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“Is the suit ok?” A girl sat down beside him and asked twice.

Sheng Renxing raised his head and glanced at her, then replied: “No.” AKxSl1

“…” The girl raised her hand to comb her hair, “Why not?”

“Waist.” Sheng Renxing clicked, pulled back, and aimed at the pig, before letting go and flicking it.

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He sighed boredly in his heart.

When he played with his mobile phone, he made it clear that he didn’t want to chat, but this person was sticking to him like gum. 1yTaSZ

Sheng Renxing raised his head, assessing her while her eyes stayed stuck to his.

Her oversized black cosmetic contacts made her look like a puppet. He wondered how she still had vision, if she wasn’t already blinded.

“The waist of the trousers is too big and the length is too short.” He cleared the level. Expressionless, he leaned back in his chair.

The person who had worn this suit before had been a winter melon.

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“Ah, that…” this girl was the second-year in charge of the performance, and had been responsible for the costumes. She bit her lip with embarrassment, “I’ll help you change it.”

How would anyone even alter this piece of crap? Sew the waist cloth into the pants?

Sheng Renxing leaned back again lazily, though he was still taller than her, and looked down at her slightly: “No. I’ll wear my own.”

“…” The girl was silent, seemingly thinking, before nodding like a chick pecking at rice. “Alright, just make sure it’s white.” 7GmSK4

Obviously – he wasn’t blind.

But Sheng Renxing didn’t make any more comments, only lowering his head and clicking on the next level.

The girl didn’t make a move to leave.

After a while, Sheng Renxing looked up again to say impatiently: “Is there anything else?”, but he happened to meet Xing Ye’s eyes. fy 8gK

Sheng Renxing was in the auditorium, waiting for rehearsals to start. The surrounding doors were all open, and just as he was looking up, Xing Ye was passing by a door.

Their eyes had met.

Sheng Renxing pinched his mobile phone, not knowing what kind of expression to make. At the same time, he secretly began to pray, don’t come, don’t come, don’t come –

Xing Ye looked directly at him and walked over. 5qioOG

Fuck.

Jiang Jing, who was next to him, naturally caught sight of him as well, looking around before smiling, “Ai! Why are you here?”

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Sheng Renxing raised his chin towards the stage: “Waiting for rehearsals to start.”

“For playing the piano tomorrow night?” Jiang Jing turned to look at the circle. pGThEL

“Yes.” the phone buckled under Sheng Renxing’s grasp, falling upside down on his leg, but, stretching his fingers as if nothing had happened, he asked him nonsense, “Why are you here?”

“We went to buy water.” It was Jiang Jing’s mineral water.

Xing Ye handed him the mineral water that was in his hand: “Drink?”

He did indeed feel a little thirsty now: “No need, I’m not thirsty.” Shen Renxing glanced at him quickly. As soon as their eyes made contact, he smiled politely. Z79mS1

Xing Ye didn’t move to make further conversation.

Anyone with eyes could see that there was something wrong with this atmosphere. This included Jiang Jing – he was not near-sighted to that extent, so he changed the subject:

“Are you free tonight? Huang Mao is treating us to food stalls.”

But Sheng Renxing shook his head, “Not today.” 1XbKVD

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Unlike with Xing Ye, there was nothing between him and Jiang Jing. On the contrary, the two naturally hit it off when Jiang Jing saw Sheng Renxing in the street for the first time.

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“Oh, I think that’s the guy who played with Chen Ying and the others. Were you going to buy books?” Jiang Jing chatted with him. DkNnUQ

“Math problems.” Sheng Renxing tilted head towards him, deliberately not looking at Xing Ye sitting on the other side of him.

“For the monthly exam?” Jiang Jing suddenly realised, “I’ve already given up. I’ll just see who I’m sitting next to when I take the test – Buddha Bao, bless, but it must not be you.” His last sentence was directed at Xing Ye.

Sheng Renxing smiled cooperatively, but didn’t turn his head. He didn’t know what Xing Ye’s current expression was.

“Where will you be tomorrow night?” Xing Ye asked from beside him. Wjh04J

Sheng Renxing did not turn his head, and, keeping his expression as natural as possible, he asked: “What?”

“After the show is over,” Xing Ye was looking at him, “are you free?”

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“Tomorrow night,” Sheng Renxing frowned slightly and looked embarrassed. “I already have plans for dinner with my classmates.”

“When you finish dinner.” Xing Ye seemed to have already predicted his answer. bk1oFL

“……” Sheng Renxing finally turned his head. “What’s the matter?”

Sheng Renxing shrugged his shoulders and looked at his phone. His face made him look quite busy – it was an expression that would give people a perfunctory feeling. Everytime he put on this face, it felt like he was about to start a fight.

“I’m free now, if you can talk quickly.”

Jiang Jing looked at them both from the side and felt like they were going to fight. Although he was thinking of persuading them to not fight, since both of their expressions were very ugly, he then considered the difference in strength between himself and themselves. Oo5FQD

Thinking like this, he moved a little aside, lowered his head and looked at his phone quietly, blocking out the sounds of whatever was happening outside his phone screen.

In the meantime, Xing Ye looked at Sheng Renxing for a while; his expression was very bad.

Sheng Renxing’s face remained motionless, but inwardly he felt like a broken pot. He was even a little happy, thinking, “Let’s have a fight”.

But Xing Ye didn’t move until someone asked Sheng Renxing to go to rehearsal. AgoFMY

Shen Renxing first looked aside before looking back at Xing Ye: “I’m going to go if you don’t have anything to say.”

Then Xing Ye spoke.

“Are we still friends?”

He spoke in a very soft voice as music began to be played from the stage, which overshadowed his voice for a moment. OR9hjE

But Sheng Renxing still heard him.

Xing Ye looked at him, and for that moment, there was nothing else in his eyes.

The idea of him being the only one in Xing Ye’s eyes made his heart so happy that he was unable to light even a spark of anger, before he immediately doused it with a bucket of cold water. His whole body felt cold.

Looking at his expression, Sheng Renxing knew that if he wanted to retaliate against him, this was his chance – he could just reply with a “no”. 6lGBfU

But he didn’t care.

Whether his answer was “no”, or “yes”, or a typical response of his, “what about you”… It wasn’t easy to speak.

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The girl ran over again: “Sheng Renxing, it’s time for rehearsal!” She called for him several times.

Sheng Renxing turned around and walked with her. c5PDeU

In the end, he didn’t say a word.

By the time rehearsals were over, Xing Ye and Jiang Jing were no longer there.

Time passed in the blink of an eye. With the turn of a page, it was already the next day.

Although the show was an activity for second and third-years, second-years were not allowed to watch. Except for the performers, the students had to stay in their classrooms to study. jMv9uA

However, many second-years snuck in to watch.

This was mostly because of Shen Renxing.

At the beginning of his performance, he played a pop song with a girl from the second-year: he played the piano while she sang.

The first time he was informed of the song choice, he glanced at his music score before looking up at the person who had notified him, “What are you looking at?” Perhaps his expression at the time had been too incredible. 7mO3KA

Finally, it became his solo.

It was the penultimate performance: the lights were bright while everything else was dark, and the stage consisted of a single piano.

Shang Ren, the host, left after the curtain call, leaving the microphone on the piano.

Originally, having seen this, Sheng Renxing had wanted to speak into it, as he had been told to say something auspicious. qGJPSI

However, just as he sat down, the audience began chattering like crazy.

Shen Renxing glanced sideways at the darkness in front of him. He couldn’t see a single face.

Suddenly, he felt no anxiety.

These people knew shit about piano. What could you even wish for with people like this? Don’t be a danger to society in the future? tYRSHy

So he released the microphone, said nothing, and instead began to play his piece.

Originally, this song was cheerful, with a lively style.

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However, because of his mood, he just pressed down on the keys with the feeling of the iron bone clank.

Everyone’s program time couldn’t be too long, so he only played a segment of the original song. R0Sqp4

The auditorium became quiet, and finally, only the sound of him playing the piano could be heard. The audience stayed quiet until the end of the song, where there was a continuation of the silence until they suddenly began to howl like crazy.

Sheng Renxing waited quietly.

He didn’t know what he was feeling now.

When the shouts and whistles finally died down, he raised his hand with the microphone, dropped the sentence, “I wish you all a bright future”, and got up to leave the stage. lgVif3

He was greeted backstage with excitement.

When Director Li appeared, he clapped his hands hard, “It was so great for you to play!” It was as if he didn’t know Sheng Renxing could play the piano before.

Then was he looking for him just to fill the fucking seat?

Sheng Renxing only nodded at him, not smiling. His face was full of the words: ‘Don’t bother me now’. He walked through the crowd, taking his phone from his suit jacket. WdVqUK

He really wasn’t lying to Xing Ye when he said he had to go to dinner.

Several people were already arguing in the QQ group chat.

Chen Ying and Fatty kept on forwarding posts, saying, “You’re all the shit right now, I want to confess to you! School grass!”

The leader of the show had taken a lot of photos. YNsgXk

Looking closely at them, Sheng Renxing found that he seemed to have finished playing the song with a frown?

The leader had asked him where to meet – looking around, Sheng Renxing thought about the back door.

However, he caught sight of a man standing under a tree in front of him, leaning against the trunk, holding a phone while looking at him.

It was Xing Ye. kdLwP

“……” Sheng Renxing walked over. “Waiting for someone?”

“Waiting for you.” Xing Ye spoke as he turned off his phone.

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Sheng Renxing noticed that he had been watching a video just now, and lowered his eyes to catch “I wish you all a bright future.”.

“Changed your phone?” Sheng Renxing asked. B8qWIl

“Someone else’s.” Xing Ye put it back in his pocket, turned around, gestured to him, and began to walk forward.

Sheng Renxing caught up to him in two steps.

“I made an appointment with my classmates for dinner.” He said, in case Xing Ye had forgotten he was busy.

“Well,” Xing Ye spoke, “What are you going to eat?” JQUYp0

The street lights in the school were very dim. Sheng Renxing could hardly see his expression, but his voice sounded ordinary, as if he couldn’t hear what he meant. It was like yesterday hadn’t happened at all, and they were still talking like normal.

Sheng Renxing replied casually, “I don’t know.”

His heart felt overwhelmed.

“It’s late – the beef noodles at the east gate are delicious.” VyHhws

“Really.” Sheng Renxing responded.

He desperately wanted to question Xing Ye – what did he think now? Had he turned over the page on this? Did he now want to be friends after rejecting him? Did he not feel like it was awkward?

But he didn’t say a word.

The two were able to maintain this brief moment of peace. NSFVix

After walking for a while, Chen Ying called.

“Hey, where are you?”

“I’m still at school.”

“Oh, we’re all at the back door now. Do you want to go through with us?” huwSJt

“No, I’ll be there later.”

Sheng Renxing would always hang up first, regardless of what the other party wanted.

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Then he stopped and spoke to Xing Ye, “I’m going to have dinner with them.”

Xing Ye seemed to be moving in slow-motion. He didn’t say anything, nor did he move. Shen Renxing stared at him, waiting for a while, feeling that he was incredibly boring. 186og3

But somehow, he didn’t want to leave.

He sighed in his heart, “Don’t you have something to tell me?”

“Well,” Xing Ye looked at Sheng Renxing. In the night, he appeared a little gloomy. Maybe it was the light.

“Let’s make up.” DygdKZ

“What?” Sheng Renxing was stunned, as though he didn’t understand what he was talking about.

After a while, he slowly asked, “What do you mean?”

Xing Ye: “Don’t be angry.”

“I’m not giving birth.” Sheng Renxing spoke as a reflex. ofzyQc

“Okay,” Xing Ye nodded, “Are we good?”

“……” Shen Renxing was stunned again. He opened his mouth, but he didn’t know what to do.

Xing Ye suddenly leaned over and hugged him: “Let’s be good, okay.”

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