Homeroom teacher Old Qin not only gave Lin Chusui a tall order, but also "proclaimed it to the world."
So from that day on, there were classmates coming to find Xiao Yan every day -
"Xiao Tongxue, who needs help more than Lin Chusui besides me?!"
"I need help too, god of learning, take a look at me!"
"God of learning, save the child!"
There were even more direct ones... Who slapped their bank cards in front of Xiao Yan: "God of learning, I'll buy out all your time next semester!"
...
During that time, Lin Chusui was extremely depressed, first because her deskmate was too excellent, her position was simply a den of wolves; second, the learning pressure was also great.
It’s not easy for someone who hasn’t studied properly for almost two years to rush to the top 100 in the grade at once.
After school, Lin Chusui silently packed up her schoolbag and left.
Xiao Yan was delayed by the duty, and when he wanted to find her, she was already gone.
He went to the playground where she often went. On the edge of the playground, Lu Chi and several others were playing basketball, but Lin Chusui was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's the kid?" he asked Lu Chi casually.
Holding a basketball, Lu Chi said to Xiao Yan: "Bro Chu, she hasn't been playing basketball with us recently. My sister just said she went to the lakeside by herself and seemed to be in a bad mood."
Xiao Yan nodded, got on his bike, and left.
...
Lin Chusui sat on the sidewalk of the ring road around the lake in the Olympic Sports Center Park, watching the slanting sun setting in the west, feeling depressed.
Dad Lin used to take her here to run and exercise. When they got tired, they would lie down together on the sloping lawn and wait for the sunset.
Later, Dad Lin left. The Martyrs' Cemetery was very far away in the suburbs. When Lin Chusui missed Dad Lin, she would come here alone, talking to the air as if Dad Lin was still sitting beside her.
She told Dad Lin that she got first place for her composition.
"I feel it was a fluke, but my deskmate helped a lot too."
"Sometimes, his thinking is quite interesting. He can almost anger others to death, unsociable. But his moral character is really high,"
"Anyway, everyone likes him, and I don't know why."
"A lot of things that many people want, I just don't want. Like every time there's a lottery draw, everyone goes, it has nothing to do with me."
After saying that, she sighed deeply.
How annoying.
"So little ambition."
The clear voice rang in her ears.
Lin Chusui was startled and turned her head to see Xiao Yan standing beside her somehow.
The warm and soft glow of the setting sun fell on him, slender and straight, with very long legs. Even ordinary black pants could make him look gracefully slender.
He sat down casually on the lawn next to Lin Chusui, in the place where Dad Lin used to sit.
"You eavesdropped on my conversation with Dad!"
"I didn't eavesdrop. I listened openly and aboveboard."
Dad Lin was inside him, so of course he could listen, righteous and confident.
Lin Chusui was embarrassed and anxious. She grabbed a handful of grass stems and threw them at him.
The green grass with mud hit his face.
His skin was too fair, so even a little dirt stood out clearly.
But Xiao Yan was not angry either. He patted off the grass stems on his body, "Did I offend you?"
"You offended me!" Lin Chusui said angrily: "Anyway, someone needs you more than me, so you must have wanted to change deskmates already!"
Her words were a little sour. As soon as Lin Chusui said it, she regretted it. But words once spoken could not be taken back. She could only lower her head in shame and annoyance, pulling out grass stems, ignoring him.
"Why don't you want what many people want?" Xiao Yan asked her sideways, his tone very plain.
Lin Chusui replied, "I don't want to compete, I can't compete anyway."
"But I want to compete," Xiao Yan looked at the distant crimson clouds: "If it's not mine, but I want it, I'll fight for it. If I can't get it, I'll rob it, by any means necessary, at all costs."
Lin Chusui was a little surprised to hear him speak so openly. She looked at him and said, "At all costs?"
His side profile was firm, his eyes calm and waveless. He picked up a small rock and threw it into the pond: "I want to live well, live like a human, earn a lot of money, never be bullied or deceived again..."
"You will definitely get your wish."
Seeing that his shoelaces were loose, Lin Chusui inexplicably reached out to untie his shoelaces, and then retied them tightly—
"I'm not a very good deskmate, always affecting you, but I'm strong. If anyone bullies you, I'll teach them a lesson."
The breeze blew by, and her sideburns floated on her pink cheeks.
Xiao Yan's hard and rough heart suddenly became extremely soft.
"Then are you willing to compete for me a little?"
"What?"
"Try hard to compete a little, maybe I'll...."
The moment he opened his mouth, Xiao Yan knew he was being impulsive. He thought for a moment, and smiled lightly, "Forget it, nothing."
"Say it, what is it?"
"Nothing."
"You....why are you like this?"
"I'm just like this."
The more she asked, the more evasive Xiao Yan became.
He still didn't have the courage or determination to promise or agree to anything.
Lin Chusui stared blankly at his smiling eyes as clear as the moon in the breeze. Her mind suddenly heated up. Then she leaned over inexplicably and lightly pecked his face.
Xiao Yan's words suddenly stopped.
This light kiss was like a snowflake falling into his palm, vanishing instantly, but leaving a scorching mark in his heart.
The progress bar for the task in the lower right corner jumped directly from 45% to 60%.
Lin Chusui's face turned red. She reacted a bit excessively, jumped up abruptly, pushed back two steps, and screamed "ah". Then she covered her face and ran away.
Xiao Yan: ......
She "took him by surprise", but why was it like he had taken advantage of her?
He stood up and shouted, "Why are you running?"
"Don't talk to me!"
In a minute, the "marathon goddess" ran away covering her head.
......
[South City No. 1 Middle School Belle Group]
Lin Chusui: "[Out of Control] [Out of Control] [Out of Control]"
Lin Chusui: "[Ah] [Ah] [Ah]"
Xiao Yan: "[Sweat]"
Then, the system message reminded that Xiao Yan had been removed from the [South City No. 1 Middle School Belle Group] by Lin Chusui.
Xiao Yan: ......
He private messaged Lin Chusui: "Let's talk."
[Sorry, you are no longer the other party's friend. Please re-verify.]
In those days, Lin Chusui hid from him whenever she saw him. Her face turned red and her heart pounded, hands and feet stiff.
She didn't know what was wrong with herself. When she had an affair with Qin Nai in junior high, she didn't have this reaction.
She was so embarrassed that she didn't even dare say a word to him. Seeing his face made her brain sizzle.
How embarrassing! How embarrassing! How embarrassing!
She actually took advantage of Xiao Yan!
However, no matter how Lin Chusui hid, the two were deskmates. They still had to sit together in class.
Lin Chusui was determined not to talk to Xiao Yan.
In the cold December wind, Lin Chusui was afraid of the cold. She tucked in her hands and shivered like a quail.
She glanced at Xiao Yan. He wore very little, an outer jacket over a dark turtleneck sweater, looking very thin. He wore a loose scarf around his neck.
Lin Chusui wore quilted autumn clothes inside and out, three layers inside and three layers outside, wrapping herself up tightly.
But still cold!
Xiao Yan sat by the window. He liked to open the window a little crack for ventilation. It wouldn't affect other students, and could dispel the stale air in that area, refreshing.
Lin Chusui took out a pen and silently wrote a line in her notebook, and handed it over—
"Close the window, thank you."
Xiao Yan ignored it and did not move.
Seeing that he remained indifferent, Lin Chusui circled those words in thick red pen, added exclamation marks, and handed it in front of him—
"Close the window, thank you!!!"
Xiao Yan didn't even look at her, his expression was also very cold. He said, "Why should I close the window?"
Lin Chusui continued to write in the notebook—
"Because I'm cold."
"You're cold, what does that have to do with me?" Xiao Yan glanced coldly at her, "I—someone whose friend you deleted."
Lin Chusui: ......
He was still resentful about deleting friends.
"Taking advantage of me, but I'm the one who wronged you?" Xiao Yan was indeed a little angry: "Turning things upside down?"
Lin ChuSui grabbed a pen and painfully wrote in her notebook: “Please forget about that!”
Xiao Yan leaned in close, coldly asking: “We've already kissed, how can I forget?”
As Lin ChuSui looked at his handsome face up close, she wanted to grab the pen to write again, but he took the pen and threw it aside.
“Little mute, do you plan on never speaking to me again for the rest of your life?”
Lin ChuSui was extremely embarrassed, trying her best to avoid his pressing gaze. “It was me...I'm sorry, if you feel taken advantage of, then I...I’ll let you kiss me back to make it even.”
She spoke those words sincerely, every word coming from her heart. Her eyes were also exceptionally pitiful.
Xiao Yan chuckled at her response. He loosened his grip on her collar. “That sounds great, doesn’t it? You kiss me, and then I get to kiss you back. What are you thinking?”
Having regained her freedom, Lin ChuSui immediately buried her head in the desk, pretending to die a miserable death.
The person's gone!
After a while, she clearly felt the cold wind stop.
She looked up and saw that Xiao Yan had closed the window. At the same time, he took off his scarf and wrapped it around her neck.
The deep brown scarf carried his warmth, instantly wrapping her cool neck extremely cozily.
“About you stealing a kiss from me...”
Before he could finish speaking, Lin ChuSui hurriedly went up to him and covered his mouth with her hand. “Don't say it!”
Her soft, sticky hand covered his lips.
He looked sincerely at the girl before him with his naturally upturned peach blossom eyes: “Not saying it means you’ll never speak to me again?”
Lin ChuSui slowly removed her hand from him. Somewhat dejected, she kept her head low while touching his dark scarf. “It was me being impulsive and violating you. Even if you want to be angry, I have no complaints.”
“Who was the one who got angry first?” Xiao Yan said helplessly. “The one who kicked me out of the group chat, deleted me as a friend, that was you. The one who stopped talking to me, that was also you.”
“Because you would definitely have left the group and deleted me as a friend. I struck first.”
“You have to compete with me for a win or loss?”
Lin ChuSui looked at him like a small rabbit, guilty: “Dad said girls definitely can't take the initiative, otherwise they'll be looked down on.”
But she was the one... who shamefully fell for him first.
She was also very discouraged.
“Afraid of being looked down on, so you directly cut off all ties.” Xiao Yan's mouth curved up slightly. “You're being very unreasonable.”
“It wasn't because I was afraid of being looked down on that I deleted you, but rather...”
She spoke in a tiny mosquito-like voice: “I was afraid of being rejected.”
