Lin Sitian was awakened early in the morning by the vibration sound of QQ, reminding her that there was new message.

She has set all the messages in her QQ to do not disturb, except for one person, who is her "special concern".

Lin Sitian swiped the screen with dazed eyes and saw a picture sent by Zhou Sheng in the top chat box.

After looking for a long time, I saw it was a boarding pass.

The knuckles holding the boarding pass were clearly visible, and the skin on his hands was made even whiter and more transparent by the sunlight coming in from the airport window. Even the blue veins on the back of his hands were faintly visible. It was obviously him at first glance.

Boarding time is 8:30 this morning, which is... now.

Her expression suddenly froze, as if she hadn't digested it for a moment.

Zhou Sheng: It’s time to board the plane.

Zhou Sheng: See you at noon.

???

What's going on? Shouldn't he be back the day after tomorrow? Why is he back two days early?

Lin Sitian quickly sent him a message - You're back now? What happened? You're not lying to me, are you? Are all of you back?

But after a long time, the message seemed to have fallen into the sea and QQ was silent.

Lin Sitian sat up from the bed.

…

…

As soon as Zhou Sheng turned on his phone, he was bombarded with messages. Except for his mother Lin Yuyan's advice before boarding, "Let me know you're safe when you arrive," and his second brother's message, "You have no humanity when it comes to the opposite sex," the rest were unsurprisingly from the same person.

Zhou Sheng walked out of the arrival channel with his suitcase. After replying to his mother, he looked down and checked Lin Sitian's messages one by one as he walked. The corners of his lips raised slightly, and even his steps became lighter.

I even had auditory hallucinations.

"Zhou Sheng!"

He took a few more steps forward, and this time the sound was clearer.

“Zhou Sheng——!!”

Zhou Sheng looked up suddenly and saw Lin Sitian standing on the other side of the glass railing, jumping and waving at him.

He was stunned, and Lin Sitian, who received his gaze, smiled happily.

Zhou Sheng walked towards the other side of the railing in two steps. His steps became faster and faster, and she also jogged after him. The distance between the guardrail, which was more than ten meters long, was shortened meter by meter. The two of them looked at each other across the wall of people beside the guardrail.

"Why did you come here by yourself?" Zhou Sheng asked in a hoarse voice, his lips pressed against the center of her hair.

Zhou Sheng wiped the corners of her eyes, picked up the luggage, held her hand again, and the two walked towards the subway center of the terminal together.

"It's not like we haven't seen each other for several years. Why are you crying like this?" Zhou Sheng glanced at her lightly, but the corners of his mouth were still slightly curved.

"What's the matter? Haven't you heard 'One day without seeing you feels like three years'? It's been so many years and you still can't miss each other?" The kitten's tail was stepped on, and Lin Sitian reacted quickly with a sharp tongue.

Zhou Sheng smiled, and in Lin Sitian's eyes, it was a smile that was even prouder than when he usually solved a difficult differential equation problem.

"What are you qualified to say that to me? I said yesterday that I missed you, and you left your whole family to come back to me this morning. We are obviously the same!" She broke away from Zhou Sheng's hand, arrogantly.

"No," Zhou Sheng corrected seriously, "I bought the plane ticket last night."

Lin Sitian was stunned for a second.

"Because I couldn't buy a ticket that left last night." Zhou Sheng covered his lips and turned his head to the side, embarrassed to let her see his embarrassed face.

Sitting on the subway, Lin Sitian looked at the time and complained: "It's almost twelve o'clock."

"What happened at twelve?"

"We'll be back in the city at almost one o'clock, then we'll have dinner, and then we'll go to your house to drop off our luggage and pack up, and we'll be out around three o'clock. If we want to go out on a date, it'll be halfway through the afternoon." Lin Sitian placed Zhou Sheng's hand on her knee and counted on his fingers.

Zhou Sheng's face turned slightly hot, and he said, "Then I won't go home."

"Ah?" Lin Sitian looked up in surprise.

"Is there any place you want to go?" Zhou Sheng asked.

This subway trip went directly to the theme park between the airport and the city. Lin Sitian and Xuelin had been here once on the first day of the Chinese New Year. It was still very old at that time. Later, the park was acquired and redeveloped, and Lin Sitian had never seen what it looked like.

After buying the tickets, Zhou Sheng checked his bag in and the two followed the crowd into the park.

Lin Sitian didn't expect that the park is so lively now. It's July, the hottest day in summer, with the temperature over 30 degrees Celsius and the sun shining on her body, but there are still crowds of people in the park in the afternoon.

"It's so hot...ah!" Someone put a wide-brimmed straw hat on Lin Sitian's head.

The two stood in front of the souvenir stand to avoid the sun. Lin Sitian didn't even notice when Zhou Sheng bought the hat. He also wore a cowboy-style straw hat. Although it looked quite handsome, Lin Sitian couldn't help laughing and quickly changed the subject, asking, "Which one do you want to go first?"

"Eat first."

"But I have no appetite." It was so hot that people didn't want to eat at all. "I see you've finished eating."

"I've eaten some of the airplane meal. You have to eat on time. It's late." "Zhou Yanjin" dragged "Lin Bugan" all the way to the restaurant to have lunch.

After lunch, the time was awkward. The large-scale fun rides in the amusement park were basically not suitable for immediate after-meal activities. After the two of them walked around, Zhou Sheng pointed at an amusement ride and asked, "This?"

Ghost Valley is a horror tour project that takes place on a rail car.

Lin Sitian was actually a little reluctant about the horror theme, but after walking around, her legs were really sore, and it was hot outside, so she really wanted to get into the air-conditioned room as soon as possible - why did she choose an amusement park for her date?

Before getting on the bus, she kept asking the staff: "Sister, this isn't scary, right? There isn't a ghost, right? It won't jump on my face, will it?" She kept asking and was dragged back to her seat by Zhou Sheng.

Lin Sitian leaned against the back of her chair with a fearless expression, "I will close my eyes the whole time."

"Yes, yes, yes—" Zhou Sheng leaned over and couldn't help laughing.

Lin Sitian looked at his profile as he lowered his head and focused on fastening her seat belt, and suddenly pursed her lips and said, "Zhou Sheng."

"Um?"

"You really seem to be smiling all the time when you are around me."

Zhou Sheng paused.

It's not that he has facial paralysis. It's just that if he spends most of his time absorbing knowledge or solving problems, there is really no need to show joy. However, it's different when he is with Lin Sitian. He can't help but express himself.

"Ahhh, it's moving!" The motor sounded suddenly, and the rail car started. Lin Sitian held his hand tightly.

As the name suggests, Ghost Valley is about exploring a valley with rugged rocks, vines and branches. Ghosts appear and disappear in the valley from time to time, and wronged souls cry in your ears.

Although Lin Sitian swore to close her eyes the whole time before coming in, she was already here, and in the spirit of not wasting money, she still squinted her eyes and glanced around in fear and trepidation, but Zhou Sheng's wrist was almost left with five fingerprints from her.

"It's okay, they're all fake." Zhou Sheng comforted her.

Of course she knew it was fake, but she couldn't help being scared.

Just as Lin Sitian finished speaking, a green light shot out from the woods in front of her, illuminating the figure of a female ghost with disheveled hair from bottom to top. She was only three or four meters away from Lin Sitian, staring at her and smiling.

Lin Sitian closed her eyes tightly, feeling the terrifying sound effects of the female ghost's cry passing by her ears, and something soft and vine-like brushing against her bare arm. She was so nervous that her whole body was shaking.

You would have to be really desperate to choose a horror-themed rail car like this!

After that, they found a 5D cinema to kill time. After Zhou Sheng's embarrassing situation was over, they went on to play a few exciting rides. The amazing thing was that neither Zhou Sheng nor Lin Sitian was afraid of this. The two of them even competed to see who was braver, from the bungee jumping machine to the pendulum. After playing around for a while, it was already dark.

For dinner they chose a lakeside restaurant.

The park is close to a natural lake. The endless lake water sparkles in the dark night. The wind from the lake blows on her face with the coolness of the water. Lin Sitian closed her eyes.

"very nice."

"Hmm?" Zhou Sheng looked up at her face, which was half covered by the light and half in the moonlight, and couldn't help but be lost in thought.

"It's great to have a date with you today." Lin Sitian opened her eyes, and water-colored ripples were rippling in her pupils.

There was nothing special about this sentence, but because of Zhou Sheng's understanding of her, he always felt that there was something subtle about it.

Ignoring this subtlety, he lowered his head and pursed his lips, "When is it not good?"

Yeah, when is it not good?

From the day she became deskmate with Zhou Sheng, her life has been slowly changing. Zhou Sheng is like her lucky star. He not only helped her find the direction to move forward, but also patiently pulled her forward. It was he who made her see that she had more possibilities and taught her to look at the world and the people in the world from another perspective.

And so is she.

They influence each other and move towards a better place.

It was her first love, but also her secret love. She put it in her mouth and tasted it secretly. It tasted sour at first, so sour that she often cried but was reluctant to spit it out, just for the sweetness mixed in with the sourness. That sweetness was unique in the world. Once she gave it up, she would never find it again. So she carefully licked off the sour and sweet surface bit by bit, and finally ate the candy inside.

She was very glad that she did not give up. She didn’t know whether she would meet someone better than Zhou Sheng in her future life, but she was sure that, just like this candy, there would never be another Zhou Sheng in this world.

Lin Sitian took a sip of the sparkling wine she ordered. The strong smell of the wine immediately seeped into the tip of her tongue and choked into her throat.

It's obviously sparkling wine, but why is it so strong? I really can't get used to it.

Zhou Sheng handed her the bottle of water on the table. "It's marked on it. This one has a high alcohol content."

Lin Sitian stubbornly drank most of it through the straw, then pushed it in front of Zhou Sheng, "I can't drink any more."

"..." Zhou Sheng glanced at the wine glass and drank the remaining half.

As long as it's not beer or liquor, he can still accept it.

It's time to go home.

Somehow, even though it was already night, the air became stuffy.

It felt like there was a layer of air covering my body, preventing every pore from breathing. My clothes, slightly wet with sweat, stuck to the surface of my skin, a sticky layer that was completely completely completely breathable.

The two people walked out of the park with slow steps.

"Let's take a taxi later. I'll take you home early." Zhou Sheng said, "Otherwise your uncle will be worried."

Lin Sitian turned her head and spoke slowly: "My dad took grandma out of town today and will be back in three days."

Zhou Sheng was stunned for a moment, "Oh."

The two people walked very slowly, and they didn't know how many groups of hurried tourists passed by them.

"So you're alone tonight?"

Lin Sitian said "hmm".

"Aren't you afraid?"

He asked a stupid question.

How stupid is that?

"You know how long I've been living alone, Zhou Sheng."

Zhou Sheng also realized that his question was a bit stupid, so he simply shut up.

He walked slower than Lin Sitian, so slowly that for a moment he was only half a step behind her.

Lin Sitian also noticed that the person beside her was gone, and turned to look at him, "Zhou Sheng?"

He hurriedly placed his palms on the back of his shoulders, pretending to knead the sore and numb feeling. Compared to his usual wise and reserved self, his movements and expressions seemed a bit clumsy at this moment.

——So cute.

Zhou Sheng quickly caught up and walked side by side with her.

"Will you video chat after you get home?" He asked before they even said goodbye.

Yes, go home.

After five days of separation, half a day of reunion seemed not enough, Lin Sitian thought.

Videos are really a good way to deceive yourself. You can see and hear them, but you can't touch the other person at all. It only makes the expectation in your heart even stronger.

I felt sad again, but it was a bit hypocritical to say this.

Her face felt slightly cold, and when Lin Sitian raised her hand, there was a trace of a drop of water.

She looked up and suddenly found that the moon in the sky had disappeared, replaced by vaguely visible cloud shapes, slowly flowing and blocking the entire sky.

"It looks like it's going to rain." Zhou Sheng followed her and looked up, then said.

Summer rain always comes unexpectedly. Just as Zhou Sheng finished speaking, the second and third drops of rain fell.

Zhou Sheng suddenly grabbed her hand and said, "Walk faster, or you'll get wet."

She didn't know if it was the dull air or the effect of the alcohol, but she felt dizzy and everything in her eyes slowed down and became blurry. The only thing clearly visible in her field of vision was the person holding her hand and walking her forward.

Move with your heartbeat.

The rain was really heavy. In just a few dozen steps, the sparse drops turned into a drizzle.

There was a rumbling sound of thunder in the sky, which died down after a loud bang and then sank into the clouds, waiting to be deafening at some point. Everything was surging in an undercurrent, and that moment was about to come.

Lin Sitian's pace slowed down and gradually stopped.

The rain curtain has become a rain curtain.

Feeling the resistance in his hand, Zhou Sheng turned his head to look at her——

"Can't run anymore?"

Her hair and clothes were all wet.

With her hair falling beside her lips, Lin Sitian just curled up the corners of her lips and looked up at him.

Messy sexiness grows wildly in the heavy rain.

She hooked her arm around his but didn't move, letting the rain fall on both of them.

"I'm all wet," she said innocently.

At this moment, Zhou Sheng also felt the warmth in the palm of his hand that refused to let go.

His throat was dry and his Adam's apple rolled.

"Like this..." Lin Sitian tilted her head and murmured softly -

"I can't go home tonight."