The wind is blowing

When they reached the old villa, Fu Xingchuan stopped, and his shadow also stopped, disappearing after a few seconds. Lin Luo did not relax, but felt a little lost.

This was Fu Xingchuan's home. No wonder he smelled like osmanthus at noon. Lin Luo picked up a small flower from the ground and felt her steps lighten at the scent.

It was already past ten o'clock when they got home. Du Yunyan sat on the sofa and rubbed Tang Heng's shoulders. She asked her, "Why are you back so late?"

"We took the wrong road."

"You're so old and can't even remember the way. No wonder you're not doing well in your studies." Du Yunyan couldn't help nagging, "You should come back earlier next time. It's not safe for a girl to walk alone at night. Aunt Li said there are a lot of bad boys on the streets recently, robbing and fighting all the time. You have to be careful of strangers."

"Got it." Lin Qiao had just changed into her slippers when a flashy red Ferrari toy car bumped into the edge of her shoes. Tang Muchen sat on the floor among a pile of toys, staring blankly at her.

Du Yunyan shifted her focus, "Tang Muchen, you've been busy all night and you're still not sleeping. I'll beat you up if you stay in bed tomorrow!"

Lin Luo picked up the cart, walked over to Tang Muchen, squatted down, and handed it to him. He quickly took it, raised his chin, snorted softly, and ran away like a proud kitten, "I'm going to sleep."

"I'm going back to my room too." Lin Luo said with a tired face, dragging his heavy body.

Du Yunyan asked: "Is your bed comfortable to sleep on?"

"The bed is a bit hard."

"You've been spoiled and have so many bad habits. How can a bed not be hard?" She always said the ugly words first. "I'll make the bed for you later."

Lin Luo was already used to it. "Okay."

After entering the room, Lin Luo took off her schoolbag and lay on the bed.

On the first day of class, she felt more tired than ever before and realized that her previous life was really happy.

Suddenly I miss Lin Dayong very much, but no one can live without anyone else, and life must go on as usual.

In the next few days, she went out before dawn every day and came back under the stars. Sometimes she stayed up until the early morning to review.

Friday came in a blink of an eye. The second-year students of No. 1 Middle School did not have a holiday on Saturday, so they took two days every month for monthly exams. Except for the top 40 students in the grade who were arranged in one exam room, the others were randomly assigned to exam rooms.

Lin Luo was lucky enough to be assigned to take the exam in her class, but Cheng Kaizhong was invigilating for two subjects, and she happened to sit in the last row. Every time Cheng Kaizhong passed by, he would stand behind her to see how she was answering the questions, which made her, who was already nervous, even more uneasy.

After finally finishing the exams and finally getting a chance to sleep in on Sunday, Lin Luo was woken up by Tang Muchen's crying early in the morning.

She walked out of the room and saw Du Yunyan taking his temperature. His face was red and his nose was runny. He must be sick.

Tang Heng was on a business trip yesterday, so Du Yunyan had to take Tang Muchen to the clinic alone.

Seeing that she was carrying her bag and holding Tang Muchen, Lin Luo asked, "Do you want me to go with you?"

"No, I don't want her to go..." Tang Muchen cried in her arms.

Du Yunyan saw that she was still in her pajamas and it would take her quite some time to clean herself up. "You'll just cause more trouble if you go, and he won't like it either. You should stay home! Go out and get something to eat at noon."

"Okay." They hurried out. Seeing Du Yunyan's back, Lin Luo felt like he was poured with a basin of cold water.

She remembered the day when she was five years old and Du Yunyan and Lin Dayong divorced. Although she had already learned the news from her grandmother, she still cried and tried to keep Du Yunyan when she was about to leave with her suitcase.

I can't remember any other details, but I remember the fever patch on my head was blown onto Du Yunyan's pants by the wind, and she tore it off and threw it on the ground. The road in front of her house was very long, and Lin Luo kept crying, not looking back once.

Thinking of this, Lin Luo felt not only a chill in her heart but also a chill in her body. She returned to her bed to keep warm and fell asleep again without realizing it.

"Ring, ring, ring~" The phone woke her up. It was Du Yunyan who called and said that the monthly exam results were out. Cheng Kaizhong wanted her to go to school and asked Lin Luo to go to the clinic to accompany Tang Muchen for an injection.

Hearing her impatient tone, Lin Luo could probably guess what Cheng Kaizhong had said to her. She wanted to get up quickly, but her limbs seemed to be nailed to the bed and she couldn't move.

She forced herself to get up, quickly changed her clothes, washed up, and went out. Before closing the door, she glanced at the clock hanging in the living room. It was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

The sun shone down warmly, and the whole world was bright and beautiful, but Lin Luo felt as if she had fallen into an icy cave and was almost suffocating.

She dragged her heavy body slowly, her vision darkening and she felt a little dizzy. She just walked to the corner and didn't notice a bicycle coming towards her.

The car owner made an emergency avoidance and braked too suddenly, causing the bicycle to fall to the ground. She was not hit, but she lost her balance and fell to the ground.

The cell phone rang again. Without thinking, she knew it was a message from Du Yunyan urging her to get up. Lin Luo quickly stood up.

"Are you hurt?" someone asked her, the voice as gentle as a stone falling into calm water.

Lin Luo raised her head and saw Fu Xingchuan standing in front of her. There was a thin layer of sweat on his neck and forehead, and his expression was full of anxiety.

Perhaps it was because she met someone she knew, even though it was Fu Xingchuan, a person she was not familiar with, the feeling of grievance suddenly surged in her heart, and Lin Luo couldn't control herself and started crying.

Fu Xingchuan's rapid breathing gradually subsided as she cried.

Time passed quietly, the shadow of the sun could not be seen on the horizon, and the afterglow painted the surroundings golden.

She cried until her face was covered with tear marks and her nose was blocked. Noticing the strange atmosphere, Lin Luo stopped and looked into Fu Xingchuan's dark eyes. He asked coldly, "Have you cried enough?"

Lin Luo nodded with tears in her eyes, feeling a little flustered. She only felt relieved when Fu Xingchuan left.

"No paper, just wipe your face."

A coat was thrown on her. She first smelled a faint fragrance on the clothes. She looked up and saw the boy riding away on his bike. The breeze gently blew the corners of his white shirt and school uniform.

A spring breeze also arose in her heart.

"Lin Luo, you..." Du Yunyan walked towards her angrily from behind. Before she could say anything else, Lin Luo fainted in her arms.

When she opened her eyes again, she was in the hospital. Tang Muchen was guarding her bedside. There were obvious needle marks on his hands. Lin Luo was also receiving an IV drip, and the tears on her face had long dried.

Tang Muchen saw that she woke up but didn't speak to her.

Du Yunyan came back a short while later, carrying a few boxes of porridge. As she unpacked the boxes, she said, "What's the point of your father making so much money? He can't even raise a child. He's already grown up and still so weak."

Lin Luo didn't like her talking about Lin Dayong like that, but seeing the bloodshot in her eyes, she didn't have the energy to argue with her, so she just let her say it and didn't take it to heart.

"I don't know how he raised his child. He has poor grades and a weak personality. How will he survive in society?" she said with obvious resentment. "I thought I was so capable and started my own business like others, but in the end I still went bankrupt."

"People who are too ambitious will eventually bring about their own destruction. They can still live a good life if they live an honest life, right?"

Back then, Lin Dayong quit his job without telling Du Yunyan and did not discuss with her about using the money they had saved for buying a house in Shanghai after years of hard work to start a business. Du Yunyan felt that he didn't care about her and this family at all, so she divorced him.

Lin Luo didn't answer her. She drank the porridge, which was bland and tasteless in her mouth.

She put down the spoon and put her hand in her pocket. She touched something sharp and looked down to find that she was wearing Fu Xingchuan's coat.

His pockets were large, filled with candies, each individually wrapped in a colorful assortment of flavors, both hard and soft candies. Lin Lu didn't try to eat any of them, but she could still taste the sweetness melting on her tongue.

After returning home from the injection, Lin Luo took off Fu Xingchuan's clothes and held them in her arms. She recognized the label on the clothes; it was the logo of a luxury brand. She knew that the price of this jacket would not be less than five figures.

Looking around the room, compared to her previous bedroom, it could be described as "small" and "narrow", but she had already integrated into and gotten used to it.

Lin Luo took out her phone and opened the chat box with Lin Dayong. She and Lin Dayong were not only father and daughter, but also good friends who could talk about anything.

She pressed the send button without hesitation: [Dad, I like someone. His name is Fu Xingchuan.]

You once told me that liking someone is a form of courage, because "like" is a difficult word to say to someone. I didn't understand it then, but I do now.

[I don’t know how long this love will last, can you help me record this moment? ]

March 16, 2012, 10:31:27 PM

Still no reply, and she didn't expect any.

From that day on, Lin Luo's secret love began, but she didn't expect that this sudden love would last so long. It was a long rainy season in her life.

The next day, Lin Luo's fever subsided and she went to school as usual. As soon as she entered Shouxin Building, she saw a group of people gathered together.

"Xiaoxiao, come here." Xu Yangyang saw her in the crowd and waved to her.

Lin Luo squeezed in and saw that they had set up an honor roll, displaying the monthly exam scores of the top 100 students in the grade.

Ruan Ye ranks first on the list. Except for 110 points in Chinese and 150 points in mathematics, other subjects are also close to full marks. He is more than 30 points ahead of the second place and is far ahead.

"My physics, chemistry and biology combined are not as good as his math." Zhu Changyu always appears and disappears mysteriously, and you never know when he will stand next to them.

"Your total score is only a little more than half of theirs." Xu Yangyang added.

"Hey, so what? I'm the second to last in the class this time, and my mother said she'd reward me with the latest game console."

"Thank goodness, your curse of being ranked last for ten thousand years has finally been broken. There's actually someone worse than you in our class." Xu Yangyang clasped his hands together and bowed, only to realize something was wrong. "Wait, number one?"

Lin Qi, who had been forgotten by them, spoke up and said, "It's me."

Xu Yangyang's smile froze on her face, and she hurriedly tried to make amends, "Xiaoxiao, I'm sorry. I deserve death. Please don't take it to heart."

"This exam was very difficult. You didn't keep up with the progress, so it's understandable that you didn't do well. So you're not really bad, you just didn't perform to your best." She put her arm around Lin Luo's shoulders and coaxed her as she walked to the classroom.

"Yeah." Lin Luo was not angry. She knew her own level.

The class report card was posted at the back of the classroom. She stopped in front of the paper, her eyes fixed on the bottom line:

He was ranked last in the class, 829th in grade, and only scored 47 in math.

The sound of Du Yunyan's humble apology to Cheng Kaizhong last night rang in her ears. She had only one belief in her mind: study hard and not let this go on.

Back at their seat, Xu Yangyang saw Lin Qiao looking worried, so she winked at Zhu Changyu and said, "I'm in a good mood today. I'll treat you to some milk tea."

"Oh, the sun really is rising from the west." Zhu Changyu responded calmly, "Lin Luo, we're lucky. You don't know how stingy she is. She rarely invites guests once in eight hundred years."

Xu Yangyang glared at him with an expression that said, "How could I be so?" and gritted her teeth as she said, "Yeah!"

Lin Luo didn't want to drink milk tea, but she wanted to go to the dessert shop because she might meet the person she wanted to see.

"Let me treat you! You've helped me a lot with my review these past few days, and I'll probably have to trouble you again in the future." Lin Luo relaxed her brows, as she still knew a little about the ways of the world.

"I'm helping because we're friends, it's my duty." Xu Yangyang felt that her words were too formal and awkward. "If you keep being so polite, I'll ignore you."

Lin Luo looked at her and recalled the so-called friends she had made in Shanghai. They usually pretended to be affectionate with her, but after her family went bankrupt, they didn't even send her a message, and their phone calls were completely unreachable.

Suddenly, a warm current surged in her heart. She nodded, smiled from the bottom of her heart and said, "Yes, we are friends."