A foreign city, dear you

"What's wrong?" came the curious voice of my colleague Teacher Wan.

"He used to be a teetotaler. Now he drinks alcohol every day." Teacher Wang said in a mysterious manner.

"How do you know?" Teacher Wan was even more curious.

"Of course I know, he almost delayed the first math class because of drinking. He taught the math in our class, how could I know?" Teacher Wang said with certainty.

"That's strange. Teacher Xie has never been late before. He always arrived at school early."

"That's right! Alas, it's all caused by the word "love." Teacher Wang sighed.

"Oh? What do you say?"

"Isn't it? You don't know yet?..." Then came Teacher Wang's lowered voice.

"Didn't you say there is no such thing?"

"No? You believe it too?"

……

Ye Lian felt her blood rising again. She was sensitively aware that she was being involved in their conversation. She wanted to turn around and avoid it, but she needed the test paper again.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Lian continued to move forward.

Ye Lian seemed to be an automatic silencer. As soon as she stepped into the office, the secret chat between the two teachers came to an abrupt end, and the office became silent.

Ye Lian reluctantly smiled at the two teachers, found the test paper she wanted, and walked out of the office without saying a word.

Behind the scenes, the mysterious chatter of the two teachers floated faintly outside the door...

Because she was delayed a little while going back to the office to get the test papers, Ye Lian delayed the class for a while. By the time she returned to the office after class, almost all the other teachers were already in the office.

Ye Lian pretended to glance at Teacher Xie's seat casually.

She couldn't figure out why she was looking there. Maybe it was because she listened to the two teachers chatting before class.

Ye Lian hasn't paid attention to Teacher Xie for a while. She always wanted to cut off all relations with him.

In addition, her brother-in-law Lin Shushen's affairs during this period made her so anxious and exhausted that she had no intention of caring about anything else.

At this moment, Teacher Xie is already in his seat. He is leaning his head on the back of the chair with his eyes slightly closed. He looks very haggard and has lost a lot of weight.

He frowned, with a hint of sadness in his brows.

The hair is not as clean, fresh and stylish as before. It looks a bit long and a bit dirty. There is also a strand of hair that is just so lonely and limp, looking lonely and melancholy.

His clothes were not as clean and smooth as before, but had many wrinkles, as if he had just woken up after wearing them to bed.

Where has the handsome, elegant, humorous and sunny Teacher Xie gone?

With just a few glances, Ye Lian believed that what she overheard Teacher Wang said was not false. Ye Lian didn't want to see Teacher Xie like this from the bottom of her heart, but what could she do? Ye Lian felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

Recently, this feeling of powerlessness often surrounded her.

Ye Lian took a short rest, but the bell for the next class urged her to get up again.

She picked up a stack of test papers on the table, left the office, and walked to the classroom of Grade 2 ([-]).

"Teacher Xie is going to class?" A teacher's voice greeted Teacher Xie. Ye Lian knew that Teacher Xie was also going to class.

The rapid ringing of the bell made the students return to their classrooms as quickly as the ebbing tide, making the campus quiet. Ye Lian could clearly hear the familiar footsteps behind them.

Ye Lian didn't look back and kept walking forward.

The footsteps behind them always kept a tacit understanding of not far nor close, as if there was an invisible long ruler between them.

Ye Lian knew that the long legs behind her were deliberately keeping their distance.

If it had been before, those long legs would have caught up with him in three or two steps, and then there was that happy greeting: "Zi Zi is going to class?"

So, the two of them would walk to the junior high school classroom, talking and laughing...

Everything is so far away...

The classroom of Grade 2 ([-]) arrived first, and Ye Lian walked straight in.

Those long legs at the back finally don’t have to work so hard to keep a distance...

Sorry, Teacher Xie.

It's me who hurt you.

Ye Lian felt a lot of guilt. She felt that no matter how difficult it was for her, at least she had Cao Xueqian behind her.

As for Teacher Xie, all he could do was drink wine.

I really don’t want to see him like this, I hope he can cheer up soon.