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"I can't even see you clearly."
After Song Siyao put away the kite, the three of them returned to the lake together.
The senior sister who was responsible for organizing this event made sufficient preparations, designed several team-building games, and invited everyone to participate.
We played until the evening and then got on the bus back to school.
After the autumn outing at the end of October, studies became more intense.
Several of Xu Yingxi's courses have homework or papers to submit, and one of her courses has a midterm exam.
In addition, she had some radio drama work to complete, which took up some of her time.
Xu Xingluo's life was not easy either. In November and December, the midterm exams and monthly exams of S University Affiliated High School came one after another.
As for Song Siyao, Xu Yingxi felt that he was probably very busy all year round, with the only difference being "extremely busy" and "normally busy".
Xu Yingxi sees Song Siyao at the weekly group meeting, and if she is not too busy on weekends, she will also meet Xu Xingluo at the apartment.
Xu Xingluo still went to Song Siyao regularly for tutoring as agreed before.
It’s just that the opportunities for the three of us to meet together are obviously not as many as before.
In comparison, the "S University Campus Beauty Xu Yingxi Support Group" has become more active.
A weekday.
Xu Xingluo: [Mom! Dad! Are you guys going to have another team meeting tomorrow morning?]
Xu Yingxi: [Yeah, what's wrong?]
Xu Xingluo: [Nothing, it just suddenly occurred to me, and I'm a little envious!]
Xu Yingxi: [What are you envious of?]
Xu Xingluo: [I envy you guys for being able to meet at a fixed time every week!]
Xu Yingxi: [……]
Xu Yingxi: [Imagine you haven't accomplished anything this week, yet you have to report your progress to dozens of people and your boss, and there's a chance your boss might call you into his office for a private talk afterward.]
Xu Yingxi: [Are you still envious?]
Xu Xingluo: [(O_O)]
Xu Xingluo: [How terrifying!]
Half a minute later, Xu Yingxi received a private message.
Song Siyao: [Need help? I'm free tonight.]
Xu Yingxi: [No need, Senior Brother, I just want to scare him.]
Song Siyao: [……]
…
One weekend.
Xu Xingluo: [Today I studied from morning till six in the evening!]
Xu Xingluo: [[Picture]]
Xu Xingluo: [Look at how much paper I wrote! It's super thick!]
Xu Xingluo: [@Xu Yingxi, Mom, what have you been busy with today?]
Xu Yingxi: [[Picture]]
Xu Yingxi: [I just finished writing an 8,000-word essay.]
Xu Xingluo: [Wow! That's really hard work!]
Xu Xingluo: [@Song Siyao, Dad, where are you?]
Song Siyao: [[Picture]]
Xu Xingluo: [What is this?]
Song Siyao: [The company's project plan.]
Xu Xingluo: [Wow, that looks amazing!]
Xu Yingxi: [@Song Siyao, can this be posted casually? ]
Song Siyao: [It's okay, this is a public document.]
Xu Xingluo: [Are there any documents that are not public? Can I see those documents?]
Song Siyao: [……]
Song Siyao: [Even if I show it to you, you probably won’t understand it.]
Xu Xingluo: [QAQ]
Xu Xingluo: [Okay, then I'll continue writing my test paper...]
Xu Xingluo: [One day I will understand! ]
…
In mid-November, the midterm exam results for the first-year high school students of S University Affiliated High School came out.
Xu Xingluo immediately sent the report card to the group. This time his grades improved a lot compared to the monthly exam, and he was just ranked 20th in the class.
Ever since the midterm exams ended, Xu Xingluo has been looking forward to the New Year's Day holiday.
One day, the boy silently shared his travel guide to a neighboring city in the group.
At first Xu Yingxi was a little hesitant, she knew that Xu Xingluo wanted the three of them to travel together.
Xu Yingxi always felt weird when she thought about going on a long journey with Song Siyao.
Unable to resist Xu Xingluo's constant nagging, Xu Yingxi finally agreed.
Anyway, the high-speed rail only takes half an hour, so I can leave early and come back the same night.
After the travel plan was finalized, Xu Xingluo started to send some plans and strategies to the group from time to time, just like before the autumn outing.
The New Year's Day holiday is approaching.
Most of S University's final exams were scheduled after New Year's Day, but Xu Yingxi had an elective course whose final exam was taken very early, on the afternoon of the day before the New Year's Day holiday.
So Xu Yingxi asked Song Siyao to go to the middle school to pick up Xu Xingluo and take him home to pack his luggage. The next morning, the three of them would meet at the high-speed rail station and set off.
By the senior year, the teachers also hope that students can graduate successfully, and the exams for elective courses are not difficult.
Xu Yingxi finished answering all the questions half an hour in advance, checked it once, handed in the paper, and left the examination room twenty minutes early.
It snowed in the north city yesterday, and the temperature dropped by two degrees today.
Fortunately, the heating in the teaching building was sufficient. Xu Yingxi even felt a little hot even though she was wearing a down jacket.
She took out her cell phone from her bag.
Forty minutes ago, Song Siyao sent a message saying that he had received Xu Xingluo.
Judging from the time, the two of them should have arrived at Song Siyao's house by now.
Xu Yingxi sent a message to Song Siyao, telling him that she had finished the exam.
The other side quickly responded.
Song Siyao: [Can you answer the phone now? ]
Xu Yingxi frowned slightly.
She and Song Siyao rarely call each other. They both prefer to communicate through text and rarely send voice messages.
Xu Yingxi had a vague sense of foreboding in her heart. After thinking about it, she directly made the voice call.
Two seconds later, the call was connected.
Xu Yingxi: "I just came out of the examination room. Did anything happen over there?"
Song Siyao: "Don't worry, it's not particularly serious."
Xu Yingxi could tell that the man seemed to be intentionally lowering his voice.
She asked, "What's going on?"
Song Siyao: "Xu Xingluo has a fever."
As she was speaking, Xu Yingxi heard a vague "Mom" coming from the phone.
Then it was Song Siyao's voice: "Well, I'm talking to your mother on the phone, you go back to sleep."
…
Fifteen minutes later, Xu Yingxi took a taxi to Song Siyao's doorstep.
Song Siyao opened the door for her.
Xu Yingxi took off her down jacket and put on slippers.
Xu Yingxi: "Xu Xingluo is in the bedroom?"
Song Siyao hummed, "I asked him to sleep for a while, but after he heard that you were coming, he refused to sleep."
Xu Yingxi: “…”
As she walked towards the bedroom, she asked Song Siyao, "Is your fever severe? Have you taken any medicine?"
Song Siyao: "I took antipyretics half an hour ago, and my temperature was just measured at 38.5 degrees."
The two walked into the room one after the other.
Xu Xingluo was lying on the bed in his pajamas. When he heard footsteps, he immediately struggled to sit up.
"Mom!" The boy's face was red, with a fever-reducing patch on his forehead, but he said, "I'm really fine, it's just a low-grade fever. I'll be fine after a good night's sleep by tomorrow morning!"
Xu Yingxi frowned when she heard this: "A good night's sleep will do the trick? Are you sure?"
Xu Xingluo stuttered, "Yes, yes! I've always been in good health, and I always recovered quickly from my previous illnesses!"
Xu Yingxi: "So, are you still planning to go out and play as planned tomorrow morning?"
Xu Xingluo blinked and said in a weaker voice, "No...Is it not possible?"
Xu Yingxi was both angry and amused when she heard this: "Of course not. Even if you could really hold on, I'm still worried that I'd get infected from you while we're having fun."
Xu Xingluo opened his mouth and stopped talking, looking at Xu Yingxi pitifully.
Xu Yingxi: “…”
She sat down beside the bed and spoke more slowly, "I know you've been looking forward to this trip for a long time, but with your fever at this level, whether it subsides tomorrow morning or not, you definitely can't go out."
As she spoke, Xu Yingxi gave Song Siyao a wink.
Song Siyao: "Well, your mother is right."
Xu Xingluo: “…”
After a few seconds of silence, the boy lowered his head silently.
It seemed that he had reluctantly accepted the fact, but his mood had not yet calmed down.
Xu Yingxi sighed.
A few months ago, she never thought that she would have the patience to comfort a sixteen-year-old boy.
However, these days, she saw with her own eyes that Xu Xingluo forwarded many travel guides in the group, and even wrote a travel plan by hand, arranging where to go from morning to night that day.
Xu Yingxi: "It's just that we can't go out for fun this New Year's Day. Are those plans you made going to become obsolete in a month or two?"
Hearing this, Xu Xingluo finally raised his head.
Xu Yingxi glanced at Song Siyao.
Song Siyao immediately understood what she meant and continued, "I'll be in North City during this winter vacation."
Xu Yingxi nodded and said to Xu Xingluo, "Winter vacation is so long, can't you find a day to go to the places you want to go?"
Xu Xingluo blinked slowly, and his eyes gradually brightened.
After a moment, he raised his hand and bent his little finger.
Xu Yingxi: “…”
Does this mean you don't believe her verbal promise?
Forget it, this guy has a fever, just let him go.
Xu Yingxi stretched out her little finger and hooked it with Xu Xingluo's.
Xu Xingluo finally showed his usual smile on his face, with his mouth wide open, revealing a row of white teeth.
Xu Yingxi: "Do you want to make a promise with your dad too?"
Xu Xingluo: "Okay!"
Although he felt that as long as his mother was willing to play with him, his father would definitely join in.
But one more promise never hurts!
Xu Yingxi looked up at Song Siyao.
Song Siyao leaned over and hooked his fingers with the boy.
This scene made Xu Yingxi feel inexplicably funny.
"Okay," she said, "Go to sleep now. You can hardly lift your eyelids."
Xu Xingluo hesitated to speak.
Xu Yingxi raised her eyebrows: "What's wrong?"
Under normal circumstances, Xu Xingluo might have been troubled for a longer time.
However, his illness made his brain groggy at the moment, and he couldn't help but blurt out his true feelings: "Mom, can you please not leave while I'm asleep?"
Xu Yingxi: "...Then when do you want me to leave?"
Xu Xingluo blinked, his mind turning slowly.
He hoped his mother could stay with him overnight, but this was his father's house...
Xu Xingluo tentatively asked, "Eight... ahem, nine... nine-thirty is okay?"
Xu Yingxi: “…”
"I'll try to leave as late as possible," she said. "I'll let you know when I leave."
Xu Xingluo nodded vigorously: "Okay! Then you must tell me when you leave, even if I fall asleep!"
Xu Yingxi: "Okay, I promise you."
After getting the guarantee, Xu Xingluo finally went to sleep.
He had been trying hard to hold on, and soon after closing his eyes he fell asleep.
Xu Yingxi came out of the bedroom.
"You were fine yesterday," she murmured. "Why did you suddenly have a fever?"
Song Siyao: "It seems it's because I had a snowball fight with my classmates after school yesterday."
Xu Yingxi thought, no wonder.
She looked up at the wall clock and saw it was almost six o'clock.
Song Siyao: "Are you hungry? I'm going to make dinner now."
Xu Yingxi thought for a moment and said, "Okay."
Since I'm going to stay at Song Siyao's house, I must eat.
Song Siyao: "Then I'll go to the kitchen to prepare it, you can just do whatever you want at home."
Xu Yingxi nodded.
Song Siyao cooked a few home-cooked dishes and put Xu Xingluo's portion separately in the refrigerator, waiting to heat it up in the microwave after he woke up.
After the two of them had dinner, it was still earlier than the 9:30 that Xu Xingluo had mentioned.
Xu Yingxi hadn't decided when to leave, but since she had promised Xu Xingluo, she couldn't leave too early.
Fortunately, she was not in a hurry. She had already told her parents that she was going out for a day trip with her friends and would be back home the next day.
Xu Yingxi planned to go back to the dormitory tonight so as not to go home too late and disturb her parents. She also had half of her packed luggage in the dormitory.
The only question now is what to do to pass the time at Song Siyao's house.
Xu Yingxi walked around the living room and turned on the TV.
The TV was far away from Xu Xingluo's bedroom, but just in case, Xu Yingxi turned down the volume.
After changing several channels, Xu Yingxi stopped at a TV series.
Song Siyao came out of the kitchen after washing the dishes and saw Xu Yingxi watching TV on the sofa.
The girl leaned lazily on the sofa and turned her head when she heard his footsteps.
"Do you want to watch it?" she said. "I can give you the TV."
Song Siyao was silent for a moment.
"No need," he said. "I'll just look at the same thing as you."
Xu Yingxi: "Oh..."
She watched him come over and sit on the other side of the sofa.
There was a three-seater sofa, with two people sitting on each side, with a distance of one person between them.
Xu Yingxi was glad that Song Siyao was a very distant person. If he sat next to her, she would definitely feel uncomfortable.
After all, this is his home.
In fact, she was feeling a little uncomfortable now, especially since Song Siyao hadn't spoken since he sat down.
Xu Yingxi thought, after all, they were still two people who were not that familiar with each other.
But most of the time, Xu Xingluo played the role of adjusting the atmosphere, so this awkwardness was not obvious.
Whenever the two of them were alone for too long, a subtle awkwardness would set in.
Xu Yingxi: "Xu Xingluo is still sleeping?"
Song Siyao: "Yeah, I just went to see him, he was sleeping soundly."
Xu Yingxi said "Oh": "Then let him sleep a little longer, and let him eat when he wakes up."
Song Siyao: "Okay."
The air became quiet again.
Xu Yingxi even regretted agreeing to Xu Xingluo. At that time, she had not thought carefully about how to spend the next few hours at Song Siyao's house.
There was no other way, so she had to focus her energy on the not-so-interesting TV series on the screen.
…
In the darkness, Xu Yingxi suddenly woke up.
She subconsciously fumbled around for a few times and finally found the thing that gave her the most sense of security at the moment - a mobile phone.
I raised my phone and the number on the screen was 21:37.
Xu Yingxi stared at the number for several seconds, then touched the blanket on her body, slowly realizing that she seemed to be neither in the dormitory nor in her own home.
I heard footsteps and a figure approaching.
Song Siyao whispered: "You're awake"
Xu Yingxi: "...Yeah."
Having just woken up, her voice sounded a little dry.
Song Siyao: "I'll get you some water."
Xu Yingxi hadn't fully woken up yet and sat on the sofa in a daze until the man came over with a glass of water.
Song Siyao bent down and handed the cup of water to her.
Perhaps because he was afraid that she could not hold it firmly, he did not let go immediately.
Xu Yingxi took the cup and her fingers touched Song Siyao's warm fingers.
The sense of touch becomes particularly obvious in the darkness, and everything seems to be in slow motion——
Their skin touched, exchanging body temperature, and then separated.
It was completely dark outside and the room was silent. Only the breath of the person in front of him was within reach.
Xu Yingxi felt inexplicably dizzy and subconsciously called out his name: "Song Siyao."
The girl's voice when she just woke up was much lazier than usual, and she sounded like she was acting coquettishly.
Song Siyao's Adam's apple rolled, and his voice was slightly hoarse: "What's wrong?"
"Why don't you turn on the light?" Xu Yingxi said, "It's so dark, I can't see you clearly."
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