Lovers (novella) Zhang Baotong

Finally, when the internship was over, I asked her when she would come back and that I was going to pick her up at the station. She said it wasn't final. However, I heard from a female classmate that I saw her walking with a boy in the physics class on East Main Street that morning, arm in arm, like a couple on their honeymoon. I didn't believe it, I felt that either the female classmate had ulterior motives, or she was looking at the wrong person. I know that Guo Shuxian loves me so much that it is impossible for her to do such a thing.

However, when her classmates returned to class to start revision and prepare for their graduation exams, she came to school very reluctantly. She was a completely different person, wearing a very elaborate and gorgeous floating skirt, a light green short-sleeved shirt on her upper body, and high-heeled leather shoes that were dazzlingly shiny. The short hair of a student, which is full of youth and vigor, suddenly becomes a fashionable and slightly curly hairstyle. People seem to have suddenly changed a lot and even aged a lot, not as fresh and beautiful as they used to be. My heart was muttering: Which is this Guo Shuxian in my mind?

She seemed to be deliberately avoiding me, waiting until the bell rang before entering the classroom. And her head was down, her eyes were drooping, she sat down in her seat, took the review materials out of the drawer, and stared at the book without moving, and never lifted her eyes to me, her behavior and performance were so outrageous and abnormal, it reminded me of what the female classmate had said to me, and also reminded me of why she refused to write to me for so long. I have to ask what the hell is going on.

After class, she was still sitting in her seat, holding a book and reading, so that I couldn't talk to her until the end of school, when I came up to her and said, "I'm waiting for you by the woods, I have something to say to you." It's a place where we used to meet together. However, I waited for a long time, but she did not come. It made me even more annoyed and angry: she betrayed me, but she wouldn't even give me a reason. But I also know that what if she gives me a thousand or ten thousand reasons? In fact, what she did made it all clear to me.

After that, she didn't come back to school. Until the day of the graduation exam, as soon as she took the exam, she left immediately. Her friends began handing out wedding invitations to everyone in the class. She was going to get married before we graduated, and the groom was the kid of the physics class. Of course, an invitation was sent to me, but I didn't ask for it.

After the exams, many students in the city began to pack their bedding and belongings and prepare to go home. But I don't have a home in the city, I don't even have a place to live, so I can't go anywhere, so I can only stay in the dormitory and wait for the assignment. The students will soon be separated, and everyone will eat and drink to each other. Lovers are also reluctantly sharing the romance before parting. But I was distraught, with no master and nowhere to go, so I could only hide in the classroom alone, and continue to let the old and boring textbooks keep me company.

What is the purpose of reading and studying? I am alone in frustration and sadness. In these two or three years, I gave her my whole body and mind, all my affection and love, but all I got was humiliation and betrayal. This is so disappointing for me, too much for me to accept. Is it true that a person does not even have the most basic moral bottom line? In order to stay in Xi'an, he can abandon sincerity and love, and abandon his soul and faith? This really makes me so incomprehensible. In fact, women sometimes really see the reality of life as more important than love. The heat of love will slowly fade, but the reality of life will not change for a lifetime.

Maybe it's just my idea, not hers. She considered that if she wanted to stay in Xi'an, even if she was assigned to another place, she could also be transferred back to Xi'an quickly. As long as she can stay in Xi'an, she can do anything. This is what she yearns for and pursues.

I should have known that she was a girl who would do anything for her own gain. At that time, the school organized an English speech competition, and the students wanted to fight hard and become famous in one fell swoop. Our class has the highest level of English proficiency in the school, and as long as we can get the first place in our class, we will definitely get the first place in the whole school. During the primary selection, my speech was considered by my teachers and classmates to be the most promising candidate because of the excellent writing. However, Guo Shuxian was not even approved by the teacher, so naturally she could not participate in the semi-finals of the class. So, she took an English essay I had published in the school magazine, revised it slightly, wrote her name, and then asked the teacher to let her participate in the semi-finals. The teacher saw that her article was well written, so he let her participate in the semi-finals. Although writing is my forte, acting is her strength. As a result, she passed me by a narrow score and won the first place in the school's English speech contest on behalf of our class.

She suddenly became a celebrity in the school, and began to be called the school flower by the boys in the out-of-class class, and the boys from the out-of-class constantly asked her to tutor in English. That's when the physics boy got in touch with her and came to her many times. Once Guo Shuxian and I were walking on the playground, he stopped her on the grass, and the two of us talked together for a long time, and they were very close to each other. I waited for a while, feeling a little impatient, and I said loudly to her from afar that I was going back to the classroom. She then parted from the man and ran up to me, telling me that they were asking her for advice on how to learn English. He was three or four years older than me, and although he was taller, his appearance and character were much worse than mine, so I didn't pay much attention to him at the time. Now that I think about it, I think it was all my essay that caused the trouble, and if I hadn't let her adopt my essay, she wouldn't have been eligible to participate in the semi-finals of the class, and she wouldn't have the result she has today. At that time, I already realized that if I had given her this essay as a speech, there was a good chance that she would surpass me because it was better than my own. At this point, it's useless for me to regret it.

After graduation, I was assigned to Xi'an Yingcai Middle School, which is a newly established key middle school in Xi'an. But it didn't make me feel very happy, because I was sure that I could stay in Xi'an. I am a candidate in Xi'an, and my academic performance has always been excellent, and I have also won the title of Xi'an's New Long March Assaulter. As long as there is this title, no matter where you go, all schools will rush to ask for it. And she was still assigned to a key middle school in Hanzhong City. Originally, there were schools in Xi'an that wanted her, but the Hanzhong Education Bureau was also in urgent need of English teachers, so she could not stay in Xi'an.