The infirmary was located on the first floor of this teaching building. From the classroom to the infirmary, you only needed to go downstairs.

It was lunchtime. There were not many people in the teaching building, but when Bai Jiangxin carried Xiang Di downstairs on his back, he still ran into several people coming up.

Among them were people who had just finished lunch and were returning from the cafeteria. They had been talking and laughing together as they went upstairs, and when they looked up, they saw the scene above.

Their grade’s famous top student and school heartthrob — Bai Jiangxin — was carrying a girl on his back as he went downstairs.

No.14 Middle School was a key public high school. The school rules were strict, and early romance was tightly controlled. If anyone dared to show affection in public on campus, even if teachers did not see it, they would still be gossiped about by other students a hundred and eighty times, for example —

You don’t catch people who are dating, but you catch me for secretly eating snacks in class. Is there even any justice left in this world?!

The grade’s number one student committing an offense against the wind — this world really had no justice.

Facing several pairs of shocked eyes head-on, Bai Jiangxin had no thoughts at all. But the person on his back had plenty of thoughts.

【Why are you all standing there stunned? Hurry up and take photos and submit them to the confession wall. I’ve even helped you think of the caption.】

【— Everyone knows that the school heartthrob Bai Jiangxin is cold and aloof, noble and restrained, never close to girls. Until one day, someone saw him actually carrying a girl as he walked across campus, a pair of blazing peach-blossom eyes full of tenderness, his expression doting. The entire school instantly exploded.】

Bai Jiangxin: “……”

Was she speaking Chinese?

She knew quite a lot of pretentious descriptive words, yet he had never seen her score 140 in Chinese.

Xiang Di was passionately creating “exploding-the-pot literature” in her head and couldn’t pull herself out. A classmate from Class 97 had also just finished eating and was heading upstairs. When he saw that Bai Jiangxin was carrying a girl downstairs, and that this girl was actually Xiang Di from their own class, his eyes nearly popped out.

Xiang Di was completely satisfied. For a moment, it felt as if even her menstrual cramps no longer hurt.

【Yes, yes, yes, this kind of shocked and incredulous look. Hahahahahaha, this is too satisfying!】

The classmate spoke hesitantly: “Bai Jiangxin, Xiang Di, you two, this is…”

Xiang Di froze, and her mood immediately became nervous again.

【Why ask at all ahhh, just spread the rumor directly, that’s the right move.】

【Husband, at this moment you just need to continue maintaining your usual coldness. If I can’t be your official girlfriend, then let me be your rumored girlfriend for a bit. Let me draw the most perfect ending for my high school years, boohoohoo, I’m begging you.】

The person on his back was pretending to be dead right now, not saying a word. But what she was thinking, Bai Jiangxin could hear clearly.

Begging him was useless.

Only knowing how to call him husband in her heart — with this kind of courage, she still wanted to be his rumored girlfriend?

Could it be that she even wanted him to take the initiative and deliver himself to her to be her boyfriend?

First, no confession. Second, no pursuit. No effort, yet wanting a return. Where in this world are there such good things?

In your dreams.

Bai Jiangxin decisively explained: “Xiang Di isn’t feeling well. She can’t walk, so I’m taking her to the infirmary to see a doctor.”

The classmate suddenly understood. “So that’s it. Then hurry and go.”

The people from other classes, after hearing Bai Jiangxin say this, also all revealed looks of realization.

Ha, that’s more like it. How could Bai Jiangxin possibly be in a relationship.

The misunderstanding was resolved. Only Xiang Di was dumbfounded.

Why did Bai Jiangxin so easily strangle a rumor that was about to be born, and why were the people at their school all so objective, fair, and clear-headed, without the slightest human flaw of distorting facts and recklessly spreading rumors?

So annoying. She really shouldn’t casually read novels. Those novels are all nonsense. Real students stay at school every day, with endless classes and endless test papers. They’re already annoyed to death over the damn college entrance exam. Getting a shocked look is already pretty good. Who has the time to care about other people’s emotional lives every day?

Xiang Di’s mood was very unhappy.

【So boring, boring to death. High school students nowadays have absolutely no sense of gossip.】

They didn’t spread rumors about her and him the way she wanted, and she turned around and said they were boring and lacked a gossip spirit. How could there be someone who could shamelessly turn the blame around like this.

Seeing that she was full of energy and still had the mood to complain about everything, Bai Jiangxin’s mouth twitched as he asked her, “Is your illness already better?”

“Huh?” Xiang Di pulled her thoughts back. “No, my stomach still hurts a bit.”

“Why exactly does your stomach hurt?” Bai Jiangxin asked. “Did you eat something bad?”

Xiang Di made an uh sound.

【How am I supposed to confess to him that I’m actually not sick at all, that it’s just my period and I have menstrual cramps?】

【But what if he thinks menstrual cramps are no big deal? Will he think I’m a scheming girl?】

【Sigh, I should’ve known I shouldn’t have pretended earlier.】

Listening to her tangled inner voice, and learning the truth, Bai Jiangxin let out a helpless sigh of relief.

So it was just her physiological period. She wasn’t sick.

“Well, actually I’m…” Saying this in front of the person she liked felt really embarrassing. Xiang Di didn’t know how to say it. “…that came, so my stomach hurts.”

Bai Jiangxin: “Physiological period.”

Hearing “physiological period” come straight out of his mouth, Xiang Di’s face heated up. She felt quite embarrassed and gave a small hm.

“I’m much better now,” she said. “So actually I don’t need to go to the infirmary. If you still have other things to do, then maybe you can put me down.”

【Husband, I was wrong. Please don’t think I’m a scheming girl, boohoohoo.】

“I don’t have other things to do,” Bai Jiangxin said calmly. “Even though it’s not an illness, you still need to be careful during your period. If it really hurts, go to the infirmary and let the doctor take a look.”

Xiang Di said, “Ha, it’s fine. I’ve always had menstrual cramps. It’s been many years already. I’m used to it.”

Bai Jiangxin frowned. “Many years?”

“Mm. It started in middle school. My mom took me to see a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. The doctor said I have a congenital constitution issue. Some girls can still run and jump when they’re on their period, but I can’t.”

Her hands rested on his shoulders, leaning against his back, as she gave him a mini science lesson about the female physiological period. Bai Jiangxin didn’t say that he didn’t like listening to this. He just quietly listened to her speak, as if he were really learning knowledge.

Bai Jiangxin: “Can it be cured?”

“Probably.” Xiang Di said. “But it can be alleviated, for example, drink more hot water, pay attention to keeping warm, or take a tablet of ibuprofen…”

What she mentioned were all widely known ways to relieve menstrual cramps.

【…But, I just discovered a method that, for me, is the most effective at relieving menstrual cramps.】

She quietly said in her heart.

Bai Jiangxin slightly raised his eyebrows, not knowing why she insisted on saying it quietly in her heart.

Until a sweet voice carrying a girl’s shyness and excitement sounded in his mind.

【That is you carrying me, hehe.】

【You are my most effective miraculous medicine.】

His steps downstairs suddenly stopped. Bai Jiangxin froze in place.

In an instant, his heartbeat seemed to leak electricity, as a strong current rapidly streaked across the tip of his heart, shocking him until his whole body nearly went numb. The entire world seemed to go blank in this second, and he could only feel the warmth coming from his back.

Xiang Di slightly poked her head out from behind, her voice sounding by his ear. “Why did you suddenly stop walking?”

The girl’s breathing was right by his ear, carrying the unique heat and fragrance in her breath, like a hot, humid rainy day in summer. Every word she said, and every breath she exhaled, was like sticky raindrops scorching his eardrums and throat. He futilely swallowed, his Adam’s apple bobbing, yet he couldn’t make a sound.

Xiang Di called him a few more times before Bai Jiangxin came back to his senses.

Her tone was worried. “Are you okay? Am I too heavy?”

【If even you think I’m heavy, then I seriously suspect that all the dumbbells you lift at the gym are made of foam, hmph.】

【Even you don’t get to make me anxious about my figure!】

Bai Jiangxin lightly bit his lower lip and shook his head. “It’s fine. You’re not heavy.”

This sentence — Bai Jiangxin told half a lie.

She wasn’t heavy, that part was true.

But saying he was fine was false.

And Xiang Di’s torment of him was far from over.

【Only one more floor to the infirmary, sob. Why is this stretch of road so short.】

【I don’t want to get off husband’s back. I really want to cling to him for a lifetime.】

After that, her body slowly pressed closer, placing the full weight of her soft body onto his back. The hands resting on his shoulders also secretly tightened their grip on his school uniform a little.

【…Secretly stick a bit closer, he shouldn’t notice, right?】

【Probably not. My chest is small, he won’t notice.】

Bai Jiangxin’s Adam’s apple rolled, and his eyelids twitched helplessly.

With two such soft lumps rubbing against him, how could he possibly not notice.

The hand supporting the hollow of her knees tightened. Bai Jiangxin slowed his steps, quietly feeling her body pressed against his back, that faint milky scent unique to a girl surging into his nose.

And the person on his back knew nothing about this. Xiang Di was peacefully leaning against the broad back of the boy she liked, admiring the clean and neatly trimmed ends of his hair, smelling the fresh laundry detergent scent on his school uniform.