The white rose I picked up cried and said she liked me.

The phrase "crisp autumn air" has absolutely nothing to do with Yuncheng.

After a nearly three-month summer vacation, the September school season arrives, bringing joy to parents but immense pain to teachers and students.

(PS: Source: A teacher friend of mine and all the teachers in his office)

September was still sweltering, and apart from the cicadas, everything else seemed listless.

This semester, Xu Xi moved up a grade and became a senior high school student who will soon face the college entrance examination.

"Xi Bao, tell me loudly, besides studying, what's the most important thing in senior year of high school?"

Xu Xi looked up at the classroom ceiling, pouted, and thought for a moment.

"Eat, sleep, watch anime."

Wen Yao nudged her shoulder and whispered in her ear.

"Have you ever thought about having a passionate, dramatic romance?"

"what?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Xi was stunned for a full five seconds.

She glanced at Wen Yao, then at herself, and nervously hugged herself, shrinking back a little.

"Yao... Yao Yao, I'm not the kind of person you think I am..."

Before she could finish speaking, the eyes of the surrounding classmates fell on Wen Yao, as if to say, "What did I just hear?"

Wen Yao quickly covered her mouth and gave her a death stare.

"Aaaaaah, I'm going to kill you!"

Seeing that more and more classmates were looking at her, Wen Yao quickly put her hand down, coughed lightly twice, and pretended that nothing had happened.

Xu Xi laughed so hard she was shaking, leaning on the table, her back heaving.

"Yaoyao, are you having romantic feelings?"

She lowered her voice and whispered in Wen Yao's ear.

"Where...where is it? Don't talk nonsense!"

Wen Yao's face instantly turned red with embarrassment, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and she immediately launched into a triple denial.

"Hey, you've grown up, you've reached that age, it's understandable~"

Xu Xi patted Wen Yao's head and teased her with a grin.

"Ah! You guys don't understand."

Wen Yao slumped dejectedly onto the table, drawing circles on the tabletop with her finger.

"After watching 'Horimura' a couple of days ago, I felt like a crawling worm in the sewer. I really want to have a passionate campus romance before graduation!"

"Our class's academic representative and literature representative have been together for half a year, Yunyan and Xiayu, who are childhood sweethearts, have confirmed their relationship, and even that quiet Li Dongdong has succumbed to the onslaught of the talkative Chu Qingqing."

"Don't worry, Linlin and I are single too~ We're here to keep you company."

Xu Xi patted her on the back to comfort her.

"Oh, I almost forgot. When we first met, you said you had someone you liked."

Wen Yao rested her chin on one hand and gently touched Xu Xi's forehead with the other.

"And that Linlin, she's a complete traitor! A mole! A collaborator!"

"She's been acting strange lately, constantly staring at her phone screen and grinning like an idiot. One time, I sneaked a peek at her phone screen when she wasn't looking, and guess what I saw?"

"What do you see?"

Wen Yao leaned close to Xu Xi's ear and whispered.

"She and Brother Qi Yu have a great time chatting, and they even say goodnight to each other every day."

Xu Xi covered her mouth in surprise, her face filled with disbelief.

"Zun Du is fake Du o_O?"

"Zun Du!"

Wen Yao said with a serious expression.

"I have a feeling that they'll start dating soon."

"No way, is it possible that they were just talking about schoolwork? After all, Brother Qi Yu really helped Linlin improve her grades a lot."

"Shh, I'm telling you, my sixth sense is guaranteed to be accurate."

"What are you talking about?"

Zhao Lin returned from outside the classroom to her seat and patted Xu Xi and Wen Yao on the shoulder.

"Ahem...no, Xi Bao and I were just saying that the moon was really round last night."

As she spoke, Wen Yao gave Xu Xi a wink.

"Ah...yes, yes, yes!"

Xu Xi echoed.

Cover yourself with a blanket under the overpass, and when something happens, just say "yes, yes, yes."

"But it was cloudy last night, so we couldn't see the moon..."

Zhao Lin muttered as she wiped her sweat, took out three cups of milk tea, and handed two of them to Xu Xi and Wen Yao.

"Wow, thank you, Linlin!"

Thank you~

Wen Yao and Xu Xi exchanged a glance and suddenly felt ashamed for talking about Zhao Lin behind her back.

You can't be indebted to someone just because they fed you.

"No need to thank me, Teacher Qi brought this over, I just went downstairs to pick it up."

Zhao Lin said this.

Wen Yao blinked, and while Zhao Lin turned around to look for a book in her bag, she quietly leaned close to Xu Xi's ear.

"See what I told you?"

"No, didn't Brother Qi Yu invite both of us too?"

Wen Yao gestured towards Zhao Lin's cup of milk tea.

"Look, we added toppings to our milk tea, while hers was milk tea with toppings."

Xu Xi looked closely and saw that it was indeed so.

Zhao Lin's milk tea contained every topping imaginable, including coconut jelly, pearls, pudding, and red beans.

"But... Yao Yao, isn't it a bit inappropriate for us to talk about Lin Lin behind her back like this?"

Wen Yao gasped, suddenly remembering what Zhao Lin had told them: what she hated most was her underlings, who were obsequious to her on the surface but secretly ganged up on her and cursed her.

How is my behavior any different from that of those traitors?

"What should we do then?"

Xu Xi patted Zhao Lin on the back and waved to her.

"What's wrong?"

Zhao Lin leaned her head closer.

"Linlin, is something going on between you and Brother Qi Yu?"

Zhao Lin was slightly stunned upon hearing this, and then a blush spread across her cheeks.

"Is it...is it that obvious?"

Wen Yao's chin almost hit the ground.

Holy crap, they're playing their cards right out of the box!

And they actually admitted it directly?

What about all those days of secret observation?

"Tell me quickly, what progress have you made?"

Xu Xi asked curiously.

Zhao Lin shook her head.

"Not so fast, I don't know what kind of person he is yet."

After experiencing Song Jiayi's unrequited love, she built a protective wall around her heart.

Qi Yu's gentleness, thoughtfulness, and reliable demeanor only managed to pry open a small part of the wall.

She hasn't decided yet whether she wants to commit her feelings seriously.

"Waaah, Linlin, you can't abandon us and the organization!"

Wen Yao pretended to cry, wiped away non-existent tears from the corners of her eyes, and said in a pitiful voice.

"Huh? What organization?"

Zhao Lin asked, puzzled.

"That's right, Yao Yao is in love and wants to have a passionate romance before graduation, but she hasn't found the right person yet."

Xu Xi chuckled, revealing Wen Yao's true colors.

"Ugh! I'm so angry!"

Wen Yao roared in impotent rage, then snapped her fingers and beckoned towards the window.

"What are you doing? Haha, oh dear, I've been teasing you for a year, and you've been using me as a punching bag for a year, so we're even, right..."

Xu Bowen came to Wen Yao's side, looking utterly dejected.

"Go downstairs and run 20 laps around the track to make me happy."

"No, sister, you're treating me like a donkey."

"Aren't you a sports student? I'm helping you train."

"I object! I've already run ten kilometers today. It's too hot outside, I..."

"After you finish running, I'll treat you to Häagen-Dazs after school."

"I love extra practice! No more words needed, my beloved class monitor, here I come!"

......

"Yaoyao, why are you doing this..."

Xu Xi was both amused and exasperated.

"Xi Bao, you don't understand. Seeing that bastard looking like a dead dog after all that exhaustion was incredibly satisfying."

Wen Yao said with a grin.

"By the way, Xibao, I want to hold a poll on the school forum to determine the most beautiful and most handsome guy in the school, and then find a high-quality man from the list of most handsome guys. Can you help me out?"

"How will you manage to hold things together?"

"Hehe, of course we need some beauties to select the school beauty~ Just making a school hunk list would expose my true purpose."