It was another Monday. Zhang Shu moved to the fourth group at the northernmost end, and Shengxia sat in the lone row by the south window.

She was extremely grateful for the "weird" seating arrangement of the Affiliated High School.

Just as Xin Xiaohe said to her at the beginning of the school year - to let you become independent and sober after spending some time as a deskmate.

She needs it badly now.

independent.

Wake up.

Although we still have lunch and dinner together, it is impossible to be truly independent.

It is unlikely that he is truly awake.

However, she has become quite skilled at going up and down the stairs on her own with crutches and basically does not need Zhang Shu's help.

Fortunately, life in the third year of high school does not allow me to think about many things. With a direction, Shengxia is full of energy and enthusiasm for every problem. She also has the desire to simplify the complex solutions.

She didn't even bother to look at her actual ranking in the second monthly exam.

It doesn't matter anymore.

For her, now is a new beginning.

The fracture has brought her a lot of inconvenience in life, but it has also made her more sensitive to the passage of time. Because every day, every half day, every hour is crucial.

The seats were changed again and again, and the countdown card on the podium was turned over again and again, and finally the "2" in the hundreds place turned to "1".

There are still 180 days until the college entrance examination.

A full 6 months, half a year.

During this special period, the grade held a parents' meeting.

The Affiliated High School is a school that particularly dislikes and does not encourage holding parent-teacher conferences. It does not want parents to interfere too much in teaching activities. After all, the teaching results are there, and no parents have much to say.

Wang Lianhua asked several times, "Why don't you hold parent meetings?"

Here it comes.

After all, I'm in the third year of high school, and it's still necessary to do it once a semester.

Wang Wei set the theme for the parents' meeting: "Unify thoughts and focus strength."

Wang Wei even wrote a speech for the parents' meeting.

He had been hiding it at first, but Fu Jie finally revealed it in a joking way in class.

After saying this, Fu Jie even pretended to cover her mouth, "Ah, I revealed Teacher Wang's secret!"

The whole room burst into laughter.

Only because they have a good relationship can they dare to do this.

“The teachers at the Affiliated High School are very interesting,” Shengxia introduced to Wang Lianhua, “They are very different from those at No. 2 High School.”

So, let’s forget about giving gifts behind people’s backs.

Wang Lianhua raised his eyebrows and commented calmly, "You are still young."

The choice of midsummer is silence.

The parent-teacher conference was scheduled for the last class on Saturday afternoon. This week, Shengxia and Zhang Shu sat at the same table, in a very prominent position, at the first table in the third group, right under the teacher's nose.

As soon as he arrived at the classroom in the afternoon, Zhang Shu caught a glimpse of the girl, who looked as if she was daydreaming.

"It's not even dark yet, why are you sleepwalking?" Zhang Shu waved in front of her eyes.

Shengxia blinked and looked at him steadily.

This look——

Zhang Shu could now discern subtle differences in her sad eyes: happy, resentful, and asking for something.

This is the latter, with a bit of begging in the confusion.

Zhang Shu was originally standing, looking down from above, but seeing her pitiful look, he sat down and looked her straight in the face. "Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Can I leave something with you?" the girl asked.

Zhang Shu frowned. Is this necessary to ask?

Didn't she just put it there randomly? When did she ask him?

But most of the time she didn't mean it, she had a lot of weird things that were always flying around.

Zhang Shu raised his eyebrows. "With this attitude, what are you going to put on my desk?"

The girl avoided his gaze and said, "It's just some of my stationery."

Zhang Shu felt that it was not a simple matter, but he nodded anyway, "If you occupy more space, you will have to pay rent."

"I'll treat you to some candy." Shengxia responded and gave him a piece of chocolate.

Zhang Shu: …

Then he watched her busy herself.

First put his black pencil case into his drawer and put her grass green pencil case instead.

He was very puzzled. She was clearly using a pen holder, so why did she need a pencil bag?

Then she put his two brown-covered notebooks into his drawer and replaced them with her colorful, tablecloth-like notebooks, which she inserted at the edge of the bookend.

Then, he took out a sticker and asked, "Can I put it on your bookend? This one doesn't have glue on it, so it won't leave any marks when you tear it off."

Her expression was serious. Zhang Shu was puzzled, but he nodded anyway.

She carefully selected a few and pasted them on the bookend closest to her. The patterns were colorful, with bows, strawberries, small cakes, and florals...

Zhang Shu frowned. What the hell is this? It's so ugly.

Finally, she stared at his desk and pondered for a while. Suddenly, she patted her head and muttered, as if she had suddenly realized something, "There's also a water cup!"

Zhang Shu: ...?

She made a gesture to take his water cup, which was placed on the upper right corner of the table.

She couldn't stand, so she sat there with her arms stretched out, almost lying across his body.

Zhang Shu was caught off guard and leaned back, with his hands half raised to give her space.

A sweet fragrance filled his nostrils. Zhang Shu turned his head awkwardly, his Adam's apple rolling.

Because she leaned too far, she suddenly lost her balance the moment she took his cup of water, and her body tilted and she was about to fall on his knees.

Her elbow was supported by a strong hand, and her heart skipped a beat.

Fortunately, I didn’t fall.

At the same time, hot air blew in her ears, and she heard Zhang Shu chuckle and whisper, "Why are you so cute?"

Midsummer's heartbeat, which had just returned to normal, became disrupted again.

Zhang Shu looked extremely helpless. If he still didn't know what she was going to do at this point, then he would have sat at the same table with her for nothing.

After her "transformation", looking at his desk now, it is definitely a girl's desk.

There will be a parents' meeting later, and she is afraid that her mother will know that her deskmate is a boy?

Zhang Shu couldn't even laugh. How could there be someone with such a simple mind?

If her mother had a quick chat with her sister, wouldn't she be exposed?

Shengxia quickly sat up straight, and the ear that he whispered to turned slightly pink.

He has been saying a lot of weird things lately, and she has become a little immune to it.

It's not that there are no psychological fluctuations, but that they are automatically filtered out and thrown into the recycling bin without being noticed.

She figured it out that night during the QQ Space War - she didn't have enough memory and could only process documents related to her studies.

And now, she was still holding his water cup in her hand, and she didn't know what to do with it, as the drawer was no longer able to hold it.

"Can you put your water cup in your schoolbag and carry it with you later?" She still spoke.

Because of the parents' meeting, the grade will let everyone go home early.

Since we had evening classes in the evening and couldn't go home with our parents, we didn't have to wait. Many people had already made an appointment to take advantage of this precious time to go out and relax.

For example, Xin Xiaohe's dormitory made an appointment with Yang Linyu's dormitory to play board games.

For example, Zhang Shu and Han Xiao made an appointment to play basketball.

Sometimes when he plays basketball, he doesn't carry a backpack and just hangs it behind his chair.

That won’t work. His bag has too strong a masculine scent. It must be taken away.

Zhang Shu pursed his lips to hold back his anger, his eyes full of smiles. He nodded, "Okay."

What else can I say except good?

Shengxia was satisfied: "Thank you."

Zhang Shu: “No problem.”

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the senior high school students were out of school and their parents came one after another.

"Ah Shu, let's go!"

Han Xiao and his group were waiting for Zhang Shu at the door. Wu Pengcheng saw Sheng Xia looking over and raised his hand to greet her: "Hi, beautiful lady!"

midsummer:……

It was the first time Zhou Yingxiang saw Sheng Xia's face. He was stunned and muttered, "Is this Brother Shu a goddess?"

Shengxia is now at the first table, very close to the door, and can hear it clearly.

Did he think he was being quiet?

Zhang Shu threw the water cup into his schoolbag, glanced at the girl's calm profile, and asked, "Do you want to check again?"

Don't let him lose anything that reminds him of his masculinity.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shu laughed to himself again, not realizing how frivolous his smile was.

Shengxia raised her eyes and actually scanned the area. After checking, she said, "Nothing."

"Then I can leave?"

"Um."

"Oh yeah yeah!"

"Alright, alright, it's just a game of ball, and you still have to report it!"

"I'll be back soon, beautiful lady. I'll return Brother Shu to you in the evening."

"That's enough, no wonder Lao Hou has become so thin. He's been eating dog food all day long, so how can he have an appetite for food?"

"A giant 1.95 meter tall light bulb, so shiny, huh, Old Hou?"

Hou Junqi: "Get lost! I feel so miserable."

“Hahahahahahaha!”

These guys are always like this every time I meet them. It's so annoying! Shengxia didn't want to pay attention to them and lowered her head to look for her vocabulary book.

Zhang Shu glanced over and the group of people calmed down.

The group left the teaching building.

Only then did Shengxia raise her eyes.

What a dazzling group of people.

What a noisy bunch of people.

The sound of the teenagers quarreling became increasingly distant.

Han Xiao complained: "I must have been beaten by my dad tonight. My last monthly exam result was terrible. Ah Shu, can you give me some guidance?"

Zhang Shu smiled and said, "Accept your fate. You have to allow ordinary people to exist in this world..."

Han Xiao: ...

A group of people: “Hahahahahahahahaha!”

Hmm?

But didn’t he say that we should have faith that we can do it next time?

A lot of his words were just random remarks, but she took them as the golden rule.

Midsummer shakes its head.

She had difficulty walking and didn't want to go anywhere, so she just sat at the bottom of the corridor stairs, reciting her vocabulary book.

Another person who didn't go out to eat, drink and have fun was Lu Youze.

The two met under the corridor and smiled at each other.

"Are you memorizing words?" Lu Youze asked, sitting next to her.

"Well," Shengxia looked at him holding the TOEFL textbook in his hand and asked in surprise, "Have you started taking the TOEFL now?"

Lu Youze said: "Well, I plan to go abroad."

Shengxia said: "You're going there after you finish your undergraduate studies?"

Lu Youze nodded, "Well, my grades don't have much advantage in China."

Shengxia was silent. Judging from his grades, he should be able to get into a 211 university. He should also have a chance to get into a 985 university, right?

His grades are no longer an advantage, so does that mean she doesn't have to struggle?

However, with a family background like his, many people graduate after high school, some even at a younger age.

Shengxia said, "If you had this plan, why didn't you take the international class?"

Lu Youze said: “I didn’t have this idea when I was in high school. My grandfather had just passed away and my family was in a mess.”

Hmm...secrets of wealthy families.

This topic was a bit too deep, so Shengxia subconsciously avoided it and changed the subject, "Which country are you going to?"

"America."

“It’s amazing.”

"Ha," Lu Youze said self-deprecatingly, "The coward is just avoiding reality."

midsummer:……

She could see that Lu Youze's condition had been going downhill this semester. He was completely different from when they first met at the beginning of the semester, and he looked decadent.

"No, it's very difficult to get into a good school in the United States. Different choices are just for the purpose of becoming a better person, right?" Shengxia said.

Lu Youze pursed his lips, not knowing what he was thinking, but nodded: "Yeah."

At this time, applause was heard in the classroom, and it sounded like the parent representative was speaking.

"Good afternoon, parents. I am Lu Youze's parent."

Lu Youze's father?

As a director of Junlan, he was more than qualified to be a parent representative. But Shengxia was quite surprised. His father, who was so busy with his work, would come to the parents' meeting? Moreover, his voice sounded quite young.

"This is my uncle. My father has never attended my parents' meetings." Perhaps seeing Shengxia's confusion, Lu Youze suddenly spoke.

Shengxia raised her eyes and saw the loneliness in his eyes.

She consoled him: "My father has never participated..."

The two looked at each other, and Lu Youze smiled: "My uncle didn't participate before, and he didn't come for me."

If not for him, then for whom else?

Shengxia didn't know how to respond, so she just continued to read the words in silence.

The parents' meeting lasted nearly an hour before it ended. Shengxia's cell phone rang. Wang Lianhua said that she needed to talk to the teachers of various subjects and asked Shengxia to wait a little longer.

Shengxia had expected this and was not surprised.

Soon, the parents all left and the classroom returned to peace. Shengxia remained motionless as a mountain and continued to memorize words.

Lu Youze didn't move either. Shengxia just thought that his uncle probably went to talk to the teacher, so she didn't think much about it.

After a while, a familiar voice was heard.

"Let's wait until they finish the college entrance examination." A female voice, just listening to the voice can outline a cold and beautiful image.

It's Zhang Sujin.

"Let's finish this semester and meet up during the New Year. They are classmates now, so it doesn't matter if we meet up together." A male voice was very attractive.

It was the voice that had just spoken in the classroom.

Shengxia subconsciously turned her head to look at Lu Youze, only to see him smiling silently.

It's hard to define what kind of smile it is, but it's not a happy smile.

Zhang Shu’s sister, and Lu Youze’s uncle?

They were talking at the edge of the corridor, and because of the stairs, they couldn't see the boy and girl on this side.

Of course, they can't be seen in midsummer.

But the conversation was clear.

It seems that Lu Youze knows about it and is troubled by it.

Shengxia couldn't help but think: What about Zhang Shu, does he know?

On the other side, Zhang Sujin's words gave Shengxia the answer.

"It doesn't matter now. The college entrance examination is over. Xiaoshu doesn't know yet. I need some time."

The man sighed, "Isn't he hoping that you can resolve the major issues in your life as soon as possible?"

"Let's talk about it tomorrow. Don't talk here."

"You hide every time I talk about this. It's nothing shameful. You can't even talk about it? What have I done to embarrass you?"

"That's not what I meant. Let's go first. The restaurant is about to open for dinner, so I have to go over there."

Zhang Sujin left, and Lu Youze's uncle followed behind.

When they walked out of the corridor, Shengxia could see the backs of the two people from their side.

Lu Youze's uncle is tall and big, wearing a casual suit that is low-key and well-ironed, and he looks very elegant.

The back view is very suitable.

However...

Zhang Shu said before that his sister started raising him when she was her age. So she was 17 years old at that time. Wouldn’t she be around 34 or 35 now?

But Lu Youze’s uncle looked at——

That head of brown hair, styled in a Korean style, is unlikely to belong to a man in his thirties or forties.

Wow, little puppy?

Shengxia was frightened by her own thoughts and lowered her head quickly. How could she comment on other people's family affairs? This was wrong.

"I'm going back first," Lu Youze said, "Uncle doesn't remember that he has a nephew. Nephew must remember uncle. I'm going to look for my uncle. What about you? Do you want to go have dinner?"

Shengxia said, "I'll wait for my mother."

"Then I'll go first."

"good."