Bai Xiyue didn't think too much at that moment, and her reaction was even faster than the system's warning.
She didn't think about anything when she rushed over to pull the person away. After all, there was a living person in front of her. It was only when he was rolling on the ground that she suddenly felt relieved that Chu Lan was okay.
She had previously discussed the issue of mission target death in a systematic manner.
The system says that the mission target is dead, and it is not possible to roll back to the previous node where the error occurred, because this function only works on the host. If the mission target dies within the time range of mission completion, then the entire mission must be started over again.
Bai Xiyue felt tired just thinking about it. If she really restored it to the factory settings, she would vomit blood.
The car rushed to the middle of the road and stopped. The cars on both sides quickly braked and went around it.
The car just stopped there and didn't move forward, seriously obstructing traffic.
Many people stopped and looked on. Chu Lan realized belatedly what he had experienced and was still a little frightened.
In that extremely dangerous situation just now, his mind was blank, and he was completely unable to think or react.
He suddenly hugged Bai Xiyue tightly, and Bai Xiyue leaned against his chest and patted him on the back.
"Are you okay?"
Chu Lan let go and looked at Bai Xiyue.
Just now she suddenly hugged him and pulled him back, and he fell to the ground.
"I'm fine, but you should be more careful. Next time, check if there are any cars coming before crossing the road. Even if the light is green, some people will run a red light..."
Bai Xiyue was mumbling and educating, when suddenly Chu Lan held her hand.
His fingers stroked the back of Bai Xiyue's hand, with fear in his eyes.
This feeling of brushing shoulders with death was thrilling and heart-pounding. Chu Lan's heartbeat gradually slowed down, and his mood gradually calmed down.
The traffic police came quickly and knocked on the window to ask questions, but there was no response.
I tried to open the car door and found it was not locked. The driver was slumped over the steering wheel with a pale face.
The traffic police immediately called an ambulance and came to inquire about Chu Lan's condition.
Chu Lan said that nothing happened to him and he did not suffer any injuries.
But if it weren't for Bai Xiyue, he might have collapsed here.
"The driver may have had some acute illness and lost control of his condition. Fortunately nothing happened. He must have been scared."
Logically speaking, people with such acute symptoms should not be able to obtain a driver's license or drive a car. In addition, this person ran a red light, causing traffic inconvenience, which is already an illegal act.
Chu Lan refused to go to the hospital or get the contact information to compensate for mental damages. This matter was troublesome and he didn't want his parents to know.
"Come on, have a drink to calm your nerves. I'll treat you."
Bai Xiyue patted Chu Lan's shoulder. One of their hands was still holding each other, and she simply led Chu Lan forward.
Chu Lan followed her closely, then walked to Bai Xiyue's side and walked forward side by side with her.
There weren't many people in the milk tea shop. Bai Xiyue and Chu Lan ordered a drink each and sat on the chairs.
Chu Lan stared at Bai Xiyue with an obscure look in his eyes.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Do you want to repay me for saving your life with your body?"
Bai Xiyue held her face and said to Chu Lan with a smile.
Anyone could tell that what she said was a joke, but Chu Lan took it seriously.
"Thank you for just now..."
His voice was a little hoarse, and he whispered thank you first.
"Why do I find it so strange to hear you thank me?"
Bai Xiyue said jokingly, as if she didn't think what she had just done was such a great thing. She didn't talk about it over and over again like most people. It was as if she had just done something insignificant, and she smiled and downplayed it.
The more she acted like this, the more Chu Lan... He couldn't express his feelings, he just felt happy and sad at the same time.
The more I like her, the more I understand her attitude.
In the situation just now, she pulled him back, quickly calmed down, and was able to comfort him quickly.
There was no fear in his eyes. He was like a brave hero who saved a stranger.
She didn't care about him that much, Chu Lan knew it clearly.
But knowing this makes me even more sad.
"If...if I said..."
Chu Lan looked at Bai Xiyue and was about to continue speaking when the waiter brought a tray and placed two drinks in front of Bai Xiyue and Chu Lan respectively, interrupting Chu Lan's words.
Chu Lan fell silent, and a hint of sadness appeared in his usually indifferent eyes and brows.
He was apparently very quiet, and looked neither sad nor happy, but somehow one could sense a hint of loneliness from him.
"What do you want to say? Hesitating is not your style."
Bai Xiyue felt it, but pretended not to know.
"If I wanted to take our relationship to the next level, would you agree?"
"Hmm? Like at the beginning?"
"No, it's not the same."
Chu Lan shook his head. What he wanted was not that. Or rather, it was more than that.
He was very nervous, and there was a rare nervousness in his eyes when he looked at Bai Xiyue.
He knew that this was a bit unreasonable, but he couldn't help it.
He thought Bai Xiyue would most likely not agree, but even so, he was still looking forward to her saying yes.
Even if there is a possibility of failure, I still want to hear the answer.
"Is it different from what I thought?"
Bai Xiyue stirred the drink in the quilt with a straw, and the smile on her face faded a little.
"yes."
Bai Xiyue fell silent, which made Chu Lan's heart hang high.
"You are not moved by what happened just now, right? There is no need to be like this. I am really not used to you being like this. Chu Lan, what should you do? You should be like you did on the day you said you wanted to break up. When I was vomiting and feeling uncomfortable, frown and calmly say, 'I remember I wore a condom.'"
Bai Xiyue was smiling, her expression was sincere, but the irony was so strong that Chu Lan felt a little embarrassed.
His heart, which had been hanging high, suddenly fell down and was smashed into pieces.
But he knew that he couldn't blame Bai Xiyue, he could only blame himself.
Chu Lan was at a loss, his hands on his knees were clenched together, and his body looked tense.
"In fact, even if it wasn't you, even if it was a stranger, someone I disliked, I would still save him, unless it was someone I thought was extremely evil. After all, it's a human life. I don't have anything to ask of you in return, it's not necessary, so don't take it too seriously."
Bai Xiyue had a nonchalant look on her face, and it seemed like she really didn't care at all.
Every word she said was like a knife stabbing into Chu Lan's heart.
Not needed, not needed, not necessary.
You are not important to her at all.
It doesn't matter at all.
"Of course, I won't ask you to repay me for anything. I'm not that kind of person. It's just how it was before, and it's just how it is now."
"As for what you said, I don't have that idea. Don't be so impulsive and really want to commit yourself to me. I don't dare to fall in love with you, right? If we had made it clear like before, then maybe it would be okay."
"Chu Lan, I know you. You are not the kind of person who would really fall in love. Just tell me what you said. Don't worry, I won't take it seriously. Others may not."
Chu Lan listened to every word, remembered it in his heart, and clenched his fists even tighter.
He lowered his head, not letting Bai Xiyue see the loss of composure on his face.
Everything she said was a response to his previous actions, as if she was mocking his delusion.
There are some things that he can't just brush aside and pretend nothing happened.
It's not like he said that we can just part ways and neither of us owes anyone anything.
Things are over, but the relationship is not.
"Thank you for accompanying me this afternoon. I'm leaving now."
It would be useless to say more at this time. Bai Xiyue took the drink, hummed a song quietly, and left the milk tea shop.
Although something unexpected happened in the middle, it was undoubtedly a huge driving force and we made a profit this time.
Of course, it's not enough to hurt Chu Lan's heart just by what I said today. It hurt him a lot, for sure, but not to the extreme.
Chu Lan would never give up just like that. This was different from the situation with Liu Wei Changxi. Chu Lan had to strike back several times.
Bai Xiyue smiled as she asked the system to remove her sick buff. Immediately, her headache and stuffy nose were gone, and she was so happy that she could take off on the spot.
Chu Lan didn't know how long he had stayed in the milk tea shop. He just stared at the drink in front of him, with many things running through his mind.
Most of them are fragmentary and scene-based.
One moment she was smiling sweetly at him, the next moment she was mocking him, the next moment she was lying on the bed, hooking her arms around his neck and kissing him, and the next moment she was saying they would no longer have any contact.
The chaotic scenes finally came together, causing Chu Lan to feel quite painful.
The last scene in Naihai is actually frozen on the day they separated.
She was lying on the bed, and after hearing what he said, she gave him a cold look.
He could hardly remember anything that happened between them before that.
I can't remember what she looked like before. There is only a vague image in my mind, but once I think about it deeply, it all becomes a bubble.
Chu Lan took a sip of the cold drink. The cocoa tasted sweet and bitter. It slid down his esophagus into his stomach, making him suddenly feel like vomiting.
His fingers grasped the clothes in front of him, with pain in his eyes.
It's all your own fault, that's probably the case.
It's really ironic.
——Don't worry, I won't take it seriously.
How funny.
She told him that she didn't take his sincerity seriously.
Not seriously.
The sweetness of the cocoa just now turned into bitterness in my mouth, and the bitterness penetrated into my heart.
If...if they hadn't started like that, would everything be different.
If he hadn't pulled away when he realized that she liked him, making her so sad, would this situation not be the case now?
Yesterday I threw it away like a shoe, but today I can’t find it even if I look for it.
Chu Lan was walking along the road, holding the cup of cold cocoa.
He walked towards home. It was time to go home from school. He didn't know where to go, and there seemed to be no place to go, so he just went home.
He may need to think carefully, sort out his thoughts, and think about what to do.
Although his expectations were dashed, he had already prepared for failure before that, so he didn't feel particularly devastated. Fortunately, he understood some things and knew the problem, so he could solve it.
Chu Lan took a sip of the cocoa butter in his hand. He did not throw it away, but took it home.
When he opened the door, he felt an unusual atmosphere.
The lights in the house were on, his mother was sitting upright on the sofa, and his father was not there, probably because he had not yet gotten off work.
Every time his mother behaves like this, she is probably angry.
Chu Lan felt something in his heart, but he didn't know to what extent the matter had been exposed, and still maintained his usual appearance.
"Is class over?"
"kindness."
"I heard that your test scores have dropped recently?"
Chu Lan felt relieved, probably because of the ranking loss in the last test, Bai Xiyue's score was higher than his.
Thinking of Bai Xiyue, Chu Lan's expression became much gloomier.
"Tell me why?"
"The total score didn't change much, except that one classmate did better than me."
Chu Lan put the drinks on the table and sat on the sofa.
He really wanted to go back to his room, but if he did that, there would be chaos at home, so he sat on the sofa and listened to the lecture.
"Why can others score so high but you can't?"
There was suppressed anger on Mother Chu's face. When she glanced at the cup of milk tea, her anger deepened.
"Because she is better than me."
Chu Lan said this without any psychological burden, he meant it sincerely and was absolutely not hypocritical.
"I taught you that?"
Mother Chu slapped the tea table and almost lost her temper.
"What do you mean by better than you? Everyone in this middle school knows that you are the best. You have been your mother's pride since you were a child. The fact that you didn't get first place is not because you are not as good as others, but because you didn't work hard enough!"
Chu Lan lowered his eyes and did not argue with his furious mother.
This happened frequently when he was a child, and he was used to it and didn't think much of it.
"Tell me, where did you go this afternoon?"
Chu Lan's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't look up and just gave a brief answer.
"Sent the classmate to the hospital."
"You're sending her there for the whole afternoon? Not even a single class? You sent her to another province and back again, right?"
Chu Lan didn't talk back and let his mother continue talking.
"Is she a female classmate?"
Chu Lan acquiesced.
"I never thought this would happen to you. Do you know what you are now? You are a student! What is the most important thing for a student? It is learning! It is not some irrelevant things, not love, Chu Lan, do you know?"
"You are now a senior high school student, and you will take the college entrance examination soon. What do you want to do?"
"You really want to piss us off, don't you? Today your aunt called me and said she saw you walking with a girl on the street. You don't know how surprised she sounded. I was also surprised when I heard it. How could my son walk with a girl outside the school during class time?"
"Your aunt was right, it was you. I was so embarrassed that I wanted to crawl into the ground. I was so ashamed. After hanging up the phone with your aunt, I quickly called your head teacher. Your head teacher said that you were sick and took leave. I was confused. Where did you go if you didn't go home? Hanging out with little girls? What did you do? Did you not want to study anymore? Your father doesn't know about this yet. What will he say to you if he knows?"
Mother Chu sneered and looked at Chu Lan.
"I really sent our classmate to the hospital. She was not feeling well. She was the one who got first place in the last exam. She could get full marks in math and English."
Mother Chu choked and asked Chu Lan to continue.
"She wanted to buy some exercises, so I went with her. We were going to talk about the exam papers in the afternoon, and the class was almost over. Besides, she got a perfect score, so I could ask her questions. So we went to the bookstore."
Well-reasoned and convincing.
"If you don't believe me, you can call the class teacher to ask if she is number one, or ask her classmates if she is sick today."
Chu Lan's expression was calm, and what he said was irrefutable.
"But even so, you can't miss class for the whole afternoon."
Mother Chu's momentum weakened a lot, but she still knocked on the table and said so.
"Since you already know it, there's no need to waste time listening. You might as well learn something more."
"You kid...just spend some time with your female classmates."
Mother Chu was amused by Chu Lan and no longer had a stern face.
"I'm going back to my room."
"Okay, take the money and go out to buy food later. Your dad has an appointment tonight."
Mother Chu was planning to give her son a good lecture, and she was so angry that she didn't even cook.
Chu Lan nodded and returned to the room with the drink.
He had a lot of things he wanted to talk to, but he couldn't find anyone to talk to. He had no close friends and always kept to himself.
He knew that it was impossible to tell those things to his parents. It was a luxury for him to get his parents to feel comforted. He would not get a response but would be severely scolded instead.
Those things weighed on his mind, making him a little tired.
He didn't know what to do.
He opened the notes on his phone and typed a lot of words into it, expressing his own feelings and venting his emotions.
He was silent, his brows and eyes gloomy.
When he finished writing, he deleted everything without looking back.
Chu Lan accidentally clicked on the photo album and saw a photo taken this afternoon.
Bai Xiyue was sleeping soundly with her eyes closed, which made Chu Lan's heart soften and he smiled unconsciously.
It wouldn't be a big deal if time could stop at that moment. If it happened again, he would still ask the question, even though he knew the chances of success were very small.
"Son, wait a minute..."
Mother Chu suddenly opened the door and saw the smile on Chu Lan's face.
Her motherly instinct and what she had just said made her feel that something was wrong, so she immediately walked closer.
"What are you looking at?"
"Nothing, Mom, you should knock before you enter my room next time."
Chu Lan was somewhat reluctant to delete the photo. He felt that once he deleted it, he might not have the chance to see that kind of scene a second time. However, if he didn't delete it, the situation would become very tricky.
"We'll talk about knocking on the door later. Hand me your phone."
Mother Chu stretched out her hand, but Chu Lan took the phone.
Mother Chu looked at the desktop and opened the photo album. There were only a few landscape photos in the album. She opened the contacts on her mobile phone. There was no one except the people she knew, and the text messages were also empty.
She opened Chu Lan's social software with some suspicion. There were very few contacts in it, and it didn't look suspicious.
"You're about to take your final exams, so don't use your phone for the time being. I'll keep it for you and give it to you during winter break."
Chu Lan nodded, looking nonchalant.
"What did you want to tell me just now?"
"It's okay. Go out and eat and go to class later."
Mother Chu closed the door, which made a slight sound, and Chu Lan's mood also dropped.
He still deleted the photo, but kept it in his mind.
He had never asked for Bai Xiyue's social media contact information before, he just asked for her phone number. He didn't write down the phone number, he just memorized it in his mind.
Therefore, there was no clue in the phone that could allow the mother to find out about their affairs.
Chu Lan lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
There seemed to be absolutely nothing about Bai Xiyue around him. He was thinking about her and missing her in his heart. They had been so close, but there was no trace of her existence around him.
It's not completely impossible. Chu Lan suddenly sat up from the bed and opened the drawer of his desk.
He put the Band-Aid into a small plastic bag and put it in the drawer.
Chu Lan rummaged around and found the band-aid hidden at the bottom. He took it out, looked at it, and put it back.
The system took in all his actions and relayed everything to Bai Xiyue.
Bai Xiyue chuckled and said nothing.
Something expected.
Let Chu Lan experience for himself what it means to dig a hole for oneself to jump into. People always have to pay a price for what they have done.
She is now sitting in an Internet cafe playing games. She replied to Qiao Song's previous message, told him where she was, and then asked Qiao Song not to come, but Qiao Song probably still came.
Of course Qiao Song will come.
Neither Chu Lan nor Bai Xiyue came the whole afternoon, and he was extremely anxious.
As soon as he got home from school, he found that Bai Xiyue had replied to his message, so he immediately took a taxi to the place Bai Xiyue mentioned.
Internet cafes are filled with smoky air, with a strong smell of cigarettes that mixes with the smell of air conditioning, making people feel a little uncomfortable.
Qiao Song looked around and found Bai Xiyue. Bai Xiyue had taken off her school uniform and rolled up her sleeves, revealing her fair and slender wrists. She was sitting with headphones on, her fingers tapping on the keyboard.
There was no expression on her face, and the light from the screen shining on her face gave it a cold and hard feeling.
Looks cool, beautiful and indifferent.
Qiao Song was overwhelmed by this feeling, but did not bother Bai Xiyue. She just walked quietly to her side and looked at her screen.
Qiao Song didn't understand the game very well because he almost never played games and knew very little about this aspect, but he could see that Bai Xiyue's operation was very exciting.
He waited until Bai Xiyue took off her headphones before he began to praise her.
"Didn't I tell you not to come?"
She must want Qiao Song to come, otherwise why would she include her address in the message?
"I came to see you. You seem to be feeling unwell, so why are you still playing games?"
"I'm almost well now. I feel refreshed."
Of course I felt refreshed. I was one step closer to mission success, so of course I was happy.
"Where's Chu Lan?"
"How would I know? Are you looking for him?"
Qiao Song shook his head, pushed his glasses on his face, and shook his head.
"Have you had dinner yet?"
"Not yet. Let's go together."
"good."
Qiao Song's eyes lit up and he nodded.
Bai Xiyue went to the counter to settle the bill and followed Qiao Song out.
In fact, Da Qiao's patience is much better than Xiao Qiao's, including her endurance.
Da Qiao probably wanted to ask her about what happened between her and Chu Lan in the afternoon, but she was too embarrassed to ask and could hold it back in her heart.
If it was Xiao Qiao, it would probably be much more straightforward.
They went to a ramen restaurant. Bai Xiyue ordered a bowl of beef ramen, and Qiao Song ordered the same. The two sat opposite each other.
Qiao Song actually wanted to ask in his heart, but he remained silent while eating noodles.
The voice in his heart kept urging him, and after the urging was fruitless, Qiao Song raised his hand and took off his glasses.
Bai Xiyue ate noodles while watching his performance. After Xiao Qiao came out, she waved at him as a greeting.
"You spent the whole afternoon with Chu Lan?"
See, Bai Xiyue knew he would be so direct.
"What? Are you jealous?"
Bai Xiyue picked up a piece of beef and put it into her mouth, asking vaguely.
"Yeah, I'm almost dying of jealousy."
Lemons on the lemon tree, you and me under the lemon tree.
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