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As soon as Hao Ai arrived in the classroom, he immediately saw the out-of-place thing on his desk - a pink envelope, obviously a love letter.

He first glanced at Zhong Xiu in front of him in surprise, seeing that he was still doing his homework unawares, so he shook his head and thought that he was thinking a little too much, then picked up the pink envelope and prepared to open it.

The envelope was sealed with a small tape with lace, and he was worried about tearing the envelope, so he was very careful when tearing off the tape.

Zhong Xiu has been paying attention to the movement behind him.

Last night when Hao Ai said downstairs that he couldn't be like before, Zhong Xiu really kept a distance from him on purpose.

In the past, the two always went to eat together and entered the classroom together in the morning. Hao Ai sometimes stayed in bed. He was greedy for a comfortable bed, and the alarm clock and roommates couldn't wake him up. Zhong Xiu went to the next dormitory to lift the quilt and drag him out of the bed , watching him wash up and go buy breakfast together.

But Zhong Xiu didn't call him this morning. When he left the dormitory, he habitually went to knock on the door of the next dormitory, and suddenly remembered that he couldn't be like before, so he had to give up.

He was the first to go to the classroom. It was still dark when he left the dormitory, and the streets were empty.When others were still in warm blankets, he was already walking on the street to the school. At this time, the guard had just started work, and the teaching building opposite was still dark.

This reminded him of when he was in Yangcheng, the school was very close to home, he always went to school very early, and he was always the first in class.The lights hadn't been turned on yet, and the road from the school gate to the teaching building was also dark with no light.

He hadn't seen this kind of darkness for a long time, and now he was not used to it.I usually walked with Hao Ai talking and laughing all the way, but I didn't feel how dark and cold the road was.

It seems that once people get used to the warmth, they will be afraid to suffer from the coldness and darkness like before.

Just as Zhong Xiu sat on his seat and opened the book, a strange girl came in from the back door. He saw the girl slipping in with his own eyes. The girl was stunned when she saw Zhong Xiu, obviously she didn't expect that there would be anyone in the classroom.She put a pink envelope on Hao Ai's desk, and then fled as quickly as a thief.

"Fuck! Love letter? Who wrote it?" Lu Fayan leaned over to read it.

He snatched the love letter, and read out the signature at the end of the letter loudly: "Qi Xueran," then said thoughtfully, "This name sounds familiar."

When Lin Rui heard the name, he also felt familiar: "Isn't this... the black girl?"

Hao Ai knew that Qi Xueran was in the same class as Qi Xueran when she was not divided into classes, but Hao Ai didn't have any special impression of her.He only remembered that the only impressive thing about Qi Xueran was that her skin was very dark, a little darker than ordinary girls in school.

Many people in the freshman class jokingly called her Heimei. Although most of them had no malicious intentions, people who were called by the nickname would inevitably feel inferior if they heard too much.

When everyone got together to joke around, Hao Ai never called her by her nickname.The two seldom meet each other. In Hao Ai's memory, the two of them only talked once. Once in the second semester of high school, Hao Ai helped distribute the test papers after the exam. He just got Qi Xueran's paper. Qi Xueran sat in the first row. He left In the past, he gently put the paper on her, and said with a smile, "Qi Xueran, the paper I gave you, you did a good job this time."

A few people in the back row were still smiling and wanted to read the love letter, but Hao Ai stopped him. He snatched the letter back from Lu Fayan, "Go away, don't read it!"

Lin Rui smiled and said, "Oh, you're not shy, are you?"

Hao Ai was very disdainful: "I'm shy, there are too many people who confess to me!" But he still put the letter back into the envelope, folded it carefully, and put it in the table hole.

Hao Ai didn't pay much attention to this short episode, but Zhong Xiu didn't listen to the class all morning.

At noon, the two of them didn't go together. Although Lu Fayan had no prejudice against Zhong Xiu, Hao Ai's stand was always on his side.

He stuffed rice into his mouth and asked, "What happened to you and Zhong Xiu? What did he do to make you so angry?"

Hao Ai sighed helplessly, dialed Zhong Xiu's favorite Kung Pao Chicken on the plate, and whipped it while cooking rice, and only realized when the food was put on the plate by the rice cooker aunt.

"Some personal reasons." Hao Ai said.

"Whose reason?"

Hao Ai thought about it carefully, and felt that it was not Zhong Xiu's fault that he liked boys.

"Mine," he said.

I can't accept it.

Lu Fayan saw that Hao Ai didn't want to say anything, so he wisely stopped asking.

The afternoon class passed quickly, and after dinner in the evening, there were noises and the sound of someone auditioning on the small radio in front of the classroom.It was the school radio station that started working.

After the two hosts finished broadcasting the current affairs news as usual, the next thing was the newly opened song request column on the radio station. Students could contribute and request songs. Most of them are about friendship and family.

...

Two songs for friends and teachers were played on the radio. After the radio stopped, the hostess’s pleasant voice came again: “Next, a classmate who does not want to be named wants to order “Onion” for Hao Ai from Class [-], Grade [-], "

"Wow!"

"Hao Ai! I'm ordering for you!" At this moment, everyone in the class was booing, and Hao Ai was also stunned.

"This classmate wants to say to Hao Ai, if your eyes can come down for me for a moment, you can hear me and see my whole heart. Maybe you will feel incredible when you read that letter, and you will ask why. In fact, I also I don't understand, maybe it's just because you called my name that day and smiled at me, that's all. You are the best boy I have ever met. Although we are not in the same class now, I hope you can be like You are as happy as before, and you look good when you smile."

"It's a confession, my friends!"

Lu Fayan guessed in a low voice: "Qi Xueran?"

"Obviously." Lin Rui said.

Hao Ai suddenly became the focus of everyone, a little shy, and wanted to escape very much.

Zhong Xiu also turned his head at this time, Hao Ai subconsciously raised his face and smiled at him, Zhong Xiu was a little dazed for a while, Hao Ai hadn't smiled at him for a long time.

Seeing him like this, Hao Ai realized that he was smiling. He touched the upturned corner of his mouth, and immediately put away his smile.

Zhong Xiu: "..."

Zhong Xiu said suddenly, "I think this is unfair to me." This was the first sentence he said to Hao Ai today.

The song on the radio is still playing: "Secretly looking at you, secretly hiding myself..."

Hao Ai didn't hear clearly, and asked in confusion: "What?"

Zhong Xiu said: "I also like you. You have a very good attitude towards that relative...but you are so indifferent towards me."

"You are my most repressed and deepest secret..."

Hao Ai said with a suppressed voice: "She is a girl, I want to save face, I can't make her come down in front of so many people, she will be very sad."

What should I explain to him?After Hao Ai finished speaking, he began to regret again.

"Oh," Zhong Xiu blinked and lowered his head.

The two were silent, until Hao Ai felt that he would not speak again, he suddenly whispered: "I will be sad too."

At this time, the song on the radio was playing to the last line:

"As long as you can hear me and see my whole heart."

The author says:

#钟艺今天一起了吗# I think it's almost time? (????????)? ? ? ? (This chapter does not seem to be very long, dbq I escaped quietly...)