My whole family is the protagonist, and I am the only cannon fodder!

Because it was the last class, Lu Zaozao had another accident. Lu Zaozao was allowed to leave the get out of class early by the coach. He went to the locker room to change clothes. When he went out through the exit, Xie Huinian was gone.

Only a small puddle of water on the ground proved that he had indeed sat there before.

Lu Zao Zao got into the car and looked out the window at the rows of trees flying by quickly. There was a sense of heat suspended in the air. Lu Zao Zao leaned his elbows on the car window, staring blankly.

When the car arrived at the destination, the driver reminded Lu three times in succession before he came to his senses early. He unbuckled his seat belt and got out of his seat. Then, in a daze, he dragged his heavy body step by step towards the door.

Aunt Li was cooking soup in the kitchen. Perhaps she smelled the aroma, and Deng Deng kept circling around the kitchen. Aunt Li squatted down, poked Deng Deng's shiny hair, and then said with a smile, "But there is no share for you. You have to lose weight honestly."

Wait waited and understood, and cried out mournfully with his head lowered.

Hearing footsteps in the living room, Aunt Li pushed open the kitchen door, wiped the water stains on her hands on her apron, and then said with some surprise: "Miss, are you leaving school so early today?"

Lu Zao Zao hummed and said tiredly, "Auntie, I'm a little tired. I want to go upstairs and take a nap first. You don't need to call me for dinner."

"Okay, then you go upstairs and rest first. Call me when you are hungry."

"Well, thank you Aunt Li."

Perhaps he noticed that Lu Zaozao was in a bad mood, so he stopped hanging around the kitchen door and quickly jumped up the stairs and followed Lu Zaozao upstairs.

After entering the room, Lu Zao Zao didn't even bother to take off his schoolbag. He fell on the bed with a loud "bang".

When she closed her eyes, Xie Huinian's eyes would appear, with a naked look of worry, without any cover. Lu Zaozao even felt that such a look was so direct that it was like a dying hallucination. However, Xie Huinian, who was soaking wet all over, sitting on the chair, showed that he was a concrete and real person, not a product of her imagination.

He reached for the backpack behind him and unzipped it skillfully. Lu Zao Zao took out his cell phone from the backpack and opened WeChat.

He stared at Xie Huinian's name for three or four seconds, then came to his senses and continued to be stunned for another three or four seconds. After repeating this cycle for a few minutes, Lu Zaozao finally felt that it was necessary to say thank you to the other party. He should have said it just now in the swimming pool, but unfortunately when he changed his clothes and came out, the other party had already left.

He quickly typed the word "thank you" and sent it out. Staring at the two short words of thank you on the screen, Lu Zaozao felt that it was a bit hasty. Unfortunately, two minutes had passed and he couldn't withdraw it. Lu Zaozao kept thinking about what he should send in his mind, adding, subtracting, deleting and revising, and finally only wrote down a few short sentences.

[Thank you for saving me in the swimming pool today. I don’t know what to say]

[If you need help in the future, I will do my best. ]

The second half of the sentence was complete nonsense. How could she help Xie Huinian? What kind of help did a person like Xie Huinian need her to provide? It was simply nonsense.

But apart from this sentence, I really didn't know what else to say. Lu Zaozao then realized that he had nothing in his hands. There were very few things that belonged to him that he could own and give away.

More than half an hour after sending the message, Xie Huanian still hadn't replied. Xie Huanian was never very quick to reply to her messages. Unlike Li Jianan and He Feng who always replied almost instantly, he always seemed to have a lot of things to do.

But there were rarely times when he didn't reply to messages for more than half an hour - in fact, this was not entirely objective, because the two of them had only chatted a few times in total. Lu Zao Zao had looked through their chat history, and it could be described as pitifully small.

Even so, Lu Zaozao still felt something was wrong.

Is he sick again?

When she saw Xie Huinian in the swimming pool today, she felt that he was not feeling well. Although she did not see his full face, she could guess it just by looking at half of his profile and the thin shoulder blade behind him. Lu Zao Zao suddenly remembered that He Feng said that Xie Huinian had a very high fever on Saturday night, which was the day he went out with her. Today was the same.

Are there really so many coincidences in the world? Or is Xie Huinian's health so bad that he faces the dilemma of being sick most of the time?

Lu Zao Zao shook her head, threw her phone away, and stared at the ceiling above her head in a daze. The pure white ceiling was spotless, like a pool of clear water, wrapping her whole body.

Lu Zao Zao's thoughts jumped around as he recalled the moment his feet felt weak in the swimming pool. The memories that flooded his mind were so fragmentary and yet so realistic, as if they had really happened.

Perhaps it was a scene from a long-forgotten movie or TV series that suddenly popped into Lu Zaozao's mind at some point.

Although he seldom watched movies or TV shows and had no impression of this kind of footage, the human brain would indeed suddenly produce some inexplicable images at certain moments, as if a long-lost memory storage suddenly malfunctioned. Lu Zao Zao could barely accept it.

Lu Zaozao wanted to recall it more deeply, such as remembering some very specific scenes, or the face of the person who fell into the deep sea, maybe he could find out who the actor was, or post an inquiry on the Internet, maybe he could even find this film or TV series to watch.

So that she could understand why these fragmented and scattered memories always flashed through her mind inadvertently when she sank into the water.

So Lu Zao Zao closed his eyes again, trying to recall these fragmented scenes once again, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became, and his head seemed to hurt more and more. Lu Zao Zao's fingers curled up unconsciously and clutched the bed sheets. He felt cold sweat all over his body and his consciousness became a little hazy.

At this moment, the cell phone suddenly vibrated, bringing Lu's thoughts back to their original state.

It was already night and the curtains were not drawn. The sky outside was a bluish-black color, smudged with black ink, with large patches of mottled ground. The street lights were still on, like an underpowered sun.

The smell of disinfectant in the whole room was very faint, almost non-existent, with only the scent of flowers and wood and stone incense lingering at the tip of the nose, and the atmosphere was so quiet that it seemed that there was only the sound of water dripping from the bottle moving.

Because of the effect of the medicine, he had slept for several hours in a row and just woke up. Xie Huinian turned on his mobile phone, replied to some work messages, and then looked at some messages carefully one by one. Without any thought, he quickly typed a line of words, and his bony fingers jumped on the screen like a line of musical notes.

Lu Zao Zao swiped the message on her phone. Her eyes were still a little blurry. She strained to see clearly and found that it was sent by Xie Huanian, specifically targeting the last sentence of her speech.

[If you need help in the future, I will do my best.]——

【Just don't regret it. 】