A Young Woman's Heart

Ye Banxia nervously rubbed her sleeve, the pimples on her forehead seeming a little red from embarrassment: "Th...thank you...I won't lose it..."

"Here you go." Mo Xueyao handed the umbrella to the other person, not forgetting to add, "Really, don't lose it."

"OK……"

"Be careful on the road." Li Wanyan nodded to Ye Banxia without saying anything more.

After leaving the school gate, the two turned left, crossed a traffic light intersection, and arrived at the Yinshan Library.

It rained all day, making the sky look exceptionally late.

It was only a little past 4:40.

But the streetlights along the street were already on, their dim yellow light illuminating the raindrops and giving them a faint orange hue.

Walking into the second floor of the library, the same middle-aged woman from yesterday was there. When she saw Mo Xueyao, she was still very enthusiastic: "Oh, it's you. Did you bring the deposit today?"

"Okay! Get a library card!" Mo Xueyao tried to snap her fingers, but couldn't. She could only awkwardly pull her hand back and hand over the neatly folded hundred-yuan bill she was holding in her other hand.

"Mo Xueyao, Class 2, Grade 11, Yukong High School..." The staff member recorded her personal information, then operated a magnetic card in front of a machine for a while. "Here, your library card. Do you remember what we talked about last time? Do you need me to repeat it?"

"No need, I've memorized it all!" Mo Xueyao replied confidently, taking the library card that was the same size as a bank card.

The illustration on the library card is a vast starry sky. If you look closely, you'll find that the stars are not individual points of light, but rather characters, including both Chinese and English.

"Let's meet at the entrance later. Wanyan, how many books do you want to borrow?" Mo Xueyao asked from the entrance.

“One book is enough,” Li Wanyan replied. “See you here later.”

"Well, if Wanyan can't find me, just come to the popular fiction section," Mo Xueyao said, heading straight for those bookshelves.

When she came yesterday, she had already decided what she wanted to borrow, so she was very efficient and quickly picked up two books she wanted to read—one by Gu Long and the other by Jin Yong.

"It seems he didn't come..." Mo Xueyao cautiously looked around and muttered to herself in a voice that was inaudible to others.

She looked towards the entrance and noticed that Li Wanyan hadn't made a choice yet, so she started browsing around as well, looking for anything that interested her and could borrow next time.

The science fiction section also had many novels that interested her, and she felt like she wanted to borrow several of them to take home and read. The three-book limit was really annoying!

Mo Xueyao scratched her head, wandered back and forth between the bookshelves several times, and finally put a Jin Yong novel back in its original place, then picked up a science fiction novel and held it in her hands.

She was drawn to the book by its title.

The book is called Unmanned Travel.

But how can you travel if there's no one around?

Even if there's only one protagonist, the story simply can't unfold, right?

Without other people, there is no interaction.

Mo Xueyao glanced at the introduction and the beginning and was immediately captivated, so she decided to borrow the book without hesitation.

"Phew, Wanyan hasn't chosen yet?" Mo Xueyao walked out of the bookshelf with two books in her hands and saw Li Wanyan standing quietly by the window, flipping through a book. A slightly damp breeze gently ruffled her hair, and the backlight made her figure somewhat blurry, full of mystery.

"Wan..." Mo Xueyao was about to shout, but then remembered that this was a library, so she quickly covered her mouth and walked over to her side. "Wanyan, what are you looking at so intently? If you like it, you can borrow it and take it home to read."

"Okay, let's borrow this one." Li Wanyan nodded.

She was holding a book with a red cover.

Did they actually borrow Mao's Selected Works?

……

Chapter 153 Exposed

At noon on March 15th, the sun shone exceptionally brightly.

Perhaps because of the recent heavy rains, the sky was as clear as a flawless sapphire. Looking out, there wasn't a single cloud in sight, and a golden sun hung high in the sky.

The art club doesn't require going every day at noon; Mo Xueyao would occasionally come to the playground for a casual stroll.

Most of the time, she prefers to be alone.

Although she has many friends with whom she has a good relationship, she still needs some peace and quiet every now and then.

Whenever she walks alone on the playground, she feels as if she is separated from everyone else in the world, like an outsider appreciating this moving picture.

For her, many people around her were just strangers, and for others, the same was true.

Others pass through her world, and she passes through other people's worlds in the same way.

On the eaves next to the school, several stray cats, plump and soft from being fed leftovers from the school cafeteria, were lazily lying there, letting the sun shine on them.

Mo Xueyao picked up a small pebble and threw it over, but they didn't react at all, as if they were fast asleep, especially the orange cat with its legs stretched out straight.

Sometimes, she also wished she could be like a cat, leisurely basking in the sun without having to care about her appearance.

Thinking this, she walked to the edge of the playground, where the sun was just as bright, and there was a wooden bench, which was her favorite spot on sunny days.

Sitting here, you really feel like you're detached from the world.

High school is a long time ahead, but she sincerely hopes that time can slow down so that she can savor this wonderful period.

As she was thinking, she suddenly couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Why did I just make that exclamation that felt like I was reliving high school?

Well, it's probably the reluctance and sentimentality after graduating from junior high school that still lingers to this day.

"Hi~!" Suddenly, a hand patted her shoulder lightly, followed by a hearty laugh, "Mo Xueyao!"

Mo Xueyao was startled. Coming back to her senses from the feeling of being reborn, she turned her head and saw Shen Kelin, who still had short hair, sitting casually next to her.

In that daze, she seemed to see herself when she first became a girl.

He seemed to be just as carefree and tomboyish back then.

But things are much better now. People are actually quite easily influenced and changed by their environment.

This piqued Mo Xueyao's curiosity: What was Shen Kelin's living environment like? Why did she always seem so carefree and uninhibited?

Well, if you look closely, you can still see that her carefree attitude is relative to that of a girl, and it's not as exaggerated as when Mo Xueyao first became a girl.

When she sat down, she still smoothed down her skirt to avoid exposing herself.

"What's wrong? What are you thinking about?" This overly familiar tone even made Mo Xueyao wonder if her secret had been discovered.

"...Is there something you need?" She tried to make her tone sound distant, as if she had never met him before.

"Hey~ Xueyao, why are you being so distant? You used to chat with me all the time when we were in junior high, didn't you?"

"How often..." Mo Xueyao had barely finished speaking when she wanted to hit her head. She instinctively retorted, but her words were already tricked into coming out.

"It really was you! I knew it! How could two people with the same name and look so alike exist in the same city? Even though one is a boy and the other a girl, one has black eyes and the other has blue eyes, it didn't escape my sharp eyes!" Shen Kelin winked mischievously and lowered her voice, "I suspected it back in junior high! You were actually a girl disguised as a boy to attend class, just like Zhu Yingtai."

"Ah..." Mo Xueyao scratched her cheek and nodded awkwardly.

"Is this considered a secret between us?"

"I guess so..."

"Hmm, not bad, now I have another secret of yours."

"Huh? Is there any other secret?" Mo Xueyao was taken aback.

"There's another secret—the secret I just told you was a lie, right?" Shen Kelin blinked, as if she had already seen through her.

Mo Xueyao stood up in a panic, as if she was about to run away.

"Hey, don't be so nervous, umm... wanting to be a girl isn't such a terrible thing, is it?" She pulled Mo Xueyao back to her seat and whispered in her ear, "Besides, Xueyao is naturally suited for it, right? The talent of a mixed-race person~"

Mo Xueyao suddenly felt that Shen Kelin should join Hua Yinyin's club.

However, she seems to have misunderstood even more drastically.

Mo Xueyao felt a headache coming on, unsure whether she should explain...

Can I fool her by making up lies?

To tell the truth... doesn't seem like a good thing either.

But denying it outright would make one seem guilty.

Therefore, it's better to remain silent and neither agree nor disagree.

Thinking this, Mo Xueyao turned her head away, pretending not to see her.

"Ai'ai, how is it? Has Xueyao had the surgery? She looks just like a real girl. It's a pity she can't get pregnant, but don't worry, we can just adopt one later."

"Can't you get pregnant, okay..." For some reason, Mo Xueyao subconsciously retorted with this statement.

"Huh, really? Could it be... one of those super rare cases?"

"What are you talking about? I'm a girl." Mo Xueyao finally couldn't help but say, her face showing a hint of anger, not wanting to continue the conversation.

But it has to be said that Shen Kelin seems to know quite a lot.

How incredibly bored must she be to flip through books like this?

"Okay, okay, just kidding~" Shen Kelin coughed twice. "I know Xueyao is a pure girl."

"So, is there something you need?" For the first time, Mo Xueyao felt somewhat annoyed by this girl she used to get along with quite well in junior high school.

"Ugh...so cold, much colder than before. You used to let me pinch your cheeks, you know?"

"That was you...that was you who insisted on touching me!" Mo Xueyao argued weakly, her face flushed with anger and embarrassment.

"Hmm~ Girls really do change a lot as they grow up, right? It's not as fun as it used to be!"

"Am I just a toy in your eyes...?" Mo Xueyao was speechless.

Shen Kelin lowered her head slightly and glanced at Mo Xueyao, her short hair, which just reached her chin, swaying gently in the breeze.

"Well, Rainy Day Radio and Rainy Day Newspaper belong to the same organization, both are part of the news agency." Shen Kelin leaned back comfortably, resting her back against the chair. "So, how about we invite you to participate in the next Rainy Day Radio broadcast as a special guest?"

"Huh? A special guest... This is so sudden..."

"It's not sudden at all. We're pretty familiar with each other, aren't we?" Shen Kelin, like a boy, put his arm around Mo Xueyao's shoulder. "After all, this is the most talked-about topic!"

"Then... what should I do?" Mo Xueyao, who was not good at refusing others, asked helplessly.