"Shirakawa?" Zhou Manman shouted tentatively.

"Sleep." Shirakawa Canghe's voice was hoarse.

Zhou Manman obediently closed his mouth, only to hear a soft sigh from the room downstairs.

She tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and at last she finished tossing and turning, got up and went downstairs.

I saw Bai Chuan Canghe looking out of the window silently, and when he saw her coming down, he cleaned up his emotions and asked, "Is it better?" ”

"Hmm." Zhou Manman nodded, "It's much better, I have to go back to school, so I won't bother you." ”

Saying that, she was already fully dressed, "Shirakawa, let's say okay, next time I will draw the sample for you." ”

"Thank you." Shirakawa Canghe nodded.

"Thank you for your kindness." Zhou Man said: "Who made you my idol!" ”

She waved her hand and smiled beautifully.

Back at school, Zhou Manman no longer had the depression and anxiety he had before, and his steps were brisk.

The bulletin board in the school was full of people, and Zhou Manman's pace couldn't help but slow down, and he looked at the crowd with some curiosity.

"It's her, it's her."

"The art department."

"I'm so lucky!"

Zhou Manman felt the gaze cast by him, or scrutiny, or envy, or jealousy.

She crept into the crowd and read the red notice on the bulletin board.

It turned out to be the announcement of the selection quota for exchange students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Jingzhan University, and on it was Zhou Manman's name.

Since she came to Kangsi Academy of Fine Arts to study painting, she has always been a student who has studied her own duties but her grades are mediocre, and she does not have much talent in painting. After she couldn't skate, she didn't know what she liked to do or what she wanted to do.

Later, confused, she finally figured out that people who like to skate don't have to skate on the ice, they can also wander on paper. Since you can't dance on the ice, it's a good idea to use a paintbrush to imagine what you look like on paper.

It's just that I was stupid in everything I did, not only learning figure skating, but also learning painting It took a lot of effort to be admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts.

Zhou Manman's whole energy, in addition to earning tuition and living expenses, is to stay up late to practice painting.

Her eyes looked at her name on the red announcement, her heart trembled slightly, and her eyes slowly moistened.

There was a lot of talk around her, but she couldn't really hear it, and she didn't care about it, stared straight at the bright notice, took two steps back, turned and ran away.

All the way to Professor Li's office, she was already out of breath.

"Knock Knock"

"Come in." A slightly older voice.

"Teacher!" Zhou Manman pushed the door in, and couldn't wait to speak: "Thank you, teacher, for giving me the opportunity!" With that, she bowed ninety degrees.

"See?" Professor Li said unhurriedly: "The school sees that your usual comprehensive test scores are good, and this time your work won the award, and a lot of additional points were added. ”

He nodded and continued, "Your talent is not good, but you are steady, so don't let down the high hopes of the school." ”

"No, teacher, I will continue to work hard and not disappoint you and the school." She said excitedly.

"Well, then you can prepare the admission materials, and report there first after the New Year." Professor Li handed her a stack of materials.

Zhou Manman took it and nodded.

"Go ahead."

Zhou Manman went out with that stack of materials in his arms, stood outside the door and calmed down, never believing that this year he seemed to be hanging, and the good news was one after another, although it was inevitable to encounter ups and downs, but the flaws were not hidden.

Inside the training hall duty room.

Sister Bu was coming back with an ice bucket, so she pretended to be full of Zhou Manman who ran towards her.

"Manman, how did you become so hairy." Although Sister Bu was disgusted, Zhou Manman saw the smile in her eyes, grabbed her arm and shook it coquettishly.

"I'm just a little hairy boy." Zhou Man rubbed her arm.

"I can't help it." Sister Bu shook her head and said, "Why haven't I seen you for the past two days?" ”

"There are a lot of things going on with the school and the comic company, and I just finished dealing with it."

As she spoke, she put her schoolbag on the table, "The task given to me by the comic company messed up and stained the sketches of my seniors. ”

"Huh?! How's that going? Does the company blame you? Sister Bu looked nervous.

"I redrew a new draft, and I'm almost going to have half my life." Zhou Manman raised his forehead, "However, the company is still very satisfied with the effect." ”

Sister Bu pressed her chest, "You scared me to death, fortunately, it's okay, I thought the opportunity you just got was in vain." ”

Zhou Manman smiled, then turned out a bunch of forms, and sat on the table to fill them out carefully.

"Alas, Manman, what did you write about this 'former name'? Was your former name Ho Manman? Why haven't I heard you mention it? Sister Bu came over curiously, wanting to see what she had filled in.

"Well, my name was He Manman before, but then something happened at home and I changed it to my mother's surname." Zhou Manman paused while writing and looked up at the place he had just filled in.

Fifteen years ago, when she was still He Manman, she didn't know that her family would suddenly suffer such a big change, her father was arrested and imprisoned for illegal fundraising, and before she had time to see her family, she was locked in a high wall.

Since then, Dad has never been home. Mom had to go out in a hurry every day, only to come back disappointed.

Zhou Manman didn't know where his father went, but he knew that all kinds of people would come to the house every day, chasing after his mother to repay the money.

She looked at her elegant and intellectual mother's eyes a little haggard, listening to the deafening knock outside the door, and her mother hugged her and hid in the bedroom shivering.

Later, her mother asked her, "Manman, shall we go to a new place to live?" ”

Xiao Manman asked, "What should I do if Dad can't find us when he comes back?" ”

Mom stroked Xiao Manman's head and couldn't help but sob, "Daddy won't be back." ”

Xiao Manman doesn't know, what does it mean that Dad won't come back?

On the day of the move, there was another person in the house who asked for the account, and he viciously forced his mother to repay the money.

"Want to run? Boss He owes us so much money, you have to give an explanation! ”

"Boss He went in, you have to pay him back!"

The house was in a mess, her mother's packed luggage was thrown everywhere, her hair was pulled into a bun and it was torn messy, and Xiao Manman was so frightened that she hid behind her mother and cried.

"Pay back!"

"Pay it back!"

The mother was pushed backwards, but she tripped over Xiao Manman behind her, and the two fell and crashed on the table together, and blood flowed in an instant.

The shouting people, seeing the red, ran away in a hurry, leaving only the unconscious little Manman and her mother who was holding her and crying.

"Manman, what do you want?" Sister Bu interrupted her.

"It's nothing, I think of something from my childhood." Zhou Manman smiled, lowered his head and continued to fill in.

Zhou returned to the dormitory at the end of the day, stunned by the messy scene in front of him.

"Yichen, what's going on? Why is it so messy? Zhou Manman was stupefied, and saw Zhang Yichen sitting on a chair and breaking down and crying.

The door of the dormitory was instantly surrounded by girls, poking their heads out and looking in.

The dorm keeper was called out by a loud voice, "What's wrong?" So noisy? ”

"Auntie, our dormitory has been recruited!" Zhang Yichen pounced and pulled the dormitory administrator's arm, and she dodged back, avoiding Zhang Yichen's hand.

"When did you find out?" The administrator asked routinely with a check.

"I'll get up and that's it." Zhang Yichen explained: "I got up late in the morning, and I didn't see Zhou Manman after I got up. As she spoke, she also pointed to Zhou Manman, "After getting out of bed, I found that the dormitory was in a mess." ”

Zhou Manman's eyes were confused, and he listened to her describe what had happened to the administrator.

The administrator swiped across his notebook and jotted down what he had just said. "Have you checked it? Lost something? ”

"Checked, my newly bought Switch is gone, more than two thousand dollars." Zhang Yichen cried so much that the pear blossoms brought rain.

"Did you lose something?" The administrator's tone was cold, and he turned his head to ask Zhou Manman.

"Me? I had just returned to the dorm and had not had time to check it out. After speaking, Zhou Manman looked carefully, although her desk and wardrobe were also messy, she didn't have any valuables, so she didn't seem to have lost anything.

"Auntie, I didn't lose anything." Zhou Manman turned around and walked over and replied.

"Why did she lose it, but you didn't?" The dormitory administrator's eyes were like torches, looking at Zhou Manman.

What kind of logic is this? Zhou Manman was stunned.

"I ...... Maybe I don't have anything of value to steal. Zhou Manman said.

The administrator looked down again and recorded something, "What time did you leave the dorm in the morning?" ”

"I'll go out early in the morning, after seven o'clock." Zhou Manman explained.

"Was the dormitory so strange when you left?" The administrator continued to ask.

"No, Yichen will come back in the morning......"

Before she finished speaking, Zhang Yichen hurriedly interrupted, "I went to the toilet in the morning and came back." ”

She didn't want the caretaker aunt to find out about the fact that she didn't come home at night.

Zhou Manman continued: "After Yichen came back, I went out. ”

"Where?" The administrator asked.

"I'm going to a comic company, and I'm going to hand in a manuscript today." Zhou Manman explained.

"When did you come back?" The Administrator lowered his head and continued to ask.

"In the afternoon, I went back to the school and went to see Professor Li, but I didn't go back to the dormitory, so I went directly to work in the training hall." Zhou Manman said: "You can ask Professor Li and the training hall." ”

The administrator raised his head and put away his pen, "The school security department came back to check, you guys should cooperate." ”

"Auntie, my roommate needs to have a good check-up." Zhang Yichen hurriedly greeted him.

"Zhang Yichen, what do you mean?" Zhou Manman felt that something was wrong, and instantly became alert.

"Zhou Manman, I was sleeping when you left in the morning, how do I know if you stole it?" Zhang Yichen said defiantly.

"You mean I stole it?" Zhou Manman asked: "Do I need to turn myself upside down when I steal things?" ”

"Hmph, who knows if you're hiding your eyes." Zhang Yichen snorted coldly.

"Okay, a dormitory, it's not a shame to quarrel!" The administrator scolded: "There is monitoring in the corridor, and the security department will come to check the monitoring when the time comes." ”

"Auntie, I'll persuade my roommate to let her admit her mistakes, and there is no need to trouble adjusting the surveillance." A hint of panic drifted through Zhang Yichen's eyes.

"Adjust the monitoring, I'm not afraid." Zhou Manman's tone was cold, she wanted to see what tricks Zhang Yichen wanted to play.