Time is like a cog in a clock tower, moving along a predetermined track, and it may wear out with time, but there will always be someone to adjust the mistake, even if an important part has been lost.

Shanghai's once tallest building, the Shanghai Customs Building, is home to a beautiful and retro clock, which is known as one of the world's three largest clocks. It has witnessed every minute and every second of Shanghai for more than 100 years.

The Gothic building is a gift left by history to Shanghai, and every bell rings stirs people's hearts, solemn, ancient and elegant.

At seven o'clock, the bell struck, and the music of "Dongfang Hong" sounded on the banks of the Huangpu River, melodious and bright, and the people in the hurried pedestrians and the people in the tour bus were immersed in it.

Shen Xiao tied his shoelaces, heard the sound of the bell ringing, knew the time, and estimated that he would be able to reach the school in a few seconds. She doesn't have a watch, so there's always a scale inside her mind to estimate time.

The figure in front of her was getting closer and closer, and when she tied the shoelace on her right foot, she slowly raised her head, and saw the face of the person who came, her face showed a hint of surprise, and then she felt a long-lost joy in her heart.

"Is that you?"

"Yes, I'm back."

Luo Mu put his hands in his pockets, his shoulders tilted, and looked down at Shen Xiao, his smile warm and clear.

"you, I'm your dad."

"Uh... You're still so unreserved. ”

"What's the matter, you can't stay abroad and come back?"

"yes, I can't stay any longer, I miss you very much."

"Huh~ You're enough, aren't you coming back because you're going to participate in the HipPop Game?"

“You know me bro！”

Luo Mu put his right hand together and hammered his chest twice, pointing at Shen Xiao and saying, looking like a hip-hop fan, but his posture was incompatible with the blue school uniform he had just changed into before getting out of the car.

"Don't drag a foreign gun for my sister, my English in the high school entrance examination is not as high as mine."

"Eh, can you not mention this, you are amazing, you are the first in the class, and I have always maintained a good score in the top three in the class, okay, I'm not bad."

Luo Mu scratched the back of his head, looked at the girl he hadn't seen in three years, and smiled.

"Then no matter what, I'm also the first in the class, and you don't accept it."

"Okay, okay, I'll serve you."

Shen Xiao stood up and picked up his schoolbag.

"How did you get back?"

"I miss you."

Shen Xiao tilted his head back and looked at Luo Mu.

"Your way of flirting with girls won't work with me, let's be admitted to Fudan University with me first."

"Then we'll agree."

……

It's half past nine in the morning, and the second class of Yu'an Middle School has just ended, and the third set of radio gymnastics is still playing in the vibrant campus. Lu Xue, like everyone else, reluctantly fiddled with the movements, but none of the movements were really standard.

"Have you heard, the clock in the customs house is going to be moved to England to be repaired?"

"It's really fake, I heard that it's just changed to an automatic one, and no one needs to adjust it."

"That's right, it wasn't moved, it was the two core pieces of the bell that were removed, it seems to be called... Called escape wheel and bow carriage. In this way, the bell will become electric without the sledgehammer machinery. ”

Lu Xue responded to her classmates' questions while doing non-standard movements. After the first session of radio gymnastics, Lu Xue took out a head rope from her pocket and tied a ponytail.

"Alas, it's a hassle when your hair grows."

"How can there be, long hair and waist-length, pretty old praise."

Xue Yu spoke to Lu Xue in a Shanghai dialect, his eyes were curved like crescents, and the corners of his eyes were slightly hooked, like a naughty clever ghost.

"Oh, your Xue Yu has started again!"

The boys on the side made a burst of noise, patted the shoulders of the classmates next to them or looked at each other and smiled secretly, living like a group of aunts discussing gossip behind their backs, and all of them had snickering smiles and aunts on their faces.

Lu Xue stomped her feet, leaned her head forward, and stood with her waist crossed.

"Are you gossips trying to have sex reassignment surgery?"

……

"Hey, that's a few shifts, what days don't you do and chatting, making trouble every day!"

A man who was a little bald, wearing black-rimmed glasses, and about 1.7 meters stood in front of the queue and pointed in the direction of Lu Xue and shouted. Lu Xue had no choice but to shrug her shoulders at Xue Yu and the others and continue to do exercises.

The second year of high school begins, and it is also the day when the freshmen enter the freshman year, and the influx of a group of new faces makes the old students feel inexplicably happy, on the one hand, they celebrate that they have become seniors, and on the other hand, they can see if there are any handsome guys and beauties among the new students. A group of sophomores sit on chairs in the playground and point at their new classmates in their new uniforms.

Yu'an Middle School introduces a new and improved school uniform every year, so there are three grades in high school, and each grade has a clear character. This year's high school uniform is characterized by reflective strips on the sides of the two sleeves, which glow in the dark corridor, and have a strong fashion show flavor.

"This school uniform is a bit of a show this year, and I want to buy a new one."

"Why, you still want to pretend to be a junior."

Lu Xue still couldn't scare Xue Yu, and Xue Yu also responded to Lu Xue sentence after sentence. Everyone can see Xue Yu's feelings for Lu Xue. But the environment in high school made them tacitly never talk about it. Because no one wants to touch on the topic of early love.

……

"Did you hear, a transfer student came to the first class today, it is said that he transferred from the United States, and he is quite handsome."

"It's not just handsome, it's super handsome, okay!"

"Meimei, why are you such a nymphomaniac."

"You'll know when you see it."

Mei Mei ran her ponytail with both hands, imagining what the boy would look like when he passed by today. It's like a clip in an idol drama where the male protagonist suddenly appears and then attracts the call of tens of thousands of people. But Luo Mu didn't feel this way, but his attention fell on a very peculiar point.

"There is no door ...... this bathroom"

"There's no door, isn't the same with the junior high school toilet?"

"In junior high school, I dragged my aunt's blessing to the staff toilet all the time."

"Abominable class divisions!"

Shen Xiao angrily rolled up the workbook and slapped Luo Mu's left shoulder, then spread out the booklet and turned to page 58 and began to do the questions.

"You've done so much since school started."

"You think it's easy to be the first."

"Sad child."

"I'm sorry..."Shen Xiao flipped through his schoolbag, took out an identical booklet, and put it in front of Luo Mu.

"You have to do it too, let me give it to you when I arrived at school before."

"Then are you, the little class leader, in charge of tutoring?"

Luo Mu rolled up the exercise book and put it up, leaning his chin on the curling hole and looking at Shen Xiao.

"It's up to you to behave."

……

On Zhongshan South Road, a glass curtain wall building stands here, which overlooks the scenery of the entire Bund in Shanghai, and the price of every inch of land and the ultra-modern architectural style show a strong capital atmosphere.

"Chairman, it's already arranged."

After Assistant Li pushed two suitcases and put them at the door, he dialed the phone.

"Mu Mu will ask you after that, find him a good aunt and tutor at home, the domestic courses are more difficult than those abroad, I am afraid that he will not be able to keep up at first, I have played music and games for a year, I don't know how to learn."

"Luo Mu was a good student before, and he should give you a good transcript."

"I hope so...... You come to the company as soon as possible after finishing the task at hand, and someone from Italy wants to discuss the matter of the e-magazine with us, and you can deal with it. ”

"Okay, Chairman."