There is a long staircase outside the lecture hall and an open space below. Many students come out and sit there, giving each other gifts.
Yang Xia's backpack was filled with the notebooks she was going to give as gifts. She took out a part of it and put it in her coat pocket. The notebook was very small and not big, so it could fit in the pocket of her coat. When she met the person she was going to give the gift to, Yang Xia gave the notebook to others.
Yang Xia first gave Liu Ying and Yao Beibei's notebook.
Zhang Xiaojia also came out later. Yang Xia waved to her. Zhang Xiaojia ran over and took the notebook from Yang Xia. "So cute... You really know how to choose. Thank you..."
"Your hourglass is also very beautiful. I like it very much."
"As long as you like it!" Zhang Xiaojia opened the notebook and saw the words written by Yang Xia, "We have been desk mates for two years. Thank you for giving me such wonderful memories." He was so moved.
Yang Xia is beautiful, has good grades and is multi-talented. Such a girl is naturally attractive, and it makes people feel honored to be friends with her.
Suddenly, there was some noise coming from the other side.
Everyone turned their heads away. Yang Xia was a little confused. Zhang Xiaojia said, "It's Wang Chao. He broke up with Zeng Yan before, but now he regrets it and comes back to her... So everyone told Zeng Yan to ignore him!"
Yang Xia was stunned for a moment, "Ah, is it this kind of thing..."
"Yeah, how could there be such a person! He was the one who pursued Zeng Yan before, but later he wanted to break up with her. It's good that they broke up... Then he shouldn't come looking for her again. But now he's sending gifts and writing letters on Christmas Eve... What's going on!"
Yang Xia pondered for a moment and said slowly, "Could there be some kind of accident? Maybe Wang Chao had some unspeakable secrets before?"
Several people stared at Yang Xia at the same time, their expressions were extremely suspicious, and they were obviously wondering why Yang Xia would speak for Wang Chao.
Yang Xia quickly said, "What I mean is, what if it's for the sake of studying and not for love..."
"You are already an adult, why are you so childish?" Yao Beibei looked over, "This is not a TV show, how can there be any surprises! He just doesn't like the other person and wants to break up, but Zeng Yan seems to be pursued by someone else, so Wang Chao can't accept it, it's because of his possessiveness..."
"I should have thought about the consequences of what I did before..."
“That’s right!”
A group of people came to attack.
Yang Xia forced a smile.
She put her hands in the pockets of her down jacket. In the left pocket there were a few notebooks to give away, and in the right pocket there was a separate notebook. She gently pinched the notebook with her right hand and hesitated.
…
Yu Xiao came out later, holding her own greeting card and handed it out one by one, "This is from Yao Beibei, this is from Yang Xia, this is from Liu Ying..."
Yang Xia took the greeting card and handed the notebook to Yu Xiao. Yu Xiao looked at the notebook and opened the cover. "Huh? Don't be a 'barking leader' next year!?" He waved the notebook in protest. "Hey, what kind of wish are you writing..."
He glanced at Liu Ying and Zhang Xiaojia's hands again, "What do you write on them? Let's take a look..."
When he went to see the inscription Yang Xia wrote for Zhang Xiaojia, Yao Beibei and Liu Ying snatched the notebook from his hand and read it. They laughed and said, "Yu Xiao, you are naughty!"
Just as everyone was scrambling to see what Yang Xia had written in their notebooks, Cheng Ran, Xie Feibai and Yu Xiao walked out of the lecture hall.
The first thing everyone noticed was the bag in Cheng Ran's hand. Among the gifts someone had just given him, there happened to be a music box in a gift bag. He just put all the things in that bag, and when he walked out, the bag in his hand was full.
Yao Beibei said from a distance, "Yeah! Cheng Ran, you've gained a lot! You're very popular..." These words sounded sour.
Cheng Ran came in front of the crowd and saw Yao Beibei glaring at him with her lips pursed. Liu Ying and others also said nothing.
Cheng Ran suddenly realized what was going on and quickly searched his pocket and took out a stack of greeting cards.
"Another greeting card! You and Yu Xiaocai are really cost-saving!"
Yao Beibei was immediately discouraged.
Cheng Ran smiled and handed them the greeting cards with their names on them one by one.
"Thank you." After Liu Ying took it, she also handed Cheng Ran a wrapped small square box. "I bought several kinds of gifts, all small toys. I didn't write words on each one. It all depends on luck. Some people got nine linked rings, some got tangrams... Yours should be a Rubik's Cube."
Cheng Ran squeezed the small box, said thank you and put it in his pocket.
Yao Beibei also stuffed a gift, a small flashlight, "You're lucky, this flashlight only costs five yuan!"
Seeing Yao Beibei's painful look, Cheng Ran smiled and handed the greeting card to Yang Xia.
For a moment, Yang Xia froze and did not use his hand to catch it.
This anomaly attracted everyone's attention.
But it was only a brief moment, Yang Xia took it. Cheng Ran smiled at him, "Happy holidays."
Yang Xia suddenly felt a little panicked. She was holding Cheng Ran's greeting card, but she didn't know whether she could take out the notebook in her right pocket.
She seemed to remember what everyone had said just now when they were mocking Wang Chao.
"I broke up with Zeng Yan, but now I come to see her again... What's going on
I should have thought about the consequences of what I did before..."
At this time, whether it was Yu Xiao, Liu Ying, Yao Beibei, or even Zhang Xiaojia beside her, they all looked over, obviously wanting to know what she had written in the notebook for Cheng Ran...
Yang Xia suddenly said, "I remembered that I didn't take something, wait a moment..." Then she ran into the lecture hall holding Cheng Ran's greeting card.
After rushing into the lecture hall, Yang Xia looked around and saw someone writing a greeting card on the table. She knew the person, a boy from Class 6. She rushed forward and asked, "Can you lend me a greeting card? I need it urgently..."
The boy stared at Yang Xia, who had just performed but hadn't removed her makeup, and rushed over. He recognized her, but he didn't expect that the goddess who had been the main dancer in the previous performance would come over to chat with him. He stuttered for a moment, "Okay, okay, you can take it yourself. It's not written..."
Yang Xia quickly found a card from the spread-out greeting cards on the boy's desk that looked less casual, more Chinese in style, with several folds.
"Lend me a pen."
The boy handed over the pen absentmindedly, and watched Yang Xia's eyes with glitter eyeshadow as she focused on writing a greeting, which was roughly something like wishing someone a Merry Christmas.
After finishing writing, Yang Xia handed the pen back, "Thank you!"
Then he turned around and went back like the wind.
The boy was stunned for a moment, thinking that if you want to flirt with me, then just flirt with me, why not follow the routine? So he had to add, "My name is Liu Bo, if you want to return me, come to Class 6... Yang Xia..."
Only then did he come back to his senses and look at the missing greeting card on the table.
“Hmm… Eh!”
"Oops..."
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In an emergency, Yang Xia hurried out and saw a group of people still waiting for her.
"What did you miss? Did you find it?" Liu Ying asked worriedly.
Yang Xia was running very fast, and the down jacket she was wearing was quite thick, so there was sweat on her temples and her hair was a little messy, but she brushed it gently, and when she was about to reach the group of people, she slowed down her pace, and then walked over deliberately pretending nothing had happened, not looking at Cheng Ran.
"No, I thought not," Yang Xia smiled at Liu Ying, "but it turns out that he did."
Then, she took out the greeting card and handed it to Cheng Ran, "This is for you."
The people who had received the notebooks were stunned for a moment. Shouldn't they be the same? Why did Yang Xia give them notebooks, but Cheng Ran received a greeting card
But this is different, the key is what is written inside! Everyone can't wait to read it.
Cheng Ran took it and after opening it, he saw Yang Xia's handwriting, a very ordinary sentence, "Merry Christmas to you! Cheng Ran." The handwriting was a little sloppy.
However, this greeting card has a mechanism. There are two hinges inside that are buckled together like a window.
Yu Xiao came over to take a look, then subconsciously reached out and opened the paper that was fastened by the hinge. There was actually another layer inside. After opening that layer, more words appeared.
Then, Yu Xiao and Cheng Ran were both stunned.
Yu Xiao had originally stretched his neck to read, but after looking at the greeting card, he retracted his neck, slowly turned his head and looked at Yang Xia.
Yang Xia suddenly felt a little at a loss.
"What..."
"What's it about?"
When Liu Ying, Yao Beibei and others saw this situation, they also felt itchy.
When Cheng Ran was about to fold the card and put it back, Xie Feibai next to him was quick and twisted a corner of the card and put it into his hand.
"Zhang Dongjian, happy Christmas to you! Remember to pay me back! Liu Bo."
After Xie Feibai read out the contents, he held the card between two fingers and shook it, and said to Cheng Ran with a mocking look on his face, "This has been written by someone else, and they just gave you a random piece of paper. It seems that you are very good at getting rid of it!"
Then Xie Feibai looked at Yang Xia, whose eyes were wide open and whose face was pale, and smiled, "It seems that you really... hate Cheng Ran."
Outside the iron guardrail of the school gate, the eaves of the old Qing Dynasty shops are decorated with lights and colorful lights. Some have brought out small plastic Christmas trees connected with small star-shaped lights to suit the occasion. Some stationery stores and small supermarkets on both sides of the road have also carefully pasted snowflakes on their windows.
Those colorful lights shone in from a distance, shining on Yang Xia's face and into her dazed pupils.
Liu Ying, Yao Beibei, Zhang Xiaojia, Yu Xiao... After everyone looked at each other, they all turned their eyes away, not wanting to see the awkward situation.
Yang Xia's face was burning. She had never thought that she had been careless and had not noticed that this was actually a greeting card written by someone else...
That's not the case. That's not the case.
She wanted to explain that in the right pocket of her down jacket there was actually a notebook for Cheng Ran, on which was a passage that she had carefully written before, not so sloppily.
"Everyone will insist on something. Others think it is a waste of time, but to this person, it is very important. Maybe what this person is waiting for is just a... return?"
However, how could she get it out at this moment
She stubbornly held the notebook in her pocket, pursed her lips and stared at Cheng Ran, staring at him until her eyes turned red.
Cheng Ran took the greeting card from Xie Feibai, put it away and put it back in his pocket, then smiled at Yang Xia, "I like it very much, thank you."
Until Cheng Ran passed her by.
She could only stand there in a daze, alone, and had lost the courage to take out her notebook.