She is in the fog

She began to recite: "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng, written by Wang Bo. Yuzhang was the old prefecture, Hongdu was the new capital. The stars are divided into Yi and Zhen, and the land is connected to Heng and Lu. It is surrounded by three rivers and five lakes, and controls the barbarians and leads to Ou and Yue. The natural resources are rich and the dragon's light shines on the ruins of Niu and Dou; the people are outstanding and the land is blessed, Xu Ru sleeps on Chen Fan's bed. ..."

Not a single word is missing or wrong, even the pronunciation is completely correct.

After finishing reading, Mingmei looked at the teacher with a look of grievance and pleading, and whispered: "Teacher, now you can believe that I really prepared for the lesson, right?"

The Chinese teacher was a little surprised. This was not something that could be achieved through simple "pre-study". Unless one had deliberately spent time memorizing it, it would not be possible to do it so accurately and fluently.
It seems that I really blamed her wrongly.

So the Chinese teacher asked her to sit down and turned to the monitor Fang Yiyi and said, "The monitor will talk to your head teacher after class and ask her to check the surveillance to see who sneaked into the classroom and tore up her book."

"Ok."

The surveillance results showed that the culprit was Ding Xianting from Class 16 of Senior .

He Xi recognized her. She was Ning Xiaoduo's follower. She often followed Ning Xiaoduo around and acted like a bully, doing some shameful things.

She dared to walk into the classroom and tear up the books so brazenly, so she must have been instructed by Ning Xiaoduo.

He Xi's mood suddenly fell to the bottom.
She clutched her school uniform pants tightly, her brows almost wrinkled into the shape of the Chinese character "川".

Why is this happening? Is she really the disaster star her adoptive father and stepmother said she was? Will all those who get close to her be retaliated against and never have a good ending?
After the evening self-study, He Xi grabbed the strap of his schoolbag and walked home with his head down.

Suddenly there was a movement in the woods ahead, and she curiously went over to see what was going on.

Ning Xiaoduo led a group of thugs and blocked a girl wearing the uniform of Nanzhou No. 1 Middle School. They threatened to strip her clothes off and take photos to upload to the Internet.

He Xi felt that the back of the girl in school uniform was strangely familiar. The next second, the girl turned around...

Bright!
How could it be her?
He Xi wanted to shout for help immediately, but found that she couldn't make any sound no matter what she did. She quickly ran into the public security bureau not far away.

However, when she and the police arrived at the grove, they found it empty.

She turned around to explain to the police, but found that the police had also disappeared.

She turned left and right in disbelief, looking around for any trace of Mingmei.

She looked up at the moon and found a bright smiling face reflected on it. She thought she was seeing things and rubbed her eyes quickly.

When I opened my eyes again, the smiling face was gone.

The moon was pale and thin, hanging sadly in the sky like a faded paper-cut.

Suddenly, crimson mist rose around the moon, dyeing it blood red and terrifying. He Xi could vaguely see a broken, bloody arm and a snow-white ice cream...

"If it weren't for you, your mother wouldn't have died at all!"
"You killed your mother!"
"You are the murderer!"

A familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from the sky, sometimes far away, sometimes near, like a chant from hell.

The scene in front of her was spinning rapidly, and He Xi felt a terrible headache. She closed her eyes, covered her ears tightly, and shouted desperately: "I didn't do it! It's not me! It's not me!"

With a "thump" sound, He Xi sat up straight and woke up from the nightmare.

She was breathing hard, and her forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat.

I looked at the clock. It was 4:17 AM.
No more sleepiness.
She got out of bed, walked to the desk, sat down and turned on the desk lamp.

He Xi took out the two transparent laser candy wrappers from the drawer and looked at their colorful appearance under the desk lamp, and made a secret decision.

She couldn't implicate Mingmei.

She put the candy wrapper back into the drawer, took out an exquisite notebook, selected the most beautiful page, and carefully tore it off.

He picked up the pen and wrote three words in the middle of the first line: A letter of breaking off friendship.

"Mingmei, I haven't known you for too long, and thank you for treating me as a friend. But after spending some time together, I found that you and I have too many differences. In other words, we are not from the same world. In fact, we are not suitable to be friends. From now on, we have no connection with each other. I only hope that we will meet but not know each other."

Signed name: He Xi.

A drop of tear fell on the word "曦", turning it into an ink ball.
He Xi quickly took out a piece of toilet paper to wipe his eyes, then tore off a piece of paper from his notebook and rewrote it.

He Xi held the letter of breaking off the friendship tightly in his hand all day, waiting for a suitable opportunity to personally hand it to Mingmei.

Unfortunately, Wenwan was always by Mingmei's side, so she never had the chance to talk to her alone.

Finally, during the break of the second-to-last evening self-study class, Mingmei put down her pen, walked to her seat, and asked, "He Xi, do you want to go to the bathroom?"

He Xi looked at Wen Wan's position and found that she was writing furiously on her homework book.
"Wen Wan isn't coming with you?"

Mingmei explained: "Wenwan hasn't finished her math homework yet and is busy. It's okay, we don't need to worry about her."
After saying that, she helped He Xi up, took her hand as if no one was around, and led her towards the toilet.

There was a pleasant smell on her body. He Xi tilted her body slightly and couldn't help but sniff. The fragrance was refreshing, but her mind was in a mess.

I hesitated for a long time.
I still haven’t sent the letter of breaking up.

She sighed in her heart and thought silently: "Wait a little longer, give me a little more time."

This wait will last until after the National Day holiday.

During this period, Mingmei and Wenwan successfully passed the interview of the radio station and joined the campus radio station as broadcasters. "He Xi!" Mingmei handed a note to He Xi and said with a beaming face, "This is the date and time of my broadcast, you must listen to it."

"it is good."

At every appointed time, He Xi sat in the classroom doing homework, listening to the bright and clear voice coming from the radio, and felt that all the suffering was nothing more than this.

Quiet moments are always short-lived.
Not long after, Ning Xiaoduo found out that He Xi and Li Xingyu were deskmates.

In late October, the temperature in Nanzhou City dropped suddenly. He Xi was only wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt under his school uniform. The wind on the rooftop was blowing so hard that he couldn't help but shiver.

Ning Xiaoduo stood in front of her and said unhappily, "Who told you to sit at the same table with Li Xingyu?"

"This happened a long time ago." He Xi explained in a low voice, "And it wasn't that I wanted to sit next to her, but there was only one seat left..."

"Are you saying I'm blind?" Ning Xiaoduo asked back, "Didn't I warn you to stay away from her?"

"That's not it..."

Before He Xi could finish, Ning Xiaoduo raised her right hand and slapped her hard on the face, then kicked her to her knees, shouting, "I'll make you a slut every day! Go to hell!"

He Xi felt a little pain and was about to stand up after gritting his teeth when Ning Xiaoduo's followers swarmed over.
He Xi hurriedly hugged his head with both hands, then curled up his body, protecting himself in the position of a fetus in his mother's belly.
Another burst of punching and kicking.

"What are you doing? Stop it!" A clear voice sounded at the entrance of the corridor.

Everyone then stopped and looked towards the source of the sound.

"Cough-cough-"
He Xi was stunned by the beating and didn't hear any sound from the outside world at all. After he realized that the attacker had stopped, he coughed twice, struggled to straighten his back, and sat on the ground.
She turned around and saw a bright figure.
In an instant, she turned her head away again and lowered it quickly. Subconsciously, she didn't want Mingmei to see her in such a miserable state.

Ding Xianting hurriedly walked to Ning Xiaoduo's side and whispered, "Sister Ning, what should we do?"

Ning Xiaoduo stretched out a hand to signal her not to speak, then looked at Mingmei with a puzzled expression: "Why are you here? What are you doing here?"

Mingmei raised her eyebrows and asked, "Why do you want to bully your classmates?"

"It's none of your business, get out of here if you have nothing to do with me!" Ding Xianting rolled her eyes at her indifferently, "Be careful or I'll beat you up too!"

"Did I ask you to speak?" Ning Xiaoduo turned her head and looked at Ding Xianting with an unhappy look on her face.

"Sister Ning..." Ding Xianting was frustrated and was about to complain, but when she saw the expression on Ning Xiaoduo's face, she quickly pursed her lips and said nothing.

"I advise you to leave quickly, otherwise I will go to find Director Jiang!" Mingmei frowned with a serious expression.

Ning Xiaoduo glanced at her, remembered Li Bufan's instructions, exhaled, and as if she had made a great decision, waved to her followers: "Let's go!"

Then, everyone walked around Mingmei in an orderly manner and went down from the rooftop.

Mingmei turned her head away guiltily, observing their movements with her peripheral vision until they completely disappeared from her sight. Only then did she heave a sigh of relief, and her body almost slumped over. Seeing He Xi still sitting on the ground, she wanted to go over and help her up.
Unexpectedly, He Xi seemed to have eyes on the back of his head, and even though his back was facing her, he was able to notice her movements.

"Don't come over." He Xi stopped Mingmei.
She was in such a mess now, she didn't want her to see her like this.

Mingmei stopped where she was, unable to move forward or backward.
"Are you ok?"

"I'm fine," He Xi said stubbornly, "You don't have to worry about me."

Mingmei looked at her thin back and sighed worriedly: "I'll go back to the classroom and wait for you."
Then, he walked down from the rooftop.

After realizing that there was no one behind him, He Xi simply hardened his heart, gritted his teeth, endured the severe pain, stood up suddenly, and without even brushing off the dust on his pants, he limped downstairs.

After going down a level floor, she gradually saw figures of people. She didn't want others to see her miserable appearance, so she endured the pain and pretended to be calm, walking at a normal pace so that no one would notice anything unusual.

She did not return to the classroom, but went to the pavilion on the Jasmine Path.

She sat on the stone bench in the pavilion, bent down, rolled up her trouser legs and took a look. Her legs were also covered with bruises. She stretched out her finger and pressed the largest one, and immediately grimaced in pain.

"Why didn't you tell me? This shouldn't be the first time, right?"
A familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears. He Xi turned around and saw that it was Mingmei. He just didn't know when she came to him.

He Xi didn't say anything, she just walked in front of her, frowned and continued: "You don't have to be stubborn, I know it must be painful, cry if you want, I won't laugh at you."

He Xi still didn't speak.

"You're not going to cry, right? If you don't cry, I will cry." Mingmei blinked, with tears flashing in her eyes.

Seeing her tearful look, He Xi's heart softened for some reason, and he quickly said, "It's nothing, I can handle it, it's nothing."

"You're still joking at this time."

Mingmei squatted down and gently held He Xi's ankles. Noticing that she was resisting a little, she instead pressed down her shoes forcefully, folded up her school uniform trouser legs, and then felt around in her pocket for something.

He Xi saw the opportunity and hid his calves under the stone bench, saying embarrassedly: "There is dust on my pants, it's dirty... don't touch it."

Mingmei took out a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and a pack of cotton swabs from her pocket, looked at He Xi, and said seriously, "Forget about the other things, but the broken skin and bleeding areas must be disinfected."

(End of this chapter)