School life unfolds slowly in the stumbles, a drop of water melts into the sea, and soon it is completely assimilated, but if a drop of red ink is dropped into the water, then it will be very conspicuous.

Gu Qiao didn't do anything wrong, but being out of place was a sin in itself in the small society of school.

It was also here that Gu Qiao tasted his first frustration after coming to Hujiang City.

When she was in Baiquangou, she was the best student in the class, but when she came here, for the first time in her life, Gu Qiao realized what it meant to be a bad student.

Weekly, monthly, and sectional exams.

After a series of exams, looking at the paper in front of him with a lower score than the other, Gu Qiao couldn't wait to bury his head in the hole in the table.

She knew in her heart that there was always something to do, that she needed to change, that she needed to improve, and that she desperately wanted to be part of the collective.

She started a crazy study mode, not wasting a minute or a second, almost running to the toilet. The whole person is enveloped in an unnatural state of tension.

But with the National Urban Games approaching, the atmosphere in the team is also urgent, and He Haocheng is not aware of this small change in her.

Tension began to creep in the team, and every day as soon as you walked into the training ground, the countdown on the huge red banner reminded everyone.

Gu Qiao couldn't help but be infected by such an atmosphere, and his already tense nerves were almost stretched into a straight line.

Because this is also her first time participating in a major competition.

Fortunately, Gu Qiao's training performance is steadily improving, and in the past six months, her weight has increased by 4.5 kilograms, her muscle circumference has also increased, and the strength she lacked at the beginning has also improved.

The improvement of physical fitness also allowed Gu Qiao to gradually keep up with the regular training intensity of the track and field team.

Her 100-meter time has been stable at 12.12 seconds.

Even in training, she outperformed Yin Man, although the gap was only between a few tenths of a second.

Listening to the results just announced by the assistant coach in surprise, the smile on Gu Qiao's face had not yet unfolded, and the next second met Yin Man's cold eyes, she subconsciously lowered her head and walked away.

After the training, Yin Man wiped his sweat while moving his sore legs to the shower, passing by the equipment room, and He Haocheng's gentle voice was faintly floating from it.

"I don't think Yin Man can do it. ”

Yin Man froze in place, hesitated for two or three seconds, and when she saw that there was no one around, she carefully put her ear close to the door panel.

"Lao He, how do you say this, Yin Man has received professional training since she was a child, has good physical fitness, and her results are quite outstanding among athletes of the same age. ”

"Yes, it's quite good, but it can only go so far, and her results have been stagnant in the past few years. ”

"I also know what you said, but Yin Man, this kid has been in my hands since he joined the team, he doesn't have the temper of those young ladies, he has always trained hard, and he has never complained. I have memorized everything I taught her. Breathing and cadence improved slowly. Her grades have improved significantly, and her talent is good, even if there is a temporary stagnation in her grades, it is normal. ”

"This child's technique is not said, the problem is in the final acceleration section, generally 100 meters run, the first 30 meters of the athlete will pull down the center of gravity, in the running process slowly improve, until about 30 meters to adjust the center of gravity, according to their own rhythm, and then accelerate to the maximum speed, about 60 meters when the process has passed the halfway, the next is to sprint to the finish line. It can be clearly seen from the data that at about eighty meters, Yin Man's footsteps seem a little messy, his steps are chaotic, and the rhythm is slow, and the pace naturally decreases. ”

"She's been working hard. ”

Hurun tried to defend Yin Man.

"Who is the athlete on the team who doesn't work hard, and how talented, especially sprinting, is about talent, and talent is a very elusive thing. To put it bluntly, this kid is talented, but her talent is not enough, and her hard work can only support her to get to where she is now. ”

Hearing this, Yin Man's heart was like falling into an ice cellar, and he subconsciously put his ears closer, and the coolness was transmitted along the cold iron door, and even his hands and feet became cold.

"So, you're not optimistic about her?"

"Yes, I'm not optimistic about her. ”

Yin Man couldn't hear what the two were talking about, and she didn't know how she left the training ground.

Those words seemed to be engraved on her heart, and they could not be erased no matter what.

Not optimistic?

If you don't look at her Yin Man, are you optimistic about Gu Qiao?

What is inferior to Gu Qiao?

A country girl who has only been training for half a year, when she first came, she couldn't even squat to start.

With such doubts and unwillingness, Yin Man turned more and more eyes to Gu Qiao.

Every afternoon after the second period, there will be forty minutes of activity time.

Gu Qiao always used this time to practice spoken English in an extremely remote corner of the small garden behind the teaching building, and the girl's thin figure became more and more lonely under the protection of the huge banyan canopy.

Refusing other people's invitations, Yin Man put her left arm on the railing, and she looked condescendingly at Gu Qiao in the distance.

Ordinary, too ordinary a person.

Do you want to be defeated by such an ordinary person?

The more Yin Man thought about it, the more uneasy he became.

"Manman, what are you looking at?"

Cui Lingli's voice came from behind her, and when she saw Yin Man turn around, the smile on her face was more real and enthusiastic at this moment, mixed with a little flattery.

As if she hadn't heard it, Yin Man turned around and still looked straight ahead, followed her gaze, and the moment she found the target person, Cui Lingli was even more puzzled.

"What's the new country girl? ”

Yin Man ignored her, and only after a while did he squeeze out a sentence coldly from between his teeth.

"It's pretty unlucky. ”

With that, he turned around and went back to the classroom.

Looking at the back of Yin Man leaving, Cui Lingli turned her head and glanced at Gu Qiao who was reading aloud with a book downstairs, she felt as if she had touched the edge of some truth, revealing a thoughtful expression.

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The class bell rang, and five minutes had passed since Gu Qiao was locked in the cubicle of the women's toilet.

I don't know who it is, and I bothered to turn off the light in the toilet, in the empty and small space, there is no light, a person sits helplessly in the dark, she slowly tightens her arms, puts her forehead against her knees, and the scalp that is pulled hard is still aching.

This kind of pain said to Gu Qiao that it was still within the tolerable range.

She just felt dazed and aggrieved.

She was ostracized and bullied.

But why?

With those words still echoing in his ears, Gu Qiao tried to calm down and find out the reason.

"Wearing the same clothes can't hide the rustic atmosphere, black and thin. ”

"Why, do you see her left hand? ”

"You haven't heard her read the text, that accent is just laughing to death. ”

The voices played in her ears over and over again, and the disgust of the young man was so direct, and the undisguised viciousness came together to drown her out.

But if Gu Qiao wanted to break his head, he didn't understand why these people had suddenly changed so much.

That's right, she's dark, thin, she speaks with an accent, and she's a country girl who hasn't seen the world before.

But isn't this a fact that was clearly laid out in front of everyone on the first day of school?

Half of the semester has been passed smoothly, why has it changed at this time?

Do you want to be bullied because of differences?

Can't figure it out, really can't figure it out.

Fortunately, Gu Qiao is not a child who drills the horns of a bull, and the days of Baiquangou have taught her a lot, and the first thing is to hide her emotions.

Fear, dissatisfaction, trepidation, joy, joy.

Good and bad, all emotions must be hidden.

If a person lives in this world without support, he must learn to disguise, not let others see through, not let others know his intentions, and not let others see her jokes.

As for the rest, she will endure, she will forget.

In the classroom, which was only ten meters away from Gu Qiao, no one would care where she went.

The political teacher who was lecturing was a careless man with a high degree of myopia, and the thickness of the lenses made it impossible for him to notice that there was actually one person missing in the classroom.

Time was passing by, and there was still no one to open the toilet door.

Gradually sobering up from the anxious waiting, Gu Qiao pulled the corners of his mouth self-deprecatingly.

She was laughing at herself for expecting a savior from the sky.

The bell rang for the end of class, and footsteps were finally heard outside the door.

"It's the end of class, I'm almost suffocating, and I blame you for that cup of milk tea... Ay... Is this the one who is full and has pinned the door?"

Li Qiao covered his lower abdomen with both hands, grinning and waiting for his companion to open the door.

The companion stepped forward and threw away the stick pinned to the handle, and the door soon opened.

In the next second, a thin girl appeared in front of Li Qiao, her white school uniform was covered with dots of stains, in the shadows, the other party's appearance was not very clear, the only special thing was her eyes, like a deep ancient well, cold and quiet.

The girl's two pale lips pursed together vigorously, opened slightly, and a low thank you floated out from it, and then strode forward past Li Qiao.

Li Qiao was taken aback, his mouth grew up, and he only let out a sound for a long time.

Soon, she could experience the real sense of scare.

Cleaning up the stains on his body, Gu Qiao went home as if nothing had happened.

She hoped that her silence would bring things to rest, and she pinned her hopes on the others, hoping that the atrocity would be just an occasional episode in their boring lives.

However, what Gu Qiao was expecting did not happen.

All tolerance and concession has been replaced by more intensified bullying, with occasional verbal insults being basic and occasional bullying escalating.

In order not to cause trouble for He Haocheng, Gu Qiao can always avoid and dodge, and hide again and again. There were several times when she was about to take it anymore, but when the words came to her lips, she swallowed them back.

She kept hypnotizing herself, it didn't matter, it was okay to be wronged.

She was too cowardly and too cowardly. never dared to face it, let alone have the slightest resistance, and always subconsciously hid.

The eight words "don't make trouble for others" seem to have been broken and reorganized, and after refining the essence, they were firmly entered into Gu Qiao's genes by Li Fengying's daily uninterrupted ear mention.

More than anyone else in the world, she hates her weakness and wants to change, but she can't do it.