In the Starry Kingdom, Galashi, a milk tea shop outside the main entrance of Jianhua University.
The shop assistant, Sethlin, smoothed her uniform that she had ironed several times yesterday while paying attention to the noise outside. She looked down at two letters hidden under the table. One was an admission letter from Jianhua University, with a red background with gold edges and a velvety surface, and a school emblem of two swords superimposed with flowers in the middle; the other was just a letter wrapped in a pink envelope with a lovely and exquisite pattern.
Yes, on the day when eighteen-year-old Miss Sethlin received the college acceptance letter, she decided to confess her love to her sweetheart!
Although it seems too old-fashioned to express love in love letters in this era, the feelings of a young girl are always poetic, and Sethlin is a hopeless lover of romance novels. She has no resistance to love stories such as one letter, one couple, and a lifetime. Moreover, she would stutter when she was nervous, and if she confessed in person, she would be embarrassed to the end of the world. Love letters are her most serious and solemn choice.
More importantly, taking the initiative is the limit of her way of expressing love.
As for why she brought the admission letter, it was because Cecilia was able to be admitted to Cambridge University thanks to her lover.
This milk tea shop is not a popular chain franchise store, but her mother's personal store. Although it does not have a price advantage over the "Gospel" chain stores, it has a unique taste that is suitable for the world, and her family has the title deed to this store, so they do not have to pay rent, so it has been open for more than 20 years.
When she was fifteen, she began to dislike studying and would rather drop out and help her mother run the store than go to school. Her mother did not object, after all, there was nothing wrong with her daughter inheriting her business.
That summer, she met the man in the store.
Even after three years, Cecilyn could still remember the day they met: his eyes were bright and lively, his eyes were as delicate as gems, his eyebrows were soft and graceful, his face always seemed to be full of smiles, and he smelled of grass, which made people want to roll on the grass.
But Cecilia didn't like him at that time because he was surprised that there was such a young girl in the store. Cecilia protested loudly that she was not young anymore, but he asked her if she didn't go to school. Then Cecilia ignored him and took the order for him like a robot.
He bought an uncertain amount of milk tea, ranging from one cup at the least to more than a dozen cups at the most. He said he was a servant in an aristocratic family, running errands for the mistresses to buy milk tea. Every time he went to the store to buy milk tea, he would share interesting stories about college students, describing the free and dreamy life in college, and how many couples met in college.
The last point hit Seth Lin perfectly, but going back to school was not so easy. And because online self-study was already very mature, Seth Lin chose to study by herself.
One day he ran into Sai Silin doing homework in the store, and the next day he brought a set of papers over and asked Sai Silin to finish them and hand them in to him. Adhering to the attitude that she might as well do it if she had nothing to do, Sai Silin spent an evening to finish them, and then he took the papers away for correction, gave her another set of papers, and told her that she could spend a few days looking up information while doing them, and not to rush.
The test papers he gave were very different from the online courses, which made Sethlin feel that she could do it, but she still needed to look up books and think. He was only in the summer in Galaxie, and every summer he would give Sethlin more than a dozen sets of papers. After each set, Sethlin could thoroughly understand the knowledge points, and her online learning ranking improved by leaps and bounds.
Cecilia also asked him questions, but he said he knew nothing and just wanted to ruin Cecilia's summer vacation. Cecilia thought he was trying to trick an ignorant girl.
But it was this tutor who could only make test papers and who only appeared every summer who accompanied Celine through the most boring study years. She looked forward to the arrival of summer every year. The smell of ink on the test papers and the smell of grass on his body together made up her beautiful impression of summer.
He even recommended Jianhua University to Sai Silin. Jianhua University is no longer the aristocratic university it was more than a decade ago. It has begun to reduce the proportion of aristocrats and recruit more outstanding civilians. Scholarships are given out as if they are free. It has now become a famous university with Zhenli University, and is ranked in the top five in the six-country university rankings. Along with the admission letter, Sai Silin also received a scholarship for her first year, which is more than her salary from working in the store in the past few years.
If Sai Silin can rank among the top in the future, she will be able to get more resources. However, Sai Silin is already satisfied with being admitted to Jianhua University. She will have unlimited prospects when she starts working in the future.
Sethlin didn't even tell her mother, intending to let him be the first to know the news.
Because of her wish, he was the only one left.
Although she was very nervous, Sethlin was actually very confident. Because according to her understanding, her lover was just a servant of a noble, not a magician, and he had no talent. He lived a lazy life like a fat girl. Now that the beautiful female college student from Jianhua University confessed to him, he would definitely be surprised and moved, and then say that he actually had a crush on Sethlin for three years. They were actually going in both directions, and they lived a sweet life together from then on...
As the bell rang twice, Sethlin came back to her senses and saw the person she missed day and night right in front of her. She subconsciously exclaimed:
"Mr. Ash!?"
"Why do you look startled?" Ash looked at himself and said, "I look like I just escaped from prison and haven't changed into my prison uniform yet."
"Why are you talking so carefully? Did you really escape from prison?"
"Oh no, you found out. That was the spring five years ago..."
"Come on, stop bragging," Cecil was very nervous at first, but when she saw him, her body relaxed unconsciously, and her heart felt as sweet as if she had eaten ice cream, and her excitement radiated from the inside out. She took out the velvet red background of the admission letter: "Yash, I was admitted to Jianhua University!"
Yazheng was leaning against the bar, his elbows resting on the counter, his palms supporting his cheeks. He was slightly startled when he heard the words, and then he squinted his eyes and smiled. He was bathed in the sunlight coming in from the window, and his body seemed to be coated with a layer of golden light, looking warm and dazzling.
"Congratulations," he said with a smile, "It's all thanks to my company!"
Plop.
Cecilin's heart was beating so fast that she felt like she was going to die... She felt that she would never forget this smile in her life, and she had to recall this scene before she died so that she could step into the grave peacefully... So this is what it feels like to have a pounding heart... She was really hopelessly in love with this man.
"What does it have to do with you?" Sai Silin stammered, "This is clearly the result of my hard work! The most you can do is give me some papers!"
"That's my genius!" Ash said seriously, "I only let you do the test paper to stimulate your initiative and study habits! Even if you don't study in the future, these habits can help you master other skills!"
"Shame on you." Sethlin clenched the pink envelope in her hand, her hands trembling slightly, but the words that came to her lips turned into: "What do you want to order?"
“Three cups of pudding milk tea, two cups of taro paste bobo…”
"Nine cups of milk tea? Do you have so many guests today?"
"Yeah, they all came back together today... Oh, and add a cup of your favorite milk tea, Three Brothers, no need to put it in a thermos bag."
"Are you drinking it yourself?" Cecilin was a little surprised. Although Ash often bought milk tea, he didn't seem to like sweet things.
"No, this is for you." Ash smiled and said, "Just think of it as a celebration of your admission to Jianhua."
Sethlin felt happy inside, but still couldn't help but retort: "Just give me a drink to celebrate, aren't you too stingy?"
"But I only know that you like this kind of milk tea, and I don't know anything else. Otherwise, would I give you a few sets of test papers?" Ash thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'll give you a gift that you need the most, but you'll know it's from me. The luckiest thing that happens to you next will be my gift."
"What? You might as well say you don't want to send me off..." Cecil chuckled and relaxed.
She was about to hand over the love letter when she found that her sweaty hands had soaked the envelope. She quickly went to wash her hands and asked casually, "Are you busy lately?"
"It's not as busy as the past two years. The general framework has been completed, but there are still many chores to do, such as trimming here and adjusting there..."
Is it a job like a gardener
Sai Silin took a deep breath, wiped her hands, and asked nonchalantly, "Speaking of which, you are so busy with work, do you have a girlfriend?"
When Ash answered no, she immediately turned around and handed over the love letter, and then—
"Some, what's wrong?"
Ten minutes later, Yaxiu said goodbye and left the milk tea shop carrying two thermos bags.
Twelve minutes later, the manager of the milk tea shop drove the raw materials back to the store. As soon as he got out of the car, he heard the smoke alarm in the store beeping and triggering the automatic sprinkler system, which sprayed water from the ceiling like a shower head, soaking all over the store.
"What's wrong!?"
The manager pushed open the door and looked at Celine behind the bar. She was holding a lighter in her hand. There was a ball of burning ash on the counter, and a pink envelope could be vaguely seen.
"What happened?"
"mom… "
With her hair soaked, Sethlin raised her head and looked at her mother with tears streaming down her face, "Something terrible has happened to my youth!"
"My store is in big trouble! I really owed you in my previous life. It would be better to give birth to a fat baby than you..."