I Want to be Alone, Beautifully

"Xu Jiao is a student who has repeatedly violated the school rules and has a bad nature. Principal Yu, as the grade director, I am really saddened to see such a stubborn student who refuses to change after repeated admonitions. I hope you can understand my difficulties..."

"If I can't expel this student today, how can I manage other students in the future, and how can I have the nerve to make them obey the school rules? Where can I put my grade director's face?"

in the principal's office.

The soundproof and well-made wooden door couldn't block the sharp voice of the grade director. Xu Jiao stood with her arms folded against the wall, her eyes lowered to communicate with the system, but she was interrupted several times by her raised tone.

She glanced lightly at the director who clamored to fire her, and said in her heart:

"This person's talent as a teacher is really inferior. She is a singer who was delayed by the profession of a teacher. You said that if she goes to the Vienna Music Hall, what's the matter with other singers?"

system:"……"

It replied blankly: "Please host, don't change the subject, you seem to be very reluctant to see the heroine develop a good impression of you, why?"

Xu Jiao lazily said "Huh?", caught a glimpse of the headmaster's gentle voice comforting the dean, looked away, and continued in her heart: "I don't want to fall in love with her, why do you want her to have such a high favorability?"

While speaking, she remembered what happened just now——

Originally, she just wanted to help Shen Yelan solve Lu Pei's problem once and for all, but who knows that the girl who looks good on the surface has mental activities comparable to a violent wind and tsunami, and she can change as she says.

-80 favorability degree, not to mention making her a positive number in the blink of an eye, and even adding 10 points.

What is the concept of 90 favorability?

The little junior sister from the last world is an example. She looks respectful to her as usual, but as soon as she finds an opportunity, she immediately starts to bind, imprison, and imprison her.

She is not very young, but she has a lot of tricks, and she has two faces at a young age.

The system that heard her voice: "..."

After Xu Jiao recalled the development of the last world, she thought for a while and said: "I think it's better for me to stay away from this little girl Shen Yelan. Anyway, she has come out of the quagmire of relatives now, and her future life is probably the same. Positive, sunny, upward, nothing more to help."

The two of them bridge to bridge, road to road, that's all.

The system said: "But, don't you find it strange? Why did the favorability degree of -80 before become a positive number in an instant—"

It was only halfway through when it was interrupted by a complaint from the side: "Principal Yu, look at this student, she has never looked like a student since she entered the office, and she has no respect for the teacher. She also loves to bully her classmates, such a person will let her go into the society in the future, she is a cancer, she will lose the face of our [-]th Middle School!"

Xu Jiao suddenly raised her hand and made an interrupting motion.

She didn't rush to answer the system's words, but looked at the dean indifferently, squinted her eyes, and her eyes showed a bit of coldness: "I'm sorry to interrupt your complaint, dean."

"But I have to remind you that since people like you who don't distinguish between right and wrong, deliberately take sides, talk about the rules, and judge the facts but only rely on stereotypes and prejudices to make decisions can stay in the [-]th Middle School, or even Why can't I be a student of Eighteenth Middle School if I still hold the position of director?"

Perhaps it was because the director's character design was set by Xu Jiao referring to the hated teacher in the school, so even though she knew that the other party's speech was just respecting the character design, she couldn't help but speak.

Although the voice was as calm as ever, only she knew that she was still not steady.

This is the bad thing about a world that is close to the reality setting...

Accidentally, those things that were buried in the bottom of my heart, which I planned to never dig out for the rest of my life, unexpectedly rose up along with the air bubbles emitted by the rotting leaves at the bottom of the pool.

"Principal Yu! Listen! Listen to what she's saying!" The dean's treble, which had finally been lowered, rose another eight beats.

Principal Yu sighed secretly, handed the dean a cup of tea, and acted as a peacemaker in the middle: "Okay, classmate Xu, you are not allowed to talk to Director Zou like this, Director Zou, come and have some tea——"

"Teaching students sometimes requires patience. You see, Xu's monthly test scores this month have achieved very good results. It can be seen that the education model of our [-]th Middle School is still very successful. Teacher Zou Under the leadership of each class, the class teachers also generally reported that the discipline situation in their classes has improved a lot..."

Principal Yu has a good relationship with Xu Jiao's mother, and he also knows that Xu Jiao's family has relatives who work in the Ministry of Education. He has known about this student since he first came to school.

Therefore, Director Zou's appeal is doomed not to be met.

Xu Jiao raised her brows after receiving hints from Principal Yu's constant glances. She didn't bother to argue with such an np director any more. After being quiet for two seconds, she got up and walked out of the office.

"Uncle Yu, I'm going back to class first."

Principal Yu nodded hurriedly: "Hey, study hard. Your mother called me two days ago. She doesn't have any demands on you. She will be very happy if she can keep her ranking in the next exam."

Xu Jiao nodded, without saying that she would perform better next time, she raised her hand and opened the office door.

……

She had just taken two steps, and before she reached the corner of the corridor, she almost collided with the person sticking her head out from behind the wall.

Xu Jiao stopped in time, and smiled helplessly at Su Xi who stretched her neck and looked this way: "What are you doing here?"

Su Xi raised her hand to straighten the bowknot headband on her head, and smiled at her: "It's not that old hag, who yelled so fiercely just now, I'm not worried that the principal really listened to her nonsense, and will give you a penalty something."

"I've heard that that guy called Page called his parents to the school, even the one named Shen was called. Would you like to go and see it together?"

Su Xi raised her hand to hold Xu Jiao's wrist, and affectionately pulled her towards the classroom, not forgetting to talk about what happened just now in a gossip tone.

She thought, judging by how much Xu Jiao cared about Shen Yelan, sister Jiaojiao would want to make a rescue, right?

after all……

Sister Jiaojiao is not the type to help others out casually.

Shen Yelan, who looks dumb and dumb, will be considered one of his own in the future, Su Xi pondered in her heart.

"No."

Xu Jiao's faint voice interrupted her thoughts, and before she could react, she continued with her usual expression: "I still haven't finished the questions, so I won't watch the fun, let alone Yushu's just now. In the office, the matter between me and the dean is enough to give him a headache, let him save himself."

Su Xi said "oh" in a daze.

She heard Xu Jiao's refusal.

Seeing that she was about to transfer into the teaching area, Su Xi suddenly said: "But I think she was scolded by that page's parents very badly. If it wasn't for your head teacher to stop her, she would have been beaten."

Xu Jiao responded and corrected her: "It's Lu Pei."

After a pause, she said again, "No."

Hearing her firm refusal, Su Xi looked at her suspiciously for a long time, but soon gave up thinking about it——

Anyway, I have no brains, why should I think about such difficult things?

No matter what Sister Jiaojiao does, she has her reasons.

……

Shen Yelan found that Xu Jiao was very cold towards her recently.

It's not that she was so enthusiastic before, but...

She always felt that she was a little further away from this person.

It's strange, obviously helped her so much, and even allowed her to take this opportunity to make a clear relationship with her uncles and aunts, and was able to successfully leave the quagmire, but when she asked to thank her, Xu Jiao just wanted to thank her. Throw a word calmly:

"Not helping you."

"I simply hate people like Lu Pei, so I have nothing to thank."

When she heard this, Shen Yelan's blood that would start to boil as soon as she got close to her, as if it was about to bubble and steam itself, suddenly became much colder.

She stammered and said: "I know, but after all, you helped me indirectly, not to mention that I'm staying at your house for the time being, and it's reasonable for me to at least treat you to a meal... "

The voice behind him faded away.

Because Xu Jiao frowned slightly, the tip of the pen that was calculating on the draft stopped, as if she was interrupted by her long-winded thoughts.

Shen Yelan pursed her lips silently, but seeing the haze between her brows, even the apology was choked in her throat, and she didn't know where to put her hands and feet.

Until Xu Jiao counted again, accompanied by that casual response:

"Need not."

"You pay the rent and the food at home is delicious."

"If it bothers you, just pretend I didn't help you and forget about it, okay?"

Shen Yelan was suffocating for breathing.

How can I forget?

Perhaps for Xu Jiao, this was just a matter of little effort, but for herself, it was a salvation.

But she didn't dare to insist anymore, she was afraid that her gratitude would bring trouble to Xu Jiao, she shook the pen nervously, and went back to do her own problem in silence, but she was listless all day.

After school, she heard Su Xi running into the classroom: "Sister Jiaojiao! It will be Saturday in two days. Do you remember what day it is?"

Xu Jiao was packing her schoolbag, when she heard this, she answered without raising her head, "Your birthday."

There was a smile in the voice that Shen Yelan hadn't heard all day.

The reason why I remember it is because in the original book, Shen Yelan's birthday is on the same day as Su Xi's.

According to the original trajectory, Shen Yelan was beaten up by Lu Pei again on her birthday and was beaten by her aunt. She went out sadly at night and wanted to find a quiet corner for her birthday, but happened to run into Su Xi and Xu Jiao. This group of people suffered another bad luck.

Hearing Su Xi's words, Shen Yelan moved her throat, wanting to say something, but finally swallowed it back, and only listened silently to the two of them talking and laughing as they walked out.

"What gift will my sister give me?"

"what do you want?"

"I want a surprise! Don't tell me secretly, I'll guess it myself! By the way, you haven't played with Lao Shen and the others for a long time. I'll have a party then, and we'll be up all night! You can't refuse!"

"I try not to fall asleep."

……

"You like to eat cakes? I think you've been going around the fifth house?"

On Thursday night, Shen Yelan bought a bag of cream puffs. As soon as she walked out of the store, she was startled by the words from the alley next to her.

She looked up, and with difficulty, she could distinguish a thick black that was different from the shadow in the night—it was the person she had saved before.

Shen Yelan pressed the corners of her lips, and didn't ask how this person knew her whereabouts, but just handed over the bag of cream puffs in her hand, and asked, "Can you taste it for me?"

Dongqing gave her a strange look. She wanted to refuse such a sweet and greasy thing, but after a long while, she stretched out her hand, picked one up from the bag, put it to her mouth, and swallowed it in one gulp.

The faint sweetness spreads in the mouth, and the cream is whipped so soft and thin, as if there is no entity at all. It tastes... like biting a cloud.

Make people feel happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Dongqing's cheeks stopped, and she stretched out her hand again. Shen Yelan didn't refuse, and even handed the bag to her, and asked seriously, "Is it delicious?"

Dongqing didn't want to admit that she was bought by sweets: "It's okay."

Shen Yelan's eyes immediately showed disappointment.

Seeing her like this, Dongqing couldn't help asking: "You...why don't you eat it yourself?"

Shen Yelan shook her head: "I can't taste the difference, I think they all taste the same, but—"

She pursed her lips, maybe the other party was standing in the night, hidden in the darkness, so pouring out her heart to such a person was like telling herself in a silent night.

After a pause, Shen Yelan lowered her eyes, and said in a low voice: "I'm going to have my birthday in two days, and I want to invite someone to eat my cake. I'm afraid the one I bought won't taste good, and she doesn't like it."

After thinking for a while, she asked again, "Do you know which brand of cake tastes better?"

Dongqing asked strangely, "Why don't you just ask her? Girls like you, what you like and what you don't like are all written on your face?"

Shen Yelan shook her head, hesitated for two seconds, and whispered, "I'm afraid of causing trouble to her."

"On my birthday, she happened to have a good friend who also had a birthday, and she was going to that person's party, so... I just wanted her to have a bite of my cake, but I haven't eaten a birthday cake, so I don't know which one to buy Better."

Holly returned the puffs in her hand: "Sorry, I can't help you, in fact, I came to say goodbye to you today, I found a new job-I will remember your kindness, no matter what, as long as you I will try my best to come to you when needed in the future.”

There was sadness in Shen Yelan's eyes.

She shook her head, but did not accept the puff: "This is for you, I wish you a safe journey."

After finishing speaking, she looked down at her phone, and looked at the map to find the next cake shop.

……

Saturday morning.

Shen Yelan got up early and used to help Aunt Su. Then when she heard the knock on the door, she went to open the door and took the cake she ordered.

Aunt Su heard the movement and looked over: "Oh, is this the cake you bought for Xiaoxi?"

Shen Yelan was silent for two seconds, and replied softly: "Auntie, today is also my birthday."

Aunt Su immediately said: "Oh, then are you going out with Xiaoxi and the others for their birthday today?"

Shen Yelan shook her head silently, and carried the cake back to her room.

She carefully lit the candles, closed her eyes clumsily and made a wish according to Lu Pei's birthday in her memory——

Because she remembered that her aunt had said that wishes made on birthdays would be particularly spiritual, and that one must remember to eat the cake after making a wish, so that the prayer ceremony was completed.

In the candlelight, she said earnestly in her heart: "Please let Xu Jiao be safe, healthy and happy in this life, and all her wishes come true..."

Shen Yelan made a wish for a long time, then carefully tied her hair back, and gently blew on the delicate cake covered with petals, blowing out the candles.

There was a new movement outside.

"Huh? I'll go out with Xiaoxi and the others later, instead of eating at home..."

When Shen Yelan heard it, she carefully cut a piece from the cake, walked to the door, and even hit the door with her toes because of her haste, but she ignored the pain, just twisted the door open, and said hastily:

"Wait, wait, sister Xu Jiao."

Xu Jiao was changing her shoes at the entrance, when she heard the movement, she turned her head to look at her calmly.

Shen Yelan held the cake plate in both hands, and came to her carefully, trying to control her trembling tone, but it was still not ideal, and said in a hoarse voice:

"I...today is my birthday."

"I want to treat you to a cake, can I?"

Xu Jiao stopped putting on her shoes.

After a while, she smiled lightly and shrugged to Shen Yelan: "Happy birthday."

She said: "But I was in a hurry to leave the house, so I stopped eating the cake."

After finishing speaking, she lowered her head and put on her shoes, got up and raised her hand to open the door, and walked out, only the sound of closing the door hit people's eardrums, and it seemed to hit Shen Yelan's heart directly.

Shen Yelan stared blankly at the direction of the door, and after a long time, silently squatted down on the spot.

Strange, her heart suddenly felt cold and painful.

I don't know what disease I got.

It was as if she had been thrown from summer to winter in an instant, her blood was about to freeze.

"Xiao Shen?" Aunt Su poked her head out from the kitchen, looking worriedly at Shen Yelan's unhappy expression.

Shen Yelan stood up, and when she turned around, she tried to smile at her, but failed, she just lowered her head and said weakly: "I may have woken up too early, and I want to go back to sleep first."

Aunt Su said, "Okay, okay, do you have anything for lunch?"

Shen Yelan's voice slipped out before closing the door: "No, Auntie is not my nanny, don't bother me, I will figure out my own way for lunch and dinner."

She casually placed the untouched cake plate on the table.

Fall back into bed.

not moving at all.

In a daze, I don't know how long it took, but I just fell asleep like this.

……

She was dreaming again.

I don't know if it's because of the deep obsession, but in the dream, she is also celebrating her birthday, and the cake is still bright and decorated with rose petals, so beautiful that people don't know where to start.

She was holding a cake-cutting knife and was hesitating, when she suddenly saw someone passing by, instinctively made her grab that person, and said nervously:

"I, it's my birthday today...can I treat you to my birthday cake?"

"No." The man rejected her indifferently.

Shen Yelan wanted to cry anxiously, wanted to hold people back, and was afraid that people would misunderstand her. As a result, between the two of them, the cake on the table was knocked down, the cream cake collapsed all over the floor, and even made a mess. It got on the clothes of the two of them and got on the skin.

She suppressed him, looked at the white stain on the other's neck, held her breath, and approached cautiously——

He pursed his lips.

The sweet taste blooms between the lips.

Shen Yelan said in a low voice, "It's so sweet."

She suddenly knew how to eat this cake, the snow-white cream should also match the beautiful skin, if there is any fruit that can decorate it, it must be the rich and colorful cherry.

At the end of May and early June, the most colorful bunch of cherries on the branches can ooze sweet juice when bitten down.

Cherries with cream, she tasted.

Very, very sweet.

Exactly two.

But in the sweetness, she felt the heat in the corner of her eyes.

pat, pat.

Two small water droplets bloomed on the man's face, and then slid down along the smooth facial lines, dripping on the white floor tiles.