"Who is running for the host of this campus art festival? Raise your hand and I'll register."
At the class meeting, the cultural and entertainment committee said so.
Chen Donglan, who was working on the physics papers, raised his hand, but the other hand was still doing calculations on the scratch paper.
"Isn't it, Chen Donglan?" The cultural and entertainment committee was a little difficult, "I'm not very good at reporting your name to the teacher..."
In the perception of the whole class, Chen Donglan is a dull nerd. Although this nerd is very keen on answering questions and raises his hand in almost every class, his rigid attitude and blunt tone make it impossible for everyone to connect him to the host.
Chen Donglan looked up: "Is there a rule that I can't sign up?"
The entertainment committee member smiled bitterly: "No... Okay, I'll record it for you."
She is not angry. Because Chen Donglan's words are very serious to wonder if there is a rule that he can't report to the host, not to pick on.
At noon the next day, Chen Donglan received the notice of the primary election.
Dozens of students were waiting in the lecture hall. Chen Donglan looked around and found Yuan Yuan standing near the podium amid the clamor.
He is talking to someone else.
Chen Donglan walked forward a little, but did not dare to get too close, but sat down almost five steps away from him.
After a while, Yuan Yuan saw him: "Chen Donglan?" He came over to say hello, "Are you here to choose the host?"
Chen Donglan nodded.
Yuan Yuan leaned closer and said mysteriously, "Get ready to deal with problems such as microphone failures or errors in the script."
Chen Donglan looked at him in confusion.
Yuan Yuan laughed out loud, not mocking, it was a bit like a parent looking at their child's foolishness in distress: "Teacher has finished the question, quickly take notes." After saying that, he waved his hand and walked away.
Chen Donglan looked at his back, even if he disappeared in that direction, he looked at him in a daze for a long time.
In the end, because of his good appearance, Chen Donglan was reluctantly selected as the host's substitute.
On the day of the campus art festival, in order to prevent accidents, two men and two women's official hosts and one man and one woman's substitutes were on standby in the background. The official makeup, the substitute Chen Donglan and another girl were caught backstage as coolies.
"That male classmate!" A female teacher hurriedly greeted Chen Donglan, "The waistline of the clothes borrowed from Yuan Yuan is too big, you help him clip it." The female teacher shoved the clip into Chen Donglan's hand while muttering. Push him back into the dressing room.
The door of the changing room was not locked, and the female teacher pushed it so hard that Chen Donglan almost fell on the door and crashed in.
In the room, Yuan Yuan, who was carrying his pants and waiting for someone to help, looked at him in surprise, and came over with a free hand: "Chen Donglan?"
Chen Donglan quickly stood up, closed the door, locked it again, and showed the clip in his hand to prove his innocence: "Teacher, let me help you clip... pants."
"She actually caught you to help? That troubles you." Yuan Yuan cooperated and turned his back.
Chen Donglan nervously swallowed. It wasn't because of saliva, but because his throat was so dry that he had to swallow to speak normally.
"About two to three centimeters. If the pants weren't so exaggerated, you could just use the belt." Seeing Chen Donglan's delay, Yuan Yuan gave instructions.
"Okay...Okay." Chen Donglan stretched out his hand and tugged Yuan Yuan's trousers tightly, his other hand tremblingly lifted the clip. No wonder the waistline of the trousers is large, probably because he likes exercising too much. Yuan Yuan has a very good figure, with wide shoulders and narrow hips.
"Is that so?"
"Almost, as long as you don't fall off the stage." Yuan Yuan laughed.
Chen Donglan also smiled silently, and his hands gradually stopped shaking.
After the festival started, Chen Donglan watched Yuan Yuan as the host in the background, where he could see Yuan Yuan's profile under the exaggerated lighting of the stage, as well as some small gestures hidden behind his back to communicate with his partner.
After returning home that night, Chen Donglan had a dream all night. In the dream, Yuan Yuan's smile under the light was repeated over and over again, as well as the dim light in the dressing room.
In the fitting room, the skin on Yuan Yuan's waist was orange, and it seemed that the temperature was very high. Chen Donglan put his hand on it, and it was really hot, so hot that his whole body burned.
He was sweating all the time, even rolling unconsciously, and woke up when it was still dark.
He buried himself in the quilt, but couldn't breathe for a long time. After suffering for half an hour, the sweat almost soaked the pillow, and he couldn't bear to get out of bed and go to the bathroom.
After showering to no avail, he covered his eyes and comforted himself.
It was Chen Donglan's first masturbation when he was so old.
Senior year. Chen Donglan didn't want to work as hard as his life.
He has a goal, that is, to go to the same university as Yuan Yuan. Chen Donglan found that he could not imagine the days when Yuan Yuan was not around.
Yuan Yuan's studies are very good. According to the current situation, they can't get into a school, which makes Chen Donglan feel the pressure.
The summer of that year was rainy and rainy, and it was always dark and sultry. It rained from time to time, and it was more of a drizzle. It was troublesome to hold an umbrella, but it was also annoying if you didn't.
Because of time constraints, Chen Donglan never came home for lunch at noon, and Yuan Yuan also didn't go home when he was about to take the exam.
The classrooms of the two were on different floors. Chen Donglan would often run downstairs and look up at the corridor outside Yuan Yuan’s classroom under the tree. If he happened to come out during recess and lunch break to breathe, Chen Donglan would be able to breathe. saw him.
On this day, the air in the afternoon was too stuffy to breathe, and the students all lay on their desks and wailed in pain.
Just when everyone couldn't take it anymore, there was a loud "swoosh", and the water vapor rushed to the face, which brought down the biggest rain of the semester.
The rain splashed on the table from the window, soaking the books and papers, and the students by the window closed the windows one after another.
"Chen Donglan, are you free now? Help me deliver the test paper, downstairs." The squad leader suddenly greeted Chen Donglan, "Last time you said that if you have to run errands downstairs, I will leave it to you. Do you count?"
Chen Donglan nodded.
He walked downstairs with the test paper and passed by Yuan Yuan's classroom. Opportunities are only one classroom away. Chen Donglan slowed down his steps as much as possible.
Yuan Yuan fell asleep on the table. Chen Donglan only dared to turn his head after seeing this with his peripheral vision.
Yuan Yuan's seat was by the window on the other side of the classroom. Chen Donglan's line of sight had to pass through the entire classroom, struggling to avoid the heads of several classmates to get a closer look at Yuan Yuan. Only then did he realize that Yuan Yuan had not closed the window.
It should be the cold before going to bed. He leaned very close to the window, as if enjoying the coolness. Although he couldn't see it, Chen Donglan subconsciously felt that a lot of raindrops fell on Yuan Yuan, and even wet his hair.
At that moment, it was probably the courage that had been accumulated for many years. The blood fills the brain so much that the mind is sluggish.
Raising his feet, he rushed into a class that had no acquaintance except Yuan Yuan, threw the paper in his hand on the podium with a snap, walked a few steps to Yuan Yuan's seat, and closed the window softly and slowly.
In this series of actions, his eyes only dared to stay on Yuan Yuan's quiet sleepy eyes for a moment.
Chen Donglan's hands were shaking when he took the test papers and walked out of this unfamiliar class. In the third-year class occupied by busyness and exhaustion, no one would care about his actions, and no one would remember.
Only when he recalled it, his heartbeat was still violent.
It also rained on the last day of the college entrance examination. The rain was not heavy, and the weather became cooler just right.
No one came to pick up Chen Donglan. Because my younger brother's studies were just in time to go abroad, his mother and uncle took him to a foreign school one week before the exam. They arranged for Chen Donglan to live within five minutes of the school, and let an aunt take care of his daily life.
Chen Donglan was not used to the new temporary residence, and Chen Donglan was also not used to the meals cooked by his aunt.
Perhaps it was a psychological factor. Every night when Chen Donglan moved in, he could hear the sound of uninterrupted dripping water, which made Chen Donglan toss and turn.
Later, when the results of the college entrance examination came out, Chen Donglan, who had always responded mediocrely to everything, frantically blamed everything on the week before the exam.
He failed the exam.
After learning the news, Chen Donglan had difficulty breathing, and even made a hoarse sound, which startled the aunt. Only Chen Donglan knew how painful his head was, as if his entire body was split open. He closed his door and stood motionless.
He spent days at home like a dead person, maybe even more than a few days, and finally saw Yuan Yuan on the school's honor roll being admitted to T University.
At that moment, Chen Donglan understood his decision.
He is going to repeat.
He called his mother that night, and with a low voice of electricity, he said, "Mom, I want to repeat the study."
Mother Chen on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then she said, "... Have you made up your mind?"
"Well, I have already discussed the location with the teacher. You will live in the repeating school for the year you repeat your studies. You and your uncle don't have to worry about it."
Mother Chen said, "Okay, let me know how much it costs after you ask."
Without too many greetings, Mother Chen hung up the phone.
Chen Donglan is calm enough now.
Just before today, he had resentment and resentment. But at this moment, all the anger towards the family disappeared.
When he was a child, he thought that all the love in this world was just like his mother, uncle and younger brother, plain and cold.
When he was a little older, he realized that the love poured into it all exists, and the love that is so strong that it drowns people, but it has nothing to do with him.
It was not until he put Yuan Yuan in his own world, until he was inspired by Yuan Yuan a little bit and straightened his hunched back, that he knew that that kind of love was related to him.
This is how he loves Yuan Yuan.