"Thank you, I am really happy today."

"Yeah, me too, let's encourage each other."

"mutual encouragement."

"Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Liu Hao waved his hand and watched Xiangzi disappear into the night. He raised his head and looked at the dark sky of the city, feeling that he had accumulated some merit again.

There is no need for any complicated reasons to be a good person. Just because you have been caught in the rain, it is just a simple matter to hand an umbrella to others.

Volume 16: Chapter Chapter The Culprit

"I won't be going home for May Day, but I'll probably be staying in Binjiang for more than half a month during the summer vacation before going back... Well, please help me burn some incense for them. Even though I can't go back, it's Qingming Festival after all..."

"Don't worry, there's enough money. Grandpa, you're still worried about me... Instead, you should be more careful and look after grandma. Now that the land at home has been rented out, don't work in the fields. Your backs are not in good condition to begin with, and the family doesn't need this little money..."

"I don't have a girlfriend. I'm a student, so of course I have to focus all my energy on studying... I really don't have one. That's not my ambition... You want to hold a great-grandson? Aren't you tired of holding me when I was a kid?... Then you can just hold the fat kid next door... My phone's almost dead. That's all. Goodbye, Grandpa, bye, Grandma!"

Liu Hao hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief. He stretched to relieve the fatigue of taking the bus for more than an hour from his part-time job to return to school.

He glanced around briefly. Among his three roommates in the dormitory, Zheng Ke was enjoying a man-to-man sex with an AK in hand, Zhang Pan and Yuan Shen were in action, and the noble and famous family had just shot a loyal minister to death with an arrow. The remaining Liu Wenhu was still chatting on the phone with his girlfriend as usual. No one was studying, and the dormitory really looked prosperous.

Of course, Liu Hao would not be the one to ruin the atmosphere. He charged his phone and planned to go to bed after taking a shower.

But after taking a shower, Liu Hao found that he had received new message.

Xiangzi: I once had a friend who was delicate inside but so sensitive that it seemed as if any straw could overwhelm her.

Probably because he didn't receive a reply, Toyokawa Shoko didn't post any new messages for more than ten minutes after sending this message. However, Liu Hao smiled after seeing the message, because he knew that Shoko wanted to talk, and that meant he had really begun to let go.

In reality, Xiangzi didn't return home after returning to his own world. Instead, he sat on a bench in a nearby park, pondering for a long time before sending this message. The dim streetlights illuminated the girl's pale blue hair. Xiangzi clutched his phone, his heart pounding like a deer, anxiously awaiting Liu Hao's reply.

But at this time there was another girl who was even more uneasy and anxious than Xiangzi.

In the dark room, Nagasaki Suyo's beautiful face was illuminated by the light from the mobile phone screen. She knew that the friend Xiangzi was talking about must be Takamatsu Deng. Then Liu Hao's next answer should be able to reveal whether he was the culprit behind Xiangzi's withdrawal from CRYCHIC.

Liu Hao: Let’s break up. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

Toyokawa Shoko looked at the message received on the mobile phone screen and pursed her lips helplessly. She knew that Liu Hao didn't want the atmosphere to be too heavy so he was joking. He could have been more serious... But it seemed to be useful. Shoko's mood was indeed not so heavy all of a sudden, which was magical.

But the heavy feeling would not go away, it simply shifted to another girl.

Nagasaki Motoyo looked at the message on her phone and suddenly sat up from the bed, her clear and beautiful eyes fixed - it seemed that the culprit had been found.

The news on the phone is still updating——

Xiangzi: I once had a friend who was gentle but could not fill the gap in her heart.

Liu Hao: Let’s break up. A smiling tiger is the scariest.

Xiangzi: Liu Hao, do you know why you can't grow your nails when playing the piano? (Laughs)

Liu Hao: Ahem, enough joking, let me express my opinion as someone who has been through this... Do you want to come to my side, or do you want me to go to your side?

Xiangzi: Come to my place, it’s a good opportunity to try it out.

Liu Hao: Okay.

A similar operation, except that this time it was Liu Hao who proposed to go over, and since Xiangzi did not agree, he suddenly disappeared from the squat toilet cubicle in the dormitory and appeared in front of Xiangzi in the night sky of Tokyo.

"You came."

"Ah."

There were a few small trees, a stream, some lonely fitness equipment, and farther away were skyscrapers with neon lights. Although Liu Hao knew that he was in a foreign country, he did not feel much discomfort. Perhaps it was because the steel forests of mankind were all similar, and he did not feel much exotic atmosphere. What's more, there was a girl who had just stood up from the bench in front of him. Naturally, he did not feel unfamiliar when he saw her.

The supermarket shopping bag was still placed on the edge of the bench, indicating that Xiangzi did not go home after they parted. He had been here alone for more than an hour, thinking about his own things.

Liu Hao understood what was going on and nodded to Xiangzi, then sat down on the bench and watched the girl sit down next to him. Liu Hao knew that what Xiangzi wanted was to talk, so he just had to wait and listen, which was why he came to meet Xiangzi.

The noisy wind blew past the two silent people, and a strand of blue hair rose with the wind and fell on Liu Hao's shoulder, slightly entangled with his short hair.

After a long pause, Toyokawa Shoko slowly spoke, "I once formed a band called CRYCHIC and made several close friends, but I ended all of that myself."

"The guitarist is my childhood sweetheart. She's actually quite reliable, but she's always been tied down."

"The drummer is a strong-willed girl, tough on the outside but soft on the inside."

“The bassist was very gentle, but I later learned that she was also very persistent.”

"Our lead singer, who also writes the lyrics for our songs, is very delicate and sensitive. She can express rich emotions that are difficult to convey through her singing, just like you..." Xiangzi glanced at Liu Hao sideways, then shook his head and said, "No, it's different. Your singing is also very contagious, but you are much more cheerful."

"We wrote songs together, rehearsed together, and performed live together. After the success, everyone cried tears of joy. It was truly a time as touching as the spring cherry blossoms... but like the spring cherry blossoms, it was also short-lived..."

"You know, my situation isn't very good right now. For some reason, I'm no longer the young lady I used to be. I have to go out and work to support myself. I don't have the time to spend my youth with them and have fun..."

Xiangzi paused, and Liu Hao helped her express her inner thoughts: "So you'd rather have them hate you than have them sympathize with you, right?"

"Yes."

Xiangzi looked at the moon in the sky and laughed at himself. "I didn't expect you to know me so well after just a few days of knowing me... I quit the band, denied what I had said, and even spoke harshly to the delicate girl in my heart."

"I kept telling myself that this unpleasant parting was also a sign of my kindness. They could hate me, and they could find someone else to replace me and continue the band..." Xiangzi stretched out his hand to the moon and clenched it into a fist. He smiled again, a smile that was sad and mournful. "I actually know that all this is just self-deception. I hurt them, and the band disbanded. Even if it was forced, I am indeed the culprit."

"Yesterday when school started, I saw that delicate and sensitive girl again, Xiao Deng. We were in the same high school... I avoided her, not even saying hello. Today, I even ran away to your side. I'm so embarrassed..."

"So I said, I'm not a good person."

Xiangzi turned his head and looked at Liu Hao with a clear and resolute expression, "I really am not a good person."

Liu Hao stared at Xiangzi in silence for a moment before he said, "Do you want me to tell the truth?"

"Please tell the truth."

Liu Hao said, "It's probably because you have too little homework. If the teacher had assigned you homework to do until 11 every day, you wouldn't be so obsessed with it, thinking about forming a band, and just wanting to go to bed every day."

Xiangzi was stunned for a moment, then frowned slightly and said to Liu Hao: "I know you want to ease the atmosphere... but if you are not serious at this time, it will make me hate you."

"No, you misunderstood. I'm serious now."

Liu Hao's expression was very serious, the kind of serious that really meant serious.

Volume 17: Chapter Chapter Love Bay

"Putting myself in your shoes, I understand why you act this way. Call it clumsy self-esteem or genuine pride. I've had that mentality myself, so I understand."

Liu Hao didn't look at Xiangzi. He just leaned back against the bench with his head in his hands, his eyes fixed on the sky as he spoke calmly, "But understanding is understanding. Just like I'm an adult now, I've long passed my rebellious phase and need to reflect on my past. I think there's definitely something wrong with what you're doing. Getting hurt yourself doesn't give you a reason to hurt others, and you can't say we can't part ways amicably just because we haven't tried."

"Yes, I am a bad guy."

Xiangzi pursed her lips and lowered her head slightly. Then Liu Hao reached out and flicked her forehead. When she raised her head, she saw Liu Hao's distressed expression. He said unhappily, "You are a bad guy. At most, you are just a girl with bad luck and a strong will."

"I think what you did was wrong, which is one thing, but you don't have any obligation to do better, which is another. You're just a fifteen-year-old high school girl. You can't be so proud as to think you're the perfect person who can do everything the best, right?"

For the first time, Liu Hao used this somewhat stern tone of a senior. He looked at Xiangzi, who was looking up at him, and said, "So I said it was all because of too little homework. It gave you too much time to daydream. You didn't follow through, so there must be something wrong. But if I have to say it, is it possible that after you left the band, everyone else had more homework? So much that we couldn't continue the band?"

"I wasn't there firsthand, so I have no right to say anything. So I can only speculate. Maybe they didn't really want to form a band, but just wanted to form a band with you? Or are you so arrogant that you think the band will continue unless something unexpected happens? I haven't kept in touch with my high school classmates much since I went to college."

"You might say I haven't experienced it, don't understand it, but I still have to say it's just a regret of youth. There's no way you're making it so heavy."

"My youth is gone, and I didn't even have the urge to fall in love. I've never experienced anything like it. Perhaps the purest experience in life has been missed forever. Do I have to pound my bed every day in regret, crying and crying? And then after I pound the bed down, I realize that even if I cry myself to death, I can't go back to the past, and I've lost my beloved bed. What a loss."

"Do you understand?"

Liu Hao couldn't help but flick Xiangzi's smooth forehead with his finger. Words sometimes have limited power, and he hoped to use his actions to let Xiangzi understand that he was not just talking without any hesitation, but really hoped that the girl could move on.

Xiangzi subconsciously touched the place on his forehead where Liu Hao had flicked him. The girl pursed her pink lips and stared at Liu Hao's face. She now understood more clearly why fate connected the young man in front of her with her. This feeling was that he was a reliable brother and a confidant who understood her.

"So, what should I do?"

"It's okay. If you regret it, go find them and make peace..." Liu Hao looked at Xiangzi's eyes, which were filled with tears, and said after a pause, "But you definitely don't regret it, do you?"

"Yes."

Xiangzi bit his lip and nodded vigorously, saying, "I did something wrong, but I never regret it. Even if I had another chance, I would have no other choice."

"Since you don't regret it, just move forward with a sense of guilt in your heart." Liu Hao sniffed, thinking of what he had experienced, and his tone softened. "What happened in the past is a conclusion that cannot be changed, so look forward and don't look back."

Xiangzi murmured, "Well, I understand. Keep moving forward and don't look back..."

The noisy night wind blew past the two of them again, rolling up the scattered petals and swirling around in the street corner. Liu Hao didn't say anything, but just sat quietly side by side with Xiangzi in the night. He knew that the principles were very simple, and Xiangzi himself had always understood them. It's just that some people can get out of it on their own, while some people who can get out of it need help from others.

The breathing of the girl beside him gradually stabilized. Liu Hao was thinking about how to say goodbye. He knew that although he had talked a lot, this was all he could do. After all, Xiangzi still had to rely on herself. Moreover, with the girl's pride, she did not want to rely on others.

"that……"

"what--"

When Liu Hao spoke, Xiangzi cupped his hands in front of his mouth, exhaled, and murmured, "The weather is getting a little cold."

After saying this, Xiangzi turned his head to look at Liu Hao, his beautiful eyes blinking, and his slender cherry lips reflected a touching blush under the street light.

"Well, it's still a bit cold outside at night. It's better to go home." Liu Hao was about to stand up and said, "Should I take you home, or..."

"Idiot~"

Xiangzi held onto Liu Hao's hand, preventing him from standing up completely. The girl bit her lip and pleaded with a shy voice, "Forgive my willfulness and stay with me for a while longer, okay?"

The girl's palm was as delicate as jade, and her fingers that played the keys were slender and white. There was not much coolness, but warmth seeping out from her smooth skin. The moment their palms touched, both of their bodies trembled involuntarily. Liu Hao felt his heartbeat quicken and his throat dry, and he agreed to Xiangzi's request for some unknown reason.

"Ok."

Liu Hao sat back on the bench, but he lost his composure as he held Xiangzi's slender hand. His heart was beating wildly. No matter how cheerful and mature he was, he couldn't resist the feeling of having a beautiful girl around him. He couldn't sit upright anymore, and his eyes kept wandering uncontrollably.

Xiangzi felt the warmth coming from his palm, and the shyness that was originally brought by his initiative turned into courage. She leaned against the back of the chair, and her shoulders and arms were gently leaning on Liu Hao. The girl knew that her home was not the small house full of alcohol, nor the gorgeous villa behind the iron railings, her home was here.

"Liu Hao."

"Ah."

"You're obviously having a hard time too, so how can you be so optimistic?"

"You don't understand, this is the heaviness of being an adult... it hurts, it hurts—"

Liu Hao's skin on the back of his hand was gently scratched by Xiangzi's nails. Of course, it didn't hurt, but he still begged for mercy exaggeratedly. He looked at the girl and had no intention of telling her about his experience. He was unwilling to mention it not because he had not completely let it go, but because he felt there was no need to use such things to influence others.

"Look at the stars."

Liu Hao raised his hand and pointed at the starry sky, saying, "Well, it's really hard to see the stars in big cities due to light pollution, but it's the same with the moon."

"Look at the stars and the moon? I have a childhood friend who also loves the starry sky."

Xiangzi and Liu Hao looked up together. A half-moon hung in the dark night sky, with a hazy and cold halo around it.

"Then she must have great taste," Liu Hao confided calmly. "For us, the starry sky is eternally unchanging. The moon waxes and wanes, but it always faces us with the same side... The starry sky and the moon are like an unchanging anchor. Whether we're happy or sad, they're always there, unaffected. So the only thing that's truly affected is us."

"So I think, ah, the same 3 every day see this starry sky , holding a happy optimistic attitude is always better than pessimism and depression, the stars don't care, but we can look at them with a better attitude, the stars can't talk, in the end it is still us who are happy."

"Of course, this isn't just my opinion. Our predecessors were actually quite optimistic. These bumps on the moon are just unsightly impact craters, but they romantically believed they were lakes and seas on the moon. That's the spirit of optimism."

"It's not very clear here, but I'm still very familiar with it."

Liu Hao pointed to the locations on the moon and listed them one by one. "Summer Lake and Spring Lake in the middle, Dead Lake and Sad Lake in the upper right corner. The names may not seem very positive, but when you think about it, they are actually quite romantic."

Xiangzi's eyes moved across the moon, following the direction of Liu Hao's finger.

"The largest ocean of storms."

“The most famous Jinghai.”

"Jinghai in the northeast is very famous..."

When Liu Hao pointed to that location, Xiangzi also stretched out his hand, and their fingers touched lightly together, and they almost said the name of the moon sea at the same time.

"Love Bay."

"Sinus Amoris."

The two turned their heads to look at each other, the hazy moonlight illuminating their young faces, and their touching fingers were lowered and held together. Sometimes a heart-wrenching feeling only comes once, but this time is enough to be remembered for a lifetime.

Volume 18: Chapter 002 Chapter Nagasaki Sushi,

Hello, you're Mr. Yanagi, right? I'm Toyokawa Shoko's friend, my name is Nagasaki Suyo. I'm so sorry to bother you, but I don't know how to describe this magical thing. Your contact information suddenly appeared on my phone, along with my friend Toyokawa Shoko's name. I feel like this must be fate, and I'm sure I can find Shoko through you. I miss my friend so much and worry about her all the time. If this isn't a prank, could you please send me a reply? Thank you.

Early the next morning, Liu Hao looked at the message received on his mobile phone from the number "002" and felt a little troubled for the first time. How could there be another expert?

Liu Hao checked his phone bill on the way to class and found that the Gravity Unicom package in March was five yuan, while the fee paid for the Gravity Unicom package in April was more than five yuan, confirming that this inexplicable way of communication seemed to have added another member.

"What on earth does this mean? One after another. If it's a system-issued task, there should be some reward, right? It can't just be to accumulate merit for myself?" Liu Hao muttered to himself softly, "I should be a good person, not a sucker..."

"Old Liu, what are you mumbling about?"

Liu Hao's roommate, Zheng Ke, noticed Liu Hao's strange behavior and leaned over to put his arm around his shoulder. He craned his neck to see the few messages on Liu Hao's phone, and said with a sigh, "You said you were heartbroken before, but a girl actually messaged you? Did you add her on WeChat? Is she helping grandpa sell tea, or is she looking to upgrade her phone plan?"

Liu Hao said seriously, "Neither. Maybe he plays rock music."

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