2018 AD.

After the last English test, it was raining heavily. Chu Mingyan's car was blocked outside and couldn't get in, so Chu Shixia grabbed the sinking boat and rushed into a coffee shop at the entrance of the school. The top of the door rings with a bell, and the soothing music washes people's ears.

Shen Zhou put his coat on Chu Zhixia's head, and the short sleeves on his back were drenched, revealing a layer of jade on his skin.

"I'll get you a towel." Chu Shixia complained to him, "What are you doing with me?" I'm much better than you. ”

Shen Zhou was obediently blamed by her, and did not delay in making a request at all: "I want to drink hot cocoa." ”

Chu Shixia ran to the front desk, and the young lady at the front desk smiled gently and beautifully, and she was a little familiar. A male guest sat at the front desk and accosted him with a shiny face. The young lady at the front desk handed Chu Shixia a cup of hot cocoa and a clean towel, and her smile did not change.

Chu Zhixia saw that the apple muscles were sour.

"Little sister, what do you mean? You react when others speak, and you shouldn't hear me when I speak, right? The customer is God, you know? There is no work ethic at all. The male guest said dissatisfiedly.

"This uncle, you also know that she is a little sister."

Chu Zhixia stretched out his hand and knocked on the counter, "This is a coffee shop, not a blind date office." Do you think you're affectionate as a pestering leper dog? Also, 'the customer is God', how much money do you spend on God's money here, God does the old man know? ”

"What's the matter with you?" The male guest became angry all of a sudden, and pointed at Chu Shixia and said.

"You point her again, and within five minutes, you'll have to call an ambulance." Shen Zhou stood behind Chu Zhixia and said gloomily. Shen Zhou usually wears a hat and mask, and the thin and tall person only shows his eyes, and he is particularly oppressive when he speaks in a fierce voice.

The male guest scolded and left, slamming the door hard.

"What garbage." Chu Zhixia scolded.

"Thank you." "He's been here for days, buying a cup of coffee and pestering me until I get off work." He didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and it didn't matter if I called the police. ”

Chu Zhixia handed Shen Zhou the hot water and towel, carefully examined her exaggerated beautiful face, and suddenly snapped his fingers.

"Aren't you the math Olympiad champion?" Chu Zhixia asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Jiang Qiao."

"Yes, Jiang Qiao." Chu Shixia said, "Aren't you escorted to Jingzhou University, what are you doing here?" ”

Jiang Qiao said softly and naturally: "As you can see, make money." ”

"Meeting is fate, I think you have a good face when I look at you." Chu Zhixia took out his mobile phone and said, "Let's add a WeChat." If that person comes again, you can call me at any time. My name is Chu Zhixia, the summer of summer. ”

——

Chu Shixia and Shen Zhou's admission notices were delivered on the same day.

Chu Zhixia was very unhappy and shut Shen Zhou out of the door.

"What's wrong with Xia Xia?" Shen Yu asked worriedly, "Don't you like Jingzhou University?" ”

Chu Zhixia said listlessly: "I like it." ”

"You don't see half of the 'like' on your face." Chu Ao said, "It's almost, isn't it good to be an alumnus with your mother?" Fortunately, I was studying science at the time, otherwise I would have to go under the overpass to ask for food now. ”

"What kind of gift do you want?" Shen Yu asked gently and patiently.

Chu Zhixia glanced at Chu Ao and said, "I want Dad to shut up his disappointing mouth." ”

Chu Ao: "? ”

Chu Mingyan let out a gloating laugh.

——

"Isn't it true that the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Business are not on the same campus?"

Huo Wenqing stretched out his finger and poked Chu Zhixia's forehead and said, "Both of you are in Jingzhou, and you can go home every weekend." No matter how bad you are to gather in the city when you don't have classes, you are so reluctant to sink the boat? ”

Chu Zhixia rolled over on the bed, her hair on the floor.

"I'm not upset about this." Chu Zhixia frowned, touched his chest and said, "That's it, I grew up with Shen Zhou since I was a child, ate together, went to school together, and was scolded together." I feel like he's like my shadow. At first glance, when I want to separate, my heart is a little uplifting. ”

Huo Wenqing glanced down from the corner of his eyes and reminded her intimately: "The place you touched is the lungs." ”

"It's not important."

Chu Zhixia turned over again, like a caterpillar tossing and turning.

"I haven't seen Shen Zhou for a few days, and I ignored him when he threw marbles and knocked on my glass."

"Cold War?"

"It's withdrawal." Chu Zhixia Er said heavily, "But it seems that I can't quit." ”

Huo Wenqing raised his eyebrows.

Chu Zhixia asked mysteriously, "You say, do I like him?" ”

Huo Wenqing was amazed and said, "It turns out that the two of you are not together?" ”

Chu Zhixia blinked blankly.

"Forgive me for being abrupt, I thought you two had been in love since puberty." Huo Wenqing couldn't help but applaud the innocence of the two, "I used to think that Shen Zhou was an AI, but I didn't expect you to be the piece of wood." Shen Zhou was blind to his upside-down face. ”

"Do you think Shen Zhou likes me?" Chu Zhixia asked blankly.

"Or else?" Huo Wenqing rolled his eyes, "Since I was a child, I have never seen Shen Zhou say more than fifteen words in a row to anyone other than you. ”

"Can't it be a habit?" Chu Zhixia was still struggling.

Huo Wenqing knocked heavily on the door of Chu Zhixia's head, and asked with hatred: "Are you stupid, what other habits does Shen Zhou have besides not talking and eating sweets?" He is very accustomed to being kind to you and accommodating you. ”

"Do you remember when you were in high school, you were very fond of fried chestnuts with sugar? You were born to be the life of the eldest lady, and it is tiring to peel the shell. Every time Shen Zhou buys the sugar-fried chestnuts, they are peeled, you really haven't doubted it? ”

"He said the boss peeled it!" Chu Zhixia was straightforward, "Shen Zhou has never deceived me. ”

Huo Wenqing sighed.

"Do you remember one time when we went to the library to do our homework? It was raining so hard that you fell asleep on your desk. I went outside to get hot water, and when I came back, I found that the sinking boat was looking at you again. ”

Next to the table was a floor-to-ceiling glass wall with an open view, and raindrops rolled down from the glass, and the sparkling water reflected on Chu Zhixia's face. Shen Zhou sat opposite Chu Zhixia, holding his chin and staring at Chu Zhixia attentively.

"Shen Zhou was always bullied when he was a child, he looked at everyone like looking at the air, and was scolded for being autistic and blind. For the first time, I saw so many and so many complex emotions in his eyes, inextricably linked. ”

Chu Zhixia jumped up from the bed all of a sudden, and rushed out wearing slippers. Huo Wenqing was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly caught up. Chu Zhixia ran out of the house, drove through the small garden next door, and slammed the doorbell as if urging.

"Sinking boat, sinking boat!"

The door soon opened, and Shen Zhou was dressed in his home clothes, his face haggard.

"You ......"

"Shen Zhou, I figured it out, I like you." Chu Zhixia said sonorously.

Shen Zhou's expression was blank for a moment, as if he was stunned by this simple and direct confession. This sentence is sincere, fiery, and very in the style of Chu Zhixia. Do what you want, fight for what you want, say it out loud if you love someone, don't regret it, don't look back.

"Do you like me?" Chu Shixia then asked.

Shen Zhou let out a long sigh of relief and said, "I thought you wouldn't pay attention to me in the future." I didn't even understand what I was doing wrong. Of course I like you, I've always liked you. ”

Chu Zhixia stood on tiptoe and hugged him hard, the tip of his nose buried in his neck socket, and smelled the faint aroma of laundry detergent.

"I like you so much. I just realized that I like you so much. ”

Two contrived coughs rang out in the living room.

Chu Mingyan smiled at Chu Zhixia's embarrassed gaze and said, "It seems that I know you better." ”

——

A.D. 2022.

"Dear brother, I need an explanation. On this day when thousands of homes are lit up and the family is happy, I finally asked for family leave, why are you late? ”

Chu Mingxiu sat in the co-pilot, gritted his teeth and tore open a bag of potato chips, and asked indignantly.

"First of all, the lights of ten thousand homes are not a verb, nor are they an adjective." Chu Mingyan held the steering wheel with one hand, "Secondly, if you dare to get rid of a snack fragment even the size of a fingernail in my car, no one will be able to pass this year." ”

Chu Mingxiu hurriedly took out a few tissues and put them on his knees.

Chu Zhixia wore an eye patch and rolled in Shen Zhou's arms in a mess to make up for sleep. She signed up for an entrepreneurship competition, and the project team included writer Huo Wenqing, actuary Jiang Qiao, and so on. She stayed up late every day to revise her plan and relied on caffeine to survive.

Shen Zhou scooped her out of the library, threw her coffee into the trash with a serious expression, and then picked up the car bound for the airport, and ordered her to catch up on her sleep. Without caffeine to stimulate his nerves, Chu Zhixia finally slept for two hours.

Chu Shixia was woken up by Chu Mingxiu's voice, and said with deep resentment: "My dear brother, this is Jingzhou, and it's the evening rush hour. Don't say that you came back on family leave, even if you conquer the moon and return triumphantly, the traffic that should be blocked will still have to be blocked. ”

Chu Mingxiu glanced at the two slimy people in the rearview mirror twice, and the more he looked at them, the more he felt hurt his eyes. Although Chu Zhixia has been able to fight for the sinking boat since kindergarten, Chu Mingxiu simply thought that his sister was full of martial arts - Chu Mingyan commented that he and Chu Shixia were in the same relationship as dull.

"Chu Zhixia, don't you have any bones yourself?" The more Chu Mingxiu looked at it, the more wrong it became, and he straightened his face and said, "Have you sunk on the boat?" ”

Chu Zhixia lifted the corner of the blindfold, looked at this isolated old antique in amazement, and said, "Brother, are you jealous because you have no object to hug?" It's ugly! ”

Shen Zhou chimed in: "Ugly. ”

Chu Mingxiu was so squeezed that he couldn't speak, looked at Chu Mingyan and asked, "Big brother, don't you care?" ”

"I don't care. I am selectively blind. Chu Mingyan said ruthlessly, "You should also get used to it as soon as possible, my parents were tactfully dissuaded at first, but now they are numb and have learned to fight in the same way, and in the end I am the only one who was injured." ”

Chu Zhixia laughed happily.

——

After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the more Chu Mingxiu thought about it, the more wrong it became, and finally attributed the problem to Shen Zhou. With Chu Zhixia's shallow-eyed virtue, he must have been so fascinated by Shen Zhou's face that he couldn't find the north, pointing where to fight.

Chu Mingxiu grabbed Chu Mingyan and knocked on the door of the Li family, and the person who opened the door was Shen Zhou's father, Li Qingbai.

"What are you doing, you want to pay for the New Year?" Li Qingbai raised his eyebrows, looked at the two tall young men and said, "You two are overage." ”

"I'll have to talk to you seriously."

Chu Mingxiu dragged Chu Mingyan and squeezed it in, and said seriously. Li Qingbai was the only one in the living room on the first floor, and the Spring Festival Gala was playing on the TV. There were a few medical books and a few pieces of scratch paper on the coffee table, and Shen Zhou didn't know where he had gone.

"Although the two children are in love, don't you think the two of them are a little too indistinguishable?"

Li Qingbai is only at home today a year, and he is indeed not spared, so he nodded thoughtfully.

"I think Shen Zhou is primarily responsible for this." Chu Ming's words were chiseled.

"Why?" Li Qingbai was not convinced.

"Your sunken boat is a boy, after all, my sister will suffer a little more. And the sinking boat doesn't look like your own child, it's pure and pure water. My sister has been a dog since she was a child, and she doesn't listen to what Shen Zhou says? ”

Before Li Qingbai could refute, he heard someone shouting outside.

"Sink the boat, come out and set off fireworks!"

The floor-to-ceiling glass wall of the Li family's living room is one-way, facing the small garden, which is outside the sidewalk. Chu Zhixia stood behind the withered iron fence of flowers and branches, put his hands to his mouth, and shouted loudly upstairs.

The people upstairs ran down "boom", like a gust of wind, and pulled the zipper of their down jackets as they ran. The three of them hadn't seen his shadow clearly, and in the next second, Shen Zhou had already appeared on the sidewalk, hugging Chu Zhixia.

Chu Mingxiu was dumbfounded and said, "Didn't they just have a meal apart?" ”

Li Qingbai snorted, and repeated his words just now in an intriguing tone: "The sinking of our boat is pure disaster? ”

Chu Mingyan, who had insight into the overall situation, took a sip of orange juice and smiled thoughtfully, "You don't know anything about your dear sister. ”

Chu Mingxiu plunged into his palm, only feeling that he couldn't raise his head in this life.

"This is the end of the attempt, maybe I'll drop a little paragraph or something from time to time in the future. This book is the longest and most word-count work I've ever written, and it's my first full-length work in the true sense of the word. There are a lot of deficiencies, including typos, some ancient cultural common sense or something, thank you for your correction and criticism, but it can't be modified for various technical reasons, or you can't see the revised version. For myself, the theme of rebirth and revenge is an area that I have never tried, and I learned about some related works before opening the book, and I wanted to make some new attempts, so some plot readers find it fresh, and some plot readers can't accept it. I understand that Chu Shixia's upbringing experience was not cool enough, and even full of pain, and I once shed tears like everyone else in the process of writing. But in my opinion, Chu Zhixia's biggest personality charm is "knowing that you can't do it", as long as it is right, even if it is difficult, you must persevere. This is her heroism, and I would like to encourage you here. The readers of this book are probably more female, so I wrote all kinds of female characters, generals, assassins, young ladies of the family, healers, eldest princesses, some of them have a lot of roles, and some of them are at the peak of their appearance. I want to tell girls that there are many possibilities for women, and women don't have to revolve their stories around men and love all their lives, they can also have their own families, ideals, and personalities that have nothing to do with love.

After the book is finished, I will prepare for a very important exam, and I will have to wait more than a year with you. I wish you all good health and success in life."