deep in time

Chapter 3 (3)
"Thank you." The surprise on the girl's face was just right, "You are so considerate, it must be a blessing to be your boyfriend."

Who doesn't like to hear praise?

Liu Yujing frowned slightly inadvertently, she took the drink handed over by the girl, and held it in her hand calmly.No one noticed that she had no intention of opening it to drink from the beginning to the end.

[Fives]
On the streets at dusk, the flow of people gathers and disperses in all directions of the city.

In front of the traffic lights, a boy with a hostile face straddled his bicycle, with one foot on the ground, looking gloomyly not far away.

"What are you looking at?" Ji Nan touched Cheng Lichen with his shoulder, and the corner of his mouth raised slightly, "The light is green."

"It's nothing." The boy put one foot on his feet, and the silver-gray mountain bike slid into the rushing crowd in an instant.

"What?" Ji Nan smiled thoughtfully, following Cheng Lichen's gaze, he clearly saw Baili.

Wearing a white school uniform, the thin Baili looks calm and poorly dressed, which is out of place in this bustling city.

Ji Nan caught up with Cheng Lichen, the summer evening was still very hot, fine beads of sweat shone on the boy's forehead.

"Why, riding so fast, like a policeman chasing a thief in a Hong Kong movie, did you take the wrong medicine today?"

Cheng Lichen smiled perfunctorily.

At the crossroads where the lanes parted, the two boys would usually say goodbye in simple conversations like "see you tomorrow" and "remember to bring me the new game card tomorrow", but today, Ji Nan blinked and said indifferently : "The Betts backpack that Baili uses seems like you have one too, doesn't it?"

Responding to Ji Nan was Cheng Lichen's silent back.

——Something is wrong, Baili and Cheng Lichen must have some secret.

A sly look flashed in the boy's dark pupils.

There are only a few types of relationships between boys and girls of the same age. Looking at Cheng Lichen's performance, he and Baili look like a couple who are having a fight.

But he had never heard Cheng Lichen mention Baili before.

Ji Nan adjusted the front of the car suspiciously, rushed towards the twilight street, and was sucked into the night in a short while.

[six]
Yulongwan Community is the hottest gold real estate in X City.

In order to comply with the sky-high property prices, the six security guards at the gate are also fully armed and look sacrosanct.

"No. You can't enter without an access card." The middle-aged security guard with a stern face showed a noble expression of "if any cat or dog can enter, then what will Yulongwan become".

"Uncle, I forgot to bring the access control card. Really, I will definitely remember it next time." Baili looked at the silver-white electronic sensor next to the gate and bit his lip.

"Old Zhang, leave her alone." Another skinny head poked out from the security room, "These days there are many cats and dogs who want to sneak into Yulong Bay, as if they can gain fame as soon as they enter, and they don't know the security guards inside." No matter how good the measures are, there is no way for petty theft."

Baili got angry: "Uncle, how can you talk like that?"

The skinny male security sneered disdainfully: "Hey, you still have a temper."

Baili's fist was slowly clenched.

At this time, a boy riding a silver-gray mountain bike gradually approached.

In the twilight of the setting sun, the boy has handsome features and a cold expression, as if carrying a natural sense of alienation.

He quickly approached the electronic sensor, took out a tooth-yellow card from his trouser pocket, swiped it on the electronic sensor, and with a "ding", the electronic sensor automatically issued a sweet female voice—"Welcome Royal Dragon Bay."

The boy was about to go in when suddenly a white figure walked up to him.

Baili stood beside Cheng Lichen and said to the security guard, "I live at his house, and he can testify for me."

"Really?" The thin security guard blushed and looked at Cheng Lichen questioningly.

Cheng Lichen's eyes were as deep as night, he looked at Baili, and said coldly in a voice that was not warm at all: "Who are you?"

The smile on Baili's face froze on his lips.

"Such a crappy trick, I really think I'm a three-year-old!" The security guard yelled, "Get lost."

Baili stared blankly at Cheng Lichen and his silver-gray mountain bike disappearing among the dense flowers and trees inside the gate, and slowly clenched his loose fists again.

[seven]
The elevator rises slowly.

The four mirrors on both sides make the elevator room look extremely open.

The boy's soft black hair covered his cochlea. When the phone rang, he almost subconsciously took a deep breath before pressing the call button.

"Ah Chen, Dad will be home tomorrow morning. Aunt Song brought you a model airplane. You must like it." The slightly hoarse middle-aged man's voice came clearly through the radio waves.

"Yeah." The boy responded softly.

Cheng Huihuang exhorted a few more words before saying, "Do you and Baili get along well?"

The boy couldn't help but look down, and sneered, the main event was coming.He responded to all changes with the same, and remained silent.

But unexpectedly, Cheng Huihuang didn't pursue the question any further, and hung up the phone after saying a few words.

——That girl didn't file a complaint?

Cheng Lichen put down his phone and lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

For dinner, I made pumpkin beef brisket soup and lotus root fried pork slices. The boy ate elegantly on the viewing balcony on the 22nd floor.

The transparent tempered glass is against the velvet blue sky, and in the distance, a lone star shines dimly on the horizon.

The house alone is empty, but the most comfortable.

The boy finished his meal, took a shower, did his homework, chatted with Ji Nan on QQ, and went to bed as usual.

Waking up once in the middle of the night, I vaguely heard the grandfather clock in the living room singing a song at three o'clock softly.

The temperature of the air conditioner was turned up a bit. The boy walked out of the bedroom with his bare upper body and only a pair of gray-blue plaid beach shorts. He took a can of milk from the refrigerator in the kitchen and, gurgling, half a bottle of milky white liquid flowed down his throat. Hot heart.

A pale pink energy-saving lamp was turned on in the living room, illuminating the 360-square-meter house, which was empty and deep.

Baili's room was in the completely opposite direction from his room, and hers was on the southeast side of the living room.

The boy looked over subconsciously.

The door was open, no light, no one.

- Haven't come back yet?Where are you going to spend tonight?

The empty milk jug was crushed flat by the boy's strong fingers and thrown into the trash.

At the gate in the evening, when he coldly ignored Baili and said "Who are you", the arrogant appearance of that dog-eyed security guard suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and he obviously hated this kind of person the most, hated The kind of person who is obviously not very good but has a pair of snobbish eyes and a snobbish heart, but when he sees Baili's pale face instantly, he feels a strange pleasure.

When did you become this kind of person?
— Lost morality, controlled by anger.

[Eight]
The campus in the morning is bustling with life and vitality.

Even though the girls wear the same school uniforms, the fashionable candy-colored short-sleeved T-shirts with lace under the school shirts will deliberately take off their school uniform jackets to show off after complaining that "the weather is too hot", so they stand in the stair corridor Ji Nan saw most of the girls coming up from the stairs looked like dancing butterflies.

"Did you not sleep well last night?" Ji Nan blinked his eyes tenderly.

"Don't discharge me, it's disgusting." Cheng Lichen patted Ji Nan's hand off politely.

"Ha, my heart is broken when you say that." Jinan exaggeratedly held his heart with both hands.

Cheng Lichen's gloomy face finally relaxed, and he fought back: "Jinan, your sweet words should be used to coax girls."

It was at this time that Baili appeared from behind a group of girls.

Behind many beautiful girls who looked like flower bones, Baili's school shirt was taken off, and there was a girl wearing a white T-shirt that was obviously too long and washed out, looking very old-fashioned and dull.

Cheng Lichen frowned.

Looking at the handsome facial features of his friend beside him, Ji Nan's eyes darkened almost instantly.

"Is she the one who ranks first in the school grade?"

"I remember I bought a pair of these shoes at that time and threw them away after not wearing them a few times."

The implication is—"Why is Baili still wearing the shoes that were popular a few years ago?"

A few girls standing in the corridor were chattering, but they didn't suppress their voices. Ji Nan and Cheng Lichen who were not far away could hear them, not to mention Baili who walked by them.
But Baili didn't seem to be able to hear it, his chocolate-colored face was calm without any ripples, and he quickly walked through the corridor and walked into the classroom.

[Nine]
Human body odor is a magical substance.

Ji Nan was once scared away by a girl with underarm odor. He said in an exaggerated tone: "It smells like pickled garlic." But the strange thing is that in summer, when he was sweating profusely on the playground, his comrades Hugging the sweat-stained arms, Ji Nan described it as "full of friendship".

Baili, who hadn't washed all night, was still refreshed, but Cheng Lichen, who was at the same table with Baili, began to fidget.

The teacher is in class, and Baili is quietly taking notes. Her fingers are slender and delicate, but they are not the fair complexion of ordinary girls, but a slightly glossy chocolate color. With Baili's fingers, his body began to slowly stiffen.

Because he was too engrossed in the lecture, Baili didn't notice that his hand had moved past the [-]th line and touched Cheng Lichen's exquisite notebook.

touch.Rubbing of clothes and clothes.Casual touch.

The movements that most people think are very normal have become "unbearable" in Cheng Lichen's body.

The get out of class bell rang all over the campus. The physics teacher ignored more than 80 eyes urging to dismiss the get out of class, and repeated the "circuit diagram" again. Finally, after announcing "get out of class end", there was a burst of low cheers in the class The sound of tables and chairs colliding.

"Remove your hands."

Baili, who was still lowering her head to sort out her notes, vaguely heard this sentence, she raised her head subconsciously, and saw the boy with one hand in his trouser pocket, his thin, red lips slightly pursed, and an indescribable coldness at the corner of his mouth.

It was only then that Baili noticed that a beautiful notebook was being pressed by her elbow, and she hurriedly moved her hand away.

Cheng Lichen suddenly and lightly pinched the corner of the notebook with his fingertips, said three words clearly, and then strode towards the back of the classroom. With a "snap", the notebook was thrown into the trash can, and he took out a tissue , wiping his fingers.

The three words the boy said were - dirty to death.

Baili bit her lip, the astonishment on her face gradually disappeared. For the first time, her deer-like eyes were no longer calm like an autumn lake. She looked angrily at Cheng Lichen's profile—why would this boy with such a beautiful profile Do such a hateful thing?
She comes from the remote Yilang Island, she is very rustic, she doesn't match the city at all, but she lives very strong, she shrinks herself in the turtle shell and doesn't provoke anyone, she can drag a big Plastic bags pick up mineral water bottles at school, and she can clean up the girls' toilets in a teaching building by herself, but she lives with dignity, and she will never endure provocative insults.

never!

[ten]
In the noisy classroom, the boys were sitting on the desks, dancing and talking about how exciting the internal test of the new server was just launched, and a few girls chatted in a small circle about celebrity gossip, clothes and accessories.One of the small circles was talking about "Who is more handsome, Cheng Lichen or Ji Nan?" Even though they pretended not to care, the girls still sneaked glances at Cheng Lichen and Jinan's positions from time to time.

Cheng Lichen stood in front of the blackboard at the back of the classroom, with his hands folded in front of his chest.Under the golden sunlight, the boy's side was covered with dust, looking hazy like a painting.

No one noticed that Baili strode forward and appeared in front of Cheng Lichen like a ball of flame.

Baili turned her head up at 75 degrees, looked at the boy who was a full head taller than her, and said word by word: "You, just, just, said, what?"

The boy smiled coldly, and was finally irritated, right? But what can this girl whose face is flushed red do?With a hint of dark pleasure, Cheng Lichen turned his head to look at the girl, and repeated with a smile: "I said——you are so dirty."

——Do you want to hit me?Come on then.See who looks good to whom.

Like a clichéd movie plot, Baili took a deep breath, then raised his back hand, whistling towards the boy's face.

The boy with long hands and long legs had the upper hand. Looking at Baili's waving hand, he showed an "expected" smile, and firmly pinched Baili's wrist which was [-] centimeters away from his face with his right hand. .

Like a poisonous snake finally got its chance.

Baili's wrist was very soft.Wearing a bloated school shirt, I didn't think she was so thin, but the moment Cheng Lichen pinched Baili's wrist, the thought of "like bean sprouts" appeared in his mind, and he shook his head with a gloomy face , as if to shake this idea out of his mind.

"Let me go!" Baili has eyes as clear as a deer, and also has a stubbornness like an eagle. She refuses to show weakness. She raises her head and looks straight at Cheng Lichen. Her eyes include Cheng Lichen who was at the gate of the community last night. The disdain for pretending not to know her, and the disgust for Cheng Lichen's inexplicable provocation.

This kind of gaze was very uncomfortable, and Cheng Lichen's fingers suddenly increased his strength because he couldn't get the reactions he wanted to see from "the panicked Baili" and "the insulted and angry Baili".

Tears welled up in Baili's eyes.

It is very long to write, but in fact it is only a dozen seconds.But such a big movement was enough to sweep through like a hurricane, and the classroom was filled with the sound of knocking over the desks because of being too eager to see the scene, and the screams of being suddenly frightened.

Ji Nan was playing with his iphone with his head buried, when suddenly his arm was hit hard, he raised his head annoyed, and then saw Cheng Lichen and Baili who were confronting each other at the back of the classroom, and almost reflexively threw the iphone on the desk Go up, push away the desk and prepare to walk over.

Before Ji Nan took the first step, he heard the sound of sucking in air-conditioning in unison, and he himself couldn't help taking a breath of air-conditioning.

In the eyes of everyone, Baili suddenly raised his foot and kicked with incomparable precision, hitting a certain part of Cheng Lichen who was standing opposite him.

Cheng Lichen's face turned pale all of a sudden, he let go of Baili, bent over involuntarily, and covered his lower body with his hands.

Baili didn't seem to expect that her kick hit the bull's-eye, she looked at the boy who was bending over like a bow, she didn't know what to do, she was stunned.

In the bright and dark light, the boy's waist was bent, and his hands stretched down almost reflexively to cover the part that was kicked.Under the watchful eyes of everyone, his reason came back in another moment, and he slowly straightened up, with a forbearance and annoyed light on the young man's youthful face.

"Being kicked must be an important part..." The meaningful whisper with a protracted ending contained a trace of uncontrollable schadenfreude.

(End of this chapter)