started with an accidental thought exchange, and from that day on, Chen Yuanzhi had an extra friend in the molten core APP, whose name was Lian.

Lian's gender on the page is male. By observing his favorites and likes, Chen Yuanzhi found that he was very interested in psychology and social humanities.

He seems to have a soft spot for physics and has a large collection of books on electricity and kinematics.

Whether it is the topic discussion that two people participate in, or the issues they are concerned about, or the style of speaking, or the angle from which they look at problems, or their values, they all highly overlap.

Chen Yuanzhi silently concluded in his heart - except for the fact that the other party is a boy - this is simply another her in the world.

In the process of chatting, Chen Yuanzhi also found that they did agree on many issues.

In the eyes of others, Chen Yuanzhi is out-of-the-box, overly rational, and critical, but Lian can always understand her thinking, resonate with her thoughts, and occasionally answer her doubts about some interpersonal problems.

- I say occasionally, because most of the time, they are both equally confused.

At first, Chen Yuanzhi was still surprised, "It turns out that you also have something that you don't know?" ”

Lian replied, "I'm not an immortal, of course there will be people who don't understand." In particular, interpersonal communication is a deep science. ”

In the past two months, with continuous chatting, Chen Yuanzhi slowly built an impression of Lian in his mind.

Mature in thought. Calm and decisive. Sometimes the words are sharp. Very intelligent and quick thinking. Knowledgeable and well-read.

- a kind of person she has never met in real life.

"Sister, study hard at school, don't fall in love! Early love can affect study, my daughter is a boyfriend in high school, and she didn't get into a good university in the college entrance examination. ”

"Yes, studying hard is definitely the most important thing."

"It's also annoying to say, she shouldn't talk about her boyfriend, she went to college, and when it's time to talk, she told me that she didn't want to talk about it, men don't have a good thing! What do you say this looks like? I'm 25 years old now, and I haven't even seen a shadow of getting married, but I'm in a hurry! ”

The old man's sighing words pulled Chen Yuanzhi's thinking back to reality, and Chen Yuanzhi's eyes were deflected and fixed on the old man.

The girl opposite looked at the old man, still smiling: "Don't worry, she's only 25 years old, very young, what's the hurry?" ”

The old man's eyebrows were lowered, and his eyes were round: "Why don't you hurry!" My relatives and friends around me are so old that she hasn't married and had children! Every time I see someone talk about it, I feel ashamed! ”

"You have to choose to get married early! There is a woman in our town who has not been married until she is 30 years old, and in the end she can only find someone with good conditions. ”

"And it's impossible for a woman not to get married, right? It's impossible not to have children, right? Otherwise, the white eyeballs of the neighbors will smash you! ”

Chen Yuanzhi's eyebrows frowned at first, but in the end, she slowly unfolded her eyebrows and returned to a state of expressionlessness.

At this time, the girl on the other side, who had been keeping her head down and not speaking, suddenly whispered: "Why can't it?" ”

Chen Yuanzhi paused, she turned her head to look at the girl, she was sitting in the seat, still in the same ordinary outfit, but her expression seemed to be different.

The old man was anxious, "Oh sister, why can't you?" You're living there, you're not married, and that gossip won't kill you—"

Chen Yuanzhi: "I also want to ask, why can't it?" ”

The girl on the other side looked up in surprise, her eyes wide open.

The old man glared at Chen Yuanzhi, looking like he hated iron but not steel: "If you don't get married, you will be poked and gossiped by the people around you wherever you are!" Why can't you, what's the benefit of not getting married, what should you do when you're old, is it possible for you to live in a nursing home? Girl, use your brain to think about ......."

Chen Yuanzhi looked at the girl opposite and smiled.

The girl looked at her stunned.

Chen Yuanzhi turned on his mobile phone, and there were already a few comments under the new impression.

She saw the ripples at a glance.

He said, "Patience is over." ”

Chen Yuanzhi suddenly felt a little funny, but the old man next to her was still outputting it, and she was not too embarrassed to laugh, so she pursed her lips hard, opened the chat box with Lian, and typed, "It's late, and now I'm arguing with one of them, blame me for not holding back for a while." ”

Chen Yuanzhi just sent it out a few seconds, and then replied in seconds: "What do you say?" ”

Chen Yuanzhi paused for a moment, Lian rarely returns in seconds at this time, and is usually absent.

"Hmm...... About trying to correct the stereotypes of some older people? ”

The other side quickly said, "That's right." ”

Chen Yuanzhi looked at the screen, and then said, "I guess you should understand that you can't correct it." ”

Chen Yuanzhi, "You guessed right. ”

In the sixteen years of her life, she has long understood that the huge gap between people due to different ideas and concepts cannot be crossed.

It's not that she's negative. She had tried many times to make the leap, and in the end reality would tell her that it was nothing more than a wasted effort.

After seeing this clearly, Chen Yuanzhi had long given up the idea of arguing with the old man.

"He's been talking to a young lady because he's helping her carry her suitcase. I saw that they seemed to have a good chat, and I didn't plan to pay attention to it. ”

Until just now, Chen Yuanzhi read something else from the girl's brief rhetorical question.

It turned out that it was not a good baby, but a stubborn child who did not obey the preaching.

"So I spoke up, I don't mind helping that young lady divert firepower."

Anyway, she has no worries about being kidnapped by morality, and she has always been able to filter gossip easily.

After a gap of two or three seconds, Lian said:

"Qingzhi, are you doing a good deed every day?"

Chen Yuanzhi was really amused this time, and she curled the corners of her lips, "That's right, what you said, let me accumulate more virtue." ”

The last time Zhang Ailing was discussed, Lian was so choked by her that she couldn't speak, and finally angrily said that she would let her accumulate some virtue.

Lian: "......"

Lian: "You're really grudgeful. ”

Chen Yuanzhi locked the screen and looked out the window in the old man's broken thoughts and the noisy roar of the train, she stroked her disobedient hair, and the smile on the corner of her lips slowly waved.

In the summer, she was actually tired of it.

Whether it's graduation or the beginning of school; Whether it's separation from friends, or the arrival of new pressures.

Flooding with cheap greenery, the sun spitting flames.

There didn't seem to be anything she missed in the summer.

However, this summer, everything changed differently.

The moment the train arrived at the station, Chen Yuanzhi's impression planet was updated with a feeling that was only visible to him-

"I'm not going to tell people how happy it is to have a soul read by another person.

"It makes me feel like I'm not so lonely, and I can be fully understood by someone.

"I met my soulmate. In the summer. ”

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The vehicle was driving in the traffic, and Chen Yuanzhi was sitting in the back row, his long eyelashes drooping lightly, and his fingertips as white as porcelain poked the mobile phone screen.

The man in the driver's seat glanced at her in the rearview mirror.

"It's two o'clock in the afternoon?"

"Hmm."

"What time do I need to pick you up?"

Chen Yuanzhi's voice was faint, "If it's inconvenient for you, don't bother, I'll take the subway home by myself." ”

Chen Wenwu was helpless, "I'm your father, how can it be inconvenient for a father to pick up his daughter." ”

Chen Yuanzhi stopped his movements, lowered his eyes and said, "Then I'll see the situation then, if I didn't call you, don't come." ”

There was silence again in the car.

The traffic cut the road into black, white and gray geometric shapes, and the light smeared a layer on the car glass, and it was not pearls that shimmered, but the dust of the city.

Chen Wenwu said while playing the steering wheel, "I will be a high school student in the future, and the three years of high school will pass in a blink of an eye." ”

"It's good to be admitted to Dongjiang, but in Dongjiang you will encounter more challenges, more people who are more capable and better than you. Dad wants you to understand that you have to study harder. ”

Dongjiang Middle School is the most well-known public high school in Chunshen City and a national key middle school.

It gathers elite students from Chunshen and even all over the country, and is not only recognized as the best high school in Chunshen City, but also the high school with the strongest comprehensive quality in several neighboring provinces and even the whole region.

While maintaining an astonishing number and 985211 ratio of Qingbei, it also has the best teachers and hardware facilities in Chunshen City, and the campus covers a huge area with beautiful scenery.

The wind outside the window and the dry heat hit, Chen Yuanzhi raised the window and replied, "I know." ”

She knew exactly where she was going, and she wasn't the kind of person who would get lost.

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East, River, Middle School, Learning.

Chen Yuanzhi stood in place and looked at the golden plaque above his head, and turned his gaze to the door.

There was a long queue at the door to check, Chen Yuanzhi walked to the end of the line, took out his mobile phone and opened the health code.

The team moved forward inch by inch, and she looked at it and suddenly froze.

…… Oops, no masks.

Chen Yuanzhi looked back, there was already a long queue behind him, and he was caught in the middle of the line.

It doesn't look like there will be a mask at the school gate......

“…… Did you lose something? ”

Chen Yuanzhi was interrupted from his thoughts, and then he realized that he had been looking at the back for a long time.

She hurriedly said "it's okay" and turned around, her vision flashing over the hem of a black T-shirt and a bony finger.

…… It's so high.

Chen Yuanzhi touched her pocket again, the team in front of her moved, and she followed and took another step forward.

The boy in the back followed suit.

…… Help, why do you suddenly feel scared of society?

Chen Yuanzhi covered his forehead and calmed down for a while.

With the language organized in her mind, she turned her head and looked at the boy behind her.

"Hello, I seem to have forgotten to wear a mask, do you have any extra masks?"

Her gaze stayed on the man's neck, and then added, "I'll pay you." ”

After a brief silence, the deep voice of the Qing Ling sounded again, "Yes." ”

Hearing the sound of the zipper opening, Chen Yuanzhi slowly moved his gaze and focused on the face of the person in front of him.

The pure black mask and fair skin cut a detached and steep coldness under the eyes, and most of the face was covered, revealing a pair of exceptionally good-looking Danfeng eyes, with deep eyelid folds and long eyelashes.

The eyes he had just raised his eyes were bright and bright, and the strong contrast between thick black and pure white made people more and more cold, but it was afternoon at the moment, and the warm sunlight sifted through the fine black hair between his eyebrows, mottled the clear pool under his eyes, and for a time made her realize a little hidden gentleness and softness.

He pulled back the zipper of his bag and handed her a individually wrapped mask.

"Thank you," Chen Yuanzhi took it, held it in his hand and looked at it for two seconds, then picked up his mobile phone, "You can open the collection code." ”

The man seemed to smile, his eyes slightly bent, "No, it's just a mask." ”

"Nope." Chen Yuanzhi insisted.

The man pointed ahead, Chen Yuanzhi turned his head, and followed the team to move forward again.

She turned her head and continued, without giving up, "I still have to give you the money." ”

There was some helplessness in the man's voice, "Do you want to give me five cents too?" ”

The sun was blazing, Chen Yuanzhi looked at him, and there was a shallow light in his eyes, "This is more than five cents." ”

The man seemed stunned for a moment, then looked at her with some surprise.

Chen Yuanzhi found out when he took it.

Pure black cloth with the words "hydrogen" printed in gilded on the lower right corner and rope. This mask is the prize of the first prize of an online photography contest held by the "Hydrogen Photography" app.

Chen Yuanzhi once saw this mask in Lian's planet dynamics, Lian loves photography, and occasionally posts photos taken by himself in the dynamics.

"I play that app too." In order to prevent people in front of him from asking too much, Chen Yuanzhi simply told a small lie and revealed the reason, "I'm sorry, I think I have to pay you, otherwise I'm embarrassed to accept it." Or do you have other masks? ”

The man looked at her for a moment and smiled, "You know about such a niche competition." ”

He went on to say, "I don't have any other masks. ”

Chen Yuanzhi: "Then I'm still ......"

"Take it." The man's eyes narrowed, and a smile appeared in the eyes of the beautiful Danfeng, "You're right, it's probably worth more than five cents." But in my case, it's really something that can be given for free to those who need it. It's up to me to decide what it's worth, you say? ”

This statement is actually slightly stronger. In other words, ordinary people will think that the other party is angry.

But Chen Yuanzhi inexplicably felt that he was smiling more real than just now.

She paused, as if thinking about something.

The person in front had already checked it, and the doorman with the watch was shouting: "Next!" ”

Chen Yuanzhi raised his head, looked into his eyes, and said very seriously, "Since you say so, then I will accept this." ”

"Thank you, my name is Chen Yuanzhi, and I am in Class 27 of the first year of high school. If you need my help in the future, come to me. ”