After a year, Bai Liu had another midnight snack of beef noodles at eight yuan a bowl.

There were three people, but they only ordered one bowl of noodles. This bowl of noodles was naturally placed in front of Bai Liu. Bai Liu paused, and he did not pick up the chopsticks: "Don't you want to eat?"

"We usually eat very well. The dormitory building above provides meals at night." Fang Dian sighed with regret, "Well, it's only because today is Sunday that the kitchen in our dormitory building is turned off. Otherwise, I could have stolen some vegetables to feed you."

"Keep your voice down." Lu Yizhan was helpless and at a loss whether to laugh or cry. "If someone hears and reports it again, Bai Liu won't have any midnight snacks anymore."

"OKOK." Fang Dian made an OK gesture nonchalantly. She stuffed the chopsticks into Bai Liu's hand with great interest, "Eat quickly! If you don't eat, the noodles will become clumpy!"

Fang Dian and Lu Yizhang looked at Bai Liu eagerly, they were really happy for Bai Liu.

After Bai Liu didn't have a midnight snack, Fang Dian and Lu Yizhang never went to the midnight snack canteen again, even though they received a 50 yuan midnight snack subsidy every day.

This was the first time they had entered this midnight snack restaurant in a year, but they had nothing to eat.

He asked Fangdian and Luyi Station why they didn't go, even though they were receiving subsidies.

Fang Dian just smiled and rubbed Bai Liu's head, saying, "It won't be delicious if there's one less person, so we won't go."

Bai Liu was silent for a long time. Finally, he picked up the chopsticks and slowly started to eat the bowl of beef noodles.

What does it mean to be one person short?

Bai Liu didn't ask at that time, but now, he seemed to understand what Fang Dian meant.

After finishing the meal, Lu Yizhan continued to talk to Bai Liu about many things, to the point where Fang Dian began to urge him: "Old Lu, it's almost ten o'clock, we have to go upstairs."

"Got it." Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with a very complicated look. In the end, he just smiled with relief and patted Bai Liu on the shoulder. "Don't be stressed. 351 is already very good."

"I can see that you are trying hard. You are really a good kid."

"Okay, you're the only one who talks too much. I still have something to say to Bai Liu. Go away!" Fang Dian pushed Lu Yizhan away. She pulled Bai Liu aside and asked with a smile as if she saw through everything, "Have you found the life you want?"

Bai Liu was silent for a moment: "I have some ideas."

"So soon? This doesn't make sense. I thought that with your stubborn personality, you would be able to figure it out at least after taking the college entrance examination." Fang Dian touched her chin and asked with interest, "Have you... met someone you want to live with?"

Bai Liu paused and did not answer.

"If you don't want to tell me, forget it." Fang Dian waved her hand. She generously ignored it, then pulled the schoolbag from behind her, took out the teaching materials and notebooks one by one, and explained in an orderly manner, "Lao Lu made those notes for you a little hastily last time. You have a weak foundation, and I am afraid that you can't understand them. After you go back, I, the top student in the grade, will personally help you sort out the knowledge points and test questions of the entire senior year!"

"I guarantee you can get 400 points after reading this!"

Fang Dian threw the heavy notebook and teaching materials into Bai Liu's hands. She smiled, with dark circles visible under her eyes. "Nuo, this is the weight of knowledge. Look at it carefully!"

Bai Liu held the notebook and was silent for a long time: "Did you stay up late to do this?"

"It didn't take long." Fang Dian smiled, "I was free anyway."

How can I be idle?

The curriculum of senior year is already heavy. Bai Liu knows that she and Lu Yizhang have to prepare for various competitions in addition to the college entrance examination, which are the so-called must-do events to bring honor to the school. Not to mention that she is extremely busy, she definitely cannot find the time to help him sort out these knowledge points.

But the square point was still made.

Bai Liu paused for a moment, then hummed and took the worn-out textbooks and notebooks. "I owe you a favor."

"This doesn't count." Fang Dian raised his eyebrows and flicked Bai Liu's forehead. "Favors are owed when you ask someone to do something for you. You didn't ask me to do it. I did it for you willingly. This doesn't count as a favor."

Bai Liu lowered his head, looking at the heavy and worn-out square-dot schoolbag in his hands that he couldn't hold with both hands, and asked calmly, "I don't really understand."

Fang Dian asked, "What don't you understand?"

"You and Lu Yizhang spend this time on anyone in the mountain, and you make friends with anyone in the mountain." Bai Liu raised his head, "You can get far better rewards than me. They will give you a lot of things, money, status, social connections, and a smooth future."

"Why are you wasting your time on me?"

"It's very simple." Fang Dian answered bluntly, "We don't want to be friends with them."

"We don't like them, but we like you very much and just want to be friends with you."

"But you are excellent and valuable." Bai Liu stared at Fang Dian with his dark eyes. "You worked so hard to become the first or second in age, and the most valuable students in this school, but you wasted this value on me. This is a bad deal."

Fangdian's amber eyes curved, and she suddenly smiled softly: "Do you remember what I told you before, Bai Liu?"

“I say that a person studies hard in order to choose the life he likes.”

"We strive to be the first or second in age, not to exchange for more value, but to choose the life I like."

The moonlight fell on Fangdian's face, and she smiled softly and brilliantly: "Choosing to be friends with you is the life we ​​like. Laolu and I don't think we are wasting our own value."

"It's almost ten o'clock, bye!" Fang Dian said, and she turned around and pulled Lu Yizhan up the mountain in a hurry, her voice still with a smile, "I'll come to see you next time, Bai Liu!"

Bai Liu looked at Fang Dian's ponytail bouncing as he ran. A human-shaped black line appeared on his side and stuck to Bai Liu's body the moment it appeared.

"Why did you suddenly disappear just now?" Bai Liu asked in a flat tone.

Heitao lay on Bailiu's back, resting his chin on Bailiu's head, and said in a depressed voice: "I can only show up when you are alone."

"You appear when you are alone?" Bai Liu asked back, "But before that, you could also exist when I was in the dormitory and classroom."

"It has nothing to do with how many people there are." Spade said, "When you feel that you are a person, I can exist. But when you feel that you are not a person, I no longer exist."

"When you were in the classroom and dormitory, you felt like you were a person, so I could show up, but when they were eating beef noodles with you just now, you didn't feel like you were a person, so I couldn't exist."

Bai Liu paused and asked: "You and Lu Yizhan can't coexist?"

"You can say that." Heitao hugged Bai Liu and buried his head in Bai Liu's shoulder. He said in a muffled voice, "I am a monster that exists so that you are not alone."

"When there are other humans who make you feel that you are not alone, there is no reason for me to exist."

"Are you this type of monster?" Bai Liu held Heitao's hand on his shoulder with his left hand and spoke calmly, "Then you should be able to exist for a long time, because I prefer to be alone."

His left hand tightly grasped the bag of notebooks Fang Dian gave him, and then let go.

The parents' meeting comes right after the final exam.

Lu Yizhan and Bai Liu, two students from special families, had no parents to help with the parent-teacher meetings.

There is no square point either.

Bai Liu had no intention of exploring other people's family growth environment, and had never asked why Fang Dian never had any parents come to the parent-teacher meetings, but humans always have a secret desire to spy on the outstanding and unique people in the group, as if the more they know about the other person, the closer they are to the other person's position.

Bai Liu heard about Fang Dian's affairs from the gossip of his roommates.

Fang Dian was the top student in her grade in junior high school. Her parents were very nice people who loved her very much, and her family was also quite well off. It can be said that the first fifteen years of Fang Dian's life were "smooth sailing", which was best described by the eight words "happy and fulfilling".

As if God would not allow her to continue to be so happy, when Fang was fifteen years old, a major change happened in her family.

Fang Dian's mother was seriously ill. Her father spent a lot of money on her mother's treatment, but it was still not enough. Finally, in order to raise money, her father was deliberately induced by someone with ulterior motives to go to the gambling table.

Overnight, he lost all his money and owed a lot of gambling debts.

It seemed that Fang Dian was going to live an extremely difficult life from then on, but that was not the case. This woman had an extremely strong character and ability to wield a knife to break through barriers. She pulled her father down from the gambling table, tied up her long hair, and then went to the gambling table empty-handed.

Another night, Fang Dian won back everything her father had lost, and then she stopped.

Her father broke down in hysterics and grabbed her shoulders and yelled, "Keep gambling! You're such a good gambler! Pay back all your mother's medical bills!"

"If you have the ability, why don't you gamble!"

Her father looked at Fang Dian who shook her head firmly, and knelt on the ground in a daze. He looked at his daughter with tears in his eyes: "Is this Daddy's request for you?"

"I won by cheating. I can't gamble anymore." Fang Dian said softly, "Dad, in gambling, besides money, you can also lose yourself."

"I don't want to see you, besides my mother, being tortured by bad things."

Fang Dian's father couldn't understand his daughter's choice. He left all his money to Fang Dian and ran away, leaving Fang Dian alone to deal with all the broken stalls.

The square points have also been dealt with.

Her score in the high school entrance examination was the highest in the city, and many schools offered her generous admission conditions, including some public schools with good learning environment and atmosphere. Fang Dian had originally planned to go to a public school close to home, but in the end she chose Qiaomu, which offered the highest bonus, and barely raised the medical expenses to choose a treatment plan for her mother.

But her mother quickly became exhausted and passed away within half a year after the treatment.

Fang Dian handled her mother's funeral all by herself, relying on prize money from various competitions, the generous special student allowance that Qiao Mu gave her every year, the money left over from her mother's treatment, and a large sum of money that suddenly appeared in her account after her mother passed away - probably from her father who had disappeared into nowhere.

With the money from here and there, Fang Dian redeemed the old house that her family had sold for medical treatment. She finally had a place to live after leaving school.

——And this place became the place where Bai Liu and Lu Yizhan often lived after leaving school.

It's like... a very small home.

It was quite strange that no one attended a parent-teacher meeting for the top-ranked and second-ranked students, but Qiao Mu’s preferential treatment for the top-ranked students reached an outrageous level - the school approved Lu Yizhang and Fang Dian to hold a parent-teacher meeting for themselves.

The reason is that excellent students can manage their own studies and life without parental supervision; they are their own parents.

But on the contrary, Bai Liu does not have this privilege. Once a parents' meeting is held, his seat is always empty.

Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian really wanted to attend the parent-teacher meeting, but Qiaomu's parent-teacher meetings were usually held together for all classes in the school, so when Bai Liu held a parent-teacher meeting, Lu Yizhan and the others must have been holding one as well.

It is worth mentioning that for some reason, Lu Yizhan had a special obsession with opening a parent-teacher meeting for Bai Liu. He had tried to escape from his own parent-teacher meeting to help him several times, but was caught by the teacher of their class every time.

"Why do you want to open it for me so much?" Bai Liu asked Lu Yizhang curiously.

"You don't understand." Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with resentment in his eyes. "Being able to hold a parents' meeting for you and being your father was something that everyone around me had strong expectations for."

In the past, who in the Heretic Management Bureau hadn't scolded Bai Liu? Who wanted to be Bai Liu's father...

Bai Liu asked slowly: "?"

The same was true at this parents' meeting; Bai Liu's seat was still empty.

The class was bustling with people, and it was unusually noisy. The students' parents wore their most expensive clothes, watches, necklaces, rings and bags, and dressed up beautifully. From time to time, my pigeon blood red ruby ​​ring rubbed against your newly done hair, and I was sorry that my handmade custom mechanical watch touched your calfskin bag. I was so sorry.

They are like roosters and hens, ready to go, with their feathers spread out.

The students had long been forgotten. The parents were talking to each other in high and fake voices. The whole place looked like a large social gathering held in a hotel instead of a parent-teacher meeting at school.

"Hey, what car did you drive here today? I drove my BMW here today and couldn't find a parking space. Qiaomu really needs to expand the scale, otherwise it will be difficult to park even when we come to the parents' meeting."

"Did your family buy another house in the newly opened Sunshine City real estate project?"

"There have been some changes in the company's upper management recently, and a position may be vacant."

"On Double Eleven, Lan's facial cream is 9.5% off, only a little over 4,000! Want to buy together?"

In short, although it is a parents' meeting, it seems to have nothing to do with students.

Bai Liu has always had zero participation in such parent-teacher meetings, but he really has no need to participate, because after all, the entire event only has two monotonous and boring topics:

First, parents compare with each other, and second, students compare with each other.

The open and covert competition among adults is still covered up by a fig leaf called sophistication, but the competition among young people aged 17 or 18 is much more straightforward.

"My mom just bought me the latest pair of shoes." The boy next to Bai Liu shook the shoes on his feet, his face full of satisfaction, "Bring them here for me to try on at the parents' meeting today."

"Wow, this pair will cost more than 3,000 yuan."

The boy shook his finger mysteriously: "Nono."

"Wow, your hands are signed by basketball stars!"

"Fuck, this is a limited edition from two years ago. How did you get it?"

"How else can you get it?" The boy shrugged. He smiled nonchalantly and stretched his feet in front of Bai Liu and shook them. "Money, you can get it by paying a high price. Including the postage, it cost nearly six thousand."

"Six thousand, that's a good deal, I want it too!"

"I'll ask my mom to look for it for me when I get home. My aunt is overseas so she should be able to find it."

Bao Kangle, who was standing aside, listened with a gloomy and jealous look on his face. He stared at the pair of sneakers worth more than six thousand dollars, his eyes full of desire.

Bai Liu was at least eight hundred times more excited after hearing such words. He turned his head and leaned against a window at the back of the classroom corridor, his eyes fixed inside the window.

Through the window, he could see that his seat was empty. The seats in front, behind, and on both sides were filled with wealthy parents. These parents were not satisfied with having their own seats occupied, so they casually placed their expensive handbags on Bai Liu's desk.

It's like this position belonging to Bai Liu's family is naturally an empty position.

When the boys who were discussing sneakers enthusiastically next to Bai Liu saw that Bai Liu didn't respond at all, their faces darkened, they looked at each other, and surrounded him tacitly.

The leading boy pushed Bai Liu's shoulder and said, "Hey."

Bai Liu turned around and glanced at him coldly: "What's the matter?"

"Hey, you're making a sour face." The boy giggled and put his head in front of Bai Liu, "What were you looking at just now?"

The boy pretended to look over Bai Liu's shoulder and looked into the classroom. He clicked his tongue twice and said, "Looking for your parents?"

"But you don't have any parents!" The boy pretended to be regretful and said, "Well, I got a new pair of sneakers today, and I'm in a good mood."

"What if you call me dad and I go in and open the parent meeting for you?"

The other boys all tried to hold back their laughter, and Bao Kangle, who had a gloomy face, also relaxed. He looked at Bai Liu who was surrounded with disgust and interest, as if he was looking at some inferior person.

As long as Bai Liu is in the class, he will not be the one having the worst time.

"I'm not bullying you." The boy pretended to pinch Bai Liu's shoulders. "It's mainly because you have no parents, so you're pitiful."

"My parents are so kind to me, so I should do some good things for someone like you who came out of an orphanage, to give back to society, right?"

"Look." The boy said with a playful smile, firmly holding Bai Liu's shoulders and letting him look at the classroom through the window. "My parents are sitting in front of your seat. They put their bags on your seat. Your seat is blessed by my parents. I'm nice to you. Do you want to call me dad?"

Bai Liu was about to speak when his words paused. Through the window glass, he saw a human-shaped black figure sitting on his originally empty seat.

The black line studied Bai Liu's seat curiously, then raised its hands and swept away the two handbags on Bai Liu's seat that were blocking its seat.

A man and a woman who were sitting in front of Bai Liu's seat in the classroom heard the sound of a bag falling, turned around, frowned, and asked:

"Who swept us away?"

"Isn't this place specially used for bags?"

Someone next to him kindly reminded him, "No, this is the seat of a classmate in their class, Bai Liu, but no parents came for the meeting, so it was vacant."

The man and woman waved their hands in disapproval, their annoyance evident on their faces:

"I know the Bai Liu you're talking about. She came from an orphanage, is dirty and mean, and I heard she would steal food from her classmates' cupboards. Our kid really hates her."

"I didn't know that my son was sitting in front of this person before. I will go to Teacher Xu after class to report this and ask him to move his seat. Otherwise, if he sits in front of this person all day, he won't be able to learn well and it will affect his mood."

As they spoke, the two men picked up the handbag, neither bidding nor patting it, and put it back on Bai Liu's desk in an arrogant and natural manner.

The human-shaped black line slowly raised its head. Bai Liu, who was pressed outside the window by the booing boys, remained silent for a moment. He clearly saw that when the man and the woman said that he was dirty and mean, the black line suddenly changed from a black line to a man with a blurred outline.

This man had very delicate and perfect facial features and a tall stature. He squeezed his tall and long body into Bai Liu's small seat very stubbornly. There was no expression on his face. He looked to be no more than eighteen or nineteen years old. He had a pair of very eye-catching silver-blue eyes.

Is this... this ball of puppy lines, what Spade really looks like?

It seems that his vision for the future has not declined.

Spade raised his head indifferently, and his silver-blue eyes met the man and woman who were about to put their handbags on the desk.

The man and woman were stunned for a long while, and they seemed to see a silver-blue door slowly opening towards them in the air.

The next second, their expressions suddenly twisted.

By the window, the boy was still sneering arrogantly, "Why don't you resist? Are you looking at my parents with envy?"

Suddenly, a panicked scream came from inside the window:

"Mr. Wang, Mrs. Wang, what are you doing?!"

The boy paused, loosened Bai Liu's collar, and looked into the window in confusion.

In the classroom, his parents were like two dogs, with their eyes raised and spread to the sides, sticking out their tongues with saliva dripping from them, and licking Bai Liu's desk frantically, as if they were eating something extremely sweet, with that strange smile on their faces.

“Smells so good… hehe… smells so good…”

It cannot be said that his image was completely ruined, but it can only be said that everyone in the classroom was shocked.

The people around them were screaming and trying to pull them away from Bai Liu's desk, but these two guys actually bit people ferociously.

After biting two parents who tried to pull them off, the boy was confused. He opened the window and shouted, "Mom and Dad, what are you doing?"

His parents slowly bent their necks and looked at their child outside. The look in their eyes made the boy feel cold on his back and he took two steps back.

But before he could turn around and run away, the parents jumped from the desk and out of the window, pressing their child to the ground with fierce eyes.

The boy was pushed to the ground by his parents. His head buzzed and he gasped a few times with a blank expression. However, his parents did not stop. Instead, they bared their fangs and began to carefully sniff the boy's scent.

The boy was so frightened that he pissed himself and struggled madly on the ground, shouting desperately: "Help me!"

The boy's followers had already been frightened and ran away, leaving Bai Liu, the only one who did not run away. The boy, who was pinned to the ground and sniffed by his parents, didn't care about anything else. He grabbed Bai Liu's trouser legs tightly and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Save me!"

"Get them away now!!"

Bai Liu looked indifferently at the boy who was pulling at his trouser legs for help: "You want me to save you?"

The boy nodded frantically, tears streaming down his face.

"Sure." Bai Liu said calmly, "Call me dad."

The boy was stunned. He was about to curse, "Fuck your mom, who wants to call you dad?", but his parents started to show that weird smile, which scared him so much that he immediately shouted, "Dad, Dad! Save my dad!"

The word "Dad" seemed to touch some switch in the parents. They began to squat, their eyes blank, with a strange and ingratiating smile on their faces. They leaned over, stuck out their tongues, put the back of their tongues on the surface of the child's shoe, and began to lick it seriously.

This couple actually started licking their children's sneakers.

"Hey, Daddy, hey." The man looked at his son, whose expression was completely dull, in a flattering manner, his eyes filled with empty and urgent desire. "I licked your shoes well, and I also gave you 1.6 million before. Do you think it's my turn to take the vacant position?"

The woman was also licking diligently and conscientiously. She looked extremely coquettish while licking, and even shook her shoulders and said coquettishly: "Husband, husband, daddy husband, look at how well I've performed, can you give me more living expenses next month~"

"I want to buy a $200,000 emerald bracelet."

"If you buy it for me, I can always call you dad~"

The boy's expression was blank due to the shock. Even though he was the kind of ignorant dude, he knew what his parents were doing by their behavior.

The people watching nearby all had indescribable expressions on their faces.

The man and woman were halfway through licking when they suddenly shook their heads. The lustful expressions on their faces disappeared completely, as if they had suddenly woken up from some insane state. They covered their heads which were suffering from severe headaches, and slowly looked at their son who was sitting paralyzed on the ground with a dazed look on his face.

They lowered their heads and looked at their son's sneakers in a trance.

The names of the stars on these sneakers are newly signed, and their son just showed off that they had specially asked the stars to sign them.

But now, because they licked it too hard, only half of the signature was left.

Their tongues were burning and stinging, with dark smudges of marker left on the surface.

After a while, the security guard who was urgently called over by other parents came and helped the two parents up. They walked past the crowd watching the excitement with their heads lowered and extremely ugly faces.

The man suddenly grabbed his son's hair and slapped him twice, and cursed him in a blatant way: "You little bastard! Damn it! You got such a low score! It drove your mother and me crazy!"

"I spent so much money on you and provided you with such good conditions, but you only scored this low. I'm so angry that your parents are going to have a seizure!"

The boy was stunned by the beating. Just as he tried to argue, his father slapped him hard in the face, causing his face to swell up. The man warned him viciously, "I'll settle the score with you when I get home!"

The boy was slapped hard all the way, and no one stopped him. He was almost dragged back by his own father. His mouth was drooling from the beating, but his father didn't stop, as if he was venting some kind of resentment on him.

Those followers who had been walking behind the boy before all pretended not to notice his look of help. They all lowered their heads and retreated, staying away from the boy.

Bai Liu looked at Hei Tao in the window, and Hei Tao looked at him through the window. He raised his chin lightly, motioning this guy to come out and explain what was going on.

The parents who suddenly went crazy must have been caused by this gang.

Hei Tao turned his head away seriously, pretending not to notice Bai Liu's eyes signaling him to come out, and sat dignifiedly in Bai Liu's seat, imitating other parents by looking seriously at Bai Liu's test paper on the table, with an expression of "I'm holding a parents' meeting for you, don't disturb me".

Bai Liu: “…”

Can you understand the test paper? Just look at it there...

Here.

After a brief and thrilling episode, the parents' meeting of Class 37 of Senior High School was successfully held.

Xu Wei walked onto the stage and summarized the key points of the exam one by one, summarizing the top ten and bottom ten students in terms of performance. Every parent of a student whose performance was summarized had to stand up and accept her comments.

Parents of students who rank at the top of the academic standings are very proud, while parents of those who rank at the bottom are rather embarrassed.

Bai Liu usually ranks at the bottom, but this time he was rarely out of the bottom ten and was not among the group of poor students who were criticized.

This time he was among another wave of students who were summarized.

"Next, let's summarize the students who have made great progress in this exam." Xu Wei lowered her head and looked at the roster in her hand. "These students have made great progress recently. It is worth it for parents to learn from each other and draw lessons from each other's educational methods. Now that they are in the third year of high school, I hope everyone will pay a little more attention to their children."

She read out the names one by one, and every parent of a student who was called would stand up and accept the praise in a subtle yet proud manner, as if it was not their children who had improved their grades, but themselves.

"Your grades have improved by 120 places, Hou Tong." Xu Wei looked at Hou Tong's father who stood up with admiration, "Your child is very good. His grades have improved for several consecutive times."

"How can we not make progress?" Hou Tong's father is a middle-aged man who looks easygoing. He smiled helplessly, "We have already counted down and fallen into the valley. No matter where we go, it is progress."

The class laughed good-naturedly.

"Please sit down." Xu Wei motioned for the other party to sit down. She looked at the roster again, and the expression on her face became cold. "The last person who made progress was a special student in our class. I won't mention him here because his parents are not here."

Hou Tong's father couldn't help but say, "Teacher, even if the parents are not here, we still have to tell them, right?"

"Although his parents didn't come, he has made progress. There's no reason not to tell them, right?"

Xu Wei's face instantly became extremely embarrassed. She tried to make up for it, "Something happened just now, and the meeting was a bit urgent, so..."

"Teacher Xu, please continue." Hou Tong's father raised his hand to interrupt Xu Wei's explanation. He turned his head away and muttered softly, "How can you be a teacher? No wonder Xiaotong doesn't like it..."

Xu Wei's face was extremely ugly. She cleared her throat and tried her best to force a smile: "The last student who improved his grades this time is Bai Liu."

She glanced at Bai Liu by the window with almost malicious intent, and said in a joking tone: "Mr. Hou Tong is right. We should treat all students equally. Now according to the normal procedure, the parents of Bai Liu who are not here should stand up and accept the praise."

"Everyone applaud Bai Liu's parents."

Everyone turned to look at the empty seat and applauded.

Bai Liu also looked at that seat.

Hei Tao stood up from his seat, standing straight amid the applause, and nodded his chin slightly in imitation of other parents, as if he was accepting the praise on behalf of Bai Liu.

The corners of Bai Liu's lips curled up slightly.

After the parent-teacher conference, the school usually has a half-day holiday and students can go home with their parents.

Bai Liu was the last student to leave the classroom because he didn't have to go home. Or rather, the situation here was reversed. His "parent" was lying on top of him and wanted to go home with him.

The line that transformed Hei Tao into a human form was obviously much weaker, and he lay on Bai Liu's shoulder without moving.

"Aren't you supposed to avoid meeting other people?" Bai Liu asked calmly as they walked. "What happened just now? Cleaning handbags and driving people crazy, you seem to be quite capable."

"Originally it's not allowed." Spade's tone was very muffled, so weak that it was almost a whisper. "According to the rules, I can't interfere with or ruin your high school life."

Bai Liu paused and asked, "What happened just now?"

Spade paused. "Because I was so angry, I broke the rules."

“They can’t say that about you.”

"There's a price to pay for breaking the rules, right?" Bai Liu asked calmly, "So you're so weak now that you can't even walk, and you have to rely on me to carry you?"

Hei Tao hummed in a depressed tone, as if he knew he had done something wrong, and buried his head in Bai Liu's back.

There was silence between the two men for a moment.

The sun sets in the west, and the slowly falling sunlight is warm and long. The light shines obliquely, stretching the shadow of the white willow very long.

"Don't do stupid things like this that break the rules next time." Bai Liu carried Hei Tao on his back as he walked towards the dormitory. He lowered his eyes and looked at his own shadow, which was stretched out very long. He paused for a moment and said, "It would be interesting if you ended up killing yourself."

The spade on his back had no shadow, and there was only his own shadow under his feet, but he felt like two people were walking together.

The Spade on his back had no weight. Bai Liu walked such a long distance carrying such a huge monster as the Spade, but he felt relaxed as if there was nothing on his back.

But it was so heavy, so heavy that Bai Liuqing couldn't help but lean forward, as if he really had a person on his back, a ball of dog yarn, a monster that came just for him and held a parents' meeting for him.

"Remember?" Bai Liu confirmed again, his tone a little colder, "Don't do it this way next time."

Spade was silent for a long time before answering, "I can't control it."

"Why can't you control it?" Bai Liu asked.

"Because I like you very much." Heitao hugged Bai Liu tightly. He pressed against Bai Liu's back and repeated over and over again, "I like you very much."