It was in the evening when the bus reached their destination. The students left the bus in awe as they glimpsed the surroundings. They weren’t in the wilderness as all of them were hoping. In fact, it was an opennd covered with nothing but grass and tall trees.
They could hear a slight voice of something. It was the sound of flowing water.
The sun had yet to set but the sky was covered in hues of red and violet.
If there was heaven on earth, at this moment, it was this ce.
“Students, hurry up! We have to set up tents or the sun will set and we will have difficulty in making arrangements for spending the night, ” The teacher yelled as he started taking out stuff from the bus.
The students who were immersed in watching the beautiful nature came out of their daze and began moving to help the teacher.
An Xin and Song Xueyun ran first to help the teacher in carrying the stuff while the other students moved after a while.
“Xin, two students will share the tent. Why don’t you share it with me?” Song Xueyun asked.She was notfortable sharing a tent with other girls.
An Xin nodded her head. She would have said yes to anyone who would have asked first. Since it was Song Xueyun who asked her first, she just said yes to her. This was how simple her way of thinking was.
After taking out the things from the bus, the teachers began giving a lesson to students on how to set up a tent.
“Cheat prince, help me, “An Xin said as she and Song Xueyun failed to set up their tent.
Han Zixin nodded his head and went to help An Xin while Song Xueyun was staring at Lu Xuan who was trying to set up his tent alone.<sub>.</sub>
“Let me help you, ” Song Xueyun whispered as she saw Lu Xuan struggling.
“I don’t need your help, ” Lu Xuan said,begrudgingly.
Song Xueyun didn’t listen to him and began helping him in the way she could. Thankfully, he didn’t try to push her away. While he was setting up the tent, she was stealing nces at him. As he looked up to nce at her, she quickly lowered her gaze as if she wanted to do something embarrassing.
“Cheat Prince, ” An Xin whispered.
“Hmm?” Han Zixin looked at her.
“Do you think something is wrong with Song Xueyun?” An Xin asked. “Why is she stealing nces at my brother? Don’t tell me…”
“Oh no!” An Xin muttered as she hit her head lightly.
“Puppy love?” Both of them said at the same time.
“We must stop them!” They said at the same time again.
They looked into each other’s eyes and then nodded with determination.
On the other hand, all the tents were set up and all the students had decided who they were going to share the room with except for Han Zixin and Lu Xuan.<sub></sub>
No one wanted to share the tent with the two notorious tyrants of Jingyuan high.
They didn’t want to die!
“Han Zixin and Lu Xuan, you will share the tents,” The teacher said.
“No!” Both the boys said at the same time.
“Then, I can share the tent with Zixin,” An Xin nonchntly suggested and Song Xueyun flushed as she realised where it left them with the option.
“You dare,” Lu Xuan screamed as he pulled An Xin behind his back.
“What’s wrong with my suggestion?” An Xin asked him with a frown etched on her forehead. “You don’t want to amodate Zixin. You don’t want me to make sacrifices for you. Aren’t you being an ass now?”
“I would rather be an ass than have you sleep with this bastard!” Lu Xuan growled.
“You are a jerk,” An Xin said on his face. “And if you call my best friend a bastard again,I will break your face.”
“How dare you take the side of an outsider rather than your own brother?” Lu Xuan asked angrily.
The crowd gasped.
Boss Lu and Campus Belle are siblings?
They started murmuring about them as Han Zixin gave them a cold nce, they gulped and went back to look for other work to do than stand there.
“I like him way better than you,” An Xin scoffed.
The tips of Han Zixin’s ear reddened as he nced at her arrogant posture and his heart thumped in his chest.
Someone like him?
“Ridiculous, ” Lu Xuan muttered as he looked at his sister. “I wish you weren’t my sister!”
His words hurt An Xin for some reasons but she didn’t show anything on her face.
The teachers decided to intervene and announced that Han Zixin and Lu Xuan would be sharing the tent and no one said anything in disagreement.
And just like this, the subject of sleeping was finished.
An Xin was helping the teachers with cooking while the rest of the students were doing other tasks as many didn’t know anything about cooking.
She was slowly cutting onions and tears were trickling down her cheeks.
Why was she crying?
Oh, it was the onion.
Not because someone’s words hurt her.
Han Zixin,who was watching the scene from a distance, clenched his fist. He had an urge to beat up this Lu boy but he unterally signed a truce agreement with Lu Xuan when he found out that An Xin and thetter were rted. She was his friend. No, best friend. It was her who announced him as her best friend. So, he wouldn’t lose her because of one entitled boy.
“Let me do this, “Han Zixin said as he took the knife from her hand and began chopping the onions and other vegetables quickly.
“Wow, Zixin, you are so good at it,” An Xin said in awe.
Han Zixin smiled as he paused and wiped tears from her face with his sleeve. “En. My mom was so good at cooking. She taught me so many skills. Cooking was one of them. I still cook for myself.”
By his mom, he meant his adoptive mother.
“Can you teach me cooking?” An Xin asked. It would be so nice if she got to know cooking. It was only now after she came there did she understood how important it was to learn the basic skills of living like cooking, setting up a ce to sleep and all. She was living an entitled life and now that she stepped out of her protective house did she get to know how important it was for her to learn all those skills.
“Why do you need to learn? I will always be with you. You can wash the vegetables and I will always cook for you,” Han Zixin smiled and An Xin looked at him in a daze. “I’m afraid that you will hurt yourself in the kitchen. You cut less onions and wasted those precious pearls more. So, you focus on the eatingdepartment and I will focus more on cooking those delicacies for you.”
“Why are you so nice to me?” An Xin ended up asking.
“Because…”Han Zixin paused for a moment to ponder about the answer. But he found out that he didn’t need to find the answer as he was always aware of that. “Because you are the best thing that has ever happened to me.”
There are two kinds of people– people who get what they desire after working hard for it and others who just can’t stop suffering. Han Zixin was from the second category – even if he worked too hard for something he wanted, he would never get anything except for suffering.
However, An Xin was the best surprise that life has given to him.
When life gave him nothing but troubles after troubles, she came into his life with innocence, naivety, sweetness and glitters.
Her innocence made someone like him who matured at such a young age want to be innocent and naive once again. Her glittering clothes and eyeliners brought glitters and sunshine to his life. Her candies brought sweetness to his life and heart.
Someone who would only taste the bitterness in chocte could now appreciate its sweetness too.
Thus, he could proudly say that she was the best thing that had ever happened to him.
“I better be the best. I don’t like to be good or better,” An Xin told him. She was telling him that she wished to be people’s first priority, not second or third.
She would rather be someone’s first priority or not at all.
“You are the best one. I can promise you that, ” Han Zixin chuckled as he patted her head. She had grown tall and he could no longer pat her like he used to. “You have grown taller.”
“Of course, I’m tall now,” An Xin grinned. “I have to be Misa China after all.”
“You are Miss universe in my heart,” Han Zixinmented.
“For a moment, I thought you said that I’m your entire universe,” An Xinughed but she didn’t see aplicated look on his face that disappeared after a while.