Xu Xilin later treated Zheng Shuo to a meal alone - of course, if Zheng Shuo didn't run away, he wouldn't pay - Xu Xilin logically stated the fact that he didn't need a guardian, and then in order to show that he was "mature and decent" and had no intention of being angry or resentful, he pinched his nose and exchanged contact information with Zheng Shuo.

Then Xu Xilin plunged into the ocean of books and learning that he had been away from for a long time.

The review for senior high school students in No. 6 Middle School is divided into three rounds. The first round is for teachers of various subjects to go over all the content from beginning to end. It is the most important review stage, especially for students like Xu Xilin who forget things as soon as they put down their claws.

But after Xu Xilin finished his family affairs, he became depressed for a long time. By the time he had gone through all this, autumn had turned into winter and heavy snow was about to fall.

Xu Xilin had a pile of unfinished papers that could fill up a large box one cubic meter long. He really didn't know where to start catching up.

At the same time, the aftereffects of his immersion in messy discs and idle books also began to show.

In order to be easy to understand, those novels contain very little information and can be read at a glance. Xu Xilin was also very careless when reading. If he thought the novel was not good, he would immediately throw it down and find another one. This is actually a habit that really damages his attention.

When he came to his senses, he found that it had become extremely difficult to sit down and do things for a long time, especially those nagging questions in the comprehensive science test and the English reading that they were all about. Xu Xilin would become annoyed after reading basically two lines, and would throw the questions aside before reading half of them and turn to the next question... Often, he would flip through the papers and after finishing a whole set of test papers, he hadn't even finished reading a single question.

Not only will his martial arts skills be wasted, but his meridians will also have to be reconnected.

However, the "Black Jade Paste" is not easy to use.

Xu Xilin always gets so annoyed while sitting that he wants to take off. He wishes he could bump into every corner of the stairs upstairs and downstairs. However, realizing his own inefficiency only aggravates this anxiety, making his annoyance worse, creating a vicious cycle.

But no matter how annoyed he was, he would not stand up and walk around casually, because there was Dou Xun sitting next to him, who was very observant. Once Xu Xilin made a big noise, even if he just sighed heavily, Dou Xun would look up at him. This always reminded Xu Xilin of how he had waited for him at the bathroom door that day. All the protection from others seemed to remind him of his own weakness.

A naughty kid may be proud of being a "bastard", but no teenager is willing to accept that he is "weak".

Gradually, those unbearable times became files, scraping away the restlessness in him like scraping a bone to cure poison.

Xu Xilin copied other people's notes, studied hard for the special exercises in various subjects, checked the answers until he was dying, and successfully transformed himself from a "son of kidney deficiency" to a "zombie marshal".

Every morning, before daybreak, he would get up feeling dizzy and all the lights in the house were off except for a little light in the kitchen downstairs, where there was a pot with breakfast prepared by Aunt Du for them.

Once, Xu Xilin had just taken a step when he suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous. He grabbed the handrail of the stairs. He felt that the stairs, which he could usually jump down in a few jumps, were so long that he could not see the end of them. It would be best if he could roll down in a round ball.

Suddenly, someone supported him from behind. Xu Xilin's mouth corner was touched. He turned his head and saw Dou Xun. Dou Xun half hugged him and put a piece of candy to his mouth.

Dou Xun was too close, and his eyes were looking down more than usual, just avoiding Xu Xilin's sight and falling on his lips. Xu Xilin smelled a cool minty scent on him, which seemed to be from a new toothpaste.

There was no light in the stairwell, and only the outlines of the handrails and ornaments remained. Only Dou Xun, who was close at hand, had delicate features, like a painting with heavy light and shadow. Xu Xilin didn't know if he was too weak, and his heart suddenly trembled. He let Dou Xun put the candy in his mouth in a daze, but his dormant taste buds didn't taste anything for a long time.

"Is it hypoglycemia?" Dou Xun secretly wiped the sweat from his palm to the side. He was actually very nervous when he got so close to her. "I...I'll help you get down."

"..." Xu Xilin paused, took a deep breath, and covered his chest. "I'm deeply poisoned. I'm afraid I won't live long. You must avenge... me..."

Dou Xun thought that this idiot would not die for a while, so he pushed him away with red ears and went downstairs by himself.

Aunt Du went back to catch up on her sleep, and the two of them didn't make a fuss to go to the dining table. They stood in the kitchen and quickly finished their breakfast.

Xu Xilin himself was suffering from the torture of getting up early and going to bed late, and couldn't help but say to Dou Xun: "Your school is so far away, why don't you stop running back and forth? Come back when you are free on weekends. If you are busy and want to eat something, call me and I will bring it to you on Sunday."

Dou Xun held a boiled egg in his mouth and bit off half of it. Half of his cheek was puffed up. He had no time to speak, but just shook his head without saying anything.

Xu Xilin was well fed and quickly recovered his health. He thought it was funny that Dou Xun was being weird like this, so he suddenly reached out and poked Dou Xun's puffy face... Over the years, he and Doudougou have been at odds with each other, probably because the dog was too mean and the man was too rude.

Dou Xun reacted quickly and grabbed his mischievous claw.

His palms had been kept warm in the heated room all night and were burning hot. He hadn't swallowed the egg in his mouth yet and couldn't open his mouth, so he kept holding Xu Xilin's hand in this strange posture.

Xu Xilin: "Hahahaha I was wrong."

As he spoke, he tried to pull his hand back, but Dou Xun, for some unknown reason, had taken the wrong medicine and clenched his hand tightly. Xu Xilin pulled back twice but failed. However, his body temperature seemed to be contagious, rushing towards his face in the dimly lit small kitchen. Xu Xilin could no longer laugh as he sensed the unspeakable ambiguity.

Fortunately, Dou Xun quickly came to his senses and let go of Xu Xilin's hand as if he had been electrocuted. He did not dare to look at Xu Xilin's face. He took a piece of bread and ran away without looking back: "I'll drive the car."

Xu Xilin warned him from behind: "Don't come back at night. Did you waste your accommodation fee?"

Dou Xun didn't say anything, picked up his bag and went out - there was a rare heavy snow in early winter that night, but Dou Xun still rushed back regardless of wind or rain.

He is really stubborn. Once he makes up his mind about something, he will not turn back even if he hits a wall.

While Xu Xilin was still running frantically to catch up, the final exam had already arrived as scheduled without mercy.

In the mid-term, Xu Xilin ranked fourth, and at the end of the term, he dropped to twenty-third - not to mention his grade ranking, which was basically far behind.

For Qilixiang, this result was "expected but unexpected". She held the transcript in her office and sighed for a long time. She also talked to all the teachers one by one and was extremely worried. She wished she could send a message to Xu Jin in his dream in the middle of the night and complain to him.

Xu Xilin had never revealed Zheng Shuo's existence to outsiders. His grandmother was so old that it was not convenient for Qilixiang to ask her to come to school. After thinking about it, the teacher had no choice but to fly back to the class in high heels to meet Xu Xilin in person.

When students at No. 6 Middle School reach their third year of high school, they basically have no privacy at all.

After each exam, the class report cards and rankings would be posted at the front of the class, with the honor roll and the shame column clearly visible. Sometimes the teacher would read it out in person, fearing that someone might miss it.

Before Lao Cheng had time to lament that the winter vacation was only thirteen days long, he accidentally glanced at Xu Xilin's ranking. For a moment he thought he was dazzled and rubbed his eyes quickly.

Suddenly, he was bumped lightly by someone. When Lao Cheng lowered his head, he saw Luo Bing walking past him in a hurry.

Luo Bing quickly ran to Xu Xilin. She had always been very shy and found it difficult to have a conversation with other boys. When she saw Xu Xilin looking up, her face turned red first.

After Xu Xilin recovered from his half-dead state, he slowly regained his previous attitude of being nice to everyone. He smiled at her very gently: "Squad Leader, is there something wrong?"

Luo Bing glanced at him and secretly mustered up her courage, but just as she opened her mouth, before she could say anything, something ruined the mood.

Qilixiang knocked on the window of the back door: "Xu Xilin, come with me."

Xu Xilin knew that Qilixiang would not let him go, so he was mentally prepared and nodded to Luo Bing: "I'm going to stand trial. Bye, have a happy holiday."

After saying that, he ran away. Luo Bing was left standing there alone, his expression fluctuating for a long time, and finally he walked away with a heavy heart.

She really wanted to find an opportunity to say a few words to Xu Xilin. Throughout the entire semester, she secretly cried for him several times and wrote seven or eight letters to Xu Xilin. She was afraid that he was careless and didn't know who wrote them, so she sometimes deliberately hinted at her identity. However, she never received a reply.

It would be fine if he just didn't reply, Luo Bing would have almost given up.

But the problem was that every time she finished writing a letter, a week later she would receive a small package with only a stamp but no postmark in her mailbox. The package contained various small gifts, sometimes a bag of candy, sometimes a pen. There was even a time when she was too lazy to use scratch paper and wrote her calculations on the back of a waste paper. Then that week she received a whole roll of "B5" white paper.

Luo Bing always wanted to find out what Xu Xilin meant, but he always came and went in a hurry and never gave her the chance.

She came back and Cai Jing just kept his head down packing his things the whole time. He didn't even say hello and was very cold.

Only after she had run far away did Cai Jing restrain himself and look up at Luo Bing's back, which was wrapped up like a ball.

The classmates in the class soon left, and Cai Jing took out an envelope from his desk. This time, Luo Bing folded the letter paper into a heart shape. Inside was her familiar beautiful handwriting, and the pen refill had a scent - Cai Jing knew which pen she used because he bought it.

Xu Xilin had been out of shape for a while, and the test papers and exercise books delivered to his desk were all picked up by people at the desks in front, behind, and on both sides of him - mainly by Cai Jing.

And Luo Bing's letter was also among them.

Xu Xilin didn't see any of those letters. Cai Jing unfolded them all, carefully flattened them, and took them back to keep them.

He knew that what he did was a bit abnormal, but ever since Xu Xilin didn't come to school for a while and Cai Jing hid the first letter for some unknown reason, it was like he was addicted and he couldn't stop.

Cai Jing didn't dare to reply on Xu Xilin's behalf, so he could only carefully select some cheap and practical little things for Luo Bing every time he received a letter from her.

He even thought of a reason for himself - Xu Xilin wouldn't reply anyway, and with such a thing happening in his family, he probably didn't want to be disturbed by others.

He hypnotized himself with this reason once a day, and over time, he actually began to believe it and found a secret, almost devotional happiness in it.

He felt like a saint who watched from the sidelines, silently protecting two people without asking for anything in return or leaving his name.