Eat little by little

Children seem to be looking forward to growing up forever. When they first learn about the world, they feel that the world of senior grades is mysterious and amazing. In elementary school, they imagined what it would be like to study nine subjects in junior high school. Just like in the novel, you will meet a boy in jeans and a white shirt or a girl in a white skirt with long hair fluttering. In high school, you longed for the relaxed and free college life that the teacher said...

When will we really grow up, and when will we be afraid of growing up?

The days of the second year of high school were boring, and Lin Xu could only see Edison's famous quote: Genius equals 90.00% sweat plus [-]% inspiration on the white wall on the left, and Einstein's portrait on the right.The class bell rang tirelessly, and the classroom was full of the sound of pages being turned.

After class, the students are divided into several small groups, chatting about things that belong to this circle alone. Before entering the society, they have a sense of their own territory.

While lamenting the indifference of human feelings, he clings to his own territory.

The experimental class always felt the pressure of the college entrance examination before ordinary students. The teachers tirelessly recounted the deeds of the top students in the previous class, and batches of mock papers from other key schools were smashed down.

The teachers drew a beautiful blueprint about the university for each student, repeatedly emphasizing the names of the universities that students all over the country look up to, like hammering a nail, firmly nailed in the hearts of the students.

The students were aroused to be enthusiastic and pretentious, fantasizing that they would also be called the next legend like the former god of learning, and proudly walked into the so-called hall of dreams with their heads held high.

This is comparable to a vigorous pyramid scheme, scrubbing your mind, instilling new ideas, whipping with test papers, ringtones, homework, and grades, and finally pushing you into the tide of 900 million candidates like pushing sand.

The experimental class has always had a "weekly test" tradition. Every Saturday before the holiday, the four subjects of Chinese, Mathematics, English, and Science will be tested in turn, and then you will be sent home. When you return to school next Monday, you will already know your own strength. For grades and rankings, the teacher began to comment on the test papers and analyze the gains and losses that night, and the students who made mistakes were invited into the office.

Week after week, regardless of the weather, the weekly test has become a lingering nightmare in the hearts of every student in the experimental class.

So the college entrance examination is a bloody battle. After ten years of hard work, you will lose if you fail.

The experimental class was filled with top students. As soon as Lin Xu entered the ranking, he dropped two grades. During such a long and dark day, his memory was completely filled with test papers and practice questions. He often forgot I don't know what month and date it is, and I just focus on memorizing the homework assigned by the teacher in class and the unfinished exercises yesterday.

Occasionally, he would look up from the book and look out the window, his vision was shrouded in a miserable yellow halo, as if the whole school was imprisoned in a broken tungsten light bulb.

In the first monthly exam of the second year of high school, he ranked in the middle of the class.

In the second monthly exam, he squeezed into the top ten in the class, and the teacher praised him especially.

He remembered what the teacher said: Lin Xu is a down-to-earth and hard-working classmate, and everyone should learn from him.Lin Xu, continue to work hard for the midterm exam, the teacher believes in you.

At that time, he only felt that the surroundings had been washed into white. He looked around blankly. Every student was immersed in their own work. No one cared about what the teacher was saying, and no one looked at him.He didn't know what happened. Why did he suddenly have a midterm? How did it become like this?

How long has it been since he heard the name "Yang Fengrui"?He almost forgot that there was such a person.The guy had completely disappeared from his life.

He would occasionally think back to the days of the first year of high school, but found that no matter how hard he tried, there was nothing.He could only think of the fact that he was studying in the first year of high school, taking classes, doing homework, and taking exams... his body seemed to lose weight suddenly, and he struggled in vain, but he could only fall faster and faster under the gravity.

He wanted to shout, wanted to howl, but found that his voice was hidden in the vacuum.

He often stops suddenly on the way to the teaching building, looks around for a while, and then raises his feet to continue walking; he begins to get used to walking with his head down, avoiding everyone's eyes, and occasionally raises his head to look at a stranger The figure of the man is in a daze; he often forgets to fetch hot water for himself, and the lid of the water cup has already accumulated a layer of dust.

He really rarely thought of the name "Yang Fengrui", and he didn't even remember it.

Many times, he would doubt whether Yang Fengrui appeared in his life?Those memories have been tampered with, right?Possibly, Yang Fengrui has never been to this school...

Even though it was during class time, there was a commotion outside the classroom, and the small voices were like flies buzzing, making people uneasy.

The students in the class couldn't help looking out the window, wondering what happened, but the teacher on the podium was still spit.

"The dean and the teacher seem to be looking for something..."

There was a soft discussion behind the scenes.

Lin Xu glanced back, then turned around and continued to take notes.

"The investigation started all of a sudden, and the first few classes have been investigated."

"What are you looking for? Mobile phone?"

"I don't know, I seem to be checking other things. Recently, I heard that a few people who smoked in the toilet were caught..."

"It's time to check it out, the toilet smells so bad."

……

The voice behind gradually grew louder, and more people joined the discussion, sharing their experience of being smoked.

The teacher coughed twice, "Everyone be quiet, let's do two exercises."

The voice in the class paused, busy copying the questions.

"Will you check our class?"

"No way, isn't our class a good class? I haven't searched our class on my phone before."

"Too."

The event where the dean led the two teachers to check the cigarette case and lighter was lively, but it had nothing to do with Lin Xu's class.

For everyone's busy study and life, this matter is an inconspicuous topic of conversation, like dust on the shoulders, it will disappear with a flick.

But in the past few days, this incident intensified, and more and more students in the class paid attention to it.

"I heard that several people were arrested again."

"I heard that the two sides almost fought."

"Did you call your parents? Is there a major demerit? Didn't one get expelled last week?"

……

"It's so strict this time. The last few classes were searched three times. It's too miserable."

Lin Xu took a few deep breaths, stabilized his palm, looked at the exercise in his hand, the pen tip just fell down and began to tremble again, he closed his eyes, feeling his head was swollen and painful.

Have you learned too late recently?

He put down the pen, only to find that his entire palm was wet with sweat, and he clenched his fist uneasily.

Lin Xu really couldn't read the topic, so he turned his head and listened to the recent major events in the grade.These things are far away from him, and listening to them is just to pass the time, but during this process, his head became more and more uncomfortable. It's metal mixed with the smell of blood.

At some point, he fell asleep while lying on his stomach.

When a person is in a sleep state, the heartbeat slows down, the body temperature drops, and the chill wraps around the body like a snake crawling around the limbs.Lin Xu frowned uneasily, shrunk his shoulders, and the chill grew stronger.

He slept in agony, distorted fragments in front of his eyes, melting before his eyes like churning blocks of color, and finally engulfed him again.

When he woke up, Lin Xu still couldn't wake up for a long time. He felt his face was extremely cold. After touching it, he found that the corners of his eyes were wet, and his hands were covered with water.

When the national flag was raised on Monday, all the students in blue school uniforms swarmed out of the teaching building like ants, and gradually gathered under the national flag stage.

Raising the flag, giving speeches by leaders, speeches by teacher representatives, speeches by student representatives, awarding certificates...Announcing violations of discipline and public review.

The name of the classmate who was punished was being read into the microphone, and the worthless symbol was read from the host's mouth, which was worth less than the rotten leaves at the entrance of the vegetable market.

Lin Xu held a small book of Chinese reciting in his hand, but his eyes were wandering, dazed and distracted.

But that name is like a fancy button, just triggering it is enough to bring him back to himself at any time.

"Yang Fengrui... the students mentioned above were punished for one serious demerit for smoking, fighting, and contradicting the teacher. Two major demerits were placed on probation, and three major demerits were directly expelled..."

With a buzzing sound, Lin Xu's head exploded, and his eyes gradually widened, trying to see clearly the figures of those young men on the national flag platform.

The national flag stage was more than half the playground away from his class, and he couldn't see the people on the stage at all, he could only see six blurred shadows.For unknown reasons, he was sure that the fourth shadow must be that guy.

He could completely imagine what that guy looked like now: expressionless, cold, with gray mist in his eyes, nothing in his eyes.

It's like, he saw that guy being trained on the national flag stand when he was in junior high school.

Lin Xu felt chills all over again, as if he didn't know the person on stage at all.

One of them stood on the stage and the other stood off the stage, and no one could see the other clearly from a long distance away.

They are like people from two worlds.

What should be used to draw the line between them?

Good students and bad students?Experimental class and backward class?

What the fuck are you crazy about!

The nameless anger came out of nowhere, and Lin Xu clenched his fists tightly in the audience.

Those tightly suppressed thoughts burst into flames and directly bombarded his entire brain.He hates this feeling, he can't even accept it.

"Hey Lin Xu, where are you going?" The student next to him suddenly called out.

Lin Xu realized that he had run out of the team when he was caught. He glanced around and said, "I'm going to the bathroom, please help me ask for leave."

Lin Xu is rarely an impulsive guy. He always has many reasons to suppress himself, and there are many ways to make himself take a step back. Only Yang Fengrui can always knock him down easily.

But those messy thoughts pierced his brain like stray bullets.

What the hell are you crazy about!How old are you!When I'm not here you play decadent!Decadent yarn!Is it cool to be non-mainstream?Also learn what baseball caps other people wear, can you wear a hat with your hairstyle?Isn't it stupid when you take off your hat?Have you learned how to fight and smoke?You are so promising...

Cursing and swearing along the way, at the end of the swearing, Lin Xu's pace gradually slowed down. He was walking behind the crowd, but suddenly he didn't dare to continue walking.

He was terrified of seeing that guy.

At this time, he felt funny again.

He thought he didn't remember anything, but in fact he remembered everything clearly, like an aged aunt, counting every trivial matter.

I don't care anymore.

I just care too much.

The procedure on the flag platform has entered the next step, the meeting is adjourned.The people on the stage also lined up and crossed the runway without entering the class line, as if they were going to leave directly.

Just as Lin Xu walked to the edge of the runway, he saw a few teenagers who were getting closer and closer. His heart was beating violently, like the aftereffect of running, and he couldn't breathe.He took a few steps back, trying to hide in the crowd.

Yang Fengrui was talking to the boy next to him with his head tilted, discussing where to have breakfast later, he glanced out unconsciously, and paused.

"What's wrong?" the person next to him said.

"It's okay." Yang Fengrui wanted to continue the topic just now, but he opened his mouth and his mind went blank.

That guy's eyes are always very clean, like a pool of clear water. When he smiles, the clear water will ripple, and when he is angry, the clear water will become deep.He always loves to look into that guy's eyes, because of this, his figure is all in the clear water.

Unexpectedly, one day, he would be afraid to see those eyes.

Why is Lin Xu there?

His mind was in a mess, his brain was not clear, and his body couldn't react. He worried that his expression looked too stiff, so he hurriedly lowered his head.He wanted to press down on the brim of his hat to hide his panic, and he raised his hand in the air only to realize that he was not wearing a hat today.

He guessed he must look like a fool at the moment.

To be honest, he has long been used to the eyes of people around him who "hate iron but not steel", and they are also used to cursing all kinds of judgments about his future. He doesn't care, and it doesn't matter.

His mother cried and asked him on the other end of the phone: What's wrong with you, Xiaofeng?Why did you become like this again?Did mom do something wrong again?

The teacher asked him: Is your family suffering?Your mother often chatted with me, and he said that you were not like this before... Do you know that if you continue like this, you may not even be able to go to college?

His father scolded him: Why the fuck don't you die outside?shame!

……

He could really finish listening with a blank expression and leave with a blank expression.

He can care about no one.

But Lin Xu can't.

He dared not look that guy in the eye.

He was afraid to see a little bit of disappointment, even a look of disgust.He can't take it, he'll go crazy.

Everyone can laugh at him, but that young man who is as warm as water can't.

Not at all.

Why the hell are you here!Can't you just stop showing up!

Why should I see such a bad me...

"A Rui?" He seemed to hear the guy calling him.

you go!

"Ari?"

You are so loud!

Yang Fengrui suddenly quickened his pace and started running.The students around were taken aback, and muttered, "Why are you so nervous?"

In fact, how dare Lin Xu call him, they are far apart, Lin Xu watched him silently from behind until his figure disappeared.

Lin Xu's tightly clenched fist lost all his strength and let go.

The life of the second year of high school is still going on, but Lin Xu is restless.He was originally the child in the class who was the easiest to calm down and study, but at this moment he was in a daze for half an hour in the evening self-study class.

He kept telling himself: Don't think about it, there are more important things now.

But all I can think of is that guy, the figure of that guy on the national flag platform, the figure of that guy walking on the runway, the back of the last run away... That guy is avoiding him, this idea suddenly popped up, but it took root.

It's been a long time since I saw that guy. Has that guy grown taller again? His shoulders have also become wider, and the lines of his cheeks have become firmer, and the boyish softness has faded away.

Lin Xu was thinking again, has he changed too?

He hadn't thought about that guy so unscrupulously for a long time. Fragments about that guy were overgrown in his mind, like a monster trapped in a Pandora's box finally escaped from its restraints and successfully captured the territory.

He had to admit, it felt good.

Why do you want to be alone and hide it?How about being careful?

I just miss you, my mind is full of you, and I don't want to do other things except miss you.What can you do with me?

But that's all there is to it.

In the second week after the midterm exam, in the evening, there were still very few people in the teaching building.When Lin Xu walked up to the teaching building, he passed the office on the second floor, and caught a glimpse of Fang Xue.

The woman was still beautiful, but she couldn't hide the tiredness in her eyes. She seemed to be talking to the teacher.

Lin Xu didn't dare to explore the content of her conversation, and fled subconsciously.She always reminded him of the way the other party looked at him like garbage, with resentment, dissatisfaction and hatred.

He was always accused of being too thoughtful, but he couldn't help paying attention to the emotion in the other mother's eyes, which was enough to defeat any child.

After Lin Xu returned to the classroom, he was restless, always thinking of Fang Xue's haggard silhouette in the office, and he had a bad feeling.

He used to go to see Yang Fengrui habitually when he was uneasy, but later he forcibly quit.But now, he feels this way again.He repeatedly looked around himself, looked at familiar classmates, but felt that every face was strange.

This is what makes him most desperate every time, there is no connection between them.Whether he worries about him or misses him, he can only sit here.

Something must have happened to Yang Fengrui.During the days when he didn't participate in his growth, Yang Fengrui experienced changes that he couldn't predict.

Lin Xu really wanted to beat up that guy, but felt very broken. This kind of emotion was too intense: Can't you fucking live your own life?

You bastard!You just don't make me safe!

Lin Xu's premonition was correct. In the next few days, the class discussed all kinds of deeds of the students who had suffered a big mistake without repentance.

Openly scolding with the director, smoking in the downstairs of the teaching building at noon every day, skipping classes all day long... They are like heroes of the people's uprising, causing a huge upsurge among the students. Expressions can't lie.

During this time, Lin Xu carefully read the school regulations and student regulations, carefully outlined the consequences of each punishment, and was so angry that he wanted to hit someone every night.

Later, every noon and night, the teaching director would lead the security guards to patrol around the teaching building, and issued a message: as long as he caught smoking, he would be expelled immediately.Skipping class three times will result in immediate expulsion.

The whole school was in an uproar.

Lin Xu frantically walked around the teaching building. He didn't know where Yang Fengrui would be, but he was used to looking for that wayward boy in every corner.

"Who is that?"

The corner of the grove after teaching was once their exclusive secret. At this moment, three or four boys gathered here to smoke.

Cigarettes, for these teenagers, are as addictive as drugs.The white smoke was inhaled from the mouth, rolled over the mouth and throat, and entered the young lungs, as if the expedition team marked their own territory, leaving dirty marks on the lungs.The scorching heat permeated the whole body, and the brain seemed to be wrapped in hot smoke, coiled in every groove and depression of their brains.

Every time I inhale and exhale smoke, it is like a small orgasm, paralyzing the limbs from the brain, with a strange tingling feeling.

The four boys were squinting at the steaming white smoke in front of them, but they saw a sudden figure.They thought they were being searched and subconsciously wanted to escape.

Yang Fengrui flicked the cigarette ash with his fingers and stopped, his eyes were fixed on the young man walking across, but his body moved back unconsciously.It's just that when the eyes fell on the boy, it was like a glutton sticking out a huge tongue, greedily licking the boy's whole body.He couldn't restrain himself from looking at every detail of Lin Xu's body: the hair had grown again, and it was softly attached to the ears; the appearance had not changed, and the lines of the face were not so soft; ;The neck was covered very white, and the shadow of the collarbone stretched to the neckline...

The boy got closer and closer, and stopped two meters away from him, looking straight at him.

Yang Fengrui looked at the person in front of him stupidly as if he had been cast under a spell.Missing grows like weeds crazily, all he wants to hug the guy in front of him fiercely, twist into his arms, kiss and bite him fiercely.

I didn't care about this guy's appearance before, but looking at him now, I just feel that I like every look of the other party, and I like it so much that I want to go crazy.

Lin Xu said, "Yang Fengrui, come back with me."

Yang Fengrui woke up suddenly, turned his head quickly, and flicked the cigarette in his hand.A few people next to him sneered: "Yang Fengrui, who is this? A good class?"

Yang Fengrui lowered his head and remained silent.

"Ha, Yang Fengrui didn't expect that you still have such a friend. Look at this tone? Just like your mother."

"Ah Rui?" The boy on the other side let out a soft breath, "Let's go, shall we?"

Yang Fengrui felt that this was really a purgatory. He liked this guy so much that he couldn't even hear his voice.He was most afraid of this guy's soft voice, as if he was coaxing him, as if he was acting like a baby, full of pampering.In the past, he loved to force Lin Xu to make this kind of noise, always biting his sensitive place again and again tirelessly, listening to his thin panting and soft begging for mercy, and teasing him to call his name every time.

"By the way, what's your name? Which class are you in?" Seeing that Yang Fengrui was silent, the people next to him talked to Lin Xu with great interest.

Lin Xu glanced at them, turned his head again, and stubbornly looked at the boy who lowered his head, "Ah Rui."

Yang Fengrui raised his head suddenly, his eyes were red, "You fucking go back! Who told you to come here? Who are you?"

Lin Xu was taken aback, but took a step forward, still calling: "Ah Rui."

Yang Fengrui yelled like an explosion: "Who are you?"

Lin Xu went up to grab the cigarettes in his hand, but Yang Fengrui was startled and ran away.But Lin Xu was determined to grab the cigarette in his hand, the two of them wrestled, in the confusion, the unextinguished cigarette fell to the ground, Yang Fengrui blushed, and pushed Lin Xu away, "Can you leave me alone? "

"Then what do you want? Are you expelled from school?" Panting, Lin Xu looked at the scarlet light of the cigarette butts underground.

"I just want to drop out of school! I don't want to fucking see you again!"

Lin Xu's pupils widened and he stared at Yang Fengrui.

Yang Fengrui choked and turned his head away.

Lin Xu looked at Yang Fengrui for a while, his face turned pale, and his voice trembled: "No."

Yang Fengrui looked at him in surprise.

The boy on the opposite side shook his head as if he couldn't bear it, "I don't want you to drop out of school, I don't allow it."

If they can't be in the same school, if they can't see each other again...they really have no connection at all.

Yang Fengrui didn't know why, sourness welled up in his eyes inexplicably, he wanted to continue roaring, but he could only stare blankly at the person in front of him.

The people next to him were puzzled and wanted to come up to persuade them, but suddenly there was a shout from a distance: "The security guard is here!" Several boys with cigarettes in their hands decisively dropped the cigarettes in their hands and ran away with two feet.

Yang Fengrui and Lin Xu also looked at the direction of the voice, and seemed to be a little unresponsive.

Yang Fengrui scolded immediately: "You don't have to go!"

Lin Xu asked, "Are you coming with me?"

"Are you crazy?" Yang Fengrui didn't understand why Lin Xu still insisted on taking him away at this moment.

Lin Xu glanced at him, and then at the unextinguished cigarette on the ground. Yang Fengrui suddenly had a bad feeling. Sure enough, before he could stop him, Lin Xu leaned down and grabbed the cigarette in front of him. He put a cigarette in his mouth and sucked it hard.

"What the hell are you doing!" Yang Fengrui was so frightened that he went up and grabbed the boy's hand, and tore away the cigarette he was holding in his mouth, "Have you ever fucking smoked a cigarette? Spit it! Spit it out!" Ah! Are you going to suffocate yourself?"

Lin Xu's face was flushed red, his throat was as hot as if he had been burned, and tears came out of his eyes. After being slapped on the back by Yang Fengrui, he bent down and coughed crazily.

Yang Fengrui pinched the boy's cheeks, "Open your mouth and let me see."

Lin Xu's eyes were red, and the corners of his eyes were watery. When he opened his mouth, his entire mouth seemed to have been burned.Yang Fengrui sniffed his nose lightly, the smell of smoke was all over him, he was so angry that he wanted to strangle the person in front of him, "What on earth do you want? Are you courting death?"

Lin Xu couldn't help but coughed twice again, and Yang Fengrui started to pat him on the back again in fright, "How is it? Are you feeling better?"

Lin Xu breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a bumpy voice, "You are going to be arrested, and I will be arrested too. Let's drop out of school together."

Now Yang Fengrui really wanted to strangle this person to death.

The figure of the security guard running over could already be seen not far away, Yang Fengrui hurriedly glanced over there, grabbed Lin Xu and ran away, "How dare you drop out of school?"

The wind scraped his cheeks stingingly, and all the scenes in front of him receded rapidly during the violent running, gradually turning into phantoms.The cursing sound from behind was like a bell ringing in the distance, vague and distant.

Lin Xu was coughing all the way, and the running squeezed all the air in his lungs, as if the fire was burning his entire chest cavity, he could hardly see the front clearly.He could only feel the strength of his fingers being held tightly, it was painful and hot, but he could not care about where the other party would take him.

"Why the hell are you still chasing me?" Yang Fengrui knew that Lin Xu's physical strength was approaching the limit, and when he thought of Lin Xu's appearance of going into shock, he wanted to rush back and knock down the two security guards.

Lin Xu said with difficulty, "The Art Palace in front."

Yang Fengrui glanced ahead, said "Yes", dragged Lin Xu and ran up the stairs of the Art Palace.

The Palace of Art has a complicated terrain, and there are many small passages between the floors. It has always been the favorite place for young couples to hang out.

After Yang Fengrui threw the two security guards away, he took Lin Xu to hide in the spacious and bright special toilet for the teaching staff just in case. He believed that the two security guards couldn't forcibly check every toilet, right?

"Huh...huh..."

As soon as he entered the inner room of the toilet, Lin Xu's body softened against the tiles, his hands rested on the floor and he breathed violently, and his whole body was about to collapse on the ground.

The tiles in the toilet were cold, and Lin Xu stuck to them, barely relieving the intense burning heat in his body. Beads of sweat ooze from the cotton school uniform, as if stuck to the tiles.

Yang Fengrui was so anxious that he took some water from the faucet nearby, raised Lin Xu's face, and patted his cheeks with cold water, "Is it better?"

Lin Xu's consciousness was chaotic, and his whole body was in a state of ice and fire. There was still a burning sensation in his mouth, and his eyes were blurred. Looking at Yang Fengrui who was close up, he nodded subconsciously, and opened the corners of his mouth to reveal a smile.

Yang Fengrui gasped for breath, his eyes fixed on the face of the young man in front of him, and his breathing gradually became heavy.He lightly touched the watery light in the corner of Lin Xu's eyes with his hand, touched the other's smooth cheek, brushed away the messy hair, and stared at him nervously.

The faucet in the toilet was not turned off, and the sound of flowing water was rushing, and the splashed water droplets seemed to spread into the air into moisture, and gathered wetly on the bare skin of the two of them.

Yang Fengrui called softly: "Xiao Xu."

Lin Xu raised his eyes, "Huh?" The Wang Qingshui was full of his appearance.

Yang Fengrui couldn't help lowering himself down, getting closer and closer to Lin Xu, until the tip of his nose touched slightly, and a tingling sensation spread all over his body.

It's really Xiaoxu, right in front of his eyes, you can see it, you can touch it... Yang Fengrui's fingertips were trembling. I don't know what to do.

Lin Xu seemed to realize something, his eyes widened slightly, and he looked at him without dodging.After a while, Lin Xu also reached out to touch Yang Fengrui's face as if testing, and touched the tough lines on the side of the face.

Yang Fengrui's body trembled, his fingers gradually moved to Lin Xu's lips, and wiped away the moisture on his lips. He pressed his head down, almost touching it, and his clear and shallow breath touched the tip of Lin Xu's nose, slowly blending .

The sound of water flowing suddenly became louder, and the water vapor in the air was refracted into colorful lights and shadows.

There was a sound of knocking on the door: "Who is inside? This is for employees only! Come out!" All the scenes seemed to go back in time quickly, the sound of water disappeared, and the light disappeared...

Yang Fengrui woke up suddenly, took a step back, his face became ugly, he glanced at Lin Xu on the ground, opened his mouth to say something, then stopped, turned around and ran away.

The aunt outside the door scolded: "Who is the young man? Why are you running so fast?"

The sound of water flowing quieted down, and the voice of the aunt came cursing, "The children nowadays are such a waste."

Lin Xu sat on the floor of the inner bathroom, wiped off the water dripping from his neck, stared blankly at the ceiling, and unconsciously touched his cheek, as if he could still feel the residual heat.