Chapter 17: The Stars That Look Up

This painting was named by the author "The Stars That Don't Look Up", and Xiang Dongyang stood in place, from a stunned meal to an initiation, and was poured out clearly.

After Yu Qiubo saw that he realized his mistake, he smiled and said, "Why, did it suddenly dawn on me, these stars are just invisible to the human eye, not really non-existent." Can you still care about your astronomical cognition of 'moon and stars'? ā€

In the end, the author's mind is too persistent, and he wants us to see the bright moon and thousands of stars gathering in the night sky. I suspect that when he painted this painting, he may have been reluctant to suppress it for a long time before he was so persistent. Xiang Dongyang talked about the author, and then looked at the author's note in the lower right corner, which was blank. And Yu Qiubo did not indicate the author for it after hanging it up.

"Mr. Yu, why is this work not signed?"

This itself is an anonymous painting, Yu Qiubo shook his head, "The painting was picked up by the employee next to the door, and the author put it there without saying a word." ā€

Although Yu Qiubo didn't see the person who took the painting and put it away, he probably knew who the author was when his painting skills were put into his hand.

Xiang Dongyang didn't understand how the author was willing to be incognito for such an excellent painting? Could it be that the author painted this picture for fear of being discovered?

He left the Red Square Gallery with doubts and turned back to the direction of the school, regretting that there was no clue to the author of the painting.

Xian Xinchen's car stopped at the gate of the university, and Lin Shen was the first to get out of the car and ran to the trash can to vomit.

"It's really unbearable to sit in the car, and it's uncomfortable!" Lin Shen complained, "But it's much more comfortable to spit out." ā€

Xian Xinchen opened the car door for Jiang Xiaomian: "Xiaomian, you want to take a photo..."

"I'm gone, I'll take care of myself." Before Xian Xinchen finished speaking, Jiang Xiaomian had already answered him first.

To put it bluntly, Xian Xinchen would only repeat the instructions every time, and Jiang Xiaomian didn't need to listen anymore to know what he was going to say to himself.

Xian Xinchen wanted to speak and stopped, Jiang Xiaomian once thought that her relationship with Xian Xinchen was like snow and the sun.

The two of them accidentally became indifferent to the scene again, and they couldn't say anything more, Jiang Xiaomian left with his schoolbag on his back, and his back fell in Xian Xinchen's eyes.

Xiang Dongyang was in the distance, and happened to meet Xian Xinchen and Jiang Xiaomian, seeing that they didn't say a word, and their attitude was also strange and suspicious.

"Xiao Mian..."Xiang Dongyang caught up and stopped her.

As soon as Lin Shen saw Xiang Dongyang chasing after him, he shook the lanyard on his sweatshirt and hat and laughed at him: "Yo, Xiang Daxiao grass will circle around us when he has the opportunity, it seems that you seem to like us Xiaomian very much!"

A layer of paper was pierced by Lin Shen, and Xiang Dongyang lowered his head a little embarrassed.

Jiang Xiaomian pulled Lin Shen over and asked her not to talk nonsense.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" Jiang Xiaomian asked him.

Xiang Dongyang hadn't prepared the words before, and he seemed incoherent: "You... You're going to go... Going to the library to read a book? ā€

"Oh? Are you inviting Xiaomian? However, I haven't heard of going to the library on a date!" Lin Shen interjected and joked on the side again.

Jiang Xiaomian thought to herself why everything seemed to be a bit of a coincidence, according to her usual living habits, she was planning to go to the library to read a group of books today.

But she still refused the person in front of her: "I'll have something to do later." After saying that, he turned around and walked away.

Xiang Dongyang knew that her temperament would not be so enthusiastic, and at school, this must be the only girl who would refuse him.

Lin Shen glanced back at Xiang Dongyang as he walked, but he didn't catch up.

"Hey, Xiaomian, why did you refuse him? You know, he's the most sought-after in the school, and what girl wouldn't want to hang around him!"

Jiang Xiaomian didn't care about this at all, and replied jokingly: "According to what you say, if I don't reject him, then I won't have hundreds of rivals in love?"

Lin Shen sneered, saw Han Feiran waiting downstairs in the dormitory in front of him, and smiled at Jiang Xiaomian: "I haven't seen your hundreds of rivals yet, but at this moment, I have met one of Xiang Dongyang's rivals!"

Han Feiran saw Jiang Xiaomian and immediately ran to her side.

"You're alright, I haven't been able to contact you since then."

Before Jiang Xiaomian could answer him, Lin Shen interjected on the side: "No, Xiaomian is lying in the hospital, you must not have been contacted."

"What's wrong?"

Jiang Xiaomian shook his head: "Lin Shen said nonsense, don't believe her."

Jiang Wanguan was under the balcony of the dormitory building at this time, quietly looking at the scene below.

Han Feiran pulled Jiang Xiaomian and was about to explain: "What happened that day, the person I actually liked was you, I... I—" Even he didn't know where to start.

Jiang Xiaomian didn't understand much why Han Feiran called Jiang Wanwan's name, but she confessed to herself, and she didn't care about it.

"I didn't really want to know the reason for the incident, so I went up first." Jiang Xiaomian said and turned to leave, because she didn't want to have too much to do with men other than Xian Xinchen.

"Jiang Xiaomian, the person I have a crush on is you, but I have always been stupid and thought your name was Jiang Wanwan."

Han Feiran's voice was very loud, Jiang Xiaomian stopped and didn't look back, and heard the girls at the door of the dormitory gossiping:

"Wow, Han Feiran is actually confessing!"

"Quick, shoot this scene!"

"It's over, Senior Han confessed that half of the girls in the school are going to fall out of love..."

...

Jiang Xiaomian didn't speak, walked through the crowd of discussions, and went back to the dormitory directly.

"Well, how did she go? Han Feiran's confession failed? ā€

"Wow, how can there be such a woman in school..."

"Maybe people are from the faction of Xiang Dongyang..."

"Han Feiran's confession failed, and the gossip headlines of Changnan University are about to boil..."

Everyone said a lot, Lin Shen saw Jiang Xiaomian and didn't look back, Han Feiran was lost in place, and he didn't walk on the side, nor did he stay.

After Jiang Wanwan watched this scene, she lay on the bed and said nothing.

Zhu Lili had just come up from the crowd downstairs and saw Jiang Wanguan sleeping in the dormitory, so she asked with more mouths: "Wanguan, what is going on?"

Jiang Wanguan turned over and didn't answer her.

"Julili, it's not like you're not at the birthday party, and you ask, raise your feet!" Li Xiaohuan swept the ground and reminded her.

Julie hugged the potato chips, said "oh" and continued to eat the potato chips.

Jiang Wanguan was upset by the noise, "Zhu Lili, can you chew something lightly, and you are arguing for me to sleep!"

The eldest lady lost her temper, everyone glanced at each other, and secretly relaxed the movements of their hands.

And Jiang Xiaomian just returned to the dormitory, and she immediately became the focus.

"Xiaomian, I envy you so much, I think the two best boys in Changnan University like you!"

"But I'm optimistic about Xiang Dongyang..."

"No, he must be a fancy intestine, I am more optimistic about Han Feiran, he studies well, and he must be very serious about love..."

...

Jiang Xiaomian had no intention of answering their gossip, and opened the clothing design book to take a look.

Lin Shen listened to their chatter on the side, some supported Xiang Dongyang, and some were optimistic about Han Feiran, Lin Shen made a stop gesture to let them be quiet.

Zhang Qingru suddenly remembered and asked, "Xiaomian, I heard that you were slapped by that Jiang Wanguan, are you okay?"

"That's right, who does she think she is, no wonder Han Feiran doesn't like her!" Lu Bing curled a sentence beside him.

After discussing one topic after another, Jiang Xiaomian couldn't bear their concern.

Lin Shen saw Jiang Xiaomian's disgust, and said, "Okay, I just brought a bag of moon cakes, you guys go and see what flavor you like to eat."

When the two of them heard this, they rushed to the table to taste it, and Lin Shen smiled when she saw this: "Sure enough, the natural enemy of women's gossip is snacks, block their mouths!"

By the time she finished thinking about it, Jiang Xiaomian had already left the dormitory.

"I'm afraid the library will be quiet." Jiang Xiaomian thought about entering the library and stood in front of the floor guidance board.

The library of Changnan University has four floors, and it has only been here for less than a month, Jiang Xiaomian has not yet figured out the classification of these books, and when he came a few days ago, he was just reading some professional books on the first floor.

"Xiaomian, what kind of books are you looking for?"

Xiang Dongyang's voice frightened Jiang Xiaomian a little, and his brain reacted: "I told him just now that I won't come to the library, and now I've been caught..."

"I'll take a look." When Jiang Xiaomian answered, he didn't reveal the slightest expression on his face.

Seeing the word literature, Jiang Xiaomian went up to the corresponding third floor.

When I came to the Red Science counter, I looked at it with my eyes for a long time, and each copy of "Dream of Red Mansions" was flipped through the catalog and put it back.

"What kind of books are you looking for?" Xiang Dongyang followed Jiang Xiaomian and pretended to flip through the book to ask, but in fact, he found an opportunity to talk to her.

Jiang Xiaomian looked at Xiang Dongyang's words and movements, and didn't pay much attention to him, turned his head and took the next volume of "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds", and read it seriously on the reading table.

Xiang Dongyang saw that there was a copy of "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds" on the bookshelf again, and he also turned it down, and sat next to Jiang Xiaomian to read it quietly.

The beauty is beside you, where is the meaning of the drunkard in the wine? Xiang Dongyang just flipped a few pages of the book casually, scribbled a few words, and saw that Jiang Xiaomian was obsessed, and he was really bored on the side.

When she got out of the library, it was almost night, otherwise Jiang Xiaomian would be the center of gossip when she walked in broad daylight.

Xiang Dongyang followed Jiang Xiaomian to the side, the lights were very dim, and the passing students would hardly pay attention to the two of them.

"What kind of book were you looking for just now, about 'Dream of Red Mansions'?"

Jiang Xiaomian heard Xiang Dongyang's question and nodded.

Xiang Dongyang saw that she didn't say anything else, so he just asked again: "You seem to like "Dream of Red Mansions" very much?"

"Have you read this novel?" Jiang Xiaomian finally asked.

Xiang Dongyang saw that she was no longer silent, and smiled: "I haven't read the original work, but everyone knows that it is written that the love of the male and female protagonists of Shuangyu is mixed with the tragedy of the decline of the four major families."

"yes, tragedy." Jiang Xiaomian sighed.

Xiang Dongyang asked her again: "Will anyone who likes "Dream of Red Mansions" like "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds"?"

Jiang Xiaomian nodded: ""Dream of the Red Mansion" is written for Chinese, and "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds" is written for foreigners, and it also tells the story of the love of children in old Chinese society accompanied by the decline of the family of the times."

"And who's your favorite character?"

Faced with such a question, Jiang Xiaomian answered without concealment: "Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu; Yao Mulan and Kong Lifu. They are true love, confidants, and the only gap between them is the family cause. ā€

Xiang Dongyang was silent, the four words "family reason" in Jiang Xiaomian's mouth, what she wanted to imply was just the story of her and Xian Xinchen.

Jiang Xiaomian continued to express his opinion: "If Yao Mulan and Kong Lifu are both relieved in the end, and they are all right. But what about Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu? Even if "Dream of Red Mansions" is unfinished, the two of them are also tragedies that cannot be filled in the original work. However, it is precisely because "Dream of Red Mansions" is unfinished that I believe that there will always be a reader who is difficult to calm down and continue to write a picture of the marriage of two jades, just like "The Story of the Stone", which is untenable in the red academic circles. ā€

Xiang Dongyang, who has a shallow knowledge of "Dream of Red Mansions", may not understand Jiang Xiaomian's words very well, but he seems to be familiar with her persistence, and secretly thought in his heart: "Her persistence is very similar to the mind of the author of the star painting, and blindly doing the opposite is just futile to think about."

Xiang Dongyang didn't know much about those novels, so he couldn't discuss them with Jiang Xiaomian at length, so he led the topic elsewhere.

"Do you have a good relationship with Xian Xinchen?"

Jiang Xiaomian didn't expect him to ask like this, his footsteps were moving forward step by step, but he stopped a little because of this name: "Why did you ask him?"

"I just see that Xian Xinchen is very good to you, just ask more."

Xiang Dongyang's words were obviously jealous, but Jiang Xiaomian didn't notice it at all, and snorted: "Is it the kind of sister that is good?"

When it comes to Xian Xinchen, Jiang Xiaomian's words are thorny, which makes people shy away.

Before you know it, you have arrived at your destination.

"I'm going back." Jiang Xiaomian didn't wait for him to say anything more, and entered the dormitory building.

When Xiang Dongyang returned to the dormitory, he didn't think about it, Han Feiran's oolong confession at the birthday party must have been gossiped all over the dormitory by Lu Xiaoguo.

And this oolong made Xiang Dongyang realize that his good brother was going to become a rival in love, how he thought about it.

"Lao Xiang, you're back!" Lu Xiaoguo greeted Xiang Dongyang first.

glanced at Xiang Dongyang, Xu Zifan was reading at this time, and those who have the ambition to go to graduate school are always the hardest working ones in the dormitory; Lu Xiaoguo wears headphones and indulges in his own world; And Han Feiran, he seems to have fallen asleep very early.

All this is much calmer than Xiang Dongyang imagined.

The next day, a new day, and it all just began.

In class, Han Feiran was still sullen about yesterday's events.

ā€œ... A person who participates in a civil legal relationship, enjoys rights and bears obligations, that is, a party to a civil legal relationship. The qualifications of civil subjects shall be prescribed by law..."

The law teacher was lecturing on the podium, his voice suddenly stopped, and his eyes were on Han Feiran, who was in a trance.

"Han Feiran, you can explain to you the elements of the composition of a civil subject..."

"Han Feiran?"

"Han Feiran..."

Han Feiran stood up at the second roll call: "First: nominal independence; second, independence of will; Third..."When he got to the back, he was a little unsure, and casually pulled a word to fill the number, "The third is personal independence..."

The classmates laughed, but only Xiang Dongyang couldn't laugh at Han Feiran, who answered incorrectly.

In the morning, Xiang Dongyang had already heard the news that he had failed to confess to Jiang Xiaomian in front of the girls' dormitory.

"Han Feiran, you have always been an excellent student, today the class is distracted, go back and reflect on it and make up for the knowledge points."

In the face of the teacher's criticism, Han Feiran responded in a low voice: "Yes."

After class, everyone rushed to the cafeteria.

Xiang Dongyang sat next to Han Feiran after dinner: "I saw that you slept quite early yesterday, why did you get distracted this morning?"

Han Feiran looked up after chewing a few bites of food, and saw Jiang Xiaomian's back passing by.

"Is it because of her?" Xiang Dongyang followed Han Feiran's gaze and asked, with a hint of undetectable annoyance in his tone.

Han Feiran nodded: "Actually, the person I fell in love with at first sight was Jiang Xiaomian, but I didn't figure out her name, so the person who had been chatting with me online was Jiang Wanwan, and then that embarrassing thing happened."

After listening to this, Xiang Dongyang patronized and ate silently.

Han Feiran remembered and asked, "Dong Yang, you were also present on your birthday, why did you chase Jiang Xiaomian out without saying a word, did you know each other before?"