Just like the best oil paintings can only be seen from a distance, if you know each other too well, it’s not that you can’t understand, but that you don’t have any feelings.

At noon in June, the sun was scorching. In front of the display stand of the newly opened HM jewelry area in City A, a girl with bright eyes, white teeth, a pretty face and pigtails grabbed a male shopping guide who was shaking with fear with one hand, and waved her other hand wantonly to express her anger: "How can it be gone? That is very important to me! I waited for a whole morning, starting at 8 o'clock in the morning, and waited in line for a full four hours. You must be lying to me! I want that collar!"
The girl's face turned red, her tone was full of doubt, and she seemed unwilling to accept the facts before her.
The male shopping guide didn't expect that the girl who was so sweet and timid a minute ago would become so irritable after hearing that it was out of stock. After sighing silently in his heart, he carefully tried to break free from the girl's clutches, while explaining patiently and aggrievedly: "Classmate, classmate, calm down a little. That collar was originally issued in limited quantities. It is normal to be sold out. We have other collars. Do you want to take another look..."
"But, but I want that model... Can you help me check and see if your other stores have this model?" Seeing that being tough didn't seem to be of any use, the girl began to beg.
"I'm really sorry, that model has been sold out in other stores. You can go to our official website to see if it's still available, but I just checked and it seems to be out of stock..." The male shopping guide waved his hand.
Listening to the male shopping guide's explanation, the girl lowered her head blankly, looking listless and seemingly very disappointed.
"Tang Duoduo, just accept this reality. If it's gone, it's gone." A handsome boy with a cold face standing next to the girl looked at her so depressed, touched her head, and said lightly.
Tang Duoduo raised her head and glanced at She said with some complaints and some grievances, "It's all because of you. I waited downstairs of your dormitory at 6:30, but you insisted on dawdling until 7 o'clock before coming down. If it weren't for you, I might have been able to snatch my collar!"
Seeing that the fire of war had shifted away from him, the male shopping guide quickly left the battlefield at lightning speed.
Wen Yuanxun stood up straight, stretched out a finger and gently tapped Tang Duoduo's forehead with an impatient expression. You know, she is not usually so hysterical.
"Tang Duoduo, you better understand that this store doesn't open until 8:30. It's no use if you come at 6:30." Wen Yuanxun still looked indifferent.
Tang Duoduo wilted like an eggplant hit by frost. She looked at Wen Yuanxun aggrievedly and began to mutter, "Come here at 6:30 so I can queue up earlier. If I queue up earlier, I can enter the store earlier. Then I can buy the collar and give it to Qiao Yuran. Do you know that this is the only thing Qiao Yuran asked me to do? I must buy it..."
Wen Yuanxun gave Tang Duoduo a cold look, feeling extremely unhappy.
In front of Wen Yuanxun, Tang Duoduo is always like a child who never grows up. The two met in junior high school because they were deskmates, and they have been together since college because of various intentional or unintentional fates. In Tang Duoduo's heart, Wen Yuanxun is an indispensable male best friend; while in Wen Yuanxun's heart, Tang Duoduo is a secret he doesn't want to mention.
"What should we do now? How can we explain to Qiao Yuran that we didn't buy the collar?" The sadness on Tang Duoduo's face spread little by little, and her voice was choked with sobs.
Wen Yuanxun's mind was filled with Tang Duoduo's flattery towards Qiao Yuran. He felt like there was a stone blocking his heart, making him feel depressed and anxious.
"Hurry up and tell me, hurry up and tell me, how are you going to let me explain to Qiao Yuran?" Tang Duoduo was choking up as she thought about the collar that didn't belong to her. She was so anxious that she was about to cry.
Wen Yuanxun showed an unhappy expression and said coldly: "What should I do? Just tell him that I didn't buy it. What else can I do?"
"No, no, I can't explain without the collar. I've already promised him..." Tang Duoduo knew that there was no way to change the current situation, and she became even more depressed.
Seeing her like this, Wen Yuanxun felt a little sorry for her, so he said perfunctorily: "Okay, okay, go back. Why does a grown man wear a collar?"
After hearing what Wen Yuanxun said, Tang Duoduo sat down on the ground dejectedly: "He specifically asked me to do this, how could he suddenly change his mind? And that's not an ordinary necklace, it's the first product of HM's cooperation with Alexander Wang this year!"
Knowing that he could never win an argument with Tang Duoduo, who majored in fashion design, on the topic of collars, Wen Yuanxun said nothing and just stood there helplessly.
Just when the two were in a stalemate, not knowing what to do, an innocent-looking girl with a ponytail appeared in front of them with a sweet smile.
"Are you Wen Yuanxun?" The girl's eyes sparkled with admiration.
Looking at this girl, Tang Duoduo seemed to see herself. This was probably what she looked like when she looked at Qiao Yuran...
Wen Yuanxun looked at the girl with some confusion, then nodded coldly.
"Last time, the guitar club of your school had a friendly performance with our school. I saw you playing the guitar and thought you were so handsome!" The girl became more and more excited as she spoke, and she couldn't help but gesture with her hands as she spoke.
Facing such fans, Wen Yuanxun seemed somewhat accustomed to it. He smiled politely and didn't want to make too many responses.
At this time, Tang Duoduo, who had been watching the show, was attracted by the necklace on the girl's hand. Her eyes lit up and she asked excitedly, "Did you buy this necklace?"
The girl looked at the necklace on her hand, then looked at the excited Tang Duoduo beside her, and nodded warily.
As if she saw hope, Tang Duoduo cheered up immediately. She pulled over Wen Yuanxun, who looked unhappy, and pleaded in a low voice, "Wen Yuanxun, please, please! Just behave well and help me get this collar..."
Wen Yuanxun couldn't help but roll his eyes at Tang Duoduo.
"Do you admire Wen Yuanxun very much? If you admire him very much, just give this collar to me..." Tang Duoduo did not hide her ambition for the collar at all.
The girl subconsciously protected the collar in her hand: "Why should I give it to you? I queued up for this all morning..."
"If you give me the collar, I will tell you Wen Yuanxun's Weibo account, WeChat account, and mobile phone number!" As soon as the words fell, Tang Duoduo's braid was ruthlessly pulled by Wen Yuanxun.
"Tang Duoduo, what's wrong with you?" Wen Yuanxun couldn't contain his anger and grabbed Tang Duoduo's braid fiercely.
Tang Duoduo protected her braids and begged for mercy: "Wen Yuanxun, since we have known each other for so many years, please help me this time..."
Wen Yuanxun was about to protest when the girl readily agreed: "Okay, that's what you said! But I have one condition."
"What conditions? Tell me quickly!" Tang Duoduo asked hurriedly.
Watching the two of them singing the same tune, Wen Yuanxun felt as if the whole thing had nothing to do with him, but he was clearly the victim.
"You have to take a photo of me and Wen Yuanxun." As she said that, the girl took out her cell phone.
Tang Duoduo took the phone and said attentively: "This is a small matter, a small matter..."
So a minute later, a slightly awkward photo was left on the girl's phone, because Wen Yuanxun's face was gloomy. After informing the girl of Wen Yuanxun's Weibo and WeChat accounts, Tang Duoduo finally got the necklace she had always dreamed of.
"Tang Duoduo, you are really great! It would be a waste if you didn't become a businessman." Wen Yuanxun said, who was extremely dissatisfied with this behavior but endured it silently.
Tang Duoduo touched the collar as if she had found a treasure and glanced at Wen Yuanxun: "If I were you, I would be so happy! A few accounts and a photo can be exchanged for this collar, what a good deal! Doesn't this just prove your charm..."
Looking at Tang Duoduo, who only had the collar in her eyes, Wen Yuanxun looked somewhat helpless: "Tang Duoduo, why didn't I realize you are so smart before?"
Tang Duoduo didn't realize the other meaning behind these words, and was a little secretly delighted: "Really? You actually think I'm smart? It's so rare that you would praise me!"
Seeing Tang Duoduo's smug look, Wen Yuanxun stroked his forehead and said, "Your IQ is really... Never mind, yes, yes, I praised you."
"You just praised me. Haha. I'm so happy. I actually bought a collar and you praised me for it."
"Tang Duoduo, don't be so proud, just shut up..."
"Wen Yuanxun!"
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In the six years since he met Tang Duoduo, Wen Yuanxun has seen all kinds of expressions and gestures. There was the frustrated look when she was caught peeking at a novel in English class, the ecstatic look when she got 90 points in the math test, and even the crazy look when she ran into a third-tier singer in a roadside cafe. In short, for Wen Yuanxun, every raised eyebrow and every smile of Tang Duoduo was familiar to him.
However, the Tang Duoduo in front of him at this moment was someone he had never seen before...
In the school cafeteria, Tang Duoduo held her chin with both hands. Although her eyes were a little dazed, she could not hide her ecstasy. There was always She bit her lips and giggled from time to time. She looked like she was possessed by a demon.
After Tang Duoduo kept silent and maintained this expression for ten minutes, the first person to explode was not Wen Yuanxun with his contemptuous expression, but their mutual friend - the impatient Chen Jiayuan.
"Tang Duoduo, if you keep smiling foolishly like that, I might go to the temple and ask a master to perform some ritual for you." Chen Jiayuan's expression was a little serious, and she didn't mean to be joking at all.
But Tang Duoduo didn't care about such a threat at all and continued to remain in the state of being possessed.
Chen Jiayuan glanced at Wen Yuanxun with some dissatisfaction: "What on earth has possessed her?"
Wen Yuanxun did not respond, but reached out and tapped Tang Duoduo's forehead: "I also want to see what kind of demon she is possessed by. "
Tang Duoduo still maintained that mysterious posture and expression.
After rolling her eyes a few times, Chen Jiayuan started to act like a Sherlock Holmes detective.
"She dragged you to HM early in the morning, saying she wanted to buy a collar for Qiao Yuran. After buying the collar, she disappeared for an afternoon. When she came back, she looked like this. So, do you think this demon is Qiao Yuran? Could it be that Qiao Yuran agreed to be with her just for a collar?"
Listening to Chen Jiayuan's inference, Wen Yuanxun, who had been calm all along, began to get anxious. He grabbed Tang Duoduo's hand and said nervously, "Hey, wake up, Tang Duoduo, wake up!"
Wen Yuanxun was so nervous that Chen Jiayuan was dumbfounded. Tang Duoduo, who had a silly expression on her face, finally came to her senses. She looked at Wen Yuanxun who was holding her hand, then looked at Chen Jiayuan beside her, and showed a sly smile: "What do you want to eat? I'll treat you no matter what you eat today!"
After saying that, she hummed a little tune and packed her bag to leave.
Tang Duoduo's posture seemed to further confirm Chen Jiayuan's words. Wen Yuanxun felt a little difficulty breathing. He leaned back in the chair, and his whole body seemed to have been hooked.
Chen Jiayuan, who was standing by, saw the change in Wen Yuanxun and immediately asked Tang Duoduo, "So generous? Did Qiao Yuran agree to date you?"
Tang Duoduo smiled shyly, then shook her head gently. When she shook her head, Wen Yuanxun's soul returned.
"Didn't agree? Then why are you so excited?" Chen Jiayuan was a little puzzled.
Tang Duoduo lowered her head, her cheeks flushed, and her voice was a little coquettish: "Although he didn't agree to be with me, he just touched my forehead very gently!"
The last word "呢" made Chen Jiayuan roll her eyes, and Wen Yuanxun, who had just regained his consciousness, expressed his dissatisfaction with his actions. He flicked Tang Duoduo's forehead hard.
Tang Duoduo, who was beaten for no reason, gave Wen Yuanxun a resentful look, but was immediately filled with sweet happiness in her heart and continued to twist her body in a somewhat pretentious manner.
Chen Jiayuan pretended to vomit, then pulled Tang Duoduo's hand and said, "Can you be a little more normal? If you keep twisting like this, I'll kick you!"
After saying that, Chen Jiayuan raised her leg and kicked Tang Duoduo.
Tang Duoduo touched her leg in pain and gave Chen Jiayuan a sad look. Before she could complain, Wen Yuanxun said impatiently, "Hurry up, didn't you say you'd treat us?" Then he pulled her to go out.
But after just two steps, a furry thing appeared in front of them. It was a brown mini teddy bear. The puppy was wagging its tail and sniffing at Tang Duoduo's feet.
Seeing the puppy, Tang Duoduo was even happier. She squatted down and stroked the puppy, mumbling softly: "Puppy, puppy, what are you looking for? Are you very hungry?"
Chen Jiayuan, who caught up with him, also squatted on the ground. She stroked the puppy and seemed to remember something: "This dog looks so familiar. Is it raised by someone in our building? I seem to have seen it somewhere..."
Before Chen Jiayuan could think of it, Tang Duoduo's horrified scream rang out throughout the cafeteria. She pulled the familiar collar on the puppy's neck, her voice somewhat unbelievable: "Isn't this the collar that Qiao Yuran asked me to buy? I spent so much effort to buy it, how come this dog has an identical one?"
Hearing this, Chen Jiayuan and Wen Yuanxun both focused their attention on the necklace. In terms of texture and style, it was exactly the same as the one Tang Duoduo bought at HM.
Did the dog's owner also queue up and buy an identical collar?
“How can I let Qiao Yuran wear the same collar as a puppy? No, I have to talk to the dog’s owner!” As she said that, Tang Duoduo picked up the pitiful-looking puppy.
"Duoduo, Duoduo." A figure with a faint scent of jasmine appeared in front of the three people the moment Tang Duoduo picked up the puppy. She took the puppy and smiled sweetly at them, "Sorry, Duoduo just likes to run around."
Before she saw this girl, Tang Duoduo thought that girls as beautiful as the heroines in TV dramas did not exist in the real world. Just like the princesses and Cinderella in fairy tales, they seemed to only appear on TV screens or in stories. But when she saw this girl, Tang Duoduo finally understood why the teacher said in class that dramas are all derived from life...
It turns out there are such beautiful girls in the real world!
"Hi, President Gu, it's your dog. I was wondering why he looked so familiar." Chen Jiayuan became a little nervous and awkward, and greeted him with a dry voice. After greeting, she looked at Tang Duoduo and Wen Yuanxun beside her, and hurriedly introduced: "President, this is my friend Tang Duoduo and Wen Yuanxun."
While stroking Duoduo, Gu Yu'an said softly to everyone: "Hello, my name is Gu Yu'an, you can call me Yu'an."
After listening to her self-introduction, Tang Duoduo nodded repeatedly and smiled warmly, while Wen Yuanxun, who was standing next to her, nodded coldly without much response.
"Jiayuan, why didn't you come to the last rehearsal of the troupe? Are you not feeling well?" Gu Yu'an asked.
"No, no, it's just my period." Chen Jiayuan, who is usually carefree, now becomes a little reserved and embarrassed.
Gu Yu'an nodded, and cast her eyes on Wen Yuanxun who was standing beside her. A faint blush appeared on her cheeks, and her voice became softer: "Mr. Wen, you left a deep impression on me in the last campus performance."
"Oh, thank you." Wen Yuanxun responded coldly, and his eyes unconsciously glanced at Tang Duoduo who was staring at Gu Yu'an stupidly. He didn't notice the disappointment that flashed across Gu Yu'an's face at all.
"I'm leaving first. Goodbye. Wen Yuanxun, our drama club would like to co-organize the school's cultural evening with your guitar club recently. I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation then." Gu Yu'an was obviously expecting Wen Yuanxun to respond to his words.
But Wen Yuanxun still looked as if it had nothing to do with him. He nodded coldly and said nothing more. Faced with such a response, Gu Yu'an's eyes flashed with bitterness, and then he turned around and left with the puppy in his arms.
Looking at her back, Tang Duoduo couldn't help but sigh: "How come there is such a beautiful girl in our school..."
As Chen Jiayuan sent Gu Yu'an away with an envious look, she responded with a disdainful tone, "Nonsense, she's the campus beauty of our school and the president of our drama club. I heard that Qiao Yuran also pursued her. How could she not be beautiful?"
This sentence earned Tang Duoduo a horrified look: "Really? Qiao Yuran also liked her?"
"Yes, this is something that everyone in the school knows, how could you not know it?" Chen Jiayuan continued with a look of contempt.
Tang Duoduo rubbed her hair, made a frustrated expression, and immediately accelerated to run towards Gu Yu'an.
She ran up to Gu Yu'an breathlessly, and before she could react, she asked, "Excuse me, I'd like to ask where did you buy Duoduo's collar?"
Gu Yu'an was somewhat confused by such a sudden question. She glanced at the collar on Duoduo's neck and said calmly, "Oh, this collar was given to us by Qiao Yuran from our class. He said that the girls who were chasing him insisted on giving it to him, so he gave it to Duoduo without any hesitation..."
Tang Duoduo couldn't hear what Gu Yu'an said next. She just felt as if something in front of her eyes was collapsing bit by bit.
My chest felt stuffy and my eyes became a little dry.
She walked back step by step, her whole body felt like she was walking on cotton, her steps became as unsteady as her heart.
It felt like someone had punched her in the heart.
Although I usually give people the impression that I am weak, it doesn't mean that I can allow myself to be bullied, right?
What's more, the person who bullied him was Qiao Yuran, the person he had been thinking about all the time.
No, she must get to the bottom of the whole thing and seek justice!
Thinking of this, Tang Duoduo clenched her fists and ran away.
The boys were sweating profusely on the basketball court, which was filled with noise, shouts and cheers .
Tang Duoduo was not at all infected by this warm atmosphere. After learning the real purpose of the collar from Gu Yu'an, she felt that a corner of her heart was severely hurt, and she decided to ask Qiao Yuran for an explanation.
After quickly scanning the basketball court, she quickly locked onto the tall figure in a blue jersey drinking water in the rest area. Tang Duoduo, who used to tremble when she spoke to Qiao Yuran, now seemed to have eaten some kind of super power fruit. She rushed to the figure and grabbed the corner of his clothes.
"Qiao Yuran." Tang Duoduo's eyes were firm and her tone was different from usual.
Qiao Yuran turned around in a daze. When he saw that it was Tang Duoduo, his tone became cold: "Just put the water and drinks aside."
Tang Duoduo's eyes flashed with a slight contempt, but more of it was disappointment and anger: "I want to ask you something..."
"Things?" Qiao Yuran also noticed Tang Duoduo's change and put away his indifferent expression.
"My collar, the one I queued up for all morning to buy for you, are you wearing it?" Before asking this question, Tang Duoduo still had some hope in her heart, and she kept making excuses for Qiao Yuran in her heart.
Maybe, just an accident or coincidence?
But the next second, the embarrassment and helplessness on Qiao Yuran's face made all the hope in Tang Duoduo's heart vanish into thin air.
"Collar..." Qiao Yuran obviously did not expect to encounter such a situation. He stammered and didn't know how to answer.
Tang Duoduo's face began to turn red with anger. She clenched her fists tightly, afraid that she would not be able to control herself and would swing out.
"How could you give a collar that I spent so much time on to a dog? How could you!"
Tang Duoduo's voice trembled a little. Thinking of what had just happened, she felt very wronged. She wanted to cry but didn't dare to. She could only bite her lips tightly, and her shoulders trembled slightly.
Qiao Yuran, who was exposed, felt embarrassed, so he changed his attitude and put on a nonchalant expression: "So? If you gave it to me, it 's mine. It doesn't matter if I give it to anyone else, right?"
"You..." Tang Duoduo was so angry that she felt a little crazy, but she didn't know what to do with Qiao Yuran.
From childhood to adulthood, she always remembered herself like this: obviously very angry, obviously very sad, but because she didn't know how to express it, she could only endure it silently .
In Chen Jiayuan's words, Tang Duoduo is just a paper rabbit, not even a real rabbit, because rabbits will bite when they are angry, but when she is angry, she can only yell at people she is familiar with. When she meets someone unfamiliar, she will do the same as now.
"Duoduo...Duoduo..." When the two were in a stalemate, Chen Jiayuan's voice rang out from the outside of the crowd. Then, Tang Duoduo's arms were grabbed by a pair of big hands.
As expected, it was Chen Jiayuan and Wen Yuanxun who showed up. Wen Yuanxun grabbed Tang Duoduo's arm and protected her behind him, holding his head high and staring at Qiao Yuran with a haughty and disdainful attitude.
Wen Yuanxun's appearance caused the already lively basketball court to fall into a huge carnival. The girls all turned their attention to him and frequently cast admiring glances at Wen Yuanxun.
"Apologize to Tang Duoduo." Wen Yuanxun said these words in a commanding tone.
Chen Jiayuan on the side quickly echoed: "Yes, apologize to Duoduo."
"Why should I apologize just because you say so..." Qiao Yuran continued with an icy face.
"That's right, what's the point of apologizing to someone like you?" Wen Yuanxun raised his eyebrows and continued with a somewhat contemptuous tone, "I'm afraid someone like you doesn't know what an apology means, right?"
Qiao Yuran heard the contempt in these words and was furious: "What do you mean? What do you mean by that?"
"It's nothing, I just think your IQ isn't up to the task of handling a situation that requires an apology." Wen Yuanxun said in a light tone.
"You, you won't apologize! I'll apologize to you today!" Qiao Yuran took a breath, looked at Tang Duoduo and was about to apologize, but then he thought something was wrong. He looked towards the basketball court, then a somewhat contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "You can ask me to apologize! Do you have the guts to compete with me? If you beat me, I'll apologize."
Facing Qiao Yuran's provocation, Wen Yuanxun frowned and responded indifferently: "Okay."
When the girls around heard Wen Yuanxun agreed, they all screamed. It was rare to see two influential figures on campus fighting over a ball.
"Wen Yuanxun, don't be so stubborn..." Tang Duoduo, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke. You know, in all the years that he had been with Wen Yuanxun, he had plucked the strings of the guitar much more often than he had played basketball .
Wen Yuanxun showed an unhappy expression on his face and said, "Just wait and see!"