I Want to be Alone, Beautifully

In the end, Xu Jiao couldn't figure out what the problem was that made Shen Yelan so difficult.

because she found out...

Shen Yelan seemed to be keeping a distance from her.

Compared with the flattered look she showed when she took the initiative to approach and greet her, Shen Yelan now still looks like she doesn't dare to look at her, but Xu Jiao can clearly feel that the other party's gestures are moving The restraint in it.

Yes, restraint.

"Sister Jiaojiao, what's going on with this Shen person recently? Why is she so cold and indifferent, as if she's dismissive of us? It makes me feel like I'm talking to her with a hot face and a cold ass. .”

This morning.

It's rare for Su Xi to get up early, and finally caught up with Xu Jiao to have breakfast. She improved in the quiz two days ago, and got a score that she didn't dare to think about before, so she was in a good mood during this time .

When she saw Shen Yelan just now, she said happily: "Good morning."

As a result, Shen Yelan nodded lightly without raising her eyes, and only replied "Yes."

After eating half of the bread in his hand, he got up and went back to the house, without saying hello, and without glancing in the direction of the two of them, the whole person looked extremely indifferent.

That's why Su Xi complained.

Xu Jiao looked thoughtfully at the direction Shen Yelan was walking away from. After a while, she returned her attention to the dinner plate in front of her with a calm expression, and cut the luncheon meat inside, slowly To answer Suzy's words:

"Didn't you always call people 'surnamed Shen' and 'surnamed Shen'? Why, you are only allowed to be rude, and you are not allowed to have a cold personality?"

Su Xi stomped her feet and called her aggrievedly: "Sister Jiaojiao, where are you from?"

Xu Jiao swallowed the food in her mouth, looked at her with a smile on her face, then picked up a tissue next to her and wiped the corners of her lips, before replying: "It's not from your side anyway—she and Old Shen A surname, you don’t call people by their names every day, if the two of them meet outside some other day, and you call out ‘surnamed Shen’, who knows which one you are calling?”

Su Xi muttered and defended: "Old Shen is much more interesting than her, Shen Wenwen is so interesting, it's not the same as this stuffy gourd."

Having said that, Su Xi raised her wrist to prevent the chain on her wrist from falling into the hot soybean milk, and she still didn't forget to go back to the topic:

"Hey, to be honest, it's fine if you say she ignores me—"

"Sister, haven't you noticed that this little girl is also very indifferent to you recently? Find out, she is a tenant and you are a landlord, and she still owes you money. Is everyone in this world who owes money like this?"

Xu Jiao walked to the kitchen with the paper towels she had just used, and threw them into the wastebasket. When she came out, she heard Su Xi's injustice. She took two steps forward and knocked on her chair with her hand. Gentle, but there is an aura that compels people to obey.

"Xiao Xi."

"When you help others, don't think about repaying them. Repaying favors will make people bored-forget it, you don't understand this. In short, this is between me and her. I know it well. You are not allowed to mention it again. this."

Su Xi stuck out her tongue at her, and seeing Xu Jiao's serious expression, she had no choice but to respond: "Okay, okay, I see."

Xu Jiao hooked her lips, and adjusted the hairpin and hair ornament on the top of her head that was blocked by her hair. When she lowered her eyes, she added another sentence:

"What's more..."

"I don't find her cold."

Xu Jiao recalled Shen Yelan's recent appearance, and always felt that the other party seemed to be worried, and the indifference was not out of perfunctory, as if...

It looks like a volcano whose core is about to erupt, but its surface is still covered with volcanic ash that has been silent for a hundred years, so there is no clue.

Or, just like the deep blue lake before the storm, the calm sea and the autumn water are the same color as the sky, but in fact, a huge storm will rise in the next second, engulfing all the boats and embankments.

Although she didn't know how she came to the conclusion, Xu Jiao just vaguely felt so.

Su Xi waved her hand, lay lazily on the table, and picked up the straw of the soy milk cup with her face sideways. She seemed to be sitting still after drinking soy milk, and took a big sip before she said: "Okay, okay , Sister Jiaojiao, you have such a good temper, but I can't control her anymore, my mother has been urging me to go back every day recently."

"When I leave, you have to be careful not to be bullied by that Shen."

Before Xu Jiao could answer, Su Xi clicked her lips, and then added self-consciously: "Forget it, I must have worried too much. As far as our sister Jiaojiao's record of hitting ten in one fight, the only person surnamed Shen is looking for it all over the place." For the sake of teeth."

Xu Jiao was going to the sofa, ready to read a few "Three-Body Problems" newly bought from the bookstore. Hearing this, she just curled her lips slightly. She didn't express any opinion on Su Xi's description of her force, but only expressed concern. :

"Uncles and aunts should miss you very much. When you go back, remember to coax them well and don't make them angry."

"I got it, I got it, sister, your verbosity is almost catching up with my mother." Su Xi reluctantly perfunctory her.

……

What Xu Jiao didn't expect was——

Two days after Su Xi left her house, Shen Yelan also bid farewell to her.

"I recently asked a friend to help me find a house with cheap rent and close to the school. It's not good to live with you all the time. Thank you for taking me in during this time. Please give me an account. Every month I There will be a fixed repayment, and the interest will be based on the bank interest rate, is that okay?"

Shen Yelan packed up her things, and there was a large snakeskin bag bought in the market at her feet. She stood at the door of Xu Jiao's room, with the toe of her shoes facing the tile line at the door, without overstepping a millimeter.

Even the words are polite, no longer the cautious and stuttering when talking to Xu Jiao before.

She lowered her eyes, making it difficult for people to see her emotions clearly, but these words were indeed impeccable and perfect.

So much so that Xu Jiao felt for a moment that Mingming and Shen Yelan could see each other at school every day, but at this moment, the heroine in front of her was so unfamiliar that she couldn't even understand it.

It was as if some unseen changes were taking place inside this person.

And this change is enough to make Shen Yelan reborn.

When Xu Jiao got up from the desk, the little yellow dog rubbed her toes flatteringly, and followed her movements to the door, but looked at Shen Yelan, and hid behind Xu Jiao's door with a "whimper". Behind the cuffs.

Xu Jiao looked down in confusion, and smiled at Shen Yelan, "It's a little timid."

Shen Yelan pulled the corner of her lower lip, and shook her head lightly, indicating that she didn't mind about it.

Xu Jiao thought about what she said just now, and recalled the inexplicable recent blackening value that rose every time she disagreed with her, and she couldn't help asking, "Did something happen to you?"

Shen Yelan's gaze moved, and she only said, "No."

Seeing that she wanted to hide it, Xu Jiao stopped asking, and instead asked, "Is the new place safe? After all, you are still a female student, so you should be careful whether you rent it by yourself or share it with others." a little."

Although she knew that Xu Jiao's words were just a routine courtesy, but Shen Yelan still felt that these words seemed to be close and caring...

Let her have a moment of regret.

Greedy to hear more.

"It's weird, since you want to stay so much, why do you still have to leave? Now that annoying and eye-catching Su Xi has already left, and there are only two of you in this room, not to mention that you are not bad at the moment, when Deng Yi Close, tsk tsk."

The figure that was exactly the same as the person in front of her appeared again without anyone noticing, because only Shen Yelan could see it, "Xu Jiao" deliberately moved closer when she spoke, and seeing that Shen Yelan was unmoved, she even blinked her eyes , suddenly walked to Xu Jiao on the opposite side.

Then he squatted down quietly, pointed at Xu Jiao's pants on her right ankle, and winked at Shen Yelan mischievously, all with hints.

In Shen Yelan's eyes, there were two identical Xu Jiaos, one stood there indifferently, the other tried her best, even her hair was seductive, and her eyes were full of cunning.

Shen Yelan held her breath. In order to avoid showing any bad expression, she closed her eyes and repeated: "No need."

Don't stay, can't stay.

Her current situation is too bad. Seeing Xu Jiao every day is both a kind of happiness and a kind of torture for her now, but this terrible illusion is like a fixed- It explodes from time to time, and I don't know when it will explode.

Even if it was just a possibility, she didn't want to cause harm to Xu Jiao.

Xu Jiao: "Huh?"

There was a bit of surprise in her eyes, and she suspected that Shen Yelan didn't hear her words clearly. She clearly asked whether the newly rented place was safe or not. Why does it seem that this person is still stuck on the last question?

Shen Yelan opened her eyes again, noticing Xu Jiao's surprise, she froze for a moment, her heart skipped a beat, but fortunately she had a good memory, and quickly added:

"I mean, don't worry, I have my measure."

Xu Jiao let out a "huh", there was really no reason to keep her in front of her, and she agreed without much thought: "Okay, but you can just repay the previous amount without adding interest, we are all friends."

"Friend?" Shen Yelan looked at her in a daze, and unconsciously repeated these two words.

Xu Jiao looked at her expression, blinked slowly, and asked the system in her heart: "Why was my alienation from her so obvious before? This kid now looks like I'm talking nonsense."

System Science replied: "Judging from the heroine's growth experience, she is most likely to belong to the type that is very sensitive to environmental changes, so it is not surprising that the host's intentions are discovered."

Xu Jiao praised: "Well, this is the reason why I admire your artificial intelligence. Even if you don't understand emotions, you can still use big data to make statistics that are closest to the truth. It sounds so true."

After chatting with the system for a few words, Xu Jiao didn't have time to respond to Shen Yelan's words. Fortunately, Shen Yelan answered with a face:

"Well, we're friends."

"As long as you need it, I will definitely appear in front of you."

She said this very solemnly.

So much so that Xu Jiao seemed to vaguely feel the weight hidden between the lines through these ordinary words, which weighed heavily on her heart all at once.

After a while, Xu Jiao smiled and said, "I will repay what you said to me just now, don't worry about me——that's fine, I'll send you down."

Shen Yelan shook her head, rejected her kind help, lowered her head and walked towards the door with that Tuhaha bag in her hand. When she raised her hand and touched the handrail, Shen Yelan suddenly stopped, turned her head and looked at the door again. glanced.

Xu Jiao was squatting at the door, teasing the retrieved dog with a small bone-shaped teething biscuit, and teased softly: "Xiao Huang, look here."

The light coming in from the balcony formed a quadrangular shape, and the golden corners framed by the window frame just fell on Xu Jiao's feet, like an angel holding a sword of judgment, bowing its proud head to its most devout master.

Even the sunlight did not dare to be abrupt, and only stopped within the square inch that was about to touch her skin, as if the whole world should surrender at her feet.

And the god of this world, the god in Shen Yelan's heart, squatted there relaxedly, giving his own favor casually, holding a dark pet biscuit between his light white fingertips, watching the little yellow dog bite twice but not bite She moved, with pampering in her eyebrows and eyes, letting the little thing lick her fingertips, flattering and cute.

This scene, through Shen Yelan's eyes, was deeply imprinted on her heart.

Let her recall for a long time.

……

Shen Yelan did things very thoroughly.

Now that she had decided not to see her, she disappeared completely from Xu Jiao's world. In the final exam of her sophomore year, she was ranked 41st in her grade.

In the class placement of the new semester, this grade cannot enter Class 1, but it is No.3 in Class 1.

The students in class 1 thought she accidentally missed again, until they found out that this person has maintained a score outside the top 40 in every exam since then, and has always been in class 3. Before the college entrance examination, he never entered class 1 again. classroom once.

Students in class 1 talked about Shen Yelan during the class chat, and they all looked very embarrassed.

"I heard that she was No.1 in our eighteenth high school when she came in? Now she can only hover around forty or fifty in every exam. It's too miserable."

"Actually, it's normal. You didn't find that many people who got good grades in the first year of high school didn't know where they fell when they took the mock exam in the second and third year of high school? Some people just don't have the mentality."

"Too."

The topic was fleeting. At first, some people checked whether Shen Yelan would come back during each exam. Afterwards, the whole Class 1 seemed to have forgotten about this person, and everyone was only focused on the topic in front of them.

The college entrance examination is a single-plank bridge to cross alone, and no one can help except for your own efforts.

Even those lazy geniuses, when the countdown was approaching, urgently studied a few more sets of questions. Afterwards, those who were recommended were recommended, those who played games played games, and some people were busy preparing materials for self-enrollment.

Everyone is struggling for the future, and there is a thriving atmosphere in the air.

When Xu Jiao was caught in this atmosphere occasionally, she couldn't tell the difference between today and night, as if she had really become a part of this senior sister, trying hard to cultivate her own share of rewards.

During the intermission, she laughed to herself in her heart: "I seem to be a little into the drama—"

"System, when can I leave this world?"

The system checked the progress: "After the heroine Shen Yelan lives happily with the president, you can leave."

Xu Jiao roughly calculated, this is the rhythm that will have to wait at least another ten years.

She sighed, and came all the time, forget it, get a B university before leaving, it can be regarded as a new achievement that she didn't have in the real world.

but……

"I didn't expect that Shen Yelan's affection for me at 90 was nothing unusual. It seems that your favorability test is not very accurate. Maybe her affection for me is because I saved her life. So she introduced me as a close friend." Xu Jiao was a little dizzy from the questions, so she chatted with the system.

system:"……"

It said with a blank face: "I'm sorry to inform you that our favorability test is divided into degrees. A favorability below 50 is the level between friends, and above 50 is likely to turn emotions into love."

Xu Jiao: "Does your family love each other more and further away?"

Xu Jiao: "Love you to the end of the world and never see each other again?"

Xu Jiao: "Is this the rhythm of talking about feuds before they even start?"

The system was speechless, and could only answer in a flat tone: "Perhaps, Shen Yelan's growth experience is special, so the value will be slightly higher."

Xu Jiao was satisfied when she heard this, "That's right."

But she didn't try to get close to Shen Yelan anymore. After all, Shen Yelan would meet the leading actor in college. Before that, she didn't bother to go up and take care of everything. As long as Shen Yelan's blackening value doesn't affect the plot, Just let her go.

……

It's another college entrance examination season.

Eighteenth High School has a very long face this time.

The province's liberal arts champion and No. 2 are all from their school.

Before the results came out, Xu Jiao received a call at home, and heard the head teacher of Class 1 congratulating her with a smile on her face: "Student Xu Jiao, have you checked the results? We have received the notice in advance, are you Second in the province, the teacher wants to congratulate you!"

The [-]th high school bully who was once famous, changed his mind from the second year of high school, and finally won the second place in the province in liberal arts. This time even the dean, who always disliked Xu Jiao, discussed with the principal whether to When the media from the Commercial Daily came to interview, they told Xu Jiao's incomparably educational story.

The education in Eighteenth Middle School is really a success!

Through the hard work and careful cultivation of the teachers, they brought a child who had almost gone astray back to the right track, and made her future bright!

Xu Jiao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and asked on the phone: "Teacher, who is the first?"

The teacher's smile was even stronger, "The number one is also in our school! You may have the impression that the one who fell into class 7 because of lack of exams, and has been in class 3 since then... Shen Yelan!"

"Both of you have really performed really well. It is estimated that not long after my phone call, those colleges and universities will also call you. Now you can discuss with your family what school and major you want to apply for, so that you can prepare in advance."

"The school will also apply for you a bonus in the city and district. Recently, there should be those newspaper reporters and the media asking to interview you. You must be prepared. If there is anything you don't understand, you can come anytime. Ask me, the teacher will give you reference suggestions..."

Xu Jiao could hear the joy from that voice, and her emotional change was also infected a little bit, she replied with a smile:

"Okay, thank you teacher."

really--

After that, she kept receiving all kinds of calls at home. Even if she was as patient as her, she felt exhausted physically and mentally after drinking three glasses of water. She wished she could hire someone to answer the calls for her.

Even the nominal parents called from the foreign laboratory, showing a very proud look for Xu Jiao in their words, and did not forget to ask her about her current mood and exams. Status, and the intention to fill in the questions later.

After Xu Jiao finished coping, she didn't even have the energy to eat.

The phone rang again tirelessly.

Her joy had long since been diluted, she didn't even glance at the phone page, ruthlessly adjusted the phone to silent mode, and then glanced lazily at the caller ID.

Suzy.

Xu Jiao ate two mouthfuls of rice mechanically, and then picked up another chopsticks to braise the fish in brown sauce. When the warm food fell into her stomach, she felt like she was alive. Swipe to answer:

"Sister! You are so awesome! I just heard people in the school say that you took the second place in the province, you are too good! I have decided, I will hold a celebration banquet, and I will take the old Shen and the others are all called, and they will all celebrate for you! From now on, you can choose any school in the country, and choose whichever you want!"

After she chattered there for a while, Xu Jiao didn't say a word, instead, she ate half a bowl of rice unhurriedly with the kid's energetic voice.

Su Xi finally released her excitement, and asked again: "Sister, where do you think the celebration location should be?"

Xu Jiaoxi's words are like gold: "Whatever you want."

Su Xi: "? Sister, you are so indifferent, you are too...too what, are you modest? I can't hear the joy of your good grades from your words at all."

Xu Jiao smiled, "Try to be like a telephone customer service, after receiving dozens of calls, then show me your joy?"

Su Xi: "...Sounds like a miserable Yazi."

But as happy as Su Xi quickly turned her attention back, and discussed the details of the celebration with Xu Jiao enthusiastically: "I want to call everyone who knows you over here, let the whole world know, my sister is going to test A super super super good result!"

Xu Jiao sighed softly: "You can arrange it. I can only guarantee that I will be there. I don't want to worry about anything else. My ear hurts now. Go take a rest."

"Okay, sister, wait for my news!"

……

Wake up.

Xu Jiao received the address from Su Xi.

It was in the most extravagant clubhouse in the whole city, and I don't know how she got the relationship to allow a group of minors to be put in it.

She shook her head, didn't think too much, got up from the bed and stretched, opened the closet, picked out a black hip-hop style top with silver trim and long decorative belt, and took a pair of light-colored ragged Hole jeans.

Before leaving, Xu Jiao touched two hairpins and crossed them on the hair next to her ears.

It was getting dark outside, and it was raining as thin as a cow's hair. Before going out, Xu Jiao looked out the window, took a transparent umbrella and went out.

While walking there with the umbrella in hand, when I happened to pass by under the eaves, one or two heavy ticks fell on the umbrella surface.

Hey.

Hey.

She walked under the resplendent and resplendent building from under the dim lights.

The umbrella surface was slightly tilted, Xu Jiao looked up at the sign to see if she had made a mistake, her eyes turned upwards, and she met a pair of extraordinarily quiet eyes at the door, as if the night of the whole city had melted into it .

Spot paint like ink.

It's Shen Yelan.

At that moment, Xu Jiao belatedly thought that the two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time.