Those Sweet Times - Chapter 89 Part 2

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.

Those Sweet Times

Chapter 89 Part 2

The last event on the commencement program was the degree awarding ceremony. The Secretary of the school party committee personally moved Xiang Nuan’s tassel to the other side of the cap and solemnly handed over the diploma into Xiang Nuan’s hands. The Secretary was an amiable old lady. She looked at Xiang Nuan and said with a smile: “Have a bright future.”

“Thanks, thank you, Ms. Liu.”

“Alas sending off another class of students.”

Xiang Nuan felt sad too and walked up to hug the old lady.

After the commencement, Xiang Nuan and her classmates went to take pictures on the campus. On her way, she received a lot of candies.

It was a tradition at Nanshan University. The candies were prepared by the school’s student council. They were custom made. Every graduating student had one candy with words printed on the wrapping paper. Those words were written by the graduates themselves. Some had their own names printed on the paper, some put famous quotes on it, some had poems, some had secret code on it as a way to subtly confess to their love. On the day of graduation, each graduating student could give the candy to anyone they wanted to.

Many stories developed from this one candy. Some got over their old grudges and became friends again because of the candy. Some ended up married while some failed in their confessions and parted ways with the person they had a crush on.

Lin Chuyan saved his candy for Xiang Nuan last year. The words printed on his candy wrapping paper were rather lovey-dovey.

This year, Xiang Nuan’s candy was certainly being saved for Lin Chuyan.

She didn’t expect that she would receive so many candies from other students. She thought she was probably quite popular.

Later on, Xiang Nuan was afraid that she couldn’t hold onto so many candies and went back to her dorm to fetch a plastic jar. She put all the candies into the jar. Afterwards, whenever there was someone who was going to give her the candy, she would reach over with the jar and say: “Thanks!”

She was almost like a monk collecting alms.

They took pictures until four o’clock in the afternoon.

Xiang Nuan went to change her clothes then walked to the school gate. Lin Chuyan would be here to pick her up soon.

Lin Chuyan was still driving that same Mercede-Benz. But the car belonged to him now-- --Two years ago he bought the car from his father. They had gone to do the official title transfer. Lin Chuyan had negotiated with his father about the price of the car and ended up buying it at only a tenth of the original price……

After Lin Chuyan became somewhat famous, he joined Xiang Nuan and the others and opened a shop selling household products.

The business began unintentionally. In the beginning, Xiang Nuan was the one who wanted to participate in an entrepreneurship contest. It was simply a contest and most people didn’t actually start a business out of it. She worked with other students to design the project and won the top prize in the contest. Afterwards, there were investors who came to them, actually interested in sponsoring them. They found out that the investors were serious.

Xiang Nuan figured at the time that rather than let the investors take all the money, they could make the money themselves. When she talked to the other partners of the project about it, everyone agreed and they all took out some of their own money to start the business.

Lin Chuyan had become the top streamer on Pea TV and Xiang Nuan’s business was also booming.

Without any conscious efforts, they all became rich……

“Silly, why are you spacing out for? Get in the car.” Lin Chuyan called her with one hand on the steering wheel and the other arm resting on the window. He was looking at Xiang Nuan with a smile.

Xiang Nuan recovered and looked back at him. He still looked the same. There was almost no difference from a few years ago.

Xiang Nuan was impressed by it. He was almost 23, but looked like he was still in his teens. When he smiled, he looked especially innocent and harmless, like a serious person.

Xiang Nuan circled to the other side to sit in the passenger seat.

It was a hot day and she was wearing a cotton short sleeved t-shirt and jean shorts. Lin Chuyan took a glance at her fair and smooth legs.

He wanted to touch them but kept himself from doing so.

Xiang Nuan shook the candy jar in her hand: “Lin Chuyan, look, I got all these candies today.”

Lin Chuyan squinted his eyes and asked: “From whom?”

“Some from our class, some I don’t even know…...Oh, where are we going now?”

“You’ll know when we get there.”

“Gee, keeping me in suspense.”

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.