Σ Academic Lily

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"What's wrong?" Shi Xuli jumped out.This is one of the few times it can move freely around the house.

Li covered her head with the quilt: "Eat the cake."

"Ah la la, so it's unrequited love..."

Li didn't speak.In fact, Wujiang is not here, so it doesn't matter to her, but... she remembered some past events...

Li turned over and poked her head out of the quilt:

"Shiori, I remember you can transform into a human form, right?"

Shi Xuli puffed her mouth full of cakes:

"Sure, it just has ears and a tail..."

"Oh."

Li covered her face again.

"Hey, you just moved your mind, right? Who are you planning to turn me into, right? Wujiang? Or... silence?"

Li didn't answer.

"Ah, could it be Fujiwara Shizu-sama, the Lord of the Golden Apple? That won't work, I haven't seen her up close yet."

"I'm sleepy."

"Oh."

***

When Li woke up from her sleep, there was the sound of water in the bathroom.She vaguely saw Wujiang's uniform hanging on the coat rack, and knew in her heart that it was her who had returned.

It turned out that she didn't spend the night with her mother.

At this time, Wujiang came back to the house with wet hair in his pajamas.

"you're awake."

Li nodded.

"I see that you seem to have bought a cake... Sorry, I should have told you earlier."

Wujiang lowered his head and said.

"It's nothing...it's not wasted anyway." Li glanced at the "plush fox" on the table whose stomach had grown bulging overnight.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.

"Li, I have a presumptuous request, I don't know if you will agree..."

"What is it?" Li asked.

"Can you lend me your little fox?"

Do you mean Shiori?

Li glanced at Shi Xuli, Shi Xuli's body was still motionless, but she desperately used her eyes to signal Li not to agree.

Li got bad intentions, turned her head to look at Wujiang, and said with a smile: "No problem, but what is it for?"

"My mother ordered me to draw. I think, if I draw cute things, I can probably stick to it. When I find the feeling, I can also teach Li to draw."

"Well, of course it's good."

Originally, it was a pain for Shi Xuli to be motionless, but this time she had to pretend to be a still life, and let Wujiang paint without moving for several hours.

"I can't wait." Li said with a smile.

"Huh?" Wu Jiang looked at her in surprise.

"Ah, I was just thinking, I've never seen Wujiang draw a picture before. Is it just put on the table like this?"

"Well, the light at this angle is just right. But... Li, can you put your very thick book on its side? This way the composition will be better."

Li put the hardcover book called "Ganges Sand Book" at Shi Xuli's feet.Then I sat quietly and read other books.

After only two strokes, Wujiang lowered his head.

"Li... I... If you're here..."

Li understands very well.

Wujiang has not painted for a long time.Li could imagine the pressure on her to pick up the pen.If I'm on the sidelines...

"Okay, I'll go for a walk."

"It's actually because of the light..."

"It's all right, I don't mind. I just wanted to go to the library."

***

The library on Saturday was sparsely populated.Without Shi Xuli bouncing around among the bookshelves, the library seemed even quieter.

Yes, no matter when she was working in Tongtian Tower Library or now, Shi Xuli is like a rabbit suffering from bipolar disorder when she comes to the library...

"This lady."

The old librarian looked at Li with a smile.

Li saluted.

The old man said, "I've been paying attention to you for a long time... You come here almost every day, but you never sit down and read a book. Is it because you can't find a suitable seat?"

Li smiled awkwardly.

Sure enough, it was discovered.

Li didn't come to the library because she liked reading the books here.The knowledge in the most difficult books here is common sense to those who come from Wuya Xuehai.The reason why she came here was only because she suffered from a kind of... occupational disease called "uncomfortable if you don't put the book where it should be".

When she was in Wuya Xuehai, she was the administrator of Tongtian Tower Library.The Tongtian Tower library is shaped like a honeycomb and expands infinitely, collecting all the books in the past, present, and future of the three thousand worlds in the sea of ​​dimensions.The catalog of books in such a vast library is the "Ganges Sand Book", which looks a bit heavy, but not too heavy.

This book has a shape, but has infinite pages and infinite length. If you can't rely on Shi Xuli's help, every time you turn it, you are destined to turn to a strange part.Only Shiori can help her find the exact page number.In the process of becoming friends with Shiori, she knew that there was a multidimensional world hidden in this book.

But now that I leave the library, this book cannot be used as a catalog, but can only be used as a suitcase in a multidimensional space.

As for her occupational disease of "uncomfortable if you don't put books where they should be", she can only get relief in this narrow ordinary library... Unexpectedly, it was discovered.

Li didn't know how to answer.

Suddenly, the phone vibrated.

"Sorry, I'll go take a call."

As if she had received a life-saving straw, Li picked up her mobile phone and walked towards the courtyard.

Probably Wujiang.Could it be that Shi Xuli caused trouble?She glanced down at the caller.

——Not Wujiang.

Fujiwara Jing.

Picking up the phone, the voice over there is very gentle:

"Hi, this is Shizuka Fujiwara."

"Lee Lawrence."

"Student Lawrence, are you okay? I came back from abroad early."

Li didn't know what to say, she was silent for a long time before saying "Welcome back".

"Are you still used to it in life?"

"Well, it's okay..."

"Lawrence's roommate seems to be... not very easy to get along with?"

"Nothing." Li resolutely denied, "Although it seems that I don't have many friends, but he is still very nice."

"That's it. How about having a cup of coffee with Shangguang tomorrow?"

Hey?

Fujiwara Jing on the other end of the phone suddenly became hesitant, and after a long time, he said:

"I have something very important to tell you..."

***

Li returned to the door of the dormitory.

In the past two hours, Wujiang's painting must have begun to take shape!

"I'm back." Li said and opened the door.

Wujiang...

Wujiang's hair is messy.

Scraps of paper all over the place.

The works on the easel can only see the approximate shape of Shi Xuli...

"Wujiang?"

"what."

Noticing Li's return, Wujiang instinctively tore off the paper on the easel, quickly rolled it up, and threw it on the ground.

It was blank again.

"I seem to... still can't."

Wujiang looked extremely depressed.

Li patted her on the shoulder, and with the other hand, she quietly pushed Shi Xuli to a place where Wujiang couldn't see, so that Shi Xuli could move her body.

Wujiang lowered his head and said:

"I still want to teach Li to draw like this... It's ridiculous... Li, what should I do?"

Li Xiang: Is it because of the pressure brought about by her mother being a painter, or because of something else?Maybe because she wants to teach me how to draw, it also puts a lot of pressure on her.

"I think Wujiang has been painted very well."

"You have never seen other people's paintings in Narcissus Garden....Forget it, I hate painting. That's it. Li, let's go out to relax tomorrow, shall we?"

Wujiang raised his head and looked at Li with warm eyes.

tomorrow?

Li suddenly remembered that tomorrow was the day agreed with Fujiwara Shizu.

"Sorry, I really want to go, but Shizu Fujiwara tomorrow..."

As soon as she said that, she regretted it.

Wujiang smiled lightly:

"That's it. It seems that Shizuka Fujiwara returned to China early."

"Because she asked me out. Actually, I would love to hang out with you too. It's always a little nervous to be with her."

"That's right, because it's Mrs. Golden Apple." Wu Jiang smiled wryly.

Li didn't know how to answer.If it is really like what Shi Xuli said, Wu Jiang fell in love with...

There was silence again.

Wujiang folded the easel, put it under the bed, and sat down by the bed.

"Li, if, I mean, if, if I want you not to go to Fujiwara's place, but to go out with me, will you...will you agree?"

Suddenly, there was a not-so-good premonition in Li's heart.

"Hey, don't answer." Wujiang said with a smile, "I actually asked such a stupid question. I really..."

Before she could finish speaking, Li picked up the "Ganges Sand Book" on the table, and tapped Wujiang's head lightly with the spine of the book.

"Ahh...Li! You're taking too much action!"

"If you go on like this, how can we be friends? - What do you want to eat tonight?"

***

night.

The moonlight is good, the night without curtains.

Wujiang hadn't fallen asleep yet.She stroked the part of her forehead that Li had knocked on.It doesn't hurt anymore.

be friends...

She turned her head and looked at another bed not far away, on which lay sleeping Li curled up.

With long black hair and white cotton pajamas with puff sleeves, under the moonlight, it looks like it doesn't belong to this world.

During the day, it still looks like a very reliable appearance.At night it is a bit like a child.

If only I could get closer...

Wujiang sat up from the bed, walked to Li's bed with bare feet, and sat down gently.

She could clearly hear her heart beating wildly, but Li's breathing was still as even as before.Long lashes cover there.

If I could lie down side by side like this...

Wujiang gently climbed onto Li's bed and lay beside her side by side.

If I could... hold...

She turned her body and wanted to reach out, but stopped.

He got up silently, went back to his bed, rolled up the quilt and held it tightly in his arms.

"Fujiwara... Jing..."

The author has something to say:

☆、burgundy car

It was still the morning in the women's dormitory, and the sound of water from the shower head came from the bathroom of the dormitory.It was Wu Jiang who was taking a shower.She spends a lot of time in the bathroom today.Li sat by the bed in the bedroom, put on stockings, and glanced at the clock: the time agreed with Shizuka Fujiwara is coming.Fujiwara Shizune made such a serious request to meet yesterday, it was really hard to refuse.It's just that Wujiang reacted like that after hearing about it, what kind of inside story is there?

With no time to think about it, Li got up and tidied up her short skirt, stuffed the poems that were running around while Wujiang was away into a small bag, walked to the bathroom door, knocked on the door and said, "I'm leaving."

no respond.Still the sound of water from the shower head.

Li was about to leave, but suddenly found something unusual.

Under the bathroom door, water is slowly seeping into the house.

"Wujiang? Are you okay? Is the floor drain blocked?"

Still no answer.

Shiori also jumped out of the bag. "What's going on?" it asked.

"Not good."

Li tried to turn the doorknob.

The door was not locked.

"I'm going in!" Li said loudly.Of course, there was still no response.She opened the door.

The shower head was hanging outside the tub, still splashing water reluctantly.

It was Wu Jiang who was lying down in the bathtub, his eyes were closed, his face was pale, and he seemed to be in great pain.Li stepped forward to test it out—the breathing was normal, and the heartbeat was also there.The cause of the collapse is unknown, there were no visible trauma, and there were no suspicious signs around.She turned off the shower head, turned on the water, and changed Wujiang's position.

"Shi Xuli, go get her clean clothes." Li said.

"How to do how to do……"

But Shi Xuli didn't seem to hear it, muttering while circling around the bathtub.

"Shi Xuli!"

"What to do, Wujiang, she passed out, she, she, ah..."

puff--

Shi Xuli's nosebleeds splashed out.

"Towel...towel..." Shi Xuli looked at Li pleadingly.

Li brought her own big towel, but ignored Shi Xuli, and wiped off the water droplets on Wujiang's body, wrapped her up, carried her to the bed in the back room, and found a piece of clothing for her to cover her body .

There are not many things in Wujiang's closet, but it is extremely messy.The clothes, though clean, were crumpled.Seeing such a wardrobe, Li thought to herself, what a worrying child, I don't know what kind of mental state she has been in these days.

Without delay, Li quickly found a half-worn but very clean cotton pajamas, helped her change into it, and started making calls.

"Shi Xuli, what's the ambulance number?" Li asked.

From just now, Shi Xuli's eyes are staring and his head is hot, and he is not in the state at all.

Li suddenly thought, since this is a famous "noble school" and Wujiang's mother is a painter, sending Wujiang like this to a public hospital will cause public opinion?

After these days of understanding, Li already knew that common sense in general society often doesn't work here.

She thought of someone.

Flip through the address book, find "Fujiwara Shizu", and dial it.

"Hello, Lee Lawrence."

"Fujiwara Shizu. What's the matter?"

"Fujiwara-san, Yamada Kirie...is my roommate who suddenly passed out in the bathroom. I want to know how to send her to the hospital and which hospital is better."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for two seconds, and then there was a calm voice again:

"I'll tell Uncle Hashimoto. You take her downstairs, and Uncle Hashimoto will send her to the doctor I know at home. Don't let others see. He will be there in 5 minutes."

"it is good."

Li put down the phone, carried Wu Jiang on her back, and said to Shi Xuli: "Shi Xuli, I need a car, please prepare it for me." Then she went out with the unconscious Wu Jiang on her back.

"Okay... yes... Wujiang... milk..."

Shi Xuli is still hot-headed, staring at her eyes.

***

As a result, with the help of Uncle Hashimoto, Wujiang was successfully sent to the private doctor of the Fujiwara family.Uncle Hashimoto said that the doctors here have served the Fujiwara family for generations and are very reliable.In fact, it doesn't take Uncle Hashimoto to say that, Li is also very relieved.

The date with Shizuka Fujiwara probably ended like this.

"Student Lawrence. Uncle Hashimoto."

familiar voice.Li Xunsheng looked at the door downstairs.A limousine was parked at the entrance of the hospital, and the door had already been opened by a servant. Shizuka Fujiwara, who was wearing casual clothes, got out of the car while waving to them upstairs, looking very anxious.

"Then, I'll take my leave first."

After Fujiwara Jing explained some things to Uncle Hashimoto, Uncle Hashimoto left.

"What a worrying child." Li said.

Fujiwara nodded, which was considered an answer.

Li thought, maybe she would never know what Shizu Fujiwara was going to tell her today... Maybe.

"Want to visit her? She's already awake." Li suggested with a smile.

"No, no need... Lawrence, I have something to do."

Fujiwara Jing's expression was as tangled as it was on the phone yesterday.

"what happened?"

"I think maybe this is a good opportunity to tell you about that." Fujiwara Jing said.

"Good opportunity?"

"How much do you know about Mr. Yamada Kirie?"

Is this matter related to Wujiang...

"not many."

"Then have you heard any strange rumors?"

"Rumor? No." Li became alert.

Fujiwara let out a sigh of relief.

"That's good. It's the same as I thought." Fujiwara Jing said, "Li, I want to ask you to do me a favor...I want to visit your dormitory."

"If you want to come, you are always welcome..."

"But I hope you won't be here." Fujiwara Jing's face was full of guilt, "I want to meet Wujiang in your dormitory...but Wujiang will definitely not agree. So, I have to ask you."

So this is ah.

Li understood.At first, Fujiwara Jing hinted that Wujiang was not easy to get along with on the phone, but it turned out to be just a temptation.In fact, Fujiwara Jing didn't think so.Wujiang heard from Li that Fujiwara Shizuka's name would be so sensitive, and it's not hard to guess why Fujiwara Jing called her "Kujiang" so directly.

It turned out that these were two people who had known each other before.Maybe it's more than acquaintance.

Li got it.

There is no reason to refuse.

"What am I going to do?" Li asked.

"You don't have to rush to agree. Because you don't know Wujiang yet. From my selfishness, I hope you can understand Wujiang...and me, what happened to the two of us, and then make a decision."

"I don't think it's necessary. I can agree." Li said.

Li, she really doesn't seem to be involved too much with the world during the journey.

"This is a little selfish of mine. You also said that you had a fight with her roommate. If you want to know Wu Jiang, I hope you can know the real her, not the rumored one. Now she is very dangerous... …It’s not about fainting today. The most worrying thing is her future. A student of Narcissus Academy who can’t paint, you can imagine her fate, right?”

"Dropping out of school...?"

"Students who are expelled from Flower Academy, no matter what school they enter, will be warmly welcomed by the school. Correspondingly, they will also be hated by all students at the same time. Their background, talent, brains, professional training, even if they look similar Dressing up can be a reason to hate. This is not something that can be dealt with in etiquette classes. If it is embellished, it will even affect future marriages. Some people may use the strength of their families to survive. But the fog Jiang...she only has an adoptive mother who is a painter."

Hearing about her adoptive mother, Li was a little shocked.

"Yes. Wujiang was adopted. Her surname is the old surname of her former family, and her name was given by her adoptive mother." Fujiwara Jing said, "Her details, if you are interested, you can come to my dormitory tomorrow. About Wujiang She knows more about Jiang than I do."

Fujiwara Shizuo took out a photo from her handbag.

Beside Shizu Fujiwara, a very quiet girl, with medium-length flaxen hair and a little fluffy curls at the end, smiled shyly.

"My roommate, Minazuki Ina." Fujiwara Shizu said.

Li remembered.Fujiwara Jing put away the photo.

"I...can't meet Wujiang yet." Fujiwara Jing said, "Please take the time to come tomorrow. I'll take a step first."

It sold a lot.

Rei closed her eyes, thinking of the girl Ina Minazuki in the photo.

Flaxen hair... same as Anna.

***

By the time Li and Wujiang were alone in the ward, it was almost evening.

The wards in this hospital are very comfortable.The bed is not the iron bed of ordinary hospitals, but a comfortable wooden bed with adjustable firmness mattress.There are many plush toys on the bed, which seems to be a ward for young girls or children.Maybe Fujiwara Jing was lying here.

Wujiang was still lying there in the pajamas that Li had found for her, her complexion had somewhat recovered, but there was still a thin infusion tube tied to her hand.Li glanced at it—it was just ordinary glucose.It seems that there is no serious problem.

"Li, thank you for sending me here."

"No big deal. How do you feel?"

"Much better. Passed out somehow in the morning...I don't have any memory. Luckily I didn't drown in the bathtub."

It's good to have such an idea.Li thought.

"I'm sorry, I seem to have delayed your meeting with Fujiwara Shizu." Wu Jiang's expression was a little sad.

"Nothing." Indeed, the meeting was not delayed.

Looking out of the window, you can just see the beautiful sunset.

"If it's in our dormitory, it's when the sun is scorching hot. But, it's so beautiful." Wujiang said to himself.

"Wujiang."

"What's the matter, Li?"

"No... nothing."

After thinking about it, it's better not to tell Fujiwara Jing's request to her yet.What Shizu Fujiwara meant was to keep it a secret.

"There are so many plush toys here." Wujiang picked up a squinting rabbit plush with his hand without the infusion tube, "It's soft."

"Wujiang seems to like plush."

"Yeah, I like it very much, but I haven't had this kind of thing since I was a child. Speaking of which, these plush things are not as real as Li's little fox..."

"Shi Xuli?" Li blurted out.It's not that Shiori doesn't look real, it's already alive.

"Shi Xuli... Is that little fox called Shi Xuli? Li can also name plush, so cute..."

Li "also" would name the plush...and who is the other person who would name the plush?Wujiang said that she didn't have such a thing, then, that person should refer to Shizuka Fujiwara.Wujiang and Fujiwara Shizu were really two very good friends.Li couldn't help smiling at her reasoning.

The nurse knocked on the door.

"Come in," Li said.Wujiang quickly retracted his body into the quilt.

"It seems that the bottle is almost empty. It seems that you have regained your spirits, and you can go back tonight." The nurse said.She glanced at the plush on the bed, smiled, and said, "You can pick what you like and take it home."

"Really?" Wu Jiang was obviously very happy. "Yes." "Great! Then I'll take this little rabbit...or this little hippopotamus..."

These plush, probably also belong to Fujiwara.Li thought.

***

In the faint twilight and the sound of cicadas, Uncle Hashimoto drove Li and Wujiang back to the downstairs of the dormitory.

To get out of the car in pajamas like this, Wujiang was a little embarrassed and blushed.

Li said, "Didn't you sneak out in your pajamas when you secretly fed the cat?"

"Hey, how do you know?"

Li said in her heart, of course I know, it's just that you took what happened that day as a dream.

"But..." Wu Jiang's voice was very low, "Today... I didn't wear anything..."

ah ah ah ah.

It was only then that Li realized that in order to hurry up in the morning, she only put on her pajamas...

"Too bad, the doctor probably discovered it just now... What should I do..."

"The doctor has seen a lot of big scenes, so he won't care about this."

"really?"

"real."

The two whispered their ears while walking cautiously into the building.The reliable Uncle Hashimoto watched them enter the building from the side of the car before driving away from the dormitory downstairs.

On the stairs, Li opened the way ahead, and Wujiang followed closely behind.

"The uncle who was driving just now seems familiar." Wu Jiang said.

"Really? It's probably the face of the public." Li prevaricated.

"Maybe." Wu Jiang nodded, and suddenly, the slipper on his feet was about to fall down the stairs.Seeing this, Li quickly turned around and reached out to grab her wrist, pulling her back.

"... I was taken aback."

"Yes... hey."

Wujiang suddenly fell into Li's arms on his own initiative.

The soft feeling close to skin-to-skin made Li a little embarrassed.

"If I can't draw anymore, will you still treat me like this?" Wujiang asked.

Li was a little confused at first, but soon understood what Wujiang was talking about.I am just a phantom, the phantom of Shizuka Fujiwara.This made Li feel more relaxed.

But this is not going to work.Shizuka Fujiwara is right.They need to meet.

"Ah, I'm sorry." Wu Jiang took the initiative to bounce away.

"It's nothing. I don't care." Li said, "Here we are, our dormitory."

***

"So nothing happened to you? Are you unwilling, unwilling, unwilling..."

Shi Xuri was throwing a pillow that was much bigger than her body back and forth like a child, throwing a tantrum.

"Keep it down. How's the car getting ready?"

After what happened in the morning, Li deeply felt that without a car in this dimension, it was as inconvenient as climbing the bookshelves with bare hands in the Babel Tower library.

"It's done. I found a magazine, and the ad in it just happened to have a phone number for ordering a car, parked in the parking lot. But my money..."

"Ask the council. It's none of my business."

"It's too much, to be so indifferent to Shi Xuli, who has dedicated herself to you..."

"Okay, before Wujiang comes back, let's go check the car."

Brand new car.The color is coquettish wine red.

"Except for the bad color, everything else looks good. It can be opened barely."

"But you seem to be driving without a license."

"Go and get one for me."

"Why it's me again! I bought this car for you! You didn't think of having a show with me in the car first, but asking me to get a certificate for you!"

Li ignored her.She drew a complex star shape on the cover, and then opened the "Ganges Sand Book" in her hand. It was a blank page, and then she chanted a spell. With the sound of her spell, the car turned into a A beam of red light flew into the air and crashed into a blank page in the book.

At the same time, in a higher dimension, in a certain area of ​​the Tongtian Tower Library, which is like a forest, suddenly there was a loud noise, and hundreds of books fell from the bookshelves to the ground.A wine-red car suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the bookshelf, and then, as if being chewed and digested by the bookshelf, it slowly turned into a thin book with a wine-red car printed on the cover.

"The entry was successful." Li closed the "Ganges Sand Book" in her hand, "Go back, Shi Xuli."

"Why can't I learn Li's spell."

"Because you are Shiori."

This is what happened in the parking lot of the Academy of Flowers, a tiny miracle.

The author has something to say: January 2014, 1: Revised typography

☆、I just want to be with Li

"The corridor around the water, the plants planted in water, the fish swimming in the water, and the reflections of the girls on the water, accompanied by bursts of music. This is Narcissus Garden.

"The buildings here are the crystallization of the inspiration of the outstanding graduates of Narcissus Academy from generation to generation. Every outstanding graduate of Narcissus Academy has the right to add new designs to this place - a corridor, a mural, a sculpture, of course It could also be a piece of recorded music. Under such conditions, each person has to find a way to integrate his personality with the overall environment, and the result is a special look of the place.”

While bouncing among the lotus flowers on the water surface, Shi Xuli held up the heavy "Ganges Sand Book" and recited the words on this page.

Shi Xuli closed the book, looked around, pouted and said, "That's all it looks like. What about the 'reflection of the girls' that you talked about? If there is a reflection, there will be that, that."

"What?" Li asked who was standing in the corridor.

"Fat times! The cool wind blows, and the skirts of the girls are mischievously lifted, and the girls' fat times will be reflected in the water immediately!"

As soon as Shi Xuli finished speaking, as if she was playing tricks on purpose, a gust of cool wind blew by, and the lotus under her feet swayed. With a scream, Shi Xuli fell into the water, and the "Ganges River Sand" in her hand "Book" also flew into the air...

Li stopped, silently spread her hands in front of her, and the book fell back into her hands steadily.She put the book away in her bag, and didn't care about Shi Xuli, just kept walking forward.

"Ah... Chirp!" Shi Xuli climbed ashore from the water, sneezed, and shouted, "Li, why don't you come to save me."

Li turned her head and sneered in the direction of Shi Xuli with a "hum".

"Hey! Don't bully people!" Shi Xuli jumped and chased after her.

This was Li's first time setting foot on the ground of Narcissus Court.In order to meet Minazuki Ina whom Shizuku Fujiwara said.The girl with flaxen hair.

Because of the flaxen hair in the photo, she has lost sleep all night.As soon as she closes her eyes, what comes to her eyes and ears is the light reflected on Dr. Pope's gold-rimmed pince-nez before she was pushed into the sea of ​​dimensions, and his meaningful words: "Maybe you will be on the journey." Zhong and Anna met."

It was because of this sentence that she had a glimmer of hope in such an exile.

Is it really possible to meet Anna?

When I was thinking, I had already arrived at the garden square in front of the main building of Narcissus Temple.

Girls are holding easels, scattered in every corner here.It looks like it's sketching time.

Shi Xuli looked around, and suddenly said: "Hey, Li, look, that person's hair..."

Before Shi Xuli finished speaking, Li had already walked over.

Linen.

Anna?

No... just Minazuki Ina.

Compared with Anna, this girl was too fair, and she hadn't been burned by the flames of the phoenix yet.The arms are also too slender, although they can use the paintbrush freely, they cannot swing Anna's long whip.As for the color of the eyes, it's just the brown-black color of ordinary oriental people...

Even so, Li still found a place beside her, sat on the edge of the flower bed, silently watching her hair lost in thought.

"Li? Aren't you going to say hello?" Shi Xuli asked, wagging her tail.

Li didn't answer.She hugged her knees, lowered her head, and buried her head in her folded arms.

"This sitting posture is gone, Li."

"Huh?" Li Meng subconsciously stood up.

The sketchers around immediately focused their attention on Li.

"Hee hee, I lied to you." Shi Xuli said.

***

"So you are Li Lawrence from Lily Court."

Minaduki Ina smiled shyly.It's the same in the photo.

Li nodded, thinking, am I famous?

"Mr. Katsushika, who teaches art, mentioned you in the chat, saying that you must be a poor child abandoned by the god of art. Being able to draw like that is also a kind of talent." Ina smiled cutely.

Hey...does he have such a reputation?Li smiled helplessly.

"It's the first time you come to Narcissus Court, how do you feel?"

"very beautiful."

"Yeah...it's getting harder and harder to add something to it."

Chatting like this, the two slowly walked back to the dormitory area from Narcissus-in, to the building where Minazuki Ina lived, and walked to the door of the dormitory.

"Please come in." Minazuki Ina said.

Unlike Li and Wujiang's dormitory, this dormitory is a Japanese room.

Li Lawrence saw Fujiwara Shizuka's dignified silhouette at a glance, with the remnants of flowers and fruits beside her, and the completed ikebana works in front of her.

"It's so beautiful." Lee Lawrence exclaimed.Before coming here, she read a little knowledge of ikebana.In terms of the momentum of this work, it can be described as excellent.

Fujiwara Jing thanked her for her praise, offered the flowers in front of the altar, and saluted with clasped hands.

Minadutsu Ina smiled and said: "With Mr. Fujiwara's talent, it is no problem to come to Narcissusin, but it seems that Mr. Fujiwara's family prefers that his daughter is from Rosenin."

"Ina, I've said it many times, don't call me Fujiwara-sama, just 'Jing'."

"Master Jing..."

Fujiwara Shizumi smiled helplessly.

***

The three sat down, Minazuki Ina said:

"Student Lawrence, please take a look at this album."

Ina pushed a copy of "Utagawa Hanabi Masterpieces".

Li opened it and admired it page by page.She was not familiar with the artist Utagawa Hanabi before.However, the painting style seems to be...very characteristic.

"Mr. Utagawa is my master. In the current painting world, she should be a first-class female painter."

It turned out to be like this.Li thought, turned a page, and couldn't help but yelled "Ah".

The painting is a girl.The picture is brutal.The girl's body was tightly tied to the chair with ropes, although only the back side, the pain can be imagined.

This is the first of a series of paintings, collectively entitled Andromeda and Amphitrite.

The next one shows the teenage girl being thrown into a bathtub full of lipstick, eyeshadow, foundation cases and perfume bottles.

In the next pair, the girl's hands were tied, and she was prostrate on the ground, with a pointed high-heeled shoe resting on her head.

……

Although the picture has a strong impact, the cold and hard tone does not make Li feel the slightest sexual stimulation.It's just pain.

"This is Master's most controversial group of works. I discussed the theme of this painting with Master. She said that only women