nightmare

I forgot what Lin Yu replied to him that day. Anyway, Tao Xingye used the excuse that he didn't bring his phone and stayed at her house for almost a whole day.

He was bored and sat next to Lin Yu, reading letters one after another, sometimes even reading them out loud, which made Lin Yu very unhappy. She took her homework and went to do it somewhere else.

In the end, he had to swear not to read aloud again before he persuaded Lin Yu to come back to him.

After reading the letter, he remembered that Lin Yu said she couldn't answer the last question, and insisted that Lin Yu go and look for the test paper to explain the question to her.

All of Lin Yu's textbooks were well preserved and piled in the corner. She squatted on the ground and searched for more than ten minutes before she finally found the test paper.

At noon, he drank the porridge he had been longing for. There was no sugar at Lin Yu's house, but he didn't like sweet food anyway, so he almost finished the whole pot of tasteless porridge.

Lin Yu was a little surprised. She remembered that Tao Xingye was a bit picky about food.

"Why are you looking at me? Have you never seen a handsome guy eating?" Tao Xingye glanced at her with the bowl in one hand, and drank the rest of the porridge leisurely.

No matter what actions or expressions he made, he always showed a natural disdain. Lin Yu was speechless, looking at the porridge in the bowl, not understanding why Tao Xingye suddenly came to her.

"Today is New Year's Day." Lin Yu looked at the table. "No one spends New Year's Day at someone else's house."

Her voice was thin and low, but Tao Xingye could hear disgust in it. Lin Yu actually dared to be disgusted with him, so what did she dislike about him?

"Hey, I came all the way here to see you because I treat you as a friend." Lin Yu was not only ungrateful but also very stubborn. Tao Xingye really didn't know what she was thinking.

He glared at Lin Yu, stood up and walked out.

"News about Jiang Shuang!" Lin Yu's voice suddenly rose, and the table was noisy because of her. The bottom of the bowl was spinning and shaking, and finally stopped.

Jiang Shuang, Jiang Shuang, Jiang Shuang, it’s Jiang Shuang again!

He was about to leave now, but she not only didn't stop him but also dared to ask about Jiang Shuang's news.

"Lin Yu, do you consider me a friend?" He leaned sideways and lowered his head, two floor tiles away from Lin Yu.

Being so close, he could clearly see the struggle in Lin Yu's eyes, and the old glass window behind her was rattling in the wind.

Lin Yu was clearly standing there, but there seemed to be an invisible and intangible barrier between him and her.

He thought they were friends.

Tao Xingye could see the struggle in Lin Yu's eyes, but he didn't understand why she was struggling.

Lin Yu really wanted to ask Tao Xingye if he considered her a friend. Why did he always act so superior, speaking to her as if he was bestowing blessings upon her?

She has no friends, but she doesn't need Tao Xingye to be so self-righteous as to think that he is doing things for her own good!

"You don't understand what a friend is!" Lin Yu felt a burning fire in his heart. "Tao Xingye, you don't consider me a friend."

"Try to say it again! Just because I didn't tell you the news about Jiang Shuang? Is he that important to you?" Tao Xingye pushed Lin Yu away. She staggered three steps and held on to the windowsill before she could barely stand.

Several unknown flowers and plants grown in plastic mineral water bottles slipped from her hands. Lin Yu subconsciously reached out to catch them, but was still a step too slow.

The bottle fell heavily to the ground, and the hard soil clumps broke apart, swirling in the air before finally landing at her feet.

"This is the flower I've been raising for half a year..." Lin Yu's voice trembled, as if he had lost something particularly precious.

It was just a pot of broken grass grown in a mineral water bottle, without even a flower. Was a pot of dead grass worth making her so upset?

"Don't change the subject, just speak!" Tao Xingye pulled her arm and pulled her up.

"Let me go!" Tao Xingye's hands wrapped around her like water plants. Lin Yu couldn't push him away, so she bit his wrist directly.

"You are born in the year of the dog." Tao Xingye pushed Lin Yu away, and a tooth mark with a purple-red edge was burned on his wrist.

The teeth marks were so deep that blood was visible, and even Lin Yu's lips were stained with his blood.

Biting so deep, how much does Lin Yu hate him!

"Lin Yu, why can't you talk to me nicely? I'm not patient enough with you."

There are so many people in Manjin City, and he has friends everywhere. Why does he have to come to Lin Yu to suffer?

Not only did she not consider herself a friend, she also looked at herself like an enemy. If he left, she would leave!

"Tell me about Jiang Shuang!"

Lin Yu opened his arms to block Tao Xingye's way, with no sign of retention in his eyes, and an aggressive and negotiating coldness.

"Fuck!" Tao Xingye raised his wrist. "You bit my hand, and you still ask Jiang Shuang! Lin Yu, how can you be so heartless?"

"Get out of the way!" Tao Xingye pulled Lin Yu's clothes and lifted her aside.

In the Tao family villa, Xu Meihan was sitting at the tea table demonstrating her tea art when she heard a deafening sound of a door slamming.

"Get out of here!"

Outside the glass door, Tao Xingye threw away the towel handed to him by the nanny and went up the stairs with an angry face.

The clothes he was wearing were obviously not his own.

Xu Meihan calmly withdrew her gaze, poured the brewed tea into a porcelain cup, and handed it to Aunt He opposite her.

"Hanhan has grown up so much and is so sensible. You are luckier than me." He Fan smiled at Wang Qiang with love and envy.

"Oh, how can they compare to your two sons." Wang Qiang patted He Fan's hand affectionately, "What's wrong with the eldest son? Why did he come back just during the holidays?"

"Oh," He Fan pulled his hand back with an awkward smile, "He's just a boy, leave him alone."

After Xu Meihan poured tea for the others, she stood up and nodded to He Fan, "I'll go see Xingye."

As soon as I entered the door, a cold and hard voice came from inside, "Get out!"

Xu Meihan found it funny. She closed the door and leaned on it with her hands behind her back. "Who could make you so angry? Whose pink dress is that?"

Tao Xingye bit the gauze on his wrist tightly, pulled the drawer and stuffed the medicine box in, "Do I know you well?"

Tao Xingye walked over, grabbed Xu Meihan's shoulder and pushed her out of the room without saying a word. Just as Xu Meihan was about to say something, the door was slammed shut.

"Temper." Xu Meihan muttered and kicked his door. Suddenly, a laugh came from behind her, which scared her.

Turning around, it turned out to be a person I had never seen before. His features were somewhat similar to Tao Xingye's, but his temperament was much more flamboyant and outspoken than Tao Xingye.

"Who are you?"

"Tao Xinghai." He put his hands in his pockets, walked past Xu Meihan without looking at her, and went to the next room.

Xu Meihan rolled her eyes at him and looked at the two tightly closed doors. The two sons of the Tao family were truly brothers.

After that day, Lin Yu didn't see Tao Xingye again until the Chinese New Year.

The pot of Arabian speedwell that fell to the ground was replanted back into the bottle by Lin Yu.

This kind of flower can be found everywhere and can reproduce anywhere as long as there is soil and water.

In summer, the roadside is always covered with these small blue flowers, with a little white in the middle of the blue petals. Only by squatting down and looking carefully can you find that it is as good as any other flower.

The first weekend after she transferred back to the township middle school, she was walking home alone with her schoolbag on her back. When she saw this little flower on the roadside again, she was inevitably attracted to it.

She squatted down and looked at it for a long time. Finally, she carefully dug out a bunch and planted it at home.

Gao Ya even laughed at her, "Xiao Yu, this is a wild flower, no one grows it at home."

She knew they were wildflowers, but all she could see was that small bunch of flowers.

"How beautiful." Lin Yu half-knelt and poured some water on it. The dry grass in the pot will grow green leaves again in the next spring.

During the New Year's Eve dinner, Lin Yu's parents called her and said, "Xiaoyu, let's go back in the spring when we're not busy. Our wages will be doubled these two days, and the train tickets are expensive."

They chattered on and on to Lin Yu for a few more words, and finally asked Lin Sen to call her sister.

When Lin Yu heard his brother's baby voice, his tightly twisted heart suddenly broke.

Tears fell one by one, and my heart was empty with nothing left.

She thought that she couldn't vent her hatred on her brother whom she had never met.

But, if she doesn't hate her brother, who else should she hate?

"I haven't even seen you once in a year..." Lin Yu bit her lip and kept stuffing dumplings into her mouth.

The TV behind him was showing the Spring Festival Gala, which was full of family happiness. Lin Yu couldn't help himself any longer and overturned the dumplings in front of him.

The plastic bowl turned around and made a mess on the floor with dumplings and hot soup. Lin Yu looked at herself in disbelief. What happened to her?

She has never dropped anything before, what happened today?

"If you don't want to come back, then don't. If you make a mess, you still have to clean it up yourself..."

Lin Yu took the broom and repeated the same action over and over again but he couldn't sweep it clean.

Her mind was completely blank, her hands were shaking, she couldn't tell whether she was cold or hot, and she had only one thought left - to clean the floor.

"Clean it up, clean it up." These were the only words in her mouth, which she kept repeating, like a machine that needed instructions to continue functioning.

The broom couldn't sweep the floor clean, so she knelt on the ground like crazy, even using her hands to scoop up the soup.

A dumpling rolled to the window. Lin Yu half crawled and half walked over to pick up the dumpling and threw it into the trash can. However, the moment he reached the dumpling.

A hand appeared on the glass window. The person inside raised his head in horror and hunched over on the ground like a ghost.

Lin Yu covered his face in disbelief, and the person inside the glass also covered his face with his hands.

A whimper came from his ears. Lin Yu slowly lowered his head to look at his hands, and suddenly felt that this body was so strange.

She was like a wandering soul that accidentally landed in this body. Otherwise, how could she accept herself kneeling on the ground in such a miserable state to pick up a dumpling?

She stood up with the support of her legs, and Lin Yu wiped the tears from her face with the back of her relatively clean hand.

If she doesn’t want to come back, then don’t come back. It’s not like she’s been spending the New Year alone.

Perhaps because he was too emotional, Lin Yu had a nightmare that night.

To be precise, it was not a dream, but her real experience at Tianya Academy.

In her dream, she was surrounded by a group of people again, howling miserably and begging them to return the diary to her.

Tao Xingye stood in front of the crowd with a sneer and a look of contempt; Xu Meihan casually reached out and looked at her newly done manicure.

"Lin Yu!" A gentle voice came, and the surroundings suddenly began to turn white, and a layer of fog blocked her sight.

"Lin Yu..." Another voice, still so gentle, but with an echo.

The fog was so thick that all she could see was a blank.

"Lin Yu, we must live like trees."

"Lin Yu, let me play the guitar for you."

The echo suddenly disappeared, and a figure walked out of the fog. His strong features were full of tenderness, and his peach blossom eyes looked at her brightly.

"Lin Yu, why are you crying?" Jiang Shuang opened his arms towards him. Lin Yu struggled to get over, but his feet seemed to be stuck in the mud and kept sinking.

She called Jiang Shuang, wanting him to come and save her, but Jiang Shuang seemed not to hear her.

The figure suddenly trembled, and when it appeared again, it had turned into Tao Xingye.

He squatted at the edge of the mud puddle with an arrogant look on his face. "Lin Yu, let's be friends."