Chapter Eight 3
As soon as Xiaoyi saw that her affairs had been exposed, she immediately held my hand with a smile and said flatteringly: "Well... I am doing this for your own good. I saw how distraught you were before, and Tsurugahara came to see me again, so of course I had no choice but to..."
"Betrayed me?" I continued with gritted teeth.
Xiao thought something was wrong, her face changed, she looked at me worriedly and said, "Yaya, what's wrong? Did something happen?"
"What could happen? It was just yesterday that Tsurugahara..." I accidentally mentioned Tsurugahara.
Xiao Yi rushed to me with her eyes shining, and said excitedly: "What's wrong? What's wrong? Have you and Tsurugahara confirmed your relationship? Did you successfully confess your love to him? Or did you two kiss last night?"
"No, no, it's just..." I pulled away Xiaoyi's hand on my shoulder and told her everything that happened yesterday. Finally, I asked her with a bitter face, "Xiaoyi, what do you think Atsuruha likes about me? I still have this unreal feeling that he and Xin Xin..."
"The question of him liking you..." Xiaoyi interrupted me in deep thought, "I am also confused, but the matter between him and Xinxin..." Xiaoyi looked at me seriously for the first time and said, "Yaya, I think you should ask clearly in front of Xinxin and Tsurugahara, otherwise you will get hurt again in the future."
Xiaoyi's words made my originally confused thoughts suddenly clear up. I looked at Xiaoyi and smiled, "Xiaoyi, thank you for telling me this. I will go find Xinxin and make sure to ask about this matter clearly. Otherwise, I will still be worried and feel that it seems like a dream that Tsurugahara likes me."
"Now you know the benefits of my status as a love master!" Xiaoyi put her arm around my shoulders and said proudly, a narcissistic look on her face.
"Stop it!" I shook her hand off. "I haven't even settled the score with you for going to eat ice cream with Tsurugahara behind my back!"
Xiaoyi and I came to the classroom playing and joking. I saw my classmates sitting in groups of three or four, seemingly discussing something. When they saw me come in, they suddenly became quiet. My heart skipped a beat and an ominous premonition came over me.
“Ru, Ruya…” A girl looked at me timidly, as if she saw something terrible.
I was feeling confused when I heard Xiaoyi behind me suddenly call out, "Ruya, look!" I looked in the direction of her finger, and after seeing the photo and words on the blackboard clearly, my face turned pale.
Someone wrote "Ge Ruya go to hell" in red chalk on the blackboard, and underneath the words were photos, all of which showed me in every photo, and I was photoshopped to death in various ways. My scalp went numb, and I felt dizzy and was about to fall down, but Xiao Yi behind me was quick to support my shaky body.
"Ruya, are you okay?" Xiaoyi asked with concern.
"I'm fine." I replied reluctantly. I'm afraid of blood, it's a problem I've had since I was a child. Even though I know the blood is photoshopped, I still can't help but feel dizzy.
"Who did this?" I don't know when Ruiqing walked into the classroom. I reluctantly raised my head to look at him, only to see him standing on the podium with a dark face, staring at the students below. The few people who had been talking nonstop just now were now completely silent.
"I, we don't know either. It was there when we came in the morning." A girl seemed to be frightened by Ruiqing's aura. She lowered her head and explained in a low voice.
"I don't care who it is." Ruiqing glanced sharply at the students in the classroom and said coldly, "Don't let me see it next time!"
"It's so lively here!" A familiar voice suddenly appeared and broke the originally depressing atmosphere.
This voice is... I raised my head suddenly, and saw Tsurugahara standing at the door of the classroom with one hand holding the door. The golden sunlight shone in from behind him, as if he had been plated with a layer of golden halo. The phrase "eyes and brows like a painting" probably refers to people like him.
He walked straight to me, gently placed the bag in his hand on my desk, then said to me with a smile: "Haven't you had breakfast yet? I bought you breakfast, eat it while it's hot." He was still smiling so elegantly, but the difference was that this time he only had eyes for me.
"Hey, isn't this the handsome boy from the neighboring school?"
"Really? Is it that perfect boy named Tsurugahara? Wow, so handsome!"
"Yeah, what's his relationship with Ge Ruya? Could it be..."
"probably."
"Wow, Ge Ruya is so happy!"
I could hear my classmates whispering in my ears and my face turned red unconsciously. I secretly glanced at Tsurugahara. He looked calm and composed, as if he didn't hear what we said at all. He just told me softly to eat.
"Remember to eat breakfast, otherwise you will have a stomachache." Before leaving, Tsurugahara pulled away the scary photos on the blackboard, then turned around and gently reminded me.
If sweetness and happiness can be weighed on a scale, I think my current sweetness and happiness can offset all the unhappiness and sadness in the past. This is what love feels like, just like flowers blooming in every corner, one by one, in clusters, in my heart.
"Hey, Ruya, did you notice?" Xiaoyi suddenly poked my arm and said mysteriously.
"What did you find?" I asked, confused.
"Ruiqing, he seems to have been looking at you all day today." Xiaoyi blinked mysteriously.
"No way? What nonsense are you talking about? Are your eyes on the back of your head? Look at your book." I said hurriedly.
Xiaoyi looked at me meaningfully with an "I knew it" expression on her face, and then continued to read her romance novel.
I leaned slightly and secretly glanced at Ruiqing behind me. He was staring at me intently. How could I not notice that even if I was confused, I could feel his sadness. Since Tsurugahara left in the morning, he has been looking at me with such sad eyes, which makes me feel a little uneasy and guilty.
"Alas, Ruiqing is really pitiful. He will leave here in a few days." Xiaoyi was silent for a while after hearing my answer, and then muttered softly in her seat.
"What? Who's leaving?" I turned around and asked her when I heard the voice.
Xiao Yi pointed at the romance novel and smiled at me, "Nothing, nothing, just discussing the plot."
I rolled my eyes at her.
I finally made it to the end of school and was about to go home when Ruiqing stopped me.
"Ruya..." He called my name behind me, his voice was bitter, not like his usual self at all.
"Ah?" I turned around and looked at him in confusion. To be honest, ever since Ruiqing confessed to me, I didn't know how to face him naturally. I always felt something was weird, but I couldn't tell what was weird.
"You called me?" I smiled awkwardly.
"Well, I want to talk to you, I..."
"Ruya!" Ruiqing was interrupted by a sudden voice before he could finish his words. He and I looked towards the classroom door at the same time.
It was now time to go home from school, and the classroom door was particularly crowded with people coming and going, but for some reason, even though he was standing in the crowd, I could still see him at a glance.
"I'm here to pick you up from school." He looked at me and said gently.
I felt sweet in my heart, but when I looked at Ruiqing, I felt a little reluctant. I asked him, "Ruiqing, what did you want to tell me just now?"
"Nothing, have a nice date." After saying that, he strode out with his schoolbag. I don't know why, but I always feel that Ruiqing's back is a little lonely. Alas, am I too sentimental?
Walking side by side with Tsurugahara, I was so happy that I could not describe how happy I was. From time to time, I could feel people looking at me with envy or jealousy. I secretly glanced at the person next to me. From my angle, I could see the perfect and soft lines of his profile. I had to admit that Tsurugahara was a person who had no flaws no matter from which angle you looked at him.
"What are you looking at?" He suddenly lowered his head and looked into my eyes. Uh, it was so embarrassing to be caught peeping.
"It's nothing, just taking a look. Where are we going? Why haven't we arrived yet after walking for so long?" I kept talking to cover up my embarrassment.
"I'll take you to a beautiful place." Tsurugahara suddenly smiled childishly and said mysteriously.
A beautiful place? When we walked there, I realized that the "beautiful place" he mentioned was so charming that it could be called a "fairyland".
Because this place is a little far from the school, it was already dark when we arrived. We stood quietly by the clear lake, with birds singing faintly from the lush woods, and the purple lavender all over the ground exuding a dreamy and refreshing fragrance.
"This place is so beautiful!" I exclaimed sincerely. I don't know how Tsurugahara found such a place, it is really beautiful.
"There are more beautiful things, look." He suddenly pointed to the sky. As soon as he finished speaking, fireworks from nowhere rushed into the sky and bloomed on the inky sky. The gorgeous fireworks made the already unreal place even more dreamy. Under the dreamlike and dazzling fireworks, I looked into Tsurugahara's eyes, so clear and bright, reflecting a stunned girl.
"He Yuan, I, I have a secret to tell you." I bit my lower lip and said softly as fireworks rose.
"I know." His gentle voice reached my ears, and I was stunned for a moment. I didn't know if it was because of the beautiful fireworks that I was dazzled, or if all this was not real. I actually saw Tsurugahara smiling and reaching out his hand to hold my shoulders, and then whispered in my ear, "Dear Ruya, I already knew your secret."
