Mr. Huo, stop being abusive. Miss Fu is going on a blind date again.

Ji Lin didn't contact Ling Zhao during the entire winter vacation.

He wanted to calm himself down first and sort out his feelings with Ling Zhao.

Every day he told himself that he only regarded Ling Zhao as a brother.

The reason why he had such a vague feeling was because Ling Zhao had a neutral appearance, was short, and was shy, which gave him a certain illusion.

In fact, he only regarded Ling Zhao as his younger brother and wanted to protect and take care of him.

That’s right, this is how he feels towards Ling Zhao.

It was because his mind was disturbed by the rumors spread by those people that day that he started to think in the wrong way and his thoughts became out of control.

That's right, that's it.

Ji Lin, who had successfully brainwashed himself, thought that when school started tomorrow, he and Ling Zhao would go back to being the same as before, and he would still be the big brother who protected Ling Zhao.

Damn the rumors!

When he arrived at the classroom the next day, Ji Lin took out wet wipes and wiped Ling Zhao's seat. Although the school cleaning staff had already cleaned the seat before they arrived, he knew that Ling Zhao loved cleanliness.

"Are you in such a good mood?" Fu Yan asked him.

Ji Lin said with a matter-of-fact expression, "New semester, new atmosphere, do you understand?"

Seeing his smug look, Fu Yan thought that the New Year had not yet ended and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month had not yet arrived, so she couldn't curse anyone casually, so she had to endure it.

It was almost time for class and all the other students had arrived. Ji Lin looked at Ling Zhao's empty seat and glanced at the time. Was that kid going to be late?

However, when class started, Ling Zhao still didn't show up.

After the head teacher greeted everyone, he said on the podium: "By the way, I have something to tell you. Ling Zhao from our class will not be coming this semester. He has gone abroad."

The classmate sitting by the window pushed open a window, and the sunlight refracted through the glass and flashed in front of Ji Lin's eyes.

The light was so blinding that he even forgot to block it or blink.

I felt a sense of emptiness in my heart, and the only thing left in my mind was what Teacher Liu said: He has gone abroad.

Suddenly, there was an uproar in the class.

Fu Yan quickly turned around and looked at Ji Lin who was a little dazed, "Ji Lin..."

Ji Lin came back to his senses from his trance. He suppressed the suffocating feeling in his chest and said angrily, "This heartless kid, why didn't he tell me before going abroad? I will teach him a lesson next time we meet."

Fu Yan wanted to say something else, but Ji Lin stood up from his seat, picked up his backpack and coat, and said, "I'm going to the team."

After leaving school, Ji Lin called a car and went straight to the Ling family villa.

On the way, he called Ling Zhao, but the number on the other end of the phone said it was an invalid number.

Ji Lin's hands were shaking.

He even cancelled his number!

The car stopped outside the Ling family villa.

Ji Lin got out of the car and rang the doorbell. After a while someone came to open the door.

When the nanny saw that it was a teenage boy, she was stunned for a moment, but immediately recognized that the school uniform Ji Lin was wearing was the same as Ling Zhao's.

"you are?"

"I'm Ling Zhao's classmate. Do you have Ling Zhao's contact information after he went abroad?"

The nanny remembered Ling Feng's words and told him to notify Ling Feng whenever any of Ling Zhao's classmates came to visit.

It happened that Ling Feng had not gone out today, so the nanny turned around and told the bodyguard to go upstairs and invite Ling Feng.

After a while, Ling Feng came out of the house.

He looked at Ji Lin in front of him and felt from the bottom of his heart that Ji Lin was a handsome man.

But so what? After all, she is not destined to be with Ling Zhao.

He acted like an elder, "I'm sorry, classmate. My son Xiao Zhao said he had no friends at school, so I transferred him to another school. Since he had no friends, I doubted your real intention in looking for him. I'm sorry I can't tell you his new contact information. I'm protecting my son."

"I'm not one of those people who bullied him. I'm Ji Lin, his deskmate." Ji Lin eagerly explained his identity.

Ling Zhao, he actually said that he had no friends at school.

So what is he?

Ling Feng shook his head. "I've never heard him mention you. Please leave. You are not welcome here."

"Mr. Ling!"

Just as Ji Lin took a step forward, the Ling family's bodyguards came out and stopped him, "Please leave."

The Ling family’s door was closed.

……

Ji Lin went to school every day, and spent almost the second semester of his senior year doing exercises.

Fu Yan thought Ji Lin wouldn't be able to endure this boring life for a few days and would go to the team for training.

Yet he persisted for a month without even a word of complaint.

Seeing Ji Lin lose weight, Fu Yan finally couldn't stand it anymore, "Is Ling Zhao's going abroad such a big blow to you?"

"Who said I did it because of him?" Ji Lin seemed to be having a stress reaction.

Fu Yan sighed, "Do you know how much your district ranking has improved? I wouldn't have dared to think about this before."

It's scary when he suddenly changes his personality and starts studying hard.

"That's because I didn't study hard enough. I want to get serious. What do you have to do with me?"

Fu Yan felt distressed by his stubborn attitude.

"If you're sad, go find him. I heard he went to Zurich. If you need, I can ask my second brother to check for you."

Ji Lin waved his hand and said, "I'm not sad, really, please don't think too much, okay?"

"Don't you like Ling Zhao? Ji Lin, tell me the truth."

Ji Lin's face suddenly darkened, as if he had imagined the answer countless times in his mind, and blurted out: "How could I possibly like a sissy!"

"Ji Lin!" Fu Yan interrupted him seriously.

She never thought that three such insulting words would come out of his mouth.

Ji Lin's face was extremely gloomy. He stood up, kicked the chair beside him away, and strode out of the classroom.

At the beginning, some classmates talked about Ling Zhao in their spare time, but as time went by, everyone seemed to have forgotten about him and no one mentioned him again.

Ji Lin seemed to have forgotten the existence of that person. He just opened his review notebook, which was full of words written by Ling Zhao.

He would still think of him and how he persuaded him to read more.

Until the college entrance examination was over, he didn't have much time to think about Ling Zhao.

He went to the best sports school in the country, joined the national team, began to be selected through layers of selection, and participated in competitions of different levels.

He took down-to-earth steps towards his dream.

He was so busy every day that he really forgot about Ling Zhao's existence and buried the unknown feelings that even he himself didn't understand.

So much so that many years later, when he suddenly heard this name from his classmates, all he remembered was that he had been very kind to Ling Zhao and took care of him like his own brother.

But he forgot that there is never any warning when love strikes, it's like God is playing a joke on you, and there is never any negotiation.

It will revive at some point, at some instant, without any warning.

More passionate than ever before, blooming with clusters of brilliant flowers.

He never thought that he and Ling Zhao would have a future...