Yuan Xiao leaned against the wall with his arms folded across his chest, staring at the changing formation in front of him with an expressionless face.

He seemed to want to speak several times, but swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.

After the practice, Lin Sitian walked over to her, picked up the phone on the windowsill behind her, and turned off the video recording.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, when she turned around, her eyes met with Yuan Xiao's. Lin Sitian smiled and said, "Because I don't want to always be a drag, I think it's better to record it and compare it. If there are any problems, I can correct them in time."

"There's nothing wrong with your dancing today." Yuan Xiao said this in a light tone, and then picked up the Bluetooth speaker beside him.

"Tiantian, are we leaving?" asked a classmate passing by.

"You guys go first, I have something to tell Yuan Xiao."

Yuan Xiao, who was about to take a step, paused when he heard this, "What's the matter?"

Everyone has dispersed and returned to the classroom, and now they are the only two people left on the dance practice field.

"Was I really that bad at dancing before?" Lin Sitian asked very calmly.

“There are indeed many problems.”

"So many that you have to keep retraining against me every day?"

Yuan Xiao frowned and looked at Lin Sitian's face for a long while. "Targeting you? Are you thinking too much? I only care about whether the dance is good or not, and whether the class formation can win the prize this time."

"I also recorded the video last week, when you didn't know."

Yuan Xiao's expression froze slightly, then he lowered his head and put his hand on the back of his neck, "Then you should have noticed that you have a lot of small problems. Don't think that there is no problem just because you are watching yourself dancing."

"Zhou Sheng helped me check it."

Yuan Xiao's hand froze on the previous action.

"He said there were some parts that I didn't do well, but everyone has similar problems. It didn't affect the dance itself. I danced very well."

"You want the monitor to show you? Are you sick, Lin Sitian? What does a boy who can't dance know?" Yuan Xiao's tone was obviously a little unhappy. "What do you mean by doing this? Are you telling the monitor that I'm targeting you?"

Lin Sitian was not shaken by her tone, she just looked into Yuan Xiao's eyes and asked, "If you can walk and sit upright, why are you so excited?"

"How am I excited?" Yuan Xiao rolled his eyes and looked at her in disbelief. "Lin Sitian, I really think you are a bit shameless. After you became deskmates with the class monitor, you relied on this relationship to ask him to tutor you every day. Wherever he went, you followed him. Now, you even involve him when the class square practice a dance. Zhou Sheng, who was the top student in the grade, seems to have become your babysitter. Can you have a sense of propriety?"

It seemed that Yuan Xiao was really pissed off by Lin Sitian, and he blurted out all sorts of things at once.

"Yuan Xiao, do you like Zhou Sheng?"

However, Lin Sitian was not willing to be outdone. She did not intend to beat around the bush and asked her a direct question.

Yuan Xiao's temper, which was still hot a second ago, cooled down after being asked this question.

"So what if I like him? What's your problem?" She didn't deny it, but admitted it directly, without any concern.

Unexpectedly, Lin Sitian, who had a calm face just now, suddenly exploded, "What's the problem? It's a big problem! If you like him, just go and tell him yourself, why are you taking your anger out on me? Did I forbid you to confess to him? Did I make him dislike you? You can't stand me pestering him, so you either enlighten him or do it yourself. You like him but you didn't do anything, you are submissive to the person you like, but you take revenge on me. What qualifications do you have to say that I have no sense of propriety?"

Yuan Xiao was used to Lin Sitian's carefree and heartless appearance, and was speechless for a moment after her sudden outburst.

"Also, Zhou Sheng is not my babysitter, he's my boyfriend!"

Yuan Xiao's eyes suddenly widened, and he subconsciously took a step closer to her, "You——"

"What? You want to fight?" Lin Sitian clenched her fists, "It's not like I can't beat you!"

The two of them stared at each other for a long time. Yuan Xiao calmed down and nodded slowly. "Okay, you're right. You reminded me that Zhou Sheng fell for your tricks, right? I'm going to confess to him now."

"Ahhh - no, that's not what I meant - Yuan Xiao, don't be impulsive -" Lin Sitian hugged Yuan Xiao's arm and howled as she was dragged away by her, "You can't do this, he has someone else, you can't take a beautiful girl, understand -"

It was already time for school to be over. The two of them walked all the way from the back of the school building to the courtyard. On the playground and in the teaching building, dozens of pairs of eyes were focused on them.

"Stop shouting, it's embarrassing." Yuan Xiao stopped with a cold face.

"Then you have to promise me not to confess your feelings to me." Lin Sitian was still clinging to her like an octopus.

Yuan Xiao couldn't stand it anymore and pushed her hand down. "Are you lying when you said he's your boyfriend? Are you afraid he'll run away if someone confesses to him? If you don't have confidence in him, just break up with him."

Lin Sitian stopped making trouble and finally let go of Yuan Xiao, "...I just don't have confidence in myself."

Yuan Xiao glanced at her, then looked away, looked at the playground and sighed.

“I understand that.”

I had no confidence in myself, so I didn't dare to approach him even a step. I could only hide among everyone and secretly watch him. I kept waiting like this, as if waiting silently like this would make things different one day, but reality is not a fairy tale, and someone who does nothing can never become Cinderella.

Cowards have no love to rely on, those who are indecisive will eventually freeze to death in the wind and snow, and the result of doing nothing is only missing out.

No matter how little confidence Lin Sitian had in herself, at least she took that step, which was much braver than her.

"Really? He's really nice." When Lin Sitian mentioned Zhou Sheng, her eyes lit up and her voice was filled with laughter.

Yuan Xiao narrowed his eyes, "A flower stuck in cow dung."

"You say I am a flower..."

“You’re cow dung.”

Lin Sitian shrugged. She knew that Yuan Xiao was insulting her from the beginning, but she didn't care.

She just thought of it as Yuan Xiao’s helpless roar because he couldn’t get what he wanted, and she was very carefree about it.

What's more, feelings are two-way. Even if flowers are paired with cow dung, it is the choice of flowers and true love. Each side can gain value from the other. Isn't this what Zhou Sheng said "common progress"?

Yuan Xiao muttered to himself as he walked, "Actually, I don't like Zhou Sheng that much."

"Yes, yes, yes." She agreed. As long as Yuan Xiao didn't snatch the person away, everything would be fine.

"I'm telling the truth. I admire him a lot, even a little... respect him?" Yuan Xiao said, "He's different from us. He's very dedicated and focused on what he likes. Once he decides to do something, he will definitely do it well. It's hard to find someone as focused, simple and honest as Zhou Sheng."

“I envy him because I can’t do that.”

Lin Sitian lowered her eyes slightly. She could understand the feelings that Yuan Xiao described. Sometimes it really cannot be summed up as just liking someone.

"So I'm very angry with you, and I'm afraid that you have affected him," Yuan Xiao paused, "I admit that I was targeting you this time, but since you've already attacked him, don't expect me to apologize."

"This is not the same thing, and why must I be the one who attacked him? Couldn't he have confessed to me first?"

——That’s true!

"...You?" Yuan Xiao raised his eyebrows and glanced at her. He said nothing, but just looked away with disdain.

Lin Sitian didn't expect to get an apology from her love rival. She and Yuan Xiao exchanged a few words on the way back. Suddenly, Lin Sitian thought of a question: "Yuan Xiao, didn't you tell the teacher about Zhou Sheng and me?"

"?" Yuan Xiao was puzzled. "I don't want to do such a shitty thing."

Before today, Yuan Xiao didn't know that Lin Sitian and Zhou Sheng were together.

That “that person” is… “that’s him.”

Lin Sitian leaned on the railing of the stands, her chin resting on her arm, her eyes fixed on a classmate in the crowd not far away.

Zhou Sheng was standing beside her, lowering his head to sort out today's speech. When he heard her say that, he casually raised his head and glanced at her, "How can you be sure?"

"There were only two people who saw us that day, either Yuan Xiao or him. Although Yuan Xiao called your name first, she said that she only noticed us when she saw Fang Changmin standing there motionless. If Yuan Xiao hadn't told the teacher about it, then it must have been him." The great detective Lin Sitian sorted out his clues and then came to a conclusion.

"Maybe no one reported it. You thought it was Yuan Xiao, but it turns out you were wrong." Zhou Sheng didn't seem to care. He flipped through two pages of the speech and checked the page numbers.

Lin Sitian frowned, "Why aren't you angry at all? Don't you want to find out who that villain is?"

Zhou Sheng put down the speech manuscript in her hand that she had confirmed was correct and leaned against the railing beside her.

It’s a great day today, with bright sunshine and puffy white clouds floating in the blue sky—the standard opening for a sports broadcast script applies to this moment.

"We are indeed in love," Zhou Sheng imitated Lin Sitian, half-lying on the railing that was not as high as his chest, looking at the crowd on the other side, "Since he is telling the truth, it is not a false accusation, and it does not constitute a villain's statement."

The sunlight after the beginning of summer was really scorching, causing Zhou Sheng to squint his eyes and raise his hands to block them.

He was really frank in what he said now, and Lin Sitian felt that she was more embarrassed than him.

"But we are all classmates. It would be very unkind of him to tell the teacher about it in private."

Zhou Sheng shrugged, "You also said that it was a favor - a favor is not an obligation. It is reasonable for him to hit me or not."

"Can you not be so rational? He is just a lackey..." Lin Sitian said halfway, and suddenly remembered that Zhou Sheng had been judged in this way before, and she felt a little guilty. She quickly found an excuse, "The sports meet is about to start, I have to go back to class first."

"Okay." The moment she turned around, Zhou Sheng suddenly remembered something and grabbed her hand.

Lin Sitian turned her head. In the sunlight, Zhou Sheng's eyes were clear and bright. "Come on."

"I know—"

As if she had been given a shot of chicken blood, Lin Sitian happily turned around and ran a few steps, waving at him as she ran, "You too!"

Zhou Sheng watched her join the team until she disappeared from view, then he reached out and touched his hot face.