High Heels
The last page of the calendar was torn off, the New Year arrived, and it felt like time was accelerating. Work was getting busier and busier. Lin Luo worked overtime again today and really didn't have the energy to go home, so she went to the dormitory to sleep.
She fell asleep almost as soon as her head touched the pillow. She even forgot that the next day was a day off. Light shone in from the windowsill. Lin Luo opened her eyes, turned on her phone, and glanced at the screen.
It was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and there were several missed calls from Fu Xingchuan. She called him back, but he didn't answer. Thinking he was in a meeting, she sent him a message.
[I was so tired yesterday that I slept in the dormitory and just woke up now.]
Line: [In a meeting.]
Line: [I asked Wu Yun yesterday, and she said she saw you return to the dormitory.]
Line: [Did you sleep well?]
Lin Xiao: [Yeah, but I slept too long, and my head feels a little dizzy.]
Line: [Are you hungry?]
Lin Xiao: [A little bit. I'm planning to go to the cafeteria to eat something.]
OK: [I'll take you to eat something delicious tonight.]
Lin Xiao: [Okay!]
Lin Xiao: [Just focus on your meeting! I won't bother you anymore.]
OK: [Yeah.]
After Lin Luo finished her meal, she was just about to relax in the sun, but a ring interrupted her. It was Du Yunyan calling, "Did Mu Chen go to your place?"
"Shouldn't he be at school at this hour? Why is he here?"
Du Yunyan hesitated and said nothing was wrong before hanging up the phone. She felt something was wrong and asked Teacher Liu about it.
She said that Du Yunyan discovered that Tang Muchen was in a premature relationship, so she went to school to make a scene this morning. She said some unpleasant things to the girl and got angry. Later, Du Yunyan took Tang Muchen away.
Given Tang Muchen's personality, he'd probably run away from home by now. The sun was glaring, and Lin Luo parked his car on the road across from No. 1 Middle School.
When getting off the bus, the green light instantly turned red, and Lin Luo frowned unconsciously.
Walking into No. 1 Middle School, everything felt familiar. Classes were over, and the tree-lined avenue was overflowing with people. Lin Luo weaved through the crowds of white school uniforms. She looked up and peeked out from the upstairs corridor. The camphor trees were still lush and green in the winter, sunlight filtering through the leaves. In a trance, Lin Luo saw Tong Yun smiling and greeting her from upstairs.
She stopped and opened her eyes wide to try to see her carefully, but the sunlight was too blinding and it hurt Lin Luo's eyes. She closed them for a moment and then opened them again, only to find that there was no one at her original place.
"Xu Huanyu, do you understand?" It was Teacher Wu's voice.
Lin Qi looked in the direction of the voice and saw Teacher Wu and Xu Huanyu standing by the pool. Xu Huanyu came back to her senses and said, "Excuse me, Teacher, could you explain it to me again?"
"Where did you miss?" Teacher Wu asked gently.
"here."
Lin Xiao waited until Xu Huanyu understood before going over to greet her, "Isn't this Teacher Wu, the provincial outstanding teacher?"
Teacher Wu's eyes lit up when he saw her, "Lin Xiao, why are you in school?"
"I came here for my brother."
"Is that kid in trouble again?"
Xu Huanyu lowered her eyes, and Lin Luo nodded slightly. "Huanyu has made great progress recently, thanks to Teacher Wu."
Teacher Wu finally learned to be humble. "Not at all. She absorbed it well on her own."
Lin Luo couldn't help but laugh, "Then teacher, you must work hard and try to send us happily into Peking University."
She put her arm around Xu Huanyu's shoulders and produced a handful of candy and placed it in her palm.
Before class started, Lin Luo said goodbye to them and went to Shouxin Building to attend the sprint class.
She looked inside through the back door. The class was very quiet. Most of the students were sitting in their seats studying hard. There was a girl in the middle of the second group. She had her back straight and a high ponytail, and she attracted Lin Luo's attention.
Just when someone was about to go in, Lin Luo asked her to help call Yao Ruxia. The man walked to the girl, and she turned around, and Lin Luo was distracted.
Yao Ruxia came out and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?"
"I am Tang Muchen's sister."
"Hello, sister!" she said with a smile.
The bell rang, probably for physical education. The students in the sprint class went downstairs to the playground. Lin Luo and Yao Ruxia stood together in the corridor, looking down. "Can I delay you for a few minutes?"
"Can."
"First of all, I want to apologize to you. I'm sorry. I heard what happened this morning. My mother said some harsh words to you. Don't take it to heart. She was just worried that you would go the wrong way."
"It's okay, I've always had a good attitude, and those words don't mean anything. Because my brother is a gangster, people often talk about me behind my back, but I just treat them as bullshit." She said carelessly.
Looking at her closer, Lin Luo could see that she was wearing a light layer of makeup. She felt familiar, yet different.
"elder sister"
Lin Luo pursed her lips and said, "I'll take this as accepting my apology."
"Seeing you're a strong person, I'll be frank with you. You're still young, and I hope you can focus on your studies. Put everything else aside for now and think about it after the college entrance exam. I've been through this myself, and I'm doing this for your own good. Do you understand me?"
"I understand, sister." Yao Ruxia frowned, "But there is one thing I want to make clear. Tang Muchen and I are not in a premature relationship. We are not in love at all."
"That……"
"It was Tang Muchen who pursued me, but I didn't agree to him. Besides, he hasn't come to see me much during this period. Auntie might have dug out some old things and got excited and made a mistake."
As if she saw through Lin Luo's confusion, she added, "As for why he didn't come to school."
"I guess he feels embarrassed!" Yao Ruxia said lightly: "He is quite cute, but unfortunately he is not my type."
Yao Ruxia accidentally saw the physical education teacher downstairs and quickly squatted down to hide her head behind the wall. "Oh no, the physical education teacher is here to find me. I'll hide for now. I hate physical education class the most."
What a beautiful person.
"Wait." Lin Luo smiled, held her hand and deliberately prevented her from leaving, and slowly put candy into her hand. This delay allowed the physical education teacher to run into her.
"Sister, you did it on purpose."
Lin Luo raised an eyebrow at her. "The body is the capital of revolution. How can you skip physical education class?"
She was taken away by the physical education teacher, pouting and looking unhappy. Lin Luo felt relieved for some reason.
As usual, the cram school was on the fifth floor, and the rest were empty classrooms used for self-study. Lin Luo stood outside the door, looking in, and thought she saw her sitting in one of the seats, checking her answers to the test paper.
She said to herself, "I shouldn't have gotten this question wrong. I have to pay more attention next time."
Xu Fanqing stood beside her and asked, "Lin Luo, you got this question right, can you teach me?"
"Tong Yun, have you made up your mind? Why don't you reconsider it and try again?" Fu Xingchuan's voice came from the next classroom outside the door, and Lin Luobi paused.
After that, there was no more sound. It was Xu Fanqing who called her, "Lin Luo."
She wanted to know what Tong Yun was considering, and was curious about what they were going to try. But when she met Xu Fanqing's eager eyes for knowledge, she said, "Okay, I'll tell you..."
It happened so long ago that when Lin Luo thought about it, it felt like a lifetime ago.
She walked downstairs, passing by classrooms one by one, slowly passing by. Some classes were reading aloud, their voices scattered. Cheng Kaizhong shouted from inside, "Read louder! Haven't you eaten enough?"
He met Lin Luo's gaze and subconsciously dodged it. Lin Luo walked to the back door and took another look inside. She noticed that he was smiling at her with a look of relief in his eyes, or perhaps other emotions, but Lin Luo didn't read them and just walked away.
Next was a quiet classroom where students were studying. The class monitor was sitting in the front, managing discipline. She passed by quietly.
Before she reached the classroom at the end, the stairs on the other side appeared. But just as Lin Luo walked down one step, she heard Ding Wenxin's voice, still as gentle as ever, "Teacher hopes that you can be like a stubborn little grass, not only striving to take root in the ground, but also growing upwards..."
Lin Qi curled the corners of her lip, remembering what Ding Wenxin had said before: "Those days when we work hard but don't get good results, we call them taking root."
She is now a senior high school teacher who has taught for eighteen years. Time flies so fast. Those youthful days are still before her eyes, but ten years have passed.
People are like the steps under their feet. After so many years, they seem to have not changed much, but in fact, countless rains have fallen on them and countless pairs of footprints have been added. It seems that they have always been here, but the people who walked on them have gone in all directions.
Lin Luo was sitting on the playground. Three girls across from her were laughing and playing. The giggles lingered in her ears. She lay down and looked at the sky until there was no sound in her ears.
Night fell, but unfortunately there were no stars. There seemed to be footsteps. Lin Luo opened her eyes and saw Xu Huanyu's face. She smiled faintly at Lin Luo, "Sister Luo Luo."
Lin Luo sat up and asked, "How did you know I was here?"
"I just happened to meet you."
“You also like to blow the wind here.”
"Um."
Lin Luo looked at Xu Huanyu. She sat down slowly, her brows furrowed as if she was worried.
"Anything bothering you?" she asked.
"The academic pressure is huge. I feel like the teachers have very high expectations of me. I'm afraid of disappointing them and I'm also afraid that I'm not worthy of them."
"So who do you think is a good match and won't let them down?"
"Well... someone who is confident, generous, smart, brave, beautiful, not bashful, or sensitive."
I heard from Xu Fanqing that when Xu Huanyu's parents divorced, no one wanted her, which might be the reason for her personality.
"Huanyu, whether you are qualified or not is not up to you to decide. All the teachers, including me, think you can do it. This is not to put pressure on you, but to show that you have potential. We believe that you can become better, and you have to believe in yourself too."
She said "hmm" lightly, and Lin Luo didn't know whether she heard it or not.
"How about I tell you a story?" Lin Luo straightened his back.
Xu Huanyu nodded.
"I have a friend." This is a common opening line for storytellers, and Lin Luo couldn't help laughing. "Her family went bankrupt during her second year of high school, and she was forced to return to her hometown to attend school. At that time, her grades were very poor, and because of the pressure from her teachers and conflicts with her family, she had a low self-esteem."
"But she's always been ambitious. She knows exactly what she wants: growth and excellence. She has a crush on someone, classmate Y. Classmate Y is the type of person who always tops the honor roll in every exam, and she always hopes to narrow the gap between them."
"Even though classmate Y ended up not falling in love with her, she remained steadfast in her plan. In the end, she truly became a better version of herself, making her teachers and family proud."
The strong wind blew a football on the rubber track. It began to roll and passed in front of Lin Luo. It was such an inexplicable gust of wind.
Xu Huanyu suddenly asked, "Sister Xiaoxiao, what happened to your friend and classmate Y in the end?"
"They... got married." Lin Luo paused and omitted her countless heart-wrenching experiences in a few seconds.
Fortunately, the ending was good, but was it the final ending? She couldn't tell.
Xu Huanyu handed her a notebook and said, "Sister Xiaoxiao, please help me return it to Tang Muchen!"
Lin Luo didn't answer, "I don't know where he is, you can return it yourself!"
Xu Huanyu looked at the notebook without replying.
In the distance, the lights in the teaching buildings were on. "It's time for evening self-study. Go back quickly!"
"Um!"
Lin Luo walked out of No. 1 Middle School, went home to change clothes, and drove to the restaurant that Fu Xingchuan had booked, which was a luxurious restaurant located in the tallest building in Nan'an.
Standing on the high-altitude corridor on the 49th floor, Lin Luo overlooked the night view of Nan'an City. She thought that if she wanted to make money, she should come to a place like this, where she could stand higher and see farther.
The last time I came here was with Xu Yangyang and Tang Zhihua, and it seemed like it was when we were about to graduate from university.
At that time, Tang Zhihua's live streaming sales became popular, Lin Luo raised the first child to be admitted to Peking University and saved a lot of money, and Xu Yangyang's decoration design won an award and received a generous bonus, but in the end, looking at the multi-digit bill, the three of them forgot about the previous enjoyment and split the bill with a broken heart.
The clean and bright glass window reflected Fu Xingchuan's figure. Lin Luo saw him walking towards her from behind and then she put all other thoughts aside.
She turned around and saw Fu Xingchuan wearing a black coat with a black suit underneath. He looked well-groomed and had his hair combed back.
Fu Xingchuan stopped and, from a few meters away, gazed deeply at Lin Qiao. She was wearing a black, waist-cinching coat, her waist slender and almost slender. She wore black high heels with red soles, and the sliver of her calf, visible beneath the coat, was as white as cream.
Looking up, she held a silver chain on her fingertips, a bag hung down, and her long wavy hair was draped behind her. The side of her face that was turned to the side had completely lost its youthfulness, and her eyes had a more determined look.
Fu Xingchuan swallowed his saliva and walked towards her. Lin Qi said nonchalantly, "Mr. Fu, you are dressed so handsomely for a date!"
Fu Xingchuan lowered his eyes and fixed them on her curved eyes. "Why call me Mr. Fu? Call me husband."
"husband."
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