Chixing wanted to say "Our grandma," but he didn't dare to be so presumptuous in front of Lin Chunhua. After talking to her for a few minutes, he eagerly went to see Lin Shicha.
She carefully arranged the dog's bed, and was now pouring water and dog food into the dog bowl before putting it in the cage.
"Should we let it out now?" Chixing asked.
Looking at the small golden retriever puppy with its ears drooping and obediently lying in the cage, its mouth nestled in the dog bowl, Lin Shicha hesitated for a few seconds before it tentatively went forward, curled its tongue and ate a few pieces.
Lin Shicha shook her head, "No, it will be scared in a strange environment. Let it stay in the cage for a while, until it gets used to the environment before letting it out."
He didn't expect that she had actually done some research beforehand. It seems she is serious about raising a dog. Chixing wasn't sure what he was thinking, he just squatted in front of the dog cage with Lin Shicha and stole glances at her a few times.
Lin Chunhua didn't keep Chixing for long, and with only one day off on the weekend, he had to go back home on Monday.
Lin Shicha didn't see him off, so he walked alone on the dimly lit path. He called a taxi on his phone, and when he got into the car, he subconsciously wanted to smoke, but when he reached into his pocket, he was surprised. Taking it out and looking at it, he rubbed his head and leaned back.
Three lollipops shaped like lemon slices, the wrappers were transparent and would glow in the dark, like stars.
Only Lin Shicha wore the coat, so it was obvious who had placed the candy.
Chixing opened one and put it in his mouth, then turned his head to look back at the dark night outside.
That night, as Lin Shicha slept, the cage door was already open. The little golden retriever slowly climbed to Lin Shicha's bed, raised its paws and made a whining sound, exuding a sense of grievance. Lin Shicha turned around and saw a pair of bright eyes in the darkness, reaching out to it, and the little golden retriever licked her finger.
Lin Shicha laughed, patted its head, "Xiaoguang, will you always love me?"
Coincidentally, the little golden retriever let out a soft 'woof' at this moment.
"Good," Lin Shicha responded, then kissed the fluffy head of the golden retriever.
In the darkness, the two slept together.
The next morning, Lin Chunhua's voice woke Lin Shicha up right on time, it was exactly 6:30. Lin Shicha washed up, changed into her school uniform, put on her little shoes, had breakfast, and then carried her school bag to take the bus.
Chen Mei got on at the second stop, and her eyes lit up when she saw Lin Shicha. She ran over and sat in the seat behind her, and whispered some gossip, "Hey! Chacha, I heard that our school is going to have a math competition with the art school next Friday."
Lin Shicha couldn't understand: "What?" How could she not know?
"Really! The class beauty of our class, He Xi's dad knows the school principal. She told me herself. Do you know what that means?!" Chen Mei teased Lin Shicha, getting closer with a cunning smile.
"What does it mean?" Lin Shicha asked.
"Of course..." Chen Mei got even closer, lowering her voice infinitely. "Shen Mo will also come to our school."
"But that's Shen Mo!!"
Shen Mo.
Lin Shicha blinked, Shen Mo's face appeared in her mind. Unconsciously, she turned her head and coincidentally met the gaze of Bian Heng, giving him a friendly smile.
Bian Heng immediately turned his head as if he hadn't seen anything.
"By the way, Tea, have you met Shen Mo? I've only been at Yizhong for less than a year, and I haven't seen Shen Mo yet. I heard he's also a prominent figure in Shuilu Town. I saw someone on the joint BBS forum say that he is a second-generation star. It seems like he might debut as a star in the future, but I don't know if it's true or not."
Talking about Shen Mo, Chen Mei rarely spoke so much, non-stop.
Lin Shicha, however, curiously asked, "What is the joint BBS?" It seemed she had never heard of it before.
"Look," Chen Mei took out her phone, pointing to a blue app. "This is a joint BBS forum used by four high schools, Yizhong, Ezhoong, Sanzhong, and the art school. There are a lot of people on it. I often browse it when I have nothing to do lying on my bed at night." She opened it, and several posts on the homepage were highlighted in red as "HOT." "You don't know about it?"
Lin Shicha shook her head. "I don't know. Nobody has ever told me about it." She didn't have any friends, and not-so-familiar classmates wouldn't come over for no reason and say, "Hey, Lin Shicha, this is the joint school forum."
Chen Mei sent Lin Shicha an invitation code, and Lin Shicha downloaded the app on the bus. After registering an ID with her student number, Lin Shicha felt like she had entered a new world.
The hottest post was up to eight pages, with three hundred posts on each page.
The title was displayed prominently: "[Voting Post] School Flower from the Four Schools, Who Will Win? Nominations in the first post, voting ends on the first of next month!"
Clicking in, she unexpectedly occupied the first position. The photo seemed to be taken sneakily. She was looking thirty degrees to the right, fair-skinned, with bangs, long hair, fluttering eyelashes, and a natural and charming appearance.
She didn't know any of the people below her, they should be from other schools.
Sixty percent of the eight pages were arguing, with people hurling insults at different girls. Although she was also voted in as the first, there were many skeptical voices, and the arguments at the bottom were relentless.
Seeing Lin Shicha looking confused, Chen Mei felt both love and hate for her naive appearance. "Tea, you really don't know about this post?"
Lin Shicha shook her head and honestly replied, "I don't know."
"It was so heated a few days ago," Chen Mei seemed to have participated in the argument, feeling quite emotional. "Many people said your features are too simple, and you're not suitable to be the school flower. They all support Gu Yin from Sanzhong."
"But there are also people saying your photo was taken secretly, and you don't even wear makeup. They said if you put on makeup, you would definitely outshine Gu Yin. I saw Gu Yin's photo, she's very beautiful, the kind of stunning beauty that can be quite aggressive, touching people's hearts."
"Her eyeliner looks amazing, I want to learn that," Chen Mei envied.
"The voting isn't over yet, right?" Lin Shicha's tone was no different from usual. She found it strange that they were arguing about it. It was only meaningful to dispute when the results were out.
Just as she was thinking, Lin Shicha looked down to campaign for herself. She didn't have many friends. Besides those four people, only Chen Mei, so she sent a mass message and asked Chen Mei, "Did you vote for me?"
Chen Mei proudly replied, "Of course! I vote every day."
One person could vote once a day.
Bian Heng heard the special alert tone of his phone, different from the regular notification. When the sound rang, the boy who had his back to Lin Shicha suddenly became flustered. He stiffly took out his phone from his pocket, not daring to turn around.
Lin Shicha turned her gaze back and smiled.
"What are you smiling at?"
"Nothing."
On the other side in Ezhoong, Chixing, after seeing the message, immediately put his legs down from the back of his desk. There was a boy with glasses sitting at the back desk. He covered his chest, pretending to be calm and didn't speak. Chixing looked at the message for a while, then slapped the back of the head of the boy next to him, "Vote for me!"
"Ah? What vote?" The boy asked earnestly, covering his head.
"BBS, school flower."
"Okay, Xing ge, who do I vote for?"
"Who else could it be." Chixing glanced at him, "Vote every day and tell others."
"Got it," the boy nonchalantly rallied all his brothers, "Brothers, vote for the school flower on the BBS forum, vote for Sister-in-law, Sister-in-law, Sister-in-law, Sister-in-law is Lin Shicha! Hurry, vote every day."
Chixing also ignored them, pressed the vote button under Lin Shicha's photo solemnly, muttering to himself, "Okay, I'll just be a little fan from now on." Then he turned to promise Lin Shicha that he would complete the task.
In another place, at the art school, a boy with obedient black messy hair rummaged through his desk, which was filled with gifts and pink envelopes. He was different from other handsome guys. He was thoughtful and warm, carefully collecting and putting away all the envelopes and snacks.
Someone called his name, "Shen Mo, the teacher is calling you to the office."
Shen Mo reacted slowly, his curly hairs stood up, and with a nasal, puzzled "uh," he replied, "Hmm, I know." But this was not the most important thing.
He put his textbooks in his bag with one hand, and with the other hand, he sent messages on his phone at an astonishing speed. People passing by accidentally glanced at the very chatty messages he sent to someone, but it seemed that the other person didn't respond to a single one.
The person thought to themselves, who is this, that even Shen Mo is so enthusiastic but still ignored.
Shen Mo put away his things and walked out, looking at his phone.
- Tea, are you ignoring me!!
- Why don't you reply to me!
- I will vote hard for you!
- I actually already voted for you yesterday, and the day before, but you didn't notice~~
- What are you doing?
- Have you had breakfast?
- You're ignoring me again... QAQ
Sliding back and forth, the avatar on the left still had no response. Miserably scratching the back of his head in silence, he murmured to himself: "Ziming said being aloof can attract girls, but I have been pretending to be aloof for so long..."
You still haven't come to find me.
Dejected, Silent plodded forward aimlessly. Next second, at the office entrance, the stern bespectacled female teacher bellowed: "Silent! Are you racing with ants?!"
Startled, Silent's hair stood on end, his eyes filled with tears.
"School has arranged for you to be the main act in the math competition against Yizhong this Friday, how prepared are you," the teacher spoke.
At that, Silent's eyes sparked: "Yizhong, Teacher, did you say Yizhong! Is it a competition against Yizhong?!"
He knew the school was going to compete with another school, but he hadn't been notified of the specific school, and it turns out it's against Yizhong!
Isn't that Tea's school?!
That's fantastic!!
Silent's inner child was elated. However, the teacher's words "wake up a bit" instantly brought him back to reality.
"Oh, teacher, help me vote!" Excitedly, Silent leaned in, "Look, it's this one, vote for her, vote for her, you can vote for her every day."
The teacher gave him a skeptical look, "What's your relationship with her, are you not getting involved in puppy love?"
Silent hesitated, "...ex, ex-girlfriend."
"Ex-girlfriend or ex-ex-girlfriend?"
"What are you saying, teacher, I only have her." Silent was not happy.
The teacher instantly blew up, "Since when is an ex-girlfriend not a form of puppy love? I could tell your mom about this." She and Silent's mom, Shen Hanxing, were good friends, so her relationship with Silent was not just that of a regular teacher and student.
Silent knelt down, "Sorry, I lied, she doesn't know me."