After Ban Sheng took her around the island, they stood on the beach and enjoyed the evening breeze for a while. The phone in Ban Sheng's hand vibrated, breaking the awkward atmosphere.
He took out his phone and glanced at the message, then snorted and laughed:
"Li Yiran left first."
Lin Weixia looked at him belatedly: "Ah?"
"He went out to drink and took the black acid with him." Ban Sheng put the phone back into his pocket.
Lin Weixia rolled her eyes: "Then how do we get back?"
"Shuttle bus." Ban Sheng walked straight forward.
He knew what evil things Li Yiran was up to, so he deliberately took advantage of the situation and kept the two of them here to give him a chance to be alone with them.
Ban Sheng led the group to the shuttle bus, but was told that the shuttle bus would not depart until the college music festival was over. The setting sun in the distance slowly sank toward the coastline.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and Lin Weixia felt a little nervous.
Ban Sheng seemed to see her worry, turned around and made a phone call. It was unknown what he said to the person on the other end of the phone, but soon, a black car slowly drove up to pick them up.
Ban Sheng opened the door and let Lin Weixia get in first, then he leaned sideways and stretched out his long legs to get in. The black tires rubbed against the asphalt road, and with a "boom", they sped away into the distance.
Along the way, no one spoke except for the soothing music in the car. The driver wanted to talk to Ban Sheng, but he obviously had no intention of chatting with anyone. He was so perfunctory that he didn't even bother to open his eyelids.
Seeing that he was in a bad mood, the other party stopped disturbing him.
The night scene outside the car window was receding. Lin Weixia, who was sitting aside, noticed Ban Sheng's silence. She caught a glimpse of him casually playing games on his mobile phone. His slender fingers were quite flexible, and the screen made a "kill" sound one after another. His handsome eyebrows drooped, and he looked completely exhausted, and his whole aura was sinking.
After playing a round, Ban Sheng quit the game and put his phone back in his pocket. The car was completely quiet now, he leaned back in the back seat and closed his eyes lazily.
Benson no longer teased her from time to time or stayed close to her as he used to. He became silent and very quiet.
But this kind of him makes people care about him.
Lin Weixia hoped that at least Ban Sheng would not be in a bad mood because of her. He should be that arrogant and unruly person who doesn't care about anyone.
The car stopped on the side of the road, some distance away from Shuiwei Lane. Lin Weixia got out of the car, and as usual, a slender figure followed behind her.
Although Ban Sheng was rejected, he still took the responsibility of sending people home safely as usual.
Two long shadows overlapped one after the other. Lin Weixia walked less than ten steps and glanced at the light box sign not far away. She stopped and looked back, and ran into Ban Sheng who was smoking.
Ban Sheng took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth. He reached out to light the lighter. The receiver made a "pop" sound, and the orange-red flame illuminated a pair of dark eyebrows and eyes. The shadow just happened to be cast down, and a bit of desolation and loneliness fell on it.
"What's wrong?" Ban Sheng raised his eyelids and looked at her, with white smoke rings surrounding him.
Lin Weixia stopped in front of him, hesitated, and asked: "Would you like some milk tea?"
White smoke rings floated towards the dim light bulbs. A man and a woman stood in front of a dessert shop. Lin Weixia waited for a long time, and the milk tea was finally packed.
"Here." Lin Weixia handed it to him.
Ban Sheng took it, holding the white plastic bag between his fingers, and walked the person to the door of his home. The moonlight fell, and Lin Weixia's face had a hazy beauty. She looked up at Ban Sheng, and her tone was more serious than ever before:
"Thank you. I am very happy today."
When Ban Sheng returned home, it was already very dark. The aunt at home had already gone to bed and left a light on in the yard. His fingerprint fell on the door lock, and it unlocked with a "click".
With a click, the lights in the living room lit up one by one, as bright as day. As far as the eye could see, Li Yiran was curled up on his sofa as if he had no bones.
There was also an opened bottle of red wine on the coffee table.
It was obvious that Li Yiran had pried it from his wine cellar. Ban Sheng put the milk tea on the table and sat on the sofa. His thin eyelids were like sharp blades as he glared at him:
"You don't have any wine at home?"
Li Yiran glanced at the cup of frozen tangerine juice on the table. The ice had already melted and attached to the white plastic cup, with water dripping down. Seeing this, he whistled:
"Ban Shao worked so hard and saved up for so long, and only got a cup of milk tea. Tsk."
"She's different from those girls who come up to you on their own initiative."
Ban Sheng was too lazy to pay attention to him. He raised his hand to rub his neck and leaned back on the sofa to rest. Suddenly, Li Yiran's phone vibrated. He took a look, stood up and was about to walk out.
Li Yiran held the phone in his hand, and calmly picked up the cup of milk tea in his other hand and was about to leave. Ban Sheng opened his eyes at the right time, glanced at him, and said:
"lay down."
Li Yiran pointed at the cup of frozen mandarin duck and said leisurely, "I remember that you never slept well and never touched coffee, milk tea or other such things. And I don't think you want to drink it. Do you want me to help you drink it?"
"I'm happy to do so." Ban Sheng replied.
Li Yiran's face was full of "I give up" and he put down the milk tea and left. After he left, Ban Sheng picked up the cup of milk tea, put in a straw and took two sips. The ice cubes had melted long ago and it was more than twice as sweet as when it was frozen, but he still swallowed it.
It's quite sweet. Ban Sheng looked at the milk tea in his hand and couldn't help thinking that the thing used to coax a little girl was actually used on him.
Lin Weixia went to the beach, and after just one weekend, the aftereffects of sunburn appeared. Her exposed face, arms, and back turned red and began to hurt.
That day, Lin Weixia forgot to use the sunscreen spray that Senior Wusuan handed her, which made her feel regretful. When she got home from school in the evening, Lin Weixia pulled aloe vera from the yard and brought it to her room.
Lin Weixia was in the room applying green aloe vera on her arms. The cell phone on the desk kept vibrating. She picked it up and saw that it was a message from Cheng Wusuan.
Wusuan: [Weixia, I will send you a few live videos of the music festival. Some of them were taken by me, and some were taken by the staff using drones.]
Lin Weixia typed in the dialog box and replied: [OK, thank you, senior sister. ]
Lin Weixia was sitting on a chair in a white halter dress, applying aloe vera while absentmindedly clicking on a video. The live video of the music festival shot by the drone was more comprehensive and clearer, capturing the faces of every music fan present.
She glanced at it unintentionally and her vision suddenly stopped. In order to confirm that she was not mistaken, Lin Weixia dragged the video back and watched it again.
In the video, Lin Weixia was standing in the audience, watching Ban Sheng's performance attentively. Behind her was a girl in a grey short-sleeved shirt. She looked a little timid and behaved cowardly in the crowd, but her eyes were always following Ban Sheng.
After Ban Sheng finished singing and left the stage, she also disappeared from the camera.
If she was not mistaken, the girl was actually Fang Jiabei.
An invisible girl who is called a freak in class and is isolated and alone in class.
The next day, Monday, the classroom was bustling. When Lin Weixia arrived at school, she subconsciously looked to the left and found that Ban Sheng's seat was empty.
Lin Weixia thought he was late and asked for leave, but Ban Sheng did not show up until school was over.
The classmates went out in groups one after another. Lin Weixia had said hello to Liu Sijia earlier and said that they would not go to the cafeteria to eat lunch together, so she brought rice balls to school.
Liu Sijia shrugged her shoulders, and then was embraced by several girls and went to eat outside the school.
People in the classroom slowly left, and in the end only Lin Weixia was left. She closed the pen cap, took the blue lunch box and walked out.
At the stairs of the school laboratory, Lin Weixia saw Fang Jiabei sitting alone and eating her lunch silently, and said in a gentle tone:
"Mind if I eat with you?"
Fang Jiabei looked up, gave her a blank look, and nodded. Lin Weixia walked over, sat on the steps next to her, opened her lunch box, and put five tuna rice balls in it.
"Would you like to try one?" Lin Weixia picked up a rice ball with chopsticks.
Fang Jiabei took it and whispered, "Thank you."
Lin Weixia had a lunch box on her knees. She tore open the plastic wrap and chewed the tuna rice ball slowly, so that her tone was a little bit gentle:
“Were you also at the weekend music festival?”
"Yes." Fang Jiabei's voice was still very weak, as if she was holding on to her last breath.
As if anticipating Lin Weixia's questioning, Fang Jiabei lowered her head while eating and said, "Please don't ask me why."
Lin Weixia nodded and sat aside quietly eating rice balls. When she finished eating, she put the garbage into a bag and prepared to leave when someone suddenly called her from behind.
Lin Weixia turned around, her voice higher than usual. This was the first time Fang Jiabei looked directly at someone, and her tone was cold: "I hope you stay away from him."
Fang Jiabei didn't say who he was, and Lin Weixia didn't ask. A ray of light floated on the stairs, and it was impossible to tell who hid the secret first and who saw whose secret first.
After lunch, the atmosphere in the classroom was very lively. Everyone gathered together to discuss something and walked out one after another. Lin Weixia leaned sideways to look around and asked with a puzzled look, "Why are you all so excited?"
Fang Mo took her arm and walked out, leaning over to say, "There is an extracurricular elective course every semester. Last semester, we chose it and you transferred in. And this semester, I don't know why the course selection system was not made public until now."
"Then what do you want to choose?" Lin Weixia asked her.
"Well, what choice do we have?" Fang Mo looked resigned to her fate.
Seeing Lin Weixia's puzzled expression, Fang Mo raised her chin in the direction ahead. She heard the giggling voices of several A students in front of her, along with words like "tennis" and "gymnastics". She began to explain:
"The elective courses are also stipulated to give priority to students with A grades. They usually choose indoor sports that are easy to exercise, fun and beautiful. The remaining outdoor sports are too hot and tiring and no one chooses them. So the classes are ours."
"Your ranking has improved again in the last final exam! You are still two points short. Wei Xia, as long as you perform stably in the next major exam, you will be an A student, and then you can enjoy preferential treatment and privileges." Fang Mo said.
Lin Weixia smiled faintly, her voice was very soft, as if she was talking to herself: "But this is not my purpose."
"What?" Fang Mo asked.
"Nothing." Lin Weixia patted her, "Let's go and choose classes."
Students from the entire academic year were in Houde Building today to attend classes and select courses. After Student A finished selecting, they walked out one after another, holding their books in their arms, with their heads held high and smiles on their lips.
A group of F students logged into the system. Although they had expected this, they all sighed in unison when they saw the pop-up page showing the few remaining elective courses.
Lin Weixia held the mouse, looked at the page above, and asked Fang Mo sideways: "Hey, there is an indoor elective course here. If you are afraid of the sun, do you want to choose swimming?"
Fang Mo immediately shook her head, afraid that she would check the option of swimming and blurt out subconsciously: "No! It's unlucky. It happened before. Forget it."
The air was stagnant, with only the sound of the mouse clicking. Lin Weixia's amber eyes moved and she was stunned for a moment: "What happened before?"
Fang Mo regretted what she said, and began to avoid Lin Weixia's eyes, speaking vaguely: "I'm not too sure, it seems someone had an accident at the swimming pool. Anyway, it's scary there. Just passing by there makes me terrified..."
"Tell me slowly." Lin Weixia's voice was soft and soothing.
Fang Mo bit the tip of the pen, lowered her head subconsciously, and her voice became smaller and smaller: "I'm sorry, I don't want to cause trouble for myself."
Just when Lin Weixia was about to say "It's okay", she heard a clear sneer coming from the seat behind her across a row of computers, mixed with sarcasm and scrutiny.
She turned around and the first thing she saw was the scary curve of the lips. She moved her gaze upwards and met a pair of gloomy and narrow eyes.
It’s Fang Jiabei.
Fang Jiabei was not as timid as before and looked directly at her with a cold gaze. After staring at her for a minute, she first looked away with her cloudy eyes, hunched her shoulders and looked at the computer, returning to her previous appearance.
After returning home and washing up in the evening, Lin Weixia was so tired that she lay on her back on the bed, closed her eyes, and suddenly thought of something. She picked up the mobile phone beside her, found the black object, and typed in the dialog box.
"Has something happened to you? I didn't see you come to school today." I just typed this sentence and then pressed the back and delete key to delete one by one and retyped it -
Xia: [Why didn’t you come to school today? ]
Lin Weixia stared at the screen and thought for a while before sending the message. Then she immediately turned off the screen, waited for a few minutes, and turned it on again. The dialog box on it was empty except for the sentence she sent at the beginning.
Her thick eyelashes drooped, and a complex emotion surged up, like the wind rushing in and swelled her heart, constantly pulling it down. She stood up, opened the window, and stood in front of it for a while to breathe.
Lin Weixia couldn't describe it, and she didn't even know that this emotion was called loss.
The next day, Ban Sheng did not show up at school, and no one knew where he went. Lin Weixia was sitting in her seat memorizing words, and when she looked up, she saw Liu Sijia in the corridor outside the window, seemingly pestering Qiu Minghua to ask him about Ban Sheng's whereabouts. The latter made a bitter face and shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
In the end, Liu Sijia didn't seem to get any answers and walked away with a cold face.
For several days, Lin Weixia sent several messages to Ban Sheng but no one responded. She even wondered if it was because she rejected Ban Sheng that he ignored her.
She originally wanted to ask senior Wu Suan where Ban Sheng had gone, but finally gave up.
It will always appear.
After Lin Weixia finished washing her hair, she wiped her wet hair with a white towel. Water droplets dripped onto the floor intermittently. The mobile phone thrown on the bed sheet vibrated with a message reminder. She picked up the phone and logged into WeChat.
Ban Sheng actually replied to her message.
Lin Weixia had been sending him messages intermittently over the past few days, and the message was still on the dialog box:
Monday: 9:40 pm Xia [Why didn't you come to school today? ]
Tuesday: 6:35 am Xia[Do you want to drink milk?]
Wednesday: 10:50 pm Xia[Did something happen to you?]
Lin Weixia sent him three messages in total, but Ban Sheng skipped the latest message and replied with only one word. On the screen, it was written:
Ban:[Drink.]
Lin Weixia was on duty on Friday, so she got up early and took the bus to school. The air was a little hot and stuffy early in the morning, and Lin Weixia was sweating a little on her back. Just as she was about to enter the classroom, a tall figure bullied her.
It’s Ban Sheng.
Ban Sheng wore a black T-shirt today, leaning against the door frame, looking at Lin Weixia without saying a word. His face was too pale, and it was hard to hide the tiredness in his eyes. I don't know what he was doing.
He smiled and looked at Lin Weixia.
The look was too familiar and dangerous. Lin Weixia subconsciously took a step back. Unexpectedly, Ban Sheng narrowed his eyes, stretched out his long arm, hooked his fingers on the blue bow on her collar, and brought her over.
Lin Weixia was pulled forward unexpectedly and almost bumped into his nose. He seemed to have just washed his hair in the morning. There was a faint and refreshing minty scent on his body. Water droplets dripped down along his brow bone. Ban Sheng had a smile in his eyes, and the black mole on his cheek near the bridge of his nose came alive.
It is both good and evil, with a cold feeling yet a bewitching flavor.
The heart inevitably jumped and started beating very fast.
Ban Sheng put his face next to her ear, his movements were ambiguous, his fingers were hooked on her bow tie, and he spoke lazily with a smile:
"Where's my milk?"