Ban Sheng thought that a girl like Lin Weixia, who looked gentle but actually had a bad temper, would definitely stare at him with her beautiful eyes and refuse to give in.
But the sadness in her eyes faded away, and she looked at him clearly without any annoyance.
"Please."
Ban Sheng was stunned for a moment, then spread his hands. Lin Weixia picked up the pendant and put it in her pocket, then passed by him. After she left, a faint fruity scent lingered around his nose.
In the physics experiment class, the teacher asked the students to find their own partners and then form their own groups. Lin Weixia subconsciously wanted to find Liu Sijia, but she didn't know what the people around her classmate Sheng said, and finally she stood beside him as she wished.
Lin Weixia withdrew her gaze from the two of them and concentrated on the class.
After school in the afternoon, students in the classrooms ate in groups of two or three. The wind was hot, and the red sunset in the sky was spectacular and warm. When passing by the playground, you could hear cheers from the stadium from time to time.
Lin Weixia and Liu Sijia returned to the classroom after dinner. Lin Weixia took out her homework from the drawer and started to do it. Liu Sijia sat in Fang Mo's seat and tore off the yogurt wrapper.
"Weixia, wasn't I in a group with Bansheng in the physics experiment this afternoon? I felt crushed by the god of study."
"He really thinks fast, has clear ideas, and knows everything. Following him is a sure win, and let me tell you, he..."
Lin Weixia lowered her eyes and looked at the sentence translation in the English exercise. Shark as a noun means shark, and another extended meaning is veteran. Her eyelashes moved, and she put down the pen. She reached out and touched the amber leaf pendant in her pocket, which still had some warmth.
She suddenly spoke up, interrupting Liu Sijia who was chattering: "Sijia, I heard that Ban Sheng rarely participates in group activities. He plays basketball with his buddies in Basketball Hall No. 3 every Friday, but it's actually in Hall No. 6."
Liu Sijia's upturned fox eyes lit up instantly, and her eyebrows raised: "Really? But how do you know?"
Lin Weixia smiled faintly: "I'm a F student, they told me so."
"Okay, when you succeed, I'll treat you to ice cream, the most expensive kind." Liu Sijia put her arm on her shoulders.
This atmosphere did not last long. Ning Chao strode in with his school uniform. As soon as he returned to his seat, he threw away his cigarette butt and began to direct Liu Sijia:
"You, stay away, you're blocking my view of the blackboard."
Liu Sijia folded her arms and sneered, "Can your studies be delayed any further?"
She didn't know how much Ning Chao hated her, and he would pick a fight with her whenever they met. But Liu Sijia didn't need the love of such an uneducated scoundrel.
Ning Chao smiled, sat down, and started piling up the books next to him until he could no longer see that charming face, with an attitude of a good man not fighting with a woman.
After returning home and taking a shower in the evening, Lin Weixia sat at the desk, her black hair still a little wet. She touched the leaf pendant in her hand, opened the drawer, took a reluctant look at it, and put it in carefully.
Lin Weixia picked up the phone beside her, logged into WeChat, and found the dark avatar. She wanted to see Ban Sheng's circle of friends. She didn't have a circle of friends. Lin Weixia closed it a long time ago. She didn't care what others posted or how they lived. At the same time, her life had nothing to show.
Click on the friend circle with the ID of ban, and below the black avatar is a personal signature:
—to reach the unreachable star
Lin Weixia was stunned. She felt that Ban Sheng was a complex and contradictory person. Most of the time, he was indifferent to everything, overly rational, even to the point of being cold-blooded.
But he occasionally showed pure romanticism and arrogance.
For example, this bold and romantic signature in front of you: Pick the unreachable stars.
Ban Sheng posted a post a week ago, just a picture, no text. Lin Weixia clicked on the picture to enlarge it. It was coconut milk jelly. The porcelain plate was filled with square coconut milk jelly, crystal clear, sprinkled with coconut powder, and looked very appetizing.
Qiu Minghua commented below: Is it delicious
Ban: Not bad.
Qiu Minghua: How okay is that
Ban: I won’t refuse if I eat it a second time.
Qiu Minghua: [Thumbs up][Thumbs up][Thumbs up][Thumbs up] The tasting expert is online.
Lin Weixia understood and told Liu Sijia that Ban Sheng liked coconut milk jelly. Soon, she replied: "Okay, this beautiful girl will start learning how to make coconut milk jelly for Ban Sheng in the next two days."
After only two days of learning, Liu Sijia was injured, and her white and tender fingers were scalded by the hot pot and had several blisters. When Lin Weixia changed her bandage, Liu Sijia gasped in pain.
"He was the first boy who let me enter the kitchen first."
"He's really hard to chase." Liu Sijia sighed.
Lin Weixia lowered her head and carefully sealed her wound with a Band-Aid, jokingly saying, "But I can't stop you from eating this."
Bad boys like Ban Sheng are indeed liked by most girls, but that's how love is, it's consensual and the one who likes it more is destined to be the loser.
After Lin Weixia treated the wound, she wrapped the cotton swab and rags in paper and threw them into the trash can. She returned and saw Liu Sijia's worried face. She smiled and reached out to touch her forehead:
"He likes astronomy, right? I was surfing the Internet these days and happened to see that there will be a Milky Way Arch on Friday, with a Milky Way rising from the horizon from north to south."
"Really? Even God is on my side. I'll go find him after school on Friday, and maybe we can go stargazing together." Liu Sijia looked excited and took out her cell phone to check the astronomical phenomenon that Lin Weixia mentioned.
Lin Weixia was still holding her hand and saw the scar on her palm. Although it had faded a lot, the scar was still there. It was on the palm that was as white and tender as water, and it was as ugly as a caterpillar.
Lin Weixia's eyelashes trembled.
Liu Sijia pulled back her hand and patted her head, then said with a smile, "It's okay. Who would stare at my hands all day long?"
Lin Weixia looked up at Liu Sijia and said softly, "Sijia, I hope you get what you want."
The first class on Friday was physical education. Lin Weixia was collecting Chinese homework and found that a few students had not yet handed it in. She was collecting them one by one. At the end, there was still one name left on the green note, which read: Ban Sheng.
Lin Weixia looked over and saw Ban Sheng sitting at his desk with one leg casually placed on the crossbar of the chair, talking to someone. The part of his larynx exposed from his collar slid up and down as he spoke, revealing a sense of uninhibited and casualness.
Lin Weixia walked over, and the others saw that they had something to talk about, so they immediately took the ball and went to the court.
"You didn't hand in your homework." Lin Weixia said.
Ban Sheng's desk was messy, with a few sheets of draft paper spread out on them, on which were written a bunch of astronomical formulas that she couldn't understand, and a globe placed in front of a thick pile of books.
He leaned sideways to find the homework book on the table and handed it to her. Lin Weixia reached out to take it, but didn't move. When she raised her eyes, a pair of dark eyes looked at her.
"When will you come to my house?"
Lin Weixia avoided their gazes. Ban Sheng probably didn't know that Liu Sijia would block him after school today, so he lowered his head and said, "Let's talk about it later. I'm busy this week."
The tension on one end of the homework suddenly loosened, the shadow withdrew, Lin Weixia raised her eyes and found two strawberry gummies sliding along the homework book.
Ban Sheng put one hand in his pocket, his school uniform hanging in the crook of his arm, brushed past her, and said casually:
"My boss gave it to me when I bought something on the way."
During the physical education class, Qiu Minghua and Ban Sheng were leaning against the wall of the playground. Qiu Minghua suddenly remembered something and poked him: "Master Ban, do you have any more of the candies you bought? Give me one."
Ban Sheng straightened up, threw the basketball in his hand, and said in a low voice:
"No more, feeding the butterflies."
"Ah, butterflies can eat candy."
Liu Sijia didn't contact her for the entire weekend. Lin Weixia didn't know whether the progress was good or bad. When she arrived at school and saw Liu Sijia, her expression was neither very happy nor very depressed.
Instead, there was a hint of uneasiness on his face.
"How is it?" Lin Weixia asked her.
Liu Sijia put some lipstick on in front of the mirror and hesitated: "I'll tell you when the time comes."
Seeing her like this, Lin Weixia said nothing more and replied, "Okay."
In the new week, it was Lin Weixia's turn to make the blackboard newspaper. She made the newspaper with a girl in her class, who happened to be the last A student. If Lin Weixia failed the exam two more times, that girl would fall back to the ranks of F students.
The girl had been studying in her spare time and was completely indifferent to Lin Weixia, leaving the heavy burden of publishing the newspaper on her.
Lin Weixia had no choice but to use her spare time to do it by herself. After finishing the painting, she had to write. After evening self-study, Lin Weixia planned to fill in the blank sections with poems.
She took out the tools from under the podium and wrote and drew on the blackboard by herself. Time passed silently. Lin Weixia shook her sore arms and accidentally glanced at the wall clock. She was surprised to find that it was so late and there was no one in the classroom.
The lights in the teaching building opposite were still on, and only a few students came out of the classroom. After Lin Weixia put away her tools and washed her hands, she walked out of the classroom. When she was about to leave, she suddenly heard a melodious cello sound coming from upstairs.
Lin Weixia stopped walking and turned to walk towards the lecture hall on the sixth floor. She walked up to the top floor, took a breath, leaned against the wall and listened to the piano music in the music classroom. She stretched out her hands and unconsciously made the posture of drawing the bow. After a while, she felt silly and put it down.
A quarter of an hour later, there was a sound at the door. Standing in the dim light, Lin Weixia saw several beautiful girls coming out, talking and laughing, carrying cellos on their backs. The expressions on their faces were innocent and carefree. One or two of them complained softly that the vocal teacher's assessment was too difficult.
After everyone left, Lin Weixia went downstairs carrying her schoolbag. Less than three minutes after she walked there was a "pop" and the power in the school went out, plunging the surroundings into darkness.
Lin Weixia took out her cell phone from her pocket, only to find that it had run out of battery and was turned off. She had night blindness and couldn't see the road clearly, so she slowly moved to the wall and stumbled down the stairs.
She had just walked down a few steps slowly when her foot suddenly stepped on empty air, her ankle twisted, and she was startled and about to fall. In a panic, a hand firmly grabbed the bag she was carrying, and the whole person fell backwards and hit a warm and broad chest.
She smelled the familiar ebony scent, her heart shrank uncontrollably, and she quickly stood up and left the boy's arms.
"Thank you," Lin Weixia leaned against the wall and asked, "Are you not leaving yet?"
"Come back to get something."
I don’t know if it was Lin Weixia’s illusion, but there was an indescribable coldness in Ban Sheng’s tone.
Ban Sheng stepped down two steps, holding his silver lighter in his hand. He slid his thumb upwards to open the casing. The receiver made a "pop" sound, and a flash of orange-red flame jumped out from the base of his thumb, reflecting a nonchalant and handsome face.
He continued to walk forward with his lighter raised, and Lin Weixia followed him. Not long after they walked, Ban Sheng suddenly stopped, and Lin Weixia looked up at him.
"If you don't want to fall, follow me closely." Ban Sheng said.
The light in the stairs was dim. Ban Sheng walked forward casually, and Lin Weixia followed closely behind him, her slender white hands tightly grasping the corner of the hem of the boy's black jacket. Gradually, the figure in the skirt and the shadow of the man in the black jacket came together, one in front and one behind.
The boy had a straight neck and broad shoulders, and a straight shoulder line made his figure look more upright. He looked out of place but he deliberately slowed down his pace so that Lin Weixia could keep up with him without falling.
The two began to talk incoherently.
The atmosphere is more harmonious than before.
When they reached the third floor, Ban Sheng stopped and changed the subject. His tone was still slow and his emotions were hard to tell:
"Liu Sijia came to the basketball hall to stop me on Friday."
"She dressed up very nicely and brought me the coconut milk jelly that I had recently eaten."
"Liu Sijia is quite good at handling things. She gave each of my basketball friends a portion of sugar water."
Lin Weixia unconsciously let go of the hand that was holding his sleeve and said:
"Scarlett likes you a lot."
"She's fine."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ban Sheng turned around abruptly, grabbed her white wrist, stepped forward and pushed her against the corner. The two of them once again breathed into each other's ears, and lowered their necks to look at her.
The security guard was patrolling the playground, and a beam of high beam swept over. Lin Weixia felt blinded and turned away subconsciously. Unexpectedly, Ban Sheng stretched out his hand to straighten her face, and clamped the palm of his hand under her chin, forcing her to look into his eyes.
"She confessed to me."
The next second, the security guard's white high beam flashed over, accompanied by a shout: "Who's there!"
In just a second, the lights dimmed and the security guard went to patrol somewhere else with his flashlight. He didn't even notice the undercurrent of silent confrontation in this corner of the teaching building.
Neither of them moved, they were so close that they could feel each other's body temperature and the rise and fall of the girl's chest when she breathed. Ban Sheng didn't let go after saying this, and Lin Weixia smelled a faint smell of cigarettes coming from his palm.
Lin Weixia was busy making a blackboard newspaper all night, and when she came out, her nose was stained with yellow chalk dust without her noticing. Ban Sheng looked at her and reached out to wipe the dust off her beautiful nose.
Rubbing lightly and heavily, with a rough feeling, the temperature rose abnormally, Lin Weixia's heart trembled, and she opened her crow-like eyelashes to look at him. She found that Ban Sheng had single eyelids, but the wrinkles were very deep, making his eyes look unusually dark and bright.
The small black mole is on the cheek near the bridge of the nose.
Every time you watch it, it bewitches your heart.
Ban Sheng's hand was still holding her chin, his eyes swept over this quiet and cold girl, as if he would dare to do it if she said so, and asked:
"Tell me, should I accept her confession?"