As the days slowly enter December, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the most feared season of the tide is winter, when people are not at peace. I don't know if it's because the weather is getting worse or because the final week is approaching, the atmosphere on campus is as cold as a dead winter scene, and people are hurrying and walking with their heads bowed with clear goals. In this kind of weather, you either stay in the dorm room with the air conditioning on, or blow the heating in the library.

When the counselor called, Tidal learned that a fire had just broken out at the school, and that the place where it originated was their dormitory, so she hung up the phone and ran to the school.

When I arrived downstairs in the dormitory, there was already a large crowd of people around me. The fire truck was still carrying out the water spray rescue work, and the tide squeezed in, and saw an unknown girl lying on the ground with her eyes closed, her body twisted due to intense pain, her face covered with the blackened of smoke and the blood of the newborn, black and red, shocking.

The ambulance arrived, and the security guard vigorously pushed the crowd away and asked the doctor to carry the girl into the car. Tide listened to the gossip and cries around him, and his eyes were anxiously looking for the summer cicada. She looked up at the dormitory building, the walls of this side of the whole building were unrecognizable, the fourth floor was particularly burned, and the most conspicuous one in the middle was the blackened balcony that had been burned, which was their dormitory.

She took out her mobile phone to call Xia Chan, but no one answered there. She felt her heart beat in her throat and her eyes fluttered violently, and she felt like she was about to shed tears when she spoke.

"Tide!" She heard someone calling her, and turned her head to see Qiao Shen running over with a panicked expression.

"Are you okay?" He stepped over to her, reached out and grabbed her shoulder, looking up and down.

"I'm fine, but I can't get through Xia Chan's phone......" Tide was so anxious that he dialed the number several times again, including the other two roommates.

"Don't worry, it should be fine." Qiao Shen comforted her.

Tide dialed four or five, and finally got through to another roommate, Hu Qiuzi, on the sixth.

"Xia Chan and we are both in the infirmary now, and we are not injured much, but Chang Wei is a little dizzy."

Hu Qiuzi reported peace, and the heart that the tide was hanging on was put down. "I'm still going to find Xia Cicada, do you want to come along?" She put away her phone and looked up to ask Qiao Shen, the anxiety in his eyebrows had not completely dissipated. Only then did she realize that his hand was still on her shoulder, and the scorching heat between her fingers passed through the cotton clothes.

"Go." Qiao Shen opened his mouth, as if exhaling in relief, and then let go of the hand on Tide's shoulder.

Xia Chan's hair was still messy, and it was estimated that he hadn't slept well before he had slept well before he was awakened by the sudden fire.

"It's really fucking scary, if Qiu Zi comes back a little later, you won't be able to see me and Chang Wei." She sat on the chair and angrily pulled the gauze on her palm, "I was in too much of a hurry when I ran out, and I didn't know what scratched my hand." ”

Tide sat down next to him and glanced at Chang Wei, who was still in a coma on the bed due to excessive carbon monoxide inhalation.

"Did you use illegal appliances? Whose bed started the fire? She pushed Xia Chan's hand away and rearranged the gauze for her.

Xia Cicada raised her head at this time, glanced at the tide meaningfully, and then lowered her head again.

"Yours."

Tidal looked puzzled. She glanced at Qiao Shen who was standing next to her, and he shook his head helplessly. "I've been gone for so long, how can it suddenly catch fire?"

Qiao Shen suddenly looked over when he heard this, as if he was about to say something.

"It's not caused by illegal electrical appliances, it should be someone who deliberately set the fire." Xia Chan had a serious face. "At noon, we didn't do anything, only Chang Wei and I were taking a nap in the dormitory, when a girl knocked on the door and came in to check the bed, we didn't respond in a daze, and then soon after she left, the dormitory caught fire."

Tide's face was complicated, and he listened quietly to her.

"When the smoke came up, Qiu Zi just came back and woke us up with a shout. Later, we ran out to pull the fire bell, and the fire was already burning. ”

Xia Chan's face calmed down at this time. "It's a shame that your bed is in the innermost, otherwise the two of us might have to jump off the building to escape."

"Have you ever provoked anyone?" Qiao Shen listened to the sidelines, and suddenly turned his head to ask the tide who was contemplating.

When he said this, it reminded the tide of the eyes that Xiao Ya looked at her every time. She was thinking about the possibilities for Xiao Ya to do this kind of thing, but she felt that it was unrealistic. No matter how much Xiao Ya hates her, she will not do such a thing that puts herself in danger. She has always been above board, because she knows that she has the capital to fight.

"Nope. There are only a handful of people I know in this school, excluding my class. Tide replied.

She suddenly remembered the badly injured girl who had just been surrounded by everyone downstairs.

"It seems that there was a girl who was seriously injured just now, I don't know if she was burned by the fire or fell when she jumped off the building."

Qiao Shen's eyes suddenly brightened when he heard this. "When I went to look for you, I heard Yang Qin from our class say that she saw her coming out of your dormitory, and her face was very flustered, and she thought she was stealing something at the time."

"Not for the sleep?" Tide asked him.

"Yang Qin is from the Ministry of Health and Health, she knows if she can't check it." Xia Chan answered next to him.

Yang Qin denied the idea of checking the bed. The tide reaffirms that it was the girl who set the fire in their dorm room.

The school issued a stern notice criticizing the incident and wanted to find out the truth of the matter, and at the same time, Tide was reprimanded by the counselor for moving out of the dormitory without permission, and the school planned to cancel her junior year award and evaluation qualifications.

The tide doesn't care much about it. After all, it was her own mistake to move out of the dormitory without permission, and she was willing to be punished. It's just that she really wants to find out why the girl set the fire. She couldn't figure out what she had done wrong, and someone wanted to kill her.

When the three of them went to the hospital, the girl was just out of danger.

Tide saw her lying on a hospital bed, her face pale and her eyes closed. She looked at this unfamiliar slightly delicate face, and only felt the cold spreading from the soles of her feet to her upper body, making her shiver.

The doctor said that the patient was still a little weak and could not speak. The tide asked Qiao Shen and Xia Chan to go back first, and they waited in the ward.

When the girl woke up, she saw Tide sitting on a chair next to her, and her face turned from bland to shocked. The tide could even see a slight disgust in her eyes.

"You hate me?" She went straight to the point and asked her straight to the point.

The woman moved her lips and tilted her head to the side, not speaking.

"It's okay if you don't speak, I'll be waiting for you here, and when you speak, I'll leave."

Tide has always disliked threatening others like this, but she absolutely can't tolerate things that endanger her own life.

"I can see you don't like me, why? Have I done anything to be sorry for you? ”

She raised her voice and asked again.

Hearing the last sentence, the girl suddenly turned her head and looked at her with disdain.

"You robbed Qiao Shen, you're sorry for me."

This sentence made the tide suddenly realize. She pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled bitterly, not knowing what to say next.

"So you're trying to burn me to death?" Tide asked coldly. She thought of Xiao Ya's eyes, and felt that she didn't know when she became the target of everyone. "You're not afraid of jail?"

She thought that the girl would be shaken by this sentence.

"Don't be afraid, it's a big deal that you die, I will jump from the stairs and die with you, if you can't die, I will go to prison for a few years. After coming out, Qiao Shen was still mine. ”

Tidal felt the blood in his whole body churning, and his heart began to beat violently, as if he was about to break through the shackles of flesh and skin.

People who are trapped in love are blind and frightening.

"Then you might be disappointed." Tide smiled slightly and lifted his chin. "What's your name?"

The girl looked straight at her, her eyes were firm, as if she was maintaining her last stubbornness and dignity.

"Music Department. Pei Yao. Whatever you want. ”

"Thank you." Tidal stood up, reached into his pocket with his right hand, held the recorder, and gently pressed the end button.

"And I'm sorry." She glanced at the girl, and just wanted to turn around and walk out, as if she remembered something, she suddenly stopped and turned around.

She didn't even know whether to cry or laugh.

"Qiao Shen has never been mine, not before, and never will be."

Pei Yao was expelled from school and sentenced to three years because there were no major casualties.

When the tide handed over the recorder, Xia Cicada accompanied her. She saw her hand holding the pen trembling all the way. It was the first time she had seen her so scared. Even when she went to the lake to save Xiao Ya without hesitation, she had never been so afraid.

Afterwards, she remembered that the tide was crying softly on the way back. She said she had personally sent two people who were supposed to enjoy their youth to hell. Last time it was Sun Mu, and this time it was Pei Yao.

"It's not your fault in the first place. If you do something wrong, you will be punished accordingly. ”

Xia Cicada can only say this. However, she admired Pei Yao's courage very much, she never thought of hiding anything, maybe when she stretched the lighter to the quilt, when she jumped down from the fourth floor without hesitation, she had already paved the way for herself.

"I heard that she has liked Qiao Shen for three years. It's almost crazy to like, but every time I confess, I'm rejected. Xiao Ya didn't dare to provoke, besides, she knew that Xiao Ya was not sincere to Qiao Shen. As soon as the rumors about you and him spread, she broke down. ”

Tide heard Xia Cicada silently speaking beside him.

She was not in the past. During the tense and long three years of high school, Qiao Shen's name was the driving force for her to persist from beginning to end. When she did the test papers at night and collapsed, when she was sad and desperate when the mock exam ranking fell, when she was ridiculed and excluded by those girls, when she thought of going to the same university as him, she looked forward to the future, endured it alone, and healed herself. Later, Xiao Ya's appearance made her recognize the reality and take the initiative to quit. She has always been self-aware.

Moreover, she may not understand until now that her feelings for Qiao Shen are different from Pei Yao after all. She would rather destroy herself for him, and she couldn't.