It's just that Yuan Jia's words were something Xu Nanzhi didn't expect.

He looked at her sincerely and praised: "Your name is really nice. It promises a long life, a beauty from the South, and gardenias blooming. It's so poetic."

Xu Nanzhi looked at him blankly, repeating what he said over and over again in his mind.

"Thanks……"

She said softly, as before, her voice was as low as a mosquito.

High school life has begun.

…

Xu Nanzhi is a dormitory student. In order to avoid classmates talking to her, she is always the first to come to the classroom and the last to leave.

Yuan Jia is also a dormitory student like her, but he gets the right score almost every time. His grades are also very good and he is at the top of the class. The class teacher can't criticize him. After all, this guy is always very accurate.

, you will not be a minute early, but you will never be late.

After two months of getting along, Xu Nanzhi and Yuan Jia had exchanged no more than five sentences. Most of the time, he was talking to himself, and Xu Nanzhi listened quietly.

Yuan Jia was different from others. He seemed to understand her difficulties and never forced Xu Nanzhi to speak. However, he did not distance himself from her because of this. Instead, he helped her protect her little grid intentionally or unintentionally.

Just the right degree, so that she won't feel uneasy if you're close, and won't feel cold if you're distant.

The girl's mind was rarely touched by him...

It's just that these two words, 'like', cannot be said out loud no matter what...

If she could keep doing this, she would actually be very satisfied.

Sometimes during class, Yuan Jia would leave her seat. Without his help to block the outside, Xu Nanzhi would feel unaccustomed to the empty space. She silently retracted her little hands into her sleeves, lowered her head, and prayed that he would hurry up.

return.

"This is for you."

Yuan Jia came back and secretly picked a white gardenia from the flower garden.

He put the gardenias on Xu Nanzhi's table, took the water glass, and also took Xu Nanzhi's water glass. He went to the podium and filled two glasses of water. Then as usual, he came back and opened his seat to sit down.

She is firmly protected within the small grid.

Xu Nanzhi felt very relieved, took the gardenia, gently smelled the faint fragrance of the flower, and her thoughts drifted away...

After school, when everyone had left, Xu Nanzhi took out this gardenia from the drawer.

She carefully tore off the petals piece by piece, then clipped them into her notebook, picked up the pen, and wrote a sentence on this page.

"it will take a lot of ourage to tell the truth."

(Translation: It takes a lot of courage to tell the truth.)

She held the notebook in her arms, and when she raised her head, she saw a face that no one else had seen before. She exuded a soft breath from the inside out, and together with the scenery outside the window, she painted a beautiful picture.

…

There is a half-hour lunch meeting at noon every day. Usually, if nothing happens, a classmate from the class will come on stage to perform a talent show for everyone, sing, talk about cross talk, recite pi... anything is fine, just to disperse the stress after nap.

Just fatigue.

Because of this incident, Xu Nanzhi has been having trouble sleeping and eating for a whole week, and today it will be her turn to take the stage.

She was scared, really scared...

Even last night, thinking about going on stage at noon today, I cried until about two o'clock in the morning. When I woke up, my eyes were red and swollen.

If other students knew she was like this, they would definitely think she was crazy.

"Are you okay? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Yuan Jia noticed something was wrong with her and asked her three times. She didn't speak every time and just shook her head.

It was time for the lunch meeting, and the monitor walked up to the podium.

"Today it's Xu Nanzhi's turn to take the stage. Xu Nanzhi, what show are you going to perform for everyone?"

After the words fell, everyone's eyes fell on the girl in the corner.

Many people in the class had never even seen Xu Nanzhi face to face, because she always lowered her head, and no one except Yuan Jia had ever heard her speak.

Everyone waited curiously, some boys also started to cheer, and the class burst into warm applause.

"Hurry up! Half an hour passes in a flash!"

"Come on, you can sing a song."

"You can also learn from Luo Qianback's pi...haha."

Xu Nanzhi's face was pale and her lips were bloodless. She was trembling, her eyes were red and swollen, and she felt like the world was spinning. The scene when she was a child performing her talent on stage lingered in her mind like a nightmare.

She really can't do it...

Not to mention being on stage, just now, everyone's eyes are like knives, cutting her completely...

When Xu Nanzhi didn't know what to do and was about to collapse emotionally, Yuan Jia patted her shoulder comfortingly.

"It's okay, I'll go up for you."

Yuanjia stood up and walked onto the podium.

Everyone's eyes were attracted to him. The mountain-like pressure on Xu Nanzhi's body dissipated, and she stared blankly at Yuan Jia on the stage.

"Yuanjia, why are you here?"

"Xu Nanzhi is not feeling well, I just need to help her perform."

"That's not okay. It's your turn tomorrow."

"Is it okay if I perform twice? Stop making noises. Xu Nanzhi is really uncomfortable."

"It feels like you two are having an affair."

"Stop spreading nonsense, are you still listening?"

"Hurry up, class will start soon..."

…

Xu Nanzhi couldn't hear what everyone said in the classroom, and she didn't know how Yuan Jia sang.

She only remembered the warmth from Yuan Jia's palm when he patted her shoulder.

[It’s okay, I’ll go up for you]

At that moment, Xu Nanzhi felt like a drowning person who had been saved.

she survived

(I secretly updated a 4,400-word chapter. I have to recommend it in the new book issue, so I really can’t update too much... I’m on the recommendation list today. Everyone’s follow-up reading and voting are super important. Thank you everyone!)

(Tonight I corrected the typos and some bug values ​​in the previous chapters, which will not affect reading~)
Chapter completed!