Early in the morning, the senior high school students who were attending extra classes as usual ran to the woods as soon as they arrived at school. They looked up and searched for the faint star-like lights among the lush branches and leaves. There was also a group of boys who were exploring everywhere and talking enthusiastically.
"I saw it! It's hidden so well! If you don't look carefully, you really can't see it!"
"Who would normally look up and carefully observe the branches? There must be at least thousands of stars, right? I don't know how long it took to put them up! I was really shocked last night! So romantic!"
"The point is not how long it took to put it up, but who is so awesome? It must be a big project to be able to make this thing!"
"Could it be Lu Ji? He won first place in the national physics competition. If he wanted to do it, he could definitely do it. And I heard that yesterday was Zhu Xingyao's birthday, and they were all here last night. It must have been him who gave it to her! Maybe it was a confession of love!"
"Those lights should have switches, right? Go, go, find the switches!"
A group of people started looking for the switch around the woods.
Before they found him, someone shouted, "Director Liu is here!"
Director Liu stood outside the woods, with a beer belly, his hands on his hips, and shouted, "It's almost time for class. What are you doing? Go back to the classroom!"
The students dispersed and ran towards the teaching building. Zhu Xingyao and Li Xixi mixed in the crowd and stopped only after they ran far away. Li Xixi was excited when she thought of last night. She turned around and said, "Lu Nanshen is so crazy about you, are you really not moved?"
Zhu Xingyao hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Keep your voice down, I actually..."
Li Xixi covered her mouth. Zhu Xingyao turned around and saw Lu Ji and Zhou Yuan walking behind her. Their eyes met unexpectedly. She paused, turned back and grabbed Li Xixi, quickening her pace.
Lu Ji looked at her from behind, feeling bitter and complicated. Zhou Yuan kept talking beside him like a loud speaker: "How long did it take you to make those lights? Xu Xiangyang said that it's not easy to make them. Xu Xiangyang said that it would take at least a month to make them all. It's a big project to hang them all up. You kept it a secret from us for so long, and you didn't even tell us. Brothers, we can still help..."
"Shut up!"
Lu Ji kicked him irritably and walked away.
During the morning reading class, Director Liu led several teachers from the Academic Affairs Office to find the switch. Several teachers sighed: "Students nowadays are really amazing and bold. They dare to make such a big noise!"
Director Liu frowned and said, "You are so blatant and unscrupulous. You really... don't take me seriously!"
A teacher said: "Lu Ji doesn't look that... crazy, so it can't be him, right?"
They had heard some rumors among the students, but they had no evidence. They couldn't ask the police to do a fingerprint test, could they? Lu Ji had brought so much honor to the school, and it was not easy for the school to directly ask someone to come and talk. It would be bad if he was wrongly accused.
Director Liu has been fighting premature love for so many years, but he has never seen anything so crazy.
As soon as the get out of class was over, the students started talking about last night’s star lights again. Some of them even took photos and discussed them.
Class 1 was particularly lively, with someone even calling out to Zhu Xingyao: "Zhu Xingyao, those star lights are for you, right?"
A boy responded, "Of course! Is there anyone else with a star in his name who is worthy of a confession of thousands of stars? No one!"
Zhu Xingyao blushed with guilt. She pursed her lips and said, "Don't talk nonsense. It's not my name." Although it was indeed given to her, if she admitted it, the gossip and rumors would never end.
At that time, most people who were truly in early love kept a low profile.
Li Xixi quickly chimed in: "That's right, there were so many of you passing by last night, did you see anyone confess their love? No!"
Indeed, no…
No one said anything, but they were still discussing it behind the scenes. Even Ding Xiang secretly asked Li Xixi: "Those star lights were made by Lu Ji, right? Does the goddess no longer belong to you? Just tell me straight!"
Li Xixi rolled her eyes: "What do you mean by belonging to everyone?"
Ding Xiang sighed, covered his heart and said, "You don't understand."
Jiang Tu had been unusually silent and cold since the morning reading class. Zhu Xingyao noticed it after she said a few words to him. She looked at his cool and handsome profile and suddenly felt a little uneasy. She asked in a low voice, "Brother Tu, what's wrong with you?"
In Zhu Xingyao's eyes, Jiang Tu's life is different from those of the people she knows. He has a complicated family background, works almost every day, and comes into contact with all kinds of people from different walks of life. He is very precocious, calm and reliable, and will not easily show his emotions unless something really happens.
Their position was right in front of the window, and they could see the woods as soon as they raised their eyes. Jiang Tu raised his head to look over there, and when he was making those star lights, he was only thinking about giving her a birthday present and wanting to see the joy in her eyes.
He didn't want her to know that he did those things, but he also didn't expect that everyone seemed to think that it was Lu Ji who did it.
It seemed that even she thought so.
Jiang Tu was silent for a moment, and the unwillingness gradually emerged, but he suppressed it forcefully. He swallowed and asked in a low voice: "Those star lights last night were beautiful?"
Zhu Xingyao was stunned, and then he remembered that he had skipped class and didn't see it, so he whispered, "Beautiful, very beautiful."
Very beautiful.
It was the most beautiful and romantic scene she had ever seen at the age of seventeen. She remembered it for many years afterwards.
She thought, no one could forget it.
However, she didn't know why she didn't dare to say it exaggeratedly.
Jiang Tu looked at her: "Do you like it?"
Zhu Xingyao pursed her lips, and suddenly she didn't dare to look him in the eye. Her eyelashes drooped, "I like..."
That's enough.
Jiang Tu nodded and stopped asking.
After a while, he threw away his pen and test paper, stood up and left his seat.
As soon as Jiang Tu left his seat, Zhu Xingyao's vision became wider and she could see a large forest. The window was open and a gust of evil wind suddenly blew in, blowing up Jiang Tu's test paper. She hurriedly reached out to hold it down.
She looked down and saw the scribbled handwriting on his test paper. She was stunned for a moment, and quickly pressed the test paper with her book. She leaned back in her chair and subconsciously grabbed the strap of her schoolbag on the table. There was a letter in her schoolbag that she had written last night. The impulse continued into the morning.
She tugged at the strap of her schoolbag, and her heart seemed to be pulled as well.
She decided to go to Germany very early. Zhu Yunping and Ding Yu repeatedly reminded her not to fall in love too early. In fact, she had never thought about falling in love too early even without them telling her. After all, a long-distance relationship was no joke. So, she focused all her attention on the cello and her studies.
The second class was math class, and Jiang Tu was two minutes late.
When he sat down, the wind blew in from the window, and Zhu Xingyao seemed to smell a very faint smell of tobacco, which she had smelled on his collar before. She tilted her head to look at him, and the emotion on the boy's profile had faded, just like before.
Zhu Xingyao was in a trance for a moment. Xie Ya stood on the podium and said, "Zhu Xingyao, come up and demonstrate this question."
She pursed her lips, walked up to the podium, and stumbled to solve the problem. She got all the steps right, but got the answer wrong in the end. Xie Ya frowned, as if she was not satisfied that she still made a mistake at this point, and looked at Jiang Tu: "Jiang Tu, tell me your answer."
Jiang Tu stood up and said in a dull voice: "Sorry, teacher, I haven't done this question yet."
Zhu Xingyao returned to her seat. She lowered her head, bit her lip and recalculated the problem. Suddenly, her shoulders slumped and she felt a little discouraged.
During the whole morning, Lu Ji was surrounded by everyone during the break. Some boys asked him how he could be so awesome and how he did it. Lin Jiayu was sitting next to him. She rarely saw him look so impatient and annoyed that he didn't want to pay attention to others. She didn't deny that he made the star lights.
Lin Jiayu suddenly became very angry and didn't talk to him much the whole morning. When she saw those lights last night, she knew what Jiang Tu had been doing in his room during the summer vacation. Those lights were made by Jiang Tu, and she didn't know why Lu Ji didn't deny it.
She was emotional and her words to Lu Ji were full of hostility. Lu Ji was already annoyed, so he ignored her, and the two of them inexplicably fell into a cold war.
At noon and in the evening, Lu Ji did not go to look for Zhu Xingyao. He even ate lunch and dinner outside the school. He said to Zhou Yuan: "Every pair of eyes are staring at me and her. Wouldn't it be stupid for me to look for her?"
Zhou Yuan suddenly realized: "Oh, yes, you went to sub-space in a high-profile manner last night, it's time to stay out of the limelight."
Until evening self-study.
During the first break, Zhu Xingyao went to the toilet with Li Xixi. When she was washing her hands, Li Xixi opened the cubicle door and leaned over in distress, shouting, "Xingxing, I'm having my period. Do you have sanitary napkins?"
Zhu Xingyao hurriedly said: "Wait a minute."
She went back to the classroom to get it. There was only a short time between classes, and after the two of them had been busy, they were already five minutes late.
While washing her hands, Li Xixi leaned over and whispered, "It's been a day, and you haven't made up your mind yet? I know two years of love letters may not be enough to move you, but after all the fanfare last night, didn't you respond? If it's anything else... Never mind, you're not another girl."
"I..." Zhu Xingyao hadn't told Li Xixi about her first kiss yet. Perhaps because they were still too young, she always felt a little embarrassed to say it out loud. She looked at the foggy mirror in the bathroom, "I actually wrote a letter last night, but..."
"Ah! What did you write?!" Li Xixi turned around and waved her hands excitedly.
Zhu Xingyao followed her out of the bathroom. Most of the classes were studying and the campus was very quiet. She whispered, "I said I promised him."
Li Xixi was stunned for a moment, then became excited again, "Where is the letter?"
Zhu Xingyao said: "In my schoolbag."
When they passed Class 2, she didn't dare to look inside, but Lu Ji saw her and he pursed his lips. Zhu Xingyao had just walked to the back door of the classroom when the window suddenly lit up. She was stunned for a moment and opened the window. The star-studded forest of lights had somehow lit up.
After a few seconds of silence, the senior high school teaching building suddenly became noisy. "Wow! Who opened it?"
"It's so beautiful! I went home too early last night and didn't see it!"
Zhu Xingyao was pulled by Li Xixi back to his seat and saw the forest of lights again. It was still beautiful and stunning from here.
Everyone’s mind was no longer on the self-study class, and they were noisily gathering around the window. Suddenly, Director Liu’s angry voice could be heard from downstairs, and it spread throughout the campus: “Which bastard opened the door? If you don’t want to be punished, turn it off!”
Another break.
Lu Ji received the letter that Xu Xiangyang brought. He opened it and took a look, then froze.
It's hard to describe my feeling. Are you happy? Yes.
At the same time, he felt irritated and helpless. He thought of Zhu Xingyao's eyes that were too bright last night. He felt that the joy was not for him. If she knew that those lights were not made by him, would she reply to this letter
He frowned. At this time, Lin Jiayu turned to look at him. She said suddenly: "Lu Ji, why don't you deny it?"
He was stunned for a moment and didn't react. "Denial of what?"
Lin Jiayu looked at him and whispered, "Those... lights, you didn't make them, I know. But everyone thought it was you, even Zhu Xingyao thought it was, this is unfair... You are not that kind of person..."
Lu Ji looked at her and said with a twitch of his lips: "So you know everything?"
Lin Jiayu said nothing, as if she was sulking.
Lu Ji also didn't like this kind of stolen relationship. He liked Zhu Xingyao, and he was willing to spend time pursuing her and compete fairly, but... He turned back and said coldly, "He is willing to give me the credit, should I help him explain? I'm not that kind, if he wants to explain, he can do it himself."
Lin Jiayu glanced at him, wanting to ask, "Do you think he doesn't want to say it?" But in the end, she said nothing and sulked.
On the night when the letter was handed over, Zhu Xingyao received a text message from Lu Ji, and he said, "OK."
The next day, the senior year students had a holiday, and school officially resumed on September 1st.
Director Liu did not remove the star-shaped lights. Every night, there would always be one or two fearless people who would run to turn on the switches. All the students in the first and second grades of high school heard the rumor. The forest became like a tourist attraction and became lively.
Zhu Xingyao didn't know what Li Xixi and Xu Xiangyang were like when they were together privately. When she was with Lu Ji, it seemed that there was not much difference from before. They ate together as a group, called and texted each other at night, and he sometimes asked her a few questions about German grammar.
On Wednesday afternoon, several classes had physical education class together. Jiang Tu was about to go jogging when Lu Ji suddenly called him: "Jiang Tu, let's play ball together."
Jiang Tu paused, turned his head and looked at him for a while, then said, "Okay."
That was the first time Jiang Tu played basketball since he entered high school. He said he wanted to play as a forward. Class 1 and Class 2 quickly organized themselves and had a basketball game. Zhang Sheng looked down on Jiang Tu: "Can you play? If not, just give up your seat."
Jiang Tu gave him a cold look and turned around to continue warming up.
A group of girls heard that the two classes were playing basketball, so they hurried back to watch. Zhu Xingyao was pulled by Li Xixi to the best viewing position. When Zhu Xingyao saw Jiang Tu standing on the court, she was stunned for a moment. Li Xixi said, "Wow, Brother Tu is playing basketball too. How rare!"
It's not rare, it's the first time.
Jiang Tu hasn't played basketball for two years, and Lu Ji rarely played before because of competitions, but both of them play as forwards, and they often clash with each other in rebounding, defense, and positioning.
Jiang Tu was a little unfamiliar with the game at the beginning, but he slowly got his feel for it after playing half the game.
During a free throw in the middle of the game, Zhou Yuan whispered to Lu Ji, "Why do I feel like you and Jiang Tu are fighting to the death?"
Lu Ji didn't say anything. It was Jiang Tu who wanted to fight to the death.
Jiang Tu was sweating all over, his school uniform was half wet and stuck to his thin back. He walked to the edge of the court. Xia Jin was sitting next to him and handed him a bottle of water. He glanced at it and didn't take it. Ding Xiang ran over and threw a bottle of water: "Brother Tu, you've worked hard!"
He took off his glasses and wiped them.
After a few seconds, she suddenly looked up at Zhu Xingyao. Lu Ji and Xu Xiangyang were standing in front of her and Li Xixi.
Physical education class time is limited, and only one overtime game is played.
Jiang Tu didn't wear glasses in the second half of the game. He half-squinted his eyes, and his gaze was cold and fierce. The game was... full of gunpowder. In the last few seconds, Xu Xiangyang was going to shoot a three-pointer, and Jiang Tu and Lu Ji stood under the backboard and jumped at the same time, one defending and the other intercepting.
The two bodies collided violently with each other, and after they landed with a bang, they both took a few steps back due to inertia and almost fell down.
The three-pointer went in, Class 1 won, and everyone cheered.
Jiang Tu looked at Lu Ji with a cold face, then turned and walked towards the faucet beside the basketball court. Lu Ji followed him and saw that there was no one around. He suddenly said, "Jiang Tu, you gave me that star light, and you also gave me Zhu Xingyao."
Jiang Tu suddenly stopped, turned back stiffly, and stared at him: "What did you say?"
The two stood in the sun, sweat running down their foreheads to their chins. Lu Ji twitched his lips and said, "The night after Zhu Xingyao's birthday, she wrote me a letter saying she agreed to be my girlfriend.
"I won't help you explain it. You gave it to someone else."
Jiang Tu felt the sunlight stinging his eyes, and a feeling of unwillingness surged from the bottom of his heart. He suddenly felt as if his breathing had stagnated. He subconsciously pressed his lungs and swallowed a few times. After a while, he turned and left.
He turned into the public toilet next to him, took a deep breath at the corner, walked in, turned on the faucet, and put his head under to rinse, trying to calm himself down, calm down...
The water was flowing, and someone came in and looked at him strangely.
After a while, he suddenly raised his head and looked at himself in the mirror. His eyes were bloodshot and full of unwillingness. He looked very strange.
After the physical education class there is self-study class.
Jiang Tu missed half of the class and returned to the classroom. Zhu Xingyao looked up at him and said, "Your glasses are on the table..."
He lowered his eyes to look at her, his silent gaze making Zhu Xingyao feel a little uneasy.
Two seconds later, he sat down and said in a dry voice, "Okay."
That Friday was the only time that Zhu Xingyao did not receive a letter from classmate J.
During the afternoon self-study class, Cao Shujun walked into the classroom and called her out. As soon as she walked out of the classroom, she saw Lu Ji and Xie Ya. She was stunned for a moment and instinctively a little scared. After going downstairs, she saw Director Liu.
Cao Shujun sighed: "Director Liu wants to talk to you."
The author has something to say: Reports are coming! There are about three chapters left in high school.
In fact, the copywriting of this article is very clear, whether it is thundering or cute, I said in the first chapter that the setting and character of this article will be relatively cold. After reading a few chapters, you can see that the tone of the style is not pure sweet and flirting. Jiang Tu's character is forbearing, sober and restrained. He has a very secret crush. He is destined not to flirt with Xing Xing directly. Lu Ji and him are one in the open and the other in the dark~
The recent chapters are all about important plots. I spent a lot of time to refine each plot and emotion. I am not trying to fill up the word count or procrastinate. I know what I am writing. If you like it, please continue reading. The story is not over yet. Good night everyone~