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01

Lin Shen stood in the crowd, and his ears were filled with endless shouts.

He frowned, these passionate and high-decibel voices, as well as redundant noises made him inexplicably irritable.If it weren't for class honor, he wouldn't have participated in these activities, and he would have suffered.

"That Gu Mingyuan from Class [-] is so handsome!" A girl in front was very excited and tugged at the sleeve of the little sister beside her.

"Ahhh, he's here!" The little sister seemed to be of the same kind, and she held the girl's hand back, and she almost exploded on the spot.

Others cast contemptuous glances at them, but they stared back quickly.

On the basketball court not far away, the game between the black and white teams was about to end. The score of 9:11 made the atmosphere on the court more tense. Several tall boys were sweating on the court, and the sound of shoes rubbing and the sound of basketball landing continued. Now, the most conspicuous of them is Gu Mingyuan, the No. [-] player in the silver-white jersey, who is two points behind and makes him more calm.

He stared at the ball in the opponent's hand, and although the situation was at a disadvantage, he did not appear impatient.

Lin Shen narrowed his eyes after looking at it for a while, the noon sun hurt his eyes.

Suddenly, the sound of a basketball entering the frame pierced into the ears, and the crowd immediately burst into screams and enthusiastic cheers.

In the end, Class 12 defeated Class 11 with a score of 1:[-] and won No. [-] in the men's group. The three-pointer shot by Gu Mingyuan just now undoubtedly became the key to turning things around.

Gu Mingyuan, who was off the field, was quickly surrounded as a "hero", with praise from the players on one side and condolences from fans on the other.

Gu Mingyuan didn't accept the chocolate and glucose water handed over by the fan girl, but chose the mineral water given to him by his teammates.

He unscrewed the bottle cap, raised his head and took a sip, the coldness swept across his hoarse throat instantly.He leaned against the basketball hoop, pulling the basketball uniform back and forth to dissipate heat. From time to time, someone would come to chat with him, and his face was always full of smiles.

Lin Shen didn't go over to bring him water, nor did he talk to him, but just stood there and watched.

After the heat dissipated a bit, Gu Mingyuan, who was halfway across the basketball court, noticed Lin Shen's gaze.

As soon as he caught the man's gaze, Lin Shen immediately moved away.When he looked back awkwardly, Gu Mingyuan had already looked away, pretending to be okay and chatting with his friends.

Lin Shen's eyes darkened, he smiled at himself and turned away.

In fact, he has always been very clear in his heart.

The dazzling boy on the field was his untouchable dream.

02

Lin Shen grew up in the village, and only transferred to an elementary school in the city when he was in the fifth grade.The quality of teaching in the village was poor, coupled with the lack of teaching aids, Lin Shen could not keep up with the teacher's progress at first, and his grades hovered at the middle and lower levels.

It is said that children from the countryside are not very popular. It can be seen from the math teacher. She has a lot of opinions on Lin Shen, a country boy.

"What is this?" The mathematics teacher sat on the podium, looked at the notebook handed over by Lin Shen, and asked coldly.

Lin Shen was embarrassed for a while, and his hand holding the notebook trembled slightly: "Teacher, I don't have that exercise book, so I just copied it in the notebook."

The math teacher frowned, and threw it away without opening the notebook to take a look. He said angrily, "How many times have I said it, copy it! You need me to say it a few times before you understand it!"

"I'm sorry, teacher..." Lin Shen apologized first, and then hurried to pick up the notebook that had just been thrown away.

The math teacher saw him clumsily squeezed out of the queue behind him, with loose clothes on his thin body, bent over to pick up his notebook, and struggled to hold back his temper that was about to burst out.

She calmed down and asked as gently as possible: "Lin Shen, what do your parents do?"

"Uh...runs a restaurant."

"Don't your parents usually have time to take care of you?"

"..." Lin Shen held the notebook in silence, and it took a long time before he slowly uttered the word "um".Parents are usually very busy, and they can't go home almost until late at night. His daily breakfast and dinner are settled outside, let alone let them worry about these things.

This time it was the mathematics teacher's turn to be silent.

"Anyway, I want to see your photocopied exercise book next week." She rubbed her temples and said forcefully.

"Ah."

Seeing Lin Shen nodding in agreement, the math teacher waved his hand to signal that he could go down.

As soon as Lin Shen got back to his seat, he heard a voice from the front seat: "The unwanted child is so pitiful."

He froze for a moment, and his eyes darkened a lot in an instant.Fang Yuanyuan, who was at the same table, gave the seat in front of her a slap in time, which made the seat in front of her burst into tears, and turned her head hastily, not daring to speak.

"Lin Shen, don't listen to his nonsense, you can't believe a child's words." Fang Yuanyuan smiled sweetly, took out a few white rabbit toffee from the belly of the table, and said, "The teacher said to eat sweets. Candy makes you feel good, eat it quickly."

She was afraid that Lin Shen would be sad, so she specially replaced the part of "mother" with "teacher".

"..." Lin Shen looked at Fang Yuanyuan suspiciously, but aren't you a child too?

But Lin Shen still took those few candies carefully, held them in his palm, and his heart suddenly became warm, as if what he was holding was no longer mellow toffee, but the warmest kindness from the girl's heart.

03

Because Lin Shen is usually not very talkative, looks ordinary, and even has a little timid temper, he is not liked by some macho boys in the class, so he has not had a few regular friends since he transferred to another school for two weeks.

After all, Fang Yuanyuan is still a little girl, so it is impossible to hang out with him all day long.As a result, students in the class could often see Lin Shen sitting alone in one place, often for a whole day.

Lin Shen had just come out of the office that day, and the teacher had approached him many times for ordering supporting teaching aids.

He wrinkled his face, thinking about how to discuss it with his parents when he got home.

The scorching sun hung high in the blue sky, and the cicadas were singing.He looked up at the playground, where the big friends from the sixth grade were rehearsing for the upcoming school celebration.

Unexpectedly, someone beside him also stopped.

When Lin Shen heard the voice, he turned his face away and saw a healthy young man standing on the aisle, with some drops of water on his face, and his T-shirt was wet with sweat.He is considered a tall boy, and the afternoon sun just casts on him, casting a long shadow.

He seems to have seen this person in class, he should be called Gu Mingyuan.

Seeing Lin Shen looking this way, the man wiped his thin sweat with his sleeve, and smiled, showing his beautiful canine teeth.

"Student Lin Shen, good afternoon."

The boy's voice came with the wind, disturbing the hair on Lin Shen's forehead, making that young heart beating non-stop.

Sometimes, the heartbeat point is very strange.Just a smile, a movement, a person, let oneself sink endlessly.

04

But young love cannot be hidden.

Whenever I see that person, I always blush and my heart beats.Whether it's a chance encounter on the stairs or a fight between classes, as long as you meet his eyes for a moment, your little face will be flushed.

After all, that is a secret hidden in the bottom of my heart about liking.

Gradually, the students seemed to know the secret, and some students even dragged Lin Shen to Gu Mingyuan, just to see Lin Shen blushing and shy, and laugh at him again.

Children who were abused by TV dramas in the early days have already matured at this time to know what it is like to like someone, and they also know that liking can be kissed.It's just that they have only seen men and women's liking on TV, but never seen Lin Shen's liking.

"Lin Shen, you are so strange, you actually like boys, disgusting!" The bully grabbed Lin Shen by the collar and slammed him into the corner of the wall.

The rest of the mischievous boys also surrounded him and whispered in his ear like a mantra: "My father said that there should be a pairing of men and women in this world. Men like men and women like women. This is crazy!"

"Neuropathy!"

"unusual!"

"Disgusting people!"

……

The vicious words around him made Lin Shen's ears ring.

Suddenly, an immature girl's voice came down: "What are you doing! I'm going to sue the teacher!"

Fang Yuanyuan ran over, stomping on her little leather shoes, very angry at their behavior of blocking Lin Shen in a corner.

"Fang Yuanyuan, you don't know, Lin Shen likes Gu Mingyuan, he's crazy!" Half the class knew about the little bully's liking for Fang Yuanyuan, and he was eager to show his affections right now.

"Bah!" Fang Yuanyuan got angry when she saw his face, pushed away the boys around Lin Shen, pulled his wrist, and retorted: "I don't know if this is crazy, but everyone likes others. s right!"

Lin Shen was pulled by her like this, and escaped from the small corner.

He saw Gu Mingyuan on the way.

The man was turning his back to him, and he didn't know what his expression was.

05

Afterwards, as long as Fang Yuanyuan wasn't around, other people would surround him and make noises, and Lin Shen would be blocked at the door when he went to the bathroom.

Lin Shen gritted his teeth and stood at the end of the aisle, surrounded by booing boys.The boy's unbearable jokes penetrated into his ears, making his shame nowhere to escape.

On the other side of the aisle is Gu Mingyuan who came up with his friends after playing basketball.

His friend seemed to have noticed Lin Shen who was trapped, and pressed against Gu Mingyuan's waist, pouted at the place where Lin Shen was standing, with an evil taste: "Hey brother, you're lucky... not only girls like you now , even boys like you."

Gu Mingyuan glanced at him lightly, but did not speak.

I saw him walking straight forward with the basketball in his arms, passing by Lin Shen without looking at him, and he didn't say anything to stop those excessive classmates.

The ridicule of the classmates is getting louder and louder.

"You see, Gu Mingyuan doesn't like you at all!"

"How could someone like a psychopath!"

"Psychopath!"

……

Lin Shen pushed them away, and the words that hit his ears just now were like knives, piercing his heart full of holes.

06

The class teacher found out about this incident from nowhere, and called Lin Shen into the office not long after it happened.

"Don't be so nervous, come, eat a piece of candy." The class teacher is a Chinese teacher with a good temperament. She took out candy from the drawer just like Fang Yuanyuan, except that Fang Yuanyuan's was white rabbit candy, and hers was white rabbit candy. fruit candy.

She carefully opened the candy wrapper and put the candy into Lin Shen's mouth.

The sweet and sour taste melted on the tip of his tongue, reminding him of his parents, tears came out instantly.

"Cry if you want to cry." Seeing his red eyes and sucking his nose, the head teacher smiled slightly, took him into his arms, and said, "You are just a child, there is no need to bear so much."

The gentler the head teacher treated him, the more Lin Shen couldn't help crying.He grabbed the head teacher's clothes and cried loudly, melting all the grievances he suffered before into tears, dripping down his cheeks.

Although the world is dark, there are still some people who are willing to share the only warmth with him.

07

"You are still young, the so-called liking in your mouth is just your admiration for someone from the bottom of your heart." The class teacher stood on the podium, swept away his usual gentle appearance, and swept every student in the class with stern eyes .

"For example, Gu Mingyuan in the class is tall, good at playing basketball, and often takes the first place in the class in mathematics. He is so outstanding, if I were me, I would also like him."

"Besides, Fang Yuanyuan is cheerful, generous, sweet-mouthed, and friendly. I like her very much."

She suddenly sighed and said seriously, "So—"

"I hope everyone will stop making such silly jokes."

"Whether it's now or in the future." After finishing speaking, she also popularized the citizen's right of reputation by the way.

Xiaobawang and the others were terrified when they heard that "in severe cases, they will be punished by the law". In addition, they were called to the office by the head teacher a few days ago to talk alone, and they ran here after school And Lin Shen apologized.

"Why do you forgive them?" Fang Yuanyuan stood beside the bus stop with her schoolbag and waited for the bus with Lin Shen, her little leather shoes kicked away the gravel on the side of the road dissatisfied. "They are obviously so hateful."

"Nothing." He forced a smile.Although I still receive those malicious little notes, it is much better than when I first started.

The head teacher has always had a motto "endure the calm for a while, and take a step back to see the sea and the sky", and he doesn't want to let the head teacher down.

After a while, the bus came, and it was a Fangyuanyuan bus.

"Then I'll go first."

"it is good."

After Fang Yuanyuan left, Lin Shen still stayed where he was and waited for the bus.The summer evening wind was very comfortable, and it didn't take long for him to feel sleepy, and he heard someone call his name in a daze.

"Hey, Lin Shen, haven't you come home so late?" The person who called him was his cousin who was in the sixth grade at the same school as him.My cousin is tall, handsome, righteous, and the main force of the basketball team. The last time I heard that Lin Shen was being bullied, I almost brought someone to beat the bully and the others.

"Brother." Lin Shen called him first, and then turned his face away to look at his cousin, but he caught a glimpse of Gu Mingyuan who was following behind him, his heart skipped a beat, and he lost all sleepiness.

The cousin looked a little puzzled: "Have you not waited for the car yet?"

"Hmm..." He replied in a low voice.

My cousin raised his hand and looked at his watch. It was already 6:30 in the afternoon, and the fifth grade usually ends at around 5 o'clock. Gu Mingyuan is on the basketball team, so he often walked with their sixth graders.

He looked at Lin Shen in front of him: "Are you on duty today?"

"No……"

Then why didn't the kid come home after an hour and a half?The cousin was even more puzzled, so he asked him, "Aren't the second uncle and the second aunt worried?"

"No." Lin Shen shook his head. Parents probably haven't come home at this time, so it doesn't have much impact if they go back later, but they may be hungry. The snack shop over there closes early, almost at night It closes at seven.

"No." The cousin immediately frowned with heroic eyebrows, and said, "I'll let a taxi take you back."

"Oh, no need..." Lin Shen just wanted to wave his hand to reject him, so he listened to him.

"If you don't listen to me, then I'll tell your dad that you eat spicy strips!" the cousin threatened viciously.He knew that his younger brother was most afraid of being beaten by his parents. For the sake of his health, the second uncle never allowed him to eat anything, especially spicy noodles.

The curious Lin Shen only tasted it once, and that time he was caught by his cousin.

He called a taxi for Lin Shen, but my cousin was still worried, fearing that his younger brother would be abducted to be a child laborer in the mountains, so he asked Gu Mingyuan to accompany him.

"Ming Yuan, are you okay later?" the cousin asked Gu Mingyuan with a smile.

"It's nothing." He thought for a while, his parents are on a business trip today.

"I heard that you and my brother are in the same class, so please help me to send him home."

"..." Gu Mingyuan pursed his lips, as if he was thinking about whether to agree.

Seeing his hesitation, my cousin resorted to his trump card: "I will give you my spot in the next joint school basketball game."

He is not interested in the main position, anyway, he has played enough in the past few years, but Gu Mingyuan is completely opposite to him.

"Okay." Unable to withstand the temptation of the main position, Gu Mingyuan nodded.

So Lin Shen got into the same car with him.

07

The atmosphere in the car was awkward, just the sound of the engine starting and the song playing.

Lin Shen tugged at the school trousers, and glanced at Gu Mingyuan who was across the empty seat from time to time. Although he had gone through so many things, his love for Gu Mingyuan had not faded in the slightest.

And Gu Mingyuan was staring out the window at this time, he opened the car window, and the wind that entered the car took advantage of the opportunity to blow the refreshing smell of washing powder on his body.

Lin Shen's heart was beating like a beating, and the roots of his ears were stained pink unknowingly.

He greedily enjoyed the taste, he thought, this is enough.

After about 10 minutes' drive, the taxi stopped at the gate of the community.Lin Shen opened the door with his schoolbag on his back, stepped out, and stood aside.

The taxi turned around again, and he happened to be standing on the side of Gu Mingyuan who had the window open.

Gu Mingyuan's eyelashes were a little long, trembling slightly in the air.

Lin Shen was so nervous that he didn't know what to say, and it took him a long time to hold back a sentence with his face flushed: "See you tomorrow."

Only the air of silence responded to him.

Lin Shen tightened his fingers pinching the seam of his trousers, sure enough, it was still the same.

He clearly guessed the ending, but it was still so unacceptable.

The taxi started, and black smoke came out of the exhaust.

Lin Shen stood where he was, feeling a little depressed.

Suddenly, a very light "um" pierced into my ears, but it was quickly blown into the wind.

Lin Shen was stunned for a moment, and by the time he realized it, the taxi had already disappeared from his field of vision.

08

Time flies, years pass.

Lin Shen has become a big friend in the sixth grade. Although he has grown a lot, his small body is still very thin.

At the beginning of the term, the school had a conflict with the food delivery company, saying that many students ate iron wire and glass shards from the food, and the parents made a fuss when they found out.

So the school had no choice but to force the food delivery company to terminate the contract by not using the lunch they provided for a period of time. As a result, students who lived near noon could go home to eat, or eat outside like other students.

Although Fang Yuanyuan's family is far away, but relatives came to pick him up, so he didn't follow Lin Shen to eat at the roadside stalls.

Lin Shen ate roadside stalls for a week, fried potatoes, cold roll noodles, papaya water...almost all of them.After eating for a week, my body didn't grow much, but I got sick instead.

I went to the hospital for a checkup, and the doctor said it was gastroenteritis, but I didn't get better after four days of IV drip.

This made the whole family very anxious. My parents called the head teacher to ask her to look after her children more. Then the next day, Lin Shen appeared in the canteen for the elderly next to the school, holding a bowl like other old people. Chewing slowly and enjoying lunch.

Finally, the gastritis got better, so the students in the class brought fried chicken nuggets from KFC.That classmate usually likes to tease everyone in the class, including Lin Shen, who was teased several times by him.

"Eat one, it's not a big deal." The classmate begged for nothing, insisting that Lin Shen eat his chicken nuggets.

"No, no." Lin Shen waved his hand and refused, and the doctor told him to quit greasy and spicy food in the near future.

Seeing that he didn't pick up for so long, the classmate immediately became angry, and his voice increased a lot: "If you don't eat today, you are looking down on me!"

The people in the classroom were attracted by the roar, and they all looked at the two of them.

Lin Shen was so embarrassed by the stares that he almost reached out to take it.

Gu Mingyuan, who had just returned from playing basketball, saw this scene, walked over with a frown, pushed the classmate's hand away, and said coldly: "Lin Shen has gastroenteritis."

"What's wrong with a chicken nugget? It won't kill him." The classmate got angry and retorted verbally.

Gu Mingyuan's eyes sharpened, and he reached out to grab his collar, but he was stopped halfway, and it was a cold hand that stopped him.

He subconsciously looked over.

Lin Shen was stunned for a second before he realized what he had just done, and hastily let go of Gu Mingyuan's hand, his face flushed with blush, and he stammered, "The teacher... said... that fighting is not allowed in the classroom."

Gu Mingyuan gritted his teeth, withdrew his hand, and before leaving, he did not forget to warn his classmates: "I won't kill him, but I will kill you."

"Cut, I can't take a joke." The classmate muttered in a low voice.

Lin Shen looked at the figure going away, a little dazed.

09

Until one day, Lin Shen woke up from the nightmare and found the mobile phone to send text messages to Fang Yuanyuan.

Lin Shen: I am very scared.

Fang Yuanyuan didn't sleep yet, so she quickly replied: Yes

Lin Shen: I just dreamed about Gu Mingyuan.

As long as he recalled the scene in his dream, his heart would be aching.

Lin Shen: I really... like him so much.

Lin Shen: This heavy love makes me breathless.

Fang Yuanyuan: (touching her head) Everything will be fine, go to bed early. ^_^

Lin Shen: Yes.The same to you.

Lin Shen, who turned off his phone, fell asleep again in a daze.

The next day Lin Shen met Gu Mingyuan in a small shop.

Fang Yuanyuan, who was walking with him, saw Gu Mingyuan standing in front of the freezer, so he walked towards him.Not long after, Fang Yuanyuan came back.

"I told him about that."

Lin Shen obviously understood what she meant by the so-called incident, and his pupils shrank suddenly: "How could you tell him..."

Fang Yuanyuan didn't care, seeing Gu Mingyuan walking towards them, she turned sideways to get out of the way.

Lin Shen was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to face Gu Mingyuan.After all, it's a shame to lose control of emotions like a sentimental girl just by having a nightmare.

Unexpectedly, Gu Mingyuan, who was approaching him, handed himself a bottle of orange Fanta.

Probably because it was just taken out of the freezer, the plastic bottle is still wrapped with a layer of water mist falling down, which is icy, bringing a touch of coolness to this hot summer day.

Gu Mingyuan looked at Lin Shen, who looked down at his feet and felt uncomfortable, and whispered in his ear.

"sorry."

Lin Shen was taken aback for a moment, but before he could react, Gu Mingyuan walked away.

He squeezed his drink, and felt a lot relieved.

Because this sentence of "sorry" with unclear meaning just brought his secret love to an end.

Later, that bottle of Fanta and that sentence of sorry became Lin Shen's best memories of the scorching summer and Gu Mingyuan.

10

"Lin Shen."

"Lin Shen!"

Lin Shen vaguely heard someone calling his name and knocking on the table in his sleep.

"...Huh?" He faintly woke up from his dream, but unexpectedly, he was confronted with a super-magnified face.

Thanks to that big face, he woke up completely.

"The English teacher told you to go to the old place to get the weekly newspaper." Seeing that he woke up, the man with glasses smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"Hmm." Then came the sound of a chair being pulled away.

Lin Shen yawned and walked upstairs while rubbing his messy hair. The white shirt uniformly issued by the school looked crumpled on him.

Out of a physical reaction, his eyes felt a little sour, and tears swirled in his eyes, blurring his vision.He rubbed his eyes and continued to walk around the corner, but suddenly caught a glimpse of a person standing in front of him.

He felt that figure from the back was very familiar, and subconsciously read out: "Gu Mingyuan?"

"En." The man responded softly, turned his head to look at him, and revealed that handsome face that was so familiar.He said: "I will hold the book with you."

"Oh." At this time, Lin Shen has become able to hide his liking for that person very well, so that his face does not blush and his heart beats.

He and Gu Mingyuan entered the reading room together.The old man on duty saw Lin Shen coming in, and said with a smile, "Here again?"

"Yeah." Lin Shen often came here to pick up things, and he was already familiar with the old man.

Seeing Gu Mingyuan following behind, the old man joked, "Yo, this time I even called a handsome guy to help."

"Uh... yes." Lin Shen smiled a little stiffly.

After exchanging pleasantries with the old man, Lin Shen walked out of the reading room with a pile of weekly newspapers in his arms.

Gu Mingyuan still followed him this time, and the rhythmic footsteps of the two echoed in the aisle.

"Lin Shen." Gu Mingyuan's sudden opening made Lin Shen's feet stop in shock.

"Huh?" Lin Shen replied politely.

"Why didn't you come over to say hello to me when you saw me on the day of the basketball game?" Gu Mingyuan frowned, and quickened his pace to walk side by side with him.

"It's not because I didn't come because your friend was around." Lin Shen pulled out a perfunctory smile, he hadn't chatted with Gu Mingyuan alone like this for a long time.After all, ever since the two reunited, I have intentionally distanced myself from him.

"En." Gu Mingyuan didn't refute, so the two fell into embarrassment again.

It wasn't until the end of the aisle was almost reached that the man continued, "How was your junior high school?"

"Ah?" Lin Shen was taken aback, "I'm doing well, how about you?" In fact, he was just lying with his mouth open, without Gu Mingyuan, it's not good at all.

Gu Mingyuan glanced at him lightly, and said, "Not good."

Lin Shen's heart was moved by his glance, and the roots of his ears turned red once again.

He pretended to be calm and asked the man back: "Why is it not good?"

Gu Mingyuan didn't say the reason: "Anyway, it's not good."

Because there, one person is missing.For him, the most important person.

11

On the day Lin Shen received the admission notice after graduating from elementary school, he thought that his fate with Gu Mingyuan was over, but they met again in the first year of high school after being separated for three years.After being divided into arts and sciences, he saw that familiar face again in the new class as if by fate.

They are obviously classmates in primary school, but the unrequited crush once made them know each other again from the identities of strangers.

Lin Shen carried the weekly newspaper to the library corner of the class and piled it up, then returned to his seat.He and Gu Mingyuan's seats are far apart, they are located in two different corners, referred to as "the ends of the earth".

As soon as he sat down, he took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Fang Yuanyuan.He has been in contact with Fang Yuanyuan all these years, and Fang Yuanyuan also knows that Gu Mingyuan has become his classmate.

[Seeing a deer in deep forest]: Gu Mingyuan took the initiative to talk to me today.

[Dog abuse is prohibited within a ten-mile radius]: Then... I should congratulate you?

[When Lin Shen sees the deer]: I don't know what's going on with him. He recalled his junior high school life with the word "not good".

[Dog abuse is prohibited within a ten-mile radius]: It shouldn't be... What I found out is that he has excellent grades, the top ten in his grade is stable, and he is also sought after by many elementary school girls.This is not good?

[When Lin Shen sees a deer]: ... I don't know.Forget it, I'm in class, we'll talk later.

The pleasant ringtone rang, and Lin Shen hurriedly replied a few words before putting away the phone.

He looked at the blue sky outside the window, and recalled the scene when he first fell in love with Gu Mingyuan. It seemed that the weather was such a good day.

"Lin Shen!" A roar pulled back his wandering thoughts.

The physics teacher slammed on the blackboard, with reflective glasses resting on the bridge of his nose, and said angrily, "However you look at a cloud, you can see a flower?"

"Is that cloud a beauty or a vixen, which makes you so obsessed with it?"

The students who were listening carefully to the class were suddenly amused by the physics teacher.

Lin Shen scratched his head in embarrassment.

At this moment, he noticed a gaze cast from elsewhere.

He followed his gaze and met Gu Mingyuan's unfathomable black eyes.

Startled, he quickly looked away.

12

He didn't really want to hide from Gu Mingyuan, but he was not fully prepared to face him.

After seven years of thinking about that lingering question, there is still no solution.

He admitted that he still had illusions about Gu Mingyuan, and he also dreamed that one day, that person would be able to like him.It's just that he is already a mature big boy and knows how to hide his emotions.

But for him, why shouldn't hiding be another kind of torture?

The more he thought about it, the more irritable he became, and finally he just fell asleep on the table during lunch time.In the dream, he seemed to have returned to his childhood and met Gu Mingyuan.

The "um" that was blown in the wind, the hand that grabbed the collar, and handed Fanta over...

"Gu Mingyuan..." Lin Shen muttered in a daze.

And Gu Mingyuan, who got up and was about to leave after putting out the hot milk and bread, was startled.

Lin Shen's brows were tightly furrowed, thin sweat dripped from the corner of his forehead, and he seemed to be experiencing something terrible.

"Gu Mingyuan!" Just blurted out these words, Lin Shen firmly grasped Gu Mingyuan's hand, unable to break free no matter how hard he struggled, as if he was afraid of his sudden departure.

Gu Mingyuan looked at Lin Shen with a wrinkled face, sighed, squatted in front of his desk, and coaxed in an extremely gentle tone: "I'm here. I'm here, I'm not going anywhere."

13

Gu Mingyuan was taught by his parents that he was not allowed to fall in love early, and he had never had a good impression of any girl.Suddenly being liked by a classmate, a boy, unexpectedly panicked for a while.

He didn't know what was right for him, and the distinction between right and wrong began to blur for him.

He didn't even dare to think about how to respond to that person's heart. At that moment, he became a complete coward. He only dared to watch that person secretly and silently from a distance.

It turns out that his parents are very busy and have no time to take care of him... alittlesad.

Today, he only ate a little food, no wonder he was so thin.

He smiled like a little sun.

I don't like Fang Yuanyuan very much, she is very fierce, but she has a good relationship with Lin Shen.

Lin Shen wanted to eat that kind of greasy chicken nuggets before he recovered from his illness. I was so angry that I almost beat someone today.

……

As time passed, an inexplicable emotion emerged from the bottom of his heart.By the time he really understood what this relationship was, he and Lin Shen had completely separated.Three years made him think through a lot, including the fact that he likes Lin Shen.

He regretted not cherishing the time with Lin Shen before.Fortunately, God gave him another chance to meet Lin Shen again in high school.

How regretful he was before, how much he wants to cherish Lin Shen now, because he knows that this opportunity is hard-won.

14

When Lin Shen woke up, he realized that he had been holding Gu Mingyuan's hand for a long time, and the two of them just sat together holding hands in an open and above board manner.

"Are you awake?" Gu Mingyuan beside him handed him a bottle of slightly cold milk, and it seemed that he didn't feel a little bit wrong with their holding hands.

At this time, he really felt the warmth from the palm of the man, and Lin Shen blushed in a daze.

He wanted to shake off Gu Mingyuan's hand in shame, but he held it tightly.

Gu Mingyuan's face suddenly came closer, and the refreshing youthful scent of his body came over, which made Lin Shen dizzy immediately.

"Don't hide from me." His eyes were burning, and Lin Shen didn't know where to look.

"Okay?"

The original tough tone turned into a pleading, which made Lin Shen not slow down for a while.But Gu Mingyuan's eyes are full of tenderness and seriousness, like a stubborn child.

Lin Shen gritted his teeth, forcefully avoided the man's gaze, and replied, "I didn't hide from you."

Unexpectedly, he heard a deep male voice falling, splitting all his defenses.

"You hid."

"You hid in my heart so that I couldn't catch you."

15

Now Lin Shen was completely dumbfounded, with an expression of disbelief.

The culprit, Gu Mingyuan, didn't care about his reaction, but helped him tear off the plastic shell that wrapped the bread, and said slowly: "Your stomach is not very good, you have to eat."

After finishing speaking, he handed the bread to Lin Shen. "At least eat something to pad your stomach."

Lin Shen's heart is full of many emotions at this moment, doubts, fears, emotions, complaints...

He was afraid that Gu Mingyuan was just teasing him on a whim, but in the end it was just his own big dream.He was also moved by Gu Mingyuan's carefulness, and he still remembered him after so many years.He also hated why Gu Mingyuan didn't turn around to find himself who had been following him until this moment.

"Do you still remember the sorry I said to you before graduation?" Seeing that he was silent, Gu Mingyuan said it on his own.

After the words came out, he seemed to have remembered something, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Forget it, it's fine if you don't remember."

"I remember."

"I remember everything about you."

Lin Shen, who was originally silent, suddenly spoke out, and his voice became choked up as he spoke.Yeah, about you, I never wanted to forget.

16

Gu Mingyuan said sorry to Lin Shen before graduation.

A simple sentence of sorry contains a lot of things.

I'm sorry, it was he who caused Lin Shen so much trouble, and he was responsible for heavy speech; I'm sorry, he was a coward who chose to escape without authorization; I'm sorry, he was a damned culprit.

17

Gu Mingyuan reached out and hugged Lin Shen.

And this move, he wanted to do it several years ago, he wanted to hug that Lin Shen who was enduring everything alone.

Lin Shen, who was embraced by him, was obviously startled, and then reached out to grab his clothes.

Gu Mingyuan stroked Lin Shen's soft hair, and said softly, "I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for so long."

He didn't want to run away blindly anymore, he didn't want to repeat the same mistakes, let Lin Shen suffer again, he didn't want to.

Gu Mingyuan raised the man's chin, Lin Shen's eyes were red at the moment, and he couldn't let the tears flow down.

He sniffed and said, "You can't look back at me..."

Gu Mingyuan lowered his head slightly, and melted the remaining words and the distress in his heart into a gentle kiss.

He shouldn't have left Lin Shen, a fragile, timid but gentle kid, where he was for so long.

The lips and teeth of the two were separated until the oxygen was exhausted.

Gu Mingyuan's warm breath hit his face, the person in front of him was very close to him, and his appearance was reflected in his black eyes.

"Lin Shen, I like you."

"Would you like to try to like me a little bit?"

And his response was a big hug.

"Gu Mingyuan, I have liked you for seven years." It was the same as before, never changed.

18

After graduating from high school, Lin Shen and Gu Mingyuan were admitted to the same key university in China.When they were sophomores, the two rented a house outside, and raised a cute orange cat, named "Plop", which means the beauty of the original heart.

The young couple lived comfortably. One day, they suddenly received a call from their high school classmates, saying that they recently organized a class reunion and asked them if they would come to attend.

Lin Shen was lying on the sofa and teasing the cat, and frowned and refused when he heard it: "I won't go." A place full of people makes me upset just thinking about it.

"Baby, I heard it's very fun, why don't you go?" Gu Mingyuan squatted beside him like a dog, persuading him.

Lin Shen's attitude was very tough: "You go, I won't go."

Gu Mingyuan used countless excuses to coax Lin Shen into attending this class reunion, who knows what kind of trouble he will make.

Fortunately, everyone's appearance has not changed much, and people can still be recognized. The most obvious thing is temperament, such as the poor and the rich.

By the time everyone had had their fill of excitement, it was already dark. Just when Lin Shen decided to go home and sleep, someone proposed to go to KTV to sing.Seeing their high enthusiasm, Lin Shen didn't want to refute their face, so he followed.

Lin Shen sat inside for a while, and finally it was Gu Mingyuan's turn to sing.

Gu Mingyuan was sitting in front of the karaoke stand, the colored lights in the room mixed together and hit him.In Lin Shen's eyes, he was still that dazzling person, and he hadn't changed for so many years.

He opened his mouth slowly, and his emotional voice echoed in the room: "There are some fragments scattered, some profound mistakes..."

Everyone in the room was silent, enjoying Gu Mingyuan's emotional singing.

"And I no longer feel that I am reluctant to lose. Sometimes I just want to hear you sing a song."

"Among all the scenes where things have changed, I like you the most."

Lin Shen stared at him steadfastly. The young man who was fascinated at the beginning has grown up. He has become more mature and charming, and even attracted everyone except him.

After the last line of the lyrics was sung, Gu Mingyuan smiled and said, "I want to give this song to a little fool