At 10:50 pm on June 8th, the boy came again.

Bai Yanning was a little surprised. She thought that after the college entrance examination, they might never see each other again.

He still took a bottle of soda and picked and chose in the candy section, finally choosing an orange-flavored gummy candy.

He was in a good mood and wanted her to eat something sweet so that she could feel his happiness.

Who knew that Bai Yanning only swept the bottle of water.

"Four dollars and a half," she said.

He pushed the box of gummies in a direction, "And this."

Bai Yanning looked up at him for the first time. His hair was longer than before, and it was obvious that it had been carefully styled. He looked very handsome. She asked, "Is this for me?"

Xie Jiashu's heart was beating wildly. He didn't dare to look her in the eye. He only dared to stare at the cigarette cabinet behind her, "...Hmm."

He squeezed his sweaty palms.

Bai Yanning turned around and took out two plastic bags from the back and placed them on the cashier counter. The two bags were bulging. When Xie Jiashu saw what was inside, his pounding heart suddenly stopped for two seconds.

He heard Bai Yanning say, "These are all things you gave me before. I'm sorry, I'm not good at rejecting people, and I'm worried that it will affect your college entrance examination. Now, please take it."

It was windy outside again and it felt like it was going to rain. There was no one on the street and it was extremely quiet. Xie Jiashu stared at Bai Yanning for a long time before he was really sure that she really had no expression at all.

How calm.

How cold.

And how ridiculous he is.

He turned around and left, practically running away. He didn't ride his bike out, but instead rushed forward headfirst after leaving the convenience store. Not long after he walked, the rain suddenly started to fall, hitting him head-on. An inopportune sentence popped up in his mind: Why do breakups always happen on rainy days?

He couldn't tell if he was crying or not, but when he got home, his body and face were soaked. Mother Xie, who was sitting in the living room watching TV, was shocked and said, "Oh my god, you're such a grown-up and you don't know how to hide from the rain. Why don't you take a taxi back?"

She hurriedly pushed him into the bathroom to take a shower, and then went into the kitchen to make ginger soup for him.

When Xie Jiashu came out of the shower, his mother forced a large bowl of steaming ginger soup into his hands. He sat by the window holding the bowl and drank it. He found that the rain outside had stopped after a while.

It came and went quickly, just like his love.

No, his love hasn't even begun.

Xie Jiashu was sad for a few days. His father and mother kept asking him indirectly which girl he liked, but he kept silent, which made them even more anxious to find out.

Xie Jiashu was so annoyed that he simply went out.

As a result, I always end up walking near the school without realizing it.

He didn't have the face to go in, so he could only stand at a distance and watch her like a voyeur.

She was still as thin as ever, her face usually expressionless. When it was crowded, she would stand up and get busy. She moved quickly, so there were rarely any long lines. When it was quiet, she sat behind the cash register, like a robot with only a scanner gun. When no one was around, she sat there in a daze, mostly staring at the cash register with her eyes downcast, sometimes looking out the window at the willow tree across the street. Every Wednesday night, she would clear out the expired food and then pick a loaf of bread from the rack. Fortunately, the unpalatable, always unsold ones were no longer in stock, so she could always get the one with the cream filling.

It was very soft and fragrant. He told his uncle that it would definitely sell well, so he bought a lot.

He spent many days preparing himself mentally, checking his phone every day, and tossing and turning in his mind while lying in bed at night, and finally he came to his senses.

They had never formally met, and his previous behavior was so frivolous. How could she possibly accept something from a stranger like that? She must have been frightened at first, right? But she didn't dare refuse him. Was she afraid he was some kind of delinquent teenager who was not easy to mess with?

He sat on the sofa, biting his finger and thinking more and more. Mother Xie hit him with a pillow and said, "You're an adult, and you're still biting your finger!"

Xie Jiashu prepared a lot of ideas and went to find Bai Yanning. He wanted to introduce himself to her sincerely, express his affection, and explain the previous misunderstanding.

He thought happily on the way that he hoped he could become her friend today.

He walked to the convenience store, but saw another clerk inside.

He went in to buy a bottle of water and asked, "Where's that person from before? Isn't she the one who works the night shift?"

The clerk said, "She was originally a part-time worker. She's a college student and she quit during the summer vacation."

Xie Jiashu held the bottle of water and walked away in a daze.

When Bai Yanning resigned from the convenience store, her boss was reluctant to let her go. She knew that he really needed her as a "night shift professional". If she left this time, when she came back next semester, he might have hired someone else and would no longer need her.

But after the holidays, she could no longer live in the school dormitory. She could only sleep in the store and could not take a shower. There was no extra space for her things. Even if the conditions were met, which boss would agree to let her live in the store all the time?

But she didn't want to go home even more.

There was only Bai Wenfeng and a shabby house at home. When she was not around, he would just drink and play cards. If he was around, he would add another sport, which was beating her.

Moreover, the money Qin Yunchuan earned from the things she gave her was taken by Bai Wenfeng during the last winter vacation. She had to earn enough money to pay for the next semester's tuition within these two months.

Fortunately, she found a factory that provided food and accommodation, and worked on the assembly line sewing zippers. The team leader was not optimistic about her at first because she thought she was a delicate girl, but she could sew very quickly on the sewing machine, like an experienced hand.

She started working as an apprentice in a tailor shop in town when she was ten years old. Bai Wenfeng wanted her to find a job as soon as possible so that she wouldn't have to eat his food at home every day. After school started, it was the teacher who brought the police to warn Bai Wenfeng that it was illegal not to complete nine years of compulsory education. Only then did he let her go back to school.

Granny Zhang from the tailor shop was kind-hearted and always asked her to help out during her holidays and paid her wages.

The tuition for her first semester of high school was paid by the ten or twenty dollars she saved from working in the tailor shop during those years.

What Gu Yunzhen said was true. She was indeed poor and had never seen good things, so when faced with Qin Yunchuan's pursuit of spending money, she could not hold out for long and reached out to take his things.

She really didn't have a mother to teach her. When she was four years old, her mother took her to the store and bought her a bag of candy that she had wanted to eat for a long time. Her mother looked at her with tears in her eyes and said, "Eat it."

She was old enough to remember things and understood what her mother meant by "goodbye." She simply lowered her head and focused on eating the candy until the scarred woman's back disappeared from her peripheral vision. She said goodbye to her in her heart: "Go away, go far away, and don't come back."

She lay on the hard bed in the factory dormitory, and for some reason she thought of the student from the No. 1 Middle School in the city. He seemed to come from a good family, well-off. Once, when he came into the store, he was on the phone and said, "Dad, you've been away on business for too long this time. My mom has no one to scold me at home, and she scolds me every day."

She listened quietly to his phone call. He always spoke in a relaxed and cheerful tone. It sounded like he had parents who loved each other and who also loved him. They had a harmonious family and a fulfilling life.

So, people like them who have never suffered, do they think that if they give her a little insignificant alms, she will be moved?

Just like Qin Yunchuan, those things were obviously not worth mentioning to him, but he spent more than 80,000 yuan on a night out. When he was pursuing her, he said he didn't ask for anything in return, but when he saw that he really couldn't get any advantage from her, his attitude changed drastically, and he used the 80,000 yuan to ruin her reputation.

What had she done wrong? She had a hard enough life, so why did these happy people treat her like this?

She deliberately put those things away, making him think that she accepted his advances, and then took them out on that day, clearly slapping him in the face and breaking his heart.

She admitted that she had some intention of inflicting the malice she had on Qin Yunchuan. After she said those words that night and watched him leave sadly, she felt a strange sense of relief in her heart. She was really not a good person. Since she couldn't do anything to Qin Yunchuan, she bullied this good student.

But she wasn't completely bad, because she would always think of him, his incredulous eyes, his sad expression, his fleeing figure. Many nights before, he would leave something behind and say to her cheerfully as he walked out, "This is for you," his tone light and with obvious pleasure.

I am sorry.

Bai Yanning said to him softly in her heart.

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