Chapter Ch3 - A Fragile and Demure Pea Princess

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It’s kind of angsty for Lin Feiran in this chapter…

All aboard the feels train! ▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░(☞゚ヮ゚)☞

Translator: Melimeli, Editors: Iced, Pyrrhae, XD

Although just now he was seriously holding on to the idea of “wanting to walk faster than Gu Kaifeng”, this stupid way of thinking was too embarrassing to be declared openly!

That’s right, Lin Feiran also knew that he was being stupid……

But he still couldn’t control himself!

Lin Feiran’s face turned red. He coldly glanced at Gu Kaifeng, wanting to cuss at him. The phone in his pocket suddenly rang; he took it out and walked outside the room. When he looked at the screen, he was startled – this was the number that his dad used inside the country. His dad went to Europe last month and said that he would come back to see him in three months. He shouldn’t be back this fast.

Lin Feiran rushed to answer the phone: “Hello, Dad, why are you using this number? Are you back?”

Lin Chengyu’s voice that was heard through the phone sounded quite serious: “Feiran, your grandpa is dying.”

Lin Feiran’s heart suddenly went cold. He blanked out for a moment and responded with a soft voice.

Based on what Lin Chengyu said, the general idea was this: the existing illness that was being well-managed had taken a sudden turn for the worse. Nobody knew why. The next morning, Lin Chengyu would come to the school, ask for Lin Feiran to have a leave of absence, and take him to see his grandpa’s last moments back in the village of his birth.

“En, I understand, Dad,” Lin Feiran answered, then hung up the phone.

When he returned to the dorm room, Lin Feiran’s face had turned white. However, his face had always been rather pale so it wasn’t obvious. Gu Kaifeng was leaning on the wardrobe, still in the same position as before. It seemed that he didn’t plan on letting go of Lin Feiran’s embarrassing situation. When Lin Feiran entered, he quickly asked: “Let me ask you, were you racing with me just now? How old are you?”

Lin Feiran was in a bad mood and Gu Kaifeng was pouring oil over the fire. Lin Feiran clenched his fists and glanced at Gu Kaifeng, saying in a low voice: “Get lost.”

Seeing Lin Feiran becoming furious, Gu Kaifeng snorted and shrugged. Taking his water basin, he left to wash up.

Lin Feiran took off his uniform and buried himself under the blanket, pulling the blanket over his head. Thinking that grandpa may soon turn into a black-and-white photo and a small box, his heart was immediately filled with a pain and emptiness that were hard to describe.

Lin Feiran’s relationship with his grandpa was very good; he had lived together with his grandparents until he was seven. After, though he moved to the city where his dad worked to attend elementary school, every winter and summer vacation he would go back to stay with his grandparents for a while. This went on until middle school when school work began to get too heavy and he gradually had to stop going over.

Lin Feiran’s grandpa was very mischievous. Not only did he tell mysterious ghost stories, he also took Lin Feiran all over the mountain to play wildly. In spring they would catch crickets from the grass and fishes and shrimps in the lake; in summer they would dig up mud from the river and build a dam, and when they were done playing they would strip down to their underwear and go swimming. In autumn they would dig out two big and fresh sweet potatoes and roast them over coal. The freshly roasted sweet potatoes were very hot and fragrant. Grandparent and grandchild would both blow loudly and eat the sweet potatoes with their hands. In winter, using a homemade sled, Grandpa would push Lin Feiran to slide down a small hill……

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