June is a fateful month.

Throughout the entire month of June, they were like a wound-up spring, studying all the time, memorizing, doing exercises, taking exams, and getting scolded. Even though they were not even in their third year of high school, they had already experienced the prelude to a storm.

Lin Sitian arrived at the classroom and saw a bag on the table. She looked through it puzzledly and found a box of milk, a piece of snow cake, and a few Ferrero Rocher chocolates - her favorite flavor.

"Whose is it?" She knocked on Li Hailiang's desk behind her.

Li Hailiang was still asleep. He pulled his head out of his arms and yawned: "Whose desk could it belong to?"

“I didn’t buy it.”

"Your boyfriend gave it to you, and you still want it?"

Lin Sitian was surprised for a second. There was no schoolbag in Zhou Sheng's drawer.

"He came early today. He was going to attend a lecture by a famous teacher. The school arranged it." Li Hailiang said lazily with his eyes closed. "He asked you to eat it quickly before the morning reading. The snow cake will not taste good if it is left out for a class."

"This breakfast is too luxurious. Isn't soy milk and buns a standard item..." Lin Sitian complained, but her body was honest. She immediately tore open the straw and poked it into the milk carton.

In fact, this was not the first time Zhou Sheng bought breakfast for her. It happened a few times before, but Zhou Sheng’s bus was often crowded on the road and the time it arrived at school was not very fixed, and Lin Sitian always entered the classroom on time, so there was no fixed breakfast.

Li Hailiang opened his eyelids, glanced at Lin Sitian and said, "Are you stupid? The class teacher just made a rule that no smelly food can be eaten in the classroom. How can your class monitor violate the class rules?"

"Hey, what's wrong with you letting me show off a little?" Lin Sitian was already drinking milk with a straw in her mouth. Ever since her relationship with Zhou Sheng became known in the class, everyone had different names for them. "The one from your family" was Lin Sitian's favorite name.

"By the way, Lin Sitian..."

"ah?"

"I just heard recently that if the class monitor takes first place in the provincial semi-finals or the top three in the national finals, he or she can be directly admitted to Tsinghua University. Did you know about this?"

Lin Sitian was slightly stunned, "...I don't know."

"Tsinghua University, it feels like a place you can only enter in a dream." Li Hailiang sighed.

Lin Sitian curled her lips and said, "Tsinghua University is open to visitors. If you really want to go, it's not impossible."

"Don't play dumb," Li Hailiang said, "I always feel that the class monitor has a chance. Maybe he won't have to take the college entrance examination next year and will be directly admitted to the university - although even if he really takes the exam, it's probably a sure thing."

Lin Sitian lowered her eyes.

Yes, she had wanted it from the beginning.

Zhou Sheng is a gentle and humble dragon. He usually keeps his claws and tail away, but you can still touch his dragon whiskers and play with them.

But a dragon is a dragon after all.

One day, I will soar into the sky.

June was filled with furious writing. Youth is a time that cannot be delayed by any regrets or stumbles. June of the year when I was seventeen was both long and short. I had listened to the noisy cicadas in the classroom for the entire afternoon, and I had not had time to wipe off the sweat in the examination room. In a blink of an eye, it was early July, the tail end of midsummer.

The final exams are over, and the final examinations are over too.

Lin Sitian was busy running between the hospital, home and school. During the past month, she worked with Zhou Sheng to cram for her, which helped her improve her grades to 16th in the class. This was a rare leap for a science class with more than 50 students and the average score ranked first in the grade. She had never thought that such a day would come.

Zhou Sheng also successfully passed the preliminaries of the provincial Mathematical Olympiad, and as expected, he won first place. However, the intensity of the preliminaries is only slightly higher than that of the college entrance examination, and it cannot be used as a guarantee of final victory. The next September league and the finals are the focus.

It doesn’t matter. What matters is that summer vacation is here.

The summer vacation in the second year of high school is shorter than that in the first year, because students have to go back to school in the second half of the month to make up for the third year courses. Therefore, the period just after the vacation is the time when all the second-year students can liberate themselves the most.

"Don't play too crazy during the holidays, don't always put off your summer homework until the last day, and occasionally review the content of the third year at home..." The summer heat was still there, and the teacher gave the last class meeting speech before the holiday. Because today was just the day to collect the report cards, there was no air conditioning in the classroom, and sweat kept dripping down his neck. The teacher wiped the sweat with a tissue and knocked on the table, "There is one more thing I always tell you every summer vacation, do you remember?!"

"Don't go swimming in the wild by yourself--" a playful male student shouted at the podium imitating the voice of his teacher.

The whole class burst into laughter.

"Yes! It's very hot in the summer. If you want to swim, go to a swimming pool with lifeguards. Don't go swimming in the wild with your classmates. Safety first. I emphasize again, safety first!"

After the teacher finished speaking, he clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's have a holiday. I wish everyone a happy summer vacation—"

The classroom was filled with loud applause, clapping of tables, shouting and screaming.

"Please put away the tables and chairs when you leave!" The teacher reminded before leaving.

——It’s really a holiday.

Lin Sitian closed her eyes and took a deep breath, not knowing what she was thinking.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Sheng noticed that her mood seemed different from what he expected, and couldn't help but ask.

Lin Sitian opened her eyes wide and blinked, as if she had just come to her senses, and said with a smile: "It's okay, where are you going to play during the summer vacation, little teacher?"

"My family is going on a trip to Sanya." Zhou Sheng replied awkwardly.

Lin Sitian was stunned for a moment, "Is there really an arrangement?"

"I..." Zhou Sheng was a little embarrassed, "Because it's not just our family, my eldest brother and my aunt's family are also going, and I can't refuse." In the past, Zhou Sheng didn't care much about this kind of family travel, but he didn't resist it. Anyway, he could just bring a workbook and a notebook with him wherever he went. But this time, he really asked his family not to participate in the trip. Unfortunately, his mother rejected it.

In a short holiday of just over ten days, a week was spent on family travel.

Combined with a few days of relaxation after the trip, as well as summer homework and preparation time for the September league, this summer vacation basically passed in a blur.

For Zhou Sheng in the past, this was not a big deal, and it could even be considered fulfilling. However, it is not the case now. Now he has something he wants more——

Time spent with Lin Sitian.

"Tiantian, what are your plans for summer vacation?!" Yang Xuelin had already rushed to the back of their seats and excitedly invited them, "A theme water park has recently opened in Xingang. Do you want to go? Cui Qian asked both of us just now, and you haven't replied to her message yet."

"Ah... OK, I'll go. I don't have any plans for the time being anyway." Lin Sitian said, "But I can't go during the last few days of the holiday. I have something to do."

"Hey, take me and Wang Yue with you. You can't go out to play without us." Li Hailiang protested.

"Okay, okay, I'll take you guys with me. Hey, where's Mr. Zhou?"

"I..." Zhou Sheng was about to speak, but Lin Sitian spoke for him, "He can't go. His family is going on a trip."

Zhou Sheng silently clenched the hand at his side, indeed he had nothing to say.

Zhou Sheng sent Lin Sitian home.

At the entrance of the corridor, Lin Sitian turned around and was about to go upstairs, but Zhou Sheng hesitated to speak.

Maybe it was a tacit understanding or Lin Sitian also had something to say, but she turned around and looked at him.

"...Tomorrow," Zhou Sheng said, "I won't leave tomorrow, we can go out together..."

"Not tomorrow. I have to accompany grandma to the hospital tomorrow." Lin Sitian tilted her head and smiled, "It's okay, I'm not angry, you don't have to compensate me."

"It's not compensation, you idiot." After being together for two months, Zhou Sheng often loses his composure in front of her. "I want to be with you, not to compensate you, but to compensate myself."

He lowered his head and muttered in frustration, "You don't understand..."

Now I really don't have any resentment at all.

He stood in front of her like this, expressing his love words with grievance, without even realizing it himself. The heat from the scorching sun left a fine layer of sweat on his skin. There were as many beads of sweat as there were panic on his forehead, the tip of his nose, and the edges of his lips.

**After putting all the clothes in piles, Lin Sitian put her hands on her waist and counted them one by one.

After thinking for a long time, he put one of the balls into a cardboard box in the corner of the living room.

Lin Youwei just happened to pass by her and asked, "You don't want these anymore?"

"Some of them are too small. I probably won't have many days to wear casual clothes next year. When I go to college, these clothes will definitely be out of style." Lin Sitian packed the collected clothes one by one. "I'll donate them when the time comes. Luckily, grandma wasn't at home today and didn't see them, otherwise she would have scolded me again."

"Our Tiantian has made great progress and is now thinking about going to college." Lin Youwei couldn't help but teasing his daughter.

Lin Sitian raised her chin and said, "That's right. I ranked 16th in this exam. I'll try harder and get a good score in the exam and show it to grandma."

Lin Youwei smiled with relief: "You should thank your deskmate Zhou Sheng, right? Without him, I don't know when you would have woken up and studied hard like this."

Yes, we should thank him.

[Lin Sitian.]

[Have you ever thought about studying hard?]

"Hmm..." As if it brought back the youthful memories of that time, thinking of the young man who said "I do" on the classroom podium, a touch of tenderness flowed in Lin Sitian's eyes.

"Buzz", the vibration in her pocket interrupted her thoughts, and Lin Sitian fumbled for her cell phone -

Speak of the devil; he will appear.

She glanced at her father secretly, answered the phone, hurried to her room, covered the microphone and said, "Hello."

[Why don’t you reply my message?]

"I was busy just now..." she said softly, and glanced at her father who was sorting old things in the living room.

It was a bit obvious to close the door suddenly, so she did it slowly.

[What are you busy with?]

Lin Sitian was a little surprised that Zhou Sheng would ask such a question. After a pause, she replied, "Busy packing old clothes - Is Sanya fun?"

The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, [Not bad.]

"Why do you sound unhappy?" Lin Sitian glanced casually and found that her father had approached the room and pricked up his ears to eavesdrop, so she closed the door suddenly and deliberately said loudly, "I'll change my clothes."

[Change clothes? Where to go?]

"You lied to my dad." Lin Sitian walked to the window with her phone in hand and opened it to let the evening breeze in. "You haven't said anything yet, why do you sound unhappy?"

His voice was still flat and without any ups and downs. [Just like before, there was nothing to be particularly happy about.]

"Is it because I'm not here? I'll definitely make you happy with me around." Lin Sitian smiled and raised the corners of her mouth.

[……Um.]

After what seemed like a long struggle, the other end finally gave up resistance. Lin Sitian could even sense Zhou Sheng's blushing face when he admitted it from the short "hmm".

Her heart also softened into a pool of spring water, and ripples spread out when the evening breeze blew.

"Little teacher, you have changed recently and become much more honest."

She lay on the windowsill, letting the wind blow through her hair.

[I have always been honest.]

Lin Sitian was stunned and thought, that’s right.

From the moment she started to get close to him, Zhou Sheng had always been very honest. Once he determined an answer was the only one, she would often be aroused by his inadvertent love words.

"Alas, Zhou Sheng..."

Lin Sitian lowered her head, her fingertips digging into the roots of her hair, "How can you be so nice to me..."

The tone was annoyed.

The other end was slightly startled and asked: [Is it good for you... not good?]

"No, it's just..." Lin Sitian stammered for a while, then suddenly stood up, took a deep breath, and looked at the city lights that were just coming on, "I'm sentimental."

[Lin Si——]

"You know, I saw on the news that there will be a meteor shower the day after tomorrow. How about we watch it together then?"

"—by video call?"

Lin Sitian's black eyes were sparkling in the night, and the bright moon in her eyes was even more beautiful.

The sound of the boy's silent breathing floated in the sound of the electric current.

"Zhou Sheng."

She suddenly burst into tears.

"I miss you."