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"My crush is a hero...*"
When sorting out old things, a photo fell out of an old diary. Yu Guangji possessed the body and picked up the photo, and saw these words on the back of the photo.
Turning it over, the photo shows a messy classroom with many people in the frame: female classmates whispering during study session, male classmates taking the time to catch up on sleep, the class monitor standing on the podium helping the teacher supervise the students during study session... and the hand of the person taking the photo of the class monitor, only a little bit of which is visible in the corner.
How did you feel when you took the candid photos? Yu Guangji tilted his head and thought.
Maybe he was a little shy and timid, but he couldn't resist his love for the person on the podium, so he took out his old mobile phone with a guilty conscience and took this photo with trembling hands, which was not beautiful in composition or picture.
Later, I went to a printing shop, printed out this unclear photo under the clerk's disdainful gaze, and then wrote these lines on the back of the photo.
So, what was he expecting?
Yu Guangji sneered and threw the photo into the trash can next to him.
He picked up the diary again and opened the first page. It was filled with rather childish character settings. Looking back at it now, it seemed a little embarrassing and a little novel.
Tired of standing, he simply sat down on the ground and casually read the diary in his hand.
Although it is called a diary, the first few pages are actually things like character settings, and the rest are the first-person story of fighting monsters and leveling up in another world.
He had been reading stories and novels since he was a child, and began to write in junior high and high school, for which he was even ridiculed.
When I was in high school, several boys in my class found out that I was writing a novel. Not only was he laughed at in front of the whole class, but his notebook was also snatched away and he was asked to read aloud to everyone on the podium. The book that was snatched away seemed to be the one in his hand...
"Huh? Come and see what the great writer in our class wrote!" The notebook in the desk was taken away, and the man swung his diary triumphantly. The papers made a rustling sound, and his heart vibrated along with the sound.
No...I can't let others see...
"Come, let me read to you - I was born extraordinary. Why do I say that? Because I have many special abilities..."
He jumped up from his seat, but his trembling legs prevented him from taking an even slight step forward. His lips trembled, but the words of protest were stuck in his throat, making it difficult for him to breathe.
At this moment, a person sitting in the front row suddenly stood up and reached out to take the diary from that person's hand.
"This is someone else's privacy. It's not nice to read it out like this."
His heart sank.
During lunch break, he wanted to ask the other person to return his notebook, but he didn't know how to start. While he was hesitating, he saw the other person stand up, wave at him, and then walk out of the classroom.
Behind the teaching building, the tall boy handed over the notebook: "This is something very important, right? If you don't want them to see it in the future, just keep it at home."
He nodded with a red face, holding his notebook.
The boy opposite scratched his hair, looking a little embarrassed: "Well, I have to apologize to you. The notebook was open when I took it, so I accidentally saw a little bit."
Yu Guangji's face suddenly turned from red to pale.
"But I think you write very well. Is it a fantasy novel?"
His chilly body gradually warmed up, and he looked up at the other person. The boy's expression of praise did not seem fake, and his look and eyes revealed sincerity.
“Really?” He heard himself stuttering, “I, I just wrote it casually.”
"That's great. I think a lot of your abilities are amazing! I really admire you for being able to come up with them!" The boy smiled and asked, "That's great. Do you want to try to be a writer in the future?"
Even when he returned to the classroom, Yu Guangji's heart was still beating violently.
It was the first time that someone saw what he wrote and did not laugh at it but praised it sincerely. It was also the first time that someone stood up and helped him when he was bullied.
From that day on, the protagonist in Yu Guangji's diary had a nearly perfect knight by his side.
After that, the boy often came to Yu Guangji to talk about his novels. From the setting to the world view, from the protagonist to the supporting characters, the two of them constructed a different world continent that was completely different from reality through their conversation. The protagonist and his knight met many different people on this continent and experienced all kinds of hardships... The only thing that remained unchanged was that they were always together.
"I feel like this knight's personality is similar to mine!" The boy smiled and looked at Yu Guangji, "So the prototype of the protagonist magician is you?"
Yu Guangji almost fled that day.
He never told the other party that the prototype of the protagonist he wrote was himself. How could it be possible? The protagonist he wrote had nothing in common with him. The protagonist was optimistic, while he was depressed; the protagonist had many friends, while he was often bullied in class; the protagonist had many powerful abilities, while in reality he was only in the middle and lower grades of the class; his protagonist was the center of the world, while he himself was just a small person who could not even be considered a supporting role in real life.
How can he say that the prototype of the protagonist is him? His protagonist has many things that he can't get, how can he become a person like the protagonist?
The next day, the two met again behind the teaching building. The other party apologized to him and said that he didn't expect his reaction to be so strong.
"I just think you are quite similar to the protagonist, both are very kind haha..." The boy was a little at a loss, he looked up, only to see Yu Guangji crying, "Hey? Don't cry...you..."
Yu Guangji took off his glasses and wiped his eyes with his sleeve, his eyes became red.
The person opposite him suddenly stopped talking. Yu Guangji looked over in confusion, but a shadow covered his face, and then he felt something warm on his lips.
The summer wind blew with a hot breath, and except for the rustling sound of leaves, the only sound left in the ears was the heartbeats of two people.
Yu Guangji had never felt so lucky in his life. Late at night, he held the photo in his arms and smiled secretly in his bed, using a small flashlight to depict the other person's eyebrows and eyes bit by bit. He thought that if the suffering of the past ten years was to welcome the good fortune in the future, then he would willingly embrace the suffering.
However, it turns out that God will never show mercy to those who live in dark corners.
Their affair was exposed and spread within the class and even within the grade. His parents and the other party's parents were called to the school. In the office, he was called "shameless" and "second chair" by the other party's mother, and many other words that he could not understand but knew were unpleasant.
He looked at the other party with hope, but his ideal knight, the unparalleled hero he thought he had met, simply turned his head away, took a half step back and retreated behind his mother.
"Then I'll drop out of school..." he heard himself say softly.
His life after dropping out of school was not good. His mother died early and his father was not working properly. He dropped out of school this time. Although his father despised him for being shameful, he wanted to send him to the factory to do odd jobs to earn money to supplement the family income.
He was fed up with this kind of life and didn't want to stay there and be criticized by others. After thinking about it for a few days, he took his ID card and ran away.
Later, I worked during the day and wrote in the Internet cafe at night, and then slowly it became what I am now.
He closed the diary in his hand, hesitated for a long time, and finally put it back into the box.
Looking at the things in front of him, Yu Guangji suddenly felt tired. He never liked to sort out old things, because seeing them would inevitably bring back memories.
And those memories are not so good.
He fell asleep on the floor without realizing it. In a daze, someone squatted beside him and pinched his face hard.
"Aren't you afraid of freezing to death sleeping here?"
The visitor turned on the light and suddenly a dazzling light shone down. Yu Guangji groaned and raised his arm to block the light.
"Get up, come down and discuss the setting of your new book."
The person who came was his editor Si Nan. He could live a comfortable life now thanks to his support. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was his mentor.
He just has a bad temper and I always have conflicts with him on creative ideas.
After lying down for a while to get used to the light, Yu Guangji calculated that if he didn't go downstairs, the thing downstairs might explode, so he resigned himself to his fate and got up and walked out slowly.
"Regarding the character of Aslan, I think he is too perfect and may make readers feel that he is unreal. I suggest you change it."
"Wouldn't it be better to be perfect?" Yu Guangji lit a cigarette and looked at him through the smoke. His eyes were even more hazy, as if he had no interest in anything. "It's because there are no perfect people in reality that we have to create them in novels."
Si Nan frowned upon hearing this: "What I mean is that this character can easily make readers feel disconnected, it's too idealistic..."
"It's just a novel, so it's fine if it's split." Yu Guangji said with a smile, "Life is hard enough, what's the point of making the novel the same as real life?"
Si Nan felt that something was wrong with Yu Guangji today, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, so he stared at him and asked, "What's wrong with you today?"
Yu Guangji didn't say anything. He put the cigarette to his lips, took a puff, and blew a smoke ring towards Si Nan: "Do it?"
Si Nan had a blank expression on his face: "…Don't do it, if you want to do it, go find your running friends! Wait, you can't go until you finish writing!"
Staring at Si Nan's red ears, Yu Guangji smiled and said, "A hypocritical old virgin."
The next day, he had to go to discuss the film and television adaptation. It was already noon when he came out of the editorial office. Yu Guangji looked at the bright sunlight outside the door, hesitating whether to wait a while before going out.
"Yu Guangji?"
Suddenly, someone came up from behind and grabbed his arm. At first he thought it was a fan who was reading his book, but when he turned around, he was stunned.
"Is it Yu Guangji?"
The face of the person in front of him overlapped with the person in his memory, and Yu Guangji suddenly felt that the scene in front of him became blurred as if blocked by frosted glass.
"What are you doing!" a loud shout rang out, and then the man who was about to pounce on him was pulled away, while he was carefully blocked behind the intruder.
"I... don't get me wrong, I'm his acquaintance!" The man's neat suit became a little messy due to being pulled. After realizing that he had lost his composure, he explained while tidying it up.
"Do you know him?" Si Nan looked at Yu Guangji puzzledly.
Yu Guangji seemed to come to his senses suddenly. He slowly glanced at the man opposite him, then took a half step back behind Si Nan.
"I don't know him."
For a moment, it seemed as if the identities of the two people had finally been swapped after more than ten years.
In the coffee shop downstairs from the editorial office, Si Nan sat opposite Yu Guangji and gave him earnest advice like an old lady;
"Can you be more careful when we go out next time? You used to attract those weird people, and now your vigilance is still so weak. What if you encounter danger?"
Yu Guangji propped up his chin and looked out the window, then suddenly spoke:
"I really want to fall in love..."
"Did you listen to me?" Si Nan said dissatisfiedly.
"I heard it," Yu Guangji tilted his head and said, "So I said I wanted to fall in love. If I have a boyfriend who is always by my side, I won't be scared when I meet those weird people, right?"
"Then...then go and talk." Being stared at by Yu Guangji, Si Nan turned his head away uncomfortably, "Don't you have so many good friends?"
Yu Guangji sighed: "But I don't like them."
"Then what kind do you like?" Si Nan glanced at Yu Guangji inconspicuously.
"I like it..." Yu Guangji lowered his eyes and said lightly, "I like him to help me when I'm in trouble, and not abandon me when I encounter problems. He can protect me behind him in the situation just now, just like the armored hero in the movie, who can admit that I am his lover in front of everyone."
"Tell me," he looked up at Si Nan, "can anyone do this?"
"have."
He heard Si Nan speak without hesitation, and then held his hand.
Even if he is just an insignificant little character, he can still have a happy ending, right?
Yu Guangji thought about it and gently held Si Nan's hand.
The asterisks are from the lines of A Chinese Odyssey
555 I want to write about a crematorium, but my imagination can't pass the Jinjiang review 5555
In addition, it may be postponed to the 1st or 2nd V, and there will be a special chapter!
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