In the blue sky, there are always a few floating clouds, interspersed with them.

Such a good weather can't bring Xiaomi a little happiness, because today is her graduation defense.

Although I am well prepared, after all, it is a doctoral defense, so how can I be a little slack.

She touched the sweat from her forehead and climbed the stairs. It was an old-fashioned six-story teaching building, with no elevators, and the defense was on the top floor, and she wondered if this was torturing the old professors who were participating in the defense or the doctors who were preparing to defend it.

Today she was the third to defend herself, so she didn't come to the classroom in advance, but looked at the time, took the thick paper, and found a vacant seat in the corridor of the classroom to sit quietly and wait for the announcement.

Today's schedule is posted at the door of the defense classroom, and there are some juniors and sisters who are helping around to walk back and forth to arrange the classroom.

She looked at the person sitting next to her, who seemed to be a senior brother from previous years, with thick glasses, although she lowered her head, she looked a little tall, and she should be a northerner. He kept flipping through the papers in one hand, holding a pen in the other, and silently reading something in his mouth. He must have been nervous, because the fingers holding the pen were white because they were too hard. Therefore, she did not bother him either.

Suddenly, a male voice in the classroom shouted, "Li Yu!" The senior brother next to him suddenly stood up, and Xiaomi could see that he was starting to get nervous, his feet were a little weak, and he replied in a low voice: "Here!" and slowly walked towards the closed door. He pushed open the door and entered the defense classroom, the door slowly closing behind him.

Xiaomi was secretly unhappy in her heart, obviously not nervous, she was nervous by this guy, she stood up and looked at the defense schedule on the door, she should be in line behind this senior brother Li Yu.

In order not to be nervous, Xiaomi began to try not to think about the paper, and to think about some irrelevant things.

For example, this morning, my mother was nagging again that she would graduate and find someone to marry, and most of the sisters around her were married and had children. remembered that when she decided to continue her doctoral studies, the little sisters thought she was crazy, after all, she was an exterminator or the third type of person. But Xiaomi felt that it didn't matter, after all, she was not interested in other things, maybe because of studying economics, she always felt that everything should be maximized. Finding a man to marry and have children is not necessarily a choice to maximize the interests of life, how to maximize one's ability is to maximize the interests of one's own life. These ideas are unacceptable to many people, but she also knows that everyone has their own aspirations, so she still applied for a PhD according to her own wishes. In addition, she also has a hidden concern that in the more than 20 years since she was a child, she has never liked a man, although she has as many male friends as female friends.

When she was in college, a male girlfriend taught her that she must sell herself at a good price at the most beautiful time, that is, to find a good husband, and she will not worry about it for the rest of her life. But she felt that she couldn't rely on others to be stable on her own, so she kept soaking in the library where there was time to find a boyfriend. When she was in graduate school, there were also people who wrote love letters and gave gifts, but she didn't bother and continued to go to the library. After taking a seat in the library, there was always the same girl opposite, whose name was Xiao Li, so like-minded people read books together every day and went to the cafeteria to eat, which caused some rumors that millet was lace. made Xiaomi depressed for a long time, but she felt that she was not lace, and she was also a normal girl, although her personality was a little more masculine, but it didn't mean that she liked women. My biggest problem is that men and women are the same, so I can't have affection. And after studying for a PhD, I don't have time to think about the issue of men and women, every day is data, arguments, and literature.

When she was thinking about how to solve her problem of not being able to like others, she suddenly heard the louder and louder voices in the defense classroom, she looked up at the closed classroom door, and faintly heard someone arguing inside, as if the professor of the defense committee felt that the paper was really perfunctory, there was no data and no evidence, and the conclusion was sloppy, and she was not allowed to pass anything. Her heart tightened, and she felt that this senior brother was probably sad.

Suddenly, the door of the classroom was opened from the inside, and the senior brother rushed out with his thick stack of papers.

Xiaomi looked up and looked at his face distorted by sadness, there was a faint light in his eyes, and the middle end of the corridor was a staircase, but this senior brother did not go downstairs when he passed by, but walked straight to the end of the corridor. There were also some scolding voices coming from inside the classroom. When he passed by Xiaomi, Xiaomi found that the manuscript had slipped from his hand page by page, his eyes looked straight ahead, and he muttered: "It's been six years, and there are still a few six years left in life... "Xiaomi suddenly felt that something was wrong with him, of course most doctors were a little nervous, because of the excessive pressure, she was used to it, but today she suddenly felt that something was wrong. I wanted to stand up and comfort him, but she felt that the time was not good, so she slowly followed him.

At the end of the hallway was a window, and outside the window was an old plane tree, trying to overtake the building and grow its leaves.

Li Yu walked to the end of the corridor, the window was open, and there was a breeze blowing outside, but unfortunately he couldn't feel it, a feeling called despair had occupied his brain, there was nothing left, six years, the defense was not passed, and the six years were in vain. He unconsciously flipped through the window, ready to leap down and end the pain. Seeing that the situation was wrong, Xiaomi shouted: "Senior brother, don't do this!" immediately threw away the paper manuscript in his hand, walked quickly to Li Yu's side, and grabbed the clothes behind his back. But Xiaomi's figure is only 1.6 meters, how can she pull it again, so she didn't care about the difference between men and women, hugged Li Yu's waist, and pulled him down from the window. Xiaomi leaned back against the window, looked up at this senior brother, and shouted loudly: "Senior brother, it's okay, don't think about it!" But Li Yu didn't see it, and looked out the window blankly, as if something was tempting him. He was about to pull away from Millet with both hands, ready to jump out of the window for the second time, Millet pulled at his clothes, and then shouted: "Come on!" Xiaomi heard that someone was running towards them in the corridor, but Li Yu did not give up, the Grim Reaper was fighting with Xiaomi, it was going to take Li Yu away, and Xiaomi separated him from the window, and suddenly there was a force behind him, in the pulling, Xiaomi found that Li Yu did not jump out of the window, and she was hanging behind her, turned out the window, kept grabbing the air with her hands, and fell straight down from the sixth floor, looking at Li Yu's expressionless face that slowly became smaller, a group of people pulled him to prevent him from continuing to jump off the building, and there was a yellow sycamore leaf with her in her eyes.

Xiaomi was angry in her heart, dare you want to kill me, so that you can defend my thesis! I was about to scold, and suddenly I fainted in front of me.