Years are warm

Compared to the noisy Wenyuan Building, the Zhiyuan Building is too quiet.The international department and the competition class haven't started yet, so the place is empty.

Xie Zhiyao stood in the corridor, his eyes followed the back of the girl downstairs until the figure of the other party disappeared around the corner of the building.

Xu Huaian never looked back at her from the beginning to the end.

It's over, this time it really made her angry... Xie Zhiyao bit his lower lip and smiled wryly.With stiff steps, she walked slowly from Zhiyuan back to her class in Wenyuan Building, and feebly greeted Li Siyuan who was by the window.

Of course, Li Siyuan also saw the class schedule. She stopped counting the books and touched her shoulder with her elbow: "Zhiyao, how did you choose the text? When did you change it?"

"I went to see Teacher Zhao later." Xie Zhiyao replied sullenly, slumped on the table with a sleepy look.

"What about Huai'an? Aren't you going to choose the same one?" Li Siyuan blinked suspiciously.

Xie Zhiyao curled his fingers into a fist, and lowered his eyes to avoid her gaze: "She should go to the election."

Seeing her reaction, Li Siyuan figured out something was wrong, and guessed: "...you didn't tell her, did you?"

As soon as the words fell, before Xie Zhiyao could answer, there was a sudden exclamation from the class, and the rubbing sound of tables and chairs made people's teeth ache.

The sound came from the front door.

The commotion made Xie Zhiyao, who was lying on the table, couldn't help but look up, but with just such a glance, she almost jumped up from her seat in fright.

The girl still had that expressionless expression on her clean and beautiful face. She carried the bag across one shoulder and moved the table in neatly.

People around him have already started whispering about this unexpected guest.

"Hey, who is this?"

"You don't even know her? Xu Huai'an! Last semester's final placement test was first in arts and sciences!"

"Ah? So it's her? But isn't she a candidate? I saw her on the shift list this morning!"

They discussed lively, but Xie Zhiyao's headache became more and more serious.

Why is it still like this?Why did she transfer directly to the liberal arts class?The science team looked at her like a piece of treasure, how could they let someone repost?

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw her looking towards him, with the words strangers not to enter written all over her face.

She hasn't looked at people with this kind of eyes for a long time, Xie Zhiyao took a breath, remembering the days when she was not familiar with him when she was a child, the other party had such eyes.

Cold and distant.

Accustomed to seeing the vividness under this mask, she suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

Yet the results were of her own making.

Li Siyuan looked at the person with downcast eyes beside her, then at Xu Huai'an at the door, and greeted her with a smile: "Hey, Huai'an, are you here to visit?"

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she cursed secretly, what kind of nonsense she was talking about...

"No, transfer class." Xu Huaian walked in with the book in her arms. She didn't look at Xie Zhiyao again, and simply greeted him, and walked straight to the last row of seats.

Xie Zhiyao couldn't help but look back at her, she twisted her fingers, her mind was in a mess.

Li Siyuan looked back and forth between the two of them for a while, then lowered her head and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter with you two? Did you quarrel? You really didn't tell her that you chose..."

"I can't tell for a while..." She lay on the floor, buried her face in her arms, and said in a muffled voice, "Siyuan, let me be quiet for a while."

Li Siyuan sighed and didn't ask any more questions.

This morning was muddled, Xie Zhiyao kept his head down, he didn't even know exactly what Zhao Qing did or when he left.

After finally being released, she raised her head belatedly, and the people in the class had already left.

"Are you willing to look up?" Li Siyuan piled up the winter vacation homework she had received, and was slightly relieved to see that her face seemed to be getting better, "Are you okay Zhiyao?"

Xie Zhiyao shook his head and turned to look at the back row.

Xu Huaian's seat was empty, no one was there, but the bag was not taken away.

"Huai'an is out, but she doesn't know what to do." Li Siyuan followed her gaze and reminded, "Do you want to wait for her?"

She nodded.

"Then I'll lock the front door. Just turn off the lights and the back door when you leave." Li Siyuan patted her on the shoulder, "Don't worry, the two of you have been childhood sweethearts for so many years, everything will be fine."

Xie Zhiyao forced a smile, put away his things and obediently sat on his seat and waited.

The classroom was empty, and the same floor was very quiet. Presumably, most of the people had already left, so she leaned against the edge of the table in a daze.

It's right for the other party to be angry, and I obviously had so many opportunities to say it, but I dragged it until the last moment... But... I really don't know how to say it...

While thinking wildly, there was a sound of footsteps from the stairs.

Xie Zhiyao hurriedly raised his head, the corners of his eyes were still red.

The eyes of the two met, and Xu Huai'an took the lead to look away.

She stuffed the earphones into her ears, picked up her schoolbag and walked out of the classroom.Xie Zhiyao picked up his bag and chased them out. There was a distance of two or three meters between the two of them, just like the distance they had on the stairs before, neither far nor close.

There is no sun today, and the gloomy weather seems to make people feel restless. Even the bus driver seems to use a little more force on the gas pedal.Before Xie Zhiyao had time to stand still, he was staggered by inertia and almost fell.

A pair of hands grabbed her unbalanced body in time, and she subconsciously held the opponent's arm.

Xu Huai'an lowered his eyes. From this distance, the girl's eyelashes were long and curled up, and her pupils were black and deep.

She didn't pull Xie Zhiyao's hand away.The crowd was crowded, the carriage was shaking, the two stood facing each other, and the distance between them disappeared.

"Huai'an..." Xie Zhiyao's hand slowly slid down, tugged on her cuff, and called her name softly.

Xu Huai'an turned his head, but still did not break free.

Along the way, she acquiesced to the other party pulling her sleeve until she reached Xinqiao's door.

"Do you want to let go?" Xu Huai'an turned around to look at her, and said the first sentence.

Xie Zhiyao's throat rolled, she didn't look at the gate of the community where people were coming and going, she raised her eyes to meet her, and shook her head slowly and firmly.

"Not loose."

She understood what Xu Huai'an meant.

do you want to let go

— Do you want to explain?

not loose.

--want.

The frost in Xu Huai'an's eyes finally had a crack. She took a deep breath and said, "Okay."

The wind in Haiwan Park was very cold, Xie Zhiyao didn't wear a scarf when he went out in the morning, and couldn't help shrinking his neck.Xu Huaian glanced sideways at her, took off the scarf and hung it around her neck.

There was no one in the park at this point, so Xu Huai'an took her and sat down on the edge of a trestle bridge by the sea, the waves were beating against the reefs along the coast, and the water vapor was smeared with salt.

"I'm sorry." Xie Zhiyao looked at her and apologized seriously, "I shouldn't have kept it from you."

Xu Huaian pursed his lower lip and asked her, "When did it happen?"

"The day the final exam was over, I asked you to wait for me downstairs...I didn't go back to work at that time, so I went to the office to find Teacher Zhao." She lowered her hand and hooked the other's slightly cool fingertips, "The one on the subject table The time was still in his hands, and then I changed the text."

She spoke so guilty that she didn't even dare to look into those eyes.

"During the Chinese New Year, do you want to tell me about this?" Xu Huai'an squeezed her cold finger bones, his voice a little low.

Xie Zhiyao nodded, and said with a wry smile: "I... hesitated many times whether to tell you, but..."

Before she could finish speaking, Xu Huai'an interrupted: "What did your father say about me?"

"...What?" Xie Zhiyao was stunned for a moment, then asked in surprise, "You...how did you know it was him?"

"Guess." Xu Huaian's face was calm, "it's related to yourself, you can't help but say, the only possibility is that it's not just related to you. Among the few sentences he talked to me that day, there is one sentence that I remember meaning—— A person's choices may affect more than one person. So, what did he say?"

Xie Zhiyao's hands trembled, she gritted her teeth, and tried to steady her voice: "He said, I want to see you become the number one scholar in three years, and become the pride of everyone, or...or..."

"then what?"

"I still hurt you." She uttered the last word, and suddenly felt a sense of pleasure as if she had finally vented.Xie Yuanhong's words had been on her heart for too long, every time she wavered, every time she saw Xu Huai'an's face, she subconsciously felt an unknown panic.

But now that the layer of window paper is pierced, the depression of the past few months has finally been relieved.

"Xie Zhiyao." Xu Huai'an called her after hearing this, and she held her forehead angrily and funny, and said in a helpless voice, "Are you stupid?"

"...Huh?" Xie Zhiyao stared at her face blankly, unable to react for a while.

"Why do you think that not getting a so-called No. [-] title will hurt me?" She ground her molars, but she couldn't help but raised her hand and flicked her forehead, "Didn't you realize that you got involved? "

Xie Zhiyao bared his teeth and covered his forehead that had been knocked by her, a little aggrieved in his eyes.

"I never need a title to prove myself." Xu Huai'an couldn't help being discouraged by her looking at her like this. She reached out to help her rub her forehead, and analyzed rationally, "What can a title bring? Tell everyone how good I am? But is it necessary? Doesn’t the given exist without it? Besides, what do I need so much attention for?”

"Have you ever thought about the premise of the so-called harming me? It was because you insisted on choosing essays when my grades in liberal arts were far worse than those in science. This is called harming me. But do you think about it? Does this premise exist? "

First in arts and sciences, first in total scores in the joint examination of the three schools, even if it is not first in liberal arts, it is definitely in the top three.No one would deny the student’s excellence just because she was not number one in liberal arts. Three years later, Kyungbuk or Qingyun would not refuse to offer her an olive branch just because she was not number one. This assumption was absurd from the beginning.

What Xu Huai'an said was not wrong, Xie Zhiyao was bypassed by such a simple logic, and she would not fail to see the clues in it if it was another person.

"Woo..." Xie Zhiyao covered his face and buried himself in the scarf, "I think I'm so stupid when you say that..."

The corner of Xu Huaian's mouth curled up, and he stretched out his hand and flicked her head, his voice was still cold: "It's good to know."

"Then...how did you switch shifts in the morning?" She raised her head, revealing a pair of clear eyes.

"I went to the Deyu Building to find Director Jiang."

"How did you convince him?" Obviously the shift schedule came out.

"Because I am number one in arts and sciences."

Xie Zhiyao: "..." Okay, number one really has privileges.

"Then Huai'an, aren't you angry?" She tugged at Xu Huai'an's sleeve and asked pitifully.

Xu Huai'an glanced at her, sighed and said, "I'm angry, but there's a reason for it, forget it."

"Ok?"

"Compared to caring about whether I'm angry or not, don't you think you should consider how to explain to your parents?"

You can hide it for a while, but you can't hide it for a lifetime.