Chapter 15 Fireworks Day In the new year, she will continue to like Liang Yuan...
"2018.01.01 Sunny Day, Brilliant Fireworks"
In the new year, I will still love you.
——Excerpt from Tao Shuran’s Diary
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The fireworks are over.
The last trace of color in the sky also dissipated, and the cold and silent atmosphere returned again.
The chill of winter was fully felt at this moment. Tao Shuran gathered his sleeves and let out a soft "ah".
Half jokingly asked: "Why, don't you have someone you like?"
It was at this time that the previous song by Stefanie Sun was finished. Perhaps due to her mood, Fang Qingyi, who was dominating the speakers, started playing another song.
Courage and fear, which one should I use?
Facing him with a 101-point smile
…
He has never appeared in my life.
I seem to understand who I hold in my hands
Happiness, the long queue still exists
I want to stand on tiptoe to find the existence of love
…
Tao Shuran secretly clenched her palms, pinching her fingertips into her palms. Her palms were sweating from nervousness. Fortunately, Liang Yuanjing's answer was not the worst.
But it's not the best either.
He said calmly, "I didn't."
"I'll take it as a joke and keep it a secret for you."
Liang Yuanjing turned his head, the blocked light refracting uncertainly behind him. He looked at her with a casual smile on his face and said half-jokingly -
"But Tao Shuran, don't tell others about this kind of thing in the future."
Tao Shuran had imagined many scenarios. He might be curious, or he might be contemptuous. But with thousands of emotions coming to her mind, she didn't expect him to be like a bystander, telling her to be careful.
The more considerate he was, the more uncomfortable she felt.
The accumulated courage is like blooming fireworks, fleeting.
Tao Shuran lowered her eyelashes and whispered, "I'm sorry."
"What?"
She spoke too softly and the music was too loud, so Liang Yuanjing heard nothing. When he was about to get closer, Fu Changpei ran over and called them.
He said the internet was connected and asked them what movie they wanted to watch.
Liang Yuanjing yawned, his tone sounding a little tired.
"You're not going to sleep yet, no class tomorrow?"
"When did you, Young Master Liang, become so obedient?" Fang Qingyi scolded him for being unromantic. What a wonderful day it was. However, she still remembered that she had not taken the college entrance examination yet, so she could not be too indulgent. She listened and turned off the projector.
At this time, Fu Changpei took out his phone and handed it over: "Ajing, your phone has been ringing."
"It was so noisy just now that we didn't hear the ringing."
Tao Shuran also came over at this time. After her courage was gone, she was left with only cowardice in her heart. She pursed her lips. Because she was following behind him, she naturally saw the incoming call on the screen.
It’s Fang Shiyue.
She fought tirelessly, holding a persistent and unchanging love in front of her.
Liang Yuanjing glanced at it, walked into the dark and answered the phone.
The room was not big and you could hear the sound of a phone call. Liang Yuanjing's voice was very soft and a little cold when you listened carefully.
Hurtingly said: "You called me all night just to say Happy New Year?"
There was silence for a while on the other end, and then the phone was hung up. Liang Yuanjing's expression became even colder, and he looked a little annoyed.
Tao Shuran knew that he didn't like people who were persistent.
Especially emotionally.
He will cut off ties with people he doesn't like immediately, leaving no room for any illusions.
So she had to be careful, maintain a good sense of propriety, and not let him notice the slightest hint of liking her.
Thinking of this, Tao Shuran gently pulled Fang Qingyi's sleeve.
"It's getting late, let's go back and rest."
The room was just next door, but because Tao Shuran was not sleepy at all, Fang Qingyi pulled her to her room to chat.
On the way, Fang Qingyi muttered, "Why does it feel like Liang Yuanjing is a little unhappy?"
"Men are so inexplicable."
"Maybe it's because I said something inappropriate."
Tao Shuran said softly: "Our relationship is not that close, and I shared a secret."
"That's nothing." Fang Qingyi said with a smile, holding her hand. "Ranran, you can tell me any secrets. Our relationship is the best in the world."
"That's right..." Tao Shuran frowned, hesitated, and chose his words carefully. "You like someone, but he doesn't like you back. Do you still want to like him?"
"Of course."
Fang Qingyi answered without hesitation. She sat cross-legged on the bed, her chin supported by her hands, her eyes sparkling.
"Just because he doesn't like you, does that mean you can control your dislike for him?"
"Just now, Fu Changpei told me that he wouldn't consider dating before college. I was very sad to hear that, but even so, I'm willing to like him. As long as he doesn't fall in love with someone else, I have the right to continue liking him."
Fang Qingyi sighed deeply and said with a hint of emotion, "Isn't Fang Shiyue the same? She's such a proud person, and usually walks past us with her neck held high. But because she loves someone, she becomes persistent."
Tao Shuran seemed to be lost in thought.
"And..." Fang Qingyi's long speech suddenly stopped. Her slow brain raced, and she shouted exaggeratedly, "Ranran, do you have someone you like?"
"Who is it? From our class?"
"No, no."
Tao Shuran felt dizzy after being shaken by her, and quickly explained, "I was just playing with my phone and saw this passage written by an emotional blogger, and I just thought about it."
"Is that so?" Fang Qingyi yawned. "Although I think it's wonderful to like someone, it's better to focus on studying at this point in time. After all, the college entrance examination is only a few days away."
"I've decided to start working hard from tomorrow, vowing to catch up with Fu Changpei."
Tao Shuran was amused by her appearance. Seeing that she was too sleepy to open her eyes, he stood up, adjusted the lights in the room to sleeping time, and tucked the corner of the quilt for her.
"Of course."
Fang Qingyi was dazed. She squinted her eyes and sat up to look at her, mumbling, "Happy New Year... In the new year, you must be very happy, so happy that you forget all the unhappy things!"
Tao Shuran paused, turned around, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
She couldn't help but reach out her hand, took out the small paper rose from her pocket, and pressed it against her heart, as if her whole chest was warming.
This sentence reminded her of what Liang Yuanjing had just said. He said that as long as she loved herself enough, no rumors would be able to defeat her.
Whether in the past or now, she is just her.
So in the new year, she will continue to like Liang Yuanjing.
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Afraid that his parents would find out that he had escaped in the middle of the night, Fu Changpei knocked on both of their doors at six in the morning, carrying his schoolbag.
Tao Shuran had gotten up a long time ago, and there were still two things left to put away. He hurriedly responded "OK" to the person outside the door.
Instead, Fang Qingyi dragged her body over to open the door, walked back to the bed, but remained calm for only a second before falling down again like a corpse.
Fu Changpei helplessly pulled her arm and forced her to turn on the phone.
Fang Qingyi yelled, "Fu Changpei, are you responsible for dislocating my arm?"
"How can I be responsible for you?" Fu Changpei joked, "Can I train you to go to Qing University?"
Fang Qingyi fainted again: "Then let me die."
Later, Tao Shuran went to the bathroom to get a towel soaked in hot water, and put the towel on Fang Qingyi's eyes with a gentle and comfortable force.
She hummed for a while and slowly sat up.
"Ranran is still nice to me. She knew it was cold but didn't give me ice water."
On the way back, Liang Yuanjing called a taxi and took them back to Xikang Road. The car stopped at the entrance of the alley. Liang Yuanjing waved his hand to indicate that he would not go with them.
Tao Shuran had just invited everyone to her house for breakfast. When she heard that he was not going, she lowered her eyes, hiding a somewhat gloomy look.
But if Liang Yuanjing really came, she would be even more at a loss.
Thinking of this, Tao Shuran felt slightly relieved and sent a message to Tao Hongfeng in advance.
Fang Shiyue had already skipped to her doorstep, pushed it open and greeted her warmly. She was outgoing and sweet-spoken, and Tao Hongfeng's face was wrinkled with praise from her at the dinner table.
While eating breakfast, Tao Hongfeng casually asked, "Why aren't you four going home for no reason?"
The topic suddenly stopped here. Tao Shuran is not the type to lie, especially when facing his father.
Fang Qingyi couldn't tell a lie either. The three of them looked at each other. Finally, Fu Changpei faced Tao Hongfeng's gaze under heavy pressure.
"Uncle Tao, the four of us did a set of papers together yesterday. It was too late after we finished discussing the questions, and Fang Qingyi's home was far away, so we asked the two girls to stay together."
Tao Hongfeng didn't suspect anything and put another big bun in Fu Changpei's bowl.
"Uncle Tao, your buns are delicious. What's the filling?" Seeing this, Fang Qingyi quickly changed the subject.
Tao Hongfeng's attention was indeed drawn, and he said with a smile, "This is called ant vegetable, a specialty of my hometown. We don't have it here in Fuqing."
"If you like it, uncle will decorate it for you to take home later."
As she was speaking, a car horn honked downstairs. Fang Qingyi glanced down at her phone and said, "My driver is downstairs. He'll take us to school together later."
After getting in the car, Tao Shuran was still a little frightened.
She glanced at the driver and whispered in Fang Qingyi's ear, "This is the first time I've lied to a parent."
Fang Qingyi burst out laughing and whispered, "This is also my first time staying out all night."
"Actually, I lied to my family that I stayed at your house last night. You mustn't let it slip later."
Tao Shuran asked in a low voice: "Why?"
Fang Qingyi curled the corners of her lips, her eyes gently fell on Fu Changpei in the passenger seat, and even her voice became gentle.
In a voice that only the two of them could hear, she said, "Because I want to see him."
At the age of 17, I watched the fireworks at midnight with my beloved at the observatory. We usually call this moment the eternity of youth.
Tao Shuran pursed her lips and said in a voice that only she could hear, "Me too."
She too.
In order to watch the same fireworks with the person I like, I took a lot of courage and accumulated all the rebellious energy of my youth. I just wanted to stand by his side regardless of everything.
"Did you know that our class is going to change seats?"
Fang Qingyi suddenly remembered this and said casually, "The seats in our class haven't changed since the start of the school year, right? Ranran, your scores in the past few monthly exams have been improving, so you can definitely move up to the front."
"I just hope I won't be too far away from Fu Changpei. After all, seeing him gives me motivation to study."
Tao Shuran's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously asked, "Do you know where I'm going to be transferred to?"
"I heard it's the third and fourth rows, the gold third and silver fourth rows, don't you know? Zhou Wu seems to like you very much, and he will definitely put you in the middle group of good students."
"What's wrong, Ranran? Are you unhappy?"
Tao Shuran shook her head reluctantly and sat down in her seat, her eyes casually looking towards the back door.
This distance was very close to her, and it was the distance between Liang Yuanjing and her during many classes.
It is also the distance between her and him in her dream.
However, the dream seems to be shattered from today. In such a big campus and with different classes, this is their only chance to meet.
Tao Shuran felt extremely sad, but had no way to express it.
She was in a state of confusion throughout the entire noisy morning reading class. Finally, when the bell rang, she slowly made a decision in her heart, put down her book, and walked towards Zhou Wu's office.
She knocked on the door politely, and faced Zhou Wu's gaze with an indescribable nervousness, even her voice trembled a little.
"Teacher, can you please keep my seat when the seats are changed?"
This was the first time that Tao Shuran took the initiative to ask the teacher for something. She was a little scared, but when she thought of Liang Yuanjing, she became brave again.
Close your eyes and wait for the verdict.
Zhou Wu laughed softly, as if he had never expected that the taciturn, well-behaved girl with no sharp edges in his eyes would suddenly rush into his office.
He became interested and asked, "Are you moving that seat, or do you not want to change your deskmate?"
Tao Shuran was stunned for a moment and whispered, "I'm used to sitting in that position."
“And I feel like sitting there is a special learning experience.”
She began to make up excuses, lowering her head and almost burying her face in her sweatshirt.
Zhou Wu laughed. He didn't know whether he believed her or not, but he agreed to her request anyway.
He became concerned about her studies, saying that her grades in Chinese and English had caught up, and the only flaw now was her performance in science.
Zhou Wu said exaggeratedly: "If you work harder on science, I think you can get into Qing University."
These words were like a match. Tao Shuran raised his head and his eyes lit up.
She was encouraged and said, "Teacher Zhou, I will work harder."
"Yeah." Zhou Wu kept it a secret, "But you don't have to be too nervous. The teacher has a magic weapon for you."
"Well, go back first, and you'll know later."
On the way back, Tao Shuran kept pondering the meaning of this sentence. Before she could figure it out, she saw a group of girls gathered at the door of Liberal Arts Class 1.
Fu Changpei also came, holding a pile of books in his hands. He didn't look like he was here to ask questions, but rather to move house.
She returned to her seat and sat down. Zhao Zhengnian and Fang Qingyi were nowhere to be found, but there were many girls leaning against the windows looking inside.
Tao Shuran asked somewhat bewilderedly: "Fu Changpei, why did you come here suddenly?"
Fu Changpei said, "I'll help Ajing move the books."
Moving books?
Why did Liang Yuanjing need to move books?
As soon as this question came up, the class bell rang and the crowd outside the window dispersed.
Tao Shuran looked out the window following the sound.
Zhou Wu came quickly with a teaching aid book in his hand. Following him was her missing deskmate Zhao Zhengnian, who was now chattering behind Zhou Wu.
"Teacher, why don't you let me sit at the same table with Liang Yuanjing?"
"Why don't you know?"
Zhou Wu rolled his eyes at him and said, "You talk too much. I'm afraid the classroom roof will be blown off by your quarrel with him."
Zhao Zhengnian protested: "Then why don't you let Tao Shuran and I continue to sit."
Zhou Wu: "I'm afraid you'll get beaten. With your annoying personality, I sometimes feel that even a good-tempered girl like Tao Shuran can't stand you."
Zhao Zhengnian: “…”
He continued to ask, "Can you please not move me to the first row?"
"cannot!"
Zhou Wushu fell on the podium, looked back, picked up the blackboard eraser and wiped the blackboard clean from the previous class.
He said mercilessly, "Zhao Zhengnian, your test scores have already surpassed the lower limit of our liberal arts class 1."
"The positions are arranged like this. As the college entrance exam is approaching, the students from the flight class will be merged into our class starting today to take the three subjects of Chinese, math and English together."
"Liang Yuanjing, sit next to Tao Shuran."
"Wow, Tao Shuran is so lucky! The teacher actually arranged for Liang Yuanjing, who ranked first in science, to sit next to her."
…
Not only were the people in the class stunned, but Tao Shuran, the person involved, was completely stunned. She never expected that the magic weapon Zhou Wu mentioned was actually... Liang Yuanjing?
She blinked, and her whole body seemed to be swallowed up by a tsunami chased by strong winds, and she even forgot to stand up and make way.
At this time, Liang Yuanjing smiled gently.
Holding the bag in one hand, leaning against her seat, with a careless look in his eyes, he asked her in a playful and familiar tone:
"Why, you don't want me to come in?"
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The author has something to say: I was very timid when I was in school. I was considered a standard good student, but I also skipped classes for some reasons. Later, the only memories of my youth were these crazy moments of playing with friends.
It's the end of the month again, hahahaha Xiao Wang is here to beg for the nutrient solution that is about to expire.
Give it to me, give it all to me. I don’t want to be the girl with the least nutrient solution on the list. [Breaking down] [Breaking down]
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