Xiao Ya saw Jiang Qi standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, his eyes fell in the distance, and the whole person was caged in the morning light, without saying a word.

She walked up behind him as if she had been seduced and gently wrapped her arms around him.

"Woke up so early, have class today?"

She leaned her ear against his back, as if trying to hear the heartbeat in his chest in front of him through the barrier.

Jiang Qi moved slightly, didn't speak, and let her hold her behind her back. Xiao Ya smelled the faint scent of soap on his body, which made her suddenly think of the sandalwood fragrance on Qiao Shen's body. "I've smelled mint on you before, why haven't I smelled it since?"

She thought about the crisp aroma, and she seemed to have smelled it only once in her memory, the time she bumped into him talking to the tide at the door that day.

"It's nothing, it's just the occasional squirt." Jiang Qi replied. He glanced down at his watch, it was still early before the start of class.

Xiao Ya was used to his tepid tone. If it were the same as before, she would always be able to quarrel with the other party because of the coldness of this sense of distance. But Jiang Qi was still the first person she never dared to treat like this. A faint look from his eyes would overwhelm her.

She knew in her heart that she might really be in love with him, which was completely different from her feelings for Qiao Shen. But she could never understand Jiang Qi's thoughts.

"The last time I was at your house, I stumbled across a photo."

Xiao Ya seemed to have secretly made a bet in her heart, and gritted her teeth when she spoke.

She felt Jiang Qi flutter slightly, and then heard his voice drifting faintly from the front. "What photo?"

"My dad, your mom, and a man I don't know. A photo of three people together. ”

She felt her lips tremble slightly. The arm in front of Jiang Qi tightened, as if to feel his subtle moves. "I just thought it was a coincidence, and then I looked at it twice."

"So, do you think I have any secret to hide?"

Jiang Qi was laughing. She could feel it.

"Maybe they have known each other occasionally before, and it's normal for my aunt to keep the photos as a souvenir." Xiao Ya gave an easy-to-understand answer to her question. She expected the person in front of her to turn around, smile and say no, and slowly explain it to her.

But Jiang Qi just listened to her quietly and didn't move.

Xiao Ya is not stupid, the face of the man who was called Dad in the photo but felt disgusting appeared in front of her eyes, saw him standing next to Aunt Fang and smiling brightly, and saw the man she didn't know intimately hugging the woman's shoulder, and his eyebrows and eyes were full of grace. She flipped to the back of the photo and saw a blurred handwriting in the lower right corner with the name and time written on it.

"Have you heard about Qiao Shen and the tide?"

She shifted the subject and waited for Jiang Qi's response. She felt his smile spill from the corners of his lips again, spilling over her arms and chest. "I'm not from your school, how do you know?"

Xiao Ya was about to open her mouth when she heard him ask further. "What? The two of them are together? ”

Jiang Qi took her arm off his waist and leaned against the window facing Xiao Ya. He looked over with a blanket gaze, tilted his chin slightly, and waited for her to speak.

"At the last art show, there was a problem with the tide's clothes, and Qiao Shen came to the rescue halfway." Xiao Ya confessed truthfully. "He seems to care about her very much, not an ordinary classmate relationship."

"Are you jealous?"

Jiang Qi smiled very well this time, and there was a strong sense of inquiry in his eyes. "Even if it's not your own, you still don't want to give it up?"

The last sentence was a sharp blade, and the words in one sentence pierced straight into Xiao Ya's heart. Jiang Qi has always been able to easily see through all her thoughts, including the past she doesn't want to forget, the status quo she struggles to maintain, and the vague future. "I don't have that little belly."

Jiang Qi straightened up from the window and slowly approached her a little more, his tone soft.

"The clothes of the tide, it's not an accident."

She suddenly looked up and saw his silhouette half bright and half dim hidden in the morning light, not like him.

Xia Chan always felt that the tide was deliberately avoiding Qiao Shen.

"Don't you dislike him anymore? Why do you always avoid him? You've been very wrong lately. Xia Chan finally spoke when a tide pulled her through the back door of the classroom and deliberately bypassed.

"Are you stimulated by him? Or did you do something to be sorry for him? ”

"I didn't hide from him." Tides are best at this disguise. "Didn't you know all the gossip in school?"

Xia Chan nodded, but her eyes were full of doubts. "Didn't you always care?"

Tide pouted, "I'm also a girl, not so invulnerable." She saw Xia Chan still with a face full of disbelief. Contact him less, and after a while the rumors will disappear. Besides, I'm already dead to him. ”

Of course, she knew that the words that Qiao Shen said to her that day could not be said to Xia Chan. She had seen the light in her eyes when Qiao Shen was mentioned, how could she not know that kind of enthusiasm. The more this is the case, the more Tide feels sorry for Xia Chan, sorry for those times when she stuck a knife in her ribs.

"What I like is Jiang Qi."

This sentence suddenly came to his mouth, and the tide subconsciously covered his mouth the moment he said it.

She couldn't tell if it was a cover for the truth or a cover for the truth.

Xia Cicada's face is full of black lines. She shook her head regularly, her mouth pursed. "I know you like him, so you don't have to be so blatant. Tide, you're such a thirsty girl, I've always mistaken you. ”

The tide stabbed himself in the heart, and when people are confused, they can really say anything.

"Teacher!"

There was a crisp cry from a girl in the hallway. As soon as the tide looked up, he saw Jiang Luo happily trotting over.

"Why are you here?" The girl arrived, and Tidal reached out and ruffled her hair. "This is my friend, Xia Chan." She pulled over Xia Chan, who was in a daze, and greeted Jiang Luo.

"Hello Sister Xia Chan, I am a student of Teacher Tide, Jiang Luo." Jiang Luo nodded slightly to Xia Chan.

"Hello!" Xia Chan stretched out her hand and patted the girl's shoulder, "The student of the tide is my student, whoever bullies you in the future, your sister Xia will arrange it for you." ”

The two on the other side burst out laughing.

"I was going to look for Lin Fei, but I happened to pass by your school, so I asked for a way to come to you and have dinner together?"

Without waiting for the tide to respond, Jiang Luo opened his phone again and looked at the time as he spoke. "It's already five o'clock, let's all three go, and my brother will come today."

Tidal's brain was blasted with the last sentence. In her spare eye, she saw Xia Cicada smiling at the corner of her mouth next to her, silent.

"I'm not going...... There are still tasks to be done in the evening. She teased as hard as she could.

"Go! How can you not go! Xia Chan took a step forward and pushed the tide towards Jiangluo, "People invite you, how can you refuse?" Little sister, don't listen to her nonsense, the subject will be handed over next week. ”

Jiang Luo bent his eyes and smiled, and grabbed the arms of the two people.

"Let's go together."

When Tide got up to greet the waiter and add chopsticks, he saw Jiang Qi coming in through the revolving door, and when he raised his eyes, his gaze suddenly drifted over, and he met Tide's unintentional gaze.

He seemed to be laughing. It's a subtle smile, but the tide can sense it.

Xiao Ya appeared from behind him and walked in with him.

Suddenly, the tide felt that his heart was faintly empty for a while. Sometimes she almost forgot that he still had a girlfriend.

"Why did she come too?"

It's not strange for Xia Chan to say this, it's strange that Jiang Luo said this sentence with Xia Chan at the same time. She handed over a puzzled and surprised look, as if asking Jiang Luo's complaints.

Jiang Luo paused, and smashed the plastic packaging of the tableware with chopsticks. "I don't like her, and I don't know when my brother became blind."

Tidal looked at her furrowed brow, lowered her head and didn't speak.

The air conditioner was turned on in the private room, and it was very warm. Jiang Qi walked over and pulled out a chair and sat down, took off his coat and put it on the chair.

"What? Why am I so silent? He quipped, looking up at the three of them. Who are you? ”

His eyes were fixed on Xia Chan's face, who was scalding dishes with boiling water, Xia Chan raised his head and glanced at him when he heard the sound, and then hastily withdrew it. "Xia Cicada, the sworn friend of the tide. If you don't welcome me, I can leave at any time. ”

Jiang Qi laughed, as if he thought it was funny.

"Jiang Luo's friend is my friend. Today I have a treat to congratulate Jiang Luo on successfully passing the piano grade 10. ”

When he said this, his eyes had already withdrawn from Xia Chan's face, and then casually fell on the tide that seemed to be deaf to the side.

"That's a good thing, I said why do you suddenly want to eat together." The tide suddenly realized, and saw Jiang Luo smiling a little embarrassedly at her.

"Xiaoluo, this is a gift I prepared for you, it is a new perfume, congratulations on your piano grade 10." Xiao Ya got up from the chair, took out a very delicate box from her bag and pushed it in front of Jiang Luo. Jiang Luo raised his head from the tableware, glanced at it lightly, and did not move at all.

"Jiang Luo?" Tidal gently nudged her with his elbow, "Ahhhh ”

"Thank you." She finally raised her eyes, glanced directly at Xiao Ya, and lowered her head again. "But I don't really like it. Keep it for yourself. ”

Chaoxi was very embarrassed when he saw Xiao Ya's face, and her delicate facial features seemed to be overshadowed.

"Jiang Luo?"

Jiang Qi's voice was very low, and his eyebrows were mixed with faint anger. "Courtesy let you eat?"

This is the first time that the tide has seen him so angry since he knew the river. She always kept the memory of his indifference or laughter. What she didn't know about his occasional anger naturally came from Xiao Ya.

Jiang Luo pursed his lips, reached out and reluctantly took the box, and stuffed it into his schoolbag without even looking at it.

Xiao Ya sat down at this time, except for the embarrassment, she didn't seem to be too angry. However, the tide saw that her gaze at her was not very friendly, as if it was not Jiang Luo who refused the gift, but himself.