Chapter 1 Luo Qubai, long time no see 1
If we meet again, I will definitely blush again.
"Qianliu——"
Qin Shu's call came from not far behind him. His voice was warm and clear, instantly wiping out the chill of the autumn wind that came in through the window.
Hearing the voice, Lin Qianliu withdrew his wandering thoughts, turned his body, said nothing, but raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and watched Qin Shu slowly approaching.
"Why are you hiding here?" After approaching, Qin Shu smiled and pinned the yellow hairpin in his hand into her hair. The action was done in one go with a hint of ambiguity, "I prepared this for you. It's pretty."
"How beautiful is it?" Lin Qianliu asked with disdain, but his raised hand was pulled down by Qin Shu.
"No taking it off." Qin Shu was serious and had an air of arrogance that would not tolerate jokes, but his tone was soft. "As my co-host, you should at least pay attention to your image. Although the plain noodles in clear soup do not affect your natural beauty, it can improve my taste. Besides, there are so many young handsome men in the audience tonight. As a senior sister, you should show your most beautiful side and make them look forward to their future university life!"
"'Old Bacon', who do you say is the senior sister?" Lin Qianliu pretended to be angry, raised his chin, and stared at him steadily with his almond-shaped eyes.
"Ah? What? What did you say? Who said you were old just now? I'll help you beat him!" Qin Shu immediately started to act like a rogue.
"Okay." Lin Qianliu smiled unhappily, "Then slap yourself in the face."
While they were playing, a voice came from behind -
"Senior Qin, Senior Lin, stop showing off your affection. You're already giving out 'dog food' as soon as autumn arrives. How are we 'single dogs' going to survive the winter?"
Lin Qianliu looked in the direction of the voice and saw a junior from the Arts Department. She was frowning and pouting, pretending to be disgusted.
Lin Qianliu had been rehearsing every day for tonight's welcome party, and she had already become familiar with the members of the planning department and the art department. However, almost every day someone teased her and Qin Shu, saying that the relationship between the two was unusual and there must be something fishy. Moreover, it was Qin Shu who recommended her to become his partner and host the welcome party together, which also became a kind of "evidence" that the two had an ambiguous relationship.
Thinking of this, Lin Qianliu felt helpless. She had explained many times that they were just friends, but these people said they believed her but didn't believe her at all. Qin Shu remained silent, neither admitting nor denying, and continued to treat her well.
In fact, she had thought about keeping a distance. She didn't like Qin Shu at all and didn't want to give him any impossible hope. But Qin Shu was too persistent. His long pursuit lasted from freshman to junior year. He never gave up and repeatedly intervened in her life. He even promised that if she didn't accept, he could wait for her as a friend forever.
In this way, he accompanied her from freshman year to junior year and became her only male best friend.
Lin Qianliu was daydreaming when Qin Shu rolled his eyes at the school girl and said, "Without us giving you some dog food, you won't be able to survive the summer." He still had an attitude of neither denying nor admitting.
Lin Qianliu sighed secretly, took over the conversation, and said with a smile: "Schoolmate, the daily interactions between ordinary friends like us are called 'dog food', so when you see those couples who hug every three minutes and kiss every five minutes, will you still be alive?"
"I'm dying! I'm dying!" The schoolgirl showed a look of despair, and then she seemed to remember something and shouted, "Oh, look at my brain, I lose my memory after eating dog food. I almost forgot, I'm here to tell you to get ready, the welcome party is about to start!"
When Lin Qianliu and Qin Shu stood on the stage, the audience was already noisy.
It was the beginning of September, and the fragrance of osmanthus was carried by the autumn wind in C University. The venue was semi-open-air, and there was an osmanthus tree not far from the stage. Lin Qianliu took a deep breath, and her nose was immediately filled with the fragrance of osmanthus. She smiled sweetly, and without any hints or code names, she and Qin Shu said in tacit understanding: "Good evening, welcome to C University's welcome party, I am the host tonight-"
"Lin Qianliu."
"Qin Shu."
Applause suddenly broke out, and the coolness of the autumn night was completely driven away.
Perhaps because the two people on the stage were one gentle and charming, and the other handsome and cool, the atmosphere suddenly became lively, and a group of fans were wondering whether this talented and beautiful couple were a couple. In the hustle and bustle, you could hear a brave female student shouting, asking if she could pursue Qin Shu.
Lin Qianliu and Qin Shu both vaguely heard those confessions which could be considered teasing.
They thought they would just ignore each other, but unexpectedly Qin Shu said with a smile: "Ah, I seemed to hear that a school girl wants to pursue me. Are the school girls nowadays so bold?" He frowned deliberately, revealing an exaggerated and incredible expression.
The schoolgirl who was responded to became even more excited, her voice rose an octave, and she pressed on: "Then can you accept my pursuit, senior?"
"Well..." Qin Shu smiled playfully, "It's a cruel thing to reject a school girl, but there's nothing I can do . I already have someone in my heart."
"What does it matter if you have someone you love?" Qin Shu's words made Lin Qianliu feel a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, she was good at adapting to circumstances. She suddenly had an idea and started teasing Qin Shu with the schoolgirls in the audience. "As long as you are still single, you schoolgirls all have a chance, right? Besides, as far as I know, your senior Qin is still single!"
The scene became lively again.
Qin Shu looked at Lin Qianliu helplessly, with a look of feigned grievance but not a trace of blame.
After such a joyous opening, the host invited the school band to open the party with a passionate and inspiring self-composed song.
After that, the party went very smoothly and time passed quietly.
Before the end of the party, outstanding student representatives gave speeches.
When Lin Qianliu was about to go on stage, the head of the Student Union Planning Department hurriedly grabbed her, stuffed a note into her hand, and briefly informed her: "The student representative has been replaced!"
Lin Qianliu nodded to indicate that he understood, then opened the note and walked to the center of the stage.
"Happy times always pass by so quickly. In the blink of an eye, the welcome party is almost over. I really don't want to leave this beautiful autumn night, but we must learn to let go and move forward bravely. Now, the outstanding student representatives of our school will come to the stage to give their speeches. Please, please..."
The gentle voice suddenly stopped.
Time seemed to have stopped flowing, the wind had stopped breathing, the entire venue was silent, and everyone's eyes were fixed on Lin Qianliu. She stared at the note in her hand with her eyes wide open, as if she had lost her soul.
No one knew that a typhoon quietly hit Lin Qianliu's heart.
Luo Qubai.
Lin Qianliu looked at the three words on the note and felt a little breathless.
That name that has been lingering in her heart for two whole years, that boy who has made her toss and turn in bed for the past two years, are they finally going to meet again?
One second, two seconds, three seconds, the audience thought Lin Qianliu was deliberately keeping the audience in suspense, and they couldn't help but look forward to it. However, ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty seconds passed, and Lin Qianliu still stood motionless on the stage, like a statue.
Realizing that something was wrong, Qin Shu, who was standing at the side of the stage, hurried onto the stage.
"Oh, our host Lin is so naughty. How can he keep the audience in suspense for so long? I can't stand it anymore. Why don't I invite out this year's outstanding student representative of our C University? Please welcome Luo Qubai with applause!"
applause.
Lin Qianliu, who was silently leaving the scene holding Qin Shu's hand, was still in a daze. She raised her eyelids, and her gaze fell accurately on Luo Qubai, and she could not leave him anymore.
The world seemed to have darkened. The only bright thing was Luo Qubai walking calmly onto the stage under the starlight.
Lin Qianliu staggered back to the backstage and sat down on a chair as if he had collapsed.
Luo Qubai's voice came from the other end of the stage, still so proud and cold. That familiar voice seemed to penetrate her memory, erase other voices, and completely occupy Lin Qianliu's entire world. She couldn't hear what he was saying at all, she only knew that it was his voice, he was talking.
There was only one sentence in her mind—Luo Qubai was really back.
After two years apart, he is still the only star in her world.
In Lin Qianliu's mind, memories related to Luo Qubai flooded in, bringing her back to five years ago.
This day was Lin Qianliu's first day as a high school student. The only feeling he had about becoming a high school student was that he had an extra 100 yuan in pocket money. Apart from that, if there was any other feeling, Lin Qianliu felt that it was probably because he had developed the habit of sleeping until noon during the long summer vacation, which he would not be able to change in a short time.
As it turned out, Lin Qianliu's worries were correct.
Although she had set three alarms, from six to seven-thirty, Lin Qianliu never heard the alarm call. It was not until eight o'clock that her father pulled her out of bed and she hurried to school.
Lin Qianliu was gloriously late on the first day. When she arrived outside the classroom, the head teacher was talking loudly on the podium. She didn't dare to be too ostentatious, and carefully walked in through the back door and sat in an empty seat near the back door. At that time, Lin Qianliu didn't know that the boy next to her would become the male protagonist of her entire regretless youth.
Lin Qianliu has always been disgusted with the love at first sight routine in idol dramas.
Until she turned her head and saw Luo Qubai, she fell into this trap.
At that time, Lin Qianliu was just trying to strike up a conversation, but he understood the meaning of the phrase "Love at first sight, love forever" at first sight. The profile of Luo Qubai in front of him made Lin Qianliu unable to look away. With sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, a straight nose and thin lips, his entire outline was angular, revealing a sense of aloofness and coldness. Lin Qianliu finally understood that love at first sight does exist, provided that the person is good-looking.
It was obvious that Luo Qubai had the best looks among all the boys Lin Qianliu had ever seen.
Although the other party seemed to be an extremely difficult person to get along with, Lin Qianliu, with a pounding heart, didn't care . She just felt that this boy should be hers.
At that time, Lin Qianliu was even more shameless than Qin Shu.
When they met for the first time, Luo Qubai didn't even look at her, but she said to him with a playful smile: "Classmate, you don't have a girlfriend yet? What do you think of me?"
Luo Qubai was reading "The Universe in a Nutshell" with great concentration. He felt disturbed when Lin Qianliu patted his shoulder. He became even more impatient when he heard Lin Qianliu's opening remarks. His eyes were still fixed on the book, but his mouth was opening and closing gently.
“It’s ugly.”
This was his answer to Lin Qianliu, an objective evaluation.
Lin Qianliu had lived for more than ten years, but this was the first time she heard someone say she was ugly, and the other person was a very good-looking person with a very cold personality. She was not angry, but became more excited.
"But I think you're very handsome." She leaned close to him and said ambiguously, "You don't know that now handsome men and ugly women are a good match. Since you think I'm ugly, it proves that we are a good match! "
Luo Qubai then turned his head slightly and looked at her with a frown.
With just one glance, he was certain that no matter what he said, the girl in front of him would be excited by even a single word of contempt.
So he decided immediately to refuse to communicate with her.
However, Lin Qianliu was not only shameless, but also good at pestering. Luo Qubai ignored her, so she started to introduce herself, from her name to her hobbies to her criteria for choosing a lover. The class meeting was originally scheduled to last for 45 minutes, but Luo Qubai was forced to attend a 40-minute "Lin Qianliu Information Class".
I thought the head teacher would rearrange the seats, but unexpectedly, the head teacher, who adhered to the principle of "go with the flow", directly set the current seats as fixed seats.
Luo Qubai felt that his future was worrying.
Lin Qianliu felt that he had used up all the good luck in his life.
From that day on, Lin Qianliu began his daily life of confessing his love three hundred times a day. The first sentence he said to Luo Qubai every day must be "Good morning, Luo Qubai, do you want to be my boyfriend today?" and the last sentence he said to Luo Qubai every day must be "Luo Qubai, I seem to like you more today."
If it were any other boy, he would have surrendered long ago when faced with the aggressive attack from a pretty girl like Lin Qianliu.
But Luo Qubai remained indifferent, always with a cold face, silent, and occasionally rolling his eyes at Lin Qianliu.
Maybe this is what they call a willing fight and a willing fight. Even though Luo Qubai always ignored and even despised her, Lin Qianliu still followed him happily, insisting on confessing her love every day, even every minute.
Sometimes, people around them can't help but admire these two people. After all, one is like a repeater, always repeating "I like you", while the other always has a cold face that never changes, turning a blind eye to the former's actions. As time goes by, Lin Qianliu's daily confession has already made the students in front of him feel calloused, but Luo Qubai is still unwilling to say a word, even if it is just "shut up".
Relying on the fact that she was Luo Qubai's deskmate, Lin Qianliu wanted to get the moon first. She not only blatantly ate the food given to Luo Qubai by her rival, but also made various comments on various foods.
On Christmas Eve, many girls gave Luo Qubai apples, the fruit of peace, and Lin Qianliu was no exception.
Taking advantage of being a deskmate, Lin Qianliu said as usual, "You don't want this apple, do you?", then picked up the apple and took a bite, and also commented on each apple -
"This apple is so sour and not tasty!"
"It's imported, foreign, and not tasty!"
"This apple is dry and has no taste at all!"
"This tastes OK, but it's not sweet enough. Desserts are better!"
“It looks delicious, but it’s actually horrible!”
"It tastes terrible. It tastes terrible."
By the end of the meal, Lin Qianliu's stomach was already bulging. After burping several times, she stuffed the apple she had given to Luo Qubai into his schoolbag and said seriously, "Oh, I can't eat any more. You can eat this yourself. I guarantee it's delicious. I tried it when I bought it."
Luo Qubai gave her a helpless look, but didn't say "no".
For Lin Qianliu, not refusing means opportunity, just like this apple. If he hadn’t refused, he might have taken a bite. Who knows if he would get addicted after taking a bite and eat the whole apple!
In fact, Lin Qianliu was not a particularly patient person and was always short-lived in doing things. But after meeting Luo Qubai, she suddenly became a very patient person. She would spend a long time making a dessert that she thought he might like, and would run a long way to find a book that he was passionate about.
What's even worse is that the colder he is to her, the more crazy she becomes about him, as if she were poisoned and hopeless.
But, maybe Lin Qianliu didn't want to be saved at all. Even if there was a medicine in his hand that could relieve the pain of lovesickness, Lin Qianliu would definitely throw it away without hesitation.
She spent all her passion and love on Luo Qubai, and she was willing to do so.
Perhaps because of this, no matter what kind of boy she met later, her heart was no longer troubled.