Kawakami Mizuki

Xia Tian once planned the future.

First take a part-time job temporarily, and draw manuscripts to earn some pocket money in your spare time.After he graduates, he will rent a small house in the local area, sign a contract to concentrate on drawing, and buy a spacious house when the draft fee is almost saved.At that time, if Yi Chuwen's family opposes them, they will have a place to stay.

Yi Chuwen...

When I think of this name, my heart feels like a sharp thorn is embedded in the flesh, and the pain can't be removed.His family doesn't want him anymore, and now Yi Chuwen doesn't want him either.

"Maybe... I should go." He murmured to himself in a low voice.

He no longer has any reason to stay here.

He grew up here and has lived in this city for 19 years. He is familiar with the way home, the long alley, the park where children are always playing, every plant and tree. very.But when he walked up to today in a daze, he suddenly turned around, and all the ties behind him had been broken.

It was his family's idea to volunteer to report economics. He actually didn't like dealing with these dry numbers at all. He liked to draw, but his family always thought it was useless.So he painted secretly, without telling his family, and he painted for six years.He actually wanted to apply to the art department, but his family members disagreed, so he finally applied to the economics major whose campus is in this city.

But now... no one is in charge of him anymore, no one here needs him anymore.

"The Art Department is in Huanggang Campus, it's far away from here, have you figured it out?" The assistant class frowned, trying to persuade the child again.

Xia Tian stared blankly at the completed application for changing majors, and after a long time, submitted it.

At the Yi family's dinner party that day, he always felt ridiculous when he heard a middle-aged man announce the marriage contract between Yi Chuwen and Lin Chuyi.Yi Chuwen will definitely confuse him.

And Yi Chuwen was just silent.

It turned out that he was the only one who was ridiculous.

He suddenly felt wronged, but every time he felt wronged and sad when he was a child, the person who went to seek comfort was also on the high platform, beside Yi Chuwen.

His sister Lin was dressed in an exquisite evening dress, which made her look absolutely perfect.She was born to be good-looking, but usually she always looked lazy, with long hair covering her shoulders covering most of her face.But at this moment, her long jet black hair was tied behind her head, revealing a gorgeous face.Sister Chuyi was even more beautiful than he had imagined.

It's really a man and a woman, and they are a good match.

The banquet had just begun, and he left in a daze.The cold night wind blew past him, bringing a chill.He subconsciously thought of the warm word home, but immediately remembered that he had been kicked out of the house.

In the end, he went back to the school dormitory, and his roommates had arrangements for the night, so he was alone in the dormitory, hiding in the darkness.Instead of turning on the light, he climbed onto his bed and rolled himself into a ball with the quilt.The tears that had been held back for a long time suddenly fell, and he wiped them viciously, but the more tears he wiped away.In the end, he directly buried his whole face in the soft quilt, crying silently.

Xia Tian was weak and sick when he was young, and his parents sought medical treatment for many years without success. When he was five years old, a monk who claimed to be a wandering monk came to his family and said that if he wanted to grow up safely and healthy, he had to be fostered by his parents until he was 16 years old.

Although Xia's father didn't believe in these gossips, he couldn't stand up to his beloved wife's pleas many times. It happened that Lin Xia and Xia's family had a close personal relationship, so he sent Xia Tian to the Lin family for foster care.It is also miraculous to say that since then, Xia Tian has become healthy day by day, and it is not easy to get sick anymore.

But Xia Tian is not very happy.

The Xia family is prosperous, and there are children chattering and laughing everywhere, but the Lin family is different. The huge Lin family only has a seven-year-old girl and a half-year-old baby. The summer that came to the Lin family alone disappeared suddenly. Playmate, I feel so boring.

He sometimes hides in the rockery in the back garden, watching the servants come and go but no one notices him, so he feels complacent.When a few gossiping people passed by, he also listened to a sentence or two in a daze, and learned something about the situation of the Lin family.

Uncle Lin has a six-year-old daughter who has been fostered by the Qi family.I heard from those people that Mrs. Qi despised the Lin family as inferior to the Qi family and insisted on letting her precious daughter be raised by her natal family.Lin Erbo's original partner gave birth to a girl named Lin Chuyi, who was seven years old.Follow-up strings, but nothing came out, and a baby boy was not born until not long ago.

Everyone in the Lin family thought that he was young and didn't understand anything. In fact, he knew that the center of gravity of the entire Lin family was the newborn baby, and everyone wanted to revolve around that child.Although everyone in the Lin family treated him very well, he understood that they treated him as a guest and treated him politely, but no one would get close to him.

Xia Tian, ​​who was so bored and flustered, couldn't help but be curious about the little sister who was two years older than him.He only saw her twice at the important family banquets of the Lin family, and he didn't even see her at the daily dinner table, and the others didn't seem to notice.

Xia Tian tried to find Lin Chuyi in the past, but couldn't find it.Just when he had given up, he stumbled into a small deserted garden by mistake. A girl was sitting on a stone bench without saying a word, staring blankly at the air in front of her in a daze.

The girl had a delicate face, but her eyes were dull, and she sat in a daze, lifeless, and she didn't know what she was thinking, or she didn't think about anything.

"Hey, what are you doing here alone?" Xia Tian walked to her side, shaking his hands in front of her eyes.

The girl glanced at him indifferently and said nothing.

"I saw you, we sat at the same table for dinner on New Year's Day, do you remember?"

"..."

"Why don't you answer?"

"..."

"Can't you talk?"

"..."

No wonder everyone in the Lin family regarded this man as air.Xia Tian was a little discouraged, finally found such a playmate, but he was dumb.But seeing her numb and sluggish appearance, she felt a little pitiful: "Hey, this is for you." Xia Tian took out a piece of toffee from his pocket and stuffed it into Lin Chuyi's hand, "Don't be sad, even if you can't speak, it's okay." It’s okay, just tell me in writing, and I’ll help you!”

He patted his chest passionately, but he withered within a quarter of an hour: "But I can't read yet."

He looked at Lin Chuyi helplessly, as if he wanted to get comfort from her, and then saw Lin Chuyi quickly peel off the candy wrapper, and stuffed the candy into his mouth, "Shut up."

"Oh..." Xia Tian sucked in the sugar in a daze, the sweet and greasy taste of milk spread throughout his mouth, before he belatedly asked in surprise: "You can talk?"

...feel like I've done something incredible.Lin Chuyi looked at the chattering children with a blank face, and had such a premonition.

Facts proved that Lin Chuyi's intuition was very accurate, and Xia Tian pestered her even harder in the next few days, insisting on her talking.Lin Chuyi was disturbed, but whenever she wanted to chase someone away, Xia Tian would look up at her innocent and lovely face and look at her expectantly, really...really... want to pinch her?

Lin Chuyi supported his forehead, and got rid of these messy thoughts from his mind.

After Xia Tian got to know Lin Chuyi well, I realized that this cold sister was actually very soft-hearted.As long as he begged a few words in a low voice and then lowered his head, Lin Chuyi would rub his head and agree to his request.This trick can be said to be unfavorable, even if Lin Chuyi knew that he was pretending to be pitiful, he would still agree in the end.

During the summer vacation when he was ten years old, because his mother came to Yi's house to pick him up for a trip, he played like crazy for the whole vacation, and he didn't find out the root of his homework until the night before school!Book!without!move!Pass!

Thinking of the vicious look in the head teacher's eyes, Xia Tian immediately decided to make up his homework all night, and asked Lin Chuyi to come over and help.Lin Chuyi sighed and agreed, but declared that she would only help with the copying part of the homework.

Everything was silent, only Xia Tian's room was still miserably lit. With a bitter face, he shook his numb hands while staring at the question and quickly calculating the answer.Lin Chuyi on the side pulled her hair behind her ears, copying English words line by line, imitating Xia Tian's handwriting.

sleepy……

Pinched his thigh, let himself be sober, Xia Tian turned over a page, and weighed the rest of the math exercise book again.

"There are still eighty pages... Why is the teacher so cruel in assigning homework..." Xia Tian wailed, almost crying without tears.

Lin Chuyi ignored him at all and continued to copy without stopping.

Xia Tian is getting more and more sleepy, his consciousness is sometimes clear and sometimes confused, his head is bit by bit, and almost hit the table several times.In order to avoid being a fool, Xia Tian simply lay down on the table, drooping his eyelids and looking at those messed up questions...

When I woke up the next day, I found that I had actually slept through last night, and overslept!In a panic, I only had time to grab my schoolbag and go to school.

"Xiamen! Why didn't you do your homework!" The teacher glared at him fiercely, as if he had committed some sinful crime.

"Teacher, I..."

"I don't want to listen to your explanation! Copy all the unfinished questions twice, and you are limited to finish copying within a week!"

Xia Tian frustratingly opened his homework, only to find that his homework was rooted!Book!without!move!Pass!

Suddenly woke up from the dream.

Xia Tian wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, and found that the sky was slightly brighter, and he actually fell asleep like this last night.

"Homework! Miserable! I haven't finished my homework!" The most painful thing in the world is to have a nightmare and wake up to find that I am still in the nightmare.

In a panic, Xia Tian suddenly found that Lin Chuyi, who was sitting at the side helping him with his homework, had disappeared, replaced by a neat stack of homework on the desktop.

Xia Tian opened the notebook in surprise, only to find that all the homework had been written.The handwriting imitated Xia Tian's innocence, but left Lin Chuyi's neatness.Immediately a burst of ecstasy welled up in my heart, almost happier than winning a prize.

Lin Chuyi and Xia Tian went to the same elementary school, because the school was far away, so the Lin family sent a driver to pick them up.The two sat in the back seat, Xia Tian looked at the bruises under Lin Chuyi's eyes, and was so grateful to Lin Chuyi that he almost burst into tears.Lin Chuyi rubbed the top of his hair amusedly, and said, "There will be no next time."

"Yeah!" Xia Tian nodded frantically at the side.Even though he said so, Lin Chuyi helped him several times later, until Xia Tian returned to his family at the age of 16, and there really was no next time.

After entering the class, Xia Tian handed in the homework confidently, and got the teacher's nod of approval.Those students who did not finish their homework were not so lucky, and were punished by the teacher to copy all the unfinished homework twice.

Xia Tian sympathetically looked at those students who copied their homework with a bitter face, and looked through the homework handed out after the teacher's review in a good mood.In fact, he was still a little nervous: What if... what if the teacher finds out that he didn't write it?

however……

The deskmate who also finished his homework, flipped through the homework book like him, and lamented: "The homework for the holiday is that the students write for one month, and the teacher writes one reading."

Xia Tian pretended to empathize and nodded.