Chapter 128: A familiar scene
The three of them took the bus to the city center library, which is the Xinhua Bookstore.
There were only two seats left, so Xu Cheng naturally gave them to the two girls very gentlemanly, and he stood by holding the seat.
Lin Wanzhou thought of something and asked suddenly.
"Yu Yu, have you ever thought about submitting your work to a magazine? You've been drawing for a long time, right?"
Yu Yu thought about it.
"My current level is still very low... and I'm still very young... I'll talk about it when I grow up..."
Xu Cheng held onto the chair and encouraged.
"You don't have to wait until you grow up. Do you remember Zhao Jia, the author of Black Blood? She started serializing her first comic in a magazine when she was 10 years old, and created the masterpiece Black Blood when she was 15. I think you can also try to submit your work."
Yu Yu raised his eyes and glanced at him.
Can I try it?
"I really think you can give it a try. Maybe you can earn some money from your work. How can you know if you haven't submitted it yet?"
Xu Cheng had a good grasp of Yu Yu and knew that this girl was a die-hard money-grubber.
Yu Yu really looked conflicted and excited.
"I, let me think about it..."
The car stopped at a traffic light and the three of them fell forward together.
Lin Wanzhou looked at Yu Yu from the side.
"Is Xiaoyu's current dream to be a cartoonist?"
"Well, it's not really a dream..."
"But you want to keep drawing comics, right? Just as a hobby or something?"
Yu Yu nodded, "About the same..."
"You can also say it's a dream. I envy you people who have dreams. Your dream is to be a cartoonist, and Xu Cheng's dream is to buy a house."
Xu Cheng was helpless. Don’t go around promoting my dream of buying a house…
He coughed twice and reminded.
"Lin Wanzhou, don't you have a dream too?"
"Um?"
Lin Wanzhou looked at him puzzledly.
"Being the best debater, isn't that also your dream?"
“Is this also considered a dream?”
"Why not?"
We arrived at the station in a short while , and the city center was bustling and lively.
Because most children nowadays don’t have mobile phones, if you want to make a date with someone, you either have to go to the other person’s home or agree on a place and time in advance and wait there.
Yu Yu and her team members agreed to meet at the entrance of the bookstore to look up information together.
There were only a few scattered people, and they gathered together in a short while.
Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou both felt uncomfortable, after all, they were not familiar with these people.
Yan Wenwen, who had a mushroom-like hair style, enthusiastically grabbed Yu Yu's hand.
"Xiao Yu, you're here so early. Are your two friends here too?"
Xu Cheng explained.
"We often spend weekends together."
"oh."
"Let's go in quickly. Time is tight today and I haven't finished my homework yet."
"I haven't finished my homework yet... let's go now after you've checked it."
Yan Wenwen and the others were chatting casually, pulling Yu Yu in front, while Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou were one step behind.
" How embarrassing, Xu Cheng, why don't we go back..."
"Who was it that had to come on that turbulent day?"
"I was just a little impulsive that day... It felt like Xiaoyu hadn't played with us for a long time, and I felt like my friend was being taken away by someone else."
"And now?"
"Now I don't care . I already know Xiaoyu's feelings, and she is not the kind of person who abandons old friends when she has new friends."
"Are you so reasonable? You've become mature."
"whee."
Lin Wanzhou patted Xu Cheng's arm and said, "I have always been very mature, okay."
It is an essential human emotion to get tired of the old and love the new. People think new friends are better, get tired of old friends and start to distance themselves from them. This happens often in many people's growth.
Lin Wanzhou has many friends around her, but many of them have alienated her like this.
Yan Wenwen's sudden appearance, coupled with the possible hostility in the debate, naturally made her feel a sense of crisis that Yu Yu and they were on bad terms.
"Then let's tell Yu Yu about it later, so she doesn't misunderstand."
"Oh, okay."
At the same time, Yu Yu was constantly dragged around by Yan Wenwen to talk about things.
She was absent-minded, always feeling that Lin Wanzhou and Xu Cheng must feel that she ignored them and were angry, so they no longer came to talk to her.
How to deal with it... How to explain it...
A loser like her with almost zero social skills could never have dreamed that one day she would be needed by two groups of people at the same time.
I really want to die...
Yan Wenwen finally finished talking to her, and Yu Yu hurried downstairs, looking around, and saw Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou squatting in front of a floor-to-ceiling window.
When the two saw her, they smiled and waved at her.
Yu Yu walked over with his head down, like a child who had done something wrong. There were a thousand words in his head, but he couldn't even say the last one.
Instead, Lin Wanzhou said, "Xiaoyu, let's go back first..."
Are you really angry?
Yu Yu felt a pang in his heart.
"Actually, Wenwen and the others are pretty nice people... I..."
Seeing her embarrassed look, Lin Wanzhou quickly waved his hand, "No, you don't have to explain to me."
Yu Yu's eyes turned red.
Don't you want to listen to me anymore?
“Ahem.”
Xu Cheng coughed twice and said, "Yu Yu, our intention is that we don't want to affect your preparations for the debate. We are not upset."
Lin Wanzhou nodded. "Yes, I can see that each of you is preparing very carefully. Xu Cheng and I are embarrassed to stay here and distract you. Besides, we also have to go back and prepare well. We can't waste time playing."
Yu Yu looked at them in disbelief. She was stuck in the middle and couldn't figure out how to balance the two no matter how hard she racked her brains.
Could it be solved so easily?
Or was he just comforting her?
Lin Wanzhou saw that she was still worried and poked her face.
"It really doesn't matter. Besides, I actually have more friends... You didn't mind it at all, so how could I blame you just because you were busy with the debate competition?"
Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou waved to her. When they passed by the French window outside, they waved at her inside the window and said something.
She rarely smiled and saw Xu Cheng standing outside the window from the corner of her eye.
This kind of scene facing each other through the window, it seems like I have seen it before...
After the intense monthly exams, the school debate competition also came to an end.
It’s a bit regrettable that neither Yu Yu’s team nor Lin Wanzhou’s team succeeded in advancing.
Yu Yu and her friends encountered a strong team, and no matter how good her arguments were, her poor speaking skills were her weakness.
As for Lin Wanzhou, her team performed extremely well, and even the class teacher Hu Guoqiang was moved.
However, because his ideas did not conform to the main theme of the campus, he was forced to lose.
Because of this, Brother Qiang got very angry on the spot, and in the end the school gave Lin Wanzhou the best debater award as a consolation.
The results weren't pretty, but everyone got a workout.
At the end of October, Yu Yu received a birthday gift from Lin Wanzhou and Xu Cheng, which was a real telephoto desk.
It’s made of aluminum alloy, has LED lights, and comes with a greeting card written on it, with Lin Wanzhou’s handwriting.
[Good friends are those who can always understand you when you feel embarrassed without you having to explain anything.]
【Dedicated to the talented cartoonist Yu Yu. 】
