Zhou Sheng is reading a book.

This was not a very strange scene, it could even be said to be commonplace, but now was the time for school to be over. Usually at this time Zhou Sheng was either on his way home or tutoring Lin Sitian. No matter what, he would never lean against the classroom window with a book in his hand, reading ten lines at a glance in the light of the setting sun.

He leaned on the windowsill with one hand, his eyes paused for a moment on summarizing English knowledge points, and then inadvertently swept across the basketball court.

The figure of a young girl beside the basketball court was shrouded in golden light by the setting sun, and standing in front of her was another tall boy.

Zhou Sheng certainly couldn't hear what they were saying as they were a hundred meters away and three floors away. The setting sun cut through the window into the light and darkness of the classroom, and only a few shadows from the window frames were left on Zhou Sheng's expressionless face.

They had a very pleasant chat, and there was no sign of embarrassment on Lin Sitian's face.

Zhou Sheng withdrew his gaze calmly and looked back at the book in his hand.

Soon, the teaching building gradually disappeared in the afterglow of the sunset.

There are stairs on both the east and west sides of the building, and Class 1 is closest to the corridor on the left side of the third floor.

"—Saturday then!"

The voice arrived before the person arrived. A clear female voice echoed in the west stairwell. The next second, the girl stepped up the stairs with brisk steps. Someone seemed to say something downstairs. She just reached the second floor and leaned on the handrail to shout down, "--Got it! 10 am!"

After that, she continued to walk upstairs. However, she clearly heard someone coming downstairs a moment ago, but she didn't see anyone when she walked all the way to the third floor. When she turned into Class 1, she was greeted by an empty classroom.

Lin Sitian paused.

"You said you didn't have to wait for me, and I really didn't." She sneered at herself and then walked back to her seat to pack her things.

There was a homework book on the table. It was the book where Zhou Sheng gave her questions and was deliberately placed in the most conspicuous position.

Lin Sitian's heart skipped a beat, and she impatiently opened her homework book to find the latest page. However, what caught her eye was not any messages, but neatly written exercises, each with carefully marked solution tips and corresponding knowledge points.

Lin Sitian's joy was poured with a bucket of cold water. She sat down dejectedly with her chin on the table. In anger, she blew air at the pages of her exercise book, as if she was venting her anger in another form.

She said, that guy has no heart at all, he only loves to study.

But after staring at the blown-up paper for a while, Lin Sitian still smoothed it out carefully and put it back into her schoolbag - after all, these were the questions that Zhou Sheng had carefully sorted out for her.

When she reached the school gate, Lin Sitian suddenly stopped.

On the left is the direction of her home, and on the right is the station. At this time on weekdays, Zhou Sheng would say see you tomorrow at this position. The light was just right at that time, the sky was getting dark, and the twilight was mixed with gold and blue. When he spoke, he slightly curved his mouth to look at her. The spring school uniform was wrapped in the gentle night, and everything was the best.

Now she is alone and she is a little uncomfortable.

She must be not used to it, that's why she didn't like Zhou Sheng first, because he didn't want to be in a relationship at all.

On Monday, Lin Sitian was late for school. She ran to the school gate while eating a piece of bread in her mouth, but the retractable gate closed mercilessly fifteen seconds before she arrived.

The background music of "Athletes' March" was already playing on campus. Lin Sitian was deducted points and could only stand at the very end when she returned to the class team.

There is always a flag-raising speech on Mondays. The speaker today was very special. The radio said it was Zhou Sheng, a representative of the sophomore students.

Lin Sitian didn't remember what the speech was about, but she heard the students in front of her whispering.

"Is that Zhou Sheng? I was startled this morning."

"Yeah, I didn't expect him to be so handsome."

Is he handsome? Lin Sitian didn’t understand. In the past, Zhou Sheng’s name had nothing to do with handsomeness among his classmates. No one would pay attention to his face, because compared with his face, Zhou Sheng’s brain was really on another level, and he seemed to be different from them because of this, living in another dimension.

Lin Sitian stood on tiptoe, but the line was too long and the podium was too far away, so she still couldn't see.

When she returned to class, Zhou Sheng hadn't come back yet, probably because he was called by the teacher. Lin Sitian took out the exercise book that Zhou Sheng had assigned her this weekend, and just after checking a few questions, she heard the sound of frogs near her seat. She turned her head and saw a tall boy sitting next to her with an indifferent look.

She saw those phoenix eyes again, reflected in her pupils without any disguise——

It was Zhou Sheng, but his glasses were missing. "Did you lose your glasses?" Lin Sitian approached him and asked.

The teacher hasn't arrived yet and the students are still whispering in the classroom.

Zhou Sheng packed up the materials the teacher gave him, took out the textbook for this class from his schoolbag, and said calmly, "I changed to an invisible one."

"Ah, why do you want to change?"

Zhou Sheng didn't reply to her.

To be honest, he didn't know why he had to change. Zhou Sheng's eyes have been highly myopic since he was very young, and he has been wearing that pair of glasses for at least five years. Wearing contact lenses is really uncomfortable. This weekend, his eyes were dry and red. Even Zhou's mother didn't understand and asked Zhou Sheng why he had to suffer this.

But the Zhou family is very open-minded. They let their son decide what he wants to do. He suddenly said he wanted to change his contact lenses when he came home on Friday, and he went to get them fitted immediately on Saturday. They acted decisively.

The arrival of the Chinese teacher saved Zhou Sheng, and the topic came to an abrupt end.

After class, female classmates would come to talk to Zhou Sheng out of curiosity, and the area around their seats would return to its previous lively state. Only Lin Sitian would go outside for some fresh air as soon as the class was over, as if she couldn't stay there any longer. The two of them barely spoke to each other the entire day.

During the break, Meng Qiaoyu came again and chatted with Lin Sitian in the corridor for a while.

When Zhou Sheng passed by the two of them and went to the toilet, Meng Qiaoyu glanced at Zhou Sheng.

Zhou Sheng started packing his things after school.

He cleaned up very slowly. Lin Sitian was still doing her homework in her seat. Because she was always running out, she didn't have time to finish the questions Zhou Sheng assigned to her today.

They were the only two left in the class.

"Give it to me tomorrow." Zhou Sheng said, stuffing the last book into his schoolbag and zipping it up.

At the moment of leaving, someone suddenly grabbed my hand.

"Aren't you going to tutor me today?" Lin Sitian looked up, with an expression that showed an indescribable aggrieved look.

Zhou Sheng was stunned for a moment, "...Do you want more?"

"What do you mean 'want more'?" Lin Sitian was puzzled.

"As for the topic, I can tell you after class. Your boyfriend will probably be unhappy if we're the only two left after school." When it came to the word "boyfriend", Zhou Sheng spoke vaguely and not very clearly.

Lin Sitian frowned, her mouth slightly open, and asked, "What do you mean by 'boyfriend'?"

"…The one from Class 8?"

Lin Sitian thought for a moment, "Meng Qiaoyu?"

Zhou Sheng's heart shrank, he turned his head away and said "hmm".

Lin Sitian's face immediately flushed and she pushed him hard: "Are you crazy? When did he become my boyfriend?"

Zhou Sheng staggered two steps, holding onto the desk, his heart began to beat wildly. He raised his eyes and locked onto Lin Sitian's and asked, "No?"

"Of course not!" Lin Sitian glared at him angrily, "Please don't match me up with someone else, okay? How can you be my boyfriend out of nowhere?"

"You weren't going out with him on Saturday..."

"Who went out with him on Saturday!"

"Ten o'clock on Saturday morning?"

Lin Sitian frowned more and more and said, "That's my grandma! Meng Qiaoyu's family runs a Chinese medicine clinic. My grandma has been treated there before. I made an appointment for her to have acupuncture on the weekend—"

"Isn't that... a love letter?"

Lin Sitian was stunned for two seconds and muttered, "...It's a love letter."

Zhou Sheng didn't understand, but when he heard her say it was a love letter, his heart felt empty again, and it wouldn't feel right no matter where he put it.

"I accompanied my grandmother to their family clinic before, and I met him a few times. He said that he fell in love with me at that time, so he tried to confess his love to me that day."

Zhou Sheng listened so seriously that he didn't notice that he was already half-sitting on the table.

Lin Sitian blushed and touched her hair. "He's a nice guy, but I don't have that kind of interest in him, so I rejected him."

Zhou Sheng suddenly thought of himself.

——It seemed that he should be a nice person to her.

Thinking about it this way, the words "I don't have that intention towards him" seemed to be spoken to myself. "But how did you know that I made an appointment with him at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning?" Lin Sitian suddenly realized and asked with narrowed eyes.

Zhou Sheng tightened his jaw stiffly: "I just...heard it."

"You eavesdropped on our conversation?"

"I wasn't eavesdropping," Zhou Sheng hastened to clarify. "Who wouldn't hear you if you shouted so loudly?"

Lin Sitian was too lazy to recall when she shouted. Anyway, the words were clear. She only cared about one thing -

"So you're still tutoring me?"

Zhou Sheng had already packed her bag, and when asked this question, she looked a little embarrassed, considering that she had misunderstood her before.

He didn’t want to be just a “nice guy.”

"Tomorrow." At least not today.

It’s better to do the questions. They are simple and don’t have so many twists and turns. He wants to go back and do the questions.

"Not today?"

Holding his hand without letting go, Zhou Sheng lowered his eyes and glanced over, wondering what he was thinking.

Her fingertips were a little cold, and their presence was too obvious. Zhou Sheng's fingers were hotter than hers, and when she pulled them, the blood in his body began to flow faster.

"Today... you don't feel like doing anything, do you?" he said. "If you really wanted to, you wouldn't be unable to sit still all day."

He thought that today, after his transformation, there would be something different about him, but he didn't expect it to be this "different". But if Lin Sitian was not in a relationship, then why was her attitude different from before? The only change between them was probably that he took off his glasses.

He remembered her saying "it would look better without it", but when he really stopped wearing it, she seemed not to think so.

He felt a little uncomfortable in his eyes. It turned out that contact lenses were not suitable for him.

The light in the classroom fell dim again. It was a sunny morning, but now a dark cloud came over and it seemed like it was going to rain soon.

Lin Sitian bit her lip and said, "It has nothing to do with the test."

"I know." Zhou Sheng said, "You don't like me like this now."

"Am I...that obvious?"

Zhou Sheng nodded, his expression very indifferent at this moment, "I want to go back."

"Don't leave." Lin Sitian simply clenched her hands, "That's right, I don't like you wearing contact lenses."

Even though he already knew the answer from the beginning, Zhou Sheng still felt uncomfortable when he heard her say it truthfully.

Do the questions. He wanted to go back and do the questions.

Lin Sitian pulled him down, and the two of them held hands and faced each other, one bending over and the other leaning against the wall, trapped in the small space in front of her.

"Originally I was the only one who could see it."

The air pressure was low and dull before it rained. The classroom was silent, with tiny specks of dust slipping between them.

"Zhou Sheng without glasses, that's my reward."

——It belongs to me alone. No one will notice it.

Zhou Sheng was stunned.

"But look at what's going on now. They didn't do anything, so why can they get rewards?" Lin Sitian's blushing face was filled with anxiety and indignation. "I'm very upset."

He had no idea of ​​her hard work.

She wasn't very smart, so it took her twice as long to get closer to him.

He didn't understand anything because he didn't care at all. He also misunderstood that she had a boyfriend and asked her to take care of his feelings.

She suddenly felt like the little mermaid, who traded her voice for feet, but in the end all that greeted her was a disappearing bubble.

There was a faint sound of raindrops hitting leaves. It was raining outside.

"...Lin Sitian." Zhou Sheng's throat was dry and he called her name softly.

"I didn't finish the assignment today..." Lin Sitian squeezed his palm, her nose ached, tears welled up in her eyes, as humid as the weather outside, full of water vapor. She held back her tears for a long time, but finally couldn't sob anymore, "Is it, is it... I won't get any rewards in the future..."

"No." Zhou Sheng raised his left hand and rubbed the corner of her eyes with his thumb.

"I'm sorry, I didn't finish the questions... You specially helped me... to find the questions for me..."

——How disgusting. I can’t stop crying.

——In fact, it has nothing to do with the topic.

Zhou Sheng stared at her face without blinking. The sky had turned dark gray and the contours of Lin Sitian's facial features were also immersed in shadows. However, her eyes were bright and he could see the tears in her eye sockets that were pulling at her eyelashes.

It's about to fall down.

His thumb rubbed and rubbed, he was at a loss and pursed his lips again, swallowed the trembling breath in his mouth, and whispered: "It's okay, Lin Sitian."

"……It doesn't matter."

Those questions never made him cry, nor did they make him feel distressed.

But she will.

The rain was pouring down, crackling on the eaves.

"Don't cry."

"Lin Sitian."

“…I won’t cry anymore.”

“It’s a reward.”

——And it belongs only to you.