This night is probably the warmest snowy night I have ever experienced!
I closed the curtains, turned off the lights, and lay down on the bed.
I seemed to fall asleep listening to the sound of snowflakes falling gently outside the window.
The snow fell all night. The next morning, when I drew back the curtains and opened the window, I saw a world covered in silver.
This snow transformed the gray winter in the south of the Yangtze River into a beautiful and moving pure white world.
"Don't bother me!" Suddenly, Shen Xiaoxi's angry voice came from downstairs. She seemed to have made up her mind not to play the role of a good girl anymore and was very unfriendly to everyone.
I stood by the window and watched her run out of the house, leaving Aunt Chen, who was chasing after her and trying to give her breakfast, there.
A series of clear footprints were left on the snow. I looked at the clock and it was already past seven o'clock. Today was the day of the final exam and I couldn't be late.
I quickly washed up, finished my breakfast on the table, and walked out of the house with my schoolbag.
When I reached the entrance of the alley, I saw a girl who was also wrapped tightly. She seemed to have accidentally stepped into a pothole on the side of the road and fell on the white snow with a "thump".
I hurried over to help her, but the girl just turned around and I was stunned for a moment.
The girl wrestling is Luo Yuxin.
That day she deliberately tricked me into a remote place and pushed me into a trap that had been set early in the morning. After the celebration, she didn't come to me to say anything.
She seemed to be avoiding me on purpose.
Once you decide to avoid someone, you won't easily meet him or her even if he or she is your neighbor.
She was surprised to see me and looked a little embarrassed. She tried to stand up, but unexpectedly twisted her ankle and fell again.
I silently extended my hand to her without saying anything.
"You don't need to be so nice." She said coldly, "You should be happy to see me fall, right?"
"Yes." I nodded without denying it. "You are right. I should be happy because evil will be punished. You have plotted against me several times and I am happy to see you suffer. When you cut my most important dance dress, did you know that I wanted to kill you?"
She was stunned for a moment, as if she was shocked by the hatred in my tone. She lowered her head and muttered, "It's not that exaggerated. It's just a ballet skirt. Is it necessary to be like this? You are too hypocritical."
"If it was just an ordinary dance dress, I wouldn't hate you so much. But it's the only thing that belongs to my mother that I can keep!" I whispered, "Luo Yuxin, don't tell me you don't know how important that dress is to me!"
She froze there, forgetting to get up from the snow, her eyes were complicated and her expression was strange.
After a long while, she finally said, "I really didn't know that was your mother's only relic. I thought... I thought it was just an ordinary ballet skirt. At that time, I was just very angry and didn't want you to go on stage. I didn't think too much about it."
"You always work with Shen Xiaoxi to figure out how to frame me. Didn't she pass such important information to you?" I asked in disbelief.
"She just hinted that I could do something with the skirt, but she didn't tell me that cutting the skirt would make you so upset!" She seemed to be very confused, and after a long time she said in a very low voice, "I'm sorry."
"It's cold on the snow, you should stand up first." I didn't take my hand back, "It's up to you whether you want my help or not."
She struggled for a while, and finally handed her hand to me, but one of her feet was still stuck in the pit.
I leaned over to take a look and saw that there was a hole in the manhole cover and she had stepped into it.
It took me a lot of effort to help Luo Yuxin to the ground, and then she quickly let go of my hand.
I originally thought that Luo Yuxin knew how important the skirt was to me, so she cut it up in order to completely defeat me.
But it seems I misunderstood.
Luo Yuxin’s situation was not as complicated as I thought. She simply didn’t want me to go on stage during the rehearsal, so when she met me the next morning, she asked me if I still wanted to attend the celebration.
If she knew that the skirt was very important to me, she would definitely not ask me this question again!
Thinking about these questions all the way, I walked to school unknowingly.
The heavy snow seemed to have washed away the depression brought by the final exams.
Looking at everyone’s faces flushed with excitement, my mood seemed to improve as well.
"Hey." When we reached the stairs, Luo Yuxin called me awkwardly, "I think we should... have a good chat."
"good."
I nodded. Indeed, Luo Yuxin and I needed to have a good talk, because I still had a lot of questions I wanted to ask her.
When I entered the classroom, Xia Nuo was sitting in his seat reading a book. Shu Nian hadn't come yet, and I don't know if he overslept.
Thinking of the paper airplane he threw to me with the help of the wind last night, I felt a warm feeling in my heart and was very happy.
"Are you feeling good?" Xia Nuo turned around and looked at me, smiling slightly, "Are you confident that you will do well in the exam?"
"Well, it's okay." I felt a little guilty when I said this. Yesterday, let alone reviewing, it seemed like I didn't even turn a page of the book.
"Good morning, Bai Xiaodie." A classmate who passed by me greeted me.
I responded, and then I suddenly realized that, without realizing it, I seemed to have slowly integrated into this class.
But the opposite of me was Shen Xiaoxi. Ever since that day when she lost her temper and yelled at a girl she got along well with, her popularity in the class dropped rapidly.
It’s really strange to think about it. When school started, Shen Xiaoxi integrated into this big group so quickly, but now the big group has abandoned her at the fastest speed.
I subconsciously glanced at her seat and found that she had not come to class yet. But this shouldn't be the case, she clearly left the room before me.
Didn't she come to school?
Isn't it that she leaves home so early to get to school earlier to review?
Just as I was daydreaming, a burst of singing suddenly came from the campus radio. Usually after the morning reading class is over, the school's radio room will be open and students can go there to request songs.
But before the song was finished, there was a burst of electric sound on the radio, and then I heard a familiar voice.
The moment I heard this sound, the wind blew in from the window and I couldn't help but shiver.
"Hello, classmates. I'm Shen Xiaoxi. Today I'll be hosting the morning song request program." Shen Xiaoxi's voice was clearly smiling, but my heart suddenly tightened.
The people who host the radio programs every day are from the broadcasting club, but Shen Xiaoxi is not one of them. Why would she host the song request column?
I stood up from my seat suddenly. It is said that animals have an instinctive intuition about danger, but what about humans?
I ran out of the classroom quickly and ran in the snow.
At this moment, there was only one thought in my mind, which was to stop her.
"Today, I will tell you a fairy tale. It's a special gift from Shen Xiaoxi." Shen Xiaoxi's voice came from the radio, speaking slowly like a devil.
"There was a girl who didn't look very good. She loved dreaming since she was a child . She often dreamed that she was a beautiful princess..."
I slipped and fell to the ground, which was full of mud and water. I almost lay on the ground, and you can imagine how embarrassed I was.
More than an hour ago, Luo Yuxin fell in front of me. I didn’t expect that just over an hour later, I fell even more miserably than her.
But I was in no mood to care about these things at the moment. I focused all my attention on the campus radio. Shen Xiaoxi used her sweet voice to tell me about the dream about the prince and princess recorded in my diary. I looked ashen and even anticipated what I was about to face.
"Bai Xiaodie, what's wrong with you?" Suddenly, a familiar voice, the one I least wanted to hear at the moment, slowly sounded behind me.
I didn't have the courage to look back.
Because the person standing behind me is Shanuo.
I don’t know whether Xia Nuo really didn’t know about Shen Xiaoxi reading my diary in front of the whole class a year ago, or he just thought it was insignificant and there was no need to pay attention to it.
But today, a year later, the same thing happened again, and this time it no longer happened in the classroom, but was broadcast so that all the teachers and students in the school could hear it.
"Let me tell you a secret. The story I just told you actually comes from the real world. It's a girl's daydream! And the prince in the story is our classmate Xia Nuo. And the princess, who is the girl who dreams and fantasizes about being with the prince, is our classmate Bai Xiaodie. Okay, the story is over, let's continue listening to the song!"
If there really are special powers in this world, I wish I could teleport instantly so that I can cover her mouth and prevent her from saying anything about the things that should have rotted in my heart and in my diary.
How embarrassing, Shanuo was right behind me, listening to a ridiculous and absurd story at the closest place to me.
"Bai Xiaodie..." He walked around to me and stared at me blankly, "Is what Shen Xiaoxi said true?"
How should I answer him? I don't know.
But something has to be said.
"You really don't know?" I risked my life and looked up into his eyes. "Last year, something very similar happened. Did you really not know about it then?"
He lowered his head, and his long bangs blocked his eyes. I couldn't see his eyes or his expression.
The sense of alienation in him came out very clearly.
"What's the matter?" He suddenly raised his head and smiled at me with his eyes narrowed. The sense of alienation just now disappeared in an instant.
He held out a hand to me: "Get up, your clothes are soaked."
I then remembered that I was still sitting on the ground. With his help, I stood up from the slippery ground, covered in mud and in a mess. If it weren't for the exam that was coming up soon, I really wanted to run away home.
"There is still an hour before the exam, which should be enough time for you to tell a story." He said, "Would you like to tell me the story of the prince and princess?"
For a moment , I felt mixed emotions: "Didn't I hear Shen Xiaoxi tell me this story? Is there any point in hearing it again?"
"Of course." He smiled. "Shen Xiaoxi's story probably contains a lot of her own subjective thoughts. I want to hear Bai Xiaodie 's version."
"Let's go to the library. There's air conditioning there, and I can dry my clothes there." I took a deep breath, gathered all the suppressed emotions in my chest , and then exhaled heavily. I immediately felt my panic and anxiety calm down.
"Okay." Xia Nuo agreed.
The students who passed by were all surprised to see me covered in mud. Some of my classmates passed by and saw me, their faces froze, and then they walked away without saying anything.
When they came here together just now, they were still discussing the story told by Shen Xiaoxi.
I know that even though I am different from who I was a year ago, other classmates seem to be still the same, although among my current classmates, only a few were in the same class with me and know the whole story of that incident.
Because the exam was coming up, there were not many people in the library , so Xia Nuo and I found a seat near the heater and sat down. He folded his hands on the table, looked at me with a faint smile, and waited for me to tell the story.
"When I was very young, I started to have a dream." I closed my eyes and tried to put myself into that dream. "In the dream, there were endless dandelions. When the wind blew, it looked like snowing all over the world. I was the princess of that world, wearing a beautiful princess dress. There was a very handsome boy standing in front of me. He always accompanied me and walked with me through all my dreams. That boy was the prince in my dream.
"However, I know that this dream is actually a safe haven for me to escape from reality. It is a psychological comfort, comforting myself that I can live like a princess in my dreams. Until I went to register for school four years ago, I remember very clearly that you walked against the crowd and smiled at me. Your appearance instantly overlapped with the boy in my dream. Do you know how shocked I was at that time?"
As I said this, I pressed my chest, my heart beating as violently as when I first saw Xia Nuo.
"Overlap?" He looked at me in surprise, "But you didn't know me before."
"Yes, so this is probably just a coincidence. But Shanuo, I admit that I admired you because of this." I was a little embarrassed, "I like to see you always smiling, and I want to become someone like you."
"Someone like me?" he murmured again, looking very surprised.
"Yes, becoming someone like Xia Nuo can make everyone feel the warmth of the winter sun." I looked into his eyes and said, "Xia Nuo, even now, I still think you are a very remarkable person. Not everyone can be admired by others."
"But admiration is different from liking someone," he said. "So Shen Xiaoxi's story is not right. She made you into a Cinderella who likes the prince. But in fact, Cinderella doesn't like the prince. She just wants to be someone as sparkling as the prince."
"Yes." I nodded. It seemed that he understood my story.
"But Xiaodie, if I tell you that I had the same dream when I was very young, what would you think?" He suddenly changed the subject and said, "I dreamed that I was a little prince, and I was always with a quiet and beautiful little princess. I liked that little princess very much. I really could feel that I liked the little princess very much in my dream, but the princess liked the knight who stood behind her and silently protected her."
"Huh?" I was stunned. "Knight?"
"Yes, knight. Our dreams are very similar, the only difference is that there is an extra knight in my dream. Maybe it's because you never look back, and I always face you directly, so I can see the knight standing behind you!" He nodded and continued, "But no matter how beautiful the dream is, no one can live in it forever. There may not be such a character as a prince in reality, but Xiaodie, have you discovered that there may really be such a knight around you who you have ignored?"
I was stunned.
If I was still somewhat lucky at the beginning and thought that Shanuo really had the same dream as me, then when he talked about reality, I knew that he was just making up a similar dream to comfort me.
He must be trying to remind me of something!
Remind me not to just dream all the time. Although the real world is not that beautiful, it also has warm things in it.
My heart was slightly moved. The knight that Xia Nuo mentioned...
Is it Shu Nian?