When they met again, the boss' eyes turned red, kissed her and said sweet words to her

The bedroom in the apartment is slightly smaller than the bedroom in the Pei family villa, but it is still extraordinarily spacious.

On the king-size bed, the beige sheets and quilt she had chosen four years ago were washed until they were slightly pale. In front of the dressing mirror in the corner were her daily face and hand creams. Hanging on a chair was a small gray backpack containing her junior year accounting textbook. Her clothes were still neatly hung in the closet...

Everything was as familiar and warm as it was four years ago. It was as if she had never left.

Xu Nanyin sniffed and then looked at the box made of rosewood that looked very expensive.

She walked slowly closer, half squatted down and looked at the dial of the combination lock. Without turning back to ask Pei Jingmo, she tried to enter the password, her birthday.

With a "beep" sound, it is unlocked accurately.

His fingertips paused for a moment before he slowly opened the box. Glancing inside, Xu Nanyin suddenly froze.

There were a lot of things neatly arranged in the box.

She carefully picked up a notebook from the stack.

It has been almost ten years, and the blue cover of the notebook has turned yellow. I opened a page at random and saw the beautiful and elegant handwriting in pen. It was her handwriting.

These are the important knowledge points of the first and second year of high school that she helped Pei Jingmo organize in the first semester of his senior year.

In addition to the notebook, there were also several test papers she had written. In her mind, she could still remember Pei Jingmo's lazy and unfocused look when he asked her for the test papers: "Student master, lend me your paper for a while, and I'll return it to you after I've read it."

She didn't even dare to look at him and handed over the test paper obediently.

Then she waited for a week but he didn't return it, so she convinced herself that he had already returned it and she lost it herself, so she was too scared to ask him for it.

"Xu Nanyin, you're amazing. I've been waiting for you for a whole semester, but you never came to ask me to go back."

A man snorted coldly behind her. Without turning around, Xu Nanyin softly replied, "Borrowing and not returning is like a thief."

Pei Jingmo seemed to laugh out of anger, "Okay, okay, okay, I'm a thief, I stole a few of your test papers. Then you also stole my heart, and you still haven't returned it to me."

Turning her head to look at him, Xu Nanyin's eyes were red but full of smiles, "I won't return it. Don't even think about asking me to return it in this life."

Pei Jingmo's expression froze, and he suddenly lowered his head, clenched his fists and pressed them against his lips to stop the corners of his mouth from curling up.

There was also her pair of black-framed glasses with the legs wrapped with white string in the box... He must have secretly put them away when he took her to get glasses that day.

With a silent throbbing of emotion, Xu Nanyin gently stroked the frame of the glasses and fixed it on the bridge of her nose.

She felt dizzy and put the frame back.

Pei Jingmo asked from behind: "Did you have the surgery?"

"Well, my godmother said it was a shame for a young girl to wear a pair of old-fashioned glasses. She took me to get myopia surgery."

There was one thing Xu Nanyin didn't mention. When she first arrived in Yuncheng, her tears seemed to flow endlessly, and the corners of her eyes became ulcerated and inflamed. Her godmother anxiously took her to the hospital. After she was cured, she also consulted about laser surgery.

In the box was also the half of a Peppa Pig pink eraser she had given him.

Xu Nanyin picked it up, looked at it carefully for a while, then put it back and looked at a red amulet she had obtained from a temple. There were four big golden characters written on it: "Top of the list of successful candidates."

She turned her head to look at him and subconsciously guessed: "You... begged for me?"

Pei Jingmo jokingly said, "Xueba, do you still need me to pray for you? I'm just praying for my own good fortune."

Xu Nanyin was puzzled: "Didn't your mock exam results at that time also guarantee admission to Peking University?"

Pei Jingmo coughed lightly and said, "I prayed for this at the temple the day before the college entrance examination results were released."

The fight nearly cost him his life. His ribs were broken, and his right foot was stabbed through. The pain was so severe that he needed a pain pump to relieve it.

In the exam room, he'd only been sitting there for half an hour when cold sweat broke out on his forehead. The pain was so severe that he couldn't concentrate at all, especially when it came to the difficult questions. It felt like someone was stabbing him with a knife and rubbing salt into his wounds...

He took exams for two consecutive days and did many questions in a daze. He had no idea whether he had done them correctly.

The day before the results were released, even though his injury hadn't healed yet, he couldn't sit still and ran to the temple early in the morning to pray to the gods and Buddhas he had never prayed to before, just hoping that he could successfully get into the same university as her...

Xu Nanyin guessed a lot in her mind, and a sour feeling welled up in her heart. She picked up a notebook and flipped through it, but she came across a photo.

In the photo, under the dim street light, a girl wrapped in a black down jacket like a bear is holding a textbook and reading it attentively with her head down in the light.

An old man next to him was hunched over, holding a broom and sweeping the snow and dead leaves on the roadside.

grandmother……

In winter, grandma would get up very early and go to the streets to clear the snow and dead leaves. If she happened to be in charge of the streets around their school, Xu Nanyin would go with her.

While her grandmother was sweeping nearby, she would review her homework under the streetlight. When her grandmother was tired, she would immediately help sweep a section. Her grandmother felt sorry for her, but she couldn't persuade her.

Staring intently at her grandmother's figure in the photo, Xu Nanyin suppressed her tears and asked, "When did you take this photo?"

Pei Jingmo answered casually, "I forgot, I just took a picture."

Xu Nanyin was about to close the notebook when she caught a glimpse of words on the back of the photo. She turned the photo over and saw several lines of sharp and beautiful penmanship.

"Xu Nanyin, you are not an ugly and poor little nerd. They are all blind, and only I know what's good.

You are the shining, smartest and most beautiful girl. Work hard and do your best to get admitted to the university of your choice.

Wait until I marry you."

Xu Nanyin gently stroked the words with her fingertips, and when she came to her senses, a tear had already fallen.

The black ink quickly spread into a blob, and she hurriedly wiped it with her sleeve, fearing that it would destroy the words.

It turned out that even when she looked the most dusty and dull, she was still sparkling in his eyes and was worthy of being treasured so carefully by him.

She wiped her tears but smiled at him: "When did you start to like me? Why me?"

Pei Jingmo looked at her with a gloomy gaze, his thoughts drifting away.

At first, he was probably surprised that she didn't know his name. Then, after seeing the notes she secretly slipped into his desk, he thought she had a crush on him. However, he turned her notes over and over but couldn't find any words of her confession to him. Instead, he began to notice her.

One winter morning, he arrived at school early and saw Xu Nanyin, wrapped up like a little bear, sharing a bowl of steaming mung bean soup with her grandmother on the dim street...

She took off her stiff black-framed glasses, revealing a chubby, porcelain-white face. Her nose was red from the cold, but her smile was surprisingly adorable, like a peeled, tender, rose-colored lychee. After finishing her mung bean soup, she picked up a broom and enthusiastically began sweeping away the snow and dead leaves. She slipped and fell, but she quickly got up, smiled brightly at her grandmother, and gave a happy "V" sign: "It didn't hurt at all!!"

For the first time, he discovered that this dull little transparent person actually had such a lively and interesting side...

After that day, for the entire winter, he arrived at school early for some unknown reason, wandering leisurely along the streets, pretending to be indifferent as he watched Xu Nanyin study peacefully under the streetlights from afar, watching her happily sweep the streets for her grandmother, as if she were sweeping gold instead of streets...

When he realized that he couldn't bear to see her being bullied, everything changed quietly.

When he even refused to study abroad and wanted to apply to the same university as her, to take care of her and protect her... he came to his senses and realized that it was over. He was in big trouble. His golden Buddha had fallen into the palm of this little guy's hand.

Xu Nanyin looked at him with burning eyes, and couldn't help but expect him to say some romantic lines or express his love like in idol dramas.

The man had a faint smile on his lips, and a bit of wickedness was hidden between his beautiful eyebrows: "Xu Nanyin, have you noticed anything?"