half thorns, half joy

Xiao Zihan leaned back slightly and narrowed his eyes. After a moment of silence, he slowly asked, "Do you still like to read poetry?"

"Probably." Tang Xuan still breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, she learned this knowledge after meeting Xiao Zihan. She was afraid that what she said would be too revealing.

Fortunately, Xiao Zihan did not continue to ask, but grinned appreciatively, "It's good, there are not many people who like to read poetry now."

Tang Xuan accepted it as soon as she saw it. She shook her head modestly and didn't say much.

A faint ambiguous atmosphere lingered around the two of them. The literature and art library was quieter than other libraries, with only the slight sound of the air conditioner.Tang Xuan's heart was not at peace. She picked out a novel from the shelf and stared at the large characters on the title page to hide her nervousness.

Compared to Tang Xuan, Xiao Zihan was much more at ease. He browsed the bookshelf leisurely, taking out a book or two to read carefully from time to time.When he saw something interesting, he pointed it out to Tang Xuan.

Half an hour later, Tang Xuan and Xiao Zihan both chose the books they were looking for, and walked out of the library with their arms in their arms.Xiao Zihan turned his head to look at the peaceful Tang Xuan, and joked with a smile, "You like reading so much, I guess you must come from a scholarly family."

Tang Xuan paused, and the calm expression on her face was almost unstoppable.

"Sorry, I was the one to be abrupt." Seeing Tang Xuan's expression changed, Xiao Zihan immediately apologized.

"It's okay." Tang Xuan put away the darkness in her eyes, looked up into Xiao Zihan's eyes, and smiled slightly, "My parents passed away when I was very young, I am an orphan."

Xiao Zihan was stunned, he stared blankly at the cheerful smile on the face of the girl in front of him, and felt a pain in his heart like being pricked by a needle.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked." Xiao Zihan regretted.

Tang Xuan waved her hands indifferently, "It's okay, it's been a long time, and I'm an adult now. Let's go."

"……it is good."

Along the way, neither of them opened their mouths to speak, and each other was full of preoccupations.The pink throbbing in the library just now also disappeared because of Xiao Zihan's rash question.

After leaving the library, Tang Xuan stood on the last step and bid farewell to Xiao Zihan.

Xiao Zihan hesitated to speak, and only after a while did he spit out: "If you want to return the book after reading it, you can find me, or give it to me in the coffee shop, and I will return it for you."

"Okay, thank you."

Not staying any longer, as if she couldn't see the pity in Xiao Zihan's eyes, Tang Xuan turned and left.The moment she turned around, she bit her lip hard, and her arms holding the book were also tightly bound, and she didn't even notice that the inside of her arm was marked by the spine of the book.

It wasn't until she walked out of the school gate of the University of Finance and Economics and sat on a bench by the side of the road that Tang Xuan relaxed little by little, and sighed out of her wits.

God knows how hard she endured when she heard Xiao Zihan's question.She almost blurted out, telling Xiao Zihan what happened to her, and questioning Xiao Zihan about what happened in his hotel that year.

Fortunately, Xiao Zihan asked about her parents, whom she had almost no memory of.That's why she was able to force herself to hold on, so that she wouldn't be too impulsive and waste so much effort.

Tang Xuan clenched her fists tightly, and told herself in her heart that she must calm down, find out the truth of what happened back then, and restore her cousin's innocence.

After gritting her teeth and making up her mind, Tang Xuan stood up and patted the dust before returning to the Normal University.She was fine in the afternoon, and originally planned to go to the coffee shop to work, but seeing Xiao Zihan today, her mood fluctuated, she was a little tired and didn't want to go.Besides, during this period of time, all her heart was devoted to Xiao Zihan, she had missed a lot in her studies, and she needed to make up for it.

"what--"

The moment Tang Xuan stepped into the dormitory building with her right foot, a girl with a ponytail suddenly rushed out from the side, bumping into Tang Xuan straight up, spilling all the milk tea in her hand on Tang Xuan's white shirt, smudging Comes out with a big stain.

"I'm sorry, I slipped my foot, are you okay?" the girl apologized in a panic, her eyes quickly searching Tang Xuan's face.

"I'm fine." The girl's frizz and deliberation made Tang Xuan slightly uncomfortable. She stretched out her hand to block the girl's hand that was about to wipe her clothes, and said calmly, "You don't need to wipe it, I'll just go back and wash it. .”

"……Well."

Tang Xuan didn't bother with the girls any more, and went straight up the stairs through the corridor.

Since her parents died since she was a child, she has seen countless people's faces and received countless people's eyes. During her long life as an orphan, she has long developed a keen observation ability, and she can feel the subtle things that are wrong with others. .

For example, the girl just now made her feel that something was wrong.But as for what was wrong, Tang Xuan didn't delve into it.

After entering the dormitory, Tang Xuan threw the books and bags in her arms onto the table, took out her pajamas from the closet, took a shower in the bathroom, and threw herself on the bed exhausted.

"Ah...so tired..." she muttered to herself.

"Are you back?" Huang Tingting, who was sitting on the upper bunk watching TV with headphones on, pressed pause, took off the headphones and lay down on the edge of the upper bunk to look down at Tang Xuan, "Where did you go in the last class? I texted you and you didn't reply."

In order to track down Xiao Zihan's whereabouts, Tang Xuan skipped the last class in the morning.Hearing Huang Tingting say roll call, she asked in a low voice, "Did you help me?"

"Needless to say, I said you are not feeling well and go to the bathroom."

"Thanks."

"What are you doing now? Don't you arrange part-time jobs when you don't have classes?" Huang Tingting asked curiously. Although she used to think that Tang Xuan was busy from morning to night, recently Tang Xuan's busy schedule has been so busy that she often doesn't see her end. Can't see people.

Tang Xuan muttered a meaningless syllable, but did not answer Huang Tingting's question.If she really told Huang Tingting what she was doing, Huang Tingting would probably be so excited that she would knock down the roof.Tang Xuan closed her eyes and lay on her stomach like a dead dog, motionless.

Seeing Tang Xuan's listless look, Huang Tingting rolled her eyes, lay down a little more, and swayed half of her body outside the bed and said to Tang Xuan, "I have a gossip here, will you listen to it?"

"I won't listen." Tang Xuan ruthlessly refused.

"It has something to do with you." Huang Tingting persuasively.

Tang Xuan could hear the joke in Huang Tingting's tone, and knew it must be nothing serious, so she ruthlessly refused again, "I won't listen."

"Really don't listen?" Huang Tingting showed a treacherous smile, "I'll give you another reminder, it's also related to Zheng Yifan."

Hearing Huang Tingting mention Zheng Yifan, Tang Xuan became serious, "What's wrong with him?"

"Aren't you not listening? Huh?"

"Then stop talking." Tang Xuan threw off her shoes and climbed onto the bed, pulled off the quilt and was about to take a nap.

Huang Tingting was so impatient, how could she swallow her words after she had said this? When she saw Tang Xuan really didn't care, she immediately became anxious.

"Hey, get up and listen to me!"

"Sleeping." Tang Xuan snickered.

Huang Tingting jumped down from the upper bunk angrily, pulled away Tang Xuan's quilt, stared and shouted, "Let me tell you, the beauty of our college is chasing Zheng Yifan!"