At The Bottom Chapter 24

Zhou Yun looked at the boy in front of him with a gaze that was so warm and kind.

There was also a sense of security that girls would be enchanted by, a powerful feeling that radiated from deep within.

For a moment, Zhou Yun was a little stunned, this boy clearly looked like a poor student, how could he have such a unique charm?

But she finally shook her head to clear her head and said, “Well, don’t ask, those people are more powerful people in the society, you can’t solve it, really, don’t ask, I won’t tell you either.”

“Alright then.” Lu Yuan saw that Zhou Yun insisted on not saying anything, so he didn’t continue to ask.

Moreover, Zhou Yun had just experienced so many things, her emotions might still be rather volatile at this time, it was better to wait for her to stabilize, and she would always ask about it later.

“But although you don’t tell me, you have to promise me that you won’t do these stupid acts like jumping into the lake again.” Lu Yuan said.

“Mmm.”

Zhou Yun nodded vigorously, “Thinking back to what just happened, I am also scared inside. Thank you for saving me, my name is Zhou Yun, I’m from the School of Public Service Management.”

“My name is Lu Yuan, from the School of Management.”

“By the way, this is for you to eat!” Zhou Yun suddenly took the leftover Haagen-Dazs that he had just eaten on the floor, held it with both hands and handed it to Lu Yuan.

“Ah, this, it’s too expensive.”

Lu Yuan did not push back, he knew that he had saved Zhou Yun, and Zhou Yun had nothing to repay him, if he ate this Haagen Dazs, it would make Zhou Yun feel better.

Lu Yuan only took one bite and handed it to Zhou Yun again, “You should eat some too!”

Zhou Yun was embarra*sed at first, but Lu Yuan kept insisting, so she took it and stretched out her faint little tongue and took a quick lick.

And she didn’t avoid the place where Lu Yuan had bitten.

“Here you go again.”

Zhou Yun handed it back to Lu Yuan again.

“Let’s eat together.” Lu Yuan said, breaking two twigs from the bush and sharing a twig with Zhou Yun.

Zhou Yun blushed slightly and took the twig anyway.

“You come closer.” Lu Yuan said as he held the ice cream in his hand.

So it was on the gra*s by the university lake, in the warm sunshine.

Lu Yuan and Zhou Yun, next to each other, finished the cup of vanilla ice cream.

Years later, whenever Lu Yuan and Zhou Yun recalled this image, their hearts would still be tugging.

“Can I see you here again tomorrow at noon?” Lu Yuan looked at Zhou Yun and couldn’t help but ask.

The Zhou Yun in front of her was truly a natural beauty, her lips were like cicada wings, lean and gentle, her eyes just seemed to be full of stories, her small nose, looked noble and proud.

Her face, her countenance, looked noble.

Yet, in her frown, her expression, she looked so humble, and always seemed to have a sense of inferiority.

“Good, good.”

Zhou Yun’s face flushed again, her heart beating fast.

Her life wasn’t good, she was surrounded by hostility.

She was like a scared little rabbit, living in a gra*sland full of danger.

Lu Yuan made her feel in a way she had never felt before.

In that moment, she wanted to cry.

The next day, at noon, Lu Yuan went to the lake, and sure enough, he saw Zhou Yun, sitting where he had been yesterday.

Hearing a sound behind her, Zhou Yun hurriedly turned around and when she saw that it was Lu Yuan, a few smiles appeared on her face.

“It’s for you!”

Zhou Yun held a plastic box in both hands and handed it to Lu Yuan.

Inside the box were various kinds of cut fruits, apples, pears, melons, papayas, dragon fruits and so on, neatly cut and cleanly arranged in the box.

It could be seen that Zhou Yun had taken great care.

“It’s so pretty, but it’s expensive to buy fruit, right? Don’t buy it for me next time.”

In several conversations, Lu Yuan knew that Zhou Yun had never been able to spare himself to buy fruits to eat, although these fruits were ordinary and not expensive for ordinary students, many people could afford to eat them, but for Zhou Yun, these fruits were very expensive.

“It’s not expensive, I bought the half rotten fruit from the owner at the fruit stall, it’s much cheaper.” Zhou Yun said, “But don’t worry, I used a fruit knife in my dorm room to cut off all the rotten places and washed them many times, so you can eat them quickly!”

“Thank you.”

Somehow, Lu Yuan’s heart was very touched, and the image of Zhou Yun meticulously washing and cutting fruits in his dorm room seemed to appear before his eyes.

“Let’s eat together.” Lu Yuan said again.

“No, I’ve already eaten, you can eat it all, it’s for you to replenish your nutrition.” Zhou Yun said, after all, in Zhou Yun’s heart, Lu Yuan was just a poor student living on the edge of the subsistence line.

Only just as she finished speaking, her stomach rumbled.

At once, her face turned red.

Lu Yuan slightly regretted that he should have brought some food from the canteen to eat with Zhou Yun just now.

Although these half-rotten fruits were cheap, Zhou Yun bought them and surely the money for today’s meal would be gone.

This nee-san had to buy some fruit for herself, but she was left to starve for the day.

Over the next few days, Lu Yuan had something to look forward to, going to the lake every day to meet Zhou Yun at lunchtime, and packing meals from the canteen every time to eat with Zhou Yun.

Of course, Lu Yuan didn’t buy any expensive meals, just the usual ones.

Because Lu Yuan did not want to reveal his identity to Zhou Yun all of a sudden, he preferred to slowly enter Zhou Yun’s heart and approach him with an equal stance.

“Hey, old Lu, why do I keep seeing you running outside in a hurry at noon lately?

“Yes, Old Lu, I see you are in good spirits lately, you even have a smile on your face! That’s good, forget about that gold-digging girl Li Mengyao!”

“Right, Old Lu, let’s talk to Chen Feng when we have time, and go out with He Min and the girls again!”

Seeing that Lu Yuan had left the dormitory, Zhang Hui and Song Chun yelled as they played their games.

Lu Yuan smiled, left the dormitory, and then went straight to the canteen.

“Chef, fried eggs with tomatoes, fried pork with chillies, roast beef with potatoes, braised eggplant, another hand-ripped chicken and two portions of rice, pack it away!” Standing in front of the stir-fry window, Lu Yuan ordered several dishes.

Today was the seventh day that Lu Yuan and Zhou Yun had known each other, and the previous few days, Lu Yuan had brought over the big pot of rice from the canteen, so Lu Yuan decided to bring more delicious food today to give Zhou Yun a good tonic, that girl was really too miserable before, she hadn’t eaten any oil at all.

Carrying a large pile of packed meals, Lu Yuan rushed to the Mirror Lake.

It was quite early today, and when Lu Yuan arrived, Zhou Yun had not yet arrived.

But there was no rush, Lu Yuan waited slowly, imagining the surprise on Zhou Yun’s face when she saw the sumptuous stir-fried dishes, hey, later she must have her mouth full of grease, haha.

Every time he thought of this, Lu Yuan felt sorry for Zhou Yun, she hardly ate any meat dishes to save money, she really ate soy sauce soaked rice all the time, occasionally she couldn’t stand it anymore and had a good meal, but she only went to the canteen to order a green vegetable or shredded potato.

Well, I’ll find a suitable opportunity to take her to eat in all the restaurants in Jinling!

Lu Yuan just thought about it and thought ……

The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re doing.

The first time I saw her, I thought she’d be here by this time.

The first thing you should do is to call Zhou Yun.

Luckily, the call was answered quickly.

“Zhou Yun, I’m at the lake, why aren’t you here yet?” Lu Yuan didn’t mention anything about bringing fried vegetables, after all, it was a surprise.

“Ah, Lu Yuan, I might not be able to make it today.” Zhou Yun said.

“What’s wrong?”

“Our cla*s is doing a promotional event at the West Campus Youth Park right now, and the teacher has made it mandatory for everyone to be there, so I’m really, really sorry.” Zhou Yun said.

Sh*t, no way!

Lu Yuan was depressed, D*mn, what a coincidence!

Jinling University was huge, and the west campus was quite far away from here, about a kilometre, so it seemed that Zhou Yun really couldn’t make it.

Zhou Yun couldn’t come, and although Lu Yuan hadn’t eaten, he had no appetite at all when he looked at the row of fried vegetables on the gra*s.

But wait a minute, he was going to deliver them to this girl!

Lu Yuan tapped his head, and was immediately happy again. Carrying the stack of lunch boxes, he hurriedly ran all the way to the west campus, finally, panting.

I had to buy a bike sometime.

The Youth Park on the West Campus was a park-like area on campus.

Lu Yuan carried his food and went into the Youth Park.

However, after a quick look around, Lu Yuan was discouraged, but no, there was no cla*s doing a campaign in the youth park.

No way, did he hear it wrong?

At this moment, Lu Yuan’s heart was inexplicably agitated.

He had to call Zhou Yun again.

“Zhou Yun, where are you?”

“Youth Park.”

“I’m here, but I couldn’t find you, and I didn’t see any promotional activities.”

“Ah ……” Zhou Yun paused, “we’ve come back.”

“So where are you now, I’ll come and find you.”

“Ah, I ……” Zhou Yun stammered, “I, my phone ran out of battery ……”

“Beep beep beep ……”

The phone disconnected.

Lu Yuan was frozen.

At this moment, Lu Yuan had realized in his heart that Zhou Yun was doing this on purpose!

Zhou Yun didn’t come to the Youth Park to do the activity, she just didn’t want to go to the lake anymore, so she made an excuse, as for saying that her phone was out of battery, that was definitely a lie too.

She, could she be running away from herself?

Lu Yuan suddenly felt very bad inside, how could this happen? Why would this happen?

Yesterday, the two of them were getting closer and closer, and Lu Yuan was finding Zhou Yun more and more cute and beautiful, and when we were eating together yesterday, Zhou Yun even took the initiative to wipe the rice particles from the corner of his mouth.

However, this kind of beauty was suddenly shattered today!

And, it was inexplicably broken.

Why? Why did God do this to me?

Lu Yuan carried the stack of lunch boxes with him, his heart filled with grief and anger.

No, I have to find Zhou Yun, I have to ask for an explanation!

Lu Yuan picked up the phone again and called, but this time, the phone was switched off!

So what if the phone is off, even if the campus is full of people, I will still find you!

With his mind made up, Lu Yuan carried his lunchbox all over the school and started frantically searching for him, the school building, the lake, the woods, the hillside, the library, the stadium, the concert hall ……

But how easy is it to find someone in a campus of tens of thousands of people?

When Lu Yuan finally failed to find anyone in the stands of the football field, he despaired and sat down in despair.

But just then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that familiar cloud-like hair.

Zhou Yun, was sitting behind the bleachers, which was one of the most remote places in the school.

At this moment, Zhou Yun did not see Lu Yuan, and her back was turned to him.

Lu Yuan’s heart beat faster.

Seeing Zhou Yun like this, he was heartbroken and a little angry at the same time.

“Zhou Yun, why are you hiding from me!”

Lu Yuan couldn’t help himself and walked towards Zhou Yun while saying, “Do you know that I ran all over the school to find you? My legs are all gone and my feet are all swollen, why are you avoiding me? Do you know that it’s too heartbreaking and annoying for you to do that!”

Suddenly hearing Lu Yuan’s voice, Zhou Yun’s shoulders shook.

However, she did not turn around.

“Look at me, look me in the eyes, turn back! What’s wrong, are you afraid to face me!”

Seeing that Zhou Yun still didn’t turn back, Lu Yuan was really annoyed.

This nee-san, why is she like this.

He finally came behind Zhou Yun and wrenched Zhou Yun’s body with force.

“Zhou Yun, you’re too much, you know, you ……”

Lu Yuan suddenly stopped talking.

In a flash, the mood that had been irritated was instantly turned into nothing.

Zhou Yun’s beautiful face was bruised at the corner of her left eye, and there were a few bloodstains on her face. p