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Wu Yun noticed: "Did Fu Xingchuan get beaten silly?"

"I don't know." Lin Luo said calmly.

No one knew what the bodyguard had said to the wealthy woman, but she completely changed her demeanor, as if she had finally regained her composure. She apologized to Wu Yun and agreed to mediation. She even bowed to Fu Xingchuan, asking if he was seriously injured and if he wanted to go to the hospital.

Fu Xingchuan shook his head and walked out without saying anything.

Lin Luo breathed a sigh of relief. The policeman said they could leave, so Lin Luo and Wu Yun supported each other and came out.

"You have to learn this lesson from now on. Don't date casually. You have to have a probation period. Otherwise, what will you do if you meet a bad guy again in the future?"

"I understand." With tears still in her eyes, she said sincerely, "Thank you, Lin Luo."

"It's okay. You didn't know either. It's not your fault."

"Hiss--" As soon as Lin Luo walked out of the police station, she didn't notice that a bottle of ice water was pressed against her face, which startled her.

It’s Fu Xingchuan, he hasn’t left yet.

Lin Luo noticed that the blood on his face was almost dried, and there was no bandage or anything.

She glared at him and he offered her the water, but she didn't take it.

"Oh, that's right, Xiaoxiao, your face is so swollen, your uncle and aunt will be worried!"

Wu Yun said with a guilty look on her face, "And Mr. Fu, please go to the hospital!"

Fu Xingchuan gave her the water in his hand and the plastic bag he was carrying. Wu Yun saw that it was iodine and a Band-Aid. She looked at Fan Linluo and found that there was a wound on her arm and the skin was scraped off.

She quickly pulled Lin Luo to sit on the bench next to her, while Fu Xingchuan sat at the other end of the bench.

Wu Yun applied medicine to Lin Xi, trying to endure the pain. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Fu Xingchuan applying medicine to her with a cotton swab without saying a word. After he was done, he put a handful of candies in the middle of the seat. They were all mango-flavored fruit candies.

Wu Yun still felt a little uncomfortable in her stomach, so she went to the convenience store to buy something.

They sat at one end, silent.

Fu Xingchuan spoke first: "How have you been recently?"

"Not good." Lin Xiao's tone was stiff. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. "I hired a lawyer and you poached him. Aren't you childish?"

Fu Xingchuan frowned, "Is this how you talk to your savior?"

"That's how I talk to my ex-husband."

"We haven't divorced yet!"

"That's because you're... immature." Lin Qi glanced at him and saw blood flowing from his ear. She softened her tone, "To be on the safe side, you should go to the hospital!"

Fu Xingchuan said frivolously, "Are you worried about me?"

"I'm afraid you'll blackmail me again."

Seeing Wu Yun coming back, Fu Xingchuan stood up and asked before leaving: "Little...Mu Chen will take the college entrance examination today and tomorrow. Can you help me pass on a few words to him?"

She didn't hesitate, "No."

Fu Xingchuan walked away, but after a few steps he came back and said to her with a smile, "I haven't fought in these years, so I haven't retreated!"

Lin Luo didn't respond to him. Uncle Li came to pick him up. He said a few words to Wu Yun, then got in the car and left.

Wu Yun walked back and told her, "Fu Xingchuan said that Uncle Li just drove your car back to the downstairs of the community, and a car will be coming to take us back soon. Please tell Tang Muchen that his brother-in-law is the provincial champion, so he can't be too bad. Share all the good luck of the past two days with him. Good luck on the college entrance examination!"

Lin Luo blinked her eyes and didn't take any of the mango candies on the chair.

The bloodstains remaining on the bench were dried by the wind. Lin Luo changed out of his bright red T-shirt. The college entrance examination was over.

Tang Muchen was like a flying monkey, not coming home all day long, while Lin Luo was tired of playing and started working again.

The redness and swelling on her face had long since disappeared. I don’t know if Fu Xingchuan’s mind has improved and whether he can think straight and divorce her quickly.

She went to Soochow University to give a lecture. Perhaps because it was almost the end of the semester, the college students were busy and few of them listened seriously, and the interaction was not very active.

Lin Luo's eyes wandered around, and she saw Fu Xingchuan walk in, sit down and look at her. He was wearing a gray sweatshirt and had smooth hair. He looked the same age as the male college student next to him. He raised his eyebrows when he met her gaze.

Lin Luo didn't know what he was up to, so she blocked him and continued to concentrate on completing the lecture.

When it came time to answer students' questions, most of the people had left and only a few of those who were still present raised their hands.

Lin Luo noticed that Fu Xingchuan raised his hand. The host was about to call him, but Lin Luo took the initiative and called on another classmate.

According to the pre-prepared process, he was supposed to answer questions from three classmates, but only two college students actually raised their hands. Fu Xingchuan still raised his hand high and shook it to signal the host.

Still couldn't escape, the host called him out, "That student."

Fu Xingchuan took the microphone and asked in a clear voice, "Professor Lin, I heard that doing biological research was your dream since high school. Why did you choose this path?"

Just treat him as a student, Lin Luo said to herself.

She answered honestly, "When I was in high school, I always felt that humans were very small in the vast universe. But someone told me this: Astronomer Carl Sagan said in his book 'Cosmos': The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, and the carbon in the food we eat are all made up of the countless stars scattered during the Big Bang, so each of us is a star. When we look up, we always feel that the stars are far away, but in fact, the atoms formed in the Big Bang are the atoms that form our bodies. Therefore, the stars are not far away; we are the stars themselves. This statement made me realize that life is very magical."

"My dream came from this. I'm very grateful to that person for teaching me how to grow and guiding me to progress. Growing up is painful, but it's good to be older."

"...One thing I really like about biological research is that the outcome isn't that important; success is built on failure. The process of an experiment is far more important than the result. Just like two people who loved each other eventually parted ways, I've changed because of you and become a better person, and that's incredibly meaningful."

“We don’t need to be obsessed with the results.”

"Okay, thank you, Professor Lin," the host said. "That concludes our lecture today."

The college students stood up and left one after another, and Lin Luo did not see Fu Xingchuan.

After everyone in the lecture hall had left, Lin Luo remained on the stage. She recalled her speech at the Peking University opening ceremony, where she would represent the freshmen and face outstanding students from around the world. She was inevitably nervous, so she practiced on stage for several days beforehand, memorizing her speech by heart.

"Lin Xiao."

The speaker suddenly started to make a sound, and she came back to her senses. She saw Fu Xingchuan holding the microphone, standing straight, looking up at her and saying, "I love you."

The entire lecture hall echoed with those three words, but Lin Luo remained unmoved. She spoke into the wireless microphone on the podium, "What do you want to do?"

"I plan to pursue you again."

"What if I finally get her? It makes me continue to worry about gains and losses, wasting my time."

The microphone in Fu Xingchuan's hand suddenly ran out of battery. He opened his mouth to say something, but Lin Luo didn't hear him and strode out of the lecture hall.

The campus radio was playing music, which was very noisy. Lin Luo turned off the speakers in Tang Muchen's room.

"Sister, which major should I apply for?" Tang Muchen was flipping through the "Guide to College Entrance Examination Major Application" in his hand, feeling very worried.

He scored 583. Du Yunyan hoped that he would apply to Nanjing University and stay in Nan'an, but he seemed unwilling.

I heard Xu Huanyu scored 689 points, with near-perfect scores in English and math. That was incredible. Lin Luo glanced at Tang Muchen, who was folding paper airplanes. She asked, "Do you want to go to Jinghe?"

"I don't want to." He lowered his eyes.

"Why?"

"I don't have any friends in Jinghe, and I'm unfamiliar with the place. Where would I go?"

"I heard Xu Huanyu applied to Peking University."

"Oh." He said indifferently.

Now that I know the difference, why did I do it earlier? Lin Luo suddenly remembered, "Besides, Senior Brother Zenian is also in Jinghe!"

"Brother Zenian is so busy, and we are just online friends, not relatives. It's not good to bother him all the time."

Why do you always bother others? Lin Luo sighed, "Then you can stay in Nan'an! My parents are here, and I'm here too. You can bother me as much as you want, there's nothing wrong with that."

"Hmph!" He was annoyed by the perfunctory attitude.

Lin Luo didn't care about him and went out to play with Xu Yangyang.

"Zhu Changyu hasn't come back yet?" she asked.

Xu Yangyang forced a smile and said, "Maybe he plans to stay there and develop his career!"

"Let's not talk about him anymore. My career is booming now. I'll treat you to dinner at the most expensive restaurant."

Lin Xiao didn't bother to be polite with her. "Thank you, Boss Xu."

"These two words sound nice, I like them." She smiled and said, "In the early years, my mother urged me to get married every day and forced me to go on blind dates. She wanted me to find a random man to marry. I told her, who wants to be a man's wife? I want to be a female boss."

“You did it.”

"You've achieved your dream, too."

"Um."

"Is this really the end of the story with Fu Xingchuan? There's a lot of discussion online right now, and most people are feeling really bad about it."

She didn't know what happened between them, but as a friend of both of them, she certainly hoped that everything would be fine for them.

Lin Xiao said frankly, "Let's take it one step at a time! I hate wondering what will happen in the future. No one can predict it. Just follow your heart."

The phone vibrated several times in succession. It was a message from Wen Zenian.

He said that he learned about their relationship in Teacher Yin's flower shop. Among the photos he sent, one was a photo with Teacher Yin, and the other was of him holding a large bouquet of roses. The flowers in the pot of gardenias in the corner of the background were all in bloom, and the lovely female clerk he met last time was also there.

She made a face, and the curve of Lin Luo's mouth widened a little.

Xu Yangyang noticed, "Does your senior like you?"

"How is that possible? He has someone he likes and has been secretly in love with for many years!"

"Oh, is she pretty?" she asked casually.

“No.”

"Aren't you two very close? He's been secretly in love with you for so many years, and you've never met him."

"Strangely enough, I haven't encountered it once."

The senior sent another message, saying that they had made new progress in scientific research, which might be of great help to their research project, and invited her to come and communicate.

Lin Xiao typed "OK" in the chat box, but before she sent it out, Xu Yangyang held her hand and said, "Have you ever considered that the person he has a crush on is you?"

Lin Luo had never thought about it. She honestly told Xu Yangyang all the details of her interactions with Wen Zenian. She concluded, "He likes you 100%."

They sat by the window, and there were a few water stains on the glass. Lin Luo noticed that it was raining outside.

She immediately closed the window and then turned her gaze back.

Xu Yangyang stared at her, "Xiaoxiao, don't you like the rain?"

"I don't know what's going on, but I've become less and less fond of it in recent years."

"Maybe it's because I'm old!" She curled the corners of her lips.

Xu Yangyang was drinking water and almost choked when he heard her words, "...What do you mean old? A woman is in her prime at 31, isn't it? And you're not even 30 yet, and this is the first time someone has liked you for years."

"Why don't you try it with him? Hanging yourself on a crooked tree isn't a solution, isn't that what you said?"

Lin Luo held her hand in the air for a few seconds, and finally dropped it to send out the word "OK".

Seeing Xu Yangyang raised an eyebrow, she said, "Just going there to communicate."

"If you take this step, it means you've wavered."

The rain outside the window became heavier, and big water droplets hit the glass violently. Lin Luo looked outside, and her vision blurred.

After dinner, Lin Luo and Xu Yangyang planned to go shopping. Just as they got in the car, Xu Yangyang's phone rang. She clicked it and saw, "Xiao He said he got two tickets to the live house next door, but his girlfriend had something urgent to do and he had to work overtime so he couldn't go. He asked if we wanted to go."

"They say there's a very special band coming on tour."

Seeing her eyes full of anticipation, Lin Luo fastened his seat belt and said, "Let's go!"

The traffic jam had already started when they arrived because of the rain. Maybe because of the rain and the cold wind, Lin Luo was not feeling well and looked tired.

Xu Yangyang was captivated by the stage. The dense crowd was filled with the mingled scent of alcohol and perfume. Lin Luo kept her head down, feeling listless.

She didn't know who was singing on the stage, nor could she hear the vague lyrics. She did know that the lights had changed from fiery red to blue, and there was no sound in her ears.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

Cheers and applause followed. Xu Yangyang leaned closer and said excitedly, "Xiaoxiao, look! It's winter time."

As the familiar prelude melody played, she slowly raised her head.

Everyone is here.

Fu Xingchuan sang while playing guitar: "After the rain, I always look forward to the summer evening."

His voice was low and mellow, lazy and charming. He looked in her direction and smiled at her.