Time is truly the cruelest weapon, changing all the beautiful things beyond recognition.
Now, little skylark, stop looking for my past self.
Like this grand fireworks display, it burns and then goes out.

Although I said that, I had no idea how to do it specifically.
How can I become friends with Shu Haining? This unanswerable question made me fall into deep thought.
In short, I should appear in front of him often, let him know my sincerity, help him, and make him feel a little grateful to me. Then what?
have no idea.
Growing up, I had no friends except Shu Haining. Before I was eight, I wanted to get along well with everyone and be good friends. Later, I was hurt and fled abroad for ten years. I didn't make friends with anyone because I didn't want to encounter the same thing that happened when I was eight years old again, so I didn't crave for that kind of company.
Shu Haining is the only person in the past ten years that I want to be friends with.
I couldn't think of an answer, so I decided to ask my grandmother, who has a lot of life experience.
My grandma was taking care of the flowers and plants in the yard. I walked over and squatted beside her. She was weeding the flowers.
"Grandma, how can I make friends?" I asked.
Grandma didn't stop working. She said, "Making friends is not a one-sided thing. If you want to make friends, you must first open your heart and be willing to accept others."
"Open your heart? Accept others?" I didn't quite understand what this meant. "What does it mean?"
"Our Skylark, why do you think people need friends?" Grandma looked back at me and asked with a smile.
I thought about it and replied, "The book says that humans are social animals and cannot survive alone."
"But Skylark, you are not alone now, are you?" Grandma said softly, "With the company of your family, you are not living alone. So why would you want to make friends with people other than your family?"
I was stunned. Why would I want to be friends with people other than my family?
"Because family and friends have different meanings. Family is the one who can give you warmth, while friends are the one who can make you feel happy. When people live in this world, it is not enough to have only the warmth given by family. You also need a lot of emotions, and you need to experience all kinds of joy, anger, sorrow and happiness. That is a complete life. Skylark, if one day you meet someone who wants to be friends with you and you are willing to stay by his side, you must not miss it." Grandma said, "Because life is very long, you will meet many people in your lifetime, but few can become friends, especially the kind of friends who can communicate with each other."
"Yeah." I smiled and nodded, "I understand. Thank you, grandma."
What am I confused about?
I want to be friends with Shu Haining again. Isn’t it enough to know what to do next?
Grandma said that making friends is not a one-sided thing. First of all, you have to open your heart and be willing to accept others.
Although I don’t know how to do this yet, the first thing I have to do is let Shu Haining feel my presence at all times.
"Grandma, I'm going out."
I said something to my grandma and walked out of the house.
But I couldn't go to Shu Haining's house, because as soon as I went out, Hua Yuemian appeared in front of me.
She was wearing a sky blue dress and had her long hair tied into a bun. She walked up to me and stopped, looking a little nervous.
She said, "I heard you were back, so I wanted to come and see you."
"See me? Why?" I looked at her and asked calmly.
I don't want to meet her. It would be best if we could never have any contact with each other for the rest of our lives.
"There's an ice cream shop over there. Let me treat you to some ice cream." Instead of answering my question, she offered to treat me to some ice cream.
"No thanks," I said.
"Don't you want to know why I wanted to see you?" she asked.
I said nonchalantly, "Why should I know about this? Hua Yuemian, I am actually a person who loves to hold grudges."
Having said that, I still went to the ice cream shop with her in the end.
It is a seaside ice drink shop located on the beach in the scenic area.
I haven't been here for so many days since I came back. There are beauties in bikinis everywhere. Their white thighs and arms exude hot vitality under the sunlight.
Fifty meters from the beach, there is a row of shops, hotels, restaurants, cafes, etc. I remember when I was a kid, this was just a small pier with a few fishing boats parked on the shore, and it was a place where few people came.
"I always feel that you have changed a lot." Hua Yuemian, who was walking in front of me, slowed down his pace.
Is she looking for a topic?
Unfortunately, I'm really not interested in talking to her.
Because the culprit who caused me so much pain ten years ago was Hua Yuemian.
Walking into the ice cream shop, Hua Yuenian ordered two chocolate milkshakes. I sat down in the seat by the window and Hua Yuenian sat opposite me.
"I can't believe it's been ten years since I last saw you again." Hua Yuemian sighed. Seeing me looking at her indifferently, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed. "Well, Yun Que, you must hope that you will never see me again in this life, right?"
"I'm glad you know." I said, "What do you want to say?"
"I know it's not nice to say it after such a long time, but I still want to say sorry to you." She said seriously, "Actually, I have always wanted to say this to you since then. I know I really went too far back then."
"So?" I looked her in the eye and asked, "What do you expect to hear from me?"
"If I could, Skylark, I hope you would forgive me," she said.
I immediately laughed and said, "Hua Yuemian, who gave you the courage to ask me to forgive you so brazenly? Why should the person who was hurt have to forgive the person who hurt her?"
Moreover, because of her, I left my hometown for ten years. At one point, I even felt that the world was a terrible place and there was no place for me to stay.
I was only eight years old at that time. At the age of eight, I understood a lot of principles and understood a lot of things.
"I know it's a bit hard to ask, but I really regret doing that." She said, "It doesn't matter if you don't forgive me now. I will try my best to make you forgive me. Before that, please don't reject me, okay? Maybe there is something I can do for you, as long as you say it, I will definitely try my best to do it if I can do it."
Her eyes were somewhat anxious, and it seemed that she really wanted my forgiveness.
In fact, for a moment, I wanted to ask her for help so that Shu Haining and I could become good friends again. But this thought only flashed through my mind, and I didn't want to do it.
Obviously, I am the person Shu Haining is most familiar with, so please don’t let Hua Yuemian do this, it’s too unpleasant.
After separating from Hua Yuemian, I returned home.
I don't know why, but I suddenly feel like I have no motivation to do anything.
Human beings are truly complex creatures. After they are born, they receive education, and live their lives using knowledge and various inventions and creations. They have the same starting point, but in the end they grow into completely different individuals.
Like Shu Haining, like Hua Yuemian, like myself.
I sat in the rocking chair and looked up at the blue sky.
Many things that I don't want to remember have surfaced uncontrollably, like a flood or a monster that cannot be stopped by human power.
"Who wants to be friends with a monster like that? I really want her to disappear as soon as possible. It would be better if she didn't exist."
"That's right. My parents always blame me for this. They always tell me to learn more from Skylark. It's really annoying."
"Is it a big deal to be good at studying? I hate her the most. Yuemian is right. I wish she didn't exist."
It would be better if it didn't exist!
It would be better if it didn't exist!
Even though he said such excessive words, he still showed up shamelessly and said shamelessly that he hoped I would forgive him.
"What are you doing?" A face suddenly appeared in my sight. It was Tang Ruize who had returned from school. He stood in front of me, bent down and looked at my face. "Why do you look so hopeless?"
"Nothing, I just remembered a very annoying guy." I gently rocked the rocking chair, "Why did you come back so early today?"
"I don't have classes this afternoon." Tang Ruize sat down on the chair opposite me. "By the way, are your college entrance examination scores coming out soon?"
"I don't know, it should be soon." I don't care much about this kind of thing. Anyway, there will be no problem with the exam.
"Have you decided what major you want to study?" Tang Ruize asked.
"It doesn't matter what major you choose," I said.
Tang Ruize held down the rocking chair to stop me from rocking. He looked at me for a long time before saying, "Something's wrong, Skylark. You're even less motivated today than usual."
"Because that kind of thing is okay anyway." I said lightly.
Tang Ruize did not agree with me. He said, "Skylark, what do you plan to do in the future? The major you choose has a lot to do with the career you want to pursue in the future."
"What do you want to do in the future?" I was stunned.
"You haven't ever thought about this, have you?" Tang Ruize looked at me with a puzzled look. "Look at the essays written by primary school students. They all write 'my dream'. Some want to be doctors, some want to be teachers. Everyone has a dream, even the beggars on the street have had dreams."
"Is that a must?" I looked at him blankly.
Tang Ruize sighed, with an expression that said "I lost to you". "It's not that you have to have one, but if you want to survive in this world, you have to have a job anyway."
"Skylark, have you never had a vision for the future ?" Tang Ruize looked me in the eyes seriously and asked, "Even when you were very young?"
I thought about it for a moment, then shook my head very seriously and said, "I haven't thought about it."
"So, is there anything that interests you?" Tang Ruize seemed determined to find the direction of my life, and even after I gave that answer, he still guided me tirelessly.
But now that he said that, it does mean that there is no such thing. I pointed to the deep blue sky.
"The sky?" Tang Ruize was stunned.
I nodded and smiled, "Once, I was looking at such a blue sky and was very curious about why it was blue. I spent three days in the study to find the answer. I also did a stupid thing, which was to try to count how many stars there were in the sky on a summer night."
Having said that, my thoughts suddenly drifted away.
At that time, I drew the constellations of the Milky Way on a blank piece of paper. I was so happy that I ran to find Shu Haining with my drawing board. I took him to the beach to watch the stars with me, pointed at the sky and told him what the stars were, what the constellations were, and told him that the starlight we can see may just be the remains of a dead planet. Although the starlight is visible there, perhaps the star .
Looking back, it seemed like I was the only one talking all the time, and I didn't care whether Shu Haining could understand me or not, or whether he was interested in what I said. I just enjoyed talking because as long as someone was willing to listen to me, I felt satisfied.
"So what Skylark likes is the sky!" Tang Ruize laughed, "Don't things that Skylark is interested in exist?"
I lowered my head and looked away from the sky.
In fact, I have been thinking about a question: why did Shu Haining say those words to me?
He wants to deny all the memories between him and me in our childhood. Was it because I was always talking to myself back then that made him feel lonely?
Thinking about it this way, I was always the one running to find him and never asked him if he was happy. Isn’t that annoying!
I am so annoying because I only think about myself!
That's why after I left, Shu Haining, who had always been alone, suddenly integrated into the group of kids who hated me, and even became friends with Hua Yuemian.
"Anything like that is fine." I stood up, slowly walked into the house, locked myself in the study, and sat .
My mood inexplicably became low.
Maybe friends and such were just my illusion from the beginning.
Did he always hate me? Was it just because Shu Haining was a gentle child at that time that he didn't express his dislike?
"Knock knock—" a knock on the door came into my ears.
"Skylark, why do you lock yourself up?" Tang Ruize's voice came from outside the door.
"Don't bother me, I just want to be alone for a while," I said.
"Does the previous topic make you think of anything unpleasant?" He stood next to the door and talked to me through it.
"No." To me, those memories are happy ones, because I did feel happy at that time, so I have kept them in the deepest part of my heart and cannot forget them, so I was so sad that I shed tears when he said that he had forgotten the past.
But if that kind of happiness is a painful nightmare for Shu Haining, then I would rather not have felt happy.
"Is it related to Shu Haining?" Tang Ruize asked after a moment of silence.
"Brother, why do we have to grow up? Why do we have to face unpleasant things? How great it would be if life could be paused at any time!" I looked at the skylight above my head. The sky was still as blue as before. That blue always reminded me of Shu Haining's eyes.
Blue eyes. Shu Haining is probably of Chinese-American descent, so her facial features have both the soft beauty of an Oriental and the three-dimensional beauty of a Western.
If I were a little girl who could dream, I would probably think that Shu Haining was a mermaid prince who lived in the deep sea and came to this world just to meet me.
But unfortunately, I am not.
When I found Shu Haining, I was five years old. At the age of five, I already knew that such eyes belonged to foreigners. There is no mermaid prince in this world. He was just stranded here after a shipwreck. I happened to meet him when I came here to read a book.
If all the beautiful fairy tales in the world are explained in this way, then perhaps no matter what kind of miracle it is, it is just some special coincidences!
On the day the college entrance examination results came out, the principal called me immediately. It was because of this call that I remembered that I still had a mobile phone.
My cell phone was a birthday gift from my mother when I was sixteen, but I rarely use it and often forget that I have one. So calls to me usually go unanswered because I always forget to charge my cell phone and only charge it when I remember to.
The principal was lucky. When he called me, his phone still had 8 percent battery. If it had been a little later, it would have shut down automatically.
"Student Yun Que, I have good news for you." The principal's tone was particularly excited. "You are the top scorer in the college entrance examination in our province. It is the first time that a student in our school has achieved such a result. Now many universities have contacted us and want you to study in their schools. Student Yun Que, do you have a school you want to go to? If so, please let me know."
"Oh, I have decided to go to S University," I said.
There was silence on the other end of the phone, and he asked uncertainly, "Are you talking about S University in our province? Although S University is also considered a very good university in China, there are better schools for you to choose from."
"S University is fine." I said.
The principal was a little confused: "Why? Is there any special reason? Is the major you want to study only available at S University?"
"No, it's just because S University is close to home, and the subway will be opened soon, so I can go home every day, which is very convenient." I replied.
"Just for this reason?" The principal's voice was a little frantic. "Student Yun Que, please think about it carefully. You can obviously go to a better school. This is related to your future. Don't treat this matter as a joke!"
I put my hand to my forehead. The future! The future! The future!
Tang Ruize is like this, and so is the principal. This is something I clearly know , so why are these two people trying so hard to make me grasp the future?
"Listen to me, Yun Que, you are really very talented. There are things in this world that can only be accomplished by people like you. Don't waste your talent!" The principal's tone was very urgent. "Yu Que, if it is convenient, you can come to school..."
The last bit of battery was gone and the phone turned off automatically.
The world suddenly became quiet. I let out a long breath and threw my phone into the pile of books.
It's so annoying, one or two of them are like this.
I don’t want to think about that kind of thing, the future or anything like that, it doesn’t matter what happens.
"Skylark, come out for lunch." Grandma's voice came from outside the door. I walked to the door, opened it, and saw grandma's smiling face.
I followed my grandma downstairs without saying a word. There were two dishes and a soup on the table, still my favorites.
My grandmother didn't ask anything and didn't say anything about my sudden behavior of locking myself in the study and not going anywhere except to eat and sleep.
"The principal called me just now, and I think I got a very good score in the exam." I looked at my grandmother and said to her with a smile, "He asked me to think carefully about my future. Grandma, is there really something in this world that can only be accomplished by someone like me? Am I really worthy of such expectations?"
"In grandma's heart, our Skylark has always been great. I believe that as long as Skylark wants to do something, he will succeed. But maybe it's just grandma's partiality. Parents always believe that their children are omnipotent, and grandma is no exception." Grandma said with a smile, "So, Skylark, don't force yourself, just do what you want to do, because happiness is the most important thing."
"Thank you, grandma." I hugged my grandma and buried my head in her arms.
As expected, no matter what time it is, grandma's arms are always the warmest place. No matter how bad my mood is or how confused I am, I can always calm down slowly here.
"Let's eat." Grandma patted my head. "By the way, Yuemian came here today and brought this thing."
Grandma took a poster from the coffee table and handed it to me. I took a look at it and saw a pattern of fireworks and the words "Qinglu Beach Fireworks Festival" printed on it.
"Since the scenic area was built, this grand fireworks display has been held every summer. Of course, it was also created by the developer to attract popularity. But the fireworks are really beautiful." Grandma said, "Yuemian invites you to watch the fireworks display, do you want to go?"
"Not interested." I threw the poster aside, picked up my chopsticks and started eating.
No matter how grand the fireworks are, if the people watching them don’t have a bit of romance in their hearts, they are just ordinary fireworks, and I don’t think I’m in the mood to appreciate such things right now.
After lunch, I went back to my study, picked up a book on "Celestial Mechanics", and after flipping through a few pages I started to daydream.
When I was eight years old, my mother took me to the research institute where there was an astronomical telescope. On clear nights, I also used that telescope to observe the sky above my head.
It was also at that time that I truly observed the stars for the first time. Before that, they had only been seen in pictures and models. Seeing the real stars made me feel so shocked that I felt it took me a long time to calm down.
My mother works at a research institute that studies galaxies. My father and mother are in the same institute, but his research direction is different from my mother's. He mainly observes meteor showers. I have seen the photos of meteors he took, which are really beautiful.
It was a more shocking sight than fireworks. Probably from that time on, I felt that the sky above my head was the most romantic thing.
For example, in the solar system where the earth is located, the moon and Jupiter have actually been protecting the earth. For example, after the death of those stars, leaving behind dazzling light, some will become diamonds larger than the earth and remain forever in the depths of the universe.
Human beings are actually very small and fragile, including the planet we live on. An accident in the universe could kill us all in an instant.
When I think about it this way, my troubles seem so insignificant.
Just as I was sighing like this, there was a knock on the study door.
I closed the book and asked, "Are you back so early today? Don't you have classes in the afternoon?"
No one answered the door for a long time. I walked to the door, reached out and pressed the doorknob. When I was about to open the door, Shu Haining's voice came from outside the door: "It's me."
My movements froze, and the hand that was pressing the door handle was reluctant to move.
"Skylark, are you in there?" His voice was so low that it seemed to resonate in my chest. "Can you open the door?"
"I haven't figured out what to say to you yet," I said.
He was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "I came here with the principal. He wanted to see you in person, so he asked me to bring him to your house."
I opened the door and Shu Haining was standing outside. He was wearing a grey T-shirt, which made his skin look even whiter.
The good thing about being mixed-race is that you can have such a fair skin even at the beach with strong sunlight.
Shu Haining and I went downstairs together. The principal was talking to my grandmother in a friendly manner. My grandmother smiled and listened to the principal's speech quietly without interrupting.
"Principal, good afternoon." I greeted her and sat down next to my grandma.
When the principal saw me, he stopped talking and took out a thick stack of information from his briefcase and placed it in front of me. He said, "Take a look. These are the materials that the schools have contacted to get you enrolled in college. I have sorted them out, including which majors are the best in each school. They are all summarized."
"Thank you, Principal." Looking at such a thick stack of materials, I was still somewhat touched.
I didn’t have much contact with the principal , but he must be a great person. After all, it is not easy for him to do this for a student like me who transferred back to take the college entrance examination.
The principal waved his hand and said, "I don't need you to thank me. I didn't come here just to hear you say thank you. I did this because I hope you will think carefully about your future. You have opportunities and talents. This is something that many students cannot achieve no matter how hard they try."
"Like him?" I pointed at Shu Haining who was sitting next to the principal. "No matter how hard he tried, I still got the first place. Is that right?"
"Ka-ka!" The principal was a little embarrassed. "Student Shu Haining is also very good. This time, his score was only a few points lower than yours."
"So, if I wasn't there, he would be the first place!" I said with a smile, "If I hadn't come back, he would have been the first place, so it doesn't matter if I'm ignored. Without me, there will be others to complete the things you said that only I can do."
The principal was stunned. He wanted to explain, but I said before he could, "So I have decided that I will go to S University. If I am as talented as you say, then no matter where I am, I will be a great person. On the contrary, if I am not what you expect, then even if I go to these great places, it will still be meaningless."
"Have you really decided to go to S University?" The principal was still a little unwilling to give up. "Because it's close to home and you can go home every day, do you think it's okay? Grandma knows how outstanding Yun Que is, right?"
"I believe in her choice. It's her own decision. I don't want to interfere, and I don't have the right to do so," said the grandmother. "Besides, being able to go home every day is also a very happy thing for me."
When the principal heard what my grandmother said, he was immediately deflated. Even my family was on my side. He probably finally realized that he couldn't make me change my mind.
After talking for a while, the principal said he had to go back to school.
"Yuque, please see the principal off." Grandma pushed me out the door.
I had no choice but to accompany the principal all the way to the road by the sea. Shu Haining followed me the whole time. After he said that sentence at the beginning, he didn't speak again.
The sun was still quite bright at around three or four in the afternoon. After seeing the principal off, I walked under the big tung tree. Shu Haining followed me without saying a word.
This was the first time I met Shu Haining after that day. Although I vowed to be his friend again, now I didn’t know what to say to him.
If, in his eyes, the past doesn't count, then he and I are just strangers who have met a few times.
What should strangers say to each other?
"Congratulations on getting first place!" Shu Haining said calmly, "Also, don't say things like if you weren't here, I would have been first. If you weren't here, someone would be sad and troubled, right?"
"Will you?" I looked up into his eyes.
He looked away, not meeting my gaze.
"See, even you don't know how to do it, so other people won't care either. Haining, you've thought about this kind of thing too, right? When you were a kid, I had to pull you along and make you say incomprehensible things. It must have been very troublesome, right?" I turned my head and saw a billboard behind me, which was an advertisement for a summer fireworks display.
"I'm so sorry that I realized this ten years late. A few days ago, I went to you without permission and said shamelessly that I wanted to be friends with you again. I'm sorry, I was wrong. Please forget it. I won't do anything that makes you feel disgusted again. If you think we should not meet again in the future, I will try not to appear in front of you." This is the solution I could come up with after locking myself in the study for so many days.
That's the only way, isn't it?
I want to go back to the way we were before, when we were each other's only friend, but rather than being hated by him, I would rather never meet him again.
It was only after I had this realization that I spoke these words to him.
"That's all I have to say." I turned around and waved, "Well, that's it. Goodbye, Shu Haining."
I gently lowered my hand, but someone grabbed my wrist.
"Didn't you say you wanted to get to know me again? Didn't you say you wanted to be friends with me again?" His voice was close at hand, low, "Or are you the kind of person who decides to give up before even starting? You came to me and said those things without my permission, and you also said that those things don't count."
"But……"
But that would make you hate me even more, wouldn't it?
I didn't want that, and when I realized this possibility, I was so depressed that I didn't know what to do.
"I don't hate Skylark, and I've never thought about Skylark not appearing or disappearing. I didn't feel bothered when I was a child." He said slowly, "If you give up now, I won't care, but at the same time, if you don't give up, I won't have any objection." After he said that, he gently let go of my hand.
I turned around quickly and Shu Haining had already walked several steps forward.
At that moment, I didn’t know what I was thinking, and I shouted to his back, “Let’s go to the fireworks display together!”
As a result, Shu Haining did not respond to my invitation that day. He just hesitated for a moment and finally left without looking back.
I don’t know if it was my illusion, but the words he said to me that day seemed to be encouraging me not to give up, but also seemed like they were just spoken casually.
Because his attitude is so uncertain, sometimes I feel that he is very far away from me, but sometimes he seems very close to me and I can touch him with my hand.
"The food is going up my nostrils." Tang Ruize pushed my arm. "Please, don't think about other things while eating, okay?"
"I was just distracted for a moment, don't bother me." I glared at him. "By the way, are you going to the fireworks display?"
"What number?" Tang Ruize asked.
I grabbed a poster on the side and took a look: "The night after tomorrow."
"I'm not free the day after tomorrow. I have a class activity and will be back very late." Tang Ruize said.
"I see. Well, school matters are more important." I said. "The fireworks display is actually pretty boring. By the way, brother, what's your major?"
"Finance." Tang Ruize said with a smile, "I am very interested in manipulating funds."
"Then I'll choose your major as well." I nodded. "I'll go fill out the application form tomorrow."
"As long as you're happy." Tang Ruize never talked to me about my major again after that day. He was a little helpless. "Should I be thankful that I'm two years older than you? I don't have to worry about you taking away my scholarship every year?"
"That's indeed a question," I replied with a smile.
"Go to bed early today. I'll ask you to leave with me tomorrow." Tang Ruize finished the last bite of rice in the bowl, put down his chopsticks and said to me.
"Okay." I responded.
The next day, when Tang Ruize came to call me to get up, I was still dreaming.
Tang Ruize pulled me out of bed. I brushed my teeth and washed my face in a daze, ate a quick breakfast, and then was pulled out the door by Tang Ruize.
Tang Ruize did not live on campus, but would come back every day, which took him four or five hours to go back and forth. However, a few months later, when the new semester started, a subway was built on the seaside, and the round trip time only took two hours.
It takes about fifteen minutes to walk from my home to the bus stop by the sea. Tang Ruize dragged me along at a trot, and by the time we reached our destination, I was already panting and sweating.
Today is the day of returning to school, and all the high school graduates from Haibian are here. However, when we say all the graduates, it's just Shu Haining and Hua Yuemian.
When Tang Ruize and I arrived, Shu Haining and Hua Yuemian were standing at the platform waiting for the bus to arrive.
"Huh? What a coincidence." Tang Ruize suddenly leaned close to my ear and said with a mischievous look in his eyes, "Shu Haining is here too, why don't you go say hello?"
"No!" I reached out and pushed his head away, "But you, why don't you go get the bus?"
"My car will arrive in ten minutes, there's no rush." ​​Tang Ruize seemed determined to cause trouble.
"Not in a hurry? Then why are you dragging me to run so fast?" I immediately got angry, "You did it on purpose!"
"I did it on purpose." Tang Ruize winked at me. "Hey, those two people over there are coming."
I was stunned for a moment, then looked up and saw Hua Yuemian pulling Shu Haining's sleeve and walking towards me. Shu Haining was looking at me, his hair blocking his eyes, and his azure blue eyes were filled with unfathomable light.
"Yuque, good morning!" Hua Yuemian spoke first, "What a coincidence, are you going to school too?"
"Yeah." I said calmly, "If you have nothing to do, can you please walk away from me?"
"Hey, Skylark, you can't do that." Tang Ruize raised his hand and knocked on my head. "You should be polite. If someone says good morning to you, you should say good morning to them in return!"
"I don't like it!" I glared at Tang Ruize, "Hurry up, the car I want to take should be here soon."
"So unlovable." Tang Ruize ruffled my hair. "My classmate, please don't mind. Our little Skylark is such a child with low emotional intelligence."
"It's okay. By the way, you are..." Hua Yuemian looked at Tang Ruize with a confused look in her eyes.
That’s right, Tang Ruize has become a member of my family, but no one here knows about it yet.
"He is my..." When I was about to answer that he was my brother, Tang Ruize put his arms around my neck and I couldn't say the word "brother".
"I'm Tang Ruize, and I'll be a local here in the future. Nice to meet you!" He said to Hua Yuemian with a smile, "My car is here. I'm leaving now. See you next time, everyone."
After he finished speaking, he took back his hand that was around my neck and reminded me, "Little Skylark, don't make the wrong choice. I'm a finance major, and I'm a junior."
"Let's go!" I couldn't help but push him from behind. I always felt that something was wrong with Tang Ruize today. Normally, he and I rarely had such intimate actions.
But it doesn’t matter, he is my brother anyway.
After Tang Ruize left, the atmosphere quickly cooled down. Hua Yuemian seemed a little embarrassed, and Shu Haining hadn't said a word from the beginning to now. I walked forward a few steps and stood alone under the shade of a tree waiting for the bus.
Hua Yuemian wanted to come and talk to me, but she didn't dare to come over. She stood there with a conflicted expression.
"Hey!" Shu Haining seemed to be unable to bear it any longer. He took Hua Yuemian's hand and walked in front of me. "Just say whatever you want to say to her. There's no need to hesitate."
"It's nothing important, I just want to chat with Yun Que." Hua Yuemian said in a low voice, "But Yun Que hates me."
"Yeah, I hate you." I said bluntly, "So don't even think about talking to me, it's useless."
"What a low EQ guy!" Shu Haining smiled, "Do you know that sometimes speaking too directly can hurt others?"
"That's what the person who got hurt deserves!" I looked into his eyes without flinching. "I've expressed my attitude from the beginning, so even if I got hurt, I deserved it. It's not that the weaker one is right. If you do something wrong, you have to bear the consequences for your mistakes. What's wrong with that?"
"Skylark, you!" The smile on his face gradually disappeared, "You really have an unbearable personality."
"Is that so? I'm really sorry, I'm just so unbearable." I felt a little angry. I was so angry when I thought that the executioner who hurt me took away my only good friend.
"Stop arguing, this is all my fault." Hua Yuemian raised her voice and shouted, "Stop arguing."
"Yes, it's your fault . Thank God you have self-awareness!" I glared at Hua Yuemian fiercely, then snorted and turned my head away from her.
Shu Haining reached out and pulled Hua Yuemian behind him. He looked at me and said to Hua Yuemian, "It's not your problem. You don't need to blame yourself. This is a problem between me and this low EQ classmate Yun Que."
"Want to quarrel?" I was furious when I saw him protecting Hua Yuemian, "Come on, who's afraid of who!"
I said, rolling up my sleeves and taking a step back.
At this moment, a sudden brake sound came from behind me. I looked back in shock and saw a large truck coming. I gasped and froze in place.
Because I took a step back and the car was about to hit me.
I knew there was danger, but I couldn't move. The shock at that moment made my brain lose control of my body.
Shu Haining, in an instant, this name popped into my mind.
A hand grabbed mine tightly, and then a force pulled me forward. I turned around and stared at the face in front of me with wide eyes.
It was so close that I could see each of his eyelashes. The fear and shock in his blue eyes were so obvious. He grabbed my arm with one hand and pulled me into his arms. At the critical moment, he pulled me away.
A sharp horn rang in my ears. In that harsh and rapid sound, I heard him say two words in a trembling voice: "Idiot."