Still want rewards?

"Okay, you wait a minute, I'll go get the reward I prepared for you."

Xia Ming comforted Ming Feiyan, who was pretending to be shy, and left her dormitory.

Ming Nanyan sat on the chair that Xia Ming had sat on just now, and the little residual warmth on the chair made her feel as if she was sitting in Mr. Xia Ming's arms.

Breathing in his residual scent, she propped her elbows on the table, palms on her cheeks, and remembered what kind of reward Mr. Xia Ming would prepare for her.

A kiss? A blushing game?

No, it's still too early for the current progress, it should be some kind of gift, otherwise Mr. Xia Ming wouldn't have gone out as if he was going to get something.

What kind of gift will it be?

After a while, Xia Ming came back, and when he saw the stack of test papers in his hand, Ming Nanyan had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Here, non-smoke, this is the set of past exam questions and wrong questions that I specially bought for you, as long as you do all these test papers, even if you don't have my help to tutor, it will definitely be no problem to get a passing grade at the end of the term."

Ming Nanyan was stunned and took the thick stack of test papers from Xia Ming's hand, this is ...... A gift for me from Mr. Xia Ming?

At this moment, she suddenly felt a sense of self-defeating miss.

I just pretended to be shy and asked Mr. Xia Ming for a reward, I wanted to have more contact with him, but this thick test paper ......

If it is infiltrated with Mr. Xia Ming's hard work and contains the smell of Mr. Xia Ming, she can't grit her teeth and insist on finishing them.

But because these test papers were just bought, they didn't even smell on his body, even if he had a hundred thousand points of love for Mr. Xia Ming, he was holding this thing at the moment...... She didn't even want to look at it!

"What's the matter, Feiyan, don't you like the gift I prepared for you?" Xia Ming asked with a smile.

Ming Nanyan hugged the test paper aggrievedly, didn't say he liked it, didn't say he didn't like it, and squeezed out a voice from his throat with a flat mouth and said:

"Since...... Since it is a gift from Xia Ming, I will try my best to keep them and complete each test paper. ”

Seeing her twisting and pinching duplicity, Xia Ming only felt funny.

"If you like it, then I'll rest, bye."

After speaking, he waved his hand and turned around to leave Ming Feiyan's single dormitory and returned to his room.

Ming Nanyan looked at the back of him leaving in a daze, thinking that there was some reversal, but he didn't expect him to really send himself such a stack of test papers and leave.

She sat back in the chair with great loss, the residual warmth of Mr. Xia Ming on the chair was gone, his smell had dissipated, and she was alone in the empty room.

And the damn stack of test papers in her hand.

Why did you give me such a gift?

After so many days of solitude, I finally got closer to Mr. Xia Ming today, and the result was ...... Because it seems to be counterproductive?

An irritability rose in her heart for no reason, and this irritability turned into an action in her hand, and the test papers in her hand collapsed and fell like a toppled edifice, and they were scattered on the table one by one.

At this moment, she suddenly noticed that something had fallen out of the pile of test papers.

It was a white hairpin in the shape of a bow with a note on it.

[You're all students, how can I really give you a stack of test papers as a gift?] This is the gift I really prepared for you to non-smoke, the courage to issue a card, I hope you can draw courage from it after wearing this hairpin, and you can express it bravely when you have something to say but dare not say it in the future. Come on, non-smoke, change yourself from taking a brave step forward! 】

"Mr. Xia Ming!"

She clutched the hairpin tightly, and then suddenly found that a hole had been dug in the middle of the scattered pile of test papers.

She didn't know what it was like for a while, but she couldn't help but think of the picture of Mr. Xia Ming digging a hole in the center of the test paper with a narrow smile, Mr. Xia Ming picking up a pen and writing words on the slip of paper with a gentle expression, and the picture of him carefully selecting the hairpin and showing a warm smile at the corner of his mouth......

She stood up and walked to the mirror, pinned the bow hairpin to the left side of her hair, looked at the front, then turned slightly to look to the side, then turned back, tilted her head, posed, looked at herself in the mirror, and finally changed the hairpin from left to right, thinking it was still better to look like this.

I'll pin this hairpin that Mr. Xia Ming gave me tomorrow, and I don't know if he will like it......

Ming Nanyan took off the hair card and held it in the palm of her hand, as if holding the warmth that Mr. Xia Ming gave her.

It was late at night.

She carefully placed the hairpin next to her pillow, and fell asleep while looking at it, feeling only sweet in her heart, and sleeping extra sweetly.

The next day.

As soon as Xia Ming woke up in the morning, he received a message from Wen Ling.

[Xia Ming, what time do you meet in the study room today? ] 】

Study room?

No, now he doesn't need to make up for the few credits in the general education class in order to pass the exam.

At Tianhua Academy, students who fail to meet the total credit standards are demoted or even expelled every year, and credits are also valuable currency for valuable resources, opportunities, and even access to expensive facilities.

Credits, in the eyes of some people, are the proof of the strength of the students of the academy, and they are the face of a person!

And with the task of taking care of Ming Feiyan, he is no longer short of credits.

The tool man girl has lost her role.

[No, I don't need the credits for general education classes now, so I don't need to trouble you to help with my homework.] But thank you for your help yesterday and invite you to dinner when I am free. 】

Don't need help with tuition?

On the other side, Wen Ling, who was full of joy and anticipation, saw Xia Ming's reply, and her heartbeat suddenly froze.

Since she entered the school, she hasn't been in contact with Xia Ming for a long time, and finally has this bond of tutoring, and now this bond is broken?

No, maybe ......

She remembered the month before entering this college, before the college entrance examination, although Xia Ming had vaguely refused, she still insisted on bringing Xia Ming some snacks and desserts every day and putting them on his table.

Sometimes it's milk, potato chips, sometimes it's cookies and cakes that she makes herself......

Although Xia Ming hadn't eaten it once, even if she was rejected, at least she could see him every day through this way, through such a bond, and talk to him a few words.

Speaking of which, Xia Ming doesn't seem to like eating breakfast very much?

Thinking of this, she hurriedly ran out of the dormitory, went to the cafeteria to buy some milk, sandwiches, bread and other things, and then hurried to Xia Ming's dormitory.

Even if there is another rejection, at least then I can meet him every day, stand side by side with him for a while, and have a few words with him.

However, this time, she hurried to Xia Ming's dormitory, but happened to see Ming Nanyan walking out of the single dormitory next door to Xia Ming, with a white bow hairpin pinned to his head, standing beside Xia Ming and asking him if he looked good.

Xia Ming said with a smile: "This is what I gave you, of course I think it looks good, but it is not a cigarette for you, do you like this style of hairpin?" ”

Ming Nanyan blinked shyly, the two hands behind his back were already nervously tangled together, but he had the courage to look at Xia Ming.

"Of course I like it, as long as it's Xia Ming, you give me ......"

Her lips pursed slightly, and her figure swayed slightly shyly and briskly in the morning light.

“…… I like them all. ”

In an instant, it was as if a basin of ice water was poured down from the top of her head, and Wen Ling's heart was half cold in an instant.

She stood there fixedly, looking at Ming Feiyan's shy and happy expression, watching Xia Ming show a gentle smile to Ming Feiyan that she had never shown to her, and the blood vessels under her skin bulged, twisted, and crawled viciously like earthworms.

Faintly, a roaring resonance of something terrible that seemed to come from a distant and strange world appeared in her mind.

The sound was hallucinatory, but it seemed to get louder and louder.

"Are there any after-effects of taking blue blood?"

She shook her head bitterly, no longer looked at the backs of the two side by side, walked alone to a pond somewhere in the school, sat alone on the bench, opened the plastic bag, and silently ate the breakfast that was not warm.

Still is...... It's not good enough.

She raised her palm and spread her fingers at the red sun in the sky.

Although it was the morning sun, condensed with a blood-like red, the light shining through her fingers still brought her a tingling sensation, which made her squint her eyes slightly, and she felt like she wanted to cry.

If it became more dazzling, his gaze ...... Will it be transferred to mine?

She swallowed the food in her mouth and the bitterness in her heart, threw the contents in her hand into the trash can along with the plastic bag, and hurried out of the school.

When she came back from outside in the afternoon, she already had a few more tubes of eerie dark blue potions flowing in her hands.

Whether it's for the sake of being qualified to stand by his side, to attract his attention, to make himself strong is always right.

She persuaded herself with this comfort, and for the next two days she took tubes of medicine of unknown origin and unknown side effects.

The forcible ascension of psionic energy was naturally accompanied by intense pain, but her soul seemed to have drifted to some high and unknowable place, and the pain in her body and mind seemed to suddenly become distant and unfamiliar.

The voice in my head seemed to be getting clearer and clearer.

Xia Ming...... Xia Ming ......"

She muttered under her breath, gradually discerning whether the sound was coming from her own mouth or the hallucinatory voice in her head.

……

Two days later, the trial of this class of freshmen out of the city officially arrived.

In the last two days before this trial out of the city, Ming Nanyan's plan to get close to Xia Ming could not be carried out further.

After losing the pressure of general education classes, Xia Ming didn't have to go to Wen Ling to tutor his knowledge.

And he has no new knowledge in the account, so naturally he can't help Miss Ming Feiyan, who pretends to be stupid, to tutor.

However, Ming Nanyan is not so lost and depressed, he has been waiting for twenty years, and it is not bad for this day or two.

Of course, the main reason is actually that Xia Ming's behavior of sending cards temporarily soothed the torrent of uneasiness and longing in her heart, otherwise the volcano in her heart that had been suppressed for twenty years would have erupted long ago.

Xia Ming didn't know that he was actually walking on the tip of a knife.

He sent the card purely because he saw that Ming Feiyan thought of the girl who was the same as her in the dream world, so he wanted to give her some encouragement and help, hoping that she could get out of the predicament of inferiority and timidity, and he really didn't have any intention of seeing it.

In his dream, he had to be a little ridiculous in order to complete the trial task, but in reality, he was still an innocent and beautiful young man who was as guarded as jade, and he only wanted to become stronger, and now he didn't take him out if he didn't practice for six hours a day, where did he get the heart to mess with flowers?

In the past two days, Ming Feiyan has a little bit of dependence and affection for him, and he keeps his distance in a proper manner, for fear that the pure friendship will accidentally deteriorate into tangled love, who dares to say that he is a scumbag?

The tires silently pressed against the gray cement pavement.

Xia Ming and the freshmen of this class sat on the bus arranged by the school, and after passing through the verification of three major gates and nine checkpoints, the group left the city protected by high walls and came to the wilderness.

What catches your eye is a vast expanse of green plains.

(End of chapter)