She is his childhood sweetheart, but she refuses to admit that he is her childhood sweetheart.
"Lin Leyao, slow down, slow down, we are classmates."
Lin Leyao is eight years old, and she has never seen such a shameless person. So what if they are neighbors? So what if they are classmates? Who says that classmates and neighbors must go to school together?
Ever since she saw this boy with a bright smile under the tree, Lin Leyao had an inexplicable aversion to him. She didn't know why, but she just hated him. But he always liked to follow her. After knowing that they were classmates, he would block her door every morning to wait for her to go to school together. No matter whether she got up early or late, she would always meet him and couldn't avoid him no matter how hard she tried.
Here we meet again...
She walked ahead with big strides, and he trotted after her. He soon caught up with her, then snatched her schoolbag into his own hands with a smile, patted his chest and said, "I'm a boy, I should help girls."
"I don't want you to care." Lin Leyao grabbed the schoolbag and hugged it to her chest, then continued walking forward.
This kind of scene happens almost every morning. I thought that after being rejected a few times, Jian Yan would stop pestering her, but a month has passed and Jian Yan still likes to chase after her and shout, "Lin Leyao, wait for me, we are friends."
What are friends? Just like the girls in the class who get together and chat? She doesn't need them.
"Lin Leyao, let me help you carry your schoolbag."
"Lin Leyao, you should walk slower next time. My mom said that walking too fast right after a meal can cause indigestion and stomachache."
"Lin Leyao, the girl in our class who likes to wear red bows said she wanted to be my good friend, but I refused because she's not as pretty as you."
"Lin Leyao, do you want to come to my house for dinner tonight? My mom can make delicious sweet and sour fish."
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She finally couldn't help but turned back and shouted: "Jian Yan, you are very annoying, do you know that?" Although she said this, she felt a little sweet in her heart for some reason.
"Lin Leyao, your braid is loose. Can I help you tie it up?" Jian Yan walked up to her with a grin and a flattering smile.
She was stunned for a moment, perhaps frightened by his shamelessness. After a while, she looked up and asked him, "Is my braid really loose?"
Jian Yan nodded excitedly: "It's loose, really loose." He would never tell her that he secretly untied the bow on her hair.
"Oh, then please help me tie it, I..." She has never been very good at tying her hair, and the aunt at home helps her do it every morning.
"Okay." Jian Yan's voice was clear and his eyes were twinkling like stars.
He pulled her to the fitness equipment nearby, found a place, took out a handkerchief to wipe her hair clean and asked her to sit down. Then he carefully combed her hair with his fingers and then carefully tied up the braids.
It was a bit painful when her hair was pulled, and Lin Leyao bit her lip to endure it. She could clearly feel his clumsiness and cautiousness, and her heart felt warm.
As the sun sets, the orange afterglow shines on the boy and the girl, like a warm-toned oil painting.
The girl did not see the beads of sweat on the boy's forehead, and the boy did not see the wet corners of the girl's eyes.
"Okay, take a look." Jian Yan wiped the sweat off his face and took out a small mirror from his pocket and gave it to Lin Leyao as if he was presenting a treasure.
Lin Leyao looked at herself in the mirror and tears flowed down her face. The hair on her head was sticking out in several places. Her originally loose braids were messed up by Jian Yan. She felt that if she put two more leaves on her head, she would look like a little beggar in a TV drama.
Jian Yan scratched his hair embarrassedly: "I just watched others do it, I'm not very good at it... Lin Leyao, why are you crying? Don't cry, I will definitely make it beautiful for you next time, don't cry, I will take you home and let my mother help you, okay?" He hurriedly wiped her tears, but it seemed that the tears could not be wiped away. In desperation, he took her hand and ran towards his home.
When Mother Jane's hand passed over her head, Lin Leyao finally knew that this was home. There was a gentle mother, a loving father, and a smiling child, but she... had no home.
"Lin Leyao, why are you crying again? Why are you such a crybaby? I'll go get you my favorite toy to play with, okay?" Jian Yan ran upstairs and brought down a large model airplane. He said proudly, "This is what my uncle brought back for me from abroad. I usually don't let anyone touch it, but today I'm letting you play with it with reluctance."
Lin Leyao pouted and turned her head to the side: "I don't want to play."
"I know you girls all like dolls. Humph, they're childish things." Jian Yan said disdainfully.
"You are a little smart kid. Yaoyao is two months older than you." Jane's mother said without giving Jian Yan any face.
"Pfft - Jian Yan, you little brat." Lin Leyao raised her hand and poked his nose, "Call me sister when you see me next time."
"You smiled?" Jian Yan looked at the person in front of him in surprise. This was the first time he saw her smile, with tears in her eyes. She looked so beautiful. "Lin Leyao, it turns out you can smile. I always thought you had a poker face."
"You are the one with the poker face! Little brat." Lin Leyao snorted coldly.
Jian Yan: "You are also a little brat, a little brat who likes dolls."
Although Jian Yan had always been disdainful of Lin Leyao's love for dolls, she still received the first doll in her life on her birthday that year. It looked just like the one in a fairy tale book, with golden hair, long eyelashes, and a chubby face. It would laugh out loud when she was poked.
When she received it, Lin Leyao frowned and said to Jian Yan seriously: "Jian Yan, I am nine years old . I am no longer a child who likes dolls." As she said this, she hugged the doll in her arms tighter, with an unconcealable smile in her eyes.
Jian Yan said seriously: "Lin Leyao, we will always be good friends, right?"
She also nodded seriously. They will always be good friends and will always be together.
They went through elementary school, junior high school, and high school together...until their senior year, things changed a little.
"Jian Yan, I must surpass you this time!" From childhood to adulthood, Jian Yan's grades have always been a little better than Lin Leyao's. No matter how hard she tried, she could never catch up. This made her, the "sister", very embarrassed! After thinking for a long time, she decided to bet on the college entrance examination. She didn't believe that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't surpass Jian Yan.
When the college entrance examination results came out, Lin Leyao looked at her score with a smile, thinking that she would definitely surpass Jian Yan this time. His best score in the mock exams was not as high as hers this time.
When she stood in front of Jian Yan excitedly and wanted to show off, he told her: "Lin Leyao, I'm going abroad."
He was going abroad and had completed the formalities a long time ago. He would leave after the summer vacation. As for the college entrance examination, he just accompanied her through the formalities and did not take the exam seriously at all.
She waited for him, waiting for him to tell her that it was just a joke, and then take out the report card and say proudly: "Lin Leyao, my score is still higher than yours, you lost again." But her eyes were sore, and she still didn't hear these words.
This time it was no joke, she knew.
"Which country are you going to?" she asked casually.
In short: "Britain."
"Oh, I heard that the girls there are very pretty and open-minded. I'll wait for you to bring back a blonde and blue-eyed sister-in-law." Lin Leyao pulled his hand and ran out. "Let's go buy some fireworks and celebrate tonight."
Briefly: "Celebrating what?"
"To celebrate that you are leaving soon, no one will pull my hair and bully me anymore! I am so happy!" Lin Leyao replied with a smile.
That night, Lin Leyao and Jian Yan set off fireworks in the yard for a long time to celebrate the departure of the little devil. The fireworks exploded in the sky, and Lin Leyao quietly wiped away her tears and hid her sobs. She said, "The quality of this firework is not good. Something fell into my eyes."
"Lin Leyao, will you wait for me to come back?" Jian Yan asked.
She shook her head: "No."
"Oh, I'm so sad and heartbroken. Lin Leyao, you have to be responsible for hurting me!" Jian Yan said, holding Lin Leyao's hand.
"Why should I be responsible for you? Why are you holding me? Let go!" Lin Leyao wanted to shake off his hand, but found that he was holding it very tightly and she couldn't get rid of it.
"Lin Leyao, we will always be good friends and I will never let go." Jian Yan said.
Lin Leyao was stunned, and her bright smile gradually faded. She said, "Jian Yan, you have already let go."
They were all young at that time, and the clever Jian Yan never understood the meaning of her words. Until he stayed in England for a period of time, his mind was filled with Lin Leyao's figure every day, and the words "Jian Yan, you have let go" kept echoing in his mind.
He finally realized that he had fallen in love with this girl, his childhood sweetheart.
He finally figured out what that meant. They had said they would stay together and be good friends for life. Although they were still friends, they were separated and no longer together.
After that day, Jian Yan never saw Lin Leyao again. He occasionally learned from updates on her social media that she had gone to another place with her parents. He was not sure whether she was traveling or what.
He would often stand at their door, hoping that she would suddenly come back to give him a surprise, but in the end, she never came back until the day he left.
Two months later, Lin Leyao finally came back. She stood under the tree where they first met, stroking the rough bark with her hand, wondering what she was thinking.
Before she met Jian Yan, she didn't believe in any feelings.
Just like my parents, they once loved each other so much, but later they would smash everything that could be smashed in the house because of the slightest thing.
She felt that people's hearts were fickle and she wouldn't be able to stay with anyone for long.
She thought Jian Yan would be an accident, but it turned out that he was still an accident.
The tree is much thicker than when they met, and still as lush and green, but there will no longer be girls playing in the mud and boys with sunny smiles under the tree.
That night she bought a lot of fireworks and set them off alone in the yard. She smiled and said to the sky, "Goodbye, my good friend."
Jian Yan didn’t get through to Lin Leyao until the second month after he went to England. When he heard her voice, he almost ran downstairs twice in excitement. He said, “Hello,” with a tremor in his voice that he tried to hide, “ Lin Leyao, you finally answered my call. I thought you were not going to talk to me anymore.”
She chuckled, "A lifetime is too long. I can't guarantee that I can do it."
After a long silence, Lin Leyao sighed and said in a tone of "The weather is so nice today": "Jian Yan, my parents are finally divorced."
In the afternoon, her parents signed at the law firm and then went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to change the little red book into a little green book. She followed silently all the way. No matter what her parents said, she did not leave, but just followed.
After coming out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, she clearly saw a trace of relief on her parents' faces. Her mother asked, "Yaoyao, your father and I are divorced. Who are you going with?"
She looked up at her mother and then at her father. The momentary relief she had just felt turned into nervousness again. Were they all worried that she would follow them? For her, they had endured so many years of hardship, and that was enough.
Lin Leyao asked Jian Yan: "Guess, did I follow my dad or my mom?" Before Jian Yan could speak, she smiled and said, "I didn't follow anyone. I told them to give me the house we have now and I'll live alone. You two should remember to give me money on time and don't let me go hungry. Of course I know they won't let me go hungry. From childhood to adulthood, the thing I lack the most is money. They gave me a lot of money, so I could buy a lot of food and clothes, and even hired several aunts to take care of my life. Do you know? Many people have told me that they... They envy me, envy my life, envy that I can buy whatever I want, envy me this and that. When I say that I envy them, they think I am hypocritical and that I am deliberately mocking them. In short, I really envy them. I envy that they have a home, parents, friends... but I have nothing. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night, I will go downstairs, walk around the living room, look at the empty house, and I will feel very cold and feel that I am the only one in the world. At that time, I will want to cry, but I can't shed a single tear. "
She was smiling the whole time, and narrating in a calm tone, as if she was telling a story that had nothing to do with her. There were no tears, and no trace of sadness on her face.
"Lin Leyao, you still have me. I said we will always be together." Jian Yan knew her pain and comforted her.
"Really? You, my friend. Well, I'm going to rest now. Bye, we'll talk later." Lin Leyao avoided the topic and hung up the phone before Jian Yan said goodbye.
That was certainly not the last phone call between them, but it was the last time that Jian Yan heard Lin Le Yao talk about these things. From then on, their topic was all happy things around them, and had nothing to do with the word sadness, as if those sorrows had never existed.
Jian Yan knew that she had buried them deep down and would never touch them again.
His departure finally made her lose faith in even her only friendship.
"Why do I suddenly think of the past?" Lin Leyao shook her head to get rid of the mess in her mind. Just as she was about to climb onto the bed to watch the new show, the dormitory door was pushed open and a girl poked her head in and whispered, "Who is Lin Leyao?"
"Yaoyao, I'm looking for you." Qiao Dandan said.
"Um... there's a girl named Hu Yunxin downstairs asking you to come down." The girl said this and ran away before Lin Leyao could say thank you, as if she was a devil.
"Hu Yunxin?" When Lin Leyao heard this name, all kinds of possibilities .
They were all girls, and although they were not in the same dormitory building, they were still able to enter. Did they specially ask someone to call her downstairs to teach her a lesson in front of everyone and let her understand "Why are flowers so red"? According to Hu Yunxin's temper, this was not impossible.
But there are also surprises. Maybe after Hu Yunxin returns and thinks things through, she will tearfully pull her sleeve and say, "Thank you for letting me see the true nature of that scumbag, Lin Leyao, you are my god!"
Or...
"Yaoyao, what are you thinking about? Hu Yunxin is calling your name downstairs in a threatening manner. Do you want me to go downstairs with you?" Qiao Dandan asked worriedly.
"Forget it, it's a blessing, not a disaster. If it's a disaster, you can't avoid it."
Lin Leyao also knew that the possibility of crying was very small, so she was mentally prepared to be taught a lesson. In order to pass the time, she learned Taekwondo and Karate over the years... Maybe today she could try her level.
Walking out of the dormitory building, Hu Yunxin was standing alone downstairs with her arms folded across her chest, looking very angry.
Lin Leyao was a little stunned. Did he not bring anyone with him for a group fight? Or did he want a one-on-one PK?
"I wonder what you want to talk to me about?" As the saying goes, you shouldn't hit someone who smiles at you. It's always right to smile when you meet someone. Lin Leyao stood in front of Hu Yunxin with a smile on her face, and her tone was quite polite.
Hu Yunxin was even more furious when she saw her like this. She gritted her teeth and blurted out three words: "Lin-Le-Yao--"
"Hello, senior sister, may I ask what you can do for me? If it's about my senior, I can explain. I'm really doing it for my senior's sake. My senior's scandals are all over the place, and I really can't bear to let my senior be kept in the dark. Senior sister may not know that I have always admired my senior sister. Not only is she beautiful, but she also has a devilish figure. Men would be moved when they see her, but as a girl, I can't help but take a few more glances. For a girl like my senior sister who is both talented and beautiful and has a good family background, I really can't bear to see you being deceived by a scumbag, so I want to remind you." Lin Leyao's ability to lie with her eyes open made her admire herself very much. Seeing that Hu Yunxin wanted to say something, she immediately interrupted, "Senior sister, I know that what I did is very dirty , but I really don't want you to continue to be deceived and sad. It's better to suffer a short pain than a long pain, right? If you don't mind, I'll treat you to a meal, and I don't mind publicly apologizing on the school forum. As long as my senior sister is no longer sad, I can do anything you ask me to do."
She spoke these words with great emotion. She even grabbed Hu Yunxin's hand and showed an admiring look. She was just short of hugging her thighs and shouting, "Senior sister, I admire you. Do you need a leg pendant?" and other words like that.
"I'm really flattered by what you said, junior sister." Hu Yunxin also took the opportunity to grab Lin Leyao's hand, with a fake smile on her face, which looked creepy.
Eh? It's a trick!
Lin Leyao knew how her acting skills were, and it was impossible for her to completely impress Hu Yunxin.
But what was going on with this scene of sisterly affection? She subconsciously wanted to retreat, but Hu Yunxin held her hand tightly and refused to let go, making her feel numb all over. She prayed to everyone from Jesus Christ to the Buddha in her heart, but she only felt her hand being twisted and it hurt a lot.
"Senior, is this called a conspiracy?" Lin Leyao finally pulled her hand out of Hu Yunxin's hand, the back of her hand was twisted red.
"That's not right, junior sister. It was my carelessness." Hu Yunxin smiled sweetly. "Today I came to thank you, junior sister. Thank you for saving me from the abyss of a scumbag. If it weren't for you, I would still be kept in the dark."
"Senior sister...you're welcome..." Two big words filled Lin Leyao's heart - it's a trap!
"Junior sister, I was wrong that day. After I realized it, I realized how wrong I was. I hope you don't mind it. We can still be good sisters in the future." Hu Yunxin wanted to grab Lin Leyao's hand , but she dodged it without leaving any trace. Her face changed, and she smiled again in an instant. "It's almost dinner time. Junior sister, do you want to have dinner with me?"
"Thank you, senior. I ate too much snacks this afternoon and can't eat anymore. I'll treat you next time." Lin Leyao still didn't understand what Hu Yunxin was talking about. The deep sisterly love was not suitable for them. As far as she knew, Hu Yunxin was a very narrow-minded person. Even if she saw the truth about the scumbag, she would never let her go so easily.
Is there anything missing?
"In that case, I won't force you. I'm leaving now. You have to take good care of yourself." After walking a few steps, Hu Yunxin turned around and added, "Say hello to Jian Yan for me."
When it comes to the word "Jian Yan", Lin Leyao clearly sees hatred in Hu Yunxin's eyes.
It turned out to be him.
No wonder Hu Yunxin didn't retaliate, but instead staged such a scene of sisterly love. It seems that she has to go find Jian Yan.
At the same time, Jian Yan sneezed in the boys' dormitory. He rubbed his nose and muttered, "Someone is thinking about me."
"Why are you like a little girl?" Ma Ruge said.
"I'm infected." Lin Leyao always muttered this sentence every time she sneezed. Over time, he was also infected and said this sentence unconsciously. Thinking of Lin Leyao, the corners of his mouth rose. That scene should be over, and she will appear soon.
"Lin Leyao?" Ma Ruge curled her lips. "You actually threatened Hu Yunxin for this girl. I always thought you were a humble gentleman, but I didn't expect you to be such a villain."
"A threat is a villain? I don't agree with your theory. I just flexibly use the resources in my hands to maximize my own benefits." He paused and said, "I never say that I am a gentleman. I am very narrow-minded. I only want to protect one person. As for the others... they have their own people to protect them. What does it have to do with me?"
"Selfish." Ma Ruge rolled her eyes.
"I am selfish, I admit it. Those injured girls still need to rely on people like you to comfort them."
Jian Yan never denied his selfishness. He was not a saint and could not make everyone happy. He just wanted her to be happy. Whether it was a threat or exploitation, he didn't mind as long as it didn't hurt others.
He had already missed it once and couldn't make it a second time.