After the tassel-turning ceremony, Lin Qiao finally received Lin Ji’s unreliable phone call as she stepped down from the stage in the auditorium.
“Why did you change your number again? I’ve been looking for your number for ages! I’m here, at the entrance of your auditorium!” Lin Ji said breathlessly on the other end of the phone.
Lin Qiao hung up the phone and walked out of the auditorium. Seeing Lin Ji and Yuan Yicheng running toward her, both drenched in sweat, she swallowed the curses that she was about to utter and replaced them with more polite language.
“Why didn’t you wait until I was buried before you came? Expecting you to take pictures for me is just plain stupid. What’s wrong with my changing my number after my campus card plan expired? Didn’t I send you a message on WeChat?”
Lin Ji wiped the sweat from his brow, propped himself up on his knees, and gasped for breath: “Big Sister, please be reasonable. I just finished class, okay?”
Lin Qiao pointed to the large ‘10:00’ on her phone and showed it to him with a forced smile: “You finished class at 9:20. Do you think I haven’t seen your schedule before? Hmm?”
Seeing that the two of them were about to start arguing again, Yuan Yicheng quickly handed over a gift box to smooth things over.
“Sister, I’m sorry, Lin Ji and I went to the courier station to pick up your gift, so we’re late. Has the graduation ceremony already ended?”
Yuan Yicheng, this polite and sweet-talking kid, is like night and day compared to her younger brother.
Lin Qiao instantly switched back to her gentle older sister persona, smiling as she accepted the gift box. She glanced at Lin Ji: “You still remember to give me a gift; at least you have some conscience.”
Lin Qiao quickly opened the gift box. Inside was a paper doll from a game she used to play.
“Lin Ji mentioned last time that you liked this character, and since my family recently became a distributor for the game, I contacted the manufacturer to order one. Unfortunately, there were some problems along the way, and it only just arrived.” Yuan Yicheng explained to her.
Before Lin Qiao could reply, Lin Ji emphasized from the side, “This is a custom-made piece designed by the mother of your paper-doll husband. It’s a one-of-a-kind item, the only one in the whole world. Isn’t that special?”
Lin Qiao looked down at the doll in her hand, her feelings complicated, especially after learning how precious it was.
She indeed liked the character when she played the game, but it had been years!
She even uninstalled the game, okay!
Instead of going through all this trouble, he might as well have just given her a bouquet of flowers. She realized that holding flowers made her look better in photos taken on stage.
Oh well, it’s all the children’s good intentions, Lin Qiao thought, not wanting to spoil their fun.
She patted Yuan Yicheng’s shoulder with delight: “Thanks! I love it! I’ll treat you to dinner later!”
Lin Ji immediately protested, “Please, this gift was given by me, okay?”
Lin Qiao didn’t want to expose him and lazily asked, “Did you contact the original artist, pay the design fee, or give the factory a construction fee?”
Lin Ji wilted, licked his cheek, and muttered, “I paid for the idea of the cotton doll and the shipping fee…”
“Okay, okay, thank you, too.”
Lin Qiao couldn’t help but chuckle.
She casually tossed the plastic wrapping she had just removed into the trash can, and just as she was about to let go, she suddenly noticed a bunch of pure white lilies of the valley lying inside.
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