"My God, I've never seen such a beautiful girl!"
At noon, the sun was warm and the breeze was calm. Standing on the roof of the laboratory building, Yu Ran recited his lines impassionedly. After several days of repeated practice, he finally finished the script smoothly.
"...It's a pity that she can only sleep in this eerie forest." Yu Ran walked up to Chu Mian, grabbed his neck, and shook him vigorously, "Oh! Let me save! Save her! Let's—here I wake up!"
The line that should have been pity for the princess turned into a prince seeking revenge under Yu Ran's performance.
Chu Mian grabbed Yu Ran's wrist and moved away from her neck, "If you are a prince, then the princess should be more willing to die forever."
"On the day of the primary election, it's enough to be as proficient as you are now." Ye Xi said, "There are quite a few classes that chose "Sleeping Beauty". If you want to impress the judges and teachers, it doesn't matter if you exaggerate, after all, the stage play is ultimately to be performed. For children."
"The director said so, then it's fine." Yu Ran let out a long sigh of relief, and sat down next to Chu Mian, "Hey, you guys said that it would be great if this stage play was a beauty pageant, but Chu Mian, whore Fight and win... fuck, I was wrong, I was wrong, bro!"
During the lunch break recently, several people like to gather on the rooftop to kill time. Ye Xi supervised the two leading actors to recite their lines, and Fang Zhao and Cui He watched them play.
Leaning his back on Chu Mian's arm, Yu Ran folded a page of lines in his hand into a paper airplane, then aimed at the sky and threw it out, not forgetting to dub "咻—" in his mouth.
The route of the paper airplane in the air was fairly straight, and the tip was inserted accurately on the roof fence. Yu Ran checked the height with his eyes, and felt that even if he jumped up, he would not be able to reach him, so Fang Zhao said, "Brother Diu, take off your penis and help me pull the plane."
Fang Zhao: "You fucking..."
Chu Mian tilted her head and said casually, "This is not enough."
Yu Ran deliberately showed a surprised reaction: "Ah? So short?"
Fang Zhao: "Fuck you!"
The vulgar jokes between boys often make Cui He laugh out loud without any scruples, and even answer the conversation and join in the teasing, while Ye Xi just twitches the corners of his mouth reservedly, ashamed to disturb them.
Ever since Yu Ran took her to eat with her that day, Ye Xi's daily lunch break has suddenly become richer, which she finds inconceivable when she thinks about it now.
Whether it's Yu Ran, who is enthusiastic and cheerful, or Cui He, who goes his own way, their strong and dazzling aura is completely opposite to his own, not to mention Chu Mian, who has the most distance. As for Fang Zhao... Well, although he is an ordinary person, he is quite interesting.
Just being able to stay with them for a while, Ye Xi felt it was an honor.
The bell rang for the end of the lunch break, and several people returned to the classroom unhurriedly.
There is a thick stack of "Anime Weekly" on Yu Ran's desk, which Ye Xi brought from home to borrow from him. After class, the two often discuss which new series they have recently followed. Yexi's after-school life basically revolves around animation, and only on such topics can she release her most cheerful side.
While chatting happily, a girl's voice came from the door of the classroom: "Yexi, come here, I'll discuss something with you."
"Oh, good." Ye Xi left Yu Ran's side with still unsatisfied feelings, and walked towards the corridor, "What's wrong?"
The person who asked her to come out was Bian Tingting, the Youth League committee member of the class. The two share the same dormitory during military training, but Ye Xi rarely communicates with her because she can feel that... Bian Tingting doesn't like her.
Bian Tingting cut to the chase: "How is your stage play going? Has the script been handed in yet?"
"Well, the actors have all recited their lines now."
"Oh, that's good. Now it's like this... Mr. Bai is going to change directors. I feel that I have more experience than you, because I also had a similar stage play when I was in junior high school. You see, the script is yours anyway. Write it, you continue to be the screenwriter, and I will help you rehearse, okay?"
At the end of the girl's speech, she reached out and grabbed Ye Xi's arm, which made her shrink back subconsciously and timidly.
Just looking at Bian Tingting's red and phoenix eyes, Ye Xi was stunned. Hearing the other party's tone, it didn't sound like a discussion at all. It was clear that he had made an irrefutable decision, so he just came to tell her by the way.
"Ah, this... But the actors are all used to me being a director." Ye Xi lacked confidence, trying to keep the director's position for herself, "This week is the primary election, it's too late now."
"It's too late, don't worry, I'm definitely better than you in this area." Bian Tingting smiled, "Isn't it still for the honor of our class? Teacher Bai said let me figure it out, what do you think?"
Since the head teacher agreed, Ye Xi couldn't find any reason to object right now.
It's just that she is very unwilling to change from the general director of the stage play to the behind-the-scenes, and the fruits of her labor have to be shared with others.
"That's fine... I'll go back and talk to the actors." Ye Xi whispered.
In fact, giving credit to others was not the main reason for her loss.
The task of being a screenwriter has been completed, which means that she has no reason to spend lunch break with Yu Ran and the others... I don't know if they will bring her to dinner tomorrow? Although being alone is her normal state at school, Ye Xi inevitably feels reluctant after contacting them and gaining short-term happiness.
After returning to work, she did not notify the two actors for the time being, but sat alone in her seat to digest the frustration.
On the way back from school, Yu Ran happily used the lines of "Sleeping Beauty" to talk to Chu Mian, sometimes calling him "Little Princess" and sometimes "Your Highness". mouth.
Yu Ran obediently didn't take it off, and said "hmmm" to Chu Mian with her mouth tightly closed, the tone sounded like "goodbye".
Chu Mian watched him cross the road, and watched him follow the crowd to the station. Obviously this is a familiar scene, but because it got dark recently, Yu Ran's figure was reflected in his eyes, and it unexpectedly became fresh.
After returning home and eating dinner in a hurry, Chu Mian immediately started to study extra courses, trying to study the difficult knowledge of the midterm exam thoroughly in the past few days. In the last monthly exam, he easily won the first place in the grade, and his total score in eight subjects was 70 points higher than the second place. The whole class couldn't help but marvel at the day the ranking was announced.
But this is not enough for Chu Mian.
Halfway through the translation of the classical Chinese text, the phone screen lit up, and Chu Mian found out that it was Cui He's QQ message.
[Whale Song]: I opened the confession wall of our school, you are a fucking man who stands tall on the honor roll.
She sent several screenshots, all of which were anonymous confessions to Chu Mian without exception. For these, Chu Mian has long been used to the blame, so she didn't bother to talk to Cui He and continued to review.
[Whale Song]: Yu Ran is so funny, I can't tell if it's a girl confessing or our class is punishing him.
Chu Mian stopped writing, picked up her phone and clicked on the screenshot.
"I would like to say to Yu Ran, a classmate of Grade One and One, that I have noticed you since the beginning of school, and I think you are handsome and clean! The way you skip class and do exercises is also deeply imprinted in my heart, and I can't help but love you ever since. Fuck you! I'm too embarrassed to confess in person, so I'll just say it here: Yu Ran, I like you!"
"I want to confess my love to Yu Ran, from Class One and One. In fact, I used to have a crush on Chu Mian, but now I am attracted to you. Chu Mian is so fucking cold. My old lady decided to change her goal in a fit of anger, and found that you Not bad, she has a naughty smile, handsome and cute. Would you like to be my boyfriend? If you don’t want to, you can be my younger brother, my sister really cares about you.”
After Chu Mian glanced at it a few times, she couldn't help but take a closer look again.
After a while, he replied to Cui He: "Do you think Yu Ran has those advantages?"
[Whale Song]: Yes. Don't ignore his appearance just because Yu Ran is an idiot at heart.
Chu Mian didn't answer any more, she turned her cell phone upside down and continued to write questions.
But after a few minutes, he still put down his pen, picked up his phone, and tried to search for "Chengjun Middle School Confession Wall". This kind of account has become very popular recently. In addition to the confession function, there are also "quarrel wall" and "tree person wall".
Boring is boring, but when the names of acquaintances appear, most people will of course be curious to take a look. Chu Mian thought it was to satisfy that little curiosity, so she added the confession wall as a friend with peace of mind.
He started to browse the QQ space of this account, and when he saw his name, he quickly crossed it; when the word "Yu Ran" appeared, he stopped to take a closer look.
Surprisingly, there were quite a few people who confessed to Ran, and some even bragged about Yu Ran so much that Chu Mian even suspected that Yu Ran had contributed on his own account.
Chu Mian was very puzzled, so she sent a message to Cui He: "They just like Yu Ran's face?"
Cui He: "Well, isn't it enough to have a face?"
"What's so good about this." Chu Mian typed and said, after thinking about it, she added two more words: superficial.
Cui He was silent for half a minute, and then sent a long string of ellipses.
Then, she asked Chu Mian: "Are you trying to express that Yu Ran is not worthy of being a school grass like you, or do you think those women's boasting of Yu Ran is not comprehensive?"
Chu Mian paused for a moment, then ignored her, silently deleted the confession wall account, and returned to the ocean of knowledge again.
Before going to sleep, he was lying on the bed playing with his mobile phone, and saw Yu Ran posting a new chat.
[Wolf hides against dog]: Because we are looking at Teacher Mao and you are looking at Teacher Cang, so our beliefs are different. You may not like everything in the second dimension, but if you hate me in the second dimension, that’s okay Excuse me, would you please kneel down and apologize
Seeing the second half of the sentence, Chu Mian thought that Yu Ran was going to make an appointment with someone, and then he found that Ye Xi reposted this talk, and added a sentence: "Anger turn! If you don't like the two-dimensional element, you can leave quietly, but Please don't embarrass yourself with your noble posture."
Chu Mian looked at the words of these two people, and suddenly laughed.
In the past, Yu Ran liked to retweet some two-dimensional declarations. Chu Mian thought it was childish and ridiculous, but now he had more people to accompany Yu Ran to fall ill. Wonderfully earnest.
Chu Mian casually clicked into Ye Xi's space, wanting to see what's different about their "two-dimensional" world.
What came into view were nine screenshots of black and white cartoons, which seemed to be two people kissing, Chu Mian immediately crossed them out. Then there were many incomprehensible proper nouns, such as "black belly", "tsundere" and "abo". Chu Mian became more and more at a loss as she looked at them, and finally gave up the idea of understanding their two-dimensional world.
However, he still noticed two words that he could understand, one of which was at noon today: "It would be great if I could enter the anime, the world I live in is really annoying."
The other one was a few days ago: "Sure enough, I'm naturally annoying. Even if I die, no one will notice."
Depressed and world-weary, it fits his usual taciturn image. Chu Mian didn't have the enthusiasm to comfort and enlighten others, she just liked her today's post, and then exited the page dully.
At noon the next day, it was time to rehearse the stage play again.
Chu Mian spends most of her scenes sleeping on props, so the real burden falls on Yu Ran. As always, he played and memorized his lines, and laughed from time to time. Cui He said that he was not professional enough. When the atmosphere was pleasant, Ye Xi said suddenly: "I have something to tell you."
All eyes were on her.
"The director has been replaced by Bian Tingting, and she will guide the rehearsal of the self-study class in the afternoon."
Yu Ran's smile faded away, his face full of surprise: "Ah? Why?"
"She has more experience than me, and she knows people from the student union. The primary election should go well..."
Yu Ran frowned, "She asked you to step aside?"
Ye Xi replied in a low voice, "Teacher Bai also agreed."
"What's the use of Mr. Bai's permission? Did I allow it?" Yu Ran threw the script in his hand on the ground and approached her, "You have worked so hard to arrange all these days, why should she come out to meddle now? I see her It's to make it clear that you are a bully."
Ye Xi bowed her head and said nothing.
"Tch." Yu Ran snorted coldly at her, then walked towards Tianqiao, "I'll go find Bian Tingting, if the director changes, I won't act."
"Yu Ran, don't be rough on girls." Fang Zhao hurriedly followed him, fearing that he would be a gossip.
Cui He didn't understand the situation, so he asked, "Who is Bian Tingting?"
Chu Mian: "Youth Youth League Committee."
"Oh... the one with the narrow eyes, right? Last time she took my seat and didn't apologize." Cui He suddenly realized, and then she turned to Chu Mian, "That girl must be interested in you, she always goes to your side after class .”
"I haven't noticed."
Cui He stood up, "Forget it, I'll go over and ask her."
There were only Chu Mian and Ye Xi, two quiet people sitting on the roof, and the atmosphere suddenly became cold.
Chu Mian picked up a few pages of lines that fell on the ground, and asked her casually, "Why didn't you refuse?"
Ye Xi muttered, "She's more..."
"That's her reason, what's your reason?"
After waiting for a while, the girl didn't answer, Chu Mian continued to ask, "Do you know why Yu Ran is in such a hurry to help you?"
Ye Xi pursed her lips, and gave an answer uncertainly: "Does he hate the Youth League Committee just like Cui He?"
After finishing speaking, she raised her head and looked at Chu Mian, but found that there was a mocking smile on the corner of Chu Mian's mouth. She was too scared to say another word.
"Ye Xi," this was the first time Chu Mian called her name, "I probably know why you are so easy to dislike."
The girl's whole heart sank unexpectedly, and layers of cold sweat oozed from her palms.
A cold autumn wind blew past her ears, and when the air returned to tranquility, Chu Mian said slowly, "Your shortcoming is not weakness, but immersion in your own world, and you don't know how to perceive other people's moods."
After he pointed out his weakness so bluntly, the tight string in Ye Xi's brain suddenly broke. Obviously the boy's tone was very gentle, but it sounded harsher than severe criticism, like a small stone with weak attack power, but it accurately ran over the most vulnerable part of his heart.
Chu Mian noticed that her eyes were a little red, she paused, and chose to continue: "The real world is not satisfactory, you just want to watch anime to relieve it, do you think you can completely get rid of interpersonal relationships by escaping like this? Others bully you, You don’t dare to resist; but when others help you, why don’t you understand the reason?”
He took a pack of tissues from his pocket and threw it on her lap.
"Do you think Yu Ran is idle?" Chu Mian casually told her conclusion, "He just treats you as a friend."
The girl was stunned, and the tears that had endured for a long time fell from her eyes.
Chu Mian stopped looking at her, shifted her eyes to the direction of the canteen, and said in a deep voice: "Actually, I am similar to you in many cases, such as now, I don't bother to care about your emotions. But since Yu Ran and the others value you... Then I also I can barely include you in the range of friends."
Ye Xi immediately took out a tissue and covered her eyes.
In order to hold back the crying, she had to clenched her throat and was unable to make a sound. After taking a few deep breaths to stabilize her emotions, she spoke to Chu Mian apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't ignore Yu Ran, it's just that I..."
Chu Mian opened her mouth and added the second half of the sentence for her: "It's just that I didn't expect to be easily regarded as a friend by Yu Ran after spending a few days with him, right?"
Ye Xi nodded vigorously.
She has always acquiesced that Yu Ran is a person from another world, and the other people are also divided by her in this way, so Ye Xi felt that it was a coincidence brought about by the stage play to be able to eat and chat with everyone temporarily. She, who was inconspicuous in the class, was lucky not to be disliked by such brilliant people as them, she dared not dream of "becoming friends".
But he didn't expect that in the continuation of the topic again and again, he was unknowingly recognized by Yu Ran.
Seeing her flattered look, Chu Mian couldn't help laughing, it was rare that even the corners of her eyes were warm.
He smiled helplessly, and told Ye Xi: "Yu Ran is this familiar virtue, don't mind."