After the exams, there was a heavy rain in Nanjiang and the weather began to turn cooler. The city finally entered the cool autumn in November. People began to wear long-sleeved skirts. With the arrival of the new season, the colors in the school also became softer.
After the midterm results were announced, the hostility of the classmates towards Lin Weixia was greatly reduced. Because in this competitive and cautious environment, Lin Weixia did not play by their rules, lent her notebook without reservation, and answered questions patiently when classmates came to ask questions.
Lin Weixia scored high in this exam, but she filled in "none" in the column for specialties when she enrolled, so after adding up the comprehensive scores, she was still a little short of becoming an A student.
She doesn't care if her scores are lower than others or if others catch up with her. In other words, she doesn't seem to care about the difference in levels.
Because of Lin Weixia's good grades, Student A began to look at her differently. At the same time, she did not hide her study methods, and her frankness about her hard work and ambition made these people look at her with less contempt and more appreciation.
As for the other F students, they thought Lin Weixia was good-looking, not arrogant, and answered questions patiently, clearly and logically, so more and more people became her friends.
Liu Sijia no longer stared at Ban Sheng, memorized what color clothes he wore today, or secretly took pictures of the curve of his Adam's apple when he tilted his head back to drink ice water. She began to focus on her studies, and her classroom tests and homework were better and better. The teacher looked at her with satisfaction again, instead of frequently mentioning the three words "Lin Weixia".
After class, the girl with bangs stood in the corner and hesitated for a long time, then walked towards Lin Weixia's seat. She wanted to borrow notes from her.
Obviously, Lin Weixia also saw her and smiled at her.
As if encouraged, the girl with bangs quickened her pace, but accidentally bumped into someone in the second to last row with a "bang".
The girl with bangs covered her forehead in pain. After seeing who was coming, she subconsciously took a step back, lowered her head and stammered, "I'm sorry."
"Hey, sister Yulin, are you looking for death? Do you know how much it costs to dirty my clothes?"
Zheng Zhaoxing looked unhappy and took a step closer, looking like he wanted to pick a fight with her.
But Lin Weixia saw clearly that Zheng Zhaoxing deliberately stood in front of her and bumped into her. She stood up and walked forward: "She didn't mean to do that."
Zheng Zhaoxing turned around suddenly, and the hostility on his face disappeared completely after he saw Lin Weixia. Lin Weixia had waist-length black hair, red lips and white teeth, and her small chin was looking at him tightly.
He whistled: "Okay, I'll let you go today for the sake of the beauty."
After Zheng Zhao walked away, Qi Liuhai breathed a sigh of relief and almost squeezed out a line of words from his lips: "Thank you, I'll... borrow the main subject's notes."
Lin Weixia turned back to her seat, took out the red and green notebook wrapped in soft leather and handed it to her, saying softly, "If you don't understand anything, you can ask me."
The girl with bangs nodded.
After school at noon, Lin Weixia and Liu Sijia appeared in the school cafeteria together. Liu Sijia ate a fat-reducing meal as usual, and Lin Weixia felt embarrassed to eat the lunch box she brought, so she asked Liu Sijia not to bring it and eat in the cafeteria instead.
Liu Sijia put down her chopsticks after taking two bites, her face expressionless. Ning Chao, who was carrying a bowl of snail noodles, happened to pass by, glanced at her food, and sneered, "Even chickens don't eat as badly as you do, right?"
In less than a second, the queen's cold expression collapsed. Liu Sijia raised her chin and squinted her eyes, her voice a little unhappy: "Who are you calling a chicken?"
The next second, because the smell of the snail noodles Ning Chao was holding was too strong, Liu Sijia pinched her nose and turned away. The former asked in a leisurely tone:
"Is this the right seat?"
"You—" Liu Sijia was angry.
But she knew that she couldn't reason with such a ruffian, so she simply turned around and talked to Lin Weixia. Seeing that she couldn't anger this young lady, Ning Chao walked away with the meal tray in a cool manner.
Lin Weixia raised her hand and held Liu Sijia's hand. She felt the bone on her palm was a little bit scratchy. She looked worried and said, "Sijia, you are beautiful whether you are thin or not. Don't you want to eat more?"
Since Lin Weixia and Liu Sijia have been inseparable, she has noticed that she has been eating less. If she is trying to control her weight, she is already thinner than the average thin person.
Liu Sijia forced herself to raise the corners of her mouth and patted her hands: "It's okay, I have never had much appetite for food, everything tastes the same. It would be great if I could stay alive by injecting saline."
As the two were talking, a tall and thin figure came down, mixed with a light scent of ebony, and a silver plate fell on the table opposite with a "clang". Lin Weixia raised her eyes and met a nonchalant face.
"Is anyone here?" Ban Sheng tilted his head and asked Liu Sijia.
"No." Liu Sijia's voice sounded surprised. She was about to say, "Ban Sheng, please sit opposite me," when she saw Qiu Minghua sitting down in front of her with a tray of food.
Liu Sijia rolled her eyes silently.
The group continued to eat. After Ban Sheng sat down, the students around him frequently looked at this table. Liu Sijia was used to the attention and her face was full of energy.
Lin Weixia lowered her head to eat without saying a word. A pair of bony hands appeared in front of her, picking up a bottle of milk. The backs of her hands were bulging with obvious blue veins.
Liu Sijia poked the broccoli with chopsticks, her red lips bright: "Ban Sheng, can I ask you a question?"
Ban Sheng raised his eyebrows and motioned her to ask. Liu Sijia moved her eyes to the milk bottle he was holding and tapped her cheek with her finger: "Why do you drink a bottle of milk every day?"
And stick with the same brand, rain or shine.
"Grow taller." Ban Sheng's tone was crisp and clear.
Everyone present: “…”
Especially Qiu Minghua was drinking soup. He choked and coughed until his neck became thick, but Ban Sheng still didn't even raise his head.
"You want to get taller? You're already 187cm tall, how tall do you want to be? Are you going to let short people like us live?"
After shaking his shoulders, Qiu Minghua began to lean towards Ban Sheng, with his hands on his shoulders: "Mr. Ban, your shoulders are so broad, it feels so safe to lean on them."
When Lin Weixia picked up the food and put it into her mouth, she inexplicably thought of the scene when she accidentally fell on Ban Sheng when she went to the Jiaojiao District to take his car. Her forehead hit his chin, and because they were so close, she could even feel the vibration of his chest.
"This shoulder, these muscles—"
"Weixia, why are you eating chili peppers?" Liu Sijia looked shocked.
Lin Weixia raised her head and said in a submissive tone, "Ah?"
Everyone looked at her, but their gaze met Ban Sheng's. He leaned back in his chair, looking at her leisurely, his eyes showing "What did you remember?" He couldn't be the frivolous ruffian that I thought.
Her sense of taste returned belatedly, and she realized that she had stuffed green pepper into her mouth instead of beans. Lin Weixia was so nervous that her throat was choked and she started coughing loudly, coughing all the way to her neck. Her ears turned shrimp-red and the tears in her eyes were about to burst out.
Liu Sijia quickly handed her a glass of water, and Lin Weixia took it and drank it in small sips. Suddenly, a boy with glasses and a dinner plate rushed over in front of him, and accidentally knocked over a bowl of soup beside the table, and the oil and soup splashed on Lin Weixia's body, and the girl's white shirt uniform quickly swam a large area of oily soup stains.
Lin Weixia immediately stood up, grabbed her clothes, and took the tissue handed to her and wiped her body.
The boy with the glasses wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape. Ban Sheng looked at the soup in the bowl, reached out his hand and pulled him back without even looking up. He lowered his voice and there was no emotion in his tone:
"Apologize."
"Who told her to put the soup bowl so far away?" the boy with glasses argued.
Ban Sheng quietly clenched the man's wrist, tightening it noticeably, causing the man's head to throb and he cried out in pain. However, he still maintained a nonchalant tone:
"Don't make me say it a second time."
The other person turned back in pain, wanting to know who was speaking so aggressively and arrogantly. When he saw the boy's face clearly, he suddenly stopped and his expression changed drastically.
The little boy with glasses immediately bowed and apologized: "I'm sorry, classmate, I'm sorry, it's all my fault."
"It's okay." Lin Weixia shook her head.
In the student lounge, Lin Weixia walked into the locker room. Fortunately, she had a coat in the closet. She planned to take off her clothes, wash them in the bathroom, and see how to dry them before putting them on.
If the zipper of the coat is closed, people won't know that she is only wearing a white bra underneath. As Lin Weixia was hesitating, there was a knock on the door of the cubicle.
The door was opened a crack, and Liu Sijia handed over a brown paper bag. Lin Weixia took it and saw that it was a new school uniform, and the size was just right.
Lin Weixia breathed a sigh of relief and began to change her clothes. Liu Sijia stood outside the door with her back against it and lit a cigarette:
"This dress was given to me by Ban Sheng."
"Where did he come from?" Lin Weixia froze while changing clothes, her back turned white.
Liu Sijia tilted her head and smiled outside the door: "You forgot that he is the supplier of the school uniform industry chain."
"Even Ban Sheng knows that you are my good friend and specially sent you clothes." Liu Sijia exhaled a puff of smoke.
Lin Weixia continued to change her clothes. Her hair was very long and swept back and forth. With a "pop" sound, something fell to the ground. Lin Weixia was panicked for a moment and squatted down to look for it.
Liu Sijia smiled brightly and said in a relaxed tone: "You must not let me down. It was an accident that you surpassed me in this result."
Lin Weixia squatted on the ground looking for her things. She was only half wearing her shirt and school uniform. Her black hair was draped behind her, revealing a part of her white bra. The two beautiful butterfly bones on her back protruded as if they were about to fly.
Finally found, Lin Weixia stood up, everything in the world returned to normal, she put on her clothes and buttoned them up, and said in a gentle voice: "Si Jia, don't worry."
The noisy sound disappeared, leaving only the sound of water dripping from the faucet outside.
Like everything is settled.
After noon, no one knew who started the rumor that Ban Sheng loved Liu Sijia so much that she was willing to stand up for Lin Weixia. The rumors about the two of them continued to be ambiguous, and Lin Weixia was completely reduced to the background of their story.
Lin Weixia came out of the office holding the test paper, and the smell was all about the hot transfer paper. There was almost no one in the classroom, because the second period was a physics experiment class, and they went to reserve seats, and Lin Weixia was a little late because she had to get the test paper.
She put the test paper away, and when she turned around, she saw a person standing at the back door. Ban Sheng was leaning against the back door in a frivolous manner, not looking serious. Lin Weixia pretended not to see him and walked past him to go out, but Ban Sheng stretched out a long leg and directly crossed the opposite door, preventing her from going out.
Lin Weixia was a little helpless and was about to speak when Ban Sheng opened his palm, on which lay an amber pendant shaped like a leaf. Lin Weixia's pupils suddenly shrank, and she subconsciously reached out to take it.
He closed his palms and looked into a pair of dark, narrow eyes. Ban Sheng said in a leisurely tone, "You left it at noon."
After taking a look at her reaction, Ban Sheng raised his eyebrows: "Is it very important?"
Ban Sheng finally saw other emotions in those beautiful almond eyes, like a rising tide, filled with a variety of complex emotions, surging in.
Seeing Lin Weixia so nervous, Ban Sheng's face changed, he looked away from her and sneered softly, "So, you beg me.
"I'll think about it and give it back to you."