This was not the first time that Xie Jiaran had attended classes with Liang Sunian.
Everyone in the class was already used to it. If they had to say what their reaction was, it would probably be that everyone looked at them with a bit of good-natured teasing.
As soon as I entered the door, I bumped into a couple holding hands. The boy was from his major, but the girl was not. It was obvious that like Xie Jiaran, she also came here to attend the class with her loved one.
“Yo.”
As soon as the boys saw them, they grinned and joked with them: "What a coincidence, Brother Liang, you also brought your partner to class?"
"Yeah." Liang Sunian was not shy at all. He followed them and took Xie Jiaran's hand, lifted it up and shook it, saying happily, "What a coincidence."
Even though she knew he was joking, Xie Jiaran couldn't help but secretly curl her fingers in his palm.
The girl smiled with her hands covering her mouth, her eyebrows and eyes curved, her eyes looked back and forth between the two of them: "As expected of the official couple, they are a perfect match."
After saying that, she looked at her boyfriend with disdain and exaggeratedly said, "Comparing yourself to others makes you feel pissed off."
"I'm handsome even if I'm not standing with Brother Liang!"
The boy was not convinced, and he stiffened his neck and said confidently: "Besides, if I am a little bit more slender, I can make you look more beautiful, baby, so why not?"
Girl: "Does it make you look very elegant?"
The boy proudly gave a thumbs up: "My baby is so smart~"
"You're having a menstrual disorder." The girl scolded him with a smile and urged him into the classroom.
"Let's go, baby."
Liang Sunian sold the food on the spot, pulled Xie Jiaran's hand and said with a smile: "Let's go in too~"
Still in his old seat in the corner, Xiao Chi and Liu Maomao were not there, only Chen Wenyao in the front row was writing furiously.
"Hey, where are the two of them? They haven't gotten up yet?" Liang Sunian poked Chen Wenyao's shoulder.
"I skipped class and went to the downtown mall to chase stars."
Chen Wenyao turned around and placed a piece of paper with the principal's letterhead printed on it in front of Liang Sunian. Just as he was about to speak, he noticed that Xie Jiaran was also there. He waved and greeted him with a smile: "Good morning, brother. Are you here to experience the strong study atmosphere of our class again?"
Xie Jiaran politely replied: "Good morning."
Liang Sunian picked up the signature paper and looked at it, puzzled: "What is this? What do you want for me?"
Chen Wenyao: "Why don't we submit the party application today? Those two lazy guys have to wait until today and are getting anxious. The key is that they haven't written it yet. They are afraid that if they are late, they won't be able to see their daughter, so they begged us to help them copy two copies."
As he spoke, he handed over a template: "Fortunately, you don't have to use your brain, just copy it."
"So long? Wouldn't it be reasonable to treat you to a meal of braised chicken?" Liang Sunian said as he took out a pen.
Chen Wenyao sneered: "Not only that, but you can also stop talking about a hot pot meal, okay?"
... ...
Xie Jiaran listened quietly at the side, then turned on his phone with this meaningless chat in the background.
I happened to see Li Tang start bombarding the dormitory group with messages:
Aigui Li Xiaotang: Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Aigui Li Xiaotang: Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Aigui Li Xiaotang: My defense is broken, brothers. Why am I so pitiful? I gave my heart to the wrong trash can! What the hell! Wuwu ...
The hero among the crowd:
Hero in the : There are only two mosquito nets between us, and you don't say anything, but just type and howl in your nest
Aigui Li Xiaotang: I am too sad and don’t want to talk.
Aigui Li Xiaotang: Please bear with it, we can just talk on the phone, I don't want to say anything, I can't let my vulnerability be seen by the world qaq
Heroes in the : ... ...
x: ... ...
Aigui Li Xiaotang: Wuuwuwu Jiaran, have you come to comfort me too? Where is my Liang brother? Why hasn’t he come out yet? Wuuwuwuwu, I don’t love me anymore. Wuuwuwuwu.
Heroes in the Middle: ... ... Why don't you be less dramatic and talk less nonsense, what the hell is going on, woo woo woo, the train has become a spirit? Can you just tell me what happened
Hero in the crowd: Brother Liang will look through the chat records himself, so just tell me quickly.
x:.
Aigui Li Xiaotang: Woohoo ok qaq wait for me to change my name
— Half a minute
Pitiful ghost Li Xiaotang: Woo woo wow wow wow!
Shen Haohao: ... ...
x. ： ... ...
Shen Haohao: What the hell are you? I’ll block you if you keep talking.
Lian Gui Li Xiaotang: /Picture/Picture/Picture
怜鬼李小塘: Look, the chat record between me and Xiao Tu, Xiao Tu is the girl who said she admired me and wanted to get to know me and talk about her feelings some time ago qaq
Lian Gui Li Xiaotang: I don’t know what sin I committed in my life! I helped her to play King of Glory, gave her all the skins that I couldn’t afford to buy myself, and bought her lipstick, skirts, and earrings. She said it was her birthday, so I bought her 99 roses and sent them to her!
Poor ghost Li Xiaotang: What happened? He turned out to be a jujube seller! He added me not because he admired me, bastard, he didn’t even know me and I still said he admired me!
Poor ghost Li Xiaotang: No wonder he took so long to prepare for this. He always said that she was in a difficult situation, her date garden suffered from drought and flood, and she had both a stepmother and a stepfather, who would not allow her to go home until she sold all the dates.
Poor ghost Li Xiaotang: What a liar!!! I felt so sorry for him! I bought him more than 30 kilograms of dates to help him!!!
Poor ghost Li Xiaotang: How could I be so naive and innocent!
So miserable.
Xie Jiaran said silently in his heart.
And I wonder why the "she" in Litang suddenly became this "he". Was it a typo? Or was he so angry that he said something he didn't want to say
Shen Hao obviously had the same doubts:
Wait, did I understand correctly
Hero in the movie: “He”
Lian Gui Li Xiaotang: You finally found Huadian woooo
Li Xiaotang: That’s right, Xiao Tu is a man! He’s in his forties, and his profile picture and the photos in his circle of friends are all of his daughters! I’ve been in love with an old uncle for so long, I’m just crying.
Shen Hao: ... ... beautiful.
Xie Jiaran: “…”
The ignorant boy's pupils trembled, indicating that his three views suddenly suffered a critical blow.
Is it still possible to play micro-business like this now
"What's wrong?" Liang Sunian suddenly came over and said, "What are you looking at so hard that your face is almost wrinkled like a bun?"
Xie Jiaran passed the phone to him and said, "Li Tang sent a message in the dormitory group saying that he was cheated. The girl who wanted to talk to him before was not a girl, but a divorced date merchant in her forties with a child."
"So bizarre?"
Liang Sunian moved closer to watch with him. He didn't feel surprised at all as the chat records scrolled down: "Hiss - no wonder the chat records of Li Tang and Xiao Tu were so strange when I saw them before. The smell of sales pitch was overwhelming. He was just stupid. He didn't notice that they had been deceiving him for so long."
"So what should we do in this situation?" Xie Jiaran asked the professionals earnestly, "Is it considered a scam? Should we call the police to hold them accountable?"
Liang Sunian pointed at the phone and said, "Let's see what happens next."
As expected, Li Tang sent a few more screenshots of messages, showing the transfer records from "Xiao Tu" to him, saying that he didn't know that the clothes in the original game had to be paid for. He also asked for his address and said that he would send the lipstick, skirt and other things back to him, but it seemed that he had actually bought them and could not return them no matter what.
Lian Gui Li Xiaotang: Is it the money I feel bad about? It’s my hard work! How much does it cost to buy a skin? Can it be worth my sincerity in taking him to star-gazing all night? ! I have never fought so hard to get points in the game myself!!!
Lian Gui Li Xiaotang: And why did he return the skirt and lipstick to me? Can I still apply it and wear it
Shen Hao: So you mean you don’t want him to quit
Lian Gui Li Xiaotang: Back off! Why not back off! Do you know what he said to me when I said I didn’t need to back off? !
Poor ghost Li Xiaotang: I said I don’t want you to quit, at least you still have a daughter to use, I don’t have a daughter, why would I just leave it there? But he actually said I was a hooligan, saying that I had improper intentions to take his daughter? ! ! ! !
Lian Gui: He was swindling people with his daughter’s photo, and he still said I was after his daughter! Did he want to piss me off so that he could inherit the jujubes I didn’t ship? ! !
Xie Jiaran was truly stunned.
Liang Sunian couldn't help laughing out loud.
"Send him a message back."
Liang Sunian said with a smile: "Just say that it's a done deal, calm down, don't get yourself mad, then quickly post it on the confession wall for everyone to see, to warn everyone not to be as foolish as he is. This is probably the only value left of his trip."
"Confession Wall?" Xie Jiaran instilled another unfamiliar term into him: "What is that?"
Liang Sunian said: "You don't know?"
Xie Jiaran shook his head: "I don't know, no one has told me, and I haven't seen it either."
Liang Sunian patiently explained to him: "The confession wall is not really a wall, it's a private account. Almost every school has one. At least I had one when I was admitted to high school."
"And the love confession wall is not really used for confession. Most of the time, it is used to complain, seek advice, or share some interesting experiences. For example, the Litang incident is very suitable for me to pin it to the top of the page for a month and a half."
"Did you join?" Xie Jiaran asked.
Liang Sunian said: "I added it, but I hardly ever use it, so it's useless to add it."
"Do you want to add it?"
He asked Xie Jiaran: "I recommend it to you. It's fun to go shopping when you have nothing to do. The last time I went there, I saw a girl complaining that her boyfriend always had to wear three pairs of socks to sleep. It made me laugh for a long time."
Xie Jiaran thought about it and nodded: "Okay."
Liang Sunian gave him the contact information of the confession wall, then turned back to WeChat to tease Li Tang, who was overwhelmed with sadness.
Xie Jiaran clicked on add, and the other party did not have friend verification, so it was passed in one second.
The avatar is a Q version of their school’s emblem.
He clicked into the space from the avatar and saw that almost all the updates were screenshots, with the avatars and nicknames of the contributors cut out, leaving only the content of the contribution.
Xie Jiaran slowly flipped through the pages, complaining about roommates, teachers, and school dormitories, sharing canteen dishes, and asking for help from nearby hotpot and barbecue restaurants...
Everything you need.
I flipped to about the tenth post and saw a serious love confession.
Xie Jiaran exited the space and returned to the chat interface of the confession wall. He confirmed with the corner of his eye that Liang Sunian was not looking at him, and silently posted a post to the confession wall.
I received an automatic reply in seconds: The wall is here! Due to the large number of submissions, the reply time is a bit long, about three days, please wait patiently~
ps: Please do not submit again before receiving a reply, it will be put on a higher priority 0.0
Three ... ...
Xie Jiaran's enthusiasm was mostly extinguished, and he exited the room expressionlessly and turned off the computer.
Liang Sunian was concentrating on copying his application to join the Party when he suddenly felt a light poke from his elbow. He turned around and saw Xie Jiaran, who was leaning over the table with his head tilted to the side, staring at him.
He spun the pen skillfully between his fingers and asked with a smile, "What's the matter?"
"I drew a picture, and you are in it." Xie Jiaran asked, "Can I take it to the competition?"
"A painting of me?" Liang Sunian pointed at his nose, a little surprised.
Xie Jiaran hummed and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't, I can try again—"
"Yes, why not." Liang Sunian interrupted him, with a slight smile on his face: "It's my honor."
Xie Jiaran was surprised that he agreed so readily: "Don't you even ask me what I'm drawing? What if it's something bad?"
"I don't think so."
Liang Sunian thought without hesitation: "How can your painting be bad?"
Xie Jiaran was stunned and speechless for a moment.
Liang Sunian tapped the table twice with the tip of his pen, and said helplessly, "I've told you something many times but you still can't remember it. I can only emphasize it again."
"Xie Jiaran, you don't have to be polite to me."
He said earnestly: "You can ask me to do anything you want or help you with. You can use me as you like. Of course, you can also use my portrait as you like."
"I'm not worried that you will do anything bad, because you are a good kid, and kind-hearted kids deserve unconditional trust."
He was still smiling as he spoke, and his amber pupils were still clear and beautiful even with his back to the sun, containing a gentle tolerance that was so thick that it could not be dissolved.
His tone was lazy, but his words were serious.
Xie Jiaran looked at him in a daze, and suddenly wanted to say something to him.
Pursing the corners of his dry lips, he withdrew his gaze and slowly wrote on the table with his index finger. He paused and drew carefully, but because no traces could be seen, it was difficult for the only viewer to recognize.
Liang Sunian barely recognized the last word "you": "What did you write?"
Xie Jiaran took back his heavy hand and pressed it under his cheek: "I'll tell you later."
Liang Su Nian couldn't help but laugh: "Then why do you have to write it again now?"
Xie Jiaran turned his head and buried it in his arms, his voice muffled, with a bit of childishness: "Because I can't help it."
This year's application template for joining the party is particularly long.
Liang Sunian finished copying in the neatest handwriting, put down his pen and turned around to see that Xie Jiaran had fallen asleep.
I don't know when she changed from the hiding ostrich posture to lying on her side, facing him, with half of her cheek pressed against her back. She looked even more obedient than when she was awake.
Her breathing was soft and long, and I didn't know if she was having a sweet dream. Her eyelashes would tremble slightly occasionally, which made me feel inexplicably love.
Just by looking at it, Liang Sunian couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.
He reached out to help him push back the hair that was stuck in his eyes, but as soon as he touched it, the person in the sleep grabbed his hand and pulled him in front of him as if he saw him.
Her head tilted, and most of her face was buried in his palm.
This guy is using him to block the light.
Liang Sunian couldn't help but blink when he felt the soft eyelashes brushing against his palm.
I didn't realize that my heartbeat was out of rhythm for a second, nor did I notice that the tip of the ear of the person I thought was already asleep was gradually turning pink.
Liang Sunian, did you do this on purpose
Deliberately acting so good.
Deliberately... making me like you more every moment.
In order to prevent him from taking a shower before his wound healed, Liang Sunian took him with him wherever he went almost the entire day.
Fortunately, he didn't have too many classes today, only one in the afternoon, and the whole afternoon was free, except for a professional-related elective class at 7 o'clock at the latest.
The get out of class ended at 8:40, and the students in the classroom packed up their things and left one after another.
Xie Jiaran received a message that Su Xiaoyue posted in the class group, saying that this was an assignment the teacher had just assigned on a whim, asking students to hand in a character sketch the following afternoon.
The sketch paper he kept in the dormitory had run out, and he happened to pass by the Art Building on his way back, so he took Liang Sunian there again.
On the way back, I passed by the music classroom. I didn't know whether the person who was originally inside had gone to the toilet or the last person to leave forgot to turn off the lights, but there was still a light bulb on in the last row. I turned the doorknob and found that the front door was not locked.
Xie Jiaran looked around and saw no one, so he wanted to go in and help turn off the lights. Liang Sunian stood at the door and looked in: "Is there a piano?"
"This is a vocal music classroom, not a painting studio."
Xie Jiaran listened to his tone and turned around to ask, "Can you play the piano?"
Liang Sunian nodded: "After a while, but I haven't played it for a long time."
Xie Jiaran stopped the piano he was using to turn off the lights in mid-air and then put it down. He glanced at the piano, then turned around and asked Liang Sunian softly, "Do you want to play it?"
There were exactly two seats in front of the piano, and Xie Jiaran and Liang Sunian sat one each.
"Order a song. What do you want to listen to?" Liang Sunian opened the piano cover.
Xie Jiaran didn’t know much about piano music: “I don’t know what they are.”
"You must know it, you just can't tell me the name."
Liang Sunian skillfully played a short passage of notes on his cello: "How is it? Does it sound familiar?"
Xie Jiaran nodded hesitantly.
It does sound familiar, but I don't know the name.
Liang Sunian smiled and placed his hands on the piano keys.
The black and white fingers were slender with distinct joints, like butterflies dancing on piano keys, stepping on an invisible halo.
If the picture could be divided, then every frame would be breathtaking.
For the first time, Xie Jiaran discovered that melody could have shapes and colors, a wonderful combination that filled the entire music classroom.
He knew that it was not because of the song, or if the cause was 100%, then the song only accounted for 10%, and the other 90% was because of the person who played the song.
Because the person who played it was Liang Sui Nian.
"How is it? Doesn't it sound good?" The piano music stopped at some point, and Liang Sunian lightly pressed his finger on the keys, his tone sounding a little lazy and proud.
Xie Jiaran nodded: "It sounds good."
Liang Sunian blinked: "I played a few notes wrong."
Xie Jiaran insisted: "That sounds good too." He paused for half a second and emphasized very seriously: "It sounds better than any piano piece I've ever heard."
"I'm just kidding you, why are you so easy to fool?"
Liang Su Nian laughed: "This song is called "Adeline by the Waterside", which is my mother's favorite song. It is said that when she was in college, she used this song to trick my dad into coming to her. Later, she found out that my dad was also cramming for her. He could only play this song over and over again. She was almost mad at her to death."
Xie Jiaran asked him: "So Auntie, in order to make up for the regret, let me give you the piano?"
Liang Sunian: "Maybe a little bit, but after playing so many songs, every time they want to listen to them, they ask me to play this one."
"And they always complain that I'm noisy."
He couldn't help wanting to laugh when he talked about this, and he suppressed his sympathy for Xie Jiaran: "They put a piano in the house, and they wanted me to practice, but they thought it would be annoying for me to practice, and they even discussed whether they could make the piano silent so that I could practice."
This is a bit of a scam indeed.
Xie Jiaran couldn't help but think of Liang Sunian's confused look in front of the silent piano, and a slight curve appeared at the corner of his eyes.
"Uncle and aunt, you must be joking."
He tilted his head to look at him, and his cold voice had a soft taste because of the gentle tone: "You are obviously not annoying at all."
Liang Sunian rarely saw the stars in the eyes of the beautiful child again. He admired her leisurely for a while and then deliberately asked, "Is it true?"
"Yes, really."
Xie Jiaran lowered his head, raised his index finger and casually pressed a white key, and sang a clear high note: "You are so good, how could anyone not like you."
Liang Sunian paused as his hands brushed against the piano keys.
He looked at Xie Jiaran's profile, which was so beautiful that even in the dim light, a hazy halo was cast on his outline.
"Does that include you?" he asked suddenly.
Hearing this, Xie Jiaran turned his gaze to him again.
When their eyes met, Liang Sunian suddenly felt as if he was gently hooked by a hook.
Coming back to his senses quickly, he was surprised that he had lost his mind and asked such an impolite and embarrassing question.
Yu changed the subject before the other party gave an answer: "Do you want to try it?"
Xie Jiaran, who was about to nod, looked even more confused after being interrupted: "Try what?"
Liang Sunian buckle steel cover
Xie Jiaran: “I don’t know how.”
"It's okay, Xiao Liang will teach you in a second."
After Liang Sunian finished speaking, he moved his stool next to Xie Jiaran, walked around Xie Jiaran with his left hand, and put his hands on his back in a back-to-back hug.
The warmth of his back touched the other's palm, just like the warmth of his back touched the other's chest. Xie Jiaran could hear his own heartbeat getting faster and faster.
His rapidly fluttering eyelashes also revealed his panic.
It was rare for him to feel so confused and worried, and he was worrying about how he could hide the sound of his pounding heart from Liang Sunian.
The unfamiliar hands danced on the piano keys under the guidance of another pair of skilled hands.
It was a very strange feeling, as if he was playing, but also as if he was not, but the melody really flowed out from his fingers, from their fingertips.
At this moment, he felt as if he had become Liang Sunian's puppet.
He easily controlled his movements, his heartbeat, and his unspoken thoughts.
The notes wrapped in light flowed across the eardrums. He played on the keys, and Liang Sunian played in his heart.
Boom—
There was a sudden muffled sound.
Xie Jiaran pressed the piano keys hard at the same time, curled up his fingers, turned around and grabbed the cloth on his chest before Liang Sunian could react, lowered his head and buried his face in his shoulder.
"What's wrong?"
With his palms on his back, Liang Sunian, after a brief moment of shock, gently put his arms around him and patted him soothingly.
Xie Jiaran closed his eyes and buried his head deeper. His voice came out in a muffled voice, giving rise to a very clear and soft sound of a spoiled child:
"elder brother."
"I'm not feeling well."