I Want to be Alone, Beautifully

"Don't make trouble."

The relationship between Xu Jiao and Su Xi is good, but she doesn't like this kind of behavior, even if the other party is just a joke to show her intimacy.

Su Xi heard Xu Jiao's seriousness from her warning voice, picked up the chopsticks and pulled the hot rice in the bowl, muttered in a low voice: "If you don't kiss, why not? Why are you so fierce? Shy."

This sentence, which is coquettish and complaining, comes out of her mouth, but it only makes people feel cute.

Su Xi's popularity in school is not low. Except for some nerds who are obsessed with studying, most boys like her cheerful, righteous and enthusiastic personality. She is also easy to dress, and she goes to school with light makeup every day.

Except for Monday when the director conducts a grooming inspection, she also wears a lot of jewelry at other times, such as exquisite necklaces, beautiful bracelets, and even her hairstyle is fashionable and cute.

A few of the sports special students chased after her very fiercely, so they asked her out to play when they had time.

Hearing her voice, Xu Jiao smiled twice, but she still shook her head and gently emphasized to her: "Xiaoxi, it's not like you haven't been in a relationship before, so you should know that you can't kiss other people's lips casually. "

At this moment, Aunt Su went to the guest room to clean up again, and Shen Yelan walked to the dining table again, sat down silently, and when she picked up the chopsticks, she turned her wrist to her side, not wanting others to see the depth of her palm. A few small crescents were pinched out.

She quietly listened to Xu Jiao teaching Su Xi, pinched the chopsticks to pick up the meat on the fish tail, and glanced at Su Xi's direction from the corner of her eye, and saw her holding her face and opening her lips:

"But we're all girls, what's the matter? And you didn't object before."

Xu Jiao said calmly: "The past is the past, and the present is the present."

Su Xi snorted, and suddenly directed the flames of war in Shen Yelan's direction. Meeting Shen Yelan's inadvertent gaze, she put down her chopsticks, folded her arms around her chest, and said arrogantly:

"I see! You have another dog, and I'm no longer the only cutie in your heart! Tell me, do you like this Shen?"

Shen Yelan didn't expect to be dragged into the topic suddenly, and went to see Xu Jiao in a panic.

Even the meat caught by the chopsticks fell back into the plate, and the snow-white fish was submerged in the dark sauce in the blink of an eye.

She knew that Xu Jiao was not interested in her, but she couldn't control her nervousness, and felt annoyed by the beating heartbeat.

as predicted--

Xu Jiao answered Su Xi without blinking: "What does it have to do with her? We are talking about you now, so we can't do that next time."

Su Xi persisted: "Why! I want to kiss!"

Xu Jiao exhaled softly, put the choy sum into her bowl, then put the chopsticks side by side together, turned her head, and said seriously: "Because I like girls, it's easy for you to make me feel like this." Misunderstanding, understand?"

Su Xi was stunned.

Suddenly there was a soft sound of "Dang".

The two looked at the place where the sound was made at the same time. It was Shen Yelan who accidentally dropped the chopsticks under the table. She quickly squatted down to pick it up, hiding her expression under the table so that no one could see it.

She raised her hand to push the chopsticks in front of her, but she didn't dare to stand up, and pressed her cheek with the back of her right hand:

hot.

It's about to catch fire.

What did she just hear?Xu Jiao likes girls?

Even though she knew that the other party was not interested in her, Shen Yelan was still unavoidably overjoyed at this moment, and whispered like a demon in her heart: "Since she likes girls, why can't it be you?"

Before she could hear more about the bewitching, Su Xi had already grabbed the corner of the table and leaned over to look under the table: "Hey, what's your reaction? Dare I see you showing that ignorant expression, I will definitely beat you to death."

Even if I had a little reaction just now, in Su Xi's world view, no one is allowed to show strange eyes to Xu Jiao!

That's right, although Su Xi used to think that these guys who liked the same sex were weird, but once Xu Jiao was included in this group today, she suddenly felt that the words "Ji Lao" and "La La" in her mind became I became angry.

This is the case with the famous double standard.

Shen Yelan looked at her in bewilderment, the blush on her face gradually dissipated, she sat back on the table half understanding, got up to wash the chopsticks, and then sat back down again.

On the contrary, Xu Jiao, the person who dropped the heavy news, didn't respond. Seeing that Su Xi understood what she meant, she picked up her chopsticks and continued eating.

A meal is rare quiet.

Only Xu Jiao was at ease.

When she put down the bowl and chopsticks, got up and walked towards the bedroom, Su Xi didn't know what to think of, and didn't care about the soup left in the bowl, and hurried after her, the voice of gossip echoed in the living room:

"Hey, what kind of girl does Miss Jiaojiao like?"

"When did you find out that you like women? Could it be the good thing that grandson did last time that made you lose interest in men, so I'll find someone to help you teach him a lesson!"

It wasn't until the two of them entered the room that Shen Yelan dared to look back and saw the empty living room with her eyes lowered quietly, showing a little loneliness.

What Suzy asked...

She really wants to know.

……

But Xu Jiao didn't say anything.

Amidst Su Xi's chattering voice, Xu Jiao calmly opened a set of Wusan, which arrived just two days ago, took a pen with the strong scent of ink in the new book, opened the first page and started to do the questions .

Su Xi asked for another 5 minutes, but there was no response. She couldn't help but lay down on the back of Xu Jiao's chair in frustration, and said in a low voice:

"It's so boring, you don't say anything."

Xu Jiao replied without raising her eyes: "If you are bored, just do the questions. If you don't finish the set of questions I prepared for you tonight, you are not allowed to sleep. Don't think that I will let you off like before dinner."

Su Xi: "...!"

She turned around and ran out. Everyone had already entered the living room. When she saw Shen Yelan silently packing up the dishes, she thought of something. She turned around and went back to grab the door frame, and asked angrily:

"Sister Jiaojiao! I'll be your girlfriend, can you be more tolerant to me?" For example, don't let her do the questions.

Shen Yelan pinched the oil-stained side of the bowl, and forgot to let go for a long time. Then, she silently raised her eyes to look in Su Xi's direction.

The next moment, Xu Jiao's voice came from the room: "Zaipi, you should do one more set of questions."

Su Xi: "..."

She walked back to the small table in the living room as quietly as a chicken, and began to moan and sigh over the topic of bitterness and hatred, without noticing Shen Yelan's gaze from the beginning to the end.

Only the person at the dining table looked at the messy tabletop and thought with some hesitation:

Was it a wrong choice to live here with Xu Jiao?

Especially now that Su Xi is here, she always makes those jokes with Xu Jiao from time to time, which makes her mood fluctuate constantly, and she always feels that she is not far away from having a heart attack.

The only good thing is...

Xu Jiao was much more serious than she looked.

……

That night, Shen Yelan slept in that spacious guest room.

Before going to bed, she was extremely worried that she would have those absurd and unspeakable dreams again in this charming home, but to her surprise, she slept until she woke up naturally, lying on the soft quilt, Responding in a daze——

I didn't dream last night.

She sat up from the rare warm quilt, and for some reason, a faint sense of loss surged in her heart.

It seemed that he was ready to go on a magnificent date, but in the end, he just put on his coat and waited quietly all night in the alley with willow branches on the moon, accompanied only by the cold wind.

Shen Yelan covered her face with her hands, and let out a sigh from between her fingers.

I don't know if it's because of my own thoughts that I can't see the light, or I simply fell to the end, regretting this missed night.

"morning."

Shen Yelan changed into her school uniform, opened the door, and saw Xu Jiao who was eating breakfast.

He was obviously the most domineering student in the entire Eighteenth Middle School, but he wore his school uniform neatly. The white school uniform jacket was buttoned to the highest point, and the neckline was so smooth that there were no unnecessary marks.

At first glance, no one would suspect that the person in front of him is actually the best student of the Eighteenth High School after seeing the slow eating movements and those quiet eyes.

Shen Yelan only glanced at it, then restrainedly looked away, and politely replied: "Good morning."

Aunt Su had already bought the groceries for the day at [-]:[-] in the morning, and she was busy in the kitchen at the moment, preparing raw meat for the dogs according to the list Xu Jiao gave earlier, when she heard someone getting up, she smiled road:

"Xiao Shen is also up. Today I am making fried sandwiches. What do you want to add? Eggs, ham, bacon, meat floss, green vegetables... Come and see."

Shen Yelan subconsciously wanted to say something casual, but after looking at what was on Xu Jiao's plate, she betrayed her master's will in the middle of her words, and changed to: "It's just the same as... sister Xu Jiao's."

When she called Xu Jiao, she hesitated.

It seems a bit offensive to call her by her first name, but calling her "Sister Jiaojiao" after Su Xi has a weird ambiguity in it.

The result was a compromise that became what it is today.

Xu Jiao didn't feel anything, after all, according to the original owner's setting, she was originally one year older than her peers, so it was no problem for Shen Yelan to call her sister.

"Okay, just wait a while." Aunt Su raised her voice in the kitchen.

Shen Yelan pulled away the chair and just sat down at the dining table when she saw that Xu Jiao had finished eating and wiped her mouth and hands. Xu Jiao nodded to her, said "Eat slowly", and then got up and left.

Probably because Su Xi hadn't gotten up yet, there were only two bowls and chopsticks on the empty dining table, which made Shen Yelan deceive himself into an illusion:

It seemed that there were only her and Xu Jiao in this family.

When they wake up in the morning, the first person they see is each other, and then they say good morning to each other and eat together at the same table...

She pulled the corner of her lower lip slightly.

In the quiet morning light, even dreaming carefully.

……

Xu Jiao got up early, and went to school early. When Shen Yelan packed up her things and went out, Su Xi had just woken up. Obviously the three of them lived under the same roof, but they had to go to school in three ways.

Shen Yelan still used to walk on the path.

Although this is very dangerous, and it is easy to meet some "social people" who love to block honest students like her, but her character is like this, she likes to enjoy peace.

So every time she will cheer up 12 points to meet her own little needs.

It was the first time for Shen Yelan to go to school from the direction of Xu Jiao's house. The surrounding alleys and scenery were completely different from what she had seen before, which gave her a sense of novelty. In front of a boxing gym.

She was not surprised that the door of the boxing gym was closed.

Except for breakfast shops and some businesses that are specially open at night, not many shops will open at this time.

What Shen Yelan noticed was a person sitting cross-legged at the door wearing a sweater. The person was all black, with a hood covering his head, making it difficult to see his appearance. Only the fabric on the elbow was a little strange. , as if being wet by something.

A faint smell of rust entered Shen Yelan's nose.

She was not very courageous, the moment she saw this person, she instinctively reminded her not to approach him, this place was very dangerous.

Perhaps it was because she was treated harshly by her relatives since she was a child, and later she was always bullied by her cousin Lu Pei, so Shen Yelan has her own intuitive perception of danger.

She stopped in her tracks, silently trying to step back.

at this time--

The man sitting at the entrance of the boxing gym raised his head, and under the hood, a strand of long, light hair fell down.

This turned out to be a woman.

However, Shen Yelan's vigilance did not relax because of this. She even took a big step back the moment the other party raised her head, making a gesture to turn around and run away.

The person under the hood slightly hooked the corner of his lower lip, then lowered his head again, and sat there quietly, like a statue.

"It's a student..." She sighed softly.

Students are always full of curiosity, so it is not uncommon for them to come to such a place. Some of them are courageous and some are timid. The one who came just now should be the type with less courage.

She was about to close her eyes and squint for a while, but before her consciousness relaxed, she suddenly raised her head and looked forward——

In front of.

Shen Yelan was captured by her gaze, and the soles of her shoes rubbed against the ground, making a loud noise on the quiet road.

"You..." There was a little surprise in the eyes of the black hood.

Shen Yelan's voice trembled a little nervously, her eyes wandered left and right, and after a while, she whispered: "Are you... injured? Do you want to go to the hospital?"

She quickly added: "But I don't have money, I can't help you pay for the medical bills."

When the person sitting on the ground heard her words, he was stunned at first, and then laughed softly, as if he heard some joke.

When the laughter stopped, Shen Yelan heard the man ask: "Didn't you just want to run away? Why are you back now?"

Shen Yelan pursed her lips, "Don't forget it."

It was the first time in her life that she meddled in her own business.

In other words, this is the first time she has tried to do this. Before that, she has stood in the dark for too long, and she has long been used to the fact that no one in the world will lend a helping hand to herself, and she never knew the truth in the book. What exactly are the so-called "willing to help others" and "seeing injustice".

until……

Yesterday, she was cared for by warmth.

That's why she also wanted to learn to become such a warm person.

"Are you a student? Go to school, don't come to such a place." The man under the black hood raised his head, revealing an overly pale face, and his eyes lingered on Shen Yelan's school uniform for a while, Show a little bit of envy.

If Xu Jiao herself were here, she would be able to recognize it at a glance. This is the No. [-] bodyguard who will appear next to the hero in the future, and also the important female partner who will prevent the hero from being with Shen Yelan later, Dongqing.

Holly has been trained as a blade and a tool since she was a child, and she is constantly bought by new owners and abandoned. When her life is dying, she is found by the hero's family, and after being taken away, she recovers from her injuries. She became the most loyal bodyguard around the hero.

She guards the hero's life and will, and even does not allow anyone who threatens the hero's family to exist.

now……

Shen Yelan's fate changed quietly, like an insignificant little butterfly flapping its wings, slowly brewing a storm.

……

"This is the first time I want to help people." Shen Yelan said sincerely.

Hearing her words, the man in the black hood tilted his head and thought for a while: "Do you have any purpose?"

Shen Yelan blinked slowly, realizing that she seemed to be talking to a duck, she estimated the time, and she was going to be late for morning reading again.

Forget it, since this person doesn't want to help, she'd better go.

Thinking of this, she stopped talking and simply turned around to leave.

The people at the spot saw her intentions and were quite surprised, but at the moment when Shen Yelan's figure was about to be swallowed up by the alley, she still spoke slowly: "Get me some anti-inflammatory drugs, gauze and iodine bar, I will repay you."

Shen Yelan glanced back at her, then walked towards the nearby pharmacy.

……

45:[-].

After Shen Yelan finished helping others, she hurried to the school gate, but she saw the person on duty at the school gate from a distance, and it was Lu Pei's turn today.

Her breath changed, and as soon as she took a step inside, Lu Pei, who had been waiting for her, licked her lips slightly:

"Student, you didn't bring your school badge, and Class 7 will deduct five points."

Shen Yelan paused for a moment, raised her hand and took out her school card from her bag, but Lu Pei did not withdraw the plan to deduct points just now, and even took a pen to write in the notebook, obviously to punish her .

It would be fine if both of them were in Class 1. At most, Lu Pei would take advantage of her incident to go to the class teacher and sue Shen Yelan tactfully for not cooperating with her work. Be loyal and firmly believe that you are a good student in the class with a red heart.

Well now.

Shen Yelan is in Class 7, she has no reason to let her go.

Seeing her movements, Shen Yelan suddenly stepped towards her. Although there was still some shadow on Lu Pei's face, she insisted on speaking:

"I put it on, so no points will be deducted."

Lu Pei suddenly raised his hand and pushed her, pushed her to the ground next to her, and looked at her condescendingly with his arms akimbo: "Yo? Last time Xu Jiao supported you, so you pulled it up, Shen Yelan?"

"You didn't come home last night, do you know what my mother is waiting for you at home today?"

Shen Yelan propped her elbows on the ground just now, and it hurt a little from rubbing. She was about to stand up, when she heard Lu Pei's words, her breathing stopped immediately, and she seemed to remember being locked in the room again. Feeling drawn from all directions.

At that time—

A faint voice suddenly came from the direction of the teaching building:

"I don't really want to guess what Lingtang has prepared."

"But do you want to guess what I'm going to do next?"

Lu Pei's whole body froze, and his neck was like a mechanical joint that was not functioning properly, joint by joint, turning in the direction of the coming person with difficulty.

In the end, before she saw Xu Jiao's appearance, she felt a huge force coming from her lower back, and the next moment!She screamed uncontrollably, and fell to the ground next to her with that force, much harder than Shen Yelan.

Next, the students who stood at the school gate to supervise their appearance were honored to witness with their own eyes the demeanor of their [-]th high school bully!

If it wasn't for the director of teaching who sternly stopped him from the direction of the second floor of the teaching building, Lu Pei might have been beaten like a sandbag for 5 minutes.

"Xu Jiao! Stop it! You dare to beat up your classmates at the school gate, come here now! I have to ask the principal to expel you today!"

Hearing the sound like a screaming chicken, Xu Jiao really stopped.

However, she didn't obediently obey the order, but brushed off the dust on her school uniform, turned around and walked in front of Shen Yelan, and stretched out her hand to her who was already in a daze, with a smile in her tone:

"Why do you like sitting on the ground so much?"

Shen Yelan looked up at her, maybe the weather today is so good, the face of the person who is bending over to meet the sun is unbelievably soft, like a god transformed into a spring breeze, blowing away all the cold and darkness in her world , Let flowers bloom on the ice field.

She suddenly thought——

In fact, the impressions I have always had are all wrong, right?

She has never seen Xu Jiao really collect protection fees, nor has she seen her use this "school bully" status to gain any convenience for herself. Even this rare action is because Lu Pei first bullied someone.

Why do you think such a person is terrible, why do you think you shouldn't like such a person?

Obviously...

Xu Jiao deserves all the beauty in this world.

Shen Yelan didn't realize it herself, a faint smile appeared on her lips.

Seeing the expression on her face, Xu Jiao laughed unconsciously, and then she asked in her heart: "System, how much is your favorability now?"

In this wave, she even lost her blood.

It should be -100.

But the system hesitated for a moment, and then, its voice sounded truthfully: "It has been detected that the heroine's favorability for you has changed, and the current value is... 10... Wait a minute, it's still going up—it's confirmed! 90! Female The protagonist's favorability with you is 90!"

Xu Jiao: "..."

Xu Jiao: "???"

Rao is as calm as she is, but now she can't help but change her tune in her heart: "How much? Are you sure you didn't miss a '-'?"

The system affirmed: "Yes, the heroine's favorability for you is 90, a positive number."

Xu Jiao's inner world was dead silent.

Shen Yelan didn't know what happened yet, she just wanted to raise her hand to hold Xu Jiao's palm, and use her strength to stand up——

however.

Before he covered his hand, he saw that the other party withdrew his hand casually.

Shen Yelan caught a blank.

She looked over blankly, and saw Xu Jiao turned to face the direction of the teaching building.

The dean had already chased her from the second floor, pointed at her and cursed angrily: "You immediately! Go to the principal's office! You are openly bullying your classmates at the school gate and affecting the school spirit. I must expel you today!"

Xu Jiao raised her hand to block her eyes, preventing the sunlight from falling into her eyes, glanced at the dean, and then looked away.

Her current mood is as if she is playing a game she is interested in. Seeing that she is about to play her favorite ending, she finds that the whole game has collapsed.

Disappointing.