Chapter 40: Sweetheart

During the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month, Yin Xiaxia and the others asked Jibai to go to the People’s Park to go shopping together.
The park is walking along the artificial river, with lights and colorful lights, vendors set up stalls to sell ornaments and barbecues, forming a night market street, many young people like to come here for supper.
Someone put a blessing lantern in the river, and let the lantern boat float downstream with the water.A beautiful little lantern boat almost illuminates the entire river, and the river twists and turns through the park, looking from a distance, The lights and shadows flickered, like being in a dream.
Yin Xiaxia took Jibai and went to the river to join in the fun. She bargained with the grandmother who sold lanterns and bought the lotus lantern made of thin fabric for a price of fifteen yuan two.
"The Lantern Festival is also called the Shangyuan Festival. To be precise, it is our Chinese Valentine's Day." Yin Xiaxia took a marker and said to Jibai back: "Write the name of the person you like on the lantern, and the lantern will go smoothly. The river floats into his hands."
Jibai smiled and said: "I think there is a 99% probability that your sweetheart's name will float down the water into the sewer."
Yin Xiaxia hit her vigorously: "Could you not be so disgusting, it's not emotional."
Jibai put his head on her shoulder, and looked at the lotus lantern in her hand curiously: "Whose name did you write?"
Yin Xiaxia showed her generously: "Here, my husband."
She wrote the name of a new male star who debuted.
"Although ninety-nine percent will really float into the sewer."
Jibai squatted down, looked at the lotus lantern floating in the river, and said softly: "Isn't there a one percent chance that it will float into the hands of your sweetheart?"
"Forget it, I don't believe this one percent."
Jibai put his lotus lantern into the water, tenderness between her eyebrows: "I believe it."
One percent, one thousandth, one billionth chance... she believed it, because she was born again with a vague chance of the number of stars in the Milky Way.
She believes in all miracles in this world.
"Huh, Xiaobai, whose name are you writing?"
Jibai showed it to her, she only wrote four words, peacefully.
"You are too old-fashioned."
"Is it safe?"
"Not really, but you can at least add a name, such as Xie Sui or something."
Yin Xiaxia mentioned Xie Sui casually, but Jibai's little heart bumped inexplicably.
"Why are you talking about him."
"He is the crush of all the girls in the school. No girl can talk to him for more than three sentences without blushing." Yin Xiaxia looked at Ji Bai and smiled slyly: "He likes to provoke you, it's like that love."
Jibai rubbed Yin Xiaxia's head: "You girl, at a young age, why are you thinking about these love and love, can you decorate it?"
"Pretend something else, what?"
"Wang Empress, fifty-three simulation volume?"
"Jibai, are you poisonous!"
Jibai smiled and said nothing more.
The image of the unruly teenager standing in the snow waiting for her appeared in her mind.
Snow was flying all over the sky, but somewhere in her heart was warm.
Jibai still added a pen to the small paper boat and wrote the words "Xie Sui" seriously.
In the last life, Xie Sui rescued her and treated her very well.
Seeing that he was always alone, withdrawn and cold, Jibai decided to stay with him for the rest of his life.
Not only out of reward, but also because she pityed him.
This man can't marry a wife, let alone have a baby. Jibai wants to be by his side, even if he doesn't do anything, it's enough to be with him.
After she expressed her feelings and agreed to get along like a couple, Xie Suicai began to be more intimate with her. And Jibai also accepted all his intimacy.
Xie Sui liked her, Jibai knew.
From his restrained and forbearing touch, Jibai could feel his fascination with her body.
Jibai underestimated Xie Sui's feelings.
After her death, her soul did not leave immediately, but wandered in the world for a while, witnessing all the crazy actions of Xie Sui later, she felt it in his tight eyes that were crying but not crying. His suffocating and extreme love.
He doesn't like her, he loves her deeply.
...
Xie Sui was in a bad mood these days. Several brothers took advantage of the Lantern Festival in the first lunar month to force him out, strolling around the night market and relaxing.
Under the arch bridge, Jiang Zhongning and Cong Yuzhou bought a few lotus lanterns, took markers, and crookedly wrote the words "fortune is rolling" and "good luck" on the lotus lanterns.
Xie Sui sat on the ladder by the river, elbows propped on his knees, looked at the two men contemptuously, commenting—
"Vulgar."
Jiang Zhongning smiled and handed the marker to Xie Sui: "Brother Sui is good, let's write one."
Xie Sui took the pen, took the lotus lantern next to him, and wrote a word seriously: "White."
Jiang Zhongning laughed "ouch, ouch": "I follow my brother, who has nowhere to put his heart."
Xie Sui kicked him, got up straight, put the lantern carefully into the river, and watched the little lotus lantern drift away along the water.
At this time, a crisp female voice rang behind her: "Xie Sui?"
Suddenly hearing this sound, Xie Sui's heart banged violently. When he turned his head, what he saw was Fang Yuebai's bright face.
The light in Xie Sui's eyes went out again.
Fang Yuebai's voice really resembles her.
Not only the voice, but also the appearance, but the temperament between the eyebrows is completely different.
Ji Bai's eyes were much clearer and clearer than her.
Xie Sui turned his eyes back and ignored her.
Cong Yuzhou and Jiang Zhongning saw Fang Yuebai and other girls and greeted them enthusiastically, and Fang Yuebai naturally walked to Xie Sui's side.
"Huh, are you setting the river lantern?"
"Yes." Jiang Zhongning said: "I heard that I can make a wish, so I'll try it."
"You are so romantic."
"What is romance? Brother Sui is the true lover, and he also wrote the name of the sweetheart on the lantern."
Fang Yuebai was startled slightly, and looked at the expressionless young man sitting on the stairs.
Does he have a sweetheart.
The girl next to Fang Yuebai asked Jiang Zhongning gossipingly: "Whose name is written by the brother, can you reveal it."
Seeing Xie follow, Jiang Zhongning said calmly, "Who else can, isn't it..."
Before he could finish his words, Cong Yuzhou kicked him suddenly: "Brother Sui just wrote the word ‘white’ by hand, do you know who it is?"
"Who else can it be."
"Then tell me, if there is white in the name, who else is there."
Jiang Zhongning looked at Fang Yuebai in front of him, opened his mouth slightly, as if suddenly opened up, and immediately said: "There is white in the name, there are too many, I can't guess it, hahaha."
The best friend secretly pulled Fang Yuebai's sleeves and gave her a wink. Fang Yuebai looked away embarrassedly, her cheeks were filled with crimson.
Cong Yuzhou knew that Fang Yuebai had always thoughts about Xie Sui, and always had various inexplicable encounters, but he did not confess, and he did not give Xie Sui the opportunity to reject her directly.
In fact, this approach is quite clever, but it is also very annoying to always come out to brush up on the sense of existence. Cong Yuzhou simply gave her a strong medicine and made her give up.
Fang Yuebai’s best friend asked Cong Yuzhou: "How do you play tonight."
"Went around the night market, have a snack, and go back."
"I'm going back now. I thought you were going to sing and drink."
"No, school starts tomorrow, go to bed early and get up early."
The girl laughed: "Aren't you often late, afraid of starting school."
Her joking words made Xie Sui's mood suddenly irritable, as if in the eyes of these girls, they should be that kind of people, being late, smoking, fighting...
Does she think so too.
Xie Sui threw away the stone in his hand and rushed to Cong Yu Zhou and said, "Make an appointment for a boxing game at night."
"No, school starts tomorrow. Are you sure you want to punch?"
"Let you make an appointment, don't you bother to earn money if you have money?"
"Fine." Cong Yuzhou took out his cell phone, called the manager of the underground boxing room, and made an appointment.
The boys packed up and were about to leave. Fang Yuebai struggled for a long time, and then shouted after thanking him, "You...you have to be careful, don't get hurt."
The familiar soft voice rippled across his heart, and his hand couldn't help but clenched.
After Xie Sui and the boys left, Fang Yuebai saw where he was just standing, as if a white object had dropped.
She walked over, picked up the thing, and found that it was a little white dog. The little white dog stared fiercely, just like his usual temper.
Fang Yuebai vaguely remembered that there was such a little white dog on Xie Sui's keychain.
She carefully put the pendant into her bag.

In the dim locker room of the underground boxing room, a few shirtless men were chatting about meaty jokes. When Xie came in, they raised their hands to greet him.
"Xiao Sui, don't rest on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Fight like this."
Xie Sui said lightly: "The poor have no rest days."
"Drink, this is the truth."
Xie Sui took off his coat, took out the key to open his private locker, and suddenly found that the little white dog pendant on his key was missing!
The hanging ring is still there, and the chain buckle is cut off in the middle.
Xie Sui's mind seemed to be empty for a moment, he reacted for several seconds, his eyes suddenly turned red and bloodshot.
Seeing that his situation was not right, the two strong men around him asked with concern: "Xiao Sui, what's the matter with you, are you okay?"
Xie Sui didn't even have time to get his jacket, and rushed out of the boxing room.
When Xie Suizhe returned to People's Park, the night market was closed, and there was no one in the surroundings, and the cold and bright moon was in the sky, shining his lonely figure.
He took the phone, turned on the flashlight, and found it all the way along the river, but found nothing.
Xie Sui carefully searched the whole night market again, even the corners of the grass, but still no trace of the white dog pendant.
He stood under the tree, breathing heavily, and slammed his fist on the trunk, his finger bones were about to shatter with pain.
At this time, his cell phone rang, and it was Cong Yuzhou who called—
"Brother Sui, this is about to start, where are you?"
"People's Park."
"Why did you turn back again?"
"Lost something, go back and find it."
"What did you lose?" Cong Yuzhou heard Xie Sui's voice become dumb. He noticed something was wrong, and asked with concern: "Should you come back and help you find them?"
Xie Sui sat down leaning on the tree trunk, rubbing the inner corners of his eyes with rough fingers, "No need."
"Then... then let's find it first. If you can't find it, we will come over tomorrow to help you find it together."
"Ok."
Hung up the phone, Xie Sui stood up sullenly, and when he walked out of the tree-lined path, his steps were already vain.
Somewhere in the heart seemed to be empty, and the wind was leaking.
Several cleaners in orange uniforms are cleaning the night market.
"Young man, did you lose something?" The cleaner asked enthusiastically, "What did you lose."
"A dog with a key, white, have you seen it?"
The cleaner shook his head blankly, and persuaded, "Isn't it just the key chain? It's worth a lot of money. If you lose it, you will lose it. Don't look for it. Go back."
Xie Sui turned his head, facing the cool night breeze, took out the smoke and lit it, and the hand holding the smoke couldn't help shaking.

After school started, the atmosphere in the class became tense as never before.
This is the last semester before high school.
At the beginning of the new semester, there was an unreliable rumor in the grade that Xie Sui liked Fang Yuebai. When the lanterns were displayed on the Lantern Festival, she also wrote her name so much, and said that Xie Sui had all his personal stuff. For her...
Of course, Jibai also knew that these gossip makers in their grades were boring, and anything unreliable could be said as if they had seen it with their own eyes.
Although Jibai did not take these rumors to heart, it does not mean that others did not.
On Friday afternoon, Fang Yuebai came out of the independent teaching building in the third year of high school, passing by the deserted small garden, and was stopped by a few girls.
Encore is headed.
Since Ji Fei Fei was backlashed by her fans, An Kerou finally walked out of the haze that Ji Fei brought her, restored her past look, and even more arrogant and domineering than before, often confronted Ji Fei and embarrassed her.
Anyway, Ji Fei has lost her identity as an Internet celebrity. Now she is nothing. An Kerou often gnaws her teeth with hatred on the Internet with all kinds of black materials.
But this can't blame anyone, it was all made by Ji Fei.
Now, Ankerou turned to Fang Yuebai again.
Several girls rushed forward and snatched Fang Yuebai's schoolbag.
Fang Yuebai clutched the shoulder strap of his schoolbag and asked eagerly: "What are you doing!"
An Ke walked slowly in front of her and patted her face gently: "I heard that Xie Sui likes you?"
Upon hearing this, Fang Yuebai blushed: "It's none of your business."
"Your face looks a lot like that, it's annoying."
The girl beside him asked, "Which and who?"
An Kerou raised her eyebrows: "Ji Fei Fei."
Fang Yue's white lips were trembling. No one in the school knew that Ji Fei Fei was An Kerou's enemy.
At this time, a girl said: "I think she looks a bit like Jibai."
Ji Bai and Ji Fei Fei are sisters, and they have similarities. Fang Yuebai looks like Ji Fei, or Ji Fei, which is normal.
Encore was too lazy to struggle with this question, anyway, no matter who she looked like, she was a disgusting person.
She snatched Fang Yuebai's schoolbag, opened it and poured out the exercise textbook inside.
Examination papers and exercise books were scattered all over the floor, and two pieces of sanitary napkins were also poured out.
Tears were oozing from the corners of An Kerou's eyes. She wanted to rush to take back her schoolbag, but she was pulled by several girls and her hair was messed up.
An Kerou picked up the senior year sprint exercise book and looked at it, raising her tone and said, "You said you are in the third year of high school, what do you do? You can stay in school for a few days, seduce Xie Sui, can you still make a face? Up?"
Fang Yuebai stared at her stubbornly: "I didn't seduce him!"
"Come on, don't think I don't know, you rely on your best friend and Xie Sui's brother to have a good relationship, and often play with them shamelessly."
This is a fact. Fang Yuebai does often ask her girlfriends about Xie Sui's movements. Last time on the Lantern Festival, she asked in advance and deliberately "ran into it" in the past.
At this moment, the keychain fell out of the side pocket of the schoolbag, and a small white dog with snarling teeth hung on the keychain.
Ankerou picked up the keychain and looked at the little white dog.
She vaguely remembered that this little white dog was hung on Xie Sui's key.
Ankerou ripped off the little white dog, and then angrily smashed the keychain on Ankerou: "Did you steal this!"
"I didn't!" Fang Yuebai sternly defended, "I didn't steal it!"
"If you didn't steal it, how could Xie Sui's pendant be with you?"
Jibai came out of the rehearsal room with a cello on his back and walked along the garden path. When she heard these words, she paused and followed the prestige.
An Kerou clutched the little white dog pendant, and his expression was almost distorted with jealousy: "Say! How come it came!"
"It's none of your business!" Fang Yuebai gritted his teeth and stared at her: "Return it to me."
"If you don't tell the truth, I'll hand it over to the Academic Affairs Office." An Kerou sneered and said, "I heard that you are still an outstanding student representative of your grade. If the teachers know that the student representative is actually talking to Xie In love, what do you think they would think?"
Ji Bai couldn't listen anymore. She took out her phone and walked over. The camera focused on An Kerou's face and said lightly: "Playing school violence isn't it? I don't think I'm hot enough. Ji Feihi is down. Do you still think Inherit her black powder?"
Seeing that Jibai was filming her, An Kerou quickly blocked her face and screamed, "Jibai, what are you doing! Turn it off!"
Jibai stretched out his hand: "Give me something."
I don't know why, An Kerou has a fascinating fear of Ji Bai. Seeing her bottomless black eyes, she panicked inexplicably and didn't dare to provoke her.
"That's it for you!" An Kerou threw the pendant out, and the little white dog rolled a few times on the stone road and rolled to Ji Bai's feet.
Jibai picked it up, carefully wiped off the mud from the little white dog's body, lowered his eyes, and looked very gentle.
"Jibai, wait." An Kerou said viciously, and dropped Fang Yuebai's schoolbag, and left with the girls.
Fang Yuebai cried and stuffed all the books back into his schoolbag.
Jibai said, "If you want to file a complaint with the Academic Affairs Office, I can send you the video."
Fang Yuebai packed his schoolbags and sobbed and said, "No, they are rich and powerful, and the school will not do anything to them. If they file a lawsuit, they say... maybe they will shake things about me and Xie Sui. come out."
Jibai said: "You are not afraid of shadows, you and Xie Sui have no premature love, so you don't have to be afraid of these rumors."
Fang Yuebai had stopped crying, she looked at Jibai, her eyes a little complicated. Everyone is saying that she and Xie Suiyou are tricky, so loneliness can tell that they have no premature love.
"That...can you return it to me?" Fang Yuebai pointed to the little white dog in Jibai's hand: "That's mine."
Jibai clutched the pendant, and did not give it to her.
Fang Yuebai asked slightly hostilely: "Do you want to ask me, how did this come from?"
"Can you tell me?" Jibai raised his eyes and looked at her.
Fang Yuebai was a little angry, but looking at Jibai's clear eyes, she felt a little vain again for not knowing why: "I, I don't want to tell you."
"Did he give it to you?"
"Can't he give it to me?" Fang Yuebai didn't dare to answer this question head-on, so he could only ask sideways to make himself feel more at ease.
The class bell suddenly rang, interrupting the stalemate between the two.
Jibai put the little white dog into the bag and turned to leave.
Fang Yuebai quickly stopped her: "What are you doing, give me back the things!"
Jibai tilted her head and glanced at her: "This is not yours."
Even if he gives it to you, it is not yours.
...
Afterwards, the conflict between Encore and Fang Yuebai was not known by whom, and the rumors of Fang Yuebai and Xie Sui's underground relationship were further confirmed. It is said that Xie Sui's did indeed give Fang Yuebai his pendant.
That afternoon, Fang Yuebai received news from her friend Xie Sui from her best friend, saying that Xie Sui was waiting for her at the school gate. She was really excited for a long time.
After school, I packed my schoolbag and hurried out of the school gate. I saw Cong Yuzhou sitting on the side of the guardrail of the road from a distance. The young man in the middle looked straight at the mountain pass in the distance, and his dark eyes showed a touch of frivolousness.
Fang Yuebai stopped, sorted out his excitement, and made himself look reserved.
"Xie Sui, are you looking for something to do with me?" she asked blushing.
Xie Sui was too lazy to talk nonsense with her, and said: "Return the things to me."
Fang Yuebai was startled slightly: "What? I didn't take yours."
"Really." Xie Sui walked towards her and gently picked up the schoolbag behind her: "If I find out, then it's stolen."
Looking at the handsome face of the young man, Fang Yuebai's breathing almost stopped. Xie Sui, if she really thought she stole his things, she would definitely not let her go.
Cong Yuzhou also persuaded: "Student Fang, if you really find Brother Sui's little white dog, give it back to him. On the Lantern Festival night, I ran back with Brother and looked for it all night."
Hearing this, Fang Yuebai was shocked, but what was so rare about a pendant accessory could make him take it so seriously.
She remembered An Kerou saying that she looked a bit like Ji Bai, and recalled Ji Bai's gentle expression when she looked at the little white dog, and the word "white" written by Xie Sui on the lotus lantern that day.
Suddenly, she seemed to understand something, knowing that everything was her own passion.
The surrounding students were attracted by the movement here, pointing and talking in a low voice.
Fang Yuebai blushed, she stammered: "I didn't steal it. The little white dog pendant was... I picked it up. It was supposed to be returned to you... but it was taken yesterday. Up."
"Who took it?"
Fang Yue looked up blankly, looked at Xie Sui's cold face, took a deep breath, and said--
"Yes... is Jibai."