A Marshmallow: Chapter 12
Chapter 12: Secret Crush
Gu Zhen, at the other end of the living room, suppresses a smile, while in this small corner, Jiang Yan's eyelashes droop slightly, his tone gentle, like soothing an unhappy child.
Cold people, when they unexpectedly smile, are fatally charming. Gu An's small budding grievance deep in her heart is instantly eased by a single sentence.
Why are you so good-looking and gentle!!!
You're basically delaying me, do you know that?
Gu An takes a deep breath and after a while, she slowly says, "Shall we look at the math problems I don't understand? The college entrance exam is coming soon..."
Jiang Yan opens the math workbook, flipping through it, and his gaze suddenly stops.
A movie ticket peeks out from one corner; it's a campus movie with the theme of secret love, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
"Yours?" The handsome guy with fair skin and beauty speaks with a professional indifference, suspecting a criminal.
Gu An takes a closer look and honestly admits, "I don't know who left it. Maybe it was placed here by mistake?"
Jiang Yan turns the movie ticket over, and "Gu An" is clearly written on it.
Gu An scratches her head with a pen. "I can't figure out who wrote this."
After the basketball game, she did receive many strange things.
Anonymous cards, love letters, chocolates, and plush toys, all of which she returned one by one.
Some of the anonymous ones were a bit troublesome, so she took them all to the lost and found on the first floor of the teaching building.
"I see."
Jiang Yan responds indifferently but notices that Gu An's eyes are fixed on that movie ticket.
How old are you?
Wouldn't you be fooled by those little boys?
He furrows his brow. "Do you want to go see it?"
"Don't want, don't want..."
Gu An's heart inexplicably trembled as her bangs fluttered when she shook her head.
She just felt that the two words "secret crush" seemed fitting.
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At night, Gu An returned to her little attic to sleep early and wake up early.
Gu Zhen sat on the living room sofa wearing headphones, watching "One Piece."
Suddenly, someone removed his headphones, and he looked up to meet Jiang Yan's emotionless gaze. "What? Want to watch together?"
Saying that, he shifted over on the couch to make room for Young Master Jiang.
"Gu Zhen," Jiang Yan's voice was cold and calm, "pay more attention to your sister."
"Attention to what?" Gu Zhen removed the other headphone, and on his phone screen was Sanji with hearts in his eyes. "Gu An is as obedient as a little chick, what's there to pay attention to?"
Jiang Yan leaned on the couch, his long legs stretched out lazily. His freshly washed black hair fell over his forehead as he lazily said, "High school is the prime time for early romances."
Gu Zhen made a mocking sound, "How is it possible for her? How can guys like her..."
He stopped mid-sentence and awkwardly continued, "It seems like quite a few guys are pursuing her, that little rascal."
"In high school, when Gu An was in elementary school, she would wait for me to walk home across from our school," Gu Zhen chuckled coldly, "The boys in my class used to tease me, saying they wanted to be my brother-in-law when they saw Gu An growing up."
Jiang Yan raised an eyebrow coldly.
"I made them cry."
Jiang Yan raised an eyebrow, his gaze carefree and unruly, saying, 'Well done.'"
"Then my grandmother chased me two miles with a broom, saying I was a campus bully and had to apologize..." Speaking of his grandmother, Gu Zhen's voice lowered.
When the old lady passed away, he was at the border, almost impossible to find.
Only when he returned did he learn that Gu An had no choice but to be taken to her uncle's house.
Gu Zhen: "So now, are there more people chasing after her?"
Jiang Yan's lips curled with a cold arc, and he repeatedly pinched his left index finger with his right hand.
Don't know if there are more or not.
In any case, the movie tickets have all been placed in textbooks.
The person involved doesn't even know who put them there.
"Yeah."
The two exchanged a glance.
With four years of classmates and three years of working together, they almost reached a consensus in a second:
The public security near Jing City No. 1 High School may not be very good, so they should increase patrols in the future.
Also, check if there are any suspicious individuals around that kid named Gu An and eliminate them promptly.
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In December, winter arrived in Jing City.
"From night to day today, our city will experience a snowfall of up to ten centimeters..."
The lights in the Jing City Public Security Bureau were on, and Gu Zhen hurriedly held a stack of case files. "Can you go pick up Gu An for me?"
Jiang Yan had just returned from duty, his black coat mingling with snow, and even his handsome face was covered in a thin layer of ice. At the mention, he raised his eyes coldly.
"The road is slippery with snow, and she likes to walk on the snow. If the road freezes, she walks like she's not all there, taking one step and stumbling twice."
Approaching Christmas, the high school students' hidden thoughts were starting to stir.
To give a card to the one they liked, they could write one for everyone in the class tirelessly.
But to go to the other person's class and give them an apple, they had to rehearse it in their mind hundreds of times. However, even with the rehearsal, in the end, they still blushed and ran away hand in hand.
The school bell rang, and Gu An turned to look out the window.
Snowflakes fell gently in a swirling manner; it was the first snowfall of the year.
Beneath the school building, a boy boldly held a girl's hand as they walked slowly. When they encountered the school counselor, they simply said they were helping each other as classmates.
Gu An slightly curved her lips.
She must be very happy, right?
On a snowy day, walking together with someone you like.
Suddenly, the image of a certain cold figure flashed through her mind, startling her.
She summoned the courage and didn't restrain her thoughts.
It was like hiding a treasure in a very secret place, occasionally glancing at it discreetly and then concealing it again.
"Gu An! The campus heartthrob is looking for you!" Jiang Ning patted her shoulder, raising her eyebrows, "Should I go first?"
"Sure, be careful on the way," Gu An pouted her lips, sighing deeply.
The boy standing at the classroom door was the newly crowned "campus heartthrob" of their school. He effortlessly attracted the attention of all passing girls.
Gu An walked up to him under pressure, and he asked her with a lowered head, "Did you bring an umbrella? I'll walk you home."
Gu An nervously replied, "Yes, thank you."
...she had brought an umbrella, my ass.
The boy lowered his eyes, but she clearly wasn't holding anything in her hands.
Sensing his gaze, she guiltily moved her hand behind her back, like a child caught lying.
"Shall we walk together?" The heartthrob asked with a smile.
The route from the classroom to the school gate wasn't something she could refuse.
How could she walk home on a snowy day?
She didn't have money, didn't have her phone, and couldn't take a taxi.
Gu An wrinkled her little face in worry.
If Jiang Yan could come to pick her up, that would be great...
"Can we watch a movie together on Christmas?"
Gu An stared blankly for a few seconds, her eyes widening, case cracked!
She took her backpack off her shoulder, retrieved the movie ticket from the inner pocket, and handed it back with both hands, saying, "Thank you."
"Don't like it? Don't like watching movies?"
Gu An shook her head, "I like watching movies."
Speaking of which, he should have understood by now, right...
The air fell into a terrifying stillness. Gu An clenched the strap of her backpack, nervous as if she were the one who had given the movie ticket.
" Gu An."
A pleasant voice with a clear coldness, fell into her ears.
Gu An instantly forgot everything, three exclamation marks popped up in her mind: Yes! Jiang! Yan!
Gu An turned her head and sure enough, she saw him.
Jiang Yan in all black, tall and slim, with handsome features. Female classmates passing by him frequently turned back, quietly discussing: This man is absolutely perfect, a combination of hormones and youthful charm...
The school grass clenched his hand by his side.
The girl in front of him smiled with bright, starry eyes.
Such a look couldn't be anything but wholehearted affection.
And the young man by her side, tall and proud, exuded a solemn aura that kept people at a distance.
"Gu An, who is he?"
Gu An pursed her lips, but couldn't help but smile with her little tiger teeth. She was about to speak when someone grabbed her shoulder and pulled her forward.
She bumped into his chest, and his clear, cold voice, along with warm breath, landed on her ear.
"Guardian."
After dinner, Gu An carried her homework downstairs.
Gu Zhen and Jiang Yan sat on the couch, not sure what they were talking about. When they heard footsteps, they both looked up.
Gu Zhen spoke, "Gu An, come over. I have something to tell you."
The living room was only that big, and two detectives, both over 185 cm tall, sat up straight.
In the space with them at the center and a radius of ten meters, an instant sense of cold oppression filled the air.
Their stern faces were really intimidating.
Oh no, did they discover that I ate Gu Zhen's little cake?
Gu An felt guilty, and even the German Shepherd puppy at her side looked at her with compassion.
She stood in front of them, then quietly moved a small round stool to sit down.
After sitting down, she stood up again and asked, "Can I sit?"
Jiang Yan suppressed a smile and lightly answered, "Yes."
"Hello, big brothers... You've worked hard..." Gu An smiled dryly, trying to be both pleasing and fawning.
Adorably cute.
Jiang Yan pursed his lips, raised his hand to rub his nose, concealing the slight upward curve of his mouth.
The couch was already higher than the small stool, and those two on the couch were more than 20 centimeters taller than her.
Gu An, even with her posture perfectly straight, had to look up, like a pitiful and helpless little mushroom, "What's wrong? Do you need something?"
Gu Zhen glanced at Jiang Yan, cleared his throat, and said, "Our criminal investigation team solved hundreds of murder cases this year, and a significant portion of them were due to love turning into hate, occurring between boyfriends and girlfriends."
Jiang Yan, in a loose black tracksuit, lazily leaned on the sofa and nodded in agreement upon hearing this.
Gu An got goosebumps on her arms from what was said, her big eyes blinked incessantly as she lightly rubbed her arm, "Is love really that scary?"
"Yeah," Gu Zhen lied without blinking, "The younger you are, the more dangerous it is because of immature judgment, leading to impulsiveness."
Thank goodness.
Jiang Yan had mature judgment.
Gu An instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh! Right!" Gu An's eyes blinked continuously as she looked at her older brother and whispered, "Brother, I remember when you were younger, you had a crush on a pretty girl..."
Gu Zhen's lips curled, not too pleased, "Having a crush doesn't mean being together."
"Oh... so it was a secret crush!"
Her big brother had a secret crush.
And so did I, hehehe.
Seeing that the young one's eyes were bright, her thoughts were completely derailed. Gu Zhen tried to steer the conversation back on track, "What I told you earlier is just the information Jing City Public Security Bureau has. When you consider the entire country, you have to multiply that number by hundreds or thousands."
Jiang Yan sat up straight, his handsome eyebrows and eyes devoid of much emotion, as he looked down at her. His voice, however, was exceptionally gentle, "Do you want your big brother to tell you the details of the cases? And, do you have a preference for any particular type?"
Gu An placed her hand on her knee, like a kindergarten child.
With every word he spoke, she could vividly imagine the scenes, and she visibly shuddered.
Gu Zhen squinted his eyes, "So, do you understand what I mean?"
Gu An vigorously nodded.
In school, dating is really too dangerous, wuwuwu...
It's better to like the police uncles!!!
She clenched her fists and raised them to show determination: "No early love, stay safe!"
On the sofa, the two young police officers who had just finished deceiving and tricking people looked at each other and stood up.
Gu Zhen smiled with a sly look: "Meeting adjourned."
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