Chi Nuan came out of the dessert shop, it was almost autumn, and the weather was still hot. After three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was still long, she didn't bring an umbrella, she put her palm against her forehead to shade the sun drowsily, crossed the road, and walked into the school gate.
Xue Min saw Chi Nuan's figure from a distance, and said in surprise, "Chi Nuan?"
Slow stop.
Xue Min was wearing cool hot pants and suspenders, a long thin cardigan, and a silk scarf of the same color. She walked over to Chi Nuan: "What a coincidence."
Chi Nuan asked in a flat voice, "Well, why are you at school?"
"Rehearsal, we need to rehearse these few weeks." Seeing that Chi Nuan's eyelashes were still wet, Xue Min smiled slightly: "...What happened?"
Chi Nuan shook his head.
Xue Min changed the subject: "Would you like to go out with me? Today is me—"
Chi Nuan continued to shake her head, her body was like an empty shell, rigid and wooden.
The two stood under the shade of a tree for a few minutes. Later, when Chi Nuan was about to go back to the bedroom, Xue Min asked her, "Are Xu Dan and the others here?"
Chi Nuan said, "Yes."
Xue Min: "Then I'll go up with you and talk to them."
Xue Min followed Chi Nuan to the fourth floor, Chi Nuan took out the key to open the door, and the door was only turned half a turn before the door was pulled open from the inside.
Xu Dan was full of laughter, and couldn't wait to say: "Nuan Nuan! Gu Ningzi invited us to her house for a BBQ, just waiting for you to come back! Great! We can go now!"
The door was widened and the field of vision widened. Xu Dan saw Xue Wen behind Chi Nuan, and Chi Nuan also saw Gu Ningzi behind Xu Dan.
Gu Ningzi sat on Chi Nuan's chair and leaned against the back of the chair. Seeing Chi Nuan and Xue Min appear together, the smile on her face did not change.
On the contrary, Xu Dan was stunned: "Awen! Why are you here!"
Xue Min smiled and said, "It seems that I'm here by accident..."
Xu Dan waved his hand: "No, no... I just told Nuan Nuan that I had something to do, so I went to see you?"
Chi Nuan walked to the table, picked up her bag, stuffed the phone and keys in her hands, then picked up her bag, and said to Gu Ningzi slowly, "I... I won't go. Well, Xue Min and I have agreed... just come back and get the bag... "
Xue Min was leaning against the door, chatting with Xu Dan, when he suddenly heard his name mentioned, and turned his head to look.
Chi Nuan also looked back at her.
Xue Min raised her eyebrows gracefully, with a smile that was not a smile: "...So it's not a coincidence."
Gu Ningzi grabbed Chi Nuan's wrist, stood up from the chair, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Chi Nuan: "It's nothing, ... I just made an appointment with Xue Wen first, sorry Gu Ningzi."
Gu Ningzi didn't let go and didn't speak anymore, but looking at Chi Nuan, she seemed to ask: What happened? why don't you tell me
Chi Nuan covered Gu Ningzi's hand and patted: "Then I'll go first."
She didn't look at Gu Ningzi, she avoided her eyes, and when Gu Ningzi let go, she went out the door without looking back.
Xue Wen waved to the people in the bedroom and left with Chi Nuan.
Leaving the dormitory and Gu Ningzi far behind, Chi Nuan felt the pain in her heart. She was cold and her hands were shaking.
But anyway, the first step has been taken.
The Xue family's car was parked outside the school. Chi Nuan was about to thank and say goodbye to Xue Wen, but Gu Ningzi's phone came after him.
Xue Min opened the car door and watched Chi Nuan. Chi Nuan got into the car and turned the phone to silent.
She didn't know where the car was going, leaning against the window, her mind went blank.
Xue Min answered a phone call midway through and discussed with Chi Nuan, "...Can you accompany me to a place first?"
She asked twice in a row before Chi Nuan responded, "Yeah."
Xue Min took Chi Nuan to Seven, took the elevator to the 4th floor, and walked straight to the No. 13 private room.
Xue Wen pushed open the door.
At that moment, all the lights in the corridor disappeared, and it was pitch black inside and out.
Chi Nuan thought absentmindedly, is the power outage? But I heard Xue Min sigh softly beside: "boring."
In the next second, a few "bang bang" sounded, candles lit up in the private room, and along with the laughter of "HAPPY BIRTHDAY", Chi Nuan and Xue Min were sprayed with color bars all over their faces.
... Today is Xue Min's birthday
Xue Min stroked the color bar on his hair: "Turn on the light."
Immediately someone laughed and went to turn on the light. Chi Nuan squinted, gift boxes piled up in the corner of the private room, and at first glance, there were more than 20 or 30 people crowded here.
Cai Miao held up the cake: "Happy birthday~ Come on, make a wish and blow out the candles!"
"Make a wish, make a wish!" A girl echoed Cai Miao.
Xue Min smiled helplessly, glanced at Chi Nuan beside him, and blew out the candle.
"To take advantage of Ah Wen's birthday, it was announced here that Ah Hui, who we have been lying down for a few months, will officially come back from today!" Zhou Yue said giggling.
Chi Nuan's wandering thoughts were snapped back, and when he looked closely, Cao Pinhui was standing in the middle of the crowd, looking at her playfully.
A boy asked: "Who did Awen bring? It's very beautiful? Won't you introduce us?"
Zhou Yue braced his neck, seeing that it was Chi Nuan, and let out a "tsk".
Cao Pinhui smirked, half-truth: "Don't say goodbye, you can't afford to offend the people behind her, just hide if you have nothing to do."
Zhou Yue coaxed: "Isn't it? I was specially warned not to approach this little beauty."
What Cao Pinhui and Zhou Yue said were completely different things. Others didn't know it, but Cao Pinhui and Chi Nuan knew it well.
Unable to stay here any longer, Chi Nuan said to Xue Wen, "I didn't know that today is your birthday, happy birthday... What happened just now... Thank you too, I'll go first, you guys have a good time."
"Hey," Xue Min grabbed her and said, "I just turn around and say hello to them. You can wait for me in the car, I'll be there in a while.... If you want to go anywhere, I'll see you off, okay? Is it?"
Chi Nuan nodded.
Someone was saying "beautiful don't go" from behind, but Xue Min glared at her, so she shut up.
Chi Nuan stood in front of the elevator and waited for the elevator, looking at the arrow pointing down from the eighth floor, in a trance, thinking that Gu Ningzi also came down from the eighth floor before and saved herself from Cao Pinhui.
The door opened slowly, and a middle-aged man stood inside.
How could she be willing to leave Gu Ningzi who was so good to her? Their names were written close to each other on a Kongming lantern, those nights when they cuddled with each other and fell asleep... But from now on, they will only go farther and farther without any connection.
Chi Nuan stepped into the elevator, the door was closed again, and her tears flowed silently.
The pain accumulated in the chest was too much to bear, Chi Nuan kept breathing deeply. She did not wait for Xue Min as promised, but left alone.
As the evening approaching Hongyu Street, it seemed that the girls who had just woken up, dressed in fashionable clothes, walked past with pointed high heels.
Chi Nuan's tears couldn't be wiped away. She was so exhausted from crying that she simply squatted on the street with her knees in her arms.
She shrunk herself to a small size and walked around, no one cared about her tears, and no one cared about what she was going to lose from today.
Until a sigh came from above his head.
"It's already been agreed, why did you leave first?" Xue Wen rubbed Chi Nuan's head, this movement similar to Gu Ningzi made Chi Nuan raise her head.
Her eyes were red and swollen, against the blooming roses on the wall behind her. Xue Min lost her mind for a long time before she regained her mind: "... Chi Nuan, let me take you to play."
Xue Min said that she was playing with her, and it was really playing. He went to the video game city to exchange a lot of game coins, and dragged Chi Nuan to play one by one.
Chi Nuan has never been proficient in these things, and can't let go, but Xue Min is a proficient at shooting, motorcycles, dancing...everything is playful, Chi Nuan is helpless, holding back his laughter and teaching while playing.
Chi Nuan deliberately didn't think about the things that would make him sad. After playing in the video game city for nearly two hours, Xue Min said, "Are you hungry? Let's go out to eat something."
The two came out of the back door of the video game city and walked down the high suspended stairs. It was already dark, and the lights decorated the world into another style.
Xue Min in front looked back at Chi Nuan, Chi Nuan noticed her gaze and stopped, thinking she had something to say, Xue Min smiled and continued downstairs.
Below the video game city is a long snack street. Chi Nuan had no appetite and was not interested in eating, so Xue Min came a little of every snack.
Walking from one end of the street to the other, her hands were full of food, and Chi Nuan said, "Don't buy Xue Min, enough is enough, I can't finish it all."
Xue Min said, "There are many kinds for you to choose from. You rarely come out with me, and you don't even know what you like to eat."
Chi Nuan came into contact with her warm gaze, and thanked her for her company, but regretted her and Gu Ningzi's affairs. She should not be involved: "Xue Wen..."
Xue Min said immediately, "I know, I know."
The two picked and ate something together, and Xue Min sent Chi Nuan back to school.
She didn't ask why she was crying so lost, and when she said goodbye, she thanked her for spending a special birthday with her.
Chi Nuan didn't know what else to say. She had already told her what she had to say before, and there was no need to repeat it, so she could only wave goodbye.
None of the roommates were in the dormitory. In this cramped and quiet space, Chi Nuan took out her homework and immersed herself in writing.
Page after page, Xu Dan's voice sounded downstairs.
"Gu Ningzi, thank you~"
There were also Du Min and Zhao Jingjing who were noisy, and I couldn't hear what they said. Chi Nuan unknowingly came to the window, hiding behind the curtains and looking down. Xu Dan vigorously waved goodbye to Gu Ningzi, who stood under the street lamp and glanced at the window on the fourth floor.
Chi Nuan timidly hides aside.
Xu Dan and the others entered the doorway of the dormitory building, and Gu Ningzi stood alone for a while before leaving.
Chi Nuan felt empty in her heart, went back to the desk, unzipped her bag, and took out her mobile phone.
Xue Min had 5 missed calls. Looking at the time, she called when she was looking for her on Hongyu Street.
Gu Ningzi missed one call, the one that Chi Nuan didn't answer when she got into Xue Min's car, other than that, there was no new message.
Chi Nuan let out a repressed cry, and hurriedly wiped away the tears. The roommates were coming back, and she didn't want them to see anything.
Soon, Xu Dan and the others entered the door, and as soon as the door closed, Zhao Jingjing stomped her feet and screamed: "Ah! Xu Dan! You are so embarrassing! You actually vomited at Gu Ningzi's house!"
Xu Dan was shivering at her roar: "...Yes, what's the shame? It's like you don't eat much."
Du Min said, "Gu Ningzi made the yard so beautiful, so you can say that the lighting is beautiful or not? The atmosphere is romantic like an idol drama. You spit it all out on the lawn. This time, Gu Ningzi will never invite us to her house again."
The three of them made a mess, and no one paid attention to Chi Nuan. There was a knock on the door, and Zhao Jingjing was still scolding Xu Dan, and went to open the door while scolding.
"Gu..."
Gu Ningzi squeezed in the door, crossed the three people, pulled Chi Nuan, and went downstairs without a word.