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As soon as the door opened, Li Xu smelled a strong sweet smell, a bit like the smell of sweet porridge that Aunt Tian usually cooks.

There was the sound of bowls and spoons clashing in the room, and Li Xu grabbed his heavy backpack and asked, "Is there anyone in your family?"

"Yeah." Shu Yuan changed her shoes, then took out a pair of guest slippers from the shoe cabinet and placed them in front of Li Xu.

"Damn," Li Xu couldn't hold back the smile, "you look like a wife who finally waited until her husband got off work."

When Li Xu said this, his voice was not loud, but Shu Yuan straightened up and covered his mouth anxiously, while looking in the direction of the kitchen with a guilty conscience: "Take care of your mouth."

Li Xu tore off Shu Yuan's hand, and wanted to take the opportunity to make a few jokes, but the people who walked out of the room made him stop all his actions in time.

Liu Mian has a sharp face with high cheekbones, and her long hair is combed back into a bun. She is the kind of woman who at first glance makes people think she is very fierce.

It's not that Li Xu is afraid of her, this is Shu Yuan's mother, no matter how arrogant Li Xu is usually, he will definitely put on a polite look in front of her: "Hello, Auntie."

Liu Mian sized up the tall boy from head to toe indiscriminately, with a decent smile at the corner of his mouth: "I often hear Xiao Yuan mentioning you, today I finally see myself."

Before Li Xu could answer, Shu Yuan grabbed his sleeve expressionlessly and dragged him to his bedroom: "We're going to do our homework."

A door separates the bedroom from the living room. Li Xu took off his backpack and raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you often mention me?"

Shu Yuan quietly sat down at the desk, picked up an exercise book and spread it out.

Li Xu got an advantage, even if the other party ignores him, it doesn't affect his mood.He moved a chair and sat next to Shu Yuan, and took out a paper from his backpack to do it. He was quite serious at first, but then he started to stare at Shu Yuan's side face and wander.

"Do homework." Shu Yuan gave him a sideways glance.

It's fine if he's at school, this is Shu Yuan's home, in a bedroom filled with the atmosphere of Shu Yuan's life, how could Li Xu be able to calm down and do his homework?He propped his face, leaning his upper body on the desk, with a lazy smile on his lips: "You never brought anyone else to your house, did you? Has Quan Haolang ever been here?"

Shu Yuan stopped writing: "Don't always hold on to him."

"You are closest to him at school." Li Xu was very concerned about this matter.

Shu Yuan never bothered arguing with him, and drew a few practice questions from Li Xu's test paper: "Do these few questions first, if you don't know, I'll teach you."

"Not at all." Just as Li Xu finished speaking, Shu Yuan grabbed the pen and stuffed it into his hand, with a cold look in his eyes.

Unlike Li Xu’s bedroom, which is equipped with a heater, the indoor temperature in the south seems to be the same as that of the outdoors. Li Xu can’t sit still even if he is physically resistant to cold.

"Go away." Shu Yuan turned to avoid him, Li Xu took his hand: "Just give him a hug."

"No." Shu Yuan shook off Li Xu's hand.

When the two were in a stalemate, Liu Mian pushed the door open and came in, bringing in two bowls of steaming sugar water: "Is it cold? Drink some sugar water to warm your body."

Li Xu immediately put on a gentle and harmless smile: "It's cold, thank you, auntie."

If you don't know Li Xu's reputation and achievements in school, Li Xu's smiling face is quite pleasing in the eyes of ordinary elders, like Liu Mian who immediately climbed up his favorability: "You're welcome, I will give you a lot of money." Take a hand warmer, just plugged in."

She turned and went out, and came in after a while with two hand warmers in her arms: "When you're done drinking the sugar water, you can go to the kitchen to refill it, don't miss out."

Shu Yuan sat on the bay window and scooped up sugar water to drink, sinking into the soft pillow behind him, looking very comfortable.After Liu Mian went out, Li Xu locked the door behind her, walked over a few steps and approached Shu Yuan, "Give me a taste."

The other party's eyes swept across his face coolly, and pointed to the desk: "Your ones are there."

"I know," Li Xu stared at Shu Yuan's bowl, "I want to eat yours."

Shu Yuan let go of the spoon and put the bowl aside: "Do you know why I asked you to come today?"

His expression was very serious, Li Xu knew it was not appropriate to joke at this time, but he didn't want to make the atmosphere too stiff: "Say it, I can accept any reason."

"It was my mother's request," said Shu Yuan, "I am withdrawn and have no friends. She wants to know who I usually hang out with when I go out."

"So I can't behave badly," Li Xu sat back at the desk, "It turns out that Auntie has a good impression of me."

"We can only be friends," Shu Yuan shook his head, "Li Xu, don't go any further."

When speaking of the second half of the sentence, Shu Yuan turned his head and looked out of the bay window.His sight was erratic, his voice was very soft, and he couldn't tell whether he was warning Li Xu or himself.

Li Xu stirred the sugar water with a spoon, and when he ate it, it became tasteless.There was a hand warmer given by Shu Yuan's mother on his lap, and he put his hand in, and the moderate warmth quickly spread through every cell of his body.

Liu Mian is hospitable, but she doesn't know that this guest has unreasonable thoughts about her son.

Li Xu thought, what if he crossed the boundaries of friends?

He is so selfish.

"Am I selfish?" After not seeing Li Xu's answer for a long time, Shu Yuan turned to look at him.

Li Xu was staring at something on the bedside table, Shu Yuan had only a handful of decorations in the bedroom, and the music box with the mini guitar was probably one of the few bright colors.

Even though it was not wound, Li Xu felt as if he heard melodious music, like vines entangled his little reason.

There are some things that he could have restrained, but they are just the original, and desires are all accumulated over time.

"It's me who is selfish," Li Xu pulled his gaze back, "Shu Yuan, it's not because you don't want to from the bottom of your heart, so I'm definitely going to take this step."

***

When the branches of every street tree in the city are decorated with large and small red lanterns, the new year is swaying and coming.

Qinghe Middle School has entered a comprehensive final exam preparation period, and students of all grades have gathered enough energy to compete.

In the severe cold winter, everyone felt extremely lack of sleep after overdrawing their studies. Even Shu Yuan, who was always upright in class, couldn't resist sleepiness after class, with his hands in his sleeves and his head resting on Fake sleep with eyes closed on arms.

Closing his eyes, he saw that Li Xu had taken his water glass away, and lay down in a dazed state until the bell rang to prepare for class, but Li Xu hadn't come back yet.

Before the formal class started, Shu Yuan got up and wanted to hurry up to go to the toilet, but just turned out the back door, he ran into Li Xu and Tan Xuanlin standing at the stairs talking, the latter seemed to be stuffing something for Li Xu.

The two of them didn't look at each other, Shu Yuan hurried to the bathroom, and when he came back after untying his hands, he happened to step into the classroom at the same time as the teacher.

Li Xu was already sitting in his seat, his expression was as usual, as if nothing had happened just now.

There is a glass filled with water in the upper right corner of the desk, Shu Yuan holds it in his arms, the words he wants to ask linger on his lips, and he holds back embarrassingly when he wants to say it several times.

In the middle of the class, Shu Yuan's arm was tapped by something, he turned his head away, and Li Xu put a draft notebook by his hand.

It was still written all over the page in eloquence: Tan Xuanlin will not take the college entrance examination, he will go abroad, and he will leave tomorrow.He came to me because he wanted to raise the cat at home, but I refused and asked him to find someone else.What he stuffed me just now was his notebook of science and synthesis, saying that it would help me in my studies... I didn't want it, so I stuffed it back for him.

At the end of the page, a pitiful expression was added, but Li Xu has no talent for drawing, so the expression was drawn like an angry face frowning.

Shu Yuan seemed to be spying on his unbearable mood, the back of his ears turned red quietly.He circled the expression with a pen and wrote next to it: What does this mean?

"I am wronged, please forgive me." Li Xu, who watched him write, whispered in his ear.

The breath sprayed on the tip of the ear was damp and cool due to the cold winter, Shu Yuan immediately covered his right ear and stared at Li Xu, accusing in a low voice: "Don't stick so close."

"I'm worried that you won't hear me." Li Xu said with a smile.

After class, Shu Yuan didn't sleep on the table again. He buried himself in the drawer for a long time, organized the notebooks of various subjects and put them on Li Xu's desk.

"What's the matter?" Li Xu opened it and looked at it, "Push me to go to the key class?"

"It's up to you," Shu Yuan said calmly, "It's your freedom to see it or not."

If Li Xu hadn't indulged him, his tone would have been exchanged for a fist from Li Xu.But Li Xu panicked after hearing his words, raised her head and asked in a daze, "Have you decided to focus?"

Shu Yuan didn't speak, only the noise inside and outside the classroom responded to Li Xu, which hurt his eardrum like a sharp awl.

When rehearsing the program for "Indulgence" in the evening, Li Xu's fingers couldn't control the strings and made frequent mistakes.Everyone noticed something strange, Song Yuenian took the lead to put down the instrument: "Let's rest first."

Even Han Qiyun, who is not serious at ordinary times, stopped joking: "Dude, what happened to you?"

"That's right, just tell me, brothers will help you solve it." Shi Chengjin squeezed Li Xu's shoulder.

"It's been a while, so don't take advantage of me." It was true that he was in a bad mood, but Li Xu still smiled at his buddies.

Shi Chengjin squatted in front of him, put his chin in his hands and said, "Hey, stop forcing yourself to smile and show your school domineering spirit. Is there anything that can't be solved?"

"School bullies can't get into key classes." Li Xu crossed his fingers behind his head, "School bullies will only pick quarrels and make trouble."

"Just for this?" Gu Qu sat over, "It's rare that Xu Baba is still troubled by studying."

Anyone who has studied in Qinghe knows the strength of this key class. Song Yuenian came out of the key class of liberal arts back then. The strength of teachers, not to mention the competition is now far more intense than before.

"Is it to make a wish?" Song Yuenian guessed.

The buddies suddenly realized.

If it was for the comfort of his wish, all of Li Xu's strange behaviors would make sense.

Li Xu rubbed the space between his brows—he was used to doing this whenever he encountered a problem, especially recently.

"I thought he liked me too."

Shu Yuan stuffed his pockets and hat with sparkly candies at Christmas.

When Shu Yuan placed the music box he gave him in the bedroom where he could see it at a glance.

Li Xu wryly smiled.

"It turned out that I was thinking too much. He just wanted to torture me to death. He was afraid that I would plot against him, so he tried to hide away from me."