"Ignore them." Ye Qingzhou raised her eyes, her gaze full of seriousness. "Let them talk if they want."

Hearing this, Yin Tao nodded vigorously, but she couldn't hide the emotion in her heart.

The sixth-grade girl didn't understand anything, she only knew that Ye Qingzhou was really good-looking.

The classroom was bathed in the golden glow of the setting sun in the evening. Sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating every corner of the classroom. The desks, chairs, and blackboard were all bathed in a warm glow, as if gently touched by the passage of time.

She knew that Ye Qingzhou had sacrificed a lot of time and energy to help her, and had even offended all the classmates by disregarding his own popularity.

After graduating from elementary school, whether for Ye Qingzhou's sake or not, Yin Tao made up her mind to change herself, putting aside her introverted personality and forcing herself to become much more cheerful and lively.

Finally, in junior high school, the girl was no longer ridiculed and bullied by her classmates. Thanks to her lively personality and cute appearance, she got along well with everyone.

Ye Qingzhou, however, remained as sharp-tongued and expressionless as ever, rarely interacting with anyone in class.

However, most of the time, Yin Tao would linger around Ye Qingzhou, and the two could be seen inseparable, whether it was after school or during class.

"You have a lot of friends now, why don't you go and hang out with them? Why do you always stick around me?"

"Hehe, mind your own business, I just want to pester you."

It's a pity that everyone in the world could see the feelings in the girl's eyes, but Ye Qingzhou was the only one who couldn't.

...

...

Linchuan Middle School, dismissal time.

"What should I do?! If Xiao Lian isn't here, no one will teach me today, waaaah..." Yin Tao put on a mournful face.

"Forget it, with your grades, it's no different from not studying at all," Ye Qingzhou said casually while playing on his phone.

"None of your business!"

Yin Tao let out a sigh, but her eyes still kept glancing in his direction.

She was quite cute when she was little, how did she turn out like this now... She wondered to herself, feeling inexplicably disappointed.

Just as Yin Tao was about to return to her seat, she noticed that there was already someone else at the table.

"What are you doing sitting next to me?"

"What else can I do? I'll teach you how to study." Ye Qingzhou put down his phone and patted the test paper on the table. "I'll teach you which questions you don't understand."

"oh."

Yin Tao responded and sat down in the chair, pretending to be calm, but her eyes couldn't help but scrutinize the young man in front of her.

Along the corridor of the teaching building, by the windows, students leaned or stood, quietly watching the sunset outside. In an instant, all the noise disappeared, leaving only this twilight scene and the girl's fluttering heart.

It felt a bit like going back to that afternoon.

However, there were no longer any childish kids around shouting "Get married! Get married!"

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Ye Qingzhou asked, raising her eyes.

Yin Tao didn't say anything, but simply stretched out a hand and raised it above his head.

Um.

He's already taller than me.