Lima syndrome

Bai Zhiyan ran all the way until he ran two streets and stopped panting. He looked back and saw that Che Jingcan had not caught up with him, so he slowly returned home.

This was the first time he made Che Jingcan lose face and actually hurt him. It was the day he won a great victory (and escaped in a panic).

Thinking of this, Bai Zhiyan felt extremely happy, even a little excited. He didn't even care when he saw Bai Jitai's disgusting face in the lobby on the first floor when he entered the house.

It is true that a healthy routine is very important for humans. Bai Zhiyan couldn't sleep last night because he was thinking about how to deal with Bai Jita. As soon as he closed his eyes, he saw the scene before his death.

When Bai Zhiyan woke up in the morning, he felt as if a needle had pierced his head. He sat on the bed for half an hour before he finally felt a little better.

On the way to school last week, the driver saw that he was not in good condition. He kept looking at the rearview mirror with a worried look on his face. He opened and closed his mouth several times but in the end he couldn't speak.

Bai Zhiyan noticed his abnormality and asked proactively.

"Driver Zhou, do you have anything to say?"

"Ah, Master Zhiyan, I, I just saw that you didn't look very well, so I wanted to ask if you were feeling unwell and if you needed to ask for leave to go home."

Bai Zhiyan didn't expect that what he wanted to ask about was his physical condition. No one had cared about him for a long time. Bai Zhiyan felt a warm feeling in his heart, and even his headache didn't seem to hurt so much.

"Thank you, Driver Zhou. I'm fine. I just didn't sleep well last night. It's nothing serious."

Seeing him say this, Driver Zhou didn't ask any more questions. Bai Zhiyan said goodbye to him after arriving at school.

"Brother Zhiyan."

As soon as Bai Zhiyan walked into the school gate, he heard someone calling him. He turned around and saw that it was his classmate Liu Zhimin.

“Hello Jimin.”

Liu Zhimin is the class's arts and literature committee member. His father is the president of a famous entertainment company, and his family background is one of the best in the school.

However, Liu Zhimin, although the eldest daughter of a wealthy family, does not have the airs of a daughter at all. She has a good relationship with all her classmates in the class. Even now when she is standing here, people passing by will greet her, and she responds to them all with a smile.

"Brother Zhiyan, I see that you always keep to yourself and don't talk much with your classmates in class. Are you shy?"

The girl in front of him had chestnut brown dyed hair, and the diamond hairpin behind her ear sparkled in the sunlight. Her eyes narrowed into a crescent moon when she spoke with a smile. It would be hard for anyone not to like such a friendly girl, and Bai Zhiyan was the same.

“I just don’t get along with people very well.”

Bai Zhiyan walked up to the girl and walked with her at body level.

"Is that so? Then do you want to be friends with me?"

Bai Zhiyan looked at the girl in front of him whose smile was as beautiful as a summer flower, without the slightest thought of refusing.

"Of course, I'd love to."

In fact, the most important point is that in his previous life, when he was bullied and beaten and insulted by his classmates, Liu Zhimin stood up to speak for him. It is impossible for those who bullied him to turn around and bully her because of her help. Her status and popularity are there, so everyone will only think that she is kind-hearted. Bai Zhiyan also thinks so.

Although her help was just a drop in the bucket for me, it was a great comfort to me who had lost all hope at that time.

So he had no way to reject the girl in front of him whom he had a crush on.

"That's great. To commemorate our friendship, let's go have Chinese food together at noon today."

Hearing her say this, Bai Zhiyan hesitated for a moment. He always had lunch with Xu Shiyuan on the rooftop every day, but looking at the happy face in front of him, Bai Zhiyan didn't want to disappoint her.

And it's time to take stock of the feelings that have developed after having meals with Xu Shiyuan for so many days.

"Okay, let's go together after class."

So the disappointed person became Xu Shiyuan.

Xu Shiyuan didn’t know that Bai Zhiyan had an appointment with other people at noon today. He went to the rooftop with a lunch box and waited for Bai Zhiyan to arrive.

Ten minutes later, no one came to the rooftop. Xu Shiyuan was a little anxious. He remembered that Bai Zhiyan looked not so good this morning. Could it be that he was not feeling well again? Had he asked for leave from school?

As he was feeling restless, he suddenly remembered that he and Bai Zhiyan had just exchanged contact information a few days ago. He immediately opened his phone and sent him a message on the social software.

"Why didn't you come to the rooftop to eat today? Are you feeling unwell?"

At this time, Bai Zhiyan was sitting in the Chinese restaurant and chatting happily with Liu Zhimin.

"Ding--"

Bai Zhiyan's phone received a message alert, but he didn't check it out. Instead, Liu Zhimin, who was sitting opposite him, was curious.

"Brother Zhiyan, your phone is ringing, don't you want to check if it's some important message?"

"it is good."

So Bai Zhiyan picked up the phone. When he saw that it was a message from Xu Shiyuan, he smiled slightly. He didn't open the dialog box, but just muted the phone and put it aside.

“It’s just spam.”

Xu Shiyuan looked at the chat interface on his phone with Bai Zhiyan and saw only his own message, while the other party's message was still unread.

“Please reply after you see the message.”

However, until the food in the lunch box was completely cold and the lunch break was over, Xu Shiyuan still didn't receive Bai Zhiyan's reply.

He stared blankly at the old lunch boxes, thinking that it was time to go back.

But just as he walked to the classroom door, he met Bai Zhiyan who was returning to the class with Liu Zhimin, chatting and laughing.

The two of them walked very close to each other, and would look at each other with a smile from time to time, just like the young male and female protagonists who walked out of a comic book.

But how could the two of them be together? They had never met before. Were they together during lunch break today? Why didn't Bai Zhiyan reply to my message? Was it because he was having dinner with Liu Zhimin and didn't see me?

Many questions came to him like a tide. The man and woman in front of him who were talking and laughing were very eye-catching. He felt as if he was having difficulty breathing.

Liu Zhimin was the first to see Xu Shiyuan standing stupidly at the door, and waved to him with a smile on his face, "Hello, squad leader."

Hearing Liu Zhimin's call, Xu Shiyuan was stunned and responded somewhat unnaturally: "Hello, Zhimin."

Although he was responding to Liu Zhimin, his eyes had already been fixed on Bai Zhiyan. However, Bai Zhiyan seemed to ignore his slightly resentful look and still smiled at him as usual.

"Hello, squad leader. Have you had lunch?"

"Eat, have eaten."

"I wanted to tell you that I was going to have lunch with Jimin at noon today, but we left in such a hurry that I forgot to tell you. You won't blame me, right?"

After hearing Bai Zhiyan's words, Xu Shiyuan felt as if there was a breath stuck in his chest, unable to go up or down.

It turned out that the reason he broke the appointment was really because he left with Liu Zhimin, but did he really forget? He had so many opportunities to tell me, and I even sent him a message, did he really not see it?

"No...it's your freedom to eat with whomever you want."

Xu Shiyuan clearly had countless questions to ask, but the last words he spoke were still compromises.

Because he suddenly remembered that he and Bai Zhiyan had not reached a definite agreement on eating together on the rooftop. Before, Bai Zhiyan only said that they could eat together often in the future, not that they had to eat together every day. So could he think that he had misunderstood? Thinking that they could eat together every day was just wishful thinking?

But I used to eat alone, so why do I feel betrayed today when I just returned to my previous life?

Xu Shiyuan felt terrible about how he was now. He always overthought, but today he didn't understand why he felt so uncomfortable.

"Hey? Brother Zhiyan, have you been eating with the squad leader before?"

Liu Zhimin didn't notice the atmosphere between the two, but was just curious about what Bai Zhiyan had just said.

"Yes, the squad leader and I have been eating together recently."

"Really? I thought you had no interactions with your classmates. It turns out I underestimated you."

"Hahaha, why on earth would you think that—"

Brother Zhiyan... Liu Zhimin actually called him Brother Zhiyan... How could their relationship become so close just because they had lunch together?

Listening to the two people talking and laughing, Xu Shiyuan couldn't bear it any longer. He even wished he could go blind at that moment so that he wouldn't have to look at the two people smiling.

"I, I also have..."

He wanted to find an excuse to leave, but Liu Zhimin didn't give him the chance. He grabbed Xu Shiyuan's clothes, raised her sweet and lovely smiling face and asked, "Squad leader, where do you and Zhiyan usually eat? Can I join you?"