Chapter 13: Race against time

My mother stared at my profile for nearly a minute, her expression gradually changing, and then she slowly said:

“Are you in love?”

“No.”

I shook my head, listening to my mother’s tone, which seemed to contain three parts of questioning, three parts of displeasure, three parts of indifference, and one part of ... jealousy? Of course, I know that this is just my wishful thinking.

“Then tell me what happened to your face?”

“What happened?”

Mom frowned, picked up a mirror from the coffee table and handed it to me, saying unhappily:

“Look for yourself!”

I took the mirror and looked at my face, and then I found a faint lip mark on my face, which seemed to be left by Wang Xinran. I couldn’t wash it off even if I jumped into the Yellow River. I said anxiously:

“This ... I don’t know!”

Mom snorted coldly, retracted her gaze, glanced down, and asked coldly:

“Tell the truth, what did you do tonight?”

Mom tried her best to calm her tone, but I could hear that the more she did this, the more uneasy she was. Looking at her again, her expression was gloomy and very unhappy, so I had to whisper:

“A classmate asked me to take her back to the dormitory...”

Mom nodded and continued:

“Then what?”

“Then ... there was nothing else”

Mom suddenly turned her head and looked at me with wide eyes, and said in a heavier tone:

“That’s all? What’s the situation with your face?”

The topic came back again. I lowered my head and kept making circles with two fingers. I felt that this matter was not my fault, so I just gave up and said:

“What else could it be? That girl kissed me!”

Mom was stunned for a moment. Maybe she didn’t expect me to admit it so quickly. She raised her hand to hit me again. I didn’t avoid or block it. The jade hand that stayed in the air was put down again. Mom sighed and said:

“How many times have I told you, I told you not to fall in love, don’t fall in love, now is the critical period for your study, don’t let other things distract you.”

After saying that, my mother took another sip of water, rubbed her nose with her fingers, and asked slowly:

“How long have you been dating?”

I was silent for a moment, my fingers stopped spinning and hung on both sides, and said:

“We haven’t started dating yet,”

“What do you mean?”

“That girl likes me and wants to pursue me, so she asked me to take her back to the dormitory, and she took the initiative to kiss me.”

I directly put the blame on Wang Xinran, silently saying sorry in my heart, my mother is too fierce and I can’t do anything.

My mother nodded gently. Seeing my sincere face, her expression eased a little. She leaned on the sofa with her hands and asked:

“What about you? Do you like her?”

“No.”

I quickly denied it and shook my head. Unexpectedly, my mother’s expression changed. She waved her hand and slapped it on the coffee table, making a muffled sound, and scolded:

“If you don’t like her, why did you send her back to the dormitory!”

I was shocked by my mother. My mother’s temper was really unpredictable. I explained with a little grievance:

“Then others kept begging me. She was a little girl. How hurtful it would be if I rejected her too harshly~”

Listening to my explanation, my mother also felt that she was too angry. She looked a little unnatural. Flipping her hair, she said:

“Since you don’t like her, tell her clearly as soon as possible. Mom has been through your age too. Don’t play with other people’s feelings just because it’s fun and do something beyond the line. Also,”