Melon's Summer
The clouds and fog over Hangzhou and Hong Kong were gathering and drifting, and the sky was overcast for several days, and the morning light was dim.
Bai Luo got up in a hurry this morning and accidentally left his student ID at home.
Today happened to be the last day of the exam week. The exam schedules of various colleges varied. Bo Wei's college had finished its exams yesterday and had a two-month holiday.
Bai Luo took two exams today, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
The morning exam starts at 10 o'clock.
It's already nine o'clock.
If I go back to Nanfeng Lane to get my student ID and then return to school, it would be difficult to get to the examination room before the bell rings.
After careful consideration, he sent a message to Bo Xi.
[What are you doing? ]
On the open-air balcony of the rental house, a man was leaning on a double rocking chair, lazily holding a lollipop in his mouth and playing games out of boredom, when his fingers suddenly paused.
Squinting along the sunlight, he could clearly see the girl's message.
Quite...strange.
[Playing games.]
Sui Sui lay in his arms basking in the sun, the sunlight making its orange fur hot. Its pointed cat ears could hear its owner chewing a lollipop and typing away.
In front of the south bay window on the second floor of the library, Bai Luo placed his cell phone on top of his professional books.
When I opened the window, the fresh air blew in my face, and the green light rolled down from the leaves to the ground.
A WeChat notification chimed past his ears. His icy blue eyes drooped.
Turns out he was playing games.
She knew that people who played games hated being interrupted, so she didn't plan to reply.
The brighter the sun, the colder the temperature of her palms.
At a loss, two words pierced into the bottom of my pupils.
[I can reply.]
[?]
Aren’t you playing games?
Not afraid of being disturbed? Not afraid of losing?
[I told you to send it and you can reply.]
The person who had quit the game early in the rocking chair was biting the stick of his lollipop mischievously, stroking the fur of Sui Sui with one hand and typing casually with the other.
I left my student ID at home. Can you see if it's on the coffee table in the living room? If not, check the first shelf of the bedroom cabinet. Don't touch the second shelf. Thank you.
She uses the second layer of the low cabinet to store underwear boxes.
[I have an exam in less than an hour. Can you bring it to me?]
He sent another emoji of a kitten bowing.
Bo Xi stared at the news and clicked his tongue.
[Where to send?]
Bai Luo pondered for a moment.
[It's the classroom on the first floor of the Art Building, around the corner. I'm in the library now, so beep me when you're there.]
She didn't want others to misunderstand their relationship.
[Okay, I'll message you when I get there.]
Bo Xi replied, then carried Sui Sui back to the living room and glanced at the empty coffee table.
After placing Sui Sui firmly in the depression of the sofa, he turned and walked towards the low cabinet in the bedroom.
The faint chirping of cicadas emanated from the century-old tree at the alley entrance. He knuckled open the first drawer, and the student certificate swung into view.
Even more glaring than the green cover are the six black characters.
——Depression self-rating scale.
The cicadas are chirping like crazy.
The corners of Bo Xi's eyes drooped, and the thin piece of paper in his palm felt heavy and trembling between his knuckles.
He originally thought that he was the closest observer to her, but at this moment he realized that his self-righteous "understanding" was nothing but dust on the surface.
It's just the tip of the iceberg.
Her hidden past was far more vast and boundless than he could have imagined.
The sharp eyes were slightly tinged with red. Heartache is the tenderness hidden in the bones and blood.
It is unimaginable, and even more unbearable, how Bai Luo survived depression for such a long time.
The insults and slanders directed at her by Hangzhou University students pierced her thin back.
It took a long time, so long that his throat was sore, before he put the paper back in its original place.
The boundless green outside the window rotted along with him in the dead light of summer.
*
With only thirty minutes left before the exam began, Bai Luo was suffocating in the heat of the library, his skin soaked with sweat and feeling as if he were being soaked in a sunshower.
She looked out the window, the sunlight was weakly filtering through the clouds.
With only fifteen minutes left before the exam began, a fluorescent blue electric light flickered on. Raindrops pounded the windowpanes, hissing and creating white steam.
The WeChat notification sound flashed by.
[I have arrived. ]
The rain outside the window was falling heavily. Bai Luo didn't have an umbrella, so he just held his schoolbag high above his head.
The wet stone pavement of the school's boulevard reflected the slender and disheveled figure.
When I stumbled to the corner classroom on the first floor of the Art Building, my whole body was covered in rain vapor.
Today's sun shower came without any warning.
I fell into a pair of dark eyes and was caught off guard.
Under the blue sky, the sun's rays were sparse, and the wind blew from north to south, cooling the stuffy and sticky air in the classroom.
Because it is an art building, the spatial layout is completely different from that of the teaching building.
Sets of leisure furniture were placed in a scattered manner. Perhaps because he was bored, Bo Xi lay lazily on the bubble sofa.
The black baseball cap is casually pressed down, and the side profile is cold and white.
"What are you standing there for? Aren't you afraid of being late for the exam?"
“…”
Is she distracted?
The classroom next door seemed to be filming a graduation MV, and the noise was noisy.
The silhouettes of two people sway among the rustling fallen leaves outside the glass window.
"Thanks."
Bai Luo stretched out her hand to take the student ID card he handed over, but a malicious look welled up in Bo'er's eyes. With a flick of her wrist, she missed.
The air is heavy and humid, and there seems to be a blue mist flowing with every breath.
After failing several times in a row, Bai Luo became annoyed.
"Bo Yi, I'm really going to be late."
As he spoke, one knee of a leg pressed into the gap between Bo's legs, and one arm hung down, with the palm pressing diagonally against his shoulder blade.
"No, I'm dying of heat."
"The air conditioner in the next classroom is still working, let's go there and cool off for a while."
There was a slow voice in the corridor, and Bai Luo's eyelashes trembled.
There is no hiding.
In a panic, he instinctively took off the baseball cap on Bo's head and put it on his own flashy hair color.
There are very few girls in the entire Hangzhou University who dye their hair ice blue. Once exposed to the public, it is inevitable that they will attract a wave of rumors.
Bo Xi seemed to be keeping an eye on the matter, looking down on her little actions with displeasure.
When the brim of his hat was pulled askew, his hair on his forehead was disheveled, revealing a pair of cold and fierce eyes.
The girl was very afraid that others would know that she was related to him, as if he was a dirty label that would tarnish her reputation.
The location is just a secret art building. At this moment, if someone accidentally breaks into the classroom, they will be in a hurry to hide themselves.
The moment the classroom door opened, Bai Luo buried his head deep in the crook of his neck and guided his arm to the back of his neck.
The whole classroom was filled with damp steam.
The green summer tide.
The group of people blocking the classroom door all had eyes filled with surprise and astonishment.
Who the hell would have known that while looking for a classroom to cool off for a while, he would accidentally bump into the proud son of Hangzhou University who was not allowed to be approached by outsiders, and he was secretly dating his girlfriend.
The girl lying in his arms buried her head in the crook of his neck, with a baseball cap covering her entire head tightly.
The only thing known is: a white sleeveless long T-shirt, black shorts, and white sneakers.
On the other hand, Bo Yi.
He lazily hugged the person in his arms, with a fierce face but no sense of stealing, and raised his eyebrows to look at the group of people who suddenly broke in.
Bai Luo, who was very sensitive, breathed deeply, and his nostrils were filled with the scent of jasmine from his body.
Why don't you drive them away?
The slender fingers quietly pinched his side.
The force was probably too great, causing Bo Xi to groan in pain.
"Why, you like eating dog food?"
It's a big misunderstanding.
The air is terribly humid and stuffy, making people feel uneasy.
A group of people fled in panic.
"Fuck, I'm not mistaken, Bo Yi actually has a girlfriend."
"Isn't there a rumor that he's frigid?"
"Why did I hear that he was engaged to his childhood sweetheart?"
"Who is in his arms then?"
"A secret affair? So exciting?"
The discussions in the corridor disappeared, and Bai Luo stood up without hesitation.
She snatched the student ID card from his hand, which he had deliberately refused to give her. She was about to flee, but the moment her fingers touched the cold door handle, she turned back to him.
He took off Bo's short-sleeved shirt without changing his expression.
He was in such a mess that an umbrella was stuffed into his hand when he was trying to escape from him.
Without caring, he walked towards the teaching building with an umbrella.
He let his coat be taken off, leaving only a black sleeveless T-shirt, his profile half bright and half dark in the rainy light.
He casually opened his phone with one hand, fiddled with it for a few times, and deleted a surveillance video.
He can spread rumors, but Bai Luo absolutely cannot.
He would never let her fall into the whirlpool of public opinion again.
You can judge his existence, but you have no right to define the nature of his love.
*
Bai Luo knew that rumors would spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and eventually become distorted, otherwise he would not have taken off Bo Xi's shirt and put it on himself.
Although slightly loose, it's wide enough to cover the outline of the sleeveless T-shirt underneath.
It avoids the noisy waves of "missing person notices" on the forum.
I have to admire the gossipy minds and rumor-mongering abilities of Hangzhou University students.
From Bo Xi having a girlfriend, to Bo Xi and his girlfriend having passionate sex in the art building, to Bo Xi's girlfriend getting pregnant.
From hearsay to elaboration, and then to fictional reasoning.
All kinds of groundless rumors are flying around.
Yin Shuanghui, Bo Yi's childhood sweetheart, was so angry that her face was distorted. She went to confront the person in person, and the person admitted it without any guilt.
He said frankly that there was no possibility between him and her and that he already had someone he liked.
Yin Shuanghui was furious and insisted on finding out who Bo Yi liked.
I even asked my parents to use their connections to replay the surveillance footage, only to find that it had been deleted long ago.
Unwilling to give up, he posted a missing person notice on the school forum.
Extremely childish behavior.
Bai Luo scrolled through the comment section with an expressionless face.
[Bo Xi actually has a girlfriend. I thought he was gay.]
[So who is it? Come out now.]
[Today's outfit fits this requirement, and I thought of someone.]
[Upstairs, who is it? Come on, tell me.]
[BL.]
[Impossible. She was in the same exam room as me today, and she was clearly wearing a shirt. I filmed a video with a friend and she was included in it. If you don't believe me, watch it yourself.]
Bai Luo's figure in the video is blurry, but it cannot hide her beauty.
[Don’t you think it’s possible for two of them to be together? ]
[Indeed, although both of them are very good-looking, their personalities are obviously incompatible.]
[Who dares to ship them as a couple? I guess Bo Xi doesn't even know Bai Luo.]
Bai Luo stopped the meaningless browsing at the right time. Fortunately, she cleverly put Bo Xi's shirt on herself, otherwise the personal attacks on her in the comment section would be more than a little bit.
Lu Fei asked her to go to KTV in the evening, saying it was to celebrate the holiday.
She didn't refuse, which meant she was relaxed.
I gave her a denim patchwork dress because someone said her dress was ugly when she went back to Nanhuai No. 1 Middle School last time.
Retro square neckline and long puff sleeves.
The pure desire style just fits her cool temperament.
Lu Fei shared her location with Bai Luo on WeChat and said she would drive her to KTV.
She was afraid of waiting for a long time, so she walked alone in the romantic night streets according to the map.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Concubine Lu told her to wait there for a minute and they would be there soon.
On southerly days, the warm wind circulates moisture over and over again, continuously evaporating sticky water vapor.
It was dusk and there was no boat in the sky.
A person is standing with his arms folded under the blue-gray sky, with his long ice-blue hair falling down his shoulders.
He was a cool and aloof person, attracting the attention of passers-by.
Bai Luo, who was about to check the map, was stopped by a cautious figure.
"Sister, can you scan this code? I'm only one short. Thank you."
She looked up and saw a fair-skinned boy.
He probably just came of age and is working part-time to earn pocket money after graduating from high school.
When she was a freshman, her part-time job was to scan codes and fill in information, so she understood the boys' feelings and situations.
"good."
The moment the QR code was scanned, a dazzling sports car parked steadily at the intersection.
The eyes of the four people in the car instantly fell on the tall and short figures under the street light.
The boy stared at the girl and scanned her phone. The boy gave the girl something and ran away quickly.
Like a shy boy confessing his feelings cautiously, so immature.
Bai Luo stared blankly at the cell phone lanyard in his hand. It was a heart with the word "Y" on the front and "beloved" on the back.
“Beep, beep, beep…”
A short whistle blew across my eardrums.
I raised my eyes a little late, and through the cold and thick car window, I met a pair of squinting eyes with amusement.
The palm of my hand holding the lanyard felt cold.
Why is he here too?
Didn’t you say the bar was busy tonight and needed him?
"Lolo, get in the car."
Concubine Lu stuck her head out and greeted her.
Because the car was parked near a strategic street, it was impossible to go around to the asphalt road to open the door, so I had to use the inside door.
It is the side of Bo'er.
But when he shouldn't pretend to be asleep, he just closed his eyes and dozed off leisurely.
Leaning lazily in the shadow of the back seat, the night light falls on his silver-gray hair.
The city's outline was illuminated by lights. Bai Luo's pale eyes glared helplessly at the person who was deliberately doing evil.
After living in the same room with him for several months, I have already figured out his temperament.
I want to tease her again.
There's really no way to deal with him.
"Move inside."
A cold and indifferent reminder.
Lu Fei and Shen Cisi in the front seat knew that Bo Qi had been drowsy on the way, but Wu Kai in the other back seat caught the fleeting moment when he opened his eyes.
I can't guess what he's thinking.
There was a big uproar on the school forum during the day, and people had different opinions about the identity of Bo Yi's girlfriend.
A group of good friends tried to get the truth from the rumors one by one, but all they got in return was "You believe the rumors too."
But there are people who swear and describe in vivid detail that they saw with their own eyes Bo Qi, who always kept strangers away, hugging his girlfriend passionately in an empty classroom in the art building.
How can people not believe what he said so confidently?
Wu Kai would never mistake the figure of him rubbing shoulders with Bo Xi in the art building for Bai Luo.
After the morning exam, I ran into Bai Luo at the school gate where the cicadas were chirping noisily.
Leng Chun's outfit, the memory has long been solidified into film.
Black baseball cap, white shirt, black shorts, and white sneakers.
There are countless girls in Hangzhou University who wear shorts with white shoes.
And with her bold hair color, she is definitely easy to recognize.
But he found it difficult to understand the ambiguous bond between Bo Qi and Bai Luo.
One sentence made Bo Xi act like a big shot.
"Why?"
“…”
"Yun, move inside a little and let Luoluo go in first. Or you can let Luoluo sit in the middle."
Concubine Lu glanced back and gave a timely reminder. Her palms were covered in sweat.
I hope it won’t make things difficult for my Luo Bao.
I don't know which word touched his nerves, but he moved inward obediently.
Sitting in the middle, next to Wu Kai.
Don't even think about it.
Bai Luo sank into her seat with an indifferent expression, not knowing whether the person next to her rubbed her calf intentionally or not.
A slight tingling sensation.
In the end, I couldn't hold back my frustration and unlocked my phone to send a message.
[You are so annoying.]
There is no reason to accuse him.
Simply accuse him.
When she sent the message, Bo Xi saw it and deliberately did not reply.
He is so ungrateful after getting an advantage.
Feeling inexplicably wronged.
She was wearing a pair of soft-soled flip-flops today. She quietly and slowly stepped into his little white shoes.
Before it is implemented, the evil people will file a complaint first.
"You stepped on my foot."
Amidst the grey silence, a low, hoarse voice could be heard.
This attracted everyone's attention in the car.
Bai Luo felt even more aggrieved.
She didn't even step on him.
His actions were faster than his thoughts. In front of everyone's astonished gaze, he suddenly hit him hard in the chest.
The night wind flowed in through the half-open window, ruffling the two people's soft, cool-toned hair.
One of them was gazing at the night view of Hangzhou Port like a passing tourist, while the other one closed his eyes leisurely, but the corners of his mouth were secretly curved with joy.
The other three looked shocked.
What's going on?
"Do you know each other?"
Chen Cisi, sitting in the passenger seat, looked at the two people in the rearview mirror as if nothing had happened, and cautiously asked a question.
"I don't know him."
Two clear voices unexpectedly collided in the air.
The denial without any eye contact caused the air pressure in the car to drop sharply.
Since both of them have cold personalities, it is natural that they will not know each other.
Shen Cisi and Concubine Lu pondered secretly.
Wu Kai didn't think the matter was simple, but he had no reason to expose it.
Last time on his birthday, Bo Qi whispered in his ear, "She was the one who took my first kiss," which clearly meant that she liked her.
But now that it has been revealed that he has a girlfriend, I don’t know how to make a conclusion.
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