Kawakami Mizuki

Girls' middle school, junior high school.

"Hey, I won't take the elective class today, and you will help me to hand in the quiz."

"Mm, um..." Yu Huan responded obediently.She dared not refuse.

It has been like this since she was a child, there is always someone who can see through her cowardice at a glance, and then boss her around with peace of mind.And no one has ever stood up for her and offered to help her.

not a single one.

Biting his lip, Yu Huan silently returned to his seat, but unexpectedly met someone's eyes.

The man propped his jaw loosely, under the long eyelashes, a pair of dark pupils seemed to be looking at her, but it seemed that nothing could enter her eyes.

Yu Huan was startled for a moment, then quickly looked away.

She still remembered that at the beginning of school, Qi Yue was just like today, and said to the two of them arrogantly, "Hey, you two have to listen to me from now on, you know? Do you want me to let you be a girl?" You can't get mixed up in the circle."

They are all from junior high school, and they are still so childish, playing these silly dramas of elementary school bullies.

She thought so in her heart, but she didn't dare to show any resentment.

The girl standing beside her suddenly smiled: "Well, I'll thank you first."

"You!" Qi Yue stared at her beautiful eyes, as if she couldn't believe that anyone would dare to contradict her.

Yu Huan admired her courage, but thought she was a bit reckless.

Just put on a show and promise a few words.Why confront Qi Yue and make yourself helpless.So when Qi Yue was far away, she kindly reminded in a low voice: "Hey, Qi Yue, that's the girl who just spoke, I heard that her father invested in this school, you'd better not mess with her."

"Oh." She replied indifferently, apparently not taking Yu Huan's words to heart.

It was also at that time that Yu Huan silently wrote down her name.

Lin Chuyi.

Qi Yue really did what he said.

No one made friends with Lin Chuyi, and no one even spoke to her.

But Lin Chuyi didn't pay attention to these at all, as if she didn't intend to contact anyone here.

Inexplicably, a little envious.

Yu Huan thought silently.

It is an elective course once a week. The teacher is quite open-minded. On the first day of class, he said: "You don't have to come to every class, but I will take a quiz in every class, and take the highest score as your elective course." achievements."

Qi Yue didn't go to class every time, and always asked Yu Huan to write the answers for her and hand them in.Fortunately, they are all ABCD multiple-choice questions, and it will take enough time to copy one more copy.

The teacher still routinely said things like don't cheat and don't cheat for others, which has no deterrent effect.Yu Huan answered the question with his head buried.

After collecting the test papers as usual, the teacher did not open the textbook and start class as usual.Instead, he leisurely said to the students under the podium: "I've said it many times, don't cheat and don't cheat for others. If someone is found out by me today, this elective course will get zero points, understand?"

After finishing talking, start counting the number of students in the classroom, and after counting, start counting how many test papers there are. ——If the number of people does not match the number of test papers, it is obvious that someone handed in more test papers for students who did not show up.

Yu Huan was stunned, and broke out in a cold sweat.

She never expected that the teacher would suddenly check the number of people, let alone the severe punishment she would face after being found out.

Countless mixed emotions in her heart entangled her, regret?upset?He didn't have the mood to peel off the complicated thoughts, but he bit his lips tightly, and the tears in his eyes were about to fall.

After counting the number of test papers, the teacher nodded: "Your class is not bad, no one is fake."

what?

Yu Huan was stunned, but more of it was the ecstasy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe.

The feeling of hell and heaven at that moment is still fresh in her memory many years later.

Maybe the teacher made a wrong count.Yu Huan thought so.

After that, Yu Huan's mind was not in class at all, and she didn't know what the teacher said that made everyone laugh.Thoughts were disturbing indiscriminately, while he was glad that he had not been discovered, but at the same time worried that he might not be so lucky next time.These thoughts were rolling in her mind in such a mess that it was disturbing her life.

It wasn't until after class that she came back to her senses and hurriedly packed up her textbooks.Just as she was about to leave, a gust of wind suddenly blew over, and with the sound of paper whirring, a piece of paper fell lightly at her feet.Yu Huan bent down to pick it up, but he could clearly see what was on the paper.

It is a test paper filled with answers.

Yu Huan looked up, and Lin Chuyi was standing in front of her, reaching out to her with the same casual expression as before.

Yu Huan subconsciously handed it back to her, Lin Chuyi took back the test paper from her hand, thanked her in a low voice, then turned and left.

It turned out to be the case.

It wasn't that the teacher made a wrong count, it was that Lin Chuyi didn't hand in the test paper at all.Qi Yue's test paper replaced Lin Chuyi's quota, so the number of people just matched.

Lin Chuyi, did she do it unintentionally, or did she intend to help her?

Yu Huan bit her lip and thought for a long time silently, but ultimately to no avail.Yu Huan really wanted to know the answer, but he didn't dare to talk to Lin Chuyi for fear of angering Qi Yue, so he wrote a note and quietly put it in Lin Chuyi's textbook.

"Why didn't you hand in the answer sheet that day? - Yu Huan"

But this note was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no reply.

Three days later, it happened to be her turn to be on duty with Lin Chuyi.The other students left school and went home one after another, leaving only the two of them.

"Yu Huan." Lin Chuyi stopped her, her voice was as lazy as ever.

"Ok?"

"Cowardice is not an excuse for you to compromise repeatedly."

Yu Huan was stunned, and it took him a long time to realize that this was Lin Chuyi's answer.At the same time, she realized that Lin Chuyi deliberately avoided Qi Yue.

While telling her to resist, he also left room for her, so as not to violate Qi Yue's taboo.

Yu Huan silently bit her lower lip, not knowing what she was thinking.

Later, Yu Huan rejected Qi Yue's unreasonable request again.Isolated and neglected, she tries harder and harder to do her thing.She solved math problems that no one else in the class could do, so others had to ask for advice; she won the first prize in painting, and the literary and art committee had to ask her to help; Others had to cheer her on and cheer her on the day of the games.

She is getting better and better and more confident.

But there was a sense of dissatisfaction.The bravery born out of Lin Chuyi lacked the most important audience.

Lin Chuyi.

Just when she mustered up the courage to move forward, Lin Chuyi began to take sick leave intermittently, and then simply took long-term sick leave.She wanted to visit Lin Chuyi, but she didn't know which hospital she was staying in.

The day of the reunion is already the high school entrance examination.

She just saw a hurried figure in the crowd, and lost her mind, she called Lin Chuyi's name, pushed through the crowd and walked over there, but there was no one there.

Saw it.

After a long time, I heard many rumors about Lin Chuyi one after another. The name that had been hidden in my heart for a long time was mentioned by everyone with envy, jealousy or mocking tone.

She suddenly thought of countless moonless and cloudless nights, when the evening wind gently lifted the curtains, creating waves of ripples, and the pure moonlight reflected on the window sill.

To her, Lin Chuyi is that handful of moonlight that people can't help scooping up.

However, people change.

Could it be that Lin Chuyi is no longer the person she was thinking of at the beginning?

She was about to bite her lip, but realized she hadn't done that in a long time.

At the banquet of the Yi family, I met Lin Chuyi.

That long hair covered the end of her eyes, but it couldn't hide her romantic eyebrows.The long eyelashes trembled like a butterfly fluttering its wings, and a pair of watery eyes.

It seems that there was a little dispute with Liu Yan.This Liu Yan, Yu Huan thought with a bit of a headache, this Liu Yan still has the ability to handle things, and she can feel more at ease when entrusting her to do anything, but it is this character that makes people really helpless.

Ye Ling...

She also heard about Ye Ling and Lin Chuyi from Liu Yan.

"Wait for me." Jian Qian beside her also noticed this scene, frowning, handed her the goblet in her hand, and went straight to Lin Chuyi.

Yu Huan pursed her lips.

Now she is no longer the weak little girl who was bullied by others, so, can she protect her?And those words buried in my heart that have never been spoken...

She found Lin Chuyi on a deviating path.Lin Chuyi was walking casually along the path, her eyes wandering around, not knowing whether she was looking for a way or someone.

"Lin Chuyi." Yu Huan thought silently, Lin Chuyi had probably completely forgotten about her junior high school classmate.

As expected, Lin Chuyi turned his head and looked at her with a perplexed expression, showing invisible alienation without words.

Yu Huan wanted to bite her lip again, and wanted to question her with some sullenness.

At the beginning, didn't you teach me to be brave?how about you?

"Between you and Ye Ling... why don't you even have the courage to fight? Just because of the eyes of the world? Did you just give up so easily?"

The words came out all at once.Actually no, she didn't mean to say these things...

If you don't have the courage to face the eyes of the world, how about I let you face it?With the courage you taught me, I am strong enough.

Lin Chuyi smiled helplessly, with a hint of bitterness and fatigue: "Are you also here to seek justice for Ye Ling? Then, I was wrong, so let me go."

No, no...

But no more words can be said.

Is it because I think about it day and night, or because I care too much?She clearly felt the depth of Lin Chuyi's love, like the vast ocean and the deep sea, like the abyss, but just inadvertently revealing it has already forced people to suffocate.

No matter whether this affection is for Ye Ling or Yi Chuwen, after all... there is no room for her to intervene.

A long time later, I heard that Lin Chuyi had passed away.

Calculated age, probably less than thirty.

Only then did I understand that Lin Chuyi's love may not be about courage, but about life and death.

I deliberately went to inquire about Lin Chuyi's tomb, but to no avail.Just like when she inquired about the address of the hospital to no avail in junior high school.Only then did she vaguely realize that perhaps many things were doomed a long time ago.