(PS: This chapter is from Lin Yunbing's point of view, and the "you" that appears in this chapter all refer to Chen An.) ）

In June 2005, the summer vacation of the year I graduated from elementary school, my mother took me to get orthodontic braces because of my dental deformities.

After I put on braces, my friends nicknamed me "Braces Girl", and they began to gradually distance themselves from me, they said they didn't want to play with me, but they weren't like this before.

Could it be that I had orthodontic braces? I thought about it later.

Once, I watched them have a good time together, and when I tried to join, they tacitly dispersed, as if they had made an appointment.

Looking at their scattered figures, it should be the first time I felt lonely, the first time I felt ...... Inferiority.

Then I once stumbled upon the fact that if I kept my head down and spoke, they wouldn't be able to find out that I had braces.

Later, I met new friends.

I would keep my head down if I needed to talk to them when I was playing with them, and everyone was still young at the time, so no one was going to look at the details.

But the good times didn't last long, and once I had so much fun that I forgot that I had to bow my head to speak.

It turned out that they were starting to drift away from me, just like my old friends.

This is the second time I feel lonely and have low self-esteem.

It was also at that time that I felt that I should take the initiative to adapt to loneliness and get used to low self-esteem.

So I stopped thinking about finding new friends to play with, and started to stay at home alone to read, listen to songs, and do crafts, and try not to open my mouth when I was in public.

The more lonely I became, the more I felt inferior.

September 2005, the beginning of the school year.

At the age of 12, I was promoted to junior high school and entered the first (third) class of Tiandu Middle School.

On the first day of school, when I stepped into the classroom, my first impression of the class was that these little kids were so noisy! Yes, they were little kids in my eyes.

Albeit...... I was the youngest in the class.

At that time, I thought I was very mature, because I read a lot of books at home alone during the summer vacation, and I felt that my thoughts were no longer at the same age as them.

It's just that now that I think about it, I was naïve and ridiculous at that time, and at the same time, I was very inferior, and at the same time, I proudly looked down on the naivety of my peers in my heart.

Usually at school and in class, I will try to be a little transparent, no classmates will go home with me after school, no friends will ask me out on the weekend, and there will be no girlfriends, fortunately, I am used to being alone.

But even so, my classmates found out that I was wearing orthodontic braces.

Some naughty boys started calling me "braces girl", and I comforted myself: it's okay, this is not the first time someone has called you that, there have been before, and there will be in the future. Lin Yunbing, you have to get used to this title!

So I got used to the name "braces girl", but I became less and less talkative, and I was left with only studying.

My academic performance is getting better and better, and my teachers and parents don't notice anything wrong with me, they just think that I seem to be a bit introverted, but they all think that girls are introverted at all.

The improvement in academic performance has also improved my self-confidence a little in disguise, but it is still a symptom rather than a cure.

In March 2006, the school year was opened, and the first (third) class of junior high school was cleaned up.

"Sister with braces, give me a copy of your winter vacation homework. ”

It was a naughty boy in the class calling me, but I didn't want to pay attention to him.

"Hey, braces girl, don't you hear that!

Seeing that I ignored him, the naughty boy kept yelling there.

"Hey, that junior in the first year of junior high school, are you going to bully girls!"

This is your first time in my world.

You reprimanded my classmate a few words, and when I saw him obediently admit his mistakes, you walked towards me.

"Senior sister, you will definitely be beautiful in the future, because girls who wear orthodontic braces are future goddesses. Study hard and keep it up!"

You don't even know how handsome you were when you said that.

My braces have always brought me strange eyes from friends and classmates, only you give me affirmation, and what I need is just an affirmation from my peers.

After meeting you, I began to try to get along and chat with my classmates generously, even if there are still people who still call me "braces girl", I don't care, because I have learned a new way - not to adapt, not to get used to it, but to ignore!

Later, I found out that next to our health district is the health district of the third (third) class of junior high school, and I found out that your name is Chen An, and I found out that you are the heart of our school leaders and the representative of outstanding students.

I started studying hard to take the entrance exam in advance, just so that I could be a classmate in the same grade as you, so that it would be easier to see you.

You graduated from junior high school and were successfully admitted to the high school of Tiandu Middle School.

But fortunately, I succeeded in my second year of junior high school, and I was admitted to the high school ahead of schedule.

After entering high school, every time I would come to the school very early, and then wait for you at the intersection far away from the school, I would follow you every time three meters apart, step by step, staring closely at your back, as if there was some earth-shattering secret.

I've noticed a lot of things that you haven't noticed on your own.

For example, you are always surrounded by a lot of friends, and they will regard you as the backbone, for example, you are very kind, once you were late to help a grandfather find something, of course, I was also late that time, but I just pretended to be uncomfortable and went home and asked for sick leave, how about it, smart enough, right?

During your sophomore and junior years of high school, I followed you almost every day, but I never really appeared in front of you.

On the day your college entrance examination ended, I was actually standing outside your test center waiting for you, wanting to tell you that I liked you.

But the moment I saw you, I couldn't move my feet and stepped forward, I kept saying in my heart: Lin Yunbing, you are not good enough now, you are not worthy of him.

Then in the summer of my sophomore year of high school, the year you graduated from high school, my mother took me to get my braces removed, and also took me to badminton in my free time after class.

If your affirmation pulled me out of the quagmire of low self-esteem and regained my self-confidence, then badminton gave me more self-confidence.

In 2010, the college entrance examination.

I successfully followed your steps and was admitted to Tiandu University, only to find that you were not in school most of the time, and your energy was spent on the company you created.

Then I thought I wouldn't bother you for now, and then talk about other things when your career was on the right track.

Later, Mom and Dad found out my secret, and Dad collected a lot of information about you after knowing about you.

I get to know you more and more, and I like you more and more.

But who knew that this would be ten years......