Everyone sat together in the living room, Qiao Lan counted sixteen candles and lit them one by one.
Qiao Lan turned to look at Tan Mo, the candlelight was shining on the young man's delicate face, and those light brown eyes were more dazzling like amber.
The beauty made Qiao Lan slightly startled.
Chen Bo smiled and urged Tan Mo to blow out the candles quickly. Qiao Lan then came back to her senses and hurriedly stopped her, "Wait a minute, make a wish first, you don't have to say it."
Tan Mo watched Qiao Lan silent for a while, then closed his eyes, opened his eyes after a while and said lightly, "Okay."
The birthday cake was made by Aunt Chen herself.
Tan Mo likes sweets very much, but he didn't eat much today. Qiao Lan could see that Tan Mo was not in a good mood. She thought back for a long time, from this morning to the present, thinking about what could make Tan Mo feel so bad, but she couldn't think of it.
Qiao Lan sighed, grabbed the pillow next to her and put it in her arms, resting her chin on the pillow and sighed shallowly.
Tan Mo came out of the bedroom, his eyes fell on Qiao Lan who didn't know what he was thinking.
The weather was getting colder outside, but the house was very warm. The girl had just come out of the shower, wearing a comfortable off-white dress, her long hair half-wet draped over her thin shoulders. She sat curled up on the sofa, holding a fluffy pillow in her arms, and her slender white legs and bare feet were exposed under her off-white skirt.
Tan Mo averted his eyes, and his eyes fell mechanically on the armrest of the sofa next to Qiao Lan, "It's very late, why don't you sleep."
Qiao Lan came back to her senses, looked back at him and smiled, "Go to sleep immediately."
"Yeah," Tan Mo nodded, turned around and was about to leave, but Qiao Lan called him and said, "Tan Mo, today... have you encountered something recently?"
Qiao Lan just recalled for a long time, Tan Mo is not unhappy today, such unusual emotions have actually been going on for a long time.
Tan Mo was silent for a moment and asked her, "Why do you ask that?"
"Because you're in a bad mood recently."
She was really smart and sensitive, Tan Mo thought, even Uncle Chen didn't notice it, but Qiao Lan did.
He shook his head and said it was fine. After Qiao Lan went back to the room to sleep, he sat in the dark for a long time. He looked at the moon outside the window, at the place where Qiao Lan had just sat, and the pillow that Qiao Lan had just held in his arms.
He stared at the pillow for a long time, then carefully hugged the pillow, hesitantly but silently hugged the pillow in his arms.
On Sunday, Qiao Lan was going to take the bus back to school as usual. After all, she was going to study at night on Sunday night, and she didn't want to rain outside.
Uncle Chen glanced outside, turned his head and said to Qiao Lan, "Lan Lan, don't rush to leave today, I'll take you to school in a while, don't shirk, it's raining so hard outside, it's not too much trouble to take you there."
Speaking of which, Qiao Lan couldn't refuse. After thanking Uncle Chen, he stayed until nearly four o'clock, and then went out with Uncle Chen with his schoolbag on his back.
The Affiliated High School has to go to self-study on Sunday night. Many students come early to copy their homework. There are many people at the school gate. After Qiao Lan got out of the car and entered the school, a few girls from an unknown class in the distance were hesitant. Yu said, "Is that Qiao Lan just now?"
"Yeah," a few girls glanced at, and now there are not many people in the school who don't know Qiao Lan.
"Did she just get out of that car...?"
The girl said uncertainly, "That car seems to be a car that picks up Tan Mo every day. It seems to have been picked up in the school post bar before, and the price is more than eight figures..."
A few girls who didn't pay attention to this matter were first shocked by the eight figures, and then they found the point.
"So the car that picks up Tan Mo every day, and Qiao Lan is here today?"
Everyone was silent.
They are not students in Class 18, but because Hao Ying's chasing Qiao Lan was too big, the classmates who don't like gossip know a lot, and those who love gossip even pick up the boys with whom Qiao Lan is close one by one. , some of them mentioned Tan Mo.
It is said that Qiao Lan's high school classmates said that Qiao Lan and Tan Mo were at the same table in high school, and Tan Mo ignored no one but Qiao Lan.
It's nothing to have a good relationship, but today I happened to see Uncle Chen send Qiao Lan over, and this matter is somewhat ambiguous and intimate.
And unspeakably weird.
A boy only talks to one girl, and he talks to the girl every day and even delivers breakfast. Now he even picks him up in a special car. If it is replaced by someone else, it is almost certain that there is something tricky between the two.
But once it is changed to Tan Mo, everyone will feel that this should not be the case.
It shouldn't be like this, but it's too ambiguous, so it feels weird and awkward to say the least.
"I heard from my friend before that she has a good relationship with Qiao Lan's roommate. Qiao Lan's roommate said that the conditions of Qiao Lan's house are particularly bad, so Qiao Lan deliberately hooked up with Tan Mo. After all, Tan Mo's family is very rich. ."
"No, I don't think Qiao Lan is that kind of person. If Hao Ying chased her, why didn't she agree? Could Hao Ying's family have no money?"
"Then why is she always being so nice to Tan Mo, and now she still comes to school in Tan Mo's car?"
Qiao Lan didn't know what happened, but when she was halfway through her evening self-study, Bai Yu poked her with an unpleasant expression on her face, and asked Qiao Lan in a low voice, "Lan Lan, how did you come to school today? "
Qiao Lan didn't tell anyone that she usually goes to Tan Mo's house on weekends. She subconsciously wanted to prevaricate it, but she suddenly realized something was wrong when she spoke, "What's the matter?"
"Someone on Tieba filmed you getting off the car of Tan Mo's house. Now many people in the circle of friends are talking about this."
Qiao Lan was taken aback for a moment, took Bai Yu's mobile phone and saw that someone posted a photo of her getting off Chen Bo's car today, saying that this car would never admit her mistake.
Now as long as the names of Qiao Lan, Hao Ying, Chen Yaoyang, etc. are tainted, all the gossip seems to explode in an instant, but there are people who deliberately cite it here, jokingly said, the school flower rejected Hao Ying's rose, But he did not reject Tanmo's luxury cars.
It seemed like a joke, but it couldn't hide the irony of Qiao Lan at all. After get off work, some people followed suit, saying that they had heard that Qiao Lan first contacted Tan Mo because Tan Mo's family was rich.
Qiao Lan's popularity is getting better and better now, but there are more and more people who don't like her and don't like her, especially girls, although many girls, Qiao Lan doesn't know them at all.
Now these people have a tone of grievance for Hao Ying, saying that comparing Hao Ying with a disabled person is an insult to Hao Ying.
Qiao Lan's face was unprecedentedly ugly.
She didn't know if it was because of herself and Tan Mo, or if the novel set the students in this school to be so annoying. She couldn't figure out why so many people liked to judge a stranger with such a disgusting attitude of schadenfreude and superiority. people.
What benefit will this bring them
Psychological comfort
Qiao Lan couldn't figure it out, and she didn't want to think about it. Her first reaction was that she didn't want Tan Mo to see these messy things. Qiao Lan returned the phone to Bai Yu, and then said to Bai Yu, "Don't let Tan Mo see these things. , don't mention it when Tan Mo is here."
But Qiao Lan had forgotten that Tan Mo's perception of the strangeness around her was many times more sensitive than she did not know.
He didn't know what happened, but he could feel the scrutinizing eyes cast on him by people who clearly didn't know him.
But no one around told him what happened.
It was another week of physical education. Everyone left the classroom. Tan Mo sat in the classroom and read a book. The girls outside who didn't want to bask in the sun ran to the shadows next to the teaching building to hide from the sun and chat. Tan Mo was not in the mood to listen to those people. What to say, but suddenly heard Qiao Lan's name.
Tan Mo never dared to let Qiao Lan and others know his thoughts. He was afraid that because of his broken body, he would bring rumors to Qiao Lan, but Tan Mo never thought that the rumors would make him even more serious. The unacceptable way jumped into his ears.
"That's Qiao Lan in the distance, right? Do you think she is really like everyone said, because the Tan Mo family is rich, so she deliberately approached Tan Mo?"
"I don't think so," someone said, "I think Qiao Lan is really good to Tan Mo."
"I really don't understand, how can Tan Mo compare to Hao Ying, is Qiao Lan blind?"
Tan Mo still couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence, but the next sentence suddenly completely collapsed his reason.
"You don't understand this, right?" The girl laughed for a long time, "Have you heard a word before?"
"what?"
"Mu Ruan."