The summer of 2019 was surprisingly hot, with the afternoon under the shadows of the lush trees, Zhizhi was moaning loudly, and pedestrians could even faintly smell the soles of their shoes as they walked on the soft asphalt road scorched by the scorching sun.

"It's hot." Twilight muttered something in a low voice, turned around with a small white schoolbag, and deftly entered a café with the name "Love" on the side of the road.

"Jingle bells." The wind chimes on the door made a pleasant and crisp sound, and Zhou Zimo, who was wiping the glass, smiled meaningfully and welcomed the guests at the door: "Welcome." ”

"Hey, manager, I'm here again." Twilight Xuefei walked to the front desk and looked at Zhou Zimo with a smile and said.

The corners of Zhou Zimo's mouth lightly hooked a shallow upward line, and asked with a standard smile: "Excuse me, what do you want to drink?" ”

"Manager, can I stay here without drinking anything?" Twilight Xuefei showed a subtle smile and immediately put on a pitiful look and said, "The study room in the school is too hot without air conditioning. ”

"Can I say 'no'?" Zhou Zimo squinted at Twilight Xuefei and asked rhetorically.

"Can't!" Twilight stuck out her tongue and said disdainfully, "I'm just kidding, why are you so serious." ”

"I'm kidding, too." Zhou Zimo said lightly, picked up another cup and wiped it carefully.

"Hmph, I want a cup of coffee, milk and sugar."

"Children should not drink coffee often, it will affect development." Zhou Zimo casually glanced at Du Xuefei, who was 1.6 meters tall.

Twilight Xuefei watched Zhou Zimo's faint gaze sweep over her, and she was stunned before she reacted, gritting her teeth and stomping her feet in anger. In the end, he found that he couldn't stand on tiptoe and touch a single hair of Zhou Zimo through the ordering table, so he walked away with a look of shame, and found a place in the corner to sit down.

Twilight pulls out a small magazine from her bag and sits it upright on the table. With the preparations done, it's time for the exciting peep time.

Twilight Xuefei secretly poked out a small head from the magazine, admiring Zhou Zimo's sun-covered figure, the hot sword light shining on his body, as if it was softening little by little, like a soft cake in the afternoon.

Twilight Xuefei, a sophomore at a nearby high school, met Zhou Zimo on a very different rainy winter night.

It was a cold, rainy night, and the rain swept through the gray sky like a dense bullet across the earth, and the cold raindrops seeped into the thick clothes like sharp needles piercing the skin.

Twilight Xuefei was walking on her way back to school, when the sudden heavy rain made her unprepared, and she shivered in the cold wind like a chicken falling into the river, and finally she had to hide under the eaves of the "Love" café not far away.

"Ah, it's raining so hard, won't it stop for a while." Twilight whispered as she looked desperately at the pouring rain outside.

The bored Twilight Xuefei just stood outside, wearing wet clothes and withering in the cold wind. By the way, Twilight Snow Fei patted her head and thought, why don't you go inside the store? However, if you don't have any money on you, it's so embarrassing.

Thinking about it, Twilight Xue Fei slowly turned her face and sneaked a glance into the café. That glance happened to fall on Zhou Zimo, who was wearing a light blue sweater, and the soft orange light in the store illuminated his face very warmly.

Zhou Zimo seemed to feel the gaze from the floor-to-ceiling window, suddenly raised her head, her slightly surprised eyes bent slightly, and nodded with a smile to Twilight Xuefei, who was standing outside the window.

Like a little mouse that has been caught stealing food, Twilight Snow Fei turned her face back in panic and looked up at the rain with desolate eyes at a forty-five degree angle.

Jingle bell, the door of the store suddenly opened, a faint orange light leaked out of the store, the heating overflowed to drive away the cold around him, and it was that over-looking face, is he an angel? Did he come to preach the gospel?

"Come in and sit down, there's heating in the store." Zhou Zimo said lightly

"Oh." , Twilight Xuefei lowered her head slightly, drilled through the small space under Zhou Zimo's arm holding the door, and nimbly rushed into the café.

Zhou Zimo withdrew his hand lightly, and the door of the store automatically closed gently.

That's it, 17-year-old Lu Nimjia and 23-year-old Zhou Zimo met like this. She remembered that day, the coffee he invited her to drink was sweet, the clothes he helped her dry were warm, and the smile he gave her was beautiful.

Since then, Twilight Xuefei has turned the "Love" café into her self-study base, and whenever she has time, she comes over to brush up on her presence in front of Zhou Zimo.

"Little classmate, are you looking at the store manager?"

"Hmm." Twilight Xuefei stared blankly at Zhou Zimo, who was brewing coffee, and blurted out.

"Do you like him, then?"

The beautiful voice in her ears seemed to have a special magic that made Twilight Xuefei stunned, and after a while, her extra-long reflex arc finally had a reflection and turned her face in surprise.

"Hey."

A good-looking face suddenly appeared in front of Twilight, and she immediately sat up, wishing there was a hole around her that she could get into.

"Hello, what's the matter?" Twilight asked hesitantly.

"No, like you, you're peeking at handsome guys." The woman in front of her stared at Twilight Xuefei with a nervous look, and couldn't help but look at it carefully.

"Hello, your coffee." Zhou Zimo elegantly placed the coffee on Twilight Xuefei's table and said lightly.

"Thank you." Twilight picked up her coffee and took a sip. I can finally get rid of the embarrassment of being discovered by voyeurism, Mu thought to himself.

"Xiaojie, don't make trouble."

Xiaojie?

Twilight Xuefei looked at Zhou Zimo in confusion, but in an instant, she saw Zhou Zimo's eyes full of pampering that she had never seen before.

Zhou Zimo gently covered her slender fingers on the head of the woman just now, and patted and patted it like a child.

"Don't treat me like a child, okay?" The woman muttered discontentedly.

"Let me introduce you." Zhou Zimo turned around and looked at Twilight Xuefei who was hanging aside in a daze and said.

"Huh? Well. Twilight lowered her head and sat in her place helplessly, her arm holding her coffee dangling silently in the air. Her intuition told her that he, Zhou Zimo, belonged to the good-looking woman named "Xiaojie" next to her.

"This is a regular customer of my café, Xiaofei." Zhou Zimo's tone has been indifferent, and now it suddenly makes Twilight Xuefei feel unspeakably sad.

"This is my childhood sweetheart and my fiancée, Chen Xiaojie."

Maybe it was Twilight Xuefei's illusion, she felt that Zhou Zimo's tone was full of happiness, and there was a faint show off, why did she think he was showing off? However, a man with such a perfect fiancée does have the capital to show off, and the golden boy should have been matched with a jade girl...... Twilight forced herself not to think nonsense, but her thoughts sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

"Xiaofei, are you okay?" Xiao Jie asked with concern.

Twilight Xue Fei suddenly woke up from her thoughts, her hand trembling slightly, and the coffee in her hand fell freely and landed on her clothes.

Chen Xiaojie didn't know when she had taken out a tissue and helped Twilight Xuefei gently wipe the coffee stains on her body.

"It's okay, it's okay." Twilight put down her cup and said, "Maybe it's because I'm a little tired from reviewing today, and I'm going home." ”

"Well, I'll go first." Twilight hurriedly put away the books on the table, picked up her schoolbag and rushed out of the store.

As soon as she rushed out of the road, she suddenly found that the originally scorching afternoon sun had turned into a deserted sunset at some point. The clouds seem to hide the dazzling sun quietly in her arms, like a girl with a secret.

In the store, Chen Xiaojie looked at the figure of the girl who was gradually running away in the sunset and said, "Zimo, she's fine, right?" ”

"No, it won't." Zhou Zimo slowly cleaned up the cup on the table and replied.

"I hope so, but I think she's a lot like me used to be."

In the darkening evening, a small café in the city lit up with a gentle orange light in a corner of the city.

Since she met Chen Xiaojie, Twilight Xuefei has hardly been to the café called "Love" for self-study. Only occasionally when I go to school or school, I will pass by that café, occasionally look at Zhou Zimo's busy back in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, or occasionally go in to pack a cup of coffee and say lukewarm hello to him by the way.

It's just that every time she goes to the café, she will always see Chen Xiaojie sitting in an inconspicuous corner doing different things seriously, sometimes she is reading, sometimes she is typing something on her laptop, and sometimes she is sleeping on the table. At this time, Twilight Xuefei always felt a lot of uneasiness in her heart, and she hurried to flee the scene, as if she had done something shady.

Twilight thought that the letter that had been hidden under the desk cabinet would not be able to be sent. Every time she thought about it, she felt the urge to tear up the letter. But every time I took out the letter, I softened when I saw the admiration that my former self had engraved on the envelope one by one, and finally I could only secretly put the letter back in the drawer and hide it.

Twilight Xuefei looked at the cloudless sky outside the window and was stunned, the light blue sky really looked like Zhou Zimo's sweater, it seems that she hadn't been to the café to buy coffee for a long time recently.

"Twilight Snowfield." A cold tone suddenly made Twilight feel a chill down her spine, and she immediately sat up straight as if she were conditioned.

Student Mu actually forgot that this was the class teacher's class meeting. Although the class meetings are all about miscellaneous class affairs, their strict homeroom teacher still can't stand the fuss of some classmates in her class.

Twilight immediately lowered her head and looked at the textbooks on the table, avoiding the hot gaze of the head teacher and the surrounding classmates.

"Uh...... I think ......" a familiar and nice voice suddenly sounded, "as long as I don't delay my studies in a daze in class, I used to be in a daze when I was in high school." ”

Chen Xiaojie?

Because of the words of the new teacher, the serious class seemed to become a little more relaxed, and the students in the class immediately began to whisper. The head teacher's eyes suddenly became less friendly when she looked at Chen Xiaojie, perhaps because no subject teacher would have the eyes to question the head teacher's teaching method in front of the students.

Next, the head teacher's tone of introducing Chen Xiaojie has always been cold.

"This is the new Chinese teacher in our class, Chen Xiaojie."

"Hello everyone." Chen Xiaojie nodded and greeted with a smile, not caring about the head teacher's little difficulties at all.

"Xiaojie, you go back to the office first, we have to continue to work and class." The head teacher said lightly.

The students were a little dissatisfied with the head teacher, but they could only secretly say that this new beautiful teacher was not worth it, but Chen Xiaojie just replied sweetly: "Okay." She withdrew from the classroom, a small gesture that made her perfect in the eyes of all the students.

Beautiful, good-natured teachers are really rare to find in this school with a serious teaching style.

The noisy class returned to quiet under the cold gaze of the head teacher immediately after Chen Xiaojie left, and everyone looked at the direction of the podium with a serious face, only Du Xuefei continued to look at the corner where Chen Xiaojie disappeared. According to Chen Xiaojie's character, Twilight Xuefei always felt that maybe the next second she would poke her head out from there and make a grimace.

But no, she didn't expect that she would contradict the antique-like homeroom teacher for herself, a high school student who sat in the corner and only had one side. Twilight Xuefei only has one year left in this high school, so it doesn't matter, but Chen Xiaojie may always be a colleague with the homeroom teacher who has formed a relationship.

Twilight Xuefei quietly withdrew her gaze, and saw that the head teacher's cold gaze was still glued to her body, and suddenly an indescribable feeling appeared in her heart.

The sky in June is like a child's face, saying that it will change, the first moment it is still a warm sunset, the next moment the sky is covered with dark clouds like a black cloud, there is a mountain rain about to come and the wind is full of buildings.

As soon as Twilight had just cleaned up and walked out of the classroom with the bell ringing, the torrential rain sloped down from the dark clouds, blurring the distant scenery into a haze.

Miserable, I didn't bring an umbrella. Twilight thought weakly as she looked at the torrential rain mixed with the wind outside the building.

"Xiaofei?"

Twilight Xuefei followed the prestige, the familiar voice, the familiar figure, immediately made her react back, Chen Xiaojie, or should she be called "Teacher Chen" now.

"Hello, Mr. Chen." Twilight Xuefei looked at Chen Xiaojie, who was gradually approaching, and said hello.

"You better call me Xiaojie, it sounds younger." Chen Xiaojie corrected with a smile.

The two stood silently in front of the teaching building, and the surging crowd of students was picked up by parents who came on purpose. In the middle of the night, only a few figures and a dull silence remained in the originally noisy teaching building.

"Teacher Chen......" Twilight Xuefei shouted softly, and secretly monologized in her heart: "Don't you think it's weird to watch the rain quietly with your students, teacher?"

Chen Xiaojie looked at the bleak rain scene in front of her steadily, and did not respond to Du Xuefei.

"Little Jie ......"

"Well, what's wrong?" Chen Xiaojie finally turned her face and asked with a smile as she looked at Twilight Xuefei.

"I said, I'm just saying what if......"

"Well, you say."

"That ....... I have a good friend who has a crush on a guy who already has a girlfriend, should she leave them?" Twilight asked quietly, shivering slightly as she finished asking.

Chen Xiaojie looked at Lu Nijia's faint side face, patted her head and said, "If it were me, I think I would be desperate to tell him my intentions, even if I would be rejected by him in the end." ”

Twilight Xuefei turned her face sideways and looked at Chen Xiaojie's confident smile with unknown meaning.

Chen Xiaojie stuck out her tongue, took out her mobile phone and said, "Okay, it seems that your parents shouldn't be free to pick you up today, I'll let Zhou Zimo pick us up, no problem, right?" ”

"Hmm." Twilight Snow Fei turned her head and agreed softly.

The rain was ticking on the verdant leaves outside the building, sliding over the dark veins of the leaves and hitting the large blue umbrella, and the familiar figure under the umbrella gradually approached the teaching building.

"Here, umbrella." Zhou Zimo handed the umbrella to Du Xuefei and said lightly.

"Thank you." Twilight replied quietly.

Just as Du Xuefei's fingers were about to touch the umbrella that Zhou Zimo handed over, suddenly the umbrella in Zhou Zimo's hand was snatched away by a flying shadow.

"Zimo, I'll have my own umbrella, I suddenly remembered to get something." Chen Xiaojie shook the umbrella in her hand and tilted her head and said to Zhou Zimo, "You take Xiaofei to the café first." ”

As soon as the words fell, Chen Xiaojie quickly opened the red umbrella and rushed into the majestic rain, and the red umbrella seemed to pass through a bright red flower in the heavy rain.

"Let's go."

"Hmm." Twilight carefully walked into Zhou Zimo's umbrella, and the faint scent of coffee from his body mischievously burrowed into Twilight Xuefei's nose.

The two walked silently on the road in the heavy rain, walking in unison like a couple in love, and Twilight's heartbeat fluttered with the rhythm of the raindrops hitting the umbrella.

"Zhou Zimo."

Twilight glanced nervously at the handsome side face next to her, but the handsome side face didn't show the slightest expression, and she suddenly wondered if it was the rain that day that caused him to have the illusion that he had smiled at herself.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Zimo looked at Twilight Xuefei, who was about to be drenched by the rain dripping from the eaves of the umbrella, and silently moved closer to her.

"I ......," Twilight Xuefei looked at Zhou Zimo, who was getting closer, and suddenly felt out of breath.

"What?"

"I ...... I like you! Twilight suddenly shouted.

It's over, the moment she just finished shouting, Twilight Xuefei regretted it, she must have been so excited just now that the blood rushed to her head before her head was hot to confess to Zhou Zimo, now her head is so heavy, she can't lift it up.

Zhou Zimo was stunned and stopped, and turned her face to look at Twilight Xuefei, who also stopped.

"I'm sorry." Twilight said softly in a trance, one hand half-covering her cheeks, which were as red as apples, and rushed into the rain.

Zhou Zimo just came back to her senses and wanted to stop her, but her outstretched hand was empty. When she looked intently, Twilight Xuefei had already disappeared into the mist under the torrential rain.

Zhou Zimo looked at the hand that was still hanging in the air, silently took it back, and walked unhurriedly towards the direction where Twilight Xuefei disappeared with an umbrella.

Under a huge banyan tree on the side of the road, a red umbrella looks like a red flower, peeking out from behind the thick trunk.

Twilight Xuefei ran aimlessly on the street in the heavy rain, she didn't know why she was running, maybe it was out of instinct to escape, or she was afraid that Zhou Zimo would tell her the answer she already knew, so she could only run forward without stopping.

What was she to him? An admirer? Or maybe it's just a cute kitten that you picked up on a rainy night?

She didn't want to know the answer, she didn't want to know anything, she just wanted to run away.

Streams of rain flowed through her long jet-black hair, over her forehead bangs, and over her tearful eyes, and Twilight's hazy eyes became even hazy.

She finally got tired of running for a long time, staggered to the eaves of a small shop and squatted down, buried her head deep in her arms, she didn't want others to see her embarrassed.

"Are you okay?"

A familiar male voice gently lingered in Twilight Xuefei's ears, was it a hallucination after being drenched in the rain for too long? But why is it still Zhou Zimo's familiar voice in the hallucination.

Twilight looked up slightly, seeing the last person she wanted to see.

"Why did you come to me?" Twilight asked softly, a hint of anticipation in her weak voice.

"This is my café." Zhou Zimo said as she opened the door of the store with a sign that closed for business. "Let's go inside."

"Hmm." A hint of disappointment flashed in Twilight Xuefei's eyes, and she stood up and followed Zhou Zimo into the café, this time she was like a kitten that he had picked up in the heavy rain.

Zhou Zimo walked out of the inner room of the café, and when she saw Twilight Xuefei still standing at the door, she slowly walked over, put the dry towel in her hand over her head, and helped her gently wipe her wet hair.

"Thank you." Twilight Xue Fei whispered.

"Why don't you go home when you're so wet?"

Zhou Zimo's gentle tone suddenly made Twilight Xuefei fall into a soft cloud, which was a foul.

"There's no one at home, I forgot to bring the key and can't get in." Twilight said embarrassedly, blushing.

Zhou Zimo laughed softly, still wiping Twilight Xuefei's hair with a towel in her hand.

This must be an auditory hallucination, but the residual warmth on Zhou Zimo's hand on her head makes it impossible for her to deny reality.

"Are you so kind to me because you feel pitiful, and it was the same last time." Twilight asked cautiously.

"Hmm."

"And you know I like you?"

"Probably yes."

"Narcissist, don't be so nice to me, or I'll like you more and more." Twilight said hoarsely. "But I'll try to make sure I don't like you in the future."

"Well, it's almost wiped off, you go in and change into Xiaojie's clothes, there should be inside." Zhou Zimo said lightly.

"Won't this be bad, will Xiaojie be angry?" Twilight asked cautiously.

"Then you can change my clothes." Zhou Zimo replied indifferently.

"Oh."

Twilight Xuefei came out of the inner room to change her clothes, the orange light flowed in the small café as usual, and Zhou Zimo stood at the ordering table, still wiping the clean glasses in her hands.

"I'm back." Chen Xiaojie suddenly pushed open the door of the store with the handle of the umbrella and said, carrying a big box in her other hand.

Twilight immediately stepped forward to help take the big box and asked strangely, "What is this?" ”

"Birthday cake." Chen Xiaojie said happily, "Happy birthday Zimo!" ”

Zhou Zimo walked to Chen Xiaojie's side and pinched her cheek dotingly, "I thought you forgot." ”

"Then immediately light candles, sing birthday songs, and make wishes." Chen Xiaojie arched her nose at Xia Sen and said, "Xiaofei will come with you." ”

Twilight Xuefei looked at Chen Xiaonuo's bright smile, and suddenly felt that she was shameless and couldn't speak when she secretly confessed to his fiancé's behavior, and she didn't notice that she was wearing her fiancé's clothes, which was like the rhythm of a bloody drama in a TV series, I hope that Chen Xiaojie won't hit her too hard when she waits.

Seeing Twilight Xuefei's stunned look, Chen Xiaojie suddenly became interested in teasing her.

Chen Xiaojie leaned into Du Xuefei's ear and whispered, "I know you just confessed to Zhou Zimo." ”

"No, it's not like that, I, I, I'm ......" Lu Nijia blushed and looked at Xiaojie in front of her and explained incoherently.

Zhou Zimo looked at Chen Xiaojie's teasing appearance of Twilight Xuefei, turned around and walked away.

"Haha, teasing you." Chen Xiaojie suddenly smiled and said, "I believe in you, and I believe in Zimo even more." ”

Twilight Xuefei suddenly remembered Chen Xiaojie's confident smile after answering the question in the teaching building, and felt relieved that she was really not as good as her.

Twilight Xuefei looked at Xiaojie in front of her and suddenly smiled.

"Thank you." Twilight Xuefei said softly to Chen Xiaojie.

"Ahem." Zhou Zimo coughed lightly in the direction of Chen Xiaojie and Du Xuefei.

"Okay, someone is getting impatient, let's go sing the birthday song." Chen Xiaojie took Twilight Xuefei's hand and giggled.

"Happy birthday to you......."

After the song, Zhou Zimo did it according to the traditional process, and after making a wish, he blew out all the candles.

"Zimo, what wish did you just make?" Chen Xiaojie stared at Zhou Zimo with a pair of watery eyes and asked, and Twilight Xuefei on the side nodded gossips.

"Wishes, if you say it, it won't work." Zhou Zimo replied peacefully.

"Hmph, if you don't say it, I know it." Chen Xiaojie smiled and pulled Twilight Xue Fei over and said, "Fei Fei knows too. ”

"Huh? I don't know. Twilight Xuefei looked at Chen Xiaojie puzzled.

"His wish must be to grow old with me, and then he also hopes that Xiaofei can find a partner who is really suitable for her." Chen Xiaojie said proudly to Zhou Zimo.

"That's not what I said." Zhou Zimo smiled slightly and said.

Twilight Xuefei looked at the happy smiles of Zhou Zimo and Chen Xiaojie in the room, as well as the delicious-looking cakes on the table, and suddenly felt that she was also very happy.

"Xiaofei, be careful."

Before she could finish speaking, a piece of cake suddenly smashed into Twilight Xuefei's face.

"Xiaojie, I want revenge!" Twilight Xuefei touched the cream on her face with her fingers and pounced on Chen Xiaojie.

"Add me one." Zhou Zimo raised the cake in his hand and said murderously behind Du Xuefei.

Twilight Xuefei looked back and saw Zhou Zimo's face covered with cream, and smiled and slapped the cream cake on her other hand.

Looking at Zhou Zimo's ignorant look, Du Xuefei smiled very unkindly: "Haha, I haven't forgotten what you humiliated my height last time." ”

"Women really hold grudges." Zhou Zimo said and slapped the cake in his hand on the head of Twilight Xuefei, who was smiling and bent her stomach.

"I, I just finished washing my hair, Sister Xiaojie, brother-in-law bullied me."

Chen Xiaojie looked at Twilight Xuefei, who had recovered her ghost spirit, and sat on the sofa and laughed, "Xiaofei, you have finally changed back." ”

Twilight Xuefei was stunned, and said with a smile: "You two husbands and wives teamed up to bully me." ”

Later, Twilight Xuefei was admitted to a good university with excellent grades, and before reporting to the university, she went to the "Love" café for a spin.

Chen Xiaojie finally left the school because of the bond with the head teacher, and then became a proprietress and amateur writer in Zhou Zimo's café.

Zhou Zimo is still standing at the ordering table like that summer, wiping the clean cup over and over again, looking at each customer lightly, but the corners of his mouth are slightly raised.

This time, Twilight didn't go into the "Love" café, but just stood on the street opposite the store, looking at the happy two people inside through the crystal ceiling windows. Because she is the passerby in this love.

But it's not the kind of passerby who is used as a background by others, but Twilight Xuefei who has really witnessed the happiness of others.