"I don't have too many requirements for you." Xu Wei cursed until her throat was dry, and took a sip of water. "I don't care about other things in your first and second year of high school, but you are already a third year of high school. When you are willing to come to class, you should study hard, right?"

Xu Wei glared at him, threw a draft book onto the table, and tapped it hard with her red nails: "Look at what you were doing in my class?"

Bai Liu's name was scribbled on the cover of the draft book, and next to it were a few formulas whose results had not yet been calculated. The letters were deformed at the end, and it was obvious that the writing was very careless.

Bai Liu picked up the familiar draft book, flipped it open at random, and saw the various simple doodles on it. He suddenly understood.

It’s this notebook.

When he was in high school, he often skipped classes in the early part of his senior year. In the second semester of his senior year, Lu Yizhang used various means to coerce and induce him to attend classes. However, he never attended the classes properly. He was distracted or in a daze most of the time, and would randomly scribble on his notebook.

This is the notebook where he often doodled. It turned out that Xu Wei had confiscated it. No wonder he couldn't find it when he graduated.

Xu Wei snatched the notebook from Bai Liu's hand, threw it down in anger, flipped open a few pages, and thrust it in front of Bai Liu for him to read:

"What are these things you drew?!"

Bai Liu raised his eyes calmly and looked at the picture on the book.

The pictures on the notebook were drawn with a ballpoint pen. They were simple and sloppy, but you could roughly make out what they meant.

Most of the early paintings showed a female monster with red nails and bulging eyes being torn into pieces by various weapons and then killed miserably. From time to time, a toad with a watermelon head and a grinning face would also be killed. This type of painting took up about half of the book, and most of the colors used were red and blue ballpoint pens, which looked very glaring and bloody.

But in the later stage, the style of the painting changed, and a faceless pencil figure appeared. The description of this figure was very vague. He was wearing a school uniform, thin and small. He sat alone on the edge of the flower bed, lowered his head and looked at the two popsicle sticks in his hands, and seemed very lonely.

Then on the next page, a dark, messy, puppy-sized mass of fuzzy lines appeared in front of the pencil man.

The shadows of these lines cannot be seen clearly, and it seems that the painter cannot see clearly the appearance of the object that suddenly appeared in front of him, so he can only vaguely describe the shape of the shadow in his eyes.

This ball of fluffy puppy is squatting in front of the little man's legs, with a frame next to it that reads: [Can I have the ice cream in your hand? ]

The villain answered in the dialogue box: [No. ]

The puppy continued to ask: [Can I switch with you? ]

The little man asked: [What do you want to exchange for? ]

The puppy line said: [Exchange with my newly born soul. 】

Bai Liu looked straight at the draft book and reached out to take it.

He didn't remember ever drawing anything like this.

Xu Wei pulled the draft book back and was about to continue cursing when she saw Bai Liu looking at her straight in the eye.

Her scalp went numb, and her voice became weaker as she spoke: "...Why are you looking at me like that?"

It felt like he was going to strangle her to death with a whip. She had never seen Bai Liu look at her with such an aggressive look before. For a moment, her back felt cold and she subconsciously loosened her hands that were pulling at the notebook, letting Bai Liu take it back.

"The teacher scolded you for your own good." Xu Wei forced herself to stand up calmly, and the movement was a little smaller. She lightly pointed at the book in Bai Liu's hand, "Look at what you drew, it's a mess. If you draw well, the teacher can help you apply for the art and sports class, but look at what you drew..."

"What about the female monster with red nails and the toad? They are all too scary. Are they the monsters in the horror games you like to play?"

Bai Liu glanced at the red nails on Xu Wei's hands, curled his lips, and hummed indifferently: "I guess so."

Xu Wei cleared her throat and said, "And the little people and lines at the back, that little person is you, right? What are those lines? Why are they talking to you?"

"You know something has happened recently, and everyone is concerned about the psychological problems of senior high school students." Xu Wei sighed pretentiously, "The teacher is also worried about your mental state, so he took your drawings and asked the school's psychologist about it."

"They say that your paintings are, to a certain extent, the result of your self-isolation, which has caused the non-existent friends you imagined as children to remain today, and it is a serious psychological problem."

Bai Liu lowered his head, holding the notebook without saying a word.

Seeing this, Xu Wei couldn't help but feel a sense of pride that hurt Bai Liu. She slowly straightened her chest and her expression became hypocritical and arrogant: "Of course, the teacher can understand why you have such a problem. After all, you grew up in that kind of environment and have this kind of personality. It seems that you don't have many friends in the welfare home?"

Bai Liu still didn't answer.

Xu Wei's smile grew bigger and bigger. "The pressure of being a senior in Qiao Mu is very high. It may aggravate your psychological problems. You have seen that many students have problems this year. The teacher doesn't want you to have problems too."

"How about this, the teacher can help you apply for withdrawal first, and then you can go to another class when your psychological problems get better."

As long as Bai Liu is forced away, her performance in class will not be affected, and Hou Tong will not be able to pester Bai Liu.

Seeing that Bai Liu still ignored her, Xu Wei frowned and was about to say something, but a female teacher came over and knocked on Xu Wei's desk: "Teacher Xu, we have to go downstairs to gather."

"Okay." Xu Wei stood up and glanced at Bai Liu. "Bai Liu, think about it carefully."

"I'm doing this for your own good."

Outside the window, a loud speaker announced: [All students, please gather at the playground! All students, please gather at the playground! ]

The students were bustling downstairs with their stools, complaining to each other about having to hold a meeting in such a hot sun at two o'clock in the afternoon. Almost every student was holding a bottle of iced mineral water and a bag of ice cream snacks.

Most of the students at Qiaomu High School are in good condition, so when there is a mobilization meeting, everyone will buy something and eat while they are having fun.

Except for Bai Liu.

He didn't have the money to buy them, but that didn't mean he couldn't have them.

"Teacher Xu has kept you for the entire break again." Hou Tong came up complaining. She opened her pocket and handed Bai Liu a popsicle. "At least give you time to drink some water, right?"

Bai Liu closed the half-opened draft book, glanced at the popsicle she handed over, and said politely and distantly: "Thank you, but no thanks."

Hou Tong was stunned, but she soon understood something. She grabbed Bai Liu, who was about to turn around and leave, and explained anxiously, "I didn't buy it for you!"

"Fang Dian bought it and asked me to bring it to you!"

Bai Liu paused and turned to look at Hou Tong.

"I'm not lying to you. I really didn't buy this!" Hou Tong took it out eagerly and showed it to Bai Liu. "Look, this is the cheapest kind of popsicle, 50 cents each. I wouldn't buy this kind for you."

Yes, the entire small bag was filled with ice creams that cost seven to eight to more than ten yuan each. A cheap double-headed popsicle that cost only a tenth of the other ice creams seemed out of place.

——But this is the kind of popsicle that Bai Liu eats the most in the entire high school.

In the summer, Lu Yi Zhan and Fang Dian would save money and spend to buy these popsicles for Bai Liu.

"Thank you." Bai Liu took it and smiled lightly. This time his expression was less distant and more serious. "Please help me take it."

Seeing Bai Liu take it, Hou Tong breathed a sigh of relief, but she lowered her head and looked at the bag of more than ten expensive ice creams in her small pocket. None of them was as good as the fifty-cent popsicle that Fang Dian bought for Bai Liu. She stomped her feet in anger and her eyes became a little red.

What exactly is the difference between her and others?

Why don’t you take her things every time!

Bai Liu casually tore open the wrapping paper of a popsicle as he walked. This cheap popsicle was made of two sticks stuck together.

Lu Yizhan had been raising him since the orphanage days, and was used to sharing all the food with him. This habit continued even when he was in high school. Before Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian got together, he and Lu Yizhan would usually share one popsicle, one for each of them, which was very economical.

But after catching up with Fang Dian at Lu Station, these two popsicles were only enough for two people to share. It would be very awkward to share them among three people. At that time, Bai Liu, an outsider who was eating and drinking for free, would tactfully withdraw from other people's world of two and go to the office to get water.

Eighteen-year-old Bai Liu thought calmly that it was finally time for Lu Yi Station to have its own circle.

He didn't understand why Lu Yizhan had raised him for more than four years for no reason, but this doubt finally ceased after Fang Dian appeared - maybe there was nothing more interesting around for Lu Yizhan to pay attention to at that time, so he was bored and raised him.

But soon Bai Liu fell into even greater confusion.

He originally thought that Fang Dian's arrival would put Lu Yizhan on the path of a normal person - get into a good university, find a good job after graduation, get married, have children, make many outstanding friends, and live a normal and successful life. In short, his interaction with this marginal figure would end here.

Just like the half of the 50-cent popsicle that Lu Yizhan gave him should have stopped there.

In the future, Lu Yizhang shouldn't eat such cheap popsicles and share them in half with people like him. They are not from the same world. It's Lu Yizhang who has been forcing him, to the point of putting himself at a disadvantage.

But... that's not the case.

Fang Dian's arrival did not take away Bai Liu's popsicle, but allowed Bai Liu to eat one more each time.

This woman would buy a 50-cent double-ended popsicle with a smile, and then give her other one to Bai Liu, touching his head and saying, "Why are you hiding? I like you too."

From then on, Bai Liu could only eat two popsicles, and his confusion doubled.

"Bai Liu!"

A cheerful and generous voice came from a girl with a high ponytail, wearing a school uniform and skirt, laughing and shouting in the crowd. She waved her right hand, smiling brightly, and the sunlight falling on her became dazzling and warm, dispelling the dead atmosphere here:

"Bai Liu! Over here!"

"Come sit next to me!"