There were already three people inside, and one of them was still sitting in Chen Ying's seat. She closed the door and took out a tissue to wipe her glasses, trying to see her surroundings.

"You're back." Sun Wei said reproachfully, "We've been waiting for you for a long time." ”

"What's going on - explain. Why did you leave your boyfriend in the snow at the door? Wu Yun asked with a smile, "In the end, we couldn't see it, so we took the initiative to invite him to come to the dormitory to keep warm." ”

Only then did Chen Ying see clearly that it was Qin Hong sitting in his chair. He was listening to it with great interest, still holding Chen Ying's "Federalist Papers" in his hand.

"I'm sorry." Chen Ying walked up to Qin Hong, squatted down and touched his knees and said sincerely, "As soon as I went to the library, I habitually put my phone on silent, and then I kept writing - you know, I didn't pay attention to the time because I was too focused - please don't be angry, okay?" ”

"Why are you so polite?" Qin Hong thoughtfully let Chen Ying into her seat and helped her dust off the small snow beads in her hair, "I'm just worried, I don't know if something happened to you." I thought you were going to work as a tutor outside of school again. Besides, the snow is so heavy today, and it's so cold outside. ”

"I'm fine. I'm really sorry to freeze you, right? ”

"I'm fine. I just stood downstairs for a while before I met your roommate, this is Sun Wei, right? It was she who helped me register with the aunt of the building manager and allowed me to enter your dormitory. I've been sitting here ever since, waiting for you to come back. ”

"Actually, he didn't just stand downstairs waiting for you to come back, he was-" Wu Yun interjected when he was interrupted by a knock on the door. Liang Jing poked his head in, and when he saw the scene in the dormitory, he immediately said with interest: "Chen Ying, I'm going to cook by myself." She winked at Sun Wei and Wu Yun. The two girls understood and quickly made excuses to go out.

"Are you hungry? Let's go eat too. Chen Ying stood up and put on her hat.

"I've got a surprise for you – I hope it's still there." Qin Hong said and pulled her to the window. The snow was still going on outside, and the street lights were already on, and the snow flakes under the lights were flying like white butterflies, and the scene was very moving. The wind stopped, and there were some students walking around on the road, dressed in colorful down jackets and cotton suits. Chen Ying looked in the direction of Qin Hong's finger, and on the roof of the bicycle shed downstairs, she found that someone had left a sentence in the snow:

"Please let me live in your heart."

"That's ......," Chen Ying hesitated.

"I wrote it." Qin Hong said frankly, "I leaned up from the low wall over there and stood on it to write. At first, I used tree branches, but the writing was so small that I was afraid that I would not be able to see it when I stood here. Later, I lay around on it and found a place that I could probably get into by a street lamp to write, and I was covered in snow. I'm afraid that the carport won't be able to withstand my weight, and if it collapses, I should be asked to compensate for the property. Anyway, I only wrote a few words with great effort, and I was afraid that you would come back too late, so the snow covered all the words. He said with a vivid voice, as if all this still left him unsatisfied. Finally, he added: "Thankfully, I can still see it now." ”

"Don't do such a dangerous thing next time." She turned around to help him straighten his collar, and saw that his clothes still had the watermark they had just left.

"Is that okay?" As he spoke, he turned her to face the window, his arms gently wrapping around her.

"What's 'okay'?" She asked quietly as she leaned back into his arms.

He pointed to the line and buried his head in her hair and sniffed carefully. It tickled her, and she didn't want him to mistake her for laughing at his good intentions. So she turned her face away and pressed it against his cheek. He bowed his head and kissed the corner of her mouth.

"Ah......," she muttered.

"Is that okay?" He repeated the question, holding her shoulders and turning her head-on to him, ignoring her somewhat shy and confused eyes, and kissed her cherry lips. The kiss revealed to her the passion he had been suppressing all these days, his kiss almost took her breathless, everything around her seemed to become hazy, time stood still, the whole world disappeared, and the only thing that was certain was each other. He tightened his arms as he kissed, holding her close to him.

"Qin Hong......" she said when she could take a breath. His nose was pressed against her cheek, and she could feel the heat of his exhalation.

"Hmm."

"I ...... too Like you. ”

"Really?"

"Really."

"Great. I was finally relieved. You didn't contact me this afternoon, I thought you were ...... Anyway, I've got the answer. He was relieved, but the next second he hugged her tightly. He was so hard that it was a little hard for her to breathe. She remembered what he had done for her that afternoon, and a surge of heat welled up in her heart.

"Let's go, let's go eat." She said as she stroked his broad, sturdy back. Presumably it was this offer that brought his train of thought back to reality, and he reluctantly let go of her and turned to pick up the coat draped over his chair. He unzipped his coat, straightened the outside of the woolen hat in front of her little mirror, made sure he was neatly dressed, and came to help her put on her scarf and hat.

Chen Ying turned off the lights, locked the door, and the two walked out of the girls' building hand in hand. Large snowflakes were still falling silently, and the footprints on the road were soon covered with fresh snow, and the entire campus seemed to be turned into a kingdom of ice and snow.

"Where are you going to eat?" Qin Hong spit out a white haze and muttered to himself, "On such a cold day, let's go eat hot pot." ”

"Okay." Chen Ying patted the snow that fell on her body and said.

They walked side by side towards the south gate of the school, and along the way, Qin Hong told her about the cat she had adopted two days ago.

"Xiaobai is very well-behaved now, not as timid as he was at the beginning. And it's afraid of the cold, and now it's curled up in my quilt every day, and I can't get rid of it when I sleep at night. Sometimes you just have to sleep with it. ”

"Xiaobai? What did you name it? ”

"yes, it seems to like the name, and every time we call it, it pops its head out. Its legs are also healed, it doesn't pump at all, and it often jumps up and down. I slept on the top bunk, and it climbed up three or two jumps at a time - faster than me. ”

Chen Ying smiled when she heard this.

"Your roommate doesn't hate it, does he?" She asked, a little worried.

"They know that I raised it for my girlfriend, so they can all understand it. They always feed him good food when I'm not there, and now he's so hungry that he doesn't eat much cat food I bought for him. ”

"Your roommates are pretty cat-friendly."

"yes. Sometimes we play games online at night and grab cats. ”

"Why rob?"

"It's warm – it's cold in our dormitory, and it's especially warm to have a cat lying on your lap when we play games online at night. But we can't control Xiaobai, sometimes he will lie on this lap for a while, and stay by that side for a while. So in order to please him, we will prepare food for him. ”

"Then don't blame the cat for being greedy."

As they spoke, they had already walked to the door of the hot pot restaurant. The inside of the store was steaming, and the water vapor formed a layer of white mist on the glass windows, and the yellow light projected out, which looked warm. Qin Hong pushed open the door and let her in. It's past meal time and there are empty seats everywhere. They found a place near the heating and sat side by side and opened the menu together.