Dust sleeps in light years

Chapter 4

[one]
Suffering loves me very much, and once uprooted me.From panic to exhaustion, I struggled to realize this survival key-human beings are narcissistic, and everyone subconsciously loves themselves the most.

I am alone, but not alone.Rely on those who depend on me, trust those who trust me, help those who help me.If I want, I can split into countless mirrors, so that they can see me as they see themselves.Reading by face and learning by imitation are my field.

Like every deeply traumatized person, eventually, I learned to live with the situation.

[two]
There is no light to be seen, no color of any kind.In the quiet depths of the universe, countless dust particles sleep here.At the border between light and darkness, whose voice came from the sky and changed everything?
—You live in a world full of dust.

——But, Qiuhe, you know, it’s just that kind of dust…——that kind of dust…

The cell phone alarm sang a beautiful melody. Qiu He sat up with a conditioned reflex, immediately felt dizzy, and lay back upright. He woke up for 2 minutes with his eyes open before cutting off the ringtone.

Guo Shujie, who captured this series of movements, smiled below: "Why is it like a zombie possessing?"

Qiu He turned over and sat up again and began to make the bed: "Have you clocked in and come back from exercise?"

"No, I didn't go. I made an appointment with Xue Tao to check in in turn. Today is her turn. What about you?"

"Someone typed it for me." Qiu He climbed out of bed, saw Xue Tao's mobile hard drive on the table, and knew that it contained manuscripts that had already been reviewed.After washing up, she made herself a cup of espresso with the coffee machine, turned on the laptop and played the piano softly, plugged in the mobile hard disk and started reviewing manuscripts. Then, she caught a glimpse of the bouquet of white camellias casually placed on the bookshelf.

Guo Shujie heard that she called to ask someone to help buy a rattan basket suitable for putting camellias and hanging on the side of the wardrobe. She felt that there are really people who buy dogs for dog food and flower vases for flowers. There is a white flower on the side of the clogs.

"Like flowers?" You couldn't help being curious. "White camellia is my birthday flower. I was born on November 11." "Huh? Singles' Day? So is Umi! Shh—" Guo Shujie remembered that Umi was still on the bed, and made a silent gesture.At this time, a cute "giggle" laughter suddenly came from the curtain.

Qiu He asked in a low voice: "Did you wake her up?" Li Xiao, at first we were often scared by her, but now we are used to it.”

Qiu He smiled and let out a long breath: "She is really a carefree girl." "Qiu and you, please leave me your mobile phone number. It will be convenient for you to contact me if you have anything to do." "Okay."

After the two exchanged their phone numbers, Qiu He turned his gaze back to the computer screen.In the process of moving the mouse, I accidentally clicked wrong, and a folder named a string of letters and numbers was opened, which was full of photos.She wanted to turn it off directly, but when she found out that the protagonist in the photo was Qian Xiaoyi, the school belle, she began to squint her eyes and observe carefully.

They are all Qian Xiaoyi's insignificant street photos, and the serial numbers of the photo names are not coherent. It is obvious that she is in and out of various occasions through the telephoto lens.At first glance it looks a bit like the work of some unfocused stalker.

After checking the properties of the photo, Qiu He thought that there was only one girl beside Qian Xiaoyi who was used to using this high-end SLR camera.

[three]
How to dress for the cloudy and uncertain October day is a difficult problem.A casual French updo, sunscreen only, but a French red matte lipstick for a boost.A white long T-shirt with a neutral black suit, the sleeves are neatly rolled up, and the bottom is black leggings with black short riding boots.There is something in the calfskin shopping bag, and the laptop is tucked in the same hand.The seemingly impeccable outfit fell short under the sudden dark clouds, and Qiu He didn't have an umbrella to match.

I stood at the window and hesitated for a while, and finally decided to take a risk without an umbrella.She arrived at the entrance of the coffee shop at 9:53. She felt that it was a bit early, so she went back to the basketball court of the second gymnasium to watch the boys' amateur game of the school for a while. When she finally stepped into the coffee shop, it was 10:[-], and all the editors had already arrived. Done.

As usual, it was a matter of arranging to shoot the illustrations the next day.The focus was on several members of the filming team discussing the meeting time, which was agreed to be ten o'clock in the morning.Shen Peng, the art director, suddenly remembered: "Aren't Qiu and you going to take general elective courses in the third and fourth quarters tomorrow?"

"It's okay, I can't miss anything." Shen Peng didn't understand that her "can't miss something" meant that she couldn't miss class or shoot, so she had to leave some room for her not to follow the itinerary: "Then we will make ten No one is late except Qiuhe. Mi Bai, you and I are 10 minutes early." Mi Bai is the editor's assistant, a sophomore from a foreign school, a smart and well-behaved girl.After discussing this matter, someone suggested at the meeting: "Mi Bai, when are you going to arrange the editorial team to have a meeting together? Anyway, we work together, and we have never even met each other's deities." Mi Bai showed embarrassment: "The main thing is everyone It is difficult to unify the time." "That's true." Mi Bai glanced at Qiu He and felt that she was quite satisfied with her answer.

Qiu He has been working part-time in a publishing house since quitting various student organizations in her sophomore year. Now she is the executive editor of a business magazine. Only a dozen people working in her team know about it.In order to ensure the quality of the magazine, she employs talented people from various fields in the school, which inevitably leads to conflicts—take the text director Xue Tao and the art director Shen Peng as examples. Xue Tao and Qian Xiaoyi are at odds with each other, so the two are at odds with each other every day in the school newspaper, and their colleagues are used to their intrigue.

It is precisely for this reason that Qiuhe has always held separate meetings for the editorial team and the editorial team. Fortunately, none of the editors use their real names on the magazine copyright page. Mi Bai is alone in the schedule, and Qiu He has confessed his interests to her.

"It's common in our school to form cliques and fight against each other, but I'm more curious, how did you manage to become friends with both sides of the opposition?" Mi Bai asked Qiu He at the time.

"They needed a friend like me but they didn't have me, and then I appeared." She explained with "supply and demand" evasive.

Mi Bai didn't get the answer she imagined, but she liked the phrase "I've appeared". She thought Qiu He was a simple person, and sometimes the truth was really that simple.

After realizing that he was lost in thought for a while, and the theme of the meeting had become "Z Big Vicious Sexual Killing Case", Mi Bai quickly emphasized the key points of the meeting briefly and then announced the adjournment.

Everyone got up and cleaned up the materials scattered all over the table.Qiu He remained motionless, and called Shen Peng: "I have some private matters to discuss with you." So the others left the table even faster, and Shen Peng sat down again: "What's the matter?" "You and Qian Xiaoyi have been You are an enviable friend. I think it is a lifetime of happiness to have such a friendship. Although you may say that friendship is complicated, 'you can't hurt anyone if you can't hurt your friends'. But if I were you, I hope I'm a victim." The last three words are accented.

Although Shen Peng hadn't figured out what Qiu He was referring to, there was a sudden heat on her face, she leaned forward, and let Qiu He continue talking without asking any stupid questions.

"You took a photo that you shouldn't have taken." Shen Peng was startled in his heart, but on the surface he said calmly: "What photo?" Qiu He ignored her and continued, "I live in the same dormitory with Xue Tao now. She copied those photos for later use." Shen Peng couldn't hold back for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Xue Tao..."

Qiu He let go of her slightly frowned eyebrows and thought, "Sure enough!" Although she hadn't seen any "photos that shouldn't be seen", the discontinuous serial numbers of the remaining photos indicated that Xue Tao picked out some photos and kept them properly. As Qian Xiaoyi's deadly enemy, saving her photos is not out of good intentions, and the need to save these photos just proves their usefulness.That model of camera is what Shen Peng is used to, and without Qian Xiaoyi's knowledge, Shen Peng secretly took pictures that were not good for her, and Shen Peng's betrayal of his friends was clearly revealed.

Shen Peng was exposed, but he didn't have an excuse, but shrugged disapprovingly.This gave Qiu He a headache.

She was basically immune to the preaching about love and sincerity.

When I face you, I become you.You have to be deliberate in your voice, smile, and gestures.

After deliberating for a moment, Qiu He stopped mentioning the word "friendship": "Look, Xue Tao is not a cheap lamp, but all her energy is now devoted to dealing with Qian Xiaoyi. She has two choices now. First, Go straight to Qian Xiaoyi's war, and they will fight to the death, and it is in your best interest to both lose. But what do you mean by 'both lose'? In my opinion, since Xue Tao has this kind of determination, he will not accept a draw. You know, She is a person who will not give up if she does not achieve her goal once she makes a move. Even if Qian Xiaoyi wants to stop, she can't help herself. In the end, one of them will be ruined. If Xue Tao wins, then her next target is you, She can even get rid of Qian Xiaoyi, I think you should not be her opponent. If the winner is Qian Xiaoyi, then her next target will undoubtedly be you. Even I can tell that the photo was taken by you. She knows you better than I do. Either way it's going to be bad for you."

After that, she took a sip of her drink and blinked slowly.Shen Peng was a little nervous: "Then what should I do now?" Qiu He still looked at her quietly, without saying a word, as if he had run out of lines just now.After a long time, Shen Peng leaned over and asked: "Will you help me?...Actually, I didn't explicitly intend to harm Xiao Yi, I just...everyone said 'prevention is essential', and I I wonder if Xiao Yi will regard me as a friend forever."

"You know that there is a grudge between Qian Xiaoyi and I. It's for your sake that you don't betray her unless she betrays you."

"That's for sure." "Can you not have a direct confrontation with Xue Tao in the near future?" "I will try my best." "Then I will help you." Qiu He said every word.

Shen Peng breathed a sigh of relief. Although she didn't know what Qiu He would do, she knew that there was nothing Qiu He couldn't handle in the school.But after thinking about it, now that she owes Qiu He another favor, this feeling is also not relaxing, so she racked her brains, wanting to repay something immediately.

"Oh, Qiu He, I remembered something. I don't know what Qu Hongran is going to do. Recently, he keeps asking around, and seems to be checking you and Ye Xuan."

"What about me and Ye Xuan? Do you have more ex-boyfriends than me or his ex-girlfriends?" "No, anyway, I heard what he said, he may think that you and Ye Xuan are two such cool people in the same club. For a long time, there is nothing unusual about the relationship." Qiu He sneered: "Ye Xuan and I? Don't be ridiculous!" Shen Peng also laughed: "Yes! I explained to him that you and Ye Xuan are the same A relationship that people on Earth cannot understand."

"...I think it's better for you to explain less in the future." As Qiu He said, he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. It was a text message from Guo Shujie: Qiu He, I have classes every three, four, five and six periods, and I don't want to go back to the West District on the way Alright, can you buy Umi lunch if it's convenient for you?
Qiu He immediately replied: Yes.Then he stood up and said goodbye to Shen Peng.

[Four]
There is a cafeteria next to the cafe, but the food is not very good.Qiu He deliberately bypassed the lecture hall and took another route, and went to a cafeteria that was more in line with the taste of the public.Correspondingly, there are more people queuing up to buy food there.Qiu He lined up to the window honestly, packed two sets of fried chicken leg rice, and was about to turn around and leave when the laptop under his arm suddenly slid down. He caught the computer that was about to fall to the ground with one hand.

Qiu He turned around and smiled brightly.

"Why buy two meals? Shouldn't you give it back to Qu Hongran?" Ye Xuan exclaimed, "Why are you so used to him! Let's go, I'll get this for you."

"I brought it for my roommate. I passed by Erti in the morning and saw you playing." "I know. You are watching the game, and everyone who plays is watching you." "Huh?" Qiu He felt the phone vibrate in his pocket, and then Pass the disposable lunch box to Ye Xuan.This time it was a text message from Guo Shujie, it was sent more than ten minutes ago, and it was delayed for some reason.The content is: Just buy her tomato scrambled eggs, she likes to eat.

Looking at the fried chicken rice in his hand, Qiu He couldn't help but smile wryly, but he didn't intend to go back and buy it again.If Umi really can't make it, make another plan.

"What's the matter?" Ye Xuan asked. "I bought the wrong meal, forget it. Go on, why are they looking at me?"

"Anyway, I noticed you were outside the barbed wire because someone told me 'Look, live Cho Ho'."

"Even if I've kept a low profile recently, it's not like this." "They would rather believe that you died than that you would keep a low profile." The boy grinned, "That's the impression you gave them. I dreamed about you last night. "A funeral?"

"Shut up your mouth." Ye Xuan stopped anxiously, squinted at her dissatisfied, and saw her sticking out her tongue before starting to walk again, "I dreamed that you were sitting in the open space between the second and third religions." On the wooden chair, there was a girl whose hat was blown up to a tree by the wind, and couldn’t hold it by jumping there, it was very funny, and you laughed out loud like a fool.”

"And then?" "Then I was woken up by Wang Yiming, who wakes up early and clocks in for exercise."

Qiu He, who was still waiting to ask "what's the end?" stared at him for a long while speechless. "How come I'm such a two-and-done guy in your subconscious mind? Well, I accept that I was gloating at the time, so where are you?"

"I study by myself on the first floor of the Fourth Teaching. I saw you from the window." "Even Duke Zhou can't solve your dream." "This dream shows that I like you."

"... Is your worldview based on the 'universe is a turtle tower'?" Ye Xuan laughed.Although Qiuhe's image, temperament, and personality have undergone tremendous changes, some aspects are still the same as before. Ye Xuan can't say what the unchanged part is, but he thinks it's good that she hasn't changed.

The two made jokes all the way, and soon reached the downstairs of Qiuhe's dormitory.When Qu Yuran walked towards Qiu He with a livid face, she didn't notice at all.

"Your campus card." Qu Yuran handed the card to Qiu He, "You have already filled up the number of exercises for you." Although he also saw Ye Xuan, he didn't take the initiative to say hello.

"Thank you. Why are you here?" Qiu He couldn't move his hand, and motioned for him to throw the campus card in his shopping bag.

"Wait for you, didn't I send you a text message just now?" Qu Yu turned dark, glanced at Ye Xuan, then looked back at Qiu He, "You didn't reply."

"I didn't receive it. There was something wrong with my phone today, and the text message was always delayed."

Qu Huran didn't believe it at all, and said eccentrically: "Every time you are with other men, there will be problems with your phone, and you won't be able to receive text messages."

Qiu He pretended not to hear, took the lunch box and laptop from Ye Xuan, said goodbye to them, and walked into the building.Unexpectedly, her reaction of turning a deaf ear aroused Qu Huran even more, and Qu Huran took two steps forward and grabbed her arm suddenly: "Qiu and you give me..." But the words slipped from Qiu He's hand due to inertia and fell to the top one on the ground. The lunch box was interrupted.

Qiu He felt pain in his pinched forearm, but immediately, Ye Xuan pulled Qu Shuran's hand away.When she turned to look at Ye Xuan, the other person's expression had become serious, and even made people feel murderous, and she gritted her teeth when she spoke: "Qu Hongran, I will leave the word to you today. Qiuhe is the one I like She's so heartless, she's better off with a second-tailed person like you, and I won't force her. But from now on, Qiuhe will be my cover. You're fine. I'm not stingy with anyone, I'll just chop you up!"

Qu Hongran was from the south, so he couldn't fully understand Ye Xuan's words, but the ferocity alone calmed him down.

Qiu He was familiar with Ye Xuan's personality, so he stood aside quietly waiting for him to finish speaking, and casually discouraged him: "Ye Xuan, stop making trouble."

(End of this chapter)