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"Classmate, when the classmate next to you wakes up, could you please give this note to her for me?" In the silent library, a boy holding a note in his hand pointed shyly at the girl who was sleeping on the table next to him. Her long, smooth, black hair was casually and messily draped over her shoulders. Her whole face was buried in her arms, and only the back of her head could be seen.
"Plop." Xu Qiao put down the pen in his hand, raised his eyelids, and looked at him with a cold expression, "She has a boyfriend."
"Really? I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The boy apologized and backed away, his face full of embarrassment, and soon disappeared.
Xu Qiao turned his head and picked up the mobile phone placed beside him, and clicked on the same unchanging circle of friends that he had seen countless times in the past few days. After a while, he put down the phone and picked up the pen again to calculate on the draft paper. Halfway through writing, the person next to him finally started to move, raised his head with a covered expression, and looked like he was sleeping so hard that he didn't even know where he was.
She propped up her dizzy head with one hand, looked at Xu Qiao, who was watching her leisurely, with confused eyes and asked, "Did I hear someone calling me just now?"
Xu Qiao lowered his head again to look at the calculations on the draft paper and said in a faint voice: "No, you heard it wrong."
"It's almost 5 o'clock. We agreed to go eat the Japanese food you've been craving." Xu Qiao lowered his eyes and turned the page. "If you don't study now, your afternoon at the library will be wasted."
Song Yu: “…”
She casually flipped through the book in front of her, but she couldn't muster up the interest to study. She lay down again and tilted her head to look at Xu Qiao who was studying seriously. She hooked her leg under the table and said, "Didn't we agree to go to Haicheng? When are we going?"
"I'm always available," Xu Qiao said, "but I don't know if it's suitable for you to go with me."
Song Yu sat up alertly and asked, "What do you mean?"
Xu Qiao wrote down one complicated formula after another on a piece of paper. Upon hearing this, he turned around and said, "Oh, I was just thinking about how you're going to explain to your friends that there's a new man around you when you post it on your Moments."
"How do you explain?" Song Yu's face became more and more strange. "You are my boyfriend, what else do you need to explain?"
"Yeah?"
Song Yu immediately rushed forward upon hearing this, "What? You still don't want to admit it?"
Xu Qiao turned around and said, "Then you should expose me to your friends now."
After hearing this, Song Yu finally understood what Xu Qiao was angry about. He was actually jealous.
She approached with malicious intent, "Why, are you jealous?"
Xu Qiao looked at her without saying anything, but his attitude was very clear.
This is a library. All around you can hear the rustling sound of other people writing and turning pages. Everyone is busy with their own things and no one cares about the couple who are having a quarrel.
Song Yu looked around, then took his hand and stood up, "Come with me to a place."
Rows of bookshelves stand tall in the inner part of the library. Each shelf is filled with professional books, almost blocking all views of people looking inside.
"Squeak!" A bookshelf made an unpleasant sound when it was bumped.
The sound that was originally ringing suddenly stopped for a moment, and then continued to ring.
"... Ugh... I was originally planning to post it on... um... Moments, but I was afraid you wouldn't want it to be public on my Moments..."
Song Yu spoke intermittently, and the pressure on her lips suddenly increased. His teeth bit her delicate lips in dissatisfaction, "...After all...hiss, be gentle...my reputation in school...uh...is not very good..."
Her fingers shuttled through the man's black hair. Because of the scorching heat between her lips, she grabbed a handful. Her lower lip was sucked hard. She trembled all over and her lips and teeth met it more vigorously. "...I'm afraid those people will talk about you..."
The sticky warmth between his lips and teeth suddenly disappeared. Song Yu raised his head in a daze. The man's gloomy eyes pressed down on him. "You are being talked about on the forum. Are you afraid?"
Song Yu frowned, "What am I afraid of? It's not true."
"Yeah." Xu Qiao put his hand around Song Yu's dazzlingly white neck and pulled her towards him, kissing her on the lips. "Then what am I afraid of? I'm afraid that you won't make me public."
"Song Yu." The man murmured and kissed her earlobe. His voice was deep but sticky like honey. "Give me a name."
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Lan Lin sat in the coffee shop, scrolling through Song Yu's Moments with an unspeakable urge. After staring at it for three seconds, she pointed at her phone in disbelief and said to Song Yu, who was sitting across from her, "Hey, can your official Moments announcement get any more corny?"
After saying that, he threw his phone on the table and shuddered, as if he was afraid something would get to him. "I'll just swipe this unlucky thing and wash away all my sins in this life."
Song Yu picked up the phone and happily read the circle of friends again. "What? This is so well written. Wild boars can't eat fine bran."
"Yue." Lan Lin pretended to vomit. "Anyone who shows affection in front of me deserves to die."
"But you wouldn't like him just because you two helped each other for a while in the mental hospital when you were little, right?" Lan Lin said, "You have to figure out whether your feelings for him are feelings or just love. Otherwise, if your feelings don't match later on, it's easy to run into problems."
Ever since hearing about their previous experiences, Lan Lin often said this to Song Yu in addition to feeling heartbroken and sympathetic, so that she could recognize her own feelings.
Song Yu knew that Lan Lin was doing this for her own good. After all, if she and Xu Qiao took a wrong step, their relationship would go from being two poor people who depended on each other in childhood to being sworn enemies who would never talk to each other again.
It wasn't just Lan Lin. Ever since she posted the official announcement on her Moments, she had been receiving messages on WeChat for several days straight that seemed caring but were actually gossip. She picked out a few that she liked and replied.
After seeing this, Yaya said nothing and sent a few emojis of banging drums and gongs as if he had expected it.
Xu Qiao was also satisfied and stopped asking her for official status every other day. They posted their official announcement on their Moments together. Song Yu guessed that he must have received a lot of gossip messages from other people as well.
Three days later, the two took advantage of the holiday to go to Haicheng, the city they had been longing for.
Haicheng is a very niche tourist town. There is no airport here, so the only way to get there is by train. It was quite a hassle along the way, but at least we finally arrived.
When they got off the bus, the stop was by the sea. A hot, sweet sea breeze blew towards them, and Song Yu's hat was almost blown off. Xu Qiao quickly grabbed it for her.
"The wind here is just as strong as the last time I came here." Song Yu muttered a few words and complained, "I don't know how much trouble it is for people who live here all year round."
The two of them first went to the accommodation they had booked online in advance. The room was not very big. When they booked it, they were staying together. Xu Qiao looked at the page on her phone with a searching look at Song Yu. She said decisively, "Book a room."
So they booked a standard room with two beds.
They booked the best hotel in the town, which looked quite decent. Although a bit old, it was clean and tidy.
Song Yu sat on the bed on the side, looking down at Xu Qiao squatting on the ground packing their luggage. They didn't make any travel plans, and in fact they didn't need to, because the town was so small, and there was only the sea and the city. Renting an electric car was enough to travel around the city, so the two of them planned to rent an electric car and go wherever they wanted.
The sun was very hot, giving the small town of Haicheng a natural and beautiful filter. Song Yu was about to go out wearing only a tank top, but was caught by Xu Qiao and asked to apply sunscreen on her. She frowned and thought the sunscreen was too oily on her body, so she asked Xu Qiao to apply less.
"No." He slowly spread the thick sunscreen on his fair skin. "It's a good thing to get a tan when you come back tonight. A serious sunburn will cause your skin to peel, blisters to ooze yellow fluid, and you'll have to apply smelly and uncomfortable ointment."
Song Yu immediately became obedient and stood there obediently, waiting for Xu Qiao to gather her hair aside and apply sunscreen on her back. After all the sunscreen was evenly applied, he held Song Yu's long hair and waited for a while, and only let it go after it was completely dry. Finally, when he left, he put a hairband on his hand.
The hotel is run by a local couple who are very easy-going. They happily recommended affordable places to rent electric cars and even gave them two opened coconuts for them to drink on the way.
Song Yu said sweetly, "Thank you, sister. I will definitely promote your store when I get back."
Who wouldn't like a pretty girl talking to you with such a smile? When she walked out of the door, Song Yu had two more candies in her hand. She stuffed one into Xu Qiao's mouth and said proudly, "Eat it. I earned this by talking sweetly. Isn't it amazing?"
Xu Qiao chewed the candy in his mouth and said with a smile, "That's amazing."
So Song Yu smiled even more proudly.
They rented an electric car, which went smoothly. The owner was also very nice. Seeing that it was inconvenient for them to hold the coconuts in their hands, he gave them two small bags to put them in.
It was around 4 p.m. when they came out. They didn't have any special itinerary for the day. The only thing they had planned was to visit the blessing tree. They had both been to that tree before, so it was like revisiting an old place.
It is not a tourist attraction, but just an ordinary big tree with lush branches and leaves growing on the roadside for many years. It is only because the residents living here have passed it down from generation to generation that it is called a blessing tree.
When I went there, there were still many red ribbons tied on the tree, much more than when Song Yu came before.
Before they came, they specially bought red cloth strips, wrote their wishes on them and tied them together. When they were writing, neither of them knew what the other had written. Now that they were tied in the same place, the words on both strips were exposed.
Thank you for letting us meet again.
Thank you for letting me stand by her side again.
That day they went to watch the first sunset at the seaside since they were together. The misty blue rising from the horizon not far away and the light coming through the clouds finally formed large patches of incredibly beautiful irregular pink and purple, which blended perfectly with the misty blue at the end of the sea.
They were kissing, but their kisses were brief and passionate. No one was seriously looking at the beautiful scenery of the blooming sea, because they knew that they would see such scenery together countless times in the future.
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