"I heard you are a writer?"

"yes."

"I heard you were a gangster when you were in school?"

"yes."

"So how did you go from being a gangster to being a writer?"

In a French-style western restaurant, romantic and soothing jazz music is playing. Through the window of the restaurant, you can see swaying plane trees and pedestrians hurrying by under the flashing neon lights at night.

This was the seventh question the woman opposite him had asked Cheng Xing since he sat down.

If it weren't for the pretty face of the woman opposite him, Cheng Xing would have stood up and left long ago.

"Can I ask some other questions?" Cheng Xing asked.

The woman shook her head and said, "I'm more curious about this question."

"I'm sorry, I can't answer you this question." Cheng Xing said.

The woman put away the smile on her face when she heard that, then she lifted her long hair by her ears and said lightly, "Giving birth is painful, I don't want to give birth to a child."

"So I don't want to get married. I was forced to go on this blind date by my parents," she added.

Cheng Xing smiled and said, "I don't want to get married either. This time I was forced by my parents."

"That's good." She breathed a sigh of relief.

The two of them were silent and the atmosphere was a little silent.

The two of them suddenly raised their hands at the same time and looked at the watches on their wrists, and then said almost in unison: "It's getting late, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

The two were stunned for a moment, then smiled at each other.

"This meal is on my table," said the woman.

"Okay, it's a blind date, there's no reason for the girl to pay the bill." Cheng Xing motioned for the waiter to come over and paid the bill first.

The woman glanced at Cheng Xing, then smiled and said, "Actually, even if we can't get married, we can just leave our contact information and be friends."

Cheng Xing stood up and waved his hand, smiling, "No need, I really have something to do. Some high school classmates are organizing a dinner party, and I have to go over there."

After saying that, Cheng Xing stood up and left.

Looking at Cheng Xing's departing back, the woman was stunned.

After walking out of the western restaurant, Cheng Xing stretched and called Zhou Yuan.

"Hey, Zhou Yuan, have you started yet?" Cheng Xing asked.

"Everyone has just arrived. Why are you coming over, great writer? Aren't you going on a blind date tonight? I heard from Aunt Chen that the blind date I'm introducing to you tonight is very good. He has good looks and a good family background." Zhou Yuan said with a smile.

"It's already been seen." Cheng Xing said.

"Ah, so fast?" Zhou Yuan asked in surprise.

"It's just a blind date, how slow can it be? OK, Zhou Yuan, send me the address via WeChat, I'll be there right away." After Cheng Xing finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Not long after, Zhou Yuanfa's location sharing appeared on WeChat, and Cheng Xing took a taxi and rushed over.

"The great writer is here, please come and sit down." After seeing Cheng Xing pushing the door in, Zhou Yuan stood up and greeted him with a smile.

Not only they stood up, but also others at the table.

There were more than a dozen men and women in total. Cheng Xing looked around and found that he didn't recognize some of them anymore, but he was familiar with some of them. They were basically his classmates from high school.

Cheng Xing sat down next to Zhou Yuan.

Faced with this classmate who is now doing well and has become a writer, many people came over to greet him and toast him.

After greeting each other, Cheng Xing picked up the glass and drank with them.

Then everyone started to drink.

We are all in our thirties and it is a class reunion, so we will definitely talk about our student days.

And there are endless stories to tell about our youth.

So, the more we talked, the more we drank.

The more we talk, the more stories we come up with.

"Do you, great writer Cheng, still remember me?" After three rounds of drinks, a woman in a pink dress with bright lipstick on her lips came over with a wine glass. She leaned on Cheng Xing's chair, bent down, lowered her head and asked with a smile.

Cheng Xing saw a hint of white in her V-neck dress.

He glanced at her, then looked away, raised the wine in the glass and said with a smile, "Wang Yan."

"Haha, you actually still remember." She drank the red wine in the glass, then smiled charmingly and said, "But the fact that you remember me is probably because Chen Qing and I had a very good relationship and were inseparable from each other."

She smiled and said, "Master Writer Cheng, you were so infatuated with Chen Qing back then. You pursued her from junior high school to high school, for a full six years. I saw it all. But it's a pity that Chen Qing had no vision and missed you."

"You can't say that. In fact, Chen Qing is doing pretty well now. The fact that Cheng Xing and Chen Qing didn't end up together back then can only be attributed to not be together." A man wearing glasses suddenly said.

"In fact, as early as high school, I knew that Cheng Xing and Chen Qing would not be able to get along." A girl named Zhao Jing suddenly said, "During the second half of senior year, wasn't the love affair between Cheng Xing and Chen Qing a hot topic in school? I secretly asked Chen Qing if she and Cheng Xing were in love. Who knew that Chen Qing said at the time that Cheng Xing was just a gangster and who would like him? At that time, I felt that they would not be able to get along."

Everyone was surprised and sighed when they heard this. When they were in school, they all thought that Cheng Xing and Chen Qing were a couple. After all, Cheng Xing was the boy who was closest to Chen Qing in the school at that time.

"I didn't expect such a thing happened in the middle. It's true. I had such a good relationship with her at that time, but she didn't even tell me. At that time, I really thought she was together with Cheng Xing." Wang Yan said with a smile.

"Okay, it's all in the past, let's drink." Zhou Yuan suddenly said.

Everyone knew that Cheng Xing pursued Chen Qing in high school. Zhou Yuan was afraid that these people would remind Cheng Xing of the past and make him feel uncomfortable, so he picked up his glass of wine to smooth things over.

What Zhou Yuan didn't know was that even after so many years, Cheng Xing's heart had long since calmed down when he heard the name again. In fact, Cheng Xing had seen her at the Ancheng No. 1 Middle School anniversary celebration a few years ago.

Still beautiful.

But at that school anniversary celebration, the person who left the deepest impression on Cheng Xing was not her, but another girl in their class.

"I saw a sentence on the Internet before. It said that everyone will meet someone in their student days who will amaze you throughout your youth. If we also had this person in our high school days, who do you think it would be?" Deng Kai, who was sitting next to Zhou Yuan, suddenly asked with a smile.

"I think it's Chen Qing."

"No, I think it's Li Yan from the next class."

"I think it's Li Zi from the second year of high school."

"I'll propose an idea, and no one has any objection." Someone suddenly said.

"Who?" everyone asked.

"Jiang Luxi." he said.

Everyone fell silent.

"She, indeed." Zhou Yuan sighed.

"If I use the word 'stunning', then it's really only her. Whether it's Chen Qing or Li Yan, we have some interactions with them, and we can talk and joke with them normally. But as for Jiang Luxi, I don't think I have ever spoken a word to her throughout my entire senior year of high school." Deng Kai said.

"If there is someone in our class who has rarely spoken to him, he would have forgotten about her after so many years. But only Jiang Luxi has this ability. It makes it difficult for people who have met her to forget her in their lifetime." said Sun Li, who was sitting opposite Zhou Yuan.

"Sun Li, you are married, so you shouldn't be afraid of your wife knowing this." Zhou Yuan said with a smile.

"Just tell the truth. Besides, she's not here." Sun Li finished speaking and then laughed, "Don't pretend, kid. When she asked you to collect your homework, you blushed and didn't even dare to raise your head."

"It's such a pity that such a good person chose to become a Buddhist monk. She also said that she would never get married in this life and wanted to be a lay Buddhist and devote herself to studying Buddhism." A female classmate named Li Li sighed.

"What? Jiang Luxi became a monk?" Deng Kai asked in surprise.

This news was too explosive for Deng Kai.

"Ah? You don't know yet. This news spread last year. It was last summer, around this time, that Jiang Luxi announced her conversion to Buddhism. She practiced at home with her hair uncut and became a lay Buddhist." Zhou Yuandao.

"Is this true?" Deng Kai touched his head, still a little bit unbelieving.

"Really? What's this 2G network of yours? Last year, the news that she became a nun was even on the trending search on TikTok." Zhou Yuan said.

"I've heard that she believes in Buddhism before, but I didn't expect that she would actually become a nun!" Deng Kai said.

"We were also shocked when we first found out about it. Last year, she was at the peak of her career. The female boss of Shenli was training her as her successor and would take her with her to almost every event. Who knew that she would announce her resignation from Shenli at that time and then announce her decision to become a nun?" said Li Li.

"If she hadn't resigned from Shenli, or chosen to become a nun, she might have become the most famous person to come out of our Ancheng in a short time." Wang Yan said with envy.

"Yes, to be able to step down from the position at a time like this and announce her resignation from Shenli to become a nun, it takes a lot of perseverance and a lot of fame and fortune to give up! She really doesn't take these things seriously." Deng Kai exclaimed.

"It's just a pity not to get married." Someone said.

Even when the matter of Jiang Luxi becoming a monk was discussed again, it still caused a lot of sighs and regrets.

Such a girl who amazed them throughout their youth, ultimately ended up becoming a nun.

How could they not feel regretful?

"So she is not from the same world as us after all. But Cheng Xing, didn't you also go to the last school anniversary celebration of No. 1 Middle School? I heard that Jiang Luxi also went there. Did you get to talk to her? Speaking of which, we haven't seen her since we graduated from high school." Sun Li asked.

"No." Cheng Xing shook his head.

At the school anniversary celebration three years ago, the school invited many celebrities who graduated from the school. Among the five people invited from their class, there were Cheng Xing, Jiang Luxi and Chen Qing from their class alone.

Seeing Chen Qing again no longer had any impact on Cheng Xing.

However, seeing Jiang Luxi again brought back many memories for Cheng Xing.

Cheng Xing's family was not poor when he was a student. On the contrary, it was considered upper-middle class in Ancheng. However, in 2017, something unexpected happened in their family.

It never rains but it pours.

The following year, Cheng Xing's mother was admitted to the hospital due to overwork.

At that time, his family urgently needed money for surgery. Cheng Xing borrowed money from many people but was still unable to raise the last 100,000 yuan. Those friends who used to get along well with him had already stayed away from him when his family encountered misfortune, so they were unwilling to lend him money.

Since his friends weren't available, Cheng Xing could only turn to his classmates. However, among those classmates who he was close to in high school, except Zhou Yuan who lent him more than 20,000 yuan that he had saved from working for two years, the rest of the classmates were unwilling to lend him money.

Including Chen Qing.

Cheng Xing was still in contact with Chen Qing when she was in college, but the contact became less frequent after she graduated.

When Cheng Xing asked Chen Qing to borrow money, Chen Qing said that 100,000 yuan was too much, and that he could borrow 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. That was the last time they talked in the following years.

Then, it was the school anniversary three years ago.

Chen Qing came over and greeted him, and the two of them chatted and laughed for a while.

But Cheng Xing had long forgotten what they were talking about at that time.

After failing to borrow money from Chen Qing, Cheng Xing had basically borrowed from everyone he could.

When he was almost in despair, Cheng Xing contacted the person he thought was the last person to lend him money.

That person is Jiang Luxi.

When Cheng Xing was in high school, he was the biggest troublemaker in the school. Apart from studying, there was nothing he wouldn't do. As the class monitor, Jiang Luxi naturally hated people like Cheng Xing the most.

Fighting with people from other schools, writing love letters to others, falling in love prematurely, smoking and drinking.

In Jiang Luxi's opinion, none of the above is what students should do.

But Cheng Xing did it all.

Therefore, Cheng Xing naturally didn't think that someone like him could borrow money from Jiang Luxi.

Moreover, Jiang Luxi's family was not well off. She was not like Chen Qing, who had 10,000 or 20,000 yuan in pocket money every month when she was in college. But in the end, after Jiang Luxi asked Cheng Xing to show her medical records, she transferred the money that night.

At that time, Cheng Xing even specifically asked Jiang Luxi why he lent him money.

In the first two years after Jiang Luxi graduated from university, her salary was not much. The 100,000 yuan should be most of her savings. She was working in Haicheng at that time, and the housing and commodity prices in Haicheng were not low.

Facing a person like Cheng Xing, Cheng Xing couldn't understand why he had to use most of his savings to help him.

But Jiang Luxi's answer to Cheng Xing was very simple.

You helped me when I was bullied by Sun Qi and her friends. Now we should repay each other and owe each other nothing.

When Cheng Xing heard this answer, he fell silent.

He didn't expect that Jiang Luxi helped him with his savings of two years just because of this little thing. If this could be considered as help, then Cheng Xing had helped countless people during his school years.

In their class, whenever someone was bullied by someone from another class or school, Cheng Xing would stand up for them, because as a middle school student, he felt that since he was the biggest bully in the school, the people in his class should not be bullied by outsiders. He had fought with others many times because of jealousy or to seek justice for Chen Qing.

In fact, he remembered the time he helped Jiang Luxi, but that time didn't really count as helping.

Because he knew in advance that Sun Qi was going to bully Jiang Luxi that night, and because this matter was related to Chen Qing, Cheng Xing would not have cared about this matter because of Chen Qing.

It was just that he left school late that day and happened to see the scene of Jiang Luxi being bullied. The girl's stubborn and unyielding look standing in the wind and rain left a deep impression on Cheng Xing.

Perhaps because he didn't want this cold and pure girl who was like a fairy to remain in his youthful memories with an unbearable appearance when graduation was approaching, Cheng Xing finally stepped forward to help her out.

The last time I saw Jiang Luxi was at the school anniversary three years ago.

The last conversation I had with Jiang Luxi was about the time she came to my aid six years ago.

But it was these two times that made this figure remain in Cheng Xing's memory for many years.

He will never forget those words: You helped me when I was bullied by Sun Qi and others. Let's repay each other and owe each other nothing.

"Come on, Brother Cheng, when we were in high school, we were never bullied by anyone from other classes because of you. Just for this, I have to toast you a glass. Come on, drink it." Sun Li said and drank it all in one gulp.

The others also raised their glasses and toasted Cheng Xing.

At this time, Cheng Xing was also toasting and accepting everyone who came.

Somehow, Cheng Xing, who hadn't been drunk for a long time, just wanted to get drunk at this moment, without asking about Li Shang.

By the end of the dinner, everyone was drunk.

"Brother Cheng, do you want me to support you?" Zhou Yuan asked at this time.

"No need, you guys go first." Cheng Xing said.

Zhou Yuan came with his girlfriend, and he was being supported by his girlfriend. How could Cheng Xing let him support him?

"It's okay, Zhou Yuan, you guys go first, I'll support you." At this time, Wang Yan came up and supported Cheng Xing.

Cheng Xing felt a little dizzy at this time, and could no longer sense who was next to him. He could only smell a strong fragrance. When he went downstairs and the wind blew, his head became clearer, and he found that the person who was holding him was Wang Yan.

Cheng Xing calmly avoided Wang Yan's bright red lips that were about to touch his mouth, hailed a taxi, and got in. He closed the door, fastened his seat belt, and said to Wang Yan outside the car window: "It's getting late, go home early."

Looking at the taxi disappearing before her eyes, Wang Yan pouted and sighed.

After the taxi stopped in the community, Cheng Xing walked back home with tired steps.

After arriving home, Cheng Xing lay down directly on the sofa.

He turned on the air conditioner in the room, then opened Douyin and casually scrolled through it twice.

Finally, Cheng Xing's gaze stopped on a video.

It is almost September now, and middle schools across the country have already started classes.

This is a welcome party for a certain experimental high school.

The girl in the video is wearing a red hat, an orange shirt and a gray plaid skirt.

There was nothing on the two slender white legs, and the feet were wearing white socks and white sneakers.

The girl wore a pair of glasses and had two braided pigtails hanging down to her chest.

At this moment, Cheng Xing suddenly saw the shadow of Jiang Luxi in her.

It was as if I was back at the graduation party in my senior year of high school.

That day, Jiang Luxi's ponytail swayed gently as she performed a song on the stage.

But the girl in the video is not as pretty as Jiang Luxi.

But the campus stage full of youthfulness, the girls' innocent attire and clear, healing voices, suddenly made Cheng Xing a little dazed.

I will grow up slowly, under the sun, moon and stars, and occasionally talk to the plants and trees.

Then ride on the wind, scatter to the ends of the earth, fall into the soil and take root and sprout!

You have to wait for me, in the passing time, even though the years have been struggling.

I will arrive under the moonlight, after dawn and before sunset!

The lyrics are well written and the singing is beautiful.

As Cheng Xing listened, he felt tired and gradually fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)

Xing felt that this life was very dazzling, as if someone had placed a light bulb of several thousand watts in front of his eyes.

When Cheng Xing opened his eyes, he saw a fiery red sun hanging in the sky, looking at him viciously.

His eyes were a little painful, Cheng Xing squinted and looked away, only to find that he was holding a basketball in his hand and there was a basketball hoop not far away. This basketball court was so familiar.

Looking to the side, he saw Zhou Yuan, Sun Li and others.

But these people have become younger, now looking like they are 17 or 18 years old.

He could still vaguely hear Zhou Yuan shouting, "Brother Cheng, shoot the ball quickly!

Shoot the ball quickly!" Cheng Xing subconsciously threw the basketball in his hand.

With a bang, the basketball fell to the ground without even hitting the basket.

"Brother Cheng, what happened today? I can't even touch the basket when I'm so close." Sun Li asked in confusion.

Cheng Xing is very good at playing basketball, especially shooting.

It's less than one meter away from the basket. It doesn't matter if the shot doesn't go in, after all, everyone fails sometimes.

But this didn't even touch the basket, it was really too exaggerated.

It's nothing like Cheng Xing's usual level.

"It's probably because of the love letter I wrote to Chen Qing after school this morning. Chen Qing must have seen the love letter now." Zhou Yuan said with a smile.

His head still hurt a little, and the scene in front of him gave Cheng Xing a very real feeling.

Because he could feel the heat of the sun on his body, and also found that these youthful versions of Zhou Yuan and Sun Li were all lifelike and vivid.

He had dreamed of returning to high school many times before, but none of them were as real as this one.

While Cheng Xing was still in a daze, the basketball court suddenly became lively, and the other people who were still playing basketball all rushed over. Cheng Xing instinctively turned around and saw three girls about seventeen or eighteen years old walking towards him.

The girl in the lead was wearing a light blue floral dress and her black hair was tied into a ponytail at the back of her head. Her smooth and white calves looked even whiter under the sunlight.

The girl was wearing a pair of white canvas shoes and walked up to Cheng Xing with some anger on her face.

"Cheng Xing, explain to everyone what this love letter means. Now everyone thinks we are in love. I told you before that I would not fall in love before college. Don't write me such things in the future. I won't agree." She took out a piece of paper in her hand, then raised her head and questioned Cheng Xing.

The girl was very pretty, with a delicate and fair face. Because of the hot weather and the hurry, her fair face was a little red. There was a hint of anger in her pretty eyes, and she was looking at Cheng Xing arrogantly.

Cheng Xing was not unfamiliar with this girl.

Chen Qing, the girl that Cheng Xing had pursued from junior high school to high school.

As for the two girls following her.

One is Wang Yan and the other is Li Dan.

Cheng Xing frowned. He felt that the world was becoming more and more real.

He thought at first he was dreaming, but dreams were not like that.

Because I haven't seen this Li Dan for a long time since I graduated from high school, but at this moment her face is so clear, so clear that it is exactly the same as the Li Dan I met in high school.

Cheng Xing bent down and picked up the basketball on the ground.

He touched the basketball in his hand, and Cheng Xing suddenly had a bold guess.

Because this basketball has a real touch.

He threw the basketball in his hand to Zhou Yuan, and then said: "Zhou Yuan, throw the basketball to me."

"Ah? Okay, Brother Cheng." Zhou Yuan didn't know what Cheng Xing meant by asking him to throw the basketball in this situation, but he always did as Cheng Xing said. Zhou Yuan threw the basketball back to Cheng Xing.

But this time, Cheng Xing didn't use his hands to catch the basketball, but let it hit him hard.

Feeling the real pain of the basketball hitting his body, a smile appeared on Cheng Xing's lips.

His bold guess was not wrong.

Maybe it’s because I’ve dreamt about high school scenes too many times in the middle of the night in recent years.

God sent him back to the high school basketball court thirteen years ago.

The dilapidated basketball court and Zhou Yuan, about sixteen or seventeen years old.

And, seventeen-year-old Chen Qing took the love letter and rejected his confession on the school basketball court.

This node is a node that Cheng Xing will never forget in his memory.

He remembered the exact time of the day.

Monday, September 6, 2010.

"You want an explanation, right?" Cheng Xing looked down at Chen Qing in front of him and asked with a smile.

Chen Qing was stunned, looking at Cheng Xing who was looking down at her with a smile. Chen Qing always felt that Cheng Xing at this moment was a little different from before, but she couldn't tell what was different. However, no matter what kind of changes Cheng Xing had taken place, Chen Qing had to let Cheng Xing explain it clearly in front of everyone today.

Ancheng No. 1 Middle School prohibits premature love.

If he didn't help her explain it clearly, then the news would be passed on to the teacher, and then from the teacher to her parents, and she would inevitably be lectured. Moreover, she had no relationship with Cheng Xing, and the rumors would spread and have a bad impact on her.

"Well, it's good for everyone if you explain it clearly. Our current priority should be to study. If there is anything else, we can deal with it when we get to university." Chen Qing nodded.

Cheng Xing has been paying attention to a figure for a long time.

The figure who was said to be from a poor family but could make everyone in No. 1 Middle School feel ashamed of themselves.

She was like a cloud of mist, like a fairy who accidentally fell from the sky and traveled around the human world, then ascended and left after experiencing the ups and downs of life. This world only recorded a few traces of her presence.

There seemed to be a veil always covering her.

It is hard to see through, full of mystery and secrets.

If she didn't try to understand and recognize it, then would the trajectory of her life in this life be the same as in her previous life, leaving only traces of her presence at Ancheng No. 1 Middle School, and then losing all trace and becoming a nun?

Cheng Xing took the love letter from Chen Qing.

Then he walked toward the back of the crowd.

Wherever Cheng walked, the students watching on both sides automatically made way for him.

No longer blocked by the crowd, the cold and elegant girl whose stunning beauty could not be concealed even through her glasses appeared in people's sight.

She was very quiet, as if the people around her had nothing to do with her.

"We will have self-study in the morning, and the teacher wants you to go back." She looked at Cheng Xing, said something quietly, and wanted to turn around and leave.

"Please wait a moment." Cheng Xing suddenly called her.

The girl turned around and looked at him in confusion.

Cheng Xing held the love letter in his hand and smiled at the people around him: "Didn't Chen Qing just ask me to give her an explanation? This love letter was indeed written by me, but the person I wanted to send it to was not her, but Jiang Luxi."

After Cheng Xing finished speaking, he handed the love letter in his hand to Jiang Luxi and then left.

Jiang Luxi, start from here.

Let’s get to know each other first.

…

(End of this chapter)

On the school basketball court of Ancheng No. 1 Middle School, everyone was standing there in a daze.

Cheng Xing and Chen Qing are two relatively famous people in Ancheng No. 1 Middle School.

The former is the biggest gangster in Ancheng No. 1 Middle School, and few students in the entire Ancheng No. 1 Middle School dare to really provoke him.

The latter is privately recognized by many boys in Ancheng No. 1 Middle School as one of the most beautiful girls in the school.

In addition, Chen Qing's academic performance in school is also very good, her father is the director of the Municipal Cultural Bureau, and her family conditions are unmatched by many people in the school, so there are many students who like her in the school.

Almost everyone in the school knows that Cheng Xing likes Chen Qing.

Even the teachers in the school, including the old man guarding the door, have heard of it.

During the two years that Cheng Xing studied at No. 1 Middle School, he often fought with others because of Chen Qing.

No matter what time it is, you can always see Cheng Xing beside Chen Qing.

Although the two were very close, Chen Qing and Cheng Xing were not together.

This afternoon, someone spread the news that Cheng Xing had written a love letter to Chen Qing. Then, during lunch time, the news spread throughout No. 1 Middle School in an instant. Then, many people began to pay attention to Chen Qing's reaction after receiving the love letter.

When Chen Qing came back from eating outside the school, she was surprised to hear people discussing this matter. She returned to the classroom with a gloomy face, and without even looking at the love letter, she angrily took the love letter to the basketball court to find Cheng Xing.

Seeing such a reaction, everyone naturally followed suit.

It’s only been a few days since the first semester of No. 1 Middle School started, and it’s a rare opportunity to have such a big melon to eat.

Naturally, no one wants to sit in a dull classroom on a hot day.

The development of things was beyond their expectations.

But this twists and turns of the plot, which they could never have imagined, made everyone feel uneasy for a long time.

They came to the right place on this basketball court.

They also ate the right melon.

Everyone who reacted rushed to their respective classes impatiently.

This melon, this gossip, is stuck in my throat and it's really uncomfortable.

They want to share it so much.

Jiang Luxi looked at the love letter in his hand and then left.

On the originally lively basketball court, only Chen Qing, Wang Yan and Li Dan were left.

"What does Cheng Xing mean?" Li Dan asked in surprise.

"What else can it mean? He was just angry and humiliated after being rejected. He was rejected by our Miss Chen in public, and he couldn't save face, so he could only find a way to fight back and save face." Wang Yan laughed and said, "But this way of saving face is too bad."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Li Dan smiled and said, "But Cheng Xing is really good. He has been pursuing our Qingqing for so many years. He is also very handsome and his family is well-off. It's just that his academic performance is a little bit poor. Miss Qingqing, don't you really want to consider him?"

"What are you talking about? We are still students now. Besides, premature love is prohibited in our school." After hearing Wang Yan's explanation, Chen Qing said with a smile.

"They say premature love is prohibited, but aren't everyone dating in private? I can't even count the number of people in our class who have a partner on one hand," said Li Dan.

"That includes you, right, little slut? Don't think I don't know. Are you dating Zhang Qi from another school?" Chen Qing said as he was about to tickle Li Dan.

"Hehe, it's just a love affair, how can you be a little slut? Wang Yan has been dating someone since junior high school, why don't you say she is a little slut? Miss Chen, you are so unfair. Don't tickle me anymore. If you tickle me again, I will tickle you back." Li Dan laughed as he ran.

The sound of the girl's silver bells and the chirping of cicadas in autumn intertwined together.

In this place called campus, a word called youth was formed.

Cheng walked very slowly.

There is a tree-lined avenue between the basketball court and their teaching building.

There are many sycamore trees planted on both sides of the boulevard.

Many times, when watching youth movies and reading novels, whenever a paulownia tree appears in the scene, Cheng Xing would wonder whether there would be such an avenue lined with paulownia trees in everyone’s youth campus.

Cheng Xing raised his head and could see the bright sunshine through the lush leaves.

This is not 2023, that era where time flies and Cheng Xing feels a little old-fashioned.

This is 2010, a decade when time was still slow and the sun was still bright.

In this era, at this time, people born in the 80s are young adults, and people born in the 90s are still teenagers.

Cheng Xing picked up a fallen leaf on the road and stroked the texture on it.

When he reached the end of the road, a bright smile appeared on Cheng Xing's lips.

Hello! 2010.

Facing the early autumn sunshine, Cheng Xing walked through the corridor of the teaching building with familiarity, then walked up one flight of stairs after another and came to his most familiar Class 3 of Grade 12.

As he stepped into the classroom, those unfamiliar faces that he had originally forgotten gradually became familiar, and gradually matched the faces that had been invisible for more than ten years. Cheng Xing even remembered the names of many people.

"Sun Ping, why are you staring at me like that?"

Cheng Xing asked with a smile to a girl in the first row who had been looking at him.

"They are all watching." Sun Ping pointed at the people next to her.

"It's better to look prettier now and eat less snacks in the future." Cheng Xing looked at her and smiled.

"Ah? Oh oh." Sun Ping's ears turned red and she lowered her head instantly.

Cheng Xing smiled. Sun Ping was very thin in high school, but she gained weight later. After graduating from university, she became a teacher and worked in No. 1 Middle School.

Cheng Xing had met her once a few years ago when he attended the anniversary celebration of No. 1 Middle School.

Zhou Yuan had intended to invite her to the party before his rebirth, but the school had just started and she, the class teacher, was too busy to leave, so he gave up.

Time flies, and several years have passed.

Everyone is at the most youthful and brilliant age.

This feeling is so good.

Cheng Xing sat down in his seat.

His academic performance was not good, so he could only sit in the last row of the class.

On his desk are new books that were distributed just after the start of school.

Of course, these new books are all mainly review materials.

Cheng Xing opened the book and could smell the pleasant fragrance of books.

Every time new books were distributed at the beginning of the school year, Cheng Xing liked to take a few sniffs of the fragrance.

Because the scent of new books is really nice.

It’s a pity that by the time we reach the third year of high school, no more textbooks will be distributed.

The scent of the Chinese textbooks is the best among all these textbooks.

Cheng Xing looked through the materials and found that he could understand some of the Chinese materials.

But subjects like mathematics and chemistry are like reading an incomprehensible book.

While Cheng Xing was looking through the review materials, Zhou Yuan walked in from outside.

"Brother Cheng, you are really awesome." Zhou Yuan gave Cheng Xing a thumbs up and said, "It was originally a very embarrassing thing, but now it is Chen Qing who should be the one who suffers."

Zhou Yuan said: "Brother Cheng, don't be sad. I think Chen Qing still likes you, but she rejected you because of the rumors in the school and she was afraid that the teacher and her parents would know."

"Look, in the past two years, apart from you, there is no other boy who can be so close to Chen Qing." Zhou Yuan saw Cheng Xing flipping through the book, thinking that Cheng Xing was feeling uncomfortable or stimulated by something, so he spoke out to comfort him.

"Okay, I'm not upset." Cheng Xing smiled and closed the materials in his hand, then asked, "Do you have a Chinese textbook for the first and second year of high school? Lend it to me."

Apart from these newly distributed review materials, all the books distributed by Cheng Xing for his first and second year of high school are gone.

Perhaps the typical situation for a poor student is that his textbooks are gone before the semester is over.

Obviously, Cheng Xing is one of these people.

"Brother Cheng, are you okay?" Zhou Yuan asked in a daze.

Cheng Xing wanted to borrow a book from him, but the sun was rising from the west?

"Did you lose all your books?" Cheng Xing asked.

"No, I can't find the ones from the first semester of the first year of high school and the second semester of the second year of high school, but I still have the ones from the second semester of the second year of high school." Zhou Yuan said, and handed him a tattered Chinese textbook from the drawer.

Cheng Xing took it and flipped through it, and saw that Zhou Yuan had left a classic painting on almost every page, including an unsightly artistic portrait of a female body.

Cheng Xing glanced at him, but this guy shamelessly asked, "How is it? Does it look good?"

Cheng Xing ignored this guy and was about to read the article in the textbook for a while when a figure suddenly appeared in front of him. The figure was silent and Cheng Xing did not realize someone was coming until he saw the light in the textbook dim.

Cheng Xing raised his head and saw Jiang Luxi, wearing glasses and holding the love letter in his hand, standing quietly in front of him.

Cheng Xing subconsciously wanted to close the book, but he still saw the girl's ears starting to turn red.

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(End of this chapter)