I'm In Love With the Guy I Grew Up With

Chapter 1171: Extra Story - Dabai and Erxi 22

Ning Xixi sensed danger and retreated uneasily...

Her back pressed against the chair, and Ji Yebai had already walked over, separated from her by only a desk’s distance.

"I wasn’t thinking of copying your homework..." Ning Xixi stubbornly denied, "I’ll do my things myself!"

Ji Yebai smirked, "Very good, Ning Xi, quite spirited you are. You better keep your word and not go back on it!"

"I won’t back out!"

...

The words Ning Xixi spoke so convincingly were completely contradicted the night before the school reopened.

"Dabai hubby, let me copy your homework~"

On the day before school started, Ning Xixi clung to Ji Yebai like a little tail, begging all day long before Ji Yebai lazily said, "I can let you copy, but... not for free."

Ning Xixi pouted her small mouth, her gaze bright like a cat that hasn’t gotten its fish, "You’re my hubby~ For a husband to let his wife copy his homework is only right~ Dabai, I know you’re the best~"

She shook Ji Yebai’s arm coquettishly, and usually, Ji Yebai would have softened up by now.

But this time, it was different.

He grasped Ning Xixi’s hand, interlocking their fingers, and seriously said, "Ning Xi, I can let you copy my homework now; I can even help you cheat in exams. I can help you with all that. But I can’t help you with the college entrance exams (Gaokao)."

The words "college entrance exams" sounded heavy.

Ning Xixi belatedly realized that tomorrow, when school starts, she and Dabai would be seniors.

They are about to embark on a new life, and the struggle this year is destined to determine their future four years at university.

"F University, I want you to go to F University with me." Ji Yebai looked at her with burning eyes, "Can you promise me that?"

Ning Xixi shrank back and replied hesitantly, "I really like F University, and it is indeed one of the top universities in the country... But wanting to go doesn’t mean I can definitely get in. My grades are unstable; what if I underperform in the entrance exam... then I can’t get into F University. I’d better apply to another university in the same city, one that’s easier to get into..."

"Ning Xi, it’s you who needs to make up your mind and face everything bravely. Your hair just grew back, and now you’re already going into ostrich mode?" Ji Yebai’s brows furrowed with severity and earnestness, "As long as you promise me, I’ll make sure you get into F University!

"Rea... really?"

The timid voice was small, carrying a trace of doubt towards Ji Yebai.

"Really! Do you dare to trust me?"

Perhaps Ning Xixi didn’t trust herself, but in this world, the person she would trust unconditionally, that person’s name must be Ji Yebai!

She nodded her little head, "I trust you."

The eyes, dark as obsidian, gazed straight at her, and Ji Yebai’s low and powerful voice clearly reached Ning Xixi’s ears.

"Then let’s work hard together."

The weather was nice that day, with a gentle breeze, the summer cicadas chirping, and a slightly dazed girl agreed to this boy like that.

...

A year later.

June.

Countless papers every day... dark circles left from staying up late... using one pen refill after another... from when sakura blossomed to when the sycamore trees spread their broad green leaves, it all seemed like a fleeting moment, yet it also felt like a century had passed.

In Class S, Shi Nianchu stood on the podium and, with a gentle smile, said his last words as the homeroom teacher, "I wish you all triumph in everything, peace, and joy in the future."

Then, the college entrance exams arrived.