Xiao baby, what would you do if I liked you?
Then I like you too...
01
Some things, the more you don't want to face them, the faster they will appear in front of you.
For example, that fun knowledge contest that gives people a headache.
Ever since the last kiss triggered by a plate of beef tongue, Xiao Baobei has been avoiding Lin Muran intentionally or unintentionally.
In fact, Xiao Baobei avoided Lin Muran not only because of the kiss, but more because of Shen Xingru's words last time, which unconsciously caused a chemical reaction in her heart, causing her to have a strange feeling of blushing and heartbeating every time she saw Lin Muran afterwards.
In order to avoid this feeling, Xiao Baobei tried to find ways to avoid Lin Muran, but for some reason, they always met by chance.
For example, the day before yesterday, Xiao Baobei secretly inquired about Lin Muran's class time. While Lin Muran was about to attend class, she ran to the library alone to read books. However, she did not expect that Lin Muran's class was scheduled to study in the library.
As soon as Lin Muren saw Xiao Baobei, he forced her to review. In order to hide her complicated and uneasy emotions, she used the inexplicable kiss as an excuse to continue being angry. No matter what Lin Muren asked her, she responded with a roll of her eyes.
For example, yesterday, Xiao Baobei and Shen Xingru made an appointment to eat hot pot outside the school, but they ran into Chen Xing and Lin Muren outside the restaurant. There are hundreds of hot pot restaurants in this city, and it was just such a coincidence that the four of them went to the same hot pot restaurant. Under the mediation of Shen Xingru and Chen Xing, Xiao Baobei couldn't keep being angry. After all, Lin Muren was so calm, and it would be abnormal if he kept caring about it.
So, after trying hard to calm his panicked heart, Xiao Baobei decided to forget Shen Xingru's strange words that disturbed his mind and reconcile with Lin Muren.
After the two reconciled, they began a new round of review for the fun knowledge contest.
Although Xiao Baobei has been trying very hard to remember those boring knowledge points, judging from the results of Lin Muran's spot checks, Xiao Baobei is indeed a poor student in the liberal arts!
Not long after Lin Muran gave up training Xiao Baobei, the fun knowledge competition arrived.
On the day of the competition, Lin Muran personally ran downstairs to the girls' dormitory to pick up Xiao Baobei.
Baby Xiao followed Lin Muran to the competition venue with an uneasy heart.
Before the competition, Xiao Baobei thought that this sounded like a small competition, which might be held in a large classroom, and the number of students who came to watch would probably be less than 100. But when she arrived at the competition site, she found that the competition was so formal and serious. It was not only held in the school's small theater, but also attracted hundreds of students.
Xiao Baobei was not someone who had never seen the world. When she was in high school, she once represented her school in the National Chemistry Experiment Competition and won the third place in the country. However, today she was not going to do an experiment, nor to deal with the familiar friends of the periodic table and calculation formulas, but to play a game with a bunch of words that she could not understand and would make her dizzy. Naturally, Xiao Baobei was a little nervous, and her palms began to sweat.
"Why, classmate is nervous too?" Lin Muren, who was standing aside, saw that Xiao Baobei's face had turned pale since he entered the theater gate, so he pretended to be relaxed and teased.
Xiao Baobei glanced at Lin Muran and turned her head away unhappily. As soon as she turned her head, a huge poster with the words "Come on Xiao Baobei, Xiao Baobei is the best" appeared in front of her.
The ones holding the posters were Shen Xingru, Chen Xing and Xichuan.
"Baby, are you surprised?" She originally wanted to sneak up behind Xiao Baobei, but she didn't expect to be discovered. Even so, Shen Xingru was still proud of her huge poster.
"This, this, what is this?" Looking at the huge poster, Xiao Baobei was so surprised that his mouth couldn't close.
"This is a poster to cheer you on! Isn't it great? I drew your cartoon avatar!" Chen Xing pointed to a big-headed cartoon doll with the "victory" sign on it.
"Don't forget, this is also my contribution! I bought all these materials!" Nishikawa also took the opportunity to take credit.
"That cartoon character looks quite like you." Lin Muren added.
After Xiao Baobei glanced at Lin Muran, he walked to Shen Xingru's side and thanked her with a stiff smile: "Okay, I like it very much, thank you!"
But even so, she still felt that this was too high-profile. If she lost, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing?
"You're welcome! Your good grades are the best way to thank you!" Chen Xing blinked happily at Xiao Baobei, "But I believe in Lin Muran. With him around, you will definitely get good results!"
"Yes! You must win. I don't want to be the vice president anymore! You should also give me some private time to pursue my schoolmate!" While saying this, Nishikawa was looking around for prey.
Listening to Xichuan's words, Xiao Baobei's little knot in her heart was untied again. She originally thought that she would replace Xichuan as Lin Muran's partner, which would make Xichuan unhappy.
But looking at Xichuan's current look, it seems that he really wants to escape from Lin Muran's sea of ​​suffering!
"Oh, baby, just remember, just stand there and leave everything to Lin Muran!" Shen Xingru added.
Seeing how Shen Xingru believed in Lin Muran, Xiao Baobei felt a little sour and muttered unconvincedly: "You all believe in him so much, why don't you make a cheering sign for him too!"
"Because he doesn't need it..." Shen Xingru blurted out.
After hearing these words, Xiao Baobei's previous little touch disappeared. She couldn't help but roll her eyes again and said unhappily: "I'm going to the toilet."
After saying that, she walked towards the bathroom.
After going to the toilet, Xiao Baobei looked at the mirror in the bathroom and kept encouraging himself with his eyes.
"Stop making faces at the mirror, you won't win." Just then, a slightly sarcastic voice came from behind Xiao Baobei.
When Xiao Baobei looked at Su Mengchen standing next to him in the mirror, the phrase "enemies often meet on a narrow road" suddenly popped up in his mind.
"I asked you to give Lin Muran to me, but you refused. I have no choice but to do it myself..." Su Mengchen said coldly to Xiao Baobei while fixing her makeup.
Listening to Su Mengchen's words, Xiao Baobei just couldn't figure out what ?
"Do you think that if you get first place, Lin Muren will be with you?" Xiao Baobei expressed his speculation.
"No!" Su Mengchen turned her head and smiled slyly, "I just want to get first place, take the title of president of the literature club, and then let Lin Muran know who is the girl most qualified to stand by his side."
Looking at Su Mengchen's confident look , Xiao Baobei just, hehe, hehe...
Lin Muren’s vision is not like this, right?
Someone as arrogant as him wouldn't care about these things!
In his heart, he is the best in the world. Why would he fall in love with Su Mengchen just because she is more capable?
Besides, the game hasn’t started yet, so it’s still unclear who will win or lose!
Baby Xiao glanced at Su Mengchen and couldn't help showing a sympathetic expression.
"If Lin Muren falls in love with me by then, I will return Li Yange to you!" Su Mengchen ignored Xiao Baobei's sympathetic eyes and was completely immersed in her own perfect fantasy.
"Keep it for yourself, thank you." After saying that, Baby Xiao turned around and walked out of the bathroom.
After the conversation just now, she had two thoughts.
The first is that when I watched idol dramas before, the third parties in them were often beautiful and intelligent, and they would come up with all kinds of bad ideas. But in real life, this Su Mengchen is really stupid!
The second is that Su Mengchen and Li Yange are really a perfect match!
The game will start in ten minutes.
Shen Xingru, Chen Xing, and Xichuan had already sat in the audience holding the exaggerated cheering poster. Xiao Baobei stood behind the stage, looking at the people in the audience through the gap in the red curtain, and couldn't help but get nervous again.
"Have you remembered everything you read in the library these days?" Lin Muren asked.
Xiao Baobei wanted to answer that she remembered it, but her mind was blank about the knowledge she had learned in the past few days. So she nodded hesitantly at first, and then shook her head in frustration.
"Do you really want to win this competition?" Lin Muren asked again.
Xiao Baobei glanced at Lin Muran, then gave him an expression that said "of course" and said, "Do you want to lose?"
"I never like to lose, but sometimes, losing doesn't mean anything."
"Losing is failure. Who likes to fail..." Xiao Baobei never likes failure, so she always studies very hard to achieve the goals she wants to achieve.
But sometimes in life, you will not succeed just because you work hard.
For example, Xiao Baobei tried very hard to get closer to her and Li Yange's love, but in the end she lost.
"I don't like failure, but I have to accept it!"
Xiao Baobei listened to what Lin Muran said, and he didn't believe it came from his mouth. Lin Muran, who was always self-righteous and thought he was great, would actually accept failure?
"Don't be nervous when you go on stage. If you feel very nervous , take a deep breath. Try not to look at the students below and keep your mind clear. If you get nervous looking at the audience, then imagine them as something you are not afraid of. Shen Xingru said that you are a top student in science and you are excellent in chemistry, so you can imagine the audience as the tools you need to do experiments."
The long speech that Lin Muren just said was the most serious that Xiao Baobei had listened to since she met him.
She followed Lin Muran's instructions, took a deep breath, and then imagined the audience through the curtain as experimental instruments.
The amazing thing is that Lin Muran’s method is really effective, and Xiao Baobei feels that his tension is relieved a lot.
"Hey, thank you." Baby Xiao said with some gratitude.
Hearing Xiao Baobei's thanks, Lin Muren raised a barely noticeable smile.
While Xiao Baobei was still trying hard to recall the literary knowledge he had read in the past two days, the director reminded them that it was time to go on stage.
As the curtain opened, Xiao Baobei looked at the excited faces of hundreds of audience members and suddenly felt uneasy.
"Think of them as alcohol lamps and microscopes. Alcohol lamps and microscopes..."
Baby Xiao warned himself in his heart, but his eyes couldn't help but drift away.
"We would like to invite the first group, Lin Muran, Xiao Baobei."
When the host read out their names, there was a deafening roar from the audience. Of course, these cheers were all for Lin Muran.
Baby Xiao followed Lin Muran's footsteps onto the stage. When they were almost at their seats, a shrill voice floated into her ears.
"What qualifications does this Xiao baby have to stand with Lin Muran?"
Hearing this voice, Xiao Baobei's thoughts immediately flashed back. What she saw in front of her was no longer the experimental tools, but the audience who were looking at her with questioning eyes.
One of his legs went weak and Xiao Baobei fell to the ground.
As she fell, there was a burst of laughter and jeers from the audience.
Baby Xiao collapsed on the ground. She felt an unprecedented sense of frustration and a buzzing sound in her ears.
If only there was a hole in the ground, she would crawl into it without hesitation.
"Stand up." At this moment, a familiar voice came to her ears, and then a strong and powerful hand pulled her up from the ground.
Baby Xiao stared blankly at Lin Muran who helped him up, a hint of disbelief flashing through his mind.
This incredible feeling, not sure if it was due to today's lighting or the atmosphere at the moment, produced a different chemical reaction in her heart.
"I think as my girlfriend, Lin Muren, Xiao baby is still qualified to be my partner!" Lin Muren took over the microphone from the host and said in the direction where the harsh voice had just come from.
Such a sudden sentence dropped a bomb in the hearts of hundreds of people, and the entire audience exploded.
Baby Xiao, who was standing next to Lin Muran, opened his eyes wide, unable to believe what had just happened.
"Why are you standing there? Let's go. You don't want me to carry you over, do you?" Looking at Xiao Baobei's dazed look, Lin Muren raised a sly smile.
This sentence finally brought Xiao Baobei back to her senses. She couldn't let Lin Muran hug her. If she did, the entire audience would throw water bottles at her!
As Xiao Baobei walked towards her seat, she was secretly wondering in her heart, why did she feel so happy when she heard Lin Muren say that she was his girlfriend?
I've never felt this kind of happiness before...
As Xiao Baobei thought about this, the words that Shen Xingru said to her in the dormitory that day flashed back to her mind, and she couldn't help but blush and her heart beat fast again.
After Xiao Baobei and Lin Muran stood in their seats, the host calmed the audience down and began to introduce several other groups of students.
It was not until the first round of quick answers ended and the second round of answers by his partner began that Xiao Baobei came to his senses.
I heard that the second round, in which partners answer questions alone, is a new part of this year's competition.
As luck would have it, Xiao Baobei, who had decided to be just a decoration, ran directly into the muzzle of the gun.
"It's okay. It's okay if you didn't answer any questions correctly." Just before the second round was about to begin, Lin Muran comforted Xiao Baobei with a relaxed look on his face.
"How can I be okay? I'm sure I won't be able to answer any of the questions. I'm doomed, I'm doomed." Xiao Baobei felt that what happened to him could not be described with the four words "misfortunes never come singly".
"You have to believe in yourself, you can do it..." Having said this, Lin Muran paused as if he was keeping someone in suspense, and revealed a sly smile.
Baby Xiao thought Lin Muran would encourage her.
But I didn’t expect the next sentence to be: “You can definitely answer one question correctly.”
After hearing Lin Muran's entire sentence, Xiao Baobei rolled his eyes at Lin Muran again.
After rolling her eyes, the host announced the start of the second round. What frustrated Xiao Baobei was that she didn't even understand what many of the questions were saying, let alone the answers.
In the ten-minute partner-answer session, Xiao Baobei lived up to expectations and answered one question correctly.
The title of that question is, "If life could always be like our first meeting, why would the autumn wind bring sorrow to the painted fan?" Who is the author?
Xiao Baobei knew these two lines of poetry by heart, and was also familiar with the name "Nalan Rongruo". So with this question, she avoided the embarrassing situation of getting zero points.
Of course, compared to other groups that scored eight or even ten points, her one point was a bit shabby.
"Lin Muran, Xiao baby, total score for the first and second rounds: 40 points!"
"Li Yange, Su Mengchen, total score for the first and second rounds: 40 points!"
"These are the two groups that won first place in the first half. Let's give them a round of applause and hope they will have more exciting performances next time! The other three groups that will enter the second half are..."
Listening to the host announcing the specific scores and rankings, Xiao Baobei's mouth was so surprised that it turned into an O shape. She spent the entire first round of quick answers in a daze. She didn't expect that in the first round with a full score of 40, Lin Muren actually got 39 points!
Not only did they not get eliminated, they even took first place!
"Not bad! With your help, I actually got the first place! My guess was right! You answered one question correctly!" After hearing the score, Lin Muran also expressed his opinion.
Of course, this view also earned a roll of the eyes from Xiao Baobei.
"Lin Muran, Xiao baby, keep up the good work in the second round!" At this time, Su Mengchen and Li Yange passed by them, and Su Mengchen left these words with a fake smile.
"Hmph!" Looking at the two people's backs as they walked away, Xiao Baobei couldn't help but make a face.
It's still a draw! Is it necessary to be so arrogant?
"Baby, your performance just now was amazing!" Shen Xingru, holding a cheering poster, shouted to Xiao Baby.
Looking at the excited Shen Xingru, Xiao Baobei couldn't understand why getting one point was considered a good performance?
"Yes! That's really great! We were all worried for you! We were afraid that you couldn't even answer that question!" Chen Xing, who was following behind Shen Xingru, handed a bottle of water to Xiao Baobei and Lin Muren respectively.
Xiao Baobei took the water reluctantly. Seeing the two people so surprised, she didn't know whether she should be happy or not. Lin Muren on the side tried hard to hold back his expression of wanting to laugh.
“The impromptu poetry session will begin soon! It’s decided by drawing lots. Baby, I don’t think you will be that lucky. As long as Lin Muren gets the lottery spot, you win!” Shen Xingru was sitting next to Xiao Baobei, completely unaware of Xiao Baobei’s increasingly ugly expression.
“Yeah, as long as Lin Muren draws the number later, you will definitely win!” Chen Xing did not forget to add fuel to the fire.
Lin Muren saw Xiao Baobei's ugly expression, but a sly smile appeared on his lips. He knew that Xiao Baobei wanted to win the competition with her own ability, but Lin Muren wanted to use this competition to tell her that everyone has things they are not good at, and her ability could not be fully utilized in this university known for liberal arts, so she should changing to a science-oriented university.
Of course, Lin Muren kept this thought in his heart and didn't tell anyone.
As Shen Xingru and Chen Xing were arguing with each other, Xiao Baobei's patience finally reached its limit: "Hey, don't keep talking about Lin Muran, okay? Even without him, I can still win the game!"
After Xiao Baobei finished speaking, Shen Xingru and Chen Xing looked at each other, and then asked in unison: "Really?"
"Really." Although Xiao Baobei knew in her heart that she would definitely lose this competition without Lin Muran, she still wanted to show off her strength.
Seeing Xiao Baobei's confident look, Shen Xingru and Chen Xing fell silent.
"The second round of the competition will begin soon. All groups of students are welcome to return to their respective seats." The host's voice sounded, and Lin Muran pulled Xiao Baobei onto the stage.
Shen Xingru and Chen Xing looked at the two people's backs as they walked onto the stage and couldn't help but shook their heads at the same time.
"Baby, do you seriously think you can win the championship without relying on Lin Muran?" Chen Xing asked.
"I don't think you're serious!" Shen Xingru answered uncertainly.
"Hey, what are you looking at? Let's go to the stage and cheer for them!" Nishikawa, who came out of the bathroom, was a little confused because he missed everything that just happened.
“Baby just said that she could get first place on her own even without Lin Muran.” Chen Xing explained briefly.
"She's telling a joke..."
Listening to Xichuan's words, Shen Xingru and Chen Xing nodded repeatedly. She was telling a joke... This sentence was enough to summarize everything that Xiao Baobei had just said.
While the three of them were watching and discussing enthusiastically, Xiao Baobei on the stage was feeling nervous and complicated.
The reason for her anxiety is that she has been preparing for this competition for a long time, and she hopes to achieve good results. But at the same time, she knows that if she is drawn in this draw, her hope of winning first place will be slim.
After all the contestants came on stage, the host actually told everyone that this time the competition would be a little more exciting.
How can there be any excitement in such a knowledge contest that is not interesting at all?
Just as this thought flashed through Xiao Baobei's mind, the host announced a new rule that almost made her jaw drop.
"As everyone knows, the second part of our fun knowledge contest is the improvisational poetry creation part. In previous years, we drew lots, with two people in each group. Whoever drew the lot would improvise a poem of any subject. This year is very special. You can see that we have five groups of contestants on the stage. Each of these five groups consists of one man and one woman. In view of such an interesting combination, a classmate suggested to us that we should do something different this year! We let the girls come out and improvise a poem about love for the male contestants!"
After hearing this new rule , Xiao Baobei almost fell to the ground again. Su Mengchen, who was in the next group, looked at Xiao Baobei with confidence.
The classmate the host mentioned was probably Su Mengchen...
"Hey, remember, it's a poem about love." Hearing this new rule, Lin Muren didn't seem worried at all, but seemed quite happy.
Originally, improvising poetry was already a very difficult thing for Xiao Baobei. Now the theme was actually a love poem, and her object was actually Lin Muren!
God must want to play with her, right? He must want to play with her to death!
(God: What does it have to do with me? It was Su Mengchen who teased you, and it was also her who wanted to laugh at you...)
According to the order of the draw, Xiao Baobei didn't know whether he was lucky or unlucky, but he drew the last one.
After listening to the works of the first four contestants, including Su Mengchen, Xiao Baobei had already made up his mind that he would definitely lose.
“Hey, your future creations must show love for me, love for me, understand?” If the maximum value of expectation is one hundred, Lin Muren’s expectations at this moment have reached two hundred.
"I can't love you, can I?" Before going on stage, Xiao Baobei did not forget to tease Lin Muran.
"Okay! We welcome the last group of contestants, Xiao baby!"
As the host spoke, there was a round of boos from the audience.
With shaking feet and shaking hands, Xiao Baobei walked to the center of the stage. She blinked her eyes and looked at the booing audience, then looked at Shen Xingru, Chen Xing and Xichuan who all looked worried.
How could she possibly write a loving poem?
"Baby Xiao, come on." At this moment, Lin Muran's voice came from behind.
Following Lin Muran's voice, Shen Xingru, Chen Xing and Xichuan in the audience came back to their senses and shouted to cheer for Xiao Baobei.
Hearing the cheers, Xiao Baobei turned around and glanced at Lin Muran in the corner.
At the beginning, I clearly wanted to help Lin Muren deal with his broken heart, but I didn't expect that later it turned out that Lin Muren was helping me get through the dark days after the breakup.
All those ridiculous things that happened between him and Lin Muran flashed through Xiao Baobei's mind one by one——
When they first met, she thought he was dumped, and out of a sense of justice, she helped him heal his "broken heart". Later, she inexplicably became his assistant, and the two quarreled every day. Then she pretended to be his girlfriend and went to the countryside with him to help poor children. He frequently helped her when she encountered difficulties...
After so many things, Xiao Baobei's feeling towards Lin Muren changed from dislike at the beginning to appreciation and recognition. She had to admit that when she was with Lin Muren, she felt very safe, comfortable, and at ease.
Thinking back to the days since she knew Lin Muran, Xiao Baobei suddenly had a feeling that if one day Lin Muran left her, she would be very, very sad.
That kind of sadness seems to be a hundred or a thousand times more painful than a broken heart!
And just now when Lin Muran said in front of everyone that she was his girlfriend, Xiao Baobei felt both sweet and flustered, something she had never experienced before...
"Student Xiao Baobei, are you ready?" Seeing Xiao Baobei standing there without saying a word, the host urged politely.
"Yeah." Baby Xiao withdrew his gaze and wandering thoughts from Lin Muran and nodded vigorously.
"Then please start reading your poems to everyone!" said the host.
Without thinking too much, Xiao Baobei blurted out a poem that was better than a doggerel poem and even a little touching.

You are like a shooting star, crossing my sky.
You are like tears, dripping into the heart of my lake.
Your smile has a magic that I cannot resist.
Your eyes make me want to live in them.
I can't do anything about you being like this, and I'm extremely terrified.
If this kind of encounter is not a miracle,
Then maybe my previous life was just black and white.
I want to be your wings and take you wherever you want to go.
I would like to become a beam of light to illuminate the direction of your future.
If you want, I can burn myself.
If you hate me, then let me become a cloud.
Across a great distance,
Still hiding in the clouds secretly——
Miss you.
…

Unlike the boos before the poem, Xiao Baobei received applause this time. Of course, the one who clapped the most was Lin Muran...