The Daily Record of Secretly Loving the Male Idol Chapter 40.1

Minodayz: I can't believe how fast the week is coming along. Traveling might be fun but it sure takes a lot out of a person I'd say! Lol

Anyway, we ended Tuesday with RMX's I like you – wonder what's the outcome this time round? This chapter will have only RMX and LEQ. Poignant but I guess it's the author giving RMX his spot.

Chapter 40.1

Translated by Minodayz
Edited by: maripaz
Proofread by: Librismuse

Ruan Mingxian was pleased with himself for not having carried on with his big smiles before. This way, it wouldn't seem so awkward and obvious when he had to stop smiling now. He really wanted to knock on her 'noggin' (head) and at the same time inquire how she could so placidly turn someone down.

Nevertheless, he chose not to say anything but rather dragged out a smile. "I got it."

Li Erqin however, was not that thoughtless nor heartless. "I'm sorry." <(＿ ＿)="">

Ruan Mingxian couldn't resist lifting his brows. "What are you apologising for?"

"Because … I rejected you?"

With a wave of his hand, Ruan Mingxian said, "If that's the case, then I would have to apologize to quite a number of people." He stretched out his arms. "Line up neatly now and take a number."

After saying that, Ruan Mingxian couldn't help bursting out laughing at the absurdity of what he had just said.

Li Erqin's eyes were agog in response. "WOW…" (๑◎△◎๑)

"You believed that?"

"Yup."

Ruan Mingxian stuck his hands into his coat and walked backwards saying, "And this you would believe?"

Li Erqin nodded. "Ruan Nuonuo always mentions how you are very well-received and favoured."

Ruan Mingxian's face could not suppress his proud, beaming smile. "Nuonuo-ah … she can be quite silly!"

Li Erqin laughed along. Her smile was so big, in fact, that she inhaled a mouthful of cold air and had to hurriedly close her mouth again.

Henceforth, neither one of them ever brought up the subject of 'liking' again.

Ruan Mingxian saw Li Erqin to her cla.s.sroom door. Taking his right hand out of his pocket, he waved her off. "Go on in."

Li Erqin pushed open the cla.s.sroom door as she turned back to say, "Thank you."

Ruan Mingxian lazily lifted his eyelids and smiled casually. "Don't mention it."

With the door ajar, a blast of hot air rushed out, bringing with it the scent of *books, and then just as quickly, the door shut.
(T/N : the word used was 书卷 shujuan, means scrolls rather than books.)

Ruan Mingxian once again stuck his hand back into his pocket.

He turned around.

The smile that lingered on his face slowly faded.

Not every relations.h.i.+p was ever known to be smooth sailing, that at the very moment in time when I like you, you would like me too.

As for Li Erqin, as soon as she had sat down in the cla.s.sroom, she was on the receiving end of Peng Zige's direct question. "So how was the tutoring session?"

Li Erqin looked over at Rong Si's seat. It was empty.

Peng Zige was shaking his leg subtly. "Ah Si isn't here."

"Where did he go?"

Peng Zige spread his hands out in uncertainty. "I don't know." ヾ(´･･｀｡)ノ

Li Erqin rubbed her hands by the heater, the warm relief dispelling the stiff, frozen look on her face.

"Erqin." Peng Zige called out to her.

"Yah?"

Quietly he said, "Ah Si didn't even utter a single word throughout dinner."

Li Erqin paused and reflected a moment before adding, "Does he normally say anything during meals?"

"Well, I think he doesn't speak at all."

Li Erqin gave him the 'then what more was it that you wanted to ask' look.

Peng Zige added on, "But this evening when we left for dinner, he didn't even say a word either."

(Minodayz: I guess he usually says "let's go" lol)

"Maybe he wasn't in a good mood?" Li Erqin hazarded a guess.

Su Zi had finally memorized the last vocabulary word before joining the conversation. "I didn't think Rong Si was anything other than his usual self. However, the same can't be said about you." She shot Peng Zige a look. "You've been yammering on non-stop about Ruan Mingxian."

Li Erqin raised her eyebrows.

Su Zi seized the opportunity to tell on him. "He was rambling on and on about Ruan Mingxian being some sort of *big-tailed wolf. Oh, and like a **weasel visiting a chicken coop during the New Year, totally having ulterior motives."
(T/N *big tail wolf is used to denote a predator similar to the wolf in red riding hood. **The author used 黄鼠狼 huangshulang that possibly is another term for 黄鼬 huangyou which is a Siberian/Himalayan weasel. A weasel visiting a chicken coop in the new year is like the wolf inviting the gingerbread man on his back)

Peng Zige argued back, "Am I wrong?!?"

Su Zi glared at him.

(Minodayz: This is a Siberian Weasel. It is sooooo cute! Lol but they do prey on rodents. I suppose RMX is cute LMAO! (⺣◡⺣)♡)

Li Erqin lowered her eyes. "I feel that Ruan Mingxian is a decent person, really nice."

A stifling and suffocating quiet descended.

Peng Zige rhetorically questioned, "Say WHAT?"

Li Erqin reiterated, "Ruan Mingxian is a decent person."

Peng Zige was flabbergasted as he said, "You like him?"

The cla.s.sroom door was pulled open and a gust of cold wind whooshed in, ruffling the books on Rong Si's desk. The three of them turned their heads in unison towards the door and saw Rong Si looking back at them with eyes that seemed to carry the cold from the outdoors.

They had no idea how much of the conversation he had overheard.

Minodayz : Hmmm…. Me wonder too – did he really overhear anything??? Awwww RMX, (´･ω･)ﾉ(._.`) you took the hard basket but we all feel your heart big time (•ॢ◡-ॢ)-♡ . I really really liked that RMX was able to express himself, laugh at himself and even in 'pain' and disappointment, you'd sensed that he still liked her without recourse. I'm glad too that she sees his heart and though she still had to turn him down, she didn't kick him nor like before said they couldn't be friends anymore. Aw shucks, growing up, growing pains! It's awesome too that she is valuing of RMX and says she likes him! PZG and his spanish inquisitons! Lol!!! They do keep things fun our friends at MG!

Have an awesome weekend. A teeny action coming up on Tuesday…. ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)

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