"Eat slowly, don't choke, no one will compete with you..."
"I'm going to eat it~~ If you let me eat it, I will eat you to pieces~~~~"
In a Japanese restaurant near the university town, He Tianran comforted Jiang Xixi, who had turned her grief and anger into appetite. The little girl opened her arms and held a piece of salmon sushi in one hand and a tuna hand roll in the other. During this period, he took the time to order a bowl of Hokkaido hairy crab chawanmushi. .
Not only did she keep talking, but her big eyes also shed a few tears from time to time. She said, "It's delicious, it's delicious." Then she couldn't help but sob a few times in her nose, and her shoulders and back couldn't help shaking. After a few seconds, I don’t know if she wants to eat more or cry more...
Seeing this scene, He Tianran was really dumbfounded.
He found that Jiang Xixi was really interesting. Whether it was Wen Liang or Cao Aiqing, if one of them encountered such a thing, it would be considered a good thing to turn around and leave. Even if they spit on him, it would be considered lucky, and this little girl She can still sit at the same table and have dinner with me. I don’t know whether to say that she is open-minded or that she is cute and cute and has no brains...
Jiang Xixi buried her head, her small Yin Tao mouth couldn't stop chewing, and seemed to send all the food on the table into her stomach. Occasionally, she would raise her head while eating and crying, and then secretly glance at He Tianran. reaction, and then quickly dropped, focusing on food...
The man took a few tissues from the side, handed them over, and comforted softly:
"Wipe your tears first, Xixi. If you eat like this, you won't be able to eat happily, and you won't be able to cry happily either."
The little girl raised her little face, her eyes were full of tears, and there were oil stains around her little mouth. She wanted to take it, but she was holding something in both hands, so she "screamed" and burped again, with a look of grievance on her face. Looking at He Tianran...
"..."
"o(╥﹏╥)o"
He Tianran raised his head, took a deep breath, and resisted the urge to laugh. After a few seconds, he reached out his hand and personally wiped the tears from Jiang Xixi's eyes.
"...Oh~ you still have a mouth."
"Well……"
So, He Tianran folded the tissue again and wiped Jiang Xixi's mouth.
"Xixi, do you think your brother He is a scumbag?"
"Calculate!"
Jiang Xixi nodded vigorously without thinking.
"Then it's not worth your tears for a scumbag, you know that."
He Tianran comforted him along with his words.
"Ugh~ But when I think about you being a scumbag and not even trying to scumbag me, I feel even more sad..."
Jiang Xixi's tears fell again.
"Okay, stop crying, stop it. Look, everyone around us is looking at us. Anyway, the scumbag is not ashamed. The one who is crying is the one who is embarrassed."
He Tianran looked around and comforted in disguise.
After saying these words, Jiang Xixi bit her lip, held her breath, and stopped her tears. Her eyes were fixed on the bad guy opposite, her nose was still sniffling, and her chest was swollen because she wanted to stop crying. Constantly rising and falling.
After he calmed down, He Tianran picked up a piece of sushi from the table and put it into his mouth. He smiled and said:
"You said you, you knew I was a scumbag and you still wanted to come to dinner with me. I thought you would get angry and leave. Why did you stay?"
Jiang Xixi shook her head stubbornly:
"The dregs belong to the dregs, and the food must be eaten, and this is different..."
"Why is it different?"
"It's just different!" After the little girl finished speaking, she said weakly: "I have always known that you like Sister Cao, but you have never confessed your love. It has been three years and there has been no progress at all. I thought you didn't like her that much. ...And in the past three years, we have had so much fun together. You have never kept any distance from me, which makes me feel that I still have a chance... But I didn't expect that you would become a scumbag in the end! "
He Tianran was confused when he heard this: "So he's not a scumbag in the end, what's the difference?"
Jiang Xixi was silent for a while, then fiercely stuffed the food into her mouth, as if what she was chewing was the meat of the man in front of her.
"Because in most royal anime, the protagonist learns to be grateful and becomes stronger!"
"……Clam?"
He Tianran was dumbfounded. Jiang Xixi looked at him with red eyes, feeling very unfaithful, and repeated it very seriously:
"Because of gratitude! Brother He, although you are a scumbag, you have helped me take photos, cut videos, and taken me to comic exhibitions in the past three years, allowing so many people to know me, so that I can still be a freshman. A person who relies on his own hobbies to support himself cannot do this by myself... So, I can't leave you and walk away, even if you... wuwu~~don't love me~~wow Woohoo~~"
At the end, Jiang Xixi couldn't help crying again...
This time, He Tianran didn't comfort her anymore. He just watched the little girl cry wantonly.
The girl's words touched him deeply, and the inexplicable feeling reflected on his face made him smile sincerely.
Why did I like the second dimension before?
What did those games, animations, and movies bring to me?
This is probably not only a way for the formerly autistic and loveless He Tianran to escape from reality, but also the obscene content of Tie Tie, Se Se, and Long Aotian that makes him addicted to it.
During this most sensitive period of his youth, he saw more of a way to understand the world and himself, such as growth in adversity, the brilliance brought by courage, the bonds generated by friendship and the pursuit of love. yearning for...
In reality, parents who have their own way of doing things, a cold campus, and a cruel society have never blocked the magnificent fantasies in his mind.
He will try to learn the principles that his elders and teachers have never taught him. When he reflects on his own behavior, although he will be ridiculed by the people around him and belittled and bruised in his heart, he still There was no self-doubt.
Young people like these works and believe in the ideas and truths expressed in these works.
Because he was in it and saw the light.
The meaning expressed by Jiang Xixi at this moment was so consistent with He Tianran's style of life that he couldn't help but regard Jiang Xixi as the cheerful version of himself during that sensitive period...
Of course, this special emotion did not last long——
"Hello, the total consumption for the two of you this time is 1570."
"..."
"..."
Well, before leaving, a cold bill brought He Tianran back to reality instantly. Jiang Xixi was secretly speechless and stopped crying. She turned her head to the wall and pretended to look at the scenery...
After settling the bill and going out, the moon was rising in the east.
He Tianran sent Jiang Xixi back to the School of Foreign Languages. The girl had regained her composure, but was silent all the way. When the two of them reached a campus path, she finally asked:
"Brother He, if Sister Cao rejects you, what will you do?"
"If you don't do much, just keep chasing. Can't you miss me a little? For example, I will definitely be able to catch up or something."
He Tianran was joking.
"Then are we still friends?"
"Of course...but, it's better to keep your distance. It's best not to contact her if it's nothing."
He Tianran replied coldly. He didn't want to mislead Jiang Xixi anymore and make her think that she still had a chance, because men knew that some people would not give up until they hit the wall.
Jiang Xixi asked nervously: "Then if you don't catch Sister Cao, will you consider me?"
He Tianran paused, patted Jiang Xixi's shoulders with both hands, shook his head and said in a joking tone:
"Xixi, lick the dog, lick the dog, until there is nothing left! Wake up!"
Jiang Xixi asked innocently: "Brother He, how do you know you can lick Sister Cao?"
"..."
"..."
After a moment of subtle silence, the little girl said confusedly:
"Brother He, is there something wrong with me? Do you think I'm not pretty? I'm not tall and have a bad personality?"
He Tianran quickly shook his head and said sincerely in a tone that was too sure:
"No! Xixi, please don't think so. Don't deny yourself. You are very good, very gentle, very beautiful, and very worthy! It's my problem that I don't like you. Don't ask me why you are so Okay, but I just don’t like your words. There’s no reason, I just don’t like it. It’s natural and destined. If you ask me a hundred times, I will say that you are very good. This is the truth. Likewise, if you ask me a hundred times, Sometimes, I will say I don’t like it, and this is also the truth, do you understand, silly girl?”
After a moment, Jiang Xixi broke free from He Tianran's hands in silence and said politely:
"Brother He, I can go back to bed along this road. You can send me here..."
Seeing that there was nothing unusual on her face, the man nodded, "Well, you go, I'll go back too."
"Then next time we..."
"talk later."
"Um……"
He Tianran turned around and walked out for a while without looking back, as if sending the girl back to bed was just a courtesy errand, until——
"Brother He!"
Behind him, the little girl's voice sounded again.
He Tianran thought for a while and continued moving forward without stopping until he heard Jiang Xixi's words——
"Brother He, although Xixi failed this time, I will definitely become stronger next time!!"
The girl's slightly childish voice resounded throughout the world. The shame of these words was so shameful and so shocking that it made people's skin crawl. But it was this familiar second-level speech that reached He Tianran. When hearing this, the corners of the man's mouth kept rising...
He finally turned around and looked around. Jiang Xixi was still standing there. Seeing He Tianran's eyes, the girl raised both hands at the same time, clenched her palms tightly into fists, and shouted angrily again:
"Xi Xi will definitely become stronger next time!"
"Pfft~ Hahahahahahaha."
He Tianran finally couldn't help it and laughed loudly.
"Definitely! It will definitely become stronger!"
Jiang Xixi bared her teeth and claws on the spot, repeating her declaration of becoming stronger loudly.
He Tianran straightened up and ignored the strange looks that some bystanders were looking at them. The man responded loudly in the middle-class way that both of them liked:
"I believe in you, I wait for you, we all need to become stronger together, okay?!"
"good!"
Jiang Xixi blushed. She watched He Tianran turn around and leave again. The man was gradually moving away from her. Suddenly, he raised his right hand high, still holding the yellow duck in his hand. He waved his hand and the doll started to swing.
For a moment, He Tianran seemed to have returned to the period when he was in the second grade of middle school. In a deep voice, He arrogantly said a famous line from "The Prince of Tennis":
"まだまだだね! (You're still far away!)"
"Pfft~"
This plastic Japanese accent made Jiang Xixi laugh instantly.
It seems that compared to the second grader, Brother He is better. I just... shouldn't be as embarrassed as he is now!
Thinking of this, Jiang Xixi turned around, put her hands behind her back, and jumped away towards the way back.
Will they be better versions of themselves next time they meet?
Yes, it will.
Jiang Xixi was so sure in her heart.
…
…
It's nine o'clock in the evening.
This is the busiest time in the university town. Groups of fun-seeking students come from the end of their respective schools. The quiet lights illuminate the proud expressions on their faces. In the open shops, The lights illuminated the streets brightly, and crowds of people dressed in brightly colored costumes walked back and forth on the roads like neon lights...
Originally, this is how this street should be.
However, there was only one person who felt special among this crowd.
It's not that others see him as special, but that he sees others as special...
There should be some music playing from the shops on the street, and there should be inevitable noise from the passing crowds.
But he couldn't hear any of this.
In his eyes, this street has completely lost its original color.
It's eerily quiet here...
He Tianran unknowingly returned to this commercial street not far from the Film Academy...
He just stood in the middle of the road, turning into a black and white crowd, like a ghost. They turned a blind eye to him and subconsciously walked around.
At this moment, the doll in the man's hand became the only color he could see.
He Tianran should be returning to Hong Kong City University now, but when his brain sent the thought of "go back" to his body just now, he still subconsciously came here...
From where he is standing now, walk another three hundred meters and walk out of the pedestrian street, which is the film academy.
And if you turn left at the next intersection, you will find the community where he and Wen Liang have lived for almost two years.
This used to be his and Wenliang’s favorite place to hang out. There are three movie theaters, seven board game halls, and fifty-two restaurants of various sizes on this street. As for the shops, I haven’t had time to count them yet, because Wenliang is not She likes shopping here very much, and she prefers to go to Universe Street.
He Tianran suddenly didn't want to remember so much, but when he stood here, those memories seemed to be out of control, making him recall all kinds of past events...
The man's breathing became rapid, his heart beat faster, and sweat broke out on his forehead. He still couldn't accept being completely in this dead black and white world...
Turning around, He Tianran fled from here as fast as he could. He secretly swore that next time, he would never go the wrong way again...
His heart, perhaps, is really not strong enough.
(End of chapter)
