She is in the fog

Her eyes were filled with stars, making it impossible to refuse all her requests.
He Xi slowly stretched out his leg, showing the broken and bleeding area in front of her.

The skinny calf was covered with purple marks of varying sizes. Ten centimeters below the knee, there was a scratch the size of a watch dial, which was constantly oozing small beads of blood. A small amount of dust on it was stained iron black by the blood.

Mingmei took out a medical cotton swab, opened the bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and dipped it in it while stirring.
"The infirmary is out of iodine, so I used hydrogen peroxide instead. It's more irritating and might hurt a little. Please bear with it."

Without waiting for He Xi to answer, she raised the cotton swab and gently touched her wound.

"Does it hurt?"
Mingmei raised her head and asked He Xi for her opinion, but suddenly found that she was staring at her intently. When their eyes met, Mingmei paused, lowered her head hurriedly, and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks.

"It doesn't hurt, not at all." He Xi replied.

Mingmei quietly adjusted her breathing and continued to treat her wounds.

He Xi stared at the back of her head with a ponytail and couldn't help thinking: How nice it would be if time could stop at this moment.

Unfortunately, time will never stop for anyone.

The deceased is like a husband who does not want to leave day or night.
Before we knew it, November had quietly arrived, and the midterm exams followed.
After the midterm exam, the autumn sports meeting came.

He Xi did not sign up for any sports events, so he naturally became a "brick", able to be moved wherever he was needed.
Normally, classmates in the class don’t dare or are too disdainful to talk to He Xi. They only think of this name when they need to work.

"He Xi, go get some mineral water!"
"He Xi, mix some sugar and water!"
"He Xi, keep our class's belongings safe!"

……

She was busier than the athletes and hardly had a break for the whole morning.
I finally had some free time. I just opened a bottle of mineral water when the monitor Fang Yiyi came over with the class sign: "He Xi, we don't need the class sign now. Take it back to the classroom!"

"it is good."
He Xi quickly tightened the mineral water bottle and put it aside, then stood up and took the class sign.

She rushed to the teaching building without stopping, climbed to the second floor, and just as she was about to turn into the classroom, she found a few familiar figures at the end of the corridor.

It was Ning Xiaoduo and her followers.

They sat on the balcony, completely ignoring the surveillance cameras, smoking and looking very comfortable.

He Xi quickly withdrew and hid behind the wall.

Ning Xiaoduo exhaled a puff of smoke and asked, "Have you investigated?"

Ding Xianting replied: "I have investigated. Mingmei previously attended Qinglin No. 1 Middle School and only transferred to Nanzhou No. 1 Middle School this semester."

"I know that. Say something useful."

"Mingmei's grandparents passed away a long time ago. Her maternal grandparents are both retired teachers. Her aunt is a history teacher in our school, teaching senior high school students. That one... yes! Her name is Shen Rulan. Her father and mother are both engineers in Africa, and they are still in Africa. I guess they won't be back for another three to five years."

Ning Xiaoduo stuck the cigarette butt in her hand on the balcony tiles and muttered, "It's not a very impressive background, is it?"

Ding Xianting agreed, "Hey, of course. How can you compare with Sister Ning? It would only take you a few minutes to get her."

When He Xi heard that Ning Xiaoduo was going to "do" Mingmei and even dug up her family background, she shuddered. It was only early winter, but she felt extremely cold. She was no longer in the mood to listen. She clutched her class sign tightly and hurriedly left the teaching building.

Ning Xiaoduo jumped down from the balcony, rolled her eyes at Ding Xianting, and said helplessly, "How dare I mess with her now?"

Ding Xianting was puzzled: "What's wrong, Sister Ning? That Mingmei has done us harm several times, are you just going to let her go?"

"It's my sister who's causing all this trouble."

"Li Bufan? Why is she involved again?"

"Didn't Mingmei join the radio station? Last time, I wanted to embarrass her in front of all the students in the school, so I secretly replaced her broadcast script. But my sister caught me in the act, and she scolded me and warned me not to cause trouble for Mingmei, or she would tell my dad about it and make me suffer."

"It's nothing. Maybe she's just talking."

Ning Xiaoduo pouted and said indignantly, "No, I've never seen her so angry before, and no matter what I did in the past, she always turned a blind eye. But this time, she yelled at me for an outsider and threatened to complain to my dad. I was so angry."

"That's nothing. Your parents love you so much, they won't blame you."

"You know my sister. Her words are the royal decree in our family. Isn't it just that her academic performance is better than mine? It's not a big deal." Ning Xiaoduo looked very indignant. "But I don't understand why my sister has to protect an outsider."

Ning Xiaoduo's father and Li Bufan's mother are siblings.

Li Bufan, as his name suggests, is indeed extraordinary.
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he has been a child of other people's families since he was a child. After entering high school, he has to be the first in everything. He has many titles: class monitor, first in grade, director of the radio station...
It can be said that Li Bufan is definitely a positive figure in Nanzhou No. 1 Middle School.

When another girl heard Ning Xiaoduo say this, she also jumped down from the balcony and speculated curiously, "Does Li Bufan like Mingmei?"

Ning Xiaoduo turned her head away, as if she had found a soulmate, and said excitedly: "You think so too, right?"

The girl nodded and said, "Yeah, you can tell just by listening to the radio. Didn't she work as a broadcast partner with Li Fuyue, Cao Shun, and Zhou Qiang before? When she talked to them on the radio, she had no emotions at all, like an employee who wanted to get off work quickly. But this semester is different. After she became a partner with Mingmei, even her tone and attitude changed..."

"Just like a peacock spreading its tail!" Ning Xiaoduo gave an accurate summary of her long speech.

"Yes, yes, yes!" The girl nodded vigorously, "That's the feeling."

Ning Xiaoduo bit her lower lip and smiled mischievously: "Sister Bufan, oh Sister Bufan, it turns out you also have mortal desires. I finally found your weakness." Ding Xianting asked: "Sister Ning, are we still going to do Mingmei?"

"No need to fix it, let's match her up with my sister."

Ding Xianting was very confused: "Why? Didn't your sister just yell at you? Why are you helping her?"

Ning Xiaoduo raised her chin proudly: "You don't understand this, do you? Every time there is a family gathering, my dad praises her to the utmost and belittles me. If my family knew that she had a premature love affair, and the object of her early love was a girl, and it affected her studies... hehe..."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Ding Xianting didn't understand this behavior, but still nodded in agreement.

……

Ever since he overheard the conversation between Ding Xianting and Ning Xiaoduo in the teaching building, He Xi has been feeling uneasy. Thinking of the strange dream he had some time ago, he became even more panicked.

It was early winter and the weather was cold, but she was still sweating.

After much hesitation, he finally decided to deliver the letter of breaking up the friendship to Mingmei personally.

While Qin Yiran was competing and most of the classmates went to cheer for her, she had the opportunity to ask Mingmei out to a deserted place.

She lowered her head, her brows slightly furrowed.
Then, he handed the letter of breaking off the friendship to Mingmei.
Then, he turned around and left without looking back.

Therefore, she did not see the expectation and uneasiness in Mingmei's eyes when she took the letter, nor the confusion and disappointment on her face after she finished reading the letter.

It was like a bolt from the blue. Mingmei stood there in a daze holding the letter of breaking up.

Before opening it, she had the most daring guess and assumed it was a love letter, so she was a little excited and at a loss.

Unexpectedly, after opening it, it turned out to be a letter of breaking off the friendship.

"From now on, we have nothing to do with each other. I just hope we can meet without knowing each other."

There is no more hurtful statement than this.

Her nose suddenly felt sore. She looked at He Xi's back which was already far away. At first, it was clearly visible, but later it became blurry.

Tears as big as beans poured down like heavy rain.

She couldn't figure it out: they were fine the day before, why did he suddenly break up with her? What went wrong?

……

In the classroom of Grade 16 (), Ning Xiaoduo sat in the last row by the window, with her legs propped up on the table, her upper body leaning against the back of the chair, a pillow on her neck, and her head tilted back, reading a comic book in a leisurely manner.

With a creak, the door was pushed open from the outside.

Who on earth is so blind as to disturb her interest in reading comics?
Ning Xiaoduo frowned in dissatisfaction and took the comic book away from her eyes. After seeing the person coming, an incredible look appeared on her face.
"He Xi?" She sneered, "I didn't look for you, but you took the initiative to look for me?"

Ding Xianting on the side also had a puzzled look on her face. In her opinion, He Xi's initiative to find Ning Xiaoduo was just like water flowing to higher places, the sun rising from the west, and a mouse provoking a wild cat.

"Ning Xiaoduo, I have something to talk to you about." He Xi tried to muster up his courage and toughened his attitude a little.

Ning Xiaoduo took her feet off the table and said "Oh" with interest: "What's the matter?"

"Mingmei has already broken up with me. There is no relationship between us anymore. There is no need to involve her."

"Oh?" His tone rose, full of doubt.

"What I mean is that there's no need to involve others in your feud with me. If you have anything to do, come to me."

Ning Xiaoduo threw the comic book in her hand away, stood up and walked to He Xi, walked around her, looked her up and down, and finally stopped in front of her and asked with a smile: "Are you really breaking up?"

"Ah."

"So you're here to beg me not to cause trouble for her?"

"Yes."

After getting a positive answer, Ning Xiaoduo rolled her eyes and shook her head pretending to be regretful: "But Mingmei has ruined my good deeds time and time again. I can't swallow this anger. What do you think I should do?"

"What do you want?"

"Since it's a request, you have to show some sincerity, right?"

He Xi frowned and said, "Then what kind of sincerity do you want?"

Ning Xiaoduo was not in a hurry to answer. Instead, she supported herself with her hands and sat on the desk in the first row, with her arms folded across her chest, and a very provocative expression: "Kneel down and beg me, and I will agree to you."

(End of this chapter)