In March, during the Waking of Insects, Shanghai enters its true spring. It rains lightly, intermittently, and it is not easy to see a sunny day.
On Saturday afternoon, Fu Shitian and Chen Xizhu did not have part-time jobs, so they agreed to go to the library to study. At 1:30, just as they were about to leave, Fu Shitian received a rose and some candies from a male student in the office, saying that it was a gift from all the male students in the office to the girls on Women's Day.
Fu Shitian had only known about Women's Day on March 8th. It was the first time she heard of the name of Women's Day on March 7th. She was a little curious. She thanked him and took the candy with her.
Turning the corner of the road near the gymnasium, Chen Xizhu's familiar back came into view. Fu Shitian quickened his pace and was about to catch up with her to say hello, when he saw Chen Xizhu, as if she had lost her soul, crashing into the railings to prevent motor vehicles from passing. With a loud "bang", Chen Xizhu suddenly stumbled forward and fell to the ground sideways.
Fu Shitian was shocked. He dropped his bicycle and ran to her without even parking it. "Are you okay?"
Chen Xizhu looked up and saw that it was Fu Shitian. She grimaced, feeling both pained and embarrassed. "It's alright..." she answered while taking a breath.
Fu Shitian helped her stand up and asked, "Where did you fall?"
Chen Xizhu shook her head. She reacted quickly and said, "It's just a little scratch here." She showed her palm to Fu Shitian.
"Let's go to the infirmary?"
Chen Xizhu refused: "There is no infirmary in our school." She picked up her bicycle and said casually: "It's okay, just go to the library and ask Teacher Xiao Liu to borrow her medicine box."
Fu Shitian looked her up and down, and was relieved to see that she was really fine. The two went into the library to borrow alcohol and cotton swabs. Fu Shitian helped her clean the scratches, half blaming and half caring, "When you ride a bike, pay attention to the road. Why are you so distracted? This time it's just a minor injury, what about next time?"
Chen Xizhu hissed softly in pain but didn't answer.
Fu Shitian rarely saw her so well-behaved, so he slowed down his movements and asked, "Does it hurt?"
Chen Xizhu shook his head.
She stared at Fu Shitian's careful movements, was silent for several seconds, and suddenly said, "I think my senior is going to fall in love."
"That senior you keep talking about?"
"Um."
"You don't think the person she's going to date is a good person?"
"That's not the case. The president of the Youth Association of my college is quite... tall, knows how to dress, and seems to be quite rich."
"Then why are you unhappy?" Fu Shitian screwed the lid on the alcohol.
Chen Xizhu's throat tightened, and after trying to hold it back, he finally spoke out, "Si Tian, if I say that the person I want to ride on the back of my bike is my senior, will it be weird?"
Fu Shitian paused as he was turning the lid, and looked up at Chen Xizhu, stunned for a second.
Is that what she meant
But Chen Xizhu quickly lowered his head and didn't dare to look at her at all.
"Xizhu." Fu Shitian called her. "This..."
Chen Xizhu interrupted in a panic: "Forget it, you...just pretend you didn't hear anything, I didn't say anything, let's go out." She turned around and tried to slip away.
Fu Shitian quickly grabbed her wrist and said, "Xizhu, don't be afraid. This is not strange, not at all."
Chen Xizhu paused, turned around in surprise, and saw Fu Shitian being as gentle as usual, "Thank you for telling me."
She had walked this path of self-discovery alone, and knew how much courage and trust it took to speak out. Fu Shitian looked at Chen Xizhu and confessed seriously: "You told me a secret, so I'll tell you one too."
"The person I want to take in the back seat of my car is also a girl."
"So you are not alone, don't be afraid."
Chen Xizhu's eyes widened and he was completely stunned.
Even when she sat down at the library and started studying, Chen Xizhu's heart was still shaking violently. She lowered her head to read the law, and every word on the law seemed to say: "What did Si Tian say? Si Tian said she also likes girls?!" She changed a book to do exercises, and every option on the exercise was tempting her: "a, ask her, b, ask her, c, ask her!"
Chen Xizhu's gossiping heart was burning, and he couldn't restrain it at all. He endured it for an hour, and finally handed over the small note: "Who is that person? Do I know him?"
Fu Shitian moved his eyes from the accounting regulations to the note, and then to Chen Xizhu's face. Chen Xizhu put her hands together beside her cheeks, blinking her eyes cutely, with a very well-behaved and expectant expression.
Fu Shitian found it funny, curled his lips, and picked up the pen to satisfy her: "You don't know it." After a pause, he wrote again, "But you have seen it." Pushed it back.
Chen Xizhu quickly pushed the note over again, "When?! Ah, Tiantian, you hid it too well, how much did I miss?"
Fu Shitian didn't intend to say too much, but he couldn't resist Chen Xizhu's constant nagging and revealed a lot.
The more Chen Xizhu gossiped, the more spirited she became. She no longer had the devastation of a broken heart. She covered her chest and commented, "She's really good at flirting." She sighed in disbelief, "Ah, is she really straight?" She also said with envy, "My senior sister wasn't so attentive to me."
The warm sunshine of the spring afternoon shone on the notes they passed back and forth. Fu Shitian looked at the joy and excitement expressed in those lines of words, and felt as if the sun was not shining on those lines of words, but on his own heart that had never seen the light.
She didn't know that those sweet and sour thoughts that she could only taste secretly by herself would become doubly sweet when she could share them with her friends and gossip with them.
Even though Chen Xizhu said, "I think she treats you differently too! Maybe there is hope for you!", she didn't dare to take it seriously, but she still felt satisfied.
In the world of discussion between the two of them, it seems like it's real.
An afternoon of study was wasted. However, Fu Shitian and Chen Xizhu both felt that they had gained more. In the evening, they had dinner together and then went to their respective tutoring homes.
At 9:30 in the evening, Fu Shitian took the bus back to school. While waiting for the bus, a little girl asked passengers one by one if they wanted to buy flowers for Women's Day. Somehow, Fu Shitian bought a small bunch of baby's breath with a little bear pinned on it.
Holding the flowers all the way back to the dormitory, Fu Shitian was hesitant, wondering if it would be too strange to give it to Shi Yi. Isn't it Women's Day
Finally, they arrived at the dormitory. When she got out of the elevator, she felt something was a little strange today. Why were there so many sneaky boys standing at the elevator entrance
Their building is a mixed-gender one, and the fourth floor and below are occupied by the college's boys. But the boys are always very sensible and rarely go upstairs unless necessary.
"Why are there so many boys here today?" Fu Shitian heard the girl who came out of the elevator with her ask her question.
The girl next to her answered, "It should be Women's Day. Which class or club asked the boys to send gifts? Don't they have bags in their hands?"
Fu Shitian was not a curious person, so she just let it go after hearing it. She was just thinking, it seems that on this festival, boys give gifts to girls? When she passed by 1315, she took a peek and saw that the door was locked and Shi Yi was not there.
I better not send it. She decided on the answer for herself.
Luo Xi, Cheng Jialuo and Zhang Lulu were all in the dormitory. After Fu Shitian asked if anyone wanted to take a shower, she packed her clothes and went into the bathroom. She had just taken off her clothes when there was a commotion outside, as if the boys were calling out to people, "Come on, get ready."
She unbuttoned her clothes and vaguely heard Cheng Jialuo ask, "What's that noise outside? It's so noisy?"
Luo Xi replied: "It seems that a boy wants to confess his love. I will go and take a look."
Then, Luo Xi's footsteps came closer, then farther away, and then quickly came closer again, followed by her surprise, "It seems that a boy in Class 1 wants to confess his love to Shi Yi. There are candles and flower petals all over the floor."
Fu Shitian suddenly turned off the faucet.
Shi Yi? Fu Shitian's mind was blank for a moment, buzzing. The noise outside seemed to get louder, and the crowd cheered. Fu Shitian didn't have time to dry himself with a towel. He pulled off his T-shirt, wrapped himself in his coat, opened the bathroom door without even putting on underwear, and rushed out.
She didn't know why she was panicking, but her heart and her steps were in a mess.
There were already many people standing in the corridor, watching the excitement. In the small open space at the elevator entrance, there was a large heart-shaped candle. A gentle and handsome boy was standing inside with a large bunch of flowers. The boys he brought with him were all cheering, "Promise him! Promise him!"
Shi Yi and Yin Fanlu were blocked at the elevator entrance, looking like they had just returned from outside.
Fu Shitian looked at Shi Yi in the crowd, and his nails unconsciously dug into his palms.
"Shi Li." Shi Yi spoke.
The people who were making a fuss lowered their voices, waiting for the heroine's answer.
Shi Yi frowned, his face was as cold as ice, and his words seemed to be carried by a gust of cold wind: "Didn't you understand what I said last time?"
The crowd was completely silent.
Shi Li probably didn't expect that Shi Yi would be so disrespectful to him in front of so many people, and his face turned red. "Shi Yi, I really like you. Can you give me a chance?" He lowered his attitude very low: "Or you can give me a month's trial period. If you really still don't like me after a month, I will not say anything and will never bother you again, okay?"
Shi Yi showed a puzzled expression, "So, you know you are pestering me now, right?"
The air seemed to freeze. Shi Li's face flushed and he was speechless.
Shi Yi turned around and pressed the down button of the elevator. "It's getting late. Don't disturb everyone's rest. I hope you can restore this place to its original state."
The elevator door opened with a "ding dong" sound. Shi Yi didn't even glance at Shi Li and the onlookers, and walked in and left.
Yin Fanlu coughed awkwardly twice, and the onlookers quickly dispersed and went back to their own places. Fu Shitian didn't know what he felt, as if he had survived a disaster, but also as if he was still in a state of panic, and he staggered back to the dormitory with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Luo Qian watched the whole process and returned to the dormitory before Fu Shitian. She was sharing her experience with Cheng Jialuo: "Didn't you see that Shi Li's face turned the color of liver? It was so terrible. I guess he will be regarded as a joke for the next four years of college."
Cheng Jialuo was hanging clothes on the balcony, and she felt sorry for Shi Li: "He didn't expect it, who knew Shi Yi would be so ruthless. Most people would give the other person some face in that situation, and even if they wanted to refuse, they would refuse in private."
"Hahaha, Shi Yi must have seen this kind of scene so many times that his heart has become hardened."
"That's right. The squad leader in front was still flirting with someone, and here comes another one..." Before she finished her words, Fu Shitian suddenly said, "Stop talking."
Cheng Jialuo and Luo Xi turned to look at her, and the air was silent for a second.
"Don't talk nonsense without basis." Fu Shitian stood at the balcony and reiterated seriously.
Cheng Jialuo has not spoken directly to Fu Shitian in the past two weeks, and Fu Shitian has always been very tactful.
What happened today? Cheng Jialuo snorted and laughed, pretending she didn't hear anything, and said to Luo Qian deliberately: "By the way, you don't know, Shi Yi seems to have entered our school without taking the college entrance examination. I heard that..."
"Cheng Jialuo, stop talking." Fu Shitian called her full name for the first time.
The air pressure in the dormitory dropped suddenly, and Zhang Lulu poked her head out from behind the bed curtain in horror.
This was the first time Cheng Jialuo saw Fu Shitian with such an expression. His face was still that weak one, but his expression was no longer that deceitful one. She suddenly realized that when Fu Shitian's face was gloomy and expressionless, it was actually a bit scary.
She didn't want to lose her momentum and wanted to respond, but Rosie pulled her clothes and winked at her.
"You're crazy. Is this dormitory yours alone?" Cheng Jialuo cursed, hung up the last piece of clothes and climbed directly onto the bed. In the end, she didn't say anything more about the matter.
Luo Xi also climbed onto the bed. Seeing this, Zhang Lulu shrank back into the bed curtain, and the dormitory returned to peace.
Fu Shitian stepped out of the balcony and stood there, looking blankly into the distance. She couldn't control herself. What happened to her tonight
My head felt hot and my heart was beating fast. I didn't know where I felt uncomfortable, but I just felt very empty.
Even the wind will not scatter it.
She withdrew her eyes, wanting to go in and take a cold shower to calm down, but she inadvertently glanced at the lawn behind the building not far away. Shi Yi was sitting alone quietly beside the flower bed.
Her heartbeat became increasingly out of rhythm. Fu Shitian subconsciously turned to go downstairs, but when she ran past the table, she took a step back and grabbed the handful of baby's breath.
She trotted all the way to Shi Yi, and the sound of her footsteps seemed extremely abrupt in the empty and silent space.
Shi Yi turned his head and looked at the person who came.
Fu Shitian stood still, breathing slightly, smiled at her, and handed her the flowers: "Happy Goddess Day. Shi Yi, don't be unhappy for someone who is not worthy."
Shi Yi raised his eyebrows and asked her: "Aren't you afraid that I will reject you too?"
Fu Shitian blinked, his confidence obviously lacking: "Then...then will you reject me?"
Just now, Jian Luhe sent her a text message, saying that she was washing clothes on the balcony and heard Fu Shitian and his roommates in the next dormitory arguing about her. She kept praising Fu Shitian for being a good friend.
He obviously seems like he's so easy to bully.
Shi Yi laughed and reached out to take the baby's breath.
The author has something to say: Jian Luhe: Let me tell you! I know what kind of rabbit your little rabbit is!
Shi Yi: What
Jian Luhe: The majestic fighting rabbit!
Shi Yi: Really
Unbelievably rua the little rabbit under his hand
The little bunny instantly turned into a puddle of rabbit, with pink bubbles coming out.
Shi Yi: Fighting rabbit? So majestic
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