My Crush Also Has a Crush on Me!-Chapter 26 - : Too Old, There’s a Generation Gap

Fu Ying tried hard to act normal.

She bowed her head and picked up the pen, pretending to do her homework, but not a single word on the book was taken in.

Shen Liguang withdrew his gaze and lowered his eyes to focus on the materials for the fire safety knowledge speech.

Qian Zheng was still lamenting with a regretful face: "If I could do it all over again, I would definitely tell that girl I liked her, so I wouldn't have regrets."

Wu Xiaowu couldn't help but laugh: "Come on, you're not young anymore, and you're still thinking about this."

Qian Zheng frowned: "What's wrong with being older? People can still reminisce about their youth."

"I'm not curious about your youth; I'm curious about the boss's youth. Boss, did you have a crush on any girls during high school?"

Wu Xiaowu was very curious about Shen Liguang's love life since the boss was very handsome. Exaggerations aside among firefighters who save people every day.

There had been countless girls they saved, and quite a few employed the guise of saying thanks to hit on their boss.

But the boss was handsome and cold in nature, indifferent and uninterested in contacting girls.

Watching each lovely girl leave disappointed, Wu Xiaowu felt an itch in his heart.

Shen Liguang closed the materials and answered indifferently: "No."

"What about college?"

"No."

"..."

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No girlfriends in high school, nor in college.

Qian Zheng clicked his tongue: "The boss and Captain Fu were classmates, roommates during school, and now colleagues. The boss looks like a real heartthrob but has always kept his purity..."

As he spoke, Qian Zheng had a bold thought.

Wu Xiaowu realized and opened his mouth: "That can't be right, the boss doesn't seem to like men."

Shen Liguang frowned and lifted the materials in his hand to smack Wu Xiaowu on the head: "Back to the station, physical training."

...

During the evening self-study, Fu Ying was lying on the desk, holding a pencil and recalling Shen Liguang's features as she sketched on paper.

Li Hanyi watched her focus intently and couldn't resist stretching his neck to look.

Although his boss currently wasn't great at scolding, fighting, or anything tough, he didn't expect him to be so skilled at drawing.

He recognized the person she was drawing; it was the man who visited their school last time.

At their tender age, a little clue could be discovered, any small movement could raise suspicion.

Li Hanyi suddenly asked: "Boss, do you like that man?"

Fu Ying's hand trembled, her eyes panicked, her little face a bit flushed as she composed herself: "I'm drawing my lifesaver."

"Lifesaver?" Li Hanyi then remembered, no wonder he looked familiar; during the fire, he had clung to the man calling him 'Firefighter Uncle.'

"Boss, don't you think he was especially handsome when he rescued you from the fire, like a hero, and sometimes when you think about that moment, your heart beats fast?"

Fu Ying paused, not saying a word.

Li Hanyi didn't take it seriously and took out his phone, casually mentioning: "He seems to be much older than us."

Fu Ying's eyelashes trembled, her hand gripping the pencil tightened.

She smiled and asked: "If you really like someone, would age be a problem?"

Li Hanyi thought about it: "But others might gossip, and if the age gap is too big, there could be a generation gap later on."

Fu Ying nodded thoughtfully: "I see."

After the evening self-study, Fu Mingchuan hadn't come to pick her up yet. She sat under the streetlamp on the roadside, checking her phone to see if Shen Liguang had accepted the friend request.

She logged into QQ and found that there was still no response from the other party.

Fu Ying felt a sense of loss as she put down her phone, and habitually looked up across the street at the bus station.

It was past nine o'clock at night; the buses had long stopped running, yet Shen Liguang was still standing at that station, looking down at his phone.

He stared at a screen name called "Hope, Indeed," and with a light tap, he accepted the friend request.

Subsequently, on Fu Ying's side, her phone chimed.

Fu Ying's heart skipped a beat.

She couldn't wait to grab her phone and check QQ—a message notification popped up, she had become friends with "Dawn Light."

Holding her phone, when she looked up again at Shen Liguang, he was already getting into a car and driving away.

"Yingying?"

"I'm coming."

Hearing Fu Mingchuan calling her, Fu Ying picked up her backpack and got in the car.

In the evening, she stared at Shen Liguang's QQ profile for a long time, typing and deleting words, but couldn't find a fitting way to start a conversation.

Finally, she fell asleep holding her phone, feeling drowsy.

...

There were still some classes that hadn't heard the fire safety lecture, but after Shen Liguang visited once, Fu Ying never saw him again at school.

Only his two colleagues appeared at school.

In the front row, Du Yong was counting down: "5-4-3-2-1..."

As soon as the noon bell rang, Du Yong was the first to dash out of the back door of the classroom toward the cafeteria.

The impact made other people's tables and chairs wobble.

"Damn! Are you crazy!?"

The student whose chair was bumped cursed in annoyance.

When Fu Ying went downstairs to the cafeteria, she noticed girls holding hands on their way to the cafeteria.

She turned her head, glanced at the three or four boys following behind her, and frowned.

She really wanted to have a girl friend.

By the time Fu Ying got to the cafeteria, the lines at several food windows were already quite long.

It took Fu Ying more than ten minutes in line before she got her food.

Dragging her feet to find a seat, Zhou Wei, her classmate, suddenly snorted at her.

"Fu Ying hangs out with boys all day, it's really disgusting, such a schemer."

School is a place full of gossip and competition, and Fu Ying had caused her fair share of trouble before, so many people didn't look kindly upon her and itched to hate her.

Now that Fu Ying had transformed from a notoriously bad kid to a more meek presence, Zhou Wei wasn't so wary of her anymore and was bad-mouthing her with the classmate she was eating with.

"I bet she's already slept with a boy."

"Those who always mingle with boys can't be pure."

"Exactly, exactly."

Fu Ying raised an eyebrow, looked around for a seat, and pretended not to hear Zhou Wei's comments.

"Boss, over here!"

Inside the cafeteria, Du Yong and Li Hanyi waved to her, signaling her to come over.

Fu Ying was about to walk over when Zhou Wei, sitting at a table, suddenly stuck out her leg to trip her.

Fu Ying stumbled, instinctively reaching to steady herself on a nearby table, and the food she was carrying fell right on Zhou Wei's head.

"Ah!" Zhou Wei screamed, scraping the rice off her face, glaring at her with fury.

Fu Ying: "...I'm sorry, you were the one who tripped me first."

There was a fleeting moment of satisfaction.

Other students in the cafeteria turned to look at them, and Zhou Wei, in a sorry state, felt humiliated with rice on her head, suddenly teared up, and started crying on the table.

"..." Fu Ying was dumbfounded.

It was Zhou Wei who intentionally tripped her, yet she acted like the one wronged.

Fu Ying stared at the rice on the floor, feeling regretful; one can't waste food.

She crouched down to collect the rice and vegetables from the floor into her lunch box, fed it to the dogs in the school, and then went to get another portion.