Rebirth Plan to Save Leader

That evening, after the self-study session, Zhang Man held hands with Li Wei as they walked home.

The youth was quite silent the entire time.

Zhang Man thought of how he was just glowing. Her heart was still burning and she didn’t know how to express it.

He was just really, so handsome… confident, serious and strong. Compared to those guys that were the same age, he was so calm.

It made her heartbeat feel so unbearable from feelings and the absurdity that she couldn’t look away from his face for a second.

What’s more, Zhang Man was touched by the fact that the youth, who was indifferent to everything, had gradually stepped out of his own world.

—And he did not do that just for her, but because of the competition class.

He even promised to give lessons to everyone.

The corners of Zhang Man’s lips gradually rose. Her favorite person would have friends from now on—not imaginary friends like Nick, but real living and breathing friends.

If they turned one more corner, they would be in Uncle Xu’s neighborhood. His neighborhood was very close to Zhang Man’s original home. After the marriage, Zhang Man moved into his home with Zhang Huifang.

They usually say goodbye at the next intersection.

Just as Zhang Man was about to walk around the corner, the youth suddenly stopped.

She was still holding his hand when she was pulled to a stop by him. She could not stop herself from looking back at him with bright eyes.

“What’s the matter, boyfriend?”

Her voice was really soft. With how impassioned she was, her heart almost melted in front of him, who was like a god.

However, in the next second, the god descended to the earth.

The youth carefully took the girl’s hand and turned her around to him.

“Man Man, if I am like the way I am today, will you… will you not like it?”

He was… too conspicuous today.

He also knew that he had changed a lot. Although he was still calm on the outside, what he said to Lin Pingzheng was proof that he was angry inside.

He became an impulsive youth.

He knew Zhang Man’s personality. She was usually silent and she was not the kind of person who liked to be noticed.

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Of course, he could really feel that she loved him a lot and liked him with all of her heart.

But sometimes, because of caring too much, like and love easily become restrictions. He was afraid of change and hoped that he could continue to be the way she liked forever.

Feelings were more complicated than the many formulas he wrote on the blackboard today. There was no definite answer.

He couldn’t get the answer by relying on derivation.

Zhang Man’s heart was still pounding.

She knew that he was ill. A depressed patient would always be more sensitive and vulnerable than an ordinary person. He needed her to reassure him again and again that she loved him.

Sometimes, actions were often more direct than words.

She took the youth’s hand and let him feel her heart. “Boyfriend, do you feel my heart beating? It is beating like crazy because of you.”

She smiled cutely and said, “My feelings for you will not fade because you change. No matter how you change, I will like you.”

The emotions she expressed were so intense that Zhang Man completely forgot how incredible it was to say them.

In the dim corner, the moths fluttered, and the ivy creeped on the wall. The boy and the girl stood face to face. Her hand held his, spread out on her chest.

On that warm spring day, there was only a thin sweater under the open school uniform coat.

She was very skinny… but it seemed like she was not as skinny as he had imagined.

Her temperature from the thin sweater was mixed with the unspeakable softness and squishiness, which directly and intensely spread to his hand.

Her heartbeat was fast like she said… but it was not as fast as his.

The youth gave a vague “Mm” and pulled his hand back like he had been burned.

He quickly turned around and walked forward. He could not continue to ask any questions. The tip of his ears quietly turned red under the faint street light.

Zhang Man came to a realization.

Her face immediately turned red, and the warmth of his hand remained on her chest.

She felt how stiff his big hand was when it was on her. It felt like his fingers could not spread out.

Thus, tonight’s farewell appeared to have happened pretty hastily—no one wanted to stay in that situation anymore to avoid making the other uncomfortable.

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Zhang Man quickly ran upstairs and leaned against Uncle Xu’s door. She panted as she pressed against her chest.

Sometimes she couldn’t give an explanation for it.

She was not a true young person. Logically speaking, even if she had never been in love in her previous life, she would at least not be shy and reluctant to let go of those intimate actions between couples, right?

But he was fatal. He didn’t have to do anything. Just a smile could take her life.

Zhang Man scolded herself a few times. It must be her subconscious feelings that caused her to want to get closer to him.