Chapter 104 Who...
Time flies. In a blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed and Tao Siyun is about to graduate.
In early May, on the evening of the defense, Li Huan informed everyone in the WeChat group of the former Grade 1 (2) class that a class reunion would be organized a week later. In order to allow everyone to reminisce about their youth in a more immersive way, he also asked Teacher Li to ask the school logistics department to dig out the last batch of old school uniforms and give them to the students for free as souvenirs.
Tao Siyun expressed some confusion.
"It's been seven or eight years since I graduated from high school. Those uniforms are probably going moldy sitting in the warehouse. How can I still wear them?"
"Of course I can. Please, it's seven years, not seventy. They're well preserved at school, and they're all packed in bags. They look brand new. I washed them this afternoon, and they're almost dry. I'll find time to send them to you and Xu Ji in the next two days."
"All right."
But isn’t a class reunion just like last year, with meals and singing? Is it really necessary for a group of people in their twenties to dress up as young people and wear high school uniforms?
In response, class monitor Li Huan earnestly explained, "Student Tao Siyun, this is the tenth year we've known each other. Ten years! How many decades do we have in a lifetime? Isn't it worth commemorating such a meaningful day?"
Tao Siyun thought about it and nodded solemnly, "Yes, it's worth it."
Li Huan propped up his head and suddenly sighed. With a gloomy face, he said to her, "You don't know, but as a squad leader, I'm sometimes under a lot of pressure. I'm always forced to do this and that. They always come to me for everything. I even have to sacrifice my dignity and face to beg for help just to satisfy someone's special needs." At this point, Li Huan whimpered and wailed, "I'm not even 26 yet! Why are you already worrying so much? Who can show some sympathy for me? If I keep going on like this, sooner or later I'll have to dedicate my life to serving the people..."
“…”
After Li Huan finished complaining, he hung up the video with a look of despair.
Tao Siyun lay on the bed and continued playing Plants vs. Zombies.
After taking a shower, Xu Ji went to bed and glanced at the sunflowers planted everywhere. He tapped the screen a few times with his fingers quickly to collect the sunlight that had fallen on the ground.
"Do you think this is a training game or a zombie feeding game?"
“…”
Tao Siyun moved to the side, propped his arm on the pillow, and muttered to himself, "If I don't plant sunflowers, I won't get sunlight. Without enough sunlight, I can't plant Pea Shooters. Without Pea Shooters..."
Oh, got it?
Tao Siyun's eyes lit up and he immediately moved over.
The places where she planted sunflowers are now all planted with pea shooters.
The attack power is particularly strong.
Xu Ji deployed his troops on it, planting this and burying that, and defeated the invading zombies step by step. Soon all of them fell down.
The sunflowers in the last row swayed their heads, slowly producing sunlight.
Tao Siyun held his face in his hands, exclaimed, "Wow!", and gently shook his legs. "How are you so amazing?"
Xu Ji rubbed her head, staring at the screen, watching the last wave of zombies die one after another, and began to ask for rewards, "I'm almost through the level, how are you going to repay me?"
Tao Siyun turned his head to look at his profile and hesitated for a few seconds.
"You didn't ask for a reward..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Ji slammed his iPad shut.
"game over."
Before Tao Siyun could react, he turned his body over and pressed him on the bed.
Interlock your fingers, and clench your fingers with your fingertips.
"The game is over, have you thought about it?"
Tao Siyun pretended not to understand, "No..."
"Think about it now."
“…”
Xu Ji deliberately rubbed her neck, teasing her endlessly, "Do you want me to help you think?"
"Didn't you offer to help me fight?"
After having a great time, he actually wanted to be paid.
"I said it was all in vain?"
“…”
Xu Ji unbuttoned a few buttons of her pajamas and looked like a jerk.
Suddenly he lowered his head and licked it.
Tao Siyun shuddered, unable to control herself from crying out, covering her mouth and begging him repeatedly, "Stop it."
There's no point in being coquettish.
Xu Ji doesn't buy it.
After a long time, he slowly raised his head.
He licked the wet corner of his mouth and deliberately panted in her ear, "Press me?"
Tao Siyun was about to cry. He turned his head to the side and hid for a moment, his voice trembling slightly, "No..."
"Then lie down." Xu Ji pushed her hair aside, pinched her earlobe, and said in a very low voice, "I'll reward you with a bubble bath later."
***
On Monday, Jiang Zhen and his classmates had a reunion on the tenth anniversary of their graduation and arrived at the school early.
Li Huan, who has always been the right-hand man of the class teacher since childhood and is regarded as a capable person, is still as impressive as ever today.
Hanging on her wrist is an item that only "confidants" like the squad leader are qualified to carry - the LV monogram tote bag, one of Miss Li's favorites and one of her signature accessories with her strong personal style.
Standing in front of her younger classmates, she had the air of "the sect's chief disciple, your senior sister has returned."
The senior students who graduated seven or eight years ago enjoy the curious glances from their junior students from all directions and feel very good about themselves.
Tao Siyun looks like a high school student in his school uniform.
But she was not as generous and confident as Li Huan. When she came in from the school gate just now, she was embarrassed to look at the security guard.
After entering the school, I don’t know if it was because of the restraint of the school uniform, but let alone holding hands, she wouldn’t even walk with Xu Ji, and had to slow down a few steps with him.
I intentionally kept the distance from him that we had during our student days.
This old-style school uniform is not only eye-catching, but also incompatible with the current school uniform. They attracted countless stares along the way. The younger students had automatically classified them together.
The distance that Tao Siyun intentionally maintained seemed redundant and completely unnecessary.
After arriving at the playground, she gradually relaxed when she saw more and more "peers" wearing the same school uniform.
Li Huan stood on the playground's stands and waved to her, "Come on, come on, we're waiting for you two. There are a few classes ahead, and after they finish filming, it will be our turn."
Tao Siyun was confused and didn't react. Just as he was about to go over and ask her what she was filming, Xu Ji suddenly stopped.
The man turned around and blocked all the sunlight for her.
"Tao Siyun, can I give you a high school graduation photo today?"
Tao Siyun opened his eyes wide, looked at him in disbelief, and was stunned.
It took me a long time to realize what he had just said.
Xu Ji was wearing a blue and white school uniform, with his hands in his pockets, and the corner of his mouth had the cynical smile that she was most familiar with in high school, but the look in his eyes was so serious.
The little habits he inadvertently revealed would often cause some... subtle touches in her heart.
She mistakenly believed that the man in front of her was still the same boy.
He switches between "maturity" and "youthfulness" with ease.
It would also make her forget the time occasionally and think that Xu Ji had not changed at all.
He is still himself, the same person I knew when I was sixteen.
It was the boy who looked at her silently for a long time with sleepy eyes when they first met.
Many years later, the man in the elevator who was supposed to go down to the basement floor but remained silent went up to the 19th floor with her.
They were so unfamiliar with each other that even their eyes looked so strange.
The elevator could only carry the weight of people, nothing else, as if looking at her any longer would make her overweight.
The elevator door opened and closed gently, and each stop would ease the unfamiliarity between them.
When I reached the 19th floor, there was nothing left.
Only Xu Ji was left with his thoughts.
…
"Everyone else can take graduation photos with the people they love, but I can't."
The graduation photo that he had put in his English book had been placed together with her one-inch photo with a blue background for many years.
Xu Ji stood in front of her, leaning down slightly, his every move showing the strength that only a teenager could show. "Tao Siyun, my graduation photo is missing the person I like, and I'm going to make up for it today."
Tao Siyun was in a daze for a while, and his eyes were a little wet.
"Didn't you say you wanted to make up my high school graduation photo?"
"What else did I say?"
Tao Siyun looked him in the eyes and said word for word, "You said your graduation photo was missing the person you loved."
Xu Ji raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and continued to ask nonchalantly, "Who is the person I like?"
Tao Siyun pursed his lips and remained silent.
"Tao Siyun."
"Um?"
"Tao Siyun."
"?"
Xu Ji smiled and moved closer, "I said, Tao Siyun."
“…”
Tao Siyun was amused by his few words.
***
When taking graduation photos, Xu Ji pulled her from the front to his side and stood next to him, silently declaring his sovereignty and being extremely high-profile.
Tao Siyun held his fingers together.
This high school graduation photo, which she thought she would never have, completed her youth and gave her high school years a good ending.
Li Huan pestered Tao Siyun to take a selfie. When the other girls saw Teacher Li hugging them and acting funny together, they all came over.
At this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly screamed "Wow!"
Tao Siyun looked back and was stunned for a moment.
Xu Ji was wearing the same pair of sneakers as her, but he changed into a black suit without telling her.
Under everyone's gaze, he walked up to her step by step and knelt on one knee.
All the people who took selfies just now had automatically evacuated. Tao Siyun was not mentally prepared at all and his mind was blank.
Xu Ji took out a ring in full view of everyone, looked at her, and slowly said, "I've already given you your high school graduation photo. Can we replace it with a wedding photo?"
He thought of many proposal scenes, but finally chose to do it at school, letting Tao Siyun wear her school uniform and agree to his proposal.
The element of deliberate provocation is obvious.
Anyway, no one can stop me from falling in love early!
“…”
Ji Yao covered her eyes in shame and leaned on Jiang Zhen's shoulder. "I can't take it anymore. Really, I know him too well. I've never seen him so gentle since I was a child. Can you understand this feeling? It's so... Damn it, I'm too embarrassed to watch any more."
Jiang Zhen was used to being shameless and was not embarrassed at all. "He has the nerve to do this in front of so many people. Why should you be embarrassed? Just watch openly and don't be embarrassed for him."
Cao Wenzheng could instantly empathize with Ji Yao, "Hey, hey, hey, isn't it that kind of feeling, when a sexy person suddenly becomes affectionate, tender and gentle, pure and wild, so itchy that it makes people unbearable..."
Ji Yao got goosebumps all over his body and couldn't bear to listen any longer. "Your description is too disgusting. It's exactly the same as what I saw and felt."
Jiang Zhen tutted, "Can you two just shut up? It's ruining the viewing experience."
…
The man kneeling in front of her seemed to have come from across time and predicted to her, who was still a high school student, "Tao Siyun, ten years later, we will get married."
Everyone's eyes turned to her.
This is different from the looks I remember feeling on my first day transferring to this school many years ago.
Full of expectations.
Tao Siyun came back to his senses when Xu Ji said, "You are the source of all my happiness for the rest of my life" and slowly extended his hand.
In the tenth year of their acquaintance, Xu Ji proposed to her.
The moment the ring was put on, she heard him whisper in her ear, "Before I knew what love was, I unknowingly fell in love with a very lovely girl. Since so many people like her, I want to be the one who likes her the most."
"Tao Siyun, everyone will come to bless you soon."
Familiar faces came over and surrounded her, and Tao Siyun had more and more roses in her arms.
———End of text
Small Theater
At night, Li Huan stood at the door of the box and pointed at Zhang Qi, asking, "You, you, which class are you from?"
"Class 6."
Li Huan finally found a chance to take revenge this time. He looked him up and down and started to speak sarcastically, "You are from Class 6. This is a reunion for the classmates of Class 1 (2) of Senior 1. People from other classes are not allowed to come and eat for free."
Xiang Yipeng came out of the bathroom and saw this scene. She quickly took Zhang Qi's hand and explained, "I'm a family member."
Li Huan said "Oh" and said in surprise, "Family members, we are not allowed to bring family members to our class reunion this time~"
Xiang Yipeng pointed at Jiang Zhen and Ji Yao who were already seated in the private room, "Then how could he bring his girlfriend in?"
Li Huan glanced in the direction she pointed and said, "Oh, he paid an extra three hundred yuan, so I asked the waiter to add an extra chair."
"Then I'll turn you now."
"Your family has to pay 500."
Xiang Yipeng's eyes widened instantly, and he immediately became unwilling, "Why?"
"Because he's a man, he has a big appetite and eats a lot."
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