"I haven't decided for a few days. I won't leave today. I will really come to pick you up for dinner." Xu Lie answered her questions one by one, thinking about it and said, "I'll take my passport to your place?"

Su Hao believed him now, shook his head and said no. When he saw that it was too late, he hurriedly said, "I haven't finished my homework yet, so I have to go to the studio first. You must come to pick me up in the evening."

"Okay." Xu Lie nodded.

Su Hao walked quickly towards the teaching building. After walking far away, he felt something was missing. He felt uncomfortable all over and ran back.

Running all the way back to the school gate, she saw Xu Lie standing by the roadside waiting for the car. She ran forward, jumped up like a monkey, and hugged his neck from behind.

Xu Lie subconsciously grabbed her wrist.

Su Hao's ears rang out loud. He remembered that he had almost been thrown by Xu's brother, and shouted: "Ahhhh, it's me, don't throw me!"

Xu Lie guessed that it was her before she made a sound, and grasping her wrist was just a conditioned reflex for the body.

He turned around, amused by her reaction, and his heavy mood seemed to be temporarily relieved.

He couldn't help but rub her hair: "Why are you so cowardly?"

It was obviously just a very simple action, but in a word, Su Hao felt a little sad.

That's what her boyfriend can do and what he can use. The alienated, polite, hiding and other things just now are all wrong.

Seeing the wetness in her eyes, Xu Lie stagnated and curled his smile: "What's wrong?"

"The Americans don't recognize me as my eldest sister. If I haven't become the first sister for so long, what's wrong with being a little coward!" Su Hao forced her tears back, but her heart was still surging.

He rubbed his hair as if some switch was turned on.

After a moment of silence, she suddenly hugged Xu Lie's waist from the front: "Xu Lie, I don't want to waste my time."

"What?" Xu Lie was stunned and forgot to reach out and hug her back.

Su Hao grabbed his arm and forced him to hold her waist tightly: "When I was having dinner, I thought we could take it slowly. If we didn't see each other for a year, it would be nothing, but you can't stay for a few days and you will soon have to be in a different place. Every minute is very precious..." Su Hao shook his head, "So I don't want to waste time. You talk to me like before, hug me and kiss me, and rub my hair, okay?"

Xu Lie heard this tone once a year ago, when Su Hao hoped to see him for the last time.

He stared at her. It was a rainy day, but there were light flashing in his eyes.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Su Hao took a deep breath: "It's okay if it doesn't work, it's Sister Su's order!" As he said that, he turned his face and pointed at his cheek, "I know what I'm running back for, you missed this!"

Xu Lie looked at her, and there seemed to be thousands of threads wrapped around her chest, densely packed.

After hesitating for a while, he lowered his head and gently kissed her on the cheek.

Just a glance at the dragonfly, both of them were trembling.

Because of the hugging posture, this tremor has nowhere to hide and is known to each other.

The body's reaction could not lie. They seemed to have felt from this moment that they did not change each other.

"Hello Su." Xu Lie called her name with a solemn tone, as if there was something important to say.

"Hmm?" Su Hao looked up at him.

Xu Lie opened his mouth and wanted to say something. He glanced at the time on his phone and gave up his thoughts: "It's okay, I'll call you, go to class, come and pick you up later."

*

Su Hao always felt that Xu Lie called her because she had something to say, but seeing that the time was too fast, she couldn't bother him and asked more questions, so she had to go to class first.

As a result, I was a little absent-minded in the afternoon class, curious about what Xu Lie wanted to say, and even more worried that he would tell bad news.

Especially when get out of class was over, she received a WeChat message from Xu Lie and saw that he said that he had delayed something and would have to come to pick her up one hour later.

Su Hao was not a person who was worried about gains and losses before, but he was uneasy after he had just recovered. Xu Lie's lateness made her feel extremely distressed, for fear of separation for another year - although reason told her that this was a worry.

Su Hao didn't know how to spend this long hour, so he asked the administrator to get the key and went to the public studio, intending to fill the seventh oil painting that could finally have the picture.

When she was painting, she finally calmed down a little.

So when footsteps sounded outside the window behind him an hour later, Su Hao did not notice it immediately.

Xu Lie just stood outside the window, watching her paintings stagnate, and forgot to call her.

His eyes swept over from left to right little by little, and saw seven familiar scenes.

The first act was on the first day he first arrived in Nanzhong. Su Hao accompanied her to the equipment room to get her school uniform.

The second act is that he rescued Su Hao's rain alley from the martial arts school student.

The third act is the taxi he and Su Hao had a big fight over WeChat voice, and Su Hao left after leaving.

The fourth act is Su Hao's flag-raising ceremony to keep the old class, and he accompanied her to run away on the playground.

Act 5 is the Zou family loft, and he begged Su Hao not to give up his dream of studying abroad.

Act 6... He didn't see it with his own eyes, but he heard Gao Rui say that Su Hao heard about his transfer from school downstairs of the boys' dormitory.

The seventh act is also the scene that Su Hao is drawing at this moment, which is when they meet again in the rain today.

All these pictures left in his memory were not wiped out in her heart.

Xu Lie was stunned there and had not come to his senses for a long time.

But Su Hao just stretched and turned his head to see him.

All her anxiety was disappearing when she saw him disappear. She smiled and ran to the door and opened it, calling him in: "Why don't you call me when you come!"

Xu Lie followed her into the studio slowly, his eyes still falling on the row of long oil paintings.

Su Hao led him to the easel, pointed to the oil painting and asked, "Do you still remember these?"

Xu Lie nodded, and when he approached to look at the painting, his mind seemed to be trembling: "When did I draw it?"

"It's been a long time since I went to summer school," Su Hao opened his arms to block his sight. "Wait, don't look at it first. This is not finished. The semi-finished product is out of my standard. I'll give you a closer look after it's all finished. I'll try my best to work these days and try to get it done before you leave."

Xu Lie blinked and was silent for a moment, as if he had finally made up his mind, staring at her seriously and said, "No need to hurry up."

"Um?"

"Hello Su," he looked at her and said solemnly, "I won't leave."

Su Hao was stunned: "What does it mean?"

Xu Lie raised an index finger, stroked her cheek with the back of her finger: "I got into the university here. I just told you that I would be an hour late, so I went to the school to complete some procedures."

Su Hao was so confused that he forgot about happiness. He stared at him blankly and said in a confused manner: "Didn't you say you got into the university in Beicheng in the morning?"

"No," Xu Lie shook his head, "I'm sorry, I lied to you."

"Why do you want to lie to me..." Su Hao was confused.

"Because I thought," Xu Lie frowned, "I came to the United States to pursue you."

Xu Lie did not feel that he was qualified to "leave whenever he wanted, come whenever he wanted." No matter how much good intentions he had or how many indescribable he could hide, Su Hao's tears were real.

This is his fault. She has every reason to regard this separation as a default breakup.

Su Hao adjusted his mindset and focused on taking the exam, but never contacted him again, even after graduation.

He thought she might have a new life, and whether he existed or not was no longer that important to her.

He once thought at the most negative time that if this is the case, otherwise it would be fine. He had so many burdens and burdens, and he had a lot of bad things. If she no longer missed him, why would he provoke her again?

But in the end, I was unwilling to give up.

Not willing to be someone else's sun one day.

So he came to overcome all difficulties.

He thought he was here to recover her, and of course he didn't want her to know that she had taken the college entrance examination here, otherwise this would become a shameless "repaying favors".

With Su Hao's personality, he knew that he had come here for her exam, so how could he not reconcile with him?

He didn't want her to be with him because of such a reason that "repaying favors", so he preset the plot of their reunion. He didn't mention where he got the exam, but just said lightly that he came to see her. Just like that.

But today, everything was beyond his expectations.

Su Hao called him, and she cried in front of him. She introduced his identity to her friends without any concealment. She said that she didn't want to waste her time anymore.

Until now, when he saw this long oil painting, Xu Lie finally understood why Su Hao would rather draw their past here than face their present or contact him.

It’s not that she doesn’t want to, but that she doesn’t dare.

Just as he guessed that she would not bother her after she had a new life.

It turned out that she was also worried during all the uncertain times.

Then don't waste time.

Xu Lie smiled in Su Hao's confusion expression: "I thought you might not like me anymore, and I didn't want to tie you up with me with this."

Su Hao was stunned and punched his shoulder: "What, do I look very fickle!"

But after the punch was hit, she saw the astringent feeling in Xu Lie's smile, and her heart felt sour and numb.

He abandoned all the retreat, gave 100% of himself, and came here for her exam.

But she left her a free retreat, allowing her to leave him with ease without any burden.

It turns out that all his abnormalities today are because of this.

Su Hao looked up at him, and his tone softened: "Are you stupid?"
To be continued...