The difference between cloud and mud

Although Xiao Fengtai and Tiffany have a bad relationship, they are real childhood sweethearts.Over the years, Tiffany's perseverance and perseverance are touching, and Xiao Fengtai is also as indifferent as ever.Whether the parties are aware of it or not, the relationship between the two has unconsciously reached a dynamic balance.This kind of balance makes Xiao Fengtai feel uncomfortable seeing Tiffany, but he still tolerates her coming into the house again and again - after all, he is the girl he watched growing up and knows each other well. Xiao Fengtai never thinks that Tiffany's trip to Singapore can make a big splash.

Of course, the cousin's means are more than enough to deal with a David.He has done his duty as a good friend to give enough risk warnings, and it is no wonder that David suffers from others.

After the summer vacation, perhaps because of the imminent pressure to enter school or because the enthusiasm of the young boys in school finally touched the heart of the eldest lady, the frequency of Tiffany's visits to Xiao's house dropped significantly.Early on Saturday morning, Xiao Fengtai hurriedly packed his schoolbag and went to Jiang Tong's appointment. When he saw Tiffany sitting in the living room drinking tea, he felt a kind of long-lost kindness, and stopped to say hello to her.

Anyway, grandma is coming to Singapore soon, he thought, since Tiffany's stay in Asia has already started counting down, he might as well be more polite to her.

He had wishful thinking, but he didn't know that the delicate balance of the relationship between the two had been wiped out because of Mrs. Xiao's intervention.In Tiffany's heart, she is no longer the distant cousin who is looking for love in thousands of miles, but the imperial envoy to the Far East who stands in front of Mrs. Xiao.With a proper identity, he naturally has the confidence to act.This confidence made her cross the invisible boundary, step in front of Xiao Fengtai, and look straight into the other's surprised eyes.

"What are you going to do?" she asked aloud.

"It has nothing to do with you." Xiao Fengtai turned sideways to go around her, but was blocked by Tiffany.

"What are you doing?" He said coldly, thinking that he would probably be late due to this delay, and considering how short the time for the two of them to get together, an evil fire suddenly shot up in his heart.

When grandma arrived in Singapore, the first thing he had to do was to persuade the old lady to take the little girl back to England.

"Are you going to Chinese class?" Tiffany took a step forward, staring at Xiao Fengtai with straight eyes: "Take me with you. I also want to study Chinese."

Xiao Fengtai's patience reached the limit, he pushed Tiffany away and started to leave, but the girl grabbed his arm with her backhand.

This was his first skin-to-skin contact with Tiffany. Looking back on it later, he only remembered a dull pain in his arm and numbness with poor blood flow. Tiffany's slender fingers sank deeply into Xiao Fengtai's arm like fine steel pliers, and the back of his hand was bulging with blue veins due to excessive force.Xiao Fengtai was startled and forgot to break free, so the girl seized the opportunity and threw herself into his arms.

"Cousin, I like you!" Tiffany's voice was unbelievably close: "I really, really like you!"

"Are you crazy!" Boys of the same age are much stronger than girls.Once Xiao Fengtai doesn't show affection, it's easy to tear Tiffany off his body.It's just this tossing, both of them had disheveled hair and disheveled clothes, and even Xiao Fengtai's schoolbag was knocked half open by Tiffany during the tugging.

"Send Miss Xiao out." Xiao Fengtai walked out as soon as he had time, calling out to the servants as he walked, not even bothering to look at Tiffany.

"I don't want to see her when I go home."

Uncharacteristically, Tiffany made a big disturbance at Xiao's residence, making Xiao Fengtai's late arrival an established fact.When he arrived at Jiang Tong's house, he was still in shock, and he forgot his last bit of awkwardness about the earlier Cold War.

"Look" he rolled up his sleeves at Jiang Tong, showing evidence of Tiffany's "violence" on his arm.Xiao Fengtai's skin is fair, although most of the fingerprints along the way have dissipated, there is still a layer of faint traces that are almost nothing.

"Although this girl is usually annoying, she still knows how to keep her sense. I don't know what's going on today. She seems to be a different person when she speaks and acts."

"Why is it so serious?" Jiang Tong's concern was written all over his face.He held Xiao Fengtai's elbow like he was handling fragile porcelain, wanted to touch it but didn't dare to touch it, finally stood up and went straight to the kitchen: "I'll give you an ice compress, the marks will disappear quickly."

"It's so serious." Xiao Fengtai wanted to stop him, but Jiang Tong pushed him onto the sofa.While speaking, Jiang Tong had already shoveled ice into a bag, wrapped it in a towel and pressed it to his arm.

The towel was cold, and the coldness penetrated into the skin, extinguishing the dark fire of anxiety in his heart.Xiao Fengtai tried his best to tighten the corners of his mouth, imitating the Chinese feeling that it is a blessing in disguise, if he knew Jiang Tong's attitude, he would let Tiffany pinch for a while, and pinch harder.

However, this is only the beginning of the surprise.Jiang Tong turned around twice, pondered for a moment, took out a folder from the bedroom and put it on the sofa.

"For you."

He didn't explain much.Xiao Fengtai didn't know why, so he opened the folder. The densely packed small squares on the A4 paper come into view. The six-month timeline, SAT test time, TOEFL test time, deadlines for submitting materials and expected interview dates for several top-ranked universities in the United States are clearly marked .

Colored sticky notes with the names of different schools affixed to the top of the folder's plastic pages.He turned a few pages back, and the application document requirements of different schools, minimum admission scores, advantageous departments, and information about the application steps that Jiang Tong considered important were all carefully bound and classified.The thin file folder is stuffed with excess content, and it can't be closed anymore.

"The application procedures in the United States are very cumbersome. If you don't need an intermediary to do it yourself, there will inevitably be omissions. You can look through it when you have nothing to do, and use it as a memo."

"At this stage... There is actually nothing that can help you. If there is something that can be of use to me, please let me know."

Jiang Tong's explanation was concise and to the point, but it stirred up waves in Xiao Fengtai's heart.The hot and surging love made the boy's fingertips feel slightly numb.Without saying a word, he threw away the ice pack and threw himself into Jiang Tong's arms, kissing the young man deeply.

How could he doubt Jiang Tong's feelings.Partly due to lack of oxygen, partly due to joy, Xiao Fengtai felt that the small living room was spinning clockwise.He closed his eyes and handed over all the weight of his body to Jiang Tong.

He half hugged and half hung on Jiang Tong, who staggered back and finally fell on his back on the bed.Two hands fumbled eagerly over each other, awkwardly undoing buttons and zippers.Language is superfluous at this moment, and the concentration of emotion has reached a limit, which can only be poured out through the most primitive physical way.

Touch, kiss, hug.They are already familiar with each other's physical steps, and there is only one last step left, another brand-new secret realm, their relationship will change quantitatively and qualitatively, and emerge into a completely different form.However, Jiang Tong reined in the precipice again.If the two were not facing each other naked, Xiao Fengtai almost suspected that he had something to hide.

He bit Jiang Tong hard to vent his anger, with a lot of strength, a red tooth mark suddenly appeared on the young man's muscular shoulders.

"There are still 89 days." He said fiercely in Jiang Tong's ear: "I remember every day."

The young man didn't speak, and threw his own mobile phone to him.Xiao Fengtai saw the newly installed app icon on the desktop of the phone at a glance, and the two black Roman numerals on the snow-white calendar were extremely conspicuous.

89.

Xiao Fengtai couldn't help but laugh, turned over and lay on his back on the bed, with one hand over his eyes.The darkness of self-deception, he covered his ears and steals the bell, he didn't want to think how stupid he was laughing.

There was no substantial breakthrough in the result, but the process was intense and genuine.The road from the living room to the bedroom was a mess, Xiao Fengtai's troubled schoolbag fell headfirst on the ground, and when he picked it up, books, papers, stationery and sundries poured out.

"Is this yours?" Jiang Tong helped him clean up, and picked out a small key ring from the pile of papers.The hoop is slightly deformed, but the pendant is fine.Pocket cubes woven of black Swarovski crystals sparkle in the sun.

"How is it possible?" Xiao Fengtai frowned subconsciously when recalling the experience in the morning, "It probably belongs to my cousin, and it might have been accidentally hung on the schoolbag in the morning."

He stuffed the pendant into his schoolbag casually.Find someone to pay her back.He thought casually as he went out.

He could just throw the pendant in the trash.But today is really a very fulfilling day, Xiao Fengtai plans to draw a successful ending for this day, even for Tiffany who is inexplicably crazy.Anyway, she can't stay in Asia for a few days.

Tiffany sat at the table, staring at the table in a daze.

The walnut wood desk was empty, except for a pocket crystal woven cube in the middle.The cube is completely black and inconspicuous, almost blending in with the dark tabletop.

It was clearly daytime, but the curtains were drawn tightly.The bright sunlight that hits the equator is intercepted by this line, and the outline of the furniture in the room can only be barely seen. Tiffany deliberately did not turn on the light.Sitting in a deep and overlapping shadow, she finally felt a little solid and safe in her heart.

This is really unthinkable and hopeless to give it a go, but it succeeded.God knows why Xiao Fengtai's schoolbag was not packed that day.And he didn't know what kind of psychology it was, not only did he not throw away the key chain after discovering it, but he even found someone to bring it back to her.If Tiffany didn't know Xiao Fengtai that well, she would almost think that the boy had a crush on her.

She succeeded. Not only was Tiffany unhappy, but she felt inexplicably nervous and terrified.The central air conditioner in the room was working normally, but there was a thin layer of sweat on her back, itching unbearably, like countless little bugs crawling.

Tiffany was born exquisite and lovely, and her family was well-off. Even though she had nothing to show for it except her appearance, she grew up smoothly amidst praises.Except for Xiao Fengtai and Mrs. Xiao, very few people gave her a cold face.

Tiffany was held in the palm of his hand and pampered since childhood, and Tiffany gradually developed a set of thinking logic that is different from ordinary people.The ordinary teenage worries—school work, relationships with partners, weight, acne, boys she likes—seem to her as trivial.Now that the future is clearly visible, it is natural to have fun and seek excitement until the established future arrives.

With a quarter of Germanic blood in her body, she enjoys the thrill of conquest from the bottom of her heart.For her, the field of love is a battlefield, and she is a victorious girl general.The more indifferent and disdainful Xiao Fengtai was, the more motivated she became.Not long after she came to Singapore, she had already dealt with Xiao Fengtai's secret suitors in school one by one.The girls hated her secretly, scolding her for being cunning, treacherous, and artificial, and doing one thing in person. Tiffany didn't mind at all, it was just a compliment to herself.Love is something you have to fight for yourself, behave yourself and don't fight or grab, how can good things happen to you?

However, even with the rare encouragement and support of Mrs. Xiao for this matter, she still felt faintly uneasy deep in her heart.

She doesn't read much, and only watches movies and TV series, especially modern urban movies and romance movies.The characters in the play may not always act in a smooth manner. If they want to start well and end well, there are a few red lines that cannot be crossed no matter what. Tiffany stared at the crystal cube, the dark and small cube grew very safe and inconspicuous.Is this her red thread?

Grandma is getting old.She thought in her heart that it is inevitable that elderly people have some strange ideas.How could Xiao Fengtai have an affair with his Chinese teacher?An inconspicuous mainland student who has to rely on work-study programs to make ends meet?a man?

Just hand over to grandma like this.Anyway, there wouldn't really be anything between them.She grabbed the key chain and threw it into the drawer, closing the drawer firmly.Putting on her coat in a hurry, she picked up her bag and rushed out the door as if fleeing, intending to have some fun to divert her attention.

The solid wooden door slammed loudly, and the room fell into silence again.

Three minutes later, the door was pushed open by Tiffany.

She strode over to the desk, pulled out her key chain, and cut the braided cord that held the cube together.The whole process was so smooth and flowing, she didn't dare to give herself even a second of thinking time.

Crystal beads crackled and scattered on the table, rolling radially on the table.In the very center of the mess, lay a smaller black plastic cube.A small red light flickered on the top of the cube. If it wasn't for the dark room, the light was so faint that it would never have been noticed.

She took a deep breath and hit the play button.