In a blink of an eye, the summer vacation is about to end, and next Monday is the day to report back to school.
Su Peile called Xia Ying and Han Jingjing in the morning to go shopping for school supplies. She sat on a bench on the pedestrian street, holding a cup of ice cream, eating while waiting for them.
In the crowd, a handsome "boy" in a yellow T-shirt and white shorts was running over, dragging a fat girl in a white dress. People passing by saw the fat girl and looked at her with envy.
Su Peile smiled while biting the spoon, thinking how nice it would be if Xia Ying was really a boy.
At this time, Xia Ying and Han Jingjing had already run over, panting. Han Jingjing sat down next to her, and Su Peile had the illusion that the solid bench was shaking a few times. Han Jingjing was still panting, while Xia Ying had recovered.
"Why did you think of asking us out so early this morning?"
"Yes, yes." Han Jingjing agreed, stroking her chest, noticing that Su Peile had not eaten much of the ice cream in her hand. Under the attack of her gaze, Su Peile took the initiative to hand her the ice cream.
"Because it feels like I haven't seen you for a long time." Su Peile replied with a smile.
"Where's Lee Jung Woo?"
"He went out of town last week for something and won't be back for a few days."
Xia Ying glanced at her: "I see."
Han Jingjing, who was eating ice cream, suddenly looked up and said worriedly, "Could he be in love with another girl?"
Su Peile's expression was stunned. Xia Ying reached out and hit Han Jingjing: "You're such a badass!"
Han Jingjing finished her ice cream and said, "Maybe he's getting bored again? Yingying, when you and Li Zhengyu were dating for four months, he started to distance himself from you."
"Han Jingjing, you talk a lot today. Can Lele and I be the same?"
"I'm just reminding Lele that boys date on a whim and don't take it seriously after a while. So, Lele, you have to be careful."
Su Peile nodded. She understood that Han Jingjing was doing this for her own good, but she believed that her relationship with Li Zhengyu would be stable and that Zhengyu would never get tired of her.
Two days before the registration date, Su Peile was woken up by a text message on his mobile phone. When he opened it, he found it was from Li Zhengyu, saying that he had arrived home last night.
He is finally back. Su Peile jumped out of bed excitedly, opened the curtains and saw that the sun was already shining all over the neighborhood. It was already past seven o'clock, and Li Zhengyu must have thought she was still sleeping, so he didn't call. She wanted to see him as soon as possible, so she washed up and went to Li's house.
When she arrived at Li's house, Aunt Chen was preparing breakfast. She greeted her and went upstairs.
Stepping on the soft carpet, she pushed Li Zhengyu's door open.
The curtains in the room blocked the sunlight outside, and the dark blue filled the room. Looking at the ground, game controllers and various snacks and magazines were piled up randomly, comparable to the scene of World War II.
When he got home at night, he stayed up late, played games, and ate snacks. This guy is really energetic. Looking at the bed, there was a person sleeping in the bulging quilt. He went back to sleep after sending her a text message. It seems that he still misses her very much.
She tiptoed to the bed, threw herself on him with a smile and said, "Li Zhengyu, don't pretend to be asleep! Get up quickly."
The person who was sleeping on his stomach groaned when he was pressed down by the sudden weight.
"Get up, get up quickly, let me see what's happened to you?" She grabbed his quilt, but the person under the quilt was hiding.
Su Peile thought he was joking with her, so she picked up the pillow and hit him lightly, saying, "Stop pretending, I'm going to lift the quilt."
"Hey, Su Peile, what are you doing?" Li Zhengyu's surprised voice sounded, but it came from behind her.
She turned around and saw that the bathroom door was open. The person in pajamas, wiping his hair with a towel, looking at her in amazement was actually Li Zhengyu!
She turned her head mechanically again. Who was the person on the bed?
She picked up the pillow and watched the boy she had just beaten slowly stand up from the bed and look at her.
Su Peile took a breath of cold air. This boy was too handsome. His facial features were so delicate that they seemed like a work of art made by God himself. There was nothing wrong with him. His face was so beautiful that even girls would be jealous.
Especially those eyes, which were bright and deep like a clear lake, with a hint of sadness, which would make people who looked at him feel an inexplicable pity.
How could there be such a good-looking boy in the world, his beauty looks like it has been deliberately retouched.
Su Peile thought of his own misconduct just now, felt so ashamed that he was at a loss as to what to do.
"Ah..." She fell off the bed and onto the ground.
"Le Le." Li Zhengyu strode over. Fortunately, she didn't fall on her head.
"He, he, who is he?" Su Peile leaned in his arms and looked at the boy on the bed who had the same embarrassed and surprised expression.
Li Zhengyu introduced happily: "He is my cousin Li Shengyu who I told you about. When I said I was going out, I actually went to the United States to bring him back."
He pointed at Su Peile and said to Li Shengyu on the bed with a smile: "Brother, this is my girlfriend, Su Peile, and she is also my deskmate."
It turns out he is Li Shengyu.
It's so embarrassing.
Su Peile didn't dare to look at him again, she lowered her head and said, "Hello, you." Then she pushed Li Zhengyu hard and ran out of the room awkwardly. She didn't notice that when Li Shengyu saw her face and heard her name, his eyes flashed with disbelief and surprise.
As soon as the fall semester started at Mingxin Middle School, the new American transfer student caused a sensation. He was Li Zhengyu's cousin, Li Shengyu.
Unlike Lee Jung-woo, who has a Martian temperament, Lee Seung-woo, who is gentle, elegant and stunning, is simply the embodiment of a perfect prince, like the most wonderful work of art bestowed by God on the world. His every move attracts the attention of girls.
Not only girls would pay attention to him, but even boys' eyes would follow him involuntarily.
Li Shengyu transferred to Li Zhengyu's class. The two school idols were together, and the girls in the class couldn't control their excitement.
Li Shengyu was arranged to sit at the same table with Xia Ying. When he sat next to Xia Ying, Xia Ying, who was always carefree, had an unnatural look on her face, trying hard to hide her feelings.
"Xia Ying, I'm telling you, don't bully my brother!" Li Zhengyu said to Xia Ying.
This made Xia Ying look up at him and glared at him, saying, "Do you think everyone in this world is as demanding as you?" After saying that, she looked at Li Shengyu who was sitting next to her, and for the first time she felt that her reaction was a bit rude.
"Hey, are you itching so early in the morning?" Li Zhengyu grabbed the ruler on the table and was about to throw it over.
Su Peile quickly snatched it away, pressed his shoulders and asked him to sit down: "Be quiet, the teacher is here to teach."
Sure enough, her words made Li Zhengyu sit down obediently. He glanced at the schedule and took out a book from his schoolbag.
Li Shengyu looked at the two of them, but his eyes were more on Su Peile. When he was in the United States, he knew that Zhengyu had a very considerate girlfriend. Seeing it with his own eyes, he found that their relationship was really good. When the two of them sat together, they formed an aura that no one else could fit in.
Su Peile has a round and cute face with a little baby fat, a pair of bright black eyes, a natural smile at the corners of her mouth, and her long hair is tied into a ponytail with a small pink clip at the roots of her hair.
While listening to the teacher's lecture, she reminded Li Zhengyu, who would occasionally be distracted, or told him where to mark.
Li Zhengyu listened attentively. When he lowered his head, his bangs slightly blocked his vision, so Su Peile used the light pink hairpin on her head to pin his bangs. He was a little embarrassed and reached out to take it off, but she held his hand and whispered something in his ear, so he smiled and didn't take off the hairpin.
The interaction between the two was so natural and smooth that the classmates around them were accustomed to it. Every time Su Peile looked at Li Zhengyu, his eyes were full of love and joy.
Li Shengyu looked at her smile and felt it was a bit dazzling. The scene that he had never dared to touch emerged in his mind. He clenched the pen in his hand, and a trace of sadness and melancholy appeared in his eyes.
Xia Ying, who was sitting next to him, noticed that he had not turned the pages of the book. She looked at him curiously, but found his sad eyes. Then she looked in the direction he was looking, and she couldn't help but frowning slightly.
At noon, when eating in the cafeteria, there were obviously more girls around Li Zhengyu and his brother. Most of them came to see this transfer student. In comparison, Xia Ying and Han Jingjing, who were sitting at the same table with them, became the luckiest people. However, they found that Li Shengyu had been eating quietly and didn't talk much.
Li Zhengyu also noticed his abnormality and asked, "Brother, are you a little uncomfortable after returning to China? You seem to be in a bad mood."
"I'm fine." Li Shengyu looked up and smiled, glancing at Su Peile intentionally or unintentionally.
She was complaining to her plate, "Why are there so many carrots and celery today? It's so disgusting." She has never liked these two vegetables, but today both the main dish and the side dish contained them, as if the chef was deliberately making things difficult for her.
"You eat what you want, I'll eat these." Li Zhengyu said, and picked up the shredded carrots and celery stalks on her plate with chopsticks and ate them.
"Zhengyu, I remember you don't like carrots and celery either." Li Shengyu said in surprise.
Su Peile looked at Li Zhengyu. It turned out that he didn't like to eat these either. Ever since they started dating, he ate everything she picked out.
"I love it now." Li Zhengyu answered and gave some of the food on his plate to her.
"Hey, could you two please stop showing your affection in class and then in the cafeteria every day and consider everyone else's feelings, please?" Xia Ying reminded them.
Li Zhengyu ignored her: "Are you jealous?"
"I don't care." Xia Ying said unhappily.
Su Peile pulled Li Zhengyu's sleeve and said, "Today's meal is too much..."
"Don't you have me?" He put some of the food from her plate into his own.
"But you don't eat much, and you'll feel uncomfortable if you eat too much. And you've never eaten so much before?" Su Peile said worriedly. Although Li Zhengyu is tall, his appetite is not proportional to his height.
"Silly girl, wasn't that the past?" He smiled and looked at her lovingly.
Looking at his smiling face, Su Peile showed a sweet smile, and the two of them completely ignored the other three people at the table. Han Jingjing shrugged her shoulders and felt goose bumps all over her body.
Xia Ying pretended to be contemptuous and ignored them, but turned her head and saw that after Li Shengyu took his gaze away from Su Peile's face, his eyes became melancholy again. When he lowered his head to eat, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, as if something made him very excited.
It's so strange, why would he react like this?
During the lunch break, Li Zhengyu and several members of the basketball team were playing basketball on the playground. Li Zhengyu looked very handsome when playing basketball, and successfully attracted many new female students to gather on the sidelines to watch the fun, screaming and cheering from time to time.
Li Zhengyu has always been very competitive. When someone cheers him on, he becomes even more active.
Looking at the group of blushing new classmates across from her, Xia Ying nudged the absent-minded Su Peile with her arm and said, "Hey, what are you daydreaming about? Your Li Zhengyu is flirting all over the place again."
"Ah?" Su Peile just came back to his senses and didn't have time to digest the meaning of her words.
Xia Ying rolled her eyes and said, "Why are you so distracted?"
"How could I?" Su Peile denied it and looked at Li Zhengyu who was dribbling the ball for a layup with a smile. She was also fascinated by Li Zhengyu just now.
Han Jingjing, who was eating potato chips, turned to ask her: "Lele, you are not also fascinated by the new Li Shengyu, are you? Don't be too greedy, you already have Li Zhengyu, don't think about others, leave the opportunity to me."
Xia Ying reached out and tapped her head and said, "If you want to pursue a boy, lose 20 pounds and give up snacks first."
"I don't want to lose weight. Maybe there are people in this world who like fat people like me. Xia Ying, didn't you say that you hate people with the last name Li the most? Why don't you talk to our class teacher and ask him to let Li Shengyu and I sit at the same table." Han Jingjing begged, shaking Xia Ying's arm.
"If you want to say something, go ahead and say it yourself." Xia Ying pulled her arm back, but Han Jingjing was stronger than her and held her tightly, and the two of them kept pulling each other like that.
Su Peile watched them playing and laughed. At this moment, a figure appeared on the ground in front of their feet, and then a gentle voice sounded: "You are here."
The three of them looked up at the same time. Su Peile was a little surprised, Han Jingjing looked like a fangirl, and Xia Ying smiled and waved her hand and said, "Hi."
Li Shengyu turned his back to the sun, and the warm sunlight cast a bright halo around him, just like a god who had just descended from heaven. Then he raised his slender hand and handed the pear juice he had just bought to Han Jingjing and Xia Ying.
"It was so hot at noon, so I bought some drinks." His voice was very pleasant, like notes in a beautiful piece of music.
"Thank you. I'm thirsty." Han Jingjing happily took it, opened it and drank.
Xia Ying took it, smiled and said thank you to him, then lowered her head slightly and bit her lip.
Li Shengyu handed the other bottle of pear juice to Su Peile, his eyes softened: "This is for you."
Su Peile took it hesitantly and nodded to thank him.
"Don't be so polite to me. Just treat me the way Zhengyu treats me." After saying that, he sat down next to her.
Su Peile felt a little embarrassed and couldn't help but lean towards Xia Ying. She had mistakenly thrown herself on him when they first met. She had been feeling a little uncomfortable these days and didn't know how to get along with him.
At this moment, Li Shengyu happened to look over, and when he met her gaze, a smile broke out on his face.
His smile was faint, warm, and as peaceful as the moonlight, and seemed to be able to easily touch people's hearts.
In comparison, Su Peile still prefers Li Zhengyu's sunny smile, which is full of youth and vitality.
She did not change her attention like other girls because Li Shengyu was sitting next to her. Instead, she looked towards the center of the field again, following Li Zhengyu's figure.
Noticing that he seemed thirsty, she immediately stood up and said to Xia Ying, "You guys chat first, I'll go get Li Zhengyu a drink."
As she said that, she trotted towards the basketball court and ran towards Li Zhengyu. Li Zhengyu took the pear juice and gave her a big hug, and the two of them laughed without restraint.
"These two people are really..." Xia Ying felt goosebumps all over her body. She turned her head to look at Li Shengyu and found that his eyes were fixed on Su Peile. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and a hint of imperceptible loss flashed in his eyes.
"I say..." Xia Ying moved closer to Li Shengyu and stared at him.
Li Shengyu looked at her and regained his calm expression. Xia Ying looked at him seriously: "Did you know Lele before?"
He was slightly startled, then shook his head and said, "I don't know him."
"But I noticed that you were always staring at her, several times since this morning."
"I just had some misunderstandings with her the day I came back, and I didn't know how to deal with it. After all, she is Zhengyu's girlfriend, so I wanted to find a chance to explain to her." His answer was flawless.
Xia Ying said doubtfully, "Really? I don't think that's necessary. It's enough that Lele and Zhengyu have a good relationship. It's better not to mention whether there is any misunderstanding between you two."
"You are a little too sensitive." He laughed. This girl looked straightforward on the outside, but she was very delicate on the inside.
"It's better that I'm sensitive." Xia Ying said. Is it really that simple? Why did she have a bad premonition, but she couldn't explain it.
After school, Su Peile was dragged to Li's house by Li Zhengyu again. It turned out that Grandpa Li asked Aunt Chen to prepare a sumptuous dinner at home to celebrate Shengyu's first day of school.
There were only four people sitting at the huge dining table. Grandpa Li sat at the first seat, with his two grandsons accompanying him on his left and right. Su Peile sat next to Zhengyu, diagonally opposite Li Shengyu.
While eating, Li Zhengyu's cell phone suddenly rang.
"Hello, Xiaowei..." He answered the phone and said, then stopped eating with chopsticks in his hand and said, "Okay, I'll be there right away, wait for me."
After he hung up the phone, he stood up and said to his grandfather, "Grandpa, I have something to do and I need to go out for a while."
"Are you leaving before you've finished half of your meal?" Grandpa Li was a little angry.
"It's really urgent. Shengyu is back. Don't we have dinner together every day?" He said and turned away from his seat.
Su Peile held his hand and said, "Let me go with you. I'm going home."
"If he leaves, you can't leave." Grandpa Li tried to keep him.
Li Zhengyu put his hand on her shoulder and said in a clear voice: "Just finish my portion for me and go back. If we all leave, grandpa will be angry."
He smiled at Su Peile, said hello to Li Shengyu, and hurried out of the house.
Su Peile felt a little embarrassed and had no choice but to lower his head and eat.
She wanted to go back after finishing her meal, but unexpectedly, Li Shengyu, who was sitting opposite her, looked up at her and said, "Can I trouble you with something?"
"What's up?"
"I just came back and I don't know how to do some of my homework. Zhengyu said you are a good student. Can you help me with my studies? It won't take you too long." Li Shengyu said softly.
Su Peile was a little hesitant, but Grandpa Li smiled heartily: "Lele, help Shengyu with his studies. Don't worry, he is much easier to teach than Zhengyu. It won't be difficult."
"Yes, Grandpa." Su Peile had no choice but to agree, and Li Shengyu gave her a grateful smile.
After dinner, Su Peile went to Li Shengyu's room, which was just opposite Zhengyu's room. Compared with the messy Zhengyu's room, Shengyu's room, which was mainly white, was very simple and tidy.
Li Shengyu asked her about some things related to Chinese. It turned out that he had lived in the United States for four years and did not have a very good grasp of some grammar and vocabulary.
Su Peile explained to him carefully and circled some key points in the book. Fortunately, he had not been away for long, so it was not too difficult for him to learn again. After studying for more than an hour, Aunt Chen brought mango pudding and the two of them took a break and chatted for a while.
"I like the pudding made by Aunt Chen the best. The cheese one last time was also very delicious." Su Peile scooped a piece of mango pudding with a small spoon and put it in his mouth, looking very enjoyable.
"I heard from Zhengyu that you come to tutor him every day."
"Yes, Aunt Chen would send all kinds of delicious snacks every time. The fat on my face was gained from eating that. Zhengyu said that I was much fatter than last semester." Su Peile touched his face, feeling melancholy.
Li Shengyu chuckled, looked at her and asked, "When did you and Zhengyu meet?"
"Well, to be exact, we met in Songchuan, but that was four years ago, and Zhengyu can't remember it. The next time we met was in Gangwon."
"Really... Then how did you two meet in Matsukawa?"
Su Peile bit the spoon and leaned towards him and said, "I have never told Zhengyu about this. He said he had bad memories in Songchuan, so it is not convenient for me to tell you too much. I can only tell you this. Four years ago in Songchuan, I experienced a very dangerous thing. Zhengyu helped me in time. After that, I never saw him again and I don’t know his name."
Hearing her say this, Li Shengyu's expression seemed to become serious, and he sat up straight, waiting for her to continue.
"I met him in Gangwon four years later and we became classmates. He didn't like studying and he skipped classes and got into fights. He was not like the Jung Woo I met four years ago. At first I thought I had made a mistake. But later I heard that he didn't want to talk about Song Chuan and that incident. I thought that he might have been psychologically affected by the accident."
"Snapped--"
The pudding in Li Shengyu's hand fell to the ground. He lowered his head to pick it up and said, "Sorry, I was listening too carefully. Please continue."
Su Peile didn't take his gaffe to heart and continued, "At that time, Zhengyu's performance in school was not good. I didn't want him to continue like that, so I tried every means to keep him in the classroom to study. Zhengyu had a bad temper and got angry with me a lot at the beginning. Later, I said I wanted to be his girlfriend and I could control him legitimately. He said that if I beat him in the spring long-distance race, he would agree."
"Can you outrun him?" Li Shengyu wondered. Long-distance running is Zhengyu's strong point.
"Haha, it's still funny when I think about it now. It was really a surprise that I could beat him. From then on, I became his girlfriend, and he changed little by little. In the end... I found that I really liked him, very much." Su Peile stopped talking here and fell into beautiful memories.
Li Shengyu pursed his lips tightly and touched his face subconsciously, with a bitter taste constantly surging in his heart.
Su Peile noticed that his face looked bad, and asked softly, "What's wrong with you?"
"I...I'm happy for Jungwoo." His voice trembled slightly.
Su Peile saw that he had been silent and had his head slightly lowered so that she could not see his expression. She couldn't help but feel a little confused and asked, "You don't look well?" She had heard from Zhengyu that Shengyu was not in good health.
"No." He denied, but his voice was obviously a little hoarse. He took a deep breath, "I envy you and Zhengyu, because not everyone will be with the person they fall in love with at first sight. Just like me, I like a girl, but she doesn't know. When I want to tell her, I find that I have missed it."
Su Peile seemed to understand what he said, and asked, "Did you and your girlfriend miss it?"
Li Shengyu raised his head, and she found that there was an indescribable sadness in his deep eyes. Did she ask something she shouldn't have asked?
His heart ached as if it was being chiseled by an awl. It seemed as if his heart could not bear the pain. His face became paler and paler, and his breathing became more and more difficult.
"Li Shengyu, what's wrong with you?" Su Peile stood up in fright, not knowing what to do.
"I, I..." Li Shengyu covered his chest with his hands, suddenly fell on the table, gasping with his mouth open.
"What's the matter with you?" she leaned forward nervously and asked.
Li Shengyu managed to utter a few words: "Grandpa, Grandpa."
"I'll go call Grandpa right away."
Su Peile was so scared that he ran out of his room and shouted downstairs: "Grandpa, come quickly, Grandpa..."
In the shortest possible time, Grandpa Li's personal doctor arrived quickly. Su Peile stood with Grandpa at the door of Li Shengyu's bedroom, watching the doctor busy by the bed.
"Grandpa, what happened to Li Shengyu?" Su Peile couldn't help but ask as he watched the doctor insert a needle into Li Shengyu's arm.
Grandpa Li showed a distressed expression on his face: "He has asthma."
Su Peile was shocked. In her opinion, this was a disease usually suffered by the elderly, and Li Shengyu was only 17 years old.
"Grandpa, how come he has asthma?"
"Alas, it was caused by an accident." Grandpa Li sighed, but he didn't want to continue talking to her. He looked at her and said, "Le Le, you should go home first. With Doctor Chen here, Shengyu will be fine soon."
"Grandpa, Zhengyu is not at home, I will stay with you for a while, in case anything happens, I can help." Su Peile said worriedly, how could a person suddenly get sick. Just now when Grandpa was looking for a doctor, she suggested calling Zhengyu to ask him to come back, but Grandpa said there was no need to tell him.
"Really, it's not necessary. It will be fine in a moment. Lele, you go back first." Grandpa Li persuaded her.
Su Peile glanced at Li Shengyu, feeling a little worried, but she was sure everything would be fine with the doctor here. She nodded and said, "Okay, if you need any help, Grandpa can call me."
"good."
She walked downstairs, thinking about how pitiful Li Shengyu was because he had asthma. Grandpa just said that it was caused by an accident. What kind of accident could it be?
It was the first time for Su Peile to experience such a thing, and he did not sleep well that night.
The next day at school, because she was on duty, she arrived at school first and did not wait for Li Zhengyu.
Soon, the students came to school one after another. When Li Shengyu walked into the corridor, Su Peile was cleaning the windowsill. When he saw him coming, he stopped what he was doing and walked towards him.
"Li Shengyu, are you feeling better?" she asked with concern.
He stopped, his face normal, as if nothing happened last night, and said in a relaxed tone: "Thank you, I'm fine now, it's just that I feel a little uncomfortable when I have an attack."
"You looked miserable yesterday."
"Sorry, did I scare you?" Li Shengyu looked a little guilty. He didn't expect that even such great emotional fluctuations could lead to a seizure, and this happened in front of the person he cared about the most.
"It's okay. Isn't it because I'm tutoring you that you're too tired?"
"It's not because of this, it was just an accident yesterday." He replied with a flicker in his eyes.
"That's good. You should take better care of your health and protect yourself in the future." Fortunately, she was by his side yesterday. If he was alone, the consequences would be disastrous.
"Thank you for your concern, I'm very happy." He showed a bitter smile on his face.
She glanced behind him and asked, "By the way, why didn't you come with Zhengyu? Where is he?"
"I'm chatting with the players of the basketball team downstairs. They should be coming up soon." He bit his lip lightly and said, "I'm going to the classroom first." Without waiting for Su Peile to respond, he passed by.
Su Peile turned her head and looked at his back. She felt like he was worried about something. And why was there an indescribable sadness in his eyes when he looked at her?
"LeLe!" Han Jingjing appeared beside the stairs in the corridor, and a piece of potato chips fell out of the bag in her hand because of running.
Su Peile turned his gaze away from Li Shengyu who was walking into the classroom, looked at her panting and said, "Jingjing, why are you running so fast?"
"Li Zhengyu is coming up, so I have to tell you first." Han Jingjing said impatiently.
"What's going on? Why don't you let him know?"
"Oh, never mind him. To make a long story short, Lele, you have to be careful. It seems your Li Zhengyu is really going to change his mind."
"Jingjing, what are you talking about?" Su Peile was confused by what Han Jingjing said.
Han Jingjing carefully looked back and pulled her to the window sill: "I was at the night market last night and saw Li Zhengyu carrying a girl on his back."
"Did you see it wrong?" Su Peile said in a low voice.
"Were you with Li Zhengyu yesterday?"
"He went out last night after receiving a call from a friend. It was a boy, so you must have been dazzled!" Su Peile thought about it and realized that Li Zhengyu clearly called him "Xiao Wei".
"You didn't go out with him. If you answered a boy's call, the person you met might not be a boy." Han Jingjing raised her eyebrows and glanced at her.
At this moment, the sound of Li Zhengyu and students from other classes talking and laughing came from the direction of the stairs. Han Jingjing's face changed and she said to Su Peile: "Don't say I saw it." The fat girl ran into the classroom very flexibly at this time.
While Su Peile was in a daze, Li Zhengyu had already walked over, with a schoolbag slung over his left shoulder. He walked in front of her and gently tapped her forehead.
"Hey, are you waiting for me?"
"Zhengyu." Su Peile called his name softly.
Li Zhengyu pinched her nose and asked with a smile: "No way, you missed me so much after not seeing me for one night? Look at the dark circles under your eyes, like a red panda."
"Did grandpa call you last night?"
"No, what's wrong?"
"Shengyu is sick. I wanted to call you back, but grandpa said no. What time did you get home last night? Was the doctor still there?"
"It was very late when I got back. The doctor had already left and Shengyu fell asleep. He was fine when I woke up in the morning, so everything is fine. Don't worry. I would feel bad if I scared you." Li Zhengyu reached out and touched her face.
Han Jingjing's words were still ringing in her ears, and Su Peile asked tentatively: "Did you have fun with Xiaowei and the others yesterday?"
Li Zhengyu's expression froze for a moment, and he immediately said, "Very good."
"Oh... no one else?"
"It's just the few of us, who else could it be? Why are you asking this out of the blue?" Li Zhengyu said with a smile, holding her shoulders, "Are you afraid that I will go on a date with other girls? Don't worry, you are the only one in my heart, I don't care about anyone else."
Seeing his confident look, Su Peile didn't think about it any more. Maybe Han Jingjing had seen it wrong. She seemed to be a little nearsighted.
After lunch, Su Peile went to the supermarket in the school to buy drinks for his classmates on the basketball team. There was a Gangwon Youth Basketball Tournament in October, and Mingxin Middle School was striving for first place this time. Li Zhengyu's return to the team was a shot in the arm for everyone, so they all seized the time to practice.
When she came out of the supermarket and walked to the main road of the campus, she saw a girl wearing a school uniform from another school looking around. When she got closer, she recognized her. It was Xiaoci.
Xiaoci also saw her and walked over with a smug smile on her face. The clothes in her hands made Su Peile's eyes widen.
Why does that thin white jacket look so familiar? It seems to be... Li Zhengyu's.
After a while, Xiaoci walked up to her, held the coat in her hand in front of her and said, "It's a good thing to see you. You can bring Zhengyu's clothes to him."
"Why are his clothes here with you?" Su Peile reached out and took them, still smelling of laundry detergent.
Xiaoci raised her face slightly, with a smile on her pretty eyes: "Brother Zhengyu forgot his clothes at my house last night. He didn't tell you, right? My brother had to go out for something last night, and he was worried about me staying at home alone at night, so he asked Brother Zhengyu to accompany me."
Su Peile's face looked ugly.
Xiaoci was very satisfied with her reaction and continued boastingly, "Brother Zhengyu told you that I am like his sister, right? Do you think that we, who are not related by blood, can have a brother-sister relationship? Even if you are his girlfriend, so what? That tomboy named Xia Ying was also his girlfriend, but she changed to you after they broke up, didn't she? He changes girlfriends, but I am always by his side."
Although Xiaoci is one year younger than her, she speaks harshly and mercilessly, leaving Su Peile at a loss as to how to respond.
Xiaoci took another step forward and said in a low voice in her ear: "Don't be so proud now, you will end up like Xia Ying." After that, she no longer paid attention to Su Peile's stiff expression, turned around and left with a smile.
Li Zhengyu actually lied to her, which was something Su Peile had never thought of. She felt that two people in a relationship must be honest with each other and have no secrets, so Li Zhengyu's first lie made Su Peile very angry.
In the morning, his confident look made her think that Han Jingjing had seen it wrong, and she still believed him, but she didn't expect that he was actually with another girl. If it was just a walk, she wouldn't mind so much, but he was carrying a girl on his back, and she was a little concerned about Xiaoci.
The more Su Peile thought about it, the angrier he became. He grabbed his coat and strode towards the basketball hall.
She pushed the door open angrily. Li Zhengyu, who was training, had just finished shooting a three-pointer. He turned around and saw her coming in. He shouted, "Why are you so slow? We are dying of heat."
A team member came over and took the plastic bag from Su Peile's hand. Noticing that her face was ashen, he hurriedly coughed deliberately to remind Li Zhengyu.
When Li Zhengyu approached, Su Peile shook the clothes in his hand and asked him, "Li Zhengyu, what's going on?"
Seeing the clothes in her hand, his face changed and he asked in a lost voice: "Why are the clothes here with you?"
"Why did you lie to me? You were with Xiaoci last night, why did you hide it from me?"
It was the first time they saw her so angry. The players on the basketball team all looked at her in surprise. Not knowing the reason, no one dared to come over and stop her.
"Oh, I didn't tell you because I was afraid that you would be like this after you knew it. It's no big deal, don't think too much." Li Zhengyu said disapprovingly, took the clothes and threw them aside.
"Li Zhengyu, I would have thought about it if you didn't tell me."
"The matter is very simple. Xiaoci had an argument with her mother and ran away. Xiaowei was not at home and he was worried about her so he asked me to go look for her. It was a bit cold at night, so I gave my clothes to Xiaoci and sent her home." Li Zhengyu said, turning back and waving to the team members, asking them not to stand there and watch the fun.
"Then let her mother find it, what are you looking for?" Xiaoci provoked her when they first met, and her intentions towards Li Zhengyu were even more obvious to everyone. She was not angry because of making a fuss. She felt that if Li Zhengyu was soft-hearted towards someone like Xiaoci, Xiaoci would do everything she could to continue to pester him.
Girls in love are all a little narrow-minded, and Su Peile is no exception.
"Su Peile, are you going to have a big fight with me here just for such a small thing?" Li Zhengyu asked in a low voice, why did she suddenly become so willful.
"You are not allowed to see Xiaoci again, and you are not even allowed to answer her phone calls."
"Can you please stop thinking so much? I treat her as just my sister, sister!"
"You are not even allowed to be a sister."
Her commanding tone annoyed Li Zhengyu, and his bad temper flared up, and he shouted , "Su Peile, you are being unreasonable!"
"I know you have a good relationship with Xiaowei, but that doesn't mean you should love everyone in your family. You have to figure out whether they are more important or I am more important, right?"
“You have no comparison.”
"It turns out that in your heart, I am not as good as them, not as good as Xiaoci."
"Su Peile, are you done yet?" Li Zhengyu roared in intolerance. This was their first quarrel. Impulsively, he threw the basketball in his hand to the ground. Unexpectedly, the basketball bounced back and hit Su Peile right on the head.
"Ah!" Su Peile was knocked back a few steps and almost fell down in pain.
Li Zhengyu panicked, and Su Peile shouted angrily: "Li Zhengyu, you are going too far."
It was clearly he who did something wrong, but he still looked so righteous. Su Peile was really angry. He glared at him fiercely, turned around and strode out of the basketball hall without looking back.
Li Zhengyu's teammates came over and said, "She seems really angry, go comfort her."
"She was the one who was unreasonable first. Why should I coax her?" He said stubbornly. He snatched the basketball from his teammate, slapped it hard, ran to the basket, dribbled the ball to the layup and slammed it hard.
“Bang——”
The backboard was shaking, and Li Zhengyu jumped down, staring at the basketball that rolled to the side. He was still angry, thinking that Su Peile was making a big fuss today. She got so angry with him over such an insignificant thing. Do boyfriends and girlfriends have to report everything in detail? Can't he have some privacy? Besides, such trivial matters are not a big deal in his eyes.
For a long time, it was Su Peile who coaxed Li Zhengyu and did everything according to his wishes, but this time Su Peile was unreasonable, and Li Zhengyu was a little at a loss. After hesitating for a while, he was still worried, so he said hello to his teammates and hurried out of the basketball hall.
The midday sun was bright and dazzling. Li Zhengyu squinted his eyes and looked at the roads leading to various places on the campus, but did not see Su Peile. He hesitated for a moment, then chose the road leading to the teaching building to chase after him.