Liang Jinhui seemed to have been poured cold water on his head and drew back abruptly.

He staggered and fell on the bed, looking very embarrassed.

"Xia Lin..."

He scratched his head while blushing hard, trying to explain but he saw Xia Lin lifting the quilt and sat up slowly. Xia Lin's expression was very calm, as if he had already seen everything.

Suddenly Liang Jinhui couldn't say anything.

"I know you are interested in me," Xia Lin said straightforwardly, "but I am not interested in you."

"Why?!" Liang Jinhui almost blurted out.

"You are too young."

"What young? I am only four years behind you!"

Liang Jinhui himself also knows the age difference between him and Xia Lin but what's the issue if he is four years behind? His father and mother were six years apart when they got married.

Xia Lin sighed. They are more than four years apart. From his perspective, he was fourteen years older than Liang Jinhui. In his eyes, Liang Jinhui was an immature little furry boy. How could he have a relationship with a little boy?

When Liang Jinhui saw Xia Lin not speaking, he plucked up the courage and said, "Xia Lin, would you give me a chance? Although I am not as good as you now, I will work hard to become better and I will not let you down. Can you consider me?"

Xia Lin was silent for a moment and said: "Xiao Liang, I know you are interested in me but I still agreed to stay in the same room with you. Do you know why?"

Liang Jinhui was startled: "Why?"

"Because I also want to take this opportunity to confront you." Xia Lin said, "You have been pestering me for two months and I know your intention from the beginning. But if you don't say it clearly, it's not easy for me to reject you outright. Now, you followed me to a foreign country and you didn't even care about your own schoolwork. You are still in your junior year. Your third-year medical school exam is very important. You must strive to get credits for most subjects this year. In your fourth and fifth year, you will be busy with internships and you will not have enough time to study textbook knowledge. If you can't even graduate from your undergraduate study, what can you use to prove that you will become better?"

Liang Jinhui was choking with his speech.

Xia Lin continued: "I am not your parent and there is no need for me to be responsible for your life. It's best for you to figure it out by yourself. If you still can't figure it out and want to continue to pester me, I can only ask the teacher leading the team for a room change."

"Don't..."

Liang Jinhui was immediately anxious, "I will think about it. Don't rush to change rooms. I swear, I will never do anything to you again."

Xia Lin glanced at him, did not say anything, rolled over under the quilt, intending to continue sleeping.

Liang Jinhui stared at Xia Lin's back blankly. After an unknown period of time, he asked in a low voice: "Xia Lin...no, Senior Xia, if I really change my mind in the future, would you still consider me?"

"No."

Xia Lin's voice was muffled under the quilt as if he was extremely sleepy. Liang Jinhui didn't dare to disturb him anymore so he climbed onto his bed lightly and lay depressed.

However, Xia Lin was so tossed by him and the turbulent sleepiness gradually faded.

But he still didn't move under the quilt, closed his eyes, and drowned in his own thoughts.

Over the years, he has remained single. There are no suitors around him. There are also people with very good conditions. Xia Lin was not unmoved but when he thought of starting a relationship with a stranger, he couldn't afford to be interested.

It seems that all his passion and dedication to love have been exhausted in his previous life.

He knew that his state was abnormal but he couldn't change it and he didn't want to change it. The only thing he could worry about now, except his family, was Song Yan.

This time, he originally refused to go abroad for exchanges, but when he heard that the destination was City F in the United States, he suddenly changed his heart.

He has read the map. City F is not far from City J. He wants to take this opportunity to meet Song Yan and ask some questions that are pressed in his heart.

For example, is the anonymous donor in Zilin Village Song Yan? And if so, why would he hide his identity?

This is not like him.

For example, Song Yan is already able to walk freely. Why should he stay abroad forever and never return home once? It's hard for him to inquire about this matter with Song Yan's family for fear that it will reach Song Yan's ears and cause unnecessary misunderstandings.

But every time he inquired with Xia Liang, Xia Liang always avoided the question and kept silent, as if deliberately concealing something from him.

The Xia family and the Song family have cooperated on so many projects in the past three years. It does not go smoothly every time. There are times when a conflict of interest cannot be negotiated. But during these critical moments, there will always be a mysterious figure closely related to the Song Group who will free his hands to give charcoal in the snow but disappeared without a trace after the incident was completed.

Is this person Song Yan?

In fact, these things didn't have much to do with Xia Lin but as long as Song Yan was at stake, Xia Lin wanted to figure it out, otherwise, these questions would not be answered in his heart and he would be uncomfortable day by day.

What's more, the photos Song Yan posted on Weibo recently made him feel that something was not right.

He once sent a WeChat to test Song Yan but was always avoided by the other party, which added to his inner doubts.

He feels that if he and Song Yan are really over, they must speak clearly in person and not through the screen. They are ambiguously maintaining a relationship and do not even know whether they should be called friends or not.

This is not the result he wanted.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at his phone again. When he entered the hotel, he sent Song Yan his location and clearly told the other party that he hoped to see him sometime.

But Song Yan never responded.

He held his mobile phone and waited for a long time until he finally fell asleep in a daze. When Song Yan received the location sent by Xia Lin, he was on his way to City F.

Xia Lin finally made it clear that he wanted to meet him.

He looked at that line in WeChat, gently rubbed the frame of the phone with his fingertips, and then looked up at the window. He wanted to see Xia Lin too, very much. But he knew that the purpose of Xia Lin's appointment with him had nothing to do with what he thought.

Finally, he quietly put away the phone, without replying a word.

The assistant drove the car and turned around and asked: "Boss, which hotel will you stay at night?"

Song Yan reported the address of the hotel where Xia Lin was staying.

"I'll check in later. Avoid the peak traffic period in the hotel. "

The assistant glanced at Song Yan in the rearview mirror.

He knew that Xia Lin was the only one Song Yan really wanted to avoid.