Chapter 20—Who's in the Lamplight (2)

The tide was pulled by Qiao Shen's arm and walked forward, and saw the eyes of the girls passing by with envy or jealousy shooting at her.

This is a real Mary Sue. She had only seen this kind of scene in novels and TV series before, but now that it really happened to her, she was a little at a loss.

"Qiao Shen, don't pull me, I can go by myself."

She tried to break free of her arm, but found that there was a real disparity in strength between men and women, and she was unrestrained by this power. "Where are you going?"

Qiao Shen stopped. The tide looked up and saw that it was the cloakroom.

"Change your clothes and leave the show alone." He looked at it with a heavy gaze and a firm tone.

"But the rest of the show isn't done yet, so that's not going to work." She looked him straight in the eye, and her tone was equally unmistakable.

"How are you acting like this?" Qiao Shen's brows furrowed, and the tide saw a slight anger in his eyes. As soon as she wanted to speak, she came on stage in casual clothes, and saw his eyebrows soften again.

"Xia Chan helped you on stage. When I come, she will come with her. ”

Suddenly, the tide heard the music that continued to play on the stage and Miss Mathilte's lines. She felt a little guilty about the group and Xia Chan in her heart, and she felt a little relieved suddenly.

"Then I'm going to change my clothes."

She didn't look at Qiao Shen's expression, and went straight to the cloakroom. As she turned around, she heard Qiao Shen sigh from between her noses.

She had just hung her changed clothes on the hook when she heard Joe's voice outside the door lowering her stiffness. "I'm sorry, I was too impulsive just now and didn't take into account your situation and feelings."

In fact, the tide thought the same way at first. From the sighs and cheers from the audience when he put on her clothes, as well as the eyes that walked by just now, she already thought that she was in the mouth of others, and the name Qiao Shen had spread together. People are terrible, this is something she has never experienced, in the upcoming boiling scandal, she will undoubtedly play the heroine.

She had always known the world clearly.

"It's okay, you mean it too."

Tide changed into his original clothes and pushed open the door to the cloakroom.

Joe sat in a soft chair in the doorway, and stood up when he saw her come out. "Are you going to wait for Xia Cicada to go back together, or do you want to go back first?"

"Wait for her." She's unequivocal. "If you're busy, go back first, thank you for today."

She suddenly remembered that she had been thinking about Jiang Qi's favor with her, but she forgot that this handsome boy had helped her countless times. The first time she fainted due to anemia, it was the person standing in front of her who sent her to the hospital.

"I remember that I still owe you a favor, so I'll invite you to dinner when I have time later."

She saw Joe's frowning and thinking for a moment, and after a while, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. "I thought you forgot, yes, I always remembered."

The tide nodded, and turned his foot to leave. "Goodbye."

"Wait a minute." She heard Joe Shen stop her from behind her. "My clothes."

"Oh!" She smiled embarrassedly, took his coat off the hook, and when she turned to hand it to him, she smelled the faint and mellow scent of sandalwood wafting from the clothes. She has always wondered why Qiao Shen has a soft spot for sandalwood, just like the mint smell that always spreads on Jiang Qi's body. Today's boys look rough, but they live more delicately than their girls.

"Xia Cicada!"

At the end of the last show, Tide was relieved to see Xia Cicada laughing in the crowd. She laughed at the shouting and ran down and hugged the tide.

"How! I'll save the scene in time! She grinned, the sequins of the stars under her eyelids twinkling. Invite me to dinner! ”

"Love you." Tide grabbed her arm and walked off the stage. "How did you get here?"

"When Qiao Shen answered the phone, we were discussing the ppt of French history, and as soon as I heard that Xiao Ya asked you for help, I felt that there was something, so I came with him to take a look." Xia Chan took out a mirror and carefully looked at the make-up that had been temporarily drawn. "Sure enough. When you came on stage, I felt that something was wrong with your clothes. ”

Tidal's heart sank suddenly. "You mean to say? ......”

Xia Chan looked at it and looked back again. "I won't talk about it, you stupid girl can realize it yourself."

"Qiao Shen asked me to temporarily make up my makeup and come to the stage to answer you." She added.

Tidal felt that the brain circuit could not be opened for a while. Most of the accusatory tone in Xia Chan's words was aimed at Xiao Ya.

"But Qiao Shen is so handsome."

Xia Chan put away the mirror and spoke thoughtfully. Tidal turned her head and saw that there was light in her eyes.

The tide was right. For the beautiful and proud white swan, people are always more interested in the ugly duckling that comes out of thin air.

Within a day, there were several classmates in the French department who privately inquired about her relationship with Qiao Shen.

"It's okay for us, we're just classmates." She replied helplessly.

This kind of useless PR doesn't seem to work in the slightest.

Tide didn't know what Qiao Shen was thinking. Anyway, this sudden scandal turned her always peaceful life upside down in an instant, and the things she thought about day and night for three years have now become a futile trouble. However, she didn't plan to take any measures, and the days went on as usual. The matter of inviting Qiao Shen to eat was invisibly stretched, which was different from the brief encounter between classes and schools on weekdays, and the tide was still slightly distant in his heart.

As soon as the bell rang for the end of class on Friday, the tide loaded up the book and wanted to leave, but suddenly saw a slender figure standing in front of him.

"You said you wanted me to dinner?"

She looked up and bumped into Joe's deep and gentle gaze. She looked back at where Xia Cicada was sitting, and then remembered that she was sick and took leave today.

"What do you want to eat?" Tidal lowered his head and zipped up his backpack.

"KFC."

It's the only fast-food restaurant near the school, so it's always crowded. When Tidal walked in, he saw several girls sitting by the window looking at each other, talking to each other.

She retracted her gaze, pointing and pointing that she should have been accustomed to for so long, but now she still suffers from a wordless discomfort.

"You sit down first, I'll order?" She asked Qiao Shen.

Qiao Shen nodded, picked a place inside and sat down, seeing that the tide was slightly gloomy. His eyes fell on the girls by the window, his brows furrowed slightly, thoughtful.

"You care a lot about the gossip at school?"

When Tidal came back from his meal, he looked up and asked her.

The girl looked at him quietly, and her gaze sank again. She reached for one of her roasted wings, put it to her mouth and took a bite. "It's false to say I don't care."

"My impulsiveness that day has caused inconvenience to your life." Joe Shen looked down for the opening in the ketchup bag. "I'm sorry for that. Still, have you ever wondered why I did that? ”

Tide was stunned by the rising question of his last sentence. A strange feeling spread from the bottom of her heart, wrapped around her lips and merged into a sentence of course.

"Because I am your classmate, it is a virtue to help each other."

She felt that this reason had been used by her. She didn't look at Qiao Shen's expression, but she faintly felt that he had something stuck in his mouth to say. The atmosphere between the two began to become silent, with the tide bowing his head and nibbling on his roasted wings, and the person across from him quietly dipping his fries in ketchup.

"Tide, I hate you knowing that you don't ask."

Qiao Shen's tone when he said this was very calm, very flat, not like the person in Tidal's memory.

She slowed down as she ate her roasted wings, her mind recalling his meaningful words. He seldom uttered such critical words, at least in front of her, and he had always been polite and well-behaved in his haughty manners. Knowingly not asking, she had only heard the word knowingly asking.

"Ask what? What do you want me to ask? ”

She finally looked up and smiled.

Qiao Shen felt that something in his heart was about to burst and fall. He was used to seeing her smile so quietly, but always with an unfathomable charm. Every time she sat there without moving, she spoke calmly, but there was always a quiet force, so that he always tried to get closer, but he was afraid of touching the spikes, so he deliberately kept his distance.

"Last time at the entrance of the Centre Pompidou, you told me that you most wanted to go to the old port of Marseille with the person you loved." Qiao Shen raised his eyes, and his gaze fell directly on her face.

"And then what I went to you that night to say, it wasn't about the director punishing any nonsense."

The tides felt the temples on both sides jump abruptly. Her action of eating roasted wings stopped slightly, and her eyes stopped on the spokesperson's poster on the dinner plate.

The person on the other side was silent for a moment, as if she was hesitating, the tide had a bad premonition, and she just wanted to raise her head to find a topic to avoid, when she heard Qiao's low voice coming from in front of her.

"I want to ask you, if that person were me, would you be willing?"

This horror has not been felt in twenty-one years. Even every time Jiang Qi unexpectedly appeared in front of her, she had never been so stunned. Something resembling fireworks exploded in her brain, burning her brain and thoughts, and the pain made her unable to think.

"If that person were me, would you like it?"

The last half of the sentence swirled rapidly in Tidal's mind, winding, rushing, and shattering the nerves.

She looked up into Joe's heavy eyes. It was as clear as ever, reflecting her panicked look. "You...... Joke? ”

Tide regained his voice for a long time, and felt that the hand holding the roasted wings was trembling slightly. The sudden storm swept away, leaving what little calm she had left. "When the time comes, I can call Xia Cicada and let's go play together."

The memories of those three years came flooding back, mixed with the thoughts of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, and a stream of thoughts flooded into her thoughts. If Qiao Shen had been in those three years, she might have fainted happily if she could sit across from her like she was now and say the words that stunned her. But the old memories always belong to the past, and the emotions swept by the old people have long been covered in the dust of the past with the gradually maturing eyebrows. People are accustomed to reminiscing about the past, but they don't know how to throw away their burdens and look forward.

The person on the other side fell silent again.

"You're just kidding me."

When she swallowed the last bite of her wingbone into her stomach, Qiao Shen spoke lightly.

Tidal Tide's gaze fell on the ketchup he had already set aside, and the package had been opened, but no red overflowed out.