On the night of the college entrance examination, the whole city belonged to the candidates.

All the places high school students can go and often go to are not the best places to party.

They are going to challenge the adult world.

In nightclubs, bars, and KTVs, young but confident faces can be seen everywhere.

Not to mention the bustling barbecue stalls on the roadside.

The yellow-hot drink can finally be called beer.

Give it three or five stabs.

Hou Junqi and his friends opened a card at Milk and planned to stay overnight.

Zhang Shu returned home and had just finished taking a shower when he heard people in the group urging him to get back to work.

Wu Pengcheng: "Why take a bath after eating barbecue?"

Han Xiao: "Brother Shu, are you going to dress up and blind Milk?"

Hou Junqi: "How can you be so bold? Of course I have to go see my wife first."

Han Xiao: "Disrespectful, disrespectful."

Wu Pengcheng: "No way, you're going to a nightclub with your wife?"

Zhang Shu: "You wish. I won't bring it."

Who is this person and what is this situation? Do you want to defile Jasmine?

Zhang Shu switched out of the WeChat interface and called Shengxia.

Two beeps, and the call was hung up.

Hang up?

Half a minute later, a message came in on QQ.

Jasmine: “Eating.”

Zhang Shu: "At home?"

Jasmine: “Outside.”

That means her mother is here too.

Zhang Shu: "When will you be home?"

Jasmine: "Maybe ten o'clock?"

This is an awkward time.

Zhang Shu glanced at his clean clothes and his clean chin without a single stubble.

Okay, clean up the ball, it's a waste of time.

Jasmine: “What’s the matter?”

Zhang Shu: "I miss you."

Jasmine: “…”

Jasmine: "We'll meet tomorrow?"

I have to go back to class tomorrow to estimate my grades, and then tonight I will have a thank-you dinner for my teachers and a farewell dinner.

Zhang Shu: “Oh.”

How heartless! At such an important time as the college entrance examination, doesn't she want to see him?

It seems that he doesn't want to, forget it.

After having a good meal and drinks at the barbecue stall, at 10pm, the nightclub started to fill up, so we moved to Milk.

The sound was deafening, the lights were bright and the food was feasting. Zhang Shu had been there a few times, mostly to celebrate birthdays for people, and he would just stay for a short while before leaving.

He couldn't understand why someone liked to celebrate his birthday in such a noisy place where one had to shout to talk.

Until this night, he understood.

Of course boys talk to each other by yelling. If they don't want to yell at someone, such as a girl they like, then they can just whisper in her ear.

Every time Wu Pengcheng and his friends came back from the dance floor, they would bring back a few girls. The sofa became more and more crowded, and each of them wanted to talk into each other's ears.

This is where hormones are released.

Zhang Shu had just recovered from a serious illness and couldn't drink, and he didn't like to jump around, so he just stayed in his seat and played dice with Han Xiao.

Han Xiao was laughing at that idiot. Whether he was bragging or not was written all over his face. He could guess the answer after shaking a few 1-card pairs in two rounds. He played for half an hour and never lost. It was so boring.

Zhang Shu was feeling a bit bored. He looked around and found many familiar faces, who were obviously from the Affiliated High School.

You can't tell, he's very studious during normal times and very playful during holidays.

As I looked away, I saw someone standing in front of me.

Chen Mengyao.

"Big star!" Wu Pengcheng spoke first, "You are going to debut, and you dare to go to a nightclub. Aren't you afraid that I will take pictures of you and spread rumors about you later?"

Chen Mengyao angrily said, "Wu Pengcheng, get out of here!"

She sat down on the low table opposite the sofa and asked Zhang Shu directly, "Are you and Shengxia together?"

It was very noisy and they were not close to each other, but Zhang Shu still heard it.

I didn't hear it clearly, but I guessed it.

He stood up. "Anytime, as long as she allows."

It was hard to guess the shape of her lips. Chen Mengyao came over and asked, "What!?"

Everyone in the booth was looking at them.

Especially the girls brought by Wu Pengcheng, they were willing to come and play mostly because they wanted to get to know Zhang Shu. But who knew that he didn't drink and only played dice with his brothers. No one knew what this guy was trying to achieve by coming to the nightclub.

So when they saw Chen Mengyao approaching, everyone wanted to see if the beautiful woman could handle him.

Zhang Shu leaned over to Wu Pengcheng's ear and shouted, "I'm leaving first."

Wu Pengcheng looked at his phone and yelled, "Leaving at just 11 o'clock? No! The show hasn't even started yet!"

Zhang Shu: "You guys go ahead and play. I can't stand it any longer."

Wu Pengcheng also took his health into consideration and nodded: "We'll meet again when you get better!"

Zhang Shu: "Tell Lao Hou and the others about this."

"Yes."

Zhang Shu leaves.

Girls bit each other's ears.

"It looks more handsome when you get closer. Why is your nose so long?"

"She speaks very nicely, too."

"Oh, look, that girl is leaving with him!"

"Huh? I thought you were something cool."

The girl asked Wu Pengcheng: "Hey, is that his girlfriend?"

Wu Pengcheng was annoyed: "No!"

"Does he have a girlfriend?"

"Yes, he is going to find his wife!"

Shocked.

Zhang Shu didn't expect Chen Mengyao to follow him out.

"Anything else?"

Chen Mengyao: "I just asked you..."

Zhang Shu: "As long as she allows, anytime."

"ah?"

"That's my answer."

Chen Mengyao turned the words over in her mind and finally understood.

She had always thought that Shengxia had lied to her. They were clearly together, but she said they were not.

Because their status is no different from that of a couple.

But when she really heard the answer from Zhang Shu, she was a little bit unable to describe her feelings.

It turns out that Zhang Shu does chase girls and fall in love, but the object was not her.

She didn't think there was any chance for her and Zhang Shu. There was actually no real purpose in asking this question.

Just want to know the answer.

Give your youth a full stop, even if it is not perfect.

"If, I mean if," Chen Mengyao hesitated and asked, "If I had pursued you when I was a freshman in high school, would we have been together?"

Zhang Shu tilted his head to look at her with a puzzled look in his eyes: "This is not a question you would ask."

Yes, so humbly, ask a what if.

"How do you want me to imagine something that hasn't happened?" Zhang Shu said calmly, but not coldly. It was no different from usual, as if they were talking about math problems instead of relationships. "If you ask me about the future, I can still make inferences. But it's meaningless to ask about the past."

"How did you feel about me at that time?" Chen Mengyao asked persistently.

Zhang Shu uttered "hmm...", as if he was recalling something seriously, or considering it carefully.

"You look a lot like my sister, especially when you sing. You're very friendly, but I can tell the difference between being friendly and being in love. Although being friendly is nice, it would be irresponsible if I were in love with you at that time, and I didn't want that. But at that time, I really couldn't tell what you thought of me, so I didn't have any thoughts about you."

Maybe it’s because after today, I will never see many of them again in this life.

Farewell words are always sincere.

Zhang Shu also doesn't look much like him.

Maybe it's just that he hasn't seen the real him.

In the past, he always avoided such topics and focused on language art.

Today, he gave her a definite answer.

He didn't say she was bad, he just said he couldn't see what she was thinking.

If he had been in love with her at that time, she would have been the one who got hurt, because his feelings towards her were not just about liking her, but about being affectionate.

Even though being intimate could be a reason for falling in love, he never thought of taking advantage of her from the beginning to the end, and never let such an oolong happen.

Chen Mengyao felt a sour feeling rising in her abdomen, but more than that, she felt an indescribable sense of relief and comfort.

Zhang Shu took a taxi and left.

Chen Mengyao stood at the door of the bar, watching the car getting farther and farther away, and suddenly smiled.

Goodbye, Zhang Shu.

If every girl has to like someone in her youth, then fortunately, the person she likes is Zhang Shu.

That night, Shengxia first had dinner with Wang Lianhua, then had a midnight snack with Sheng Mingfeng. When she came back and cleaned up, it was already past eleven o'clock.

I wanted to go to bed early, but my biological clock wouldn't allow it.

She wasn't sleepy at all.

She checked her social media and found that everyone was still having fun. She wondered if her lifestyle was too old-fashioned and boring.

Just as I was thinking about it, I saw another short video posted by Hou Junqi.

He had just sent a message an hour ago. The moment I clicked it, the loud music almost blew away Shengxia's ears.

The scene is obviously a bar, with several boys sitting or standing, and Han Xiao is counting the drinks with the salesperson.

Zhang Shu sat prone, with his elbows resting on his knees, in a very casual sitting position.

She knew they went to the bar.

I didn't know there was such a bar.

The video just posted by Hou Junqi opened Shengxia's eyes.

There is a long T-stage in the picture, with several long legs lined up in a row, twisting freely. The high heels seem to be as high as a standard ruler, and the shorts are slit to the base of the legs, no different from a bikini.

The DJ's screams were interspersed with the rhythmic music, the fireworks exploded like jets, the scraps of paper flew all over the sky, and under the bizarre lights, people moved their heads and waved their arms...

Like another world.

Where is Zhang Shu, what is he doing?

Are you also staring at other people’s long legs?

Shengxia put her phone aside and picked up the book beside her pillow.

Take a deep breath and tell yourself that there is beauty in books.

Before I could read a few words, my phone rang with a message.

She glanced.

It’s Song Jiang.

You can see a brief message without clicking it: "Are you asleep?"

Of course not, I’m just watching you look at the beauty!

Shengxia muttered to herself, not planning to reply, and turned around to continue reading.

There were several "Ding Ding Ding" notification sounds and she had to click it.

Song Jiang: "Probably not?"

Song Jiang: "Do you want to go downstairs?"

Song Jiang: "I'm downstairs in your house."

Shengxia sat up straight. He came to her house?

"Aren't you in the bar?" You're not lying to her, are you?

Song Jiang: “I’m back.”

"Why are you here at this time?"

Song Jiang: "I miss you."

Song Jiang: "I miss you so much."

Song Jiang: "Look at you."

Is he drunk? He is talking like this...

It attracts people's attention.

"Have you drunk too much?"

Song Jiang: “…”

Song Jiang: "He's drunk and should be outside your door now. He might even be knocking on the door."

It's not as simple as downstairs.

Shengxia's mouth corners rose unconsciously. She threw away her cell phone, jumped out of bed, opened the closet, looked around, and finally took out only a sunscreen shirt and covered it over her nightgown.

She tiptoed past Wang Lianhua's room and walked to the front door. She then turned back, went to the kitchen, picked up the kitchen waste, and went out.

As expected, as soon as the door opened, Wang Lianhua, who had heard the noise, shouted from inside the room, "What are you doing so late?"

Shengxia: “Throw away the garbage.”

Wang Lianhua: “I’ll throw it away tomorrow.”

Shengxia: "I just broke an egg and I'm afraid it will go bad."

"Why are you breaking eggs so late at night?"

Shengxia was afraid that she would be punished if she continued talking, so she closed the door and left quickly.

As she walked out of the building, a figure emerged from the darkness and instantly embraced her.

In the middle of summer, their hearts were beating faster and faster. They had never hugged each other without any warning!

In an instant, she frowned tightly——

Such a strong smell of cigarettes and alcohol!

Shengxia couldn't help coughing lightly, her body struggled slightly, and the arms that were holding her tightened even more. She felt like her shoulders were about to be crushed.

"Zhang Shu!"

"Call me A-Shu." He demanded in a low and domineering voice.

She was carrying the trash in one hand and couldn't push him with one hand. "You're lying. You've been drinking!"

"I didn’t."

"It smells like alcohol, not yet!"

Zhang Shu let go of her slightly, and the soft touch on her chest disappeared. He then realized that the hug seemed different from that night on the playground?

So soft, why is she getting softer and softer?

He lifted his clothes and sniffed himself.

He really reeked of cigarettes and alcohol. That's what a closed environment is like, the smell is there as soon as you sit there.

It's so annoying. He clearly packed everything neatly before leaving.

"I really didn't drink it. Someone spilled it on me." He explained with a frown, looking extremely helpless.

Shengxia knew from his expression that he was not lying, and muttered, "Was it spilled on the dancing girl?"

Zhang Shu was stunned and didn't react.

Shengxia thought he had acquiesced and didn't want to pay any attention to him, so she walked around him and went to throw away the trash.

Zhang Shu followed behind her and was able to see clearly what she was wearing. Under the blouse was a skirt, which judging by the fabric, should be a nightgown, and below that was a pair of slippers.

The whole person is very homely, with a puffy face...

Zhang Shu suddenly smiled and said, "Do you know what you seem to be doing now?"

Shengxia threw away the garbage, turned around and said nothing.

Zhang Shu continued, "It's like... like disciplining her husband who came back from fooling around."

In the midsummer, the pace stopped.

What!

"Zhang Shu!"

"Um."

"Are you shameless?"

"don't want."

“…”

She was furious. “I’m going back!”

Zhang Shu held her back, "Stop, I'm wrong. I have to save face, so don't reply yet."

There were not many people in the neighborhood at this time, but Shengxia was still very nervous. She broke away from his hand and whispered, "At my house..."

She is really shy. How can she be less shy?

Zhang Shu nodded and compromised: "Okay, I'll just stand here and look at you."

"It will be the same tomorrow."

After saying this, Shengxia raised her head and met his deep eyes, and her heart suddenly sank.

Well, okay, she was wrong, it was different.

I haven't seen you for two days. This side of me is very different.

"It's different," Zhang Shu said, "The scores will be estimated tomorrow. Now that everything is still unknown, I have to tell you..."

"Shengxia, you said before that if you were admitted to Heqing University, we would be together. I don't agree."

disagree.

In midsummer, my heart felt like it was hit by something and it ached.

Before I could react, he slowly said, "For this kind of thing, it should be better for me to make the invitation, but what I want to say is that I want to be with you, regardless of family background, future prospects, or grades."

"No matter what the estimated score is tomorrow, no matter how the final exam is, no matter whether we are in the same city or in the same university in the future, I want you to be with me. If there is distance, I will lean towards you, no matter how far or how long we walk together."

"OK?"