"Eat slowly, don't choke, no one will rob you of ......"

"I'm going to eat it~~ You let me eat, I must eat you~~~~"

In a Japanese restaurant near the university town, He Tianran comforted Jiang Xixi, who turned his grief and anger into appetite, and the little girl opened her bow left and right, holding a piece of salmon sushi in one hand and a tuna handroll in the other.

Not only did she keep her mouth open, but she also turned a few tears out of her big eyes from time to time, saying that it was really delicious and delicious, and then she couldn't help but whimper a few times in her nose, and her shoulders trembled a few times, I don't know if she wants to eat more or cry more now......

Seeing this scene, He Tianran really couldn't cry or laugh.

He found Jiang Xixi really interesting, whether it was Wen Liang and Cao Aiqing, but whenever one of them encountered this kind of thing, it was good to turn around and leave, even if it was a sip of herself, it was lucky, and this little girl could still sit at a table and eat with herself, I don't know if she was open-minded, or praised her for being cute and lovely, and having no head......

Jiang Xixi buried her head, that Yin Tao's small mouth couldn't stop chewing, as if she was going to send all the food on this table into her stomach, occasionally, she would raise her head while eating and crying, and then sneak a glance at He Tianran's reaction, and then quickly lowered her head and concentrated on solving the food ......

The man took a few tissues from the side, handed them over, and comforted him softly:

"Let's wipe your tears first, it's a pity that you eat like this, you can't eat well, and you don't cry happily."

The little girl raised a little face, her eyes were full of tears, and there were oil stains around her small mouth......

“……”

“o(╥﹏╥)o”

He Tianran raised his head, took a deep breath, resisted the urge to laugh, and after a few seconds, he reached out and personally helped Jiang Xixi wipe the tears from his eyes.

“…… Woo~ There is also a mouth. ”

"Uh......"

So, He Tianran folded the tissue again, and helped Jiang Xixi wipe his mouth again.

"Xixi, do you think your brother He is a scumbag?"

"Count!"

Jiang Xixi didn't want to think about it, and nodded vigorously.

"Then it's not worth it for you to shed tears for a scumbag, you know."

He Tianran comforted along the lines.

"Woo~ But when I think that you are a scumbag, you don't come to scumbag me, and people will be even more sad and annoyed ......"

Jiang Xixi's tears fell again.

"Okay, don't cry, take it, you see that the people around you are looking at us, anyway, the scumbag is not ashamed, the one who is ashamed is the one who cries."

He Tianran looked around and comforted in disguise.

When she said this, Jiang Xixi really bit her lip, held her breath, and stopped her tears, her eyes were staring at the bad guy opposite, her nose was still sobbing, and her chest was constantly rising and falling because she wanted to stop crying.

After settling down, He Tianran picked up a piece of sushi from the table and put it in his mouth, he smiled:

"You said you, you know I'm a scumbag, and you want to come to dinner with me, I thought you would leave angrily, why did you stay?"

Jiang Xixi shook his head stubbornly:

"Scum is scum, rice must be eaten, and this is not the same ......"

"How is it different?"

"It's just different!" After the little girl finished speaking, she said weakly: "I always knew that you liked Sister Cao, but you haven't confessed, it's been three years, and there has been no progress at all, I thought you didn't like her so much...... And in the past three years, how well we have played together, you haven't kept any distance from me, which makes me feel like I still have a chance...... But I didn't expect that you ended up being a scumbag! ”

He Tianran was confused: "So in the end, he is not a scumbag, what's the difference?" ”

Jiang Xixi was silent for a while, and viciously stuffed the food into her mouth, as if what she was chewing in her mouth was the meat of the man in front of her.

"Because in most royal anime, the protagonist learns to be grateful, and he will become stronger!"

“…… Clams? ”

He Tianran was stupid, Jiang Xixi looked at him, his eyes were red, he felt very middle-class, and repeated it very seriously:

"Because of gratitude! Brother He, although you are a scumbag, you have helped me take pictures, cut videos, and take me to comic conventions in the past three years, so that so many people know me, so that I am still a freshman and can support myself by my own hobbies, which I can't do alone...... So, I can't leave you behind, even if you're ...... Woo~~Don't love me~~Wow~~"

In the end, Jiang Xixi couldn't help but cry again......

This time, He Tianran didn't comfort her anymore, he just watched the little girl cry uncontrollably.

The girl's words touched him very much, and the inexplicable taste reflected on his face, making him smile heartily.

Why did you like two-dimensional before?

What did those games, anime, and movies bring to you?

I'm afraid this is not only a way for the autistic and loveless He Tianran to escape from reality before, but what he indulged in was not only sticky, astringent, and Long Aotian's pickled content.

During this most sensitive period of his youth, he saw more of a way of understanding the world and understanding himself, such as growth in adversity, the brilliance of courage, the bonds of friendship and the yearning for love......

In reality, his own parents, the cold campus, and the cruel society have never covered up the magnificent fantasies in his mind.

The elders and teachers had never taught him the truth, he would try to learn in these channels, and when he reflected it in his own behavior, although he would be ridiculed by the people around him, and his heart would be belittled all over his body, but he still did not have self-doubt.

The boy likes these works and believes in the ideas and truths expressed in them.

For he had seen the light in it.

And the meaning expressed by Jiang Xixi at this moment is so in line with He Tiantian's style of dealing with the world, that he can't help but see Jiang Xixi as a cheerful version of himself in that sensitive period......

Of course, this particular emotion didn't last long-

"Hello, this time the consumption of the two is a total of 1570."

“……”

“……”

Well, before leaving, a cold bill made He Tianran return to reality in an instant, Jiang Xixi was secretly speechless, and people stopped crying, turned his head to the wall, pretending to be looking at the scenery......

After settling the accounts and going out, the moon has risen in the east.

He Tianran sent Jiang Xixi back to the Foreign Chinese College, the girl had regained her calm, but she was silent all the way, and when the two walked to a campus path, she opened her mouth and asked:

"Brother He, what would you do if Sister Cao rejected you?"

"If you don't do it, then keep chasing, you can't think of me, okay? For example, I'm sure I'll be able to catch up or something. ”

He Tianran joked.

"Are we still friends?"

"Of course...... But, it's better to keep your distance, it's better not to contact you if there's nothing to do. ”

He Tianran replied a little coldly, he didn't want to mislead Jiang Xixi anymore, making her think that she still had a chance, because men knew that some people would not die if they didn't hit the south wall.

Jiang Xixi nervously asked again: "Then if you don't catch up with Sister Cao, will you consider me?"

He Tianran paused, stopped, patted Jiang Xixi's shoulders with both hands, shook it in a joking tone, and said bluntly:

"It's a pity, lick the dog, lick the dog, lick until there is nothing left! Wake up! ”

Jiang Xixi asked innocently: "Then Brother He, how do you know that you can lick Sister Cao?" ”

“……”

“……”

After a subtle silence, the little girl said in confusion:

"Brother He, is there something wrong with me? You think I'm not pretty? Not tall and with a bad personality? ”

He Tianran hurriedly shook his head, and said sincerely in a tone that was too affirmative to affirm:

"Nope! Don't think so, don't deny yourself, you are very good, very gentle, very beautiful, and very worthy! I don't like you, it's my problem, don't ask me why you're so good, but I just don't like you like this, there is no why, I just don't like it, it's born, it's destined, if you ask me a hundred times, I'll say you're very good, it's the truth; In the same way, if you ask me a hundred times, I will also say that I don't like it, and that's the truth, get it, silly girl? ”

After a while, Jiang Xixi broke free of He Tianran's hands in silence and said politely:

"Brother He, I can go back to bed along this road, you can send it here......"

The man saw that there was nothing abnormal on her face, so he nodded, "Well, you go, I'll go back too." ”

"So we'll ...... next time"

"Let's talk about it."

"Hmmm......"

He Tianran turned around, he walked out for a while, and he didn't look back during the period, as if sending the girl back to bed, it was just a courtesy errand, until—

"Brother He!"

Behind her, the little girl's voice sounded again.

He Tianran thought about it, and continued to move forward without stopping, until he heard Jiang Xixi's words-

"Brother He, although I failed this time, next time, I will definitely become stronger!!"

The girl's slightly immature voice resounded through the four fields, the shame of this sentence was really embarrassing and the second middle two exploded, which made people get goosebumps when they heard it, but when this familiar middle two speech reached He Tianran's ears, the corners of the man's mouth kept flying up......

He finally turned around to look, Jiang Xixi was still standing in place, and when the girl saw He Tianran's view, both hands were raised at the same time, and the palms were tightly clenched into fists, and she shouted angrily again:

"Xixi will definitely become stronger next time!"

"Poof~haha."

He Tianran finally couldn't help it and laughed loudly.

"Definitely! It's going to get stronger! ”

Jiang Xixi spread his teeth and claws in place, repeating his declaration of becoming stronger loudly.

He Tianran straightened his waist, and didn't care about the strange eyes of those sporadic bystanders looking at them, and the man responded loudly in the middle two way that both of them liked:

"I believe in you, I'll wait for you, we all have to get stronger together, okay?!"

"Good!"

Jiang Xixi's face flushed, she looked at He Tianran and turned away again, the man turned his back to her and walked away, suddenly, his right hand was raised high, and he was still holding the yellow duck in his hand, he waved his hand, and the doll also swayed.

It seems that He Tianran seems to have returned to the period of the second year of secondary school, and with a deep voice in his mouth, he said a famous line in "The Prince of Tennis":

“まだまだだね！ (You're not even close!) ）”

"Poof~"

This plastic Japanese accent made Jiang Xixi laugh instantly.

It seems that compared to the second middle school, Brother He is still better, and he just ...... There should be no shame on him now!

Thinking of this, Jiang Xixi turned around, put his hands behind his back, and jumped away towards the way back.

The next time the two meet, will they be better versions of themselves?

Yes, definitely.

Jiang Xixi was so determined in her heart.

……

……

It's nine o'clock in the evening.

This is the busiest time of the year in the university town, when groups of fun-seekers come from the other end of their schools, the quiet lights shine on the smug look on their faces, and the streets are brightly lit up by the open pavement, and the crowd of people dressed in bright costumes fish back and forth on the road like neon......

Originally, this street was supposed to be like this.

However, there is only one person, and he is in the midst of this crowd, but he feels very special.

It's not that others see him as special, but that he sees others as special......

There should be some music playing in the shops on the street, and there should be an inevitable noise in the passing of the crowd.

But he couldn't hear any of that.

In his eyes, the street has completely lost its original color.

It's eerily quiet......

He Tianran unconsciously returned to this commercial street not far from the film school......

He just stood in the middle of the road, and the crowd that had turned into black and white, like a ghost, ignored him, and subconsciously walked around.

At this moment, the doll in the man's hand has become the only color he can see now.

He Tianran was supposed to return to Hong Kong City University now, but when his brain sent the thought of "going back" to his body just now, he still subconsciously came here......

With the position where he is standing now, walk another 300 meters, and walk out of the pedestrian street, and there is the film academy.

And if you turn left at the next intersection, it will be the community where he has lived with Wen Liang for almost two years.

This used to be his and Wen Liang's favorite place to visit, there are three movie theaters, seven board game halls, and fifty-two restaurants of different sizes on this street, as for the shops, they haven't had time to count, just because Wen Liang doesn't like to come here to shop, she prefers to go to the Universe Street.

He Tianran suddenly didn't want to remember so much, but when he stood here, those memories seemed to be out of control, and he recalled all kinds of past events......

The man's breathing became rapid, his heart beat faster, his forehead sweated, and he couldn't accept being completely in this dead black and white world for a while......

Turning his pace, He Tianran fled as if he had fled, and he secretly swore that next time, he would never go the wrong way again......

His heart, perhaps, is really not strong enough.

(End of chapter)