Watching the sea from the shore

Chapter 35 The Hole in the Heart
The wind was very strong at night, and Ni Manhua felt that the thick false eyelashes stuck to his eyes were about to be blown away.She walked quickly, hoping to catch up with the performance.

Lu Guanhai followed behind her. He usually walked slowly, but it was a bit difficult to follow now.

"The street lights are very dim, be careful not to fall, we still have time." Lu Guanhai said from behind, trying to persuade Ni Manhua.Ni Manhua was afraid that he would fall, so he slowed down.

There are still people in the school at this time. For a large-scale event like the school anniversary, not only all the seats in the auditorium are full, but there are also many classes that do not have enough seats and they have to move chairs and sit in the aisles. Although there are teachers to manage order, the audience is dark, and many people don’t want to People watching the show would take the opportunity to sneak out.

On the campus avenue, and even in the dormitory, there were many disobedient students who slipped out.

When passing a dormitory building, Ni Manhua stared at his feet without caring about anything else. He was still a little dazed when he was pushed away by Lu Guanhai.

"Be careful." Lu Guanhai suddenly pushed Ni Manhua from behind, and Ni Manhua staggered forward a few steps, almost falling to the ground.When I looked back, I realized that Lu Guanhai was drenched in water.

"What's going on?" Ni Manhua looked up at the stairs in shock. The girl who was watering the flowers on the balcony was also in a panic: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I filled too much water and I didn't hold it properly. I'll bring you dry towels."

"No need." Lu Guanhai wiped the water stains from his eyes: "We still have something to do."

Ni Manhua looked at Lu Guanhai. He was soaked through. The wind was so strong that it made her feel cold.

Ni Manhua said: "It's better to wipe it."

"No, I don't have time. I'll take you to the tailor shop first, and then I'll take the bus back to change clothes."

Anyway, his speech has ended, and there is no point in staying here tonight.

Ni Manhua couldn't resist Lu Guanhai, so he could only jog with him to the tailor shop, and then urged him to go home quickly.

Lu Guanhai looked at her and said, "The performance went well."

"Yes, thank you."

When Ni Manhua changed the zipper pull and returned to the dressing room, it was already 08:30. Zhan Ping breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw her: "We have three more shows before us, so change clothes quickly."

Ni Manhua nodded and went to the dressing area to change clothes. When she zipped up the zipper behind her back, Lu Guanhai appeared in her mind again.

I don’t know if he’s home now. It won’t be good if he’s sick today.

After putting on high heels and walking out of the dressing room, Zhan Ping came over with a camera: "Come and take pictures, Manman, why are you looking so grim, are you tired from running?"

"No."

"Then just smile, you'll have to smile again when you get on stage."

Ni Manhua could only curl her lips stiffly. At this moment, she was going against her own heart, as if she had returned to 2023.

The only thing that is fortunate is that the performance went smoothly. After the end, Ni Manhua took off her make-up and packed her things as quickly as possible.Students who participated in the performance did not need to maintain class hygiene. After Ni Manhua cleaned himself up, he just hurriedly said to Zhan Ping and walked to the school gate alone without waiting for Zhan Ping.

It was difficult to wait for the bus, so Ni Manhua chose to take a taxi. When she got on the bus, she blurted out the familiar address, but found that she had not been to Lu Guanhai's house in this time and space.

Wouldn't it be too abrupt to visit like this?
But Lu Guanhai's home was really close to the school. It was so close that Ni Manhua was already downstairs of his home before he could think about the result.

The area where Lu Guanhai lives is a stair house in the old city. Their family lives on the third floor.Ni Manhua stood downstairs and took a deep breath, tightened the strap of his schoolbag, walked to Lu Guanhai's house and knocked on the door.

The person who opened the door was Lu Guanhai. He was a little surprised when he saw Ni Manhua, and there was a flash of surprise in his eyes: "Did the performance go well?"

He didn't ask her why she came.

"Everything went well. Is Auntie at home?"

"My mother is guarding the store, you should come in first."

Ni Manhua entered the door with his head lowered. After much hesitation, he decided to explain: "I asked your classmate for the specific address of your home... Didn't you blow dry your hair?"

Lu Guanhai had already taken a shower and changed clothes, but his hair was still wet.Lu Guanhai has always disliked drying his hair, thinking it would be troublesome. He always said that boys' hair is so short that it can be dried just by hanging it, so it doesn't have to be so troublesome.

Later, Ni Manhua would force him to blow dry his hair in autumn and winter, fearing that he would catch a cold or have a fever, and would even do it himself when he was unwilling.

Perhaps because he wasn't familiar with her yet, Lu Guanhai just said, "I'll go to my mother's room to get a hair dryer. You wait in my room for a while."

Ni Manhua walked into Lu Guanhai's room at Lu Guanhai's signal.His room was no different from what Ni Manhua remembered, small but tidy.Lu Guanhai has always been a hard-working and sensible person. He can do laundry, cook and clean the room when he is urinating. When he entered the military training in school, the instructor taught him how to fold quilts, and now he can fold his own quilts into tofu cubes.

Ni Manhua seemed to be participating in a long-lost exhibition, walking from one corner to another in the small room of Lu Guanhai.Near the bedside, on the desk in the right corner, the desk lamp was on, and there were some photos on the table that looked familiar to Ni Manhua.

In the school magazine, Lu Guanhai actually cut out the few photos of Ni Manhua participating in the show.

Ni Manhua suddenly smiled. When he was a boy, Lu Guanhai really liked her very seriously.So she would be so irrational and have hope for him again when she was young.

With such a good Lu Guanhai in front of him, who can believe that he will become a different person in the future.

Lu Guanhai walked in after blow-drying his hair and saw Ni Manhua's back standing in front of his desk. He paused for a long time and then said with a smile: "I couldn't watch your show today, so I looked for some photos from previous shows. "

Ni Manhua turned to look at Lu Guanhai, the expression on his face was so magnanimous.Ni Manhua became shamefully greedy. She no longer wanted to spend the rest of her life with Lu Guanhai in the future, but she coveted the pure love of Lu Guanhai now.

Ni Manhua asked: "Do you have a habit of collecting performance photos? Or do you just collect my photos?"

"I only accepted it from you." Lu Guanhai answered quickly, but after a while he added: "I have always used you as a role model."

"example?"

"Well, you stood next to me when we were paying fees in the first year of high school. There is a classmate in our class who met you in junior high school and kept telling us that you are very powerful. You have participated in many competitions since you were a child and won many awards. .So I always regard you as a role model."

Lu Guanhai looked at Ni Manhua, and what he said was very sincere, Ni Manhua didn't know what to reply for a moment.

After a long time, Lu Guanhai put away the pictures in front of Ni Manhua, and then smiled softly: "Your uncle apologized to me last time, but actually I should apologize to you. It was I who gave You have caused trouble, so you can rest assured that it won’t happen again.”

"Can't... do what?"

"I won't do anything to embarrass you. Will we always be good friends?"

"Yes, we will always be good friends."

Under the dim desk lamp, Ni Manhua felt that the halo of light on the table was like a hole being punched in her heart.Obviously this is the result she expected, obviously this is what she wants.

What is she feeling sad about?

(End of this chapter)