She Is Brighter Than the Stars

The next day, Cheng Nian went to school with eyes swollen like walnuts, and she wanted to find a mask to cover herself.

As soon as Mi Le saw her, she asked in surprise, “Did you get beaten up?”

Cheng Nian waved her hand in embarrassment, “No, I’m allergic, I’m allergic.”

Mi Le didn’t expose Cheng Nian’s lie, she comforted her and started writing the question.

After class, Li Shubai walked around from the front row, “Cheng Nian, follow me to do homework.”

Cheng Nian covered her face, and complained in her heart: You really know how to pick your time.

On the way to the teacher’s office, Li Shubai asked, “What’s wrong with your eyes?”

Cheng Nian had a sore nose and said impatiently, “He Yunfei has gone to serve in the army.”

Li Shubai turned his face and glanced at her, but didn’t speak.

A strange emotion of “finally there are no other boys around Cheng Nian” raged in his heart, and traces of strange excitement cheerfully appeared from the spirit as numerous as sand in the Ganges River.

Cheng Nian’s head was slightly lowered, and sadness flowed wantonly from her swollen eyes, as if tears were about to flow in the next second.

Li Shubai leaned in Cheng Nian’s direction, as if comforting her in this silent way.

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Weekend.

After Xie Junyu sent Cheng Nian home again, he seemed sure that those little gangsters would not come to trouble her again, and they never showed up again.

Cheng Nian is also much more relaxed, and doesn’t worry that they will suddenly pop out from the corner.

The Siberian wind passed through the mountains and seas, blowing off the first ginkgo leaf in front of the school building, and autumn came quietly.

She didn’t know if it was affected by the weather, but the learning atmosphere in the class suddenly became depressed.

Beginning in mid-October, continuous rain lingered over the city for half a month, and the atmosphere dropped suddenly.

In the past, Cheng Nian only wore a pair of trousers to go out on the street in winter, but now she put on autumn clothes early on under her school uniform.

Another weekend came, and Cheng Nian was woken up early by the sound of rain.

She got up to wash up, lay down in front of the window in a daze, staring at the rain outside in a daze, while silently reciting the text in her heart.

When she recited to a place she couldn’t remember, she came back from the state of emptiness, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of someone walking towards her house with a bright yellow umbrella in the wind and rain.

Cheng Nian had seen that figure countless times and recognized it immediately.

The bean-sized raindrops hit Li Shubai’s not-so-good umbrella mercilessly, as if they were going to swallow him up.

The wind, like having a grudge against him, desperately blew the rain on him.

Li Shubai held an umbrella in one hand and held his schoolbag in his arms with the other, walking in the wind and rain with difficulty.

Cheng Nian stayed in the warm room, but unconsciously shivered.

Her brows were slightly frowned, as if a handful of glass shards had been swept into her heart, she clenched her hands in a daze.

Unable to bear to look at Li Shubai again, Cheng Nian looked away. She got dressed and came to the living room, waiting for him to come in.

Li Shubai was already drenched when he came in. After seeing Cheng Nian, he shyly put down his schoolbag and said awkwardly, “It’s raining heavily.”

Cheng Nian handed him a new towel, with a gloomy expression on her face, “Go take a shower, there are my brother’s clean clothes at home, I’ll get them for you.”

Li Shubai saw that there was no dry spot on his whole body, and nodded.

When Li Shubai went to take a shower, Cheng Nian found the pajamas that Su Huiyu gave Cheng Zhiyuan not long ago, and took a new pair of underwear from his drawer.

When he opened the door and saw those things, Li Shubai blushed suddenly, went in again and stood underwater for a while before coming out.

When he came to Cheng Nian’s bedroom, Li Shubai asked with some embarrassment, “Where are my clothes?”

Cheng Nian glanced at him, “It’s being washed, you should be able to wear it when you leave.”

Li Shubai responded, sat down at the table and took out study materials from his schoolbag.

Cheng Nian looked at the books slightly stained with rainwater, and her heart seemed to be entangled by a thin thread, with unexplainable emotions constantly surging up.

She frowned, “Don’t come when it rains in the future.”

Li Shubai lowered his eyelids halfway, and said in a low voice, “I was afraid you were waiting for me, and I didn’t expect the rain to be so heavy.”

Cheng Nian’s heart skipped a beat when she heard the ambiguous words, and she quickly said, “You can call me and tell me.”

Thinking that Li Shubai didn’t have a cell phone, Cheng Nian slapped it on the head suddenly, and took out her old cell phone from the drawer.

“You can use this first. Although there is no fashionable function, it is still no problem to make and receive calls.”

Cheng Nian had indeed toss away this small phone before, but when she thought of the photos saved on the phone, she picked it up again.

That night, Cheng Nian searched through every trash can on the road from the back door of the school to Li Shubai’s house with a flashlight, and finally found it when she reached the twenty-first.

There were not many people passing by at night, and the mobile phone lay quietly on top of a pancake fruit packaging bag.

Cheng Nian picked it up and wiped it with alcohol. After transferring the photos, she was too lazy to throw it away, so she formatted it and put it in a drawer.

Worried about Li Shubai’s overthinking, Cheng Nian added, “It’s just for you to use first, and then return it to me.”

Li Shubai seemed to hesitate for a while, and finally took the phone and said thank you.

On the way back, Li Shubai got a phone card with the lowest monthly rent at the roadside business office, and immediately sent a message to Cheng Nian after installing it.

【It’s me, Li Shubai. 】

After a while the phone vibrated.

【Ok】

On the rainy road, there are leaves stuck to the ground by the rain.

In the unique fresh air after the rain, Li Shubai put his phone back in his pocket, took a deep breath, and unconsciously became brisk.

The long-lost sunny day is coming, and the school is busy putting the autumn sports meeting on the schedule.

If it is not held, afraid that this autumn will be over soon.

Cheng Nian has not athletic.

In the past, when He Yunfei was still around, he always applied for various sports events and won many honors for the class.

Cheng Nian followed him, handing him a towel or to buy some water, acting as a cheerleader.

Now that she is the only one left, Cheng Nian bought a lot of snacks early on, waiting for the day of the sports meeting to pass the time.

After the entrance ceremony was over, Cheng Nian and Mi Le found a place in the center of the sports field, took out the prepared picnic blanket and spread it out, and then poured out all the snacks in the school bag.

While others were fighting to be the first, Cheng Nian lay there bored, staring at the sky in a daze while holding a lollipop in the background music of the athletes’ march.

With her mind empty, Cheng Nian inexplicably remembered her previous life.

She remembered that the sky on that day was as clear as it is today, and the glaring sun was hanging far away in the sky, but it was just superficial so that people could not feel a trace of warmth.

The gunshot of the men’s 3,000-meter race rang out, and Cheng Nian stepped into the broadcasting station when Li Shubai reached the second lap.

“Student Li Shubai from Class Three, for three years, I’ve liked you.”