If The Moon Won’t Hold You

ver yet.”

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After school in the afternoon, Cen Ning trotted all the way to the school gate and told the driver uncle who was picking her up that she would go home alone tonight.
Then she returned to the classroom and listened to Song Ci lecture her with her math test paper.

So, when Yan Xingzhi sat in the car, he didn’t see Cen Ning.

“She hasn’t come out yet?” Yan Xingzhi asked casually.

“This child is still in the classroom, she told us to leave first as she has something to do.”

Yan Xingzhi frowned upon hearing this: “Still in the classroom?”

“Yes, you see, should we go back?”

Yan Xingzhi did not speak, after a while, he opened the door and got out of the car: “Uncle Zhong, you drive back first, I will return by myself tonight.”

Driver: “This…how about I just wait here.”

“No need, I have something to do.”

“Okay, then, I’ll drive the car back first?”

“Yes.”

After getting out of the car and walking into the school gate, the driver started the car after seeing his silhouette disappear.

In the classroom at this time, Song Ci was going through the third question for Cen Ning.

“Do you understand now?”

Cen Ning nodded: “It turned out to be like this, it seems pretty, pretty simple.”

“It is quite simple, you just didn’t come around to interpret it properly at the start.” Song Ci supported his head with one hand, and used his other hand to reach over and pat her shoulder, “Hey, you are actually quite smart, really.”

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Being praised like this, Cen Ning felt a little embarrassed and she smiled.
Just when she was about to say something, she suddenly heard someone calling her from the door of the classroom.

“Cen Ning.” The voice was quite deep, without much emotion, it sounded a little cold.

Cen Ning looked back in surprise, and saw that Yan Xingzhi had already walked over towards them from the door.
He glanced at Song Ci, and then at the hand that Song Ci had placed on Cen Ning’s shoulder.

“Uncle Zhong had something come up at home, so he left first, I came over to tell you.” Yan Xingzhi said

Cen Ning: “I, I already told Uncle Zhong that I don’t need to be picked up today, I will go home by myself.”

He went ‘oh’ and said without changing his expression, “Then he didn’t tell me, I thought you didn’t know that you had to go home by yourself today.”

Cen Ning: “I see…”

“Well, pack up your things and go home with me.”

Cen Ning’s hand that was holding onto a pen halted for a second: “I, I haven’t…”

“We haven’t finished going through her test paper.” Song Ci said at this moment, “Um, are you her brother?”

Yan Xingzhi had already said ‘let’s go home’, Song Ci naturally remembered the gossip that the girls in class had said, Cen Ning was probably Yan Xingzhi’s relative.

At that moment, Yan Xingzhi didn’t shake or nod his head, he only said: “Then let’s go through it at home.”

Cen Ning was taken aback: “Ah?”

“If Grandpa knew that I let you go home by yourself, what do you think will happen?” He frowned slightly, “If you don’t understand, you can go home and ask me, didn’t he tell you this long ago?”

Cen Ning’s heart beat fast, Yan Grandpa had said this, but how dare she really disturb him? However, this ‘thing’ that she did not dare to do was spoken out loud by Yan Xingzhi himself, she was suddenly full of joy.

“Hurry up, it will be dark if we don’t go home now.”

“Oh, okay!”

Cen Ning hurriedly began to pack her schoolbag.
When Song Ci was watching on the sidelines, he suddenly felt an unfriendly gaze continuously staring at him.
He raised his eyes and saw Yan Xingzhi’s somewhat serious expression, Song Ci coughed awkwardly, “Then, Cen Ning, I’ll go home first.”

“Okay….”

“See you tomorrow.”

“See you tomorrow.”

After walking out of the classroom, Yan Xingzhi walked at the front, a few steps behind, Cen Ning was following him.

Neither of them spoke, one’s temperament was indifferent, and the other was not good at conversing.

Cen Ning lowered her head, and as she was walking, she suddenly bumped into a wall of flesh.
She clutched her forehead and looked up, seeing Yan Xingzhi reaching out his hand to knock her forehead, “Not looking while you’re walking?”

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“You…you stopped.”

“Oh, you blame me then.”

“……No.”

Yan Xingzhi curled his lips, and his gaze went towards the side: “Cen Ning, at your age, learning is the most important thing, do you know that?”

Cen Ning didn’t know why he was saying this, but because what he said wasn’t wrong, she nodded obediently.

Yan Xingzhi continued: “Don’t have other thoughts, and don’t get too close to those who are not familiar with you, such as boys, or those who ask you to send me letters.”

Cen Ning thought that she might have made him unhappy that day when she had acted upon her own initiative to give him the letters, that’s why he did not wish for her to be in contact with them and do that again.

Of course she could understand this, but in regards to boys, had she gotten close to anyone? He… didn’t want her to approach other boys, is that what he meant?

Cen Ning’s heart jumped because of her own wild imaginations, but within the next second, she heard him say in exactly the same tone as an elder would, “I don’t want to control you, it’s just I won’t know how to explain to grandpa and your mother if something were to happen, do you understand?”

The uprise in this young girl’s little heart instantly cooled down, and thousands of thoughts flashed past like a shooting star that had suddenly appeared in the sky.
After a long time, she whispered: “Ok…”

Yan Xingzhi was satisfied with her expression of non-resistance, so he turned his head and walked on.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly looked back.
Cen Ning noticed that he had stopped this time round, so she halted in her steps abruptly to prevent herself from hitting him again.

“What, what’s wrong?”

Yan Xingzhi looked down at her and suddenly reached out and picked up the schoolbag that seemed to be very heavy on her back.
And with such a motion, Cen Ning’s hands were also raised up alongside the schoolbag.

“……”

“…………”

Cen Ning was stunned whilst in a position that looked like a bird spreading its wings.

Looking at her funny and cute, but dumb appearance, the corners of Yan Xingzhi’s mouth curled up slightly.

Then, he said faintly: “Let go, I’ll carry it.”

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The author has something to say:

This novel is not in a narrative form of flashbacks, it will be written from young to old.
Spoiler: Chapter 11 will see them grow older.
Guess how old they will be!

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[Translator’s Note: Yan Xingzhi: if I act like an elder then she won’t know I’m lying.
Driver Uncle Zhong: …..why am I used as an excuse, I’m just trying to do my job!! Hahaha, and Cen Ning, it’s okay, don’t feel sad, if Yan Xingzhi were to like you now you would regret it in the future because he would be a p*do okay!!!! Anyways, MERRY CHRISTMAS, hope you guys enjoyed this chappie!]