I'm afraid I'm not interested in love

Chapter 516: Qixi Extra: Qingmei Rescue Plan (Part )
The Tanabata extra episode is presented!!!

Thanks to the leader Wei Ye for requesting a special extra episode for the rare student Chu Qingmian!
Pillow wishes everyone a happy Chinese Valentine's Day~~ May lovers finally get married~~
[PS: This annual Qixi Festival finally belongs to me, the King Mian! ! Meow hahahaha!!! (being dragged away)]

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Su Chengyi and Chu Qingmian are childhood sweethearts, a secret known only to them.

Although they were born in the same hospital, slept in the same crib, and were joked about child marriage by their elders, they were classmates from elementary school to high school.
But there is always a subtle distance between the two.

The reason is probably because of incompatibility of personalities?

Su Chengyi has been a loner since he was a child, has few friends, and is used to being alone;

Chu Qingmian is a super popular young lady who is loved by everyone and attracts everyone. She is the focus of the crowd wherever she goes.

Therefore, even though they have a relationship of "childhood sweethearts", there will not be any unnecessary plot development between the two.

Su Chengyi has always kept this idea in mind.

Until that day comes.

“Summer is the stage when the whole universe is moving upwards, and we are also on the road of youthful struggle.”

On the podium, Chu Qingmian, the class monitor, was giving a motivational speech once every semester.

The head teacher Li Lu stood aside with a look of approval on her face. The students below the podium listened attentively, ready to applaud passionately at any time.

Except for someone in the last row.

Su Chengyi was bored, resting his chin on his hand and staring out the window.

It rained heavily last night and there is still water on the leaves.

Two chubby sparrows stayed on the treetops, chirping and pressing the branches into an arc.

After Chu Qingmian finished her speech and applause began to break out in the classroom, Su Chengyi lazily withdrew his gaze.

That's when something strange happened.

A strange number suddenly appeared above Chu Qingmian's head as she bowed slightly on the podium, as if she had an electronic clock with a transparent bottom on her head.

"100"

one hundred?
Su Chengyi frowned. What does this mean?
The applause in the classroom continued. Li Lu was moved by her speech and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

No one else seemed to notice the oddity at all.

After Chu Qingmian finished bowing and raised his head, his eyes fell squarely on Su Chengyi.

Su Chengyi was still struggling with the number, so the two of them looked at each other after a long time.

Chu Qingmian's eyelashes trembled quickly, then she looked away somewhat unnaturally, walked down the podium and returned to her seat.

The floating number also returned to its position with her.

Is this some kind of AR effect? ​​Or is Earth Online bugging again?
Weird.

With such doubts in mind, Su Chengyi stared at Chu Qingmian's back all day long.

He didn't know if it was his illusion, but Miss Chu, who was always at ease and perfect in the past, seemed a little absent-minded and flustered today.

It seemed as if she had taken time out of her busy schedule to glare at him.

After returning home from evening self-study, Su Chengyi threw his schoolbag on the sofa and opened the computer browser.

“What does it feel like to see a string of numbers suddenly appear above someone’s head?”

“Will a countdown suddenly appear in a person’s head?”

“The latest AR special effects technology”

After a messy search, Su Chengyi did not get any useful information.

Most of the responses told him to go to a mental hospital, saying it was an early symptom of paranoia.

Baidu also thoughtfully provided him with Tang'an City's 24-hour free psychological crisis counseling hotline, as well as four nearby mental health centers that can provide free services.

Finally, he clicked on a clipped video at a certain station without any hope.

"Look, this man is called Xiao Shuai! On this day, he just boarded the flight and saw the same one-hour countdown above everyone's head. He immediately turned around and left.

An hour later, the news reported that the plane had crashed, and Xiao Shuai covered his face in pain, knowing that he could not save them."

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Su Chengyi closed the laptop with a snap.

Countdown to death?
Ha, what a joke, too sci-fi.

In comparison, Su Chengyi was more willing to believe that these were early symptoms of delusion.

Go to sleep. Maybe the hallucination will disappear when you wake up.

That night, Su Chengyi fell asleep with this mentality.

But early the next morning, he ran into Chu Qingmian, an outstanding student leader who was on duty at the school gate.

She smiled as sweetly as always, and even the degree to which her hair was blown by the wind was perfect.

But that number hasn’t gone away.

The difference is that it has changed from "100" to "99".

Su Chengyi's footsteps stopped stiffly and he took a deep breath.

This is not a dream, this is real.

This number is measured in days and is decreasing.

"Su Chengyi?"

The sweet voice pulled him out of his chaotic thoughts.

Su Chengyi raised his eyes and found that Chu Qingmian, who was on duty at the door, had walked in front of him at some point.

She tilted her head slightly, her beautiful eyes filled with worry.

"What's the matter with you? Why do you look like you've lost your mind?"

Su Chengyi's Adam's apple rolled twice and he couldn't speak.

As the distance got closer, the numbers above her head became much clearer, further proving that this was definitely not a special effect.

"you"

Seeing that he didn't reply, Chu Qingmian frowned and reached out to pull the sleeve of his school uniform.

"I am fine."

Su Chengyi took a step back and shook his head.

Chu Qingmian's attempt to get closer failed, his expression was slightly startled, and his fingers clenched quietly.

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The next second, she said angrily:
“Campus Card!!!”

Su Chengyi was stunned by her yelling, and took out a card from his school uniform pocket and handed it to her.

Chu Qingmian pursed his lips angrily, lowered his head, and asked in surprise:
"Why did you give me my ID?"

"what?"

Only then did Su Chengyi realize that he had taken the wrong document.

Because of the countdown, I have been feeling uneasy from last night till this morning, so I brought my campus card instead of my ID card.

Seeing the absent-minded expression on the other person's face, Chu Qingmian sighed softly and put the ID card back into his pocket.

"Forget it, I'll let you go, quick elbow."

"Oh."

Su Chengyi took the ID card, lowered his head and walked towards the school gate. He vaguely heard Chu Qingmian complaining quietly behind him:
"Perfunctory ghost, I curse you to fall!"

Su Chengyi turned around again after hearing this.

The other party immediately returned to his usual serious appearance as an excellent student leader, wrinkled his nose, and winked at him:

"Hurry up and get in. If someone sees me, they'll accuse me of being partial and perverting the law, okay?!"

Su Chengyi looked at the number "99" on her head, and suddenly felt his heart slowly sinking.

In fact, it doesn’t have to be a countdown to death. Movies are just movies after all, and the real world may not be that cruel.

Su Chengyi thought so and turned the pen in his hand into an afterimage.

This was an action he would subconsciously make when he was extremely anxious. The last time he did this was when he encountered a math competition problem that troubled him for the first time.

Maybe it's something like "the countdown to transformation into a magical girl".

It could also be the countdown to the "Trisolaran attack on Earth."

Or the countdown to an asteroid hitting the Earth.

Countdown to the "super earthquake that reshapes the earth".

Countdown to "World War III begins".

Etc., etc.

It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it is not the “countdown of Chu Qingmian’s life”.

After realizing that this was the only thing he cared about, Su Chengyi covered his eyes and sighed.

Su Chengyi couldn't keep staring at the class monitor's back today, because she was ordered to go to the auditorium to rehearse the cultural performance in a few days.

But soon he had the opportunity to continue doing so.

Because Li Lu came to the classroom to ask questions:
"Are there any classmates willing to run errands and help deliver the props for our class's performance?"

"I go!"

"I me me!"

"Teacher, please let me do this difficult task!"

When it comes to this kind of thing, students in the class are often very active and enthusiastic and raise their hands one after another.

But someone in the back row stood up and walked to Li Lu, saying expressionlessly:
"Where are the props?"

The noisy class suddenly became silent.

This great god suddenly took on this kind of job in front of the whole class, which frightened the students as much as seeing a thousand-year-old zombie suddenly open its coffin and start dancing.

Su Chengyi held a big box in both hands and walked slowly on the way to the auditorium.

The art performances of No. 1 Middle School have always been highly valued. Last year, Chu Qingmian performed a piano solo, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.

It looks like she'll be playing the cello this year.

For her, playing these instruments came naturally and did not require any rehearsal.

However, in order to make the performance more class-conscious, she took the trouble to plan a drama, and she stepped behind the scenes, only responsible for playing background music.

Su Chengyi didn't understand why she was doing these thankless tasks.

And perhaps this misunderstanding is what separates them from the term "childhood sweethearts".

Thinking back, he and Chu Qingmian were not so distant from the beginning.

In kindergarten, the two sat at the same table, completed art homework together with crayons, and occasionally took rides home from each other's parents.

After one person gets off the bus, the other person will cling to the window and say reluctantly: "See you tomorrow!"

At that time, both of them assumed that the elders' jokes were serious and thought that they would really get married when they grew up.

However, after entering elementary school, Su Chengyi's parents divorced, and his personality was affected by this, becoming more and more withdrawn and strange.

Chu Qingmian has grown from a timid and shy girl into an excellent elementary school student with the outline of a perfect young lady. She has many friends and is the center of attention in school.

For some reason, Su Chengyi found this scene very annoying, so he unilaterally decided not to talk to Chu Qingmian anymore.

At first, Chu Qingmian would follow him after school, and would pester him over and over again, asking him why he ignored her.

Until one day, Su Chengyi realized that he couldn't get away with it, so he scolded her coldly:
"Because I don't need you, is that hard to understand?"

Chu Qingmian was stunned for a moment and stopped talking.

Su Chengyi was walking in front with his schoolbag on his back, looking distracted. When he noticed that she was particularly quiet, he turned around to look.

Chu Qingmian squatted at the intersection, sobbing.

Su Chengyi had no choice but to walk back and stand beside her like a wooden stake.

After a while, Chu Qingmian raised her head with tears in her eyes and asked him:

"You won't marry me in the future?"

As a primary school student, Su Chengyi already understood what "marriage" meant. His face turned red at her naive question and he shouted angrily:

"Of course!"

Chu Qingmian's tears fell even more violently.

But from that day on, she never pestered him again to ask why.

Later, in junior high school, a vague gender consciousness gradually developed between male and female classmates, and the two had even less reasons to get close to each other.

Just like this, we have been separated by a subtle distance until today.

Just like the "Three, Two, One, Statue" game they played in kindergarten, Su Chengyi and Chu Qingmian, the childhood sweethearts, tacitly started a "pretend not to know each other" game, and no one knew when the countdown would end.

While my thoughts were wandering, I had already walked to the vicinity of the auditorium. I could vaguely hear the sound of students who were rehearsing aloud the lines of a drama.

Su Chengyi stopped at the door. He leaned against the door frame and admired this completely weird comedy from afar.

Chu Qingmian's cello was placed in the corner of the stage. It was not her turn to go on stage yet, so she was sitting in the first row, watching the performance on stage attentively.

Her sitting posture was very standard. Looking from behind, her long hair was draped over her shoulders and her waist was slender.

Su Chengyi vaguely remembered that she had received many red flowers from teachers in kindergarten, but he had accumulated many black stars representing mistakes because of bad behaviors such as "refusing to cooperate with class activities" and "making the cute classmate cry".

In the end, it was Chu Qingmian who generously used her little red flower to offset Su Chengyi's little black star, giving Su Chengyi the opportunity to receive the "Good Child" annual award certificate issued by the kindergarten.

Su Chengyi hadn't recalled such a memory for a long time. For a moment, he felt as if he was in another world. Only that strange number reminded him that this was the reality.

Even at such a distance, the number still floated above her head, a very clear "99".

The drama on stage has reached its climax, and it is Chu Qingmian's turn to perform a cello solo.

She stood up hurriedly at the right moment and trotted up to the stage via the back steps.

At this moment, Su Chengyi suddenly saw the number above her head flash and suddenly turned into "0"!
!!!

Su Chengyi's heart stopped suddenly and the box in his hand fell to the ground with a bang.

Before my brain could react, my body uncontrollably ran towards her.

It was also at this time that he suddenly discovered that in front of Chu Qingmian, the wall on the ceiling was cracking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the chandelier was already shaking.

If she took one or two steps forward, she would definitely be hit by the falling chandelier.

The auditorium of No. 1 Middle School was built with great emphasis on grandeur. At such a height, no one would notice anything happening above their heads.

"Chu Qingmian!!!"

After determining the source of the danger, Su Chengyi quickly shouted loudly.

His voice, already hoarse from nervousness, echoed anxiously in the auditorium.

Fortunately, Chu Qingmian heard his voice, stopped immediately and turned around.

"boom!"

The next second, the gorgeous glass chandelier fell heavily onto the stage, with fragments flying everywhere.

Everyone in the auditorium was so frightened that they stood still, except Su Chengyi, who rushed to the edge of the stage and pulled Chu Qingmian down from the steps.

Chu Qingmian staggered two steps and almost fell into his arms. He had no time to apologize, so he just held her shoulders and asked hurriedly:

"Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?"

Chu Qingmian's brain was a little out of order at first, but after being pushed like this, he quickly shook his head and replied:
"I'm fine"

Before she could get scared about the danger she had just avoided, she noticed Su Chengyi's abnormal behavior and just reached out to touch his forehead in a daze.

"Su Chengyi, why do you look so bad?"

This time, Su Chengyi did not step back to avoid her touch, because he saw that the number above her head had changed back to "99".

This really seemed to be the countdown to her death.

(End of this chapter)