The autumn wind was blowing, and the yellow leaves were scattered all over the ground.

After getting off work, Harper was walking down the street, and she passed by a pair of boys and girls wearing high school uniforms, which caught her attention. They were in their prime and at the age when their love for them was just starting to bloom in adolescence.

At this age, she had the biggest secret in her entire youth. She had secretly liked Ayden for a long time without telling everyone.

In order to be admitted to the same university as him, she studied hard just to follow in his footsteps.

Later, she got her wish and entered the same university with him. During their sophomore year, Ayden chose to drop out of school due to family changes.

Since then, she has never seen him again.

It has been three years now, and she only occasionally hears mentions from friends.

She didn't know if she would meet him again in the future, or when she would meet him again.

The ringtone of her cell phone rang, blocking her from her memories, and she answered the call from her best friend Sofia.

"Harper, private room 587 of Serenity Hotel."

"Okay."

Harper stopped a taxi and went to Serenity Hotel. Today is their high school class reunion. Harper felt uneasy because she didn't know Ayden would come or not today.

She didn't have high hopes, after all, he hadn't appeared at any class reunions in the past three years.

Arriving at the private room 587 of Serenity Hotel, Harper opened the door and the classmates in the room suddenly became quiet the moment they saw her.

The students looked at her with a hint of amazement in their eyes. The silence only lasted for a moment, and the scene became lively again.

"Harper is here, come and sit here."

Squad leader Andrew arranged for her to sit on the seat next to him, but she refused with a smile.

"No need, squad leader. I'll just sit next to Sofia."

Harper came to sit next to Sofia.

Harper looked around the room, but couldn’t see Ayden. He probably wasn’t going to come this time too. It had been years now. Harper was curious and wanted to know what Ayden would like now.

At this time, everyone noticed that there was an empty seat next to the squad leader, and Joel asked curiously.

"Leader, who is the seat next to you reserved for?"

Other students began to joke.

"It's not for the squad leader's girlfriend, right?"

"The squad leader has a girlfriend?"

"Squad leader, how can you abandon us and secretly get married?"

At this time, someone glanced at Harper and whispered, "Don't the squad leader like Harper?"

Andrew smiled helplessly, glanced at Yan Xi across from him, and hurriedly explained, "I don't have a girlfriend, he is our high school classmate, a very successful business person, wait a minute You'll know when he comes."

Hearing him say this, everyone became more curious.

"Who are the very successful business people?"

"The most successful ones should be Steven and Isa."

"Especially Steven, who is now a business tycoon."

"I have been with these two for a long time. I have never seen them before, most of them have been seen in the financial news."

Hearing these two familiar names, Harper and Sofia were stunned. Sofia, who was originally a loud person, was also unusually quiet at the moment.

Harper took a sip of water nervously, anticipating whether it would be him.

While everyone was still discussing in full swing, the door of the private room opened from the outside, and a familiar yet unfamiliar figure came in.

Ayden walked in wearing a black suit, and the lively room where they were chatting suddenly became quiet.

Seeing him, Harper's breath suffocated, and her reaction was a little slower. Everyone was already greeting Ayden.

That familiar figure has become a bit unfamiliar. He who was once so high-spirited now has a more mature and steady temperament, with a hint of indifference between his brows.

Ayden walked towards everyone, with a smile on his cold face, "Sorry for keeping everyone waiting."

Andrew stepped forward and greeted him to sit down, "It's okay, we didn't wait long."

"Yes, yes, yes . ."

Everyone echoed.

"Ayden, we must take a photo together later. Where is this man of the financial channel?"

Ayden chuckled lightly, "Thank you."

He looked up at a girl next to Sofia and stepped forward. He asked politely, "Can the two of us change places?"

Everyone knew that Ayden and Sofia were friends who had known each other since childhood, so the girl didn't think much and directly changed places for him.

Standing next to Sofia, Ayden gave her a look and motioned for her to move to the side.

Sofia glanced at him and said speechlessly, "What are you doing?"

Although she was dissatisfied, She moved her seat.

Seeing him sit down next to her, Harper's heart was beating violently, as if it would jump out of her body the next moment.

She pinched her clothes tightly where no one could see her, mustered up the courage to look at him and smiled politely.

Ayden came closer to her and whispered in her ear with a magnetic voice: "Long time no see, Harper."

From the first of high school to the present, Harper has beem secretly in love with Ayden for eight years. All the memories are awakened, long time no see, my youth.

*2015\, Middle School\, Library.*

Harper raised her head, weakly pushed down her black-framed glasses, and looked desperately at the books placed high up.

She was complaining in her heart, couldn't this library consider a short student?

Although she is not too short, at over 1.60 meters, the height of the book is difficult for her to reach even if she tries to stand on her tiptoes.

It was a little difficult for her. It was only five centimeters away, but she just couldn't touch it.

At this time, a slender hand stretched out, easily took the book she wanted, and handed it to her, "Is it this one?"

Harper turned around, and what she saw was a handsome young man, loosely the baggy white-blue school uniform worn on him gave him an indescribably delicate look.

He looks a bit bohemian on the outside, but there is a dazzling smile on his face.

Harper realized that she was too busy looking at him and carefully took the book from his hands.

"Thank you."

The boy smiled brightly, nodded slightly, and turned around to leave.

Looking at the boy's back, Harper realized that he was her classmate Ayden.

*Grade 9\, Class 3*

The head teacher was announcing the results of the monthly exam.

"The first place is Ayden Scott."

The boy sitting in the back row stood up. Under everyone's warm applause, he took back the monthly exam paper from the teacher.

Harper sat in a seat by the window, pushed up the black glasses on the bridge of her nose, looked at the outstanding young man, and felt a little fluttering in her heart.

Thinking about her mediocre grades, she sighed in frustration and complained from time to time about how she could be so stupid and couldn't learn no matter how hard she studied.

She kept watching him sit back in his seat  before looking back.

Mark, who was sitting next to Ayden, joked, "No.1  again, brother. I want to ask you, if I didn't see you studying every day, where did you steal the answers?" Ayden smiled, "Brother, this is called cleverness, you don't have such a thing in your brain."

Mark curled his lips speechlessly, looked at the second place not far away, and complained, "Don't let Max hear what you said. By the way, he is quite pitiful. He has been in the same class with us since junior high school, and he has been ranked second every time. He studies so hard that he has become a nerd, and his final score is not as good as you who are ignorant and incompetent."

Ayden glanced at Max and just smiled.

After school, Harper returned home, changed into slippers, and looked in the direction of the kitchen.

"Mom, I'm back."

Mother's voice came from the kitchen.

"Dinner will be served soon. You can play by yourself for a while first."

"Harper."

Harper went to her room and sat at the desk. Thinking of the sparkling young man, she opened her drawing diary and started drawing him.

Harper was on her way home from vacation.

The cry for help coming from the alley caught Harper's attention.

She carefully hid around the corner and looked worriedly at the scene happening in the alley. The girl who was bullied seemed to be her classmate.

Three girls who did not look like same high school students surrounded Sofia, and the leading girl showed a proud smile.

"Sofia, finally let me wait until you are alone."

Sofia looked at the three girls blocking her in front of her with a wary expression. Judging from the school uniforms they were wearing, they were from the same school, but she did not recognize them.

"What do you want to do?"

The leading girl looked at her contemptuously.

"I'm Mary from Class 9, Grade 1. I see you hanging around Ayden and Andrew all day long, so I'm here to warn you to stay away from them."

Sofia looked at her as if she was looking silly, speechless. Smiled.

"It's only my fault that I was reborn and knew them since I was born."

Mary stepped forward and pushed her dissatisfied, "What are you so proud of? I'm warning you, stay away from them in the future."

"What? Do you have a crush on the two of them? But I'd like to remind you, you don't have any chance. The two of them will not be with stupid people."

Mary became a little angry and stepped forward to pull him away. Hold her hair.

"I think you are looking for death. I'll warn you one last time, stay away from them."

Sofia gritted her teeth in pain. From childhood to adulthood, she didn't know how many times she was threatened because of the two of them. This was the first time she had been threatened. Someone did it once.

Sofia, who had been pampered since childhood, had never been wronged like this before. He wanted to fight back, but was unexpectedly pushed to the ground by the three of them and beaten several times.

Harper quickly took out his cell phone, rummaged for a while, and then walked into the alley.

"Stop."

The three of them stopped. Mary looked at the girl wearing the same school uniform, with a pair of big black glasses on her face. She looked soft and weak, and couldn't help but threaten her.

"Mind your own business, I'll beat you up soon." Harper swallowed nervously. She is usually quiet and doesn't like to cause trouble. This is the first time she has encountered such a thing. She doesn't know what to do next. face.

Thinking of something, she mustered up the courage to say, "I've called the police. If you don't want to be punished, you'd better leave quickly." The two girls behind Mary panicked when they heard the police, but it was Mary who had calm look on her face.

"Ah, before the police come, I'll deal with you first."

After saying that, he walked towards Harper.

Sofia stood up from the ground, endured the pain in his body, stepped forward and pushed Mary down, took Harper's hand and ran away quickly.

"Run."

Mary was helped up from the ground by the other two, and he said fiercely, "Hurry up and catch up with them."

Seeing that the three of them were about to catch up, a sudden alarm bell sounded, and Mary was instantly shocked. The three of them were panicked.

"Mary, the police are here."

"Mary, let's leave quickly."

Mary just gave up and warned fiercely, "You two, wait for me."

Looking at the three of them in panic, After leaving, Harper took out the mobile phone in his pocket and turned off the ringtone he had just set.

Noticing her operation, Sofia slightly raised the injured corner of his mouth.

"You are so smart."

Harper smiled softly.

She helped the injured Sofia to the steps of an Internet cafe deep in the alley and sat down.

Looking at her hideous face due to pain, Harper asked worriedly, "Are you okay? Do I need to take you to the hospital?" "It's okay.

Thank you so much for just now."

"It's okay. After all, we are classmates. I I can't let you be bullied."

Sofia was stunned for a moment, looked at Harper carefully, thought for a moment, and suddenly realized.

"You're Harper, right? I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you just now."

"It's okay."

Harper knew that she was usually a little transparent in the class, and the school had only started for more than a month, so it was very embarrassing not to recognize her. normal.

"Why did they beat you?"

Sofia became angry when he mentioned this, "It's not because of Ayden and Andrew."

Because of the two of them, she had been bullied many times since she was a child.