"Didn't you lose it? Why are you wearing it again?" Xia Ruoming turned her eyes away and asked.

She didn't dare to continue looking at the hairpin, because it represented her painful youth, and she couldn't completely let it go even after many years.

If you ask Xia Ruoming when exactly she started to feel that Xu Fengwu really had no interest in her, Xia Ruoming would most likely answer that it was the day she found out that Xu Fengwu had lost the hairpin.

One year, they went on a picnic together in January and admired the plum blossoms together. Xu Fengwu once pointed to a plum blossom and said that this was the most beautiful one among all the plum blossoms in the garden. After returning, Xia Ruoming immediately drew the plum blossom exactly as she remembered it, and customized a sterling silver plum blossom hairpin for Xu Fengwu as her birthday gift. It was also engraved with Xu Fengwu's birthday and her name.

But not long after, Xu Fengwu said that the hairpin was lost, and she never saw Xu Fengwu wearing that hairpin again - in fact, she already had the answer in her heart at that moment. Xia Ruoming knew Xu Fengwu's character too well, so, the hairpin was probably thrown away as garbage... But Xu Fengwu didn't care at all, and might have forgotten when he threw it away, and when he wanted to find it, he didn't know where he put it.

Xia Ruoming thought she was strong enough. After what happened with Jiang Ruhua, nothing could touch her frozen heart anymore. But she was wrong. When she saw the plum blossom hairpin, tears gathered in her eyes again.

It’s not that she is not mature enough, it’s just that this body is not mature enough - Xia Ruoming can only comfort herself in this way.

Xu Fengwu bit her lip tightly, looking at Xia Ruoming's somewhat indifferent look, she felt a little more uneasy. She originally thought that wearing this hairpin would impress Xia Ruoming's sentimental heart, but it seemed that this was not the case. Although Xia Ruoming's expression was shaken, it was not what she expected.

"Feng Wu, some things have happened and are over. Spilled water cannot be reversed, and a broken mirror cannot be mended. Even if the broken mirror is glued together, the cracks will never disappear, and I will never be able to see my complete appearance in the mirror." Xia Ruoming took a deep breath, suppressed the inexplicable sadness, and then said slowly.

"No!" Xu Fengwu burst into tears, "Even if the mirror is broken, we can change another mirror and start over. Even if the water has been poured out, we can get a new basin of water. Rumeng, I don't want to let things go like this."

After crying for a while, Xu Fengwu continued, "Actually, you already know that I threw away the hairpin, Ruoming."

"Well... I knew it a long time ago." Xia Ruomeng said softly with a sad smile. Although she had always known it, it was still so heartbreaking to hear Xu Fengwu say it himself. Her originally rosy face turned a lot paler. There was also a bit of sadness in her tone.

"Ruoming, I don't want you to forgive my past self. It's just that I lost this hairpin that year. Originally, it had no fate with me, but I spent a long time to find it back. I also want to find you who I lost in the past just like this hairpin." Xu Fengwu hugged Xia Ruoming and sobbed, "No matter how long it takes, no matter what I have to do. I don't expect you, Ruoming, to accept my pursuit, but I just hope that you won't chase me away."

The Star Tarot card that Xu Fengwu hung on his schoolbag lit up a dim light, just like Xia Ruoming's heart.

"Is it fate?" Xia Ruoming sighed softly and murmured to herself. She clearly felt as if there was some mysterious force preventing her from saying such decisive words.

Seeing that there seemed to be more and more people watching, Xia Ruoming could only helplessly pull Xu Fengwu and Chu Suhe up.

"Stop crying and go eat." Xia Ruoming said calmly after taking out two tissues from her bag to wipe Xu Fengwu's tears. However, that bitter smile could not disappear from Xia Ruoming's face.

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After arriving at the cafeteria, Xu Fengwu's mood calmed down a lot, but he still seemed a little distressed about his previous loss of composure.

Xu Fengwu now basically goes from being sad to breaking down in one go. The whole process has become smooth and fluid. She has cried more times in the past few months than in the past ten years combined, and has completely lost the temperament of the proud swan she used to be.

The eyes that were once filled with pride are now filled with melancholy and sadness.

"Student Xu, don't you like this? Please eat more." Chu Suhe looked at Xu Fengwu who was a little sad, and gave the food on her plate to Xu Fengwu, trying to comfort her.

"Su He, just eat by yourself...your health is in such a state, so don't give me the food..." Xu Fengwu said in a hoarse voice. Looking at this thin girl who always tried to comfort him in a clumsy way, Xu Fengwu felt very distressed. She was obviously her love rival, but Xu Fengwu could never let her go.

Maybe Chu Suhe was born to be lovable.

Looking at Xia Ruoming who was using lame excuses to trick Chu Suhe into eating more, Xu Fengwu couldn't help but smile from the bottom of her heart. At least she found where she was better than Xia Ruoming.

At first, Chu Suhe was always reluctant to accept Xu Fengwu's kindness, so Xu Fengwu used some special little tricks, such as pretending to accidentally knock over Chu Suhe's cheap soy milk, and then treating her to breakfast as compensation or something... Occasionally asking Chu Suhe to do some very simple favors, and then treating her to several meals in a row.

"Huh? Why doesn't classmate Xu eat and instead looks at me and smiles?" Chu Suhe noticed the gaze from Xu Fengwu and asked with her head tilted.

Xu Fengwu, who was standing by, realized that his smile seemed a little too obvious, so he restrained his expression.

"I was looking at how beautiful you are, Su He. I was so engrossed in your beauty."

"Hmm...uh...cough..." Xia Ruoming showed a very strange expression and looked at Xu Fengwu as if she had seen a ghost.

Isn't this what she said when she flirted with Chu Suhe before? What the hell is Xu Fengwu talking about? On the surface, he is pursuing her, but in fact, he is pursuing Chu Suhe? It turns out that the big and small kings are not clowns, but the trump cards reserved to beat the 2.

Although Xu Fengwu and Chu Suhe were simply friends and really had no other thoughts, there was no guarantee that Xia Ruoming would not think of something strange. Even she would have her own little thoughts.

Because Chu Suhe always helped Xu Fengwu solve her little troubles, and Xu Fengwu also learned a lesson from Xia Ruoming's departure, she was always willing to be nice to this girl whom she originally felt pity for. Chu Suhe was not a fool, and of course she could feel Xu Fengwu's almost ubiquitous care, so she slowly opened her heart to Xu Fengwu.

But it was this harmonious atmosphere of the Crystal Palace that made Xia Ruoming, like Jiang Ruhua, inexplicably feel a strange sense of crisis.