Kawakami Mizuki

The only girls' high school in the provincial capital is located in the most affluent neighborhood. The architectural style imitating European churches is full of grace and luxury. The exquisitely carved marble fountain in front of the school gate alone is enough to make people marvel.Not to mention the favorable conditions for teachers, the relaxed and open management style, and the relatively free single dormitory.But the threshold for such a school is naturally extremely high, and the tuition fee alone is enough to discourage many people.

Most of the students who study in this school come from the upper class.They are dressed in trendy and western styles, wearing bright and colorful cheongsams, coupled with the most popular half-length curly hair nowadays, they appear both intellectual and sensual.

But Lin Chuyi, who is also studying in this school, is a different kind. The gray and dirty blue long-sleeved bust and ankle-length black skirt are the most ordinary and rustic school clothes, which are not recognizable at all. She is the daughter of a wealthy family.That hairstyle is even more outdated, with black hair hanging straight down, almost parted in the middle, with bangs wrapping around the shoulders and blending into the hair behind him.

It's almost shabby.

Naturally, such an unruly behavior would not fit into the group, so she simply didn't care.

When everyone sat in the classroom peacefully and listened to the teacher, she seemed no different from others.But when the get out of class is over, this kind of incompatibility is suddenly reflected.

The next class is music class, and they have to go to a special music room, so students will go to the music room in advance during the break.The girls all went in twos and threes, leaving her alone.

Anyway, no one would notice the sudden absence of such a person, and the music class representative, who would never be able to count the number of people in a daze, would just pretend to be serious, and then report full attendance to the teacher.So when others are practicing pronunciation "duo Rui Mi trembling", she has already found a remote and uninhabited place.

Lin Chuyi walked to the mountain behind the school, under the flourishing camphor tree, she didn't think it was dirty, so she just lay down.

Because she had never been discovered before, Lin Chuyi was still in a daze until she was pushed awake.

"Class? Name?" It was a very deserted voice.

Lin Chuyi glanced at the words "Committee for Discipline" on the red armband on the man's right arm, and asked in surprise, "Why didn't I know when the student union became so lenient?" She had never heard of it. The discipline committee members can still catch absenteeism without going to class.

"The lunch break inspection has always been under the control of the Disciplinary Inspection Department."

The school stipulates that lunch break is from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-], and students must stay in the dormitory to rest, but there are always some students who like to stay in the teaching area, so the Disciplinary Inspection Department sent people to inspect the classroom in turn, and it happened to be Ye Ling's turn today .When she inspected the fifth floor, she inadvertently glanced in the direction of the grove, only to find a person lying vaguely under the tree.

lunch break?Lin Chuyi was taken aback for a moment, then looked at the shadow of the tree on the ground, and found that the shadow was much shorter. Only then did she realize that she had slept until noon.Lin Chuyi raised her head and looked at the person standing in front of her, looking at her indifferently. She was dressed in a neat and tidy uniform, which even made her feel a little cold and unforgiving.One can tell at a glance that those sneaky tricks will never work in front of this Discipline Inspection Commissioner.

"Grade tenth class, Lin Chuyi." Lin Chuyi reported the name of the class depressedly, and the thought of being criticized and educated by the head teacher and monk like chanting scriptures made her feel cold in an instant.

Ye Ling was about to fill in the duty form on the light blue discipline board when he picked up the pen, but he stopped suddenly when he wrote the pen, looked up at Lin Chuyi, and said lightly: "Let's not be an example."

"Huh?" Lin Chuyi was taken aback for a moment, not understanding why she suddenly changed her mind.

But Ye Ling obviously had no intention of explaining, so he turned around and left.

Tuliu Lin Chuyi stood there alone in a daze.

However, Lin Chuyi, who was easily let go, didn't learn her lesson at all. After violating the school discipline again and again, she heard that she was not an example over and over again, so she was sure that Ye Ling would not really register her name.In this way, Lin Chuyi was not only not afraid of Ye Ling, but also had to make every effort to encourage Ye Ling to skip class together, although he never succeeded.

Ye Ling frowned and looked at Lin Chuyi who was lying under the tree. His back was covered with black stains and fallen leaves, and even a few weeds hung from his hair.

"Dirty." There was obvious displeasure on Ye Ling's face.

It wasn't once or twice that she was suspected of being dirty, and Lin Chuyi was not annoyed. Instead, she smiled when she saw the clean and tidy Ye Ling, and got into Ye Ling's arms sideways, and just rubbed the stain on Ye Ling's arm against the back of the tree root.

Ye Ling: ...

After getting along with each other in the past few days, Lin Chuyi also found out some of Ye Ling's temper.Although he always has a cold expression on weekdays, and his meticulous and strict style makes people daunting, he is actually a very soft-hearted person. He likes to read picture books and has a little cleanliness.

But such a person who is not selfish and has a little bit of a cleanliness has repeatedly made concessions for her.

Watching Ye Ling turn around with a dark face, she went back to the dormitory to change clothes.Lin Chuyi lay back again, the corners of her lips curved into a beautiful arc, but there was no smile in her eyes.She never believed that anyone could be nice to another person for no reason.She was playing around, seemingly inadvertently testing Ye Ling's bottom line again and again.

"So...how far will you go?"

In the eyes of ordinary people, the Lin family is already well-known enough, and the upper-level members of the Lin family are quite contented, currying favor with big families, oppressing some small businesses, indulging in the status quo, and thinking they are settled.But they don't know that the strengths of the various families in this firm are intertwined. Above the Ji family is the Lin family, and above the Lin family are the Yi family, Qi family, and Ye family.Although the Lin family also wanted to curry favor with the Ye family, they couldn't even touch their threshold.

The Ye family had been in contact with overseas a long time ago. From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the present, all antique private salt firearms have tasted the sweetness first, and then resolutely transformed after following the trend, avoiding the government's seal. It is the first pot of gold after the times have changed.Therefore, the feudal remnants of the Ye family are not as stubborn as other families, and more importantly, the change in their thinking: the position of the person in power should be occupied by the capable, and women are no exception, but they need to put in more effort.

Ye Ling is the capable one.

For this person who is likely to become the next person in power of the Ye family, Lin Chuyi has no interest in provoking, let alone thinks that there is something about him that can be admired by others.It's just that the soldiers came to cover up the water and the earth, since Ye Ling treated her well, she dared to accept it calmly.

"What's wrong with your hand?" Ye Ling's words interrupted her thoughts, and when she came back to her senses, she saw that Ye Ling had already held the back of her hand, carefully examining the long and narrow scar on her palm.

Lin Chuyi glanced at it indifferently, the blood had already congealed, the wound was not very deep but very long, cut off all three main lines of the palm, and responded casually: "I accidentally fell."

Ye Ling obviously didn't believe it: "How could you get such a wound?"

"When I was leaving the dormitory, I didn't see a puddle of water on the ground, so I stepped on it. When I fell, I grabbed the locker next to me. I didn't expect the corner of the locker to be very sharp. That's it."

Ye Ling's frown deepened, "I have medicine in my dormitory, come with me."

"Don't bother with this little injury." Lin Chu pulled back his hand indifferently, and said lazily.

Ye Ling didn't say much, picked up the small blue board and was about to write on it: "Grade [-] Class Lin Chuyi, right?"

"...I suddenly feel that I really need medicine. It would be great if you have it in your dormitory." Lin Chuyi immediately grabbed Ye Ling's right sleeve with sincerity.

Regarding Lin Chuyi's slick attitude, Ye Ling felt both funny and annoyed, but she still maintained her usual indifference on the face: "A painter, why doesn't he have any sense of caring for his own hands?"

"Huh?" Lin Chuyi still had a smile on his face, and asked pretending to be narcissistic: "It turns out that my paintings are already so famous, and even you know about them. Come on, let me sign them for you." A name." She never told Ye Ling that she could draw, let alone participated in any drawing competitions, not many people in the class knew that she could draw, let alone someone she knew not long ago.

Ye Ling said angrily: "Yes, you are very famous, so famous that you can find your masterpiece casually."

"Wow, I'm really good." Lin Chuyi pretended to be narcissistic, but his eyes kept falling on Ye Ling's side face, trying to find out something from it.

Ye Ling ignored her and just greeted the auntie who was on duty. The auntie glanced at Ye Ling's armband and badge, nodded and let them in.Ye Ling walked to the door of the dormitory, opened the door and signaled Lin Chuyi to go in first.

The windows are bright and clean, the floor tiles are spotless, and the simple and elegant style is exactly the same as its owner's crisp personality.

Ye Ling told Lin Chuyi to walk on the bed, pulled out the medicine box, pulled a chair over and sat down beside her, then took her hand, carefully picked up the cotton soaked in physiological saline with tweezers, and gently applied it to the wound. Wipe, after the wound is cleaned, spray the wound evenly with iodophor spray, and finally pull out the bandage for dressing.

Lin Chuyi gasped with a "hiss", and Ye Ling looked at Lin Chuyi speechlessly: "I've already wrapped it up, how long do you have to hiss?" Lin Chuyi replied with a playful smile: "Since there are audiences You have to do your best.”

Ye Ling couldn't complain about her, and just asked her if she wanted to take a nap since she returned to the dormitory.Lin Chuyi shook her head and refused, as if she suddenly remembered the topic just now, so she asked her with a smile: "You haven't said where you saw my painting?"

In fact, Ye Ling is not ignorant of Lin Chuyi's loneliness.As the next appointed person in power of the Ye family, how could she fail to understand Lin Chuyi's temptations from time to time.It's just that she didn't use any explanation to dispel Lin Chuyi's confusion.

Because she didn't know how to explain it.She knew Lin Chuyi only because of a small accidental incident, and most people would probably forget about it soon, and it didn't seem worth her making concessions over and over again.

But perhaps now is the best time to explain.

Every time there is a major exam, the school will arrange the seats in a random order for the whole grade, and the same is true for the midterm exam that has just passed.Other people's exam information was pasted on the desktop as usual, but Ye Ling glanced at it casually and quickly forgot it.After the last exam, when Ye Ling tidied up the table, he realized that there were some things in the drawer that did not belong to him.

There are a lot of test questions in high school, and the questions are lengthy. Some subjects have several test papers, so some candidates will put the test papers that are not used temporarily and the test papers that have been answered in the drawer, and wait until after the test. take away.And the candidate sitting in Ye Ling's seat obviously forgot to take it carelessly.

This candidate was still very leisurely during the exam. He left a lot of scribbles in the blank space of the test paper, and the drawings were very good.Ye Ling always liked to read picture books, so now he just flipped through the pages.

Ye Ling's eyes suddenly fell on one of the paintings.This drawing occupies a full page, and the outlines of the black water-based pen are random and crazy.The vast ocean melted into the deep and distant sky, and a lone boat was swaying in the violent wind and rain. It was already on its side, as if it would capsize in the monstrous waves in the next second.In the lower right corner, however, there is an inconspicuous black patch with a strange shape, as if it was accidentally drawn wrongly.

That's the coast.

She had no basis for it, but at that moment the thought was so clear, so certain.

Obviously the lonely boat was about to tip over, but the direction of the waves kept pushing the boat towards the coast.

She leaned over to look at the corner of the table, and the candidate information pasted on it was Lin Chuyi, Class [-], Senior High.

After reading the graffiti, Ye Ling flipped through the multiple-choice questions and fill-in-the-blank questions on the test paper, and found that this person was good at mathematics, and even answered the last question of the fill-in-the-blank question that she hadn't written.But the English is very wrong, the cloze fill-in-the-blank [-] small questions can be all wrong, and the reading comprehension perfectly avoids the correct answer.

Ye Ling thought, maybe she could keep these test papers and return them to her when the classmate came to look for them, but the classmate never came.

"Just because of this?" After listening, Lin Chuyi looked at Ye Ling speechlessly.I don't know if I should feel ridiculous for my paranoia.

Not all... more of being attracted to this person after seeing her.Ye Ling was thinking silently in her heart, but she didn't say it out, she just asked, "Is that piece of black the coast?"

"Ah..." Lin Chuyi showed a sloppy smile, "It's been too long, I don't remember."

When Ye Ling went to find Lin Chuyi after school, her face was still indifferent, but if Lin Chuyi saw her, she would immediately know that she was in a good mood.

Mother Ye had added a little sister to Ye Ling before, the child was a small ball, and when she looked at people ignorantly with a pair of round eyes on her soft face, she almost made people cute.Today, the child finally learned to call her sister. Her voice is soft and her pronunciation is not accurate, but it makes people happy when she hears it.

When Ye Ling went, she could see Lin Chuyi lying on the table in the empty classroom through the glass window in the corridor, with her head tilted and buried in her arms, showing half of her peaceful sleeping face.The dirty blackboard was covered with dense English sentence patterns, and a thick layer of chalk dust fell on the blackboard frame.

Ye Ling stepped lightly and walked to Lin Chuyi's side.There was a very faint chalk mark on the top of the sleeping man's hair, and half of the chalk stub was left in the corner of the table.On the upper left corner of the English test paper pressed by the arm, a horrible score was revealed.

"Chuyi?" Ye Ling gently pushed Lin Chuyi's shoulder and called in a low voice.She really didn't want to wake up Lin Chuyi who was sleeping soundly, but it was getting late now.

I thought it would be difficult to wake up a sleeping person, but unexpectedly, with a slight push from Ye Ling, Lin Chuyi woke up.There was still sleepiness in the confused eyes, and there was a big red mark on the forehead sleeping on the arm. Lin Chuyi saw Ye Ling and smiled subconsciously, with a soft nasal voice: "You are here."

Ye Ling felt that at this moment Lin Chuyi was like her little soft sister, looking at her with dependent and warm eyes, couldn't help pinching her on the face, the feeling was as good as her little ghost .

Lin Chuyi, who was half asleep and half awake, was pinched in a daze, and then fully woke up, and patted Ye Ling's hand angrily, "What are you doing?"

Ye Ling took out a photo from his pocket and showed it to Lin Chuyi, pointed at the baby and said, "Look, this is my sister, do you think you two look alike?"

Lin Chuyi glanced at Ye Ling with some disgust, and then followed Ye Ling's fingers to land on a child.In the photo, the child is sitting on Ye Ling's lap, and Ye Ling is holding the child and sitting on the chair, with a well-behaved little boy standing beside him.In fact, from Lin Chuyi's point of view, almost all babies looked the same, small and round, so she didn't pay much attention to that child, but instead focused on the little boy standing by.

The soft hair hangs down obediently, and the bangs are neatly divided on both sides, showing a delicate appearance.Wearing a clean shirt, he stood upright like a little adult with a shy smile on his face.

"Is this your brother?"

"Well, his name is Ye Ming."

Ye Ling was completely obsessed with her younger sister's soft and cute appearance, trying to draw Lin Chuyi's attention back to the child, "My little devil is so small," she gestured, "I even breastfed her, she Now she can be called sister, cute and smart. We are still thinking about whether to give her a baby name."

Lin Chuyi was finally aroused a little interest: "Oh? Then what's your baby name."

"I don't have a baby name, what about you?"

"Me..." Lin Chuyi's eyes dimmed slightly, but Ye Ling was so engrossed in her sister's cuteness in the photo that she didn't notice it. "I used to be called An An by my family."

"It sounds soft. It would be nice if we could meet each other when we were young." Ye Ling recalled Lin Chuyi's appearance when she was a child. At that time, she should be as innocent and cute as her little ghost. She felt a little regretful for a while, and then asked: " Do you have any pictures of your childhood?"

"...No." Lin Chuyi turned her head and looked behind Ye Ling. The afterglow of the setting sun fell on the railing and slanted into the classroom door. The warm yellow tone immediately softened people's hearts.

"It's getting late, we should go."

The author has something to say: the original intention was probably Ji Xue's call to Lin Li