Previously, Cheng Ran was focused on the critical process of Fulong's advance into Chengdu. Today, after listening to Yu Xiaoyi's words and arriving at school, he realized that it seemed to be the case. Although Lu Xiaolin had not come again, the school had created a different atmosphere because of this.
At least during the time between entering the school gate and the teaching building, he saw some people focusing their eyes on him intentionally or unintentionally, some gathered in groups of three or five, whispering to each other.
Yang Xia was already there when he entered the room. Cheng Ran thought of what Yu Xiao said and looked towards her seat.
Under the incandescent light, Yang Xia just happened to look up and met the two people who came in together.
Cheng Ran smiled at her subconsciously, but Yang Xia on the other end did not respond as if she saw nothing. Instead, her pupils moved downwards and she continued to check a problem on the table, just like her usual image of someone who was not disturbed by the jokes of the outside world.
It turns out that I was just thinking about the problem just now, and my focus was not on them at all.
What Yu Xiao said before was probably just his own blind guess.
But it was really as Yu Xiao said. The second-grade beauty Lu Xiaolin blocked Cheng Ran outside the school, and Yang Xia stepped forward to help him settle the matter. The news spread like wildfire in the grade. When Cheng Ran was going to the corridor after class, a group of girls from Class 6 stopped Cheng Ran. Cheng Ran knew the girl in the lead who had many freckles on her face. She was a classmate in the old first-grade middle school. Her name was Yuan Mei and she had a lively personality.
Yuan Mei said directly, "Cheng Ran! Those girls from No. 2 Middle School really don't take No. 1 Middle School seriously. They were here every day before, and you treated them like flies, but you didn't send them away... and you asked someone else, Yang Xia, to come forward?"
"I'm still not too clear about this matter..."
"Of course you don't know!" Yuan Mei looked at him with a reproachful look that said "You're so slow."
The girls next to him seemed to open up their mouths and expressed their dissatisfaction with Cheng Ran. "Every day when I leave the school gate, I see a group of people from No. 2 Middle School. They are all coming for you. If this continues, it will have a bad influence. Do you know that you need a girl to help you solve the problem? Are you a man?"
"Do you know how domineering Yang Xia was last week?"
"I don't see you!"
When a group of girls started talking, Cheng Ran had no time to speak and everyone was talking at once.
Yuan Mei then gestured to lower their voices and reminded Cheng Ran, "We were in the same class in the first grade of junior high school. We all know that you liked Yang Xia but only dared to keep it a secret. Now it's great. There is an opportunity right in front of you. She stood up for you. You just need to break through the window paper. You should work harder and be more careful! Don't just focus on getting high scores in exams. If you miss some things, you will cry too late."
As Yuan Mei was speaking, the girls behind her clasped their arms. Some of them were looking at Cheng Ran with a smile, while others were looking him up and down with a half-smile on their face.
Yuan Mei took another step forward and said earnestly, "When a girl is willing to behave like this, sometimes she is just waiting for your reaction! Let me tell you, Yang Xia has always been the goddess of our previous class. Don't we old classmates know what kind of person she is? If you don't have any follow-up reaction, are you still waiting for her to take the initiative? Impossible! Don't have such fantasies. How could Yang Xia take the initiative? Be brave if you are a man. If that's the case, I tell you, what you may get is Yang Xia telling you it's impossible!"
Listening to Yuan Mei's words, Cheng Ran really wanted to say, "Are you the second Yu Xiao?"
But what Yuan Mei revealed seems to be what many people are looking forward to. You know, in the city's No. 1 Middle School where people with good conditions emerge in endlessly, Yang Xia has earned her reputation through hard work. Her composition "May you walk out half of your life and return as a teenager" with full marks in the midterm exam last semester was fascinating. The pursuit of a figure like Song Shiqiu made her even more famous. At that time, half of the grade called her "sister-in-law", a feat that many people had experienced.
But Song Shiqiu was defeated in the end and failed to conquer Yang Xia's Mount Olympus.
This made Yang Xia quite detached. Instead of discouraging people, this matter made her even more popular.
Sometimes after school at noon, they did not go home but ate at a restaurant outside the school. There were suddenly a lot more people in the restaurant where Yang Xia worked. This made the owner of the small restaurant at that time deeply experience for the first time what the "beauty effect" was.
But no matter how many people expressed their affection and admiration through various channels, they could not shake Yang Xia in the slightest.
Just when everyone decided to use the three years of high school as a yardstick, launch a protracted war, and gradually advance to try to conquer this towering snow mountain in the last moments of high school, the Lu Xiaolin incident broke out.
It was so domineering of Yang Xia to reject Lu Xiaolin, but it also broke the hearts of countless admirers.
Now it seems that countless pairs of eyes are watching for what will happen next.
But the two parties acted as if nothing had happened, and many people didn't even dare to mention this matter in front of Yang Xia. So old classmates like Yuan Mei naturally focused their spying on Cheng Ran.
Cheng Ran was stunned. Is this really the case
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In the next few days, whether I was eating in the school cafeteria at noon, taking physical education classes in the afternoon, or taking a walk in the playground in the evening, I seemed to be able to see Yang Xia in my field of vision.
In the cafeteria, Yang Xia seemed to have finished her meal, but she was not in a hurry to leave. She was chatting and laughing with her friends. Occasionally, she would pass through the crowd and meet Cheng Ran's eyes who arrived later. They stopped immediately and then turned away.
During physical education class or breaks, Yang Xia would run around the playground in her sportswear. When she was on the way, she would walk slowly alone, sometimes wiping her sweat with a handkerchief. The hair on her temples was wet and stuck to her cheeks, reflecting the sunlight, making her cheeks rosy.
Cheng Ran felt that although he didn't think the matter with Lu Xiaolin was a big deal, Yang Xia had solved the problem after all. He felt that he should thank Yang Xia no matter what.
During the physical education class that day, he was in the stands watching Yu Xiao playing football. As he was thinking about this, he saw Yang Xia, who had finished running a lap, did not leave the playground, but walked directly up the concrete steps of the stands and walked straight towards him.
Then, during this process, the players stopped playing and gradually slowed down. The players in the stands stopped watching and looked towards the sitting Cheng Ran and the slender figure walking over.
A group of men and women who were resting on the playground below stood up at the same time and looked over here.
Cheng Ran's mouth twitched slightly, and he looked at Yang Xia. As a result, Yang Xia came to his side. He didn't sit on the concrete stand like Cheng Ran did. Instead, he spread out a magazine that he used to fan himself, spread it on the stand, and talked with him...
Sat down side by side.
It may take tomorrow to finish writing this paragraph. I will post it today. No, I will continue tomorrow. I hope I can keep updating and keep getting better and better.