Episode 56 Left Ear (56)

  Section 56: Left Ear (56) I said, "That's great."

  He smiled, taking me with him as we walked along the wide road of their campus. The girls passing by looked at us with different eyes, which was also the main reason I didn't like coming to their school. In this small university campus, the handsome Xu Yi and Tian Zhong were exactly the same, always a focus of attention and an inexhaustible topic.

  "Just as Lin said: 'That little brat of yours has a fatal aristocratic aura about him.'"

  She always calls him a poor little thing and doesn't think much of our love.

  But that's nothing. I understand Lin. Lin's own love has made no progress, and I know she must have liked a boy very much, but the boy didn't like her. That fat boy is still persistently pursuing Lin, but Lin remains unmoved, it's really a dilemma.

  Xu Yi brought me to the largest playground in their school. There were some boys playing basketball on the field, and some girls cheering them on from the side. He pulled me all the way forward until we reached the group of shouting girls, pointed at one of them and asked me: "Was it her who hit you that day?"

  I looked at the girl, she had changed into a new set of clothes, but her appearance I will never forget.

  I shook my head and pulled Xu Yei saying: "Let's go."

  Xu Yi said calmly: "I'll ask you again, was it her who hit you?"

  I still didn't make a sound, but the girl jumped up: "It was me, it was me who hit your precious heart's treasure, so what if I did? You hit me back, come on!"

  Xu Yi slapped the girl's face with one palm. After hitting her, he still wasn't satisfied and wanted to pounce on her to hit her again.

  "No, don't hit!" I screamed, desperately grabbing onto him.

  Xu Yi's act of hitting the girl made his popularity index plummet in the school, but he didn't care. He hugged me and said: "Li Rou, for this lifetime, I won't bully you, whoever dares to bully you, I absolutely won't let them!"

  I asked him: "Why are you so good to me?"

  "It's because you're good to me," he said softly, biting the tip of my finger. "I know that you are the only girl in this world who is genuinely kind to me and doesn't ask for anything in return."

  I lifted my head to look at him, I thought he would kiss me, but he didn't. He looked at me for a long time and finally turned his head away with difficulty. I know there are some inexplicable barriers between us, but that's nothing, as long as he has patience, I have more.

  When the Spring Festival arrived, I planned to go home with Xu Yi. After thinking for a long time, I carefully chose my words and made my request without offending him, but as expected, he firmly refused me. Moreover, he hoped that I could stay in Shanghai to celebrate the New Year with him. However, this was not possible for me. My parents had already prepared to welcome me back home, and there was also You. If I didn't return home, no matter how reasonable my excuse was, I believed they would all rush to Shanghai together. I apologized to Xu Yi. He shook his head nonchalantly and said, "It's okay, you should go back, you have your family."

  "Sorry," I said, "I'll be right back."

  "It's okay," he said, "go home and have some fun."

  The day I left Shanghai was extremely cold, Xu Yi sent me to the station, he wrapped his coat around me, which is a very intimate gesture between us. That day, he saw me off all the way to the platform, I got out of his coat and jumped onto the train, turned around to look at him, suddenly I had an urge to cry. The Spring Festival was coming, a day when families reunite, but he was so lonely, so desolate. So I got off the train again with my heavy luggage.

  "What are you doing?" he asked me.

  "I don't want to go anymore," I said.

  "Stupid girl!" He pulled me into his arms, covering our heads with his coat and kissed me passionately. The train's whistle sounded, he came to himself, suddenly let go of me, then picked up my luggage and roughly pushed me onto the train.

  "Go back!" he said.

  "I won't!" I said, "I want to stay with you."

  "Go back! Go back!" He ignored my request and pushed me onto the train, then he turned around and ran away from the platform in big strides.

  The train started, and I burst into tears in front of the conductor. The conductor, who was used to seeing people say goodbye, pushed me without any sympathy and said: "Go inside quickly, don't block here!"

  It was like that, with my thoughts preoccupied with Xu Yi, I spent the most absent-minded Spring Festival of my life. Even when You asked me to go to the square to set off fireworks, I had no interest at all. It seemed as if my own happiness was a mockery of Xu Yi and a betrayal of love. You finally asked me: "What's wrong with you, Li Ruo?"

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