Li Mo
As Li Mo's second year of high school was about to end, her father, Li Jiansheng, got into trouble, so Li Mo had to transfer to Yuehai High School.
Although the Li family was in decline, they still had many connections, and coupled with her own good grades, she was able to enter Yuehai Middle School.
That's the best school in Yuehai.
The transfer procedures were completed in a hurry. As soon as the plane landed on Yuehai land, she hadn't even had time to catch her breath before stepping into Yuehai Middle School.
Collect school uniforms and textbooks, and introduce yourself.
Aside from Yuan Hai, Liang Xinchong was the first new classmate whose name she remembered.
He helped her move the tables and chairs, but this wasn't the first time she had seen him.
As soon as she stepped into the gate of Yuehai Middle School, she followed Yuan Hai across the playground to the student affairs office to pick up her new school uniform for the new semester. At that time, there were students having physical education class on the playground.
She heard the noise and turned her head to look.
Then a tall, slender figure suddenly and unexpectedly entered her line of sight.
He was tall and stood out in the crowd.
From a distance, Li Mo could only see a blurry outline of the person.
Li Mo looked away and heard Yuan Hai explain beside her, "It's quite a coincidence that these are my future classmates, except that they're having PE class right now."
Li Mo nodded.
Later in the classroom, when their eyes met, the boy's appearance slowly overlapped with the tall, thin, blurry silhouette on the playground.
Li Mo sat down, took out her new textbook, and couldn't help but think: This is truly a case of unexpected encounters in life.
Liang Xinchong could be considered a semi-celebrity at the school.
Li Mo always managed to hear about his "scandals," his gossip, and everything about him in every corner of the school.
Although Li Mo is not very outgoing, she is quite likable, has good grades, many hobbies, and quickly made several new friends.
Her classmates were very curious about her, after all, she was a "transfer student," a label that inherently carried a sense of mystery.
Li Mo was unwilling to talk too much about the past and only gave perfunctory answers.
Everyone could tell that she didn't like talking about the past, and over time, no one gossiped about those things anymore.
Li Mo speaks gently and is very peaceful, but she also seems to have a somewhat distant feeling towards everyone.
Tang Keqing described her as follows: "She appears cheerful and gentle on the surface, but actually carries a hint of sadness."
Li Mo went to and from get out of class with Tang Keqing and others, ate in the cafeteria together, discussed academic problems, and shared their joys and sorrows.
But Li Mo always held something back.
One Wednesday, Yuan Hai brought a stack of white papers and distributed them, asking the students to fill in their "family information".
Li Mo paused for a moment in the "Father" column on the paper, but ultimately did not write down her father's name.
Tang Keqing then discovered that Li Mo came from a single-parent family.
Li Mo never talks about her family situation with her friends.
However, everyone in this world has secrets, and people are unwilling to easily pry into other people's privacy.
Li Mo was in a very bad mood on the day she submitted the family information form.
That day, when she went downstairs, she ran into Liang Xinchong, who was being reprimanded by the director.
She never imagined that from that day on, he would leave such a deep impression on her life.
He chased after her and, for no apparent reason, gave her two small jasmine flowers under the tree;
He could always show her the latest comics;
He even gave her a Walkman in early July.
He stopped her in the corridor and called her name, "Li Mo".
Li Mo looked at him in confusion, and he reached out and handed her a silver Walkman.
She was stunned, but then she heard him say, "Happy birthday, this is for you."
She looked up at Liang Xinchong in front of her. The light behind him was exceptionally bright, his eyes were bright, his hair was thick and black, and his teeth were very neat and exceptionally white when he smiled.
Li Mo thought he was really suited to film a Colgate toothpaste commercial on TV.
When Liang Xinchong handed her the Walkman, he said, "I've already downloaded some songs for you. You can listen to them by putting on your headphones."
Li Mo thanked him and accepted the Walkman.
In her dorm room late at night, she lay on her bed, put on her headphones, and the first song playing was "Love Me Do".
Li Mo was completely stunned the moment she heard the intro.
Back then, everyone liked listening to Jay Chou, Stefanie Sun, Xu Song, and Cyndi Wang. Li Mo liked listening to The Beatles, and everyone paid attention to rock bands.
This song belongs to The Beatles, a band she has recently come to like.
Li Mo suddenly found it novel.
She couldn't help but ask Liang Xinchong, "How did you know I like this band?"
Liang Xinchong replied with a smile, "I found out."
Looking at him, Li Mo perhaps began to truly remember him from that moment on.
Li Mo had many suitors, both in the city she lived in and in Yuehai.
She seems to have a unique charm that makes people inexplicably like her. On her birthday, many people gave her birthday gifts, both boys and girls.
Liang Xinchong wasn't the only boy who gave her a Walkman.
But only he knew that she liked The Beatles.
Moreover, Liang Xinchong's "shamelessness" is second to none among Li Mo's many suitors.
To be precise, he is number one, and no one dares to claim second place.
Ever since Liang Xinchong gifted him the Walkman and found that Li Mo seemed quite satisfied, he has become increasingly demanding.
Yuehai Middle School is one of the top secondary schools in the area.
The students there either come from exceptionally wealthy families or have outstanding academic performance.
Li Mo is the latter, while Liang Xinchong is the former.
In those days, private cars were extremely rare. Even though most students at Yuehai Middle School came from well-off families, most of them could only travel by bicycle. When Liang Xinchong went home for holidays, he was picked up and dropped off by a private driver.
The family owns more than one car.
After Li Mo's birthday, Liang Xinchong suddenly went crazy and bought a new bicycle, which he parked in the school's bicycle shed. He used the excuse that he "didn't want to show off at school" to avoid having a driver pick him up and drop him off, and the Liang family didn't say anything.
A mountain bike that looks expensive isn't exactly rare at a school like Yuehai Middle School.
Li Mo went to get her bicycle and turned around to see Liang Xinchong looking at her with a beaming smile.
Li Mo remembered that when she first transferred to this school, apart from their first day together, she and Liang Xinchong kept to themselves and didn't interfere with each other.
From which day did things start to change?
Perhaps the origin of everything comes from those two little flowers.
Li Mo asked him, "Why did you switch to riding a bicycle home?"
Liang Xinchong pushed his bicycle and walked beside her, saying, "I like it."
Li Mo didn't say anything, got on her bicycle and headed west. Liang Xinchong rode alongside her on his bicycle.
The tall boy bent slightly as he rode his mountain bike, his blue and white school uniform shirt billowing in the wind.
"Your house is in this direction too?"
"Not here."
"That……"
"I'll go back with you," he interrupted her with a smile.
Li Mo looked surprised and couldn't help but turn her head to look at him again. The light of the sunset shone through the ancient city wall and fell on him, making him look red.
Half of his body was bathed in red light.
The wheels chased after the shadows of the sycamore trees, and Li Mo felt it was absurd: "My home is very far away."
"Then I'll go back with you."
He kept his word and actually escorted her all the way home.
The bicycle stopped in front of a tenement building. Li Mo got off the bicycle and said to him:
"My home is upstairs, so please don't bring me back next time."
Liang Xinchong was still sitting on his bicycle, one leg on the ground, waving to her with his hand stretched high. He called out his name very solemnly and said, "Li Mo, see you next week."
As Li Mo dragged the cart away, a smile involuntarily crept onto her lips.
She didn't turn around, but she waved her hand.
At such a youthful age, falling in love can happen in an instant.
Liang Xinchong indeed stopped taking her home, but he still exhibited some similar "childish" behaviors.
He would deliberately try to talk to her both in and out of class.
A bottle of beverage would mysteriously appear on Li Mo's desk: yogurt, lime green tea, Want Want milk...
It's a randomly refreshed item, so there might not be a different one every day.
In high school, besides studying, cleaning duties, eating, and doing homework every day, students would often gossip behind each other's backs during meals or breaks, whispering things like, "Does so-and-so like so-and-so?" or "I heard that so-and-so and so-and-so are dating!"
Liang Xinchong's enthusiasm wasn't exactly hidden from others. Even when there were still people in the class, he had already placed a bottle of still-cold water on Li Mo's desk while holding the ball in one hand.
Their movements were very natural, as if they were very familiar with each other now.
Li Mo didn't accept any of the bottles and returned them all to him, including the "Little Tea Student" bottle he gave her today.
Looking at the "Little Ming" drink she had returned, Liang Xinchong said, "This is the last drink left in the convenience store. You don't like it?"
Is the main issue the variety of beverages?
Before Li Mo could explain, Liang Xinchong spoke first.
He recommended the newly opened water bar near the school gate to her, saying that if Yuehai Middle School didn't have extra classes this weekend, he would take her there to try the new drinks, and that she would treat him.
Li Mo refused: "I need to go home and help."
"Help with what?" he asked, somewhat puzzled.
Li Mo clearly didn't want to say more, only saying, "It's nothing, I just don't have time to go."
Liang Xinchong didn't ask any more questions. The next day, Li Mo had a new drink on her table—taro ball milk tea, which was refreshing and cool.
Later, even Tang Keqing noticed and asked Li Mo in the dormitory, "Does Liang Xinchong from our class like you?"
At their age, talking about love is too far off; talking about liking someone is just right.
The initial spark of attraction and mutual affection in youth are rare and precious. Even in the top classes at Yuehai High School, where the grade director and homeroom teacher strictly prohibit early romantic relationships, quite a few students have started secret relationships.
It's not surprising that Tang Keqing would have this question and conjecture.
It was during physical education class, and Li Mo could see Liang Xinchong holding a basketball on the playground with just a turn of her head.
It was the last class of the afternoon. The sky was a clear, deep blue, and there were lush, unnamed trees beside the playground, covered in pink and white flowers.
The boys on the playground moved with the ease of the wind, dribbling the ball with fluid movements.
The trees are tall, the sky is far away, but the boys on the playground are so close.
She just watched him quietly. As if sensing his presence, he made a very cool three-pointer, turned his head to look over, and subconsciously searched for Li Mo's figure in the crowd.
And then he and Li Mo locked eyes.
The moment their eyes met, Li Mo suddenly remembered her first day at the school.
At that moment, Liang Xinchong carried a new set of tables and chairs and placed them next to his seat. He looked at her with a smug expression, and if he had a tail, it might have been wagging at her at that moment.
Even though it was the first time they had ever met face-to-face.
Even though she only glanced at him once.
But she remained certain: it was over, this guy definitely liked her.
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