Similar incidents occurred many times after the National Day holiday. For reasons unknown to Chen Bing, Shang Yunmiao became increasingly proactive, showing a tendency to deviate from her introverted persona.
However, considering that students are indeed easily influenced by various factors during junior high school, and their personality and values gradually take shape, these minor changes are within acceptable limits.
Rather, this change is actually quite good. The proactive Xiao Shang not only retained her original adorable shyness, but also brought Chen Bing a lot of joy through her initiative.
Aside from that, their relationship didn't make any significant progress. Their casual, everyday interactions were like a breath of fresh air in the otherwise unhealthy atmosphere of Class 1, Grade 8.
Leaving aside traditional couples like Wenxin, let's talk about another unhealthy trend that has recently become popular in the class.
Around November 2018, the multimedia equipment in the class gradually became a tool for some girls to follow celebrities.
The story begins with Qiao Mengmeng's heartbreak. This young woman, who embodies the spirit of a modern woman, finally mustered the courage to meet her online boyfriend in person a month after the National Day holiday.
Before meeting in person, this golden couple had been dating for two years. They met through the "People Nearby" function on QQ when they were in sixth grade and established a romantic relationship within a month.
Although they fell in love quite quickly, their relationship was as strong as gold.
Not only do they readily use all sorts of affectionate nicknames, but they also chat and interact with each other every single day without fail.
During their two years of online dating, Qiao Mengmeng learned that her partner was actually a student at the county's No. 11 Middle School, and even in the same grade as her.
According to his own description, although he is of average appearance, he is excellent in terms of physique, academic performance, personality, and cooking skills, making him a truly outstanding young person of the new era.
As the saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Under these filters, even a dark selfie sent by the other person looks wildly cool to Qiao Mengmeng.
As the saying goes, it is impolite not to reciprocate, Qiao Mengmeng also found a good angle to take a selfie, spent a lot of effort photoshopping herself into a beautiful woman with delicate features, and then sent it to the other party.
Qiao Mengmeng's boyfriend was very excited when he saw the photos. Although it was obvious that the photos were photoshopped, even if they were photoshopped, she must have some natural beauty to be able to make them look so good.
As a result, their relationship progressed further, and they even considered getting engaged.
Back in the summer of 2018, her boyfriend had asked Qiao Mengmeng to meet him in person. However, Qiao Mengmeng had just gone on a trip to the coast, and the scorching sun had tanned her quite a bit. Feeling "disfigured," she naturally didn't want her boyfriend to see her looking unattractive, so she told him everything, hoping to postpone the meeting.
How could a gentle and considerate boyfriend refuse his beautiful girlfriend's request? Although he didn't care about these things at all, he still respected Qiao Mengmeng's idea and decided to wait.
In the following month or two, Qiao Mengmeng applied various moisturizing and whitening cosmetics while resolutely avoiding ultraviolet rays, and finally managed to regain her fair complexion.
Comparing her current state with how she looked right after summer vacation, Qiao Mengmeng felt confident and readily agreed to meet her boyfriend again.
On the day they met, just like in TV shows and novels, they chose to meet at the entrance of a movie theater, hoping to kick off their wonderful youth in this cliché way.
Qiao Mengmeng knew that only by making the boy look forward to it could she have a better meeting. So, she deliberately arrived ten or twenty minutes late. Then, under her boyfriend's anxious questioning, she described her outfit for the day.
She wore a lovely bright green floral dress with a vibrant white bow at the neckline. She paired it with white round-toed leather shoes and long white cotton socks. A glimpse of her fair legs peeked out from between the floral skirt and the white socks.
Her long, beautiful hair was braided into two thick, pretty braids, which gently draped over her shoulders...
These descriptions immediately stirred up her boyfriend's fantasies about the most beautiful and innocent girl, and he proudly posted the chat screenshots to the dorm group chat. Along with Qiao Mengmeng's heavily edited selfies from before, it instantly made her naive roommates drool with envy.
Thinking about all this, Qiao Mengmeng's boyfriend couldn't help but feel a little proud. He subconsciously straightened his back, put away his phone, and wanted to show the most handsome side of himself as a man to the girl who was about to arrive, the most beautiful girl in his life.
Filled with anticipation and excitement, he saw in the distance a lush green, robust white-skinned pig, big enough to be sold, with a large face covered in pimples, huffing and puffing as it walked toward him.
We don't know how he spent that day. According to Qiao Mengmeng, he seemed normal on the day they met, but after watching the movie, he complained that he had forgotten to turn off the gas at home, said hello, and then left in a hurry.
Complaining about her boyfriend's lack of gentlemanly manners, Qiao Mengmeng took the bus home alone. Just as she took out her phone to confront him, she discovered that she had been blocked.
From then on, that boy never appeared in her life again, and Qiao Mengmeng gradually realized that she had been dumped.
While heartbroken, anger was also building within her. Unable to swallow her anger, Qiao Mengmeng took out the boy's photo and went around asking everyone in her class for his name and address. She figured that since everyone in her class came from different elementary schools across the county, perhaps someone among them knew him.
Before she could find out any specific information about the other party, her close friends, who knew the whole story, persuaded her to stop.
The lucky boy who escaped unscathed should remember his benefactors: Zhang Anran, Han Lingxing, Zhou Ke, and Zhu Xinru. It was these girls who calmed Qiao Mengmeng down, preventing him from being haunted by nightmares on an ordinary weekend.
But he's alright now, so how will Qiao Mengmeng heal from the pain of heartbreak?
As Qiao Mengmeng's new deskmate, Han Lingxing felt it was her duty to take on this responsibility. For the sake of her best friend's mental health, she reluctantly used her precious data and battery to play Qiao Mengmeng's favorite boy band dance video during the break between classes.
To be fair, K-pop boy groups are quite charming; in just one break between classes, they had almost completely calmed Qiao Mengmeng's heart.
She couldn't help but marvel at how many handsome, talented, gentle, wealthy, and well-built men there were in the world. Their excellence far surpassed that of that dark-skinned, disgusting man.
Having figured things out, Qiao Mengmeng became completely captivated by the stunning good looks of her idol group members.
However, while she can derive endless joy from the videos, her phone's battery and data are not unlimited.
Whenever her phone battery is low and she has to charge it, Qiao Mengmeng loses her inner comfort and becomes listless.
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