Chapter 15 Chapter 15 His white moonlight.
If the word "white moonlight" can be embodied to a certain person, then according to Xu Ji's writing, the three words "Tao Siyun" have already completed the entire imagination of it in his youth.
Her cell phone suddenly rang. She glanced at the caller ID and hung up.
The next second it rang again, and she turned it off again.
“…”
This went on for several times before Tao Qian finally stopped calling me and sent me a text message: [What’s wrong with you? ??? ??? I’m provoking you again???]
Tao Siyun found a random excuse to avoid his teachers and classmates, and hid in the bathroom and cried alone.
She closed the door and cried quietly, afraid that others would hear her.
The noisy discussions I heard in the dressing room just now lingered in my ears like a spell, repeating over and over again, and I couldn't get rid of it.
"Hey, guess who did this? This is outrageous. This performance is related to the honor of the class. I don't think it could have been done by someone from our class."
"Not necessarily. Girls' jealousy is much more terrible than you think. They don't care about collective honor at all."
"I remember Class 2's first program was the Peacock Dance. Later, I heard that other classes also signed up for dances, but their teachers felt the chances of winning were slim, so they switched to instrumental solos. That would make anyone feel good."
"You wouldn't pour ink on someone's clothes, would you? Besides, this was all arranged by the teacher. It's not like someone else deliberately stole her show. This person is so narrow-minded that they can think of such a vicious way of revenge."
"That's right, but this is just our guess. Even though Tao Siyun is innocent, what if Xiang Yipeng didn't do it? Wouldn't that be unfair to him..."
"So what if she's the school belle? What's the point of being pretty? People still hate her behind her back. Tao Siyun must be too high-profile, so she's so unpopular. If it were me, I wouldn't even want to come to school. I almost lost face like that. It's painful to think about it."
"That's not right, it's clearly victim blaming."
“…”
I said I didn't care, but it was still very uncomfortable to hear these words.
No matter how strong a girl appears on the surface or how much she says it's okay, when she encounters something like this, the blow and hurt she suffers inside is huge.
Especially when being targeted so maliciously by the other party and not knowing who that person is, anyone would probably be left with some psychological trauma.
Tao Siyun turned on the faucet, washed his face, and let his cell phone ring endlessly on the sink.
After a long pause, she finally called back.
"Your temper is getting worse and worse, girl. No one has ever dared to hang up on me again and again. You're getting bolder, aren't you?!"
Tao Siyun had been suppressing his emotions just now, but after hearing Tao Qian's voice, he seemed to have finally found an outlet to vent his emotions. He could no longer hold it back, and tears kept falling, with his sobs stuck in his throat.
On the other end of the phone, Tao Qian's voice suddenly turned cold, and he asked in a deep voice: "What's wrong? Who bullied you?"
"No, no one bullies me..."
"You'd better tell me the truth. What's going on? Where are you now? Isn't there a cultural performance today?"
"Well... at school..." Tao Siyun choked softly, crying harder and harder.
"Tsk, crying like this," Tao Qian patiently guessed all the possibilities he could think of, "Did something happen while playing the violin? Did the string break or did you play the wrong note? Could it be that you were so nervous that you even forgot the music?"
“No… none of them…”
"Then why are you crying?"
"I, I just... just..." Tao Siyun sobbed. The words were on the tip of his tongue several times, but he thought about it and held them back.
She didn't want to make Tao Qian worry, so she lied and said, "I miss my parents and my brother..."
"Come on, you're already so old and you're still crying because you miss home, Tao Siyun. You didn't cry like this on your first day of kindergarten when you were a kid. Aren't you ashamed?"
"Brother, I want to go home..."
Tao Qian's voice softened immediately after hearing this, and he coaxed her like a child: "I know, I know. Summer vacation is coming soon, isn't it? Be good. I'll pick you up after the exam, okay?"
"Well...don't tell Mom and Dad."
Tao Qian tsk-tsks, "Are you embarrassed now? Okay, go home and call your parents tonight."
"Um."
After hanging up the phone, Tao Siyun wiped away his tears and prepared to go downstairs to stay in the classroom alone for a while.
At this time, everyone was watching the performance in the auditorium. The teaching building was empty and there was no sound at all. When she turned the corner, she was startled by a dark shadow.
Xu Ji stood on the two steps below, his back against the wall, his long legs stretched out, blocking her way.
She had just cried, and her eyes were red with tears in the corners of her eyes. She was so scared by him that she didn't come back to her senses for a long time. She was stunned, her eyelashes were wet, and she looked embarrassed and pitiful.
Tao Siyun was standing on top, half a head taller than Xu Ji. It was the first time she looked down at him.
The boy, wearing a white short-sleeved T-shirt, hid in the shadows. He stared at her tearful face and said nonchalantly, "Your face is all red from crying."
She lowered her head sheepishly and sniffed.
"Wipe it." Xu Ji handed her a pack of tissues.
Tao Siyun took it and said "thank you" in a muffled voice.
"Do you know who spilled the ink?"
She clutched her shirt sleeve tightly in her hand and shook her head.
In the quiet classroom, there was only the rustling sound of chalk rubbing against the blackboard, which had a particularly hypnotic effect, and Tao Siyun's long-tensed nerves suddenly relaxed a lot. She lay on the table to rest, buried her face in her arms, and fell asleep unknowingly.
After an unknown amount of time, Xu Ji suddenly knocked on the blackboard.
His action was like a teacher reminding students who were dozing off in class. Years of student life had made her develop a conditioned reflex when she heard this voice.
Tao Siyun subconsciously sat up straight, raised his head and straightened his back.
Her consciousness had not yet fully recovered, and she looked at him with confused eyes.
Xu Ji threw away the chalk and saw her sitting posture like a primary school student. He finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.
He stood on the podium, supporting himself with his hands, and at first glance he really looked like a teacher...
Tao Siyun's eyes slowly focused and his gaze was attracted by the blackboard behind him.
In the middle of the blackboard was a chalk drawing of a beautiful girl in a black dress. She had a white bow tie around her neck and her right hand was gently stroking her face. She had big eyes and her crimson hair was braided into two long braids.
There was a word written in cursive cursive at the bottom right.
Tao Siyun looked carefully and found that it was her English name.
Dorothy.
***
At night, the phone next to my pillow suddenly vibrated.
Tao Siyun swiped the screen.
The wallpaper on the phone is a beautiful girl that Xu Ji drew on the blackboard in the classroom - Dorothy, one of the heroines in "The Legend of the Magic Soldier".
That night, she took this photo secretly while Xu Ji went to the bathroom. She originally wanted to take another horizontal one, but Xu Ji came back just in time, and she hurriedly put away her phone.
As soon as Xu Ji entered the classroom, he saw her holding a blackboard eraser and frowned slightly, "Is my drawing that ugly?"
"..." Tao Siyun repeatedly wiped the small area of homework left by the class representative in the corner, and said in a concealed manner: "If you want to draw, go to the art group next time and draw a blackboard newspaper together..."
Xu Ji stepped forward and said, "Give it to me."
That week, it was their group's turn to be on duty. Tao Siyun watched helplessly as Xu Ji wiped the blackboard clean bit by bit right in front of her...
Thinking of this, Tao Siyun lowered the brightness a little.
Xu Ji sent a single message: [Are you there?]
She checked the time. It was past midnight. Xu Ji was online. She thought he had some English questions to ask her, so she immediately replied: [Yes, what's up?]
Xu Ji: [No, I saw you were still online, so I asked.]
Tao Siyun: [Oh, I forgot to turn invisible.]
After saying that, he changed QQ from "online" to "invisible" status.
Xu Ji: “…”
Xu Ji: [Are you still there now?]
Tao Siyun said honestly: "Yes, I usually stay invisible at night."
Xu Ji glanced at her level of one sun, two moons, and three stars, and typed a few words inexplicably: [You leveled up quite quickly.]
[……] Tao Siyun turned over carefully, making very little noise, but Yan Zhiru still warned him by kicking the bed hard.
"Are you going to let me sleep?!"
Tao Siyun immediately didn't dare to move. She maintained the same posture for a long time until she heard the sound of even breathing from the lower bunk, and then she let out a sigh of relief.
Xu Ji's profile picture was still lit, and she didn't say anything for a long time. She replied, "I'm going to bed, good night," and then turned off her phone.
***
Tao Siyun's heart was pounding so fast that the tissue in his hand was crumpled into a ball.
Why is Xu Ji here?
Well, he couldn't have heard everything she had just said to Xiang Yipeng...
When their eyes met, the atmosphere between them suddenly became awkward.
The corridor windows were rustling in the wind outside, and Xu Ji raised his hand to close them.
Tao Siyun pursed his lips: "Why are you here?"
"Accompanying someone to the bathroom and having a cigarette."
"...Oh, then you," she opened her mouth and asked with difficulty, "When did you come?"
Xu Ji raised his eyebrows slightly and said slowly, "Just a minute before you said 'I like it' and 'It mainly depends on your appearance'."
Tao Siyun: "..."
At this moment, a burst of intermittent and violent retching mixed with the sound of running water suddenly came from the men's bathroom.
"Lao Xu... Ugh..."
Cao Wenzheng's weak cries echoed throughout the corridor, "Where are you... You said you were going to accompany me to the bathroom... Where the hell are you now... You, you cold-hearted... heartless bastard... I'm in this state and you're still out there... Ugh... Ugh..."
“…”
Tao Siyun pointed to the bathroom next door and said worriedly, "Is Cao Wenzheng okay? Do you want to go in and see him first? He sounds like he's in a lot of trouble."
Xu Ji lifted his eyelids and glanced at her casually in the smoke, his face expression calm: "It's okay, she won't die for a while."
Tao Siyun: Are you sure???
"Xu Ji, the toilet seems to be out of paper... Ugh... Go get some... Ugh!!!"
“…”
After eating and drinking, the group staggered to the KTV across the street.
The roar in the box was deafening, and several tune-deaf and drunk microphone masters completely let themselves go, holding hands and starting a concert.
After drinking a little, Li Huan became a chatterbox. He kept pulling Tao Siyun to talk non-stop: "What's in your bag? You kept it with you all night. Is it a birthday present for your brother? What good thing do you treasure so much? Don't hide it, let me see..."
"This isn't for my brother, don't open it..."
"No way, Tao Siyun, the only birthday gift you bought for your brother is a baseball cap? You're a rich second-generation after all, why are you so stingy? What's wrong with spending some money on your brother? You can't even buy him an expensive gift!"
Tao Siyun: "..."
Li Huan leaned back on the sofa, burped, and said groggily, "Let me tell you, a lot of guys online these days like to wear hats and masks. They create this 'I'm the super, invincible, mysterious, cool guy in the universe' persona to attract the attention of girls. They think they're so damn handsome, so they have to act cool, you know..."
"You said that giving this is an insult." As Li Huan spoke, his body fell limply to the side and he fell asleep.
“…”
Ji Yao was halfway through singing when he stuffed the microphone into Jiang Zhen's hand, then walked to the rest area and sat down.
Tao Siyun and Ji Yao had only known each other for a few hours and were not very familiar with each other. She felt a little uncomfortable and didn't know what to say.
"Do you want to eat it?" Ji Yao spoke first and peeled half of a green orange for her.
"Thank you." Tao Siyun took it, ate a petal, and his eyebrows immediately wrinkled.
Ji Yao looked at her expression and smiled, "You think it's sour?"
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