Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
Tang Xin Side Story: The Girl Who Loved to Smile
At the dining table at home, her mother placed the warmed-up breakfast on the table.
“Not used to it.”
Tang Xin tossed her shoulder-length short hair, sending a fragrance of shampoo into the air.
It was her favorite scent.
But it couldn't improve her mood for school even slightly:
“After all, I'm a transfer student, and I transferred to their class in the second year of high school. Although the classes were reshuffled, everyone was mostly classmates from the first year of high school, and they have their own circles and small groups. I don't know anyone.”
“Hehe.”
Her father, who was reading the newspaper on the sofa, chuckled.
He put down the newspaper and pushed up his glasses:
“You'll get along fine with time. It's only been two days since the start of school. It's normal that you haven't gotten familiar with everyone yet.”
“Dad’s job transfer here was unavoidable. Hangzhou No. 1 High School is the best high school in Hangzhou. I specifically inquired about it before transferring you here.”
“Not only the school, but also your class teacher and subject teachers are the best in the grade, so understand it, overcome it. A job transfer is something Dad can't help.”
Humph.
Tang Xin snorted softly and ate the fried egg on her plate:
“It’s too late to say anything now, but it doesn’t matter. Your job has always involved transfers. I transferred 3 times in elementary school and 2 times in middle school. It remains to be seen whether I can finish this high school in Hangzhou.”
“Speaking of which, what about my brother? What are you planning to do? Aren't you going to transfer him to a junior high school in Hangzhou?”
Her father sighed, looking somewhat troubled:
“Your brother is not like you. He doesn’t focus on his studies, and he needs someone to watch him. Let him spend junior high school with your grandparents in our hometown first. At least someone will be watching him, so he won't get too wild.”
“Here in Hangzhou, your mom and I are both busy with work. I trust your self-discipline, but your brother won't do. If we bring him to Hangzhou without anyone to restrain him, he’ll go crazy.”
Her mother untied her apron.
Walking between the two, she hung the apron on the back of the chair:
“Alright, alright, stop chatting. Go to work, go to school.”
Tang Xin nodded.
After finishing the last bite of food, she stood up.
Strangely,
her stomach felt a bit uncomfortable.
She rubbed it and looked at her mother:
“Was the milk not heated properly?”
“How could it be?”
Her mother smiled:
“I specifically heated it up and then let it cool naturally until it was lukewarm before bringing it to you.”
“Isn't this because I thought you were under a lot of pressure from studying and wanted you to sleep a few more minutes? Alright, alright, hurry up and go to school. As a transfer student, don't be late and leave a good impression on your classmates!”
“Got it.”
Tang Xin picked up her schoolbag.
She bent down, looked at her hair in the mirror by the door, straightened her bangs, walked out of the house, and headed to school.
Her father was indeed very thoughtful. The rented house was very close to the school, and it was convenient to walk to school in just over ten minutes.
This was her third day at the new school and new class, and it was a P.E. class in the morning.
“Tang Xin, come with us to play badminton over there.”
Several girls in the class took the initiative to invite her, very enthusiastically.
“No, no, thank you.”
Tang Xin blushed a little and took two steps back, pinching the seams of her pants:
“I’m a little tired and want to rest for a while.”
“Oh, okay.”
Several girls waved goodbye:
“Feel free to come over and play anytime you want. Don't be a stranger.”
With that,
the girls left.
And Tang Xin
sighed with worry.
What.
What should she do?
She thought it wasn't time yet, but, but her period came so many days early!
She wasn't prepared at all, and her period just came.
Looking left and right, her heart was beating fast.
Although she couldn't see behind her, she could feel that the blood had already soaked through her pants, and there was a large wet patch on the back, which must be very obvious.
Too embarrassing.
When she realized it, she deliberately retreated towards the wall of the playground, leaning against the railing, facing the playground, so as not to let the classmates on the playground see her embarrassment.
But.
What should she do later?
She was planning to go back to the classroom later and call her parents with her phone to ask them to pick her up.
But
how was she going to get through this time?
As soon as the class ended, everyone would see the large blood stain on the back of her pants.
Just thinking about that scene.
She was so ashamed that her face turned red, her cheeks were burning, and she didn't dare to lift her head.
What should she do!
She had only transferred here for three days, and before she could get to know her classmates, she was going to make such an embarrassing scene? How would she face her classmates in the future!
She could even hear her own heartbeat.
Her breathing was rapid.
Extreme nervousness and panic made her brain feel hot, coupled with her already weak body and the throbbing pain in her lower abdomen.
Tang Xin didn't stand steady from a dizzy spell and fell backward.
Thud.
A pair of strong hands behind her supported her shoulders.
Terror outweighed gratitude, and Tang Xin turned her head in shock.
Oh no!
She was seen!
But then she thought that there were more people on the playground, and if she turned around like this, more classmates would probably see the large blood stain on the back of her pants.
So, she quickly turned back in a panic:
“Sorry, no, thank you, I'm sorry, I…”
Just as she was feeling confused and disoriented, the tall boy in front of her suddenly unfolded the school uniform in his hand, then pulled up the sleeves, leaned in, and with a stretch of his slender arms, wrapped the uniform sleeves around her waist and tied a knot in the front.
“Huh?”
Tang Xin widened her eyes.
Before she could move, the boy had already completed a series of actions, tying the school uniform around her waist in a cool style.
The knot of the sleeves hung down in front, and the school uniform coat spread out behind her like a skirt, perfectly covering her blood-stained pants.
She suddenly realized.
This boy did see her embarrassment, but he cleverly resolved it for her, covering her shame with a large school uniform, protecting her thin skin and fragile self-esteem.
“Thank, thank you, ouch…”
Another wave of menstrual cramps hit, and before she could finish her sentence, she pressed her stomach, gritted her teeth, closed one eye, and half-squatted down.
“Does it hurt a lot?” the boy asked, standing against the sunlight.
Tang Xin couldn't speak, pursed her lips, and nodded.
“Then have a candy.”
The boy smiled and handed her an Alpenliebe lollipop:
“Eating a candy will make it less painful.”
With that,
he put the lollipop in Tang Xin's hand and ran towards the basketball hoop next to him.
Over there, a chubby figure wiped away sweat and looked at the tall boy:
“Why were you so slow! What did you buy?”
The tall boy shook another Alpenliebe lollipop in his hand:
“Alpenliebe.”
Saying that, he neatly tore it open and put the lollipop in his mouth.
The chubby boy was stunned:
“What about mine!”
“The money was only enough to buy one,” the tall boy said dismissively.
“Bullshit! Everyone in the world knows Alpenliebe costs five mao!”
“Oh, the price has gone up.”
“Go to hell! Give me my money back!”
Watching the two boys walk away, the pain in Tang Xin's stomach subsided.
She slowly straightened up.
Looking at the Alpenliebe lollipop in her palm, which was crumpled from being held, she gently gripped it again.
The next day.
Tang Xin carried a delicate brand-name paper bag containing the washed school uniform and came to school early.
It was still dark at this time, and there wasn't a single student in the classroom.
Only then did she feel comfortable enough to fold the school uniform neatly and place it on the tall boy's desk.
On the stack of books next to it, the boy's name was written.
Lin Xuan.
“Thank you…”
Tang Xin said softly.
But she still felt that what happened yesterday was embarrassing and shy. She didn't dare to say thank you in person, so she could only cover her ears and steal the bell. (idiom: deceive oneself)
But
there would always be a chance, right?
Tang Xin thought.
There were still two years until high school graduation. In two years, she would definitely be able to have a good relationship with the classmates in the class and become friends with Lin Xuan.
At that time, when they were familiar, she would make up for this thank you!
Gradually.
Morning reading began.
The morning passed.
It was time for the class meeting in the afternoon.
The class teacher held a vote for class cadres, and in the end, the chubby boy from yesterday, Gao Yang, was elected class monitor with a very high, ridiculously high number of votes.
“Thank you for your support!”
Gao Yang went on stage to give his acceptance speech, clenching his fist and vowing:
“Although I'm not very good at academics and can't help everyone too much with studying, I will definitely be responsible for everyone and for the class in other matters!”
“So, in order to facilitate future contact and communication, and to convey class notices, I've created a class QQ group. I'll write the group number on the blackboard later, and everyone should write it down and join the group when you get home.”
With that,
Gao Yang turned around and wrote a string of eight digits on the blackboard with chalk.
Tang Xin secretly took out her phone from her desk and searched for this string of numbers. A group chat popped up.
Forever Class 17!
Then
she pressed the button to apply to join.
In the evening, after returning home, QQ messages on her phone kept popping up.
Everyone was enthusiastically discussing in the class QQ group.
For a transfer student like her, this was the best opportunity to understand her classmates.
Soon.
A person with an anime avatar, whose note name was Lin Xuan, appeared.
He just sent an emoji.
But he immediately became the focus of the group chat.
“Is he very famous?”
Tang Xin blinked and continued to browse the group chat history.
Sure enough,
this boy named Lin Xuan was indeed a popular figure on campus. Girls admired him very much, and boys also respected him very much.
He was very popular, willing to help others, and always full of kindness towards others.
What shocked Tang Xin even more was.
“Hangzhou Youth Parkour League Champion?”
She widened her eyes:
“Is he that amazing?”
She raised her head, looked at the chandelier in the living room, and recalled Lin Xuan's figure.
Indeed.
The lines were very good, giving a feeling of strength.
Thinking of this,
she couldn't help but blush a little.
Continuing to browse everyone's group chat history.
Unconsciously,
she swiped the screen very quickly.
Seemingly looking for something with a purpose.
She couldn't read many other classmates' chat messages or topics of discussion. As long as she flipped to Lin Xuan's messages or topics related to Lin Xuan, her thumb sliding on the screen would instantly brake, and then she would carefully browse them:
“He's really excellent.”
“What?”
In the living room, Tang Xin suddenly stood up from her chair, looking at her father in disbelief:
“Your job is being transferred again? And to the United States!?”
She took a deep breath:
“Why so suddenly! Didn't we just come to Hangzhou?”
“Hey.”
Her father sighed and smiled:
“There were some problems with the regional business in North America. The general manager was dismissed, and someone has to take over. The group still trusts me very much, so they transferred me to be the regional general manager. This is a rare opportunity for Dad.”
“But.”
Tang Xin was momentarily speechless:
“But I just came to Hangzhou No. 1 High School for less than a week! Am I going to transfer schools with you again?”
“Isn't it good to study in the United States?”
Her mother walked out of the kitchen with a smile:
“Your dad and I have also considered this point. It just so happens that you've only been to school for a few days, and you don't have much feelings for your classmates, so you won't feel too bad.”
“That's right.”
Her father echoed:
“It's only been a week, and you haven't even recognized all the classmates in your class. It doesn't matter much if you transfer schools at this time. Hey, Dad's job is like this. Didn't you say before that you transfer schools every now and then, and you were already prepared not to finish this high school.”
“But Xin Xin, don't worry this time. Dad's job probably won't be transferred for a long time! You can definitely spend a complete high school in the United States, and then continue to apply to American universities. Dad will definitely not let you transfer schools again!”
“Really, this is the last time you'll transfer schools, because the company headquarters is in the United States. Dad can't fly to Mars even if he gets promoted, right? Hahahaha.”
Her father's sudden promotion made her mother very happy.
But only Tang Xin.
Had a feeling of gain and loss.
She thought
she would be able to spend two years of high school in Hangzhou.
She thought
she could become friends with Lin Xuan and make up for that thank you.
“Hmm?”
Seeing that Tang Xin wasn't speaking, her father asked in confusion:
“What's wrong, Xin Xin? Could it be that you've already made some friends at school? And you're a little reluctant to leave?”
“If that's really the case, Dad will book a restaurant for you, and you can invite your good friends to have a farewell dinner together. Although you'll be gone in the future, you can still keep in touch often, and we can also send them some gifts.”
Tang Xin still didn't speak.
Friends?
How could they be considered friends?
They had only said two sentences, had no interaction, and didn't even have QQ friends.
In Lin Xuan's eyes.
She was just one of the warm-hearted and helpful people.
Perhaps.
After a while, the other person wouldn't remember anything at all.
After all, he had so many friends.
So excellent.
And so many followers and admirers.
What
was she?
But.
Even so.
She still didn't want to transfer to the United States!
“Can I not go?”
She suggested:
“I can live here by myself. I can also live on campus. I, I promise to get good grades. Can you let me stay here?”
Her parents looked at each other, not understanding why she would be so reluctant to leave after only a few days of school life.
But
no matter how much Tang Xin tried to persuade them, her parents could never leave their teenage daughter alone in the country.
In the end, she couldn't overcome her parents.
Holding her passport and boarding pass, she followed her parents and boarded the plane to the United States.
Picking up her phone.
Looking at the messages that were still constantly popping up in the QQ group.
She looked back at the direction of Hangzhou one last time and sighed softly:
“Hey.”
Her high school life in the United States passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, two years had passed, and she had also graduated.
Life here in a foreign country wasn't that great, but it wasn't that bad either.
She made some friends and learned a lot of things.
But she still had one habit.
The first thing she did every day when she picked up her phone was to open QQ, click on the Forever Class 17! group chat, and see what everyone was talking about.
She wasn't interested in most of the information.
She swiped the screen quickly, only to lock onto messages related to Lin Xuan.
As she watched, she couldn't help but smile and talk to herself:
“Back-to-back Hangzhou Youth Parkour Champion?”
“He won the parkour championship again in his third year of high school? Lin Xuan is so strong.”
“His art exam scores are among the best in the city, and he was admitted to Donghai University. He's so amazing. Can he also draw?”
“He can't be woken up in the middle of the night, so his parents sent him to the hospital hahaha. What's Gao Yang, the class monitor, talking about? Is he joking?”
She put down her phone.
Stretching lazily:
“Sure enough, excellent people are excellent wherever they go.”
“I can't fall behind either.”
Tang Xin's grades were very good.
As promised, she received the favor of Johns Hopkins University, a world-leading institution.
University.
She chose to study brain science.
She wasn't that interested in the field of brain science, but the brain science and neuroscience programs at Johns Hopkins University were very strong, and they were top-notch in the world. In addition, her father was familiar with the professors in this field at the school, so she went with the flow and chose this direction.
Sophomore year, elective courses were a good opportunity to accumulate credits.
“Hmm?”
Tang Xin discovered that among the course selection lists, there was a course on Dragon Country Language and Literature. Most importantly, this course didn't restrict Dragon Country students from enrolling!
This, this, this is too amazing!
Generally speaking, language courses with credits would restrict native speakers from enrolling. But unexpectedly, the professor of this course was so open-minded!
There was no reason not to enroll in a course to earn easy credits.
Tang Xin didn't hesitate at all and directly pressed the course selection application button and successfully selected the course.
Later, she went to class.
Sure enough.
The huge classroom was filled with Dragon Country students. Everyone tacitly laughed, knowing that they were all here for the credits. How many foreigners would really be interested in Dragon Country literature?
For a moment, she dreamed of returning to a domestic university.
The teacher who taught this course was also a Chinese female professor with gray hair, not young, who said to everyone with a smile:
“The reason why I don't set nationality restrictions when enrolling in courses, children, is to let you get in touch with and get to know Dragon Country compatriots more while you are abroad.”
“When you are away from home, you should help and take care of each other. Moreover, literature is the cultural tradition of Dragon Country, the beauty of the Dragon Country language. Even if you come to the United States to study, you must not neglect the thinking and appreciation of Dragon Country culture.”
“The beautiful traditions in the bones of Dragon Country people are not possessed by any ethnic group in the world, especially the literary nature of the language. Thanks to the uniqueness of pictographic characters, there is no language in the world that can contain more complex emotions than Chinese characters.”
“English is not good, French is not good, Arabic is not good. No language is as expressive as Chinese characters. Sometimes just two short words can convey an unforgettable story, a life of joys and sorrows.”
“For example…”
The white-haired professor turned around, picked up the chalk, and wrote two words on the blackboard.
Regret.
She turned around, smiling and looking at the Dragon Country students in the classroom who were in their prime, as if at this moment everyone was not in the United States, but in a classroom somewhere in the land of Shenzhou, with tenderness and romance from their hometown:
“Do you all have any regrets?”
Faced with the professor's inquiry.
The classroom burst into laughter.
“What is the biggest regret in life?”
The professor continued to smile and look around:
“Can anyone raise their hand and say it?”
It was a classroom full of Dragon Country people, and the atmosphere was very active. Everyone raised their hands and spoke freely.
In the end,
the regrets expressed by most people were, without exception, all related to love.
“Hehe.”
The white-haired professor smiled naturally:
“Love is a topic that will never go out of style in Dragon Country culture.”
“What the students said is correct. Humans are emotional animals, and among the many emotions, love is the most special one. It is different from kinship, which does not have so many natural connections. Love is what turns two completely unfamiliar people into the most familiar people in the world.”
“This is a very romantic and magical process. At the same time, as everyone said, it is bound to be full of regrets, full of unattainable love, and full of staggered years.”
More than half of this course had passed.
Facing the professor's words about regret again, no one could laugh anymore.
“So what is the biggest regret?”
The professor asked again, smiling and picking up the chalk, writing a poem on the blackboard behind her:
“What is loved is separated by mountains and seas, mountains and seas cannot be leveled.”
“Even if people have thousands of regrets, when faced with this poem, everyone probably has similar feelings.”
For a moment.
The entire classroom was silent.
Everyone was silent, and the atmosphere became heavy.
What is loved is separated by mountains and seas.
This sentence was indeed too devastating for Dragon Country students studying abroad.
The mountains and seas they faced were real mountains and seas.
The vast Pacific Ocean separated Dragon Country and the United States, and the Trembling Mountain of Honolulu was located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, symbolizing insurmountable mountains and seas, and impassable oceans.
Tang Xin, who was swiping through the group chat on her phone, also became silent.
After entering university.
There were fewer and fewer messages in the Forever Class 17! class group.
During her freshman year, everyone would occasionally share their campus life.
But by her sophomore year.
This class group was like it was dead.
Two months passed without a single message.
Tang Xin often felt very lonely.
It was as if the string that had been connected to the past had broken, and they had lost contact.
Every day, she would open the group chat countless times.
To see if there were any messages in it.
As a result
every day was the same disappointment and loss.
She couldn't see anything.
Why isn't anyone chatting?
She was very troubled.
Silently lurking and spying on the screen for so long, obtaining Lin Xuan's news from it had become a habit, a formula, and a thought in her life.
“What is loved is separated by mountains and seas, mountains and seas cannot be leveled.”
She muttered the words the professor wrote on the blackboard, and for some reason, she had a feeling that she had experienced true regret. It was so light, yet so heavy.
Suddenly.
“Hehe!”
A cold snort full of disdain suddenly sounded in the silent, ice-cold classroom!
The location of the sound.
Was right behind Tang Xin!
In an instant, the eyes of the entire classroom all looked over here!
Who was destroying the atmosphere like this?
Who was so tactless?
Tang Xin also turned around in surprise.
She discovered
that behind her sat a beautiful girl who was showing a hint of a smirk.
She had "grandma gray" hair, curled into large waves and draped over her shoulders, wearing earrings and a skull and cross necklace, and her fingers were covered with rings, she was dressed in a hip-hop style from head to toe.
Everyone cast unkind glances at such a girl.
However.
After sneering, the hip-hop girl snorted softly, straightened her body, and said loudly:
“What's there to regret?”
She said disdainfully:
“There are boats to cross the sea, and roads to travel the mountains.”
“If people can't do it, don't blame the road for being uneven; what is there to regret? Only losers feel regret, only losers who can't let go feel regret.”
Boom.
This extremely aggressive statement caused the entire classroom to explode, with much discussion.
The white-haired professor, however, continued to smile.
Signaling everyone to be quiet, she said with a smile:
“What this student said is not wrong, the fact is indeed so. Therefore, the poem 'What is loved is separated by mountains and seas, mountains and seas cannot be leveled' actually has a second half…”
Saying that.
She picked up the chalk again and wrote the second half on the blackboard:
“All mountains and seas can be leveled, the hardest to level is the human heart.”
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap!
Thunderous applause suddenly erupted in the classroom!
The professor was worthy of being a professor, directly ending the competition with this sentence! Including everything, ending the hip-hop girl just now!
That's right.
Mountains and seas can of course be leveled, but can the human heart be leveled?
The hip-hop girl kept saying that those who feel regret are losers, and those who can't let go are losers.
Then she
if she really let go and really forgot.
Then why did she mention it so righteously just now?
Her self-righteous speech.
Had become the best case of argumentation for the white-haired professor, truly interpreting what is meant by "All mountains and seas can be leveled, the hardest to level is the human heart"!
“Tch.”
The rare girl snorted unhappily, but was speechless, leaning on the table and sulking.
“I, I think what you said is very good.”
Tang Xin, who turned around, looked at the hip-hop girl and smiled:
“Leaving aside everything else, I think the two sentences you said are very beautiful.”
The hip-hop girl blinked.
Looking at the smiling girl in front of her.
She had seen clearly just now that this girl in front had been repeatedly opening the QQ group during class.
Opening it once for a while, opening it once for a while.
And then she would occasionally click on a person's avatar.
And then click into their QQ space.
As a result
it showed that you were not the other person's friend and could not access it, and then she quit with a sigh.
Just like that.
Pointlessly repeating this action, repeating it for a long time.
Obviously.
This was also a girl with regrets.
“What's your name?”
The hip-hop girl asked.
“My name is Tang Xin.”
Tang Xin smiled, took the initiative to reach out to the girl at the back table:
“What about you?”
The hip-hop girl chuckled, reached out her right hand, and shook Tang Xin's hand:
“Du Yao.”
Restaurant.
Tang Xin and Du Yao sat opposite each other.
“So you like that boy?”
“Huh?”
Du Yao's sudden question made Tang Xin raise her head and shake it:
“No, no, what are you talking about.”
“The boy in your phone, in the QQ group.”
Du Yao put down her fork and pointed at Tang Xin:
“I saw you repeatedly opening the QQ group and clicking on a boy's avatar during class.”
“Oh, him.”
Thinking of Lin Xuan.
Tang Xin smiled again for some reason:
“I wouldn't say I like him, after all, we only said two sentences, only had one interaction, and then I transferred to the United States.”
“We didn't say a third sentence, and we don't even have phone numbers or QQ friends, so how can I be said to like him?”
“Forget about it!”
Du Yao scoffed:
“If you keep going like this, you'll like him sooner or later. Don't you realize you're self-puaing?”
“In this world, nothing can withstand fermentation, food is like that, seasonings are like that, and feelings are like that.”
“Just like you said, there wasn't even any contact or any story, it was originally an insignificant little seed, but what happened? You watered it every day, watered it and watered it, and slowly it grew into a towering tree. It'll be too late when you regret it!”
Hmph.
Tang Xin snorted softly:
“It's not as exaggerated as you said. I'm just, I'm just casually looking at the previous classmates' group to see if there's anything new happening in the country.”
“You're just deceiving yourself.”
“Then.”
Tang Xin was momentarily speechless:
“Then people always have to have something memorable, right? You must have it too, right? Do you have someone you like? Someone unforgettable?”
“If you're not deceiving yourself, then don't tell me you don't have one, because you obviously do. If you don't dare to say it, then it means you can't let go.”
“Hehe.”
Du Yao chuckled, leaned back in her chair, and crossed her arms:
“What do I not dare to say? What can't I let go of? Do you think I'm as useless as you?”
“I can say it openly and frankly. I had a boyfriend in high school, we were in a puppy love, we were caught by our parents, and we were scolded by the teacher, but we didn't break up.”
“I had already made plans that after graduation, wherever he went to school, I would go there. If he was in the country, I would go to the country and apply to a city's volunteer program with him; if he went abroad, I would apply to the same university as him.”
“As a result! Can you guess what this guy did after graduation? Damn, every time I talk about this, I get angry!”
Du Yao scratched her hair, feeling outraged:
“He freaking signed up to be a peacekeeping aid volunteer in Africa when he was just 18 years old!”
“He's freaking 18 years old! He doesn't understand anything, and he went to Africa to be a volunteer. Although it's not the kind where you go to the front line to fight, it's just teaching or something, but that's a small country in a war zone. Would a normal 18-year-old boy do such a thing?”
“He's freaking out of his mind!”
Tang Xin waved her hands quickly:
“This, after all, he has good intentions, you can't say that about him, right? It's too much to say he's out of his mind or something.”
Du Yao let out a long breath:
“Phew, you're right. How can we use out of his mind to describe such a person?”
She gritted her teeth:
“There's only one word that can describe him.”
“Idiot!”
In the double dormitory.
Du Yao pushed open the door and entered, and found that Tang Xin's computer was still displaying the Forever Class 17! class group page.
“Tang Xin!”
Du Yao was furious:
“Can you stop looking at your QQ group every day! You've been watching it for years, from sophomore year to working in the research institute, has anyone said a word in it!”
“Oh.”
Tang Xin turned around and said impatiently:
“Yao Yao, you're being too nosy.”
“I just can't stand your useless look!”
Du Yao pulled a chair over and sat down, and began to reprimand Tang Xin:
“Isn't it just that your period came and he wrapped a school uniform around you, what's the big deal? Is it worth remembering for so many years?”
“Let me tell you, you're the only fool who's still thinking about this every day. That guy named Lin Xuan, right? He must have forgotten about it a long time ago.”
“Also, you've never been in love, so you think this little thing is romance, is love, is earth-shattering. Let me tell you the truth, Tang Xin, this kind of warm man's trick is too low-level. In campus dramas and on campus, there are no less than a thousand or eight hundred scenes of wrapping school uniforms to cover up a girl's period embarrassment.”
“So this matter is really not a big deal. He helped you just because he happened to see it. If it were other boys, other boys in the school, everyone would definitely help you when they saw your embarrassment, it's just that he happened to see it.”
Tang Xin turned her head and looked at Du Yao:
“You're right, it's possible that many people would lend a helping hand to my situation at the time.”
“But”
She bit her lip and smiled:
“But, after saying a thousand things, after saying ten thousand things”
“I only met him at that time.”
Du Yao squinted her eyes at Tang Xin and took several deep breaths:
“You're hopeless.”
“Huh?” Tang Xin asked in confusion.
“You're done for.”
Du Yao spread her hands:
“See, I reminded you a few years ago not to water the seed in your heart for no reason, and now look, it's taken root, sprouted, and grown into a towering tree.”
“It would be fine if other boys spent a lot of effort to win you over, but this Lin Xuan is so good, he didn't do anything, he just let this little thing ferment in your heart, and gradually really let you get trapped.”
“Maybe if you didn't come to the United States to study and continued to stay in that high school class, became friends with Lin Xuan, and then normally said thank you, this little thing wouldn't have fermented into this, and you wouldn't have so many extra feelings for him.”
“Forget it, forget it, it's too late to say these things now.”
Du Yao chuckled:
“I'm not saying that I have to stop you from dating Lin Xuan or anything, I'd of course be happy if my good sister could date someone she likes, get married, and have a happy ending! I'd be happier than anyone! I can even be your bridesmaid and catch your bouquet.”
“I'm just worried that this one-sided love that has a beginning but no end and no hope will hurt you.”
“Look, you've been away from Dragon Country for so many years, and you've lost contact with him and your former classmates, and you're now working at a research institute in the United States. Lin Xuan can't possibly come to the United States, do you think you'll have a chance to meet again? Will there be a chance for a follow-up story to happen?”
Du Yao's words made Tang Xin silent.
Indeed.
Was there still a chance to meet again?
At first, she really just wanted to find a chance to say thank you.
But as Du Yao said.
This feeling was becoming more and more greedy, and even she couldn't control it.
This was a doomed, unrequited love.
The 12,000-kilometer distance between Dragon Country and the United States, and the vast Pacific Ocean, were her insurmountable mountains and seas, and the hard-to-level human heart.
Perhaps it was true as Du Yao said.
This relationship would inevitably have a beginning but no end.
But
when would it end?
Ding-dong!
Suddenly!
The laptop made an exciting prompt sound!
It was the QQ prompt sound!
Tang Xin suddenly raised her head and stared at Du Yao, who was dumbfounded. They were stunned for a moment, and then immediately leaned over to look at the computer screen!
Miracle
In the Forever Class 17! class group that hadn't had a message for several years, the group leader, Gao Yang, actually sent a notice:
“Classmates, it's the fifth anniversary of our graduation, it's time to organize an old classmate reunion! It's just the New Year's holiday, how about we set it for the evening of the fifth day of the New Year?”
Tang Xin smiled happily.
Pointing excitedly at the computer screen:
“Yao Yao! Yao Yao, look! Our former class leader