Chapter 30: Acid Tide Rain in my eyes, but I support him in my heart...
Wen Xin was still applauding Bo Xia when she stepped down from the stage. Her friend pulled her over to show her the Polaroid photo she had just taken. She took the photo paper with a special texture and realized how beautiful she looked when she looked confident.
It was even so strange that it didn't seem like herself.
Flipping to the second photo, her fingertips touched the boy's profile, which he was admiring intently. Bo Xia raised her eyes in surprise, but the words on the tip of her tongue were snatched away by the other man. Wen Xin raised her face slightly with pride. "Just buy me some milk tea when you have time. I hope the photo looks good."
Wen Xin always understands her.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have captured the moment when Jin Yunyan's gaze fell on her and sent it to her.
She couldn't help but wonder, did he see her?
Will you remember her?
Would he care about her even a little bit?
Would there be a moment when his eyes stayed on her?
The sour and swollen feeling is mixed with a slightly sweet feeling, like a carbonated drink that is bubbling, and the bubbles will overflow if you shake it too much.
Bo Xia didn't have time to look at it any further. She looked up and saw Zhou Suiye approaching, so she subconsciously hid the photo. Unfortunately, he saw her little move clearly, and he let out a clear "tsk" sound. Well, he was an outsider.
"Brother, you performed well."
Arrogant little dog. Wen Xin muttered, "It's only slightly worse than Jin Yunyan's."
"Hey, you... you haven't even seen him participate in a debate..."
Wen Xin admitted frankly: "I haven't seen it. I'm just prejudiced against you."
“…”
The two were used to arguing with each other. Objectively speaking, Zhou Suiye's performance was indeed good, leaving the other debater speechless, and he even won the best debater award.
This campus selection will only select four people to represent the school to participate in the competition, and Zhou Suiye is likely to be among the selected ones.
Jin Yunyan came over and asked Zhou Suiye to go eat.
"Your treat."
It wasn't the first time that he was bullied by Zhou Suiye, but Jin Yunyan didn't care. Perhaps because of his complicated family background, he always had a sense of maturity that his peers didn't have. He turned slightly to the side and considerately asked Wen Xin and Bo Xia to go eat together.
Sometimes Bo Xia would wonder if he was a few years older. He always looked like an adult. Although he had the youthful vigor and a flamboyant side when playing basketball, he was always reserved in most situations. His heart seemed unfathomable, and passersby had no chance of getting a glimpse of it.
Noticing the girl was in a daze, Jin Yunyan paused and asked, "Shall we go?"
He was so close to her, so close that Wen Xin cast an ambiguous look at him, so close that her heartbeat was about to reveal everything. She said "hmm" in a panic.
I don't know how long it took before the familiar voice beside my ear spoke softly, "Today is just as I expected. You performed very well."
Like a pair of hands, it easily smoothed out all the wrinkles in her heart.
When she looked up again, she could only see Jin Yunyan's back. It was hot at that time, and the boys seemed to be very afraid of the heat and always wore very thin clothes. Jin Yunyan's school uniform jacket was draped over his arm, making his figure look even more slender.
Bo Xia hurriedly followed.
The days passed by smoothly, and before she knew it, her diary had many more pages. When she opened it, she saw that it was filled with densely written content about Jin Yunyan.
He said I performed well, probably to encourage me. He also said he thought the same thing... Does that mean I'm not that bad in his eyes...?
[He has good taste in clothes, and the shirt and turtleneck sweater look great together, but Zhou Suiye, a straight man with no aesthetic sense, actually said that he was stuffy when he dressed like that...]
He doesn't seem to like the weather in the south. It's true, the south is too humid during the rainy season. The floor is covered in water droplets, and I can't even see my face in the mirror. But Jin Yunyan probably doesn't know that the south gets a lot of rain, and it rains continuously until the plum rain season. I wonder if he'll have trouble adapting...
She put the diary away in her schoolbag. Just as the class was over, Bo Xia followed Wen Xin to the canteen and heard the school radio station playing "Secret Love Airline". It seemed that today was a special show of Cantonese songs.
It was not until he returned home that Bo Xia discovered that the hundred yuan he had saved for textbooks was missing from his pocket.
She opened her schoolbag in a panic and searched through it repeatedly, suspecting that she had left it in the room, and made the originally tidy desk very messy.
Her father came in and saw the scene and asked her what she was doing.
Bo Xia subconsciously covered it up and said it was okay.
After that, I went to the school to look for Bo Xia but couldn't find her.
Wen Xin saw that she was unhappy and asked her what was wrong, but she shook her head.
Many things were difficult to talk about, like her family's poor financial situation. Her parents always told her they were broke, which made her cautious every time she asked for living expenses. Even tutoring, something that seemed normal to others, was earned by being scolded, and she even had to pay a small amount of her own meager New Year's money.
Her mother was already unhappy about the cost of tutoring, thinking that her daughter didn't need it because her grades were so good, and she didn't want to tell them about the money she had lost.
Many years later, she realized that most of her teenage troubles stemmed from poverty. Sometimes, poverty of character is far more terrifying than financial poverty.
Because of her poverty, her mother had to be very calculative and would transfer her own pressure to her, so it was difficult for her to make mistakes. Even if she lost something small, she would be scolded. So she always lived in caution and fear, thinking that a small thing would be as big as the sky falling.
But when I grew up and saw a bigger world, I realized that it was not a big deal.
Bo Xia looked at Wen Xin and said with difficulty: "Wen Xin, I accidentally lost my textbook money yesterday. Can you help me pay for it..."
Seeing her expression, Wen Xin thought it was a big deal: "No problem."
Wen Xin helped her pay the tuition neatly, and Bo Xia said, "Don't worry, I'll find a way to pay it back to you after a while."
Wen Xin felt something was amiss. Based on her understanding of her friend, she wouldn't...
"Don't worry about paying it back, but if you lost the money, just tell Mom and Dad."
She lowered her eyes: "Give me some time."
Sometimes she didn't know whether to say she was being too picky or what, and Wen Xin didn't ask too much. She just comforted her not to take it too seriously, after all, she wasn't short of money.
But Bo Xia always kept in mind the things that Wen Xin didn't care about. She could obviously talk to her family about it, but she was a person with high self-esteem and stubbornness.
After a while, she found a part-time job. A neighbor's sister had something urgent to do, so she took over for a day. Although the work was a bit busy, Bo Xia enjoyed it. She helped out at a nearby bookstore, which was quite large and had many out-of-print books.
After finally having some free time at work, Bo Xia found a foreign literature novel that he really liked in the corner while tidying up the bookshelf. This version was very hard to buy.
She couldn't put the book down, so after flipping through two pages, she put it on the table on the other side. Just as she was about to read for a while, she looked up and saw a familiar figure.
The tall boy at the door walked in. He was wearing a black sweatshirt and looked a little cold. She didn't expect that she was so lucky to see Jin Yunyan here.
Just as she was hesitating whether to go and say hello, she saw another girl in pink clothes following behind the boy, and the smile on her face slowly faded.
Bo Xia never dared to let him see her, and just watched the two of them talking from a distance. They seemed to know each other very well, otherwise someone as cold as Jin Yunyan would not let her follow him.
I don’t know what the girl said. Jin Yunyan turned around and looked at her. Then the girl smiled brightly at her. From Jin Yunyan’s expression, it seemed that he was at a loss as to what to do with the girl.
It rains a lot this season, and I don’t know when it started raining outside.
Bo Xia once fantasized about being able to get along with him like this and be so close to him, but many things were just a dream as fragile as a bubble.
She wanted to tell Wen Xin that this was why she never dared to speak.
There could be many girls in his brilliant youth, but she was always an outsider, performing a one-man show that no one knew about. The moment she fell in love with him, she was already doomed to a broken heart. How could she speak up?
How could she dare to speak?
In her sight, Jin Yunyan found a seat and sat down to read. She couldn't hear what they were saying, but she felt that they had a good relationship.
Jin Yunyan turned a page and stopped the girl before she could speak: "Be quiet, you'll disturb others."
"oh."
After a long time, Jin Yunyan came to the workbench and saw the girl nodding at the table in a daze. Bo Xia finally came to her senses and looked at him in surprise: "Is there... anything wrong?"
Jin Yunyan was also surprised that she was here, but there was only a flash of surprise in his eyes, and he didn't ask any more questions. He just saw another customer buy the last out-of-print book and asked her if the bookstore still had it.
Bo Xia's fingertips paused, as the book he was reading happened to be the last one.
She just planned to buy it herself after closing. Books here are not expensive, and the little she had left from today's salary was just enough to buy this book.
The girl was about to say something when the other girl came over. Perhaps because she had been holding it in for too long, she said unhappily, "Ayan, can we go eat later?"
Bo Xia's fingertips curled slightly, bitterness spreading along with the moisture. As she got closer, she could see the girl up close. She was wearing delicate makeup and was dressed in bright and beautiful clothes. She looked like someone from another world.
She bit her lips, a sour feeling rising in her nose.
But she still handed her copy to Jin Yunyan: "This is for you."
She was obviously very sad, but even though her eyes were raining, she was holding an umbrella for him in her heart.
Jin Yunyan raised his eyebrows and looked at her in surprise for a long time. He didn't know whether he was surprised that someone who loved studying so much would work here or that she, a poor person who came here to work, would give him books.
There was a faint smile at the corners of his eyes, and he looked very gentle: "Thank you."
Bo Xia didn't dare to look into his amorous eyes. Just at this moment, someone called her name and she hurried over to help. When she came back, Jin Yunyan had already left, but there was a banknote on the table, pressed under her water cup.
She couldn't think of anyone else except Jin Yunyan.
She wanted to cry but a smile seeped through her eyes, smiling at how he took her pride into consideration and gave her neither too much nor too little. She smiled at how he was so good, so good that she was willing to taste the bitterness of secret love.
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