In December, Beijing welcomed the first heavy snowfall of winter, and the entire city was covered in white overnight.
The school organized a whole morning of snow clearing, but some students still accidentally fell while walking. At noon, there were fewer people in the cafeteria than usual, and those who didn't have classes in the morning were glad that they didn't have to go downstairs and suffer.
Jiang Yimian and the people in the dormitory carefully went to the cafeteria, where the door was covered with anti-slip material.
When they were about to go up the stairs, my roommate suddenly pointed to the side and said, "Look, there's a boy over there."
Following her prompt, everyone looked over.
The boy standing not far away was wearing a light grey coat, black trousers and holding a long-handled umbrella. Boys are common on the Tsinghua campus, but handsome boys are a bit rare.
Not to mention those boys who have only been in college for half a year, they still have the dirty looks of high school.
Even the sophomores and juniors who have been in college for a year or two mostly dress like typical engineering students, wearing bulky down jackets, wrinkled pants, a pair of glasses, and short hair that has no hairstyle at all.
The boy seemed to be waiting for someone. He wore a black turtleneck sweater under his light grey coat, with his chin resting on the collar. His fair skin was particularly dazzling in the snow. He stood there quietly, but he had a proud and noble temperament. People who passed by him would always turn around and take a few more glances at him.
"This boy is so handsome! This is the first time I see a really handsome guy in our school." A girl exclaimed excitedly.
"Do you think I'll be discovered if I take a photo secretly?"
"Forget it, it's too embarrassing to be discovered."
"Guess which department he is from?"
"I think he should be from the art department. He is dressed so fashionably. His coat is really nice and looks expensive."
While the other girls in the dormitory were discussing, Jiang Yimian remained silent.
No matter what university the girls are from, if they see such an outstanding boy on the street, they will always take a few more glances. Fortunately, none of them are so crazy about him that they can't walk. After taking a few more glances, they hurried to the cafeteria.
But when they went up the stairs, the boy standing over there actually came over.
"Jiang Yimian." The boy shouted.
The other girls immediately looked at Jiang Yimian, and the one who had been silent finally looked up.
Jiang Yimian looked at Ji Junxing and whispered, "Ji Junxing, come to the cafeteria to eat."
"You didn't bring an umbrella?" Ji Junxing looked at the snowflakes on her head.
The snow had stopped when I went out in the morning, but it started falling again around noon when school was about to end.
Jiang Yimian nodded in a muffled voice.
Ji Junxing directly handed over the umbrella in his hand and said, "Take it."
"No need." Jiang Yimian immediately shook his head.
Ji Junxing had already stuffed the umbrella over and said calmly, "I have an appointment with Xie Ang and the others. I have an umbrella."
Jiang Yimian didn't bother to be polite with him, took it and nodded: "Thank you."
But when Jiang Yimian heard someone's name, he felt upset and waved his hand, saying, "I'm going to have dinner with my classmates first."
She walked towards the cafeteria, with her roommate beside her.
After entering the cafeteria, several people began to surround Jiang Yimian.
"Okay, Jiang Yimian, we've been discussing this for a long time, and you still know him."
"That's right. Why didn't you tell us that you knew him? We just wasted our time discussing this."
However, there was a quick-witted girl in the dormitory. She looked at the umbrella in Jiang Yimian's hand and suddenly smiled evilly: "Jiang Yimian, she took the initiative to lend you the umbrella. Tell me, is she interested in you?"
Jiang Yimian was absent-minded at first, but when he heard this, he jumped up immediately.
She shook her head like a rattle, "Don't talk nonsense, I have nothing to do with him."
The people in her dormitory thought she was shy and laughed and teased her.
Jiang Yimian couldn't stand others linking her and Ji Junxing together, so she quickly said, "It doesn't matter, he has a girlfriend."
Sure enough, after this sentence was said, several people were stunned and their faces were full of disappointment.
"Sure enough, handsome guys always belong to others."
"Well, I know his girlfriend must be very beautiful without asking."
"Is his girlfriend from our school?"
The roommate was very curious about Ji Junxing and kept asking him questions.
Jiang Yimian still looked distracted until someone patted her shoulder from behind. She turned around and saw that it was Wei Mingya from the next class. Although they were in the same school and usually attended classes together, Jiang Yimian didn't have much contact with Wei Mingya.
After all, when she first entered the school, someone posted her and Wei Mingya's photos on the forum, saying that they were the beautiful girls in the journalism department this year. As a result, people started to discuss and discuss, and even started to vote for which of them would be the most beautiful girl in the journalism department.
Although they did not participate, there was always a sense of kings not meeting each other afterwards.
"Jiang Yimian, so you know Ji Junxing?" Wei Mingya asked with a smile.
She looked at the umbrella in Jiang Yimian's hand.
Because they were in the same department, they had to take this required class in the same classroom. She and Jiang Yimian arrived at the cafeteria at the same time, so she saw Jiang Yimian talking to Ji Junxing from behind, and Ji Junxing even handed him his umbrella.
Jiang Yimian had seen many girls like this when he was in high school.
Immediately, she understood Wei Mingya's thoughts.
When she thought of Lin Xi, whose whereabouts were still unknown, she immediately hummed and nodded, saying, "Yes. We were high school classmates."
"Let's have dinner together next time. I happened to have an appointment with him last time. You can come along."
Hearing Wei Mingya's words, Jiang Yimian chuckled.
Ji Junxing would have dinner with her? He must be dreaming.
It's just that her smile was too abrupt, and there was a hint of sarcasm or something else that Wei Mingya's face suddenly turned ugly.
Jiang Yimian smiled and said softly, "Okay, if you can invite him, we can eat together."
This sentence completely offends people.
After Wei Mingya left, someone in Jiang Yimian's dormitory suddenly realized, "It turns out that this boy is the boy from the computer experiment class that Wei Mingya has been pursuing. But I heard from people in their dormitory that the two are about to get together."
"fart."
Jiang Yimian saw his roommate's shocked face and immediately explained: "I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about the person who said this."
"I think that if you are in high school and you are not in the same school in college, it will easily cause problems." The roommate looked at Jiang Yimian and said cautiously.
Jiang Yimian had a calm expression and said directly: "I don't know about others, but it's impossible for Ji Junxing."
If you had seen him waiting in the scorching sun for three days until he fainted and was carried back, you would not say such things.
Lin Xi lost contact with Ji Junxing on the day when the college entrance examination results came out. He kept calling Lin Xi, but no one answered. At first, he thought she had run out of phone credit, so he specially topped up her phone credit.
In the end, there was still no one.
Originally, he wanted to wait for Lin Xi to call him and tell him his score, but since he couldn't contact her, Ji Junxing became a little panicked.
Fortunately, he remembered Lin Xi's admission ticket number, so he simply called Lin Xi himself to check the score.
When he heard the score, Ji Junxing thought he had heard it wrong.
He checked again, and it was the same.
673 points.
How is it possible? Ji Junxing held the phone in his hand, not coming back to his senses for a long time.
After a while, Xie Ang called him and said proudly, "Ah Xing, guess how many points I got in the exam this time?"
"684 points." Xie Ang's voice sounded extremely happy.
"That damn girl Jiang Yimian scored one point higher than me. Chen Mo scored 690 points and Yun Lang scored 691 points." Before Xie Ang called Ji Junxing, he had already found out about everyone else's scores.
"Our Wudaokou Vocational and Technical College team has really made it come true this time."
Xie Ang talked a lot, and suddenly remembered to ask, "By the way, how many points did our sister Lin get in the exam?"
He has been a classmate of Lin Xi for two years. Seeing Lin Xi's consistently stable grades, he has long been accustomed to the fact that Lin Xi's scores are higher than all of theirs.
Ji Junxing finally came to his senses and said, "I'm going to hang up now. We'll talk later."
Without waiting for Xie Ang to say anything else, he hung up the phone.
After failing the exam, he checked his score again and it was still 673.
Last year, the admission score for Tsinghua University in Beijing was 671 points. If this year is similar to last year, Lin Xi’s score may not allow her to be admitted to Tsinghua University.
Ji Junxing kept calling Lin Xi, but the person on the other end of the phone never answered.
He couldn't wait any longer, so he took his ID card and asked the driver to take him to the airport. Because the next flight to Lin Xi's home was three hours later, he called Lin Xi while waiting at the airport.
Until he arrived at Lin Xi's village, her call was still not answered.
When Ji Junxing stood at the door, he looked at the tightly closed shop and the window with all the glass broken.
He walked over slowly and looked into the store through the window. Half of the glass on the counter was smashed and most of the goods on the shelves were gone.
He stood there. It was a hot summer day, but he felt like he was in an ice cellar.
That kind of coldness came out from the bones.
What exactly happened in Lin Xi's home
After an unknown amount of time, a small voice came from behind, "Um, are you looking for Lin Xi?"
Ji Junxing turned around and saw a girl, also about seventeen or eighteen years old, standing opposite him.
"Do you know what happened to Lin Xi's family?" As soon as he opened his mouth, his usually clear voice seemed hoarse.
Zhang Han looked at him in surprise, of course she remembered Ji Junxing, because she knew that Lin Xi went to Beijing to study because of this boy's family's arrangement.
Shocked, she asked, “Don’t you know?”
"Please tell me."
Zhang Han hesitated for a moment, then said, "Something happened to Lin Xi's father."
Then she recounted how Lin Xi's father accidentally pushed someone down the stairs, and that person died on the spot.
After that, Zhang Han said with a bitter face: "My mother knew that it was me who called Lin Xi, and she almost beat me to death. In fact, I didn't mean to make Lin Xi fail the exam. I was thinking that she was in Beijing, and your family is so powerful. If she asked your family for help, Uncle Lin might be saved."
Ji Junxing raised his head and looked at her.
In the sunlight, his eyes were dark and bright, like cold inorganic matter.
Zhang Han was frightened by his look. She said, "Don't look at me like that. My mother not only scolded me, but also beat me up. I already know that I have no brains."
"Lin Xi asked my family for help?" he finally spoke and asked softly.
Zhang Han nodded: "Yes, my mother said that Uncle Lin's case has the help of a powerful lawyer, and good people will definitely be rewarded."
He stood there, suddenly feeling ridiculous.
Still remember what he told her, that he would always be by her side.
But when Lin Xi needed him the most, he knew nothing.
"Can you tell me where Lin Xi went?"
Zhang Han whispered, "The family that hit Lin Xi's brother to death has been causing trouble. Auntie and Lin Xi had no choice but to hide away. They have never come back to live here. I don't know where she went."
After Zhang Han left, Ji Junxing stood at the door of the Lin family.
After standing there for an unknown amount of time, he leaned against the wall and slowly sat down.
It was the next day when Wen Xuan rushed over.
When she saw her son sitting alone by the wall of the Lin family under the scorching sun, she almost shed tears out of heartache.
When she walked over and called out "Ah Xing", the boy slowly raised his head.
Ji Junxing hadn't eaten for more than a day, and his usually moist lips were cracked and a layer of white dead skin appeared.
"Ah Xing, go home with mom." Wen Xuan half-knelt beside him and whispered.
Ji Junxing's eyes stayed on her face for a few seconds, and suddenly, his lifeless eyes became exceptionally sharp.
He asked, "Where's Lin Xi?"
Wen Xuan only found out about the Lin family at this time, and also found out that someone close to the old man had intervened in Lin Yaohua's case. She immediately thought of the day when the old man called Lin Xi into the study.
Perhaps, at that time, what the old man talked to Lin Xi about was not about the college entrance examination at all.
But at this moment, Wen Xuan couldn't push everything onto the old man in front of Ji Junxing.
"Ah Xing, go home with your mother first." Wen Xuan comforted him softly.
Ji Junxing said in a cold voice: "You don't want to tell me, right?"
He took out his cell phone and called home. The nanny answered the phone, and he asked the nanny to find Ji Luchi. When Ji Luchi answered the phone, he just called him brother sweetly, and Ji Junxing asked him: "Ji Luchi, when brother was not at home, did sister Lin Xi come over?"
Ji Luchi, who knew nothing, tilted his head and thought carefully, then said with certainty: "She came before. Lin Xi came when grandpa was at home that day. Grandpa also talked to sister Lin Xi for a long time. Mom wouldn't let me play with sister."
Ji Junxing's cell phone is in hands-free mode at this time.
When the call ended, he looked up at Wen Xuan and asked softly, "Why?"
"Why do you want to drive Lin Xi away?"
Wen Xuan's face turned as white as paper. She couldn't even say she was innocent.
Ji Junxing suddenly smiled sarcastically, "It's because of MIT, right? It's because I gave up the offer from MIT, right? You think she blocked my future, right?"
He was so smart that he figured out the reason without any prompting from others.
"When you wanted to repay the Lin family, you took Lin Xi away for her future. Now you think she is blocking me, so you drive her away."
There was endless despair in his voice, "Don't you think you're ridiculous?"
No matter what Wen Xuan said, Ji Junxing refused to leave.
It was not until the third day that Ji Xuanheng arrived, bringing doctors and nurses with him.
When he arrived, Ji Junxing was severely dehydrated and looked like he could faint at any time.
Wen Xuan watched Ji Xuanheng ask the bodyguards to tie him up and put him in the ambulance, and cried, "Don't force him, don't force him."
"Look at what he looks like now?" Ji Xuanheng was disappointed with his friend.
He didn't expect that his son, who had always been proud and conceited, would give up on himself because of the departure of a girl. In his opinion, Ji Junxing's behavior at this moment was self-abandonment.
At this time, Ji Junxing had no strength left. When the doctor gave him an injection and nutrient solution, he didn't even have the strength to pull out the needle.
Until he was carried onto the stretcher, Ji Xuanheng and Wen Xuan followed beside him.
As his stretcher was loaded into the ambulance, his eyes turned to his parents.
Finally, he used up his last bit of strength and spoke hoarsely.
"You, give Lin Xi back to me."
In the early morning, when it was still pitch black all around, Lin Xi suddenly woke up.
This was the first time she woke up from her dream.
She lay in bed, and until now, she felt like she was still in a dream.
Yes, she is in Zhejiang University now.
When the scores came out, Sun Liru called her immediately. As the head teacher, she was very satisfied with the scores of her class. But she didn't expect that her most proud and trusted student would fail the exam.
Maybe this score is indeed a high score for others, but for Lin Xi, it is a failure.
Finally, the admission score lines for Tsinghua University and Peking University in Beijing came out. The science admission score lines for both schools are 672 points.
Lin Xi's score was only one point higher than the admission score.
Sun Liru told her that she did not recommend her to apply to Peking University and Tsinghua University because her score was likely to be rejected.
If she is not admitted in the first batch, her second choice school will also be in danger.
Sun Liru suggested that she set her target school slightly lower.
Lin Xi thanked her for her advice and finally she chose her current school.
She once thought that if she could still perform well and get into Peking University or Tsinghua University despite such a big change in her family, then she would go to the Ji family again and ask Grandpa Ji for help.
Please ask him to believe in himself and believe that she can definitely catch up with Ji Junxing.
Instead of letting Ji Junxing wait for himself all the time.
However, fate always likes to play tricks on people, and she failed.
After returning from Huangshan, her heart seemed to come alive again with the name that was called out.
There is an idea that has been growing in my mind and is about to burst out.
In the afternoon, she went to the house her parents rented. Because their hometown was always in trouble, Lin Yaohua and Jiang Ying simply accompanied Lin Xi to Hangzhou. However, the job they later found was a little far from Lin Xi's school.
Lin Xi only comes here on weekends.
"Lin Xi, don't be in a daze while eating. Eat more." Jiang Ying called her.
Lin Xi came back to her senses, she clenched the chopsticks in her hand, and finally, she blurted out: "Mom, I want to repeat the year."
At this moment, Lin Yaohua and Jiang Ying were both stunned and looked up at her.
This time, Lin Xi did not hesitate. She made up her mind and said, "I want to repeat my studies."
Even if everyone thinks she is willful and crazy, she still wants to fight again for the dream and goal in her heart.
Even though the person she made the promise to is no longer around, she still wants to try again.
Maybe, one day in the future, after working hard all my life, I will be lucky enough to meet him again.
You can also say to him, Ji Junxing, look, I haven’t given up.
The author has something to say: 1. Many people commented on the previous chapter and said that they did not like Lin Xi's sacrifice of herself.
I want to emphasize here that Lin Xi answered the questions normally in the last half hour, she just had some emotional fluctuations. To be honest, in her situation, her father was in the detention center, and she was asked to leave Ji Junxing, but she did not fluctuate. Maybe only a real robot can do that.
2. She did get that score, but anyone who has filled out college applications knows that teachers generally do not recommend applying for colleges that have just passed the admission score. This choice was the calmest and most rational one for Lin Xi at the time, and it was not a sacrifice at all. (College application registration is about to begin, I hope my little fairies can all get into 985 and 211, come on)
3. Moreover, I must speak out for Zhejiang University. What’s wrong with Zhejiang University? It is still the third best university in China. (At this time, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Renmin University expressed dissatisfaction.)
As for Lin Daiyu's repetition, it was also something I had thought about a long time ago. At present, the book is still being written according to my own outline. I know that there must be a lot of people with a lot of opinions, but I think that my writing is at least worthy of everyone who has worked hard.
4. This chapter explains everything that should have been explained before. If there is still any girlfriend who is not satisfied, come here and I will kiss you. That should be fine.
Well, this is the third day since Master and Lin Xi separated. I know you miss them.
I am very close to 40,000 comments. If I reach 40,000 comments, I will update it tomorrow. Then I will let you young master meet Lin Xi.
I will continue to send out 200 red envelopes in this chapter, 50 for the first and 150 for the last (I wanted to send out all the red envelopes yesterday, but I went to the hospital and spent several hours there. I will try to send out all the red envelopes today)