayed.”

“Oh.”

They turned and walked towards the school gate.
The students passing by looked at them either boldly or surreptitiously, but Cen Ning didn’t have time to think about this.
She touched the love letters in her pocket and looked at Yan Xingzhi’s back, feeling a bit troubled.

These, how should she give them to him?

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The author has something to say:

Cen Ning: I’m sitting in the classroom, and ‘greenness’ comes from the sky.1

Years later.

Yan Xingzhi: My wife sent me a lot of love letters when she was a kid… each signature was different

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(She’ll grow up, don’t worry, but let me finish writing the plot that should be written at this current age~)

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[Translator’s Note: Yay our FL made her first friend!]