"It turns out that he refused my invitation just to drink with other boys." This was the first thing Zhou Minggao said to her after standing still in front of Shen Yuanyuan.

Shen Yuanxuan was a little weak-hearted, but he still pretended to be calm and said, "So what, I'm single, it's okay to hang out with whomever I want." ”

"Of course, I'm here because I asked a girl to drink with me."

Shen Yuanxuan was startled, and squinted his eyes to secretly look at his expression to judge whether he was joking or serious. But apparently Zhou Minggao had caught her gaze, and he smiled. Shen Yuan rolled his eyes, scolding himself in his heart that his IQ was really offline, and he couldn't even tell the jokes. "So why the hell are you here?" She asked angrily.

"Passing by."

"That's it?"

"That's all."

Shen Yuanyuan knew that he would not get any answer if he continued to ask, and maybe he would be tricked by him again if he was not careful, so he simply stopped asking. "So what are you going to do now? I'm going home. ”

"Let's go, along the way."

There was a short distance from here to the subway station, and both of them felt that there was no need to take a taxi, so they walked together in the direction of the subway station. As a result, it didn't take a few steps before it started to rain. The rain was so rapid that Shen felt like he was drenched in almost a second. I just wanted to complain about Zhou Minggao and said, "Don't you know everything, why don't you predict the weather." As a result, before she could speak, Zhou Minggao's coat "fell from the sky" - it was not the kind of romantic help to put on the coat at all, but covered her head like a bandit in a sack.

She wordlessly pulled the clothes above her head, adjusted them to a state where she could see the road, and then ran behind Zhou Minggao into the nearest Western restaurant.

After all, it appeared in the restaurant in the form of soup chicken, and Shen Yuanyuan and Zhou Minggao attracted a lot of attention at once. Shen Yuanyuan was a little embarrassed, and turned his gaze to Zhou Minggao silently. But he didn't seem to feel anything, and walked to the front desk to order food like a nobody, Shen Yuanxuan happened to be a little hungry at this time, so he also learned from his expressionless face and ordered one.

The clothes in spring are relatively thin, and by the time the meal is finished, Shen Yuanxuan feels that the clothes on his body are almost dry. They sat by the window, and could see the pedestrians outside walking leisurely again—the rain had stopped. Because of this stay, Shen Yuan became playful and didn't want to go back so soon.

"Does it still matter if you ask me to watch a movie?"

Zhou Minggao hadn't finished eating at this time, and while sucking his pasta, he said vaguely, "Of course, as long as you don't think it's sinful to date different guys on the same day." ”

"......" Shen Yuanyuan decided to explain, otherwise he didn't know how long he would be ridiculed. That guy was my high school classmate, and I admit I liked him, but today it was really a misunderstanding, and I was tricked by another friend. ”

Zhou Minggao let out an "oh" while taking out his mobile phone and began to swipe it, ignoring her.

"I'm serious."

Zhou Minggao still swipes his mobile phone.

"I ...... Forget it, if you don't go, forget it, I'm done eating and going home. ”

"Didn't I say I wouldn't go?" Zhou Minggao handed his mobile phone to Shen Yuanyuan's face, and the screen displayed two tickets that he had already bought - the movie happened to be what Shen Yuanyuan wanted to watch. "I was just buying a ticket. Let's go, let's go to the cinema. ”

"Are you a thousand-year-old fox?" Shen Yuan muttered in a low voice. Zhou Minggao didn't answer, and she didn't know if he heard it.

Zhou Minggao bought a movie that started at half past eight in the evening, and it was still a little early, so they walked around the nearby mall casually, and then went to the cinema to get a ticket. Because they had already eaten dinner, they chose two people to buy a bucket of popcorn to avoid waste.

This movie has only been released for a short time, and it is already quite popular, but because they are watching a night show, there are not many people. Zhou Minggao chose the middle seat of the penultimate row, and when the show was about to start, the two of them sat down. The popcorn was placed between the two, and every time Shen Yuanyuan went to get it, Zhou Minggao happened to be taking it, and she always accidentally touched Zhou Minggao's fingers, feeling very embarrassed, so in the end she simply didn't eat it.

After a while, Zhou Minggao suddenly asked her, "Why don't you eat it?" His expression was extremely sincere, and I didn't know if he was really asking questions or teasing her again.

It was already late after the movie ended, Zhou Minggao and Shen Yuanyuan didn't stay any longer, and took the subway back together. The subway to Zhou Minggao's school is the final station, and after coming out of the subway station, Zhou Minggao stopped a taxi and got on the bus with Shen Yuanyuan. The driver asked where to go, and he said the name of her neighborhood before Shen Yuanyuan could open his mouth, and Shen Yuanyuan didn't speak again, and kept looking out the window thoughtfully.

The car was not going fast, and everything outside the window was slowly reversing and reversing. The driver was playing some old songs in public, probably because of a little motion sickness, and Shen Yuan felt a little spinning. In the past, her father also liked to play songs while driving, and at that time she was always noisy and didn't let him listen to them, but now it only sounds kind.

Zhou Minggao's mobile phone vibrated twice, he turned on the screen and clicked on the voice to listen. Because he sat relatively close, even if he turned on the earpiece to play, Shen Yuanyuan still vaguely heard the voice of the person over there talking - it was a middle-aged lady speaking in dialect, and she couldn't understand it.

opened her eyes and looked to the side, she saw that Zhou Minggao's mobile phone screen was displayed in a group chat called "Happy Family", and what he clicked on should be the voice of his family.

"Zhou Minggao." She called out to him, "What is your family like?" ”

"My family." He had already finished replying to the message at this time, put down his mobile phone and replied to her, "My dad is a small cadre, my mom is a teacher, and I have a younger sister who has just entered junior high school." ”

Shen Yuanyuan wanted to say something casually, but he choked up a little suddenly, and he only said "um" for a while.

Zhou Minggao suddenly raised his hand and touched her head. "It doesn't matter, if you want, they will also be your family in the future."

At this time, the car arrived at the door of the community where Shen Yuanyuan lived. She was still in a daze for Zhou Minggao's words, so Zhou Minggao paid for her and got out of the car one step ahead of her, and she hurriedly followed. After getting out of the car, Zhou Minggao didn't leave, he stood still and looked at her, as if waiting for her to ask questions.

So she asked.

"What did you mean just now?"

"I'm confessing to you."

"Really? Don't you think we've known each other for too short? ”

"Actually, we've known each other for a long time."

"What?" Shen Yuanyu didn't understand what he meant.

"It's like a friend at first sight."

...... "Shen Yuanxuan didn't want to joke now, so he didn't answer his words, but said what he wanted to say." You don't know me, I have a lot of shortcomings, and I have major depression — bipolar disorder, to be exact. I look like a normal person now, but, ......" she said no more. She was afraid that Zhou Minggao would be really scared and retreat if she continued to talk, just like He Youxin's sudden retreat. Her dearest mother abandoned her, and He Youxin also ran away from her, she seemed to have been following her loved ones until now, desperately chasing their pace, but in the end she was still abandoned. She wanted to try to touch love again, but she didn't have the courage to do so.

Shen Yuan cried, when she didn't even notice it.

"Can I hold you?" Zhou Minggao approached her and asked her.

Shen Yuan shook his head.

"Okay, then I'll just stand here and say."

"You said you have a lot of shortcomings, and I have them too. I repeated grades, took out online loans, and made a lot of mistakes that my peers wouldn't make. But now I know what I was wrong, I'm trying to figure out how to make amends, and that's enough. I never felt inferior to others, and it didn't matter if one day everyone in the world spurned me. "Because I always believe in myself." ”

"You're nothing bad now, just a little bit of confidence. What's bad about you? ”

The night was already deep, and the spring night that had just rained was still a little cold. Shen was trembling, and Zhou Minggao draped his coat over her—this time lightly. "If you don't want to think, don't think about anything first," he said. Take your time, it's okay. ”