After Ke Yufei and He Zixuan, Yi Xuejia and Liang Feng left, Zhou Linuo and Yuchen were still standing under the plane tree in the community and did not move, for the next itinerary, he did not speak, Zhou Linuo did not speak, the air was inexplicably pervasive The smell of gunpowder, the two of them confronted each other like masters, forming a stalemate that whoever made the first move would expose the flaws.

Zhou Linuo will not put herself at a disadvantage - "one step back will take ten thousand steps back" - Zhou Shuguang often repeats this phrase to her.

When I was in elementary school, I had an opportunity to exchange with foreign exchange students, and Zhou Linuo was originally the first choice on the list because her English was very good, but the director of academic affairs talked to her in order to arrange for a relative's child to participate, the reason was, "Your English is already so good, can you let the bad students get a chance to exercise?" ”

It was said in the textbook that humility is a virtue, so Zhou Linuo nodded.

After returning home, she thought that her mother would praise her, but Zhou Shuguang's reaction when she learned about it was hysterical, "It's yours, why give it to someone else?" Do you know that if you take a step back, you will take 10,000 steps back, and if you give someone a sip of water, they will suck your blood dry. She tugged Zhou Linuo's skirt and screamed and scolded her, "Since you have this skirt to wear, can you give the second and third skirts to others?" You'll wear this dress forever! ”

From now on, Zhou Linuo will not give in at any moment and in the environment, she will not let herself retreat from the wide and flat land to the cramped and precipitous cliffs, at least while Zhou Shuguang is still watching her, she will show an active desire to compete.

There was no wind, every leaf was quiet, Zhou Linuo couldn't wait for Yuchen to speak first, so he simply turned around and sat down on the stone bench, so Yuchen also sat down opposite her.

Yuchen didn't mean to deliberately go against Zhou Linuo, his heart was very peaceful at the moment, and he didn't have any thoughts that he was in a hurry to implement, his fingers tapped lightly on the stone tabletop, and his eyes stared at Zhou Linuo quietly.

His gaze reminded her of the critical gaze she would receive from her every move at home, and she frowned in exasperation, her whole body trembling slightly, and finally she did not turn sideways, for she felt that if she showed a gesture of evasion, she would lose.

"Here we go again." Yuchen broke the silence as he ran his fingers between his brows, "You're frowning again." ”

"Is it an eyesore?" Zhou Linuo's brows didn't stretch, "If you don't stare at me, you won't find out." ”

Yuchen smiled and held his chin with his palm, and said leisurely, "You hate me very much? ”

"You're mistaken." Zhou Linuo's brows finally stopped wrinkling, and she replied with a polite smile, "Except for Yi Xuejia, I don't have anyone I like." ”

She said this a few times, knowing that she didn't like herself, but Yuchen smiled even deeper, compared to someone who didn't have a sense of existence in her heart and couldn't provoke any emotional turmoil with her, he was quite satisfied with his current position.

"Here we go again." Zhou Linuo put his finger at the corner of his mouth, and shot back at him with a vengeance, "You are smiling again." ”

"Wicked?" Yuchen was stunned for a moment, he was originally just pursing his lips and smiling, and he suddenly grinned like he had been hit by a stone on the surface of the lake, "It's the first time I've heard someone describe me as a treacherous smile." ”

Zhou Linuo said with a cold face: "Isn't it? You're just a cunning, cunning person, a masked person. ”

"Of course I won't be as cute as Yi Xuejia, everyone loves me." Yuchen said aggrievedly, "But it's not a bad person—oh—" He suddenly remembered that Yi Xuejia had also commented on himself as "fake", so he restrained his smile, and some faint sadness flashed in his eyes, "You are good friends in the end, and you are quite accurate in looking at people." ”

Yuchen stood up, put his hands in the pockets of his linen beige pants, lowered his eyes and said to Zhou Linuo: "Even if you want to sit, let's change to a cooler place, right?" Let's walk around. ”

Without waiting for Yuchen to indicate the direction, Zhou Linuo stood up and walked forward by himself, so he took a step forward, stopped in front of her, met her impatient gaze, he stretched out a fisted hand from his pocket, raised his chin, and motioned for her to stretch out her hand.

Seeing that the alert Zhou Linuo didn't move, he smiled and said, "What are you afraid of, suspicious, not a strange thing." ”

Zhou Linuo hesitated for a long time, and finally reached out because he didn't want to be looked down upon, and as a result, three chocolate candies were placed in the palm of his hand.

He said, "Take it first, I'm afraid you'll faint." ”

Zhou Linuo pinched the candy, and didn't know how to react for a long time, she was reluctant to thank her, because this was completely his unauthorized assertion, and it was not a response to her request, but if she didn't thank her, she seemed to be unkind, and if she accepted it, she owed a favor, and she was put into her pocket, and said softly: "Thank you." ”

"Thank you for which time?" Yuchen asked in surprise, seeing that Zhou Linuo was confused, he smiled evilly and said, "Last time, you didn't thank you yet." ”

Zhou Linuo was displeased and walked forward without saying a word.

"You get really angry easily." Yuchen strode up, walked beside her and asked, "Is it Aunt Genetic?" ”

"I am me. What does it have to do with my mom? Zhou Linuo glanced at him.

"She was angry every day, and the whole building could hear her," Yuchen said. ”

She replied, "Then I'll buy you a pair of earplugs." ”

Yuchen's words changed: "I feel that Auntie wants to train you to be another her." ”

Zhou Linuo was drilled by this sentence, and he didn't say a word.

Zhou Shuguang is a well-known beauty in this small southern city with a population of 3 million, she has just turned 16 years old, there are countless young talents blocking in front of her parents' house to ask for marriage, because she is too beautiful, everywhere she goes is the focus, so she has not encountered any risks in the process of growing up, who wants to move her, it is as eye-catching as rushing cash trucks in front of everyone.

In interpersonal relationships, Zhou Shuguang encountered all the green lights, as long as she made a mistake, most of them would let her go, she knew her advantages, so she was too lazy to study seriously, she went to work before graduating from high school, interviewed three units, and asked her to report immediately the next day.

Zhou Shuguang, who has always regarded herself very highly, finally went to work as a salesperson in a department store under the influence of her controlling parents, which was the most decent job at the time, but she knew in her heart that she could fly higher.

Zhou Shuguang, who was in her early twenties, ushered in a major turning point in her life, when she went to the provincial capital with her colleagues to play, she was taken by a TV producer and invited her to audition for a variety show.

As always, fate gave her the green light, and when she got home, she received a phone call that she had been chosen.

Before becoming the host, Zhou Shuguang had to participate in a closed training camp for three months, and in order to persuade her parents to agree to her resignation, the family was noisy day and night, until that day came, her parents locked her in the bedroom, and she jumped out of the window and broke her left leg.

All the green lights turned off for her life overnight.

Zhou Shuguang, who was limping when she walked, lost her job and lost all her excellent suitors, and the people who were still chasing her were obviously not as good as in the past, and the matchmaker also told her not to pick, after all, no matter how beautiful she was, she was a lame.

It didn't take long for a variety show called "Three Seven Twenty-One" to become popular all over the country overnight, and the female host in it was the only competitor "Xiaoxiao" that Zhou Shuguang had ever seen, that day, she smashed the TV, and then quickly chose a suitor and married herself.

She has two conditions for her husband's choice of mate, the first is that he must be handsome and tall, and the second is that the child born must have her surname.

The man who could meet her conditions at the beginning was Zhou Linuo's father Ren America, although he had a star appearance, he was an orphan living in a distant relative's house, so he couldn't find a partner, he was a worker, and when he married Zhou Shuguang, all the savings he took out were less than 100 yuan.

Zhou Shuguang doesn't mind at all, she doesn't have any expectations for her husband, her whole life in the future is her child, she believes that what she is about to give birth to must be the dragon and phoenix among people, so there is Zhou Linuo, this daughter is the continuation of Zhou Shuguang himself.

"You know what she said to my mom? No, she said that to everyone, she said that you are going to be a big star in the future, the kind of household name. Yuchen spoke slowly, without emotional ups and downs, "So you're going to be admitted to an art school?" ”

Because of her white skin, once Zhou Linuo has mood swings, she can't hide it at all, and her face is flushed with shame at this moment, "What's the matter with you?" She walked forward quickly, hoping that Yuchen would not find out her annoyance at this time.

"I do have some relationship." Yuchen paced up to her and blocked her way, "I want to refer to it, so that I can tell me which city you are going to in the future?" ”

The sun was scorching, and Yuchen's thick eyelashes were rendered golden by the light, wrapped in the original light-pigmented iris, which made his eyebrows blur into an ear of wheat, which made Zhou Linuo feel dazzling, so he avoided his sight.

"Abuja," she said. ”

"Nigeria." He laughed, "To be Bethune?" ”

"Not a big star, let you down." Zhou Linuo bypassed his barrier and walked towards the gate of the community.

Just about to walk out of the community, Zhou Linuo saw a familiar person, and she greeted strangely: "Teacher Xu? ”

"Huh? Nono. The other party was also surprised, "Where are you?" ”

Xu Chunping is not really a teacher who teaches and educates people, he is in his early forties, he also wears a monk-like robe in the middle of summer, he is the chairman of the local painters' association, he is good at landscape painting, he is famous, and a painting can sell for tens to millions.

Zhou Linuo asked suspiciously: "I didn't know you were coming over today, I was preparing to go out for a walk with my friends." ”

Usually, Zhou Linuo calls Xu Chunping "Teacher Xu", because since four or five years ago, he was invited by Zhou Shuguang to teach her to learn painting.

Xu Chunping lifted a plastic bag in his hand with some embarrassment and said, "I know, your mother said on the phone, she said that you are not at home, she may be blowing the air conditioner at this time, and she feels a little feverish, so let me send medicine." ”

Zhou Linuo frowned at first, and then showed a polite smile, "Mom is really troublesome, just ask me to buy it, Teacher Xu has to come all the way over." She reached for the plastic bag and said, "Then I'll take it." Later, he said, "Teacher Xu, do you want to come up and sit down for a while?" My dad hasn't seen you in a long time. ”

"Mr. Ren hasn't gone to work yet?" Xu Chunping then said, "You can just bring the medicine to your mother for me, I won't go up, don't you just drive to run errands, don't you go on a trip, don't bother, you go up." ”

After Xu Chunping left, Yuchen asked Zhou Linuo knowingly, "Uncle is at home?" ”

"You see, my mother is sick and won't play with you today." Zhou Linuo ignored him, turned around and walked home, but when she saw Yuchen following slowly, her eyes widened inexplicably.

"Auntie is sick, I have to offer condolences." Yuchen said with a smile, "Uncle is not at home, what if someone has to carry her to the hospital?" ”

"Whatever you want." Zhou Linuo said angrily.

"You said I was wearing a mask, and you and I were also half a pound and eight taels." Yuchen kept a distance of half a meter from Zhou Linuo, and followed her and said to himself casually, "Do you like to get along with people?" I at least look like I'm getting along, but you, looking at it from afar, the clumps of cold air are coming out, and it's not good to pretend to be a little hot. ”

Zhou Linuo, who was silent, stared at the ground and walked, and after a while, he noticed that he had been shrouded by Yuchen's elongated shadow, and he didn't know if he was deliberately shading her, so that she felt a little cool when she walked under the scorching sun, but that coolness may also come from her inner concern for Yuchen.

"Heh......" Yuchen sighed, but in a tone of pity, "Zhou Linuo, you are the one who has an ice pick in your heart." ”